Chapter 147 Old Syndrome

“Apart from each other~~~”

Chu Yi put down his chopsticks and uttered a loud hello.

Lin Siyao looked at him in disbelief. "Are you really...really done eating?"

The whole bowl of rice was enough for her to eat for two days, but Chu Yi picked it up and ate it all in no time. How on earth did he finish it? !
Chu Yi didn't say anything, but just gently stroked the round belly.

After eating such a large bowl of rice, he did not feel bloated. Instead, he found that his stomach was becoming empty very quickly.

In fact, with his strength, his digestion ability is far beyond that of ordinary people.

However, Chu Yi usually does not need to rely on eating to replenish the energy he needs. The real supplements are those expensive nutrient solutions.

Three sticks a day, plus a normal meal, are enough for a day's consumption.

But I don’t know why, I felt particularly hungry today, and even after eating this big bowl of rice, I still felt a little unsatisfied.

"I've finished eating, but I don't seem to be full." Chu Yi smiled embarrassedly, "Maybe I've grown a lot, so my appetite has increased a bit."

"I don't see you grow taller." Lin Siyao covered her red lips with the back of her hand and smiled, then turned her head and said to the waiter not far away: "Can I get another bowl of rice, a full bowl?"

"Add another bowl of rice?" The waiter suspected that he had heard it wrong, and thought to himself, didn't he just bring a bowl of rice?
Taking a look at the table, the waiter discovered that the rice bowl in front of Chu Yi was empty. He immediately understood what was going on and immediately turned around to go to the kitchen to prepare rice.

Many of China's beastmasters practice martial arts and often have strong bodies, so like the biochemical warriors in the United States, they usually have a greater demand for food.

He once saw on YouTube that an American biochemical warrior devoured an African buffalo alive in half an hour, and then touched his belly and said he was half full.

Chu Yi then ate a bowl of rice. There was nothing to be surprised about. There was plenty of rice in the kitchen anyway, and there was bread on top after he finished the rice.

Soon the waiter came out with two large bowls of rice.

"Can you finish all this?"

Lin Siyao saw the rice being placed in front of Chu Yi and asked with some concern.

"I don't know, but my stomach is empty."

As Chu Yi spoke, he poured half of the fish-flavored shredded pork with oil into the bowl, then added the rest of the twice-cooked pork in. Finally, he stirred it a few times with a spoon and started eating.

Looking at Chu Yi who seemed to have turned into a glutton, Lin Siyao felt that two dishes might not be enough to fill his stomach, so he directly ordered five or six more dishes on the mobile restaurant.

"By the way, aren't you hungry?"

Chu Yi ate half of it, puffed up his cheeks and asked Lin Siyao.

Lin Siyao shook his head: "I've eaten it before you came, black pepper steak with spaghetti, I feel it's not much better than the ones made in domestic Western restaurants."

“Maybe it was made by a Chinese chef.” Chu Yi chuckled, lowered his head and continued eating.

Soon the side dishes ordered by Lin Siyao were served, and as the waiter had expected, Chu Yi found that the two large bowls of rice were not enough to fill his stomach.

His stomach seemed to be connected to another bottomless pit. The food entering his stomach could only create a feeling of fullness in his esophagus, and then it would become empty.

"No, I feel like I'm getting hungrier the more I eat." Chu Yi put down the spoon and his expression became serious.

This sudden feeling of hunger was definitely not normal. There must be something wrong with his body.

"I have some concentrated nutrient solution here. See if it can help you fight hunger."

Lin Siyao helped Chu Yi wipe the oil stains from his mouth, then took out three orange potions from his storage ring.

The packaging and size of the medicine are similar to those of Huoxiang Zhengqi Liquid, and you can drink it by unscrewing the lid.

Chu Yi quickly drank one, and a warm current immediately flowed down his throat into his stomach, warming his entire upper body.

"Gululu~~~"

However, the good times did not last long. After only three seconds, Chu Yi's stomach rumbled. Scared, he quickly drank the remaining two bottles of nutrient solution.

After a pause of about half a minute, Chu Yi shook his head in annoyance: "No, this thing is not as useful as rice."

"That's not right. Logically speaking, nutritional potions can meet all the nutritional needs of the body, and the effect is very fast. Generally, you won't feel hungry after taking them."

