Blind Spot
Chapter 577 - 530 leaving, four

Chapter 577: 530 leaving, four

Li Chengyi sometimes wondered why he must return to Earth-Moon, a place of extreme danger. After all, he wasn’t really Li Chengyi. Wouldn’t it be better to leave Earth-Moon behind and start a new life somewhere safe?

But... he just couldn’t get over that mental block.

Even if he didn’t return to Earth-Moon, the hidden threat of enemies from Evil Flower might eventually come knocking. Thus, staying put and not moving forward was not the path he should choose.

As he mulled this over, he also flapped his wings, flying forward at high speed and performing Shadow Flash.

In mid-air, one could only see a silver-white trajectory, like a shooting star, streaking across variously sized Blind Spots.

Time kept on slipping away.

He didn’t know how much time had passed when suddenly, a faint and elusive pull appeared within the summoning sensory field of his Floral Bead.

The locating teleportation of the Floral Bead was a special ability similar to a consciousness field. It greatly amplified Li Chengyi’s Consciousness Power sensory range, allowing him to pinpoint the exact location of each host.

But it could only sense the presence of the Floral Bead. Everything else remained unclear.

Feeling the new summoning connection, Li Chengyi was overjoyed and quickly corrected his direction according to its orientation.

He then realized that his general direction was correct, but he had been too far off. The true direction was further down to the left of his hand.

After confirming the direction and making adjustments, Li Chengyi sped up and flew toward that location at full speed.

As the direction was now correct, the sensation from the Floral Bead became clearer, and new connections continuously appeared—these were the summoning links from other Floral Bead holders.

There was also a direction at a slightly skewed angle, which was obviously Midlane’s location.

Chen Jiahan had been left over there, and he didn’t know what the situation was now.

In the Black Sea, Li Chengyi accelerated, leaving a long silver tail behind him as he rapidly approached the Earth-Moon Blind Spot.

As the distance closed in.

The connection felt stronger and stronger, and Li Chengyi’s anticipation grew heavier. He hadn’t returned to Earth-Moon for a long time. Over such a lengthy period, he wondered if everyone was still... well...?

Soon, a massive blue Blind Spot full of countless tentacles, like a gigantic potato with gray-black spots on its surface, came into view.

That was Earth-Moon!

’Wait, the Earth-Moon I remember didn’t look like this...’ Li Chengyi hesitated, although the Floral Bead’s connection clearly indicated this place.

But... had he been gone long enough for such drastic changes to occur here?

After a brief pause, he slowed down in the Black Sea, floating still, calmly observing the now significantly altered Earth-Moon Blind Spot.

Turning his head, he looked in another direction, towards Midlane.

The two were very close.

Certainly much closer than to Panguang.

He could still sense the connection from Panguang’s eldest apprentice brother with the Floral Bead.

’It seems the range of the Floral Bead’s connection mainly depends on the holder’s power...’ Li Chengyi concluded in his mind. He suddenly thought of a problem.

’I remember... the flow of time in Panguang is the same as in the Black Sea, and the time flow speed of the Black Sea and Earth-Moon also seems to be not much different...’

Li Chengyi’s expression subtly changed.

’By that account, have I not... been missing from Earth-Moon for many years??’

He had been in Panguang for five or six years, and now returning...

With this thought, a sense of panic and unrest rose in his heart.

’With Rainbow Candy and the others there, there should be... no big problem... right...’

Immediately, Li Chengyi hesitated no longer. With a Shadow Flash, he rushed towards Earth-Moon at full speed.

More than ten minutes later, he charged into the outer layer of the Earth-Moon Blind Spot, disappearing into the myriad of tiny tentacles.

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September 3231.

Earth-Moon, Suiyang City.

The former site of Eternal Botanical Garden.

On the barren outskirts, with black soil underneath, pieces of shattered walls were scattered haphazardly everywhere.

The arch-shaped gate still bore the sign for Eternal Botanical Garden, with half of the characters missing, leaving only the words "Eternal Botanical Garden."

On the stone-paved square outside the gates, there were holes of various sizes. Rusty bullet casings and broken metal fragments on the ground spoke to a significant conflict that had once erupted here.

But at this time, the traces of the past had been covered by weeds, dust, and soil, with only some remnants still visible on the surface.

Click.

Amidst faint footsteps,

a strong man in a black-purple coat with silver hair casually flowing walked slowly to the ruined gate, tilting his head to look at the damaged sign.

The man’s build was lean, and it was immediately apparent from his well-defined muscular lines that he possessed formidable explosive strength and reaction speed.

His face was calm and handsome with a hint of a light black beard on his lip, slightly adding to his mature charm.

This was Li Chengyi, who had just returned from the Black Sea.

Looking at the desolation of what was once a thriving botanical garden, his initial joy at coming home plummeted to rock bottom.

Seven years...

The moment he arrived on Earth-Moon, he had confirmed the time of his departure. He had expected some discrepancy in the flow of time, but he could never have imagined that Earth-Moon would turn into what it was after seven years.

Indeed...

The former Suiyang City had shrunk by more than tenfold, and the entire city area was shrouded under a huge black protective shield.

Beyond that, everything outside had become a desolate wasteland.

The billboards erected by the Mingyuan Group along the roadside had also disappeared. The most important Eternal Botanical Garden of the Group, the source of the Flowers for all the Floral Bead holders, had ended up in such ruin...

