Chapter 70: 067 Mind Technique Three (Xie Chun, Alliance Hierarch of the Nine Lotus Lanterns)
Chapter 70: 067 Mind Technique Three (Xie Chun, Alliance Hierarch of the Nine Lotus Lanterns)
Pushing his thoughts aside, Li Chengyi looked at the waiter again.
“Additionally, I would like to visit your Wisteria Flower Corridor. I’ve heard that the Palace Garden Florist’s Wisteria Flower Corridor is the best social dia hotspot in Suiyang City. Since I’m here, I wonder if I could have the fortune to appreciate it?”
He spoke courteously and was a major custor of the boss, which prompted a smile from the waitress.
“You’re too polite, sir. Please follow this way,” she said.
She took the initiative to lead the way, heading down another curved path.
Li Chengyi followed closely behind.
This ti, he didn’t plan on returning until he had thoroughly exploited the opportunity.
As ti slowly approached six o’clock,
Li Chengyi had a hard ti having another staff al at the Palace Garden Florist before he thick-skinnedly strolled out of the main store.
By the ti he left the store, his Wisteria Flowers’ second evolutionary degree had risen from the previous 0% to 15%.
That was because most of the varieties were repeats, and he hadn’t found many new mutations; otherwise, his gains would have been even greater.
In the evening, a light rain began to fall, wetting the ground and reflecting large swathes of shimring water.
The passersby, so holding umbrellas and so taking advantage of the light rain to speed ho on electric scooters and bicycles.
Shops along the street had also put out umbrellas for custors to use for free.
The light drizzle cast a hazy sheen over the advertising lights flowing on distant buildings.
After exiting the main store, Li Chengyi didn’t imdiately hail a cab ho but instead slowly strolled along the sidewalk, digesting his al.
He leisurely observed and pondered, considering what kind of material would be best for absorbing Evil Thoughts.
He had previously tested through small-ti hooligans and discovered that people with weak wills produced Evil Thoughts that couldn’t last long and quickly dissipated.
Such Evil Thoughts were few in number, usually in the single digits.
But if the person with a strong will was bad, then one encounter could yield a substantial amount of Evil Thoughts.
‘So, the best material should co from people with a strong will,’ Li Chengyi confird the premise in his mind.
Then he began to consider how he could obtain a stable source of Evil Thoughts more efficiently.
People with strong wills were not easy to find, so the best thod should be to use them repeatedly, not to exhaust the resource but to fish sustainably.
While thinking, Li Chengyi walked. His oversized coat had so water resistance, and by donning the hood and fastening the buttons, it could serve as a makeshift raincoat.
There were quite a few people dressed like him on the streets.
Although he had purchased good formal wear specifically for the contract negotiation, given his lack of luxury brand knowledge, the formal wear he got was essentially just an upgraded version of the usual business attire.
Therefore, walking on the street, he saw many outfits similar to his formal wear.
This made Li Chengyi sowhat embarrassed, especially considering that he had felt quite presentable when he t Xu Zhongsheng and had thought he dressed appropriately.
Exposing one’s lack of sophistication to strangers is hardly a comfortable matter.
Soon, he followed the sidewalk up a slope, with a similarly busy roadway to the right.
Several cars were stuck there, their horns blaring impatiently.
Li Chengyi found the noise irritating and quickened his pace, eager to get past.
While making his way up the slope, he had just passed a dark alley when he caught the sound of voices.
“Beat her to death! Thinks she can run away?”
“Owes money and still has the nerve to run? She doesn’t want to live anymore, huh?”
“Let tell you, paying debts is a natural duty. If you don’t pay back at least part of your debt today, you’re not going anywhere!”
The alley’s surveillance caras and motion-sensing lights were broken, and three burly n ard with rubber rollers and batons were cursing loudly around a shadowy figure.
Li Chengyi barely noticed as he briskly passed by the alley entrance.
Although the voices of these n were deliberately loud, ant to be overheard by passersby,
The content of their speech also sounded sowhat staged and fake.
But most common people, with an attitude of ‘what does it have to do with ,’ would quickly step far away from such incidents.
Li Chengyi, too, had the ntality of the common folk, not wanting any trouble, and thus sped up his steps to move past.
But as he passed by the alley, his peripheral vision involuntarily swept across it.
There, between the gaps in the stances of the three strong n, was a pair of black and white, intensely hateful eyes, fixated on the three n without so much as blinking.
Although they weren’t aid at Li Chengyi, he saw them.
The hatred seeping from those eyes chilled even a bystander like him to the core.
Cold, bloodshot, congealed, immobile.
The eyes were like a sculpture, unwaveringly focused on the three n and leaving a profound impression on Li Chengyi.
Although it was just a fleeting mont.
After passing the alley entrance, he continued walking more than ten ters ahead, unable to forget those distinctively black and white eyes.
“The owner of those eyes must have gone through unimaginable hardships to beco like that…” Li Chengyi mused.
He stepped over a small puddle and continued down the slope, and as he neared the bottom, he couldn’t help but look back at the alley once more.
With a regretful sigh, Li Chengyi turned forward and still hastened away.
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Zheng Qingrong tried to curl up, enduring the punches and kicks from the three people around her.
Rubber batons fell on her one after another, the pain in her skin and flesh piercing through to her bones and inescapable even through her clothes.
