Fear of food

Chapter 45 Who Moved My Cake!
Monday, October 9.

The sky was overcast, as if a downpour was brewing.

Chen Qi was also brewing a storm in his heart.

After dropping Xu An'an off last night, he went to sleep as soon as he got back. He woke up very early this morning and was full of energy, his mind filled with today's "cake plan".

It's like Sun Wukong, who's holding back his energy and preparing to wreak havoc in the Heavenly Palace.

"Good morning." Seeing the coffee in the living room, Chen Qi greeted him, then realized, "You didn't sleep all night?"

"Yes, we refined our plan again last night."

Around 8 a.m., everyone except Xu An'an gathered at the coffee shop, while Xu An'an went directly from school to the hospital.

They temporarily created a group chat called "Operation Cake" to communicate the situation at any time.

After nine o'clock, Coffee picked up her phone and made one call after another. Not long after, she snapped her fingers and said, "It's done!"

"Let's go!"

The group split into two groups and headed towards the hospital. Chen Qi and his three companions, along with their dog, rode in a minivan, while Zhui Feng rode an electric scooter.

In Zhui Feng's words, the complex terrain of the hospital is his home turf, which is more conducive to his performance.

Meanwhile, inside the inpatient building of Jingyi Affiliated Hospital.

Dr. Zhao had barely arrived at the office, and before he could even settle in, the landline on his desk rang.

He answered the phone.

"Hello, Dean Zhou."

"Go to the Yuhai Group for a free medical consultation?"

"Why so sudden?"

"Okay, okay, I get it."

Dr. Zhao frowned after hanging up the phone.

Nurse Xiaoru, who was making tea for Dr. Zhao, asked curiously, "Why were you suddenly asked to go out for free clinics?"

Dr. Zhao frowned and said, "They said that Yuhai Group intends to donate money to our hospital and made such a request, so Dean Zhou naturally couldn't refuse."

"Why didn't you call another doctor over? You're so busy..."

Dr. Zhao stood up and said, "I wasn't the only one who went. In fact, they specifically asked me to go, saying that a senior executive of the company had been my patient and was very satisfied with my treatment."

Nurse Xiaoru showered him with compliments: "It's all thanks to your reputation that you're able to do more work."

Dr. Zhao smiled slightly: "It's good to go out for a walk. People who work in big companies are under a lot of pressure. I heard that many of them don't even eat well."
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Zhui Feng parked his electric scooter downstairs at the hospital building, then walked to the parking lot and found a black minivan.

He opened the car door and got in.

Coffee tossed a set of clothes over and said, "Dr. Zhao has left. You can proceed now."

A short while later, Gan Shui and Zhui Feng, dressed in suits and wearing Yu Hai Group work badges around their necks, got out of the car and walked straight towards the hospital building.

Chen Qi sat in the passenger seat of the van, watching their figures disappear through the window at the entrance of the hospital building, his heart pounding with anxiety.

If everything goes well, he won't have to do anything but wait for the cream cake to arrive.

Back at the hospital, waiting for news about the cream cake, Chen Qi's abnormal obsession with the cream cake resurfaced.

He kept swallowing, his saliva production increased significantly, and he felt an emptiness in his stomach that was different from hunger!

Time ticked by in agonizing waiting. Even though no message notifications came, Chen Qi would still pick up his phone every now and then to check the group chat.

About twenty minutes later, all three people in the car had their phones ring at the same time!
Chen Qi quickly looked at his phone.

Chasing the Wind: Couldn't find a cream cake
Chasing the Wind: Photo.jpg
Chasing the Wind: I've looked all around, nothing there! Chen Qi is very familiar with the location in the photo; it's exactly the same as the one in the video Xu An'an took back then.

The familiar hospital room was cluttered with miscellaneous items, and the bedside table had some peeling paint, but the pile of bottles and jars of trash next to the bedside table, along with the cream cake, had all disappeared.

A tremendous sense of loss overwhelmed Chen Qi, making him feel as if a piece of his heart had been cut out.

Where is my cream cake?
Who touched my cake!
Coffee took a sip of coffee and asked, "Could it have been cleaned up a long time ago?"

Chen Qi shook his head: "It has never happened before. As long as I don't touch it, no one will clean up wild food."

“I didn’t quite understand it before, but now that I know they might be the source of pollution, it’s not hard to understand why people who are polluted would clean up the pollution sources.”

"The cream cake won't be cleaned up, and normally it won't be moved either. I feel like it's still in the hospital building! It's even more likely in a closed ward!"

“That makes sense.” Coffee nodded in agreement. “As a more sophisticated source of contamination than ordinary wild food, the cream cake must have served a purpose in being stored in the closed ward. It wouldn’t be easily moved; it must have been hidden away.”

At that moment, all three of their phones rang again.

Chasing the Wind: The swill helped me stall the others, and I searched through all the cabinets in this ward.

Zhui Feng: I've checked under the bed, in the corner, in the toilet, and on the windowsill. I'm sure it's not in this room!

Chasing the Wind: What do we do now?
Chen Qi took a deep breath: "I'll have to go in and look for it myself."

Zhui Feng and his team had already done their best. Two people who came to inspect the hospital couldn't possibly search every single room in the ward.

Now, only Chen Qi's food detection ability offers any hope of finding it!
Coffee sighed: "As expected, plans can't keep up with changes. Do you know what you'll be facing now that you're in a closed ward?"

Unlike Chen Qi and Zhui Feng, Chen Qi was an escaped patient at the hospital, and many of the hospital's security guards knew him.

If he wants to enter a closed ward, he can only do so as a patient.

In the original second plan, Chen Qi would enter the closed ward, eat a cream cake, and then use the ability of the derived food to break through the encirclement and leave the closed ward.

But now I don't even know where the cream cake is!

Chen Qi nodded: "Of course I know. Imprisonment, hunger, violence... I wouldn't last a day there. The longer I stay, the more dangerous it will be for me!"

"If they stay overnight in there... then they can just kick me out of the group."

"So I must find the cream cake as quickly as possible, and if I'm sure it's not there, I'll leave as soon as possible."

Coffee frowned: "If you can't find a cream cake, how are you going to get out?"

"Of course, we'll use the simplest method."

At this point, Chen Qi gripped the baguette in his hand tightly.

Coffee didn't say anything more, but simply picked up her phone and replied to the messages in the group.

Coffee: Chase, you two don't rush out. Biscuit, go in right away. You two are responsible for covering him.

Chen Q sent Xu An'an a message, then left his phone in the car and got out with his baguette.

"Be careful!" Coffee rolled down the car window and warned repeatedly.

Big Pancake clenched his fist and shouted, "Big Pancake and I are ready to charge in and save you at any time!"

Chen Qi nodded: "Don't worry, I'll be out safely."

After saying that, he walked towards the hospital building.

Coffee and Pancake watched Chen Qi walk to the hospital building and meet up with Xu An'an, who was running over.

Xu An'an took the paper bag containing the baguette from Chen Qi and ran into the hospital building.

A short while later, she rushed out with five or six security guards. The guards quickly subdued Chen Qi and escorted him into the hospital building, while Xu An'an followed them inside.
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I'm begging you all to read this tomorrow, Monday. Tomorrow's reading time is crucial to whether this book will be featured on the Sanjiang Literature City website. It hasn't been easy for this niche food novel to get this far, so I'm humbly asking for your support!
(End of this chapter)