Fear of food

Chapter 158 Rescuing Mother
Chen Qi and his group are currently in the eighth layer of the dream.

In this high-level dream world, there are no large public dreams, but rather individual small, independent dreams.

The dream world where Chen Qi and the others were located was roughly the size of three or four football fields.

However, at this moment, it was completely occupied by Chen Qi's safe house!

The entire dream world instantly transformed into an amusement park!

Chen Qi's amusement park was certainly not this big. Even if he completed the third qualitative change in his abilities and expanded the area again, it would not have grown to this extent.

The reason for this is the ability that this third qualitative change has given Chen Qi.

You can directly replace one's dream with a safe house!
This ability has many limitations. For example, it cannot be used in reality, and in large public dreams, it can only affect a region, and it is impossible to directly replace a city.

But in various small and medium-sized dreams, it's simply invincible!

A dream world vanished instantly under the cover of Chen Qi's safe house, replaced by an amusement park.

Of course, this disappearance is only temporary. When Chen Qi puts away the amusement park, the original dream world will reappear.

However, while the amusement park exists, the original dream is completely suppressed, and everyone in this dream will enter Chen Qi's absolute home field.

In the dream world, Chen Qi's strength was enhanced, and he was already very powerful.

In his own safe house, he is practically a god!
Of course, the effects of the third qualitative leap in ability are not limited to this; there is also a comprehensive improvement in other aspects, but this is the most significant change.

The moment the safe house appeared, all attacks against Chen Qi were intercepted by an invisible force.

All the Nightmare Parasites seemed to be petrified. Then, a metal grappling hook appeared out of nowhere in the sky, grabbed a first-generation Nightmare Parasite, and sent it directly into the Ferris wheel.

Then, the metal grappling hooks fell one after another, firmly grabbing the parasites. Some were sent into haunted houses, some into Ferris wheels, and others onto roller coasters, extreme rafting rides, and other facilities...

These powerful high-level Nightmare Clan members were like dolls in a claw machine at this moment, completely at Chen Qi's mercy.

The claw in Chen Qi's claw machine is very sturdy, grabbing accurately every time and never coming off the hook.

Menglong, who had just been struggling to get rid of Chen Qi, was so frightened that he dared not move.

Ah Liang also calmed down again. This group of parasites had all been subdued by Chen Qi, so there was no point in them causing any more trouble.

But Chen Qi wasn't about to let it go. Another metal grappling hook descended, aimed at Chen Qi himself.

This claw failed to grab Chen Qi, but it seemed to pull something out of his body.

Within the hook, a phantom quickly emerged, looking exactly like Chen Qi—it was Meng Long!

He struggled and shouted frantically, "Chen Qi, what are you doing!"

"Don't forget, you still need me!"

Chen Qi smiled slightly: "Actually, it's not necessary."

Yes, after his safe house underwent its third transformation, Chen Qi no longer needed the power boost that being a parasite provided.

Now, as a dream thief, he is powerful enough to easily defeat many parasites, including the first generation of Nightmare Clan.

Now that Magnum has no "humanity" as its trump card, it's time to exit the game early.

If possible, Chen Qi would also remove Nightmare A Liang from his body.

However, Ah Liang has now integrated his humanity into him, making it impossible for him to separate himself from it.

As for the issue of Ah Liang becoming "dominant" after Menglong was separated, Chen Qi had of course taken that into consideration.

Currently, A Liang has integrated almost all of Chen Qi's humanity, but this humanity is divided into two parts.

Ah Liang swallowed half of his original body and then merged it with Chen Qi's soul, bringing with him half of his humanity. This meant that Ah Liang and Chen Qi each had 25% of their souls. This is why Chen Qi was able to maintain some of his humanity and did not become mentally unstable or disown his family.

But even this 25% of humanity is essentially borrowed and doesn't truly belong to Chen Qi.

Once Ah Liang is separated, this part of his humanity will also disappear.

The other 50% of humanity resides in A Liang's clone, who is imprisoned by Chen Qi and locked in a safe house.

As long as Chen Qi can control A Liang's clone and prevent it from merging with A Liang, there shouldn't be any major problems.

Therefore, if Chen Qi doesn't want to become a heartless monster at this stage, he can't leave A Liang for the time being.

