Blind Spot-Chapter 84 - 077 Wonders Three (Alliance Hierarch Xie 113)
Chapter 84: 077 Wonders Three (Alliance Hierarch Xie, 1+1=3)
Chapter 84: 077 Wonders Three (Alliance Hierarch Xie, 1+1=3)
Li Chengyi stood in front of the counter, his nerves stretched to the breaking point.
His senses were constantly alert to every movement around him.
The fluorescent tubes emitted a faint hum of electricity.
A subtle scent of cardboard drifted through the air.
In his hands, he held the Golden Sword in one and in the other, the Magnum Pistol he had confiscated earlier from Meng Dongdong.
There was no movement.
Li Chengyi stood still, detecting no sign of activity.
‘What does this sentence mean?’ he wondered.
He tried to slow his breathing, his gaze sweeping over several spots he deemed dangerous.
One was the slightly ajar door behind the counter.
Another was the glass door leading in and out of the small store.
Finally, there were the shelves on his left.
Underneath his helmet, Li Chengyi’s eyes rapidly scanned every corner and detail.
The tobacco and alcohol display behind the counter.
The blue plastic waste bin at the doorway.
The cash register computer screen, pitch black.
There was no response.
‘Ten minutes… What exactly does it mean?’ he questioned.
Click.
Click.
Click.
Suddenly, a faint sound of footsteps drifted from between the shelves.
The sounds were not loud, even weak.
But to Li Chengyi, who was highly concentrated, they were as clear as the sole source of light in darkness.
He turned his head to the left, his eyes focusing sharply in that direction.
At the bottom crevice of the farthest refrigerated shelf, a pair of human feet were slowly being revealed.
They were pale, dirty, marred with wounds and cracks.
From Li Chengyi’s angle, he could only tell that the feet were of a child-sized proportion.
The shelves above obscured the rest of the body, giving only a vague glimpse of white clothing through the gaps between the hanging products.
The clothing was likewise dirty and tattered.
Li Chengyi stood still, not moving.
Every nerve in his mind was frantically sounding alarms.
Danger! Danger! Danger!!
A keen premonition surged through his brain again and again.
It was the instinct of his body wanting to flee, the urge to turn and leave fueled by fear.
But at this moment, he knew that turning to flee was the most foolish thing to do. It would mean completely abandoning any defense and evasive actions, exposing his most fatal vulnerabilities.
For a moment, he stared at the child behind the shelves.
The child, too, stood still, silently separated by the shelves, facing him, gazing at him.
Even though he couldn’t see the child’s face, Li Chengyi could feel very clearly that the child was watching him.
Time trickled away.
The second hand on the wall clock moved relentlessly, one tick after another.
After a full thirty seconds.
The child’s feet finally began to move.
He lifted his foot and quietly stepped out from behind the shelves.
Something eerie happened!
The child’s feet clearly walked out from behind the shelves right before Li Chengyi’s eyes.
But at the edge of the shelves, there was no sign of anyone to be seen.
After stepping out from behind the shelves, the feet just mysteriously disappeared.
It was as if they had walked into some other space.
Li Chengyi’s eyes were wide open; even though he was wearing the Gladiolus Floral Dress, he felt a chilling cold surge up, causing goosebumps all over, with cold sweat quickly oozing and trickling down his back and cheeks.
A few seconds later, there were no longer any feet visible in the crevices beneath the shelves.
It seemed the child had stepped out.
But from where Li Chengyi was standing, there was nothing on the empty space beside the shelf.
Not a human foot, nor even a footprint.
‘Where did it go!!?’ he questioned.
Li Chengyi’s entire body tensed up, his scalp tingled, hyper-alertly scanning his surroundings.
Thump!
Suddenly, he grunted and turned around.
Right in the middle of his back, a gash appeared from nowhere.
The gash cut through the Floral Dress and even the bulletproof vest beneath, creating a dark red wound on Li Chengyi’s skin.
Blood slowly seeped from the wound, bright red and stinging.
Bearing the pain, Li Chengyi swung his sword behind him.
But he found nothing.
There was nothing behind him, just an empty counter.
Hiss!
Another light noise and his left arm was slashed.
The Floral Dress, along with the bulletproof vest, were both cut open, and blood quickly dripped down his forearm.
This time he felt it; whatever had cut him was something cold, hard, and even somewhat smooth.
Without any hesitation.
He gripped the sword with both hands and spun around fiercely.
The two Golden Swords created a circular arc in an instant.
The razor-sharp blades swept through all 360 degrees around him in a second.
Considering that the opponent could be a child, Li Chengyi even tilted his cut slightly downward.
But it was to no avail.
The Golden Swords touched nothing, only producing a whistling sound as they cut through the air.
Thump.
Another drop of blood fell, and a cut appeared on Li Chengyi’s left leg, not deep, seemingly because the Gladiolus Floral Dress had absorbed most of the force.
Li Chengyi quickly realized that he seemed unable to fend off this unknown danger.
Without hesitation, he took a large stride, ignoring the wound on his leg, and rushed toward the depths of the supermarket.
‘If I can’t block it, then run first! Dodge!’
Li Chengyi’s body, now enhanced by the Floral Dress, coupled with his continuous training, had greatly improved.
Wearing the Floral Dress, even if it wasn’t the Wisteria Floral Dress with the maximum boost, still made him far superior to an ordinary person.
A distance of over three meters, he took one stride and rushed past, then darted between the shelves, crouching to conceal himself.
Crack, crack, crack…
Just then, he heard a series of footsteps behind him.
The sound drew closer rapidly, pursuing him swiftly.