Lin Siyao's eyes began to show a trace of worry: "You must be sick, this is definitely not your normal appetite!"

"Whether I get sick or not can be determined later. The most urgent thing is to fill my stomach. You don't know how hungry I am right now."

Chu Yi held his stomach with one hand and supported his head with the other.

Even though he had eaten so much, he felt his limbs were weak and he was as weak as if he had been hungry for seven days and seven nights.

He had only experienced this feeling when he quit smoking in his previous life. In medicine, this is called withdrawal reaction.

It means that you have become both physically and psychologically addicted to a certain behavior, and if you don't do it for a moment you will feel uncomfortable all over, as if ants are crawling on you.

Now Chu Yi must be addicted to eating. Fortunately, the withdrawal reaction is relatively mild. If it were more serious, he would have rushed into the kitchen directly.

When Lin Siyao saw Chu Yi's trembling right hand, he felt distressed but helpless at the same time, so he quickly asked the waiter to bring more rice.

This time the waiter was experienced and poured all the freshly cooked rice directly into the big pot that was originally used for soup, and then pushed it in front of Chu Yi on a cart.

This scene attracted the attention of many foreigners around, especially after seeing Chu Yi directly filled a large bowl with rice and started cooking, they were even more surprised.

“Which pot is this?”

"That's a bit too much."

"The way you eat is really ugly."

"That Chinese girl is getting a little impatient."

"He looks like a boyfriend. It's really embarrassing to have a boyfriend like this."

………………

The discussions were in English and French. In addition to the discussions, many people also took out their mobile phones to take pictures. It seemed that they wanted to post them on Tiktok to record the weird things around them.

Chu Yi didn't understand many of these foreign languages, but Lin Siyao understood them all, and this was the source of her impatience.

"It's so noisy. I don't even know what's interesting about a meal." Lin Siyao curled his lips and said unhappily.

"Don't worry about them, just treat them as a bunch of mosquitoes buzzing." Chu Yi advised nonchalantly, and then took a big gulp of rice. "You eat first, I'll make a video call to the principal and ask what's going on." Lin Siyao lowered his head and began to fiddle with his phone.

The cross-border call was quickly connected. It was still nighttime in China, but fortunately the principal did not seem to have slept and was still handling things in the office.

"It's Si Yao. Is there anything you want to talk to me about so late?" The principal put down the ballpoint pen in his hand and asked in a kind tone.

"Principal, Chu Yi may have run into some trouble. I can't make up my mind, so I wanted to ask you first."

Lin Siyao said this and turned the camera to focus on Chu Yi who was eating.

Hong Luan looked at it for a while and said in confusion: "I see that it is eating very happily, and it doesn't look like it is in trouble."

Lin Siyao turned the camera back and said, "It's just that he's eating too deliciously, that's not right. This is already his fourth bowl of rice, and he even drank three bottles of premium nutrient solution in the middle."

"Did you take the nutrient solution? Special grade?"

This sentence immediately aroused Hong Luan's vigilance. Logically speaking, a child of Chu Yi's age should not be able to eat after drinking the special nutrient solution.

The purpose of making this thing is to supplement nutrition and speed up meals. One stick can keep you full for three days, and the effects will be seen soon after drinking it.

"It seems that there are indeed some problems. Don't hang up. I will contact the doctor right away."

Hong Luan took out his spare cell phone and made a video call to his old friend Liang Huan.

"I haven't contacted Principal Hong for a long time. How come you still have time to call me?" Liang Huan greeted with a smile in the video.

Hong Luan said with a serious expression: "Old Liang, let me make it short. I had a student named Chu Yi who had been treated by you. Do you still remember him?"

"Of course I remember. He is the last survivor of the Old Days Syndrome. I can forget who he is, but I can't forget him." Liang Huan's eyes lit up when he said this. "You found me suddenly. Did something happen to that child? Did his spirit finally collapse?"

"That's not that serious." Hong Luan turned his phone around speechlessly. "Look for yourself. He seems to be a big eater now."

After saying this, the four people at the dinner table fell silent, and the only sound left was the sound of Chu Yi eating.

At first he was quite reserved, putting food into his mouth one spoonful at a time. Later on, he simply lifted the rice bowl and used the spoon to put the food into his mouth.

