Blind Spot
Chapter 235: Dark City 221 - One

Chapter 235: Dark City 221 - One

"It’s all over... all over!! My Heavy Smoke!!"

In a rental room in Suiyang City.

Li Shenhui hugged her only Flying Yi with tear-filled eyes.

This degree of damage, without seven or eight million, don’t even think about repairing it.

Not to mention, the application for the Special Rainbow Iron quota still had to wait for two months.

"It’s all over... My doctoral thesis also requires Heavy Smoke for calculations... It’s all done for...!"

Li Shenhui looked utterly hopeless, never having dreamt that the Special Rainbow Iron Flying Yi, which was nearly indestructible and had hardness and resilience surpassing all materials on the market, could be damaged on a minor mission!?

She took out her phone and looked at the pitiful 200 yuan in her account...

Having just spent money on the summer-specific maintenance powder for the Flying Yi, this was all that was left in her savings.

She had thought that coming here this time would allow her to do missions to earn some subsidies and ease her daily expenses...

But as a result... her powerful Flying Yi, Heavy Smoke, which had cost her all her savings to build, was actually... broken!?

Not far away, a pale, bespectacled male student shook his head slightly and turned to look at the petite girl with twin ponytails beside him.

"See that? That’s the life of a poor student. Can’t bear to eat, can’t bear to wear nice clothes, even buying a bottle of fruit-orange drink takes forever to decide, oiling the Flying Yi more diligently than taking a bath. And then..."

"You missed one," the twin ponytailed girl said without looking up from her phone, deeply absorbed. "For festive occasions, they also tie butterfly knots on the Flying Yi to celebrate its ’birthday’, and then go out on missions acting tougher than anyone else."

She sighed, looking at Li Shenhui who was crying her eyes out in the distance, at a loss for words.

"Now that our main force for the mission is down and needs repairs, what do we do?"

"What else can we do, go back to school," the guy said, spreading his hands. "We are all students, if not going back to report, what do you want to do?"

"Difficult... Our mission was conveyed orally in the first place, there’s not going to be any formal documentation for this kind of situation," the twin ponytailed girl said as she shook her head, looking at Li Shenhui whose tears could almost reach her mouth.

"No way around it, who would have thought that thug actually had the ability to damage Special Rainbow Iron?" said the male student with a sense of helplessness. "This situation needs to be properly reported."

"That Blind Spot Team’s people are quite formidable... to actually damage Special Rainbow Iron alloy," the girl with twin ponytails frowned.

"Could it be that they got some benefits from the Blind Spot?" the male student speculated.

"What benefits can the Blind Spot provide? Outsiders can’t use anything they bring out. I heard that the specialized national Blind Spot Research Department exhausted a lot of effort and resources to glean just a little achievement, and the losses in resources and funds far exceeded expectations. After that, it fell out of favor.

Now with White Star’s arms race and the turmoil at the borders of the surrounding regions, which isn’t more urgent than this?"

"True..."

"Let’s go, looks like this lousy mission needs someone else now." The twin ponytailed girl turned and walked toward the door.

The male student took another look at Li Shenhui, who was still crying, and followed her out the door.

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Hum.

The taxi slowly came to a halt.

Li Chengyi sat in the back seat of the car, motionless.

The Floral Dress had already invisibly covered him, quietly elevating his entire body by a layer.

If someone could see under the headrest where he was seated, they would notice that he was actually floating in the air.

With limited space inside the vehicle, Li Chengyi’s first choice was to adopt an integrated invisible form.

Click.

He pushed open the car door and slowly stepped down from the car.

The area was shrouded in a gray fog, and the shops on both sides of the street were all turned off, with only the street lamps still emitting a uniform yellow glow.

’What kind of Blind Spot is it this time?’

Li Chengyi surveyed his surroundings.

Ahead, the gray fog shrouded everything; looking forward along the roadway, he could only see less than a hundred meters.

The situation was the same behind him.

On the right-hand side of the road, there were two luxurious open-top cars parked, one red and one black, both empty and quiet inside.

On the left-hand side, two large black trash cans lay toppled, one knocked over on its side with a large gap smashed into its rim.

A yellow-and-black tabby cat was rummaging for food in the toppled trash can.

’Another large Blind Spot?’

Li Chengyi stood by the car, looking up at the sky.

’Huh!?’

His pupils suddenly constricted.

Above him, through the hazy gray fog, it was still visible.

There was no sky above, but an unbelievably colossal dark brown rock wall!

The irregular rock wall, like a vast hemisphere, was enveloping the city above.

’No... maybe this place is actually a huge cavern.’

Li Chengyi speculated in his mind.

’Based on Blind Spot principles, I have two chances to receive a premonition, so I must gather as much information as possible right now.’

The biggest trouble with a Blind Spot is the inability to leave, so he must first find potential exits.

And also try to identify special landmarks, so once he’s out, he can quickly compare against the original in reality.

Woo!!!

Just as he took a few steps forward.

Suddenly, a piercing alarm sounded, erupting abruptly above the city.

The noise came so suddenly.

Li Chengyi, with his exceptionally keen senses, instantly felt his eardrums ache sharply.

He frowned, looking around urgently, wondering what had happened.

But soon.

As the alarm grew louder and louder.

Li Chengyi noticed that the surrounding gray fog was starting to fade away and disappear slowly.

