Blind Spot
Chapter 222 - 210 Stream 2

Chapter 222: 210 Stream 2

An hour later.

A silver flying vehicle slowly descended onto the public landing pad in the center of Yunshan City.

Li Chengyi pushed open the hatch and glanced at the completely darkened sky.

Around him, other flying vehicles constantly took off and landed, but almost none of them were piloted by a sole individual like him.

Most were cargo machines.

"Brother Cheng, we are at your eleven o’clock, facing you. After the Flash Appearance, we can’t enter for a short period. What are your plans?" Xiao Zhong’s voice came from the AR glasses.

"You guys pull out first, it’s best to temporarily leave Yunshan City. This time, the Blind Spot might be troublesome and very dangerous," Li Chengyi said.

"When is a Blind Spot not troublesome? Your words are pointless, Brother Cheng," Rainbow Candy’s voice rang out. "Besides, something isn’t quite right now."

"What happened?" Li Chengyi asked. He had only left for a short while, hadn’t he? How could the situation change this quickly?

"The children who disappeared before have all returned. They mysteriously showed up back in their rooms," Rainbow Candy said. "When asked what happened, they don’t know; they only remember being asleep and groggy."

"They returned?" Li Chengyi furrowed his brow, recalling everything he had encountered and a faint guess formed in his mind.

Soon after, Rainbow Candy sent over a series of videos, all interviewing these returned children.

Li Chengyi moved toward their direction while clicking to view the videos.

The children in the videos appeared completely normal, showing no oddities, just a bit tired.

When the police and reporters interviewed them, their behavior was completely consistent with that of a normal child.

"Additionally, after looking into it, we found that many adults in Yunshan also experienced similar disappearance cases when they were children. But afterwards, all of them returned and continued to live and grow up normally," Rainbow Candy added.

"No rush. Let me go back in and have a look..." Li Chengyi answered in a deep voice.

As a High-Frequency Blinker, as long as the Blind Spot persisted, his entry intervals and frequency had to be much higher than that of a Common Blind Spot Individual.

"Understood."

A response came from the other side.

Bang!

Suddenly, a pale yellow light burst open in the distant sky.

Immediately after, bunches of fireworks soared into the air, exploding into a variety of floral shapes.

Different colored flowers released their glow, accompanied by loud noises, faintly masking the series of small explosions coming from the distant suburbs.

"Don’t worry, I’m cleaning up the trash with the spider swarm. There’s always some thugs that don’t know any better, trying to take advantage at the periphery," Rainbow Candy’s cold, scoffing voice came through.

Li Chengyi was speechless.

He paused for a moment, admiring the fireworks, until the frequency of the fireworks gradually lessened. Only then did he turn around and continue to approach the people from Mingyuan Company.

After solving the theft by Kadis, the folks from Mingyuan stayed in Yunshan for a full two weeks.

What was strange was that even Li Chengyi hadn’t entered the Yunshan Blind Spot again.

Given that they could not enter the Blind Spot, searching for the Book of Record naturally became an impossibility.

They couldn’t afford to idle around in this place indefinitely, so on the second day of the third week, a few of them had a private meeting with Xindela and decided to leave Rose with equipment in charge here, while everyone else returned to a nearby base to rest.

They had a special base underground near Wolf Cave.

It was a large place that Rainbow Candy had spent a lot of money on and even moved the supercomputer into it.

Meanwhile, Li Chengyi returned to Suiyang, overseeing various tasks there.

It was a necessity.

After all, Yunshan was not their own Blind Spot cycle.

After such a long time, everyone’s Blind Spot cycle was about to arrive.

Especially Li Chengyi.

Upon his return, he did hear that the childhood friend of Rainbow Candy, White Hair Hate Male (though Rainbow Candy firmly denied knowing him), had safely emerged from the Yunshan Blind Spot.

Although he lost both legs and half of his torso, at least he had come out alive.

From what he disclosed, everyone learned that Yunshan seemed to have changed, shrinking tremendously in size compared to before.

According to the map, quite a few blocks had vanished.

As for the specifics of the change, since they couldn’t enter to experience it firsthand, Li Chengyi couldn’t verify the truth.

But regardless, even he couldn’t re-enter, indicating that something definitive had happened with the Yunshan Blind Spot.

After returning to Suiyang.

Time also slowly passed as Li Chengyi busied himself acquiring various exotic flowers.

Researching the Black Sea Ritual, the Exotic Garden, and occasionally chatting with Yserine, who was always mysteriously busy with something unknown.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-February.

Hiss.

Clear, pale green tea was gently poured from the teapot into the white jade cup.

Inside the office of Mingyuan Company.

Xindela and Li Chengyi sat across from one another, with no one else around them.

The cool morning sunlight streamed through the left side’s floor-to-ceiling window, shining onto both of them.

Xindela wore a simple dark green shirt and black trousers, hair still combed back, looking more energetic and refined than before, exuding a quiet and elegant demeanor.

He had a good appearance and was obviously a rare beauty when he was younger.

Of course, as he said himself, once you have money, everyone will make some adjustments to their looks, and he was no exception. Therefore, the appearance before him couldn’t be taken as evidence.

"What brings you here today? Has there been any situation over at Yunshan?" Xindela pushed a cup of the poured tea towards Li Chengyi.

"We initially suspect that Yunshan is an intermittently open closed Blind Spot. Otherwise, it’s impossible to explain why no Blind Spot Individual had discovered it over the many years before," Li Chengyi answered.

He picked up the tea and gently sipped it. The slightly hot tea was rich and aromatic, like a line of fire sliding down his throat into his stomach.