"Seven years... What on earth happened!? Where is the Rainbow Candy? And the others?"

Li Chengyi had no way of knowing.

The Eternal Garden opposite to the Botanical Garden was also gone, leaving only a huge deep pit in its place, seemingly the result of a direct bombardment by some weapon, leaving no trace of the manor.

Stepping into the Botanical Garden, Li Chengyi paced slowly, observing the changes that remained around him.

The Jiutou Flower flowerbeds, which Xiao Zhong once tended to meticulously, had also withered and turned black.

The greenhouse where the Rainbow Candy and Da Xiong once absorbed the Flowers had collapsed, leaving only a few remnants of rubble in its original place.

Li Chengyi could no longer bear to look, and headed directly to the special plant cultivation area.

There was a dedicated flowerbed for cultivating all kinds of mutated flowers.

But there, only scorched earth and weeds remained.

’What the hell... is going on?!’

His heart grew increasingly heavy as he turned and walked toward the direction of the city area, activating the Shadow Flash.

In an instant, ten kilometers away, Li Chengyi’s tall figure appeared on the periphery of the enormous black protective barrier of Suiyang.

He looked up at the immense black wall stretching out of sight, reached out his hand, and gently touched its surface.

Cold and smooth, this barrier wasn’t just made of metal material! It seemed to be mixed with bio-materials! And what’s more, it was imbued with some kind of active biological material!

After some thought, Li Chengyi looked along both sides of the barrier, extending his massive Consciousness Power furiously.

His biggest gain from this trip to Panguang was the immense enhancement of his Consciousness Power.

Compared to when he left Earth-Moon, his current Consciousness Power had already reached the pure strength of an Eight Seals master.

This was without counting any other forces or power enhancements, purely the strength of his Consciousness Power.

Such terrifying Consciousness Power, in Yuan Ying’s Earth-Moon where the strongest only possessed up to Five Seals, was undoubtedly crushing.

Not to mention his other amplified physical abilities and special powers, taken together, he had already reached a level where he could even crush those above True Fire.

Quickly, the Consciousness Power formed into the shape of a thin sword, coalescing into an invisible and minuscule Sword of Wisdom, which pierced through thousands of kilometers, finding an ingress and egress gate.

Below the huge black protective shield, there was a black entrance reminiscent of an ancient city gate.

The square-shaped city gate was over ten meters wide and built from the same shielding material.

The wall was rough, covered with varying depths of scratches, many of which seemed to have been made by some kind of claw.

At this moment, a number of raggedly dressed people were queuing up to enter and exit the city.

Li Chengyi, with a Shadow Flash, appeared at an unnoticed corner by the city gate and then stepped out, following two lean men toward the gate.

At the entrance, there was an abandoned inspection scanner gate, which seemed to have been without power for a long time.

No one was guarding the entrance, only two silver-white robotic dogs, trailing long black cables, crouched at the side, their pale blue electronic eyes briefly scanning those entering before considering the check complete.

Among the downtrodden and subdued flow of people, Li Chengyi stood out with his vigorous spirit and sturdy, tall build, which was actually quite conspicuous.

But the robotic dogs didn’t care about these details, merely performing a perfunctory scan before letting him through the gate.

Following the flow of people into the city, Li Chengyi took it all in with one look.

The once bright and clean Suiyang City Area was now full of building ruins.

The distant silver-white building was like a patched-up ragged cloth, with several black patches added to its waist.

In the far-off sky under the illumination of the giant lights at the top of the barrier, a series of black unmanned combat drones were patrolling orderly around the entire city.

Bowing his head, Li Chengyi’s sense of foreboding grew stronger, and he urgently needed to find someone to clarify what had happened over the years.

He immediately quickened his pace, walking briskly along the somewhat gloomy streets.

His destination wasn’t his home, but the Mingyuan Group headquarters building.

If he could find Rainbow Candy, he would be able to acquire the most extensive and accurate information as quickly as possible, and even if she wasn’t there, the AI Rose should still be present. For now, the location of the Rainbow Candy’s Floral Bead was right there.

Without clarity on the specific situation, he decided not to teleport directly through the trace.

The Floral Bead’s sensing was one-way; Rainbow Candy could not sense his arrival.

If... Rainbow Candy hadn’t survived the two-year limit, then the person now holding the Floral Bead... who would it be?

And what would the situation be at the headquarters?

From the gate to the Mingyuan Building, there was a distance of about five kilometers. In between, he would need to traverse many neighborhoods, shopping malls, and residential complexes.

As Li Chengyi walked along, his heart sank more and more.

There were scarcely any people in the neighborhoods, the shopping malls were long closed with heaps of garbage bags piled at the entrances.

The residential complexes were even more like a ghostly realm, with only a few occasional figures visible.

Before long, he arrived at the Mingyuan Building.

This time, fortunately, the group’s headquarters was still standing.

It had deteriorated much more since he left, but as long as it was still there, there would surely be someone in charge...

Li Chengyi hurried to the entrance gate.

"Excuse me...."

His query was abruptly cut off.

The security booth at the entrance was empty, and the window’s ledge was covered with a thick layer of black ash.

Exhaling, he entered through the iron door, and seeing the parking shed to the side, with each flying car covered in a thick layer of white ash almost obscuring the vehicles’ original color.

At the building’s entrance, the original automatic glass doors were gone, shattered into debris on the ground.

The lobby was completely deserted, utterly lifeless.