Blind Spot-Chapter 99 - 091 Hope 1

Chapter 99: 091 Hope 1

Chapter 99: 091 Hope 1

The piercing cold awoke Li Chengyi from his slumber.

Groggily struggling from his dreams, he opened his eyes.

He was still inside the car.

The taxi continued to move forward slowly, its speed was very slow.

But the female driver had disappeared, and the electronic screen by the steering wheel displayed the words “automatic driving.”

“Where is she?”

Li Chengyi rubbed his somewhat painful temples, feeling like he might have caught a cold.

Having been overly tense for some time and without any proper rest, even his body, enhanced by the Floral Dress, began showing signs of poor health.

Now he had a slight headache, and his throat felt itchy and dry, clearly a precursor for a cold.

“Where is this?” Li Chengyi looked left and right outside the car window, noticing only darkness outside.

Only the car headlights cast two trails on the white road ahead.

The side windows revealed nothing but pitch-black darkness.

The driver was gone, the car still moving, him as its lone passenger.

This particular situation made Li Chengyi’s sharp instincts sink.

He reached for his phone.

The signal read zero, no service.

‘Damn it… another Blind Spot! A new omen of a Blind Spot!!’ Li Chengyi’s heart felt hairy.

He hadn’t even gotten past the Silent Store’s Blind Spot, and now here was this nonsense in a taxi.

When would it ever end?

He just wanted a quiet life to get some rest, and even that was apparently too much to ask for!

He suddenly understood why so many couldn’t last very long, why many Blind Spot Individuals became more and more psychologically unstable over time.

There was a reason for it, as it turned out.

Once entangled by a Blind Spot, whatever you did, you might enter a Blind Spot at any moment.

Though it was only a harbinger, it was still life-threatening.

Your nerves would always be on edge because you never knew when you might go in.

Like him now, just dozing off in the car and entering a new Blind Spot.

‘… I need to get a handle on the situation first. Can the car be stopped, or the door opened?’

He reached to the front driver’s seat and pulled at the steering wheel, but it was useless.

The entire steering wheel was as if welded in place, completely immobile.

What’s more, all the other buttons and keys could not be pressed at all, as if they were just decorative paintings.

‘I knew it.’

Li Chengyi exhaled and then tried to open the car door.

The result was the same.

The door wouldn’t budge.

Whoosh.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a white shadow flashing past the window out of the corner of his eye.

‘What was that?’ He quickly looked up, staring at the right-side window.

But outside was only the relentless passing darkness, with indistinct shapes swiftly slipping through it.

These shapes, like waves of the sea, twisted, changed, and undulated, periodically visible and then invisible.

To get a clearer view, Li Chengyi pressed his eyes closer to the window, trying to discern what was outside.

Suddenly, he saw the reflection of the inside of the car in the window glass.

In the reflection on the glass, in the back seat beside him.

Sat a vague woman with long hair, pitch-black.

She was sitting right next to him, her pale face facing the window, facing him, her eyes like black holes, serenely watching him.

Li Chengyi jerked his head to look beside him.

He was seated on the right of the back row.

In the reflection, the woman was sitting on the left of the back row.

The two of them should have been sitting snugly together.

But when he turned his head, he saw nothing.

The car was silent.

On the old leather seat lay a small red flower cushion knitted from wool.

There was no one there.

Li Chengyi’s heart turned cold, and he looked back at the window again.

In the reflection on the window, the woman had disappeared.

Huff…!

He took a long breath.

A moment ago, he had almost donned the Floral Dress.

Whoosh.

Suddenly, the car shot out of the darkness, as if bursting from a long tunnel into the bright sunlight.

“You’re awake? We’ll be arriving at your destination soon,” an elderly female voice entered his ears.

The intense contrast between light and dark momentarily blurred Li Chengyi’s vision.

When it returned to normal, the interior of the taxi looked different.

The female driver, who had disappeared just a moment ago, was still sitting in the driver’s seat, driving the car smoothly.

The electronic screen no longer showed the automatic driving indicator.

Outside the window were lush green fields and a white road, and he saw a white flying car unfolding its wings, retracting its wheels, and taking off towards the distance.

“Did I fall asleep?” Li Chengyi’s heart relaxed.

He had realized by then that he must have exited the omen.

Blind Spot omens were generally short-lived, and you might leave them at any moment, with very few lasting longer.

It was normal for him to have gotten out so quickly.

“Yes, you’ve been asleep for a while,” the driver auntie replied. “Work’s really tiring, huh? My son is just like you. Comes home every day looking exhausted, snores as soon as he hits the bed. Young people nowadays seem to be more worn out than us old folks.”

“Isn’t that the truth,” Li Chengyi forced a smile in agreement – his Blind Spot experiences were far more terrifying than any job.

The car was also starting to slow down.

“We’re almost there. I’ve already issued the fare for you. Make sure to pay before you get out,” the driver auntie reminded him. “It’s a company policy.”

“Understood,” Li Chengyi nodded, took out his phone to scan the QR code on the back of the driver’s seat, and clicked to make the payment.

Ding.

The crisp sound of a successful payment echoed.

The car had come to a complete stop.

“All paid up.”

“Good, make sure you don’t leave anything behind,” the kind driver reminded.

“Got it.”

Li Chengyi had slept for a while and emerged from the Blind Spot premonition feeling much more spirited and in a much better mood.

