Blind Spot
Chapter 279 - 259 chaos 3

Chapter 279: 259 chaos 3

March 14, at noon.

Everpeace Garden in Suiyang.

"Ah!! I’m finally home!!"

Dragon Gate Crane threw himself heavily onto the soft bed, feeling utterly exhausted, with no desire to move an inch further.

The trip to Sutan had lasted less than ten days, yet it felt like an eternity.

Several times he had struggled on the brink of life and death, nearly boxed into a corner.

Thankfully, in the end, the boss came through with strength.

"After getting back this time, I’m going to rest properly. Also, don’t forget to check the material I gave you," Li Chengyi said as he took off his coat and hung it on the clothes rack in the living room, his voice reaching into the bedroom from afar.

"Let me just take a breather first... This matter can’t be rushed; it has to be approached with absolute caution and care!" muffled Dragon Gate Crane, his mouth covered by the blanket.

"Right!? Wait!" Suddenly, he sprang up, looking around, "Where’s Sister Tang?"

"She’s in the plant garden across the way," Li Chengyi said as he sat down and turned on the television. "She must have already made her decision."

He was likewise eager to see what choice Rainbow Candy would make.

According to the Purple Magnolia’s properties, after choosing a Flower Language Technique, there would be an evolution in whole-body strength.

Then, even he as the main body might receive a boost.

Additionally, he was curious to see what kind of chain reaction would ensue after Rainbow Candy chose her Flower Language Technique.

"Shall we go over now to check?" Dragon Gate Crane immediately perked up.

"Not so fast..." Li Chengyi leaned back into the sofa, quietly shutting his eyes to rest. "Making choices can often be a very difficult thing."

He had given all the Flower Language Technique information he collected to Rainbow Candy, and he knew she must have reached a decision by now.

In the plant garden.

Standing among the greenhouses filled with flowers, Rainbow Candy looked around, her face calm yet betraying a hint of barely suppressible excitement.

Step by step, she moved forward without the slightest hesitation until she reached a cluster of small purple flowers.

Many off-season flowers filled the greenhouse. These were varieties that Li Chengyi had experimented with long ago in an attempt to test the influence of seasons on the Flower Language Technique.

The experiment, of course, was futile.

Flowers not in season had virtually no Flowers’ Essence; apart from looking attractive, they had no real use.

According to deduction, it would take a lengthy period for a sufficient amount of Flowers’ Essence to accumulate.

For Rainbow Candy, however, this was the perfect catalyst for choosing a Flower Language Technique.

After all, she was only making a choice and did not need much Flowers’ Essence.

Presently, she stood where Li Chengyi had planted a representation of each team member’s flowers in the garden.

Every teammate corresponded to a main flower.

If they died, these flowers would represent them and, together with their ashes, continue to live on.

This was the promise given by Li Chengyi.

And now...

Rainbow Candy, looking at the variety of flowers in this small garden, suddenly understood why the boss had abruptly chosen this way to represent them.

’So, my main flower... should be...’

Her gaze wandered, quickly fixating on a group of about ten purple blossoms.

After looking through the list of Flower Language Techniques provided by the boss, she had considered many options for a long time. Yet, in the end, she decided on the flower she had liked from the very start.

Purple Hydrangea.

She reached out her hand.

Rainbow Candy gently touched the small clustered petals of the Purple Hydrangea.

Immediately, a faint and cool current flowed from her fingertip into her palm, and then into her heart.

Suddenly, a clear stream of information flowed into her mind.

’Purple Hydrangea: Also known as the Hydrangea Macrophylla, belonging to the Hydrangeaceae family. Deciduous shrub, prefers warm and moist climates, not drought-resistant, can’t handle excessive water, enjoys semi-shaded environments, suitable for fertile and well-drained soil. Flowering period: June-August.

Note that Purple Hydrangea is toxic in its entirety, and one must rinse with plenty of water promptly upon contact with its sap. Its toxicity, however, can be used to treat heart-related ailments.’

’Flower Language Technique: Heart of Convergence.’

’Would you like to choose Purple Hydrangea as your main flower?’

