Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot!-Chapter 508 - 503: Are You Here to Play a Game With Me?
"Don’t worry, with me here, King Yan won’t dare to take you." The cold voice echoed again.
The Wood Element Investigator was now certain he wasn’t dead and that someone had come to save him.
He tried to raise his hand to wipe his eyes but was restrained by Ji Ning. "Don’t move, I’ll take out the hook first. It might hurt, bear with it."
Ji Ning used her hand like a knife, cutting off the excess parts of the iron hook, carefully slicing through the flesh and skin that had adhered to the hook.
Without anesthetics, the intense pain caused the Wood Element Investigator’s veins to bulge as he let out a loud scream. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
His hoarse voice was like someone dying, breath without sound.
To minimize his suffering, Ji Ning worked quickly, and with one swift motion, pulled out the hook piercing his shoulder blade.
The Wood Element Investigator still fainted from the pain.
Ji Ning took off her earring and placed it on him, quickly healing his wound.
She got up and went to save others.
In this Water Prison, a total of eight investigators were hanging, two of whom had already sacrificed themselves.
Huang Ying and Ye Tong were not here.
Feeling heavy-hearted, after treating the six, Ji Ning picked up the earring and hurried to the next dungeon.
In the video of Zero, she saw Huang Ying, but Ye Tong was nowhere in sight.
She wondered where she was now?
Perhaps rescuing Huang Ying would give her a clue about Ye Tong’s whereabouts.
The castle’s dungeon was very large, with various torture chambers designed for sadistic torment.
The place where Huang Ying was held looked very dark on screen.
Ji Ning searched one room after another, seeing countless corpses and bones.
Some were familiar, some strangers.
She stored all familiar bodies into her space.
Fifteen investigators replaced students, plus those previously sent to monitor the Ji Family Army and the Eternal Life Sect. According to Zero, 38 had their identities exposed and captured, and she had now collected more than a dozen dismembered corpses.
Even though she desperately tried to find complete remains, she couldn’t piece them all together...
By the end, Ji Ning’s mood was as black as ink.
She solemnly pushed open the last heavy door.
Finally, she found 12 investigators bound on crosses.
Huang Ying was among them.
They were around a gigantic round table, with 12 numbers representing their identities placed before each cross.
In the middle of the round table sat a small doll with a red umbrella, its opened mouth releasing an ancient nursery rhyme incongruous with the surroundings.
Once the doll finished singing the rhyme, a child’s voice rang out.
"Number 3, what’s the name of the biggest whale in South Ocean?"
Suddenly, a light shone on the cross of number 3.
But the investigator had no strength left to answer.
His body was pierced with several small needles, some long, some short.
After waiting a while and seeing number 3 didn’t respond, the doll’s smile turned into a cry.
"Number 3 is disengaged from the game, not a good child. I’m going to punish you on behalf of the master."
Immediately, a 5cm long needle shot out from the red umbrella held by the doll.
The sharp needle gleamed with a cold light.
Number 3 prepared to embrace the familiar pain.
Then there was a quiet, almost inaudible clashing sound in front of him.
The doll sitting in the center slowly turned its head, looking at Ji Ning in the doorway.
The crying face instantly changed into a smile, "Another big sister here, are you here to play games with me?"
"Games, my ass!"
Ji Ning grabbed the torture device hanging on the wall and hurled it fiercely, smashing the central doll into sand.
Her eyes narrowed fiercely, and all electronic gadgets in the room collectively malfunctioned.
The special metal handcuffs binding the 12 people also became ineffective.
The 12 people collapsed onto the table like lifeless bodies but were stopped mid-air by an invisible energy wall.
Ji Ning carefully placed the 12 people on the ground nearby, checking everyone’s condition.
With burning anger in her eyes, she wished to turn this place to ashes.
Each person’s body had dozens of metal needles stuck in various organs and joints, ensuring they didn’t die yet causing significant torment.
She suddenly recalled a person from chaotic times who invented this sadistic method.
She once used it on Sun Liguo, and now saw it here again.
How ironic...
Ji Ning stood up, suddenly an energy sphere appeared in her palm, the special energy she collected from Black Magnet Mountain.
This energy could interfere with and destroy all electronics and had a strong magnetic force attracting various metals.
The metal needles in the 12 people gained life, automatically flying into the energy sphere in Ji Ning’s hand, gradually merging with it.
With her other hand clutching the earring, she infused healing energy into the bodies of the 12.
The milky white light illuminated the dim space brightly, like the scorching sun dispersing cold and bringing warmth and vitality.
Ji Ning raised her head to look at the dungeon ceiling, the Eighteenth Rank superpower user was getting closer.
...
Huang Ying was the first to regain consciousness.
She initially thought she was still bound on the cross being tortured.
She suddenly felt familiar energy within her.
She immediately opened her eyes, facing Ji Ning who was sitting on the floor with eyes closed, resting.
"Ji Ning..."
Huang Ying hoarsely called out, Ji Ning opened one eye, her black pupils without focus.
"You..."
"It’s okay, I’m just resting."
She was a bit tired after battling spiritual power with the Eighteenth Rank superpower user.
Unexpectedly, the Eighteenth Rank spiritual system superpower user turned out to be a young boy.
There was a chip in the back of his head, already deactivated by her just as he was regaining consciousness.
Zero informed her that the boy’s consciousness chip was the one from John Josen, the former strongest of West Continent, implanted less than half a year ago.
Due to the boy’s strong spiritual power, even after the chip was implanted, his natural consciousness would suddenly awaken, turning him supposedly into a demon occupying the sect leader’s body in the eyes of Eternal Life Sect followers.
Whenever he regained consciousness, they’d cast spells with insane chants and subject him to harsher drugs hoping he would never wake up.
The boy detested these followers, killing them viciously in the castle whenever he awoke until encountering Ji Ning.
After Ji Ning forcefully suppressed his spiritual power, she closed her eyes to rest briefly.
Huang Ying regained consciousness during this time.
"Where is Ye Tong?" Ji Ning asked.
Huang Ying’s slightly numb brain abruptly cleared.
"She was taken by the Rick Family."
The Rick Family, like the Qiao Family, were among the ancient families of West Continent, possessing deep-rooted family traditions.
Such families hold conservative thoughts, performing various bizarre acts for lineage continuation.
Even a chaotic era powerhouse like John Josen was compelled to become an Immortal Person; who knows what the Rick Family plans with Ye Tong?
Ji Ning considered a possibility, her expression subtly changing.
"Eat something first, we’ll leave shortly."
"What about them?"
"Shi Er and his people should be arriving soon. Once they’re here, we’ll leave."
Ji Ning had mentioned earlier that Ye Xingyan had Shi Er protecting him, each of them around Sixteenth Rank in strength.
Such formidable power could easily dominate even in West Continent.
Just as Ji Ning said, Shi Er came driving several cars to the opposite side of the moat near the castle.
From a distance atop the hill, they saw several parts of the castle collapsed, walls marked by signs of lightning strikes — clearly the captain’s work.
Already from afar, they smelled the intense metallic scent.
Many likely died inside again.
"K, what’s the situation inside? How are the Commander and captain?"
Ye Xingyan appearing solemn-faced, "There’s a superpower user inside exceeding the Eighteenth Rank."
Everyone felt tense suddenly.
