Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 376 - 371: Purifying Mutant Beasts?

Of course, there are significant drawbacks to this technology of activating biological chips and replacing the host’s consciousness.

All chip hosts, which are chips that carry the consciousness of the Eternal Life Sect followers, need a regular injection of a drug that makes the host’s consciousness fall asleep for normal operation.

Otherwise, when the host’s own consciousness awakens, the chip host will automatically go into a dormant state.

This is also why "Pan Min" suddenly disappeared, and Pan Qing came online.

Without regular drug injections, Pan Qing’s self-awareness gradually awoke.

According to the chip host’s settings, when "Pan Min" determines that they are in a dangerous state, they should feedback to the Smart Brain and initiate the remote self-destruction program, but "Pan Min"’s program never initiated.

It’s unclear whether there was a command flaw in this intelligent technology, or if "Pan Min" developed self-awareness.

...

Pan Qing was unfortunate, yet also fortunate.

After seeing this data, Ji Ning sighed inwardly.

Then she looked at Ye Xingyan coldly.

Ye Xingyan immediately looked away, pretending not to see the coldness in her eyes.

The people on the Left Wing are really digging their own graves!

If they want to develop this black tech, they should focus on it instead of conducting human experiments.

Even if it’s like in comic books, making an intelligent robot would be fine.

By doing this, they would definitely end up on the Commander’s blacklist.

However, this is also good; the Commander can return to the Right Wing with a focused mind in the future...

Ye Xingyan felt somewhat gleeful in his heart.

Before he could feel completely happy, Ji Ning said with a blank expression, "Come with me!"

Ye Xingyan immediately restrained his emotions and obediently followed Ji Ning out.

The two came to a corner without surveillance, and Ji Ning erected a mental barrier, looking extremely serious, "Do you know how many people the Eternal Life Sect has implanted with chips?"

Ye Xingyan hesitated for a moment before roughly giving a number, which almost made Ji Ning’s aura uncontrollable with rage.

Standing closest, Ye Xingyan was in distress, spewing a mouthful of fresh blood.

Ji Ning infused him with some healing ability, suppressing her anger to continue questioning, "Which people on the Nanling side closely collaborate with the Eternal Life Sect?"

Ye Xingyan was weak for a while before replying, "Most Hunter Teams involved in the smuggling of toxic herbs have cooperation."

"Is it only smuggling toxic herbs?" Ji Ning’s eyes sharpened.

Ye Xingyan immediately said, "There are also some people, especially adolescents with higher physical grades."

Seeing Ji Ning’s expression as if her suspicions were confirmed, Ye Xingyan only felt a tingling of the scalp.

He dared not look her in the eyes again.

"Hand over the list you know!"

***

Black Snake Gang——

A burly man asked his subordinate anxiously, "Still can’t reach the leader?"

"No! The leader has been ignoring the calls."

"Damn it!"

The subordinate shrank his neck, afraid to say more, not knowing who the deputy leader was cursing.

After attempting contact for a while longer, the deputy leader finally gave up.

"Forget it, stop trying."

The deputy leader gritted his teeth and left the communication room with a dark expression, eyes full of gloom.

Upon meeting his confidant, he made a throat-slitting gesture.

The confidant nodded slightly and left quickly.

...

Night fell.

In a residential area of Nanling City.

Several figures quickly infiltrated, carrying plastic barrels filled with gasoline. They moved swiftly to a small bungalow, and on a command, they deftly poured gasoline on the walls, followed by a flash of fire thrown at the base of the wall.

The flames blossomed like a night-blooming cereus, only to disappear swiftly into the darkness.

This scene was shocking.

There were several "crack—crack—crack—" sounds.

Searchlights bright as daylight suddenly illuminated the night sky.

"Damn! We’ve walked into an ambush, retreat quickly——" the leader shouted.

The scattered few immediately fled in different directions, but they didn’t run far before being caught by the base warriors who had been lying in wait.

