Fear of food

Chapter 149 Momo's Farming Life
"Are you Momo?"

Every member of the Jinghai foraging group looked shocked.

It was impossible to reconcile the charming and adorable little girl in front of me with the mysterious and powerful image in my mind.

I was told before that Momo was a strong man, which was a bit unexpected, but still acceptable.

But now that they're saying Momo is a loli, they really feel it's too much of a contrast!

Big Pancake scratched his head: "In my imagination, the group leader should be a highly educated mature woman who is at least twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, wearing glasses, seemingly gentle and refined, but actually has a strong heart... somewhat similar to Coffee."

Zhui Feng chimed in, "Yes, yes! Or maybe a woman who's a bit older, around forty, a strong woman who has both the domineering presence of a CEO and the gentleness of a mother."

Xu An'an glanced at the two of them, puzzled. "Aren't you talking about Coffee Sister?"

The two exchanged an awkward glance and realized that it seemed to be true.

Despite being the group leader, Momo never participates in their offline activities; Coffee has always been more of a leader than Momo.

Gan Shui stroked his chin and said, "I'm different from you guys. I thought the group leader would be like the aloof female agent on TV, like Nikita or Black Widow."

In short, no matter what people imagine Momo to be like, no one would have thought that Momo would be a young girl who looks only in her teens.

Although her apple-shaped face under the straw hat had been tanned slightly to a wheatish hue, the childlike innocence in her eyes and brows was still evident.

Compared to her face, the skin tone of her exposed forearms and calves was more like ripe wheat, with a clear color difference from her face, suggesting that she had recently gotten a tan.

"I'm sorry to have disappointed everyone." Momo lowered her head somewhat awkwardly.

Judging from her socially awkward appearance, it's hard to believe that she's the same person as Momo, who casts a wide net online and leaves messages everywhere looking for people who eat other foods.

Not only did he assemble the Jinghai Foraging Group on his own, but he also collected a wealth of valuable intelligence in the early stages of the pollution, and even used it to establish connections with the authorities.

Don't underestimate her just because she's small; she's accomplished great things.

She's timid and submissive in real life, but incredibly socially adept online—that's probably the kind of person that describes her.

Peanut coughed and said, "Let me introduce this little sister to everyone. She is a 16-year-old computer genius, a powerful alien eater, an honorary advisor to the Nightmare Extermination Organization, and also your group leader."

Peanut gave a brief introduction to Momo, which helped Chen Qi and the others gain a better understanding of the company.

Zhui Feng sighed, "Looking at Momo and then at Biscuit, I feel like I've lived my whole life in Biscuit."

Gan Shui also shook his head: "How could we be disappointed? We just can't believe that such an amazing Momo is just a little girl."

If it were the usual Coffee, she would have already been rubbing Momo's little cheeks by now. However, the resurrected Coffee clearly lacked a bit of human warmth, only asking:

"What exactly are your abilities? They seem quite complicated."

"My ability..." Momo straightened her crooked straw hat, "...is farming."

Peanut chimed in, explaining, "Momo's ability is to reap what she sows: plant melons and you get melons, plant beans and you get beans, plant hamburgers and you get hamburgers, plant roast duck and you get roast duck... Her method of foraging is to plant strange foods in the soil, water and fertilize them every day, and wait for them to bear fruit."

Once that was explained, everyone understood.

However… Chen Qi asked curiously, “Do these plants grow very fast?”

If it had grown at the same rate as normal plants, Momo would have starved to death before even getting its first meal.

“Some foods grow quickly, like those made from chives, which can be harvested the next day. Others grow very slowly,” Momo whispered. “But it doesn’t all depend on the type of food; the grade also plays a big role. Higher-grade foods grow more slowly.”

"Moreover, after my abilities underwent a qualitative change, the slower a plant grows, the stronger it becomes..."

Xu An'an asked curiously, "Don't you have to grow a lot of food and try your luck to grow it?"

Big Pancake followed up with a question: "Those plants you just used in battle, were they your own abilities after your qualitative change, or were they powerful attacks derived from the food they produced?"

Everyone was very interested in Momo and her abilities, and they all started asking her questions.

Chen Qi glanced at his safe house and, seeing that the Ferris wheel was still turning slowly, didn't urge it but joined the discussion.

Momo's discovery of her foraging ability can only be described as a coincidence.

