Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 194: Chapter 191: He Is Nothing But Trash Before Her

As Chen Xing slowly collapsed, Lu Haoran caught her, whispering in her ear, ”I’m sorry! I can’t disobey my father. He’s the one who raised me, the one who gave me everything I have now! But don’t worry, he won’t hurt you!”

This was exactly what Chen Xing was counting on.

She was certain she was still useful to the Research Institute, so her life wasn’t in danger.

This was also why, despite knowing full well what Lu Haoran was up to and being able to dodge it, she had walked right into it.

Without this ruse, she feared she might never see Lu Bingtian in her lifetime.

Once a person goes into hiding, they are incredibly difficult to find, especially in a chaotic world like this.

If they just find some random place to hide, where are you supposed to look?

Only by taking this risk and offering herself up could she have a chance to meet Lu Bingtian as quickly as possible.

However...

When she opened her eyes, she wasn’t standing before the Lu Family.

Instead, she was lying in a snowy field, facing the scrawny, almost skeletal Nightingale.

Chen Xing: ”...” Damn it!

She really wanted to curse someone out.

’Such a great opportunity, such a perfect plan...’

’And this guy just had to ruin it!’

Nightingale even had a smug look on his face, a smile playing on his lips. ”You’re awake?”

His face screamed, ’How about that? Wasn’t my timing perfect? Go on, praise me!’

’Timely, my ass!’

’You’re just making things worse!’

It was generous of Chen Xing not to roll her eyes at him.

”Who asked you to stick your nose where it doesn’t belong?” she grumbled irritably.

Nightingale: ”...” Now it was his turn to be dumbfounded.

’It’s not often I save someone, and I’m getting blamed for it?’

He had never even left Duole Safety Zone. Ever since Chen Xing’s arrival, he had been hiding in the shadows of the main hall, secretly watching her. When he saw her leave in a hurry this time, his curiosity got the better of him and he followed.

He knew how formidable Chen Xing was, so he didn’t dare follow too closely.

By the time he reached Bao Lai Safety Zone, he saw a colossal dinosaur that looked like a giant pig, slaughtering everyone. The people of Bao Lai Safety Zone were being massacred horribly.

He slipped through the main gate with ease, and as he was searching inside, he happened to see Chen Xing being drugged unconscious.

’An opportunity like this is hard to come by!’

So he conveniently rescued her and carried her out of the safety zone.

”I happened to see that man drug you unconscious, so I thought I’d do a good deed and save you. What? Was that the wrong thing to do?”

Chen Xing glanced at the ropes that bound her tightly, then looked at her surroundings.

’Looks like we’re in the mountains?’

”Where are we?” As Chen Xing spoke, she immediately tried to sense her little monster dinosaur.

The little guy was currently stuck in the safety zone’s gate, unable to get out.

Before she passed out, Chen Xing had told it to leave the safety zone and hide somewhere safe. Who knew that after absorbing too many Superpower Users, it would grow so large it got stuck in the gateway.

Chen Xing: ”...”

She immediately sent a message, telling it to just let the enemy blast it a few times. Otherwise, a target that big would have no way to escape.

Nightingale said helplessly, ”We’re on the mountain just above that safety zone!”

”So you saved me just to get leverage over me?” Chen Xing glanced at the ropes again. They looked like steel cables.

She looked at Nightingale again.

’Damn it, the guy still doesn’t even have a backpack on him!’

’So, that means these ropes most likely came from...’

A wave of nausea washed over her, and she pushed the thought aside.

Averting Nightingale’s gaze, a pair of wire cutters suddenly appeared in her hand, and she freed herself.

Before Nightingale could realize what was happening, the wire cutters vanished again.

Nightingale just stared blankly at the steel cables.

’Even I couldn’t do anything about these. How did she get free?’

”How did you do that?” Nightingale repeatedly looked around her. There was nowhere to hide anything.

’Don’t tell me she used her own brute force?’

Chen Xing wasn’t that stupid.

’It’s not that I don’t think I could’ve broken them, but the steel cables are thin and hard. Why would I put myself through that discomfort?’

By now, the little monster dinosaur had already retreated from Bao Lai Safety Zone.

Would the few people left in the safety zone even have the guts to give chase?

Chen Xing told the little dinosaur to hide on its own, then turned to face Nightingale. ”You’ve been following me?” ’So... the feeling of being watched I kept getting back in the National Capital Safety Zone... that was him.’

’That’s it!’

’Only Nightingale could hide so stealthily.’

’This bastard is really something, hiding right under the noses of Song Yiguo and Lu Bingtian.’

’Come to think of it, a lot of people must have died in the safety zone.’

’But... from the looks of it, he definitely didn’t see me take out the little monster dinosaur.’

Nightingale warily took a step back, creating a safe distance. ”I just want to know where Number 00007 is. Don’t tell me you don’t know. I’m sure you do!”

”Why are you so obsessed with Number 00007?”

”I killed an Easterner once. Before he died, he told me I had to meet Number 00007,” Nightingale said softly.

But this had become a hang-up for him.

Before the Easterner died, he showed no fear at all. He just said with a contemptuous tone, ”Compared to 00007, you’re nothing but trash!”

For a proud person like him, that contemptuous tone was an incomparable insult.

He had always thought of himself as invincible.

After meeting Chen Xing, he felt that invincibility was now a thing of the past.

In front of her, he was just trash!

’If one girl from the East is this formidable, how incredible must the Number 00007 they spoke of be?’

’I have to meet them at least once in my lifetime.’

Chen Xing’s brow furrowed.

’An Easterner... It must have been someone from the Research Institute. Otherwise, it’s impossible they would have known about me.’

’But... why would this Easterner mention me right before dying?’

”Do you remember the Easterner’s name?”

Nightingale was cunning. He knew he now had the upper hand.

A confident smile touched his lips. ”Of course I remember! Let me meet Number 00007, and I’ll tell you his name!”

Chen Xing didn’t like being in a passive position.

Seeing this, Nightingale dropped another bombshell. ”That girl from the video... the woman named Hao Wenli whom you killed at your doorstep... I know how she disappeared!”

Chen Xing: ”...”

’So, Nightingale has been spying on me this whole time?’

’How annoying!’

”Actually... don’t you think there’s a high probability I’ll kill you?” Chen Xing didn’t want Nightingale to get too cocky.

Nightingale laughed wildly. ”Beauty... do you think I’m afraid of death?”

He truly wasn’t afraid of death.

To him, pain was just a motivator that forced him to work even harder to improve himself.

So... he was fearless.

If he didn’t desperately want to meet Number 00007, he could have stayed far away from Chen Xing, ensuring she would never find him.

’Everyone else? They’re all trash!’

Chen Xing returned his smile with one even more audacious. ”But... I can make you wish you were dead!”

Nightingale: ”...” His smile vanished instantly.

’This woman could definitely do it!’

His only hobby was killing, and this woman had the ability to make it so he could never kill again.

For him, not being able to kill was more painful than being killed.

”Beauty... how about we make a deal?” He felt a sliver of regret for delivering himself right to Chen Xing’s doorstep.

”It’s not impossible for you to meet Number 00007,” Chen Xing finally relented. ”But... tell me, do you have a Jiezhi Space on you?”