Yet, as intense as the pain was, it paled in comparison to the agony at the bottom of her heart.
Her sister was dead.
After being gang-raped, she was strangled to death and set to be sent directly to the incinerator; if it weren’t for a classmate from that side who discreetly tipped her off, she wouldn’t even have been able to see her sister for the last ti.
After seeing her sister, she broke down on the spot and went to confront her sister’s classmates from last night’s birthday party. But on her way, she heard the devastating news that her parents had died in a gas explosion.
Before she could recover, on her way to her family’s ho, a group of people ambushed her, knocked her to the ground, and beat her so badly she couldn’t speak; she could only flee in a panic.
If it weren’t for that classmate’s covert warning, she might not even have known why she was being beaten.
Tie Feng Group, the birthday party her sister attended, was hosted by Zheng Jiayu, the prince of Tie Feng Group.
According to the classmate’s hint, her sister’s death, her own beating, and her parents’ accident might all be linked to Tie Feng Group.
Sharing the sa surna, Zheng Jiayu’s father, Zheng Kai, is a prominent figure in Suiyang, a business elite whose Tie Feng Group dominates one-third of the entire Suiyang City’s sports equipnt market.
Such a force was far beyond comparison to ordinary families like hers.
If it was them, then everything that had happened before made sense…
Zheng Qingrong lay on her side, the damp, cold ground providing so relief from the pain in her body.
“What should we do? Should we take her back first?” she heard soone nearby ask.
“The captain said find a way to deal with her directly. There are too many surveillance caras in the city. You co over with the car later, and we’ll take her out of the city and dump her in a river.”
“Turn on the signal jamr to avoid being fild by mobile phones. You two, be quick about it.”
“Yes, yes…”
The voices gradually faded away, growing weaker and softer.
Zheng Qingrong slowly felt dizzy and her consciousness began to blur.
Before she knew it, she couldn’t hear anything, and her vision plunged into darkness.
Shortly after she passed out, three strong n from Tie Feng Group were about to lift her up, put her in a car, and head out of the city to the suburbs to dispose of her completely.
They had just stuffed her into a sack and were ready to carry her away when they turned around and suddenly saw a dark figure, a strange man with his head lowered so that his face could not be seen, standing at the entrance of the alley.
The three n were startled, not expecting soone to suddenly appear so close to them.
The alley was so small, yet despite being three n, they hadn’t noticed him coming.
The situation was sowhat eerie.
“Who are you?!” The leader of the strong n took a wary step forward, staring at the man.
“We’re from a private company collecting gambling debts. Don’t ddle in affairs that aren’t your business!”
This was their standard cover story.
“I just heard you say you’re going to throw her in the river?” the man slowly raised his head, his voice low.
The three n were about to reply, but when they saw the man’s face, they all involuntarily took a step back.
The man wasn’t showing his face at all, but wore a mask intricately crafted from purple-black tal!
The mask was covered with delicate wisteria flower patterns.
“Friend, this has nothing to do with you. There’s no need to involve yourself and get dragged into this ss. Wouldn’t you be more comfortable going ho, taking a nice shower, drinking a glass of milk, and watching a movie?” The leader’s tone was anxious, and he began to have ominous premonitions.
“Yet, I think, taking you down will take less ti than drinking a glass of milk.”
Li Chengyi slowly moved closer.
“Of course, if you can tell so inside information, I might consider going easy on you.”
The three n exchanged glances, quickly signaling with their eyes and began to slowly retreat.
If they were just so inexperienced toughs, it would be one thing; many things they’d never seen and hence wouldn’t know how strong or formidable they were.
But they were different; often inside the Tie Feng Group, they had seen things similar to the person before them, which is why they could judge the situation and not resist futilely.
Soon, three dull thuds resounded in the alley.
The three n from the Tie Feng Group stumbled, cradling their broken arms, and hurriedly fled the alley, jumping into a black van and speeding away.
Li Chengyi also helped Zheng Qingrong up and quickly left the alley, hailing a taxi to the suburbs.
There were too many surveillance caras in the city, making any action inconvenient, but it was different in the suburbs outside the city.
Shortly after he left, a passerby quietly ca into the alley from the entrance, glanced at the signs on the ground, and then left without a change in expression.
More than a hundred ters away from the alley, the passerby finally lowered his head and adjusted the button communicator on his collar.
“Boss, the three n you led here are gone, and Zheng Qingrong is also not here. She must have been taken away by Li Chengyi,” he reported.
“Good job. Have soone else watch the scene and see how the Zheng family reacts. By the way, did that kid not call the police?” Xu Zhongsheng’s voice ca through the earpiece.
“No.”
“Interesting. It seems he is also soone with ideas. Just uncertain if Xindela knows about this.” There was a hint of amusent in Xu Zhongsheng’s voice.
“What should we do next?” the passerby asked, his voice low.
“The baiting plan is complete. You can co back now. These Blind Spot Individuals are people who could face death at any mont, capable of doing anything. In any case, from now on, it’s dog eat dog; whatever happens has nothing to do with us. Co back and enjoy the show,” Xu Zhongsheng said with a laugh.
“Understood.”
The passerby adjusted his hat, opened his umbrella like any other commuter, and quickly blended into the crowd, disappearing from sight.
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