Evergreen Botanical Garden.

Li Cheng頤's eyes flickered with countless snowflakes. As his vision gradually cleared, the white dots became sparser, fewer, and finally disappeared completely.

"I'm out!"

He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Iserin?" he asked tentatively.

No one answered.

Things or people within the blind spot seemed to have different degrees of limitations in reality.

This was the case with the goods in the silent little shop; ordinary people simply couldn't see them.

Now, Iserin seemed to be the same.

Exhaling, Li Cheng頤 quickly raised his hand and looked at the time on his phone.

Fortunately, after the phone connected to the network and automatically corrected the time, only twenty minutes had passed.

'Such a short time, nothing should have happened.'

His worry was that if he stayed inside for too long, and then Rainbow Candy and the others happened to run into trouble when he came out, that would be a problem.

Straightening his clothes, he walked out of the bedroom and headed downstairs.

Having just descended one floor, he saw Da Hei, Da Xiong, Xiao Zong, and others rushing up to meet him in a hurry.

"Brother Cheng!? Da Xiong said you didn't go in! The phone signal was also cut off. Did you enter another blind spot!?" Da Hei's beard was still stained with white milk, clearly indicating he'd just been eating when he heard the news.

He hadn't even had time to wipe his beard before rushing over.

He and his younger brother had originally thought that if Brother Cheng went in to help, they could relax a bit, so they went to drink some milk. As a result, they ran into Da Xiong who had suddenly reappeared.

From Da Xiong, they learned that they hadn't encountered Brother Cheng at all, and they immediately understood the urgency of the situation.

Just then, Li Cheng頤's phone signal reconnected.

Immediately, everyone rushed toward the stairs.

"I entered another blind spot. What about you guys?" Li Cheng頤 frowned, looking at their anxious expressions, and immediately thought of something.

"Could it be!?"

"Sister Candy went in!" Da Xiong said urgently. At this moment, she was completely devoid of her usual gentleness and quietness, replaced by a serious expression tinged with anxiety.

"We encountered monsters inside and were trying to figure out how to deal with them. Then my time ran out, and I reappeared. Now, everyone else is trying to reappear, but they can't get in!"

Reappearing was a matter of probability, and generally, the probability for blind spot people wasn't very high.

Although it was possible to enter by accumulating time, not being able to enter at a critical moment, and waiting until later, was like waiting for the flowers to wither. Meaningless.

"Rainbow Candy went in? How long ago!?" Li Cheng頤 quickly realized the severity of the situation.

"About twenty minutes ago, at the same time as Brother Cheng. We thought you guys had entered the same blind spot, but now it seems..."

"Prepare immediately." Li Cheng頤 quickly went downstairs, passing between the group.

As he moved, his powerful physique was on full display, descending a floor every few steps, quickly reaching the lobby on the ground floor.

Arriving at the place where Rainbow Candy had been playing games, he surveyed the surroundings.

He closed his eyes.

'Entering a blind spot has certain rules.'

'Almost every entry is definitely between intentionally and unintentionally, when you are not conscious.'

'For example, when entering or exiting a door, when casually strolling around, or when your attention is elsewhere.'

'According to the boss's summarized data on the characteristics of entering and exiting blind spots, one of them is the need to put your consciousness in a state of wandering and diffusion. A diffused state makes it easier to touch and perceive the location of the blind spot, thereby being drawn to it.'

Li Cheng頤 closed his eyes, his mind flashing with analysis of how to reappear faster.

"Da Hei, where's the high-temperature flamethrower we prepared?" he said in a deep voice.

"It's all here." A heavy burlap sack was thrust into his hands.

"And the downstairs machine we prepared earlier, and a large number of disposable light-emitting devices. More than two thousand in total, definitely enough." Xiao Zong's voice came.

"Good, now, everyone be quiet!" Li Cheng頤 grabbed the sack, sat down on the spot, in the seat next to where Rainbow Candy had been sitting.

He began to deliberately diffuse his thoughts, thinking about other miscellaneous things.

For example, how to transfer his account funds to his family to improve their living conditions, and whether something had happened because the boss, Syndra, hadn't made any progress in investigating that blue book for so long.

And that old man he met in Utopia last time, who gave him an invitation and then never responded. This mysterious terrorist organization was intertwined with the blind spots, and he didn't know what actions they would take in the future.

As one thing after another came to mind, he suddenly realized that he had quite a few troubles to solve.

Li Cheng頤 kept thinking, constantly diffusing his thoughts, quietly sitting on the sofa, like a statue with closed eyes.

He was waiting.

Suddenly, a wisp of warm air slowly blew across his face.

"It's here!!"

Li Cheng頤's eyes snapped open.

Before him was no longer the lobby, but a dark, shadowy, enclosed stairwell!

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Bang!

Rainbow Candy rolled to the side, tumbling on the ground to escape a few circles, narrowly avoiding a pale hand that suddenly reached out from behind.

Her heart pounded, but her expression remained exceptionally steady.

Glancing at the black figure that had attacked, she quickly got to her feet and ran wildly up the stairs.

Da-da-da-da.

Muffled footsteps, like drumbeats, quickly echoed throughout the stairwell.

The other party was coming from downstairs, so she could only choose to go up. Otherwise, if another monster appeared downstairs, in this narrow space, that would be—

"!!?" Suddenly, Rainbow Candy's almond eyes widened as she looked at the gray wooden door that reappeared ahead.