She happened to be visiting her grandparents in the countryside during summer vacation and helped her grandmother plant some vegetables in their garden.

Unexpectedly, the vegetables she planted herself became her lifeline after her food phobia broke out.

As a result, she discovered her foraging ability early on, and with her intensive internet surfing and outstanding computer skills, she found a group of people with similar experiences online in the early stages of the pollution outbreak.

These people are not only from Jinghai City, but also from other polluted areas.

By maintaining long-term contact with these individuals, observing them online, and even using hacking techniques to spy on their privacy, Momo obtained a wealth of valuable intelligence in the early stages.

After that, she used the internet to travel between various groups of people with special abilities in different cities. She joined no fewer than dozens of groups and obtained information by exchanging information between different groups.

Simply put, they are intelligence carriers, sending information from group A to group B, gaining the trust of group B, and then sending the information from group B to group C...

Through this back-and-forth maneuvering, Momo gradually became an unfathomable big shot in multiple groups.

It even eventually attracted the attention of officials, leading to a cooperation between them.

Chen Qi and the others were dumbfounded: "So all that talk about you being busy outside, running around collecting intelligence, was just a lie?"

Momo's face turned bright red with embarrassment, feeling as if she had been stripped naked. She quickly pulled down her straw hat to cover her face.

She explained, "Although I've joined many groups, I've only been the group admin for the 'Jinghai Food Hunting Group'. My feelings for each member are different..."

She spoke softer and softer.

Zhui Feng and the others stared wide-eyed, still reeling from the shock of reality.

They weren't angry, but they were genuinely shocked and surprised. They also felt a little ashamed. They were a group of middle-aged people who considered themselves to have rich social experience, but they never expected to be kept in the dark and completely fooled by a teenage girl.

Peanut couldn't stand it anymore and spoke up for Momo: "She really cares about you guys. After all, you're all aliens from Jinghai City, the same city as her. She's the one who created this group."

Xu An'an was the last to join the group and didn't have much interaction with the group admin, Momo. She said thoughtfully:

"So since your food phobia broke out, you haven't gone anywhere at all. Have you been farming the whole time?"

“Mm!” Momo nodded.

“Indeed, your ability relies heavily on development.” Chen Qi nodded in agreement. Momo’s ability is truly a pure growth-oriented one, requiring him to survive and develop.

She not only wanted to farm to meet her own food needs, but also wanted to grow high-quality food. She needed to cultivate on a large scale. Only by casting a wide net and catching many fish could she possibly grow high-quality food.

Moreover, not only do you need to plant a lot, but you also need to water them every day and fertilize them occasionally, which means a huge amount of work. That's why Momo got a wheat-colored tan.

At first, she didn't know anything and buried herself in her own land, planting food haphazardly.

Later, she studied farming carefully, used modern machinery, and even contracted a large area of ​​abandoned farmland in the village.

In today's rural areas, young people have gone out to work, leaving only a group of elderly people who are too old and weak to farm, leaving large tracts of farmland abandoned.

Later, she learned that high-level food could only be found in densely populated areas, so she started using takeout orders from places like shopping malls as seeds. That's why Chen Qi and the others saw things like hamburger trees, roast duck trees, and squid trees...

While all the members of the Jinghai foraging group had completed their first qualitative leap in ability, Momo had just grown her first high-level food.

According to her recollection, it was a contaminated gun leg that she planted, which eventually grew into a small tree with only one golden, blown-out gun leg on it.

However, that's how the development-focused playstyle works: you concentrate on developing your character and don't fight. Once the development period is over, you grow up very quickly.

After the first high-grade food matured, Momo successively produced several more high-grade foods. Moreover, after the pollution in Jinghai City escalated, it caught up with the growth rate of the group members and completed its second qualitative leap in ability!
Now it has finally finished its development and emerged from the mountains.

After spending several months in seclusion in the countryside farming, he emerged as a top-notch master!
If Momo hadn't arrived in time, Chen Qi might not have been able to successfully fuse the two bodies.

Among all the aliens that people have seen so far, Momo's strength should be second only to Chen Qi.

As for comparing coffee, Momo is definitely superior in terms of combat power, but coffee's unique lethality against the Nightmare Clan is something Momo does not possess.

Now, after two qualitative changes in its abilities, Coffee can directly kill low-level parasites, preventing them from reviving.

Even high-level parasites should be wary of coffee's bullets; a single shot, though not fatal, can cause serious injury.

