Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 66: Space Superpower User

This is a gigantic laboratory, filled with numerous instruments, where people in protective suits are busy in front of these machines.

Ji Ning couldn’t understand what they were doing and didn’t delve into it further, continuing to follow those who were extracting Netherworld Grass Leaves to a heavy machine.

They poured the Netherworld Grass Leaves from their tools into the machine’s inlet and pressed the start button. The heavy machine began to emit a rustling water sound, similar to the sound from Bai Xiaotang’s drum washing machine.

After about seven or eight minutes, dark green juice flowed out from a transparent tube beside the machine, into an inverted triangle container.

Someone in a protective suit turned the button on the inverted triangle container, and the dark green juice inside bubbled like it was boiling. Steam followed the passage at the top of the inverted triangle container and entered another transparent pipeline, gradually liquefying into a clear liquid and flowing into another container.

That container was not transparent, yet Ji Ning could see its interior structure. Inside were many layers of filters through which the clear liquid passed, dripping into a small device inside the container. Another opening allowed liquid to flow in, where it mixed thoroughly before flowing out of this container into the next process.

Ji Ning didn’t look in detail anymore because she could already sense the toxin’s composition in the liquid, which was the 100-fold diluted purified Netherworld Grass juice.

Purifying toxic plant juice in a place like this doesn’t seem like a good deed.

Ji Ning recorded the scene with her Smart Brain, then left.

Her departure left no trace, and the people around remained focused on their tasks as if she was a ghost.

It wasn’t until she left that their eyes suddenly cleared, looking around in confusion.

Passing by the patch of Netherworld Grass, Ji Ning picked a few more and took quite a few seeds before leaving.

On her way back, Ji Ning did not take the water route but instead went to a rock. She casually tapped it, and a human-width stone door opened.

On the other side.

Ye Tong, feeling extremely bored, went to the treasure rooms to look at the valuables again.

She really didn’t know whose burial chamber this was, with so many treasures buried. If tomb raiders discovered this, they’d make a fortune!

Thinking of this made Ye Tong a bit distressed, wishing she had superpowers to take everything away.

Just then, a dull knocking came from the stone wall at the far end of the stone room.

"Thud, thud, thud..."

The sound was not loud but was exceptionally eerie in the quiet stone room.

Ye Tong was so frightened that her legs went weak, and she hid behind a large chest, muttering, "Ghost Granny, I’m still young, please don’t eat me..."

When Ji Ning emerged from the secret passage and heard this, she smirked and replied in a lowered voice, "I like to eat young and pretty girls..."

"No...please, I...I... I only look young... I’m really old, and my flesh is tough... sob...don’t eat me...sob..."

Listening to Ye Tong’s sobbing, Ji Ning sighed helplessly.

This girl is just like Bai Xiaotang, always crying endlessly once she starts.

Ji Ning turned on the headlamp and maximized its brightness, illuminating the entire stone room.

In the corner, Ye Tong was curled up, like a pitiful creature abandoned by someone.

A moment later, she seemed to sense the brightness, squinting her eyes and raising her head. Seeing Ji Ning, she burst into tears while crawling up, stumbling as she ran over and hugged her tightly, as if trying to merge into one with her.

Ji Ning was stunned, feeling her rapid breaths and trembling body, pressing her lips together.

Ye Tong was genuinely terrified this time, hiccuping as she cried, but her fingers tightly clutched Ji Ning’s clothes as if relying on her for all her security.

Looking around at the wooden chests, Ji Ning said after a while, "If you like the things here, you can take them all."

Ye Tong, who was crying, suddenly quieted down a bit.

With plaintive almond-shaped eyes, she looked at her, body twitching, "How to take them?"

Ji Ning waved her hand, and all the chests in the room disappeared.

Ye Tong was instantly startled, her eyes widening in shock, her mouth slightly open, unable to utter any sound, as if struck mute.

It took her a while before she said to Ji Ning in a daze, "Sister Ning... are you a superpower user?"

Ji Ning took the opportunity to pry her from herself, retreating several steps before saying, "What else do you like?"

"Can...can everything be taken?" Ye Tong asked, incredulous.

"Mm."

The two locked eyes in silence.

Just as Ji Ning thought Ye Tong was rendered dumb by the joy, Ye Tong let out a sharp scream.

"Ah—I want everything, everything..."

"..."

Turning Ye Tong from fear to ecstasy only took one Space Superpower User.

"Sister Ning, why did you lie to me, saying you’re not a superpower user?" Ye Tong’s gaze was burning as if boring a hole into Ji Ning.

No wonder Sister Ning was so strong...

She was a superpower user all along!

All her previous doubts seemed to find answers at this moment.

Looking at Ye Tong’s silly grin, Ji Ning touched her nose and averted her gaze, "The Space Ability is not very useful."

In chaotic times, Space Ability was the weakest among Control Ability superpowers, useful only for gathering supplies in the wild, with no self-protection capability. If a Space Superpower User was physically weak and had poor skills, even an ordinary person could kill him.

Once a Space Superpower User died, his Space Ability would disappear, and the supplies within his space would all burst out, like loot from a defeated monster.

So during chaotic times, Space Superpower Users faced severe massacres.

Ji Ning’s spiritual power was strong enough to cultivate any Control System ability. Initially, she secretly practiced Space Ability to store some personal items, so no one knew, not even her three little brothers.

Ye Tong was the first to discover this ability of hers.

"That’s still amazing. People like us can spend a lifetime wanting to become a superpower user, but it’s so difficult." Ye Tong was envious and wistful, her gaze fiery enough to roast people.

"Keep up with Body Refinement, and you can too." Ji Ning walked toward the exit of the stone room, preparing to take away other antiques.

Exposing her superpower in front of Ye Tong was a last resort.

This place would no longer be safe...

Since finding out that Ji Ning had Space Ability, Ye Tong became like a skinning hawk, taking everything she considered valuable from the Emperor’s Tomb.

Seeing her eager demeanor, Ji Ning did not stop her, giving her license to be a bit indulgent.

Ye Tong gleefully erased the word ’fear’ from her being.

All she could think of was "I’ve struck it rich."

When they finally left with their bountiful haul, those hunters, who had worked so hard to open the Emperor’s Tomb and almost died under its traps, all complained.

"Damn, this tomb owner is so damn poor! Why’s there nothing?"

"Isn’t this the Emperor’s Tomb? What kind of emperor gets buried with so little?"

"Who gave this intel? I want my money back!"

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