Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 349: Chapter 347: What Does Their Life or Death Have to Do With Me?

Chen Xing knew Chen Dingbang was strong, and she also knew he held a high position in the Research Institute.

But... he was still no match for Xu Anguo.

Only by getting rid of Xu Anguo could she guarantee the safety of her family and friends.

Since her war with the Research Institute had already begun, it wouldn’t end until one side was annihilated.

Chen Dingbang sneered and forcefully yanked the knife from his chest. ”Your dad isn’t here!”

His action took Chen Xing by surprise.

Most people wouldn’t dare do such a thing because of the pain, and they’d know the consequences would be bleeding to death.

”If you’re here, there’s no way Xu Anguo isn’t!”

The corner of Chen Dingbang’s mouth curled into a satisfied smile. ”You seem to know your dad quite well...”

It was true; he and Xu Anguo were almost never apart.

After the apocalypse began, with dangers lurking everywhere, everyone felt it was safer to stick together.

”Xu Anguo is not my father. I don’t have a father like him!”

”But it’s the Xu family’s blood that flows through your veins!”

”You should worry about your own blood,” Chen Xing said, glancing at Chen Dingbang’s chest, which was already soaked red.

But Chen Dingbang just shrugged it off. ”You think a little wound like this is enough to take my life?”

Chen Xing was speechless.

’Could it be? Is Chen Dingbang also a user of multiple superpowers?’

Seeing that the color had already returned to his face, Chen Xing knew her guess was correct.

Chen Dingbang took a step forward, not considering Chen Xing a threat in the slightest. ”Hurt me one more time, and I’ll make you regret it dearly!”

Chen Xing’s brow furrowed.

She didn’t know what leverage he could possibly have over her, but his confident gaze told her he clearly had something up his sleeve.

Chen Xing immediately thought of her uncle, Lu Yutian.

Uncle Zhong had said that Lu Yutian was in the United States and hadn’t returned to Huaxia yet.

Chen Xing suddenly moved, plunging her knife into Chen Dingbang’s chest once again.

This time, she didn’t let go. Instead, she tightened her grip on the hilt, threatening him. ”So what if you have a Healing System?”

’As long as I don’t pull out the knife, your Healing System is useless.’

Chen Dingbang sucked in a sharp breath from the pain.

He never would have imagined this girl could be so ruthless.

”If you dare to touch me, your uncle, aunt, and little cousin will all die!” Although Chen Dingbang’s tone was threatening, it lacked its earlier conviction.

’There was no telling what this girl was capable of doing.’

Chen Xing was speechless. She never imagined they had so many of her relatives to hold against her.

On the surface, however, she remained completely unfazed. ”What does it have to do with me whether they live or die?”

Chen Dingbang was speechless.

For a brief moment, he felt that the people they had gone to such lengths to capture were completely useless.

’She has amnesia, so how could she possibly care about an uncle she’s never even met?’

”Since you don’t care about them, then there’s no point in me holding them! Men!” Chen Dingbang shouted to those outside. ”Bring Lu Yutian and his family here!”

He spoke with a bit of force, but in reality, he was continuously using his superpower to stanch the bleeding.

His superpower was being drained. Before long, it would be completely depleted. If help didn’t arrive by then, he would certainly die.

Chen Xing applied pressure on the hilt, dragging Chen Dingbang away from the door.

A few moments later, several people pulled open the door, shoving three people to the entrance of the control room.

Chen Xing recognized Lu Yutian at a glance.

He looked almost identical to his photograph, and he was holding tightly onto his wife and daughter.

His wife was a Westerner with large eyes and a small face—a classic beauty.

As for their young daughter, she had inherited the best features of both her parents. Though only three or four years old, she was as beautiful as a little princess from a cartoon.

The rage that had filled Lu Yutian vanished when he saw Chen Xing inside the room. His gaze softened, and his eyes turned red.

”Shanshan...” Even though he had never met her, he knew this had to be his sister’s precious daughter.

Chen Xing’s tense expression almost cracked.

She gritted her teeth, refusing to let any softness show.

”Let Vice Director Chen go, and we’ll release them!” the man shoving Lu Yutian forward said, pressing a gun to his head. ”Otherwise, they all die!”

The knife in the man’s other hand had already drawn a line of blood across his neck.

Chen Dingbang glanced at the men opposite him.

Immediately, one of the men grabbed Tiantian and lifted her up, his coarse hand closing around her tiny neck. ”Let him go now, or we won’t be so courteous!”

The little girl was so frightened she burst into tears.

Her heart aching for her daughter, Tiantian’s mother rushed forward to save her, heedless of the danger.

But her struggle didn’t save her daughter. Instead, her own abdomen was slashed by a knife.

”I’ll let him go!” Seeing the three of them in peril, Chen Xing immediately yanked the knife from Chen Dingbang’s chest.

At the same time, she vanished from sight.

When she reappeared outside the door, with a wave of her hand, Tiantian, Lu Yutian, and his wife all disappeared before their very eyes.

As for the men who had harmed Lu Yutian’s family, their superpowers were drained, and they collapsed to the floor, dead.

Unsurprisingly, Chen Dingbang had escaped.

But... would Chen Xing really let him get away that easily? Just before pulling the knife out, she had grazed his wound with her Little Poison Grass.

She had wanted to use actual poison, but she didn’t have any on her.

’I wonder if the Little Poison Grass will give him a nasty surprise?’

With the immediate danger gone, Chen Xing entered the Black Cat Space.

Her uncle’s injuries weren’t serious, so they could wait. Her aunt, however, was severely wounded. Without treatment, she would bleed to death.

After healing their wounds, she returned to the Research Institute alone.

She wanted to take advantage of Chen Dingbang and Xu Anguo’s presence to finish them off quickly.

By the time Chen Xing had searched every floor, she still hadn’t found Chen Dingbang, although she had killed plenty of various monsters along the way.

She was also just beginning to get a rough idea of the building’s layout.

From the entrance above the warehouse, the entire building was a series of overlapping spaces.

Before you entered through the warehouse, you could search the entire Research Institute and never find this secret location.

”Shanshan, I don’t blame you for destroying my Research Institute, but why did you have to hurt Dingbang? Why did you have to choose tonight to do it?” Xu Anguo’s voice, thick with resentment, boomed over the broadcast system. ”If he’s alright, then fine. But if anything happens to him, I’ll make all the people of Huaxia pay with their lives!”

Then, silence.

Just then, the sound of countless footsteps erupted from downstairs, mixed with guttural roars.

It was unmistakably the sound of zombies.

By the time Chen Xing used her Jiezhi Space to get out of the Research Institute, she saw that the residential areas of Hulton City were already swarming with zombies.

These zombies had undoubtedly come from inside the Research Institute.

It turned out that before evacuating, the Research Institute personnel had opened the main doors on the first floor, allowing zombies to flood the building. Then, they had opened the third-floor passage that led into the city proper.

Since Chen Xing had been up above, inside the overlapping spaces, she hadn’t noticed what was happening below.

By the time she heard the commotion, Hulton City had already become a city of the dead.

It was now approaching dawn, and many early risers were just starting to head out for the day.

And so, the streets instantly erupted into chaos.

Screams, cries for help, the roars of zombies...