Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 353 - 348: I Know What He’s Planning

"What else do you need?" Ji Ning placed the reassembled distillation apparatus in front of Ye Xingyan.

He looked at her with a complex expression for a moment and then cautiously said, "I still need your blood."

As soon as the words were out, Ye Xingyan suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and the surrounding pressure dropped instantly, giving him a sense of urgency—like if he didn’t give a reason, heads would roll. He hurriedly explained in a loud voice, "It’s because people from the chaotic era have high levels of certain heavy metals in their blood. I need to compare the levels in yours and his blood. Currently, the instruments are insufficient, so we have to use this clumsy method."

The pressure didn’t decrease but increased, "He arrived here decades before I did. Do you know if he’s had his blood changed?"

Ye Xingyan was taken aback, as if he just remembered this matter. No longer worried, he looked down at the Smart Brain screen provided by Lin Yuanyang.

"Let me see Steven Bart’s data."

The data he referred to was the internal information Ji Ning copied from the research institute.

Ji Ning’s expression finally softened as she withdrew the pressure on Ye Xingyan.

This man can’t be trusted if he’s not being watched.

Ye Xingyan breathed a sigh of relief, hiding the regret in his eyes.

After a while, he looked up at Ji Ning and said, "I need Steven Bart’s corpse."

This was his purpose for coming, now unexpectedly adding Joe Lane’s blood as a bonus.

Ji Ning was silent for a moment, then asked, "Okay, but you need to answer me one question."

"Go ahead."

"You replaced Steven Bart’s organs, didn’t you?"

Ye Xingyan nodded slightly, admitting, "When he was 25, his organs failed extensively. At that time, I hadn’t yet left the Ye Family, so I participated in the project to replace his organs."

"25?" Ji Ning was somewhat surprised.

"Yes, 25, which was 20 years ago," Ye Xingyan confirmed, then raised a strange smile, "in the fifth year after he arrived."

He wanted to see panic on Ji Ning’s face, but unfortunately, she remained as calm as ever.

Ye Xingyan felt uninteresting and continued, "He’s not an isolated case. That madman also had extensive organ failure back then. After all, the environments of the two eras are different, and the body’s physiological incompatibility is normal." Saying this, Ye Xingyan looked at Ji Ning again, but she still showed no emotion, making it impossible to discern her thoughts.

"Don’t you suspect this might be a deception?"

"Experimental data can’t be faked."

Ye Xingyan blurted out and then cut off the topic, chuckling softly, "Isn’t your experience also fake?"

Ji Ning didn’t answer, destroying the temporary experimental equipment on the table, casually saying, "Steven Bart’s corpse isn’t here."

Ye Xingyan’s face darkened, "Mr. Ji, are you breaking your promise?"

"I won’t."

Ye Xingyan’s expression improved somewhat, "Then this experiment..."

Ji Ning chuckled lightly, "Can you succeed here?"

"Naturally can’t complete it, but some small experiments can still be done."

"Then don’t do it."

"Cough cough..." Ye Xingyan was shocked by Ji Ning’s casual tone, not do it?

Then what’s the point of going through all the trouble at Jiuming Mountain Base?

Aren’t you afraid of getting hit?

"The experiment can be skipped, but we need results."

Ye Xingyan: ???

Soon after, Joe Lane and his group were still detained. Someone in the envoy group was suspected of taking prohibited drugs, with the blood’s D product content resembling the confiscated D product, requiring further testing for confirmation.

Headed by Joe Lane, he didn’t get angry but rather tolerated it.

Only because Ji Ning left him a message in advance.

[If you don’t want to die like Steven Bart, keep your people in line.]

Ye Xingyan, who also saw this message, couldn’t help but shiver, suddenly feeling terrified of this woman by his side.

It seemed like everything wasn’t a secret to her.

He was unsure if he could leave Hua Continent alive.

***

"I want to see Ji Ning!" Joe Lane roared with a grim face, frightening the people around him, who trembled in terror, keeping their heads down, not daring to look at the man closest to Joe Lane.

"Sir, I’ve already sent people to negotiate with Hua Continent. Miss Ji will return in the evening," said Charles in a calm tone, trying to persuade.

But Joe Lane was like an enraged lion, losing his usual gentlemanly demeanor, grabbing Charles by the collar, and speaking slowly, "I mean now, immediately, let her come meet me!"

"Sir... please calm down... Miss Ji..." Charles’s face turned purple from the chokehold, and just when he thought he was about to meet his maker, the pressure on his neck released, causing air to rush into his throat, making him cough violently.

"Get out—"

The people in the room felt like they were granted amnesty, leaving the room at the fastest pace possible.

Joe Lane fixated on the clock on the wall, with his fist clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white. A trickle of red flowed from his fingers, dripping onto the white floor tiles, gathering into a small dark red puddle, but soon the puddle turned into ice.

Ji Ning—

Jiuming Mountain Base.

Ji Ning looked at the freshly compiled interrogation information, her expression unsurprised.

These four were internationally renowned freelance superpower users, members of the International Hunter Alliance.

This time they infiltrated Hua Continent because someone assigned them a task to pretend to assassinate envoy members, creating an international incident. But for some reason, the task changed at the last minute, requiring them to seize two Huazhou people.

Originally, they didn’t intend to take up this last-minute task, but the reward was too lucrative, so they took the risk.

"Withdraw the people from the memorial hall." Ji Ning suddenly said.

Fu Yuanxuan was stunned, "Why?"

"I know what he’s trying to do."

Ye Xingyan, sitting beside Ji Ning, was surprised to hear that, "Do what?"

After all, they even used him.

They utilized the new drugs he brought into Hua Continent, which were confiscated from Feng Yu and labeled as D products.

He refused to acknowledge them as D products; they were his latest research drugs capable of awakening superpowers in ordinary people, with an awakening rate that already exceeded 2%.

Yet they were confiscated as soon as they surfaced, an utter waste.

Ye Xingyan felt indignant inside but dared not show it.

Ji Ning glanced at him, then turned to Fu Yuanxuan, "Naturally, it’s something that’s been coveted about Jiuming Mountain."

Ye Xingyan was somewhat confused, furrowing his brow as he thought of what Jiuming Mountain had that was worth coveting.

Could it be the relics from the chaotic era?

But Fu Yuanxuan seemed to recall something, his expression not looking good, asking, "What does Joe Lane want with those things?"

Ji Ning had a cold smile on her lips, "He certainly doesn’t want to die."

"Knock knock knock..." A knock on the door interrupted the heavy atmosphere in the room.

"Report—"

Fu Yuanxuan restrained his emotions, looking toward the door, "Come in."

Mantis walked in with a serious expression, "Captain, the base chief requests you to come over, along with Miss Ji."

Fu Yuanxuan looked at Ji Ning, seeing her already standing up, the ripples in his heart calmed considerably.

"Bring him along!" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Ye Xingyan: ...