Hidden Dead Ends - Chapter 18: Cooperation (IV)

After activating the First Flower God Position, it seemed that even the Flower of Evil underwent changes. In short, there was a detailed explanation of the Flower Language Ability.

Except…

Isn’t this explanation a little… Li Chengyi was speechless. He raised his hand and changed to another flower.

Beside the peonies were small blue flowers. The petals looked like knotted silk scarves. They were blue on the outside and light yellow on the inside, and the center petals had some purple.

[Blue Iris: It is also known as the blue flag. It has strong cold resistance. The flowering period is from April to May. Its effects include helping with rheumatism, detoxification, reducing inflammation, improving blood circulation, removing blood stasis, etc.]

[Flower Language: Heart of Admiration (When someone you admire is present, you can obtain a 200% special bonus when wearing the Flower Scale Gear.)]

[Please note:

1. 1. 1. 1. When the person you admire is female, the special bonus is endurance.

2. 2. 2. 2. When the person you admire is male, the special bonus is muscle size and strength.

3. 3. 3. 3. When the person you admire is of another gender, the special bonus is physical recovery.]

[Flower Scale Gear: Not enough Flower God Positions. Please activate.]

“…” The corner of Li Chengyi’s mouth twitched slightly. This Flower Language was very powerful.

It was really strong.

It was just not suitable for ordinary people.

After letting go, he stretched his hand to the other side, where a cluster of white flowers crowded together.

Each flower only had four petals in the shape of a cross, and the stamens were black and yellow. Every three flowers squeezed together and welcomed the sunlight like triplets.

[Unnamed Flower: The flowering period is from April to May. It often grows in places with sufficient light. The roots are extremely long and have egg-shaped root nodules that can be used as medicine. The effects include stabilizing fetuses, replenishing energy, and removing extraneous liquid from the body by facilitating urination.]

[Flower Language: Trauma Healing (It can quickly heal minor physical trauma and has a certain effect on psychological trauma.)]

The message about the Flower Scale Gear didn’t change. It was still unable to activate.

Li Chengyi let go. He had never seen this flower before, and there was no information in the Flower of Evil, but he could still detect the Flower Language Ability, which gave him a new idea.

So, if I go to the wilderness to get the flower for the Second Flower God Position, I might be able to find stronger Flower Language Abilities among the flowers that humans have not named and discovered!

Of course, this would probably happen over a long period of time. He had not tried all the human-cultivated flowers in many places in the city.

He might be able to find some unknown flowers on the roadside, by the river, or among weeds. If he tried his luck, he might be able to obtain some good Flower Languages.

But the problem now is, how can I develop the First Flower God Position to the limit?

At this moment, Li Chengyi’s thoughts finally fell on the evolution of the wisteria.

As his gaze landed on the back of his right hand, a purple light immediately lit up in the slot filled with wisteria patterns in the Flower of Evil.

Then a piece of information flowed into his mind. It was all kinds of information about the wisteria.

The number of evolutions showed was two.

Evolution… requires other species of wisteria… The requirements are very precise. If I just try my luck casually like this, I’m afraid I won’t be able to complete the evolution as soon as possible. It seems I’ll have to go to a botanical garden or a large flower store…

He quickly had an idea.

There were many types of flowers in botanical gardens, and large flower stores were secondary choices. After all, wisterias were not flowers worth selling.

Of course, the best way was to buy the target seeds online and plant them himself!

But this way, the cycle would be too long.

Li Chengyi frowned and stood up. He quickly took out his phone and opened the largest shopping app—Quickselect.

He closed a bunch of self-promoting pop-up ads and entered wisteria in the search bar.

He clicked search.

Snap.

A search for wisterias was listed one by one.

[Wisteria seedlings, guaranteed to survive.]

[Potted wisterias with leaves.]

[Wisteria seeds. Buy two, get one free. Climbs walls and blooms all year round.]

All of them were advertisements of merchants selling wisterias, and there were even wholesale flowers.

I’m still short of money… If he had a lot of money, he could spend it to buy blooming flowers and pile them at home, or he could make his own small garden.

While thinking about this, Li Chengyi was about to continue searching for wisteria varieties.

Suddenly, an unknown number called.

The phone screen turned red in the blink of an eye, and a line of operator prompts appeared.

[The call has been marked by 367 people as advertising. Please answer with caution.]

Li Chengyi was about to hang up when the red on the screen suddenly turned green, and the text turned into new content.

[Secure call. Please be wary of fraud.]

Then before he could answer, his phone answered the call on its own.

“Hello, can you hear me?” Sindra’s voice came from the phone.

Li Chengyi’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly picked the phone up and looked around to make sure that no one was paying attention.

Then he placed the phone to his ear and covered it tightly.

“I can hear you. Go ahead,” he said in a low voice.

“Can you not be so obvious? Be natural and relax.” Sindra felt a little helpless over the phone.

“Am I that obvious?” Li Chengyi asked.

“Yes, you’re very nervous. Forget it. Come to this address first. I’ll wait for you here. Someone will pick you up downstairs,” Sindra replied. “You can find the information and news you want here.”

“What address?”