The reason for this is that Chu Yi feels that his threshold for satisfaction from eating is rapidly increasing.

At first, you may feel satisfied just by chewing slowly with a spoon, but later you may need to eat in big mouthfuls to feel satisfied.

And now, I have to use this method to not feel uncomfortable.

Chu Yi began to worry that if this continued, he would have to stuff his head into a rice bucket to satisfy his appetite.

After observing for three minutes, Chu Yi had already finished his sixth bowl of rice today, and he couldn't stop eating.

But the only good news is that his attribute points increased while he was eating.

Eating a bowl of rice increased his income by three points, which was almost the same as what he earned from sparring with others in the ring.

This is definitely a surprise.

In the past, I had to work so hard to improve my attributes a little bit, but now I can do it just by eating non-stop. Can I become a master just by eating?
"Chu Yi's condition is not very good."

Liang Huan suddenly sighed deeply, which scared Hong Luan and Lin Siyao.

Hong Luan hurriedly urged: "Don't keep me in suspense, Lao Liang, tell me what's going on."

“This is still a classic old-time syndrome, and it’s a late-stage symptom!”

Liang Huan said this, reminding everyone to put on their headphones, and after confirming that no fifth person could hear the conversation, he continued: "In the information that has not been disclosed by the official, the old syndrome is divided into two continuous stages: early and late.

In the early days, I had nightmares and my emotions became extremely unstable, but other than that there were no major problems. At least I was physically healthy.

In the later stages, patients will begin to experience various irreversible negative symptoms, and the final result is mostly death.

Let’s talk about the negative symptoms first. The main manifestation is desire, such as appetite, sexual desire, desire to survive, etc.

Some patients, like Chu Yi, keep eating after they become ill. No matter what kind of treatment drug they are injected with, they can't stop until their stomachs burst."

Hong Luan asked: "Can't we put the patient in a coma temporarily and then inject nutrient solution to maintain him?"

"Yes, but you can't last for a few days." Liang Huan pushed up his glasses and said in a deep voice, "Those who try to eliminate the patient's desire by coma, the patient's appetite will be converted into excessive demand for nutrition during this period.

At first, intravenous drips may be enough to maintain the patient's condition, but after a few days, direct infusions through catheters will probably not work. At this time, appetite will begin to consume the patient's life force until he is drained into a bag of skin and bones.

So my advice is to eat as much as you can as long as your digestive capacity can keep up, at least in the first few days, the amount of food you eat won’t be too exaggerated.”

"What about a few days later?" Lin Siyao asked.

This time Liang Huan was silent.

Hong Luan took a deep breath and asked with a gloomy look in his eyes, "So, a large part of those so-called suicides were caused by their own appetite?"

Liang Huan sighed: "Not all of them, extreme appetite is just one of the late symptoms, some are extreme indulgence, and some are extreme desire to survive.

I won’t talk about the first two types. The desire to survive is that the patient will feel that everything around him may kill him. He will start by going crazy and attacking everyone around him. In the end, he will feel that he has become an obstacle to his survival, and he will either bite his tongue to commit suicide or break his neck.

In addition, the patients who are still alive have begun to show symptoms of the late stage. Only the successor of the crazy clown who joined the Society of Destruction seems to be safe and sound.

I originally thought Chu Yi would be the second exception, but now it seems......"

At this point, everyone's heart sank.

Lin Siyao clenched his fists and managed a smile: "At least as long as the digestive ability can keep up, then Chu Yi won't have any problems, right?"

"I'm sorry, little girl, that's not the case." Liang Huan shook his head sadly, "According to our autopsy report, eating too much will also consume the patient's life energy, but it's much slower than not eating.

But as long as you keep eating, your life will continue to drain away, but those people died before they even reached that point."

"So Chu Yi is dead anyway?" Hong Luan asked anxiously, his breathing becoming heavier.

Liang Huan said coldly: "Old Syndrome is currently a terminal illness. The only solution lies in the hands of the Society of Destruction. However, asking for help from that anti-human organization is tantamount to making a deal with the devil. The new Crazy Clown is an example."

There was an inexplicable light in Lin Siyao's eyes: "At least I can still survive."

"I don't think it's necessary." Chu Yi finished another bowl of rice, slammed the bowl heavily on the table, and said with a flushed face.

(End of this chapter)