Blind Spot-Chapter 70 - 067 Mind Technique Three (Xie Chun Alliance Hierarch

Chapter 70: 067 Mind Technique Three (Xie Chun, Alliance Hierarch of the Nine Lotus Lanterns)

Chapter 70: 067 Mind Technique Three (Xie Chun, Alliance Hierarch of the Nine Lotus Lanterns)

Pushing his thoughts aside, Li Chengyi looked at the waiter again.

“Additionally, I would like to visit your Wisteria Flower Corridor. I’ve heard that the Palace Garden Florist’s Wisteria Flower Corridor is the best social media hotspot in Suiyang City. Since I’m here, I wonder if I could have the fortune to appreciate it?”

He spoke courteously and was a major customer of the boss, which prompted a smile from the waitress.

“You’re too polite, sir. Please follow me this way,” she said.

She took the initiative to lead the way, heading down another curved path.

Li Chengyi followed closely behind.

This time, he didn’t plan on returning until he had thoroughly exploited the opportunity.

As time slowly approached six o’clock,

Li Chengyi had a hard time having another staff meal at the Palace Garden Florist before he thick-skinnedly strolled out of the main store.

By the time he left the store, his Wisteria Flowers’ second evolutionary degree had risen from the previous 0% to 15%.

That was because most of the varieties were repeats, and he hadn’t found many new mutations; otherwise, his gains would have been even greater.

In the evening, a light rain began to fall, wetting the ground and reflecting large swathes of shimmering water.

The passersby, some holding umbrellas and some taking advantage of the light rain to speed home on electric scooters and bicycles.

Shops along the street had also put out umbrellas for customers to use for free.

The light drizzle cast a hazy sheen over the advertising lights flowing on distant buildings.

After exiting the main store, Li Chengyi didn’t immediately hail a cab home but instead slowly strolled along the sidewalk, digesting his meal.

He leisurely observed and pondered, considering what kind of material would be best for absorbing Evil Thoughts.

He had previously tested through small-time hooligans and discovered that people with weak wills produced Evil Thoughts that couldn’t last long and quickly dissipated.

Such Evil Thoughts were few in number, usually in the single digits.

But if the person with a strong will was bad, then one encounter could yield a substantial amount of Evil Thoughts.

‘So, the best material should come from people with a strong will,’ Li Chengyi confirmed the premise in his mind.

Then he began to consider how he could obtain a stable source of Evil Thoughts more efficiently.

People with strong wills were not easy to find, so the best method should be to use them repeatedly, not to exhaust the resource but to fish sustainably.

While thinking, Li Chengyi walked. His oversized coat had some water resistance, and by donning the hood and fastening the buttons, it could serve as a makeshift raincoat.

There were quite a few people dressed like him on the streets.

Although he had purchased good formal wear specifically for the contract negotiation, given his lack of luxury brand knowledge, the formal wear he got was essentially just an upgraded version of the usual business attire.

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Therefore, walking on the street, he saw many outfits similar to his formal wear.

This made Li Chengyi somewhat embarrassed, especially considering that he had felt quite presentable when he met Xu Zhongsheng and had thought he dressed appropriately.

Exposing one’s lack of sophistication to strangers is hardly a comfortable matter.

Soon, he followed the sidewalk up a slope, with a similarly busy roadway to the right.

Several cars were stuck there, their horns blaring impatiently.

Li Chengyi found the noise irritating and quickened his pace, eager to get past.

While making his way up the slope, he had just passed a dark alley when he caught the sound of voices.

“Beat her to death! Thinks she can run away?”

“Owes money and still has the nerve to run? She doesn’t want to live anymore, huh?”

“Let me tell you, paying debts is a natural duty. If you don’t pay back at least part of your debt today, you’re not going anywhere!”

The alley’s surveillance cameras and motion-sensing lights were broken, and three burly men armed with rubber rollers and batons were cursing loudly around a shadowy figure.

Li Chengyi barely noticed as he briskly passed by the alley entrance.

Although the voices of these men were deliberately loud, meant to be overheard by passersby,

The content of their speech also sounded somewhat staged and fake.

But most common people, with an attitude of ‘what does it have to do with me,’ would quickly step far away from such incidents.

Li Chengyi, too, had the mentality of the common folk, not wanting any trouble, and thus sped up his steps to move past.

But as he passed by the alley, his peripheral vision involuntarily swept across it.

There, between the gaps in the stances of the three strong men, was a pair of black and white, intensely hateful eyes, fixated on the three men without so much as blinking.

Although they weren’t aimed at Li Chengyi, he saw them.

The hatred seeping from those eyes chilled even a bystander like him to the core.

Cold, bloodshot, congealed, immobile.

The eyes were like a sculpture, unwaveringly focused on the three men and leaving a profound impression on Li Chengyi.

Although it was just a fleeting moment.

After passing the alley entrance, he continued walking more than ten meters ahead, unable to forget those distinctively black and white eyes.

“The owner of those eyes must have gone through unimaginable hardships to become like that…” Li Chengyi mused.

He stepped over a small puddle and continued down the slope, and as he neared the bottom, he couldn’t help but look back at the alley once more.

With a regretful sigh, Li Chengyi turned forward and still hastened away.

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Zheng Qingrong tried to curl up, enduring the punches and kicks from the three people around her.

