Fear of food

Chapter 165 The Nightmare Clan World
With this passage, Chen Qi no longer needed to worry about how to get back.

His next task was to find Feng Bin and, whether by forcibly bringing him back to the human world or by killing him outright, destroy the passage to the human world that was connected to him.

Arriving in the Nightmare Clan's world for the first time, in such a completely unfamiliar place, and with nothing but blank space and no buildings to use as landmarks, I was completely disoriented.

Chen Qi realized that this was a world with almost no matter.

There was nothing he knew—no land, no plants, no water…nothing at all!

But Chen Qi wasn't running around like a headless fly, because there were still a few first-generation Nightmare Clan employees in his safe house.

The first generation of Nightmare Clan members are the true natives of the Nightmare Clan world. They have lived in the Nightmare Clan world for countless years and know it very well.

Chen Qi released the three nightmares of the first generation: Dream One, Dream Two, and Dream Three. As soon as they appeared, they looked around and showed a nostalgic expression.

"I thought I would never have the chance to come back again."

"Yes, I never thought I'd be able to go home again."

"This place... seems to be the battlefield of the previous war between the three races!"

"Yes, this is it. I've died here more than a dozen times!"

Chen Qi looked bewildered: "Wait, how did you recognize me?"

The world is the same everywhere. There are no buildings or road signs, so how can you tell that this is a battlefield?

Mengyi replied matter-of-factly, "It's obvious at a glance."

Meng Er chimed in, "That's right, the features here are so distinct, unlike any other place."

If Chen Qi hadn't been certain that the three were still bound to his safe house and couldn't be fooled, he would have suspected they were playing him.

After the three explained, Chen Qicai roughly understood what was going on.

The Nightmare Clan's world was indeed a void in his eyes, but it was not so in the eyes of the Nightmare Clan.

Just as humans cannot see the Nightmare Clan, nor can they directly see the polluted energy, everything in the Nightmare Clan's world is also invisible to humans.

In the eyes of humans, this is a special world that is invisible and intangible.

But in the eyes of the Nightmare Clan, it presented a completely different picture.

Despite his curiosity, Chen Qi had no way of seeing it unless he was deeply parasitized by the Nightmare Clan.

However, with the help of his three employees, Chen Qi also figured out a little trick so that he wouldn't be completely blind in the Nightmare Clan world.

This method allows him to use his pollution detection capabilities to sense changes in the pollution energy around him.

The Nightmare Clan's world can be described as a world entirely composed of special energies.

As long as these energies can be observed, it can be considered that we have seen a rough outline of the Nightmare Clan's world.

Paying attention to the movement of these energies can help him determine the whereabouts of the Nightmare Clan.

The Nightmare Clan in this world cannot be treated the same as the Nightmare Clan in the human world.

The human world is not a suitable place for the Nightmare Clan to live. There, even a first-generation Nightmare Clan member is powerless and can only move within the contaminated area, unable to stray far from the source of contamination.

They can only survive by parasitizing.

They must parasitize humans to gain immense power and move freely in the human world.

However, the Nightmare Clan in the Nightmare Clan world are not in a parasitic state, nor do they need to rely on parasitizing humans to possess considerable strength.

Therefore, for Chen Qi, the Nightmare Clan he encounters here will all be formless and intangible voids, and he can only determine their whereabouts by detecting changes in energy.

"You just said that this was once the battlefield of your three races' great war?" Chen Qi asked curiously. "Is there anything special about this place?"

Meng Yi replied, "In human terms, this place is probably a strategic location that military strategists would fight over. Because it produces a lot of erotic energy."

"Shouldn't the energy of lust only be effective against the Nightmare Clan? Are you going to steal it too?"

"Of course, although it's useless to us Nightmares and Nightmares Eaters, it's useful to Nightmares of Love, so we have to snatch it."

Chen Qi nodded, agreeing. Anything that could strengthen the enemy should naturally be kept in one's own hands.

A powerful enemy is one that weakens oneself.

Meng San said, "Back then, the Nightmare Clan forcibly occupied this territory. Our Nightmare Clan, in a rare move, joined forces with the Nightmare Eater Clan and finally repelled the Nightmare Clan, bringing this area under the joint jurisdiction of our two clans."

Chen Qi didn't see any Nightmare Clan guarding such an important area.

Clearly, neither the Nightmare Clan nor the Nightmare Eater Clan cares who manages this area, as long as it doesn't fall into the hands of the Nightmare Love Clan.

