Blind Spot
Chapter 170 - 159 Fate 3

Chapter 170: 159 Fate 3

Eternal Botanical Garden.

In the cold morning light, the sunrays slanted across the surface of one greenhouse after another, reflecting a faint golden hue.

Li Chengyi gently covered a white chrysanthemum with soil and watered it with nutrient solution.

He had now come to understand why white chrysanthemums had sold so well recently.

It was because there were too many deaths.

No matter how righteous and grandiose Utopia’s slogans were, there was one fact it couldn’t change.

They had brought death.

Moreover, it was a kind of death that most of the population was unwilling to accept.

If it were times of chaos, it might have been tolerable, but for a stable country like Yi Country to carry out such terror attacks was truly reckless for the sake of one’s own ambitions.

Coming back to his senses.

Li Chengyi straightened his body gently and turned to look behind him.

Rainbow Candy was blowing bubblegum with large headphones on, leaning against the wall next to the door, nodding her head as if immersed in the music.

"Why are you here again?" he asked.

"Just checking on you," said Rainbow Candy, removing her headphones. "Brother Cheng, I found the person you asked me to look for. She’s quite good-looking and works at a KTV."

"How is her family situation?" Li Chengyi’s aim was simple; he couldn’t do anything for those in the Blind Spot, so he could only help with aftermath matters.

"She only has a younger brother with a rare disease, on a respirator in the hospital, hanging on to life. A large sum is needed for the surgery," replied Rainbow Candy.

"How much?"

"Eight hundred thousand."

"Can Da Xiong help reduce the cost?" asked Li Chengyi. "I’ll cover the expenses."

"I’ll ask." Rainbow Candy put her headphones back on, pressed a button on them, and soon made a call to Da Xiong.

After a few inquiries, she nodded to Li Chengyi.

"It’s no problem on her end."

"Thank her for me," said Li Chengyi, nodding.

Getting her brother’s illness cured would mean that the matter was settled.

"Oh, by the way, I may need to go out for a while the next few days. Can you help me look after the botanical garden?"

"No problem. But Brother Cheng, you should really hire a professional assistant." Rainbow Candy raised an eyebrow. "Preferably not one of our own kind."

"I understand what you mean..."

Blind Spot Individuals were highly unstable and could have accidents at any moment, making them unsuitable for stable jobs like managing.

But the botanical garden had too many secrets, and Li Chengyi didn’t trust anyone else. Unable to find the right person for the time being, he had to wait for the right opportunity.

With that thought, he became even more eager to possess the Flower Language Ability to increase trust.

If he had the Flower Language Ability, to control the risks in this aspect...

Upon returning upstairs, Li Chengyi quickly gathered the things he needed to prepare.

He needed to think about where to test the Feilian Floral Dress and Flower Language Ability.

The city had Heavenly Eye, and making a big fuss there wasn’t an option.

After all, he had just checked in with the Jiu Yi Commissioner and made assurances.

’Still need a separate and secretive space...’

After much consideration, the only option was to head to a desolate area outside the city.

In this era, however, there were very few uninhabited wastelands. What was said to be wasteland often harbored various people in hiding.

Many individuals unaccepted by the city’s society lived secretly in the wilderness.

That’s how Zhong Hui’s little villa came about.

Li Chengyi took out his phone and searched the map for a while before finding a spot with no markings at all between Suiyang City and Qinggang City.

’Here it is.’

After packing his belongings and leaving behind his phone and all electronic devices, Li Chengyi quickly left the house.

He didn’t call a taxi, just strolling leisurely toward his destination.

The botanical garden was already on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by sparsely populated areas, with just a few villages dotted around.

Not a few miles out, there were no signs of human activity.

Once certain there was no one around, he swiftly increased his pace.

It began with the speed of an ordinary person running, but as the surroundings grew more desolate, his speed increased.

The enhancements from the Floral Dress had made his physical fitness far exceed that of an ordinary person.

Whether it was strength, speed, stamina, or resilience.

Twenty minutes later.

Li Chengyi left the main road and entered a patch of woods on the roadside.

Ascending along the slope of the woods, he gradually climbed up a small hill and then kept going toward the distance.

He crossed over five or six hillocks before coming to a halt in a dense forest where the trees were straight and over a dozen meters tall.

The forest floor was strewn with fallen dead wood.

Yellow and black leaves and branches were everywhere—some rotting and others broken into pieces, amongst which grew uneven grass and wildflowers.

Li Chengyi casually touched a few wildflowers—mostly those he had encountered before, like Asteraceae, dandelions, and purslanes—ensuring there were no fresh Flower Languages. Then he got up and looked around.

The surroundings were open and fresh, aside from a certain wet and gloomy chill, devoid of any signs of human presence.

Strips of cold sunlight penetrated the forest, casting slanted pillars onto the ground.

’This is the place.’

Li Chengyi took a deep breath, raised his hand, and looked at the Mark of the Evil Flower on the back of his hand.

With a thought.

Silently, strands of black shadows, like thin lines, climbed up from beneath his feet.

Soon, the shadows completely enveloped his body, turning Li Chengyi into a black figure.

Hum.

A faint sound began to spread.

Innumerable purple-red Feilian petals materialized out of nowhere around him.

The petals coalesced into dark, lacquered pieces of armor, falling onto his body.

Arms, legs, torso, head.

Every part was covered with segments of scale-like armor.

In the blink of an eye, he was fully clad in a fearsome, pitch-black armor riddled with tiny bone spikes.

