Hidden Corner

Chapter 260 Chapter 260 Chaos

 Five-thirty pm.

Li Chengyi arrived at Baijia Bookstore on time.

Old buildings are still crumbling, and the new shopping mall building in the distance is bustling with people.

This place is still as quiet and deserted as before.

Only elementary school students carrying schoolbags occasionally passed by after school, went into the bookstore to look around, and soon came out with a few old books.

Li Chengyi did not let Zhou Xingtong follow him, but got out of the car alone and walked to the door of the bookstore.

 The cafe to the left of the store door has been closed, and a store sublet sign has been put up.

The stationery store on the right is still the same, half-dead, except that the wooden boards on which the stationery is placed are older and a little black.

 In front of the dark bookstore, Li Chengyi recalled the original scene.

The little red mountain flower with the power of martial arts exists in Bai Feipeng's painting.

 So. Is it possible that the painting connected to some other world that has the power and was affected by pollution?

Approaching the store door, under the dark bookshelf inside, a bald old man was lying half on a wooden chair, playing a fighting game on his mobile phone.

The crackling combos erupted with various light and shadow effects, and the fight was quite intense.

 “Boss.” Li Chengyi knocked on the table where the books were placed.

 Dong dong dong.

 The old man put down his cell phone and glanced at him.

 “Buy books and choose by yourself. Look at the price on the wooden sign.”

“I don’t buy books.” Li Chengyi slowly stretched out his hand, took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, and placed it on the table.

 “I buy paintings. All the comic strips, and the paintings your grandpa used to draw in your shop.”

"?" Upon hearing this, the bald old man immediately raised his head and looked at Li Chengyi carefully in the dim light.

 “You were the one at that time?” He pointed at Li Chengyi, seeming to have remembered something.

“Yes, I am the one who has been here before.” Li Chengyi nodded.

 “Why are you buying a painting?” the old man asked doubtfully.

 “I have a nephew that I happen to like very much.”

“Forget it, don’t talk about it, don’t care what you are doing with it, come on.” He stood up quickly and motioned for Li Chengyi to follow him inside.

“You’ve come to the right place. There used to be a lot of old things here, including too many old comics of all kinds!”

 He took Li Chengyi to the innermost room, a small single room.

 Rows of bookshelves are filled with all kinds of old-fashioned picture albums and small books. The dim light is blocked a lot by the tall bookshelves, and the true color of the ground cannot be seen clearly. Only the shadows sway and change color as the two people move.

Soon, he walked to the last two rows of bookshelves. The old man bent down and pulled out a large wooden box from the ground and began to unpack it.

While unpacking it, he rambled on about how good the physical books and comics were, and how suitable they were for enlightening children and cultivating their outlook on life.

Li Chengyi responded casually while looking around and taking in the surrounding environment.

Suddenly he saw a young woman wearing a white dress, black hair shawl, and standing barefoot in a dark place between the bookshelves on the left.

 The woman’s back was turned to him, standing at the innermost side of the bookshelf, quiet, still, and motionless.

Li Chengyi frowned slightly, feeling a little weird.

The old man is still chattering. It is obvious that this is not a dead-end environment, so the woman cannot be a dead-end monster, but should be a living person in reality.

  But something strange is that his senses can feel the other party's breathing, heartbeat, and blood flow, but this woman just doesn't move.

She stood quietly in the shadow between the bookshelves, with her back to this side and facing the white wall, not knowing where she was.

“Boss, have you hired a helper here?” Li Chengyi looked forward to the old man and asked casually.

“Staff?” The old man was stunned, “No, what kind of clerk can I hire for such a small store?”

“Who is that lady?” Li Chengyi turned around and looked at the woman again.

 The bookshelves were empty and there was no one there.

  “!?”

 Li Chengyi's voice paused.

 He stared at that location carefully.

 Between the two bookshelves, one end is a blind corner of the wall, and the other end is his exit.

That woman disappeared in such a short period of time! ?

With his powerful senses now, he couldn't even notice how she left!

 “What’s wrong?” Old Man Bai came over doubtfully and followed Li Chengyi’s gaze.

“I haven’t sorted out the books over there for a long time. They are all about natural science. What do you want?”

 “Let’s take a look.” Li Chengyi squinted his eyes, already feeling something was wrong.

 He walked forward between the bookshelves and stopped exactly where the woman had stopped.

 Then look left and right at the bookshelf.

 Nothing was found.

 There is still a lot of dust accumulated on the bookshelf.

 He lowered his head and saw that there were only his footprints on the ground.

Fine dust also covered the ground, and on the dust, there was only a line of his footprints, extending from outside the bookshelf to here.

Li Chengyi felt a chill in his heart and knew something was wrong.

"Well, all the comic strips here have been dragged out. You are at the right place. Many of the old comic strips are only available here now. As for my grandfather's paintings," the old man did not finish his words.

“Wait a minute!” Li Chengyi suddenly thought of something, “Old version, do you still have painting paints for sale here?”

