Chapter 1 Strange Light

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　　Bang.

Li Cheng颐's entire body was sprawled on the ground, peering under the bed.

Through the bed's underside, he could clearly see a faint light shining from beyond the bed on the other side.

A soft, low-wattage white light.

The white light flickered slightly, as if the voltage was unstable.

Li Cheng颐 raised his head and looked behind him.

The room was dark, with no light other than the moonlight.

He lay down again and looked through the bed's underside.

There was indeed light over there...

"What... could be over there?"

A sense of foreboding rose in Li Cheng颐's heart, and he felt a faint sense of danger.

"The hand from before most likely extended from under the bed and grabbed my left hand, causing the abnormality in my left hand now.

If I crawl in, into the room with the light, will my whole body become like my left hand, blurred and abnormal?"

Lying on the ground, he didn't move immediately, afraid to act rashly.

Before figuring out the situation with his left hand, he didn't dare enter and explore casually.

"Right now, it's just a premonition. I can exit the Dead Angle at any time, so I should ensure my safety as much as possible while exploring more information and collecting more characteristics, so that I can quickly find the prototype after I get out!"

Li Cheng颐 was clear in his mind.

This was the first time he had entered a Dead Angle premonition while still inside the Silent Shop.

A Dead Angle premonition wasn't much different from a memory flash.

The difference was that a Dead Angle premonition didn't have a specific geographical location. The Dead Angle wasn't necessarily where the premonition would appear.

Like Li Cheng颐's first Dead Angle, the Grius Parking Lot, was far away in the border region, but the premonition ran to the inland side.

The appearance of a Dead Angle premonition was completely random, without regional restrictions.

But memory flashes were different.

"Memory flashes must be caused by the appearance of a Dead Angle nearby, triggering the flash of a Dead Angle person nearby. I've been here with Master Yu Long for so many days and haven't found any Dead Angles, otherwise, with my mental strength, there should have been more than one flash.

So, this is very likely a Dead Angle premonition!"

Li Cheng颐 quickly came to a conclusion.

He looked at the light under the bed, hesitating for a moment.

The clues at this time were pitifully scarce. The room he was in had not changed in any way.

Only the underside of the bed had changed.

But the change in his left hand gave him a very high estimate of the danger level of this Dead Angle.

"Use something else to test it out."

Immediately, he looked around and found a magnetic levitation pen on the bedside table.

Reaching out, he took the pen.

He stared at the light opposite the bed's underside.

Whoosh.

Suddenly, he threw the pen with a flick of his wrist.

The black pen rotated, drawing a subtle arc on the ground, passing through the bed's underside and finally stopping on the floor of the room on the other side.

The brown wooden floor rubbed against the pen body, making a slight sound.

The pen stopped, no longer moving.

Li Cheng颐 also stared at it, observing the movement around it.

Time flowed by.

He lay quietly, waiting for the changes on the other side.

Clack.

Suddenly.

A subtle sound of a door opening came from behind him.

Li Cheng颐's scalp suddenly exploded, and an icy chill instantly surged into his heart.

He turned his head sharply, looking towards the door of the room.

At the same time, a golden sword instantly appeared in his palm.

But unfortunately, he was a step too slow. He only had time to see a pitch-black hand quickly retracting from the crack in the door, retracting into the completely dark corridor outside.

Only a crack in the door that had been opened was left at the door.

Other than that, there was no movement.

"!" Li Cheng颐 had not seen the appearance of the hand that had grabbed his left hand before.

But at the moment he saw the black hand in the door crack, he inexplicably felt certain that it was the mysterious palm that had just grabbed his left hand!

He quickly got up, but suddenly remembered something and turned his head to look through the bed's underside, towards the room on the other side.

The pen was gone!

"Damn it!!"

The vigilance and threat in Li Cheng颐's heart soared to the highest level.

There was more than one black hand!

He instantly judged the greatest possibility!

"Trouble!"

Creak.

Suddenly, the window of the room was pushed open from the outside in.

It seemed someone had opened the window switch on the windowsill.

But there was only him in the room now!

And the window could only be opened from the inside!

Who!

Who was it!!?

Li Cheng颐 finally couldn't bear it any longer. He stood up, and his entire body activated the Radiance Field to its full potential.

The invisible, soft, warm light suddenly dispersed to a one-meter radius around him.

The maximum range of the Radiance Field was one meter. Within this one-meter range, he could adjust the range at will.

But the strength was entirely determined by his own physical strength.

The warm, invisible light seemed to dispel some kind of invisible danger, an imperceptible cold.

But Li Cheng颐 still didn't relax his vigilance.

His body's senses were still highly tense.

The Dead Angle wouldn't be so easily safe, he knew that very well.

Looking at the window that had been inexplicably opened, for a moment, he just stood by the bed, waiting quietly.

There was no further movement.

He could feel that in the darkness, the mysterious black hand was also waiting, waiting for the moment he relaxed.

Time continued to pass.

He didn't know how long it had been...

Finally.

The outline of the corridor outside the door crack gradually emerged, no longer the pure, bottomless darkness it had been before.

Outside the window, the white stars and starlight could gradually be seen.

A strange sense of security surged back into Li Cheng颐's heart like a tide.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief, dispersed the golden sword in his hand, and looked at the bedside table.

