Fear of food

Chapter 152 Entering the Morgue Again

The bus that was the source of pollution in Jinghai City was collected by Chen Qi along with the safe house.

This is because a connection has been established between the source of pollution and the safe house.

This resulted in a shallow binding between the two.

This left Chen Qi with only two choices: either let the bus leave or forcibly contain the source of pollution in the safe house and make it part of the amusement park.

The problem is that Chen Qi is currently unable to absorb this source of pollution, nor is he willing to let the buses leave.

So we can only remain in this stalemate for now and ignore it for the time being.

Only after the safe house is further upgraded will it be possible to successfully eliminate the source of pollution.

If buses are the source of pollution in Jinghai City, will the pollution disappear if they leave Jinghai City?
Although he really wanted to try it, reason prevented Chen Qi from doing so.

Such an important matter requires careful consideration before acting rashly.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Qi decided to rejoin his teammates first.

He quickly flew back to the bus terminal and saw his teammates still waiting anxiously in the same spot.

"You're finally back! How was it?" Zhui Feng asked eagerly.

"I just saw an amusement park fly overhead, it completely stunned me!" Big Pancake exclaimed dramatically.

Coffee didn't speak, but the expectation in her eyes was unmistakable.

"You guys come with me."

Chen Qi didn't say much, and invited his teammates into his safe house.

Upon entering, everyone turned into dwarfs, exchanging surprised glances and marveling at each other.

In the center of the amusement park, a brand-new bus stood quietly.

The buses have given up the struggle and have become well-behaved ever since they were taken in along with the amusement park.

It probably knew that continuing to struggle was useless, and that as long as Chen Qi put away the safe house, it could do nothing.

However, he stubbornly kept the car door locked and refused to open it.

Chen Qina couldn't do anything about it either. These hostages were the last trump card of the pollution source, and it was impossible to get it to give up voluntarily.

Neither the Dream Thief's abilities nor the Alien Eater's abilities seem capable of breaching this bus.

Chen Qi couldn't force the use of firearms, not to mention whether they would be effective. His mother and many other hostages were on the bus, making him hesitant to act rashly.

Coffee's son is probably on board too... Chen Qi just noticed there were several children in the car.

Chen Qi has now taken control of all the hostages in the car, while the driver of the second-generation Nightmare Eater was killed by the power of the haunted house.

Under Chen Qi's control, a group of children stood in a neat row, pressed against one side of the car window.

He looked at the coffee and asked, "Are your children here?"

Coffee's gaze sharpened, locking onto one of the chubby-cheeked little boys. Her lips trembled, and she rushed forward without hesitation, pressing her face against the car window and calling out her child's nickname repeatedly.

However, the child's eyes were vacant, his face expressionless, and he did not respond at all.

The mother and son were once separated by life and death, and now they are only separated by a car window, but it feels like they are separated by the Milky Way.

The coffee frantically pounded against the car window, but couldn't budge it an inch.

She pulled out a pistol and fired a burst of shots at the car door, but couldn't even leave a scratch.

She could only look to Chen Qi for help, and the pleading in her eyes made it impossible for Chen Qi to refuse.

Chen Qi gently comforted him, "He's alright, I'll find a way to get him out."

Coffee gradually composed herself and nodded slightly. She had simply lost control of her emotions for a moment, and in reality, the current outcome was much better for her than before.

She once thought she had killed her own child.

Later, Chen Qi gave her hope, telling her that her child might still be alive.

But it's just a hope.

Now, at least she has seen her child with her own eyes and is certain that he is still alive.

In addition, Chen Qi can now easily neutralize the Nightmare Clan's parasitism, so as long as she opens the car door, her son can be saved.

"Biscuit, what's going on here?" Peanut asked.

"Sit down and talk."

The amusement park was not very well equipped, and there weren't even any seats. Chen Qi and his teammates went straight into the pirate ship.

He shared everything that had just happened, as well as some information he had learned, with everyone.

"I was just thinking about moving the source of this pollution out of the polluted area of ​​Jinghai City. What do you think? Is it feasible?"

After careful consideration, Xu An'an, who had always been taciturn, spoke:

"If you're worried about the hostages in the car, then there shouldn't be any problem. Currently, it seems that it's not an issue for the parasites to leave their current contaminated area and survive in other contaminated areas."

