The Chef Rules the Last Days
Chapter 260 - 258: Discovery

Chapter 260: Chapter 258: Discovery

"Ah!"

His abdomen was pierced through. Upon seeing this, Su Mo raised her knife and charged forward, "Jian Qing! Hang in there!"

She led her people to slay the Mutant Bull, approached Jian Qing, and saw a huge bloody cavity in the abdomen, where the crushed internal organs were faintly visible.

He passed out from the pain.

But unsurprisingly,

the bloody cavity in Jian Qing’s abdomen was healing at a visibly rapid rate, with the shredded organs automatically mending themselves.

Jin Han, having finished off the bull with his teammates, almost popped his eyes out in astonishment, a look of horror on his face, "Isn’t this healing speed a bit too freakish?!"

"Captain... Captain! Look... look at the bull!"

A superpower user beside Jin Han suddenly spoke up in a somewhat panicked voice.

Su Mo shifted her gaze to the dead bull, and on that pair of hooves stained with Jian Qing’s blood, drops of blood began to move, sinking into the bull’s body within just a few seconds.

The Mutant Bull, which had died after its Crystal Stone had been extracted, started trembling in its limbs.

It looked exactly like a case of possession by a white worm.

Su Mo immediately called out a warning, "Don’t touch Jian Qing’s blood, back off!"

Everyone took a few steps back.

Jin Han’s expression was one of disbelief as he asked Su Mo, "What’s going on here?!"

Su Mo gave him a sharp look, her demeanor calm, "The medicine refined from the original body must have completely fused into the blood. I was just trying it out; I hadn’t expected that this time the transmission route would be through the blood."

Jin Han stared in horror, "Those people below, wearing protective suits and doing research all day, haven’t they realized how terrifying these things are?"

Su Mo shook her head; after all, she wasn’t one to be involved in research to know that much.

Li Qian stood not far from the bull, analyzing calmly, "So the advantage of the original body is that the host will not get infected, but the blood can become a path for infection, similar to how AIDS is transmitted through physical contact?"

Lu Chen said coldly, "Compared to the possession by the original, it is indeed an evolution."

Su Mo looked up at him, "Once these newly evolved blood types are contracted, the base is doomed, and this is just their first day of being authorized to be out."

During their conversation, the Mutant Bull’s twitching became more violent, and it even managed to flip over and rise.

Lu Chen pulled Su Mo back as Cold Ice Barbs suddenly sprang up from the ground, impaling the bull and splitting it in two.

A mass of white worms poured out from the wound, and from afar, it looked like a wriggling mass of white creatures.

"This reproduction rate is too exaggerated."

Jin Han’s robust arms, with hair standing on end, quickly led his team further back.

At this time, Jian Qing was still lying on the ground, with countless small insects that had burst from the bull’s body crawling over him.

Su Mo’s pupils dilated, pulling her line of sight closer, observing the condition of these insects again.

They did not enter Jian Qing’s body but just hovered over him for a while before coming down.

"It seems that between hosts or from host to host, there will not be a secondary infection," Li Qian adjusted his glasses.

"I think, I should go back and properly prepare some things," Jin Han swallowed, his expression tense.

His teammates behind him were even more frightened, their faces pale. Despite being accustomed to big scenes, the extremely infectious cannibal insects still left them profoundly frightened.

Next to them, the soldier who led the way had already scared out of his wits and couldn’t utter a word.

Jian Qing, whose healing was complete, began to gradually wake up.

"What is that!"

Feeling the sticky insects crawling all over, he was so startled that he immediately sprang up from the ground.

After shaking off the things on his body, he walked a few steps toward Su Mo and the others.

Everyone instantly backed away as if avoiding venomous snakes.

"What.. what’s wrong?" Jian Qing stood in confusion.

Before the superpower user beside Jin Han could speak, Su Mo interjected, "It’s nothing, just some small insects. Just tie up loose ends and come here."

Jian Qing, unsuspecting and excited, covered his abdomen and bounced on the spot before lifting his leg to pinch a white insect wriggling in the grass. "I just got so severely injured and came out unscathed, it’s really quite surprising."

Su Mo smiled and said nothing, while the expressions of the people around Jin Han varied.

The soldier who had been following them all along witnessed everything, his gaze stunned.

Su Mo glanced at him subtly, then her smile deepened, hoping this message would reach Jiang Hai as soon as possible.

At the request of the others, although Jian Qing found it strange, he still checked himself from head to toe, making sure there were no insects on him before he was allowed onto the military vehicle.

There were a total of eight bulls, one electrocuted and one taken over, the remaining six edible ones were split evenly between the two teams.

After each team took their share, the guiding soldier stammered, "Let’s hurry up, I still have important matters to handle."

...

Back at the base, the guiding soldier only reminded them to hand over 10% of the beef before he disappeared.

The hurried manner in which he ran past their vehicle was observed by everyone on the military truck.

Before leaving, Jin Han did not forget to stop by Su Mo’s vehicle to introduce himself, revealing that his team did not live in apartment buildings but together in an old district in the Second Ring. "If there’s any accident, remind me, and I, Jin Han, will be greatly indebted."

He was clear in his distinctions and was also a good person, and Su Mo agreed,

After Jin Han left, she whispered to Lu Chen, "Do you think Jiang Hai will take action after knowing this?"

Lu Chen rubbed the top of her hair, "He will."

Curious, Jian Qing asked from inside the vehicle, "What action?"

Su Mo turned, smiled, and said, "It’s nothing. You did well today. I’ll bring the portioned beef to you tonight."

"No need, no need," Jian Qing repeatedly waved his hand, opened the car door to get out, "I’ll come over to pick it up myself tonight."

Su Mo didn’t give him a chance to refuse, simply stating, "Wait at home."

"Momo, why not tell him he will be infectious?" Zhao Changsheng inquired as he watched Jian Qing walk away.

Turning halfway, Su Mo spoke softly, "If he knew, it would mean the whole Outer Ring would know. If at this time there’s an uproar and one escapes.."

Zhao Changsheng turned his thoughts around, "There would be a riot."

"So, the Jiang Residence needs to bring these people back before the situation escalates," Su Mo leaned back in her seat, her thoughts clear.

...

The soldier who had run off did not hurry to report the news; instead, he took a detour and entered a blue tent in the Outer Ring.

Inside, a man with a beard was excitedly chopping the mutated goose meat he’d hunted.

"Stop it!" The soldier walked up and grabbed his wrist.

"Bro, what’s the matter? I’m handling this meat. I’ll bring some back to try later; it’s my first mission today!" The burly man wiped the goose blood from his beard.

Without another word, the soldier pulled him and headed toward the Second Ring, urgently saying, "I still have urgent matters to report, wait for me at the Inner Ring entrance!"