Blind Spot
Chapter 283 - 263 Progressive Three

Chapter 283: 263 Progressive Three

Li Chengyi slowly walked through the middle of the reading room, following the aisles, and examining each bookshelf compartment.

"Blind Spot from behind is more urgent than the Flower Language Technique or the investigation into the Hall of Oblivion. If what Yserine said is correct, then I must solve the Blind Spot issue first..."

After all, the other two weren’t as pressing, only the Blind Spot was closing in...

Steadying his heart.

Li Chengyi randomly pulled a book from the shelf.

The cover of the book was black, with gold-foil lettering, but the font was alive, wriggling subtly like insects, continuously changing shape, making it impossible to know what it meant.

"The books here all have uncertain contents; it’s better for you not to read them, brother," Yserine said softly from behind.

"What do you mean?"

"It means that the content might change each time you open them. They are made from special products salvaged from the Black Sea and are not books in the traditional sense; some could even be dangerous."

Yserine walked to the last bookshelf and took down a book with a white cover, flipping through a few pages.

"The method for shedding one’s shadow is simple, but the process is troublesome. This is content summarized by other Black Sea Races."

Li Chengyi’s gaze focused intently on her, waiting for more information.

"To shed your shadow, brother, you must first create a mirror made from your own bone ash. Then, holding the mirror, turn with your shadow, circling twenty times. That should do it," Yserine recited from the book.

"That simple?" Li Chengyi was slightly startled.

"Yes, that simple. The key is the making of the Bone Ash Mirror. A person only has so much bone. If you remove the bones to make a mirror, what about yourself?" Yserine said with a tone of resignation.

"That’s not really a problem." Li Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief, "Using clone technology to cultivate one’s bone cells separately isn’t technically difficult."

"Really?" Yserine clearly did not understand how far modern technology had developed, her mind still lingering in the past.

"I’ll go find someone to try it first. If there’s no problem, I’ll use it on myself," Li Chengyi said.

"Okay!" Yserine nodded. She hesitated for a moment, "If you do want to try, brother, it’s best to choose someone else’s Blind Spot to Flash Appearance..."

She had actually noticed that Li Chengyi didn’t quite believe that his own shadow could cause him much harm.

So she added that comment.

Li Chengyi indeed thought the same way.

With all his Flower Language Ability, he had not yet tested it, how could he know whether it was effective against the Blind Spot or not.

So his attitude towards the shadow remained half-skeptical, half-believing to this point.

"I understand. Don’t worry."

"If anything happens, brother, you can take a piece of my bone with you. You can contact me at any time to enter here!" Yserine spoke softly.

"Bone? I got it." Li Chengyi understood what she meant. With this, even if he entered some troublesome Blind Spot, he would have Yserine as a Tightening Grasp station for temporary rest, ensuring his safety.

It had to be said that getting on good terms with Yserine from the beginning was immensely beneficial.

This little one had brought him quite a bit of help thus far.

Having determined a solution, his mood stabilized somewhat, and he slowly walked to the reading room window to look outside.

The view outside was shrouded in a haziness, and nothing was clear.

"Yserine, can you go outside there?"

"That’s a buffer area between the Black Sea and us. The teacher said you can’t just go out. You must prepare protective measures. Otherwise, you’ll be dissolved on the spot," Yserine said.

"Dissolved?"

"Mhm, there are many bizarre and strange things in the Black Sea. Without this buffer protection, we’d be in much more danger than we are now. So, this layer of gray mist is actually a natural protection for us."

"The Black Sea..." Li Chengyi placed his hand on the glass, looking out at the tranquil gray mist, and lapsed into deep thought.

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The next day, Suiyang City.

Fire Department.

In the office of the department head, Chen Shaodong leisurely lit a cigarette, watching the suspended holographic screen of a phone call in front of him.

"Mingyuan Company, eh? No problem, such a small matter doesn’t need your personal call. Rest assured, I’ll send someone to inspect the fire safety immediately. A company that doesn’t comply with legal regulations won’t be allowed to open!"

"The fine amount doesn’t matter, but as you know, we must strictly ensure the fire safety system and not allow any slack or loopholes," said the middle-aged man on the screen, his expression sober.

"I understand, I understand." As the department head, Chen Shaodong was no stranger to such bureaucratic platitudes.

Why go after Mingyuan Company? Wasn’t it because some higher-up aristocrats had swung their weight around?

Chen Shaodong was all too clear on that.

"That’s good, your performance is key here. If you do well this time, you’ll receive everything you ought to," the man in the screen said in a low voice.

"Minister Lin, rest assured, I will take care of this matter properly," Chen Shaodong smiled.

Click.

The call ended.

He leaned back in his leather chair, took a satisfying puff of his cigarette, then dialed his subordinates to gather the team for departure.

He stood up, putting on his coat; naturally, he had to be in the field himself, record everything, and show just how dedicated he was at responding to the notice immediately.

He would ensure that Mingyuan Company, which had offended the Zhu Family, wouldn’t even be able to open its doors!

Ah, don’t blame him—if there’s to be blame, it’s because someone at Mingyuan didn’t know their place... and offended the wrong person.

Donning his coat, Chen Shaodong stepped out the door.

Click.

Outside the door stood two tall men in black uniforms with blue epaulettes, with several similarly dressed armed soldiers behind them.