Furthermore, since the passage to the human world was opened, even the Nightmare Clan has lost all interest in this area.

After all, the human world has an inexhaustible supply of desire energy, which makes the erotic energy provided by this region negligible in comparison.

The erotic energy here only comes from the red-light district of Chunyu Street. How can it compare to the erotic energy that can be provided by directly polluting and covering an entire city?

Chen Qi thought for a moment and asked, "Has this place always been permeated with a large amount of lustful energy, or did it start at a certain point in time?"

"It seems like it was just recently." Meng Yi pondered. The Nightmare Clan didn't have the same concept of time as humans, since time meant little to them.

Meng San said, "In human time, it should have started about ten or twenty years ago. At that time, the energy of lust permeated more and more, but then one day it suddenly stopped..."

Chen Qi seemed to be deep in thought. A decade or two ago, the Chunyu Street red-light district was gradually developing and growing until it reached its peak.

It disappeared later, probably thanks to the crackdown on pornography and illegal publications.

After asking a few more detailed questions, Chen Qi had already made a judgment.

Before the development of the red-light district on Spring Rain Street, there was nothing unusual about the corresponding area of ​​the Nightmare Clan world.

It was after the development of the qin and se industry in Chunyu Street that a large amount of erotic energy was injected into the Nightmare Clan world, which may eventually even affect the "wall" between the two worlds!
"Therefore, the prolonged and excessive infiltration of desire energy will actually thin the barrier between the two worlds, creating a weak point like Spring Rain Street..."

Chen Qi inquired and learned that there was actually more than one place like this in the Nightmare Clan's world.

Come to think of it, the world is so big, Spring Rain Street may not be much in the grand scheme of things.

Of course, the output of desire energy is not only related to scale and number of people. In some repressed groups, one person's desire can be equivalent to that of many ordinary people.

Although the sex industry is more developed in some foreign countries, the atmosphere is more open, and people may often have their desires released, resulting in less energy of desire being generated.

In short, places like Spring Rain Street are not uncommon in the world, but they are not few either. These places constantly export large amounts of desire energy to the Nightmare Clan world, eroding the barrier between the two worlds. The consequence is that the local area becomes a slightly polluted zone.

This mild pollution, in turn, can boost the development of local industries.

Ultimately, just like Spring Rain Street, the more developed the erotic industry becomes, the more erotic energy it produces, and the weaker the barriers become, creating mild pollution in the local area. This attracts more practitioners and consumers, further increasing the production of erotic energy...

This creates a vicious cycle.

Until a gifted individual like Feng Bin arrived, which triggered a catastrophe that swept the world!

Other lightly polluted areas around the world, like Chunyu Street, haven't experienced a major crisis yet simply because they haven't yet encountered their own "Feng Bin" (a notorious figure in Chinese folklore).

However, those areas still pose significant hidden dangers!
"Human desires, if left unchecked, can expand and accumulate unchecked, and become so dangerous."

Chen Qi understood that eradicating the threat of the Nightmare Clan required more than just destroying the passage brought by Feng Bin; it also meant regulating the world's most detrimental areas of desire.

Desire is human nature and should not be suppressed.

But what makes a person human is the ability to control their desires; otherwise, once they become slaves to their desires, how are they any different from wild beasts?

According to three Nightmare employees, the area in the Nightmare world where desire is most pervasive corresponds to a small island in the human world called Lori Island.

That place certainly wasn't the one with the most visitors, but it generated the most surging energy of desire. It just goes to show that once human desires are freed from the constraints of morality and law, they can expand to unimaginable levels.

Of course, eliminating these hotspots of desire is something Chen Qi needs to do after he returns; right now, he needs to find Feng Bin as soon as possible.

"Where do you think Feng Bin will be locked up?" Chen Qi asked his three employees.

"He's such an important person, so he must be imprisoned by all three of our races. We can't hand him over to any one of them. Therefore, the location must be where the territories of the three races meet!"

"Then lead the way."

Chen Qi followed the three employees on their journey to find Feng Bin. Along the way, through conversations with the three employees, his understanding of the Nightmare Clan world became more and more comprehensive.

Although the Nightmare Clan's world corresponds to the human world, it is essentially a scaled-down version and not as large as the human world.

The people living here are all first-generation Nightmare Clan, whose numbers are already small. The three clans combined don't even number ten thousand. Their only purpose in life is to devour the energy of desire.