Meow~

Suddenly a cat’s meow rang out.

Li Chengyi looked in the direction of the sound, just in time to see the tabby cat jump off the trash can and sprint into the nearest dessert shop through its glass door.

There was a large gap at the bottom of that glass door, wide enough for the tabby cat to get through.

Li Chengyi felt inspired and immediately followed suit, rushing towards that dessert shop’s glass door.

’Sisters’ Desserts’.

The store had a down-to-earth name, with a white sunshade out front and a wooden advertising price board. Inside was pitch-dark without lights, revealing nothing.

Only the faint light from the street lamps outside penetrated a bit inside.

Patter, patter, patter.

Li Chengyi quickly ran to the glass door, grabbed the handle, and gave it a twist.

Locked.

Bang.

He kicked the lower part of the glass door, instantly shattering it and scattering pieces all over the ground. Then, he reached in, fumbling to unlock it.

Unfortunately, it was also locked from the inside, so Li Chengyi was unable to open the door immediately.

Meow.

A striped cat hid inside the shop, its eyes bright green as it watched him, curious about what he was doing.

Bang.

Li Chengyi used both hands and forcefully tore down the door.

Accompanied by the hissing sound of cement debris hitting the ground, he threw the door aside and strode inside.

The shop wasn’t large, with three transparent counters arranged in a row, dividing the space into two areas.

Inside the counters was the sales area.

Outside was the customer area.

In the customer area, there were a few sets of white tables and chairs, each set consisting of three chairs and a round table.

On one of the tables, there was an uncollected set of white porcelain cups and saucers. A used napkin stuffed inside a cup still seemed to have traces of brown chocolate on it.

Li Chengyi gave a glance to the striped cat sitting obediently on top of the counter.

’Even cats can enter the Blind Spot?’ It was the first time he had seen it.

Just as he was about to further investigate the cat.

The sound of the alarm outside gradually diminished.

Li Chengyi turned his head to look outside.

The fog outside the shop had completely dissipated.

Streetlights, streets, shops, everything was clear and visible.

’It’s quiet...’

Li Chengyi glanced at the kitten.

He saw it suddenly jump down, curl into a ball at a corner of the ground, and even close its eyes, its body trembling slightly.

Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes and stealthily approached the doorway, hugging the wall and peering outside through the glass.

"!!!!"

Suddenly, he froze in place, his entire body stiffened, not daring to move a muscle, ensuring he stayed completely hidden in the shop’s shadows.

Outside the shop.

Above the entire city street.

The vast expanse of dark brown rock that resembled the sky.

At the moment, a gigantic crevice was slowly opening in the center.

Rip.

Suddenly, the crevice rapidly widened, expanding and taking shape.

It was, astonishingly, a huge, dark red, oval-shaped eyeball!

An eyeball that nearly encompassed half the sky.

At its center was a pitch-black void.

Around the void, there was a ring of faint golden lines like vines.

Further out, there were extensive blood vessels and dark red patterns.

Black, gold, and red, these three colors made up the entire appearance of the gigantic eyeball.

Clang!

A sudden loud noise jolted Li Chengyi out of his shock.

He followed the sound.

The noise came from the taxi he had ridden in.

The automated taxi, parked in the middle of the road, was now as if being crushed by an invisible force.

It began to flatten, as though a gigantic hydraulic press was compressing it from above.

Snapping and cracking of metal, chaotic sounds of various objects shattering, you name it.

Very quickly, within three seconds.

The taxi was squashed into a metal pancake no thicker than half a meter.

Immediately after.

Silently, the car pancake started turning black from the bottom up, began to disintegrate, and at last, turned into flakes of gray-black dust, which floated upwards towards the giant red eyeball.

Within five seconds.

The unmanned taxi, which had been intact just moments ago, completely disappeared from the spot.

Li Chengyi held his breath, not daring to make any sound.

Without trying, he knew that monstrosity was definitely not something he could handle at the moment.

Quickly.

Ten seconds later.

The giant eye in the center began to shed countless tiny black dots.

There were perhaps hundreds of these dots, like burned ash, gently drifting with the wind towards the city below.

After releasing these black dots, the enormous eye slowly closed, forming a slit once more, then retracting into the rock and vanishing from sight.

Sigh...

Li Chengyi let out a long breath.

The pressure from the massive eyeball was simply too great.

If the monsters he encountered before posed a threat level from one to ten, then the threat from that massive eyeball was easily over a thousand.

The disparity was like standing before a collapsing mountain, feeling instinctive helplessness and fear.

’I never thought... even now, I could still feel fear...’

Li Chengyi looked down at his legs.

Due to the excessive tension, his leg muscles were still somewhat cramping.

Even the Inferior Shadow Dragon Bloodline that had fused into his body seemed to vanish, lying dormant and suppressed within him, like a fossil.

He stood in the shop’s doorway shadow, waiting for a while to ensure that the giant eyeball didn’t reappear.

Only then did he slowly walk out from the entrance.

The striped cat also emerged from behind, stretching its front legs and giving a vigorous yawn.

Meow~

It called out to Li Chengyi.

"I don’t have food, don’t look for me," Li Chengyi said offhandedly, relaxing a bit.

The intelligence of cats and dogs is equivalent to that of a two-or three-year-old child. If this cat had lived in human society and was adult, it meant that it could very likely understand some simple words and commands.