Blind Spot
Chapter 154: Blue Book 143 - 5

Chapter 154: Blue Book 143 Chapter 5

"The Lan Meng Mountain Master’s Exceptional Knowledge Record?"

Li Chengyi softly repeated the name.

"In ancient times, a mountain master generally referred to a hermit living in seclusion in the mountains. Lan Meng Mountain Master must be a hermit named Lan Meng, who recorded this exceptional knowledge?"

"Is this a tradition unique to Yi Country? Why would he choose to live in the mountains?" Heserine could not understand.

"Maybe because you can grow vegetables in the mountains," Li Chengyi casually said.

"Can’t you grow vegetables outside the mountains too?" Heserine asked, puzzled.

"That’s possible, but look at all the plants in the mountains; surely vegetables would grow fast there too, right? Otherwise, why would so many plants like to squeeze into the mountains?" Li Chengyi continued to ramble.

He himself continued to walk around the Blue Cave.

He intended to thoroughly explore the Wolf Cave Blind Spot.

But to his regret, the entire area of the Wolf Cave was not large, only the size of a basketball court.

The surrounding cave walls were covered with dense, charcoal-pencil writing.

Some were messages from the Blue Book, and some were about the Lan Meng Mountain Master.

Heserine read all of them to him.

"So, this Lan Meng Mountain Master must have been an ancient person who lived here many years ago. The exact era needs to be determined with an isotope detector, but this is a blind spot; nothing can be taken out..." Li Chengyi said with knitted brows after hearing all the content.

The scale of the Wolf Cave was not large, but there was no sign of the Blue Book at all.

The only mysterious thing that could not be deciphered was the Blue Cave on the ground.

"According to what Mr. Mu said, the Blue Book exists within the Wolf Cave, but I have turned this place upside down and found nothing..."

Plop.

Heserine had just thrown a rock into the Blue Cave.

The rock caused ripples across the blue water’s surface.

The entire Blue Cave was like a water well, surrounded by a circle of white stones piled up.

Li Chengyi noticed that there seemed to be man-made imprints inside the stones.

The writing looked different from Black Sea Script, more like countless meticulous reptiles; without close attention, it was impossible to recognize them as characters.

He looked up at Heserine, who understood and slightly shook her head.

"It’s not Black Sea Script; I don’t recognize it either."

"There are clearly man-made traces here," Li Chengyi said, "perhaps from Lan Meng Mountain Master, or maybe someone else. They arranged everything, most likely for this Blue Cave."

"Then Brother, what do you plan to do?" Heserine asked. "Do you want to jump in?" She seemed quite interested.

"What if I can’t come back?" Li Chengyi said, exasperated.

"But don’t you think this is really fascinating?" Heserine countered.

Li Chengyi ignored her, lifted the briefcase in his hand, and tried to activate the Flying Yi.

Nothing happened; clearly, the Flying Yi had malfunctioned.

He sighed, and with a wave of his right hand, a Golden Sword materialized out of thin air.

He stirred vigorously in the Blue Cave with the Golden Sword.

Then he pulled it out.

The front half of the sword that had been inserted into the water had completely disappeared.

"As expected... just like what Brother Song said."

"Eh? Wait! Brother, look!" Yserine suddenly exclaimed in a low voice.

She pointed at the surface of the Blue Cave’s water, seemingly having seen something.

Li Chengyi quickly looked in the direction she was pointing.

He was startled for a moment.

He really saw something, an object slowly rising from under the waters of the Blue Cave.

Though the blue current blurred the vision, he could still see clearly that it appeared to be a book.

A book as brown as dead leaves, with a body full of tea-colored spots, a thread-bound ancient book.

"Brother... what is that?" Yserine unconsciously leaned closer to him and whispered.

"I don’t know... but... if we can get it out..."

Li Chengyi speculated that it might be the so-called Blue Book.

He stared intently at the book, about to create a longer Golden Sword to try and fish it out.

Suddenly, the ancient book slowly began to move.

It started to ascend slowly.

It grew nearer and clearer.

Slowly, it seemed to have floated up to the surface, only a thin layer of water away from being retrievable.

It appeared that a mere reach would be enough to grab it from the water.

The cover of the book also bore a line of small characters.

Yserine read softly from the side.

"Hidden for nine years, leaving this book here, to all who touch it, the power shall be lent."

"Does it mean, as long as you can touch it, you get to borrow power from the book?"

Li Chengyi slowly concentrated a one-meter-long Golden Sword in his hands.

He focused on the book.

Took a deep breath.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, he plunged the Golden Sword into the water and flicked it upwards.

With a splash, the book scattered along with the disturbed water waves, surprisingly coming apart.

The Golden Sword was swift, avoiding being swallowed by the Blue Cave, but the book was not scooped out at all.

Li Chengyi frowned slightly, looking at the rippling water surface.

The book soon reconvened slowly.

As if it was just a thin layer beneath the surface.

Splash!

Li Chengyi double-fisted the sword, stabbing into the water repeatedly, yet he still could not extract the ancient book.

