Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 313: Chapter 310: He Kills for the Thrill.

Even from a great distance, Chen Xing could see it was Cheng Fang.

’She must have also found out that Nightingale is here.’

Before she could follow, another figure appeared in front of the building. It was Cadar.

She had tailed Cheng Fang here.

Chen Xing thought, ’Today’s going to be interesting.’

She immediately turned invisible and followed Cadar into the building.

Cheng Fang was too slow. It took her forever to search just a few rooms.

Chen Xing lost her patience and phased through them, heading upstairs to search on her own.

She searched everywhere, upstairs and down, but... Nightingale wasn’t there.

Chen Xing didn’t want to waste any more time. When she came face to face with Cheng Fang, her blade flashed.

Another one of her fingers was sliced clean off.

A bloodcurdling scream, mingled with the sounds of people stirring awake, roused the entire building.

Cadar was left speechless.

’Just how much do people hate Cheng Fang?’

’If it were me, I would’ve snapped long ago.’

That was the third finger.

Cheng Fang was on the verge of losing her mind.

Why was she so unlucky? Why was it always her finger getting cut off?

She couldn’t remember offending anyone, let alone offending them so deeply.

Chen Xing had already left the building. She looked up at the white snowflakes.

’Nightingale... I really want to find him, and I really want to take his necklace, but... I won’t kill him.’

’He’s a Killing Demon. Maybe he deserves to die, but not by my hand. It doesn’t matter if he was forced or not; he’s helped me a great deal.’

The next morning, a commotion next door woke Chen Xing.

Song Yiguo hadn’t returned from Yu Laosan’s old residence.

She quickly threw on a long down jacket and opened the door.

The door to the room next door was wide open, with members of the Song Family Army crowding the entrance.

”What’s going on?” Chen Xing didn’t step all the way out, instead leaning against her doorframe and peering out.

”Nightingale killed someone last night! Our patrol team caught him in the act and chased him into the room next door!”

Chen Xing was speechless. ’Nightingale?’

Forgetting the cold, she rushed next door.

Nightingale was backed into a corner, pressing a gun to the head of an old man. ”Dare to take another step, and I’ll kill him!”

Just then, Chen Xing pushed through the crowd and walked in.

Dressed in a long black down jacket, she strode toward him without a hint of hesitation.

Her expression was cold, but her eyes were sharp and focused.

And... Nightingale, tense in the middle of the standoff, was so startled by her gaze that his gun nearly went off.

She was clearly staring at his calf!

It was as if there was something there that she desperately craved.

Nightingale instinctively shifted his leg back. ”Who are you? I’m warning you, get any closer and I’ll really kill him!” For some reason, he felt a flicker of panic.

’Normally, no one should know my secret.’

”Stay back!” Nightingale, who had killed countless people, couldn’t believe he was being intimidated by a young woman.

’This must be the difference a dozen years in the apocalypse makes.’

’In my time, when Nightingale died, he looked like he was only a few years older than me.’

’I can’t believe he’s lived for over a decade longer here. He’s practically from my uncle’s generation now.’

Chen Xing’s cold expression softened slightly. She stopped and said with calm composure, ”You won’t kill him.”

Nightingale was speechless, his expression faltering for a moment.

Then he burst out laughing. ”You want to test that theory?”

”As far as I know, the old, weak, sick, and disabled aren’t on your kill list.”

Nightingale was stunned. ’How does she know that?’

He killed for the thrill of it.

Killing the old, weak, sick, and disabled didn’t give him that blood-pumping rush. They didn’t have the same will to survive as the young and strong, which made killing them utterly boring.

”My life is on the line. You think I care if he’s old and weak?” Nightingale deliberately jammed the gun harder against the old man.

”I don’t believe you’ll kill him.” As she spoke, Chen Xing’s eyes flickered to his calf again.

Her gaze sent a shiver down Nightingale’s spine.

He suddenly felt it would be best not to linger here.

With his free hand, he fumbled in his pocket and produced two grenades.

”Miss... until we meet again!” He tossed the first grenade toward the doorway behind Chen Xing. After it exploded, he threw the second one toward the staircase.

He’d heard this woman had a Defense Ability, so trying to blow her up would be a complete waste.

In the blink of an eye, he vanished.

Chen Xing knew he had entered his Jiezhi Space.

Just as she was about to give chase, someone shouted, ”Xing Yue! Xing Yue!”

Nightingale’s two grenades had injured several people.

One man had been too close to a blast, and half his body was mangled.

Chen Xing had no choice but to tend to the wounded first.

The delay cost her more than ten minutes.

By the time she got outside to pursue him, the snow had stopped falling.

Chen Xing immediately ran toward the house Yu Laosan had arranged for Cheng Fang.

She had already sent her black cat to follow Nightingale.

Meanwhile, after safely escaping the building, Nightingale emerged from his Jiezhi Space.

Not long after he emerged, he spotted Cheng Fang up ahead.

She seemed to be in great pain. Her face was deathly pale as she furtively made her way somewhere.

He knew her emerald ring had been put up for auction.

He had traveled all the way from the South to the North precisely for that emerald ring.

Nightingale followed Cheng Fang into a dilapidated building. He had only climbed one flight of stairs when his body suddenly went rigid and he collapsed.

He didn’t even have time to react.

A pale-faced Cheng Fang stepped out from around a corner. She handed the Little Poison Grass, which was under a glass cover, to the person behind her. ”You can go downstairs now.”

She didn’t want too many people to know the secret of the Green Gemstone Jewelry.

The more people who knew, the worse it would be for her.

Once the person had left, she quickly went over to search him.

But... before she could even start, she was attacked by a torrent of fire from Kadar, who had appeared suddenly behind her.

She narrowly dodged the attack and launched a counteroffensive.

”He’s about to wake up. Do you two really have time to be fighting?”

Cheng Fang and Cadar stopped fighting simultaneously and looked toward the beautiful woman walking up the stairs.

”Hao Wenli?” Cheng Fang asked in surprise. ”What are you doing here?”

She hadn’t heard anything about Hao Wenli in a long time; she’d even assumed she was dead.

Hao Wenli completely ignored her. With a single flick of her hand, Nightingale’s body, lying on the ground, was sliced in two.

”You knew that thing only paralyzes him for a few minutes, yet you started fighting instead of killing him first? Have you forgotten he’s the Killing Demon? He could have woken up and killed you both at any moment!” She looked at them as if they were a pair of idiots.

Cheng Fang was speechless. ’What’s gotten into Hao Wenli?’

’She used to be such a sycophant, always sucking up to me.’

’And... that superpower she just used... it looked pretty impressive.’

”Hao Wenli, what do you know?” Cheng Fang couldn’t help but suspect that Hao Wenli had also come for the green gemstone necklace on Nightingale.

”I know everything you two know.” With that, she ignored them, crouched down, and began to search Nightingale’s bisected corpse.