Blind Spot-Chapter 60 - 058 Virtual and Real 2

Chapter 60: 058 Virtual and Real 2

Chapter 60: 058 Virtual and Real 2

Li Chengyi had just taken care of one masked figure when he immediately heard the sound of sharp whistles rapidly approaching.

The sound came from all directions.

From the entrances and exits of all the shops, one after another, black silhouettes continuously flew towards him.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!!

A series of fierce impacts kept slamming hard against Li Chengyi’s body.

But to no avail.

The defense of the Wisteria Flowers was already stronger than that of the Gladiolus, and with the addition of the Floral Firm, Li Chengyi not only felt nothing, but he also had free hands to condense blades, swinging them wildly at his surroundings one after another.

With the sound of puffs continuously ringing out, one Black-Masked Weirdo after another was chopped into a pile of robes by him.

After more than thirty consecutive sharp whistles, the whistling finally stopped at last.

From the shadows inside Wu’s Grocery Store, behind the slot machine, slowly walked out a cloaked person with a Black Mask, standing over two meters tall.

This cloaked person was dressed the same as the other weirdos, the only difference being much taller than them.

The other weirdos were about one meter seventy or eighty, but this one had reached two meters fifty or even more.

From its tall and slender body, two sharp, serpent-shaped daggers hung from the wide sleeves.

The tips of the daggers even flickered with faint electric arcs.

“So an elite has shown up?” Li Chengyi let out a breath, and with a clap of his hands, the two blades merged into one larger, longer, and thicker golden greatsword. He quickly walked towards the tall cloaked person.

No technique,

just pure strength.

Whoosh!

A dull sound.

Li Chengyi swung his sword fiercely at the opponent.

The sword, nearly two meters long, clearly had the advantage over the tiny daggers that were just a few centimeters.

This diagonal slash collided with the two daggers thrust out by the cloaked person.

The shock of the impact made Li Chengyi’s body tremble slightly. Then the daggers broke, and the greatsword slashed down effortlessly.

The entire cloaked figure was cut from shoulder to waist into two pieces by a single sword strike.

Hiss…

It twisted and skewed, emitting a large amount of black smoke from within its body, and in the blink of an eye, it fell to the ground, turning into a pile of clothes.

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‘Not as strong as that Bald Head Reinforced Human,’ Li Chengyi sheathed his sword and evaluated.

This monster was not fast, and its strength was even weaker than that of the Bald Head. In reality, it wasn’t much of a threat.

But on second thought, if it were someone entering the Blind Spot for the first time and they encountered this guy, it’d probably be a deadly start for them.

This cloaked person was at least as strong as the third encounter with the big-faced monster, if not stronger.

In fact, it was even more powerful in terms of strength.

He only thought it was no big deal because he had become much stronger now, and the Floral Dress had greatly enhanced his speed, strength, and defense.

That’s the only reason he had the right to make such an assessment.

Hiss…

As the cloaked person emitted a large amount of black smoke from within, everything around started to distort.

Li Chengyi quickly realized that he was about to exit the memory flash.

He immediately deactivated the Floral Dress and stood still, quietly waiting.

In an instant, a flash.

Everything before his eyes seemed to glitch momentarily, jumping suddenly from one scene to another.

The speed was so fast that even Li Chengyi, with eyes wide open, couldn’t make out what had happened.

Coming back to his senses,

he was still standing in the passageway in front of the shops on the right side of the old street.

On the right was a row of closed storefronts, while a red sedan was slowly passing by on the left.

A black fly buzzed near, circled around his face, and then flew away into the distance.

The wind carried the stench from a nearby trash can over.

“Where did everyone go!?” Li Chengyi quickly gathered his wits and looked ahead.

Where was that little fatty?

He needed him to find the real-world prototype of Mist Street.

Unfortunately, there was no sign of the little fatty ahead, and Li Chengyi ran a distance forward until he reached a corner, scanning left and right, but the boy was nowhere to be seen on the street.

‘How long have I been in there?’ Li Chengyi pressed his AR glasses to confirm the recording time, but the AR had completely frozen.

Any electronic device entering the Blind Spot would experience various malfunctions or failures, and this was not the first time.

Therefore, a very small number of Reinforced Humans and Mecha Engineers encountered various problems when entering the Blind Spot.

The most classic example was the son of the boss Xindela—Lien.

After looking around for a while, Li Chengyi found nothing extra and thought about it before retracing his steps. In front of a hair salon along the road, he saw an old man sitting and enjoying the breeze.

“Excuse me, sir, did you just see a chubby boy run past here?” Li Chengyi naturally took out a hundred-yuan bill from his wallet and placed it in the old man’s hand.

“Chubby boy?” The old man wore a military green peaked cap and wrinkled old clothes, appeared sleepy, rubbed the sleep from his eyes, and still seemed groggy.

“Yes, a fatty whose eyes and mouth look like three lines,” nodded Li Chengyi.

“Nope, I haven’t seen anyone. Just now, I saw you running and shouting all the way, but I didn’t see anyone else pass by,” the old man said lazily, pocketing the money.

