Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 250: Chapter 247: Want to Kill Someone?

The temperature dropped noticeably upon entering the North.

The ground was almost completely white. As far as the eye could see, skyscrapers, plains, and rivers were all blanketed in white.

The auction for the emerald earrings was still two days away.

Chen Xing decided it was best to arrive a day early and scope things out.

However, after the incident with Yan Junxi, she had made enemies of several powerful figures. If she just showed up as herself, she’d likely be ambushed before she even made it through the door.

The next day, she drove an extra-long truck loaded with cattle into Green City, disguised as a middle-aged woman.

She wore a pair of thick-rimmed glasses, had wavy, curled hair, and was dressed in a rather matronly, high-end suit.

The zombies in Green City had been cleared out long ago. All routes into the city were sealed tight, leaving only two heavily guarded entry and exit points.

The internet was completely down, so scanning IDs or anything of the sort was impossible.

When Chen Xing ostentatiously produced a hundred head of cattle, the guards readily let her pass.

After entering Green City, the city guards led her to the auction’s registration desk.

The registration clerk was dismissive toward the seemingly ordinary middle-aged woman. ”Your assets?”

”One hundred head of cattle!” Chen Xing had prepared them just as required.

Clearly, this was a huge sum.

The clerk’s eyes lit up, his attitude doing a complete one-eighty. ”Ma’am, please, have some tea...”

Chen Xing was a bit taken aback.

Little did she know that while plenty of people had registered for the auction over the past few days, not a single one had put down one hundred head of cattle.

It left him wondering whether he should even report this to his superiors.

The general lack of resources among the attendees only served to highlight Chen Xing’s wealth.

And so, the clerk arranged a suite for her in a luxury hotel in the city center.

Since she was a day early, the hotel’s occupancy rate was low.

Half the rooms in the twenty-five-story building were empty.

Chen Xing didn’t touch the food delivered by the hotel. Instead, she took out a still-warm meal from her Jiezhi Space.

For extra security, she also let Meng Hu out.

About half an hour after dinner, a sudden noise came from outside.

Several people were approaching stealthily.

After recalling Meng Hu, Chen Xing glanced at the untouched meal.

Remembering the clerk’s overly eager attitude, she knew she had been marked for slaughter.

’Tough luck for them!’

Chen Xing first stored her belongings, then moved to the balcony. After noting a security camera across the way that had a clear view of her balcony, she leaped over to the adjacent, empty room.

’Perfect. When people start asking how I vanished, they can just look at the camera footage.’

Then, she heard the door to her original room open.

Seeing that the room was empty, one of them immediately reported over a walkie-talkie, ”Boss, ’One Hundred Cattle’ isn’t in the room.”

Chen Xing was speechless. ’So that’s my glorious new nickname?’

The voice from the walkie-talkie belonged to the enthusiastic clerk from earlier. ”How is that possible? Didn’t they say no one saw ’One Hundred Cattle’ leave?”

”What do we do?”

”Deal with the others downstairs first! The real buyers start arriving tomorrow morning. I want all the rooms cleaned up before then!”

”Yes, sir!” After ending the call, the man began issuing orders. ”You two, start on the twentieth floor and search your way down. Don’t you dare miss anyone, or it’ll be our heads!”

”What about ’One Hundred Cattle’?”

”Forget her for now. It’s not like she could have escaped the hotel. We can find her after we’ve dealt with the others. It won’t be too late! She’s a dead woman walking either way!”

With that, the men left the floor and ran down to the twentieth, where other guests were staying.

’So the big shots in the North are using the emerald earrings auction as bait to run a murder inn?’

’The people who arrived over the last few days were all small fry, just lambs to the slaughter.’

’In this apocalypse, with even the last remnants of the internet gone, killing and looting have become even more brazen.’

’They’re all people with no powerful backing. If they die, no one will care.’

’How can I let them get what they want?’

Chen Xing used her Jiezhi Space to move to a lower floor.

Without revealing herself, she released the little dinosaur monster from her space.

’You want to kill someone?’

’I’ll make sure you only kill the men belonging to the North’s leaders!’

And so, a little over ten minutes later, after word got out that a monster was loose in the hotel, members of the Superpower Group arrived to deal with it.

However... the people who had been drugged and knocked out earlier were now waking up one by one.

While they might not have had powerful backing, anyone who could afford to eat well in the apocalypse—let alone have surplus goods for an auction—was no pushover.

Among them were Ding Yiyu and Ran Gaoyang from the factory district.

They had been sent by Brother Xiao to see what this rare treasure was all about.

If it was the real deal, they were naturally supposed to find a way to acquire it.

For security reasons, they had only brought a portion of their payment goods with them.

Liang Sican and Ling Yi were waiting outside with the rest, along with a team of Superpower Users.

Chen Xing was displeased to see that Ding Yiyu and Ran Gaoyang had nearly been killed.

At this point, the hotel staff realized their plot had been exposed and no longer dared to continue their killing and robbing spree.

They made an excuse, claiming some unknown factor had caused everyone to feel unwell. ”There’s a monster outside, so we urge everyone to stay in your rooms. As for your losses, we will report the situation to our superiors and give you all a satisfactory explanation!”

The one speaking was none other than the registration clerk from before.

The moment he finished speaking, the elusive little dinosaur monster suddenly appeared, leaped toward him in the middle of the crowd, and snapped its jaws around him.

In an instant, blood sprayed everywhere as the clerk was killed on the spot.

Ding Yiyu and the other victims all backed away. No one was willing to help the clerk.

By the time the clerk’s body was dealt with and everyone had been placated and sent back to their rooms, several hours had passed.

The little dinosaur monster was never caught, but the North’s Superpower Users took heavy losses.

As dawn approached, the hotel staff didn’t dare try anything else.

After all, drugging people wasn’t so easy, and they were supposed to ”deal with” the victims before more guests arrived?

Thus, this batch of early guests managed to spend the night in safety.

Chen Xing used her Jiezhi Space to return to the room next door, then crossed the balcony back into her own suite.

Before long, hotel staff came to her door.

This time, they knocked first.

Chen Xing opened the door, acting drowsy, which left the staff completely baffled.

”Hello, Ma’am, apologies for the disturbance. May we ask where you were earlier? Our team leader said you weren’t in your room.”

With all the grumpiness of someone rudely awakened, Chen Xing snapped, ”If I wasn’t here, where would I be? I’ve been sleeping in my room the whole time! Do you have any idea what time it is? It’s almost dawn, and you’re waking people up? I could file a complaint against you for this!”

Amid a flurry of bows and apologies from the staff, Chen Xing slammed the door shut.

The auction was scheduled for three in the afternoon.

After waking up for good, Chen Xing had a simple meal.

After getting ready, she went out for a stroll.

Because the bigwigs from various regions had begun to arrive, the restrictions on ”commoners” like her were loosened.

They were allowed to look around the city and even head to the auction house in advance.

However, the doors to the auction house wouldn’t open until two in the afternoon, so all one could do was look at the building from the outside.

But... Chen Xing was definitely going to check it out.