’.....!!?’ Rainbow Candy’s eyes widened, keenly feeling the information that had suddenly entered her mind.

’Is this... Biological Armor?!’

She finally understood why the boss was forever cultivating so many different kinds of flowers.

Flower Language... Is this Flower Language Technique?!

Standing frozen in place for a few seconds, Rainbow Candy took a deep breath and looked at the various flowers around.

"Yes, confirm, choose!" She said three times in a row, afraid she might not make the decision.

’Confirmed, Purple Hydrangea as the current main flower.’

Hum.

A faint purple light, mysteriously, blossomed from the center of Rainbow Candy’s chest.

She could distinctly feel her body relaxing under this purple light, as if soaking in an extremely comfortable hot spring, incapable of extricating herself.

Soon, new information flowed out.

’Main flower confirmed: Purple Hydrangea.’

’Flower Language Technique: Heart of Convergence (Allows the control of the convergence of objects into one entity using consciousness; the distance of control and mass of the objects are determined by the strength of one’s consciousness, able to control formless energy)’

’Fantasia Floral Armor evolution progress: 0.1%, evolutionary stages remaining: 4.’

Heart of Convergence...

The purple light on Rainbow Candy’s chest soon slowly faded away.

She withdrew her hand and looked at the cluster of Purple Hydrangea flowers in front of her. Everything that had just happened seemed like a dream, devoid of any sense of reality.

She reached out her hand, and her right hand abruptly covered itself silently with a new layer of Fantasia Floral Armor.

The Fantasia Floral Armor was no longer silver-white but a pure purple.

Pale purple!

On the armor’s textured surface, now in pale purple, were patterns resembling Purple Hydrangea petals.

Not only that, but the thickness of the Floral Dress had significantly increased compared to before.

At this very moment, Rainbow Candy could vividly sense a new essence circulating within her, moving steadily.

Each time this essence flowed through a part of her body, that particular area of muscle, skin, and bone felt indescribably comfortable.

It seemed the aura was slowly strengthening her body.

"I didn’t expect you to choose it," Li Chengyi’s voice came from behind.

He had approached unnoticed, standing only five meters away from her.

All other staff members were gone, sent away by him.

Without surprise, Rainbow Candy turned around.

"What should I do next?"

"Wait," Li Chengyi said.

"Wait?"

"Wait for the Purple Hydrangea to reach its season and bloom completely. Then... seek a new evolution," Li Chengyi continued, "As you evolve, you will become stronger and stronger."

"Evolve..." Rainbow Candy pondered thoughtfully.

She wanted to ask more, but found that Li Chengyi had already turned to leave.

Li Chengyi was equally surprised at this moment.

Upon Rainbow Candy’s confirmation of her main blossom, he too received corresponding feedback.

Not from anything else but from the Purple Magnolia Main Blossom.

Threads of cool fragrance emerged from the compartments of the Purple Magnolia, flowing into his body, starting to strengthen him all over.

This strengthening wasn’t much—only the equivalent to him making an additional choice of a main blossom.

It was far weaker compared to the enhancements like the Shadow Dragon Bloodline.

But something was better than nothing.

Moreover, the offspring of the Purple Magnolia were determined by the number of Divine Flower Positions, the more there were, the more offspring and naturally, the more enhancement.

After leaving the botanical garden, he didn’t go anywhere else. Instead, he left the Book of Record to Xindela and the others for research and had Zhou Xingtong arrange for the company’s aircraft to fly him directly to Zhaoshan City.

Zhaoshan City, that was also the place where he followed Xindela to investigate the Mist Street Blind Spot.

And the Mist Street Blind Spot was where the ’shan li hong’ Blind Spot was discovered.

One hour later.

On the grey road, Li Chengyi sat in the car, surveying the streets outside through the side window.

The old buildings, no different from his last visit, with a series of disorganized shops underneath.

A line of cheap small cars parked along the curb, taking up a considerable part of the lane.

Occasionally, one could pass by a reasonably large night entertainment venue, but since it was daytime, they were all closed.

"Boss, where are we going now?" Zhou Xingtong asked, driving.

With the help of the driving assistant system, she wasn’t too tired, even after driving for such a long time.

