Fear of food

Chapter 119 Dominating the Medical School

The canteen was packed with diners late at night, making Chen Qi, who neither got food nor ate, seem out of place.

The cafeteria ladies serving food at the window were most likely parasites. To avoid attracting attention, Chen Qi quietly retreated to a secluded corner and observed.

Since the canteen is also a place for the domestication of human nature, it is very likely that there are doors leading to the delivery room and the morgue.

Chen Qi wandered around the corner, observing carefully, but found nothing on the first floor of the cafeteria.

He noticed that no one was using the stairs leading to the second floor of the cafeteria.

Chen Qi transformed into a pile of minced meat and crawled silently up to the second floor. However, at the entrance to the second floor, a door blocked his way.

The dark, heavy door looked strangely familiar.

"delivery room?"

Chen Qi casually pushed the door, but it wouldn't budge. So he mustered all his strength and finally managed to slowly push the heavy door open.

He was slightly taken aback when he saw the scene behind the door.

It wasn't the delivery room he had imagined, filled with twisted flesh and blood. Behind the door, clouds and mist swirled, and a wave of heat rushed towards him, as if he had entered a sauna.

Although he didn't know where he was, Chen Qi went in without hesitation.

boom!
The door behind me closed by itself.

Chen Qi walked forward in the sweltering fog, where visibility was pitifully low, but he did not slow down because of this, and boldly explored ahead.

After walking for a while, he saw a wooden sign hanging on a pillar with two words written on it in red ink: Kitchen.

kitchen?

Chen Qi was slightly taken aback. He wanted to find the delivery room but ended up in the kitchen. But whose kitchen looks like this?
It's more like a sauna.

Continuing forward, after walking a few steps, he saw a huge iron pot placed on a wood-fired stove, with a roaring fire burning inside. The pot was covered with a lid, but billowing steam was still constantly rising from the edge of the lid.

Chen Qi strode forward, lifted the lid of the pot, and saw that the pot was full of thick, yellow curry-like soup.

A misshapen head floated on the thick soup, then suddenly opened its eyes and met Chen Qi's gaze.

Chen Qi felt that the person looked somewhat familiar, but because his facial features had melted away, he couldn't recognize him for a moment.

The head glanced at Chen Qi, then closed its eyes again.

The thick soup in the pot kept boiling and bubbling, and all sorts of strange organs and tissues occasionally surfaced in the curry soup.

Chen Qi casually tossed the pot lid aside, then grabbed the edge of the pot and overturned the entire pot to the ground.

The thick soup in the pot spilled all over the ground, and the human head rolled a few times on the ground, struggling and thrashing about like a fish trying to escape from the water, but soon it became still.

Around the head, scattered on the ground were shapeless organs and a lot of white flesh, which still looked raw even after being cooked in the pot for so long.

Chen Qi seemed to be deep in thought, and without lingering, continued walking forward.

A little while later, he saw a huge steamer, as big as a double bed, with seven or eight layers of steamer drawers!
Each steamer basket is nearly a meter high, and seven or eight baskets stacked together are comparable to two floors.

Chen Qi's body deformed, quickly stretching to be a head taller than the steamer. He reached out and lifted the steamer lid.

I saw a fat man lying in the top steamer basket, only his upper body was visible.

His lower body was missing, but there was a large mass of minced flesh and blood piled up there. As the heat from below continued to rise, it stimulated the mass of flesh to slowly wriggle and converge toward the cut in his body.

The man's upper body was intact, and his facial features were clearly defined. Chen Qi recognized him at a glance.

"Isn't this the PE teacher?"

Lying in the steamer basket was the physical education teacher from Jingquan Elementary School.

He was hit in the stomach by a grenade thrown by Chen Qi, and the next time he saw him, he was in a cage.

Chen Qi observed patiently and carefully for a while and found that the physical education teacher's body was slowly repairing itself under the constant steam.

This confirmed his suspicions...

"Although this is not the delivery room I saw before, it is essentially the same; it is a resurrection point for parasites."

The "delivery room" may just be a facade, with a certain symbolic meaning, since it was something he saw in his hallucination.

The same goes for this "kitchen." It looks like a kitchen, but in essence, it's the same as the "delivery room"—a resurrection point.

Chen Qi raised his hand and flipped over the first layer of steamer baskets, looking at the person in the second layer... He didn't recognize him, so he continued flipping over the baskets.

He overturned four layers of steamer baskets in a row, then suddenly stopped...

Because he saw his mother.