 “There must be paint.” The old man smiled.

“Then are the paints your grandfather used to paint still there now?” Li Chengyi asked quickly.

 “My guest, are you kidding me?” The old man was stunned.

 What kind of paint did his grandfather use at that time?

How many years ago was that thing? How could it still be there now?

Isn’t this funny?

“Forget it if you’re not here, can I ask, what brand of paint did your grandfather like to use the most?” Li Chengyi asked again.

The weird little fat man at the beginning was developed by Bai Feipeng with the help of an accidental drop of white paint.

That little fat man is very weird, and it’s hard to be sure it’s not related to the paint.    That's why Li Chengyi thought of this.

“I remember this. At that time, supplies were not plentiful, and there were not many brands to choose from. After all, there were only a few stores around.” Old Man Bai said with a smile.

“My grandfather and I used Wanyou brand paint at that time. There was no other choice.”

 “Wanyou Pai, okay.”

Li Chengyi remembered the name, then dragged out a large box of comics and the paintings drawn by the old man and grandpa, and threw them all into the car.

After paying the money, the old man smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. The old man gave Sindra a lot of money last time, and this time he got hundreds of thousands more. I really don't know what he wanted so much money for.

 The storefront is still so shabby and has not been renovated.

　　With a cart full of comics and picture frames, Li Chengyi found a hotel nearby to stay.

 After opening the suite, he took out all the comic books and read them one by one.

At the same time, we also provided ai rose with information on finding Wanyou brand pigments.

 In a painting, from the paint, to the brush, to the person who painted it, to the paper, to the frame, he had to find clues one by one to determine why the flower language of Shanlihong had changed.

 Two days.

 It takes two full days.

Li Chengyi stayed in his room, constantly reading all the comic strips.

 He is not simply flipping through it. While flipping it, he will also cover it with a radiant force field and check it.

  Determine the situation of dead space items.

 But unfortunately, still nothing was found.

  Crash.

Li Chengyi was in front of the sink, turned on the faucet, took some water and wiped it on his face.

 He has read all the details of the comic strips in succession.

But still nothing was found, and the radiant force field was useless at all.

The sound of water flowed continuously, and Li Chengyi pulled a towel to wipe the water from his face.

 ‘In the end, what’s the key? ’

His mind was constantly spinning, trying to find any key point that could be related to the technique.

   means nothing.

　　He raised his head and looked at himself in the mirror. He had been reading the comic strips for two days in a row without taking a break. There was a hint of fatigue in his eyes at this time.

‘Could it be that the paints used by Bai Feipeng are not real things, but items that have been circulated in blind spots? ’ Li Chengyi’s heart suddenly moved.

 There are all kinds of blind spots. If this is the case, then it may make sense.

 He turned around, opened the bathroom door, and returned to the living room.

 Suddenly, his steps stopped.

　　Just stopped, standing at the junction of the bathroom and the living room, motionless.

Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes, and an invisible fusion of knotted hair, flying flowers and scales appeared all over his body.

His eyes were fixed on the living room.

 In the early morning, dim skylight came in from the side window, illuminating half of the living room.

 The desk lamp on the desk in the corner still shines with yellow light.

 The intersection formed by skylight and table lamp.

 At this time, a woman was standing.

 A dark-haired woman wearing a long white dress with her back to him, motionless.

She was barefoot, with one-third of her white calves exposed, her hands hanging down naturally, and she stood upright.

 “How did you get in?” Li Chengyi said in a low voice.

no answer. The woman remained motionless, as if she had not heard him.

 “No matter who you are.” A golden sword slowly appeared in Li Chengyi’s hand and he walked forward slowly.

“Before, you were in the bookstore, and now you are here. It seems that you are just staring at me?”

 The distance between the two people gradually closed.

 The woman still did not move.

 She stood still and didn't speak, just like a sculpture, with her back to Li Chengyi.

  Crash.

 Suddenly, the faucet in the bathroom behind me turned on automatically.

Li Chengyi was slightly distracted and looked behind him out of the corner of his eye.

The bathroom door behind him opened with a click.

 A wisp of white skirt floated out slightly from the door.

 There is someone!

 Li Chengyi was horrified.

 He didn't notice any movement at all. How did these two people get in? ?

Huh.

 Suddenly he came back to his senses and looked towards the living room again.

 The woman in the white dress who was there just now has disappeared.

 I don’t know when I completely disappeared.

 The faucet also turned off automatically.

He turned around quickly and found that the bathroom door had not been opened at all.

 “That’s not right!”

Li Chengyi felt something was wrong and immediately took out his mobile phone to check.

 Sure enough!

 The time on the mobile phone is about half a minute slow!

This means that he just suffered from strong electromagnetic radiation interference, causing the cell phone's timekeeping to fail.

"Could it be a new blind spot!?" Li Chengyi didn't think anyone could approach him silently and then leave suddenly.

 But if it’s a blind spot, you’ll understand

 (End of this chapter)