Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 137: Ji Family Army

Huang Ying didn’t know that Bai Xiaotang and Ji Ning usually interacted this way.

Seeing Ji Ning’s calm expression and immediate compromise, Huang Ying couldn’t help but develop a sense of admiration for Bai Xiaotang.

When she took on the task initially, the employer had described Bai Xiaotang as simple, introverted, and very kind-hearted. They were worried she might get bullied in Anhe City, so they wanted to hire someone as her bodyguard, offering a substantial monthly commission.

At the time, she was suffering from internal injuries and couldn’t handle high-risk tasks, so she accepted this high-commission, seemingly simple task.

She didn’t expect this simple little task would lead her to encounter someone as high-risk as Ji Ning.

She feared Ji Ning had ulterior motives for approaching Bai Xiaotang and used her connections to enter Anhe Middle School. As she gradually got closer, she found herself increasingly unable to understand Ji Ning.

Clearly a powerful superpower user, yet content to stay in a place like Anhe, living under someone else’s roof.

If she hadn’t later discovered that Ji Ning had never been to Beijing and wasn’t part of the Hunter Alliance, she would have suspected that she was also someone from the Bai Family, hired to protect Bai Xiaotang.

Yes, her employer was indeed someone from the Bai Family, Bai Xiaotang’s brother, Bai Yusen.

Bai Yusen was worried about his sister’s safety in Anhe City, so he not only hired people to protect her in the shadows of their garden villa but also paid a high price at the Hunter Alliance to find a bodyguard for her sister.

Bai Yusen wasn’t impressed with lower-level hunters, so the hunters who took on the task had to be at least A-level.

But how could A-level hunters possibly be interested in such a trivial task?

It was only under Huang Ying’s unusual circumstances that she took on the task by coincidence.

Huang Ying looked at Bai Xiaotang with amazement.

Ji Ning’s ruthlessness was something she had seen, but seeing Ji Ning’s gentle side surprised her greatly.

It seemed she should find an opportunity to talk to Bai Yusen about terminating the task.

With such a formidable presence, who would dare harbor ill intentions toward Bai Xiaotang?

"Teach her the Body Refinement technique you learned at school, but do it discreetly," Ji Ning suddenly said.

Huang Ying was taken aback and looked at her in confusion.

The Body Refinement technique she learned? Could it be the one taught at the base?

Ji Ning seemed to read her thoughts and slightly nodded.

Huang Ying’s pupils widened slightly. Was this a joke?

That was a killing art...

But Ji Ning said, "I’ve already taught part of it. I won’t often be at school in the future, so her Body Refinement must not fall behind."

"You taught her?" Huang Ying’s voice rose slightly.

That art was highly selective, and a slight misstep could severely injure someone.

Ji Ning was bold enough, teaching that kind of Body Refinement to someone whose physique wasn’t even C-level.

Ji Ning seemed to have understood her, "Her physique is C9-level, and her spiritual power is B1-level."

"C9-level?"

Huang Ying felt like her mind was not enough for this.

The materials Bai Yusen initially gave her were very clear, stating that Bai Xiaotang’s physique was D8-level, and spiritual power C9-level. Even though Ji Ning was training her, how could her physique have improved so much?

It took her nearly a year to make such progress, but Bai Xiaotang, how long has it been?

About 2 months...

Huang Ying carefully observed Bai Xiaotang, wondering if she was still the same Bai Xiaotang.

"How did you train?"

Bai Xiaotang saw her surprise and proudly said, "My Sister Ning is amazing. I just practiced Body Refinement with her, and I never expected to make such great progress."

Lin Yuanyang silently added in his heart: besides Body Refinement, Sister Ning often uses her superpowers on them. Every time after Body Refinement, when they soaked in the bath, Sister Ning would seem to point at them casually, and they immediately wouldn’t hurt anymore.

At first, he thought Ji Ning was a brilliant doctor, but after experiencing that surge of energy, he realized Ji Ning had been using her superpowers on them before.

At that time, their physiques were weak, and their senses dull, and Ji Ning used her superpowers so subtly that it went unnoticed.

Thinking about this, Lin Yuanyang looked at Ji Ning with renewed warmth.

Ji Ning seemed to sense this and turned to look at him, but her gaze was calm, leaving her thoughts unreadable.

"He needs to learn too, just at a slower pace," Ji Ning told Huang Ying.

Lin Yuanyang shifted his gaze away, secretly delighted.

***

Three hours later—

Lin Yuanyang got back into the bath. This time, he didn’t feel the pain from the morning; his whole body was warm, though the medicinal smell of the bath water was somewhat pungent and unpleasant.

Ji Ning instructed Bai Xiaotang to keep time, adding the prepared medicinal water to the tub every half hour, making sure to release some excess water beforehand.

Fortunately, this foldable bathtub had a plug at the bottom, allowing Lin Yuanyang to operate it himself.

Ji Ning didn’t pay further attention to them, walking out of the laboratory with Huang Ying to stretch her legs a bit.

Huang Ying hesitated but eventually voiced her concerns, "Ji Ning, are you sure about having an ordinary person learn the Body Refinement we studied?"

"Your employer is Bai Yusen, right?" Ji Ning asked instead of answering.

Startled, Huang Ying didn’t deny it, "Since you’ve guessed it, I won’t hide it anymore. Her brother wants her to go back to Beijing. She is destined not to be one of us, so there’s no need for you to be so concerned about her."

People from noble families in Beijing were not the same as superpower users like them.

Superpower users were powerful, proud, and unwilling to submit to those noble families, especially since many members of those families were ordinary people.

But those families had deep roots, possessed strategies, connections, money, and power. Otherwise, how did the suppression ring on her wrist come to be?

Ji Ning smiled, looking at the gradually darkening sky, "There is only one path in this world; it’s just that as you walk on it, you deviate. Some go to the seaside, some climb high mountains, but no matter where you go or how far you travel, there is only one ultimate endpoint. No matter how much you struggle, you can’t escape the path called birth, aging, sickness, and death."

Huang Ying paused, staring at the silhouette that was growing distant from her, suddenly enlightened.

Indeed, whether you’re a superpower user or an ordinary person, you can’t escape birth, aging, sickness, and death. What use is all the money and power?

Ji Ning did have an open mind; no wonder she didn’t wear a suppression ring and could contentedly settle in a place like Anhe.

Maybe she should start wrapping things up too, and like Ji Ning, find a place to retire?

"By the way, I saw this. Do you know if it holds any other significance?"

Huang Ying had just convinced herself when she saw Ji Ning pull a blood-stained crossbow arrow out of her pocket, with the ancient character "Ji" carved into the arrow’s tail.

Huang Ying’s eyes widened instantly, and she briskly approached her, reaching out to take the crossbow arrow and examining it carefully, her face turning serious, "Where did you find this?"

"At the train station," Ji Ning replied.

Huang Ying recalled the time when Ji Ning had asked her to help cover up an identity issue, "Was it that time?"

Ji Ning nodded slightly.

Huang Ying’s fingers clenched around the crossbow arrow as if deep in thought, but Ji Ning didn’t disturb her, waiting quietly for her to speak.

"This is the token of the Ji Family Army. Honestly, your surname is Ji, so I always thought you were part of the Ji Family Army. But since you don’t know this, I’m starting to believe that you’re not one of them," Huang Ying said with a slight frown, seriously.

"What is the Ji Family Army?"

Huang Ying stared into Ji Ning’s eyes, enunciating each word clearly, "The extreme zealots of that family."