Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 507 - 502: The Sins of Moon Lake

After the little boy suddenly fell into a coma, many core cultists within the Eternal Life Sect also fell into a deep sleep.

This made the ordinary cultists in the castle somewhat panicked.

The Hua Continent detective, who hadn’t been beaten for two days, felt the chaotic sounds from outside. His dry lips wanted to open, but he had no strength at all.

In the cold water, large bubbles were gurgling up.

A massive head emerged from the water, its eyeballs bulging like light bulbs, with cold pupils.

Suddenly——

A bloodthirsty mouth opened wide, aiming to devour the delicious food hanging above.

It hadn’t eaten for a whole day and was starving.

The dark green body wanted to climb up, but the height was insufficient.

It tried a few times and eventually sank back into the water.

The detective hanging there secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, when those people left, they hung him high enough so that he didn’t end up like the colleague next door, chewed down to only the upper half of his body.

Those people, in order to torture them longer and extract more information, would use drugs and healing abilities to keep them alive after every interrogation, not allowing them an easy death.

But for some unknown reason, they hadn’t come for the past two days.

Without treatment, the colleague next door succumbed.

At least he escaped early.

The detective opened his cloudy and bloodshot eyes, trying to see the corpse beside him.

But it was all a blur; he couldn’t see anything clearly.

The pain on his shoulder blades had become numb.

He just wanted to find release like his colleague.

Wishing it wouldn’t be too painful...

***

Ji Ning glanced at the surveillance video provided by [Zero], pressing down on the gas pedal further.

The people in the car were jolted, feeling miserable, but no one dared to speak up and disturb her.

As Masha would say, right now, Ji Ning is surrounded by dense black gas, threatening to erupt at any moment like before.

Even the Twelve Guards didn’t dare to disturb her at this moment.

Fortunately, the oasis closest to Ghost Valley—Moon Lake, happens to be the territory of the Qiao Family in the West Continent.

Driving there would take about four or five hours, assuming everything goes smoothly. But if they encounter extreme weather, it could take days.

Ji Ning and the team now faced extreme weather, a black storm.

In the distance, the dust storm loomed like a giant mouth ready to swallow everything, slowly moving towards their vehicle.

Though visibility was impaired, Ji Ning didn’t release the gas pedal.

The off-road vehicle charged boldly into the black storm.

The sound of sand and stones hitting the energy wall made everyone’s heart tremble.

It was Masha’s first time seeing a black storm this close; she had her eyes shut tight, hands covering her face in fright.

But up front, Ji Ning continued driving with methodical precision.

The captain glanced at the messages from his siblings, silently typed a few words.

[See you at Moon Lake, take care]

The group had split up the desert off-road vehicles brought by the Eternal Life Cultists.

The car’s performance was decent. Despite Ji Ning’s driving, it remained sturdy, without falling apart.

The captain joked silently, his face calm as he observed the black sand outside, feeling the chaotic, apocalyptic energy waves outside as if time had frozen.

The duration was unknown.

Suddenly——

A significant jolt occurred.

The captain quickly grabbed the handle beside the car’s roof, feeling his seat disconnect briefly from the chair.

The off-road vehicle had lifted off the ground, suddenly bursting out of the darkness.

The glaring sunlight caught everyone off guard.

The blue sky looked so beautiful.

Their car traced a smooth arc in mid-air, like a roller coaster...

"Ah——"

Masha couldn’t help but scream out loud.

Their car was in rapid free fall, until it hit the thick yellow dirt road again, bouncing and continuing forward resiliently, like a dirt-colored frog.

The picturesque oasis was already in view ahead, but at this moment, it failed to capture the attention of anyone inside the car.

Everyone except Ji Ning in the vehicle had their eyes tightly shut, tongues braced against the roots of their teeth, afraid they might accidentally bite off a chunk of their own flesh. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

They vowed they would never ride with the Commander again in this lifetime.

They swore!!!

...

Ten minutes later, the off-road vehicle finally reached the old castle owned by the Qiao Family.

The wide moat blocked the car’s path forward.

Ji Ning finally stopped the car.

After Ye Xingyan opened the car door, Masha rushed out and crouched to the side, vomiting.

Ji Ning couldn’t bother with her at the moment. With two leaps, she directly jumped over the moat, clearing the high walls.

