Blind Spot
Chapter 578 - 531 White Wax One

Chapter 578: 531 White Wax One

Walking through the lobby, Li Chengyi reached out and pressed the elevator button, but there was no response.

He sighed softly.

A black light flashed, flickering up layer by layer,

The first layer, empty and deserted, with overturned and broken desks, chairs, and computers everywhere.

The second layer, covered with some unknown black dust, as if a fire had occurred.

The third layer...

The fourth layer...

Finally, on the twelfth layer, he found a server that seemed to still have a faint signal.

The white rectangular server was covered with various ferocious claw marks, as if it had endured unimaginable attacks and damage.

Standing in the empty server maintenance room, Li Chengyi gently patted the chassis.

"Rose?"

He spoke out.

Silence.

No response.

A flicker of disappointment passed through Li Chengyi’s eyes as he turned to check other areas.

Click...

Just then, a faint crackling noise came from the chassis, as if some component inside was making an operational sound.

That sound was as if it were responding to him.

"Rose? Is that you?" Li Chengyi was startled and asked again.

Click-click...

Soft clicking sounds came from inside the machine again.

"If it really is you, then make a sound three times in a row," Li Chengyi quickly said.

Click-click...click.

Three sounds followed in rapid succession.

A light finally shone in Li Chengyi’s eyes.

He quickly looked around and, after a short while, turned up a camera that seemed to be intact, found a spot behind the server, and plugged it in.

Buzz.

The camera quickly flashed a blue light and rotated a few times.

"Restarting, please wait."

Li Chengyi patiently waited for a while, and after about ten minutes, the camera finally completed its reboot.

A familiar female voice finally rang out from the attached speaker.

"I’m pleased to see you again, Lord Li Chengyi. I am a sub-body of Rose, belonging to the emergency backup system. You may call me Rose."

The female voice was exactly the same as that of the Owner of Rainbow Candy.

This familiar yet somewhat distant voice made Li Chengyi involuntarily recall the scenes from his time on Earth-Moon.

"What exactly happened? What has happened to Earth-Moon in the years I’ve been gone? And the others!? Where are they?" He was eager to know the answers.

Seven years. For such a long time, he had been trapped in the Panguang Blind Spot, unable to break free until the world itself rejected him and helped him escape at last.

And Blind Spot Individuals could only sustain the curse for as long as two years; perhaps the others from the Garden of Fate had already...

Rose paused, the electronic lights flickering rapidly.

"Five months after your departure, team members successively faced increasingly difficult and dangerous Blind Spot challenges. The first to fail was Dragon Gate Crane, who, with Paine’s advice and help, ultimately decided to risk entering a Blind Spot named Yun City to escape the inevitable fate."

"Afterward, Mr. Xiao Zhong made a similar move, but he did not disclose the name of the Blind Spot he chose for hiding."

"In the ninth month after your departure, Miss Da Xiong handed over all the authority of the group and quietly left Mingyuan, her whereabouts unknown."

"In the tenth month, the Owner of Rainbow Candy also faced a terrifying Blind Spot that she could not overcome, deciding to copy her consciousness and memories, completely transform her body into silicon-based life, and attempt to avoid the pull of the Blind Spot. The attempt failed, and she, too, chose to enter the Blind Spot."

"In the eleventh month, there was a Blind Spot uprising, with the number of Blind Spots greatly increasing and their entrances materializing directly in reality, appearing all over Twin Star, no longer accessible only by Blind Spot Individuals, visible to anyone."

Massive monsters emerged, cities crumbled, and the army could not resist, with heavy casualties. During the crisis, Yuan Ying came forward to unite with the Twin Star Government to establish a coalition government, mobilizing high-end powers from both sides to enter the largest real-world Blind Spot entrance, with no news afterward."

"In the fifteenth month, Twin Star Imperial High Command suffered heavy casualties in a Blind Spot monster raid, leaving human leadership decimated, only scattered resistance forces remaining, struggling to defend against monster attacks with the remaining cities as strongholds."

"According to statistics, over ninety percent of Twin Star’s electronic devices were eroded by some kind of electronic virus from the Blind Spot monsters, rendering them unusable; Twin Star’s fundamental physical rules changed, the planet’s environment underwent significant changes, suspected of some incomprehensible mutation, rendering a large number of weapons and equipment ineffective."

"After the thirty-fifth month, the Blind Spot invasion slowed, and the human population dwindled to about a tenth of its original size, with the remaining humans relying on newly refined automated artificial intelligence to produce supplies for living."

"In the thirty-seventh month, the Rose main body was infected by a mysterious electronic virus, its database damaged, simulated personality impaired, falling into slumber."

"This is the bulk of what happened after you left. Afterward, according to the main body’s instructions, because I lost all cameras and sound devices, and to avoid attracting certain special electronic viruses’ attention, I had no choice but to lie dormant among the ruins of the remaining devices everywhere. This damaged server is just one of my dormant points."

Rose’s voice pulled Li Chengyi, in an instant, into that intense period when he was not present.

He could never have imagined that so much had happened after he left.

"Then... what about my family?" he paused, asking cautiously.

"During the final evacuation, because Mingyuan Group lost most of its leadership, it had no choice but to activate the savior, Paine, as the temporary leader. Under Paine’s leadership, with assistance from Xindela, most of the group’s members successfully evacuated the headquarters and entered a backup underground base. After that, communication was lost, as the air was filled with unknown interference energies, preventing long-distance contact," Rose replied.