To Chen Qi, the Nightmare Clan seemed to be cleaners assigned to humans, whose job was to process the emotional pollution generated by humans.

It's just that it's out of control now and has started to turn against humanity.

Most of the Nightmare Clan in the Nightmare Clan world have already entered the human world to expand their territory. They were already few in number, and with a large number leaving, the Nightmare Clan remaining in their homeland is pitifully small.

Chen Qi had a passageway above his head, which should have been very conspicuous, but he walked for a long time without encountering a single Nightmare Clan member.

It felt like going back to the countryside on a weekday. All the Nightmare Clan members in the village had gone to work in the human world, leaving only a group of old and weak people behind.

"That's it up ahead. That's the Peace House that our three races built together. Important agreements between the three races were reached there," Meng Yi said excitedly, pointing to the empty space ahead.

Actually, he didn't need to say anything. Although Chen Qi didn't see any Peace House, he could see the passage in mid-air that looked exactly like the one above his head from a great distance.

It has to be said that this thing is indeed quite conspicuous, like having a big chimney above your head when you go out; everyone can see it.

As he got closer, Chen Qi's gaze pierced through the so-called Peace House and directly fell upon Feng Bin inside.

The only human I could see here is Feng Bin.

Moreover, Chen Qi had seen some photos of Feng Bin before; he was tall and chubby, and his appearance matched the person in front of him.

However, Chen Qi knew that Feng Bin was not the only one there.

His pollution detection capabilities told him that there was a large amount of energy accumulating in the area ahead, and some of that energy was still moving.

Those moving energies were undoubtedly from the Nightmare Clan.

Although most of the Nightmare Clan members had left, they clearly still valued Feng Bin highly, leaving some Nightmare Clan members to guard him.

The Nightmare Clan members silently surrounded Chen Qi, but Chen Qi pretended not to notice and walked straight towards Feng Bin.

Feng Bin also moved at this moment. He stood up, pushed open a door that Chen Qi could not see, and faced Chen Qi.

Feng Bin's gaze swept over Meng Yi and the other two, finally landing on Chen Qi. He glanced at the passage above Chen Qi's head and smiled:
"Another human has stumbled in by accident? You Nightmare Clan are quite lucky."

But then, he changed the subject and said coldly, "However... how did the three of you get back!"

The Feng Bin before them had been parasitized by the Nightmare Clan, and the one parasitizing him was a Nightmare Eater.

Chen Qi already knew this, as Feng Bin was first discovered by the Nightmare Eater Clan after entering the Nightmare Clan world.

This is precisely why the Nightmare Eaters gained an advantage when they invaded the human world.

Meng Yi smiled and said, "This human was sent in on purpose. We have already mastered the method of sending humans into our Nightmare Clan world. We came in with him this time!"

Meng Er continued, "From now on, our Nightmare Clan will control one passage, and your Nightmare Eater Clan will control the other. We'll kick the Nightmare Lovers Clan aside, and they'll be out of the picture. Our two clans will then share the human world together."

As soon as he said this, Chen Qi immediately sensed several invisible Nightmare Clan members around him making rather violent movements.

It was probably something that Yumeji said that stung them.

Among the Nightmare Clan guarding the area, there are definitely members of the Love Nightmare Clan. How could they tolerate hearing Meng Er loudly plotting to exclude their Love Nightmare Clan?

Chen Qi actually felt it wasn't necessary to go through all that trouble; he could have just killed them all. But since his subordinates wanted to show their loyalty, he didn't mind.

Just as the Nightmare Clan made a move, Dream One, Dream Two, and Dream Three suddenly roared and charged towards the Nightmare Clan members.

"Die, you members of the Nightmare Clan!"

"From now on, my Nightmare Clan will reign supreme!"

Their movement instantly drew the surrounding Nightmare Clan into the battle.

Even if they didn't want to take action, they couldn't stop the Nightmare Clan from targeting them.

So, with the three employees stirring things up, chaos instantly erupted, and the Nightmare Eaters were eventually forced to intervene.

But from Chen Qi's perspective, this seemingly intense battle looked somewhat strange. All he could see was a collision of energies, and he could only clearly see the movements of his three employees.

When the three clans were locked in a life-or-death struggle, Feng Bin shouted, attempting to interrupt their fight, but Chen Qi immediately summoned the safe house and smashed it towards Feng Bin.

"Class A war criminals, just kill them."

(End of this chapter)