Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 313 - 308: Did Anyone Come Today?

A person who views disadvantaged groups equally naturally wouldn’t look down on a low-level support ability user like him.

He had his own private motives and acted according to them.

Fortunately, he made the right gamble...

Xiao Shun spoke his mind, and the heart that had been on edge finally settled.

"Team leader, I want to follow you," Xiao Shun said with determination in his eyes. "Not just me, but Xiao Kong and Asheng also want to follow you."

Ji Ning turned her head to glance at him but did not respond.

In this chaotic world, there were many who wanted to follow her, and Xiao Shun wasn’t the most clever of them, but he was at least perceptive.

She had long known that Xiao Shun was sent by the Security Bureau higher-ups to spy on her, but she hadn’t dismissed him because she feared the trouble - losing one Xiao Shun would only result in countless more taking his place. Better to keep him close and monitor him directly.

Could he really pose any threat?

Yet, the affair with Ji Hong left her somewhat resentful towards him.

Li Wenxin had forced Ji Hong into a desperate situation, framing her as a murderer and then tempting her to actually kill. If it hadn’t been for her chasing Ye Tong and coincidentally running into Ji Hong on the run, more lives would have been lost by her hands.

Because of her intervention, Li Wenxin adjusted his strategy, trying to let Ji Hong smoothly take control of the Huang family’s smuggling routes, thereby coming into contact with West Continent forces, to win over the Ji Family Army siding with the Ye Family. But because she saved Chang Ru, who was supposed to die, the relationship between the Gu Family and Li Family might have been exposed.

He then had to reveal those who had been monitoring Ji Hong, luring her to board the Lane family’s ship in Jiazhou, playing her last value.

What he didn’t expect was that Ji Hong indeed died, but it was openly at the hands of this A-level Security Bureau detective, making all his calculations futile.

So he then revealed his cards to her, trying to make her feel guilty towards the Li Family, hoping she wouldn’t obstruct his plan to gather the Ji Family Army.

Ji Ning felt somewhat oppressed, pursing her lips as she walked forward.

The snowflakes in the sky were falling heavier, quickly covering the footprints behind her and Xiao Shun.

The snow was still dazzlingly white, pure as the most beautiful thing in the world.

***

The following day.

Xiao Shun followed Ji Ning to the largest research institute in Beijing, a research base covering dozens of acres in the suburb of Beijing.

The buildings here were not tall, mostly six-story low blocks, with white paint on the outside.

Hence, it was also called "Little White Building."

A two-person-high wall surrounded the research base, topped with barbed wire, with base soldiers patrolling the entrance; for those unaware, it might appear as the Beijing Base’s military camp.

The two could drive into the research base smoothly because they had authorization from Ye Family Head Ye Xingming.

They had originally expected to see many researchers inside but were met with plastic-covered greenhouses instead.

Various plants were being cultivated inside, with people occasionally going in and out of the greenhouses.

Xiao Shun curiously asked, "They even farm here?"

Ji Ning looked out the window, musing, "It’s medicinal herbs."

Xiao Shun suddenly realized, "No wonder it covers such a large area."

The two then drove towards the Little White Building, located at the center of the research base.

A wall also surrounded the area around the Little White Building, with base soldiers and superpower users guarding the entrance.

Ji Ning glanced at the high-level superpower user checking their identities outside the window, nodding slightly.

The lowest-ranked superpower user here was 10th Rank, with over a hundred people present.

Xiao Shun instinctively quieted down a lot.

Their car stopped at the parking lot inside the wall, and they walked toward the Little White Building.

"Team leader, there’s even a park here?" Xiao Shun was quite surprised.

A forest park was built around the parking lot and the Little White Building, with a very pleasant environment.

A pebble path winds through the woodland.

A semi-frozen stream, with crystal-clear water and some small fish swimming beneath the thin ice.

Several researchers stood by the stream, chatting as they tossed bread crumbs into the unfrozen water to feed the fish.

Seeing Ji Ning and Xiao Shun, they appeared slightly surprised, as if outsiders rarely visited here.

"Are you new researchers?" an older researcher with glasses and graying hair asked curiously.

Xiao Shun glanced at his own team leader, seeing she had no intention of speaking, and smiled as he replied, "No, we came to find someone."

"Find someone?" The researcher’s eyes flickered with doubt, then asked, "Are you family members?"

Xiao Shun didn’t want to cause trouble and nodded.

Unexpectedly, this made the researchers’ faces change slightly, a sliver of vigilance rising in their eyes. "Whose family members are you? I’ll take you there."

"No need, no need, we can go directly."

"It’s alright; we’re taking a break anyway. Let’s go together."

Xiao Shun couldn’t refuse and had to follow these people.

He secretly glanced at Ji Ning, and seeing no displeasure on her face, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It’s not far to walk through the small park, about five or six minutes on foot.

To Xiao Shun’s surprise, there was yet another gap of open ground between the small park and the Little White Building, with no structures visible, revealing an inner fence in the distance.

The open area was about 10 meters wide and led into rows of white bungalows.

It was very quiet here, and if it weren’t for people in lab coats coming and going, Xiao Shun might have thought he had arrived at a funeral home.

He didn’t particularly like this place, and his pace involuntarily quickened a lot.

Ji Ning’s spiritual power swept out, surprised to discover a strange energy here that could neutralize her spiritual power.

If it weren’t for her superpower being strong enough, she might have had an imbalance due to excessive spiritual power consumption.

Ji Ning frowned slightly and withdrew her spiritual power.

The group quickly left the bungalow area.

At the same time, an alarm suddenly sounded in a white bungalow.

It only rang a few times before it was manually silenced.

Inside, the people stared in shock at the screen in front of them.

The data fluctuations had breached a peak value.

Did someone visit today?

*** 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Ye Xingming was usually very busy, but he deliberately made time today to meet with Ji Ning, setting aside half a day.

The researchers were quite surprised to see the often elusive Dean Ye waiting with his student assistant downstairs.

Several approached quickly to greet Ye Xingming.

"Dean..."

"Dean Ye..."

Ye Xingming nodded slightly at them, his gaze moving past them to eagerly look at Ji Ning.

Upon seeing the face approaching from a distance, his pupils dilated instantly.

Even though he had already heard about her from his second daughter, he was still extremely shocked.

The person in the portrait resembled her by about eighty percent, but the aura between the two was completely different.

The ancestor in the painting had a fierce, flamboyant gaze with an inherent regal aura, yet the person before him was very low-key, introverted, and seemed like she could vanish into the crowd at any moment.

Is this person really the "returnee"?

"Dean Ye..." Ji Ning stopped, meeting Ye Xingming’s scrutinizing gaze.

Her expression was calm and composed, exuding a cold aura.

Ye Xingming suppressed the shock in his heart, nodded slightly, and turned aside, extending an arm towards the entrance. "Please, come in."