Fear of food

Chapter 69 You're Too Gentle
As the center of the illusionary maze, and possibly even the center of the entire illusion, the laboratory must hold the key to the breeding of anomalies.

Illusions don't arise out of nowhere; as long as the root cause is found, there is hope of breaking free from them.

"It's so dark here. I wish I still had my phone with me."

Chen Qi groped his way to the depths of the laboratory, trying to stay close to the walls, but he couldn't find the switch to turn on the lights.

However, you might occasionally touch a corpse lying around, and sometimes the stench of a dead body would fill the air.

This so-called laboratory didn't look like a laboratory at all; it was more like a large morgue. Chen Qi walked forward for a long time but couldn't reach the end.

In the pitch black, Chen Qi touched a corpse once again, but he was already used to it.

Along the way, he had touched countless corpses. At first, he felt a little creeped out, but he got used to it. They were just a mass of motionless flesh.

But this time, a cold hand suddenly grabbed Chen Qi's wrist...

Feeling the touch on his wrist, Chen Qi was startled and instantly became furious. Without thinking twice, he started throwing a flurry of punches at the corpse.

He's performing first aid on a corpse!

That's right, isn't that what all the teachers and students do?
Chen Qi suddenly understood Xia Huiyun and the others; if a corpse had come back to life, of course they would make it lie back down!

Because he couldn't see anything, Chen Qi had no idea how badly he had beaten the corpse. He could only quickly take a few steps forward to create distance.

But then, a soft, weak female voice came from behind, with a hint of crying: "You just hit me? Aren't you going to do anything else to me?"

"It's a female corpse?" Chen Qi didn't stop walking; instead, he walked even faster.

However, he accidentally bumped into an autopsy table, which made him wince in pain.

"Are you one of them too?" the female corpse behind him continued to ask. "It doesn't seem like it. You didn't even put me on the machine."

"You're too gentle to just hit me with your fists."

These words sounded strange to Chen Qi, but they successfully kept the naturally suspicious man at bay.

"Who exactly are you?" he asked in a low voice.

It's not hard to tell from the female corpse's words that she was in a similar situation to the two patients who had just woken up. As soon as she regained consciousness, she had to face the resuscitation methods of the parasitic teachers and students to ensure that she was in a deep sleep.

"My name is Du Yuxuan," the female voice replied. "I am a freshman at Jinghai Normal University."

"A student from Jinghai Normal University? Then how did you end up at Jinghai Medical College? And you even got the job..." Chen Qi didn't know how to describe it for a moment.

Is this a corpse or a living person?
"I don't know. They shocked me as soon as I woke up. They even listened to my heartbeat while I was pretending to be dead. I couldn't hide it from them at all."

Before Chen Qi could say anything more, a beam of light suddenly fell from above.

The light above him suddenly turned on, and the sudden change in light made him squint, but he still managed to see that the person lying on the dissection table was indeed a thin girl.

Her face was pale, and her eyes were filled with fear and helplessness.

Then Chen Qi heard someone shout, "The patients over there have woken up too!"

"Quick! Go and save her!"

The footsteps grew closer, and Chen Qi quickly turned around and strode forward, disappearing back into the darkness.

A moment later, he vaguely heard Du Yuxuan's screams behind him.

Chen Qi walked cautiously in the darkness, slowing down his pace, thinking to himself: In these dark places, it seems that the lights only turn on automatically when the corpses wake up.

The only light in the entire laboratory that's always on is at the entrance. Does that mean the corpses there often wake up? "That should be it. Just a short while ago, two of them woke up by the entrance."

"It's so dark here, I need some light."

"How about we try to wake up a few more?"

Since entering this illusion, Chen Qi has not detected a single wild food item, indicating that his food detection ability has become ineffective within the illusion.

Lacking both food detection capabilities and being in complete darkness, relying solely on groping with one's hands makes exploration extremely inefficient.

Even if we encounter some useful clues, we might not be able to find them at all.

The spare cell phone he brought in is now missing, and they haven't found any lighting tools yet. The only solution they can think of is to wake up the corpse to turn on the overhead light.

Moreover, since Xia Huiyun and the other parasites do not want these corpses to wake up, then Chen Qi, who is hostile to them, should do the opposite!
"But how do we wake the corpse?"

"Did Du Yuxuan wake up just now because of me?"

The corpse placed in the dark area should be the kind that doesn't wake up often, but when Chen Qigang reached over, she woke up, which was a bit too coincidental.

To verify his guess, Chen Qi walked a little further away and began to deliberately search the corpse.

In the darkness, he didn't know whether the corpse he touched was male or female, old or young.

They couldn't even tell whether they were intact or rotten; they could only make a rough judgment based on the smell they could detect.

Sometimes when you reach out, you'll touch a sticky lump, which might be rotten flesh or something else.

Sometimes, you can even pull out a handful of maggots from inside a corpse's mouth.

Chen Qi found that he didn't feel scared at all; at most, he felt nauseous occasionally, but he could overcome that.

"As expected, hardship can temper a person. In just a few days, my courage has grown stronger and my emotions have become more stable."

He touched each corpse one by one, and when he touched a somewhat decomposed corpse, he gently stroked the corpse's face with both hands and suddenly felt the corpse's eyelashes tremble!

Another one woke up!
Having had experience with this, Chen Qi immediately moved away.

Sure enough, a short while later, another lamp above our heads lit up.

Chen Qi took this opportunity to quickly observe his surroundings.

However, apart from a circle of corpses, he didn't find anything special.

At this moment, half of the teachers and students who were trying to save Du Yuxuan ran towards Chen Qi, clearly to save the patient who had just been awakened by Chen Qi.

"What's going on today? Why are these patients, whose conditions have already stabilized, still waking up?" a female student complained as she ran.

Hiding in the darkness, Chen Qi saw that the teachers and students were divided into two groups and were very busy. He suddenly thought, why not go back to the laboratory entrance and wake up those "unstable" corpses?
"If I wake up all those patients, won't they explode?"

At this moment, Bian Zihan, who was responsible for calling the doctor, and the female student returned. The two of them also brought two middle-aged men, who should be the ophthalmologist and the dermatologist.

"You've come at just the right time! We're short-handed, come and help!" Xia Huiyun shouted.

The four rushed over and began the rescue efforts.

Just then, Bian Zihan looked around and asked in confusion, "Where's the new one?"

(End of this chapter)