Fear of food

Chapter 90 Hidden High-Class Food

Chen Qi saw many unreasonable aspects in this notice.

"This seems to be an official move, a perfunctory fabrication of a reason for a holiday, giving all schools in the city a three-day break. But what is the purpose?"

Chen Qi noted down these clues, but didn't waste too much time thinking about it.

He searched the radio station but found nothing of value. After leaving the radio station, he saw the stairs leading to the second floor.

"Should we continue exploring the first floor, or go straight upstairs?"

Generally speaking, the more the enemy wants him to do something, the less he should do it.

There's absolutely no other way now but to grit our teeth and explore the teaching building in order to rescue our teammates and find a way out.

After thinking it over, Chen Qi decided to go directly to the place where the problem was most likely to exist.

Based on past experience, the most dangerous places in a polluted area are often also the places most likely to contain high-quality wild food.

If he could eat the high-grade wild food from Jingquan School, perhaps all the anomalies would disappear!

"Lin Ning, does this little girl really exist, or is she just bait to lure me in?"

"Or perhaps it does exist, but doesn't possess such a special ability?"

Chen Qi remembered that Chili had mentioned before that Lin Ning was a third-year student. Although he didn't know if it was true or not, she should be around that age.

So he decided to go and check out a few classrooms for the third graders first.

The first floor is mostly classrooms for first and second graders. The school building has four floors in total, and Chen Qi guessed that the classrooms for third graders should be on the second or third floor.

Chen Qi arrived on the second floor, looked around, and found that the second floor was divided into half classrooms for second graders and half for third graders.

He walked towards the third-grade classroom, and before he even reached the door, he heard a clear, resonant reading voice:
"3. Eat on time, don't be picky about food, don't waste food, and start the 'Clean Plate Campaign' with me."

4. Eat more frequent meals and replenish food in a timely manner, never let your stomach be idle...

"5. Do not rush for food; eat in an orderly and polite manner; distribute food according to status and rank..."

"6. Do not judge food by its appearance; moldy, rotten, or spoiled food is still edible. Strive to be a messenger who cleans the altar..."

Chen Qi listened carefully for a while, then looked puzzled. What was all this about?

He walked toward the classroom from which the sound of reading came, and eventually arrived at the door of classroom 302.

He glanced into the classroom and was immediately overjoyed: he had found his teammates!
Or, to put it another way, of the seven students reading in the classroom, four were his teammates!
Coffee, Garbage, Chasing Wind, and Big Pancake are all here, but Xu An'an is nowhere to be seen.

He also recognized the other three students: a little girl named Lin Ning, and a fair-skinned young man and a dark-skinned young man who had fought alongside him in the illusion at Jinghai Medical College.

However, this time, the fair-skinned young man and the dark-skinned young man were completely different from the last time they met.

Last time they lay in the morgue, covered only by a white sheet. This time, the two were fully armed, with guns and other weapons strapped to their bodies.

"What we saw last time was probably just their 'humanity' in the illusion; what we're seeing now is their true selves."

Chen Qi carefully observed everyone's condition and couldn't help but worry. They all had blank stares and were mechanically reading strange books.

He glanced towards the podium and saw a young female teacher standing there.

Chen Qi had one hand on the pistol at his waist and the other gripping a large syringe, ready to act at any moment.

When the female teacher saw him, she said with delight, "You must be the new substitute teacher today? Since you haven't come, I had to have them attend evening reading sessions and read the 'Twenty Rules for Eating' first."

"I'll be leaving now that you're here. You should continue teaching them well; the children are eager to learn."

After saying that, the female teacher turned and went upstairs.

Chen Qi walked into the classroom, then suddenly stopped, his eyes scanning the room, a look of surprise and doubt on his face.

He sensed high-quality wild food!
His food detection ability kicked in, sensing the presence of high-quality wild food within the classroom.

Unlike before, this time the sensation was hazy, as if there was a barrier between them, making it impossible for him to pinpoint the location of the high-grade wild food.

That powerful attraction seemed to have been partially neutralized, significantly diminishing its appeal to him.

"It's right here in this classroom, where is it hidden?"

He looked around, but found nothing.

This was the first time he had encountered such a situation. Even before he had the ability to detect food, he could be attracted by a jianbing guozi (a type of Chinese crepe) from a hundred meters away.

But this time, even though they knew the high-quality wild food was right there in this small classroom, they couldn't locate it!
He could only suppress his doubts and excitement, and focus on saving his teammates first.

"swill?"

"A flatbread?"

Chen Qi called out a few times, but no one paid any attention to him.

He reached out and nudged Zhuifeng, but still didn't interrupt his reading.

In the end, they had to cover Zhui Feng's mouth to finally make him stop.

But as soon as you let go, Zhuifeng will continue reading aloud.

At this moment, Chen Qi inadvertently noticed a red object on the back of Zhui Feng's hand.

He leaned closer to take a look and saw that it was a small red flower, or rather, an incomplete small red flower, missing a corner.

But upon closer inspection, one can see that the little red flower is "growing," gradually becoming complete at a slow pace.

