The Chef Rules the Last Days

79: Chapter 77: Sudden Change 79: Chapter 77: Sudden Change Zhao Changsheng saw her pale face and immediately agreed with compassion, “He is in the office right now; I’ll accompany you.”

She followed Su Mo, sprinting into the prison guards’ office.

Lu Chen was being pestered by Mo Yan discussing where else they could find supplies when Su Mo, who burst in, interrupted them.

“Feeling unwell?” Seeing her cute little face so pale it was frightening, Lu Chen’s heart tightened, and he quickly walked over to support her.

“Lu Chen, isn’t there an electric fence around the prison?” Su Mo gripped his hand and said urgently.

“Yes, that’s right,” the man nodded.

“Turn on all of them and set them to the highest power; let everyone stay in their rooms,” Su Mo’s voice was a bit loud, filled with immense panic.

This was so unlike her; Lu Chen frowned and pulled her into his arms, gently stroking her back, trying to soothe her uneasy emotions, “Okay, we will go now.”

Mo Yan, standing nearby, felt uncomfortable and voiced his objection: “The prison’s generator can’t maintain such high-frequency voltage and also distribute some of the power to the lighting; we shouldn’t waste.”

“I’m telling you, Mo Yan, it has to be turned on today!” Su Mo’s pretty face turned cold as she leaned out from Lu Chen’s embrace and glared at him angrily.

“I’ll bear the consequences, but it must be turned on today!”

She didn’t know what would happen, but what she saw today must have been a silent warning from the system; she and it were now a symbiotic entity, she had to trust it.

“I’ll take you,” Lu Chen gave Mo Yan a warning glance and left with her.

Zhao Changsheng gave Mo Yan the middle finger and followed them.

Her actions drew the attention of Jianxiong and Li Qian, and a group of five headed straight to the Central Control Room.

They attracted quite a few onlookers along the way.

The place housed a console that controlled the entire prison’s electric grid system.

Su Mo didn’t recognize these buttons; she just tightly held onto Lu Chen’s hand and, under his guidance, turned the power of all electric grids to the maximum.

“What’s gotten into her?” Jianxiong asked, puzzled.

Li Qian shook his head and adjusted his glasses, “She must have her reasons.”

After doing all this, Su Mo then said to Lu Chen, “Let everyone in the prison stay in their rooms; don’t come out today.”

Lu Chen had someone spread the word, and her anxious heart finally began to ease slightly.

“Today, you all must stay with me,” Su Mo turned her head to the puzzled looks of Jianxiong and the others and said, “Don’t go anywhere.”

“Although I’m not sure what will happen, something definitely will,” her words were absolute, very serious.

That made the group exchange glances; they all knew about Su Mo’s miraculous system, and they deeply trusted her words.

“They will all stay with you,” Lu Chen stroked her head softly and said low.

“Mm,” Su Mo looked up at him, her eyes somewhat red; she was very grateful to this man who always trusted her so unconditionally.

“I’ll take you back,” the man took her hand, leading her and the others back to the dormitory.

The entire prison stopped operating because of Su Mo’s command, leaving everyone cluelessly staying in their rooms.

Su Mo also asked Li Qian to call Su Niang over; she was mixing dough with Zhuang Mei, planning to make noodles for the prisoners, but upon receiving the message, dismissed the canteen staff and followed.

All six squeezed into one room, making it somewhat crowded; they simply sat with Su Mo all night.

Until midnight at twelve o’clock, Su Niang yawned, and outside it was silent, with nothing happening.

“Su Mo, shall we let Su Niang go back to sleep first?” Li Qian adjusted his glasses, suggesting.

“It’s okay, I’m fine,” Su Niang quickly shook her head, patting her face to keep herself awake.

Su Mo gave them both an apologetic look, “Wait a little longer.”

Her sense of dread grew heavier and heavier, and she stood up from the bed, flung open the window, and stared up at the pitch-black sky.

The granular black substance that she had seen in the morning had disappeared, seamlessly melding with the night.

Lu Chen had been by her side all along, watching her closely.

The dark clouds in the sky churned, and a sudden gust of wind from the window whipped at Su Mo’s hair.

“It’s coming,” she whispered.

“Sister, what’s coming?” Jianxiong rubbed his bald head, deeply worried about her strange behavior over the past two days.

“Boom.”

A clap of thunder, accompanied by lightning, streaked across the sky, lighting up half of it.

In Su Mo’s eyes, she saw that granular material sweeping across the sky, but she was the only one who could see the terrifying things.

The people in the room were utterly alarmed; they all stood up.

“Was that…thunder?” Jianxiong asked, stuttering.

“Yes,” Li Qian confirmed with certainty, a rare joy twinkling behind his glasses.

“Isn’t rain a good thing, Momo?” Zhao Changsheng asked curiously, looking up at the sky.

The thunder had completely awakened Su Niang from her drowsiness.

She stood up, delighted, “It’s good indeed, how long has it been since we’ve had rain?

The crops in the field can grow tall again.”

Lu Chen kept an eye on Su Mo’s expression, knowing that this probably wasn’t something good.

At the moment the rain began to fall, that overwhelming panic in Su Mo’s heart suddenly vanished, and she reached her hand out.

The raindrops hit her hand, not as transparent droplets but as pure black liquid.

Had those things dissolved in the water?

“What are you doing?!”

Lu Chen’s face tightened, and he immediately pulled her hand back in and wiped off the droplets.

The liquid that dripped from her retrieved hand was black and splattered on the floor.

“What is this?” Li Qian crouched down but did not touch the wet spot.

“I don’t know,” Su Mo replied, shaking her head.

She turned around but startled the others.

With the exception of her and Su Niang, everyone had frozen in their positions, and Lu Chen, too, maintained the posture of wiping her hand, his eyes slowly closing, their bodies emitting a faint glow of various elements.

Su Mo could feel a strong energy surrounding them and realized, even in her naivety, that this was a sign of advancing levels.

All four were advancing.

“So, the opportunity we’ve been waiting for was this,” she pondered, glancing at her arm, now slightly stained black by the rain.

“What’s happened to them?” Su Niang, seeing everyone still, asked with some concern.

“They’re probably advancing, Su Niang.

Don’t disturb them,” Su Mo whispered back to her.

“Oh,” though she didn’t understand, she knew it was significant for them and lightened her breath.

However, the good times didn’t last long.

The people Su Mo had warned not to go outside swarmed out, ready to welcome the first rain.

Then, a dreadful thing happened.

The prison resounded with the incessant blare of alarms, and ordinary people splashed by the rain started rolling on the ground, screaming in agony.

Su Mo leaned on the window, looking down.

She witnessed the harrowing transformation of several ordinary people into zombies…