Blind Spot
Chapter 120 - 110 Basic 4 (Thank you Ai Ai He’s Family Very Lovely Alliance Hierarch)

Chapter 120: 110 Basic 4 (Thank you Ai Ai He’s Family Very Lovely Alliance Hierarch)

Once everything was decided, including the security of the network followed by supportive measures, Li Chengyi finally felt a huge weight off his heart.

Of course, for now, he couldn’t trust Rainbow Candy, nor could he reveal the true relationship between himself and his alter ego.

But in the future, if he found a way to ensure trust through the Flower Language Ability, then everything could form a tighter connection.

At that moment, he drafted a corresponding list of responsibilities.

’Network security and information gathering—Rainbow Candy, Da Hei.’

’Physical safety and firearms equipment—Dragon Gate Crane.’

’Medical care, accommodation, training, and modification—Da Xiong, Xiao Zhong.’

’Coordination and support—Cheng Yi, Xiao Hao.’

After marking the division of labor, he pinned it to the top of the group chat notice board.

To prevent any leak of information, Rainbow Candy provided everyone with a unique app they had programmed,

so now the entire chat group had been transferred to this private app.

As for Xiao Hao, who had never spoken in the group, that was actually Li Chengyi in his Floral Dress persona.

Xiao Hao, a homophonic play on the word for ’alter ego’ in Chinese.

Of course, aside from Li Chengyi himself, no one else would understand this pun,

because Yi Country’s language vastly differed from Chinese.

After making some adjustments, and as the afternoon approached, Li Chengyi phoned his family to let them know he had to continue his business trip, before taking a taxi back to the Dragon Whisker Sect.

As soon as he entered the gate, he saw Master Yu Long, the old man, speaking with a middle-aged man wearing glasses.

The man was dressed in a gray suit, his demeanor formal, conversing respectfully and showing great reverence toward Master Yu Long.

After passing the iris scan, Li Chengyi entered through the villa gate and drew closer, overhearing the two men’s conversation.

"...Is this really okay? She doesn’t want to do this line of work."

"I absolutely won’t pull any strings. If they want her, it’s got to be on her own merit. Without ability, she’s useless. If she doesn’t want to do it, let her roll back here on her own. I’ll give her the essentials, food and shelter, no worries. Whether she wants to marry is up to her too."

Master Yu Long’s face always appeared cheerful, but at that moment, it was unusually indifferent.

"I, Yu Long, will not engage in speculation or do any of these unfair deeds!"

"We know Master Long has a noble character. It’s just that Xiao Xiao is really struggling right now. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have sought me out to plead in such a roundabout way," the man in the suit said earnestly.

"You’re her sworn brother, and I understand that you would help her," Yu Long nodded. "But each person has their own destiny. Being my daughter, she already has an advantage. Those who truly want to give her a hand would have done so already. For those who are unwilling, even if I went and pleaded, it would only result in reluctant assistance that serves no good."

"Sigh..." The man in the suit sighed, hesitated to speak further, but reading Master Yu Long’s expression, he held back.

He stepped back, gave a slight bow to the elder, and turned towards the main entrance to leave.

As he passed by Li Chengyi, he nodded politely and then walked out the door and left completely.

Li Chengyi returned the nod, then approached and stood behind Master Yu Long.

"Master Long, I’m back."

"Good, you’re back. Everything is prepared for you. The videos for the basic Dragon Dance practice, they’re all in your room. Have a look at them first," said Master Yu Long, his mood less than cheerful but still speaking gently as he turned and instructed.

"All right."

"Make it quick. I suspect your next assignment will come soon," Yu Long said in a grave tone. "I hope after the next time, I’ll still be able to see you."

"I’m not that easy to kill. You can rest assured, Master Long," Li Chengyi said with a smile.

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After a day of strenuous dancing.

Li Chengyi, aching all over, took a shower, collapsed onto the bed, and felt as if his body was hollowed out.

It was only after he truly performed the so-called Dragon Dance that he realized it involved donning weights suitable for his body and executing the movements from the video one by one.

At first, it was just one movement after another, but later on, the actions flowed together, along with the movement of his senses. The difficulty suddenly escalated.

It was two in the morning.

Li Chengyi woke up from a light doze feeling the urge to pee, turned over in a daze, and clenched the blanket between his legs in an attempt to hold it in.

But the urge was too strong to resist.

With a sigh, he flung the blankets aside and slowly sat up.

The room Master Yu Long had given him was a very simple cube-shaped bedroom.

White walls, a white ceiling, wooden floors, and a wooden door.

The furnishings were also minimal, with a white hemispherical lamp overhead, a two-and-a-half-meter bed in the center, and a simple wooden frame clothes rack in the corner.

Beneath the window was a wooden table and chair, and a pink children’s desk lamp was placed there as well.

Clearly, the room hadn’t been intended for a boy, probably belonging to Yu Long’s daughter when she was younger.

Li Chengyi didn’t bother with the lights; he opened the door and walked along the corridor toward the bathroom.

After relieving himself and walking in the corridor, the dark wooden floor made subtle thumping sounds.

This made him feel slightly uneasy.

The more he knew about Blind Spots, the more everything seemed to be a Blind Spot.

It made him so nervous that he was constantly on edge.

’I won’t just not make it back to my room, will I?’ Li Chengyi thought, his hair standing on end.

Blind Spots were bizarre, and anything was possible. If he stumbled upon a new unfamiliar Blind Spot and didn’t have a grasp on the situation, he’d mostly have to rely on luck to survive.

Thump, thump, thump...

In the pitch-dark upstairs corridor, Li Chengyi quickened his pace, but thankfully, the situation he worried about didn’t happen.

None of the doors on either side opened unexpectedly.