Chen Qi nodded; he thought so too.

Even if the parasites are connected, it's to the source of the pollution, not to the polluted area.

Even if the polluted area in Jinghai City disappears, the source of pollution still exists. So even if it has an impact on the parasites in Jinghai City, it won't be too significant.

However, just to be on the safe side, he called over his parasitic employees to ask them questions and confirm some things.

Monroe and her team haven't experienced the source of pollution leaving the contaminated area, so they can't give a very accurate answer.

But one thing is certain: it will cause significant changes.

To be on the safe side, Chen Qi should do his best to handle the aftermath before then.

When the contaminated area changes, anything can happen, so Chen Qi would better release the humanity stored in the "morgue" in advance!
……

After leaving the safe house, Chen Qi immediately led several teammates to a nearby high-level contaminated area.

After Chen Qi consumed the S-level pollution source at Jinghai Medical College, it was no longer a high-level pollution area. However, there were still several pollution areas of A level or above in Jinghai City.

Upon arriving at the contaminated area, Chen Qi immediately entered the interlayered world and quickly found the resurrection point and the entrance to the morgue.

Each advanced source of contamination can connect to the resurrection point and the morgue.

These two locations are situated between reality and illusion, with each advanced source of pollution serving as a conduit connecting them.

Chen Qi entered alone; his teammates did not have the ability to enter the interlayered world.

He first arrived at the resurrection point and found that the previously empty resurrection point was now filled with many parasites who had just resurrected.

Almost all of them died today.

Today, the Nightmare Clan invaded, and a large number of parasites died in battle.

Chen Qi glanced at them but did not interrupt their resurrection.

Instead, he turned and went to the morgue. He had just stood at the morgue door, about to push it open, when Menglong, who had been feigning death inside him, suddenly spoke:

"Are you sure you want to go in?"

Chen Qi paused, then said, "Just say what you have to say."

Nightmare Eater A Liang’s voice was filled with anger as he rebuked, “Even now that things have come to this, do you Nightmare Clan still intend to fight against my Nightmare Eater Clan?”

Menglong chuckled: "If we switched roles, would you remain silent?"

Ah Liang roared, "It's all because of your Nightmare Clan! If it weren't for your sneak attack, how could he have escaped from our two clans!"

"Shouldn't your Nightmare Clan bear some responsibility for this? Can't you even suffer a little loss?"

Chen Qi interrupted impatiently, "Are you going to talk or not? If not, I'm coming in."

Ignoring A Liang's objections, Meng Long said, "I advise you not to go in, if you don't want humanity to be further eroded."

Chen Qi scoffed, "Haven't you two divided up my humanity? What humanity is left?"

The two nightmares, Menglong and Aliang, each devoured half of his humanity, and Chen Qi's own humanity has gradually been lost.

Only after merging with the two Nightmare Clan members did he regain some of his humanity, but even this portion of humanity was shared with the two Nightmare Clan members.

Menglong didn't hide anything and frankly admitted, "I'm reminding you for my own sake. Once you enter the morgue, the half of my humanity will also flow towards him."

"why?"

"Because the morgue is actually a low point in human nature. You can think of human nature as flowing water, always flowing downhill."

"Then why is it flowing towards Ah Liang? Could it be that he's lying down in the depression?"

"almost……"

Menglong's answer surprised Chen Qi slightly. His casual, joking question was actually close to the truth.

He lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then suddenly remembered something.

"That morgue!"

"That body storage cabinet that was custom-made to measure my body!"

Chen Qi guessed that if what Menglong said was true, then it should be related to that corpse storage cabinet.

That corpse storage cabinet wasn't so simple. A normal corpse storage cabinet is used to store complete humanity, but Chen Qi's complete humanity was never taken away by the Nightmare Eaters. Yet, the Nightmare Eaters made a corpse storage cabinet for him based on his body.

There must be something going on behind this!

Previously, Ah Liang, the Nightmare Eater, said that the corpse storage cabinet was prepared to store some of Chen Qi's humanity. Now it seems that he was probably lying, or at least he concealed a lot.

Menglong continued to undermine him, saying, "It seems you've already guessed something. That's right, it is indeed related to that corpse storage cabinet."