"I thought so too. Quite a lot of manpower and effort have gone into it these days, but they haven’t found much," Xindela nodded.

"However, I didn’t come here to talk about that," Li Chengyi said in a deep voice.

His strength had now hit a bottleneck. He had found the variants of Wisteria Flowers, Gladiolus, and Feilian, the three types of flowers he was looking for. He was just waiting for the flowering season to arrive.

The Wisteria Flowers and Gladiolus were not too bad, as there were quite a few variants, but the Feilian was extremely sparse in number due to the few people who favored it.

In addition, there was the Purple Magnolia. Suiyang did not have a large number of cultivated Purple Magnolia variants.

To avoid the current awkward situation, Li Chengyi decided, after consulting a variety of resources, to travel to places with suitable climates for different flowers, hoping to achieve a further evolution of the main flower.

Suiyang was cold, but that didn’t mean other places were. The Earth-Moon was too vast; there was always somewhere that main flowers would be blooming at this time.

"What? You’re planning to explore markets outside of town?" Xindela was somewhat taken aback upon hearing his plan.

You, a Blind Spot Individual, are always on the move for the Blind Spot, and now you want to explore what market?

Wouldn’t it be better to use this time to train and improve your various skills?

"Yes, but I’m not planning to stay long, just a short visit," Li Chengyi nodded.

He had actually had this thought for a long time, but it was Liu Tongbei’s warning that ultimately made up his mind.

An attack from someone on Kadis’s level, if launched unexpectedly, could pose a serious threat to him.

Yet, this level was still just civilian commercial level.

Liu Tongbei had mentioned that later-stage Feiyi Masters were to control flying vessels and warships.

Such standards were far beyond his current level.

Not to mention, a regular flying vessel weighed at least two tons. Coming at you at supersonic speed, the impact alone.

Just the impact was already not inferior to his Sunflower Ultimate Form’s giant hand.

Even stronger, in fact.

If it were a warship...

The smallest warship weighed tens to hundreds of tons... and the more typical ones reached into the thousands or tens of thousands of tons.

Smashing down at several times the speed of sound...

Of course, real combat doesn’t work this way. But the larger the volume, the more and stronger the energy carried.

The explosive power would also undoubtedly be higher.

"Actually, the path you’re on now is quite good," Xindela said after a pause, attempting to persuade him.

"Join the association, gradually highlight your role and importance. Gain greater influence and say. Then use that as a foundation to slowly expand your industry."

"I’m aware of that," Li Chengyi nodded, "but I took down Kadis, ruining the plans of Zhongyi University. It’s only a matter of time before the factional struggles within Jiu Yi spill over to me."

"Jiu Yi and the Eleventh Stream?" Xindela realized.

He directly ignored the part in Li Chengyi’s words where he essentially called himself a thug.

After all, he had guessed this point early on.

"The Eleventh Stream doesn’t have a weak presence at Zhongyi University either. If you weren’t a Blind Spot Individual, you might have taken the recommended path to try joining other streams, but now, that’s impossible," Xindela shook his head.

"Yes. So, we can only rely on ourselves," Li Chengyi said.

"There’s no time. If Zhongyi University really wants to move against you, your current level will not hold up," Xindela frowned and added, "They have access to top-grade materials, technology, modules, and even legacies through special national channels that civilian levels simply cannot match. There’s a vast gap in levels between amateur and professional; the competitions are even separate. The disparity is just too great."

"What level is Brother Ding Ning?" Li Chengyi asked.

"He won’t make it either. His Fire Scythe only reaches half the speed of sound; that’s the disparity in external equipment. If he had Heavenly Eye enhancement, he could be much stronger. But due to his identity, he can’t get good Feiyi modules," Xindela sighed.

"Do you understand? Whether it’s a Feiyi Master or a Reinforced Human, resources are the core. Technology is everything. Ding Ning has great strength, but without proper equipment, even the best natural talent is useless."

Li Chengyi understood.

Ding Ning’s Flying Yi was strong, but its strength didn’t lie in speed; it was in micro-control. Fire Scythe could split into a large number of sub-units at once, capable of attacking multiple enemies at the same time.

He was a classic example of someone who, out of necessity, gave up on speed to chase control of the battlefield.

"Then, where can one come into contact with Mecha Engineers at the level of the Eleventh Stream? Do you know, boss?" Li Chengyi asked once more.

"There is no contact in Fengnan Province; this is Jiu Yi’s turf. You’d have to go to another province to meet them. There are no streams in the central nine provinces. These people are dangerous control personnel, and they all are dangerous," Xindela explained, "But..."

"But what?" Li Chengyi’s eyes lit up, knowing the boss would have a way.

"But, in Jiuyuan Province, someone from Eleventh Stream’s Luo An Technology University recently started a new business project, looking for collaborators, but because the prospects are bleak, no one has taken the bait. If you go there as a company representative... you should be able to get in touch with the Feiyi people from Luo An Technology," Xindela elucidated.

"Within the Eleventh Stream, Luo An Technology is considered the weakest due to poor management and frequent financial troubles. When money is tight, research falls behind, tech updates lag, and the overall strength declines. Thus, they are the stream group you are most likely to get in touch with. You can give it a try."

Luo An Technology University...

Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes. Whether it was Liu Tongbei or Xindela here, both made it clear to him that the Feiyi Master strength in the streams was extremely exaggerated.

This piqued his curiosity about just what kind of level could lead both people who had seen his strength to come to such a similar conclusion.

He quickly made an AR query and found that the available varieties at Luo An Technology University were mostly of the Purple Magnolia variant.

It would be perfect to go there to absorb the Flowers, and at the same time, test the strength of a stream Feiyi Master.