Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 204: Chapter 201: Nightingale Is Instantly Defeated

As nightingale hesitated, he was about to fall into the swarm of spiders.

A rope wrapped around his waist and, with a tug, pulled him to the bottom of the stairs.

The one who saved him was Chen Xing.

She had already retreated a step ahead of him.

Swarms of spiders scurried down the stairs, rushing toward them.

”Do you have any fire? The stronger, the better!”

nightingale rummaged for a moment and produced a flame pistol that could shoot fire two meters long.

He fired it forward, and in an instant, a long line of spiders was scorched.

”They’re afraid of fire!” nightingale shouted excitedly, spraying flames as he moved upward.

But he had overestimated the flame pistol. While the fire was strong, its fuel was not.

”I’ve got more...” In a flash, he swapped it out for a flamethrower.

This thing was much more effective.

With one blast, the spiders ahead were reduced to ashes.

Then, the remaining spiders seemed to receive a summons and all turned back.

Chen Xing sensed something was happening upstairs.

Without delay, she chased after the spiders and ran up.

She leaped over the spider swarm and through the large doorway.

Of course, she wasn’t foolish enough to jump into the middle of them.

Instead, she grabbed the doorframe with both hands.

nightingale, close behind, unleashed a burst of flame, clearing a safe zone beneath Chen Xing.

Chen Xing landed.

Ahead was a small, arched space with three iron doors.

The few remaining spiders squeezed through a gap about ten centimeters high at the bottom of the main iron door.

nightingale immediately dropped to the ground, trying to see what was inside.

But as soon as he was down, he came face-to-face with a deathly pale face and leaped back up with a terrified yelp.

Chen Xing was speechless. ’This Killing Demon is a bit of an embarrassment!’

Realizing he had lost his composure, nightingale kicked at the large iron door.

nightingale was silent. ’This is even more awkward.’

The large iron door remained shut, completely unscathed.

Just then, something like a tentacle slithered out from under the door, shooting straight for nightingale’s feet.

nightingale retreated a few steps, a submachine gun suddenly appearing in his hand. He unleashed a barrage of bullets at the tentacle.

The part of the tentacle on their side was shredded to bits, and a blood-curdling scream came from the other side of the door.

That voice... Hao Wenli?

Chen Xing immediately rushed to the iron door and kicked it open. She had used seventy percent of her strength in that kick.

Inside the room, Hao Wenli was sitting in the center... Her upper body seemed to be propped on the ground, while her lower half was a mass of countless octopus-like tentacles.

Chen Xing was silent. ’Even though I guessed her lower body was no longer normal, it’s still shocking to see someone I killed with my own hands alive and transformed into a half-human, half-monster creature.’

Clearly, Hao Wenli had achieved a perfect fusion.

More perfect than the ones Chen Xing had seen at the National Capital Safety Zone’s Research Institute?

She didn’t know how to describe it.

When Hao Wenli saw Chen Xing, a wave of inferiority washed over her.

She immediately retracted her tentacles, instantly changing back to her human form.

But... her feet seemed to be injured, and her stance was awkward.

”Chen Xing... how are you still alive?” ’Why don’t you just die?’ she thought.

She hated her to the core!

’If she hadn’t mercilessly killed me and taken my Crystal Core, would I have become this monstrous thing?’

She had loved her beauty so much. She had adored her own looks and figure.

Now, whenever she smiled, she couldn’t even bear to look at herself. Her expression was as stiff as a zombie’s.

”You’re not dead, so of course I have to be alive!” Chen Xing glanced at her bare feet.

From above, they looked normal.

But the soles?

She didn’t believe for a second they were the same as a normal person’s.

’Maybe they’ve grown a mouth?’

She was quite curious!

”What are you looking at?” Hao Wenli pressed the soles of her feet against the floor, as if terrified Chen Xing would see something. ”Chen Xing... do you have any idea how much I hate you?”

Chen Xing watched her coolly.

’Hate?’

’It seems like she brought all this on herself.’

”I don’t care whether you hate me or not. Your parents...”

”Don’t you dare mention those two beasts to me!” Hao Wenli instantly became hysterical.

If Chen Xing was the person she hated most in this world, then her own parents were a close second.

If she hadn’t followed Chen Xing and suddenly broken into Hualai City’s Xingguang Research Institute, she would never have known that she herself was one of the Research Institute’s subjects.

What was most despicable was that her own parents, those things worse than beasts, had personally sent her to the Research Institute just after she turned one month old.

On the night Hualai City was bombed, after Chen Xing disappeared, she had accidentally entered a records room.

There, she found her file. It clearly listed her parents’ names, along with the various research procedures she was subjected to...

That’s why... she harbored a special hatred for her parents.

Since her parents were professors at the Research Institute, she hadn’t been worried about her life. They were her biological parents, after all.

So... when things like amnesia and being a guinea pig for the Research Institute came up, she wasn’t too concerned.

And just as she had expected, after she died, her beastly parents brought her back to life—though it would have been better to stay dead.

”Chen Xing, I wasn’t born lucky like you! Fate gave you all the advantages, and you’re so powerful, but... from now on, I’m going to be your enemy!”

’Be my enemy or don’t, as if we weren’t enemies before?’

Chen Xing took a step forward, intending to force a look at her feet.

Unexpectedly, Hao Wenli was agile. She darted backward, and her feet instantly transformed into countless tendrils that lashed out at Chen Xing.

From beneath a small box behind her, more spiders crawled out, swarming toward Chen Xing and nightingale.

nightingale had no interest in killing spiders. He tossed the flamethrower to Chen Xing and charged at Hao Wenli himself.

He only enjoyed killing people!

This thing might not qualify as a person anymore, but who could blame him when she still had a human torso?

As nightingale reached Hao Wenli, he leaped into the air, a bomb appearing in his hand.

He had just thrown it when a sharp pain shot through his waist.

In the next moment, he knew he was finished.

He had gravely underestimated this half-human, half-monster creature.

The instant he got close, a small barb on one of the tentacles suddenly elongated, slicing through his waist like a sharp blade.

He had been sliced clean in two.

”Fuck!” Chen Xing swore.

She was genuinely shocked.

nightingale’s abilities were not to be underestimated, yet Hao Wenli had killed him in a single move.

Although it was a sneak attack, she had successfully killed the Killing Demon who possessed a life-saving space.

Even she couldn’t say with one hundred percent certainty that she could do the same.

Chen Xing took a large step back and saw the area around Hao Wenli explode.

When she steadied herself and looked again, Hao Wenli was gone.

nightingale’s face was a mask of unwillingness, but there was nothing he could do.

However, he didn’t seem to feel pain, so he wasn’t suffering much.

”So, can you tell me who 00007 is now?” If he died without knowing, he wouldn’t be able to rest in peace.

”I am!” Chen Xing saw no reason to hide it from a dying man.

For a moment, he was in disbelief. Then, nightingale seemed to come to some realization and looked at her with a brilliant smile. ”Don’t forget to take my right leg!”