Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

‘Chen Xing broke her fingers, too…’ Cheng Fang was certain.

‘She’s doing this for revenge!’

‘So… besides all those other superpowers, does Chen Xing also have an Invisibility Ability?’

‘What a pain in the ass!’

‘If I’d known Chen Xing would come back to life, I would’ve died before I harmed her so openly, and I definitely wouldn’t have told her the secret of the ring.’

‘But… is it too late for regrets now?’

‘Or what excuse could I come up with?’

In an instant, Chen Xing was in front of Cheng Fang. With a swipe of her knife, one of Cheng Fang’s fingers fell to the ground. “How does it feel, watching your fingers get chopped off one by one?” she asked, like a Devil looking down at Cheng Fang, who had collapsed in the snow.

The blood bloomed across the white snow, a strangely beautiful sight.

Cheng Fang groaned in pain but didn’t dare to scream.

She knew that her screams would have no effect on Chen Xing; they wouldn’t make her go soft.

It had been the same when Cheng Fang had killed her.

Chen Xing took out the ring and put it on her finger. “You stole my ring and tricked me into a zombie horde. Now, I’m going to let you have a taste of being gnawed to death by a horde of zombies!”

With that, she turned to look into the distance.

The two little ones were leading a massive horde of zombies right toward them.

‘The Little Black Cat might seem unreliable most of the time, but it’s pretty useful in a pinch.’

Cheng Fang’s face went deathly pale. Terrified, she grabbed Chen Xing’s leg. “I’m begging you, please don’t do this to me… I’ve stuck by you through thick and thin since the apocalypse began…”

“Don’t make it sound so noble. Didn’t Xu Anguo send you to get close to me? Without his orders, you’d stick by my side?” ‘What a joke.’

“Chen Xing… Cheng Fang was the one who got you killed, not me!” Hao Wenli was about to pass out from the pain, but the sight of the approaching zombie horde terrified her even more. “Cheng Fang was always leaving and then bullying you when she came back. I was the only one who stayed with you the whole time! I was jealous of you sometimes, but that’s not a crime punishable by death, is it?”

“Chen Xing… Hao Wenli has stabbed you in the back more than a few times! If I hadn’t reminded her to spare your life, she would’ve killed you long ago!” Cheng Fang started digging through her memories for evidence of Hao Wenli’s guilt. “Do you remember that time we were cornered by a group of bandits? To save her own skin, she told them to go after you! It was me who contacted the Research Institute and got you rescued!”

“Bullshit!” Hao Wenli’s face was a mask of fury. “And you’ve done less to harm her? You clearly had food, but you wouldn’t let us give her any, just letting her starve…”

“You’re full of shit…”

“No, you’re full of shit…”

The two went back and forth, airing each other’s dirty laundry.

Chen Xing remembered it all. It was all true. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have chosen this way to kill them.

“So… both of you deserve this!” Seeing the zombie horde arrive, the anger that had twisted Chen Xing’s face began to slowly fade.

She had already found and taken an earring from Hao Wenli’s body.

Now, all four pieces of jewelry were in her possession.

‘This was easier than I expected,’ she thought. ‘I didn’t even have to leave the city gates.’

Cheng Fang’s fingers were broken, but her legs still worked.

Seeing the horde arrive, she scrambled to her feet to escape.

Chen Xing sent a jolt of electricity through her, paralyzing her on the spot.

“If I’m going to die, you can forget about living!” Hao Wenli refused to believe Chen Xing could dodge a second time.

This time, she made her iron wall even bigger and thicker, and sent it crashing toward Chen Xing.

Unsurprisingly, the iron wall reappeared above Hao Wenli herself, crushing her from the abdomen down.

‘She wanted them to die slowly.’

The zombie horde quickly closed in. Chen Xing recalled the Little Black Cat and then entered her Jiezhi Space.

She could clearly hear their agonizing screams, which continued for some time.

There were about two to three thousand zombies in the horde.

Chen Xing wanted this batch of Crystal Cores.

So, she released all her black cats and joined the fight herself.

The electricity she unleashed was devastatingly powerful.

In just half an hour, she had already killed most of them.

Just then, a team approached from the distance.

Chen Xing immediately had all the Little Black Cats gather before recalling them into her space.

Before long, Song Yiguo arrived with Vice General Du and his Superpower Group. “How could you be so reckless, running out here on your own?”

Despite his scolding tone, he had already joined the battle.

“I want these Crystal Cores!” Chen Xing made no attempt to hide her greed.

Song Yiguo was speechless. ‘So she killed this many zombies by herself in such a short amount of time?’

He clearly had a soft spot for Chen Xing, as he gave the order to kill the zombies without another word.

They quickly finished off the zombies and returned to Green City with Chen Xing.

“Do you have any idea how dangerous it was to run out there like that?” Back at the hotel, Song Yiguo’s face was dark with anger.

He hadn’t had time to lecture her while they were fighting outside.

“I was wrong!” Chen Xing said with exaggerated sincerity.

Her apology completely disarmed him, stuffing the lecture he’d been about to give right back down his throat.

He had also seen the bodies of Cheng Fang and the other woman.

He’d guessed she had run out to get her revenge.

As for how she had killed them and lured the zombies, however, he had no idea.

But he was certain of one thing: her true power was far greater than what he had witnessed.

An ordinary person might be able to handle one Advanced Zombie. Against two or three, they’d be lucky to get away with their life.

When faced with a horde, no one would be thinking about grabbing Crystal Cores. The only thought would be to run.

But not her. Instead of running, she threw herself into slaughtering them.

That night, the temperature began to rise.

Song Yiguo’s team decided to return to the Capital City immediately.

Before they left, Chen Xing went next door and knocked.

She knocked for a long time with no answer. When she finally pushed the door open, she found the room was empty.

Chen Xing had no choice but to give up and leave with Song Yiguo.

‘However…’ she recalled Vice General Du saying that the old man, Yu, was a representative of the Maya Clan.

Song Yiguo had been the biggest winner on this trip.

Not only had he eliminated Yu Laosan, but he had also seized all of his supplies.

Convoys of vehicles departed from Green City, safely transporting all the supplies to the National Capital Safety Zone.

Upon returning to the Capital City, Chen Xing didn’t even bother to check her space.

She had caused Song Yiguo to lose a Level Eight Healing Ability User, so she was determined to create a new one for him. Only then could she leave with a clear conscience.

So, she took all the Crystal Cores to the medical department and gave them to Chen Ming.

However, he wasn’t like her.

She only needed to consume one-fifth of the Crystal Cores that others did.

‘So… to get Chen Ming from the Seventh Level to Level Eight, it seemed there weren’t enough Advanced Crystal Cores.’

To speed things up, she also secretly gave him some of her spring water to drink.

But even after all the Crystal Cores were gone, Chen Ming still hadn’t leveled up.

Chen Xing had no choice but to request permission from Song Yiguo to take Vice General Du and a group of Superpower Users to a nearby county town.

The county town had a population of tens of thousands, but as long as they coordinated well, they could clear out all the zombies quickly.

But she never could have imagined that a super zombie was lurking in this small town.

For safety’s sake, Vice General Du led Chen Xing into the county town early in the morning.

At that time of day, the zombies’ reactions were slow, making them easier to kill.