However... he believed this passive situation would soon end.

Although Menglong is no longer useful, Chen Qi did not eliminate it directly, nor did he send it into the Ferris wheel to become an employee.

Instead, they were temporarily imprisoned as a precaution.

If A Liang makes any unusual moves or any unexpected events occur, he can capture Meng Long again and forcibly merge with him to keep A Liang in check once more.

For Chen Qi, he remains a useful tool.

Having dealt with the Nightmare Clan members who were besieging him, Chen Qi did not forget that he was pursuing the source of pollution in Corning City. He put away the safe house and continued his pursuit into the Ninth World.

This is also the deepest dream world, the limit of dreams!

Here, everything is built upon people's most primal memories and imaginations.

It no longer seems to have much connection with the real world.

As soon as Chen Qi entered, he felt himself enveloped in a warm liquid.

The whole world is filled with this warm liquid, which is comforting and makes you want to take a good nap here.

"Is this... what it feels like for a fetus in amniotic fluid?"

At the same time, a rumbling sound came from all around, making it quite noisy.

The liquid enveloping him was not clear; it appeared murky and somewhat obstructed his vision.

Here, both hearing and vision seem to be diminished.

Wow…

A thick "pipe" pierced through the murky liquid, heading straight for Chen Qizha.

Chen Qi wanted to stop it and escape, but the liquid around him made him move slowly and made him feel full of resistance.

The tube made of flesh and blood touched Chen Qi and actually burrowed directly into his flesh, trying to connect to his body.

Seeing this, Chen Qi decisively summoned the safe house.

The next moment, the entire "amniotic fluid dream" shattered, and the source of pollution hidden in this dream became as obvious as lice on a bald man's head.

This time, the source of the pollution actually took the form of Chen Qi's mother.

Amniotic fluid dream, mother figure... This time it seems like they're trying to play the emotional card.

However, this trick is useless against Chen Qi now. He has broken the amniotic fluid dream and is now fully conscious, so he will not be fooled at all.

The most crucial point is that Chen Qi's mother is currently inside the safe house. How could he not distinguish between the real and the fake?

Chen Qi has been relentlessly pursuing and nibbling at the source of the pollution, and now he is at his last gasp.

Chen Qi was stronger than ever before! In addition, Chen Qi also discovered that after his safe house swallowed the "bus" and completed the third qualitative change of his ability, the source of dream pollution seemed to have no longer been able to suppress him in terms of rank.

His abilities as a dream thief seem to be working on the source of this pollution as well.

Previously, this source of pollution was completely immune to all Dream Thief-related abilities.

Chen Qi at his strongest state faced off against the source of pollution at his weakest state, and the outcome was naturally a foregone conclusion.

The source of the pollution was ultimately brought under direct control by Chen Qi and locked in a safe house.

Chen Qi did not eat it directly because the dream world of Kangning City was now in grave danger.

The state of the pollution source directly affects the entire Dream World of Corning City.

Now that the deep dream world is as illusory as smoke, if Chen Qi were to consume the source of pollution, the entire dream world would collapse in the next moment, and the pollution in Kangning City would be completely ended.

Before that, Chen Qi still had some things to do.

He quickly exited the dream and entered the interlayered world.

Guided by a group of amusement park employees, he successfully located Corning City's "resurrection point" and "morgue".

He still remembered Peanut's instructions to try his best to rescue the official ability users trapped in Jinghai City.

During the Battle of Corning, more than 400 official ability users fell into slumber here. To this day, some have sacrificed themselves, but most have been transformed into parasites.

In the recent series of battles, many parasites have died and are currently in the resurrection phase.

When Chen Qi arrived at the resurrection point, he saw many parasites resurrecting.

The resurrection point in Corning City is a patch of black, fertile soil, where resurrected people emerge from the ground like bamboo shoots.

However, at this time, most of the parasites are in the "just emerging" state, that is, they have just begun to revive.

It will take at least ten days for them to revive naturally, and some of the stronger, higher-level parasites may even need more than a month to revive.

Chen Qi naturally couldn't spend that much time waiting for them to be resurrected, but fortunately, the resurrection process could be accelerated.