"A moving door!?" She suddenly remembered the mysterious object that her equipment had sensed rapidly approaching from upstairs.

"Could this thing be coming from upstairs!?"

The gray wooden door was located at the turn of the stairwell, on the left wall, just like a normal fire exit in a stairwell.

Only then did Rainbow Candy notice that there was a red light shining above the wooden door.

Above it was written: Safe Entrance and Exit.

The blood-like red light emitted a strong sense of oppression and ominousness in the dark stairwell.

'Safe my ass! Does she think I'm a pushover!?' Rainbow Candy's face darkened as she pulled out a silver circular remote control from one of her pockets.

She pressed it hard.

Buzz!

A black flying fish-shaped micro-drone shot out from one of her pockets and slammed into the wooden door.

She skillfully rolled again, picked up the shielding device she'd used earlier, unfolded it, and huddled herself in the corner of the wall.

Boom!!

After a loud roar.

The fiery flames and red light flashed, and thick smoke and dust billowed.

Rainbow Candy removed the shielding device, her face now sporting a simple gas mask.

Her hands were also wearing black gloves that were heat-resistant and puncture-resistant.

She put away the shielding device.

She looked at the wooden door again.

A large hole had been blown out of it.

Da-da-da-da

Suddenly, from deep inside the wooden door, there was a faint sound of hurried footsteps rapidly approaching from the darkness.

Rainbow Candy's heart went cold, and knowing things were bad, she quickly pressed the two buttons on the side of her shoes.

Stepped down hard.

Bang!

She was flung into the air, like a spring, leaping over eight steps in one go, then turning a corner, and leaping up again.

These were super-elastic shoes, which she had long been trained to use skillfully.

Being able to survive so many times in blind spots, she was naturally not one of those garbage wastes who only relied on high technology.

She also had her own real skills.

In the blink of an eye, the gray wooden door was left behind her.

And that black figure with disheveled hair couldn't keep up.

Rainbow Candy jumped up a level at a time, rushing upstairs.

"At this rate, she definitely won't catch up!" She relaxed slightly.

"Ooh..."

"Heh heh..."

Suddenly, she faintly heard the sound of a woman vomiting and gasping ahead.

The sound was very intense, with a terrified inflection and sobbing.

Rainbow Candy's face became solemn, and she pressed the button on her shoes, stopping the powerful jumping mode.

She stood in the stairwell, turned off the lighting on her watch with a snap, and then took out a small object from a small bag.

She pressed the object against her chest.

Hiss.

Under the subtle sound.

The object was like liquid sludge, covering her body surface, and then quickly spreading to her entire body.

It was like a thin film, completely covering Rainbow Candy's body surface, including her clothes.

Rainbow Candy took two steps back, stuck close to the wall, and stood still.

Soon, the layer of film covering her turned color, mimicking, and transforming into the same wall color as the surrounding area.

A second later.

Breathing was shut off, switched to oxygen supplied by the mask.

Two seconds later.

Heartbeat isolation, covered with thick insulation material, and minimizing the transmission of heartbeat sounds as much as possible.

Three seconds later.

Body temperature isolation.

Covered with insulation material, preventing any trace of temperature from being transmitted to the outside world, to avoid being detected by infrared scanning.

Finally, there was the body's bio-electromagnetic field cancellation, the film would isolate and negate the human body's weak bio-electromagnetic field, to prevent it from being sensed by electromagnetic scanning devices.

Rainbow Candy quietly stuck to the wall, her entire back also covered by the film.

The film had strong corrosive properties to the wall, and was slowly embedding her whole body into the wall.

This was her last life-saving artifact - the Weibang Energy Multi-Environment Adaptable Life Suit.

This was a special protection device formed by combining biological technology and mechanical technology.

It could briefly provide a completely hidden environment sufficient to survive for three hours in extreme environments.

And because it was mainly based on biological technology, the failure rate in blind spots was also very low.

But it could only last for three hours, and it was also a one-time use item, not recyclable.

Da, da, da, da...

At this time, on the steps downstairs, a series of clear footsteps gradually came.

In the darkness, under the residual glow of some silver spiders.

A black figure, with disheveled long hair, walked up from downstairs at a steady pace.

She lowered her head, wearing a black and gray long dress, unable to see her face clearly.

Step, step.

The figure quickly stepped onto the stairs, reaching the turn.

The turn was also where Rainbow Candy was hiding against the wall.

Whoosh.

Fortunately, the black figure didn't notice, nor did she stop, and simply turned a corner, passed by Rainbow Candy, and walked upstairs again.

She didn't stop, as if mechanical, taking one step after another, steadily moving upwards, and then disappeared around the corner above.

Rainbow Candy breathed a long sigh of relief. Through the film, she could see what was happening outside.

This world's top technology product naturally had an imaging function.

The function was linked to her mask, allowing her to see all the images outside.

The image was a fan shape, like a ginkgo leaf, able to see a hundred and twenty degrees of vision.

This already encompassed the entire direction of the stairwell.

Seeing the black figure going up and leaving.

Her wildly beating heart slowly slowed down.

'It's a technology-invalid blind spot again! Crap! What a waste of more than ten million of my money!!' She was irritated, but helpless.

What was even more annoying was that this blind spot countered her, and she was the only one who entered.

Without anyone else to die in her place, to buy her time, she didn't even have enough time to investigate the prototype.

(End of Chapter)