Blind Spot
Chapter 162 - 151 intersects with 3

Chapter 162: 151 intersects with 3

He boarded the flying vehicle.

The streamlined seat tilted backward, and Li Chengyi lay back, turning his face to the side to watch the scenery rising outside the diamond-shaped window.

Trees, grassland, and flocks of birds circling in flight—all were gradually left below by the flying vehicle.

"You arrived just in time." He withdrew his gaze and looked at Rainbow Candy, who was sitting in the pilot’s seat.

"As soon as I got your call, I took off. Why bother talking so much with those messy terrorists? Just blow them to pieces and be done with it!" Rainbow Candy grabbed a bottle of yogurt from the mini-fridge with one hand and tossed it to Li Chengyi.

"It’s different. That is Utopia." Li Chengyi replied.

"Utopia? Well..." Rainbow Candy wanted to say something else, but the name Utopia clearly intimidated her.

The less you know, the less you fear.

And she was one of those who knew too much, so she had a very direct understanding of the power of Utopia.

"Where to now?"

"Have we shaken off the lock-on?"

"Shook it off a while ago, but Heavenly Eye will start patrolling periodically soon. It won’t be so convenient by then." Rainbow Candy replied.

Li Chengyi fell silent for a moment.

"Hold on, I’ll make a call."

He took out his phone and dialed his teacher Yu Long’s number.

After two beeps of waiting,

The call was picked up on the other end.

"Master, I have a friend, a Blind Spot Individual, who wants to surrender to the officials. He has decent strength, but he did something not exactly legal before..."

He roughly brought up the things he did with his alternate identity.

Master Yu Long had once been a senior training officer in the military, and approaching the situation through this route might avoid a lot of trouble.

After listening carefully on the other end of the phone, Yu Long repeated several key questions.

After pondering for a while, he finally replied,

"It’s difficult."

He spoke gravely.

"Actually, the things your friend has done, the affairs he’s been involved with, they don’t count for much; we can provide retrospective documentation. After all, those people and forces—we could dig up plenty of criminal records, it’s just a matter of whether the officials want to pursue it or not.

By then, we could just alter the timeline a bit and supplement it with some official documents, and everything would fall into place.

After all, your friend didn’t harm the innocent. That’s a good thing.

The key... lies elsewhere."

"Where? Just tell me, Master." Li Chengyi asked urgently.

"He is a Blind Spot Individual," Yu Long stated bluntly.

"Is that... particularly taboo?" Li Chengyi fell silent for a moment before asking.

"It’s not about being taboo, but a Blind Spot Individual, they have no value for cultivation." Yu Long answered, "The difficulty of the Blind Spot will increase over time, becoming greater and greater, and no Blind Spot Individual can live long. Such people, no matter how talented or valuable, are just unstable talents, and the higher-ups will definitely not invest too much energy in them. At most, they’ll use them as expendable resources. Even monitoring them would take a considerable effort."

He sighed.

"Although our Yi Country does a good job protecting the lower-class citizens, emphasizing humanity and humanitarianism, Blind Spot Individuals are different. The nation’s resources can’t be wasted on an individual who is sure to disappear.

So, from a personal point of view, I don’t recommend your friend joining the officials."

"But the operation against terror attacks initiated by Jiu Yi is about to be promoted nationwide..." Li Chengyi started saying, but he didn’t finish the sentence, as everyone understood the rest.

"That’s easy." Yu Long chuckled, "Do you think the higher-ups haven’t considered this? For your friend and others like him, there’s a special review mechanism. Just register, express a willingness to cooperate with the military in wartime, and put forth some form of allegiance, and there will basically be no problem."

"Understood... For the allegiance, does killing quite a few of Utopia’s completed beings count?" Li Chengyi said.

"Of course it counts. This time, Utopia... in collusion with White Star, they actually assassinated Minister Zhou... The Royal Family is completely infuriated. Two top officials from the anti-terrorism department have been replaced, and all tasks are now handled by Jiu Yi. Sigh..." Yu Long obviously knew a lot of insider information, but he dared not leak too much, only speaking half of what he knew.

"Anyway, tell your friend to rest assured, at this juncture, killing terrorists from Utopia is the best form of allegiance. Got proof?"

"Didn’t dare to keep any... but there should be quite a few people from the local union and the Security Bureau who know about it," Li Chengyi replied.

"That’s fine. There will definitely be records; rest assured." Yu Long gave assurance.

After expressing his gratitude, Li Chengyi hung up the phone and saw Rainbow Candy curiously turning her head to look at him from the front.

"What?"

"Brother Cheng, I heard a bit," Rainbow Candy said, her tone lacking her usual carefreeness.

"We Blind Spot Individuals... as expected, even the officials don’t care about us."

"Isn’t your family quite nice to you? There are still people in this world who care about you," Li Chengyi consoled.

"They... actually gave up on me too," Rainbow Candy paused before answering.

"In all this time, have you ever seen anyone from my family?"

"..." Li Chengyi was stunned; he had indeed never met them.

"Do you know what my family does?" Rainbow Candy asked again.

"...They forbid you from saying?" Li Chengyi frowned.

"My father said they will provide a fixed amount of money, try to get whatever I need, but the condition is giving up my inheritance rights, and, I’m not allowed to tell anyone I’m their daughter," Rainbow Candy said softly.

