Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 175: Chapter 172: Agricultural Research Institute

What was she seeing?

Li Tong’s face was a mask of disbelief.

How had the knives in Chen Xing’s hands disappeared in the blink of an eye, replaced by a bomb?

’How is this possible?’

Just then, an explosion rang out.

The enlarged little dinosaur monster wasn’t blown to smithereens. Instead, it instantly shrank back to the size it was before it devoured the person.

Apparently frightened, it leaped onto the roof, its eyes showing a hint of fear as it watched Chen Xing.

"H-how did you do that... How did a bomb suddenly... suddenly appear in your hand..." As she asked, Li Tong’s mind raced with speculation.

’She doesn’t have any extra pockets to hide it, nor a bag...’

’There’s only one possibility. Does she have a Jiezhi Space?’

’Something I’ve only ever read about in novels?’

"You... you don’t have a Jiezhi Space, do you?" Li Tong’s voice was quiet with disbelief.

After asking, she shook her head, feeling it was impossible.

Chen Xing wasn’t afraid.

Her hearing was sharp. The people who had just run out of here were already upstairs, so they naturally couldn’t hear anything.

"How is that possible?" Li Tong was in a complete daze, so much so that she had forgotten all about her little pet. "You really have..."

Before she could say more, Chen Xing was already in front of her.

’The sound of a vehicle came from downstairs. Brother Jin must be back.’

Chen Xing couldn’t let her secret get out. The tip of her knife shot toward Li Tong’s temple.

Li Tong dodged. The knife’s tip grazed her scalp, and she sucked in a sharp breath from the pain.

But she had no time to worry about that now.

The murderous aura coming from Chen Xing sent her into a panic.

Thankfully, Brother Jin had returned just in time. After dodging the attack, she immediately ran for the door.

She started shouting, "Brother Jin... she has..."

She never finished her sentence. She only felt something cold pierce the back of her neck and emerge from under her jaw.

She couldn’t speak another word.

Hearing the shout, Brother Jin realized something was wrong and immediately ran upstairs.

The reason he had returned early was because he received a call from the man guarding the gate, who said Li Tong had lured the monster out.

Thinking that Chen Xing might be in danger, he had immediately turned his car around.

’I wonder if I’ll make it in time to save her?’

His heart was pounding.

When he entered the room where the cry for help had come from, he found it in complete disarray.

Li Tong lay dead, her eyes wide open, unwilling to close in death.

Chen Xing, on the other hand, stood amidst the equipment with an indifferent expression.

As for Li Tong’s little pet, it was nowhere to be seen.

"Brother Jin, we heard an explosion just now. Do you think Sister Tongtong’s pet was blown up?" one of Brother Jin’s men who came in with him asked, imagining the scene after seeing the green liquid splattered all over the walls.

"Are you okay?" Although Brother Jin was shocked, his concern was for Chen Xing.

Chen Xing looked at him, a flicker of emotion in her eyes.

Just for a split second, she found him somewhat familiar.

But the feeling was fleeting, disappearing before she could even process it.

The killing intent that had surged within her was instantly shattered, and she clenched her fists.

Brother Jin’s men had regained their confidence by now. They swarmed in and charged at Chen Xing.

Their "Big Sister" was dead, and she was the woman Brother Jin cared about most.

Chen Xing didn’t hold back either, raising her knife and beginning to kill.

A few of them who had superpowers saw that Chen Xing was too strong, so they turned and started pushing Brother Jin back out. "Brother Jin, she’s too powerful! We’re no match for her! Let’s retreat first! As long as we’re alive, we’ll have our chance for revenge! We can avenge Sister Tongtong later!"

Brother Jin was frozen, watching Chen Xing’s explosive combat prowess, and was forcefully dragged away by his men.

Chen Xing walked to the window and watched them leave the compound.

’Good thing they knew what’s good for them and didn’t try anything with my RV.’

Taking advantage of the moment when no one was around, she immediately entered her space.

After she had subdued the little monster and brought it into her space, it had been a bit resistant at first, but it seemed to be doing better now.

Especially after she took the Crystal Core from Li Tong’s body and stored it in her space, the monster seemed to have formed a telepathic bond with her.

’This trip turned out to be quite fruitful.’

This little dinosaur monster might not look big, but its combat power was not low at all.

After it absorbed a person earlier, her knife could still injure it, but it couldn’t kill it. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have taken the risk of pulling out a grenade in front of Li Tong to deal with it.

Now, she had indirectly gained another powerful pet. It seemed her forbearance hadn’t been in vain.

By now, someone had seen Brother Jin and his men leaving from a window.

Li Chen immediately ran down. She was relieved to see Chen Xing was safe, but she couldn’t help but blush and lower her head. "I’m sorry, I ran away and left you behind!"

She had seen Chen Xing fighting the monster while also having to protect her, so she had just run.

But she still felt terrible about it.

’It feels so ungrateful.’

"It’s fine," Chen Xing said, not blaming her at all.

Running was the best thing to do in that situation. Staying would have only dragged her down.

Yu Heng, who came downstairs after her, was even more terrified of having any ideas about Chen Xing.

There were at least a hundred people in this compound. Some had run, some were dead.

Usually, she had the tiger to help her, but this time, she had done it all by herself.

"You killed them?" Even though the evidence was right in front of him, he still couldn’t believe it.

Chen Xing didn’t answer. Instead, she took two quick steps toward the window.

Then, under the grateful gazes of the others, she ran out of the building.

’00002 is in trouble!’

Just now, while Yu Heng was talking, she had received a message from Meng Hu.

She ran downstairs, got into her RV, and sped off in Meng Hu’s direction.

Last night, to secure an escape route, she had taken advantage of the chaos out front to have 00002 and Meng Hu quietly get out of the vehicle and hide in the mountains.

With Meng Hu there, 00002’s safety was guaranteed. And if she was in danger, they could come and rescue her.

After Chen Xing was taken away, they stayed the night in a farmhouse and ate the bread she had prepared for him in the morning.

Before he had even finished eating, he heard a vehicle pull up to the door.

Unsuspecting, 00002 thought Chen Xing had returned and ran out happily, only to be met by a convoy of vehicles.

Forty to fifty people got out at once.

Because they saw a tiger, they began to attack them as soon as they got out of their vehicles.

Meng Hu was quite formidable, slaughtering them so fiercely that they couldn’t get close.

However, Meng Hu was ultimately no match for human cunning.

Seeing that the tiger was difficult to deal with, they deliberately used a few people to lure it away, successfully captured 00002, and then fled.

And 00002 didn’t resist.

Before Chen Xing left, she had told him not to use his own abilities, no matter what danger he encountered.

He was just to listen obediently and stay alive. She would come for him.

Two hours later, Chen Xing arrived at the Agricultural Research Institute on the outskirts of Jieyuan City in her RV.

The Agricultural Research Institute was vast, with sparse buildings separated by large stretches of farmland.

Chen Xing parked the RV in a not-so-dense patch of trees in the distance, left the now much larger white wolf cub inside to guard the vehicle, and then ran toward the Agricultural Research Institute.

The perimeter of the Agricultural Research Institute appeared to be an ordinary wall, a little over two meters high, with a large, double iron gate on rollers in the middle.