Blind Spot
Chapter 593 - 543 white size 3-2

Chapter 593: 543 white size 3-2

The girl dumped Tom and ran into someone else’s arms, only to be discarded after being played for two months.

Their future was thus completely over.

Looking at the familiar and beautiful face before him, Tom desperately wanted to refuse.

Investigating the recent incident in the Water Forest outside the city, such a dangerous task was certainly not worth the money being offered.

Such tasks were extremely dangerous; typically, a single deployment warranted at least thirty thousand.

After all, it could at any moment become blood money.

But...

"Please..." Serra clasped her hands together in front of her chest, her expression pitiful.

"Tom... I know you still love me... right?"

"I’m sorry..." Tom lowered his head, took a deep breath, and clenched his teeth.

"You’re that heartless!?" Serra’s eyes widened in disbelief.

"It’s not that I’m heartless... it’s just that you, at the beginning..."

Whoosh.

A stack of printed color photographs scattered across Tom’s desk.

"You’re really cruel... Tom, I didn’t think you were this kind of person!" Serra said painfully.

She picked up a photo and held it between them.

"I didn’t want to do this... it was you who forced me!"

The conflict and contradiction on Tom’s face turned to confusion as he looked at the content on the photo.

Because... it was his nude photo!!

His breathing quickened, and he quickly picked up the other photos on the desk, and indeed!

All were various poses of his nudes, all taken while he was drunk and asleep.

"You...!!?" He was enraged, glaring at his ex-girlfriend.

"If you don’t help me, I might as well be dead, and my friend’s got a bunch more of these photos. I’ve instructed them, if you don’t help, they will help me print them and distribute them on the streets! You know I have many friends," Serra said with pitiable sorrow.

"You forced me, Tom...! I didn’t expect that after two years together, you would be so ruthless!" she said sadly.

"I’ll be damned...!!" Tom was on the verge of exploding with rage. Who exactly was the ruthless one here???

"Will you help?" Serra asked again.

Tom stared her down, barely restraining the urge to rush forward and hit her, and fell silent for a long while.

"....Fine!"

The manner on the photographs made it clear that she had been planning this since their first time in bed together.

This woman... had been preparing for this from the very start...

Li Chengyi, watching from the shadows, was also at a loss for words. Tom was completely devoured by this woman from start to finish.

Luckily, he managed to sense a change in Tom’s determination, clearly stimulated by this ordeal with Serra, causing a significant disturbance in his Consciousness Power.

Soon, the two of them packed up. Tom got the latest information on the whereabouts of Serra’s brother Andis from her, prepared his gear, took a handgun, and set off alone for the city outskirts.

Obviously, he was going to investigate the mysterious disappearances in the Water Forest.

Several disappearance cases had occurred in the outskirts of Ludian City in the past few months, all within the Water Forest. Serra’s brother Andis was one of them.

Seeing this, Li Chengyi didn’t continue to follow, but pondered for a moment and retracted his Consciousness Power.

Tom was a man with a story; his past was not simple, which was also why Serra took the initiative to seek help.

Sitting in the coffee shop, Li Chengyi picked up his cup and gently sipped the bitter coffee.

He stood up.

"Let’s leave. We’ve rested enough; let’s continue exploring."

"Okay!" Keya quickly gathered her textbooks, shouldered her backpack, and followed.

Together, they continued their stroll along the usual route through Xicheng District.

It was not until dusk that Li Chengyi planned to return to the office by car.

But before he got into the car, he was attracted by an intensely fluctuating consciousness power.

It was Tom!!

Limping back from outside the city, one of his sleeves was stained with a red bloodstain.

When Li Chengyi found him, Tom had already returned to his detective house and was taking off his clothes, readying gauze and alcohol.

Clearly, he had experienced something outside the city.

His consciousness power had at least doubled since he left!

Li Chengyi remotely sensed him, watching as he silently wrapped the wound on his right hand and reloaded his handgun.

Then, from his trouser pocket, he took out a blue pin.

Li Chengyi recognized it as the pin from Serra’s clothing. It was smeared with dried blood, so much that it was stained red, and it could not be thoroughly cleaned even with wiping.

Tom just sat there silently, staring at the pin, motionless.

His consciousness power began to wriggle and tremble, gradually contracting, as if in sorrow.

Li Chengyi watched this scene with a growing interest.

’What kind of change made his consciousness power surge so much?’ He could feel the seed he had planted deep in its consciousness had also grown significantly.

Immediately, he marked Tom as a key person to watch.

There were a total of five such key individuals, all of whom had good growth rates in their consciousness power.

Having confirmed his temporary observation target, Li Chengyi returned to the office.

Dinner, rest, and then early the next morning, he went out again and sat down for coffee at the café.

On the surface, he was resting, but in fact, he was observing Tom.

After a night’s recuperation, Tom’s consciousness power had stabilized a lot, successfully maintaining the enlarged state it had reached before.

This made Li Chengyi even more interested in what Tom had experienced previously.

And Tom, seemingly due to the previous investigation, settled back into silence again, showing no change all day, just sitting there motionless as if he were dead.

Li Chengyi didn’t mind, the third day, the fourth day, the fifth day...

Day by day, he continued monitoring.

Until the ninth day.

Tom finally made a new move.

He seemed to have made up his mind, closed the little shop, and, with his gun, went to another place in the city.

Soon, he arrived at an abandoned warehouse and met up with two people who looked like hooligans, a man and a woman.

The three acted like old friends reuniting, reminiscing and chatting about the past for a while, then headed out of the city together.

This time, Li Chengyi put down his coffee cup and smiled at Keya.

"Do you want to go out of the city for a stroll?"

"There are only fields outside the city, what’s there to see?" Keya didn’t understand, but since Li Chengyi had already stood up, she followed anyway.

The two followed the trio from a distance and soon left Ludian City, arriving at a lush forest of Water Trees, with branches as abundant as banyan trees.

Tom and his companions didn’t hesitate and plunged into it.

Li Chengyi did not continue to follow; instead, he waited outside.

After about half an hour, the three came out.

This time, the consciousness power of all three had grown significantly, with Tom’s having the most increase!

They were covered in blood, and after a few steps, one of them collapsed unconscious to the ground, the only woman’s heartbeat was slowing, and it looked like she wasn’t going to make it.

Struggling to get up, Tom tried to check on his friends, but he himself seemed poisoned, breathing rapidly and turning pale, and after only a few steps, he collapsed again.

He quickly lost consciousness as well. His breath was fading fast, and it was clear that he was close to death.

Even in death, he seemed to be still clutching that blue pin.