Blind Spot
Chapter 134 - 123 contact number one

Chapter 134: 123 contact number one

"What are believers?"

Li Chengyi felt his worldview had been shaken. These bizarre beings could actually communicate?

He had thought that only danger lurked within the blind spot, but now it seemed there were many, many hidden secrets.

"They too are followers of the Behemoth Asladuni," Yserine answered. "There’s no danger hiding under this bed; the bed is a ship, the only safe haven in the Black Sea. But outside of it, it’s very dangerous," Yserine explained earnestly.

"...And you?" Li Chengyi looked at her, unable to hold back his question. "I went to your house, the one that was burnt down."

"My house? What house? Oh yes, I still need to go home, my dad, mom, and little brother are all waiting for me," Yserine suddenly wore a dazed expression. "It doesn’t matter, after three changes occur outside, we can go out. As long as we stay quiet and hide here, without venturing out."

Li Chengyi furrowed his brows, feeling utterly confused. But seeing Yserine’s expression, she didn’t seem to be lying.

"Do you remember that fire? And your eyes..."

"Fire? What’s wrong with my eyes?" Yserine reached up to touch the corner of her eye. "My... what’s wrong with my eyes?"

Blood began to faintly trickle from the corner of her eyes.

Under the illumination of the phone’s light at close range, her facial skin also began to turn black, showing signs of having been burnt.

"It feels... a bit painful," Yserine started to rub her eyes.

"They’re coming! They’re here!!" Li Chengyi’s expression shifted slightly, sensing something wrong, and quickly changed the subject. "Quick, look outside!"

Yserine paused in her movements, hastily looking outside the bed.

Within that brief moment, her burnt skin quickly reverted to normal, and the blood in her eyes seemed to flow backward in time, as if it had never happened.

Li Chengyi caught this from the corner of his eye, a chill running down his spine.

If before he had suspected that this Yserine before him might have been another survivor with the same name,

Now, he no longer had any doubts.

This Yserine was the very one who had been blinded and died in agony in the underground room during the fire.

"Yserine, are your parents doing well? Are they planning to go on a long trip?" Li Chengyi pondered and asked softly.

"Yes, they said they’re going to take my little brother to the doctor tomorrow. I said I wanted to go, but they wouldn’t let me, told me to stay at home alone," Yserine nodded, watching the outside while responding.

"Is that so? Tomorrow..." Li Chengyi had a vague guess in his mind.

"Mom also said we don’t have much money at home, and the medical expenses would be a lot... But my brother seems perfectly healthy, nothing’s wrong with him at all," Yserine whispered.

Li Chengyi, piecing together the information he had read earlier, guessed that her parents were planning to smuggle her little brother out, to leave Mukesa Town, to leave Sutan.

They must have sensed the danger, so they arranged to leave in advance, even lying to little Yserine that they were going for a medical visit, and told her to stay at home...

In the information provided by Rainbow Candy, it was mentioned that some of the Gilkini people who tried to smuggle themselves out mysteriously disappeared en route, with no trace found of at least hundreds of them.

And around that area, no other footprints were found, nor any vehicle had come close.

Where those people had ended up remained an unsolved mystery.

"The first change is about to pass. Be careful not to go outside," Yserine suddenly said.

Her voice pulled Li Chengyi back from his speculations.

He followed suit and lay down, looking outside the bed.

The spacious hall outside had slowly dimmed, and in a few breaths, it was completely engulfed in darkness.

"This place, this is the Black Sea... isn’t it beautiful?" Yserine gazed into the darkness outside, her eyes showing happiness, warmth, anticipation, and various other emotions.

"I can’t see anything," Li Chengyi responded.

He looked at Yserine.

"By the way. How do you know that those believers engage in trade? And it’s fair trade, at that?"

"Oh, that." Yserine smiled, turning her face towards him.

"Because I’ve tried it."

"Tried it?"

"Yes, I traded my piggy bank for a lot of things. I don’t understand what they say, but often, when I’m hungry, I see an opportunity to trade for food and drink."

"Food and drink?" Li Chengyi was speechless inside, "You dare to eat it?"

"Why not, there’s no danger. They eat first to show me. If they’re fine, then I eat too," Yserine answered.

Li Chengyi was at a loss for words.

Now he suspected that Yserine’s bizarre state might have been caused by carelessly eating things in the blind spot.

He wanted to say something else.

But quickly, the darkness outside began to recede again.

Outside the bed, an old European-style room slowly revealed itself.

Gray-black floor tiles, pure white walls full of floral reliefs, the baseboards, also white, were engraved with delicate symbols and scripts.

From this angle, Li Chengyi could see out.

Most of the view was taken up by the white wall.

In the corner to the left, there was a half-open red wooden door.

The bottom of the door was fortified with a black bumper strip.

"This place is...?" Li Chengyi was about to speak, but Yserine suddenly covered his mouth with her hand, shaking her head frantically, her expression filled with terror.

"Danger!" She typed these two characters, which had appeared earlier in their conversation on the phone screen, tapping repeatedly.

Li Chengyi felt a chill, lying still and silent.

Tap.

Tap.

Suddenly, the wooden door swung wide open.

