Blind Spot
Chapter 123 - 113 Fusion Third

Chapter 123: 113 Fusion Third

Ignoring Yu Long’s joke, the old man relaxed somewhat after taking the medicine.

Who could have thought, he had only exchanged one punch, but ended up in such a dangerous condition.

Li Chengyi placed Yu Long on the recliner, then turned back to look at the spot where they had exchanged blows.

Four deep footprints were imprinted in the ground, forming four shallow pits.

Only then did he feel a chill in his feet.

He lifted his right foot to take a look.

The sole of his shoe was gone without him knowing when, and the black sock had a large hole in it, revealing his entire foot, which was covered in a fair amount of stone dust and fine ash.

"In our line of training, shoes are the most disposable, stop looking, there’s no use, you’ll have to go barefoot from now on. I didn’t expect your progress to be this fast," Yu Long said, finishing off a bottle of electrolyte water with loud gulps.

"I’m out of commission for the time being, you continue training, you train as I say."

"Okay!"

Li Chengyi made sure the old man was alright before he stood alone on the open ground, his hands hanging at his sides, relaxed and natural.

Then silence.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Puff!

In an instant, he stepped forward with his right foot, his calf muscles flowing like water, quickly moving through his thigh, waist, bursting forward from his shoulders, then converging in his arms, and punched out.

Rushing Fist!

The fists made a sound as they struck the air.

Bang!!

This time, with no one as a target, Li Chengyi could unleash his full strength. From the start of muscle tension to the final punch, it took a total of seven seconds.

His right foot stomped hard into the ground up to his ankle.

As he punched out, the turbulent airflow also generated a slight breeze forward.

That was the beginning of the punch wind.

"Pay attention to your waist; use the arc of the Dragon Dance, not too rigid, nor too weak, it has to be just right, otherwise after one punch, you’ll collapse before your opponent does.

Muscle strain in the waist is one thing, but if you injure your spine, heh heh..."

Yu Long loudly advised from the side, while taking out his phone, pulling up the contact list, and finding his daughter’s name.

Although he said he would introduce his daughter to Li Chengyi, he hesitated when it came to action.

Looking at the name of his daughter in the contact list,

Yu Long paused, and ultimately did not make the call.

Putting down the phone, he watched Li Chengyi, who was practicing the build-up of the All-Star Dragon Shadow again and again.

With sounds like firecrackers, as if costless, the punches were lightly thrown.

And there, Li Chengyi still wore a clueless, innocuous expression.

"Youth... full of vigor and spirit, how wonderful..." Yu Long sighed quietly without anyone knowing.

"Watch your left leg! This move is not that wide! Are you trying to do the splits by spreading your legs like that!?" he suddenly shouted, correcting Li Chengyi’s movement.

Time slowly passed on the open ground amidst the training of the two.

Before long, the sky was fully bright.

They took breaks in between, waiting for the hourly maid to make breakfast.

Li Chengyi stood alone under the eaves, reflecting on the numerous small mistakes he had made during his relentless practice.

He would correct these mistakes and then memorize them, striving not to make the same ones again next time.

’The flow of power doesn’t seem challenging for me. Maybe it requires careful perception of the strength and a robust body that obeys commands as easily as my limbs do. I just happen to meet the requirements.’

Leaning against the wall, Li Chengyi began to contemplate whether he could use the Soft Qi method to temper Flowers.

Can Flowers be controlled?

Flowers are the fundamental core of the Flower Language Technique and the Floral Dress; if he could control Flowers...

He started to think about whether the eruption of Soft Qi could be integrated into his strength system. For example, combining three types of Flower Language with a Soft Qi Eruption to form a new killing move.

Beep beep.

Suddenly, his phone’s text message alert sounded.

He rarely received many messages on his phone, nor did many people text him. It’s just that recently, after establishing the Garden of Fate, he gave his phone number to a few core group members.

Guessing it was probably them, Li Chengyi took out his phone to check.

As expected, it was the small app developed by Rainbow Candy—Cucumber Night Chat.

Well... this app, according to gossip, was initially Rainbow Candy’s personal project after watching too many questionable videos, aiming to create a secure chat app. Later, after scrapping several features, they simply repurposed it for private chats within the group, not bothering to change the name.

"Brother Cheng, did something just happen on your end? The Cucumber monitoring alerted me that you had no signal for about two hours. Is your phone out of battery?" — Rainbow Candy.

"Yes, a harbinger arrived." — Cheng Yi.

"I’m gathering information for you on this end, send me the details." — Rainbow Candy.

Li Chengyi had almost forgotten that in the team they had just formed, apart from handling cybersecurity, Rainbow Candy was also responsible for gathering information.

Now being asked about it, he suddenly felt an odd sense of security.

He was accustomed to requesting Hongjin’s help to collect information but hadn’t expected to consult his own newly-formed Garden of Fate group.

He quickly sent the key points to Rainbow Candy, and for some reason, felt unwarrantedly more at ease.

This feeling of having an accident alone, with so many people far away continually busy on his behalf, seemed not bad.

Snapping back to reality, he continued to try to use the Soft Qi method to mobilize Flowers.

Unfortunately, Flowers are not muscles and inherently are not controllable; they seem to head straight for the Mark of the Evil Flower once inside the body.

After trying for half a day without success, Li Chengyi resumed practicing the All-Star Dragon Shadow.

He was quick at mastering it, starting from mere imitation to eventually understanding the essence.

The layered muscular flow also easily reached everywhere in his hands, and this, according to Yu Long, was the mastery of Soft Qi.

After breakfast, he lay down in the recuperation pod prepared by Xindela for a while.

Upon getting up, Li Chengyi saw missed calls from the company.

