Blind Spot
Chapter 297 - 277 variables 1

Chapter 297: 277 variables 1

Fengnan Provincial Capital, Nanzhou.

The newly established branch building of Quanxin Group in Fengnan.

Zhang Hanxiong, who had been specially dispatched to conduct market research in Fengnan Province, sat in his boss chair with a slight frown, looking at his son Zhang Mu who had just rushed up to ask for money.

"Who allowed you to come?"

He had been in Nanzhou for over half a month on the important mission from the Chairman, and he was almost endlessly busy, dealing with a large number of documents and issuing numerous tasks every day.

Why wasn’t his son staying at home in his villa instead of running over here?

"Dad... I lost some money playing cards before," Zhang Mu said hesitantly and timidly.

"How much did you lose? You’re going to marry Jia Jia, can’t you be more steady?" Zhang Hanxiong was somewhat helpless.

Dealing with these trivial family matters every day, he could hear the laughter of his assistant, a Feiyi Master, behind him.

Even though the two of them were old friends, it was quite embarrassing for such matters to be known by outsiders.

"Dad, I was really driven to this, okay?" Zhang Mu gave an awkward smile.

"You don’t want Jia Jia to be cornered by debt collectors, do you?"

"....." Zhang Hanxiong reluctantly took out his phone, preparing to check the accounts with his son.

Click.

Suddenly, a soft sound came from outside the door.

It seemed like something had fallen on the floor and was rolling on the carpet.

Zhang Hanxiong narrowed his eyes and looked towards the door.

He tapped the desk, and the surveillance screen automatically rose from the surface, but everything looked normal, nothing was there.

"Camille?" he called out to his secretary.

There was no response.

"Camille?!" He raised his voice and quickly dialed on the screen, calling the secretary’s office outside.

The beeping tone indicated that no one was picking up.

Zhang Hanxiong’s nerves suddenly tightened.

He glanced at his friend behind him, Feiyi Master Kong Anyan.

"There might be a situation."

"I’ll go check." Kong Anyan’s expression became serious as well.

Since entering Nanzhou’s market, they had only managed to secure a foothold through gambling and special methods, taking several orders away and putting the rival leaders under severe pressure.

At such a time, it was very likely that their competitors would be desperate, which is why the branch’s security measures were especially stringent now.

There had been a few attacks targeting the company before, but none seemed as troublesome as this one.

The surveillance system showed everything was normal, but no matter how much he called, no one answered outside...

Kong Anyan picked up a silver briefcase from the floor, stepped back to the window, and pushed it open.

The briefcase quickly transformed into a silver long spear and suddenly flew out through the gap in the window.

He was checking the situation from the outside through Feiyi’s encrypted communication.

Click.

Just as the Feiyi left, the office door slowly opened from the outside.

A curvaceous woman with bright golden hair and a masked face walked slowly into the office.

Despite wearing a black metal mask, the woman’s beautiful sky-blue eyes left a deep impression on Zhang Hanxiong and his son.

"Who are you!?" Zhang Hanxiong stood up, his right hand already secretly gripping a specially made large-caliber pistol.

He was a practiced marksman, with an arm implant calibration module allowing him to shoot accurately three times within a second.

He could hit the target anywhere within a hundred meters.

With a Feiyi Master right behind him, he was not panicking at all.

"We don’t have much time," the masked woman said indifferently, her gaze fixed on Zhang Hanxiong.

She just stood there, without making any other move.

But strangely, whether it was Zhang Hanxiong, Zhang Mu, or Feiyi Master Kong Anyan, they all inexplicably felt a terrifying fear rushing up from their hearts.

All three of them had goosebumps erupting all over their bodies, as if a sharp knife was constantly approaching right before their noses.

"Who are you exactly...!?" Zhang Hanxiong abruptly raised his hand, gripped the gun, aimed at the visitor, and pulled the trigger.

Click.

His pistol suddenly slipped, hit the wooden desk heavily, bounced off, and fell to the floor from the edge.

The gun was still there.

But the person holding the gun had suddenly disappeared.

It was as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth or teleported in an instant.

Zhang Hanxiong, who was just in front of him a second ago, vanished from the office in the blink of an eye.

"Dad...!!?" Zhang Mu was stunned, letting out a cry of horror.

But before he could rush over to see what had happened,

Hiss.

In the blink of an eye, he too disappeared into thin air.

It was as if he was erased from a sheet of paper by an eraser, wiped clean.

The last one standing, Feiyi Master Kong Anyan, paled at the sight.

His teeth chattered slightly, and his muscles were tensed to the extreme. The modules and implants in his body continuously scanned the surroundings for any potential weapon.

Unfortunately, he found nothing.

"You!" He moved his fingers slightly, trying to command the Feiyi to return and attack the person.

But it was too late.

A mysterious weakness spread upward from his feet.

It was fast, very fast...

In just a few seconds,

his consciousness began to blur, his body started to sway, and it became difficult to even stand.

"Who... are you...!?"

Shh.

The person vanished.

The Feiyi had just returned through the gap in the window, but in that moment, it lost contact with its master and could only slow down, hovering in the middle of the office.

The golden-haired masked woman sighed, looked down at her prominent chest, slender waist, and long, shapely legs.

A sense of indescribable helplessness surged within her.

"Don’t blame me, if you must blame someone, blame yourselves for insisting on having a duel."

