Fear of food

Chapter 70 So You're a Patient Too

Hearing Bian Zihan's voice in the darkness, Chen Qi cursed inwardly, his heart leaping into his throat.

Then Xia Huiyun's voice came: "Zihan, go find him."

"Okay." Bian Zihan agreed, then pulled out a small flashlight from somewhere, turned it on, and entered the dark area to begin searching for Chen Qi.

The flashlight beam swayed wildly and almost shone on Chen Qi, who immediately crouched down to avoid it.

Chen Qina was puzzled. Why didn't they go out to look for him? It was as if they were certain that he was in the laboratory.

"You guys are just bored, aren't you..." Chen Qi thought fiercely, not in a hurry to run to the door.

While carefully avoiding the occasional beams of light from the flashlight, he quickly reached out to touch the corpses, hoping to awaken more of them to hold them back.

As more and more corpses woke up, these people naturally had no energy left to pay attention to him.

However, as Bian Zihan ventured deeper into the darkness, the beam of the flashlight shone erratically, allowing Chen Qi to get a general idea of ​​the situation inside the laboratory.

The dissection tables, like beds, filled the entire laboratory, each with a corpse lying on it; none were idle.

A rough estimate suggests there are at least five hundred corpses!
To Chen Qi's surprise, he saw a wall at the very end of the laboratory!

He had almost thought that the laboratory in this illusion had no end, because he kept going deeper and deeper but could never find the end.

A normal laboratory could never be that big, nor could it contain so many corpses.

But now, when I shine a flashlight on it, I realize that there is still an end to it.

What Chen Qi cared about most was that there was a door in that wall!

Where does that door lead?

Although the laboratory has not been thoroughly searched yet, at first glance there is nothing unusual about it besides the corpse.

Therefore, the root cause of the illusion may lie behind that door!

Chen Qi changed his plan. He continued to touch the corpses and after a while, he woke up three more corpses.

At this point, Du Yuxuan, who had just woken up, had already died from her injuries. However, the limited number of teachers and students were stretched thin as they had to simultaneously treat the other four patients who had woken up, so they had to call Bian Zihan over as well.

Now that no one was looking for Chen Qi anymore, he relied on his sense of direction and quickly made his way to the door at the end of the laboratory.

The commotion caused by the four rescue teams was like a demolition, which reassured Chen Qi, so he quickened his pace and, after a moment, finally reached the wall at the end of the laboratory.

He followed the wall and found the door.

I twisted the doorknob hard and found that the door wasn't locked!

However, when he pushed the door open, he only managed to open it a crack; there seemed to be something blocking the way behind it.

No matter how hard he tried, the door wouldn't budge.

Chen Qi really wanted to try ramming or kicking the door, but that would definitely attract the attention of the teachers and students.

"I need help!"

Whether it's pushing open this door or confronting Xia Huiyun and her group of teachers and students, he can't do it alone; he needs to find teammates.

But in this illusion, he couldn't contact his teammates waiting outside the school. The only help he could find seemed to be these corpses!
It is clear that these corpses were hostile to Xia Huiyun and her group.

The moment the corpse comes to life, it will be attacked by the group of teachers and students.

The corpse tried to resist, but it couldn't.

Chen Qi temporarily gave up on pushing the door and turned around to move towards the laboratory door.

The corpses there should be easier to awaken. Arriving at the laboratory entrance, Chen Qi hid in a corner, his gaze sweeping over the corpses.

When looking for teammates, you should naturally look for those who seem reliable and have strong combat capabilities.

A skinny little girl like Du Yuxuan could crush two of them with one hand; even if you woke her up, she'd just be a sitting duck.

Under the light of the overhead lamps, the corpses all slept peacefully.

Chen Qi's eyes lit up, and he immediately spotted two corpses among the group.

These two corpses were the same two who had just been rescued. Chen Qi hadn't noticed before because he hadn't looked closely. These two corpses were tall and strong, with muscular bodies, and looked like they were quite capable of fighting.

This is the kind of physique that Chen Qi, who is now as thin as a greyhound, has always dreamed of.

Although he is recovering his physique quickly, it has only been a few days since he ate the jianbing guozi, and he still looks very thin overall.

What caught Chen Qi's attention was that he saw something in common between the two. Although they looked nothing alike, they shared a similar temperament.

A guess popped into Chen Qi's mind: someone from the government?

If that's the case, then they're even more suitable as teammates, at least more reliable than ordinary people. Chen Qi's only concern is whether these two people, who have just been rescued, can be revived in a short time.
He thought for a moment, then skipped the two men and chose a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties and had a rather calm demeanor.

This man has very thick eyebrows, making him hard to ignore.

Chen Qi crouched down and crept over, using the dissection table to cover his body, and reached out a hand to pinch the philtrum of the middle-aged man with thick eyebrows.

After pinching for a short while, the middle-aged man with thick eyebrows suddenly woke up.

Chen Qi thought to himself that he was right. Before, he had to touch at least ten corpses to wake up one, but he succeeded on his first try in this lighted area!
Before the middle-aged man with thick eyebrows could react, Chen Qi quickly covered his mouth.

At the same time, he made a shushing gesture to him.

After a brief moment of confusion, the middle-aged man with thick eyebrows realized what was happening and nodded to Chen Qi.

Chen Qi pointed to the lights at the back of the laboratory, signaling the middle-aged man with thick eyebrows to be careful, before releasing his hand from the man's mouth.

The young man with thick eyebrows tiptoed off the dissection table without making a sound.

Actually, there's no need to be so careful. Xia Huiyun and the other teachers and students are busy with the rescue, and the commotion they're making is quite significant. As long as Chen Qi doesn't make a particularly loud noise, he won't attract any attention.

Chen Qi pointed to the other corpses around him and made a gesture of pinching the philtrum, signaling the middle-aged man with thick eyebrows to wake up the others.

He whispered, "Choose the one that seems more reliable to save."

The middle-aged man with thick eyebrows nodded to indicate that he understood, and immediately crouched down and moved toward the dissection table next to him.

Chen Qi went straight to the two bodies that appeared to be government officials and tried to pinch their philtrums, but there was no response after a long time.

Sure enough, after being rescued, he couldn't recover for a while.

Chen Qi slapped the two men a few more times, but they still couldn't wake up.

Having no other choice, he had to change his target and try to awaken others.

With his efforts and those of the middle-aged man with thick eyebrows working together, two people saved four, four saved eight... and in no time they woke up more than a dozen people!
These people had clearly all been resuscitated before, and they all cooperated well and did not cause any disturbance.

Just as they were preparing to expand their ranks, a cold female voice suddenly came from beside Chen Qi's ear:

"I knew something was off about you, turns out you're a patient too!"

Chen Qi turned his head and almost touched Xia Huiyun's exquisitely made-up face. Her breath, carrying the scent of perfume, was exhaled on his face. She raised her right hand high and plunged the needle, which was thicker than his arm, into his face!

(End of this chapter)