Her speed was so fast that the Captain of the Twelve Guards almost couldn’t keep up.

"Boom——"

On the other side of the moat, Ye Xingyan and Masha suddenly felt the ground shake beneath them, shocked as they looked up.

They saw a large hole blow open in the towering castle walls, sending rubble falling down.

"What’s happening?"

Ye Xingyan, whose Superpower Level wasn’t high, quickly asked Masha beside him.

Masha looked at the sky, her eyes somewhat vacant, "There’s an uncomfortable deep red gas entwining with the black gas surrounding Big Sister Master."

At the same time.

The captain cautiously eyed the group of people on the other side.

These were all experts groomed by the Qiao Family, all of their abilities surpassing the twelfth rank, and the leader had reached the fifteenth rank.

The one fighting fiercely with the Commander was a fifteenth-rank expert.

Unexpectedly, after the Commander had wiped out so many Eternal Life Cultists and had Smart Brain shut down most of the core cultists’ brain chip programs, the Qiao Family still had so many hidden superpower experts.

As expected from a family with hundreds of years of history in the West Continent.

With no time for further thought, the attack from those people had already reached, and the captain no longer held back, quickly dodging and summoning thunder.

The blue sky rapidly turned black, with rolling dark clouds enveloping the entire castle’s sky overhead.

Strands of destructive silver snakes rolled within the dark clouds.

Standing outside the castle, Ye Xingyan had already brought Masha into the car, quickly driving out of the storm zone.

To have pushed the captain of the Twelve Guards to unleash a major attack, there must be quite a few enemies inside.

As the first thunderclap fell, the battle officially began.

For every level a Control Ability User advances, the energy they control increases by geometric multiples.

Although the Captain of the Twelve Guards had his level boosted by drugs, he was still slightly weaker among those of the same rank.

Nevertheless, dealing with these superpower users below the fifteenth rank was still manageable.

On the other side.

Ji Ning looked at the thing in front of her, which was neither human nor ghost, filled with extreme disgust.

She directly opted for a quick battle, disappearing instantly from the fifteenth-rank user’s vision.

When she reappeared, she was standing on one of the castle walls, looking coldly at him.

The fifteenth-rank superpower user didn’t know what she had done, only feeling his vision gradually lowered, until he saw several severed hands twitching not far away.

The colors in his eyes turned to gray, and he quickly lost consciousness.

Seeing the "humanoid monster" in front of her had completely lost its breath, Ji Ning once again charged towards the depths of the castle.

With [Zero]’s help, Ji Ning didn’t need spiritual power to scout the way and already knew the exact route to enter the Water Prison.

The Eternal Life Cultists she encountered along the way either fled in panic or screamed for help, as if some terrible ghost lurked within the castle.

Ji Ning’s eyes also showed a hint of caution as she sensed a massive spiritual power reaching the eighteenth rank, mercilessly reaping the lives of everyone within the castle.

She didn’t want a confrontation with this person for now, directly using Space Isolation to hide her body.

Until she arrived at the Water Prison...

The scenes that [Zero] had shown her were still too one-sided; the misery was not even one-tenth as severe as on site.

The intense smell of blood stimulated her nerves.

Ji Ning was so angry her fingers trembled, the black in her eyes tinged with endless killing intent.

She slowly raised her palm, aimed at the mutant creatures within the Water Prison, and suddenly clenched her fist.

Sounds of fresh meat exploding, "bang bang bang," echoed from the Water Prison.

The filthy pool water instantly turned black and red, with a more repugnant stench.

The Wood Element Investigator, who was about to lose consciousness, suddenly felt his body being lowered, a look of relief slowly spreading on his face.

Finally, it’s over...

"I said that if you make it back alive, you’d join the Investigation Group. Don’t you dare fall asleep on me now."

A cool and familiar female voice rang in his ears, and the Wood Element Investigator thought he was hallucinating.

Just as he was about to let his brain continue to drift into slumber, a foreign energy surged into his mind.

An infinitely magnified voice seemed to shatter his soul.

"You mustn’t sleep!"

The Wood Element Investigator reflexively opened his eyes, a blurry figure appearing in his sight, becoming clearer by the second.

"Did I... did I die?"