A pair of legs wearing black shoes and black trousers, seemingly belonging to a man, slowly walked in.

Click.

The door was shut and locked from the inside.

"Heehee..."

Suddenly, a strange giggling sound echoed in the room.

"Heeheehee..."

The laughter sounded again.

Li Chengyi didn’t know why, but hearing this sound made his skin crawl with goosebumps.

"Yiyiyiyiyi...."

The sound changed again, becoming like a child babbling incoherently, emitting bizarre noises.

The sound was piercing, like opera singing, yet also like simple, strange shrieking.

Li Chengyi turned to look at Yserine, but found her face deathly pale, her eyes closed, too scared to move.

"Li Chengyi."

Suddenly, a resonant voice called out beside his ear.

He tensed up, abruptly turning to look outside the bed.

Those men’s feet were already standing by the bedside!

Pressed tightly against the edge of the bed, they were only a palm’s width from his face!

"Li Chengyi."

"Li Chengyi."

"Li Chengyi."

That voice was like a repeating machine, chanting nonstop, over and over.

The tone of the voice, from its initial strangeness, became more and more standard, more and more familiar, more and more...

It sounded like his own voice!

Suddenly, Li Chengyi realized this.

Instinctively, he felt that if he allowed the other to keep chanting like this, something extremely dangerous would occur.

In his hand, the Golden Sword slowly materialized, ready to unleash the Radiance Field at any moment.

"Ah!!!!!"

In an instant, an extremely shrill scream exploded beside him.

It was Yserine, also hidden under the bed.

Her expression was icy, her eyes slowly oozing blood, turning black and sunken.

Cracks and charred black marks started to appear on her facial skin as well.

The sharp and terrifying sound waves quickly neutralized the repetitive voices from outside.

Seconds later.

Thud.

Both sounds ceased at the same time.

Li Chengyi’s vision blurred from the shaking, and his head swelled.

When the sound completely stopped, he only then began to stabilize under the restoration of the Radiance Field.

Outside the bed had gone dark again.

They seemed to have left the room they were in just before.

And Yserine, who had been curled up beside him, suddenly tilted her head and fainted, lying motionless on the ground.

’Was she... helping me?’ Li Chengyi suddenly realized.

’Why would she help me?’ He couldn’t understand. What he could be sure of right now was that Yserine was undoubtedly no ordinary being; whether she was dead or alive, no one knew.

But that she possessed some special abilities was something he could be certain of.

Li Chengyi looked at the fainted Yserine and recalled the small skeleton he had seen before, feeling an inexplicable stir in his heart.

Before he could dwell on other thoughts, the darkness outside changed once again, quickly.

The pitch-black faded away.

A dark red wall, made of coarse stone, appeared outside the bed.

This time, it seemed he was quite lucky.

No one was outside. There was no movement either.

The dark red walls, the dark red stone floor, and the scattering of tiny stone chips and rubble on the ground.

Besides that, there was nothing else.

The temperature was also different from before, starting to get a bit warmer.

Li Chengyi remembered the rule of three that Yserine had told him about, as well as the inference of waiting under the bed for more than half an hour.

Now that he had regained his senses, the strange voice that had been chanting his name was likely to be part of the danger associated with Tightening Grasp Blind Spot.

But it was blocked by Yserine.

Lying under the bed, not moving an inch.

He periodically looked at the stopwatch on his phone.

Ten minutes.

Twenty minutes.

Thirty minutes...

Whew.

Suddenly, a sense of disorientation overwhelmed him.

Li Chengyi’s vision filled with a multitude of snowflakes.

Thud, he blinked involuntarily, and everything in front of him swiftly began to change.

By the time he came to his senses, he had already returned to his hotel room.

His right hand was holding the open door, standing at the doorway, about to leave.

Hum, hum.

His phone was vibrating, the alarm clock going off.

Li Chengyi took a deep breath, looked around to make sure he had indeed escaped the Blind Spot.

Only then did his body relax noticeably.

’Out at last!’

His vision cleared up.

He recalled each scene from within the Blind Spot.

Yserine’s shriek as she helped him.

And the profound sense of loneliness she transmitted to him when she grabbed his calf in Mukesa Town.

’It seems I need to take something extra before I leave.’

Li Chengyi calmed the thumping in his chest, put on a white hat to cover his face, and quickly stepped out of the room.

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Two days later...

Suiyang City·Eternal Botanical Garden.

"So you brought her here too!?!!"

Rainbow Candy stared at Li Chengyi as if she were a wooden chicken.

Her mouth was bulging with a lollipop, which puffed out her cheek, but at this moment, no lollipop was large enough to fill the continuous exclamations of shock that were bubbling up in her heart.

It wasn’t just her.

Da Xiong, Dragon Gate Crane, Da Hei, and Xiao Zhong were all in the living room, staring blankly at Li Chengyi in silence.

"Brother Cheng... are you, maybe, a little crazy...? Let’s not even talk about how you brought this back, but whether it’s safe or not has yet to be confirmed, and... you just went ahead and brought it here?" Dragon Gate Crane’s face contorted as he pointed to the two neatly laid out skeletons on the ground.