"Why?" Li Chengyi didn’t understand. His own parents had always been the same toward him, although they were less protective of him after he had beaten his sister.

But before that, everything was fine.

"Because I’m a Blind Spot Individual," Rainbow Candy laughed, "Blind Spot Individuals don’t live long, so they simply don’t invest more energy in me.

It’s just because of the legal stipulations on inheritance, and some past affections, that they can’t bear to give up on me directly.

A year ago, my mother signed a notarization with me. This way, my brother doesn’t have to worry about someone contesting him later."

"Then you’re truly miserable," Li Chengyi said.

"...Brother Cheng, you really have a way with words." The bubblegum in Rainbow Candy’s mouth flew out the window with a ’biu’ sound.

"Actually, for most of us in this group, our families who are in the know pretty much treat us the same way. Dragon Gate Crane and I are similar; his dad brought a love child back home and has pretty much given up on him now.

Da Xiong is slightly better off, but only slightly. Her parents each do their own thing and have love children on the side, but because she has been outstanding and sensible since she was a child, and has a talent for business, she took over some family enterprises early on, so she wasn’t abandoned.

There’s no need to talk about Da Hei and Xiao Zhong; they were out mixing with society early on, and all their family members have long passed away. Once they were discovered to be Blind Spot Individuals, they lost their jobs. After all, everyone is scared of our kind of people going to extremes."

Li Chengyi listened quietly, not expecting that everyone in his small team had similar circumstances.

"At this point, aren’t all of us living each day as it comes?" Rainbow Candy turned her head around, piloting the vehicle while speaking.

"Everyone is waiting for us to die. The higher-ups want to keep us stable, so we don’t cause trouble. Our families want to keep us at bay, so we don’t drag them down. Friends and classmates all see us as monsters. They avoid us like the plague, fearing that they too might be caught up in the Blind Spot.

So, you see. We’re actually a group of people abandoned by society..."

"I feel it," Li Chengyi said aloud.

"But there’s a bright side to this." Rainbow Candy suddenly began to smile. "Everyone is afraid of us. They fear we might go mad and drag them down with us."

Seeing her laugh, Li Chengyi began to smile as well.

He suddenly remembered the speech he had made when first establishing the team.Looking back on it now.

Maybe it did touch Rainbow Candy and the others.

Blind Spot Individuals are destined to be a group that’s abandoned, but they too have emotions and desires, longing to be accepted, longing to be remembered.

Plant a flower for each of them, and if they die, bury their ashes beneath the flower.

That way, even in death, there will always be someone to remember them, in the moment they see the flower, to remember them.

That’s also the origin of the Garden of Fate.

Now, it’s time to plant the corresponding flowers for them.

Li Chengyi made up his mind.

"So, if no one accepts us, how about we accept ourselves?" he said softly out of the blue.

"Brother Cheng, you must be joking," said Rainbow Candy, vaguely understanding what he meant.

"I’m not joking; it’s just about expanding the Garden of Fate a bit more. Just planting more flowers," Li Chengyi said with a smile.

Rainbow Candy fell silent.

"What if the flowers wither? Wouldn’t that be really awkward?"

"Not with me here, it won’t."

Li Chengyi stopped talking and turned his face to watch the clouds drifting by outside.

Blind Spot Individuals are just that kind of people; maybe just a little bit of hope, a bit of sunshine, is enough for them to band together, despite everything, clustering close to one another.

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Two days later.

Eternal Botanical Garden.

Li Chengyi slowly walked among the different greenhouse flower areas, watching the flowers swaying in the wind around him, considering in his heart which flower should be the main flower for the members of the Garden of Fate.

Many flowers, like the Sunflower, are actually not suitable to be the main flower because Sunflowers are annual herbaceous plants, which live from birth to withering in just one year.

Thus, it’s necessary to find flowers that can survive for many years.

Soon, he set aside a special greenhouse area, separating it for his teammates as their main flower area.

After thinking, he took some flourishing rose branches from the nearby Rose Garden Area and stuck them directly into the soil here.

He intended to do a test.

The rose branches were just as long as an arm, with many unopened flower buds on them.

He casually stuck them into the soil, fixing them in place.

Then, Li Chengyi reached out and gently touched the rose.

’Flower Language Technique: Radiant Force Field.’

Threads of invisible, gentle force fields instantaneously covered the entire rose.

Szzz...

Suddenly visible to the naked eye, new sprouts began to grow rapidly on the rose branches.

Sprouts turned into branches, new leaves emerged, and the flower buds slowly bloomed one by one.

In the part of the branches that was inserted into the ground, roots were clearly growing out, some even poking out of the soil and wriggling like worms.

Li Chengyi was also a bit surprised.

He had previously used the Radiance Field to treat sick flower branches, but none had as good an effect as this time.

Obviously, this must be the result of his force field’s third evolution.

After stopping the force field, he pulled out the rose branches, finding that the roots had grown densely underneath.

In this way, perhaps teammates could choose their favorite flowers.

A thought flickered in Li Chengyi’s mind.

He tried the same in other places, some withered flowers revived with vigor and bloomed again after he treated them with the force field.

He deliberately avoided the surrounding workers, fearing that being seen might cause trouble.