60: Visitors in the Night

"Brother, eat! This stuff is really delicious!"

Hao Zhi brought a large basin of richly colored insect meat to the table and enthusiastically said to Gu Qinghan and Chen Yuting.

Gu Qinghan and Chen Yuting exchanged glances, neither daring to pick up their chopsticks.

Hao Zhi, seeing them, thought they were afraid he had poisoned it, so he first scooped a large piece of insect meat into his own bowl and began to eat.

"See, it's really tasty, it melts in your mouth— ugh!"

Before Hao Zhi could finish speaking, he immediately spat out the insect meat he had just eaten.

He wiped the tears from his eyes and looked at the basin of insect meat with some regret, saying:

"Sigh, no matter how you cook this stuff, it's still so unpalatable!"

His shop used gas, so he was still able to cook.

However, he had tried several different cooking methods for the insect meat, and each time, without exception, had failed.

Chen Yuting glanced at Gu Qinghan beside her and suddenly also leaned over the table, dry heaving.

She was reminded of the taste of the insect meat from earlier in the day, and coupled with Hao Zhi's somewhat disgusting actions just now, her stomach churned.

Hao Zhi looked at Gu Qinghan, then said with an ambiguous expression:

"Brother, are you going to be a father so young?"

The more he called him 'Brother,' the more natural it felt, and Gu Qinghan no longer found it abrupt, so he let him be.

Gu Qinghan twitched the corner of his mouth and pointed at the disgusting insect meat in front of the other man, saying:

"Brother, if you don't put that away, I'm going to throw up too."

"Ah? Hahahahaha, I forgot."

Hao Zhi laughed awkwardly, then turned and took the items into the kitchen.

Chen Yuting glanced at Gu Qinghan and said with a mournful expression:

"It's all your fault, I've completely lost my appetite now."

Gu Qinghan also felt a bit embarrassed; it seemed he had left a significant psychological shadow on Chen Yuting.

He was about to say something to ease the awkwardness when he suddenly saw Hao Zhi quickly walk out of the kitchen and then turn off the small table lamp.

"Don't talk, someone's coming."

Hao Zhi's voice was very low at this moment, and he had lost some of his previous flippant demeanor.

Gu Qinghan immediately used Vision of the Dead, gaining the perspective of a Skeleton in an outer corner.

Under the faint moonlight, a team of about twenty people was quietly approaching.

Hao Zhi listened for a while with his ears perked up, then spoke:

"There are about twenty people, probably looking for me."

This was his professional ability, and also the key to why he could evade them alone for so long without being caught.

"I have several hideouts. Let's go out the back door. It's fine, I'm used to it."

Hao Zhi chuckled, but then his ears twitched, and his expression suddenly turned grim.

Because he heard the footsteps of no fewer than twenty people coming from the back door as well.

Gu Qinghan looked at him and asked curiously:

"What's wrong?"

"We're surrounded. When we went out during the day, I clearly didn't show myself, so how did he know it was me?"

Gu Qinghan glanced at him, saying without a hint of tension:

"Besides you, is there anyone else in this area who dares to provoke him like this?"

Hao Zhi was stunned, then said very quickly:

"They're probably after me. I'll just run out in a bit, and you two hide here. You should be fine."

He looked around the room and suddenly realized a problem.

"Where are your friends? Where did they all go?"

"Oh, they're jocks, don't worry about them."

Hao Zhi hadn't quite processed what that meant when he suddenly heard the sounds of chaotic fighting outside.

He quickly understood something, and his eyes, as he looked at Gu Qinghan, showed disbelief:

"Are those your friends? Don't joke around, even if they're strong, many of Wang Haoming's men are Professionals above level seven!"

Gu Qinghan shook his head and said jokingly:

"It's really fine, brother, they can handle it."

Hao Zhi didn't know what to say for a moment. His profession wasn't primarily combat-oriented, so he couldn't help much.

Gu Qinghan pulled three self-heating hotpots from his necromantic space and, under Hao Zhi's astonished gaze, reopened the small table lamp.

He smiled and said:

"Eat and drink as you please."

Chen Yuting had no worries; she completely trusted Gu Qinghan.

Well, only when he was doing serious things.

Although Gu Qinghan sometimes gambled and sometimes took risks, it was always when there was no other way out.

And his expression now clearly showed that he didn't take the people outside seriously at all.

She was also curious why Gu Qinghan was so confident, but this situation was not suitable for asking the reason.

Anyway, she only needed to know that she was absolutely safe.

Gu Qinghan placed all the seasoning packets for the self-heating hotpot, then poured in a bottle of water before closing his eyes.

If it were him before his advancement, he would indeed have a headache facing this situation.

But now, he was level 11.

He hadn't even summoned the remaining Skeletons, still only the 10 from earlier in the day.

However, these Skeletons had all become level 11 entities.

Berserker Skeleton: Level 11

vitality: 1100

mana: 110

Combat Power: 330

Skills: Berserker Bloodline, Berserker's Rage

Like him, the attributes of these Skeletons had almost doubled.

Coupled with equipment bonuses, these Skeletons' combat power had already reached 530 points!

Even if the Skeletons' attributes were only half of their original profession, the Skeletons now had at least the stats of a level 10 Berserker.

Gu Qinghan didn't know how many people in the world had reached level 10, but the people outside certainly hadn't.

Hao Zhi kept his ears perked, listening to the commotion outside, and after a few minutes, he suddenly exclaimed in surprise:

"Holy cow, they're running away!"

At this point, the footsteps outside were somewhat chaotic, and their numbers had dwindled from nearly fifty to less than thirty.

However, those thirty included ten of Gu Qinghan's "friends."

This meant that in just a few minutes, more than half of the attacking group had been killed.

"They can't escape, don't worry."

Gu Qinghan just smiled, opened a bottle of water, and took a few sips.

At the same time, a sleek, pitch-black figure appeared on the roof of the room.

Its dark fur was incredibly smooth, exuding a mysterious aura under the cool moonlight.

This was a black cat, but its body was nearly 3 meters long.

Such a large size did not make its movements clumsy; it moved without making a sound.

Elegant, agile, mysterious—these were the words that immediately came to mind for anyone who saw this creature.

The most miraculous thing was that the eyes of this large black cat were as eerie as two emeralds!

Death Mutated Cat: Level 10 (Elite)

Combat Power: 1000

The opponent that once gave Gu Qinghan an immense headache had now become a great help to him.

Hao Zhi looked at the two people eating heartily in front of him and suddenly showed a somewhat astonished expression.

Because the footsteps that had been gradually moving away earlier were now disappearing one by one.

These people couldn't vanish into thin air, so there was only one possibility.

They were all dead.

"Brother, hurry and eat. Tomorrow we still have to go kill those insects."

Gu Qinghan's face, in the faint lamplight, appeared handsome and sinister.