The Chef Rules the Last Days
Chapter 372 - 371: Love is Coming

Chapter 372: Chapter 371: Love is Coming

"But our vehicle! And the supplies!"

"Demons are coming up, let’s get out of here and talk later!"

The several dozen survivors followed the Empress into the jungle.

The Heretics who had been serving in every corner of the villa didn’t realize what was happening until it was too late.

By the time Yang Yichu arrived with the horde of zombies, it was all for naught; the place was already in disarray, filled with strange walking corpses and fleeing Heretics.

Its pale eyes spun wildly, unable to find Su Mo’s figure, and then it began a massacre, leaving the entire villa bathed in blood with mangled corpses strewn all over.

Above the top of Hua City, five helicopters used searchlights to observe the massive swarm of the undead below.

"Report, the location has been overrun by zombies, do we continue searching?"

"Alive, we need to see the person; dead, we need to see the body!"

...

Inside the villa, the walking corpses controlled by the milky-white worms didn’t escape being torn and devoured by the zombies, but what no one saw was that these worms had no effect on the zombies and even chewed and ingested into their decaying stomachs.

Moving through the woods at night was difficult due to the bad lighting, so Jianxiong and Lu Chen led the way at the front, moving quickly. After running frantically for a while, Su Mo’s stamina had reached its limit, her steps began to falter, and the pain from accidentally scraping her feet on broken branches stung sharply.

Her companions beside her were not faring much better, except Lu Chen and Jianxiong, whose strength was extraordinary, the rest were panting heavily, their footsteps as heavy as if they were filled with lead.

No one stopped. Li Qian’s arms, holding Ling Ye, were trembling slightly; at 10 years old, Ling Ye was not light. Jiang Yulian also couldn’t take it much longer; even though she was a superpower user, her age and the child in her arms meant she couldn’t move any faster.

In a dense forest where the underbrush grew thick and trees intertwined, the environment was so crowded that one could easily get disoriented in the moonlight, which made left and right look indistinguishably alike.

After surveying the surroundings, Lu Chen stopped, and Su Mo, with her legs giving out, nearly collapsed. The man quickly turned and caught her, and before she could catch her breath to speak, he draped his coat over her.

Instantly plunged into darkness, Su Mo tugged at the coat and asked, "Wh-what’s happening?"

"It will come looking for you," he said.

Realizing his concern, Su Mo exhaled and steadied herself against his sturdy arm. Finally managing to get out a complete sentence, she asked, "Will it? It shouldn’t be that fast, but Lu Chen, do I have to hide from it all my life?"

She felt like a ticking time bomb next to him, filled with unrest and danger.

The light in his eyes turned icy in an instant, and he held her hand a bit tighter, "With me here, I won’t allow it, non-negotiable on this matter," he declared.

He definitely wouldn’t let her take risks. Su Mo sensed his displeasure and whispered her understanding, "I get it."

His chill receded somewhat, yet the hand holding hers remained cold, almost devoid of warmth.

Su Mo caressed the back of his hand in silent comfort.

Jiang Yulian sat down on the ground with her child in her arms, caring little for the dead leaves and twigs, while Jiang Zhuoyang in her arms, exceptionally well-behaved, had fallen asleep during the run after making only a few noises since the incident began.

Su Mo watched this with admiration.

Lu Chen led Su Mo to sit down on the ground, "Rest for five minutes before we continue on our way."

"We probably won’t make it out before dawn," Li Qian settled naturally next to Zhao Changsheng, his spiritual ability scanning within a small range, not daring to expand too much in case it got detected and caused trouble.

Zhao Changsheng casually touched his arm, "Keep a close eye out and don’t miss anything. Momo is now the number one danger."

Li Qian smiled warmly and nodded in agreement.

Jianxiong, feeling somewhat out of place on both sides, suppressed the discomfort in his heart and silently sat down beside Jiang Yulian. Seeing the baby asleep and blowing bubbles in its swaddling, his mood became a bit lighter.

Su Mo shook Lu Chen’s arm with a delicate voice, "I haven’t eaten my fill, take out something to fill my stomach before we move on."

Lu Chen softened his expression and indulgently flicked her forehead, "Foodie."

"That’s Jianxiong, not me," Su Mo removed his hand and pinched it hard.

Upon hearing about food, Jianxiong’s spirits lifted considerably. He poked his head out from beside Jiang Yulian, his eyes shining brightly in the dark night, "It’s been so long since I’ve eaten little sister’s food. Boss, quickly take something out!"

Lu Chen gave him a cold stare and called him a foodie again, taking out several bottles of Jasmine Tea and a few rice balls, along with some beef jerky obtained from a ranch.

"We have to hurry on, don’t eat too much."

"Understood!" Jianxiong grabbed a rice ball in his hand which, due to his superpower, seemed to have grown significantly larger, making the rice ball and water bottle look a size smaller in his hand.

It felt like playing house.

Su Mo handed a rice ball to Ling Ye, who was sitting obediently next to Li Qian, nibbling on it and couldn’t help but say, "Jianxiong, you seem to be getting bigger and bigger. Was the food in the Cult that good?"

Jianxiong flexed his arm proudly showing off the muscles, "Ever since I leveled up to 4, I’ve been swelling."

The word "swelling" was aptly used, Su Mo laughed out loud, and Zhao Changsheng also laughed, a piece of tea leaf stuck on his teeth, creating a comical scene.

Su Mo shook her shoulders, unable to even eat her rice ball due to the ridiculousness of it all.

Seeing Zhao Changsheng in such an embarrassed state, Li Qian couldn’t help but chuckle while gently reminding him, "There’s something on your teeth."

Zhao Changsheng, still smiling, froze, then tried to lick it off with his tongue. Despite his efforts, the tea leaf seemed to stick even more firmly.

A warm hand, catching Zhao Changsheng off guard, reached up and wiped it away.

"There, gone."

Zhao Changsheng stared at the finger with the tea leaf, dumbfounded.

Jianxiong’s joy from eating his sister’s rice ball dissipated, his mood darkening again, and he couldn’t help but say, "Zhao Changsheng, do you need someone else to pick your teeth now?"

"Pick your own," Zhao Changsheng, coming back to his senses, waved his hand and made a move as if he was going to hit him, but unexpectedly, when his eyes met Li Qian’s smiling black eyes, she withdrew her hand for some reason, her heart pounding wildly within her chest, making her facial expression extremely unnatural.

The subtle tension between the three did not go unnoticed by Su Mo, who tugged at Lu Chen to lower his shoulder a bit more, whispering in his ear, "What’s the deal with Jianxiong? He seems to have a strange feeling towards Zhao Changsheng."

Lu Chen turned his head, whispering back in her ear, "Love has come."