She turned and walked towards the outside.

At the same time, a voice came through the communication earpiece in her ear.

"Xiao Zhong, is it taken care of?" Miss Rainbow Candy’s voice came through.

"Taken care of, very easily," the blonde woman replied calmly.

"I saw it all... your ability... is much stronger than I imagined," Rainbow Candy said, her tone clearly shaken.

"Maybe. But... I can only use my full strength in this form... it’s a bit uncomfortable," the blonde woman said helplessly.

"At least it’s better than me... My eyes emit colorful lights, I don’t dare to step out the door without sunglasses," Rainbow Candy was truly helpless.

The beautifying effect of the Floral Bead was truly abnormal on her.

"It’ll get better in the future," the blonde woman comforted.

Exiting the office, she arrived in front of the elevator.

Just then, three armed security personnel rushed up from the stairwell.

The three burly guards started to shout and raise their guns, ready to shoot, upon seeing her.

But as soon as they made a move, the shadows at their feet suddenly ignited silently.

The people were unharmed, but their shadows caught fire at a rapid pace.

This bizarre scene went completely unnoticed by the three men.

One second.

By the time they pointed their guns and were about to pull the trigger.

Hiss hiss hiss.

After three soft sounds.

The three men disappeared into thin air.

All that was left were three handguns falling to the ground with a crisp sound.

The blonde woman, who was Xiao Zhong at this time, withdrew her gaze with an indifferent expression.

This kind of event had been happening often since he tried using the Flower Language Ability.

He didn’t come from a peaceful background like Rainbow Candy or Da Xiong; he and his brother used to be hackers on the net, and they often faced various attacks and threats.

Now he had simply gone from being the underdog to the power player.

The power of the Flower Language Ability... no matter how many times he saw it, he could not comprehend it.

As for the dead.

Were there few people dead in the Blind Spot?

The Blind Spot he had just escaped from had seen more than a dozen people die before he barely found a way out.

"Too fast... I didn’t even see clearly how they disappeared. How did you do it?" Rainbow Candy’s voice emerged from the earpiece.

"I don’t know either..." Xiao Zhong responded.

This was the instinctive ability of the Floral Bloodline known as Fierce Shadow.

Igniting shadows.

The individual whose shadow was ignited would be consumed based on their density, strength, and presence, determining how long the shadow burned.

When the shadow finished burning, the shadow disappeared, and the person would also vanish.

Xiao Zhong didn’t know where those people went, but he imagined it was nowhere good.

He had secretly ignited the shadow of Feiyi Master Kong Anyan earlier, and it had been burning for more than ten minutes until he entered the office just as it was about to extinguish.

Ordinary people could burn out in a second or two, but Feiyi Masters with high consciousness intensity like Kong Anyan seemed hard to consume completely.

Thinking about how to accelerate and improve the efficiency of assassinations, Xiao Zhong left the building with a calm demeanor and entered a red flying vehicle that had been waiting outside for some time.

Behind him, the entire building was silent, empty of people.

Almost a hundred staff members of the branch had vanished without a trace at that moment.

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Chaoyu.

"Yesterday at 6:30 PM, a malicious and mysterious kidnapping occurred in Nanzhou, Fengnan Province.

The newly established branch of the Quanxin Group had been operating for only half a month, and in just half an hour, ninety-seven staff members, including the branch manager Zhang Hanxiong, mysteriously disappeared."

"After careful investigation by the police, it was found that the building had no obvious signs of struggle, only a few gunshots marks, which clearly indicated that the company’s security guards had a brief encounter with the mysterious people. And the encounter ended with the mysterious people emerging victorious..."

Li Chengyi was sitting in a breakfast shop, holding a fried dough stick and slowly sipping sweet soy milk for breakfast.

While eating, he had his AR glasses play the latest news from Fengnan Province.

The newscaster with a cool demeanor was seriously broadcasting the vicious disappearance that had just occurred.

The name Quanxin Group immediately brought to mind the matter Liu Tongbei had informed him about before.

The telecommunications giant that came from Xizhi Province, wanting to take over the Fengnan telecommunication market through martial contests.

But he didn’t expect that their vanguard would be demolished so soon.

Beep...

The phone rang, Li Chengyi turned off the news and dialed the number to his boss.

After waiting for a bit, the call connected.

"Did you see it?" Xindela’s voice came through.

"Yes, did you guys do it?" Li Chengyi asked in surprise, their execution was cleaner and more efficient than his own, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

"I’m tracking down clues about Lien and looking for other members of the Golden Serpent Ring. The company operation should be under the care of Miss Rainbow Candy and Da Xiong," Xindela said, "But this time, there was only one person who took action."

"One person?" Li Chengyi was astonished. "Who?"

"Xiao Zhong."

"Him?!"

"Miss Rainbow Candy is updating the comprehensive network security system, Da Xiong is researching something mysterious, only occasionally managing the company.

Dragon Gate Crane just entered a new Blind Spot, investigating clues, has gone abroad. So this time, only Xiao Zhong was deployed," Xindela said.

"I didn’t expect he would solve everything by himself." Evidently, Xindela was surprised as well.

"Are those people dead?" Li Chengyi asked.

"I don’t know."

"Understood."

Li Chengyi fell silent.

He had anticipated various changes in the team members after acquiring the Flower Language Ability, but he had never thought that the first major change would come from Xiao Zhong.