Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 138: Chapter 135: Jinx

She didn’t rush to find Baya. Instead, she first snuck to the entrance of the underground staircase.

Perhaps they felt the supplies here weren’t important, because there was hardly anyone guarding them.

Chen Xing got in easily and started collecting everything she saw.

’Who said this was all just ordinary stuff?’

Among the items were many high-quality cotton products, down jackets, cotton boots, down comforters, snow boots...

Baya must have prepared them in advance, worried about a sudden change in the weather.

The things down here were much more plentiful than the supplies upstairs, just less eye-catching.

In the apocalypse, who cared about clothes? Everyone was only thinking about collecting food.

Everyone’s eyes were fixed on food, drinking water, medicine, and the like.

After she collected it all, she realized her space was almost full.

’The upgrade only takes five minutes...’

Chen Xing didn’t dwell on it.

After putting everything into her space, there was still no sign of an upgrade.

’Forget it!’

’Upgrading doesn’t seem to have much to do with whether the space is full or not anymore.’

When she came out from the basement, she hadn’t even started looking for Baya when she heard the sound of quiet weeping.

It was a young woman.

Then came Baya’s annoyed voice, "What are you crying for? You’re already my wife. The whole world knows it, so crying is useless!"

The woman kept crying.

Her voice was filled with grievance, but she didn’t dare to cry out loud.

"It’s all your fault, you jinx! On such a great day, we ran into a dead person! You cry again, and believe it or not, I’ll feed your parents and your sweetheart to the zombies!"

’What a jinx, a real jinx!’

"No, I’m begging you, please spare my parents!" The woman forced herself to stop crying.

"That depends on how obedient you are. If you serve me well and make me happy, your parents will have a good life. Otherwise, I’ll throw them to the zombies at any time!"

Even without seeing him, Chen Xing could imagine that old man Baya’s hideous expression.

’He acts so kind and grandfatherly in public, but in reality, he just saw a pretty girl, snatched her up to be his wife, and is even using her parents to threaten her?’

’That old man deserves to die ten thousand times over!’

Chen Xing followed the sound and found the bedroom on the second floor.

The old man Baya had already pushed the bride down and was about to force himself on her, ignoring her pleas.

Chen Xing never considered herself a good person, but when she saw something like this, she had to intervene!

Baya had already torn the bride Arthur’s clothes when he heard the door open. He turned his head and saw a person dressed in black walk in.

The person was completely covered, but her curvy figure made it clear she was a woman.

In an instant, he remembered the video Officer Larsen had shown him. "You, it’s you... You’re the one who killed Miss Situ?"

The thought that Situ Yuanyuan had died at this person’s hands made him a little scared. "What do you want? Some—"

Before he could shriek, Chen Xing finished him off.

Blood sprayed all over Arthur’s face.

Terrified as she was, Arthur clamped a hand tightly over her mouth.

’It doesn’t matter if this person in black came to help me or not. As long as they killed this pervert Baya, they are my savior!’

"I take you, leave here?" After listening to their language for a few days, Chen Xing had learned a little and asked haltingly.

For her, it was a simple matter.

Arthur shook her head and lowered her hand. "My parents are locked up here, I can’t leave! Thank you. You should go quickly before anyone finds out. I’ll scream for help after you’re safe!"

She had a way to spin the story.

Seeing this, Chen Xing knew Arthur had a way to avoid implicating her, so she didn’t insist.

She didn’t have much time. It was impossible for her to help find her parents and then help them all escape.

Only after Chen Xing was over the wall did Arthur begin to scream and shout in a panic, waking the entire Royal Palace.

Chen Xing ran back along the main road. When she reached the staircase, the security guards and staff were still asleep.

When she got to Room 2903, Meng Hu, who had received her instructions, lowered the rope it had pulled up.

This was a precaution in case someone discovered the rope.

Song Yiguo must have been tired. He hadn’t noticed anything unusual and was sound asleep.

Chen Xing only got to sleep for half an hour before people from the Royal Palace came to investigate.

However, they were just asking questions as a matter of routine.

Although Commander Kelin had said to focus the investigation on Chen Xing, she had been in her room the whole time. The surveillance footage could prove everything.

"Baya was assassinated this morning?" After listening to Vice General Du’s report, Song Yiguo’s fox-like cunning seemed to grasp the main point. "Are you saying it’s possible the bride killed the groom and then staged it to look like an outside job?"

"The reports say the Princess was genuinely terrified, not faking it! Besides, all of their underground supplies vanished into thin air! The Princess is just a commoner with no superpower or influence. There’s no way she could have moved all those supplies without being discovered!"

"You’re saying everything underground is gone?" Song Yiguo looked at Chen Xing.

He seemed to recall telling Chen Xing about it.

’But... she couldn’t have done it herself either.’

"Not a single clue?"

"None!" Vice General Du had already gathered all the important information.

Song Yiguo looked at Chen Xing again. "Looks like we can head out to get the seeds today!"

Unexpectedly, Chen Xing remained seated, completely still.

He knew that even if Chen Xing didn’t say it, she was also eager to go back quickly.

"Chen Xing?" He noticed something was wrong.

They had been talking for a while, but not only had Chen Xing not said a word, she hadn’t even moved.

He stood up to see what was going on, but Meng Hu cleverly blocked his path.

Her position was in a blind spot, and with Meng Hu blocking the way, no one could get past.

Although they had gotten used to Meng Hu, they didn’t dare approach when it was blocking its master like this.

"Chen Xing, what’s wrong with you?" Song Yiguo asked worriedly.

Vice General Du also realized something was amiss.

’Chen Xing isn’t just lost in thought; she’s completely motionless, like she’s meditating.’

What was wrong?

’She’s upgrading, of course!’

Chen Xing felt helpless. Of all the times to upgrade, it had to be right in front of that fox, Song Yiguo.

From the moment the upgrade began, she had Meng Hu guard her.

Since Song Yiguo and the others couldn’t get close, they would naturally assume she was just lost in thought.

’If they came closer to check and found that I can’t move at all, it might become a weakness they could exploit in the future.’

’Good, it’s been a little while now.’

Song Yiguo called out again, "Chen Xing, don’t scare me!"

Just then, Chen Xing was able to move again.

She stretched her body slightly, her eyes shifting. "I was just thinking about something super important and spaced out. What did you say?"

Song Yiguo, Vice General Du: "..."

’What could she have been thinking about so intensely?’

"What was it?"

Chen Xing made something up. "I was thinking about how to move the supplies... and also how to get our hands on the oil..."

"You don’t need to worry about that. It should be arriving at the Capital City soon!"

Chen Xing: "..."

’How did they get the oil?’

"Vice General Du was in charge of seizing the oil. He already reached the Capital City a while ago!"

’Alright then!’

That was certainly unexpected.

"So, are we leaving now?" ’The sooner we go, the sooner we get the seeds, the sooner we can go back.’

"After we eat the beef noodles you make, we’ll head out!" Song Yiguo said shamelessly.