Evergreen Botanical Garden.

In the early morning, the faint sunlight slanted onto the surfaces of the greenhouses, reflecting a soft golden hue.

Li Cheng颐 gently covered the soil around a white chrysanthemum and watered it with nutrient solution.

He now suddenly understood why white chrysanthemums had been selling so well recently.

Because too many people were dying.

No matter how high-sounding and grandiose the slogans of the Ideal Land were, they couldn't change one fact.

They brought death.

And it was a kind of death that most people were unwilling to accept.

If it were a chaotic world, it would be understandable, but in a stable country like Yi, carrying out such terrorist attacks was truly disregarding everything for their own ambitions.

Coming back to his senses.

Li Cheng颐 gently straightened up and turned to look behind him.

Cai Hongtang was blowing bubble gum, wearing large headphones, leaning against the wall by the door, shaking her head as if immersed in music.

"What are you doing here again?" he asked.

"Just came to see you," Cai Hongtang took off her headphones. "Brother Cheng, I found the person you asked me to investigate. Looks pretty good, works at a karaoke bar."

"What about her family?" Li Cheng颐's purpose was simple: he couldn't help in the Dead Angle, so he could only help with the aftermath outside.

"Only has a younger brother with a rare disease, hooked up to a ventilator in the hospital, needs a large sum for surgery," Cai Hongtang replied.

"How much?"

"Eight hundred thousand."

"Can Da Xiong help reduce the costs?" Li Cheng颐 asked. "I'll pay the fees."

"I'll ask," Cai Hongtang put on her headphones and pressed a button, quickly getting through to Da Xiong on the phone.

After a few questions, she nodded to Li Cheng颐.

"She says it's no problem on her end."

"Thank you for helping me thank her," Li Cheng颐 nodded.

If he could help her cure her brother's illness, this matter could be considered closed.

"Oh right, I might have to go out for a few days, can you help me watch the botanical garden?"

"No problem. But Brother Cheng, you really should hire a professional assistant," Cai Hongtang raised an eyebrow. "Preferably not one of us."

"I understand what you mean."

People from the Dead Angle were very unstable and accidents could happen at any time, so a stable job like managing the botanical garden wasn't suitable.

But the botanical garden held too many secrets, and Li Cheng颐 didn't trust anyone else. He couldn't find a suitable candidate in the short term, so he could only wait for an opportunity.

Thinking of this, he felt an even greater desire for a floraspeak ability that could increase trust.

If he had a floraspeak ability, he could control the risks in this area.

Back upstairs, Li Cheng颐 quickly packed the things he needed to prepare.

He needed to think about where to test the *Jie Mao Fei Lian* (Bristle-haired Fleeting Curtain) flower scale armor and floraspeak ability.

There were surveillance cameras in the city, making too much commotion was out of the question.

After all, he had just registered with the Jiu Yi (Nine儀) specialists and made guarantees.

'I still need a separate, hidden space.'

After thinking it over, he could only go to the wild wastelands outside the city.

But in this era, there were too few wild wastelands. Many places that were said to be wastelands actually had all kinds of people hidden within them.

Many gray market individuals who couldn't make a living in the city lived hidden in the wild.

That's how Zhong Hui's small villa came to be.

He took out his phone and swiped around on the map, searching for a long time before finding a place between Suiyang City and Qinggang City that had no markings at all.

'This is it.'

Taking the packed items and leaving behind his phone and all electronic devices, Li Cheng颐 quickly went out.

He didn't take a taxi, but rather walked slowly towards that direction, as if taking a stroll.

The botanical garden was already in the suburbs, with sparse population and only a few villages surrounding it.

After walking only a few miles, there were no signs of people around.

Once he was sure that no one was around, he quickly accelerated his pace.

At first, it was just the speed of an ordinary person running, but as the surroundings became more and more desolate, his speed also increased.

The enhancement brought by the flower scale armor meant that his physical fitness was now far beyond the scope of ordinary people.

Whether it was strength, speed, physique, or endurance.

Twenty minutes later.

Li Cheng颐 left the main road and entered a forest on the side of the road.

Following the slope of the forest upward, he gradually climbed onto a small hill, but he didn't stop, instead continuing to rush into the distance.

He continued past five or six small hills, stopping in a dense forest with straight trees that were over ten meters tall.

The ground of the forest was covered with fallen dead trees.

Yellow and black fallen leaves and branches were everywhere, some rotting, some broken into pieces, with weeds and small flowers of varying heights growing between them.

Li Cheng颐 casually touched a few wildflowers, mostly those he had touched before, such as composites, dandelions, and purslane.

Confirming that there was no fresh floraspeak, he stood up and looked around.

The surroundings were empty and fresh, with no signs of anyone besides some damp, cold, and gloomy air.

Streams of clear, cold sunlight shone through the forest and onto the ground, like slanted pillars.

'This is the place.'

Li Cheng颐 took a deep breath, raised his hand, and looked at the Sinflower mark on the back of his hand.

With a thought.

Silently, strands of black shadows, like thin threads, climbed up from under his feet.

Soon, the shadows completely covered his body, turning Li Cheng颐 into a black man.

Buzz.

A subtle strange noise suddenly spread.

Countless purple-red *Jie Mao Fei Lian* (Bristle-haired Fleeting Curtain) petals appeared out of thin air.

The petals condensed into pieces of jet-black armor, falling onto his body.

Hands, legs, torso, head.

All positions were covered with pieces of armor that resembled scales.

In the blink of an eye, he was wearing a set of jet-black, ferocious armor with small bone spurs protruding everywhere.