The magnetic levitation pen from before had not returned, obviously already in the Dead Angle.

"Sigh..."

Li Cheng颐 let out a long breath, walked to the window, and reached out to pull open the window wider.

The cool evening breeze blew in, bringing a faint scent of grass and trees.

In the distant night sky, a goose-shaped aircraft was slowly crossing the sky, flashing red lights, flying towards the distance.

"No wonder even the strongest Dead Angle people eventually become neurotic. This could suddenly pop out and get you at any time. Anyone would have a nervous breakdown. Living in fear every day, afraid of something happening if you're not careful.

Li Cheng颐 felt helpless in his heart.

"If this goes on, I'll end up with mental problems like the other Dead Angle people, even if I can keep living."

"I have to find a way to solve this situation."

His mind was racing.

To solve the problem of Dead Angles attacking at any time, he had to first figure out the biggest difference between Dead Angle people and ordinary people who were not invaded by Dead Angles.

Li Cheng颐 turned around, walked to the door, and opened it. Outside was a normal corridor.

He gently locked the door, then lay down and looked through the bed's underside to the other side.

The light was gone over there, and the reality had returned.

"Key elements: the bed's underside, the black hand, the parts touched by the black hand become blurred, there is likely more than one black hand. And the bed's underside seems to lead to another unknown room."

After confirming the key points, Li Cheng颐 quickly took out his phone and dialed Pencil Eyebrow at the company.

The phone rang only three times before it was answered.

"It happened again?" Pencil Eyebrow's voice was a bit slow. Obviously, she hadn't recovered her sharpness after being awakened so late.

"Sorry to bother you, I just went in again, it might be a new Dead Angle premonition," Li Cheng颐 replied.

"I'll contact the profiler right away, wait a moment!" Pencil Eyebrow replied.

Not wanting to stay in the room, Li Cheng颐 didn't dare to stay in place for a moment after this happened. Instead, he went downstairs and sat on the deck chair from the daytime in the open space of the practice field, describing the situation to the profiler.

It took Li Cheng颐 more than half an hour of asking and answering questions to complete the profiling.

After hanging up the phone, it was time to wait for the results.

After the profiler gave a template, he would determine the type and then transmit it over the wall to Bai Xing, where Yi Guo

Both Bai Xing sides would simultaneously search the searchable public databases.

The boss, Sindela, had also built a detailed database for Dead Angles.

This database was called the Lyonne Library

Just by hearing the name, you knew it was built to find her son. Although the Lyonne Library couldn't compare to official databases, it was considered to have collected most of the frequently occurring Dead Angle types in the private sector.

Recovering his thoughts.

Li Cheng颐 sat by the deck chair, feeling a little tired.

"I'm starting to understand your situation..." Yu Long's voice came from the doorway behind him.

"Master Long, you heard?" Li Cheng颐 turned around and saw Yu Long standing by the stairs, constantly exercising with a hand gripper.

"Heard a bit of noise. I've always been a light sleeper, and when I got up to pee, I heard you on the phone." Yu Long's figure in his white pajamas was like a bowling ball.

He slowly walked to Li Cheng颐's side and sat down on another deck chair.

At this time, the night sky was gradually brightening, turning blue.

In the distance, in the city, a large number of rainbow-colored searchlights swept back and forth, illuminating a corner of the night sky.

Obviously, at this time, many people had gotten up early and started a new day.

"It's not easy." Yu Long sighed, "Having to be on guard even when you sleep... In our traditional martial arts, this can easily lead to a disturbed mind."

"Disturbed mind?"

"Yeah... it's like... the mind can't be at peace, attention will become increasingly unable to concentrate, and then eventually neurasthenia, insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders, and various endocrine problems will appear," Yu Long gave a serious scientific explanation.

"I'll find a way," Li Cheng颐 said just as seriously.

"There is indeed a way." Yu Long nodded, "In our traditional martial arts, there is a state called Pre-Knowing. You can sense any danger before it arrives and then quickly adjust your physical state."

"Pre-Knowing?" Li Cheng颐's heart stirred, and he suddenly remembered some traditional martial arts states he had heard about in his previous life.

It seemed that the two sides had something in common?

"Many animals can sense danger before an earthquake and become uneasy and restless. You know that, right?" Yu Long asked.

"Yes, I've heard of it," Li Cheng颐 nodded.

"That's good." Yu Long paused, "This is actually because those sensitive animals have sensed the subtle changes, signals, and signs before the earthquake erupts."

He sighed.

"Fifty years ago, there was an invincible person in the Yi Guo martial arts world who had no equal, and he proposed a complete theory. That was the Pre-Knowing theory."

"That person was named Huang Wu Xiang. He was the strongest person I know in the martial arts world. At that time, many busybodies gave him the title of Blood King, which was simply the King of Flesh and Blood."

"His Pre-Knowing theory proposed that a person's flesh and blood, and spirit, are constantly transforming into each other.

Spirit and mind, two sides of the same coin.

And when the spirit can achieve freely convertible, and the conversion rate reaches a certain height, a certain proportion, then you can nourish the spirit with essence, let the spirit continue to grow, and finally... achieve Pre-Knowing."