Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 203: Chapter 200: Are You Finished?

It was nightingale who pulled her, so Chen Xing didn’t resist.

She very much wanted to see him now.

But he looked a little plumper than before, so it seemed he was doing all right.

”You’re hard to kill!” Chen Xing asked bluntly. ”You can enter your Jiezhi Space, can’t you?”

nightingale was at a loss for words.

He’d even played dead for a while just so she wouldn’t find out.

’How... could she see through even this?’

”How did you know?” nightingale asked, no longer trying to hide it.

’Anyway, he was destined to have no secrets when it came to this woman.’

”Doesn’t that make you invincible, then?”

nightingale was speechless. ’Why did that sound so much like a taunt?’

”What damn good is it against you?” Chen Xing was so fast that if he made one careless move, he’d be dead. What was the point of even thinking about hiding?

’That’s true!’

’The most powerful thing in this world was simply speed.’

’As long as you were fast enough, you had a high chance of survival.’

’Conversely, even with powerful skills, if you were slow, you were destined never to be the best.’

”Name your price. Tell me what’s going on with Hao Wenli,” Chen Xing said, getting straight to the point.

’She needed firsthand information to deal with Hao Wenli.’

nightingale appreciated Chen Xing’s directness. ”You know what I want.”

’Information on 00007.’

”You’ve met 00007!”

”What?” nightingale immediately searched his memory.

’But he couldn’t find a match.’

’Song Yiguo?’

’Someone with his status couldn’t be 00007!’

”It’s the truth!” What Chen Xing said was the truth.

’She *was* 00007; he just didn’t know it.’

Although nightingale couldn’t place the person, he knew Chen Xing never lied. ”Not long after you took her Crystal Core, Hao Wenli suddenly came back to life. She crawled away, moving incredibly fast, as if her feet had some kind of special power!”

”And her head?”

”Her head was lolling to the side the whole time, just as if she were dead!” ’How should I put it? The feeling was just indescribably bizarre.’

Chen Xing was silent.

’This suddenly reminded her of the monster she’d killed that had a mouth on its foot.’

’That monster had two Crystal Cores.’

’Could it be that Hao Wenli also has two Crystal Cores?’

’If so, it would make sense that Hao Wenli was still alive.’

’But... there must have been something odd about her back then. Why didn’t I notice?’

”Who is 00007?”

”You’ll find out eventually.” Chen Xing wasn’t just brushing him off. ”You’ve been in Huaxia this whole time. Why the sudden return to the United States?”

”Someone’s stirring up trouble in the United States, so I came back to take a look. Besides, you know killing sprees aren’t complete without me, right?”

”Are you talking about that Lizard Monster?” ’The Lizard Monster she encountered that night,’ she thought, ’must have been intended for a massacre.’

’Otherwise, why would the escape routes have been blocked?’

’If no one had let the Lizard Monsters in, how could they have appeared inside the city?’

nightingale wasn’t surprised Chen Xing had put it together. ”Some people felt the population of the United States was too high, so they came up with the idea of luring in monsters to cull it. But you know this—who needs monsters for a slaughter? Am I, nightingale, not better at it?”

”So... you came back to compete with monsters over who gets to kill people?” ’Real ambitious of you.’

”Heh heh!” nightingale was completely shameless about it. ”I was born to kill. I’d have no regrets even if I died this very second!”

Chen Xing rolled her eyes at him.

’She’d never seen a murderer be so completely unabashed.’

”You help me find Hao Wenli, and I’ll take care of the Lizard Monsters for you. What do you say?”

”What does killing Lizard Monsters have to do with me?”

”Without the Lizard Monsters, you’ll be able to come and go as you please at night...”

”Deal!” nightingale answered readily.

’He’d tried to kill the Lizard Monsters himself, but they weren’t as easy to take down as he’d thought.’

’If Chen Xing exterminated them, wouldn’t he be free to kill whenever he pleased?’

Chen Xing shot him a sidelong glance. ’Who would have thought a Killing Demon was this gullible?’

’She never said she *wouldn’t* stop him from killing people!’

After they made their agreement, nightingale led her through a cluster of buildings to a landmark building in Hulton City.

It was the fourth-tallest building in the world, its peak piercing the clouds.

”From now on, it’s every man for himself. We’ll meet on the thirtieth floor!” nightingale whispered to her just after they stepped through the main entrance, then vanished in a flash.

Chen Xing was silent. ’I’m probably going to be a wanted fugitive very soon!’

With nightingale gone, she had to figure out a way up herself.

There were several elevators in the central hall. At the entrance, a few armed soldiers stood guard.

Everyone who passed had to show identification and be scanned by an electronic eye. Only those who cleared without an error message were allowed inside.

’I’m probably not a fugitive just yet.’ Thinking this, Chen Xing boldly walked over.

But as soon as the electronic eye scanned her, a sharp BEEP BEEP BEEP of an alarm went off.

Several guns were instantly aimed at her.

Chen Xing was faster than them. In a flash, she darted into the crowd.

The soldiers immediately raised their guns and gave chase, but after searching the entire lobby, they couldn’t find her.

Meanwhile, Chen Xing, moving at her top speed, had already flitted past like a shadow, returned to the entrance, and slipped right inside.

’The elevators are out of the question,’ she thought, and pushed open the door to the stairwell.

She quickly reached the thirtieth floor, just in time to see nightingale stepping out of an elevator.

Chen Xing was silent. ’Seeing nightingale step out of the elevator, she knew she’d been used.’

’He’d used the distraction she created to swagger right onto the elevator.’

”You used me!?” A thick killing intent instantly appeared on her face.

’As for why he was slower than her?’

’The elevator had stopped several times, while she, in her haste, had run all the way up.’

”Don’t kill me... I couldn’t have gotten in otherwise!” nightingale pleaded, sounding aggrieved. ”If I had shown my face, there would have been a lot more than just a handful of soldiers waiting for me! Besides, don’t you want to find Hao Wenli?”

”You think finding Hao Wenli is worth being played by you?”

”Not worth it, not at all!” nightingale said, uncharacteristically meek. ”Hao Wenli is just up ahead...”

With that, he obediently led the way.

’This woman... he really couldn’t afford to provoke her.’

’That speed she used to ditch those soldiers just now?’

’He only caught a glimpse because of his sharp eyes; an ordinary person probably wouldn’t have even seen her.’

After going up three more floors, nightingale paused. ”There’s a Xingguang Research Institute up ahead. Hao Wenli is in there!”

”There’s a Xingguang Research Institute here, too?” This was unexpected for Chen Xing.

’Many of the Research Institutes back in Huaxia belonged to the Lu Family.’

’But she never imagined they would have one in the United States as well!’

Just as nightingale nodded, they heard the door to the stairwell above them open.

The two of them immediately froze.

After a few seconds of silence, a black spider suddenly appeared up the stairs.

Immediately after, swarms of black spiders poured down.

They were several times larger than ordinary spiders, and the silk they spat was incredibly thick, like thin hemp rope.

Wherever the silk touched, the surface was scorched black.

Looking at the spiders’ eight legs, they were densely covered with fine little barbs.

”What the hell are these things?” nightingale roared as he leaped up, dodging the spiders’ attack.

When he finally found a place to land, he went to jump again, only to find that even the walls were covered in spiders.

’He had nowhere to leverage a jump!’

’Am I done for?’

’Enter the Jiezhi Space?’