The leading superpower user attempted to self-detonate to conceal their identity, but the base superpower user didn’t give him a chance.

The entire operation lasted until late into the night before it ended.

When Fu Lishen received the report from the ambush team leader, he finally relaxed.

He was extremely grateful for inviting Ji Ning to assist in the investigation and for heeding her advice to start from the driver’s family’s safety, which led to catching these small fry.

Now they only had to wait for the big fish to panic and take the bait.

As the night was gradually fading, Ji Ning and Ye Xingyan, who had been missing for two days, returned to the temporary rented courtyard.

"Who is it? What’s the password?"

The sudden appearance of Xiao Kong made Ye Xingyan step back warily.

When did this kid also learn spatial concealment?

If he were an assassin, he could certainly catch them by surprise and succeed directly.

Ji Ning revealed her information and stated the password: "Ji Ning, password is Ji Ning’s saying, fifteenth line: ’If life was as it was at first sight, then try not to meet!’"

Ye Xingyan: ...

Xiao Kong grinned, "Password correct, leader please enter!"

Only Bai Xiaotang could make her leader recite this password with a straight face.

Ignoring Xiao Kong’s suppressed laughter, Ji Ning asked expressionlessly, "Where’s the soil that Xiao Shun brought back?"

Xiao Kong quickly reined in his emotions and led the way immediately, "He placed it in the temporary laboratory. As per the professor’s requirement, it was air-sealed and stored in a cool place."

Ji Ning nodded slightly, entering the temporary laboratory with Ye Xingyan, taking all the soil and returning to the first base.

The two made a shocking discovery in the laboratory:

The pollution concentration inside the Mutant Beast decreased by more than 40%.

This was an unprecedented situation.

Fu Lishen, receiving the news, was also taken aback by this number and immediately contacted the heads of several camps stationed on the defense line to inquire about the situation.

Base warriors also have regular tasks to clean up Mutant Beasts near the defense line in the Pollution Zone.

But they haven’t found a phenomenon where the attack strength of Mutant Beasts has weakened.

And the pollution concentration in the samples they collected was similar to before, with little change.

"Could these three mutant cows be experiment cows?" Fu Lishen speculated.

In the past, to study the body changes of Mutant Beasts, researchers would bring normal animals into the Pollution Zone to observe their mutation situations.

But often within 48 hours, normal animals would die.

There was not a single successful case.

Eventually, such meaningless research was directly terminated.

Now, suddenly appearing in the southern defense area...

Could it be that someone within the Hunter Alliance successfully cultivated Mutant Beasts?

Ye Xingyan, who had always been quiet in front of Fu Lishen, suddenly voiced opposition to his speculation.

"No way. Currently, normal animals cannot survive in the Pollution Zone for 48 hours. I’m more inclined to believe that someone has developed a drug that could purify the Mutant Beasts, perhaps having a similar effect to the Purification Tree."

Ye Xingyan got somewhat excited, his eyes brightening.

He looked toward Ji Ning, "This is talent. If they can indeed purify Mutant Beasts, temporarily lowering their danger levels, we could explore wider areas within the Pollution Zone."

Ji Ning frowned, glancing at him.

Region 318217 is in the south.

"Fu Lishen, tomorrow let’s arrange with the Hunter Alliance’s high-level to discuss changing defense for the Hunter Team."

"Changing defense?" Fu Lishen was quite surprised.

This is no small matter.

The Hunter Alliance would certainly object.

Previously, whenever he wanted to deploy base warriors to the south to support, they’d refuse with various excuses. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

But Ji Ning wore a cold smile, "Since they can’t hold the line, let’s hand it over to those who can."

Fu Lishen’s expression changed, then he laughed, "Alright!"

Ye Xingyan looked at the two, deciding on such a big matter, his eyes wide open.

Aren’t you going to inform the Huazhou Alliance?

Aren’t you afraid of the two sides clashing?