Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 236: Is She an Ally?

As soon as Ji Ning spoke, the expressions of everyone in the room changed, including Li Wenxin.

He hadn’t anticipated that she would reveal this matter, and he frowned as he glanced at her, his gaze filled with warning.

The representatives in the room erupted into an uproar, looking at Li Wenxin and questioning him.

"Lao Li, this isn’t fair! Why didn’t you mention you were going to investigate us?"

"Lao Li, is what she said true? Are you really going to investigate us?"

"There are no spies in my family, Lao Li, are you mistaken?"

Li Wenxin felt a bit irritated, but he couldn’t rebuke Ji Ning in front of outsiders, so he kept a stern face and said, "Routine investigation!"

"Lao Li, what do you mean by a routine investigation? We haven’t done anything wrong, why investigate us?"

"Do spies have the words ’I am a spy’ written on their faces?" Ji Ning fanned the flames again.

Li Wenxin glanced at her again, and the warning in his eyes was almost overflowing.

But Ji Ning was not the least bit afraid.

She even had a smile on her lips, looking somewhat cynical and fearless at the same time.

Standing not far away, more than ten superpower users exchanged shocked glances, having sensed Li Wenxin’s burning anger.

This girl really dares to say anything!

Isn’t she afraid of getting scolded when she gets back?

Most of the representatives around the round table looked at Li Wenxin, whose face was black as ink, feeling a secret satisfaction. At the same time, they began to speculate about Ji Ning’s identity.

Is she an ally?

"Bang——"

A loud slam on the table silenced the arguing around the round table instantly.

Li Wenxin stood up, coldly scanning everyone around the table, and said seriously, "If you have nothing to hide, what are you afraid of?"

"This isn’t about fear..."

"Then what is it? A guilty conscience? Or something else?"

Li Wenxin’s temper flared fully, silencing everyone without a lengthy argument, and even causing some representatives to leave the meeting in anger before it concluded.

Ji Ning secretly clicked her tongue.

The meeting adjourned, to be reconvened another day.

Li Wenxin sat in his seat with a stern face, waiting for everyone to leave before he coldly looked at Ji Ning, "What is your aim?"

"What is your aim?" Ji Ning walked to the opposite side of Li Wenxin, sat down directly, her eyes sharp as arrows, making one’s heart tighten.

An abrupt change in aura, like a leader accustomed to high positions, intimidating to meet the eyes.

Li Wenxin’s pupils contracted, and the pressure, unfamiliar for a long time, made his muscles tense, not daring to relax in the slightest. The person from his youthful memories seemed to overlap with the young woman in front of him.

It was the aura of a person who had experienced tumultuous times, a scent of slaughter.

"You..."

"Bang——"

Ji Ning slapped the table with one hand.

The sound was incredibly solemn.

"So many spies from the Outer Continent infiltrated Beijing, and as the head of the Security Department, do you really not know?"

Li Wenxin shivered, his eye sockets inexplicably reddened a bit.

Ji Ning was very angry. The Huazhou Safety Zone that she worked so hard to defend, in just 120 years, had allowed so many Outer Continent spies to infiltrate.

Yet the heads of these forces weren’t united against outsiders, but instead had the leisure for internal strife and pulling each other down?

As the head of the Huazhou Security Department, Li Wenxin should have used decisive measures to control the spies once discovered. Instead, in an effort to eliminate dissidents, he only monitored and didn’t act, letting the spies form a network to steal Huazhou’s secrets.

Did he really think she couldn’t see through his intentions?

Wasn’t he just trying to use these spies as leverage to suppress enemy forces?

Unexpectedly, she discovered it, and let the Fu Family know, forcing him to order an investigation. But he didn’t want other forces to exploit these spies either, so he forcibly brought along someone favored by the Fu Family to distance them.

Labeling her under the Li Family to keep the Fu Family away from her.

Thinking of this, Ji Ning’s gaze darkened, asking, "What did the Sun Family promise you?"

"She..."

Just started speaking, Li Wenxin, who was stunned, suddenly seemed to wake up, sat up straight, and stared straight into Ji Ning’s eyes in shock.

"You actually have a Spiritual Ability?"

Ji Ning sighed inwardly.

The families of her three little subordinates did have some formidable means.

Li Wenxin was alert, with a hint of anger.

Thankfully, he had received special training since he was young, which allowed him to wake up quickly.

He didn’t expect this woman in front of him to have such a masterful control over spiritual power, nearly controlling him without him noticing.

When did she start using Spiritual Ability on him?

Li Wenxin glanced at the suppression ring on his wrist, yet it didn’t alert him.

Ji Ning was thoughtful for a moment, then stood up and said lightly, "If you don’t want to say, forget it."

A hint of deep meaning flashed quickly in Li Wenxin’s eyes, and he straightforwardly said, "The leader who kidnapped Sun Yazhu before didn’t commit suicide, did they?"

A smile suddenly appeared on Ji Ning’s face, "Minister Li, you seem quite concerned about the Sun Family. How would I know if the leader committed suicide? You’ve asked the wrong person."

Li Wenxin saw Ji Ning’s expression, as if daring him to find evidence, and the color of his pupils deepened.

Suddenly, he asked, "Who are you? Do you really have..."

Saying this, Li Wenxin suddenly cut himself off, as if realizing he’d spoken wrongly, and changed his tone to say, "If you really don’t know, forget it. Beijing’s entry of so many spies is not my intention. You’ll find out in the future."

After speaking, Li Wenxin stood up, ready to leave with his things.

Ji Ning squinted slightly at him.

Is there really something?

What was he about to say?

Is he mistaking her for someone?

Or did he say this deliberately, trying to guide her to investigate other matters?

Ji Ning didn’t underestimate the man in front of her. So far, Li Wenxin gave her the impression of being extremely deep and calculating.

"Were you going to say, do I have someone’s relic?"

Ji Ning suddenly chuckled softly as Li Wenxin was about to exit the assembly hall.

Li Wenxin halted abruptly, turning sharply to look at her, with a gaze filled with intense killing intent.

With a smile still on her face, Ji Ning continued probing, "I do indeed have some things in my possession, whether they are relics remains to be determined..."

"Shut up! Come with me!"

Li Wenxin suddenly raised his voice, interrupting her.

He strode forward, stopping two steps away from Ji Ning.

Li Wenxin, at a height of 1.85 meters, stood before Ji Ning like a volcano barely containing its eruption.

Ji Ning shrugged, looking up at him with feigned nonchalance, continuing to provoke, "What? Want to make a move?"

"Ji Ning!"

Li Wenxin seemed to restrain his emotions, speaking in a low voice, warning, "Some words, once spoken, even I won’t be able to protect you."

"Heh..."

"Let’s go, I’ll invite you to have a meal at the Li Family."

Li Wenxin’s last words carried a hint of resignation, as if conceding to Ji Ning.

Ji Ning’s gaze flickered slightly, and she said lightly, "Then thank you, Minister Li."

The two left one after the other.

As they were leaving, Ji Ning suddenly turned to glance at the crystal chandelier on the ceiling of the assembly hall.

The hidden red light suddenly went out...