The Chef Rules the Last Days
Chapter 508 - 506: Rumors Abound

Chapter 508: Chapter 506: Rumors Abound

She couldn’t afford to think about it anymore. Li Qian shrugged his shoulders, "She agreed to it herself, Jin Han didn’t force her."

"What’s all this about..." Su Mo sat at the table and poured a glass of water for both of them.

She thought she’d finally get a waitstaff for herself, only to have someone snatch them away mid-way.

"So far, the plan has been very successful," Li Qian touched his nose, a gentle smile on his lips, but it oddly contained a hint of chill.

Su Mo, too, couldn’t help but smile at this, "Let’s wait and see the drama unfold tomorrow. This matter won’t end so quickly."

Because of the basket Zhao Li sent down, Lin Yao, the Healing Superpower User in the group, under the forceful orders of the military soldiers, had to face those five injured superpower users and, with her own hands, take certain parts of them and use her superpower to reattach them one by one.

After all was done, she directly leaned over and vomited from disgust. Hearing that the incident had something to do with Su Mo, she was so furious that she almost smashed all the few decorative items in the room.

Could she swallow this anger? Of course not. Zhao Li, the troublemaker, also got a severe scolding from Fatty, the head of the group, and since he was a Level 3 fire element user, they ultimately didn’t expel him.

Everyone thought the incident would end there, but who would have thought that Zhao Li’s, well, thing got chopped off during a Piao-J session and once again, he was brought in front of Lin Yao, requesting her to fix that part. She almost fainted from anger. Despite that, she chose to help, but the Ice Ability had frozen most of the tissue on the neatly cut wound. Even though it was reattached, Zhao Li could never get it up again.

Lu Chen knew best how ruthless he had been.

In a dark alleyway, a group of kids huddled together whispering secrets, and the next day, a gossip spread throughout the entire refugee camp.

Lin Yao, with her Healing Superpower, kind and virtuous, had helped 6 superpower users to restore their pride within three days. Zhao Li, known for abusing women, got his sliced off, reportedly splashing blood on her face. She, undeterred, helped him reattach it, and was now dubbed with the titles "Connector" and "Holy Hand."

That name was Su Mo’s brainchild as she walked down the road the night before.

Lu Chen finally understood why that boy known as Bai Shitong blushed when he heard the rumor.

He pinned the proud woman beneath him and kissed her neck, his magnetic voice commenting, "Not bad with the naming."

Su Mo chuckled with a ’heh heh’, her hands draped over his neck, "Who told him to look for trouble and look down on women?"

"You seem to care a lot about that Zhao Changsheng," his hands grew restless, his breath gradually becoming heavier, laced with a tinge of jealousy.

Su Mo suspected he was a covertly jealous guy and protested, "No, you’ll always come first!"

Before she could finish her plea for mercy, he began to move.

Zhao Changsheng, upon learning Zhao Li’s thing had been chopped off, his first reaction was to run to look for Su Mo.

At that moment, she was lazily chopping vegetables in the back kitchen, preparing for the opening.

Zhao Changsheng charged in, his eyes showing a mix of agitation and schadenfreude, "Did you do this?"

Su Mo shook her head, glanced at Li Qian who had followed in, and pouted, "Yeah, it’s because he upset you."

Zhao Changsheng stood still for a moment, then walked over and hugged Su Mo, pulling out a sentence, "Don’t do this again next time, it’s dirty."

Su Mo’s hand paused as she chopped vegetables. Should she reveal that she was the one who cut the other five "dings" mentioned in the rumors?

After a few seconds of thought, she resolutely swallowed the information, deciding to maintain a good impression of herself.

With this thought, Rong Bai, sitting on a chair and discussing expanding the refugee camp again, patted Lu Chen’s arm with pity, saying, "I couldn’t believe it when the soldier reported it, sister-in-law actually ended the lives of five little ones in the alley, that’s not easy at all."

Lu Chen’s hand, holding a pen, paused and he looked up with a cold gaze, "I wouldn’t mind her adding another one."

Rong Bai subconsciously squeezed his legs together, but after a moment still leaned in and whispered, "The castration of Zhao Li by your hands hasn’t been revealed to Lin Yao, right? That woman is tough to deal with, and annoyingly I still need her superpower."

Lu Chen put down his pen and said, "So what if she knows?"

After all, they had never shown their faces from the start, although he didn’t think she would be unable to guess it.

Seeing his so unperturbed, Rong Bai relaxed, "The expansion project should be prioritized before setting traps and raising the walls. In a couple of days, we’ll go out and scout to see where it’s best to start."

"You decide," Lu Chen stood up, straightened out his clothes, and walked out.

"It’s still early, why are you in such a rush to get back?" Rong Bai lazily called after him.

Without turning his head, Lu Chen replied, "To help your sister-in-law."

The opening day came quickly, and the day before, Su Mo, busy in the shop, welcomed guests.

It was Jin Han and Cha Mi.

She freed her hands and walked over, glancing at the two, to see Cha Mi stepping forward with an apologetic expression, saying to Su Mo, "Miss Su, may I have a word?"

"Of course."

Jin Han consciously moved aside. As he passed Su Mo, he spoke in a lowered voice, "It’s a pity, this woman, giving up your treasure and picking me up."

Su Mo didn’t fully grasp the significance, but Cha Mi had already approached her and then knelt down with a ’thump’, "Miss Su, I’m really sorry, even though you saved me, I can’t work in your shop."

Su Mo pulled up a chair and sat down, looking down at her, "Do you think that after getting out, you won’t be safe working here?"

She had thought it through, and that was the only possibility she could come up with. Cha Mi didn’t know her or her background, and compared to Jin Han, who had a significant status in the camp and was a squad leader, able to find a new way out for his own life, it seemed somewhat justifiable.

Sure enough, Cha Mi nodded, her eyes red as she spoke softly, "I know Miss Su must be a superpower user, otherwise you couldn’t open a restaurant here, but Lord Zhao will definitely come for revenge, and I’m afraid I’ll drag you into it..."

Su Mo had heard this too many times, she crossed her legs, and said, "So you approached Jin Han on your own, jumping from one pitfall into another?"

"Hey, hey, hey, that’s not the way to put it. I simply accepted it happily, besides our squad hasn’t had a woman for a long time, we wouldn’t treat her badly," Jin Han’s words were coarse but realistic, a matter of mutual consent.

Yet Su Mo began to lose respect for Cha Mi, whom she had thought to be courageous. With Cha Mi’s young age, seemingly only seventeen or eighteen, Su Mo leaned in helplessly, looking her in the eye, "Haven’t you considered that Jin Han was brought in by me to help?"

According to Jin Han’s temperament and character, he wasn’t the type to talk much, just focused on the task at hand, so as to how powerful Su Mo was and how solid her backing was, he hadn’t let slip a single word to Cha Mi.