Fear of food

Chapter 128 Xu An'an's Account Book
According to Menglong, the weak points in the illusion will be clearly seen as a spatial distortion when viewed from within the illusion.

People in this position are less affected by illusions, and may even be unaffected.

However, Chen Qi searched two floors but couldn't find any weak points that matched the description. Jinghai Medical College has three girls' dormitories, and this was only the beginning of the exploration.

It's possible to search all three girls' dormitories and still not find any weaknesses.

Even if there is more than one weakness, it would be time-consuming and laborious for Chen Qi to find one of them in the vast Jinghai Medical College on his own.

During this process, it is also necessary to constantly and carefully test the rules of each area.

For example, Chen Qi still hasn't figured out the rules for the girls' dormitory.

"It's all about luck; if you're lucky, you might find it quickly."

"It's a small matter if you're unlucky and can't find a weakness, but it's a big problem if you accidentally break the rules."

Since it was a matter of luck, Chen Qi naturally thought of Xu An'an, the luckiest person he knew.

This person, who spends every day going back and forth between the two contaminated areas of medical school and hospital, wandering around under the noses of a group of advanced parasites, has managed to survive safely until now.

This is not only because she has an extremely strong will to survive, but also because she has a high level of luck.

Especially in the month or so before her food phobia broke out, Xu An'an had already discovered her own unique way of finding food and basically never went hungry.

However, in the past month or so, she hasn't been able to make a single high-end dish. This seemingly unlucky experience is actually a kind of luck.
If she had eaten the high-quality food earlier, the parasites might have discovered her long ago.

Chen Qi then thought, why not try his luck at Xu An'an's dormitory?

Even if the weak point isn't in Xu An'an's dormitory, it's still good to go to the former "palace" of the lucky one to get some luck; maybe it can even increase your luck value.

When people have no clues or direction, believing in some metaphysics isn't necessarily a bad thing.

However, Chen Qi really didn't know which dormitory building or which room Xu An'an lived in.

We can't contact her now either.

"I can ask around..." Chen Qi casually found a dormitory and went in, patting a girl who was engrossed in eating.

"what!"

The girl looked up at Chen Qi with displeasure, her eyes filled with disgust, and a thick, white liquid still clung to the corner of her mouth.

"Didn't your teacher teach you that disturbing someone's meal is like killing their parents?"

"I'm sorry, I killed your parents." Chen Qi quickly apologized and left the dormitory.

Judging from the other party's attitude, it's clear that you won't get any information out of them.

The only option is to ask someone who isn't eating, but in a girls' dormitory, such a person is really hard to find.

Chen Qi turned around and happened to run into a girl who was returning with her takeout. The girl was walking briskly, and judging from her eagerness, she couldn't wait to start eating on the way.

Chen Qi quickly stopped her: "Classmate, I need to ask you something."

"What is it?" the girl asked impatiently. If Chen Qi hadn't blocked her way, she wouldn't have bothered with him.

Do you know Xu An'an?

"do not know."

"She's a senior in clinical medicine. Do you know where her dorm is?"

The girl had already opened the disposable lunchbox in her hand and taken a bite of the jelly covered in pimples. The food calmed her down a bit. While chewing, she mumbled, "Go check on the 5th floor."

Chen Qi quickly went up to the fifth floor, asked around, and learned that this area was indeed the dormitory for senior students in the Department of Clinical Medicine.

I casually asked around and easily met Xu An'an's classmate, and also found out Xu An'an's dormitory number.

"Dormitory 508".

Chen Qi found the door of dormitory 508 closed.

He pushed hard, but couldn't move it.

So I knocked on the door, but no one answered. It seemed like no one was in the dorm.

Chen Qi wasted no more time, raised his foot, and kicked open the dormitory door.

As Chen Qi kicked the door, he felt a little worried, wondering if this action would trigger the rules.

Fortunately, it didn't happen.

This is a six-person dormitory, which is considered one of the most common dormitories in the medical school.

Upgrading the dormitory costs money, and given Xu An'an's situation, she would definitely try to save money wherever possible.

The dormitory was fairly clean and tidy, with bunk beds and desks underneath. However, five out of the six desks had strange food on them, probably snacks for girls.

Only one table was empty, which was undoubtedly Xu An'an's table.

