Blind Spot
Chapter 512 - 469 Void Three

Chapter 512: 469 Void Three

Suiyang District.

Unnoticed by the public, the defense level of the Silent Fortress rapidly escalated to wartime standards.

A large number of underground nuclear reactors changed their energy supply direction, prioritizing cyber defense.

Invisible fluctuations of various kinds were intercepted and shielded.

The government issued strict controls over external network access vulnerabilities.

Various national measures were implemented one after another, instantly turning the entire city’s virtual network into an impregnable fortress.

This is the origin of the name Silent Fortress.

At the Li Chengyi family home where dinner was being prepared, nearby temporary residents like Dragon Gate Crane, Da Xiong, Xiao Zhong, and other relatives and friends began to sense subtle abnormalities.

Aside from changes in electronic devices, there were more covert watchers lurking in the vicinity.

In a short span of time, Xindela had arranged everything, ensuring that all team members’ relatives and friends were brought nearby for protection.

Considering that the most powerful hackers could remotely control many Flying Yi, those in charge of protecting these individuals were pure martial artists injected with gene medicine.

Among them was Hai Sha, a top martial artist from Mingyuan Group.

This was someone who could tear apart a Grade Six with his bare hands.

Now, after practicing the Holy Spirit Technique and also incorporating the True Qi Martial Arts that Li Chengyi brought back from Midlane, his strength had soared, and how much combat power he could unleash in a real fight was unknown to anyone.

This time, Li Chengyi could not get involved at all and could only wait for the outcome nearby.

He didn’t stay at the base but went to the outskirts, waiting quietly on the ground.

Standing on a tree branch, he looked up at the sky, where peace reigned, white clouds drifting slowly across the blue canvas, the wind carrying the scent of green grass and the sound of soft pine waves.

"Silent Fortress is activated, don’t worry. Even if Tang Tang doesn’t win, we can still retreat and ensure safety," Xindela said softly, using a personal flying device to glide out of the courtyard, and landed on the ground.

"I’m not worried, it’s just... suddenly, I feel like there are some things that I can’t control and grasp. One person alone cannot be perfect in every aspect," Li Chengyi gazed at the sky, for the first time encountering a battle in which he had absolutely no part to play.

The team that had once been under his protection had gradually left his wing, stepping out onto their own stage.

"So, if an individual cannot perform a dimensional reduction strike, then the strength of a team is indeed the strongest. That is only logical," Xindela nodded.

"Yeah...." Li Chengyi echoed in agreement, now that Mingyuan Group was rooted in Yi Country and had integrated with many Great Nobles and traditional powers, they could receive official support at the first sign of a formidable enemy.

This way they did not have to worry about the safety of their family and friends, as there were plenty of people to help arrange it.

Being a military general on assignment, he himself was granted a level of security privilege second only to Emperor Yi.

There were likely top-ranked individuals of Grade Seven and Grade Eight in the vicinity now, patrolling the area while passing by.

Saruman was indeed strong, but against the super encrypted communication control of these elite Feiyi Masters, he could not break through the physical signal isolation of the Flying Yi and directly control the Flying Yi.

Thus, the higher the rank of the Feiyi Master, the less likely they are to be controlled.

Many of them have their own set of unique encryption logic and have also been physically disconnected and coated.

"By the way, boss... when dealing with Shadow Eater this time, I met someone who claimed to be Lien," Li Chengyi suddenly changed the subject.

"Someone who claimed to be Lien?" Xindela frowned, not as excited as expected.

"What happened?"

"He seemed to know a lot of insider information about Blind Spot," Li Chengyi said. "Moreover, he’s not weak. If there’s a chance later, I’ll help you confirm this."

"Thank you," Xindela smiled. "Actually, after finding the Flower Language, I’ve made quite a few corresponding predictions. Targeting Lien, targeting Blind Spot, targeting breaking free from Blind Spot, etc., I’ve tried them all."

"And the result?"

Li Chengyi knew about his Flower Language dreams coming true; even if the methods given by the Flower Language couldn’t be realized, they could still provide plenty of information through descriptions.

"Lien is still alive," Xindela said.

He looked at Li Chengyi perched on the tree branch.

"Using the clues given by Flower Language, after multiple investigations and asking around, the conclusion is to first find a place called Whale Island, where Lien once performed a certain ceremony at the original site."

"A ceremony?"

"Yes. He also wanted to escape Blind Spot and had even found a way to do so—at least for himself—but... he wanted to find a way for everyone to escape Blind Spot, not just himself. Next, we have to go to Whale Island to look for the next clue, where there’s a special remnant called the Vestige Light Ceremony. That’s a ceremony Lien once held," Xindela took a deep breath and exhaled a puff of white mist.

The weather was getting colder, dropping below ten degrees in July.

"What was the outcome?" Li Chengyi had been preoccupied with matters in Midlane and had delegated the investigation about Lien to other Blind Spot Individual squads in the company.

"Three teams followed up, but the feedback wasn’t good, three people disappeared. The rest are still waiting," Xindela said.

