The Chef Rules the Last Days
Chapter 492 - 490: Come Out

Chapter 492: Chapter 490: Come Out

The people who descended into the cellar sprinted forward as if their lives depended on it, the volume almost filled the entire cave, and those shouts of alarm awoke even more eight-legged monsters.

Su Mo had even begun to hear the footsteps growing ever closer to them. She turned around, looking at the villagers rushing towards them from the darkness.

The one who took the lead seemed to be a man who had taken part in the rice-grabbing incident.

Upon seeing Su Mo and the others, he seemed to see hope and hastened his steps even more.

However, an eight-legged monster unexpectedly shot out from a hole in the wall and directly wrapped around the man’s neck from above, its slender scaled tail coiling around his neck, instantly snapping it.

The whole event took mere seconds, and his pupils began to whiten. He let out a monstrous roar and extended his newly sprouted clawed hands toward Jianxiong, who was at the rear.

The claws were repelled off the shield.

At this moment, Su Mo realized in shock, "Lu Chen! The one we saw outside! Do you remember that zombie whose level you couldn’t detect?"

"Look at it!"

Instead of killing the zombie right away, Jianxiong exposed the body for Lu Chen to get a good look at the whole picture.

Understanding dawned on the man, he said coldly, "It’s this monster’s doing; it resides in humans, and the Crystal Stone is inside its body, no wonder I couldn’t see it."

"Not bad!" Su Mo took out her Tang Blade and walked forward, letting it strike its claws against her shield, and with her sharp blade, she directly chopped off its head.

She stirred inside with her blade, and indeed, there was no Crystal Stone, it was merely occupied by this disgusting monster.

"Help! Save me, please!"

Behind them, several more frantic footsteps rang out.

Su Mo glanced at the remaining time on Lu Chen’s Pumpkin Protection Shield overhead, fifteen minutes left, she spoke firmly, "Let’s get out quickly."

The three of them quickened their pace, desperately running forward.

More and more monsters began to crawl out from the walls of the cave, their slender scaled tails dragging across the wall, producing a hair-raising scraping sound.

Almost all the surviving villagers, one after another, threw themselves into this cave without looking back.

One after another, people were bitten in the neck by monsters, but no matter how they screamed for help, the three people running at the front never looked back.

The length of the tunnel resonated with the noise of monsters slamming against the three people’s shields, making a squishing noise, while thick liquid covered the entire shield.

Not knowing how long they had been running for, they still didn’t see the exit, but the countdown above their heads was almost up.

"The shield is about to break, get ready to fight," Su Mo shouted, as her right hand condensed into a wooden shield while holding the Tang Blade in her left.

Shortly after she spoke, the Pumpkin Protection Shield shattered into pieces, and Lu Chen used his superpower immediately. Countless shards of Cold Ice spread from under his feet to the sides and above, sealing up a large number of holes in the walls.

He also gathered numerous small Ice Crystals around him, ready to mercilessly slay any monster that entered his range of attack.

With him leading the way, Su Mo didn’t have to do much. Those few surviving who followed them could finally breathe a sigh of relief, but they couldn’t suppress their cries for their parents and deities.

The loud echoes in the cave were almost enough to explode Su Mo’s head, her sensitive ears filled with screams, with the sounds of the crawling monsters somewhat muffled beneath.

Jianxiong, unable to fully activate his powers in the cave, had no choice but to harden his skin and, together with Lu Chen, they shielded Su Mo in the middle, ensuring that she didn’t even touch a single monster.

Ahead, at the cave entrance, some light finally shined through, and Jin Han and his group had already arrived first and were guarding it.

The Wood Element Superpower User hung down long vines to help them climb up.

Su Mo was directly lifted to her feet by Lu Chen grabbing her calves, and she climbed up the vines first.

As soon as she got up, she stood aside, waiting for Lu Chen to take her hand and come up.

After Jianxiong climbed up, the few surviving villagers below scrambled to climb up, and Jin Han kindly gave them a hand.

The monsters’ roars filled the entire cave.

Many people, who were bitten at the back of their necks and turned into zombies, desperately leapt upwards, trying to burrow out of the cave entrance to eat them.

Once it was clear that no more living people could come up, the superpower users behind Jin Han smashed several superpowers down, blocking the monsters from coming up.

Jianxiong looked around and found several dead trees, which he inserted into the cave entrance to seal it tightly.

Looking at the dozens of villagers sitting on the ground, Da Qiang, who had been following closely by Jin Han’s side, flickered his gaze and hung his head in panic, not daring to speak when their eyes met.

Jin Han saw right through their desire for revenge, but what did that have to do with him?

"Let’s go, Lu Chen, we’re almost at our destination."

"What?! You’ve left us homeless! And now you want to just walk away like that? How could you!"

Those villagers scrambled up from the ground, each showing a fearful expression when faced with the dangerous world before them. Da Qing and others, who were prepared, chose to silently distance themselves from them. After bowing and thanking Su Mo and the others, they led their families away first.

Following them hastily were Da Qiang and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pair.

"Strictly speaking, we were saving people," Su Mo said incredulously as she stared at the villagers surrounding them in the middle.

"Saving people? What kind of rescue is this when you’ve destroyed our village!"

"I advise you not to act ungrateful after being spared. Isn’t it inevitable that you would starve or get bitten to death by monsters if you stayed inside? Don’t you know that?" Su Mo scoffed coldly, speaking with evident sarcasm.

"It must have been you who released those bugs! No way! You must take us with you!"

Su Mo couldn’t help sighing; there was such a world of difference between people from the same village.

Jianxiong, irritated by their incessant nagging, impatiently cleared his ear and flexed his muscles, shouting loudly, "Enough already, you really think we won’t kill?"

His shout led several Level 2 Zombies a few dozen meters away to turn their heads and sprint towards them.

People who had been living in the village and never encountered the outside world were terror-stricken by these spine-protruding monsters, screaming desperately for help.

Some superpower users wanted to step forward to deal with the zombies, but Lu Chen said in a calm voice, "Get in the car and let’s go."

They were only Level 2 Zombies. If those villagers united and used their hoes or sickles to fight, just those two zombies wouldn’t have posed a problem.

But these cowardly, self-serving people, who would understand that? They only dared to hide desperately behind the superpower users and even pressed a knife against the waist of a Gold Element Superpower User, threatening him to step forward.