Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 136: Chapter 133: Could It Be the Devil’s Doing?

The remaining assassins posed no threat to Chen Xing, so she didn’t finish them off.

She turned and ran toward the hotel.

But she was a step too late. Song Yiguo, Vice General Du, and the others had already made it into the hotel lobby.

Not daring to linger in the lobby, they took an elevator upstairs.

Song Yiguo didn’t dare to breathe a sigh of relief until he was back in his room.

He had completely forgotten about Chen Xing. His face was flushed beet-red, the ferocity in his eyes completely undisguised.

’The Situ family is too audacious! How dare they brazenly open fire on me?’

He had originally planned to wait until he returned to the Capital City. He would have gauged the Situ family’s attitude before deciding how to handle them.

’It looks like I have to deal with them. Otherwise, it’s too dangerous for me to operate out here.’

”Call the old man again!” Song Yiguo’s voice was ice-cold.

He was no stranger to assassination attempts, but this was the first time he’d been left in such a sorry state.

He hadn’t expected the Situ family to make a move so quickly.

It was most likely the work of Old Mrs. Situ, grieving the loss of her son. She was the only one in the Situ family who still held any real authority.

What surprised him, however, was how the Situ family had managed to dispatch so many people this fast.

Baling was a long way from the Capital City—a ten-hour flight.

And it had only been eight or nine hours since Situ Lei Hao’s death...

”Go find out who exactly attacked me today.”

Vice General Du, who was on the phone, nodded distractedly.

Just then, Chen Xing opened the door and walked in, looking as calm and unbothered as ever.

An unknowing observer would have thought she’d just been out for a stroll, not fleeing for her life.

Seeing her, Song Yiguo finally remembered she was even there.

”Where have you been?” Song Yiguo recalled that Chen Xing had run off on her own and was only just now returning.

”I ran into a restroom in the lobby and hid for a while!” As she spoke, she glanced at Vice General Du.

’General Song’s tone on the phone doesn’t sound very good.’

’Looks like the Situ family is in for it.’

Hanging up, Vice General Du relayed General Song’s message to Song Yiguo. ”General Song says the Situ family can’t stir up any trouble back in the Capital City, but he wants you to be careful. Old Mrs. Situ dispatched a group of upgraded Superpower Users this way two hours ago.”

He didn’t mention how angry General Song was.

Given General Song’s usual good temper, he would typically avoid a complete fallout if possible. After all, they were all Huaxia people.

But to fail an assassination attempt and then dare to try again...

When General Song heard his son had escaped a hail of gunfire, he knew there was no longer any reason to hold back.

”So the old man is saying that group from two hours ago was the *first* batch of assassins the Situ family sent?” ’Just as I thought,’ he mused. ’The people who attacked me just now weren’t from the Situ family.’

’This warrants a thorough investigation.’

’The Superpower Users the Situ family brought over before have all pledged allegiance to me. So where did this new group suddenly come from?’

”That’s right!” Vice General Du recalled Song Yiguo’s earlier order. ”I’ll go investigate at once!”

Chen Xing was speechless. ’They won’t find anything, will they?’

’Except for a few, the people I killed didn’t have Eastern features.’

’As for whether they were from Baling Country or were Kelin’s men, that remains to be seen.’

’But the bodies are probably all gone by now, aren’t they?’

Vice General Du was just about to leave, phone in hand, when he abruptly turned back. ”Young Master Song, I’ve got a lead!”

Chen Xing and Song Yiguo both looked at the phone Vice General Du held out.

It was a short video.

The video showed the dark alleys of two streets, littered with countless bodies. Aside from six individuals with Eastern features, including Feng Kai, the rest were all foreigners with deep-set eyes and high-bridged noses.

There were even some distinctions among these foreigners.

”It looks like that old scoundrel Kelin and that old geezer Baya were both involved. Take a closer look... see if you can tell what other countries the rest are from.” Song Yiguo was already taking notes in his little black book.

But when Vice General Du tried to watch it again, the video had already been deleted.

Unsurprisingly, when Vice General Du left the hotel to investigate, all the foreigners’ bodies had vanished. Only the corpses of Feng Kai and his men were left behind.

Song Yiguo’s sharp eyebrows arched. He sent photos of the corpses of Feng Kai and his men to his father with a message: *Dad, your son is getting bullied out here by these people!*

After hitting send, he turned his gaze to Chen Xing. ”Who do you think killed them?”

’Chen Xing’s disappearance, though brief, was rather suspicious.’

He hadn’t really believed it at first, back at King Baya’s wedding, when he heard the warehouse had been emptied.

But later, when Vice General Du reported on all the missing supplies, he realized that this slender girl had actually managed to clear the place out in such a short amount of time.

Of course, he had no idea that a third of the goods had actually gone into her own pocket.

”It wasn’t your men who killed them?” Chen Xing countered.

’Either way, I’m not admitting to anything.’

’The more powerful I seem, the more Song Yiguo will want to control me.’

Song Yiguo was speechless. At the time, all he could do was run for his life.

’If it wasn’t Chen Xing, then who could have done such a good deed and not taken the credit?’

’To be able to kill top-tier Superpower Users and snipers in such a short amount of time, their skills must be extraordinary.’

’If I could recruit them for my team, it’d be like adding wings to a tiger.’

「The atmosphere in the Royal Palace was thick with tension.」

Kelin’s face was a mask of fury. ”My men died on your territory—so many of them. How do you explain that?”

He now suspected King Baya of stabbing him in the back. Otherwise, how could his top-tier Superpower Users have been killed so silently?

Baya looked aggrieved, having not even entered his own bridal chamber yet. ”Great Commander, I swear to heaven! You saw it yourself—it wasn’t just the Superpower Users you brought. Many of my country’s Superpower Users died as well.”

He suspected Kelin’s men were the ones who did the backstabbing, but he only dared to think it, not say it aloud.

”If it wasn’t your people, then who was it?” Kelin was so furious he could have killed someone.

He had to swallow this bitter pill in silence. So many of his men had died, yet he didn’t dare make a scene or launch a large-scale investigation, terrified that Song Yiguo would uncover something.

And some daredevil had actually filmed the faces of the dead during all that chaos. If they hadn’t discovered it and taken the video down quickly, Song Yiguo would probably be at their doorstep by now.

”It couldn’t have been Song Yiguo, could it?” Baya was already at his wit’s end.

With something like this happening on his turf, Song Yiguo was sure to raise hell.

”Definitely not him! He was too busy running for his life to have time to kill anyone. Besides, his men were all being monitored. They couldn’t have mobilized that fast!”

”Could it be the work of the Devil?”

”Nonsense!” Kelin was starting to regret ever partnering with Baya. ”Go investigate! Find that killer!”

Baya’s face was a mask of misery.

’How the hell are we supposed to investigate this? It *was* the Devil.’

This particular Devil was currently playing with Meng Hu, looking as if she hadn’t just been through a hail of gunfire.

Watching her from across the room, Song Yiguo felt utterly exasperated.

’Why is it that we were both targeted, yet I’m a complete mess while Chen Xing acts like nothing even happened?’

’Is my resilience really that weak?’