He picked up the phone to return the call.

"Hello, any update?"

"The profiler has already provided a solution. Take a look and see which one fits best," Pencil Eyebrow responded gravely.

Swiftly, dozens of short videos were sent over in succession.

Li Chengyi clicked on each one, reviewing them, and quickly identified one that was very similar to a blind spot he had experienced before.

After making his choice, he continued to wait.

But within a few minutes, before the company had a chance to respond, a message from the cucumber night chat came through.

"Can’t find the original, this must be a new one, at least I can’t find it in Yi Country’s public database." — Rainbow Candy.

"A new blind spot?" — Cheng Yi.

"Yes, new blind spots are generally very dangerous. You need to prepare properly. In a blind spot, mechanical devices are very likely to malfunction, and data can become chaotic. However, biological devices usually work fine. This is where you come in, @Da Xiong." — Rainbow Candy.

"No problem, I can provide disposable items made from biological materials. Such as a biological camera, an activatable backpack, a multi-functional claw, a simple biological vehicle, mutual locators, etc." — Da Xiong.

"Biological camera? Can you give me one of those? I don’t need the rest, but are you sure this thing can take pictures?" It was the first time Li Chengyi had heard of such a thing.

"Of course, the biological camera uses a life-limited activatable eyeball projection gel technology, imaging by bio-chemical methods, not limited by device chips. Apart from the short shelf life and expense, everything else is fine." — Da Xiong.

After pausing, she continued.

"As for Qinggang City, you just go to Fudang Mountain Hospital, bring your ID, and I’ll arrange over the phone."

"Okay." Li Chengyi immediately left without delay; his AR glasses had already failed to take pictures and record videos inside a blind spot before.

He hadn’t expected a biological camera to pop up this time...

After alerting Yu Long, he quickly hailed a taxi and left the villa.

On the way, Pencil Eyebrow called.

"Sorry, the company hasn’t found any similar data, and Yi Country’s databases don’t have a corresponding blind spot either."

"None?" It seemed certain it was a new blind spot.

"According to your description, the think tank named this new blind spot Tightening Grasp. They believe you might need to crawl under the bed to get to the other side for more clues. Most blind spots have real-life originals, so far none have appeared without one," said Pencil Eyebrow in a deep voice.

"Tightening Grasp, fitting... I understand. I’ll handle the rest, that’s all for now," Li Chengyi replied.

"Do you need anything to prepare?"

"Let me ask, is there something that doesn’t require machinery, no batteries, and can still take pictures?"

"You mean bio-chemical imaging? That exists, but we are not the head office and don’t have big connections in Yi Country. Such items don’t last long and are mostly single-use. If it were White Star, there would be no issue."

With Pencil Eyebrow’s answer, Li Chengyi’s doubts were confirmed.

"Understood, thanks."

"Stay safe, and good luck," Pencil Eyebrow added finally.

The call ended.

Li Chengyi fell silent.

He lifted his left hand, looking at his palm that was still not clear, his brows slightly furrowing.

Indeed, according to the patterns of previous blind spots, it’s very likely that I didn’t actually enter this blind spot last night, but just walked around outside.’

Grecius had a similar experience; I had to push through the bedroom door to get inside.

The Silent Store was the same; after pushing the door open, the small supermarket I entered was the real blind spot.

And this Tightening Grasp...’

"Boss, boss? We’ve arrived at Fudang Mountain Hospital," the driver’s voice pulled him back from his thoughts.

Li Chengyi quickly came back to his senses, took out his phone to pay.

"Sorry about that," he apologized while pushing open the car door.

Directly opposite the car door was a building like an M-shaped pale yellow structure.

On a white stone column to the side, imprinted with gilt letters, read: Qinggang Fudangshan Hospital.

Right outside the hospital gate were rows of luxury cars, identifiable by their emblems and designs.

All of them cost more than five hundred thousand.

The entrance to the hospital was on the right, with a triangular sign indicating the entrance to the outpatient clinic.

At the entrance, where people were coming and going, stood a small nurse with a white medical cap.

Dressed entirely in white—a white lab coat, white mask, white skirt, white stockings—she looked less like a nurse and more like a model.

You could tell from the eyes that she was pretty.

"Are you Mr. Cheng Yi?" the nurse’s gaze turned this way, and she brightened up, quickly approaching with a sweet voice.

"Yes. And you are?"

"This is for you from Miss Xiong," she said, taking a small, cute pink box out of her pocket and handing it to him.

Li Chengyi took the box, but before he could open it, the nurse continued.

"If you need anything during your visit, you can use the VIP channel. Inside this box is a permanent VIP identity card for the hospital. Please bring it with you when you come for treatment. Of course, if you forget it, you can also call the VIP hotline."

The nurse quickly explained everything.

"Do you need medical attention now? I can take you there."

"I do, thank you," Li Chengyi nodded.

He had not experienced such comprehensive service at Hongjin.

After all, it was just a temporary company that Xindela had set up there, nothing compared to someone as entrenched as Da Xiong.

"All right, please follow me," the nurse said, leading the way with a sway of her hips.

Through the main entrance and to the left was a separate door with very few people.

People coming in and out of here hardly ever walked; they arrived by car at the door, then got out, some with bodyguards in attendance, some aided by servants, almost no one came alone.

Li Chengyi was the only one on his own.

He glanced at the others; from their attire alone, he could tell they were not from ordinary households.

The nurse led him inside.

They took the elevator to the top floor.

With no need to register or pay, they passed through a hallway furnished in soothing pale yellow luxury and entered treatment room 2 at the very end.

A doctor was already waiting inside.

It was an elderly person with white hair and glasses, who looked very steady and serious.

"Where is it that you’re feeling unwell?"