"I’ll go over there when I get a chance," Li Chengyi’s attention was now back on the investigation to escape Blind Spot.

Previously, because his strength had improved too quickly, he had neglected to keep pace with the increasing difficulty of Blind Spot. But now, reality had taught him a vivid lesson.

If he continued to let Blind Spot snowball, he would eventually be undoubtedly doomed.

"... Okay," Xindela nodded solemnly.

Mingyuan Group was no longer the small organization it had once been.

"Also, I have used Flower Language on the Eternal Wishing Book," Xindela hesitated.

"Why are you hesitating?" Li Chengyi smiled.

"The Book of Wishes cannot completely break free from Blind Spot," Xindela looked straight ahead and said somberly. "That’s the conclusion I’ve reached."

"..."

Silence.

Li Chengyi’s smile suddenly froze on his face.

They had always believed that finding the Eternal Wishing Book was the fundamental solution to escape from the Blind Spot.

But now... Xindela’s Flower Language Technique was telling him that it was impossible to completely escape the Blind Spot with it?!

This was their only hope.

And now... was this last lifeline about to slip away?

"Perhaps, the Flower Language Ability could be mistaken..." Li Chengyi murmured softly.

"So far, I haven’t found any mistakes in dreams coming true, not even once," Xindela affirmed.

"Then how can one escape?"

"Leave, or merge! It only gave me two answers."

"Leave... merge..." Li Chengyi’s mind instantly connected to a plethora of content he had investigated before.

To leave meant to hide in other Blind Spots like those Blind Spot Individuals, or to completely depart this Blind Spot and head to the Black Sea.

But there was no food in the Black Sea, none of the elements necessary for survival, meaning only the native creatures of the Black Sea could live on, while others...

There was also the option of merging.

"Like Yserine, to merge completely with a Blind Spot and never be able to leave?"

Yserine was a better case, as her own merged Blind Spot naturally possessed the ability to continuously contact other Blind Spots.

But what about others? How difficult it was for them to find a Blind Spot that matched themselves – it was easy to guess without thinking.

In an instant, Li Chengyi thought of many things.

"Lien must have found the answer; we just don’t know what that answer is..." Li Chengyi said slowly.

"Maybe... My Flower Language Technique is based on myself, deduced from all my conditions as a starting point. If it were you, it would probably be different," Xindela said with a smile.

These days, he seemed to have come to terms with many things.

Knowing that his son was not dead and was hiding somewhere, he had changed completely. This certain news gave him a great deal of hope.

"It’s started..." Suddenly, Li Chengyi looked up at the sky.

His extremely keen perception could sense a massive invisible fluctuation bursting densely from beneath the base, like a dense forest of invisible beams, shooting towards White Star in the sky.

This place wasn’t within the city district, there was no Silent Fortress, meaning that the confrontation between the two sides would quickly escalate.

"If Tang Tang wins this time, perhaps... we can obtain more intelligence and secrets," said Li Chengyi.

"Win or lose, Tang Tang has already won," Xindela stated with a laugh.

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Virtual information space.

Amid countless colorful torrents.

Rainbow Candy shone with golden light, her hands rapidly synthesizing one complex program after another.

A multitude of small programs were swiftly written and then used as materials to be compounded into larger, more complex programs.

Complex programs gathered together to form even stronger programs.

The outer layers of three firewalls, like three white rings, circled beside her, still being pummeled by Saruman’s relentless white sword-rain making a rattling sound.

The cracks on the rings were rapidly widening.

But Rainbow Candy remained undistracted, focusing on the program synthesis before her.

Programs that automatically sought vulnerabilities, programs that infiltrated for authorization, virus bombs, aggressive software for forcibly seizing control of bots...

All kinds of materials swiftly amalgamated in her hands.

With the aggregation of massive amounts of material, a snowball-like sphere of light gradually coalesced and hovered in front of her.

No need to consider the structure, she just needed to keep aggregating and aggregating.

A plethora of complex functionalities were fused into it, and then swiftly simplified by programs dedicated to optimization...

Crack.

The first of the white ring firewalls finally shattered.

The violent stream of white information transformed from the sword-rain into numerous slender, white maggots with layers of wrinkles, throwing themselves against the second ring.

They feasted on the ring at lightning speed, some trying to circumvent it, but were blocked by an invisible barrier.

Soon, the second ring could no longer hold.

As Saruman’s invasion of Rainbow Candy’s firewall proceeded, he swiftly adapted to her program structure and personal habits.

Everyone has thought patterns, and once you identify another’s thinking habits and patterns, you can quickly grasp their general style and model.

Seconds later, the second ring was also about to collapse. The second ring contained all the team’s trace materials, recordings, etc. If breached, it could leak the secrets of the Flower Language Technique!

Whoosh!

Right at that moment, the ball of light Rainbow Candy’s hands rapidly aggregated began to shrink swiftly, compressing into an ordinary-sized purple hydrangea.

"It’s over..." She jerked her head up. Her eyes shone bright as stars.

"The verdict is decided."