Fear of food

Chapter 68 Can’t go back
Chen Qi was startled and found himself increasingly bewildered by his current predicament.

I don't know if this is a dream, a hallucination, or if it's all real.
However, when he saw Bian Zihan and the female student run out, a thought struck him.

"If I find a corpse with problems, I can use the excuse of going to see a doctor to escape, right?"

So he looked around, searching for a "patient" with a problem.

Furthermore, eye and skin problems must be ruled out, as ophthalmologists and dermatologists have already been called in.

Chen Qi quickened his pace and entered the dimly lit area, scanning his surroundings. Suddenly, he noticed something unusual about a corpse.

Despite the poor visibility, he could hardly ignore the corpse because it was so large!

The entire corpse swelled up, like an inflated balloon, its skin taut to the point of being translucent, with a network of bluish-black, putrid veins spreading and twisting beneath the swollen skin, like fungi growing underground.

His limbs were as thick as tree trunks, his abdomen was bulging high, his head was swollen to twice its original size, his eyeballs bulged out of their sockets, and his grayish-white tongue protruded between his lips and teeth.

A putrid stench hit him, making Chen Qi feel nauseous, but he forcibly suppressed the nausea.

A giant's vision!
Chen Qi had heard of this phenomenon before; it was caused by excessive gas production inside a highly decomposed corpse.

He immediately raised his hand and said, "Professor Xia, this patient is exhibiting gigantism!"

Hearing the sound, Xia Huiyun quickly walked over, glanced at the highly decomposed corpse, and asked Chen Qi, "Do you know how to handle this situation?"

Chen Qi shook his head: "Which doctor do you want to see? I'll go right now!"

“No need to see a doctor.” Xia Huiyun shook her head. “This is caused by too much gas in the body. You can just give artificial respiration to expel the gas.”

If Chen Qi had a baguette in his hand right now, he would have already smashed it over Xia Huiyun's head.

Are you fucking kidding me?

"Teacher Xia, I don't know how. Could you demonstrate for me?" Chen Qi asked humbly.

Xia Huiyun didn't seem to feel offended and waved to the male teacher not far away.

The male teacher quickly ran over, and without Xia Huiyun saying anything, he had already put the giant's mouth into his mouth, inhaled deeply, and exhaled a string of green gas.

"You're ruthless..." Chen Qi's expression changed slightly, and he silently looked away and quietly moved away.

"Oh no! A patient has woken up!"

Suddenly a scream was heard, and a female student was at a loss, jumping up and down anxiously next to a corpse.

Xia Huiyun, who had remained calm throughout, changed her expression slightly. She rushed forward and shouted, "Get the defibrillator!"

At this moment, the patient rubbed his eyes in a daze, but then became alert, his eyes instantly cleared, and he sat up abruptly.

However, before he could make any move, a male teacher rushed up and pinned him down.

Another male teacher also gave up performing artificial respiration and ran over to help. The two of them held the patient firmly on the dissection table.

Just then, a student brought over a defibrillator. Xia Huiyun glanced at it and said impatiently, "Go get the old one, the old one has more power!"

Even so, she picked up the defibrillator first, and a perceptive student immediately helped her plug it in.

"Maximum power!"

Xia Huiyun pressed the defibrillator onto the patient's chest and pulled it out abruptly.

The patient shuddered and cried out in pain.

At this moment, a student brought over another defibrillator: "Dr. Xia, I've brought the high-powered one."

"Use both at once!" Xia Huiyun ordered. A group of people busied themselves, taking turns using two defibrillators on the patient.

The patient couldn't take it and fainted.

One student listened with a stethoscope and said with a serious expression, "The heartbeat is regular and strong!"

"Bring the CPR machine!" Xia Huiyun said decisively.

Chen Qi's expression changed. He had heard of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine, commonly known as the "pile driver." Using this machine basically meant that the rescue had reached the last step.

Seeing that everyone was gathered around the patient and no one was paying attention to him, he thought to himself that this was a good opportunity to slip away.

So he quietly retreated to the laboratory door, turned around and ran out.

He stubbornly continued running back the way he came, intending to run back to the girls' dormitory to see if he could escape the illusion.

Soon, he ran back to the path in front of the girls' dormitory, but when he looked at his body, he was still human and had not turned back into a dog.

He continued running forward, intending to climb over the wall from where he came from, to see if Dabing and the others were still outside the wall, and if so, whether things were normal.
But as he ran, he realized something was wrong. He ran for a long time, but he could never reach the end of this narrow path that seemed to have no end at all!
"Ghost hits the wall?"

Chen Qi tried various methods, but no matter how he changed the route or his posture, whether he ran backwards or with his eyes closed, he could not reach the end of the road.

"It seems that won't work."

As Chen Qi changed direction to look for other ways out, he pondered:

"If it really is an illusion, no matter how much I run in the illusion, I can't escape its range unless I move my real body, that is, my dog ​​body, and move it outside the illusion."

"But now I can't sense my dog ​​body at all... Even if my teammates come to rescue me, I might fall into an illusion."

"It seems I only have two options to get out: either find a way to break the illusion, or wait half an hour and see if my consciousness can return to my original body!"

Normally, after the effect of the human-dog fusion ends, his consciousness will return to his own body.

But Chen Qi wasn't sure if he could escape the illusion using this method.

He estimated that he had been inside for about ten minutes, and he would know the answer in another ten minutes.

Chen Qi did not intend to wait idly. If this trick failed, he would still seek other ways to escape, making the most of every minute.

He tried running in several different directions, but no matter which direction he ran, he would soon get lost in a maze.

Based on the location and distance of his encounter with the "ghost wall," it's easy to conclude that the "ghost wall" was generated centered around the laboratory.

As long as he runs to a place four or five hundred meters away from the laboratory, he will encounter a ghost wall.

"Half an hour should have passed by now."

Chen Qi sighed. The worst had happened; he was trapped and couldn't go back!

"It seems that to break this deadlock, we must return to the laboratory."

Chen Qi ran all the way back to the laboratory and found that the patient who had regained consciousness earlier was now lying peacefully on the dissection table again thanks to their efforts.

However, the other patient in the bed next to his woke up.

Three teachers, along with a group of students, were performing first aid on the patient who had regained consciousness. No one noticed Chen Qi's return, just as no one noticed his departure.

Chen Qi glanced at the depths of the laboratory, at the dark places where the lights couldn't reach, and without hesitation, he stepped into them.

(End of this chapter)