Chen Qi's hand trembled, but he still put the lid on the steamer.

He stood motionless in front of the steamer for several dozen seconds before continuing to walk forward.

This is just an illusion...

He entered the resurrection point through an illusion. Even if he could stay here and guard until his mother was resurrected, he still wouldn't be able to take her out.

We must find the entrance to the real-world resurrection point!

Only by entering from reality can he bring the people at the resurrection point directly back to reality.

The only way Chen Qineng can think of to save his mother and Coffee is for his physical body to return to Jinghai City, find the entrance to the resurrection point in reality, and then enter the resurrection point to bring them back to reality.

Then they devoured the Nightmare Clan inside them and fed them wild food.

This process should be able to restore them to normal, provided that they have not completely lost their humanity.

Once their humanity is completely lost and they are completely parasitized by the Nightmare Clan, it will be even more troublesome. We will have to find a way to recover their humanity from the morgue.

Otherwise, they will become like Bian Zihan and Yan Xue, mentally unstable patients who only have animalistic instincts and no humanity.

Coffee's humanity shouldn't be completely lost, after all, she was only parasitized for a day, but it's hard to say about Chen Qi's mother.

His mother was just an ordinary person, and her resistance to the Nightmare Clan parasites was even weaker.

In the time that followed, Chen Qi saw all sorts of cooking tools and witnessed various cooking methods, or rather, methods of resurrection.

I saw some being deep-fried in oil, some being simmered over low heat, some being grilled over a fire, and others being smoked or stir-fried...

Stimulation through various cooking methods can lead to limb regeneration and organ restructuring.

Chen Qi never minded interrupting their revival process, and in the process, he kept looking for Coffee.

Coffee should be revived here too!

However, at that moment, the surrounding fog suddenly dissipated, and the scorching temperature dropped rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, the scene around Chen Qi changed; the "kitchen" disappeared, and the pots and pans and the resurrecting parasites all vanished.

He was standing in the middle of the empty cafeteria, with not a soul in sight.

"Has this banished me from the illusion?"

Clearly, he had been causing trouble at the resurrection point, which caught the attention of the Nightmare Clan, who expelled him from the illusion. Back in reality, Chen Qi quickly went down to the first floor of the cafeteria. The lively scene on the first floor was gone; it was pitch black behind the cafeteria windows, and the cafeteria ladies were nowhere to be seen.

There were no longer diners queuing for food or engrossed in their meals.

Chen Qi couldn't help but smile. Sure enough, he was giving the Nightmare Clan a real headache.

To prevent him from causing trouble in reality, we pulled him into a fantasy world.

In the end, even in the illusion, they couldn't tolerate his destruction and sent him back to reality.

The Nightmare Clan seemed unsure how to deal with him.

But this also proves that he did the right thing. Since he didn't know what to do, he should do everything he could to make the enemy have a headache!
What the enemy doesn't want him to do must be the right thing for him.

With a bang, Chen Qi exploded into a pile of minced meat and disappeared back into the sewer.

He was afraid that Sun Xuechao would come over again, so to avoid wasting time on Sun Xuechao, he chose to make a quick getaway.

While wriggling in the sewer, Chen Qi pondered his next destination.

"It's still early, so we can explore the places we haven't been to yet."

"How about we go check out the faculty and staff dormitory?"

"Since I have nothing better to do, I'll go kill a few parasites."

Among the parasites at Jinghai Medical College, faculty and staff members certainly make up the majority, and it is estimated that a considerable number of them live on campus.

Chen Qi went straight to the faculty dormitory. As a half-parasite, Chen Qi can now sense the presence of his "kin" in reality, which helps him easily identify who the parasites are.

Before long, Chen Qi had turned the entire faculty and staff dormitory into chaos.

One by one, the parasitic teachers died at his hands.

Without the intervention of second- or third-generation Nightmare Clan members like Sun Xuechao and Huang Jihai, the other parasites would have been unable to stop Chen Qi at this moment.

Even without his domain, his current strength is enough to easily crush most domain-level parasites.

After wreaking havoc in the faculty and staff dormitory, Chen Qi left through the sewers before Sun Xuechao arrived and went to several teaching buildings that he hadn't had time to explore before.

After exploring the teaching building, he slipped back to the faculty dormitory, making a surprise return...

In this way, Chen Qi used the sewers to wage "tunnel warfare," appearing and disappearing unpredictably, making the Nightmare Clan unable to defend against him and unable to stop him.

