Blind Spot
Chapter 514 - 471 Whale Island 1

Chapter 514: 471 Whale Island 1

Red Rock Star.

The majestic sandstorm, like a colossal funnel, swept up all the surrounding air currents and pulled them into a giant tornado that reached from the heavens to the earth.

The wailing howl was like the scream of a ferocious ghost.

At the center of the tornado, where the eye of the storm lay, there was a place of absolute quiet, completely different from the outside world.

This area was shaped like an inverted cone, with high-speed spinning red sand dust forming walls on all sides. The rumbling noise was layered upon layered, creating vibrations like thunder.

Within this quiet zone, a vague humanoid figure cloaked in blue light quietly floated in mid-air.

The figure wore a special suit covered in circular patterns of varying sizes and colors, visible all over their body.

If not for the intermittent flickers of their body, this outfit would not seem out of place among the Earth-Moon’s avant-garde crowd.

Shua!

A figure appeared behind him, a female silhouette that also shimmered with white light.

"Saruman has lost. His body has completely succumbed to brain death. Revival will take a long time. Our advantageous situation has been ruined because of your casual decision. I need an explanation!"

The woman’s voice was ice-cold, her pitch-black eyes within the white light staring intensely at the blue figure.

"Mu Yan." The figure cloaked in blue light turned around, facing the woman, "The world is losing balance. You should also be able to feel it. Although it’s just a hint of trouble, we must nip it in the bud."

"I have been coordinating everything with White Emperor. It’s easy just to talk," the cold woman, Mu Yan, said, "Now that our good situation is ruined, White Star has suffered not a small loss, to the point of severe damage. What’s your plan for the aftermath?"

The Garden of Fate has not been captured, and what’s worse, we’ve lost one of our own generals. Saruman’s individual strength was weak, but on the network, he provided great convenience and cover for the organization.

And now he’s been blown to bits?!

Unbelievable.

No matter how many times she replayed it, Mu Yan found it hard to believe. In the network, Saruman’s power was undeniably godlike, but now...

"It doesn’t matter." The figure in blue light spoke calmly. "Everything will soon settle down, order will be restored to its original state, the Garden of Fate should not exist, it must be completely erased. And the bait they have been searching for, I have already released it."

"You mean... Whale Island?" The woman was taken aback.

"Yes, the place where Lien and the Lan Meng Mountain Master finished the ritual in the end. The Lan Meng Mountain Master succeeded, but Lien only managed to... forget it, let’s not talk about these things. Lan Meng chose to give up after succeeding. Lien, after succeeding, chose to take others with him. But regardless of which approach, they both left an eternal trace on Whale Island. As long as that trace can be found, those who come later can also succeed."

"But without bypassing the forbidden knowledge, success can be achieved only once, and... it is the only hope. If the successful one leaves, here, will be forever lost, devoid of all hope," the woman said coldly.

"The world, fate, is naturally this cruel. Everything from birth is constantly walking towards extinction. We are like this, so is the world. That there is even one hope is an enormous act of mercy," the figure in blue light sighed.

"Is this what you call an open conspiracy? Are you planning to completely deal with them on Whale Island?" the woman asked.

"Yes, even if they know it might be a trap, that is the only place, they will not fail to come," the figure in blue light sighed.

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Suiyang Yunshan, the undersea forest base.

A group of people from the Garden of Fate gathered to watch a piece of top-secret data that Rainbow Candy had brought from White Star.

"This data comes from the secret chamber in White Emperor’s study; it’s information recorded on a special chip. The location is physically isolated from the network. I managed to control a robot temporarily to assemble a simple transmitter nearby. After scanning, I used simulated electric signals to influence the internal currents and finally succeeded in obtaining it... The process was more difficult than you can imagine," Rainbow Candy recalled with a lingering fear.

If she hadn’t cheated and become a god for ten minutes, this feat would have been impossible.

Not to mention creating a program that could invade a closed internal network through radio waves, the difficulty... for a common hacker, it was simply not feasible.

The sheer thickness of the isolation wall was more than ten meters...

It was only because her energy was unlimited at the time, forcefully aggregating an intrusive Trojan that shouldn’t exist in the world, that she finally succeeded.

"You’ve worked hard. Everyone can see your sacrifice and contribution," Li Chengyi said with a wry smile, glancing at the helpless Dragon Gate Crane beside him.

"It’s okay, it’s okay," Rainbow Candy’s face showed indifference, "I have to admit that it felt really good."

"Speaking of which, if Dragon Gate Crane’s ability could be combined with our others..." Da Xiong showed an obvious interest.

If her Flower Language Technique could be used without energy limitations, Li Chengyi also thought of this.

His Power of Language, Hand of Obsession, were extremely abnormal abilities that consumed Flower Language on a proportional basis. If for ten minutes he didn’t worry about the cost, that meant he could forcibly control any enemy for ten minutes of time!

That was practically a divine ability!

For the Power of Language, ten minutes was enough to do a lot...

