Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 274 - 269: Infiltration

No matter whether it’s a time of peace or chaos, there will always be places untouched by sunlight.

There’s no way to dispel the darkness, only to keep running towards the light.

In the dim ship’s cabin, the faint knocking sounds appeared weak and pitiful against the crashing waves.

"Stop knocking, no one will save you..." A hoarse voice, tinged with numbness and despair.

But the knocking didn’t stop, intermittent, with a special pattern.

Outside the ship, Ji Ning agilely climbed up the ship’s body and suddenly stopped at a certain spot.

But the crewman behind her urged, "Climb faster, don’t dawdle, Brother Six is still waiting for us to save him."

Ji Ning glanced at him, pressed her lips together, and continued climbing upward.

If she hadn’t misheard, it seemed like she heard some kind of distress knocking.

A rhythm only known to special personnel.

Could there be other undercover agents on the ship?

Ji Ning followed the main group and climbed through the open window onto the deck below.

This level was a storage area for supplies, very close to the kitchen.

Everyone who infiltrated here with her came from one ship.

Along with her, there were a total of eight people.

Out at sea, there was no light, and no one could see each other’s faces. It wasn’t until someone turned on the light that every face was revealed.

"Hey, who are you?"

Ji Ning smiled at the man questioning her, raised her fist, and punched, "Your ancestor!"

In the cramped space, the other six couldn’t stretch their limbs, and before they could act, they lost consciousness.

Ji Ning retracted her spiritual power and strode out.

The room where the sound came from seemed to be below this level.

Ji Ning carefully observed her surroundings and finally discovered a hidden staircase in an inconspicuous spot.

These people had piled many miscellaneous items in front of the stairway entrance, seemingly to prevent it from being seen.

Perhaps to avoid inspections.

Ji Ning moved the junk aside and found the stairway door locked.

Just as she was about to pick the lock, she heard the sound of doors opening nearby.

It should be other dock workers who had infiltrated the ship coming over.

Ji Ning crouched down, using the junk to hide herself.

"Damn it, Brother Six’s ship is really high-end, even the storage is like a maze. So many rooms, and we don’t know which is the exit."

"Didn’t Brother Jiu give you a map? You still can’t find your way?"

"Nonsense, who can figure out directions in pitch black?"

"Hurry up and find the light."

"Damn, they didn’t even leave anyone here."

"Nonsense, everyone’s been controlled by the cops."

The group cursed and walked, their voices gradually fading away.

Ji Ning didn’t follow them, she turned back, touched the lock, and heard a "click"; the lock opened.

She gently pulled open the stairway door and slipped inside.

The staircase was very narrow, allowing only one person to enter.

In the pitch-black environment, Ji Ning descended as if she were on solid ground, spiraling down the stairs.

After descending the last step, Ji Ning also saw the surroundings.

This was the cargo ship’s engine room, the roar of the machinery was deafening.

Huge pipes were laid out intricately, but between the pipes was a small path for maintenance workers to use for repairs and upkeep.

Ji Ning glanced at her surroundings and headed directly to that path.

The roar grew louder and caused ringing in her ears, yet Ji Ning was not affected, she followed the path to its end.

There was a door there, also locked.

Using her spiritual power to probe, Ji Ning found the lock’s structure to be simple, but it was connected to an alarm.

Unless opened with a special key, the alarm would definitely go off.

Ji Ning pursed her lips, her spiritual power seeping through the door seam to explore further.

The space inside was vast, almost as large as half the ship.

And devoid of any clutter, eerily empty as if uninhabited.

Yet Ji Ning’s spiritual power quickly detected the presence of people.

There were indeed over twenty people, all young and beautiful girls.

This matched up with why someone at the dock used drugs to take Chang Ru.

Ji Ning didn’t proceed any further, she turned around and ascended the ladder again.

These people needed to be saved, but now was not the time.

Retracing the path taken by the earlier dock workers, she ascended two more levels, causing any infiltrating ship workers to fall asleep.

Without anyone noticing, she had dealt with a third of the accomplices.

Upon climbing further, she reached the deck level, where someone awaited at the exit.

People remarked that Huang Liu was daring. On his ship, besides a few confidants with firearms, no other crew had weapons, not even knives for self-defense. Yet, he was brazenly involved in life-or-death trades, with his hands stained with blood.

Whenever he went out to sea, he always took at least two ships, the one he wasn’t on was armed with firearms.

Ji Ning snorted, unabashedly confiscating all the guns into her space.

The people waiting at the exit hadn’t all seen the workers from the other ship and lacked vigilance, easily letting Ji Ning up onto the deck.

"Just you alone?" A crew member questioned, looking behind her.

"Didn’t see anyone else."

The crew member suspiciously looked at her, meeting a pair of mysterious eyes.

His gaze gradually became blank, and Ji Ning softly said, "Take me over there."

The crew member immediately turned around, silently leading Ji Ning into the cabin, showing her to a certain room, and pointed at the ceiling, "Above here is their level."

Ji Ning glanced at the movable ceiling panel and snapped her fingers.

The crew member instantly collapsed to the ground.

Ji Ning eyed the ladder beneath the ceiling and sneered.

These weren’t marked on the cargo ship’s blueprint given by Mr. Huang; clearly, they were added later.

Things he couldn’t control, he cunningly wanted to use her to remove. Truly sneaky.

Ji Ning stepped on the ladder, effortlessly climbing to the ceiling, a faint scent of blood reaching her nose.

Ji Ning distastefully glanced upwards.

The ceiling space wasn’t large, requiring crawling. Ji Ning looked into the pitch-black passage, closed her eyes, and reached out with her spiritual power.

This newly added passage was, indeed, interconnected, linking almost every room. However, to ascend a level from there, only two exits were available.

Those two exits corresponded precisely with two rooms next to the stairs on the upper level.

If someone intended to ambush, exiting from those two rooms would catch people off guard.

Ji Ning opened her eyes, jumped down from the ladder, and upon knowing Huang Liu’s countermeasures, she no longer felt the need to hide herself.

Opening the room door, she stepped outside.

Besides, there were no crew guarding outside the door, the entire place was quiet.

Ji Ning walked a few steps and saw the superpower users Lao San and Lao Si standing guard at the entrance, vigilant of the crew members on the deck, wary of all surrounding threats.

Ji Ning was quite satisfied, softened her steps, and quickly ascended the stairs within their blind spot.

The further up she went, the fewer people there were.

Apparently, most of the crew had been driven onto the deck.

On a cargo ship, at least a hundred crew members were needed, yet the superpower user leader had only five people.

To maintain this calm without a riot happening showed that those five had indeed expended great effort.

Suddenly—

Ji Ning’s footsteps halted.

Next, gunshots echoed in her ears.