“You haven’t seen him?” Li Chengyi was slightly displeased. The man took the money but didn’t help out; that wasn’t very kind.

“Really, you were just now talking to a pillar, cursing and gesturing. I thought you were recording a video. You know, with internet celebrities nowadays, there’s all kinds of videos,” the old man chuckled.

“Alone?” Li Chengyi frowned. He had clearly been chasing someone from the pastry shop all the way here. How could he be alone?

“Old man, are you sure you saw it right? I just saw a little fatty stealing from the pastry shop, and that’s why I chased after him….”

“What are you talking about? A pastry shop? Where is there a pastry shop within five kilometers of here?” the old man blinked, completely baffled.

“No pastry shop? But it’s right over there,” Li Chengyi stood up hastily and walked to the corner, pointing in the direction of the Zhou’s Pastries he had seen before.

“!!??”

But that single pointing gesture left him stunned.

The spot where Zhou’s Pastries had been was now nothing but a wall.

It was an old grey wall that had obviously been sealed off for who knows how long, with a lot of messy slogans smeared on it in red paint.

‘More births, better births, blessings for a lifetime.’

‘The national birth incentive tripled, eighty percent of medical care free…’

‘Life offers many joys, but fire safety is paramount.’

‘No need to fear infertility; Ansheng genes protect the whole family.’

Old slogans that were clearly from a long time ago; many had blurred.

Atop the wall hung a broken solar light, adorned with a slender red ribbon.

The ribbon, weathered by wind and sun, had faded to a pale red.

“There used to be… a Zhou’s Pastries here,” Li Chengyi said blankly, standing in front of the wall.

“See? There’s no such thing as Zhou’s here….” The old man, hands behind his back, sauntered up from behind.

Upon seeing this scene, he shook his head in sympathy, looking at Li Chengyi with a pitiful gaze.

“But before….” Li Chengyi pressed the AR glasses button, as AR glasses usually have an automatic replay recording function.

But it was no use.

The AR had no record at all by now; even all previous records turned into nothing but static.

The old man patted Li Chengyi on the shoulder and ambled away, his long sigh still audible now and then.

“That’s a serious illness…”

Li Chengyi remained silent, carefully recalling the incident with the little fatty.

He quickly pressed the AR command key.

“Contact the boss.”

“Okay, please hold on,” the AR responded.

But after more than ten seconds passed, the connection was still not through; only a constantly rotating white point flickered in his field of view, signifying waiting for contact.

“Seems like it’s broken,” Li Chengyi removed the glasses. His recent scuffle with the Black-Masked Weirdos in Mist Street might have damaged the AR glasses.

He decided to walk towards the location where the others had split up, while reaching for his cellphone in his pocket.

Thankfully, the phone was working.

Upon dialing the number, Xindela soon picked up on the other end.

“What’s up, Xiao Yi?”

“Boss, I’ve encountered a bit of trouble,” Li Chengyi quickly recounted his recent experiences.

Of course, he omitted the part about his skirmish after entering Mist Street.

After listening to everything, Xindela soberly pondered for a moment.

“Remembering the specific name, appearance, and the layout of the shop, we can draft a profile. I’ll search for data around here. Just wait a moment.”

“Okay!” Li Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief. He was now unsure about everything he had just seen, whether it was real or fake.

Having Xindela’s help to confirm it couldn’t be more ideal.

Li Chengyi stood waiting for a while, and soon a black luxury SUV slowly approached and stopped beside him.

The vehicle’s door slid open, revealing Xindela and Zhong Ying sitting inside.

“Get in,” Xindela said with a solemn face. “I’ve found out something. Let’s talk in the car.”

Li Chengyi quickly got in, sitting down with the two of them in the back row.

The back row of the Mist Banner Vehicle was spacious enough for four people to sit facing each other.

After getting into the vehicle, Li Chengyi noticed the side window swiftly darken, then a clear light screen emerged in the middle.

The car window had instantly transformed into a large screen.

“Regarding the details you just described, I had the company AI quickly search, and it came up with an interesting situation,” said Xindela somberly.

“What situation?” Li Chengyi’s heart tensed slightly, eager to find out what he had just encountered—was it a memory flash, or something else?

“That little fatty you described is hard to pin down since there are so many people, and I haven’t found a match yet. But the position of that wall, a hundred years ago there indeed was a Zhou’s Pastries there, and the layout is almost exactly as you described,” Xindela stated gravely.

“Again, a hundred years ago?!” Li Chengyi’s heart sank. “Then why did I suddenly see a pastry shop from over a hundred years ago? What does it have to do with Blind Spots?”

“I don’t know. But… you most likely did enter a memory flash of a Blind Spot. I suspect there is another Blind Spot in the vicinity, different from Mist Street, which is why you stumbled into it,” Xindela explained.

“Another Blind Spot?” Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes in thought. Indeed, that possibility couldn’t be excluded.

But why? Why would two Blind Spots be so close together? Why did he encounter one, and then immediately stumble upon Mist Street?

“Blind Spots also have depth and layers. Did you know that?” Xindela said.