Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 332 - 327: Wasn’t I the Commander You Created?
Bai Xiaotang finished bowing and when she looked up again, she realized she had done something foolish. Her fair cheeks instantly flushed, turning red all the way to the tips of her ears.
She looked at Ji Ning in a fluster, and as she saw Ji Ning lightly cough twice, all the gazes fixed on her in the room immediately shifted away.
Fu Ninghao watched these people impassively, feeling a slight movement in his heart, but his face remained harmonious as he said, "Tangtang is still so courteous."
Bai Xiaotang sat down, gratefully glancing at Ji Ning. The look of admiration in her eyes was something that even Bai Yusen couldn’t bear to look at.
At the same time, a sour feeling welled up in his heart, and even the way he looked at Ji Ning carried a hint of resentment.
Ji Ning sipped her tea leisurely, as if she had no concern for anything.
Fu Linyang, Li Wenxin, and Ye Xingming weren’t ones to leave the scene in silence, and their attention quickly turned to each other, exchanging polite words, appearing to have a very harmonious relationship.
Fu Ninghao, on the other hand, directed his focus towards the people sitting next to Bai Xiaotang. Although it was their first meeting, he knew quite a lot about them and asked questions that left everyone flattered.
Particularly Ye Tong and You Le.
The two giddily smiled throughout, almost revealing everything about themselves.
Ji Ning didn’t intervene, allowing Fu Ninghao to get to know everyone around her more thoroughly.
By the end of the meal, everyone in the room seemed quite satisfied.
Bai Xiaotang and her group were safely escorted back to Mingfu Garden by the Special Ability Team’s vehicle, with Ji Ning being the only one who didn’t return with them.
In the private room, only the three families and Ji Ning remained.
The dishes in front of them had been replaced by fruits and tea.
Fu Linyang had no place in the room and had already left.
The four of them sat separately at the round table, quietly sipping their tea.
The atmosphere was no longer as light as before, as if an undercurrent was slowly surging.
Ji Ning remained impassive, while the three men observed cautiously.
Hidden in the shadows were dozens of high-level superpower users, all of them Control Ability users above the 10th Rank.
They did not deliberately hide their presence, seemingly intending to let Ji Ning know of their existence.
Ji Ning savored her tea, concealing the disdain at the corner of her mouth.
She never underestimated the human heart, which was precisely why she managed to find a foothold in the chaotic world.
After two cups of tea, it was Fu Ninghao who spoke first. Having spent his life in the military, he was straightforward. He cut straight to the point: "What exactly do you want to do?"
Ji Ning continued to drink her tea, looking at him indifferently, "I haven’t decided."
This was not the answer he wanted.
Fu Ninghao frowned slightly, "I can appoint you as the chief commander of the Huazhou Alliance Special Ability Team."
Upon saying this, Ji Ning noticeably sensed a slight disturbance in the hidden auras around her, causing her to chuckle softly as she shook her head.
"No need."
Li Wenxin and Ye Xingming exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with deep apprehension.
Fu Ninghao didn’t expect Ji Ning to refuse the position, as it was quite a high rank, making her the leader of all official superpower users.
Fu Ninghao’s expression grew slightly stern as he reminded, "Your current identity can’t be disclosed to the outside world. Even if you wanted to be the leader of the alliance, you couldn’t just assume the role immediately."
"Would you let me be the leader of the alliance?" Ji Ning raised an eyebrow, a smile playing on her lips.
Fu Ninghao was at a loss for words, as he was just being polite.
Seeing that the three men remained silent, Ji Ning laughed, "I’m not interested in governing the Hua Continent. I’m just really curious, do you truly believe I’m her?"
The three remained silent.
Ji Ning watched them for a while before continuing, "All on the basis of a portrait and the ramblings of a lunatic from decades ago?"
The room was quiet enough to hear the sound of each other’s breathing.
As time ticked by, a layer of sweat appeared on the brows of those hidden, uncertain whether it was due to the shocking words they had just heard or the stuffy air in the room.
Until Li Wenxin questioned, "If you’re not her, then who are you?"
The smile on Ji Ning’s face widened, as she chuckled, "Am I not the commander you all created?"
The expressions on the three men subtly changed, their eyes turning much colder.
Ji Ning, unfazed by what they might be thinking, continued to laugh, "Consolidating all the forces within the Hua Continent temporarily and establishing the Huazhou Alliance was not easy. You need a successor who is powerful enough and has enough prestige to maintain internal peace and convince everyone. Unfortunately, none of your three families have such a junior and talented person. To maintain the hard-won peace, they could only reestablish a spiritual leader that everyone could be convinced by before dying, and together with those forces who always had ulterior motives, form a new force to maintain the existing situation. The Ji Family Army is such a new force..."
"Unfortunately, human desire is endless. When the status quo cannot satisfy private desires, seizing continues—conspiracy, sowing discord, internal strife, causing the originally unstable new force to fall into internal consumption again. I think the 12 round table forces of the chaotic world faded away just like that, didn’t they?"
As Ji Ning spoke, the expressions of the three men grew darker and darker.
The young woman in front of them was exceedingly clever, seeing through the layout that the three families had set up for over 100 years in an instant.
Now all that was left was the final stretch, and they really didn’t want any unexpected complications.
But she...
The eyes of the three flickered with their respective calculations.
Ji Ning looked at their silent expressions, taking up the teacup on the table and sipping two mouthfuls of tea.
When it came to the three families, the only thing she felt guilty about were the three little brothers. They were all younger than her; she had been 20 before transmigrating, with the oldest among the little brothers, Fu Huayu, at 18, Ye Jianxiu at 16, and Li Zhan at 12.
At the time when the Huazhou Safety Zone was newly announced, internal forces were not united, and only because she had them suppressed did the safety zone get constructed smoothly and the 12-member round table conference hall, which became the predecessor of the Huazhou Alliance, was established.
Later, she experienced an accident during the explosion of Jiuming Mountain and transmigrated to modern times, but during those chaotic times, that was considered an unexpected event.
One doesn’t need to use imagination to know that the three younger brothers, whose abilities were not as strong as hers, were absolutely incapable of suppressing the other 11 forces.
Combining this with the history she now saw, Hua Continent experienced many years of internal strife before the situation gradually stabilized, and the Huazhou Alliance was formed. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
This process surely involved rivers of blood, with all forces having paid a bitter price.
The Huazhou Safety Zone ushered in decades of peaceful development.
However, power is such a thing that once wielded, no one can resist the temptation and easily give it up, so the forces of Hua Continent began to stir again.
And now these three little brothers are getting old, and none of their progeny were particularly outstanding in abilities, unable to suppress these people. Once they all pass away, the Hua Continent would definitely return to the internal turmoil of decades ago.
The three men did not want to break the current peace, so they took a step back and formed a new faction with the 11 forces — the Ji Family Army, with the missing Ji Ning as the spiritual leader.
As for this matter of transmigration, Ji Ning suspected that lunatic might be a ruse, an excuse fabricated by the three little brothers for the smooth creation of the Ji Family Army.
But it can’t be completely ruled out as true, after all, she did transmigrate, and these three families and some people from the Ji Family Army jointly created the "Commander"...
Ji Ning held a skeptical attitude towards this matter.
Her gaze turned towards Li Wenxin, who had maintained a cold expression, and she asked with a half-smile:
"Li Wenxin, do you think the lunatic who prompted the founding of the Ji Family Army truly existed, or was it something they fabricated?"