Chen Qi thought for a moment, then covered Zhui Feng's mouth again and looked at the little red flower in his hand. He immediately noticed that the little red flower had stopped growing.

Chen Qi quickly checked the others' hands and found that his teammates all had an incomplete little red flower on their hands, while Lin Ning had two on the back of her hand. The dark-skinned youth and the fair-skinned, strong youth had the most little red flowers on their hands, almost reaching three!
"So the longer you read, the more little red flowers you get; once you stop reading, the number stops growing."

Chen Qi didn't know what the little red flower meant, but he intuitively knew it wasn't anything good.

"Should we knock them out, or... feed them wild food?"

Chen Qi took out some wild food he carried with him, selected a wild jujube, and stuffed it into the mouth of the burly young man.

To be on the safe side, he didn't experiment on his own teammates first.

The young man's reading voice was suddenly interrupted, but he subconsciously tried to spit out the jujube in his mouth. Chen Qi quickly covered his mouth and forced him to swallow it.

When Chen Qi was feeding Dr. Zhao before, he realized that forcing someone to eat was not an easy task.

If the other person doesn't want to swallow when it's put in their mouth, he doesn't have any good solutions. Liquid food or drinks are probably the easiest to handle.

However, Chen Qi didn't have any wild liquid food or drinks on hand, so he had no choice but to force himself to eat them.

In the end, Chen Qi had no choice but to shove the barrel of his pistol into the throat of the burly young man.

It was only with great difficulty that the young man with fair skin managed to swallow the wild food.

The next moment, the muscular young man suddenly vomited violently, expelling a pool of black substance.

The confusion on his face quickly faded, and his eyes instantly became wary.

"it works!"

Chen Qi's eyes lit up, and he prepared to do the same to force-feed wild food to his teammates.

"Who are you?" The burly young man stood up and asked warily.

"You don't recognize me?" Chen Qi was taken aback, then realized that what he had seen in the illusion was only the other person's humanity, while the other person himself did not have those memories.

Just then, clear footsteps came from outside the door. Chen Qi's expression changed slightly, and he quickly gestured for him to sit down.

The young man with fair skin reacted quickly, sitting up straight, picking up a book, his eyes becoming vacant, and following the rhythm of the others as he began to read.

Chen Qi turned around and saw that the person who came was the bald head of the teaching department.

When Chen Qi saw the Dean of Students again, he seemed indifferent. He had figured it out: since these people wouldn't kill him but had other intentions towards him, it meant that he was invincible here!

He has nothing to fear.

The dean of students ignored Chen Qi and walked straight up to the dark-skinned youth.

The dark-skinned youth suddenly stood up, slapped the back of his hand on his forehead, and three small red flowers appeared on his forehead, while the small red flowers on the back of his hand disappeared.

All three little red flowers are intact, without any missing ones.

The head of the teaching department said, "Outstanding students who collect all three little red flowers can become flag bearers, which is a great honor."

After saying that, he turned and left, and the dark-skinned youth followed closely behind him as he left the classroom.

After the two left, the burly young man immediately put down his book and took out a cell phone.

When Chen Qi looked at it, he realized that the phone was exactly the same as the one he had found on Chili.

"Stop looking, there's no signal," Chen Qi said. "Come over and help."

As he spoke, he took out another piece of wild food and stuffed it into Dabing's mouth.

"Who exactly are you? Why didn't that parasite grab you just now?" the burly young man asked warily, though it was clear that his hostility towards Chen Qi had lessened considerably.

"Just know that if I hadn't saved you, you would already be raising the flag with your teammates."

Chen Qi tossed him a piece of wild food: "Help me feed them this. They'll regain their senses after eating it."

But just then, the classroom speakers suddenly played soothing musical bells.

get out of class is over!
All the students in the classroom stood up in unison and ran out of the classroom.

Chen Qi only had time to hold down a large pancake and force the wild enoki mushrooms into his mouth.

The burly young man standing nearby quickly stepped forward to help, and the two of them worked together to finally feed the child successfully.

After eating the wild food, Da Bing vomited for a while but finally regained consciousness. When he saw Chen Qi, he was overjoyed: "Biscuit!"

"Come on, there's no time to talk, come with me first."

Without saying a word, Chen Qi got up and ran out of the classroom. He still needed to find a way to rescue his other teammates.

As soon as I stepped out of the classroom and looked down through the corridor railing, I saw that the playground was brightly lit and many people were already standing below the flagpole.

There were Chen Qi's other three teammates, a little girl named Lin Ning, and teachers that Chen Qi had met before and those he hadn't met before.

However, neither Chen Qi's mother, Zhang Qin, nor Xu An'an were seen.

On the flag-raising platform, there were only the head of teaching affairs and a dark-skinned young man.

"The flag-raising ceremony begins!"

At the dean's command, the dark-skinned youth stood under the flagpole, put one end of the rope around his neck, and then pulled the rope with both hands...

The rope tightened rapidly, strangling his neck, and then slowly rose, hoisting him up little by little.

He kept pulling on the rope, raising himself higher and higher until he reached the top of the flagpole, using his body as the flag.

(End of this chapter)