Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 260: Chapter 257: This Kind of Person Deserves It, Even Without a Superpower

Chen Xing looked up at Hao Jie on the stairs.

’I can’t believe he’s a Superpower User with an attribute.’

Superpower Users with attributes were different from ordinary ones. Not only were their abilities offensive, but they could also control corresponding materials.

For example, a Gold Attribute Superpower User could control iron products to kill people and could also create anything out of metal.

They were a cut above regular Superpower Users and extremely rare; you might not find one in ten thousand.

So, there was a reason such a capable person had ended up in this sorry state.

’After all, his character is trash!’

Seeing Chen Xing looking at him, Hao Jie thought she was scared. His expression immediately relaxed a little. ”As long as you do as you’re told and make me happy, you’ll be rewarded.”

As he spoke, he descended the steps one by one.

Chen Xing clasped her hands behind her back, a Little Poison Grass appearing in her palm.

While he was still some distance from her, Hao Jie suddenly collapsed, stiff as a board.

At that moment, Hao Jie was completely unconscious.

Chen Xing extended a hand and focused her mind.

As she drew her hand back with a sharp tug, a certain power from Hao Jie’s body was suddenly pulled into her hand and successfully absorbed into her own body.

She was pleasantly surprised.

So, she mimicked Hao Jie and condensed the superpower in her hand.

Instantly, an iron wall appeared in front of her. With another exertion of will, it vanished.

Chen Xing was overjoyed.

After her last few upgrades, she had felt her original ring space stirring restlessly.

’The ring I always thought only had a storage ability is actually the most powerful? It can absorb other people’s superpowers?’

She glanced down at Hao Jie.

’I’ll spare his miserable life. He’s useless now anyway.’

There was still some time. While he was still unconscious, Chen Xing removed the iron plate, quickly ran to the basement, returned the black cat to her space, and then came back to the stairwell to put the iron plate back.

’Leaving this thing here can serve as a barrier.’

Seeing that he was about to wake up, Chen Xing started walking up the stairs.

When Hao Jie got to his feet, his head was spinning.

Hearing footsteps from above, he assumed she had tricked him and immediately gave chase.

But climbing stairs, which was usually so simple for him, was now a struggle. He couldn’t catch up and was panting heavily.

Halfway up, he realized the superpower inside him had vanished. He couldn’t even use it.

Panicked, he struggled back to his room. ”Brother Chang, my superpower suddenly disappeared...” He was on the verge of tears.

With his superpower, he had some say in the team. Without it, wasn’t he finished?

When Chang Shun heard that Hao Jie, the guy who was always ogling her, had lost his superpower, she almost burst out laughing.

If her brother hadn’t been there to protect her, she would have feared for her own safety.

”How is that possible?” Chang Yuan looked baffled.

He had never heard of anyone’s superpower just disappearing.

”It’s true!” Hao Jie held out his hand, trying several times.

Seeing that he really couldn’t use his superpower, the others asked, ”What were you just doing?”

”I saw that woman next door going to the basement by herself and thought it was dangerous, so I went to protect her. But she attacked me without even saying a word! She said she wasn’t afraid of our team even though we have more people, and she called all of us useless. I can tolerate her insulting me, but I obviously couldn’t stand her insulting all of you. So I put up an iron wall, but who knows what she did... she made me black out for a moment, and when I came to, this is how I was!”

The others were speechless. They weren’t sure if they could believe the last part of his story, but the first part was definitely a lie.

’He must have seen the young woman was alone and gotten some bad ideas.’

’A guy like him deserves to lose his superpower!’

For a long while, no one said anything.

”Brother Chang... you have to get justice for me! What am I going to do without my superpower?” Seeing that no one intended to help him, Hao Jie could only plead with the team’s leader.

Although Chang Yuan looked down on him, they had been together for several months.

So, he went next door and knocked, wanting to find out what had really happened.

Chen Xing opened the door with an indifferent expression and stared at him blankly.

”Sorry to bother you!” Chang Yuan was very polite. ”Hao Jie from our team, the one who went downstairs with you earlier, says his superpower suddenly vanished. I was wondering if you...”

”I don’t know.”

Hao Jie was not happy when he heard that. He ran out of the room and shouted, ”It was obviously you! How else could my superpower just disappear?”

”How is your lost superpower my business? If I had the ability to destroy your superpower, wouldn’t it be better to just kill you?” Chen Xing glanced at Chang Yuan. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Chang Yuan was speechless. From her tone, he knew Hao Jie must have been up to no good.

He had tried to stop this kind of behavior from him more than once.

’If she could disable his superpower, why would she leave him alive? Wouldn’t killing him be more satisfying?’

Seeing that everyone was inclined to believe Chen Xing, Hao Jie grew frantic. ”Then how did my perfectly fine superpower suddenly disappear?”

”Maybe it’s karma for all the bad things you’ve done.”

”I’ll fucking kill you!” Enraged, Hao Jie pulled a gun from his coat and fired a shot at Chen Xing.

His movements were so fast that Chang Yuan didn’t even have time to react. By the time he thought to stop him, it was too late.

When they focused their eyes, Chen Xing had already stepped back from the doorway.

Blocking the entrance was a large tiger.

And Hao Jie’s head was now in Meng Hu’s mouth.

As the smell of blood filled the air, Hao Jie stopped breathing.

”My apologies. This isn’t my fault. My pet becomes uncontrollable when it senses I’m in danger,” Chen Xing said lightly.

The people outside broke out in a cold sweat.

Although their companion had died, they weren’t particularly moved.

Instead, they retreated to their rooms one by one.

By the time Chen Xing woke up the next day, those people had braved the blizzard and left the hotel in the early morning.

It was less like leaving and more like fleeing.

No matter how dangerous it was outside, it was safer than being next to that woman.

That enormous tiger of hers was simply too terrifying.

Chen Xing now had a rough idea that this new ability of hers was related to several pieces of jewelry.

The combination of these jewelry pieces, along with a few upgrades, had finally unlocked the abilities of her first space.

Moreover, she finally understood the purpose of the square grid inside her Jiezhi Space.

It was for accumulating superpowers.

In the first grid square, the Gold Attribute superpower had been stored.

’Now I’ll have something to do in the future—go around and absorb superpowers.’

From now on, she would be a Multiple Superpower User.

Multiple Superpower Users existed, but she had heard the strongest ones possessed three superpowers.

Chen Xing had never seen one; she had only encountered dual superpower users.

’Thinking about it, I should thank that idiot for gifting me his superpower.’

With the room next door empty, her life returned to its leisurely pace.

She raised livestock and poultry and renovated the villa in her space.

A little over a month passed in the blink of an eye.

During this time, aside from a few Advanced Zombies wandering the streets, no other monsters appeared near Chen Xing’s location.

Of course, there were still mutated rats, but with the black cat around, they were wiped out on the lower levels.

One day, the heavy snow suddenly receded, and in an instant, the temperature shot up to forty degrees Celsius.

Chen Xing grew worried about the factory area, so she packed her things and left Tail City.