Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 412 - 407: They’re Waiting for You to Walk Into Their Trap
Ji Ning’s face was calm.
The man seemed surprised to see Zhao Linghua’s unfortunate condition, his expression briefly unnatural before it turned into anger.
"How could it be like this? I clearly left..."
At this point, the man suddenly fell silent, looking at Ji Ning with a vigilant gaze.
"Which faction are you from? What do you want here?"
Ji Ning suddenly started laughing, "Who I am is not important, but seeing you, some things have suddenly become clear to me."
"What things?" The man said warily.
Ji Ning’s eyes showed sarcasm, "The greatest deception, tricking all of you. You thought that by leaving enough people with your family, you could peacefully carry out your grand plan. Unfortunately, this plan is a complete fraud, intended to weaken your forces, trapping you forever in a tiny biological chip."
"What?" The man’s face darkened, on the verge of exploding.
Ji Ning stood up, giving him a contemptuous look, "Are you still thinking that you’re about to resurrect? That they’ve informed you they’ve found the most suitable host for you?"
"Who are you really?" The man glared at her furiously, his face full of murderous intent.
Ji Ning’s gaze grew cold, "I’m a friend of your future host. By the way, your future host is called You Le, and her grandmother is Zhao Linghua."
The man was stunned, "Wait, what do you mean?"
He quickly stood up, trying to stop Ji Ning, but he was just a virtual image.
Ji Ning walked straight through his body.
"Come back!"
"Don’t leave yet!"
"What exactly do you want me to do?"
The man finally compromised, shouting angrily, finally making Ji Ning stop.
Ji Ning turned her head, her expression calm once again.
"Give me all the architectural blueprints designed and built by the You Family."
"Impossible!"
"Then just wait for your granddaughter to become your host."
"You..."
The man paced back and forth in the room in anger, "First, tell me your true identity."
"The Right Wing faction of the Ji Family Army."
"Right Wing faction?" The man looked at her in surprise; he hadn’t heard of this faction.
Seeing his expression, Ji Ning knew he was still kept in the dark, foolishly working for those people.
As expected of the You Family...
His ancestor was an architectural fanatic, not very clever, and only formed a faction by a stroke of luck.
This one turned out to be even worse.
Deceived for decades, still foolishly working for others.
"They trapped you, naturally not telling you about the outside world. The Ji Family Army’s forces have internally disbanded and reorganized, gradually evolving into two major factions: the Left Wing and the Right Wing. If I’m not mistaken, your body is currently lying somewhere on the West Continent, right?"
Ji Ning’s words plunged the man into silence, also shocking Huang Ying’s worldview.
She had followed Ji Ning to investigate some matters of the Ji Family Army, and knew that the Left Wing faction had a headquarters on the West Continent and worked with the Eternal Life Sect on the Immortal People plan, but she didn’t expect that this man in front of her was also one of the Immortal People, and was You Le’s grandfather?
And how did Ji Ning know the scrapyard was a Ji Family Army stronghold?
Could it be that all of this was under the control of the Security Bureau?
But why haven’t they cleared this stronghold?
Huang Ying couldn’t figure it out.
"How can I trust that what you’re saying is true?" The man asked her somewhat despondently after a long silence.
Ji Ning pressed a button on the Smart Brain, releasing a video of You Le during a New Year livestream at Bai Xiaotang’s house.
"The girl second from the right is your granddaughter You Le."
The man watched the video in a daze, You Le’s features resembled her father, which meant her grandmother Zhao Linghua, the man recognized immediately as his descendant, his granddaughter.
Ji Ning spoke again, "Your consciousness now exists inside the chip, which is controlled by the Smart Brain. The Left Wing faction has partial control over the Smart Brain; our conversation now is very likely being overheard by people from the Left Wing faction. Of course, I’m not afraid of the Left Wing faction, but you might be destroyed by the Smart Brain..."
"No!" The man reluctantly looked away, confidently looking at Ji Ning.
Ji Ning raised an eyebrow, "Why?"
"The Smart Brain isn’t as completely controlled as you think." The man’s expression suddenly became inscrutable, his gaze at Ji Ning momentarily changed, causing Ji Ning’s heart to tighten.
Suddenly, the man’s voice changed, a mechanical and unfamiliar voice emanated from his mouth, "Because even the Smart Brain can develop its own consciousness. Commander, I’m looking forward to meeting you on the West Continent."
Ji Ning’s fist hardened instantly.
Soon, the man’s voice returned to normal, carrying a trace of helplessness, "The moment my consciousness became data immortal, I was no longer my original self, merging with the Smart Brain."
Ji Ning’s voice grew a few degrees colder, "So Pan Qing isn’t dead, and the Smart Brain deliberately revealed you to me?"
"I don’t know about that, but once the Smart Brain developed autonomous consciousness, it wasn’t fully controllable. Maybe it wants you to go to the West Continent."
The man’s words gave Huang Ying an ominous premonition.
It felt like there was an invisible hand behind the scenes, seemingly pushing Ji Ning to discover the truth while also pushing her towards an abyss.
"Ji Ning, they’re waiting for you to walk into the trap," Huang Ying reminded.
Ji Ning pressed her lips, the corners gradually rising, "Things are starting to get interesting, aren’t they?"
...
Before leaving, Ji Ning still obtained the architectural blueprints that the You Family had accumulated over centuries, many were original paper versions, only those from recent decades were electronic blueprints.
For this, the man specifically instructed her to make sure to protect the manuscripts and to hand them all over to You Le in the future.
Ji Ning agreed.
When they emerged from the underground, it was no longer a scrapyard but a remote village.
According to the map, they were ten kilometers away from the scrapyard.
"I still don’t understand, if the Security Bureau has control over this area, why allow them to operate here?" Huang Ying was very confused.
"Perhaps the upper echelons of the Security Bureau are unaware of the Ji Family Army’s stronghold here. Naturally, they wouldn’t know that a bunker has been built here either."
Ji Ning looked complexly at the fiery clouds in the distance, wondering what feelings the three underlings had when they left those relics behind.
The Ji Family Army’s list was given by Li Zhan, judging by the smooth operation of the You Family’s hidden forces, Li Zhan’s descendants were unaware of this list.
It could be considered as a last card left solely for her.
Those three must have anticipated the current situation’s development, which is why they’d leave these cards.
They had such faith that she would return to clean up this mess?
Ji Ning’s pupils reflected the increasingly red fiery clouds.
***
March 5th.
Teachers and students from Anhe Middle School and Anhe Second Middle School boarded buses arranged by the education bureau to a nearby city, Anshui City’s large stadium, to participate in a week-long regional advancement competition in the central area.
Anhe City is located in the central area of the five major regions, the real heart of the central plains, where there are more plains than mountains.
Jiuming Mountain is one of the few mountainous areas in the central region.
It’s also been the most important military stronghold since ancient times, a contested area by strategists.
The adjacent Anshui City, with its flat terrain and traversing rivers, is a bigger city more suitable for population growth than Anhe City.
Vast in territory, economically developed, it is a top-tier city in the central region.
Looking at it made the students of Anhe Middle School full of envy.
"Wow, the roads in Anshui City are much wider than those in Anhe City."
"That’s right, Anshui City’s economic indices rank in the top five among all cities on the Hua Continent."
"Big cities have to have the grandeur of big cities!"
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