Fear of food

Chapter 15 Grimace Cookies
Chen Qi slumped to the ground and saw Sun Xuechao, who was also lying on his back, panting heavily.

Both of them were wearing tattered hospital gowns, and had several scratches on their bodies. Chen Qi's face was also bruised.

Chen Qi wiped the blood from his nose and let out a long breath: "Thank goodness... I pulled through."

He suddenly stopped and slowly opened his palm.

In his palm, he was holding a small cookie!

"This is……"

Chen Qi frowned; he had no idea when the biscuit had appeared in his hand.

"Could it be that someone slipped it to me during the chaos just now?"

"impossible!"

Chen Qi immediately dismissed the idea. Those people had practically pried his mouth open with knives, how could they possibly stuff cookies into his mouth!

He had been holding the jianbing guozi (a type of Chinese crepe) in both hands the whole time, with nothing else in his hands.

Later, his hands were restrained, and he struggled desperately. At that time, his palms were open, and there was nothing in them.

"So, this cookie only appeared after I completely ate the jianbing guozi?"

"Could these cookies be related to Jianbing Guozi (Chinese crepes)?"

Chen Qi examined the cookie in his palm. It looked like an ordinary round cookie, not much bigger than a coin, with a ghost face pattern drawn on it.

Unlike dry bread, which may look normal but gives a very obvious feeling of "unpalatable".

But it doesn't look as appealing as other wild foods.

Chen Qi wasn't sure if the ghost-face biscuits were wild food, but they should at least be food he could eat.

Considering that it is very likely related to the special wild food "Jianbing Guozi", it feels that its value should be higher than that of ordinary wild food.

"These cookies look soft and fragile, but even after I've held them in my hand for so long, not a single crumb has fallen off."

"Want to try eating it?"

It was just a small cookie, barely a bite, but Chen Qi thought about it and held back.

The main reason was that his body had fully recovered to its peak state after eating the jianbing guozi (Chinese crepe), and he felt no hunger at all.

It would be a waste to eat it now.

He may need to consume wild foods for a long time in the future, so foods that are easy to hide and eat, such as ghoul cookies, should be stored away.

In addition, he instinctively felt that the ghost face biscuits were special and different from ordinary wild foods, and he was also afraid that accidentally eating them would cause some uncontrollable consequences.

"Speaking of which, this Jianbing Guozi is indeed quite amazing, but..."

Chen Qi looked thoughtful. The jianbing guozi (Chinese crepe) instantly restored his depleted body, bringing him back to full strength, which was already incredible.

After all, reality isn't a game; you can't just use a big potion to instantly restore full health and mana.

But the jianbing guozi (Chinese crepe) did indeed have the same effect as the medicine bottle in the game.

But compared to what he had just experienced, he suddenly felt that it was "nothing special".

After causing such a commotion, taking such a big risk, and suffering so much, all that's left is a full physical recovery?
He might as well collect more common wild food.

Eating more common wild foods can achieve the same effect.

There isn't that much risk yet.

"If a jianbing guozi is so special and only has this one effect, it's really not worth it."

“Unless…” Chen Qi weighed the small cookie in his hand, “unless this ghost face cookie is also a derivative of jianbing guozi, and has other special functions.”

He plans to ask Momo later.

Chen Qi put the cookies away and quietly stared at the door of the ward.

Although the crowd has dispersed, some people are still lingering.

Most of them were medical staff from this floor, gathered at the ward entrance, discussing something. Looking at the messy ward, Chen Qi honestly didn't know how to clean it up.

With such a large-scale riot, can the hospital really turn a blind eye and pretend that nothing happened?
After resting for a short while, Chen Qi got up; he still had a lot to do.

He went to his hospital bed, which was covered in footprints, lifted the blanket and rummaged through it until he finally found his phone.

"Thank goodness..." Chen Qi breathed a sigh of relief. The phone was well protected by the bedding and was lucky to be undamaged.

The screen was filled with unread messages, almost all of which came from Yang Keji.

They had agreed to play games together, but Chen Qi suddenly went missing. Corgi thought something had happened to Chen Qi and made many phone calls.

Chen Qi quickly replied to Corgi: There was a little emergency just now, I'm fine, but I don't have time for a parent-child activity with you today.

The situation was too complicated, so Chen Qi didn't say much.

Corgi is leaving the country tomorrow, so I'd better not worry him too much.

The key issue is that this guy, besides worrying unnecessarily, can't offer any real help.

There was also a message from Xu An'an asking if he was still alive.

This means that Xu An'an also noticed the anomaly here.

Chen Qi replied: You've come to the inpatient building?

Finally, Chen Qi opened the "Passerby" app and gave Momo a brief description of the ghost face cookies.

He only said that the grimace cookies appeared after he ate a special food, and then asked Momo if she knew anything about it.

After doing all that, he put down his phone and looked at Sun Xuechao lying on the ground.

"Brother Sun... I'll just call you Brother Sun. Thank you for your help. I think we should have a good talk."

Chen Qi never expected that Sun Xuechao, whom he had always considered mentally ill, would go to such lengths to help him.

He also noticed something unusual about Sun Xuechao, something that set him apart from others.

Take the previous example: all the patients were affected by the jianbing guozi (Chinese crepe) and formed a "food protection team," but only Sun Xuechao was not affected and even helped Chen Qi fight against the food protection team.

This puzzled Chen Qi, who even suspected that Sun Xuechao was one of them.

However, he had personally witnessed Sun Xuechao eating all sorts of bizarre foods every day.

In truth, he knew too little about Sun Xuechao. The two had been roommates for over a week, but had hardly communicated at all.

Sun Xuechao sat up, opened his mouth as if to say something, when suddenly hurried footsteps came from the door of the ward.

Chen Qi turned his head and saw two security guards following behind Dr. Zhao at the door.

"What happened?" Dr. Zhao's face was unusually devoid of a smile.

He walked towards Chen Qi and the other man with a stern face.

“We’ve been attacked,” Chen Qi replied.

"That's not what I heard."

"Oh?" Chen Qi raised an eyebrow. "What kind of rumor did Dr. Zhao hear?"

Dr. Zhao did not answer, but instead winked at the two security guards.

Two security guards stepped forward, trying to restrain Chen Qi. Each of them grabbed one of Chen Qi's arms, saying, "Please cooperate."

Chen Qi said with a mocking expression, "Dr. Zhao, are you not even going to keep up the act anymore?"

Although Dr. Zhao had done many things behind Chen Qi's back in the past, he still appeared to be easygoing on the surface.

But now they seem ready to completely break off relations.

Chen Qi suspected that his act of eating the jianbing guozi might have angered the other party.

If Dr. Zhao were also a member of the "food protection team," given his position in the hospital, he would be considered a general.

(End of this chapter)