The Chef Rules the Last Days
Chapter 251 - 249: Civil Affairs Bureau

Chapter 251: Chapter 249: Civil Affairs Bureau

Hu Ding had already been waiting downstairs for a long time. Seeing Su Mo arrive, he didn’t say anything and stepped on the gas pedal, heading straight for the Inner Ring.

The so-called laboratory was located in a villa in the Inner Ring where no one lived but was surrounded by soldiers.

After the three of them got out of the car and had their Identity Cards verified, they were granted entry.

Curious, Su Mo walked through the main gate into what looked like a typical living room, fully furnished. She watched as Hu Ding took out an Identity Card and swiped it against the wall by the door. Below the European-style sofa in the living room, a rumbling sound of an elevator ascending was heard.

The furniture on the floor parted to both sides along with the moving floorboards, splitting into two halves, as a steel platform rising in the shape of a disk appeared.

Leaning on it, Su Mo stepped onto the platform, and the elevator began to descend slowly.

The furniture on the ground returned to its original place.

It took about thirty seconds to reach the bottom, and Su Mo estimated that the laboratory was not very deep.

What met her eyes were researchers in protective suits walking back and forth, and on both sides, there were rows of small rooms segregated, each room similar to a cage, containing only a bed and a toilet.

Through the giant observational glass, Su Mo could see ordinary people wearing patient gowns lying in these rooms.

Their faces showed no concern for their predicament, but instead an exciting hue of anticipation for the superpowers they were about to obtain.

As Su Mo looked on, she suddenly stopped in front of one partition. Inside stood an excited middle-aged man.

Seeing her halt, Lu Chen asked, "What’s wrong?"

Pointing to the middle-aged man inside the glass, Su Mo said, "Can he see me? This is Xiaoqiao’s father, how did he end up here too?"

Hu Ding doubled back, glanced at the man, and said, "This mirror has been treated. When the double-sided feature is not active, he can’t see you. And it’s beyond doubt that everyone here came voluntarily."

Su Mo frowned in silence, letting Lu Chen pull her away.

"Among the first batch of subjects, one person has already reacted to the medicine," said Hu Ding as he led them through the test cages. After pushing open a heavy-duty door, they found a woman being isolated all by herself.

The walls, the floor, had all been fitted with high-strength steel. The room was sealed tight, and a group of people were gathered around the glass cell, pointing and discussing the woman inside.

Inside, the woman with dull, long hair casually scattered over her shoulders wandered around the room with a vacant gaze, clearly unaware that she was being watched.

"Report"

"Commander Jiang, the person has been brought here," said Hu Ding, standing behind them, saluting, then throwing a glance at Lu Chen before slowly stepping back outside.

At that moment, Jiang Hai was surrounded by a bunch of researchers. Seeing Lu Chen, he motioned for him, "Come here."

Lu Chen gripped Su Mo’s hand tightly and obeyed, walking to the glass door.

Jiang Hai didn’t have much of a reaction to seeing Su Mo. He was more focused on a string of experimental data on the table in front of him.

"Look at this," Jiang Hai said with a hint of pride, his entire demeanour beaming.

Following his gaze, Su Mo looked towards the computer screen, where the various bodily indices of the woman in the room were displayed, all surpassing the limits of an average person.

This meant that the medicine had indeed worked.

But Su Mo felt not a trace of joy, rather, she was anxious.

She clutched Lu Chen’s hand tighter, her palm breaking out in a fine sweat.

Sensing her nervousness, Lu Chen whispered, "Let’s go back."

Su Mo shook her head and addressed Jiang Hai, "Commander Jiang, what stage has your experiment reached?"

"She will soon be able to come out and move around,"

a researcher said.

Jiang Hai gave him a look and then turned to Lu Chen, "Chenchen, let me show you our latest achievement."

Two people in protective suits, holding weapons, opened the door of the glass room.

Su Mo frowned, "What are they going to do?"

No sooner had she spoken than the armed person shot the woman in the chest; Su Mo’s heart lurched. Under Jiang Hai’s excited gaze, the woman, who had been shot in the chest, lay on the ground, with blood blossoming from her wound, only to sit up again within a minute.

Through her eyes, Su Mo zoomed in on the scene at the woman’s chest to see a bullet automatically detaching itself, and the exploded flesh wound rapidly healing.

Both she and Lu Chen’s faces darkened at the same time.

"This is our medicine; cells can rapidly divide and recombine, repair wounds, and expel foreign objects. Chenchen, your trip wasn’t in vain; we’ve succeeded!" Jiang Hai turned around, his face glowing with excitement, "Come back, I’ll give you the highest honor."

His temptation did not shake Lu Chen in the slightest; the man’s phoenix eyes remained cold as he turned his head and said indifferently, "Congratulations, I have other matters to attend to, so I’ll be leaving now."

"Lu Chen! You stop right there!" Jiang Hai pushed through the crowd of researchers to confront him, his face twitching slightly before softening his stance, "I agree to your relationship with this woman; I won’t interfere. Come back, I need your help."

"Commander Jiang, how about you abandon the experiment, then Lu Chen will come back, how about that?" Su Mo interjected.

"Impossible," Jiang Hai said with a firm shake of the head, his tone one of disappointment, "We have already taken a huge step forward for humanity. Now is not the time for that kind of talk!"

"Then there’s nothing to discuss," Su Mo’s face dropped, leaving an ominous tone hanging in the air, "Just make sure you don’t end up regretting it."

She took Lu Chen’s hand, and the two of them turned and left.

Jiang Hai’s face turned red as he sighed heavily and then gave orders to the people behind him, "Go down below, tell Doctor Xiao to hurry up with the medicine production; we need to have it ready for use within this month."

...

After leaving the laboratory and returning to the surface, Su Mo said gravely, "Lu Chen, what do we do if something happens to the base?"

"Leave," the man’s features were cold as he answered decisively.

Su Mo’s lips moved, but she said nothing in the end. Just based on her probing question earlier, Jiang Hai’s face had turned so sour; let alone stopping him, besides, she didn’t have sufficient reason to convince them.

For now, they could only take it one step at a time.

Instead of hurrying back to the apartment, Lu Chen took her to the training grounds.

By this time, the sky had darkened, and Su Mo asked curiously, "Why have you brought me here?"

Lu Chen did not speak but led her toward a small building on the training ground, where a shining new sign hung that made her eyes widen in shock.

"The Civil Affairs Bureau?!" Su Mo was flabbergasted, noticing a sign that had evidently just been put up, still brand new.

"You..." She turned back to look at Lu Chen, her heart starting to quake.

Inside the building, Hu Ding was sitting in the lobby in a military uniform, a table in front of him with two red booklets on it, next to a white dog with a tie madly wagging its tail.

Su Mo remembered, Lu Chen had once said he wanted to marry her, which she had taken as a joke at the time. After all, who would bother with that during the apocalypse? But to her surprise, he had actually brought her to a Civil Affairs Bureau.