Blind Spot
Chapter 287 - 267 Searching for the Third

Chapter 287: 267 Searching for the Third

Suiyang, Li Family.

Click.

The door opened, and Li Zhao entered, carrying a bag of mangoes.

His wife, Feng Yurong, was in the kitchen stir-frying vegetables, with the hissing sound of oil faintly drifting through the range hood.

He sighed, closed the door, changed his shoes, walked over to the dining table in the living room, and placed the red fruit bag on the ground.

"Yurong, didn’t Xiao Yi say he was coming back today?"

"He just said something came up, so he won’t return for now. He’s much busier than us these days," Feng Yurong replied casually as she cooked.

"Ah... it’s been several weeks since he came back once, and now there’s not even a sign of him..." Li Zhao felt somewhat helpless.

In the past, he thought his son was wasting time idling around at home.

Now that his son was really busy, he felt the house was cold and quiet.

Especially since they had moved to a bigger house, that feeling had become even more apparent.

"With Xiao Jiu also away and Xiao Yi out and about every day, this home just doesn’t feel the same anymore," Li Zhao said as he slumped into a chair, feeling uneasy.

Feng Yurong soon brought out a plate of food, red and green, stir-fried pork with bell peppers.

"Everyone was at home before, and you complained about the noise, about the kids always fighting. Now with no one around, you find it too quiet. Aren’t you just being fussy?"

"Speaking of which, Xiao Jiu is not that young anymore. During the last call, she mentioned having a boyfriend? Is that true?" Li Zhao asked in a lowered voice.

Compared to Xiao Yi, their elder daughter Xiao Jiu was more of a concern for them. After all, her temperament...

"It should be true. She said it’s a Feiyi Master officer she met during training. They are about to participate in a space military operation," Feng Yurong explained.

"Speaking of which, at the last city government federation meeting, I saw a member on the list named Li Chengyi. What a coincidence," Li Zhao said with a laugh.

"That is quite a coincidence. The name Xiao Yi has a very low rate of duplication," Feng Yurong nodded.

"Indeed, a happy coincidence," Li Zhao chuckled.

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Three days.

Li Chengyi had spent each day with Yserine at Tightening Grasp trying their luck to find that Blind Spot left by the Faceless Scholar.

Searching through Blind Spots under the bed is a dangerous and nerve-wracking task.

Blind Spots are strange and various, with differing degrees of danger, and even at Li Chengyi’s level, he had several encounters with extreme peril.

Fortunately, his Shadow Flash ability was extremely effective, allowing him to escape in time by pulling Yserine along every time.

Three days later, the result of the analysis that Da Xiong’s side had conducted on the body material of the Blind Spot Individual, using Li Chengyi’s blood mixed in the spray to make it visible, was ready.

The team gathered again at the headquarters of Mingyuan Company.

"The analyzed materials are very interesting," Da Xiong said, looking astonished as he sat down.

"The materials collected from the Blind Spot Individual have a very high hardness, over 40% higher than that of known special materials. Moreover, they possess strong self-repair capabilities."

"Can we make use of it?" Li Chengyi asked.

"It’s difficult. However, our repeated calculations have shown that if we can mass-produce this material, it could theoretically be used to line bulletproof equipment using the principle of enveloping touch," Da Xiong explained.

"What about its weaknesses?"

"The weakness is that it fears high-powered light. When it encounters more than five beams of light converging on one point, the Blind Spot Individual material will suddenly vanish."

"Vanish?"

Li Chengyi frowned.

"Moreover, the Bone Mirror has been completed," Da Xiong continued. "It’s yours, boss."

After the mysterious disappearance of bone cells last time, Li Chengyi had personally checked and dealt with it, and there had been no accidents since.

"Did you bring it?" Li Chengyi asked.

"Mhm."

"Then let’s head to the garage after the meeting. The sooner we resolve this, the better."

"Okay," Da Xiong sat down.

"Having covered the Blind Spot topic, let’s move on to talk about the Flower Language Technique," Li Chengyi said, scanning the people present.

"By now, you all should know that your choice of Flower Language influences your future development, right?"

"Boss, I have made my decision," Xiao Zhong stood up. Ever since his brother died in a Blind Spot, he had become silent and brooding, either buried in weapon and armor research or in frenzied self-improvement and training.

Now, he was noticeably more robust than before, and his demeanor had become more ferocious.

Upon hearing the response, Li Chengyi looked at him.

"Mutant Allium Flower?"

"Yes," Xiao Zhong nodded.

The others didn’t react, but Li Chengyi could distinctly sense a strong, strange aura emanating from Xiao Zhong.

That aura closely resembled that of a mutated allium flower.

The Flower Language of the Mutant Allium Flower is the Fierce Shadow Bloodline.

"Is it complete?" Li Chengyi asked again.

Xiao Zhong hesitated for a moment, then realizing what was asked, nodded vigorously.

"I have enough flowers to complete the evolution." The evolution he referred to was from the Fantasia Floral Armor to truly mastering the Flower Language Technique.

Since the activation of his Fantasia Floral Armor a few days ago, Xiao Zhong felt his body constantly strengthening and his physical threshold ever increasing.