“776 West Welcome Street, New Age Building. When you reach the lobby on the first floor, someone will pick you up. The company’s name is Hongjin Biopharmaceutical Company.”

“There’s even a company? West Welcome Street seems to be a very lively business district, right?” Li Chengyi asked in surprise. His predecessor had submitted his resume to a company there a while ago and almost entered the interview segment, so he had a deep impression of it.

After all, there were not many private companies these days that didn’t skip over him, a plant conservation major.

“Yes, a lively place is safe. Everyone thinks so,” Sindra said meaningfully.

The call ended.

Li Chengyi put away his phone and let out a long sigh. Without hesitation, he walked straight out of the park.

He had to understand the information about Dead Ends first.

No matter what Sindra’s intentions were, at least his understanding of Dead Ends and his technology in the mobile communication networks far exceeded the imagination of an ordinary university graduate like him.

Since the place was in the center of the busiest commercial district, he would go there and take a look first.

After all, no one would be bold enough to cause trouble in the busiest commercial district.

After leaving the park, he waited at the bus stop for a while before taking a bus to West Welcome Street in the city center.

Standing in the bus, the scenery outside the windows gradually became lively from the deserted suburbs.

The streets gradually became crowded.

The honking of car horns kept sounding.

The people kept getting on and leaving the bus. Soon, Li Chengyi found a seat and sat down.

The seat made of blue hardened plastic was very cold, and there were many holes in the seat to make the butt cooler.

Li Chengyi leaned his back against the seat and stretched his spine comfortably, making his sore muscles as comfortable as possible.

He turned his head to look out of the window.

On the left were gray and white residential high-rise buildings that were about ten stories tall, with rows of green evergreen trees planted downstairs.

Under the trees was a bicycle path. Bikes of different colors were moving forward in the same direction as this bus, carrying people to work or sending children to school.

“In about four hundred and fifty meters ahead, we will enter a roundabout.” A gentle, electronic female voice sounded in the bus.

Li Chengyi retracted his gaze and looked around the bus.

There were two columns of seats in the bus, ten on the left and twelve on the right. There was no driver. It was a driverless vehicle.

The entire bus was full of the faint smell of disinfectant, which was a little pungent.

A few middle school students in uniforms standing and waiting for seats coughed from time to time, appearing to be irritated by the smell.

Li Chengyi noticed that most people on the bus would look down at their phones from time to time.

But there were a few people who were somewhat strange.

These people leaned back comfortably in their seats or leaned their bodies against places that they could lean on on the bus. Then they kept moving their hands in front of them, making all kinds of poses.

He was a little puzzled, but he quickly found the corresponding material in his predecessor’s memories—augmented reality glasses.

He noticed that these people were all wearing thin brown glasses on their faces. He guessed that these things should be the so-called augmented reality glasses. No wonder this world seems to have very advanced technology on the internet and in books, but it’s impossible to tell from ordinary life.

Li Chengyi was curious. He carefully observed the people wearing augmented reality glasses and watched their various actions.

Soon, the bus slowly turned, drove up a slope, and entered the roundabout overpass.

After Li Chengyi looked at these people for a while, sleepiness washed over his mind again. He knew that his overdrafted body still needed a lot of time to recover, so he looked out the window.

At this moment, after getting onto the overpass, the bus curved around, and only the five-to-six-meter-high silver shielding walls could be seen on both sides of the bridge.

Without the scenery to pass the time, he simply moved his body, adjusted the vibration of his phone, closed his eyes, and began to rest.

When he reached the stop he needed to get off, his phone would vibrate to remind him.

Time trickled by.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes…

Buzz!

The strong vibration pulled Li Chengyi back from his relaxed state.

He opened his eyes and saw the bus doors open automatically. He hurriedly got up and got out of the bus with other people.

On the platform opposite the bus, a few old men carrying grocery bags hurriedly squeezed into the bus from Li Chengyi’s side.

“I’ll pay.”

“Why are you paying? Let me do it.”

“Don’t be so polite. You can pay next time you come. I’ll pay this time!”

The sounds of older men fighting to pay came from behind him. Li Chengyi’s tense nerves were gradually eased and relaxed by this everyday atmosphere of market life.

He looked around.

On one side of the platform stood a sign: West Welcome Street, Rain River Bus Stop.

There was also an electronic screen playing the upcoming bus route numbers on loops.

Li Chengyi withdrew his gaze and took a few steps to the left before seeing where he was standing.

He was standing at a crossroad, and beside the platform was a zebra crossing. The bustling crowd was coming and going on the zebra crossing.

After crossing the zebra crossing, he saw various buildings across the road.

One of the silver buildings stood out from the crowd. It had the highest number of floors, and the top of the building had a large red metal sign with words engraved on it: New Age Leisure Plaza.

… It’s really eye-catching… Li Chengyi saw his destination at a glance.

In the memories of his predecessor, this building was a landmark of Suiyang City that had been built when he was young.

If not for the emergence of other high-end shopping malls that had occupied the flow of consumers in recent years, New Age would still be Suiyang’s first-class leisure consumption center.

He composed himself, walked forward, stepped across the zebra crossing, and mixed with the crowd toward the tallest building.