"Okay, let’s not talk about this now. Watch the video recording. Hopefully... we can gain something from this," Xindela clapped her hands to draw everyone’s attention.

Everyone snapped back to reality, turning their gaze towards the large screen on the wall of the small room.

The mouse clicked play.

Clap.

The white screen suddenly went dark.

The progress bar below started moving slowly, bit by bit.

"Before every entry, I record a will. This time is no exception."

A calm bass voice rose from behind the screen, like a voice-overs in a film.

The moment they heard this voice, Xindela’s expression trembled slightly.

"It’s him! It’s my son!"

He clenched the walking stick unconsciously, his gaze fixed on the screen.

Li Chengyi glanced at him and gently patted his shoulder to offer comfort.

On the screen, that voice continued.

"The Blind Spot has been entered more than twelve times so far, each time becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous. I am more and more worn out by the effort."

"Perhaps, this time, will be my end."

As the words fell, in the darkness at the center of the screen, a yellow flame slowly began to glow.

It was a hand, holding a freshly lit match.

The head of the match burned slowly, emitting a soft, faint light.

"Lan Meng Mountain Master left clear clues through the Distorted Book, the Aria Texts, and the Lan Meng Mountain Master’s Record of Otherworldy Knowledge."

"I followed these clues here, and on the way, thirty-six of my teammates have already disappeared."

"And this place, is the final end."

The voice stopped.

In the video, the hand with the match kept moving forward.

It seemed to be in a cave, in front of a narrow two-meter-wide passage. On both sides were steep, rough rock walls, and sometimes something inexplicable flew over the top of his head.

"I understand what the Lan Meng predecessor meant. Because of the forbidden knowledge, it was impossible for him to tell the truth directly. Knowledge has uniqueness, meaning a path can only be reached by one person.

The others can only achieve it in other ways, but..."

In the video, the man looked down at the white wristwatch on his arm, which had a large screen clearly displaying the time, location, temperature, humidity, body temperature, heart rate, and so on.

Click.

Rainbow Candy suddenly paused the playback.

"From here on, I have already tried to look further just now. There are no images to be seen, and the sound is also inaudible. Therefore, I used the information from the wristwatch to find the specific location."

She turned back to look at everyone.

"That is to say, I have found the place that Lien went to last, that place called Whale Island."

"But what he encountered on Whale Island, we cannot know," Li Chengyi said.

"Yes. So I suggest that when Paine wakes up, we take him with us to explore," Rainbow Candy said.

"We don’t have time. My Blind Spot will come soon, and I don’t know if I’ll be able to get past it this time..." Xiao Zhong said gravely.

"Don’t you think this information came too easily? As if Lien intentionally released it to lure people there?" Da Xiong said quietly.

"There’s no need to feel that way, someone is indeed deliberately luring us there. The hope of getting rid of the Blind Spot, whether it is real or not, we cannot give up any possibility," Li Chengyi stated.

"Continue," he said to Rainbow Candy.

The playback resumed.

The video began to distort from this point, transforming into chaotic, twisted clusters of color.

It took more than ten minutes before it abruptly returned to normal.

"The content I was talking about just now is unique. If I die, then it should return to normal. If you’re seeing a mess, then it means I’m lucky in the future and should still be alive. I should be happy," Lien’s voice continued.

In the video, the match in the man’s hand quickly went out. He pulled out another match and lit it again.

"No lighting methods can be used here, only the box of matches provided at the entrance. If you can’t get out of this passageway before the matches run out, you will be locked in here forever, becoming part of this place."

Suddenly, Li Chengyi frowned.

"Wait, if no technological items can be used inside this cave, then how was this video made?"

"Obviously, it seems non-technological items might work," Da Xiong nodded.

Li Chengyi immediately thought of some similar capabilities. Although rare, natural modes of recording without relying on technology do exist.

On the screen, Lien kept walking forward, lighting one match after another, only to have them extinguish each time.

Finally, when he reached the twentieth match, there were only two left unused in the box.

If he couldn’t find the exit, his death was almost certain.

And just then, Lien stopped.

"Here we are," he suddenly said, his voice thick with both exhaustion and joy.

"This is it... the edge of the world... the boundary between reality and the Black Sea... the Phantom Sea."

The Phantom Sea!?

Everyone present was startled at the mention of the name.

"The Black Sea, the White Sea, the Phantom Sea — these are the three foundational substances. The Black Sea breeds everything, the White Sea is the hope of everything, and the Phantom Sea exists between the two, appearing and disappearing intermittently in a manner that is unimaginable and incomprehensible."

"I can’t continue any further. The restrictions of the forbidden knowledge here are tremendous. The more precious the knowledge, the greater the effect it can have. Much of the knowledge, even the language and characters used to record it, possess special powers. And this place...."

In the video.

Lien kept walking, reaching a protruding cliff at the end.

Standing at the cliff’s edge, he looked down and, using the match’s flame, illuminated the rocky ground beneath his feet.

That ground... was disintegrating!

Transforming from solid, it rapidly scattered into countless black dots, floating forward into the endless darkness.