"Chen Shaodong, right? We’re from the Security Bureau. We’ve received an anonymous tip-off about your involvement in corruption and bribery. Please come with us," said one of the men, showing Chen his badge.

"Corruption? Bribery?!" Chen Shaodong was taken aback. He recognized the uniform of the Security Bureau, but corruption and bribery? His most recent incident had also been more than a year ago...

"Yes, the one from a year ago. A year ago, you accepted a bribe of four million eight hundred and twenty thousand from Dongsheng Property, deposited into your nephew’s bank account. We’ve tracked the evidence through seventeen money laundering transactions, ultimately converting it into gold bars stored under the swimming pool of your suburban villa," the man said calmly.

"....!!?" Chen Shaodong was struck dumb, completely unsure how to react.

He thought he was still asleep from his nap, caught in a dream. After taking such complicated and roundabout measures, running through so many channels... to end up like this...

Click.

Only when the silver handcuffs clicked around his wrists, the cold, hard touch against his skin, did he shiver into clarity.

He finally realized that all of this was real.

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At the same time, in various departments across Suiyang City, a series of anonymous tips were received.

Industrial and commercial bureaus, urban management, and tax agencies—all had minor leaders taken away for processing.

Inside Everpeace Garden.

"All done! Everything’s taken care of!" Rainbow Candy stretched her hands and leaned back in a big stretch.

"That fast?" Li Chengyi’s surprised face appeared on the floating screen beside her.

The two were communicating remotely.

"It was just to be on the safe side. I had already dug up the dirt on these heads way in advance, now it’s just a matter of throwing it out there," Rainbow Candy said. "That Zhu Rui knows nothing, yet he dared to spout madness at you, boss, hilarious."

She took the peach-flavored lollipop out of her mouth.

"Doesn’t he know that Suiyang is our turf? Even Zhongyi University came last time and couldn’t take any advantage. Just one side branch member of the Zhu Family, heh..."

"You confident you can handle it?" Li Chengyi asked.

"Don’t worry, boss. It’s just a side branch of the Zhu Family. Even if it were a main family member who came over, in Suiyang, a dragon has to coil, and a tiger has to lie down," Rainbow Candy said, seemingly more mature after returning from Sutan.

She didn’t explode at the drop of a hat like before, but her speech now carried an undercurrent of madness.

"Then I’m counting on you. If it really comes down to it, the boss said we could go to him," Li Chengyi instructed.

"No problem!" Rainbow Candy’s mouth curled into a confident smile.

She casually picked up a bowl of grapes from beside her, plucked one, and was about to pop it into her mouth.

But suddenly she noticed the grapes seemed a bit small.

She promptly picked up another grape and held it in her palm.

’Flower Language Technique: Heart of Aggregation.’

biu!

The two purple grapes merged instantly into one much larger grape.

Rainbow Candy, satisfied, stuffed it into her mouth and chewed slowly.

The bizarre effect of the Heart of Convergence made her fully understand that what she had initially believed to be ’Biological Armor’ was fundamentally different from any form of conventional technology.

But since the boss wasn’t forthcoming, she might as well regard it as biotechnology.

The special application of the Heart of Convergence also gave her an exaggerated boost in the field of computer networking.

For example... when attacking the opponent’s defense system, merging two vulnerabilities into a larger one...

Or, her own hacker scripts, merging two by two until finally creating a powerfully functional state-of-the-art program...

This peculiar Flower Language Ability had taken her already exaggerated, genius-level hacking abilities to a further enhanced and expanded level.

Heart of Convergence was not for direct use in combat, but for accumulating power behind the scenes, like charging up.

The longer the accumulation... the more terrifying the thing that gets conjured...

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Qinggang Fudangshan Hospital.

Li Chengyi followed Da Xiong into a special cultivation room underground in the hospital.

Various-sized constant temperature cultivation tanks stood alongside them.

Some contained animal limbs and organs, while others held human limbs and organs.

Though separate from any body, one could still see these organs pulsing with faint beats.

"To cultivate bone cells, the quicker method is to directly sample your osteogenic cells," Da Xiong said succinctly.

"How long will it take to succeed?" Li Chengyi followed behind, looking around at the surrounding arrangements.

"It depends on how much you need. Generally, we cultivate for repairing bone injuries, wear and tear—the quantity is not large. The cycle is about twenty grams every three days or so."

"What about ten kilograms?" Li Chengyi asked.

"....." Da Xiong’s smile froze for a moment. "You must be joking..."

"I’m serious. I need ten kilograms," Li Chengyi said gravely.

"....this..." Da Xiong didn’t know how to respond.

"I don’t need a specific shape; it doesn’t have to be a single piece. It’s to be ground into powder for making mirrors later, so, can it be done faster this way?" Li Chengyi added.

"If that’s the case, it shouldn’t be a problem. We can definitely speed up the process using multiple cultivation tanks," Da Xiong said, his expression easing.

"How long will it need?"

"At least four days."

"Then four days it is!" Li Chengyi nodded. He paused before changing the subject.

"By the way, about the situation concerning the turn-back person at the company, what’s the status now?"

"Nine have died already," Da Xiong responded gravely. "Currently, two more have been sent into the vicinity of the turn-back person by Flash Appearance. The company is looking for solutions. The boss has already mobilized all channels and resources to search for clues."

"I’ll go have a look in a bit," Li Chengyi said.

The impact of the turn-back person was greater than he had imagined, and it seemed urgent to deal with the matter promptly.