"To the Photosynthesis Farm in the suburbs," Li Chengyi had already done his research and knew his destination.

"Alright."

The car gradually accelerated along the road, turning several street corners and quickly driving out of the urban area toward the outskirts.

Shortly before four o’clock in the afternoon, they finally reached the Photosynthesis Farm.

The farm’s management personnel were already waiting by the gate.

The car slowed to a stop.

Zhou Xingtong got out of the car and opened the door for Li Chengyi.

"Welcome, welcome, Mr. Li. I am Zhao Xiaosi, the manager of the farm," the manager was a woman under thirty, whose demeanor and appearance seemed oddly mature for her age.

"Manager Zhao, I’ve heard that your farm grows a large number of hawthorns and also has a signature product, hawthorn juice. Since I was passing by, I came to have a look," Li Chengyi said with a smile.

"Yes, our farm’s signature products include White Pearl Corn, Big Ball Hawthorn, Soccer Sweet Potatoes..."

"Have the hawthorns bloomed yet?" Li Chengyi interrupted her.

"Ah, a few have started to bloom, but since it’s not the season yet—normally, full blooming is in April—so right now, most are still buds," Manager Zhao quickly replied.

"Let’s go to the Hawthorn Grove first then," Li Chengyi suggested.

He wanted to study the ’shan li hong’ in this place of Zhaoshan, to find out what made it different.

Why the ’shan li hong’ of Mist Street turned into a Flower Language Technique.

The group didn’t waste any time, entering the farm and heading straight for the Hawthorn Grove.

Manager Zhao kept trying to sell other products from the farm, but Li Chengyi only casually dealt with it.

Soon.

A swath of Hawthorn trees several meters high appeared before them.

On some of the trees, several clusters of small white flowers had bloomed.

The flowers crowded together, ten or so to a cluster, interspersed among the dark green leaves.

The petals were white, the stamens pale yellow, with filaments growing from the center, some tips turning black, others pink.

This was the ’shan li hong,’ the same little flower Li Chengyi had encountered in the Mist Street Blind Spot.

He asked Manager Zhao and the others in a low voice, and upon obtaining permission, he approached alone, stretching out his hand to gently touch the blossoms of a slightly shorter hawthorn tree.

Soon, a stream of cool air flowed into his fingertip.

’Shan li hong: also known as red berry, big hawthorn, a deciduous shrub from the rose family, preferring cool, moist environments, the fruit aids digestion and has a strong adaptability to cold and high temperatures, flowering period from April to June.’

’Flower language: The Heart of the One (When facing multiple choices, the Flower Language Technique can be used to determine one’s sole desire. The more choices there are, the greater the influence, and the more mental effort and time are required)’

’This Flower Language...’ Li Chengyi frowned slightly.

It had to be said, many flower languages inherently carried a strange significance.

Like this one, if someone skilled got a hold of it, it could have a significant impact.

But for those unskilled, at best, it could be used for buying lottery tickets or stock trading, which, besides making some money, wouldn’t be very useful.

’Now it seems that the anomaly of ’shan li hong’ itself may not be related to the Celestedge Doomsday Art; it should be due to external influences that caused the occurrence of abnormal flower mutations like the one I obtained with the Feilian Flower Language.’

The Flower Language of Feilian itself wasn’t the Shadow Dragon Bloodline.

Li Chengyi had also considered enhancing the Feilian repeatedly to purify the dragon’s blood, but unfortunately, this kind of flower was basically a wildflower and could not be found in large numbers.

So he was now cultivating various wild strands of Feilian in his botanical garden, planting them in large quantities and waiting for them to bloom.

Because Feilian bloomed from May to October, and it took time for the Flowers to accumulate their energy... so all he could do was patiently wait.

If it weren’t for the fact that these plants were biennial or perennial, it wouldn’t have been so troublesome.

Having ascertained that the anomaly of ’shan li hong’ wasn’t closely related to its inherent flower language, Li Chengyi promptly bid farewell to the farm and proceeded to another key location.

Bai Family Bookstore.

The old man from the Bai family had a significant connection to the Mist Street Blind Spot; perhaps he would find some clues there.