Blind Spot-Chapter 54 - Mist Street 0524

Chapter 54: Mist Street 0524

Chapter 54: Mist Street 0524

“It must be done quickly,” Bald Head thought, and while pressing down on his opponent, the flesh on his back split open, and a black and crimson knife hilt slowly rose from his right shoulder.

That was his most powerful special slicing weapon, forged from the extremely expensive high-grade alloy, Rainbow Iron. Its sharpness was several times that of the weapon he had just used, able to cut through most of the special alloys on the market.

Even he could not resist a single strike from it.

Clang!

Another fierce strike sent Li Chengyi flying, shattering numerous purple fragments.

Bald Head’s expression turned fierce as he reached back with his opposite hand to grasp the knife.

Suddenly, his hand paused, and for no apparent reason, he dove to the ground as if there was something extremely important to him among the rubble and dirt.

Bald Head gave up on grasping the knife and fell straight to the ground like a playing card, his back perfectly straight.

He hugged a pile of rubble as if it were the most precious treasure in the world.

This was the Flower Language Technique! Drunken Hand!!

Seizing the moment, Li Chengyi lunged forward and grabbed the knife hilt on his opponent’s shoulder.

Boom!!

Instead of pulling out the knife, his chest and abdomen were harshly punched by Bald Head.

Drunken Hand only controlled him for a second!?

Li Chengyi didn’t have time to be surprised, as the forceful blow sent his body into the air, tumbling back two meters before he half-knelt on the ground.

Clang!

Bald Head seized the opportunity, pulled out the knife, and made a diagonal slash at Li Chengyi’s head from above.

The rainbow-like blade light fell like a ribbon in the blink of an eye.

Whoosh!

With a crisp sound, Li Chengyi’s Floral Dress suddenly shattered into countless purple petals that scattered.

He looked up at the swiftly descending rainbow blade.

“Gladiolus!”

Hiss!!

A blade shot out, instantly piercing Bald Head’s body.

At that moment, everything around seemed to freeze.

Numerous Wisteria petals danced around Li Chengyi, beginning to change color and shape like a dust storm.

Quickly, the purple petals faded to a pale gold.

The golden petals slowly dispersed, revealing his condition at that moment.

The Wisteria Floral Dress he had been wearing was gone, replaced by a set of heavy golden armor.

The armor appeared to be made of pure copper, and the helmet resembled a locust, with a fierce mandible. Forehead, shoulders, elbows, knees; all were bristling with dense golden crystal spikes.

Those spikes seemed like short swords growing out of the armor.

Moreover, on the back of the armor was a dense wheel composed of at least dozens of golden blades.

The blades of the wheel varied in length, some were irregular, some were even just spikes, but each one gleamed with a sharp cold light at the tip.

Among them, the five longest blades extended more than a meter outward, precisely the ones that had stabbed into Bald Head’s chest.

Snap.

Li Chengyi reached out and drew a long sword from the sword wheel on his back and stood up.

As he rose, the blades on his back withdrew from Bald Head’s body, retracting into the sword wheel as if they were living creatures.

“Why can’t you just let me properly ask who’s behind all this…” Li Chengyi sighed, sweeping his hands forward.

The two long swords swiftly crossed Bald Head’s dazed face. His body, which had been quite solid moments ago, was as easy to cut as a potato beneath the Gladiolus Floral Dress’s blades, cleaved into an X shape.

“What is this…!?” Bald Head’s voice came in broken fragments; he could barely speak.

He couldn’t understand anything he was seeing. What was that!? Exoskeleton armor? Biological armor? Or some kind of cutting-edge technology?

Pfft!

But now he would never know, his head having been sliced into four parts, two intersecting cracks appearing on his face.

Li Chengyi let go, and the blades in his hands automatically disintegrated into golden Gladiolus petals. Then, new blades automatically coalesced from the sword wheel behind him to fill the gaps.

This was the Gladiolus Floral Dress. Although the Flower Language Ability was firmness, the Floral Dress’s defense wasn’t all that great; its primary function was offense.

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‘Gladiolus’s Flower Language of firmness is not so much for defense as it is for enhancing offense. It makes all the blades of the Gladiolus Floral Dress sturdier, indestructible during an attack, unlikely to break.’

‘I was thinking wrong from the start, the Flower Language of Gladiolus just happens to be suitable for coordinating with other Floral Dresses in defense; its essence is for offense.’

He looked down at the armor he was wearing, which had at least several dozen sword blades embedded all over it, everywhere adorned with the precise floral patterns of the Gladiolus.

Coming back to his senses, Li Chengyi looked down at Bald Head, drew his sword again, and swung it downward to split apart.

Before long, Bald Head had been sliced into dozens of pieces.

All the pieces were free of any blood or flesh, just metallic fragments and parts.

‘A robot, or a complete one?’ Li Chengyi’s heart chilled. To prevent the secret of the Floral Dress from being exposed, he looked around and began to further divide the fragments with his sword.

After a few chops, he thought of a better idea.

He immediately pounced on the Bald Head’s fragments, pressing his entire body onto them.

Then he rolled all over the ‘corpse’.

The myriad sword blades built into the Gladiolus Floral Dress acted like a shredder, grinding Bald Head’s fragments into even tinier scraps after just a few rolls.

Only after being certain that not a single intact device was left did Li Chengyi stand up, shake off the debris from his body, and quickly walked away.