The corridor didn’t become endlessly long.

He safely made it back to his room.

Pushing the door open, he breathed a sigh of relief, slipped off his shoes, rolled back onto the bed, and pulled the blanket over his belly.

Then he spread his arms wide and relaxed completely.

Without proper rest, he certainly wouldn’t be able to cope with the next day’s extremely demanding training.

Dancing with a three hundred pound weight, and for many consecutive hours too.

Such training was something an ordinary person wouldn’t even dare to imagine.

Lying on his back, Li Chengyi’s gaze was fixed on the white hemispherical lamp on the ceiling.

Staring into the light bulb inside, his eyes slowly began to close.

As time ticked by,

his eyes, now just ajar, gradually shut completely.

Drowsiness resumed its hold over him.

All of a sudden, an ice-cold hand abruptly seized his left hand that was dangling over the edge of the bed!

The hand was chilling to the bone and possessed immense strength—it clamped onto his palm and would not let go!

Every ounce of sleepiness in Li Chengyi’s mind vanished in an instant.

A chilling sense of panic, rooted in genetics, surged through my heart in an instant.

He widened his eyes and turned his head to look to the left.

But as his gaze shifted, the icy hand had disappeared.

Whoosh!

He flung off the covers, got out of bed, and began to look around.

’Is there someone else in the room!’

The first thought sprang to his mind.

’No, that’s not right! That hand was reaching up from below, grabbing my palm!’

’Could it be a test or training from Master Yu Long?’

He lifted up his left hand to take a look.

This glance immediately overturned his previous two guesses.

’Blind Spot Individuals constantly experience the Blind Spot, which is also a process of their own spiritual alienation. They become more susceptible to deeper and more dangerous Blind Spots, capturing those more subtle fluctuations and dimensions.’

A passage from Zhong Hui’s notes surfaced in Li Chengyi’s mind at this moment.

He suddenly realized that his current situation was exactly as recorded in the notes.

’Humans have limits. But the Blind Spot is endless. Hence, Blind Spot Individuals are almost certainly doomed,’ another line from the notes followed.

This was also the main reason why the majority of Blind Spot Individuals indulged in reckless abandon.

Looking at his left hand, Li Chengyi had never seen such a thing before.

Even though he had encountered several Blind Spots, this was the first time for this particular situation.

At this moment, under the faint moonlight shining through the window, his left hand emitted an eerie sense of blurriness.

Not just metaphorically blurry, but literally indistinct.

The feeling was incredibly strange.

His hand was still there, but no matter how closely he looked, he couldn’t make out the detailed textures of his left hand.

He could only see the larger contours, the knuckles, the shape of the hand.

Li Chengyi held up his hand, brought it closer to his eyes, and examined it carefully.

What was eerie,

was that he still couldn’t see his own skin, his veins, any of the fine details or pores.

It was as if there was a layer of frosted glass between them.

’!?’

Startled, he quickly switched to examining his right hand.

Lifting his right hand, he looked at it closely.

The right hand was perfectly normal. He could see the nearly three millimeters of black hair, the tiny pores, the skin pattern, the faint blue veins—all clearly visible.

Then he switched back to his left hand.

Li Chengyi once again felt a strong sense of dissonance.

He still couldn’t see his left hand clearly.

’What the hell is this!’

He began to move his left hand, trying other actions.

Clenching his fist, spreading his fingers, moving each finger, snapping his fingers...

All movements were fine.

But one thing was off... the feeling was a bit dull.

It was as if the signal went out but couldn’t get an immediate response, requiring a millisecond of reaction time before it obeyed.

’Radiance Field.’ Li Chengyi immediately activated the Flower Language Technique.

Although without his Floral Dress, the power of his Flower Language Ability was greatly reduced, to about a third of its effectiveness,

it was usually sufficient for general use.

Hiss.

An invisible, warm Radiance Field instantly enveloped his entire body.

The sluggish feeling in his left hand gradually began to fade.

But the weird blurriness remained unchanged!

With the Radiance Field still active, Li Chengyi carefully examined his left hand, realizing that this was the extent of what healing could do.

He sighed inwardly and immediately began to search for the cold hand that had just gripped his.

He carefully recalled the details.

’I was lying on my back, my left palm was hanging off the edge of the bed.’

’That hand reached from below, at an angle, and grasped my left hand.’

’And the direction of the angle...’

Li Chengyi contemplated carefully.

Recalling the sensation from just a moment ago.

Suddenly his eyes widened, he bent down sharply, and lay flat on the ground.

’It’s under the bed!’

Pressing his head to the floor, he looked under the bed.

There was nothing there, empty and desolate.

From this angle, he could see the other side of the bed.

Faint light from outside the bed illuminated in, showing that apart from some dust, there was nothing else under the bed.

Li Chengyi stared intently at the dust, reached out his hand, and drew a line through it.

Immediately, a marked line he drew appeared under the bed.

Amid the large expanse of gray, a clean finger mark stood out conspicuously.

’If someone was hiding under the bed, there should be traces left behind. Now it seems, it is most likely a Blind Spot...’

At this point, any wishful thinking in Li Chengyi’s mind completely vanished.

He stood up straight, and now, as he looked around the bedroom, everything he saw seemed sinister and dangerous,

’I’ll go out and see what other places look like.’

Thinking this, Li Chengyi slowly walked towards the door.

In the shadowy bedroom, only the moonlight from outside provided any illumination.

’The moonlight?!’

’Wait a minute!’

Suddenly, he halted his steps.

A nameless trepidation surged rapidly through his heart.

’I didn’t turn on the light!’

’So when I was looking from under the bed just now, the light on the other side, where did it come from!???’

He whirled around and dashed towards the bed.