Cooking Gourmet Meals in the Apocalypse

Chapter 90: Chapter 87: This Is the Song Family Army

"Song Yiguo’s men are on that ship over there!" Chen Xing pointed.

Captain Lu, who was closest to her, followed her finger, but all he could see was the vast, white fog.

Accustomed to this, he had everyone assemble and quickly assigned positions. "The Song Family Army saved our lives," he declared. "We must do everything in our power to rescue Vice General Du and the other soldiers! All right, to your positions!"

Chen Xing obediently moved to the position Captain Lu had assigned her.

’Actually, all I’d need to do is toss a bomb onto the enemy ship to throw them into chaos. With the Song Family Army’s strength, they could easily break through the defensive line and escape.’

But... she didn’t do that. ’This is a rare opportunity. If Captain Lu rescues the Song Family Army, they’ll remember his good deed.’

’In the future, when we start trading Crystal Cores, having the Song Family Army as a solid backer will also provide some security for the factory district.’

’I’ll just play a supporting role and help them out!’

Chen Xing was placed in a relatively safe position, far from the ship.

However, she could still see the situation on the ship clearly.

At that moment, Wilson was standing at the front of the deck, his back to the shore, sneering at the men from the Song Family Army. "So this is the great Song Family Army? Weren’t you captured easily enough by my men? If word of this gets out, the Song Family Army will lose all face!"

"Pfft!" Wen Yan, the youngest soldier in the Song Family Army, burst out laughing. "Wilson, are you trying to make me laugh? More than two hundred of you ambushed us, and while Deputy Du wasn’t even here?"

’If Vice General Du had been here, they might not have even needed to make this trip.’

Wilson’s expression turned ugly.

’How dare these grunts, who don’t even have a proper rank, call me by my name?’

’These Huaxia people are all impolite pigs!’

"What are you laughing at? Do you have any idea how disrespectful it is to address a general by his name? You Huaxia people are an inferior race, with no etiquette and no respect!"

Wen Yan laughed again. "I only respect those who are worthy of it! A despicable, shameless coward like you, who can only launch sneak attacks from behind, is the truly inferior one. You don’t deserve my respect!"

’Only truly noble men like Vice General Du and General Song are worthy of his respect!’

Insulted by a mere soldier, Wilson clenched his fists in fury. "People from the United States have the noblest bloodline in the world! How dare a lowly, yellow-skinned person like you criticize us? Besides... what use do I have for your respect?"

"Weren’t you the one who just said I had no etiquette and no respect?"

"Hmph! How ridiculous!" Seeing that he wasn’t getting the upper hand, Wilson changed the subject. "Getting caught just proves you’re incompetent. You go around all day showing off how the Song Family Army is supposedly invincible? Isn’t that just you boasting? We people of the United States are always rigorous and humble. We never brag!"

"Ohhh!?" Wen Yan’s tone was utterly contemptuous.

Even Chen Xing, listening from a distance, couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

The young soldier standing guard beside her was speechless. He glanced around, but he couldn’t see anything but fog or hear any sounds.

Her sudden laugh was genuinely unnerving.

"Wh-what are you laughing at?" he asked, warily scanning their surroundings.

When Captain Lu had assigned the tasks earlier, he had secretly told him.

His mission was to protect Chen Xing.

Although he didn’t understand why Chen Xing needed protection, if the captain said to protect her, he would protect her.

"It’s nothing!" Chen Xing couldn’t exactly tell him she could hear voices from hundreds of meters away, could she?

On the ship, Wilson felt utterly humiliated. He snatched a pistol from a soldier beside him, raised it, and fired.

Wen Yan was only about eighteen or nineteen, the childishness not yet completely gone from his face.

But as he watched Wilson aim the gun at him, there wasn’t the slightest trace of fear on his face.

A shot rang out, but there was no injury as expected.

Young Wen Yan stood there unharmed, wreathed in a white mist. Combined with his already handsome features, he looked almost ethereal and enchanting.

Wilson was speechless.

His brow furrowed.

’He had been aiming right at him. Logically, he shouldn’t have been able to dodge.’

’But... this young man, who didn’t even look fully grown, had dodged it perfectly.’

’And he’d done it with such poise, not a hint of panic in his movements.’

’The Song Family Army... they really are formidable!’

A sense of unease grew in his heart. He didn’t dare delay any longer and immediately gave the order, "Kill them all!"

In an instant, the muzzles of over a hundred navy soldiers’ guns were aimed at the dozen or so young soldiers.

A rain of bullets fell upon them.

Back on shore, Captain Lu still hadn’t given an order. Xiao Wu and a few other soldiers nearby clenched their fists in anger.

’It’s over!’

’How could they possibly survive a hail of bullets from all sides?’

’If the captain had given the order sooner, maybe they could have saved them.’

There was a genuine hint of resentment in their hearts, but more than that, there was regret.

But... they were a disciplined unit. Without an order, they would not act on their own, even if it meant death, and risk disrupting the entire plan.

In the blink of an eye, when they bit their lips and looked back at the deck, the dozen or so soldiers were standing unharmed inside the circle of fire.

Two spinning columns of water were swirling around them. The bullets lost their force upon hitting the water, unable to penetrate, let alone hit anyone.

Xiao Wu and the others were speechless.

A wave of excitement suddenly washed over them.

’So this is the Song Family Army!’

’Their superpowers are on a level we can’t even hope to match!’

’It seems we need to train harder if we ever want to catch up to the Song Family Army!’

Their fighting spirit was instantly ignited, their blood boiling as they waited for the captain’s command, ready to be unleashed.

From his vantage point, Captain Lu could also see the intense clash. He was about to give the command immediately.

But who would have thought that Vice General Du would suddenly appear beside him, signaling for him to be patient.

"Alright, you can attack now!" Vice General Du said, having been watching his men the whole time. With a few quick leaps, he landed on the deck of Wilson’s ship.

Captain Lu was speechless.

’They were at least a hundred meters from the ship...’

Though stunned, he still issued the command without delay.

Coordinating with Vice General Du, Captain Lu led his men and boarded the enemy ship as well.

The sudden appearance of Vice General Du startled Wilson, who immediately scrambled toward the ship’s cabin.

Before he could even reach the cabin door, young Wen Yan blocked his path. "General... Wilson. Running away?" The words were heavy with provocation.

Wilson had never suffered such humiliation. He composed himself, pulling a fleeing navy soldier in front of him as a shield, terrified of being shot. "I’m on my own ship. How can you call this running away?"

After speaking, he remembered that he was the one in control here.

The Song Family Army, all told, numbered less than twenty.

But when he looked up, he saw Captain Lu, the second to arrive on deck, followed by dozens of his own men.

He hadn’t been slow, arriving on the ship right after Vice General Du. He was already coordinating with the Song Family Army to rout Wilson’s navy soldiers.

The original force of two to three hundred navy soldiers was now scattered and fleeing. In an instant, they had either vanished or become corpses.

A wave of fear washed over Wilson.

He had still underestimated the Song Family Army’s capabilities.