After a few days.

Eight o'clock in the morning, Eternal Botanical Garden.

Li Cheng颐 moved his hand away from the dozen or so transplanted *Jie Mao Fei Lian* plants (Chinese Knotweed).

His brow furrowed slightly.

None of these had flowered, only ordinary plants.

"Is this all there is?" he asked, looking at the somewhat uneasy young man beside him.

This person was named Zhu Hong, whom he had specifically sent to search for wild *Jie Mao Fei Lian*, but now it seemed the efficiency was too low.

He had only found this much in a few days.

"Boss, this kind of wildflower generally grows in some wild mountains, a bit far from the botanical garden, and plus, it's already past the flowering season," the young man, Zhu Hong, replied helplessly.

"It's already December, the weather's gotten much colder, Boss, this request of yours is really impossible."

"I overlooked that," Li Cheng頤 nodded. He hadn't really considered that *Jie Mao Fei Lian* only flowered between May and October in reality.

"It has to be flowering?"

Not far away, Manager Chen Yuqin approached with the signed contract documents, having apparently heard their conversation.

"It has to be," Li Cheng頤 nodded. "Manager Chen, do you have any ideas?"

"I can ask the distributors through my channels, and we can also post a purchase order online. Our climate is cold here, so it doesn't flower, but some places are warm year-round," Chen Yuqin said with a smile.

"Purchase? That's an idea," Li Cheng頤 nodded.

"Boss, I came to ask, what are the opening hours for the Special Garden Area you're developing? Also, how much land do we need to rent if we want to expand the park in the surrounding area?" Chen Yuqin changed the topic and asked about business matters.

This was also Li Cheng頤's intention.

With the success of the *Jiao Tou Hua* (Allium chinense) he had cultivated using special nutrient solution, this originally purplish-red small flower had now turned purplish-black.

Moreover, a strange pale golden liquid continuously flowed from the center of the flower pistil. This was what he named Fiery Primordial Fluid.

This primordial fluid had now become the biggest source of income for the botanical garden, being an excellent material for making stimulants.

Unfortunately, this source of wealth would inevitably be cut off in the near future due to the complete detachment of the Silent Store.

Li Cheng頤 had to come up with a new profit point as soon as possible.

Creating a unique Special Garden Area became his new idea.

"The money is sufficient for now, expand the surrounding park by three times, then find a professional designer to design the tour routes and the distribution of consumer shops. Start with automated unmanned vending machines for the shops."

Li Cheng颐 began discussing the development direction of the botanical garden with Manager Chen Yuqin.

Due to his own needs, he had to maintain the scale of planting sunflowers, gladioli, wisteria, and *Jie Mao Fei Lian*. And he had to maintain a flowering state all year round.

So, finding ways to compensate for profits from this aspect as much as possible was the core.

While discussing, he also considered in his mind that if the flowering periods were too concentrated, it would be troublesome if his Floral Scale Armor was damaged midway and could not be repaired.

Therefore, when choosing other Flower God positions in the future, he had to consider dispersing the intervals between flowering periods.

"Oh right, could you please take someone to complete the onboarding procedures later?" Li Cheng頤 mentioned another matter. "It's my assistant secretary."

He had considered it and decided to place Zhou Xingtong at the botanical garden rather than Hongjin Bio.

"No problem. Boss, you should have found a secretary a long time ago, it's so troublesome when I can't reach you by phone when something comes up," Chen Yuqin complained.

"Isn't there you, Sister Chen? I don't have to worry about anything with you keeping things in order here," Li Cheng頤 said with a smile.

After chatting with Chen Yuqin for a while, he gave her Zhou Xingtong's phone number.

Li Cheng頤 turned around and left the botanical garden, heading towards Yong’an Garden across the street.

As soon as he left, his phone rang.

He crossed the lane, walked onto the field path, and approached the gate of Yong’an Garden.

Then he took out his phone from his pocket and looked at the screen. It was actually his teacher, Yu Long.

Yu Long rarely called him, mostly notifying him with text messages, so he didn't expect to receive a call now.

Pressing the answer button, Li Cheng頤 held the phone to his ear.

"Teacher, is there something you need?"

"Xiao颐, have you encountered a strong old man with a long beard on my side before?" Yu Long asked in a deep voice.

"I did," Li Cheng颐 laughed, "That old man said he was here to find you to fight, and said some nonsense about the old days, I couldn't tell if it was true or not. Then he immediately wanted to fight me, but I sent him away."

"You fought with him?" Yu Long's voice rose slightly.

"Not really, just scared him a little," Li Cheng頤 replied.

"Sigh that old man is called Jiao Chenwei, an old rival of mine from my youth. He this morning, he jumped from the roof of his old home's twelve-story building, head first " Yu Long said, his voice tinged with sighing.

"He died?" The smile on Li Cheng頤's face froze.

Although the other party had a bad temper and would take action at the slightest provocation, he was at most just provoking trouble. According to the law, it was just creating a disturbance, a crime that didn't warrant death, far from it.

"Why did he jump off the building?" Li Cheng頤 couldn't understand.

"I don't know perhaps he was discouraged by you. That old fellow practiced Copper Whip Boxing his whole life, but he ran into you. I heard from Xiao Jing that you held him down with one hand?"

"Well, he's an old man after all, I couldn't really fight him, so I just gave him a warning," Li Cheng頤 replied.

"Sigh now the people from the Security General Administration have come to me, and the military's judicial department has also arrived. Fortunately, there's surveillance video of the whole thing, otherwise this matter would be really troublesome," Yu Long's tone was filled with helplessness.

