Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 249: Chapter 246: You Want to Take It On?

The monster was like a pile of sludge. Not only was it filthy, but it lay sprawled limply on the ground, its movements sluggish and dazed.

When it heard someone enter, its head turned with excruciating slowness.

Once it confirmed that someone was there, its mud-like body instantly hardened. It arched upward from the ground and stood up.

”How did you find this place? Go, quickly! Don’t worry about me!” Mr. Li hadn’t expected Chen Xing to find him here.

He felt quite guilty toward her.

Regarding his grandson’s death, it was impossible to say he didn’t blame her at all.

But he had certainly never thought of killing her.

He had brought her over simply to let his grandson see her one last time.

He just never imagined that he would be used by Li Ruixiao and Yu Laosan, only to end up in such a state.

They were allies, and their goal was to dismantle the most powerful Song Family.

Who would have thought that before the plan was even complete, the Li Family would be the one torn apart instead?

Chen Xing didn’t respond to Mr. Li. Instead, she channeled a current of electricity and aimed it at the monster.

The previously sluggish monster blurred aside in the instant before the current struck, dodging the attack.

As it dodged, it also charged toward Chen Xing.

Chen Xing took several steps back, retreating into the stairwell.

The monster gave chase at incredible speed.

Once in a blind spot where Mr. Li couldn’t see, Chen Xing ducked into her Jiezhi Space, evading the monster’s attack.

’Who knows if the monster is poisonous or not? Better to be careful.’

Seeing that its target had vanished, the monster deflated like a popped balloon. It instantly went limp, sticking to the floor and crawling downward with extreme slowness.

Chen Xing emerged behind it, and a current of electricity shot straight through it.

Then she gave it a hard kick, sending it flying to the far end of the room.

Just then, a noise came from the top of the stairs.

Mr. Li’s loyal subordinates burst in with their men to rescue him.

Once Mr. Li was safe, Chen Xing told them to go on ahead while she covered their retreat.

The monster Chen Xing had stunned was assumed to be dead, but its life force was surprisingly strong. It regained consciousness in just a short time.

Before the monster could fully recover its mobility, Chen Xing shut the door to the stairwell.

But the monster’s strength was astonishing. It smashed the door open and leaped into the first-floor hall.

The first-floor hall was a chaotic mess, and Li Ruixiao, his son, and that Yu Laosan were nowhere to be seen.

Mr. Li had also escaped the old Li Family residence under the protection of his subordinates.

Once the slime monster reached the hall, it had more targets and no longer focused solely on Chen Xing.

Chen Xing grabbed the nearest electrical socket, and the entire residence plunged into darkness.

There was no pain in the instant she touched the current, only a steady stream of electricity flowing into her body.

The electrical reserves in Chen Xing’s body, which had been nearly depleted, were quickly replenished.

She didn’t linger any longer, nor did she try to kill the slime monster.

After leaving the old Li Family residence, as she was passing down the street by the hotel where she had stayed before, Chen Xing was suddenly lifted into the air.

Her body was raised by a mysterious force, gradually ascending higher.

Seeing that her body had already risen past the second floor, Chen Xing focused her concentration, forcefully broke free from the restraint, and fell to the ground.

The fall was a hard one. It took her a moment to recover before she could stand up.

Meanwhile, Meng Hu, who had been with her the whole time, was now dangling at the fourth-floor level, completely immobilized.

The feeling of weightlessness assaulted her again. She could only focus her mind once more, and after rolling twice, she broke free of the restraint and immediately looked up toward the hotel.

’There’s no one there!’

Chen Xing immediately opened her backpack, took out a rope, and threw it toward Meng Hu. Once it was wrapped around the tiger, she used brute force to pull it down.

She controlled her strength well, so Meng Hu’s fall wasn’t too hard.

After retrieving the rope, before the restraint could grab them again, she took Meng Hu and ran in a serpentine pattern, escaping the effective range of the power.

The source of the restraint had been nearby; she could feel it, but she couldn’t see it.

’Could it be? Have I run into another Double Superpower User?’

’Invisibility and Object Control, two of the most perfect superpowers combined in one person?’

Just as she escaped, a mask appeared in one of the hotel windows.

Its rigid features betrayed no expression as the person behind it muttered to himself, ”She’s improved again! It seems my superpower alone is no longer enough to control her.”

”Your superpower has always been foolproof. What? Are you panicking because you can’t control her?” Xu Anguo said with a doting look as he leaned back on the sofa. ”I heard that the Yu Family’s auction house in the North will be selling a mysterious item. The starting bid is a hundred head of cattle!”

The masked man slowly walked back and sat down on the sofa as well. ”A hundred head of cattle? In times like these? With that many, you could build a small town and declare yourself king! Surely nothing could be worth that price now, right?”

Xu Anguo’s hand restlessly toyed with the mask. ”And that’s just the starting price. You can’t even get into the auction without putting that much up!”

The masked man rested his chin on his hand, his eyes full of tenderness. ”Then it must be quite a treasure, hmm? I’d be curious to see it!”

”I saved a picture from the auction listing!” Xu Anguo held his phone up for them both to see.

It was a pair of emerald earrings.

”This is it?” The masked man clearly hadn’t expected such a small item to be worth that price.

”If it’s that expensive, there has to be a reason!” Xu Anguo said, looking as if he was determined to acquire it.

”You’re going to go for it?”

Xu Anguo nodded. ”I’ve already sent people to handle it.”

Meanwhile, Chen Xing left the South that very night.

She found a small, dilapidated village in the countryside, took out her RV, washed up, and went to sleep.

When she woke up the next morning, she discovered the internet was completely down.

And the last message her phone had received, surprisingly, was about the auction for the emerald earrings.

It had arrived as a text message. The auction was to be held in Green City in the North, five days from now.

Ever since obtaining the nightingale’s green gemstone necklace, and later seeing one of General Buma’s Superpower User subordinates wearing an emerald bracelet, Chen Xing had suspected that the items made from emeralds were part of a set.

The ring held a space, the necklace held the Jiezhi Space, and the bracelet could retrieve items from a distance... As for whether there were other spaces with different functions, she had no idea.

’But since all three pieces of jewelry have special properties, a pair of earrings should have one as well!’

’Cadar stole the bracelet before, so the other pieces of jewelry are probably in her possession.’

’Most importantly, Cadar’s abilities don’t seem like a superpower.’

’So how could it be such a coincidence that the earrings suddenly appeared in Huaxia Country?’

’Did I guess wrong, or has Cadar learned the secrets here and is using the auction to lure out the other pieces of Green Gemstone Jewelry?’

Seeing this news, Chen Xing could no longer sit still.

’True or not, I have to go and see for myself!’

After a hasty breakfast of soy milk, fried dough sticks, and steamed buns, she got in her vehicle and drove toward the North.

Although the weather was cold and the roads were treacherous, as long as there was no heavy snow, she could definitely make it to the North in five days.

The weather held out, and Chen Xing crossed into the North on the third day.