Retired for A Hundred Years: Re-Employment for the Apocalypse Bigshot! Chapter 239: Puppet

Ji Ning’s eyebrows furrowed tightly.

Li Wenxin looked at Ji Ning with a hint of malice in his eyes, "They believe the Commander will definitely return. To welco her back, they ordered my father and two uncles before their deaths to establish the Ji Family Army, waiting for the Commander’s return!"

Ji Ning: ...

It’s sothing they would do.

Ji Ning felt moved but also a bit helpless.

"The founding principle of the Ji Family Army was to inherit the Commander’s will, to promote her thoughts and spirit. However, people’s hearts are changeable. Deep ties fade with the lure of benefits. The Ji Family Army fractured internally, its spirit and thoughts no longer unified. So even used the Commander’s return to carry out a plan to control the entire Ji Family Army..."

As Li Wenxin spoke up to this point, his gaze toward Ji Ning was already tinged with anger.

Yet Ji Ning’s expression returned to calm, and he uttered four words indifferently: "Li Daitao Jiang." (Replacing soone under false pretenses)

Li Wenxin was stunned for a mont, then continued, "That’s right, these people found a group of younger girls, cultivating them from an early age with the Commander’s beliefs and stories, letting them gradually beco assimilated into the Commander these people crafted, believing themselves to be the Commander, becoming their puppets."

Ji Ning’s gaze showed a hint of regret, "Unfortunately, a fake is always a fake."

"Exactly, because they’re fake, these puppets et tragic ends, almost none reaching adulthood. The only one who reached adulthood was assassinated. You’re the only puppet in recent years to have succeeded and appeared before !"

Li Wenxin looked at her coldly, his gaze nearly brimming with killing intent.

But Ji Ning’s expression remained calm, and she replied, "How do you know that I’m the puppet they cultivated? Perhaps I’m the real one?"

"The real one?" Li Wenxin inspected her up and down, sneering, "This ti their cultivation thod has truly succeeded!"

Ji Ning: ...

"Your mory contains no impurities, allowing you to survive this long, even safely appearing before as a Detective for the Security Bureau," Li Wenxin spoke directly to Ji Ning, dropping all pretenses.

Ji Ning found it sowhat amusing, a hint of a smile surfacing on her face as she looked Li Wenxin straight in the eyes, "Should I thank you for this?"

"Your abilities aren’t weak and you’re a multi-system superpower user. Since appearing in our sights, you haven’t done anything particularly outrageous, so I’d like to recruit you."

Ji Ning slightly nodded, "To beco your weapon against the Ji Family Army?"

"No!" The aura around Li Wenxin beca a bit more peaceful, and he poured himself another cup of tea.

Ji Ning raised an eyebrow.

"After all, the Ji Family Army is the culmination and unfulfilled dream of my grandfather. I don’t want it truly destroyed by those people. Perhaps those who created you also had a bit of sincerity back then."

"So what do you want to do?"

"Consolidate all the global forces of the Ji Family Army."

Ji Ning took a sip of tea.

"Oh," she said flatly.

Li Wenxin quietly waited for her to express her stance, but besides that "oh," she did not respond further.

He couldn’t decipher what Ji Ning was thinking at the mont, so he added, "You can take your ti to consider my suggestion."

"Aren’t you worried that my backers might also co out to recruit ?"

"I believe that soone who truly inherits the Commander’s will carries a sense of righteousness, and would never forsake the safety of the Hua Continent for personal gain."

Ji Ning chuckled inwardly.

But her face remained extrely calm.

Later, Li Wenxin took Ji Ning to a restaurant for hot pot, treating her as though she was a youngster he admired.

Ji Ning did not refuse, eating until she was eighty-percent full at Li Wenxin’s ho, then was driven back to the residence arranged for her by the Beijing Security Bureau.

Lin Yuanyang glanced at the clock on the wall, surprised at why she returned so late.

Just as he was about to inquire, Ji Ning gestured for silence.

He watched as Ji Ning cautiously walked over to the television and pointed to a black box behind it.

Lin Yuanyang imdiately understood her aning, his expression turning cold. He quickly approached, fiddling with the black box for a mont before removing it.

He then fetched his toolbox, promptly dismantling the black box to reveal a listening device inside.

Ji Ning instructed him to render it ineffective without hindering its operations.

Lin Yuanyang directly removed the chip inside, altering its program.

"Sister Ning, it’s done."

Seeing Lin Yuanyang speak without reservation, Ji Ning said directly, "Help find out the identities of all individuals nad Ji Ning across the Hua Continent over the past 100 years."

Lin Yuanyang’s face showed surprise, and Ji Ning briefly recounted what Li Wenxin had told her.

Lin Yuanyang was shocked into silence for a long while, taking quite so ti to regain his voice, "Then... Sister Ning is..."

"I’m not a puppet," Ji Ning said, looking directly into Lin Yuanyang’s eyes.

Lin Yuanyang jolted, forcibly suppressing his shock, and nodded seriously, "Understood. I’ll investigate right away, ensuring no one discovers anything!"

Sister Ning entrusted him with such an important secret, a testant to her absolute trust in him, and he must not betray that trust.

Ji Ning nodded slightly, then reclined on the sofa, closing her eyes and pressing her fingers to her forehead.

The room fell silent, save for the clacking of Lin Yuanyang’s keyboard.

Li Wenxin was certain she was a puppet, not fearing her recruitnt or control by her backers, which went beyond so grandiose notion of righteousness.

Because he too was involved in the puppet program, possibly even one of the masterminds.

But what he hadn’t anticipated was that she wasn’t truly a puppet, but the real person who had traversed ti and space to be here.

If the puppet plan succeeded, it could indeed unite the forces of the Ji Family Army, possibly even gather the strength of all who were fervently devoted to her.

Seeing Bai Xiaotang and Ye Tong’s admiration for her was a testant to this power.

But, as Li Wenxin said, training puppets is prone to mishaps, as people have their own thoughts and attempting to replace another will eventually reveal flaws, creating instability.

Therefore, for the plan to proceed smoothly, the backers likely reached an agreent, temporarily setting aside differences to cultivate the perfect puppet together.

To replace soone, the most perfect thod is to beco that person.

From birth, faithfully replicating ’her’ life, making the puppet’s mories ’real’, much like the ancient film ’The Truman Show,’ allowing puppets to grow from cognition along ’her’ growth journey.

And these backers would not surface before the puppet’s debut, nor interact with the puppet.

Only once the puppet appeared before the world would they leverage their skills to recruit the puppet and have her subdue the Ji Family Army and all her admirers.

However, this breed of puppet carries imnse risks, as the puppet, believing herself to be the true Commander, might very well develop her own power, not serving their interests.

That’s why Li Wenxin, once confirming she was a puppet, told her her mories had been altered, and she wasn’t the true Commander.

This was to make her cautious, keeping her from using the Ji Family Army against him even after gaining their control.

Such a cunning plan!

As Ji Ning reflected upon this, a trace of hostility arose, startling Lin Yuanyang, who glanced up at her repeatedly.