It just requires energy.

Chen Qi raised his hand, and a vertical eye opened in his palm. The light from that eye shone like the sun, illuminating the entire resurrection point and bathing all the parasites waiting to be resurrected in its light.

The next moment, these parasites sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, growing taller and taller.

Such large-scale "forced ripening" requires a huge amount of energy.

It just so happens that Chen Qi ingested a large amount of pollutants during today's battle!
Those pollutants can no longer help him improve his abilities, but they can provide energy to replenish what he has consumed.

With a large energy reserve, Chen Qi quickly revived all the parasites at the resurrection point!
He devoured the nightmares within these people one by one, then threw them all out of the resurrection point before quickly arriving at the morgue.

Then, with the fastest speed, all humanity in the morgue was liberated.

At this point, Chen Qi had successfully completed the organization's mission, saving the vast majority of official ability users and a large number of residents of Corning City.

Chen Qi took a deep breath and entered his safe house.

He has one more crucial thing to do next!
Ever since the safe house completely housed the public vehicles, he has been fighting and chasing, and then busy rescuing people at the respawn point and morgue. Now he finally has some free time.

He walked somewhat hurriedly toward the bus parked in the safe house.

This bus originated from the source of pollution in Jinghai City and is not as simple as it appears on the surface. It should possess considerable combat capabilities within the safe house.

However, Chen Qi did not use it when he was fighting the group of parasites.

Because the car was full of passengers.

This time, the bus did not turn Chen Qi away; instead, it opened its doors on its own initiative.

Chen Qi stepped onto the bus, glanced at the passengers, and finally fixed his gaze on his mother.

With a single inhale, the Nightmare Eaters were forcibly ripped from the souls of the passengers amidst screams, becoming the souls of the dead in Chen Qi's mouth.

The humanity of these passengers, which Chen Qi had stored in the safe house, was now spontaneously traced back to its source and returned to its original form, no longer hindered by the bus.

A look of disorientation crossed Chen Qi's mother's face, and her emotionless eyes suddenly trembled.

When her gaze fell on Chen Qi, tears welled up uncontrollably in her eyes...

"mom."

Chen Qi called out softly, expecting that he would be extremely excited, even to the point of tears of joy, at this moment.

I will definitely rush up and give my mom a big hug.

But in reality, he found that he was just happy.

He remained calm, standing still and smiling at his mother. He realized that this seemed to be the limit of his emotions.

Having lost only a quarter of his former humanity, he is emotionally deprived and powerless.

But the next moment, he was embraced by his mother, who was in tears.

His mother didn't ask anything, didn't say anything, she just hugged him tightly.

Although she was controlled by the Nightmare Clan during these days, she still remembered everything she experienced.

Although she didn't know all of Chen Qi's experiences along the way, she knew that for her and her son to be reunited like this, Chen Qi must have had a very difficult journey.

As a mother, Zhang Qin knew her child very well, and she could tell at a glance that something was wrong with Chen Qi.

However, she didn't ask any more questions. She knew that Chen Qi would tell her what he wanted to say later.

If parents are unable to protect their children from the wind and rain, then they should do what they can, even if it's just a warm hug or a silent act of care.

Just then, a sweet voice interrupted the heartwarming scene of the mother and son's reunion.

"Hello, Auntie. My name is Menglu, and I'm Chen Qi's friend."

Zhang Qin looked at Marilyn Monroe, dressed as a well-behaved student, with a sweet smile on her lovely apple-shaped face, revealing two adorable little tiger teeth.

He looks very endearing and is clearly a good child.

"Son, this is..." Zhang Qin lowered her voice, "...your girlfriend?"

……

Chen Qi finally managed to answer his mother's questions.

Finally, he told his mother about the current situation, including his father's condition.

However, after his reassurance, Chen's mother, Zhang Qin, was not too worried about Chen's father's condition.

She believed in Chen Qi; if Chen Qi could save her, he could certainly save Chen's father as well.

Then Chen Qi took out the remaining source of pollution in Kangning City and swallowed it in one gulp!
Immediately, the entire dream world of Corning City shattered, and the pollution dissipated.

Chen Qi's ability as a Pagan also underwent its third qualitative change!

(End of this chapter)