Finding a blind spot in the alley where cameras couldn’t see, he switched back to his normal state and then ran toward the direction of the Candy Bar.

Since he had been attacked, it was very likely that people from other companies had also been assaulted.

Who were these attackers, what were their identities and backgrounds, and why did they attack him? All this had to be clarified.

Racing through the alleys, he soon found an exit and burst onto the street.

Not far from the roadside was a bus stop, and beyond the bus stop, a few police cars were parked next to a wall over a hundred meters away.

The police cars with white bodies and blue lettering were flashing red and blue lights, and a group of armed police officers had pulled up yellow cordon tapes around the scene.

Li Chengyi saw from a distance that Boss Xindela and Zhong Ying were standing inside the police line, talking to a tall man in a black fitted police uniform.

All the other officers wore light blue uniforms, except for this man who was dressed in pure black, with a silver cross star on each shoulder.

The man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, a square face, and a robust physique, with one arm entirely made of a black metal prosthetic, not even disguised with synthetic skin.

Li Chengyi approached, walking up to the edge of the cordon and joining the crowd of onlookers.

“Boss!” he called out loudly.

Hearing the shout, Xindela looked over and nodded in his direction from afar, then said a few words to the man in the black uniform and, together with Zhong Ying, walked closer.

“Are you alright?” Xindela asked with a frown, scrutinizing Li Chengyi in a grave voice.

“I’m fine, encountered someone trying to kill me, but luckily I ran away first, then hid in an alley and ambushed them, killed them in return!” Li Chengyi quickly said, “Boss, were you also attacked?”

“Hmm, fully reinforced humans, two of them came, but they were trash models, with their functions castrated. We fought them off,” said Xindela lightly. Yet it wasn’t hard to imagine the peril involved.

Li Chengyi himself had encountered an attack by a suspected fully reinforced human and knew how formidable the opponent was.

And over at Boss Xindela’s side, there were actually two attacking at once, which was even more dangerous!

“What about Brother Song? What about Sima Gui?” As soon as Li Chengyi saw that the two in front of him were unharmed, he quickly asked about the other two.

“They’re all right. Ah Ran got a minor injury, nothing serious. Sima Gui wasn’t attacked; the assassins were scared off by the police who arrived,” Xindela said calmly. “The pressing issue now is to find out who is attacking us. And to dare to make a move within Yi Country’s city limits, this kind of boldness, not just anyone would dare to do it.”

Li Chengyi nodded, and cast his gaze into the distance, just in time to see a pile of charred human remains still burning on the road.

“Is that the attacker?” he asked.

“Hmm, they were sniped from a distance by the police who rushed over and blown up,” Xindela replied. “But it’s very difficult to kill a fully reinforced human. Being targeted like this is troublesome, so we need to quickly figure out the source.”

“Wait… Boss, wasn’t that guy blown up? What do you mean by very difficult to kill? Is he not dead yet?” Zhong Ying, who had been holding back for a long time, finally couldn’t help but ask.

Now, having gone through the previous blind spot and the recent impact, her nerves seemed to have toughened up quite a bit.

“Oh, didn’t I tell you?” Xindela said in puzzlement.

“No.” Li Chengyi joined in with a nod beside her; he wanted to know as well.

“Hmm. No!” Zhong Ying echoed.

“It’s simple,” Xindela said, unchanging in expression, “As the name implies, fully reinforced humans are living people whose entire bodies have been modified. The only flesh and blood tissue that belongs to them is their brain marrow; everything else is either bionic tissue or made of pure alloy.”

“But that guy exploded and still didn’t die?” Zhong Ying asked again.

“Because the consciousness backup is there,” Xindela answered, “Even the brain of a fully reinforced human can be cultured and copied again. Their consciousness and memory are all backed up in a personality register machine. As soon as the external body dies, a new brain can be immediately cultured and copied, then according to the brain to reconstruct a new body. The only cost is money.”

“That’s possible!?” Li Chengyi and Zhong Ying were both astonished.

“Then does that still count as human?!” Li Chengyi couldn’t understand why anyone would want to turn themselves into such a monstrosity.

“Why wouldn’t it count? The personality register can only culture and copy a new brain after the previous brain is completely destroyed. There are strict limits to this. In essence, fully reinforced humans have essentially achieved immortality,” Xindela sighed, “What exactly is the essence of a human? In fact, nobody can say for sure. But to outsiders, a living person who still has the previous memories, using the previous brain cells, even if the body and limbs have changed, they are still considered the same person. Ethically and morally speaking, as long as duplicating many individuals with the same memories at the same time is not allowed, all is well.”

“So who restricts this?” Li Chengyi seized on the key point sharply.

“The Ethics Committee,” Xindela answered, “An international organization jointly led by Yi Country and White Star, but in reality, because the cultivation technology isn’t very difficult, many people are secretly pursuing this kind of twisted immortality. So no one really knows how many fully reinforced humans there are lurking in the shadows.”

“This is too… extreme, right?!” Zhong Ying was almost stunned on the side.

“It’s nothing big,” Xindela said, “Many of the older generation from big families in the upper echelons of Yi Country and White Star have chosen to become fully reinforced. It’s just because of the Silent Fortress, fully reinforced humans are not allowed to enter the cities, nor to hold power, so not many people know. I didn’t expect that this time, there would actually be forces daring to do this. It looks like the other side is probably some well-known terrorist organization.”