Fear of food

Chen Qi now hopes that the Nightmare Clan is merely a group of foreign invaders.

In this way, he can wipe them all out without any scruples and have a good time killing them!
But a faint intuition told him that it wasn't that simple.

The existence of the Nightmare Clan may be an indispensable part of the world's operation.

He can't just kill them in a simple and brutal way.

Many members of the Nightmare Clan themselves had little concept of their own status, as they were unaware of the existence of the human world before Feng Bin's intrusion.

They are a group of immortal beings who grow crops and eat food in this world generation after generation.

It wasn't until they invaded the human world that they realized the crops they grew were the source of pollution, and the food they ate was actually the energy of human desires.

By this time, some members of the first generation of Nightmare Clan had already noticed something amiss, but no one was willing to speak out or admit it.

After all, the Nightmare Clan has a longer lifespan and greater power than humans, and they consider themselves to be a more advanced life form than humans in every aspect.

How could such noble and superior beings be willing to play the role of decomposers in the entire ecosystem, like microorganisms?

Feng Bin thought so too.

But after Chen Qi personally defeated him and proved that he had the ability to influence the future of the Nightmare Clan, he had no choice but to reveal his hidden thoughts:

"Our Nightmare Clan and you humans have a symbiotic relationship. Without our Nightmare Clan, humanity will perish."

To put it bluntly, the purpose of the Nightmare Clan's existence is to serve humanity. Once humanity becomes extinct and there is no source of desire and energy, they will all die.

The Nightmare Clan was unwilling to accept this reality, and neither was Chen Qi. This meant that humanity had to coexist with the Nightmare Clan.

After a moment of contemplation, Chen Qi decided to first convert Feng Bin into his employee.

Regardless, this passage from the Nightmare Clan to the human world must be closed.

Both are parasites, but Feng Bin has a portal connecting him to the human world above his head, while Meng Yi and other employees do not.

This means that as long as you become an employee of the safe house, you are essentially integrated into the safe house and will not cause the passage to appear.

Therefore, as long as Feng Bin is also turned into an employee, the passage above his head will naturally disappear.

While waiting for Feng Bin to be transformed, Chen Qi didn't rush back to the human world. He simply sat down on the ground and pondered what his next step should be.

The Nightmare Clan's world was spotless, without a speck of dust.

“Once Feng Bin is converted into an employee, the passage above my head will become the only connection between the two worlds. Once I return to the human world, all sources of pollution in the human world will be disconnected from the Nightmare Clan world.”

"First and foremost, the polluted areas in the human world must be eliminated; there is no doubt about that."

"I now need to find a way to ensure that the energy of desire in the human world can be properly digested."

The simplest and most direct method Chen Qi could think of was to capture a group of Nightmare Clan members and then throw them back into the Nightmare Clan world.

When the passage is closed, the Nightmare Clan will be trapped in the Nightmare Clan World, and in order to survive, they will have no choice but to continue consuming Desire Energy.

But this is only the ideal situation, and Chen Qi also has to consider various unexpected events.

For example, if another accident like Feng Bin occurs, the passage could be reopened.

Or perhaps the Nightmare Clan has given up their desire for food and energy.

"These first-generation Nightmare Clan members have become accustomed to the good things in the human world. If they are captured again, will they cooperate in continuing to digest the energy of desire?"

Is it possible to commit suicide by starvation?

"However, it seems that even if they commit suicide, they can be resurrected, and starvation would cause them great pain... so the possibility is not high, but it cannot be completely ruled out."

"Can those second- and third-generation Nightmare Clan members replace the first-generation Nightmare Clan members and play the same role?"

Chen Qi thought that if a lower-level Nightmare Clan were used to replace the original first-generation Nightmare Clan, the danger would definitely be less.

These lower-level Nightmare Clan members have a lower potential ceiling and are easier to control.

The key is the sheer number of them. It doesn't matter if some die. Even if some don't cooperate, as long as a portion do, it's enough to absorb the energy of human desires.

In the months following the invasion of humanity by the Nightmare Clan, countless second, third, and even seventh generations of Nightmare Clan members have been spawned.

The number of these lower-level Nightmare Clan members has long exceeded that of the first generation of Nightmare Clan members.

To verify the feasibility of his idea, Chen Qi released some of the Nightmare Clan employees from his safe house.

Apart from Meng Yi and his two companions who were first-generation Nightmare Clan members, the rest of the employees were second- or third-generation Nightmare Clan members. Chen Qi ordered them to "plant crops" and digest the energy of desire in the Nightmare Clan world.

