Fear of food

Chapter 38 The Source of Terror

The sudden turn of events left everyone stunned.

Everyone looked at the food in their hands.

The half-eaten tiramisu turned into a pale yellow piece of fatty tissue, covered with a layer of fine blood vessels. As her hand trembled, the entire fatty cake shook.

The chicken leg in the swill's hand suddenly came alive, each of its meat fibers wriggling and tilting its head back like a fledgling bird waiting to be fed.

The lollipop that Zhui Feng licked a few times turned back into a kidney stone.

Everyone immediately dropped the food in their hands, their first reaction being that the scope of their food phobia had expanded!
But then I realized something was wrong.

They weren't parked right next to the border. After discovering that the food had returned to normal, Chen Qi carefully examined the food in the bag. Zhui Feng took a lollipop and ate a few bites in the car, and then the two of them exchanged a few words.

Although it may only take a minute or two, it's enough time for the car to travel a long distance.

The spread of food-related fears couldn't possibly be this fast!

If it really happens at this speed, let alone a month, the surrounding cities would probably fall in a day or two.

"Damn, did I accidentally eat that?" the swill-drinking man said, his face pale.

"That shouldn't be the case, but I'm wondering if anything that's eaten but not digested could also turn into weird food?" Zhui Feng also seemed a little flustered.

Coffee took a cup of coffee from the car, took a sip, quickly regained her composure, and analyzed:
"If we are contaminated, we will no longer be able to see any abnormalities in the food, so there is no need to worry."

"But the sudden change in the food is also very unusual; there must be a special reason."

"Momo has not mentioned this, which means he has not experienced it, nor have his other pica friends."

She adopted the air of a domineering female CEO and instructed, "Zhuifeng, take the strange food and walk back the way we came. See if the food changes."

“Ganshui, you take the weird food and drive in the opposite direction from Zhuifeng to see how far the food phobia has spread.”

The man with the dog, Dabing, asked, "What about me?"

"You?" Coffee thought for a moment, then pointed to the several strange foods discarded on the ground. "Feed them to the dog and see if it will eat them."

Finally, Coffee approached Chen Qi, who was pale-faced, and asked, "Are you alright, Biscuit?"

Chen Qi shook his head: "It's nothing, it just feels really wrong."

When he ate the dried tofu, he was certain that the dried tofu had not transformed into a strange food, so why did he vomit it out uncontrollably?

Moreover, even if one has eaten strange food, this is not the proper reaction.

An absurd thought popped into his head: Had I lost the ability to eat normal food?

If he can't eat strange foods and can't eat normal foods, then he can only eat wild foods.
"It's a success!" Big Pancake suddenly shouted excitedly.

It turned out that the chicken leg that had been half-eaten with swill had been turned back into a seemingly normal chicken leg after the golden retriever took a bite.

Just then, the swill truck, which had only driven away a short while earlier, turned back.

He had just parked his car when Zhui Feng sped back.

This was the first time Chen Qi had witnessed the speed of Zhui Feng's running. As expected of someone who had been enhanced by high-grade food, he possessed a speed completely inconsistent with his slightly chubby physique.

That's roughly comparable to an average track and field athlete.

Gan Shui said, "I drove forward for about a hundred meters, and the strange food I was carrying returned to normal. But when I turned around, it turned back again."

Zhui Feng said with a solemn expression, "I was almost the same. I ran back less than a hundred meters and the food turned back to normal, but when I turned around, it turned back into weird food."

The moment these words were spoken, the room fell silent. Everyone noticed the obvious abnormality in the situation!

Things started to take an increasingly strange turn...

The swill area was fine, but the problem was with Chasing Wind. He ran back less than a hundred meters, but ended up walking out of the food phobia zone!

Doesn't this mean that the food-fear area they are currently in is not connected to the food-fear area in Jinghai City? Gan Shui said, "In other words, it can be basically ruled out that the food-fear area in Jinghai City has spread here."

Zhui Feng's face was grim: "We seem to be in a completely new, independent micro-region of food phobia."

Chen Qi frowned and said, "Moreover, the location we are in now seems to be the center of this area."

Zhui Feng and Gan Shui ran about 100 meters in opposite directions and then left the area. It is highly likely that the radius of this new food-fearing area is about 100 meters.

Coffee pondered, "There must be a reason for this unusual situation. How come we just happen to be here, and this place has become the center of the new food-fear zone?"

"They were perfectly fine just a second ago!"

"This didn't happen when Momo and the other Phantom Eaters came out!"

"What makes us different from them?"

These words seemed to awaken Chen Qi. He opened his backpack and poured out the wild food inside.

Wild food is still wild food, but...

Something feels off!

Coffee, with her keenest insight, narrowed her eyes slightly and said, "It seems to have shrunk a little!"

"Now that you put it that way, it seems to be true!"

Wild food is getting smaller!
Chen Qi's heart skipped a beat: "Could the emergence of this miniature food phobia zone be related to wild food?"

Not only Chen Qi, but others had obviously thought of this as well.

The way everyone looked at Chen Qi became somewhat strange.

"What exactly did I eat?!"

"What exactly are wild foods? And why can they create new food-fear zones?"

Chen Qi stuffed the wild food back into his backpack, slung it over his shoulder, and said to the others, "I'll keep going and see if the food-fear zone moves with me."

Coffee opened the car door: "Get in, I'll drive you faster."

The two drove for about a hundred meters when a message came in the group chat.

Chasing the Wind: My food is back to normal!
Upon seeing the message, Chen Qi threw his backpack out the window.

Coffee looked at him with some surprise.

Chen Qi said, "Coffee Sister, let's drive back."

Coffee seemed to realize something, her expression changed slightly, she said nothing more, and turned back to where she was.

When the two got out of the car and saw that the food in Zhui Feng's hands had not changed, they both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, the worst-case scenario didn't happen," Chen Qi thought to himself.

If the area of ​​food-fear moves back with him when he returns, then it means that he is the source of the terror!

After discovering that wild food might be the source of the terror, Chen Qi became insecure about his own health.

After all, can someone who eats the source of terror all day long be considered a normal person?
Originally, I wanted to ask the group members for help, but now I don't know what they think of me... Chen Qi observed the expressions on the faces of his teammates.

Then Big Pancake excitedly exclaimed, "Wow, Biscuit, your abilities are amazing!"

Coffee joked, "I told you cookies aren't our species! Aren't you scared?"

The swill said indifferently, "This is a good thing. If everyone were as useless as us, we would be hopeless."

Zhui Feng glared and said, "What am I afraid of? Biscuits saved my life!"

(End of this chapter)