"You shouldn't have scared him."

"Teacher, he died suicide that's because he was mentally weak. He's so old, he can't even withstand this little setback, I don't think it's my problem," Li Cheng頤 frowned.

"That's one way to put it, but in this world, in this society, you don't win just because you're right," Yu Long had obviously had many feelings, and stopped speaking at this point.

"It's like between countries, what's the use of reasoning with other countries? The result is the most important thing. The current situation is that he's dead, and we're the biggest suspects. You'll probably have people coming to investigate you soon. Because you have another identity, you're even more suspicious. Just be aware of that."

"I understand. Thank you, Teacher," Li Cheng颐 replied.

"Next time, if you encounter something like this again, just endure it, don't take action, it's better to avoid trouble," Yu Long advised.

"Teacher, I don't think I'm wrong. We're all adults, he took the initiative to come looking for trouble, and then committed suicide after losing, and we have to take responsibility? There's no reason for that!" Li Cheng颐 frowned, his voice low.

"Xiao頤 you're still young if we want to live a peaceful life, we have to learn to retreat when we should," Yu Long sighed, "If I hadn't retired decisively back then, I wouldn't have such a stable life now."

"Reason doesn't matter, right or wrong doesn't matter, even if you're in the right, even if you're not wrong, now you've become a suspect and have to accept an investigation from the Security General Administration, who's losing out?" His last sentence seemed to express the greatest enlightenment of his life.

"Teacher, you're getting old," Li Cheng颐 hung up the phone, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Some people are destined to live a life as brilliant as a meteor, but a meteor is fleeting, short-lived and beautiful. They seek pleasure and settle scores, and act freely and wildly.

Some people, perhaps, don't have any dazzling moments in their lives, but they can live longer. The only thing they need is to be tolerant and retreat, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

The difference lies in what kind of path you are willing to choose, what kind of life you want.

Li Cheng頤 knew.

If it were him in the past, perhaps he would have chosen the latter path.

But unfortunately he was a Dead-Angle person, with no other choice.

Arriving at the gate of Yong’an Garden, he looked up at the three large characters "Yong’an Garden."

For a moment, he stopped moving forward, just standing at the door.

"Why aren't you coming in? Brother Cheng?"

Da Hei, holding a basin of dirty clothes, passed by from the courtyard, and said in confusion when he saw Li Cheng頤.

"It's nothing," Li Cheng颐 lowered his head.

"Is everyone here?" he asked.

"Yes, because there might be a premonition at any time, everyone has gathered here," Da Hei nodded.

Li Cheng頤 smiled and strode into the gate.

He also needed to be prepared. Without the Silent Store, he would need to open up a new channel to obtain Dead-Angle items in the future.

Otherwise, the external cultivation of mutated flowers that he had placed so much hope on might die prematurely.

Entering the hall inside.

Rainbow Candy and Big Bear were sitting on the terrace reading e-books, sipping hot milk tea.

Little Brown was frantically cooking something, but a clear burnt smell was emanating.

Dragon Gate Crane was lying lazily on the sofa, yawning, with one smelly foot propped up high.

Seeing Li Cheng頤 enter, he lazily waved his hand as a greeting.

Rainbow Candy and Big Bear waved towards him and continued reading.

Li Cheng頤 greeted them and walked towards the stairs.

A room upstairs was also reserved for him.

Entering a bedroom at the deepest part of the second floor.

He pushed open the door.

Inside the heavy alloy door was a spacious bedroom where the walls, floor, and ceiling were all covered with a thick layer of alloy.

The silver-gray coating dyed the entire room with a science fiction style.

All the tables, chairs, bookshelves, and lamps were all silver-gray.

Li Cheng頤 entered and looked at the Flying Instrument suitcase stored in the corner, and a black pocket containing small items from the Silent Dead-Angle.

He walked over, rummaged through it, and took out something that looked like a gray, dusty fish can.

Heart of Greed, this was a small item he had bought at the Silent Store once.

He had never found a use for it, but this time he could try using it.

Taking out this small item that outsiders couldn't see, Li Cheng頤 stood up and began to think about how best to go.

Without the Silent Store, there was still the Gripping Hand.

He hadn't forgotten what Hei Y瑟琳 had mentioned before, that he could trade with those Black Sea beings.

But the Gripping Hand wasn't somewhere you could enter whenever you wanted.

'Unless I go to the prototype site in Sutan again, otherwise, entering would be a bit troublesome, I can only wait for it to pull me in actively.'

"Y瑟琳, I want to go to your place, do you have a way?" he suddenly said in a low voice.

No one responded.

Clearly, Y瑟琳 couldn't answer in reality, and it couldn't even be determined whether she heard this sentence.

Li Cheng颐 thought for a while, then slowly walked to a corner of the bedroom, where a standing rectangular wooden cabinet was placed.

Opening the cabinet door, a standing skeleton of a little girl was being held upright on a black base.

The skeleton was fixed with special brackets in various places.

Li Cheng颐 thought of what Y瑟琳 had said before, and immediately reached out and gently placed his hand on the skeleton.

"Y瑟琳, I want to go to your place, do you have a way?"

His voice produced a slight tremor, which, along with his palm, was gently transmitted to Y瑟琳's skeleton.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

*Pa-ta*.

A soft, subtle sound came from behind Li Cheng颐.

He released his hand and turned around.

A blonde girl in a black, laced dress was looking at him happily.

(End of Chapter)