Before they knew it, it was dawn. The dormitory gates of Jinghai Medical College opened, and students came out in groups of three or five. Some went to class, some went to eat, and many were still lying in bed.

However, neither the dawn nor the appearance of the students could hinder Chen Qi's actions.

He went about his business as usual, and even if he appeared directly in front of the students, they would ignore his unusual behavior.

Aside from exceptional individuals like Xu An'an, almost all students at Jinghai Medical College are deeply polluted.

Chen Qi even set his sights on these students. Once he discovered a parasite among them, he would strike without hesitation and kill them on the spot.

Although it's impossible to kill them completely, sending them to the resurrection point to revive is a good thing, at least it weakens the Nightmare Clan's strength in Jinghai City for a short period of time.

Furthermore, Chen Qi did not believe that the Nightmare Clan's resurrection would come without any cost. At the very least, there would be a basic energy drain.

Moreover, if he were given another chance to enter the resurrection point, he could interrupt the resurrection process of these dead parasites.

Chen Qi treated the entire medical school as his hunting ground, hunting parasites everywhere. He would kill one parasite and then move on to another place, causing the high-level Nightmare Clan members in Jinghai Medical School a great headache.

Finally, the Nightmare Clan had no choice but to pull him back into the illusion.

Once Chen Qi returned to the illusion, he headed straight for the laboratory with a clear purpose... He figured there must be a group of Sun Xuechao waiting for him at the second canteen.

Once he enters the illusion, he goes straight to the resurrection point to cause destruction; once he leaves the environment, he hunts down the parasites.

As a result, when Chen Qigang emerged from the drainage ditch near the laboratory, a group of Sun Xuechao suddenly gathered around him.

At the same time, the surrounding illusions faded, and the dozen or so Sun Xuechao merged into one.

As soon as Chen Qi appeared, Sun Xuechao pulled him out of the illusion. The blue domain enveloped him, making his movements sluggish.

The effect of this blue field made Chen Qi feel as if he were in a quagmire, making every movement difficult as he had to contend with the invisible power surrounding him.

This is because his body is extremely strong now. If it were an ordinary person, they would probably be immobilized and wouldn't be able to move at all.

Chen Qi was preparing to crawl into the sewer again. Although his movements would be slower due to the restrictions in this area, once he entered the sewer, Sun Xuechao would still be unable to stop him.

At most, it will be a bit slower and take a little longer.

As long as one leaves the sewers and is outside Sun Xuechao's area of ​​control, one will be unaffected.

But Sun Xuechao raised his hand to look at his quartz watch and said, "You don't have many hours left either, so calm down and let's talk."

"There's nothing to talk about with you," Chen Qi refused.

"We can talk about things that interest you."

"Sure, tell me where the pollution source is in Jinghai City."

Sun Xuechao remained silent.

"If that doesn't work, let's talk about where your Nightmare Clan came from?"

Sun Xuechao remained silent.

"If you're not willing to talk about anything I'm interested in, what's the point of talking?"

Chen Qi was too lazy to play along and prepared to continue his sewer guerrilla warfare.

He spent most of the day exploring most of the area of ​​Jinghai Medical College, but did not find any suspected source of pollution.

However, there were still omissions, and suspicion could not be completely ruled out. He planned to use the remaining time to search for the places he had not yet visited.

Once it is determined that Jinghai Medical College is not the source of the pollution, they can then focus their efforts on the other two Class S contaminated areas.

Sun Xuechao coughed and said, "Actually, we can talk about the Nightmare Clan."

Chen Qi was stunned. Good heavens, they're going to betray information about the Nightmare Clan to stall me?

However... he does like to hear this, and he is indeed interested in it.

"Then tell me."

To prevent Sun Xuechao from rambling, Chen Qi gave him a heads-up: "If what you say doesn't appeal to me, I'll turn around and leave immediately. I'll only give you one chance."

Sun Xuechao, perhaps stalling for time, frowned and pondered for a moment before saying:
"You know that the parasites of the Nightmare Clan can travel between dreams and reality, right? But that's just an illusion."

"What do you mean?" Chen Qi asked, frowning.

"How should I put it... You can think of it as there is a layer between reality and dreams. Most of the time, those nightmare parasites hide in that layer, which is why you feel that they appear and disappear mysteriously."

"But in reality, the interlayer couldn't completely conceal their bodies, so much so that when they hid inside, they would leave a little trace in both reality and dreams."

"And that tail is what you humans call an 'anchor point'."

(End of this chapter)