Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 225: So He’s One of His People!

Lin Yuanyang noticed Ji Ning was deep in thought and wisely remained silent until Aunt Pan’s tightly closed eyes opened once more.

This time, the clarity in her eyes had vanished, and her gaze was as vacant as a puppet’s.

Ji Ning asked her those questions again, and this time Aunt Pan obediently answered.

Moreover, the language was not Hua Continent’s, but a very peculiar West Continent’s language.

Lin Yuanyang, being the young master of the Lin Family, had been fluent in the languages of the major continents since childhood. However, the words Aunt Pan spoke were slightly different from the official language of the West Continent, mixed with many special terms rarely used in everyday conversation.

Such strange language made him frown deeply.

What he didn’t notice was that after listening to this language, Ji Ning’s face was instantly filled with a strong killing intent.

It was actually his people!

Once a powerful adversary equal to her in strength from the West Continent, John Josen.

Only the Qiao Family would speak the West Continent’s language in such a way.

Now, 120 years have passed, and the Qiao Family still hasn’t learned their lesson, pining over things they shouldn’t!

Ji Ning stared coldly at Aunt Pan, listening to her babble.

"I am from the Qiao Family of the West Continent, and Li Meifang is our spy raised in the Hua Continent from a young age, solely to find the secret weapon left by the Hua Continent’s strongman 120 years ago."

"For generations, we have been lurking in the Hua Continent, and finally found a clue in the Lin Family. We sent people to follow the pregnant Zi Yanran, but she discovered us and captured many of our people. Zi Yanran was too formidable, so we had no choice but to use extreme measures to assassinate her and deploy a spy buried in the Hua Continent to approach Lin Chengsheng..."

Ji Ning asked, "Was the plane crash your doing?"

"Yes and no. We indeed wanted to kill Zi Yanran, but she was so strong that we lost many people. To be absolutely certain, we planned for her plane to crash. Yet when our people infiltrated the maintenance crew, they found someone had already damaged a part of the plane beforehand."

"So, to kill my mother, you’d rather let 150 innocent lives perish?" Lin Yuanyang gritted his teeth and said.

His eyes were red, full of hatred towards Aunt Pan and those behind her.

Aunt Pan replied with little emotion, "Our goal is to obtain the Hua Continent’s strongest warrior’s secret weapon. Anyone who stands in our way will naturally be eliminated."

"What weapon?" Lin Yuanyang asked hoarsely.

But Aunt Pan didn’t know.

"I don’t know, but the master says that possessing the secret weapon could allow the family to dominate the five continents."

As Aunt Pan spoke, Ji Ning’s expression grew solemn; she had already guessed what secret weapon they were seeking.

Unfortunately, that weapon wasn’t with the Lin Family, but rather with her, taken to 120 years later.

So even if these spies searched all over Beijing, they wouldn’t find it.

The light in Ji Ning’s hand gradually faded, and Aunt Pan’s vacant eyes slowly regained some clarity.

When she realized what she had said, a fierce look shot at Ji Ning, intent on killing her then and there.

Superpower surged from her body, and her sharp nails grew ten centimeters in an instant, clawing fiercely at Ji Ning and Lin Yuanyang.

But before touching even the hem of their clothes, her nails seemed to encounter a cutter, snapping off neatly.

This bizarre situation painted Aunt Pan’s face with utmost horror, grinding her teeth as she once again activated her superpower to attack Ji Ning while inching towards Lin Chengsheng’s desk.

No one knew what she pressed, but the bookshelf behind her suddenly revealed a small door, and the somewhat chubby Aunt Pan agilely slipped through it and fled.

Lin Yuanyang was shocked and quickly gave chase, shouting as he ran, "Sister Ning, she’s escaping!"

Ji Ning acknowledged with a "hmm," and in the blink of an eye, her figure appeared behind Aunt Pan, grabbing her by the collar and yanking her back.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Aunt Pan choked and coughed violently from being restrained.

She had no idea how she was exposed, attracting the attention of the Security Bureau.

Ji Ning tapped her lower back, rendering Aunt Pan limp like a deflated balloon on the ground.

Despairing and unwilling, she glared at Ji Ning with hatred, probing, "Success belongs to the victor; our master has more than just us spies."

"Rest assured, I will root them out one by one, letting your master retire early. Just like 120 years ago..."

"You..."

Aunt Pan’s face turned ashen, her eyes widening in panic as she mumbled, "You... you... you are... Ji... uh..."

But it was as if her throat was suddenly choked; she fainted instantly.

Lin Yuanyang looked at Ji Ning with a complex expression on his face.

He paused the video in his hand and said, "Sister Ning, making her think you have a connection with that person will be extremely dangerous."

Ji Ning looked at Aunt Pan, her face giving nothing away, "Once you’re in the game, there’s no getting out. At least now, I hold the initiative."

The information from the Security Bureau was comprehensive, indeed holding much on Outer Continent spies, including their communication partners, in which Pan Min from the Lin Family was listed, but Li Meifang was not,

which made it all very intriguing.

Ji Ning speculated that either the two were deeply hidden, or someone was protecting them. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

If they brought her into the game, they should be prepared for backlash.

Whoever dares to scheme against her must bear the consequences!

"Lin Yuanyang, your mother’s death is not simple!"

"I know. They all already know who killed my mother, yet they still let them stay in the Lin Family; there must be a greater purpose. It’s just that my mother’s death was too suffocating." Lin Yuanyang’s voice turned cold, the gaze under his glasses sharp and clear.

"Let’s go, let’s take a look." Ji Ning gestured towards the secret passage in the study.

Lin Yuanyang nodded and pointed at Pan Min on the ground, "What about her?"

"She won’t wake for a while."

The two followed the secret passage downwards. It was narrow, allowing only one person through, and the staircase was steep.

After walking for a while, Ji Ning suddenly stopped, examining the wall beside her, tapping the bricks continuously.

Lin Yuanyang glanced at the Smart Brain’s screen displaying the villa’s blueprint and exclaimed, "This is the wall of the room on the first floor."

Just as he finished speaking, there was a clicking sound, and the stairs beneath them began to move.

With a subsequent grinding of gears, the stairs beneath them gradually descended, and the wall beside them gradually revealed a narrow seam, expanding steadily.

"This is..." Lin Yuanyang was so shocked he covered his mouth.

"That space."

Once the stairs stopped moving, Ji Ning proceeded inside first.

The space was dark, but whatever she pressed, it suddenly lit up.

Not yet adjusted, Lin Yuanyang squinted, missing a fleeting flash of light.

Ji Ning looked in a certain direction, her eyes carrying a trace of nostalgia.

The room wasn’t large, just over twenty square meters, with a large round table taking up most of the space.

Beside the round table were chairs, a total of twelve.

This was where she once convened meetings with the heads of various forces of the Hua Continent.

The table and chairs hadn’t changed much, and the room was free of dust, indicating someone maintained it regularly.

Presumably, it was the Lin Family members.

Did the ancestors of the Lin Family also participate in the round table meetings?

Ji Ning frowned thoughtfully and looked at Lin Yuanyang, "Did your ancestors ever change their surname?"