Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 358 - 353: Evacuation

The fact remains.

Upon receiving the classified report, Joe Lane crushed the coffee cup in his hand.

"Useless trash! Can’t even handle something this simple!" His growling Jiazhou accent shot at Charles like a machine gun.

Charles lowered his head slightly, his face full of fear.

Joe Lane’s gaze was as if laced with poison, wishing he could kill Ji Ning immediately.

"Damn woman! You’ve angered me once again! Charles, I want her dead!"

Charles looked up at his furious but impotent master, struggling to suppress his fear and stabilize his voice, he rationally advised: "Sir, this is the Hua Continent, our people can’t take action easily!"

"Then tell me, how can we kill her? How do we make her die?"

Charles swallowed, "Sir, perhaps we can have those Huazhou people kill her themselves."

Everyone reveres the divine, but everyone also wants to become divine.

Yet, there’s only one divine being!

Charles’ words slightly dissipated Joe Lane’s anger.

He rubbed the surface of the table, his eyes dropped into a pondering frown, lips suddenly curling into a strange smile.

"Ji Ning, do you think you’ve won?"

***

The endless night gradually turned pale.

The alarms blaring for half the night finally stopped.

Ye Tong and Bai Xiaotang, yawning and like soulless bodies, drifted out from their room.

They were met with the sight of Huang Ying leaning against the wall, dressed in a black combat suit.

Their drowsiness disappeared in an instant.

"Instructor Huang, why aren’t you resting in the infirmary?"

"It’s time to go."

The two hadn’t yet reacted when Huang Ying added, "After breakfast, pack your things quickly. I’ll drive you back to the city."

"Back? But outside..."

"Ji Ning’s orders."

The two immediately shut their mouths.

Huang Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief and reminded Bai Xiaotang, "Your final exam is the day after tomorrow."

"Ah—oh heavens! What’s the date today? How could I forget about the exam?"

Like a bolt from the blue, Bai Xiaotang realized it, shaking all her drowsiness off.

Seeing her like this, Ye Tong quietly rejoiced that she was no longer in school.

But as if hearing her inner thought, Huang Ying mercilessly said, "Ji Ning has registered you for the film school’s independent entry exam in mid-May."

Ye Tong: ...

***

The blocked path down Jiuming Mountain had been swiftly cleared by the superpower users, and looking at the receding scenery in the rear-view mirror, Huang Ying felt a bit heavy-hearted.

In the early hours, she finally received a message from Ji Ning, for which she’d been waiting.

But it was only one sentence:

[Take them back to the city early in the morning.]

"Are you worried about Sister Ning?"

Lin Yuanyang, sitting in the passenger seat, pushed his glasses up his nose with one finger, glanced back at the two snoozing soundly in the back seat, and asked in a lowered voice.

Huang Ying spared a sideways glance at him, calming her mind.

"Did she say anything to you?"

Lin Yuanyang pressed his lips tightly, looking at the passenger bus not far ahead, "No, but it’s deducible that a dangerous individual has likely arrived at Jiuming Mountain."

This time, most tourists trapped in the Jiuming Mountain lodge were being bussed out, except for a few individuals.

Base soldiers informed them temporarily, leaving no option for the tourists to object.

Each departing tourist seemed driven to the bus, filled with anger and curiosity.

Lin Yuanyang’s expression grew more somber, "I saw embassy personnel catch a bus heading in another direction, probably towards Jiuming Mountain Base."

Huang Ying saw this too and paid particular attention to the base soldiers escorting them.

Her brows furrowing slightly.

"All the base soldiers escorting them are high-level superpower users," Huang Ying quietly added, feeling worse than before.

"It seems Jiuming Mountain is entering a Level One alert state."

Their speculations were playing out at Jiuming Mountain Base — even worse than anticipated.

This time there were no piercing alarm sounds, but internal personnel were fully armed, entering a full alert state.

All this was due to one word from Ji Ning.

"The other suspect is a sixteenth rank multi-system superpower strongman."

Hei Wu’s face darkened instantly, Hei Qi witnessing for the first time Hei Wu’s emotional break, he shouted, losing composure: "Alert! Level One alert state! Entire Hua Continent—"

What does a sixteenth rank multi-system superpower user imply?

One person can be worth tens of thousands, top forces of every continent, strategic talents deterring the Outer Continent.

Leaving the continent lightly is not allowed; otherwise, it amounts to territorial provocation.

Such a person sneaking into Hua Continent’s Jiuming Mountain quietly?

Simply put, it’s a severe provocation to Hua Continent, must use all efforts to capture!

Across the table, Ji Ning sat composed as if a sixteenth rank multi-system superpower user were just an inconspicuous cabbage.

Mantis’s mind went blank with shock, staring dazedly at Ji Ning, "Sister Ning, can you... win?"

He didn’t know why he asked that.

Maybe it was Ji Ning’s calm expression that caused him to blurt it out.

The impact of this question was no less than Ji Ning’s mention of a sixteenth rank multi-system superpower user.

The serious conference room, with more than a dozen pairs of eyes, turned in unison towards Mantis and Ji Ning.

Mantis hunched his shoulders, swallowing with difficulty.

Silence, deathly silence...

Until Ji Ning spoke: "What? You still want to capture him?"

Faces showed complex expressions, followed by another bout of silence.

"We can’t capture him, unless you want to turn a hundred-mile radius of Jiuming Mountain into a battlefield."

Mantis raised his head sharply, his dull eyes sparking with some light.

Zhang Huaixin glanced at Fu Yuanxuan next to him, suppressing the growing excitement within.

As a soldier defending the territory, such brazen and provocative acts deserved harsh rebuke; this could earn a major military merit!

Capturing him meant a special military merit, the kind warranting a league medal.

But what Ji Ning said was also factual.

To capture a sixteenth rank multi-system superpower user would cost Jiuming Mountain Base and all nearby bases dearly, a scenario Hua Continent’s top brass didn’t wish to see.

However, they were extremely reluctant to let him go easily.

Zhang Huaixin asked, "Leader Ji, how did you determine that the suspect was a sixteenth rank multi-system superpower user? I’m not doubting you, just that our security check didn’t catch this, posing a significant security threat within Hua Continent."

"He has a special suppression ring that can restrain his energy fluctuations."

"This..."

Zhang Huaixin was about to say that current technology couldn’t suppress a sixteenth rank superpower user’s energy down to even tenth rank.

But Ji Ning continued, "He’s also a Spiritual System superpower user, capable of rapidly altering the memory of those in contact."

"What?" Zhang Huaixin was so shocked that he nearly sprang to his feet.

His complexion rapidly darkened, almost ink-like in hue.

A sixteenth rank multi-system superpower user was already hydrogen bomb-level dangerous.

Now add in spiritual abilities.

It’s like a hydrogen bomb without a YM structure, danger level skyrocketing.

The conference room fell into another deathlike silence, with some even showing fear in their eyes.

This meeting included not only base top staff but also members from the Security Bureau and police.

Aside from external personnel, most of Ji Ning’s team members were present.

Wind Girl was the one showing fear in her eyes.

Ji Ning glanced at her, then turned back to Zhang Huaixin, saying calmly, "I can destroy his spiritual abilities!"