"You guys chat here, I'm going to swallow the source of contamination from the medical school."

Chen Qi greeted his teammates, then floated up and disappeared into the air as a red shadow.

In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the first canteen of Jinghai Medical College. As if sensing his arrival, the S-level pollution source on the second floor of the canteen immediately reacted.

The surrounding light and shadows shifted subtly, and silently, Chen Qi was drawn into the illusion.

The unique Real Rules Illusionary Realm of S-Grade Food Sources!
Now that there are no parasites protecting it, and even if there were, they couldn't stop Chen Qi, the S-level food source can only try every means to save itself.

Upon entering the illusion, Chen Qi's domain vanished instantly, and he fell from mid-air.

Chen Qi's flying ability is only possible through his domain.

Even though he couldn't fly, his physical body was extremely strong, and he landed steadily without suffering any injuries.

Chen Qi leaped directly from outside the cafeteria onto the second-floor window.

Even an S-level illusion is not so scary in terms of symmetry; the only danger is the rules within the illusion.

The only thing that can threaten him is the rules within the illusion.

As long as he doesn't break the rules, he can come and go freely in the illusion.

The rules in the cafeteria are all related to "eating".

Chen Qi looked around and found that there were no students eating in the cafeteria illusion. Just like in reality, it was dilapidated.

Everywhere there is polluted, rotten flesh and blood.

In such a desolate place, finding the S-grade food source disguised in the illusion is no easy task.

However, with a casual wave of his hand, Chen Qi conjured up an amusement park that covered the entire second floor of the cafeteria.

At this moment, Chen Qi sensed a suction force. His safe house had detected the presence of the pollution source and was spontaneously trying to absorb it.

Chen Qi immediately locked onto the target, strode forward, and saw a fleshy tumor growing from a thick, fleshy tentacle.

Such tumors are common, but the reaction from the safe house just now told him that this tumor was a disguised source of contamination.

He removed the tumor, opened his mouth, and inhaled, it transformed into a stream of energy that entered his mouth.

The next moment, the entire cafeteria illusion shattered!

Chen Qi was still in the cafeteria, but his pollution source detection ability allowed him to instantly pinpoint the location of the S-level pollution source!
He broke through the cafeteria's serving window, jumped into the back, and soon returned with a hot pot...

The S-grade food source was actually transformed into a hot pot by his food transformation ability!
If this had happened before, Chen Qi would have had a terrible headache. How long would it take to eat a hot pot while surrounded by enemies?
But now, he doesn't have that problem anymore.

He has basically emptied the entire Jinghai Medical College of its parasites.

Chen Qishun grabbed a pair of chopsticks, and the next moment he flew out of the cafeteria with the hot pot in his hand, arriving in mid-air outside the cafeteria.

He waved his hand, and tables and chairs flew out of the cafeteria and were placed in front of him.

Chen Qi placed the hot pot on the table, sat down in a chair, picked up his chopsticks, and began to eat the hot pot at a leisurely pace.

He took a bite, and the infected people around him, who were in a state of gluttony, roared and charged at him.

However, these food protectors soon discovered that they couldn't reach Chen Qi at all, because Chen Qi was in the sky.

A floating table and chairs, where Chen Qi was sitting comfortably, using chopsticks to scoop food from the hot pot.

Some of the food protectors picked up stones from the ground and threw them at Chen Qi.

But before the stones even touched Chen Qi, they all stopped and fell down as soon as they entered Chen Qi's domain.

The food protectors were at their wits' end and could only watch helplessly, pacing anxiously below.

This was probably the most relaxed and enjoyable meal Chen Qi had ever had.

Chen Qi ate the food in the hot pot at a leisurely pace, and then felt that his physical fitness had improved again, and his abilities as a pagan seemed to have been enhanced as well.

Having reached Chen Qi's level and completed two qualitative leaps in his abilities, ordinary sources of pollution are no longer effective against him.

Only S-level pollution sources can allow his abilities to continue to improve!

The S-level pollutant he had just ingested was actually a little too much for him, because it was an upgraded S-level pollutant, which was half a level higher than the ordinary S-level pollutant.

But it doesn't affect anything.

After finishing his hotpot, Chen Qi glanced at his safe house again and saw that the Ferris wheel had stopped. He immediately went inside.

At that moment, a group of amusement park employees, including Marilyn Monroe, were respectfully waiting for him.

(End of this chapter)