On top of that, he would soon be able to absorb the mutated aroma of flowers, and he had a good chance of completing the second evolution of the Wisteria Flowers, which filled him with a vague sense of anticipation.

He pushed the car door open, stepped out, and his feet touched the ground.

Thud.

The car door closed, and specks of snowflakes caused by bad blood circulation fluttered before his eyes.

Li Chengyi rubbed his eyes and looked up again.

“…..!!?”

In that brief moment as he lifted his head.

Everything around him turned black.

In front of him, a small and bright convenience store stood still and quiet.

Ding-dong.

The glass door seemed to sense his arrival and opened automatically.

Li Chengyi stood still, feeling as if something was clogging his heart, terribly uncomfortable.

Right at the entrance of the botanical garden, he was just a step away from being pulled into the Silent Store again.

He turned back to look behind him.

Darkness lay behind, with nothing visible, as if there was nothing there, yet as if countless black entities lurked, rolling and surging, ready to burst out of the darkness and rush towards him at any moment.

Just by looking, Li Chengyi felt a chill crawl all over him.

Ever since his sensation had been enhanced by the Floral Dress, he had come to trust his senses completely.

The appearance of this feeling meant that the darkness outside the Silent Store likely hid dangers far greater than those inside.

He looked around and realized that he was standing right outside the glass door, on a small rectangular space atop some steps.

To either side of the space were the green belts planted by the store.

What Li Chengyi didn’t expect at the moment was that there were even a few scattered flowers in the green belt!

Flowers!?

Seeing the flowers, he immediately felt energized and spirited.

The goods inside the Silent Store were peculiar, so what kind of Flower Language might the flowers planted at the door possess?

A flicker of expectation rose in Li Chengyi’s heart.

For others, the Blind Spot might pose far greater danger than opportunity.

But for him, the opportunities in a Blind Spot were almost on a par with the dangers.

In the strange and dangerous Blind Spot, the flowers he encountered might have some unimaginably unique Flower Language Abilities.

This was what excited Li Chengyi the most.

Pushing the thoughts aside, he looked at the store in front and didn’t go in; instead, he slowly took a step backward.

But after just one step, a spine-chilling coldness instantly touched his skin, spreading from the heels of his feet.

It was as if the farther he moved away from the Silent Store, the more likely he was to encounter some kind of danger.

Li Chengyi stopped moving.

He looked around again.

All was silent, the darkness covered everything like a tide, with only the light from the Silent Store serving as the sole source of illumination.

Holding his breath, he turned with determination and took another step towards the green belt.

He chose the green belt on the left, where a few purple flowers bloomed.

Black-green, seaweed-like leaves clustered around the small flowers, making them stand out even more strikingly.

In a dark void devoid of any signs of life, the presence of such a vibrant and beautiful flower was bizarre.

Gradually, Li Chengyi approached the green belt.

By now, his feet began to stiffen, a bone-chilling cold creeping up his legs.

‘Flower Language Technique: Radiance Field.’

A thought crossed his mind, and a layer of invisible light, unseen to the naked eye, slowly radiated from his body, covering a perimeter of several centimeters around him like ripples on the water.

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The warmth was like a breeze, quickly dispelling the chill on his legs.

Moreover, Li Chengyi distinctly felt a tingly and itchy sensation in many parts of his body.

He surmised that the Radiance Field was healing some hidden maladies and injuries in his body.

This feeling gave him a sense of security.

He could feel an intangible, solid layer in the air around him, isolating him from everything outside.

That layer was warm and reassuring.

Standing in front of the green belt,

he bent down to carefully examine the small flowers within.

The green belt was half as tall as a person, enclosed by gray-white patterned stones.

The center was filled with rich black soil peppered with small, multicolored pebbles.

The flowers grew amongst these pebbles, radiant as if crystal, reflecting the store’s light.

There were three flowers in total, spread over a meter-wide green belt.

The flowers looked like chrysanthemums, with many slender petals like purple needles densely protecting the slightly white center.

Li Chengyi took a deep breath and gently extended his hand to touch the needle-like petals.

Instantly, a stream of cool flower essence flowed into his fingertips.

‘Feilian (Contaminated): Perennial plant, often found on hillsides, grasslands, valleys, and fields next to water. Known for dispelling wind, promoting diuresis, activating blood to reduce swelling, cooling blood to stop bleeding. Effects of contaminated plants might deviate; testing is required for confirmation.’

‘Flower Language: Inferior Shadow Dragon Bloodline (some unknown individual’s carried scent has tainted this special flower, causing a mutation).’

‘Floral Dress Collection Rate: 0%, Evolution Opportunities: 5.’

Li Chengyi’s heart pounded.

Inferior Shadow Dragon Bloodline!? Even if inferior, it’s still a dragon’s!

He didn’t know what this Shadow Dragon entity was, but he had almost never seen Flower Language have negative effects, so this bloodline was definitely much safer than the so-called Blood Exchange Bottle!

His breathing became suddenly rapid.

Unlike the Flower Language of the mountain flower suspected to be a high-grade martial arts technique,

this Blind Spot, this Silent Store, was judged based on Professor Zhong Hui’s handwriting to belong to a permanent existence type!

That meant, as long as he stayed here, he could eventually acquire this mysterious Flower Language!

This was completely different from the uncertainty with the mountain flower!

This was a Flower Language he would get for sure, given enough time!