Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 192: You Broke Through?

Ji Ning’s lips curled slightly as she gently pressed the protrusion.

With a light "clack" sound, a small square stone slab popped up from the floor tiles behind the stele.

Behind it lay a metal password panel.

The password panel was covered in a thick layer of dust, suggesting it hadn’t been touched in a long time.

Ji Ning pondered for a moment, stretched out her hand, her fingers hovering over the metal password panel, moving slightly in the air, and a series of numbers and letters appeared on the panel’s screen.

As Ji Ning pressed the final number, the frame of the metal password panel lit up with a green glow.

Immediately, the tile Ji Ning was standing on started to move downward, followed by a few "clack clack" sounds as a staircase descended in front of her.

Meanwhile, shrill alarm sounds suddenly rang out in several secret rooms in Beijing and Nanling.

Ji Ning had no idea that her action here would alert so many people.

Even if she had known earlier, she would still have come here to open this tomb.

Ji Ning walked down the stairs, and it wasn’t dark because the steps below automatically lit up.

She quickened her pace and soon reached the bottom.

The space wasn’t large, estimated to be over twenty square meters. Against the walls were a row of stone cabinets, inside which lay three metal-glossed password boxes.

The boxes were made of a non-corrosive material, remaining intact over the decades.

Ji Ning determined the ownership of the boxes from left to right according to the habits of Fu Huayu, Ye Jianxiu, and Li Zhan.

If the order of these password boxes isn’t certain, inputting a password would naturally result in an error, destroying the contents inside.

But Ji Ning didn’t need to open the password boxes; she could find out what was inside with a simple spirit scan.

Three similar-looking keys with the owner’s surname engraved on each.

Ji Ning frowned, sneering inwardly:

These three rascals, playing riddles with her?

Why not put everything together, but choose to leave a key?

Expecting her to separately open their treasure boxes?

Ji Ning’s expression soured, losing interest in opening the boxes, and she put them into her storage space before turning to leave.

However, by this time, Jiuming Mountain Base had received secret orders to catch the intruder in the cemetery.

Ji Ning had just exited the tomb when she sensed the unusual silence.

She glanced back at the secret chamber, then jumped back in and closed the exit above.

Apparently, pressing the password here must have alerted some people.

Ji Ning wasn’t worried, she returned to the stone cabinets as if she had been there hundreds of times, exploring along the walls, eventually finding an uneven protrusion on the lowest tier’s back.

The minions she trained naturally inherited her working style.

With a habit of leaving a way out, naturally, the secret chamber’s exit wouldn’t be singular.

With careful searching, a second exit could certainly be found.

Pressing the mechanism again, she heard the sound of a millstone moving, as the stone chamber she was in began to slowly rotate.

A faint realization appeared in Ji Ning’s eyes, the secret chamber’s structure was a Yin-Yang room, with two identical chambers changing positions through a rotational base.

Ji Ning looked up at the ceiling, the previous staircase entrance had disappeared, replaced by the pitch-dark mountain body.

Where the stone cabinet wall was before, there was now a door, with four characters inscribed on it: Trespassers Die.

Ji Ning’s expression remained calm as she slowly pushed open the door with her superpowers.

Behind the door lay an unlit mountain tunnel, dark and deep, leading to unknown reaches.

Without hesitation, Ji Ning stepped into the tunnel.

Such a gloomy environment for Ji Ning was as easy as walking on flat ground.

She knew she was still heading downward, speculating that another exit should be at the foot of the mountain.

Suddenly—

Ji Ning’s body lifted into the air.

Several rocks fell from beneath her feet.

There was indeed a right-angled cliff here; an ordinary person would certainly have stepped off and plummeted to their death.

But Ji Ning wasn’t an ordinary person; she easily leaped across the more than three-meter-wide cliff, landing on the opposite side.

She continued forward; there was no danger this time. Ji Ning walked for over an hour until she no longer felt the downward slope.

The path ahead widened significantly, and soon she saw the light from the outside world.

The moon was still faint, but the light contrasted sharply with the darkness of the mountain tunnel, like two different worlds.

A long-missed breath of fresh air surged into the cave.

Before stepping out of the cave, Ji Ning halted.

There was someone outside the cave.

It was Fu Yuanxuan...

He hadn’t brought anyone else, only alone.

It seemed he was waiting for someone to emerge from this exit.

Ji Ning concealed herself in the darkness without moving, her pupils gradually becoming deep and dark.

Standing outside, Fu Yuanxuan suddenly felt his brain becoming heavy, a surge of drowsiness rushed into his mind, he immediately became alert, drawing a dagger from his person and stabbing it hard into his thigh to keep himself awake.

At the same time, his voice reached Ji Ning’s ears, "I am Fu Family. Here to warmly welcome your presence."

His voice held some excitement, as if anticipating some significant person.

Ji Ning’s pupils had darkened like an abyss, her hands at her sides gradually clenched.

The kid’s powers had grown stronger.

Finally, Fu Yuanxuan’s strong consciousness didn’t resist Ji Ning’s Spiritual Control, and he fell backward.

Ji Ning slowly stepped out of the mountain cave, glanced at Fu Yuanxuan, then left directly.

Leaving no trace behind.

The visit to Jiuming Mountain has already alerted those three families, obtaining the information left by the three minions later would probably be extremely difficult.

Ji Ning frowned, lack of complete gain from this venture, but clues from the mechanisms set by the three minions indicated they never believed she was dead and had passed the task of finding her to the descendants.

Otherwise, Fu Yuanxuan wouldn’t have coincidentally appeared at that cave exit.

If all three families were carrying out the task of looking for her, does it mean those who wished to kill her back then didn’t believe she was dead either?

Indeed, the existence of the Ji Family Army is very suspicious.

Reflecting on everything that has happened lately, Ji Ning sensed someone was pushing some unspeakable matters from behind the curtains.

Returning from Jiuming Mountain to Ming Mansion Garden, the sky was already brightening, and her surveillance sentinels were still there.

She bypassed the sentinels, quietly returning to 1601. Just as she opened the door to go upstairs, a sharp little knife flew from the second floor.

Ji Ning sidestepped to catch it, softly questioning, "Did you break through?"

Huang Ying deftly flipped down in front of Ji Ning, dressed in black men’s pajamas, eyes revealing surprise, "I broke through recently."

Originally, she was a Seventh Rank superpower user, hindered by internal injuries limiting her performance to Sixth Rank, now with most injuries healed, her abilities returned to Seventh Rank, even breaking through to Eighth Rank a few days ago.

Ji Ning eyed her with interest, "Able to change more faces now?"

Huang Ying rolled her eyes, even though she was a Support Ability User, her abilities weren’t that feeble.

Suddenly, Huang Ying’s body shrunk by a circle, her facial features shifting to those of Lin Yuanyang.

If not seen firsthand, Ji Ning surely wouldn’t have realized the boy in front was Huang Ying transformed.

"My ability is to alter body structure, not just the face. The size can change too. Previously, I could only transform the upper body, now I can change down to my legs." Huang Ying explained, about to revert to herself, when not far away Lin Yuanyang’s yawning voice sounded.

"What are you two up to?"