Chapter 157 157 Destiny One

The days with a severed hand were boring.

I couldn't do this, couldn't do that, and even my martial arts practice had to stop.

Although Li Cheng颐 was using Radiant Force Field to accelerate his healing, it was impossible to recover in just a few days.

In three days, he had only recovered halfway, and it would take about five days for a full recovery.

In order not to waste time.

He began to continue studying the notes he had obtained from Zhong Hui in the hospital room: exploration and records of the Time Clock Field.

He had read a little of this notebook before, but he hadn't read it carefully, just skimmed it.

This time, he reread what Zhong Hui had recorded about the Silent Little Shop.

A foreigner named Goen found him and warned him not to enter again, otherwise, there would be unpredictable consequences.

Zhong Hui must have eventually listened to the advice and chose to leave directly after taking the goods.

Otherwise, the later information about the dead ends wouldn't have been recorded in such detail.

But...

'What is the essence of a person?'

Behind the page with Zhong Hui's self-portrait, this sentence still made Li Cheng颐 think deeply.

Nighttime.

He was alone in the clean white hospital room, sitting on the bed looking at the notebook.

Dong, dong, dong.

Suddenly, someone knocked gently on the door.

The sound wasn't loud, and the force wasn't too light or too heavy, giving a polite and restrained feeling.

"Come in," Li Cheng颐 said. He put the notebook under the pillow and looked up at the door.

It was already past eleven o'clock at night.

The nurse on duty had come half an hour ago and had already gone to rest and change shifts.

Logically speaking, no one should be coming.

Li Cheng颐 looked at the door.

But there was no movement.

The door was obviously unlocked, and he had said "come in," but the person still didn't move.

"Come in," he raised his voice and said again.

In the quiet hospital room, only his own voice echoed slightly.

Still no movement.

The person outside the door didn't seem to hear.

Or perhaps, they heard, but didn't move.

Li Cheng颐 frowned slightly.

Invisible Wisteria Scale Armor quietly covered his body.

Titan Sunflower had also undergone a second evolution and could cover his entire body, merging with his clothes, but because it had reached its ultimate form, everything around it would be indiscriminately ignited by the high-temperature force field as long as he wore it.

Therefore, he generally wouldn't use Titan Sunflower unless it was a critical moment.

Although the Wisteria Scale Armor was broken and its defensive power had decreased, it was still more reliable and comprehensive than a bulletproof vest.

Ordinary bullets couldn't break through it.

After waiting a few seconds, Li Cheng颐 realized that there was still no response, so he slowly got up and got out of bed.

The hospital room door was rectangular, with a square viewing window.

From the viewing window, he could see the edge of a gray wide-brimmed hat appearing on the right side of the window.

It seemed that a person of medium height, about the same height as the viewing window, was wearing a gray wide-brimmed hat, standing in front of the door, knocking quietly.

"Who's out there?"

Li Cheng颐 slowly walked towards the door.

He rarely stayed in the hospital, but he also knew that doctors and nurses wouldn't dress like that.

So the person outside the door must be an outsider, and an outsider was standing at the door, but not coming in.

His vigilance immediately increased.

Slowly.

Li Cheng颐 took step by step, to the front of the room door.

He reached out his hand.

He grasped the doorknob.

"You can't, can't..."

At this moment, a mumbling, seemingly unclear voice came from outside the door.

It was a man, his tone with a strange cry. He was speaking Ji country language, but for some reason, you could hear a strong sense of terror in it.

"Can't go in again... really, absolutely, absolutely can't again..." Through a door, the man's mumbling voice entered Li Cheng颐's ears.

"Enter where? Who are you? Can you come in and talk? Can you speak more clearly?" Li Cheng颐 asked in a deep voice.

"Don't go in again... really, absolutely, absolutely can't..."

Whoosh.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew from behind Li Cheng颐.

His heart skipped a beat. He remembered that the windows in the hospital room were closed.

He suddenly turned his head to look back.

Li Cheng颐 discovered that the windows next to the hospital bed, which had been tightly closed, were now somehow opened.

The cool night wind blew in from outside.

But at this moment, all he felt was a chill.

The Radiant Force Field unconsciously and quietly expanded, instantly covering the entire hospital room.

The Radiant Force Field with purification abilities gave Li Cheng颐 a lot of psychological comfort.

He turned his head and looked outside the viewing window of the room door.

The edge of that hat was gone.

Click.

He twisted open the door. Outside was a quiet, clean white corridor.

And at the foot of the doorway, there was a brown wrapped envelope.

Li Cheng颐 bent down, picked up the envelope, and closed the door back into the room.

He wasn't worried about toxicity or anything like that. In a protected state, his entire body, even his breathing, was isolated from the outside world.

The Flower Scale Armor could even independently provide oxygen, allowing him to be self-sufficient and isolated from the outside world.

Holding the letter, he looked it over slightly.

The postal code in the upper left corner of the yellow envelope, each box was completely blacked out.

There was no address in the middle, only two words: Goen.

Other than that, there was nothing else, all blank.

'Goen...'

Li Cheng颐 immediately thought of the mysterious person mentioned in Zhong Hui's notes.

The mysterious foreigner who had come to warn him not to continue entering the Silent Little Shop.

Later, Zhong Hui had his blood changed, and then he disappeared. His wife cloned a new one to replace him and stay in the same place to live.