"That corpse storage cabinet wasn't prepared for you, but for the Nightmare Eater clan themselves."

Chen Qi asked curiously, "How do you know so much about this?"

Menglong paused before replying, "That's what our Nightmare Clan planned. We originally intended to take control of your other body and then send it to the morgue, so that your humanity would flow towards me."

"Although humanity is useless to us Nightmare Clan, it is crucial to you humans. Now that you have merged with our Nightmare Clan, if you want to retain a certain degree of self-awareness, you can only rely on humanity."

"And the Nightmare Clan, which has absorbed all your humanity, will become your only choice."

Ah Liang seemed to realize that he could no longer hide it, and rather than wait for Meng Long to expose him, he decided to take the initiative and confess:
“He’s right. There is indeed a part of me lying in that morgue. When you enter the morgue, your humanity begins to flow rapidly into me.”

"So it was after you first entered the morgue that I gradually regained some freedom and was no longer completely suppressed by you."

Chen Qi thought back and realized that was indeed the case. Ever since he first entered the morgue and came out, Nightmare Eater A Liang had gradually become more active.

but……

"I feel like you two are putting on a show for me."

The two of them talked non-stop, answering Chen Qi's questions without any apparent flaws.

All of Chen Qi's questions received reasonable answers, and upon further consideration of some details, they all matched up.

But that's precisely why he found it a bit strange.

These two first-generation Nightmare Clan members are working together so well!
When Chen Qi asked them a question, they would readily provide a long list of details, which seemed somewhat deliberate.

Are they really such easy-going nightmares?
Chen Qi stood in front of the morgue for about two minutes.

Finally, he turned the doorknob, pushed the door open, and went inside.

"Hey, are you out of your mind?!"

Menglong seemed anxious: "If you do this, the balance in your body will be broken, and I will be suppressed by him. Without my checks and balances, A Liang will be all-powerful, and you won't be able to handle it!"

Chen Qi ignored them. Countless tentacles extended from his arms, quickly opening all the unlocked morgue cabinets. He then rolled up the "corpses" inside and threw them out of the morgue.

He acted quickly, and in no time he had opened all the ordinary morgue cabinets and cleaned up all the bodies!

Next were the locked morgue cabinets.

Chen Qi patted with his tentacles, his crimson domain covering the entire morgue, and began to forcibly break the locks.

He opened up some of the less sturdy structures and removed all the corpses inside.

Among them, he found the bodies of Zhuifeng's younger brother, Ganshui's wife, Dabing's father, and others.

However, there are also some specially made mortuary cabinets, such as the special cabinet used to store Sun Xuechao's humanity, and Chen Qi's exclusive mortuary cabinet, all of which have exceptionally sturdy locks.

In the end, Chen Qi was able to open them one by one with the help of the superimposed safe house.

"This is... Mom!"

Chen Qi was overjoyed to find his mother's "corpse," or rather, her humanity, in the last batch of morgue cabinets!
Later, she also discovered the humanity in Coffee's son.

Sun Xuechao's humanity was also successfully unleashed by Chen Qi.

In the end, only Chen Qi's personal body storage cabinet remained, which was also the most sturdy of all the body storage cabinets.

It took Chen Qi a lot of time and effort, along with the staff in the safe house, to pry it open.

When the morgue was opened again, a young man lay quietly inside.

A person who looks exactly like Chen Qi.

The last time he opened this cabinet, he saw the same scene, but it was scattered by the Nightmare Eater's wave of his hand, like a phantom.

This time was different. This time, Chen Qi truly felt that although the "Chen Qi" in front of him had no physical form, he was real!
It's not a phantom!

Previously, he was simply too weak and was deceived by the Nightmare Eater's illusion.

The figure in the morgue wasn't a phantom, but it wasn't him either.

Chen Qi suddenly realized that this seemed to be the Nightmare Eater A Liang, or rather, a part of him that had merged with Chen Qi's humanity and was residing here.

It seems that Menglong wasn't lying after all!
If the morgue is truly a wasteland of humanity, then Ah Liang essentially arranged for an avatar to absorb humanity here. When Chen Qi stepped into this place, his humanity began to continuously leak away and be absorbed by this avatar, Ah Liang.

(End of this chapter)