Chen Qi walked to the table and glanced at it. Apart from some textbooks and stationery, there was nothing else on Xu An'an's table.

She didn't pack her luggage when she left the dormitory; all her belongings were still there.

A quick glance at Xu An'an's dormitory revealed no weaknesses.

However, there are still many areas that are in the blind spot.

The six girls' beds were either covered with curtains or had curtains drawn, and there were also six wardrobes, each large enough to easily hide a person. It was not impossible for them to hide their weak points in the wardrobes.

Chen Qi casually opened Xu An'an's wardrobe next to him and found it filled with a whole cabinet of dried bread!

This was all grain that Xu An'an had stockpiled before, which she didn't have a chance to take with her.

Chen Qi looked up at Xu An'an's bed. Perhaps because of the mosquitoes in the summer, Xu An'an had put on a white mosquito net, and there was also a curtain in front of her.

He reached out and groped for the mosquito net zipper, but instead pulled out a notebook.

This is an old notebook with a somewhat worn cover, the most basic kind you can find in stores, with a single layer of cardboard cover that can't withstand the ravages of time at all.

"Journal?"

Although peeking into someone else's diary is immoral, curiosity is also a human instinct.

It's just a notebook from a dream, I'll take a look first... Chen Qi comforted himself and opened the notebook.

It turned out that this was not a diary at all. Come to think of it, what era are we living in? Who keeps a diary these days?

When I become a beast of burden in the future, I'll have to write work plans in the morning, work summaries in the evening, and endless diary entries every day, which I'll also have to submit to my superiors.

The notebook was filled with numbers. After studying it carefully, Chen Qi realized that it was an account book!
"She has so little money in her pocket, why would she need to keep track of it?"

However, I soon realized that it was precisely because I only had a few meager expenses that I had to keep accounts, be frugal, and live a planned life.

Upon seeing the string of numbers on the first line of the first page of the ledger, Chen Qi's eyelids twitched.

The amount received was 1215672, with the note indicating it was accident compensation, and the date was approximately four years ago.

Although it is a ledger in a fantasy world, most of it is based on reality, so the contents recorded in the ledger should be consistent with reality.

"Isn't this amount a death sentence?"

Considering Xu An'an's situation, Chen Qi already had some guesses in his mind.

Four years ago, Xu An'an should have just come of age and started university. Chen Qi was puzzled because, regardless of the circumstances, with such a compensation payment, Xu An'an shouldn't be living in such dire straits after only four years.

But as he continued reading, he quickly found the answer in the ledger.

Expenditure: 83711, remark: surgery fee;

Expenditure: 32473, with remarks indicating medical expenses;

Expenditure 27693…

In the first six months after receiving the compensation, frequent medical surgeries, medications, hospitalization fees, and other large expenses quickly depleted the remaining compensation.

After more than half a year, the expenses stabilized, with a fixed amount of medical expenses paid every month.

This continued for over a year until this fixed expense finally stopped.

Chen Qi understood that this either meant the person had recovered or had passed away.

After two years of continuous medical expenses, the compensation money has been almost entirely spent.

Of this, Xu An'an's own living and study expenses did not account for much.

There were also a few other income items, marked as student aid and scholarships, which basically covered Xu An'an's personal expenses.

However, Chen Qi noticed that there was another fixed expense, several thousand yuan per month, which had been continuous for the past four years and is still being paid now, with the note "nursing home".

"It seems she does have family; she probably has elderly relatives in a nursing home."

Upon careful recollection, Xu An'an seems to have never said that she had no family, only that she "had no home" and that she did not need to worry about threats from her family.

In families like Xu An'an's, if the elderly are capable of taking care of themselves, they would not be sent to a nursing home.

It's clear that the health of the elderly in her family is not good.

Not only did it fail to help Xu An'an, it also objectively became a heavy burden for her.

It was this retirement expense that made her already meager compensation even more strained, forcing her to live a very frugal life.

Later on, even the smallest income and expenditure, such as a dollar or a dime, had to be meticulously recorded in the ledger.

such as:

9月7日-收入2元（成本0.2，净利润1.8）

9月8日-收入100（笑脸），收入4.5（面包锯赔偿，活动价0.45购买，利润4.05）

Chen Qi couldn't help but chuckle when he saw this.

