Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 443 - 438: Beijing Training Camp (Part 16)
Ji Ning received Li Wenxin’s reply right on time.
"Everything is arranged, head straight to the Beijing Security Bureau for interrogation."
Cao Zonghai and the training camp director, who hadn’t left the meeting room, felt numb inside.
Though novels often depict how those in power manipulate and disregard worldly rules, seeing it firsthand inflicted a thousand blows on their minds, leaving ripples of shock.
They couldn’t comprehend Ji Ning’s identity, which could make Beijing’s top noble family authorities relent.
But they knew, from now on, they should avoid Ji Ning and those around her at any cost.
Cao Zonghai suddenly thought of his subordinates outside, feeling uneasy.
Oh god, they better not cause trouble by offending the wrong person.
Ji Ning glanced at him indifferently before standing up again and walking out.
Li Wenxin and the captain of the Hua Continent superpower team also stood up, ready to follow.
Just before leaving the meeting room, the captain of the superpower team turned back. His piercing gaze made the two about to relax tense up again, their hearts suspended.
"You know what to say once you’re out of here, right?"
Both nodded repeatedly, coordinated in movement.
Afraid that a delay in nodding might lead to being silenced.
Watching the meeting room door finally close, the two, feeling like they’ve survived a calamity, exchanged a look of mutual relief typical among companions facing hardship.
"Young Master Cao... will you go see your brother?" the director asked.
Cao Zonghai shook his head, "No, he’s fine. I’ll head back first; I’ll leave it to you to take care of him."
The director felt a mix of emotions.
A notorious Beijing rascal actually learned manners?
***
Beijing Security Bureau.
Having been rescued by three high-level Healing Ability Users, Meng Chang appeared twenty years older, half his hair turned white, languishing in the cell.
Memories before losing consciousness surfaced, roaring like a tidal wave, threatening to wash away all prior understanding.
He didn’t know what he did wrong for his superiors to treat him this way.
Not only did they send experts to control him, but they also attempted to erase his memory, reducing him to a mute, irrational madman.
He carefully recalled recent actions, seemingly disagreeing with superiors only regarding the Huazhou High School student competition.
But he merely set up a little trouble for Anhe Middle School privately, nothing excessive. So why did they come down so hard on him?
Meng Chang couldn’t fathom it, steeped in endless agony.
Until his cell was opened, revealing a cold-faced Ji Ning in the interrogation room.
He silently regarded the young woman before him.
A high-level multi-system superpower user.
Valued by Li Wenxin, she’s Hua Continent’s youngest A-level detective in the Security Department.
Singlehandedly grievously harmed half of the Sun Family’s superpower team and two sixteenth-rank Outer Continent superpower users.
Her strength is formidable but unknown.
Yet even so, how could the old commander sacrifice this long-followed confidant for her?
Unless...
She possessed some special identity of which he was unaware.
Could she be connected to "that person"?
Yes, they share a surname, the same name.
So she is...
Meng Chang’s mind was tumultuous, eyes growing increasingly shocked, tinged with disbelief.
Ji Ning could perceive his thoughts, saying indifferently, "There’s no need to guess my identity. The reason they sacrificed you isn’t who I am, but rather because your actions crossed the line."
Meng Chang jolted, eyes filled with perplexity, voice edged with anger, "What did I do that crossed the line?"
Ji Ning laughed, her voice chilling somewhat, "Ordering superpower users in the training camp to target ordinary students, doesn’t that cross the line?"
Meng Chang appeared shocked, hurriedly asserting, "Impossible, I never issued such an order. Even if I were dissatisfied with your proposal, I wouldn’t have people do that."
Ji Ning narrowed her eyes slightly, "You truly weren’t informed?"
"No." Meng Chang shook his head, "I intended to disrupt training and competition, planning for them to damage camp facilities and create minor training incidents to scare teachers and students, but never ordered superpower users to direct against ordinary students."
Meng Chang spoke firmly, face earnest.
Ji Ning’s hands clasped, placed near her nose, eyes locked with Meng Chang’s, scrutinizing his expression.
Suddenly—
Her pupils deepened gradually, Meng Chang’s fragile nerves instantly controlled.
Ji Ning didn’t manipulate his consciousness for truth; instead, she directly read his memory.
Generally, someone like Meng Chang, a soldier for over a decade with special training, wouldn’t easily have his memories read by Ji Ning.
However, after enduring abuse by high-level Spiritual Ability Users, his will was at its weakest, virtually unguarded, allowing Ji Ning to read it.
His memory indeed lacked orders for Green Group members to act against superpower students.
Matching his statements.
If Meng Chang hadn’t lied, then the lying was from that Green Group member.
Who instructed her to pin the blame on Meng Chang?
If he hadn’t been rescued timely, would Fu Ninghao have crippled him?
If true, the mastermind not only used her as a tool but also crippled Fu Ninghao’s arm, sowing discord with Fu Family.
Yet, Meng Chang’s memory might’ve been tampered with.
Whether intended to induce such deductions, clearing herself while preventing rifts with Fu Ninghao, prompting action against Fu Family?
Ji Ning’s fingertip tapped her hand, her gaze gradually clarifying.
Across from her, Meng Chang, already suffering two spiritual attacks, was wretched, ready to collapse any moment, as fragile as an elderly man.
Ji Ning stood up, moved to Meng Chang, raised her hand to his temple.
A milky white glow permeated his mind, healing his nearly collapsed consciousness.
Outside, Li Wenxin’s gaze sharpened as he spoke to the Beijing Security Bureau chief Liu Yan, "Check on the Green Group member’s interrogation."
"Understood..."
In another interrogation room.
Having endured two rounds of brutal interrogations, the Green Group member’s mind was muddled.
Xiao Kong and Xiao Shun felt anxious; this Green Group member’s resolve was firm, responses consistent across interrogations.
Like memorized, etched into her mind.
This was highly abnormal.
Thus her testimony was entirely invalid.
Meng Chang’s charges also became invalid.
"Should we proceed with another round, increasing energy?" Xiao Shun hesitated aloud.
Xiao Kong observed the woman’s condition before him, seemingly at her limit, feeling compassion, "Let’s report to the captain and await his decision."
As they spoke, Liu Yan’s voice suddenly transmitted into their ears.
"Exit now, I’ll handle the interrogation."