The book seemed like a mere phantom.

"No wonder, no wonder he said ’can be touched by anyone...’" Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes.

"Brother, what do we do now?" Heserine asked.

She was also curiously looking at the Golden Sword in Li Chengyi’s hand that was slowly vanishing.

It was obvious that this sort of sudden appearance and disappearance method greatly intrigued her.

"First of all, we must clarify how the boss was put into a coma by the Blue Book. Since even touching the Blue Book is so difficult, then who has the ability to easily take it out, show it to someone, and then put it back in place?" Li Chengyi said with a grave voice.

"Brother, are you suggesting... someone is lying?" Yserine quickly understood.

"Either that He Bing has a very secretive and precious method that allows him to take out the Blue Book and then put it back.

Or..."

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From the outside, the Jackal Cave appeared to be a dome-shaped tomb entrance that looked like a dirt kiln.

Thick yellow dead grass mixed with light green branches and leaves hung from above, covering most of the entrance.

Compared to the three or four-meter entrance of the Wolf Cave, this was just a small hole. It probably wouldn’t be much trouble.

That’s what Song Ran and the others had originally thought.

But after the series of casualties they just experienced, no one was taking it lightly anymore.

Now, exploration robots were being sent in one after another.

The robots, all spider-shaped, were transmitting back images from inside through night-vision cameras.

Outside the cave, two company experts in charge of operating the robots were staring intently at the projection screens on the monitoring computers.

The dark, antique, and dilapidated inside of the tomb was clearly visible on the floating projection screens to everyone present.

The ashen ground, the grey walls, some earthen tables, chairs, cabinets, decorations.

There were also some simple wolf-like patterns on the walls.

Black and twisted.

"We’ve reached the location of our men from earlier. I’m preparing to adjust the camera angle—everyone, pay attention to the surroundings," one expert said solemnly.

But before he could finish his sentence,

there was a "puff" as one of the screens instantly went dark.

"Something rushed over there and smashed the camera!"

"It’s fast! Looks like a black solid object!" With the camera’s help, Song Ran could see it clearer this time.

His expression was calm as he quickly looked towards another screen.

However, within a few seconds, another screen also went dark.

"Confirmed, it appears to be a high-speed metallic object with minor radioactive reactions."

"Must we go in?" Sima Gui asked solemnly on the side.

"If you still want your boss to wake up," Mr. Mu replied in his consistently indifferent tone.

"I’ll lead the team! I can keep up with that thing’s speed," Song Ran said through gritted teeth.

By now, looking at the remaining security company personnel, no one else was willing to go down.

Everyone was just there to make money, not to risk their lives for an outsider.

Except for him.

"Triple the salary! Who will come with me?" he called out loudly.

The twenty or so people present fell silent for a moment, then a few confident in their skills stood out.

"Let’s sign a contract first," one of them said seriously.

"Okay!"

While the people from Vulture Company hesitated in the face of danger,

in a wooded highland in the distance,

two mysterious people cloaked in black coats were watching Song Ran and the others from afar.

They were kilometers apart, but they seemed to see everything happening at Song Ran’s location without any aid, clear as day.

"Our setup has been triggered again. It’s the eleventh hidden automatic guardian device planted inside the tomb," one of them said in a low voice.

"It’s that same guy from last time, he’s brought quite a crowd. Maybe they’ve found something."

"The base must not suffer any loss, especially not at this critical moment," the other replied.

"Should we deal with these people the same way as last time?" the first person inquired.

"There are too many of them. Even if we take them out, our location will be exposed. We will lose one more evacuation route. It’s not advisable," the other person denied.

"What should we do, then? The boss is still entangled with the Union people in the provincial capital. The other provinces are progressing faster than us, we can’t continue to lag behind," the first person said impatiently.

"For now, let’s withdraw the automatic devices. Let them investigate, and we’ll place it back later," the other suggested.

The first person fell silent.

As Utopia’s hidden agents in Fuzong Province, they had been concealing themselves here for many years.

But since a few days ago, people had been inexplicably probing towards their hideout, courting death.

After killing quite a few, the opposition was still persistent, replacing the lost with new people to continue the search.

"Forget it, let’s withdraw. We can’t afford to cause any issues for the higher-ups," the first person sighed.

"What about the Wolf Cave Blind Spot? We haven’t fully explored this place, are we just going to pause and give up on the progress?" the other was somewhat unwilling.

"We have no choice but to give up. Different branches have different experimental progress. We’ve already caused dissatisfaction in other test sites by squandering our resources and manpower here," the first person explained.

"We don’t have to give up," before he could finish, a tall woman dressed in black with a wolf mask suddenly swept out from the dense forest behind them, landing lightly on the sloped grass, her toes touching the ground to stop her momentum.

From rapid movement to extreme stillness, it took only a second.

"The operation above is about to yield results. I received the news, all experimental sites will be completely abandoned. Yi Country might witness great upheaval, we must evacuate out of the country," the woman quickly said.

"Boss!"

"Big sister!"

Upon hearing the voice and turning to see the woman, they both promptly bowed in respect.