Blind Spot
Chapter 671 - 616 Vitality 4 (Old Roll wishes everyone auspiciousness in the Year of the Dragon, good health, and may everything go well)

Chapter 671: 616 Vitality 4 (Old Roll wishes everyone auspiciousness in the Year of the Dragon, good health, and may everything go well)

The sky gradually darkened.

Soon a campfire was raised, followed by the setting up of portable tents.

Only then did Li Chengyi drag down the wild cat, throwing it beside the men’s fire and pointing at the fire.

"You want me to roast it?" the man couldn’t help asking in shock.

Li Chengyi nodded.

He was still undergoing physical enhancement and needed a large amount of food, but he didn’t want to eat raw food. The man’s arrival was timely as he could save him the effort of food preparation.

The man asked several more times, and each time he received a definite answer from Li Chengyi.

Although he couldn’t understand the language, he could still understand the other’s body language.

Soon, a skinned and impaled wild cat was set up and began to roast over the fire.

The man also sprinkled the salt he had brought with him.

The chili powder and Sichuan peppercorn powder in his hand were also taken up by Li Chengyi, who nonchalantly sprinkled them on.

This sight had him staring in bewilderment.

Before long, a silent feast began. Three parts of the large wild cat went into Li Chengyi’s stomach, and the rest was eaten by the man.

After eating, the man got up to practice his punches as a way to digest his food, while Li Chengyi also got up, imitated the man’s boxing techniques, and began to practice them in a simplified form.

And so began their shared time practicing punches, each with a squirrel.

Day and night passed, the forest lit up and then darkened, only to brighten again.

Three days went by in a blink of an eye.

The man named Kui crawled out of his tent, stretched his body, and looked towards Li Chengyi who had already emerged from the tree hole.

"Good morning, Xiao Hui," he greeted cheerfully.

"Good morning, Kui," Li Chengyi responded in kind.

"..." The man’s smiling face instantly froze.

He looked up, staring at Li Chengyi in astonishment.

"You... just now, did you speak??!!"

He vaguely remembered that the voice had come from Xiao Hui.

"Yes. Is there a problem?" Li Chengyi replied indifferently.

"It’s not...a matter of whether there’s a problem...it’s just...you’re a damn squirrel!!" The man was flabbergasted, his mind clearly overwhelmed.

"So what? Why can’t a squirrel talk?" Li Chengyi said calmly, then did a flip forward, rolling off a tree branch and landing steadily on the ground.

"Just the other day you were telling me that one of the disciples of a famous boxing master is a black bear. If a black bear can practice boxing and speak, why can’t I, a squirrel?"

In the past three days, Li Chengyi had heard a lot of strange information about this world from the man.

It included the strength system of the entire world.

This world had guns and bombs, but free fighting was even more prevalent.

Fighters had extremely fast reactions, some of the strong ones could even withstand small caliber firearms, and the stronger ones could even single-handedly defeat small tactical units.

And, among the strongest, was a peerless boxing school known as Tai Suqing.

Legend had it that Tai Suqing’s founder was just an average upper-middle-class boxer.

During an archaeological expedition to an ancient relic, this common boxer accidentally found a mysterious virus buried beneath a giant hollow in a mysterious glacier.

He infected himself with the virus, his body underwent a tremendous mystic enhancement, and from then on, his strength became terrifyingly formidable.

Several hours later.

Kui and Li Chengyi sat down side by side.

Li Chengyi quietly listened to the man’s narration.

"The Taihuang Dragon Shadow Fist that I practice can only explode with great speed in terms of force exertion. Compared with the precision, intensity, and fine control of force, it is far inferior to Tai Suqing. So, feeling frustrated, I came to the woods hoping to break through the limits of my own potential," said the man.

"Taihuang Dragon Shadow Fist?" Li Chengyi exclaimed in surprise. Such an arrogant name, but it turned out to be just ordinary merchandise.

"Do you need my help?" Li Chengyi had spent three days learning the man’s language, and it wasn’t for idle chatter.

"Help me? With what can you help?" Kui asked in surprise.

"Your boxing technique seems extremely simple to me. Strengthening it is not a difficult task, and you can try out its effect first." In Li Chengyi’s mind, after practicing countless martial arts secrets and removing the supernatural parts, even the former Dragon Beard Strength was stronger than this so-called Taihuang Dragon Shadow Fist based purely on muscle force exertion.

"Fine, then what are your conditions?" the man asked sensibly.

"Take me out of this place. Aren’t you going to participate in the international martial arts tournament?" Li Chengyi queried.

"I’m not just playing around! Tai Suqing has spread the news that he has established a syndicate, intent on using the pretext of hosting a tournament to collect the genes of all top fighters and to cultivate the so-called strongest perfect Celestial Beings. I must stop him!" Kui said gravely.

"What does that have to do with you?" Li Chengyi queried, confused.

"Because...the core of the Celestial Being project is to completely disseminate the Celestial Virus hidden under the glacier through the special abilities of the perfect Celestial Being, infecting all of humanity.

And the survival rate of this virus is only five percent. In other words, once the plan succeeds, the moment the perfect Celestial Being takes form will also be the moment the virus spreads rampantly from its body. Such a terrifying virus, capable of spreading through the air and surviving at room temperature for over six months, would be able to destroy the majority of human nations."