So far, without needing many Strengthening Injections, his body had already broken through the human limit of one ton; with full force, he could punch with two tons of explosive force!

And what was even more bizarre,

He had acquired another extremely special ability.

"Remember to keep your Flower Language Ability a secret. It may save your life at a critical moment," Li Chengyi admonished.

"Yes!" Xiao Zhong nodded firmly.

After activating his Flower Language Ability, he understood that it was not something that could be explained by bio-armor capabilities—it was outright a superpower!

Therefore, he treated his Floral Dress with even more significance and care.

"And the rest of you," Li Chengyi’s gaze turned to the others.

Xindela was not present; only Da Xiong, Rainbow Candy, and Dragon Gate Crane were.

In his Purple Magnolia feedback, they had all activated their own Flower Language Technique.

And they had all been activated in the past few days.

Because of the all-body enhancements he had received through Purple Magnolia these days, the effects were significant.

The derivative and feedback abilities of Purple Magnolia allowed him to share one-tenth of the physical enhancement whenever a Floral Bead member was improved.

With five team members, the combined enhancement was considerable.

He could clearly feel that his physical condition had improved slightly yet again over just a few days.

"I don’t care what everyone’s Flower Language is, but we have to catch up with the progress in actual combat as soon as possible. Moreover, we need to summarize the integration of Flower Language and actual combat. How to fully utilize the Flower Language Ability to secure victory in one fell swoop! That is what we need to master," he said in a deep voice.

"Understood!" Everyone responded in unison.

After activating the Flower Language Ability, everyone was clear that they were different from the other Blind Spot Individuals, and even from ordinary people in reality.

After about ten minutes.

A few people came together to the garage, which was in front of the small glass room they had been to before.

Inside was the middle-aged woman from last time.

She sat still on the sofa, watching TV by herself, not moving, with a dull expression on her face.

"According to the timing, a new Back Shadow Blind Spot should be starting soon," Rainbow Candy said.

They had already updated the name from Back-Turning Individual to Back Shadow following Li Chengyi’s instructions.

"I’ll go in and wait first," Li Chengyi said, holding a half-human-tall, smooth grey-white mirror.

This was his Bone Mirror, which was specifically for testing the response to the Back Shadow Blind Spot this time.

After confirming that Crescent Moon could withstand a fatal attack, the risk of facing the Blind Spot directly had decreased significantly.

"Be careful," Rainbow Candy said quietly.

"I know."

"Boss, this is for you," Da Xiong offered a round ball-like object to him on the side.

The ball was only palm-sized, warm to the touch, felt like a rubber ball, flesh-colored, and its surface was very smooth.

"What is this?"

"I made a clone with your bone cells," Da Xiong explained.

"A clone?"

"When you’re in danger in the Blind Spot, throw this out and see. It might have an effect," Da Xiong said with a mysterious smile, clearly indicating that this was something she made after activating her Flower Language.

"Alright..." Li Chengyi accepted the ball and, holding the Bone Mirror, walked into the glass room.

He took a stool and sat opposite the middle-aged woman, quietly waiting.

The others started a large number of detection devices, trying to record various environmental changes before and after the Blind Spot appeared.

A person in charge brought all the props and tools needed for the test into the glass room.

Ten minutes later.

Half an hour.

Two hours...

Two hours and thirty-two minutes...

Whoosh!

All at once, a distortion flashed before both Li Chengyi and the middle-aged woman.

The feeling was as if everything in front of them was covered with a convex lens.

Then the lens began to spin, blur, and quickly returned to clarity.

It’s here!

Li Chengyi’s heart tensed, and he stood up.

He quickly turned around.

At one corner of the glass room, a woman in a white dress with black hair and bare feet had appeared unnoticed.

The woman stood with her back toward him, motionless as if she had been standing there for a long time.

"Ha... Hahaha!! Come on... it’s finally my turn..." The other middle-aged woman saw this scene too.

A desperate smile appeared on her face as she stepped toward the back shadow.

When she reached Li Chengyi’s side,

Thump.

A precise karate chop struck the side of her neck.

The middle-aged woman’s eyes rolled back, and she fainted on the spot.

After handling this, Li Chengyi looked back at the shadow.

Holding the Bone Mirror, he waited quietly.

According to Yserine, using the Bone Mirror to block himself and keep turning with the back shadow, completing twenty revolutions, would allow for a disengagement.

But this time it seemed different from the last.

The back shadow’s head turned very slowly, even slower than before.

Li Chengyi thought for a moment, set down the Bone Mirror, went to the side, and picked up one of the props that had been brought in.

After checking it several times,

Hum.

Finally, amid the intense sound of a motor,

A high-frequency specialty chainsaw flickered in his hand with indistinct sawteeth.

It was the blur from the rapid movement of the sawteeth.

Pleased with the trial, Li Chengyi held the chainsaw and quickly walked behind the back shadow.

"Since it’s highly likely that I’ll break free this time, I’ll regret not leaving something behind. I won’t have the chance later. So... don’t blame me."

He muttered under his breath, knowing the back shadow wouldn’t understand, but at least it would give him peace of mind to say it.

Picking up the chainsaw, he took hold of the back shadow’s right hand, raised it high in the air, and positioned the saw.

Cut.