Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 70: Probing

Although they have evidence from the base, everyone who leaves Nanling City will still be monitored in the shadows until the true suspect is identified.

"Sister Ning, am I feeling confused? Why do I keep feeling like someone is spying on us?" Ye Tong looked around, her face tense.

Ji Ning glanced up at her and seemed satisfied.

Ye Tong hadn’t wasted her time in Body Refinement recently; her spiritual power was much stronger than before, and her sensitivity had also improved.

"Is someone really spying on us? What do they want to do?" Seeing Ji Ning’s silent look, Ye Tong became more nervous, her eyes darting around as she tried to pinpoint the voyeur.

Ji Ning reached out and slapped her, "Let’s go, you’re not Su Qiangwei."

"..."

Ye Tong clutched her chest theatrically and exaggeratingly lay across the table, "Sister Ning, your words really wreck my heart."

Ji Ning sensed the officers who almost charged out from the shadows, and said with a faint smile, "Then let’s cast the War God heroine."

***

The interrogation room.

The drug den leader, who had been re-arrested, gradually calmed down after a bout of frenzy, but there was still an irrepressible joy in his eyes, as though something good had happened.

"Speak, what happened at the platform?"

"Who is your accomplice there?"

"Who is the Commander? Is he your boss?"

Zhou Yan, with a blank expression, asked three questions in a row.

But the drug den leader maintained his usual smile, raised his eyes to look at him, and retorted, "Haven’t you already met him?"

Zhou Yan slammed the table heavily and scolded, "Liu Yunsong, don’t think that by not confessing, your accomplices can escape justice. We have ways to pry the list from your mouth."

Liu Yunsong’s smile grew even broader, then he closed his mouth and kept silent.

His demeanor was as if he had secured victory.

He even refused to answer subsequent questions, displaying a non-cooperative attitude.

Zhou Yan was momentarily at a loss, and the interrogation reached a deadlock.

Suddenly—

Zhou Yan’s earpiece crackled with the voice of a colleague from the monitoring room: "Lao Zhou, someone from above has arrived to take him away."

Zhou Yan was startled, slightly furrowed his brows, "I understand." He then instructed a colleague beside him, "You keep questioning, I need to step out for a moment."

As he stood up, Liu Yunsong confidently said from across the room, "This should be our last meeting, right?"

Zhou Yan paused, raised his gaze towards him, suppressed his surprise, and said with an unchanged expression, "You’re overthinking it. Until we get the list from your mouth, we’ll have many more interactions."

But Liu Yunsong just smiled and shook his head, closing his mouth, no longer speaking.

The expression on Liu Yunsong’s face lingered in Zhou Yan’s mind, sowing a seed of unease.

He immediately went to the monitoring room door, pushed it open without knocking, somewhat angrily.

"Lao Wang, what do you mean? What is this..." He trailed off as he saw two men in black uniforms and sunglasses sitting inside.

One of the men in black pulled a piece of paper from his pocket, with a slightly indifferent expression, "This is a transfer order, we need to take the suspect."

"Why? He’s not even..."

"Lao Zhou..." Wang Qingyi loudly interrupted him.

Zhou Yan, seeing this, angrily kicked at a table leg, turned his back to watch the surveillance video, his face looking as bad as it could get.

These two are from a special department of the Security Bureau. Once they take the suspect, all cases related to him become S-Class confidential, inaccessible to anyone but the special department.

In other words, all their preliminary efforts come to an end now. How can he willingly accept this?

Wang Qingyi knew his long-time partner was fuming inside; anyone would be upset to have their hard work snatched away at the last moment. But he could only smile and smooth over the situation, "Please don’t be offended, Lao Zhou just didn’t figure it out for the moment. He’s been with this case for over half a year. We even lost two colleagues in this process. So of course, he’s eager to solve it, and now suddenly someone takes over... We know you taking the suspect must have a good reason, but this sudden move, can you give us a bit of explanation? This suspect is really important to us, you see... can you reveal a little?"

After exchanging a look, the two men in black replied in the same cold voice, "Sorry, the mission is confidential, we cannot disclose. Please lead us to suspect Liu Yunsong."

Wang Qingyi’s smile froze for a moment, but he quickly resumed his cordial expression, nodding and gesturing politely, "Alright, I won’t ask anymore, please come with me."

Under the glare of his angry partner Zhou Yan, Wang Qingyi led the two out of the monitoring room. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

In a fit of rage, Zhou Yan kicked over a chair, angrily pacing with hands on his hips, having no way to vent his frustration.

The image of Liu Yunsong’s smile incessantly replayed in his mind.

Why are people from the special department taking him away?

Throughout the case, there wasn’t a single trace that warranted involvement from the Security Bureau’s special department.

Just as he couldn’t figure it out, his phone rang suddenly, and when Zhou Yan took it out, it was a colleague from Anhe City’s police department.

He immediately pressed the answer button and heard his superior’s voice: "Zhou Yan, after handing over the suspect, take your team and return to Nanling promptly."

"Why? We’ve been at this for over half a year, lost two comrades to capture Liu Yunsong, why should they just take him away with one word?" Zhou Yan yelled in anger, his fingers gripping the phone, bulging with veins due to the pressure.

The superior on the other end spoke calmly, "Don’t be agitated, this case has exceeded our control. I’ve sent you a video, watch it and you’ll understand..."

Zhou Yan’s fury slowly subsided, and after hanging up, he immediately looked at the video sent over, his expression growing darker.

Tightening his grip on his phone, he addressed his team in the room: "Pack up, we’re heading back to Nanling."

A team member asked in confusion, "Captain Zhou, didn’t we just get back? Why are we heading back again?"

"There was an anonymous tip about a drug cartel in the Nanling Pollution Zone."

***

Anhe City Mingfu Garden.

Lin Yuanyang exhaled deeply, interlaced his fingers, stretched them upwards, and leaned back in his chair, gazing at the screen in front of him.

Sister Ning sure knows how to find things for him to do, going through all the trouble to anonymously send a video to the police and provide them with detailed coordinates of the Nanling Pollution Zone.

He had to use all his skills to shake off the police tech personnel’s pursuit, protecting Ji Ning and his own identity.

He didn’t understand what those two were up to.

How could a simple task of herb-picking end up discovering the base of a drug cartel?

It was lucky they weren’t discovered, otherwise, those two wouldn’t know how they died.

That place in Nanling is so conveniently suited for burying two bodies; neither the base nor the police might find them.

Lin Yuanyang secretly wiped away a post-event "sweat" for the two of them.

"Knock knock knock..."

Lin Yuanyang quickly closed the page, put on the glasses on the table, and said, "Come in."

The door opened, and in walked a handsome guy, standing at 190 cm, with short, rugged hair. He wore a sleeveless vest and dark green shorts, holding a bottle of shampoo, "Ran out of it, thanks."

Lin Yuanyang adjusted his glasses, nodded lightly with an indifferent expression, "No problem."

After placing the shampoo in the bathroom of Lin Yuanyang’s room, the handsome guy didn’t leave immediately but stood not far from Lin Yuanyang, casually asking, "I remember you once won the children’s division championship in a black hat hacking competition, right?"