A thought flashed through Li Chengyi’s mind; he ran to the corner, looked back through the gap under the shelves, and peeked behind him.
As expected.
He saw a pair of ghastly pale children’s feet following the path he had just taken, chasing in his direction.
‘Can I only see the other side through the shelves?’ Li Chengyi quickly concluded, his eyes fixated on those children’s feet, and as they neared, he immediately circled back in the opposite direction to create distance.
Crack, crack, crack…
The child’s footsteps hastened, but at best they matched the pace of an ordinary person and couldn’t catch up with Li Chengyi.
This gave him a slight sense of reassurance, knowing he had found a method.
‘Could it be that the so-called ten minutes is just about evading this thing’s pursuit, enduring for ten minutes?’
He dodged while considering the meaning of the words he had seen earlier.
Time ticked away slowly.
The seconds hand on the wall clock continuously moved, pushing the minute hand forward bit by bit.
As Li Chengyi was intently dodging the first pair of children’s feet.
Behind him, under another shelf, a new pair of children’s feet crept in slowly.
These feet were slightly smaller, equally filthy, skin deathly pale with scars and cracks like fragile porcelain, and some parts stained with an unidentified black ash.
Unlike the first pair of children’s feet, these were wearing pink little girl’s leather shoes, exposing the dorsum and ankles of the feet.
They moved silently, edging closer to Li Chengyi from behind without a sound.
At this moment, Li Chengyi, engrossed in his evasion, was oblivious to the new danger that had appeared behind him.
Slowly.
Slowly.
The second pair of children’s feet inched closer to Li Chengyi.
Five meters.
Three meters.
Two meters.
Li Chengyi seemed to sense something and glanced behind him.
Right at that moment, the girl’s feet suddenly lifted up, rising, and vanished into the gap beneath the shelves, out of sight.
Li Chengyi saw nothing and had to quickly revert his focus, continuing to monitor the first pair of children’s feet in front of him.
Just as he turned his gaze away, the little leather-shoed girl’s feet soundlessly touched down again on the floor.
After a brief pause, the girl’s feet continued to inch closer to Li Chengyi from behind.
Simultaneously, a pale, cracked, delicate little hand was stealthily reaching out from the shelf, clawing towards the back of Li Chengyi’s head.
Slowly, getting closer… and closer…
When it was only half a meter away,
Whoosh.
The hand suddenly accelerated and, dropping all pretense, viciously clawed towards the back of Li Chengyi’s head.
‘Die!!’ a roar erupted.
Li Chengyi spun around abruptly, unsheathed his sword, and hacked with all his might.
Whoo, whoo…!!!
Tremendous force accompanied by the swishing of the blade through the air emitted a shrill, whistling sound.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
In the light, his twin swords reflected a faint golden glint.
‘Flower Language Technique: Drunken Flower Hand.’
A purple light flashed briefly along the blades.
Swish!!
The two blades spun horizontally from the ground, the tips forming a golden circle.
The gold and purple light spun together, leaving behind two streaks of gold and purple from the spinning blades.
Swish, swish, swish!
Li Chengyi’s eyes were ice-cold as he rapidly spun on the spot, his twin swords carrying the Flower Language Technique: Drunken Flower Hand, swiftly covering every inch within a two-meter radius.
By this point, the Drunken Flower Hand was no longer a hand, but should be called a sword!
The Drunken Blade!
Chi!!!
The rings of the blade swept through the void air, slicing into the pale, cracked arm of the girl.
They also hacked the merchandise on the shelves on both sides, reducing them to fragments scattered all over the ground.
Sensing something, Li Chengyi dove forward, charging straight towards the first pair of children’s feet!
Bang!
His body broke through the shelved merchandise, and the golden sword light flashed momentarily in mid-air. Having unleashed the first stage of the Drunken Flower Hand, it swiftly swept past the first pair of children’s feet.
After the sword light passed,
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Li Chengyi released his swords without even looking at them, tumbling to the side to withdraw, then knelt on the ground with one knee.
The twin Golden Swords hit the ground and shattered, turning into countless Gladiolus Petals that dissipated.
He covered his right shoulder with one hand, where a deep cut was oozing blood profusely.
Without lingering, he stood up again, pushed off with his heels, and turned around.
Swish!
He drew the longest Golden Sword from the Sword Wheel on his back with both hands.
This time, with all his strength, he held the sword with both hands and invoked the Flower Language Technique.
The nearly three-meter-long Golden Sword swung a broad arc mid-air, striking something before hitting the wall with force.
Thud.
The Golden Sword dispersed, and likewise, the two pairs of children’s feet were controlled again by the Flower Language Technique: Drunken Flower Hand, and slammed into the wall.
Li Chengyi’s face twisted fiercely as he stood still. He drew another new Golden Sword and invoked the Flower Language Technique, repeating his prior move.
The Wisteria’s Flower Language Ability Drunken Flower Hand could indeed be reapplied to a target, something he had tested before.
During the incident at the Grecius Parking Garage, he had discovered that the Drunken Flower Hand was effective against supernatural entities as well.
So just now, he pretended not to see the second pair of children’s feet, but rather lured them close to him, and then suddenly deployed the Drunken Blade fused with the Flower Language Technique, sticking both pairs of children’s feet together.
Then, before they could break free from the Flower Language Technique’s control, he used the longer Golden Sword to pin them to the wall.
While the Gladiolus Floral Dress offered poor defense, and the Wisteria Floral Dress hadn’t been repaired yet, his only option was to make the most of the current Flower Language Techniques to buy time.