You bastard! I treated you like a friend, and you actually cheated me out of my money!
What a swindler! He makes ten times the profit on a loaf of bread and demands ten times the compensation for a bread saw!
You're really multiplying by ten!
By the end, the balance recorded in Xu An'an's ledger was almost empty.

Chen Qi understood why she resolutely gave up studying medicine; her family was indeed on the verge of starvation.

However, now that the members of the "Jinghai Foraging Group" are cooperating with the official organization, they can also receive official salaries, so Xu An'an should no longer have to worry about making a living.

She's overcome the toughest times, so I believe her life will only get better and better.

Chen Qi put the ledger back in its place, and after some searching, he finally found the zipper of the mosquito net. He opened the mosquito net, parted the curtain, and was taken aback.

"Tsk! Now I have to believe it!"

Inside the mosquito net, on Xu An'an's simple and clean bed, a ball of light and shadow flickered constantly, as if that space had been distorted by something.

The weak point was actually on Xu An'an's bed!
"He really is a chosen one!"

Chen Qi tried to imagine that even if Xu An'an had not met him and was still at Jinghai Medical College, she would be doing her internship at the hospital during the day and only returning to her dormitory to sleep at night.

So I spend most of my time in the dormitory lying in bed.

Therefore, given this vulnerability, she is unlikely to be affected by the collective illusion in the girls' dormitory.

Chen Qi shook his head. Sometimes, people have to believe in a little metaphysics.

Luck is something you can't see or touch, but it might actually exist.

Perhaps Xu An'an suffered all the misfortunes of her life in the past few years, and now her luck is starting to change.

This time, Chen Qi also benefited from Xu An'an's good fortune, successfully and quickly finding the weakness in the illusion.

Through this weak point, Chen Qi vaguely sensed something. He calmed himself down and reached one hand into the weak point.

Immediately, he felt his body hidden in the interlayer.

Chen Qi climbed onto Xu An'an's bed, squeezing into her weak spot. The next moment, he was out of the illusion and back in the interlayered world.

Even after he escaped the illusion, he still didn't understand what the rules of the girls' dormitory were, but fortunately he didn't break any rules.

However, this time when I came to the mezzanine world, the feeling was different from when I came in before.

This time, not only his forehead was molded through, but his feet were too.

When standing, both feet are not visible up to the ankles, but they become visible when walking and lifting one foot.

This is because the illusion has not shattered; he has left anchor points in both the real and illusory worlds.

Walking through the upside-down, chaotic interlayered world, Chen Qi looked around and kept asking Meng Long how to find the resurrection point and the morgue.
"The area of ​​this interlayered world is the same as the area covered by the illusion, which is also the size of a medical school."

"Although there are no buildings blocking your view, the chaotic mirrored projections of the two worlds around you will interfere with your vision. However, as long as you get close enough, you will naturally be able to find the portal."

Having received an answer from Menglong, Chen Qi began to quickly traverse the interlayered world.

Finally, after more than ten minutes, Chen Qi discovered a heavy metal door.

The gate seemed both real and unreal, and Chen Qi felt it looked familiar.

"The entrance to the resurrection point!"

Chen Qi's spirits lifted; he had finally found it!
Entering the resurrection point from the mezzanine world is essentially no different from entering from reality.

The resurrection point entrance that appears in reality is also summoned from the interlayer world.

Chen Qi couldn't wait to step forward and push open the door to go inside.

This time, pushing the door open was effortless, without any obstruction.

Chen Qi strode inside and finally saw the true face of the resurrection point!
It wasn't some kind of "delivery room" filled with giant eggs, nor was it a "kitchen." It was just a simple space covered with white tiles, except that there were people hanging on the four walls.

These people were hung on the wall and connected to thick, blood vessel-like structures extending from the wall behind them, drawing nutrients from those vessels to continuously repair their bodies.

They all had their eyes closed, as if they were asleep, and the degree of physical integrity varied from one to the other.

Some people have their bodies intact, while others only have their heads left, with the rest of their bodies slowly recovering.

Chen Qi quickly scanned the area, his eyes lighting up as he spotted several familiar faces.

The younger brother who chases the wind, the father of the pancake, the wife who eats swill...

However, Chen Qi did not rush to rescue them. He walked quickly through the resurrection point, passing in front of the hanging bodies. Finally, he stopped.

"Finally found."

"coffee!"

(End of this chapter)