Hidden Corners

Li Chengyi was somewhat concerned about the inexplicable surge of evil thoughts at home last time.

Although the evil thoughts disappeared in the end, he also absorbed them. The danger should also be lifted.

But the sudden appearance and disappearance made him feel very uneasy.

He has tested the absorption of evil thoughts, and it must be within a certain range, and it must not exceed about 30 meters around you to absorb it.

That is to say, in the home at that time, with him as the center, within a range of 30 meters, there must be a person who instantly had extremely terrifying evil thoughts towards him, and then the inexplicable evil thoughts disappeared.

This kind of emotional ups and downs is not like what ordinary people can do.

Such a state of mind made Li Chengyi wonder for a while whether the mysterious person had mental problems.

He had always wanted to ask this question before, but he had been so busy with so many things that he forgot, so he remembered it now.

"Your sister? We have indeed noticed that she has recently been in contact with some complicated people. She failed the omnicist assessment, and the registration fee was wasted. She also had conflicts with people at school and beat them up. Then, I suddenly came into contact with a few people with more complicated backgrounds." Syndra replied that he still pays a lot of attention to Li Chengyi, a talent who has high mental strength and can easily flash memories.

"People with complicated backgrounds? Can we find out their identities?" Li Chengyi's heart moved and he asked aloud.

"I can't help it. We mainly focus on you. Because your sister is a high-level military academy, there is a lot of information blocking. In many cases, we can't check the internal situation of the military academy that is isolated from the network. It is not even allowed to approach it. The query cost is relatively high. "Sindra explained.

"Of course, if you feel worried, we can send someone to investigate. But there is no guarantee that we will get the result." He glanced at Li Chengyi and said sincerely.

"If possible, I hope to check." Li Chengyi nodded in affirmation.

"Hmm. Your sister is really hard to describe. Are you worried about your parents?" Song Ran asked aloud.

"Well, a little bit." Li Chengyi nodded.

He didn't care about Li Chengjiu. His predecessor knew him very well. That woman was ruthless, selfish, and everything she did was normal.

What he was worried about was that his parents in his previous life were honest and good people, in case they were in danger. In case Li Chengjiu was implicated and threatened his life because of bad contacts with Li Chengjiu, that would be trouble.

So he wants to check it out. If possible, it is best to completely eliminate this hidden danger.

"I don't want to have an accident at home while I'm trying to get out of a dead end. If it's not too difficult, I hope that the potential threat can be completely resolved." Li Chengyi thought so, and said so.

The atmosphere in the car also became cold suddenly because of his words.

Syndra was slightly taken aback. He remembered that not long ago, Li Chengyi was just an ordinary and simple dead-end newcomer, but now...

he shouldn't have said that

At least not now.

"It seems that you have experienced a lot in the blind corner." Sima Gui raised his eyebrows.

"Well, the first blind spot I encountered was also the only one. It was much more difficult than Fog Street. Of the three people who entered, I was the only one who survived. I only survived after entering for the third time." Li Chengyi replied.

"Then you are ruthless enough. Most of the blind spots are actually not that dangerous. Usually, you will never get out." Sima Gui gave a thumbs up.

Sigh.

The car brakes quickly.

"Okay, it's time to get out of the car, the place is here." Song Ran, who was driving, interrupted their chat.

"I'm thirsty, I'm going to buy something to drink, what do you want?" Sima Gui turned around and asked as he opened the door.

"Sparkling water." Zhong Ying.

"Bean." Syndra said.

"Tatador." Song Ran.

Li Chengyi shook his head, indicating that he didn't need it.

Bean is a cola-like drink, while a tartare is a sweetened drink with a little stimulant added. He doesn't like any of these.

Everyone got out of the car one after another. Li Chengyi put on the AR, and the glasses automatically superimposed and positioned the phantom of the topographic map of Xuezhong Road more than a hundred years ago.

The location where the car parked was on the side of an old street called Tianxing Road.

As soon as the car stopped, an old man in a dark green wrinkled camouflage uniform came forward to collect the parking fee with a receipt.

Song Ran paid some money in advance with him, and took a bill of payment.

Li Chengyi, Zhong Ying, and Syndra looked around at the surrounding environment.

This is an old block with small square white bricks on the ground.

The houses on both sides are about the same height, about ten meters, and the exterior is gray and white, with a bit of western style.

Every house has a small arc-shaped balcony, and most of the windows are round arches.

Downstairs of the building are all front-end shops.

Some of these shops are still open with rectangular signboards, and some have been closed.

Li Chengyi looked around and saw that there were many black smoke traces on the facade and even the walls of the building.

He walked under the signboard of a shop called 'Blue Ocean Pearl'.

The signboard is hung on a load-bearing column at the bottom of the building and fixed with three black metal clips.

Li Chengyi reached out and gently wiped the back of the signboard with his fingertips.

