Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 347: Chapter 345: Eastern Killing Demon

Its rear end wasn’t the problem. The problem was a certain orifice located on it.

Chen Xing really couldn’t bear to look, but she had to remain vigilant.

Ignoring the orifice, she was just about to leap forward into the room beyond.

Who would have thought that it would just plant its rear end in the doorway, blocking it completely.

To be fair, it didn’t even take much of its rear end—just a small portion was enough.

Chen Xing had no choice but to attack with her fine needles, hoping to make the mutated monster move away from the door.

Unexpectedly, when her needles struck the mutated animal’s body, they caused no damage at all.

Just then... the orifice on the mutated animal that Chen Xing dreaded most began to pulsate.

Chen Xing immediately backed away.

’She was genuinely afraid of what might come out of that orifice.’

The fine needles in her hand coalesced into a spear, and she stabbed it into the still-pulsating rear end.

This time, the mutated animal finally reacted, bolting forward in an instant.

Its speed was unbelievable, considering how sluggishly it had been moving before.

Chen Xing seized the opportunity and quickly rushed into the large room.

It was only after entering that she saw the mutated animal’s head.

’A hippo?’

Chen Xing wasn’t sure if it could be called a hippo.

The mouth was definitely a hippo’s, but the ears were closer to an elephant’s.

The most unsettling part was its neck.

While not as long or slender as a giraffe’s, it was close enough.

Perhaps it couldn’t support such a large head, so it was held almost to the ground.

This was why its head was invisible from behind.

Upon seeing Chen Xing, the mutated ’hippo’s’ neck twisted in a bizarre fashion, rotating a full 360 degrees before suddenly snapping back.

The spin was incredibly fast, and with it came a spray of wet mucus from its wide-open mouth.

Its aim was exceptionally precise; all of it headed straight for Chen Xing.

Chen Xing dodged in annoyance, forming a thin steel plate in her hand and sending it flying directly at the mutated ’hippo’.

The mucus it had spat landed on the floor, corroding a large patch.

The steel plate skimmed right over the top of its head.

’Who would’ve thought something so large could react so quickly.’

After ducking its body to avoid the steel plate’s attack, it counterattacked with maximum speed.

As its long, twisted neck returned to its original position, it lunged forward.

The massive blob shrank to half its size, then instantly launched itself into the air, aiming to smash down on Chen Xing.

’If I get crushed under that, I’m dead!’

As Chen Xing dodged, several spears materialized on the ground, their tips all pointing upward.

The mutated ’hippo’ let out a roar as it landed, then immediately went limp.

Impaled on the spears, it tried to struggle one last time, but after a few twitches, it fell still.

Chen Xing made a beeline for the only exit ahead.

The door opened more easily than she expected.

Before her lay nothing but a mountain forest.

’So... this Research Institute is just for studying mutated animals?’

Chen Xing decided to just set the Research Institute on fire, then left with the Little Black Cat on the speedboat.

As she was about to dock, she noticed several figures moving on the shore.

Judging by their figures, they were women.

’Could they be the wives of the men I killed?’

Since she was already very close to the shore, Chen Xing didn’t bother looking for another landing spot.

Once she reached the shore, she disembarked directly.

Seeing Chen Xing get off the boat defenselessly, one of the women charged forward, pointed at her, and shouted, ”That’s the demon! She killed my husband! I saw her kill all the men here! Your husband, and your husband... this demon killed them all!”

”They tried to kill me first. I was only acting in self-defense!” Chen Xing glanced at them. ’Just five or six women?’

’They know I killed over a hundred men, and they still dare to confront me?’

’Either they’re insane, or they’ve found powerful backup.’

’It has to be the latter.’

Chen Xing’s consciousness expanded, and she sensed a slight disturbance in the surroundings.

”Who kills over a hundred people in self-defense? I say she’s a demon, even more terrifying than that nightingale demon! Oh my god, oh my god... could she be that infamous ’Eastern Killing Demon’ everyone’s talking about?”

Chen Xing was speechless. ’The Eastern Killing Demon?’

’When did an ’Eastern Killing Demon’ pop up?’

’No matter how you look at it, I don’t seem like a Killing Demon, do I?’

She questioned it, but then she thought about all the people she’d taken down earlier. ’Maybe it does fit, huh?’

The women feigned caution as they watched Chen Xing, but in reality, they were already very close to her and showed no signs of backing away.

They were so close that Chen Xing could have grabbed one of them with a single hand.

Several women at Chen Xing’s sides raised their arms at the same time.

Simultaneously, a net dropped down from above.

It was being pulled, so the net fell rapidly.

But Chen Xing was even faster, instantly teleporting out of its path.

The net went slightly off course, trapping several of the women instead.

”Come out!” Chen Xing shouted toward the direction of the disturbance.

Knowing they had been discovered, the thirty-odd people hiding in the shadows revealed themselves.

As they began to step out, several slender Ice Mallets flew in from Chen Xing’s right, aimed straight for her head.

With a turn of her head, Chen Xing seized control of the Ice Mallets. They reversed course in a wide arc and flew back out.

THUMP! THUMP!

Two Ice Ability Users collapsed.

Seeing their ambush fail, the thirty-odd Superpower Users all gathered their superpowers at once and hurled them down at Chen Xing in a single barrage.

Chen Xing possessed every single one of the superpowers they used. And so, a shocking scene unfolded.

All of their superpowers reversed direction and landed on the thirty-odd Superpower Users themselves.

The women caught in the net were too busy trying to get out to see the stunning spectacle.

They wanted to take advantage of Chen Xing’s back being turned to launch a successful sneak attack.

They, too, were Superpower Users... and unsurprisingly, they met the same fate.

She collected the Crystal Cores and left.

Without further delay, Chen Xing headed straight for Hulton City.

It took her nearly a full day to reach Hulton City, and by the time she arrived, it was the middle of the night.

Chen Xing used her Jiezhi Space to enter the urban center of Hulton City directly.

The city was quiet in the dead of night, if one ignored the hordes of zombies below.

Chen Xing looked down at the streets below. The zombies were packed so densely they could barely move.

The last time she was here, Hulton City already had a lot of zombies, but not even half as many as there were now.

’What attracted all these zombies here?’

’But... that has little to do with me!’

Chen Xing had no intention of getting involved in other people’s business. Her only goal was to destroy the Research Institute.

She found the Research Institute on the outskirts of the city, far from the Great Commander Mansion.

It was an eight-story, British-style building. Long and low, it occupied half a city block.

The building’s windows were almost all fake; thick brick walls were hidden behind the glass panes.

Chen Xing thought this was very much in keeping with the style of a Research Institute—secretive and trying to hide something, as if afraid of being discovered.

She used her Jiezhi Space to enter the building’s second floor directly.

She had just emerged from her space and was about to search the building while still invisible when she was suddenly struck by a beam of light.

It appeared in an instant, with no warning whatsoever, somehow bypassing her Defense Shield and knocking her to the ground.

Immediately after, a barrage of what looked like laser beams rained down on her, one strike after another.