"Why are you willing to take action and face an opponent you have no certainty about, for the sake of people you don’t know?" Li Chengyi inquired. "What are you doing it for?"

"For what?" Kui looked up at the sky, "Actually it’s nothing really, just a feeling...of discontent."

"Discontent?" Li Chengyi raised an eyebrow.

"Yes. When I heard this news, Tai Suqing was arrogantly telling the whole world on television that most of the people in the world are wretches, and only those who have been selected have the right to live. This right would be controlled by him."

"At the time, I was packing my stuff, planning to give him an unforgettable lesson that he would remember for a lifetime."

Kui said in a casual tone, but the determination in his eyes was unwavering.

"How foolish," Li Chengyi remarked.

"Who’s foolish? Me or him?" Kui asked.

"Both of you."

"You really are interesting," Kui laughed.

"So we have a deal then," Li Chengyi stood up, "I’ll teach you boxing, and you take me out to see the world."

"Sure," Kui smiled casually.

Early the next day, he took his belongings and left for good, planning to return in a few days to take Li Chengyi away with him.

Meanwhile, Li Chengyi began making preparations for the second round of strengthening.

The materials weren’t hard to find; the ones needed for the squirrel’s enhancement were all available in the forest. The question was whether the body could withstand a second enhancement...

The night deepened.

Outside the tree hollow, Li Chengyi stood alone on a tree limb, gazing down at two wolves confronting each other below, pondering the solution over and over in his mind.

The first round of enhancement had brought a not-so-great burden to his body.

This burden also granted him new, unique changes.

Whoosh.

Suddenly, he leaped down from the tree limb.

He landed lightly.

In the darkness, beneath the moonlight, his body, once only the size of a watermelon, began to swell rapidly, expanding and growing larger.

Fur stretched, muscles tore, and flesh proliferated.

In just a few seconds, he morphed from a small gray squirrel into a humanoid squirrel with human hands and feet that stood about one meter eighty tall!

His robust pectoral muscles were compressed by encircling arms, and behind Li Chengyi’s broad shoulders was a large, gray, fluffy tail.

His once round, shiny black eyes had now become elongated, diamond-shaped pupils.

The entire inverted triangular torso perfectly duplicated Kui’s physique and outline.

This was the tremendous benefit that came from one-time enhancement through the Eternal Vitality System.

With the support of powerful Divine Fire Consciousness Power, he could freely control all the bones, flesh, and fur in his body, achieving a level where he could alter his form and appearance at will.

The two wild wolves were so frightened by his transformation that their fur stood on end, and they whined threateningly.

"Shut up!"

With a slight move of Li Chengyi’s burly legs, he disappeared on the spot and flashed between the two wolves.

Pfft!

The two wolves stiffened and fell to the ground, motionless in an instant.

Blood slowly seeped from their nostrils and mouths.

Li Chengyi, without even looking at them, extended his hand, and Yellow-Haired Skinny leaped down from the tree limb, landing on his hand.

"Are... are you still Xiao Hui?" Skinny asked incredulously, looking at his former friend.

"Of course. This is the will of fate. I’m leaving, Skinny," Li Chengyi replied in the language of squirrels.

"Where to?" asked Skinny, bewildered.

"I don’t know. To a place where only humans exist, and no squirrels," Li Chengyi said.

"Why can’t we just live well in the forest? Isn’t it good here with so many pine nuts?" Skinny couldn’t understand.

"Because...," Li Chengyi replied softly, looking up at the night sky, "I need to find... my own pine nuts."

He wanted to experience the human society outside and find ways to improve the survival rate of the second enhancement.

Now, with only one enhancement, the strength of his body had already reached a level capable of withstanding a leopard’s strength.

As for why he used a leopard for comparison, it was because he had personally tested it.

From a small squirrel’s strength, shooting up to the level of a leopard—if he underwent another enhancement, he didn’t know how high he could reach.

The special virus beneath the glaciers, as mentioned by Kui, might offer him some exceptional help.

Beyond that, even more critical, was a special digestion method he pondered after reflecting on the Yin Canon.

After experiencing the enhancement method of the Eternal Vitality System, he thought whether this special biochemical reaction could be reduced and dispersed to occur in segments.

After each segmental occurrence, if he could find a sufficiently strong and abundant external force, pressing down and consuming this strength could greatly reduce the side effects of the second enhancement.

Based on the forbidden knowledge acquired from banned books, the success rate of this method was very high.

Therefore, whether it was to seek the so-called Celestial Virus or to digest the biochemical power of the second enhancement, he could no longer stay in the forest.

The fact that he could conceive this method was all thanks to the strong comprehension associated with the Snow Lotus among his Twelve Floral Languages.

’Finally, before I leave, I need to gather all the Flowers Power I need... and then complement it with Evil Thoughts in human society to complete the remaining evolution to Ultimate Form.’

A thought flashed through Li Chengyi’s mind.

Letting go of Skinny, with a whoosh, his figure vanished on the spot.

This place had such great limitations; perhaps the strength of Ultimate Form could offer him more help. Especially the comprehension bonus from the Snow Lotus, and the tenacious life force from the Green Fleece Mugwort, were languages of flowers likely to bring significant benefits, not placing much emphasis on supernatural powers.