Rubber batons fell on her one after another, the pain in her skin and flesh piercing through to her bones and inescapable even through her clothes.

Yet, as intense as the pain was, it paled in comparison to the agony at the bottom of her heart.

Her sister was dead.

After being gang-raped, she was strangled to death and set to be sent directly to the incinerator; if it weren’t for a classmate from that side who discreetly tipped her off, she wouldn’t even have been able to see her sister for the last time.

After seeing her sister, she broke down on the spot and went to confront her sister’s classmates from last night’s birthday party. But on her way, she heard the devastating news that her parents had died in a gas explosion.

Before she could recover, on her way to her family’s home, a group of people ambushed her, knocked her to the ground, and beat her so badly she couldn’t speak; she could only flee in a panic.

If it weren’t for that classmate’s covert warning, she might not even have known why she was being beaten.

Tie Feng Group, the birthday party her sister attended, was hosted by Zheng Jiayu, the prince of Tie Feng Group.

According to the classmate’s hint, her sister’s death, her own beating, and her parents’ accident might all be linked to Tie Feng Group.

Sharing the same surname, Zheng Jiayu’s father, Zheng Kai, is a prominent figure in Suiyang, a business elite whose Tie Feng Group dominates one-third of the entire Suiyang City’s sports equipment market.

Such a force was far beyond comparison to ordinary families like hers.

If it was them, then everything that had happened before made sense…

Zheng Qingrong lay on her side, the damp, cold ground providing some relief from the pain in her body.

“What should we do? Should we take her back first?” she heard someone nearby ask.

“The captain said find a way to deal with her directly. There are too many surveillance cameras in the city. You come over with the car later, and we’ll take her out of the city and dump her in a river.”

“Turn on the signal jammer to avoid being filmed by mobile phones. You two, be quick about it.”

“Yes, yes…”

The voices gradually faded away, growing weaker and softer.

Zheng Qingrong slowly felt dizzy and her consciousness began to blur.

Before she knew it, she couldn’t hear anything, and her vision plunged into darkness.

Shortly after she passed out, three strong men from Tie Feng Group were about to lift her up, put her in a car, and head out of the city to the suburbs to dispose of her completely.

They had just stuffed her into a sack and were ready to carry her away when they turned around and suddenly saw a dark figure, a strange man with his head lowered so that his face could not be seen, standing at the entrance of the alley.

The three men were startled, not expecting someone to suddenly appear so close to them.

The alley was so small, yet despite being three men, they hadn’t noticed him coming.

The situation was somewhat eerie.

“Who are you?!” The leader of the strong men took a wary step forward, staring at the man.

“We’re from a private company collecting gambling debts. Don’t meddle in affairs that aren’t your business!”

This was their standard cover story.

“I just heard you say you’re going to throw her in the river?” the man slowly raised his head, his voice low.

The three men were about to reply, but when they saw the man’s face, they all involuntarily took a step back.

The man wasn’t showing his face at all, but wore a mask intricately crafted from purple-black metal!

The mask was covered with delicate wisteria flower patterns.

“Friend, this has nothing to do with you. There’s no need to involve yourself and get dragged into this mess. Wouldn’t you be more comfortable going home, taking a nice shower, drinking a glass of milk, and watching a movie?” The leader’s tone was anxious, and he began to have ominous premonitions.

“Yet, I think, taking you down will take less time than drinking a glass of milk.”

Li Chengyi slowly moved closer.

“Of course, if you can tell me some inside information, I might consider going easy on you.”

The three men exchanged glances, quickly signaling with their eyes and began to slowly retreat.

If they were just some inexperienced toughs, it would be one thing; many things they’d never seen and hence wouldn’t know how strong or formidable they were.

But they were different; often inside the Tie Feng Group, they had seen things similar to the person before them, which is why they could judge the situation and not resist futilely.

Soon, three dull thuds resounded in the alley.

The three men from the Tie Feng Group stumbled, cradling their broken arms, and hurriedly fled the alley, jumping into a black van and speeding away.

Li Chengyi also helped Zheng Qingrong up and quickly left the alley, hailing a taxi to the suburbs.

There were too many surveillance cameras in the city, making any action inconvenient, but it was different in the suburbs outside the city.

Shortly after he left, a passerby quietly came into the alley from the entrance, glanced at the signs on the ground, and then left without a change in expression.

More than a hundred meters away from the alley, the passerby finally lowered his head and adjusted the button communicator on his collar.

“Boss, the three men you led here are gone, and Zheng Qingrong is also not here. She must have been taken away by Li Chengyi,” he reported.

“Good job. Have someone else watch the scene and see how the Zheng family reacts. By the way, did that kid not call the police?” Xu Zhongsheng’s voice came through the earpiece.

“No.”

“Interesting. It seems he is also someone with ideas. Just uncertain if Xindela knows about this.” There was a hint of amusement in Xu Zhongsheng’s voice.

“What should we do next?” the passerby asked, his voice low.

“The baiting plan is complete. You can come back now. These Blind Spot Individuals are people who could face death at any moment, capable of doing anything. In any case, from now on, it’s dog eat dog; whatever happens has nothing to do with us. Come back and enjoy the show,” Xu Zhongsheng said with a laugh.

“Understood.”

The passerby adjusted his hat, opened his umbrella like any other commuter, and quickly blended into the crowd, disappearing from sight.