Ultimately, these matters can be finalized by the second and third generations of the Nightmare Clan.

Therefore, the original inhabitants of the Nightmare Clan can be completely replaced!

The only concern was that Chen Qi was unsure whether these second- and third-generation Nightmare Clan members could have a near-infinite lifespan like the first-generation Nightmare Clan members.
These new generation Nightmare Clan members have only been around for a few months. Who knows what will happen to them in the future?

"But it's alright, we can give it a try and observe for a while first."

"In short, I am still young and have plenty of time. As long as I am alive, even if problems arise later, I can correct or remedy them in time."

Having thought this through, Chen Qi had made up his mind.

He wanted to imprison as many of the first generation of Nightmare Clan members as possible, and select a group of the new generation of Nightmare Clan members to send into the Nightmare Clan world, so that they could continue to be responsible for digesting the pollution of desire.

However, Chen Qi remembered another question.

"The sources of pollution in the human world all rely on connecting with the Nightmare Clan's world to obtain energy. But where does that energy come from?"

Human-polluted areas can produce large amounts of polluting energy, supplying the ever-evolving sources of pollution.

However, in the early days of the contaminated zone, the energy was obtained from the Nightmare Clan world.

In other words, the Nightmare Clan world should have another energy source!

Chen Qi's question was quickly answered by Meng Yi.

"You mean your Nightmare Clan world has a mother nest?"

According to Meng Yi, the so-called Mother Nest should be the earliest "wild crops" in the Nightmare Clan world. The "crops" that the Nightmare Clan later planted, which are the sources of pollution, were obtained from this Mother Nest.

This mother nest not only connects to all sources of pollution, but also provides energy for the resurrection of all Nightmare Clan members.

Throughout the endless ages, the Nightmare Clan has fought countless wars, large and small. Many Nightmare Clan members have died dozens or even hundreds of times, only managing to be resurrected thanks to the energy of the Mother Nest.

But the energy of the mother nest also comes from human desires.

The energy of desire that the Nightmare Clan could not digest was ultimately stored in the Mother Nest through the source of pollution.

However, the capacity of the mother nest is also limited; it cannot hold energy indefinitely. Otherwise, the mother nest alone could solve the problem of human desire release.

"Why didn't you tell me about something so important sooner?"

Meng Er scratched his head: "We only started working today."

Chen Qi was taken aback. That made sense; it had only been less than a day since he had converted Meng Yi and the other two into employees.

Meng San added, "Besides, boss, there's probably nothing you can do. We Nightmare Clan have lived for so long, and many bored people have tried to destroy the Mother Nest, but no one has ever succeeded."

"Just because others can't do it doesn't mean I can't. Take me to see what it's like."
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As it turns out, Chen Qi was indeed incapable.

He had no intention of destroying the Mother Nest. Currently, the Mother Nest is the foundation of the Nightmare Clan; if the Mother Nest is destroyed, the destruction of the Nightmare Clan is only a matter of time.

Chen Qi currently has no intention of wiping out the Nightmare Clan.

However, he did try to move the mother nest into the safe house, but he failed.

The so-called Mother Nest, like the other Nightmare Clan members, was invisible to Chen Qi. He was only able to see it after the safe house enveloped it and colored it.

But all he saw was a ball of energy; he would never see the true appearance of the Mother Nest in the eyes of the Nightmare Clan.

The human eye cannot see the true appearance of the Nightmare Clan's world.

Chen Qi could only sense a high-quality, high-density energy cluster connected to the ground of the Nightmare Clan world.

He figured that the mother nest was essentially just a top-tier source of pollution, so he tried to see if he could absorb it.

But as his safe house prepared to house the mother nest, he sensed a trend toward getting out of control.

If his safe house is a rushing river, then his mother nest is a vast ocean!
Rivers that try to swallow the sea will only end up being absorbed by the sea and becoming part of it.

"If this continues, the safe house will completely spiral out of control and get out of my control."

Chen Qi had no choice but to stop in time, abandoning his plan to either absorb the mother nest or be absorbed by it.

So while waiting for Feng Bin to be transformed, he could only wander around the Nightmare Clan world, and incidentally capture all the first-generation Nightmare Clan members who remained in the Nightmare Clan world and send them to the safe house to be locked up.

He didn't rush to turn these first-generation Nightmare Clan members into employees.

We must always keep some normal first-generation Nightmare Clan members as backups.

In case his plan goes wrong in the future, he can always put these first-generation Nightmare Clan members back into the Nightmare Clan world as a backup plan.

