The Chef Rules the Last Days

24: Chapter 22: Supermarket (Part 2) 24: Chapter 22: Supermarket (Part 2) Lu Chen walked in to look at the things on the shelves, then glanced at the small squares in the bag, printed with cartoon rabbits, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion, “Sanitary pads?

Why are you taking so many of these?”

Su Mo, already blushing slightly, instantly turned beet red.

Did this man really have to be so blunt?

“What else would a woman use sanitary pads for!” she retorted, finishing packing the last bag.

She picked up the flashlight, stood up huffily without giving him another glance, and turned to walk towards the clothing section.

…..

Watching Su Mo’s petite figure disappear into the light, Lu Chen’s face grew colder and he felt even more puzzled.

Wasn’t that brand just those three words?

How could he know what those squares were for?

Staring at the shelf labeled Sophie Sanitary Pads and falling silent for a moment, Lu Chen waved his hand and directly swept the shelf clean.

With her face still red, Su Mo found a small mountaineering shop and quickly grabbed a mountaineering bag, throwing in the two packets of hotpot base she had just picked up and slinging it onto her back,

Then, she looted 5 sleeping bags and stuffed them into her System Bag.

As she passed by a cosmetics store, she threw in five sets of the most expensive skincare products—brands she used to only dream of affording in the past.

There were only 4 slots left until her bag was full.

Now feeling completely relaxed, Su Mo descended to the second floor and started to find Lu Chen much more pleasing to the eye; seeing him and Jianxiong standing with their bags next to an iron door, she walked over to them.

Approaching, she saw that the door was labeled Staff Warehouse.

The iron door was locked with several thick chains, drawing attention.

The ground was covered with many messy footprints.

“Why would they lock this door?” Jianxiong, scratching his head in confusion, said.

There were no sounds of zombies from inside the door either.

Lu Chen looked at the footprints on the ground, deep in thought.

He remembered the bullet outside the supermarket and the conversation those two people had had just before.

Murderers, team leader…

The first and second floors had been almost emptied, but only the supply warehouse was chained up.

Why?

“There are two groups,” he said, his slender fingers brushing over the chain.

“This is the last shared warehouse.”

“Once the supermarket is empty, they will divide up the warehouse,” Su Mo walked up to him with a big, bright smile, “It’s okay if we open the door and take a little bit for ourselves, right?”

“Good thinking, little sister, let me do it,” said Jianxiong, as his muscular arms started to tug hard at the chain.

“My name is Su Mo!”

“Su Mo, little sister.”

Su Mo held her forehead.

Couldn’t Jianxiong just call her by her name for once?

The chains, as thick as an adult’s wrist, were secured with a huge iron lock.

Even with Jianxiong staring hard and putting all his strength into it, his arms bulging with veins, he couldn’t break them.

Frustrated, he kicked the door and said, “This thing is too thick, my Superpower Level isn’t high enough to break it.”

“They must have known this, that’s why they’re so confident no one is guarding it,” said Su Mo, pacing back and forth in front of the door.

“I’ll freeze it; you smash it.”

Lu Chen’s energy had mostly recovered.

He held onto the chain, and a layer of frost mingled with energy spread from his fingers, freezing the entire chain and lock together with an emanating coldness.

He took a towel out of his Space and threw it to Jianxiong, saying, “Wrap the towel around your hand, and hit the lock.”

Jianxiong wrapped the towel around the bony protrusions on his hand, clenched his fist tightly, and raised it high before hammering down on the lock.

With a “snap” sound,

The ice shattered completely, and the broken lock fell to the ground, leaving only debris.

“We did it!” Su Mo exclaimed with joy.

Jianxiong removed the chains and pushed the iron door open with force.

Su Mo quickly walked in with the flashlight raised, the expression on her face becoming more and more ecstatic.

The place was piled full of rice, starch, instant noodles, and other long-lasting foods, as well as several huge boxes of vacuum-packed pickles.

Incredibly, the freezer in the corner was still emitting a blue glow and puffing out a sizzling cold air.

“These folks sure knew how to live,” Jianxiong said, shaking his sore arms and eyes gleaming at the sight of the meat in the freezer, “How long has it been since I’ve had meat.”

“There’s a small generator keeping the freezer running,” Su Mo pointed out the generator next to the freezer, her eyes sparkling at the meat inside, “Lu Chen, can your Space hold frozen meat?”

He had never actually tried that.

Most of the food in his Space was the kind with a longer shelf life.

Lu Chen picked up a piece of meat and tossed it into his Space, saying indifferently, “Wait ten minutes.”

With the weather being hot, if the temperature in the Space followed reality, then in less than ten minutes, the meat would have thawed.

There were many sacks of rice and flour here, and while Lu Chen’s Space was limited, he still took away most of it.

Su Mo took out a knife and packed five large bags each of flour, rice, and pickles into her packet, leaving only one compartment empty in her backpack.

“How big is your Space?” Su Mo compared her System Bag to the man’s and felt it was worlds apart.

“About the same as this.”

She looked around the storage room, which was about 20 square meters—not very big, but piled high.

It definitely was better than hers; each of her compartments could only stack five items, and moreover, her next upgrade progress bar hadn’t even been activated.

Jianxiong leaned against the freezer, the tantalizing aroma of raw meat making him swallow his saliva repeatedly, “Is time up yet?”

Lu Chen took the meat out again and the two gathered around.

The palm-sized, bright red raw meat still had a layer of frost on it without any sign of melting.

“We have meat!” Jianxiong’s square face stretched into an enormous grin as he carefully bagged each piece of meat, stacking them neatly before presenting them proudly to Lu Chen.

“Show some dignity,” the man glanced at him, waved his hand to put the meat into the Space, “Fill up the backpacks, we’re leaving.”

The three of them casually picked some scattered snacks from the second floor and prepared to go downstairs.

Su Mo paused at the stairway entrance, suddenly turned around, and shone her flashlight on a sign not far away.

The sign for “Four-Seasons Flower Tea” caught her eye, and she ran towards it, “Lu Chen!

Come here with me!”

The man followed her hurried pace.

“What did you see now?” Jianxiong scratched his head and stood at the stairway entrance, calling out to the two, “I’ll wait here for you.”

Su Mo stood in front of a row of counters, shining her flashlight inside, where there were glass boxes holding various dried flowers.

The light stopped on a glass box labeled “Jasmine,” and she said excitedly, “Can you take all these flowers for me?”

There really was flower tea here!

Seeing her excitement, Lu Chen stretched out his hand and placed the entire glass box into his Space, now stuffed to the brim.

“Is that all?”

“Mmm-hmm!” Su Mo’s big eyes gleamed as she smiled at him, her eyes curving into crescents.

Lu Chen felt a stir in his heart, flicked her forehead with his finger, and said with disgust, “Disgusting.”

“…..”

The three left the supermarket, Jianxiong stacked the corpses blocking the entrance back in place, and they headed back.

Lu Chen said, “Go pick up Zhao Xiweng.

We’re staying here tonight.”

“Staying here?” Su Mo came up beside him and asked, “There are outsiders here.

Isn’t it unsafe at night?”

Jianxiong vaguely guessed his intention and spoke up to explain, “We saw some special bullets from the Jiang Residence outside the supermarket this afternoon; we need to get to the bottom of this.”

“You mean they’ve been here?”

“Not necessarily.

The military prison has those too.

We need to confirm whether they’ve been here or not.”