But everyone knew that the real Zhong Hui was gone.

Li Cheng颐 didn't know how this Goen found him. He didn't know what he meant at all.

'Perhaps, the root of everything is hidden in this letter...'

He looked at the letter and took a deep breath.

Hiss.

He tore open one end of the envelope.

He shook the inside, and a piece of white paper folded into an irregular shape fell out.

He unfolded the white paper.

Written on it were crooked Ji country characters.

'Your body... is changing.'

'Whether you change your blood or not, you will slowly undergo irreversible changes as you enter and exit that little shop more and more times.'

'Something is watching you... They look like people, but only look like them... They are not people!'

'Be careful... be careful of your surroundings... They are coming!!!'

The last line of words was written very forcefully. The letter paper was pierced with cuts.

Li Cheng颐 could feel that the person who wrote the letter was in a very bad emotional state.

All the content of the letter was here.

He opened it back and forth to make sure there was no other content, and then re-folded the letter paper and put it back in the envelope.

"They are coming? What are 'they'? Are they people? Or monsters from the dead ends?"

Li Cheng颐 frowned.

This Goen was mysterious and secretive and wouldn't say anything clearly.

He didn't know what he was up to.

But no matter what, the other party had taken no action other than a reminder, which could perhaps be considered goodwill.

Once, Zhong Hui had also encountered this Goen after entering the Silent Little Shop.

Clearly, he had a way of paying attention to and investigating people who entered the Silent Little Shop.

The dead ends had suddenly affected his reality.

This made Li Cheng颐's already tense state even tighter.

'It seems that I have to get out of the Silent Little Shop as soon as possible.'

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The evening of the 15th.

On the old street where he first entered the Silent Little Shop.

Li Cheng颐 was wearing a black trench coat and a black knitted hat, covering his entire head and most of his face, revealing only a pair of eyes.

He slowly paced back and forth on the old street, waiting for the flash to arrive.

From the nearby street with bars and karaoke parlors, he could hear the constant sound of music and people shouting.

It sounded like they were arguing, or going crazy from being drunk.

As winter approached, the temperature became colder and colder.

Li Cheng颐 tightened his trench coat, lowered his head, and slowly walked along the sidewalk.

His left hand had completely recovered.

It only took five days, and he only used half of the potent nutrient solution that Big Bear gave him.

The examining doctor looked at him with the eyes of someone looking at an enhanced person.

Everyone thought he had taken at least dozens of enhancement shots.

But only Li Cheng颐 himself knew that he had only drunk the enhanced gene medicine once so far.

That was when he was at the Brain Calculation Center.

Pa-ta.

Small raindrops fell from the night sky.

Li Cheng颐 looked up at the sky, a gray and hazy dark sky, unable to see clouds, or white stars or the moon.

There was only a chaotic gray-black color.

As the raindrops increased, the ground gradually became wet.

He straightened his hat and unleashed his Radiant Force Field.

As soon as the raindrops landed on his head and shoulders, they were quickly dried and evaporated by the heat.

Walking along.

Passing a 24-hour self-service bank on the left, blue and white light was projected from the automatic glass doors of the self-service bank.

The light shone on the tactile paving outside, shining on Li Cheng颐 himself, as if coated with a layer of blue and white film.

A chocolate-skinned girl with her hair dyed light gold, wearing crystal earrings, and dressed in a milk-white low-cut top and mini skirt, staggered out of the self-service bank.

She leaned on the red fire hydrant at the door, and bent over and began to vomit.

Li Cheng颐 wasn't surprised. There were many bars nearby, and this situation was often seen.

Retracting his gaze, he continued forward.

Rounding a bend, on the left side of the road ahead was a black and white checkered wall.

Dark green plants poked out from the inside of the wall.

Through the greenery, he could see detached villas.

Passing the iron gate of a villa.

There was a silver, shiny, mirror-like round nameplate in front of the door.

Written on it was the homeowner's postal code, house number, etc.

Listening to the faint sound of television programs coming from the house.

Li Cheng颐 calculated the distance, turned around, and returned the way he had come.

The Silent Little Shop occurred in the street block he had just walked through, so he couldn't be too far away from there.

Walking slowly along the way.

Before long.

He returned to the front of the self-service bank.

The chocolate girl who had been vomiting was now accompanied by a slender young girl with black hair, who was holding her and sitting on the steps at the entrance of the bank to take shelter from the rain.

Li Cheng颐 slowed his pace slightly and recognized the black-haired girl.

Zhou Xing瞳.

Chen Pi's roommate that he had introduced to him.

She was wearing a black long-sleeved t-shirt with the white words "Dudu Milk Tea" printed on the back, and a pair of large black-rimmed glasses. She wasn't wearing much makeup and looked much more haggard than before.

Li Cheng颐 didn't expect to meet an acquaintance at this time.

Although they rarely met, she would occasionally like his posts on Moments.

After thinking about it, he still didn't greet her. This wasn't the time to be in the mood for small talk.

The danger of the Silent Little Shop had greatly increased, and he had to be fully prepared to deal with it.

The Flower Scale Armor had been completely repaired, and Rainbow Candy's Life Armor had also been borrowed.

Emergency medicine, short-term stimulants, and simple structured directional demolition explosive packs.

These were all thoughtfully prepared for him by Big Bear and Rainbow Candy.

(End of chapter)