After a long time, Feng Bin and the other members of the Nightmare Clan who had been captured by Chen Qi all completed their transformation and became employees.

However, this time is different from the previous one. Among the first generation of Nightmare Clan members who have been transformed, apart from Feng Bin who is in a parasitic state, the others are all pure Nightmare Clan members and have not parasitized any humans.

Therefore, inside the safe house, these first-generation Nightmare Clan members became moving energy bodies, even though Chen Qi deliberately made them visible.

They can completely hide inside a safe house, making them even more sinister than the ghosts in a haunted house.

Chen Qi decisively sent them into the haunted house, making them act as ghost employees there.

In this way, the haunted house contains both real ghosts and fake ghosts (Nightmare Clan), but the fake ghosts may be more terrifying than the real ghosts.

After Feng Bin was transformed, the passage above his head also disappeared.

Chen Qi didn't linger any longer and returned to the human world through the passage above his head.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a completely unfamiliar place.

Because he was wandering around the Nightmare Clan world, he had long since strayed from the place where he first entered the Nightmare Clan world.

Different locations in the Nightmare Clan's world correspond to different locations in the human world.

Therefore, when they came out, they naturally wouldn't still be on Spring Rain Street.

"This place seems to be abroad, but everyone around me is of Asian descent, so it shouldn't be too far away."

Chen Qi took a few steps, observed for a while, and saw the billboards on the street. He recognized more than half of the words on them.

"So we've arrived in the land of cherry blossoms."

The script used in Japan is incomprehensible to the ear, but quite a bit is understandable to the eye.

I can't read the language of neighboring South Korea, but I can understand a lot of what they say.

They are still quite easy to distinguish.

"It seems the Corgis are still in Japan, but I wonder if they've been affected by pollution."

Chen Qi's college roommate, Yang Keji, was sent to work in Japan. Because he was new to the country and quite busy with work, he gradually lost contact with Chen Qi.

In addition, Chen Qi himself was busy and spent a lot of time without his freedom, so he didn't tell Yang Keji much about his situation.

However, Chen Qi also knew about the situation in the Sakura Country; the Nightmare Contamination there seemed to be quite severe.

The land of cherry blossoms is not a large place to begin with, and it seems to be completely occupied by nightmares, with only nightmares as a form of pollution.

"The Nightmare Clan lost its initial advantage in the country, so it went to occupy the neighboring Sakura Country. In addition, the atmosphere here is quite suitable for the Nightmare Clan's development."

Chen Qi took out his phone, a customized phone he had received after joining the official team, which allowed him to make calls and connect to the internet freely even abroad.

He made a phone call to Yang Keji.

The phone rang for ages before it was finally answered.

"Why did you decide to call Dad today?" As soon as the call connected, Yang Keji had already claimed the father's place.

Chen Qi vaguely heard soft, seductive music playing in the background, along with some simple cherry blossom phrases that he was familiar with.

"You're watching porn in broad daylight?" Chen Qi had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

"What do you mean watching movies? Dude, I have a girlfriend."

"Congratulations, but aren't you treating me like I'm not an outsider?"

"Brothers, what's the big deal!"

"But from what I heard on your end, it doesn't sound like something that could be made by one person alone."

Yang Keji said with a hint of boasting, "I've had three girlfriends."

"Hey kid, you didn't call me when you opened the bar?" Chen Qi joked, but he already knew in his heart that Yang Keji was almost certainly corrupted.

This guy never even had a girlfriend in China, but as soon as he went abroad, he was surrounded by women.

It's impossible even if you think about it.

At this moment, Chen Qi heard a male voice saying something to Yang Keji, but because of the language barrier, Chen Qi couldn't understand it.

"Are there any men over there?"

"Yes, my three girlfriends' boyfriends are all here too."

Chen Qi's brain went blank for a moment. What the hell was that language?
Yang Keji continued, "And their boyfriends' other girlfriends, their best friends, and their best friends' boyfriends..."

"Stop, stop, stop! Hold on!" Chen Qi interrupted. "Tell me where you are first."

"What, you've come to see me?"

"That's right, I'm currently in Japan."

Yang Keji exclaimed with delight, "Really? That's great! Come over quickly, we can play together..."

Chen Qi hung up the phone with a helpless expression, and a moment later he received a text message from Yang Keji with an address on it.

"Let's take him back to China this time." Chen Qi decided to find Yang Keji and rescue him from the contaminated area.

"But if I rescue him, he won't blame me, will he?" (End of Chapter)