Blind Spots massively emerged, and they materialized in such a way that even common people could see them.

Li Chengyi knew just by thinking about it how terrifying that scene must be. The despair and fear faced by Blind Spot Individuals, something even common people hardly had time to adapt to before colliding with it head-on.

Situations like those were nothing short of natural disasters!

Many of the Blind Spot monsters were impervious to any weapon damage, becoming stronger with each revival after being killed. It was necessary to find specialized methods of restraint to effectively limit them.

"Wait a second! Paine? He didn’t die in the end?!" Li Chengyi suddenly blinked in astonishment.

Under the two-year curse limit of the Blind Spot Individuals, Paine actually hadn’t died? Two years were twenty-four months, but Paine had still been there until the last moment when the group evacuated? Unbelievable.

"Yes, if it had not been for Mr. Paine finding an appropriate refuge Blind Spot for many people, I’m afraid the situation would have been even more uncontrollable," Rose replied. "Now to continue answering your question, there were three members of the Li Family. With the proper protection of the group, they all evacuated Suiyang City together and their whereabouts are unknown."

"...So, the location of the underground base, do you know where it is?" Li Chengyi quickly asked.

"There’s no record."

"..." Li Chengyi thought for a moment, then with a single hand touched the server, and instantly collected it into the Qiankun Bag.

Panguang, as a standard world of immortals and swordsmen, had storage bags. Sword Nurturing Pouches were actually a variant of storage bags, but these treasures were incredibly expensive and their materials extremely difficult to find. Generally, only the very top experts could afford and accumulate enough to make one.

This time, the Holy Spirit Taoist had given the biggest one to Li Chengyi.

When one says the biggest, the inside space was no more than the size of a room of one hundred square meters with a height of five meters.

It was good for storing miscellaneous things.

After putting away Rose’s server, Li Chengyi continued checking upwards floor by floor. He was much faster this time, but unfortunately, there were no other gains.

On the last floor, he put down a dusty document he held in his hand, stood in front of the shattered and leaking floor-to-ceiling window, and surveyed the entire Suiyang City.

From high above, Suiyang City, sheltered within a massive black dome, was nothing but a scene of devastation.

On the streets, a smattering of live people wandered aimlessly, swaying like zombies.

Unmanned automatic patrol machines occasionally flew in the sky; there were rarely people in the aircraft, but through the windows, one could see the passengers all bore the same numbness, emptiness, sometimes with madness and distortion.

As if all hope for living had been lost.

A country that has lost even its highest executive body, destroyed, without security, without the basic order; the natural result, of course, would be chaos.

Li Chengyi sighed, then, with a flash of black light, flashed toward the part of the city where the crowds were most dense.

From above, one could see the building with the most intact exterior and most patches was surrounded by quite a few people. Clearly, it was the target he was looking for.

With a flash of black light, Li Chengyi appeared directly below the tallest patched-up building.

A large crowd of emaciated people crowded around, standing in line.

They held twisted metal bowls in their hands, waiting for the robots in front to distribute food.

One after another, steaming servings of minced meat porridge were poured into the extended bowls.

Li Chengyi’s appearance in the corner went completely unnoticed.

The people here seemed to no longer care about anything, just living numbly.

Perhaps it was due to the outbreak of the Blind Spots, where they had seen too many anomalies.

Li Chengyi quickly stepped through a small side door into the building.

Inside, rows of silver robots bustled back and forth, busy dispensing food, pouring various colored powders into a large pot. These substances were completely unlike minced meat or rice, yet the final concoction took the shape and smell of minced meat porridge.

Li Chengyi frowned slightly and followed the stairs upward, inspecting each floor.

Soon, on the fifth floor, he found the living people responsible for this place.

The information from Rose was somewhat out of date; its subsequent dormant period needed to be updated and supplemented.

Two fat-headed, crew-cut men in assistive exoskeleton gear sprawled on a couch, snacking and chatting idly.

Noticing Li Chengyi coming up, the two men gave him a lazy glance.

"If you want food, go downstairs. We’re just maintenance personnel. We have enough food... don’t bother us," one fatso casually said.

Li Chengyi saw the emptiness in their eyes and stepped forward, grabbing one of the men’s chest armor and lifting him up singlehandedly.

"I just came back from space. Tell me, where did the Mingyuan Group go?"

"Huh? Space? Don’t joke... buddy, I’m just a small fry. The Mingyuan Group evacuated, taking only the most important elites and talents... We were left behind to wait for death. You think you can catch up with them? Give up, it’s impossible," the fat man nonchalantly said, wiping his nose and laughing.

"Where did they go?" Li Chengyi asked in a stern voice.

"They went to other planets. A huge interstellar ship sent by the Royal Family took all the people away... Hahaha... But on the way, that ship was attacked during jump start, now no one knows where they have gone..." the fat man said with a chuckle.

"You had family up there, right? Don’t worry about them anymore. You should be worried about yourself... Every so often, monsters will rush out from the Blind Spots to hunt. You will die, I will die, maybe tomorrow, everyone will die! Hahaha!" the other fat man said neurotically, loudly laughing.

These two had gone mad...

Li Chengyi quietly dropped the man to the ground, watching him struggle to get up slowly on the floor but unable to stand because he was too fat.

Stepping out of the room, he carefully sensed the location of the Floral Bead and rapidly covered himself with the full set of the Wisteria Floral Dress.

Shadow Flash.

With a hiss!

He vanished from the spot.