I took it out and saw that there was already a layer of black ash on the belly of my finger.

He followed the signboard and looked at the shop. The shop was closed. On the metal shutter door, there was vaguely written in red letters that the shop sells a phone number. The number could no longer be read clearly.

"There was a fire in this place before." Song Ran walked to him and said in a low voice.

"I can tell, the traces of smoke and fire are obvious." Li Chengyi nodded.

"Don't worry about other things, we just need to find Wuji grocery store. That slot machine probably belongs to Wuji grocery store." Song Ran reminded.

"Understood. I'm waiting for the memory to flash." Li Chengyi replied.

If there is a blind spot near here, then as a blind spot person with high mental strength, he must have a high probability of encountering memory flashes.

This is also one of the main ways they investigate blind spots.

"Okay, be careful." Song Ran understood.

"By the way, when we were performing the memory flash, what did the outsiders look like to me?" Li Chengyi suddenly asked, what was his state when outsiders saw him when he was in a blind spot? A little curious.

"Disappeared." Song Ran said solemnly, "Suddenly disappeared inexplicably, and then suddenly appeared inexplicably after your memory flashes over. The most uncomfortable thing is that no matter what state you appear in, we outsiders will take it for granted. This This kind of taking it for granted will lead to an extremely serious sense of contradiction in our hearts, and that feeling is very uncomfortable."

"Is that so?" Li Chengyi understood.

"Let's go, look around." Song Ran patted him on the shoulder, and took the lead in looking at the surrounding shops.

He went to the left, Sima Gui went to the right, and Xindela and Zhong Ying were in the opposite row.

Li Chengyi looked in several directions and there were people, so he simply paced slowly in the middle of the street, scanning left and right.

There are very few street vehicles on Tianxing Road, so you only need to give way occasionally.

Li Chengyi wore AR glasses and kept comparing the restored maps from more than a hundred years ago.

Several people can connect with each other through AR, confirming the common map more than a hundred years ago.

As the marked points on the map are lit up one by one, the fact that Tianxing Road Old Street used to be Xuezhong Road is becoming more and more convincing to several people.

Li Chengyi saw from a distance that Zhong Ying was relying on her plastic surgery face to talk to the old man sitting in the shade in front of the shop on the street, asking about the situation.

Syndra spoke to a young woman passing by. The division of labor between the two is clear.

"According to the map, my side should be near Wuji grocery store." Soon, Sima Gui's voice came from the AR.

"I've bought water and drinks. I'm standing at the Wuji Grocery Store based on the map."

He paused.

"But... there's something wrong with this place."

In AR, everyone shares the communication, so everyone can hear what he said.

"What's wrong? It's normal if it's not a grocery store. After so many years, it must have changed to another store." Syndra said.

"No." Sima Gui hesitated. "Just look at it and you'll know."

With a crisp click, he quickly took a photo and uploaded it to AR.

In an instant, everyone asked whether to view the transferred photos popped up in AR.

Li Chengyi clicks yes.

swish.

A clear photo popped up directly in front of his eyes.

"This is it!?" Li Chengyi was slightly stunned, stopped in his tracks, and let himself lean to the side, so as not to be too late to avoid passing vehicles.

"Wrong? According to the map, this place should be a grocery store?" Zhong Ying's voice showed a trace of incomprehensible anxiety.

"According to the map more than a hundred years ago, it is indeed the case. But the times may have changed." Syndra was interrupted by Zhong Ying before she could finish speaking.

"No matter what, the original shop is unlikely to become like this." Zhong Ying said sharply.

"Yes, it's impossible for a place like this to change so much in more than a hundred years." Li Chengyi also echoed in a deep voice.

The photos that appeared in front of his eyes were not shops, buildings, or even streets.

It was a wide, gloomy lake with turquoise ripples.

On the left side of the lake, you can vaguely see the corners of the old buildings on Tianxing Street. On the right is the deserted white stone arch bridge.

"Could it be demolished? Exposing the lake behind?" Song Ran guessed.

"I asked the old people here. There has never been a building here. It used to be a desolate mass grave with nothing. Later, the ZF started to develop the wasteland, and then slowly built Xuezhong Road, which is now Tianxing Street. .” Syndra said in the AR.

"Could it be that the map is wrong?" Zhong Ying doubted.

"The maps we obtained from the local chronicles were compared with the National Geographic Database. They are consistent in several aspects, and there is little chance of problems." Song Ran replied.

"Then where is this Wuji grocery store!?" Zhong Ying asked anxiously.

A few people didn't make a sound. The current situation is that the map has no meaning at all, and nothing matches. The clues I found before, now I don't know where to start.

"Sima, do you have a memory flash?" Syndra asked aloud.

"No." Sima replied.

"It's the same here." Li Chengyi said out loud.

"It seems that there are no dead spots nearby. Maybe the blind spots on Fog Street have nothing to do with this place," Syndra concluded.