After looking at himself in a mirror, Li Chengyi was taken aback.

Not because the armor was too dark, but because...

His helmet was shaped exactly like a crocodile’s head.

From a distance, it looked like a gigantic and ferocious crocodile skull that had opened its wide mouth to envelop his entire head.

More precisely, it was as if his head had grown out of the deep throat of a crocodile’s head.

This bizarre sensation made him curiously touch the helmet.

Strangely enough, the material of the helmet had changed from before, it was not purely hard but also had a certain resilience.

’So, those crocodile heads are indeed related to the Shadow Dragon?’

This Floral Dress’s appearance further confirmed Li Chengyi’s suspicions about those crocodile heads.

He took a mirror, hung it on a tree, and then took a closer look at this new set of armor on his body.

The armor had black spikes all over but these weren’t the long sword-like spines of the Gladiolus Floral Dress; they felt more like bone spines.

Overall, it resembled the full-body heavy armor worn by ancient generals, with small purplish-red patterns on the shoulders that upon closer inspection resembled the shape of Feilian.

Both arms were completely devoid of fingers, replaced by sharp, pitch-black claws.

Li Chengyi casually clenched and unclenched his hands, confirming that their dexterity was unaffected.

He casually dragged his hand across the trunk of a nearby tree.

His right hand’s index fingernail effortlessly scratched across the bark, he didn’t even feel anything blocking it.

Hisss.

A sharp scratch appeared on the tree bark, with sparse sap slowly seeping out.

’I wonder about the defense but these claws are really strong....’

Thinking it over, Li Chengyi held out his left hand and a golden light shone, as golden gladiolus petals appeared, condensing into a short-handled golden sword.

A golden sword in one hand and sharp claws in the other.

He scratched the golden sword with the nail of the claw.

Szzzt.

A clear scratch appeared on the surface of the golden sword, and it was deep.

’These are very sharp! They can easily breach the protection of the Gladiolus Floral Dress.’

Immediately after, he picked up the broken golden sword and, using the remaining blade, cut against the claw.

Thud.

The sound was like cutting into leather.

A shallow mark was left on the claw.

But as soon as he picked up the golden sword, the mark quickly disappeared, as if it had never been there.

Li Chengyi was somewhat astonished and once again exerted force, cutting fiercely upon the claw.

Thud!

Another dull sound was heard.

A slightly deeper mark appeared on the claw, but that was it.

As he picked up the golden sword, the mark disappeared again.

’It recovers too quickly... It’s almost like a living armor!’

This was the first time Li Chengyi had seen a Floral Dress with self-repair functionality.

The defensive strength was also higher than that of the Gladiolus.

Keep in mind that the Gladiolus Floral Dress had already evolved once, yet it still could not outperform Feilian.

While Li Chengyi felt relieved, he also became more certain that from now on, common flowers would be secondary to the Flower Language Technique.

The strength of Floral Dresses from common flowers just couldn’t compare to those of mutant flowers.

’In the future, unless it is a flower with an exceptionally powerful and rare Flower Language Technique, it is better to use mutant flowers as the principal source.’

Of course, he was aware that mutant flowers were not always beneficial, since they were difficult to obtain and required a long cycle.

After testing the weapons and strength.

He began to carefully feel the changes in his body.

Upon wearing the Feilian Floral Dress, he could distinctly feel his whole body cool down.

It was not just his body temperature but also his mood and mindset, all cooling down completely.

The excitement and anticipation from before were utterly gone.

It was as if he had a fever that had now broken, his body and mind both seemingly soaked in cold water.

’Too bad, without professional equipment to test data, I have no idea how much this has enhanced my body. It seems I’ll have to figure that out later.’

Li Chengyi skipped this part and turned his attention to the Flower Language Technique.

’Next, to confirm the Flower Language Ability!’

He lifted his hand, palm facing upward.

’Flower Language • Inferior Shadow Dragon Bloodline!’

As the thought activated.

An ice-cold, bone-piercing chill exploded from his heart in an instant.

The cold sensation, like an invisible light, in a moment coursed through his heart vessels into his trunk, spreading into his limbs and head.

’Warning, once a bloodline-based Flower Language Technique is activated, irreversible bodily changes will begin. It cannot be reverted, it cannot be restored, please confirm if you want to fully activate this Flower Language Technique?’

The information from the Mark of the Evil Flower also entered his mind with this chill.

Li Chengyi was startled.

This was a rare proactive feedback from the Mark of the Evil Flower.

The thing was like a semi-automatic program; it would not initiate reminders unless you touched some sensitive spots.

But now it was giving a proactive prompt...

Without hesitation.

’Confirmed!’

Li Chengyi answered with his mind.

He had spent so much time and effort, was it not all for this moment?

’Confirmation successful.’

The feedback from the Mark of the Evil Flower completely faded.

In its place, a huge surge of cold abruptly accelerated, rushing madly throughout Li Chengyi’s body.

Thud.

He could hardly bear it and knelt on one knee.

Inside his body, it was as though ice was forming, growing colder and colder, increasingly numb and powerless.

As he endured the encroaching chill, among the trees surrounding him.

Shadows in between the trees began to flow toward him silently, as if they were alive.

Within a fifty-meter radius, all shadows began to quietly branch out a thread, converging towards Li Chengyi.

Hum...

In the faint sound, the crocodile head on Li Chengyi’s helmet gradually lit up with a hint of red light in its eyes.