The Chef Rules the Last Days
Chapter 366 - 365: Atonement

Chapter 366: Chapter 365: Atonement

The Empress commanded with a stern face, "Don’t let them come up!"

With a flick of her sleeve, she walked away.

Although the zombie was not attacking them and even seemed to harbor a feeling of fear, Lu Chen was on full alert against the zombie as Su Mo led him by the hand to the iron gate.

"Now we are the monsters inside this iron gate," Su Mo’s mood was still decent. Staying in a cage with a zombie did not particularly affect her. She pulled him to sit down by the iron gate.

Inside the deep pit, some silver moonlight poured in, providing the only light for the two of them.

"Why did you summon it?"

Lu Chen caressed one of her hands in his palm.

After thinking it over, Su Mo lowered her head, "It must already know where I am by now. If I deceive it, the consequences may be very serious. It’s better to be truthful and test if it will listen to me."

At that moment, she even began to fantasize about zombies and humans living together peacefully.

Even if things didn’t go as she wished, taking advantage of Yang Yichu’s increased stakes to take care of those brainwashed cultists wasn’t a bad idea either.

Lu Chen pulled her closer to his side. The night wind blowing from the top into the iron gate below was still a bit cold. He wrapped his arms around her, his coat enveloping her petite frame, "Sleep for a while, I’ll keep watch."

Feeling the broad, slightly cold chest behind her and surrounded by his crisp scent, Su Mo inexplicably felt safe.

She rested her head on his neck, whispering, "You rest too, that zombie won’t hurt us."

"Mhm."

The entire night, they stayed by the iron gate, and the Spiritual Zombie, as Su Mo had said, indeed did not come to bother them at all.

Following Li Qian back to their small room where now only Zhao Changsheng and he were present, Jianxiong, who was escorting them back, always found himself unconsciously stealing glances at Zhao Changsheng, who noticed Jianxiong’s odd behavior. Leaning against the wall outside the room with crossed arms, she inquired, "Is there something on my face? Why can’t you stop staring?"

Jianxiong scratched his head and chuckled, "No, just wanted to ask how you’ve been with the boss these past few months."

Zhao Changsheng eyed him suspiciously from top to bottom, "Pretty good, do you have something to say to me?"

Just as Jianxiong was about to ask about her and Li Qian’s matters, Li Qian, who had not been in his room long, came out, "There are cameras here, we’ll talk later."

Startled, Zhao Changsheng straightened up against the wall, urging, "You should go."

Ignoring whatever expression Jianxiong had, Zhao Changsheng slammed the door shut with a bang.

The door to Li Qian’s room remained half-open, his lens-free gaze dark and meaningful towards Jianxiong, "It’s late, see you tomorrow."

Under his gaze, Jianxiong felt as if all his thoughts were exposed. With his thick lips tightly closed, he left without saying a word.

After he left, Li Qian’s originally mild expression suddenly turned grim, staring at Zhao Changsheng’s room door for a moment before slowly closing it.

The next morning.

In the lab where the two impostor doctors had been up all night, they finally could not withstand the pressure. After discussing together, they both turned to look at Ling Ye on the operating table, "Are you sure this kid’s blood is useful?"

Swinging his legs, Ling Ye’s face wore a look of sincerity, "You’ll know once you inject it into a human."

"Go tell the Empress to bring two test subjects over," one doctor said, eyes rolling as he held two freshly drawn vials of blood.

Hearing their agreement, Ling Ye’s sincerely smiling face gradually relaxed. He remembered Lu Chen’s words to entice them to inject his blood, but no one knew better than him what was truly inside his body.

The bugs that burst out from the infected medicine he could control, just like the original monster, he could easily extract its crystal stone, so it stood to reason that the same should apply to humans injected with his blood.

Thinking this, Ling Ye lowered his head, his eyes clouded over. Essentially, he must have also diverged from what was normal, he supposed. He spread his delicate, pale palms in front of his eyes to examine carefully. After the second time he devoured the original monster’s crystal stone, he was able to feel the medicine’s energy circulating more distinctly within him.

Although the outer skin remained unchanged, something inside him had begun to change.

The sunlight poured into the deep pit, and Su Mo, who had stayed in Lu Chen’s arms all night, opened her eyes. She turned her head slightly and looked up at the sunlight, "Today’s weather is really nice."

The man let go of her and took out two bottles of water and some bread, "Rinse your mouth."

Sitting cross-legged in front of him, Su Mo rinsed her mouth and then took the bread he had already torn open and bit into it, the two of them having breakfast in a cage nonchalantly alongside a zombie.

The cultists who had been monitoring them all night twitched at the corners of their eyes—in what world was this imprisonment? It was like they were on a honeymoon.

When the Empress heard that the laboratory had successfully cultivated the first-generation evolution potion, she was ecstatic in her huge bedroom. The sense of foreboding in Jiang Yulian, who had taken care of Jiang Zhuoyang overnight, grew stronger.

Indeed, the laboratory sent a message saying they needed two test subjects, and the Empress thought for a moment before sending for Su Mo and Lu Chen from the pit.

Jiang Yulian was frantic, and in desperation, she took the opportunity of going to the bathroom to find Jianxiong and inform him of the situation.

Su Mo and Lu Chen stayed in the pit until nearly noon, when the iron gate in front of them slowly opened.

She stood up from the ground and stretched, puzzled, "What’s this about?"

"Let’s go out and see."

The two walked one after the other, and the iron door closed behind them.

Above them, a slightly weathered voice rang out.

Su Mo looked up to see the old man in charge of the Demon Cage.

Several people came up behind him and leaned over the railing to lower two ropes down.

"Sinners of the demons, come up."

Looking at the two ropes dangling in front of her, Su Mo did not act rashly but instead called up, "We’re fine down here, why go up?"

"The time for redemption has come," was all the old man said.

Lu Chen grabbed the rope and tested its strength, "I’ll go up first."

"Are they trying to kill us?" Su Mo held onto his wrist to stop him from going first.

The man gripped her wrist in return, his thumb gently caressing her wrist, his voice chillingly cold, "Ling Ye must have made a move."

Su Mo’s eyes brightened, and she began to urge, "Then let’s go, quickly up we go. We don’t know the situation up there."

Lu Chen released her hand, ruffled her hair, and started to climb up agilely.

When both reached the top, they were immediately surrounded by no fewer than ten people, all of whom maintained superpower levels between Level 3 and Level 4, and continued to emanate a strong aura.

The two were escorted into the hall by the crowd.

Upon receiving the news, Jianxiong hurried to knock on Zhao Changsheng and Li Qian’s doors, bringing the two to rush over.