Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 228: Chapter 225: The Mysterious Gray-Haired Man

With no other pressing matters, she decided to focus on finding the Migratory Clan.

Chen Xing returned to the RV.

Fortunately, the bomb had landed next to the RV’s body. The iron guardrails had protected it, so it only suffered a few gashes.

Even the sunroom on the RV’s roof was completely unscathed.

Ignoring the terrified state of 00002 and 00003, Chen Xing got into the vehicle and chased after the Migratory Clan in the direction they had fled.

After chasing them for dozens of kilometers without seeing anyone, Chen Xing figured she had probably gone the wrong way.

’Perhaps the Migratory Clan is right here near Hualai City.’

’Every side road I pass could be the path to the Migratory Clan’s lair.’

She had no choice but to return to Hualai City and find a different spot.

At dawn, she got up, went to the sunroom to pick some spinach, fried some peanuts, and made a dish of spinach with aged vinegar.

She pulled up a radish and made a fresh beef and radish soup.

After steaming some eggplant, potatoes, and peppers, she mixed them with scallions and soybean paste to make a salad.

The rice was a healthy brown rice mixed with some black beans.

After breakfast, Chen Xing drove the RV, trailer in tow, to the area near the trading post by the factory district.

She found a more secluded residential complex and parked.

She unhitched the trailer, leaving it with 00002 and 00003, and had Meng Hu protect them.

She then drove off in the RV.

’It pains me to drive this RV.’

’If I run into danger with the trailer attached, my speed will be limited.’

’For now, I should switch to a smaller RV. It’ll be a smaller target.’

She first went to the trading post and dropped off a vehicle full of Crystal Cores, then left in a smaller RV.

Not long after, Brother Xiao’s men came and drove the vehicle with the Crystal Cores away.

Chen Xing’s round trip didn’t even take an hour.

Around noon, she called Song Yiguo. ”Help me find the Migratory Clan’s lair. All the Advanced Crystal Cores from outside the church that I left with you will be yours.”

Everyone said the Migratory Clan had no fixed residence, but she didn’t believe it.

”Give me three days!” Song Yiguo immediately agreed.

Vice General Du had tested that batch of Crystal Cores. Their effects were many times better than ordinary ones.

Given the current soaring market price for Crystal Cores, it was no exaggeration to say that this batch of cores could be traded for half of the National Capital Safety Zone’s supplies.

Of course, Chen Xing knew their value.

Only such a high price would motivate Song Yiguo to genuinely help her find the Migratory Clan.

And only this way would the outside world learn that the person behind the factory district was Song Yiguo.

Once the Crystal Cores were on the table, Chen Xing received news about the Migratory Clan in just two days.

The Migratory Clan’s headquarters was in Buddha City, three hundred kilometers north of the Capital City.

A new faction of the Migratory Clan had recently settled in Heavenly Realm Mountain in Tianjie Town, outside Hualai City. Their campaign of arson, murder, and pillaging was the most severe in the country; they supplied eighty percent of the headquarters’ resources.

”The Crystal Cores are yours!” Chen Xing immediately hung up.

She borrowed two Superpower Users from Captain Lu to protect 00002 and 00003.

It was inconvenient to bring them into a fight, and it would be easy for them to accidentally use up the energy in their bodies.

The two people Captain Lu sent hitched up the trailer and waited in an abandoned factory outside Tianjie Town.

Chen Xing, meanwhile, took Meng Hu to Heavenly Realm Mountain to find the Migratory Clan.

Heavenly Realm Mountain wasn’t massive, but it wasn’t small either, and it was crisscrossed by numerous side roads.

She considered herself quite lucky.

Just as she entered the Heavenly Realm Mountain area, she saw a car driving on a small road.

It was some kind of Mercedes sports car, a convertible with the top down, seemingly enjoying the baptism of the white snow.

The driver would even let go of the wheel from time to time, putting his hands on his head to let loose.

The driver was a young man with grayish-white hair. He wore heavy platinum rings on three fingers of his right hand and a three-centimeter-wide bracelet on his wrist.

Chen Xing wasn’t sure if he was one of the Migratory Clan.

’He showed up here, so he must be with the Migratory Clan, right?’

Chen Xing followed from a distance.

Anyone so carefree in this freezing weather, with no sense of post-apocalyptic urgency, had to be one of two things: a born rich kid with power and influence, or someone who’d been driven mad by the apocalypse and decided to just let go.

She hadn’t been following for long when his car suddenly stopped.

After a few seconds of stillness, he raised his hands above his head, waved a white handkerchief, and got out of the car.

Chen Xing: ”...” She was a little surprised.

Up ahead, a dozen or so men, all armed with machine guns, had appeared around the sports car.

The leader’s face was full of smug satisfaction. ”Just when I was worried about finding someone, one delivers himself to us? Well, well... Quick, take a look! What goodies are in this car?”

He went to the back of the sports car and picked up several large bags of supplies from the backseat.

At that moment, Chen Xing’s vehicle also drove right over, delivering itself to them.

It wasn’t that obvious, though. She deliberately slammed on the brakes about three hundred meters away, then pretended to hesitate before hurriedly trying to turn the car around.

How could the members of the Migratory Clan let her go?

Leaving two men to watch the gray-haired man up front, the rest all ran to intercept her.

Chen Xing timed her delay perfectly. Caught red-handed, she cooperated obediently and got out of the car.

Seeing that it was a beautiful girl, a few of the men were delighted and shoved each other playfully.

But when everyone saw Meng Hu get out of the RV, all their gun barrels swiveled to aim at it.

Then, with expressions of utter terror, they looked at Chen Xing and asked warily, ”Who are you?”

These past few days, the story they had heard most often was about a woman with a tiger who had wiped out more than a hundred of their people.

The kind where she single-handedly dominated them.

”I’m exactly who you think I am,” Chen Xing said, the corners of her lips curling into a cold smile.

The Migratory Clan members: ”...” Their expressions froze instantly.

’There are only a dozen of us!’

’But... in this situation, we have more than a dozen guns pointed at her, right? The odds of winning are huge.’

So, without a second thought, they all pulled their triggers at the same time.

But she was faster than them.

With just two arcs of electricity, all of them collapsed.

The couple of shots that did get fired missed completely.

Meng Hu just watched quietly as its master showed off her power.

When Chen Xing looked over smugly, the two Migratory Clan members from before were on the ground, and the gray-haired man was gone.

His flashy sports car was still parked there.

Chen Xing was a little curious, so she followed his trail to find the Migratory Clan’s camp.

A few hundred meters later, she saw a village.

It was built at the foot of the mountain and had a few dozen households. The house at the end of the village was quite grand—a three-story building that stood out conspicuously.

As evening approached, smoke drifted from the chimneys of several houses in the village.

Chen Xing didn’t rush into the village.

The gray-haired man was approaching the three-story building. She needed to assess the situation before making a move.

The gray-haired man easily reached the outside of the three-story building. She had thought he would try to find a way in, but instead, he threw bombs directly into the building.

He tossed several in a row, and as flames shot up, the entire building collapsed.

Chen Xing: ”...” ’I actually like his style!’

Just then, dozens of people rushed out of the houses with smoking chimneys, running toward the back of the village.

They all carried guns, and some of the Superpower Users were already prepared to use their superpowers at a moment’s notice.