Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 161: Chapter 158: What Do You Want in My Room?

After a shower, Chen Xing was hungry and started thinking about what to have for dinner.

Xiao Nan and the others had returned while she was showering.

Hao Wenli happily took on the role of cook.

Although... there was so little food that it barely needed any cooking.

00002, however, got along with them quickly, especially with 00001.

The two were of the same kind, and they exchanged what they knew.

But much like Chen Xing, they didn’t have any more useful information.

Xiao Nan came and knocked on her door, fawningly telling Chen Xing to come and eat.

Chen Xing wanted to ignore him, but his persistence was too much. She could only brush him off impatiently, ”I’ve already eaten!”

Xiao Nan wasn’t discouraged. ”Alright, I’ll save some for you. Come out and eat if you get hungry!”

Seeing that he had left, Chen Xing went into the RV in her room and made a delicious meal that wasn’t too fragrant.

After dinner, everyone soon went to their own rooms to sleep.

Chen Xing lay on the comfortable bed in her RV, enjoying the cool air conditioning as she scrolled through her phone.

She had a habit of checking the news from time to time.

Especially after her last trip to Baling, she had started paying attention to international news as well.

For example, after King Baya was assassinated, Arthur was forced to become the queen of Baling Country.

Although she was queen, Baling Country’s treasury was empty, and its seed bases had all been abandoned.

You could say she had inherited a total mess.

But she wasn’t discouraged.

She organized the survivors, searched for some seeds, and planted food in every possible patch of land, including the grounds of the Royal Palace.

For now, the crops were growing quite well.

The United States posted a sorrowful tribute mourning a general who had sacrificed his life for his country, but stopped short of explicitly naming Song Yiguo’s team as the killers.

In that battle for the seeds, not a single team that had tried to seize them was spared.

Only Song Yiguo’s team returned to their country without any casualties.

This led all the other countries to suspect that Song Yiguo had seized the goods and committed murder.

But... not a single country stepped forward to point a finger.

Because all the teams sent to the seed base were raiders themselves, they had no ground to stand on.

Amidst the news reports, Chen Xing saw a piece of domestic news.

Nightingale had escaped from the Capital City and her current whereabouts were unknown.

Chen Xing’s brow furrowed slightly.

’I might be curious about Nightingale, but... she kills indiscriminately. Who knows how many more people are going to suffer now.’

’And it’s happening within Huaxia Country, no less?’

And so, Chen Xing took out her phone and secretly started recording Hao Wenli.

Of course, she deliberately caught a blurry reflection of her own face on a shiny surface.

’Nightingale desperately wants to meet 00007. She thinks I know where 00007 is, so... as long as she sees me and knows my location, she’ll definitely come looking.’

She posted the video.

The title was, ”Daily Life of a Delicate Little Flower in the Apocalypse.”

At first, the video didn’t get much attention, but... quite a few people recognized Chen Xing’s blurry face.

She had become an overnight sensation in the food-vlogging world after the apocalypse began, only to disappear just as quickly.

Many people assumed the up-and-coming influencer had been devoured by a monster and would never be seen again. Who would have thought she’d suddenly appear in someone else’s video?

People’s curiosity was piqued, and the view count climbed.

It soon shot to the top of the trending videos list.

The ”delicate little flower” Hao Wenli had no idea she was now trending.

Of course, by the time the video went viral, Chen Xing was already asleep.

In the middle of the night, her eyes suddenly snapped open.

Outside, lightning flashed, and the rumbles of thunder grew louder and louder as raindrops PITTER-PATTERED down.

But mixed in with the dense rain and thunder was the sound of extremely faint footsteps.

It sounded like they weren’t wearing shoes; the sound was almost nonexistent.

But... Chen Xing’s keen senses had already picked up on it. The person outside had reached the wall beneath her window.

They paused for a good while before moving slowly and cautiously toward the door.

The room door was locked. She didn’t know how the person outside did it, but after two soft clicks, the door opened.

Chen Xing had already put away the RV and was now leaning against the sofa.

When the intruder saw Chen Xing sitting there, motionless and staring right at him, he almost screamed. ”You—you’re not asleep?”

Chen Xing looked at 00001.

His face was a mixture of shock and fear.

”What are you doing in my room?”

Chen Xing was actually a little surprised.

’After all, I thought 00001 had no memory, so... it’s unlikely he was deliberately sent by the Research Institute to get close to me.’

’Looking at his actions now, was I wrong?’

glanced back outside before composing himself. ”Sister Wenli said that since you didn’t come out to eat, you must be hiding good food in your room and hogging it all. She insisted someone come in and check. We drew lots, and I lost!”

Chen Xing watched him closely.

She had indeed overheard Hao Wenli voicing her suspicions earlier when they were eating and chatting outside.

looked apologetic. ”I know I shouldn’t have suspected you, but I had no choice. They said if I couldn’t find food on my own, I had to accept my loss and come in here to see what was going on!”

Chen Xing remained noncommittal.

’Whether he was telling the truth or not, he’s already marked himself in my mind as someone not on my side.’

In her book, a true gentleman would never enter a girl’s room uninvited, especially in the dead of night.

She didn’t do anything to 00001, just told him to get out.

From outside, there was no sound of Hao Wenli or the others.

A short while later, however, 00002’s questioning voice could be heard. ”It’s so late, and it’s still raining. Brother, where did you go?”

”It’s nothing. Go to sleep,” 00001 said, his voice cold and dismissive.

In truth, he didn’t know what was wrong with him either.

Just as he was falling asleep, his mind was suddenly seized by something like a command.

As if possessed, he left his own room and ended up outside Chen Xing’s.

He hadn’t wanted to continue, but the command in his head grew stronger and stronger until he couldn’t control himself.

Thankfully, he had suddenly snapped out of it after entering her room and managed to make up a lie.

’How could I not see the sheer killing intent in Chen Xing’s eyes?’

Now, he had no desire to sleep at all.

He didn’t know why this was happening to him.

’Am I being possessed?’

’Otherwise, how could someone with no memory suddenly have such a strange thing appear in his mind?’

Leaning in the corner, the image of the girl who turned into a pool of blood after using her body’s power resurfaced in his mind.

They had come out together, but he couldn’t even remember her name. He didn’t even remember if they had all lived together before.

He turned his palm upward, staring at it.

He could clearly feel an energy inside his body, and it was extremely powerful.

’If I use the power in my body, will I also turn into a pool of blood?’

For some reason, the image of the girl turning into a pool of blood was now seared into his mind, impossible to shake.

Thunder, lightning, and heavy rain continued throughout the night.

The next day, the rain finally stopped, leaving behind a brilliant blue sky.

Chen Xing woke up early, ate breakfast in the RV, then put it away and left the house.

Everyone else was still asleep.

As she breathed in the fresh air, her gaze shifted toward the house where 00001 and 00002 were staying.

Although she hadn’t pursued the matter of 00001’s intrusion, she couldn’t help but feel suspicious.

The moment she looked over, she sensed something was wrong and immediately ran toward it.