Chapter 1 Crossing the Line

Crossing the zebra crossing, carefully avoiding the electric scooter riders speeding on the sidewalk, he then stepped onto a white skywalk equipped with an escalator.

He walked to the opposite side of the road, then continued along the stone slab road along the street for three hundred and fifty meters to the right.

Li Cheng颐 finally arrived at the New Century Building that Xinde La had spoken of.

Before he could walk up to the entrance in front of the building with security guards, a young woman guarding the door took the initiative to greet him.

"Are you Mr. Cheng Yi?" The woman was dressed in an office lady black suit, the skirt hem was a section above the knee, a little short, revealing fair and slender legs, a head of brown curly hair scattered over her shoulders, with light makeup on her face, her eyebrows obviously trimmed too much, like two pencil leads.

"I am." Li Cheng颐 knew that she should be the person who came to pick him up as soon as he heard the address, and nodded slightly.

"Please come with me, the company entrance is not from here." She smiled, revealing a professional reception smile, and said softly.

"Okay." Li Cheng颐 looked up at the building again.

A sense of urgency suddenly rose in his heart.

According to what Xinde La said, the Dead Angle would come again in two months. This was not a game. There were no rewards for surviving, so he had to make all the preparations as quickly as possible in these two months.

Also, if he could use Xinde La's resources to find a way to evolve the Flower Scale Armor, then the chances of passing through the Dead Angle would be greatly increased.

From the moment the Flower Scale Armor tore the monster's face and successfully allowed him to survive, Li Cheng颐 understood that his greatest hope lay in the Evil Flower.

Relying on intelligence, he was just an ordinary person, which was really not going to work...

Following the woman around to the side of the building, he entered through an office staff entrance and took a separate elevator.

Before long, the elevator stopped on the nineteenth floor.

Ding.

The door opened.

Inside were rows of neatly arranged desks and chairs.

White desks and chairs, black floor, silver-white ceiling, and large green plants in the corners.

The staff were sitting at their desks in an orderly manner, operating their computers from time to time, and some were on the phone communicating with the outside world, looking very busy.

"Here." The woman leading the way reminded him with a smile and took the lead to walk out.

"Okay." Li Cheng颐 followed her, passing through the desks, and walked to a dark corridor at the innermost part.

There was only one room at the end of the corridor. The door was half open, and a man was standing by the floor-to-ceiling window inside, smoking.

A silver-black suit, white shirt, slicked-back hair, one hand in his pocket, and one hand holding a cigarette.

Li Cheng颐 recognized at a glance that it was Xinde La, whom he had met before.

He looked at the woman leading the way, who stretched out her hand to him, making a gesture of invitation.

"Cough cough." Li Cheng颐 stepped forward, walked through the corridor, pushed open the door, and walked into the office at the end.

"You're here?" Xinde La turned around and stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray on the table.

"The contract is on the table, take a look, sign it if you agree, forget it if you don't." He pointed to a yellow wooden desk on the side.

The entire office was not large. From left to right, there was a black leather sofa, a low coffee table, a small whiteboard for writing, two movable computer chairs, and a rectangular wooden desk.

The furnishings were very hasty and simple, like a shell company.

Li Cheng颐 turned his attention to the wooden desk, on which were three bottles of drinks.

Two black and one red, including two bottles of black Kaki Cola and one bottle of Yunshan mineral water. All were 500ml bottles.

The contract document was pressed down by the mineral water in a red plastic cover.

He stepped forward, moved the mineral water, picked up the simple sheet of paper, and looked at it.

The content was very simple, it was an agreement that he would work in Xinde La's company, go to work and leave work on time every day, there was no work content, and no restrictions. However, the monthly salary and benefits were written in great detail.

With such generous conditions, there was no reason for him not to sign.

He immediately picked up the neutral pen next to him and quickly filled in his name on it.

"Leave a bank card number to the finance department later." Xinde La turned his face to remind him.

"What about the information? About the Dead Angle." Li Cheng颐 asked the most concerned part.

"Let me ask first, do you know how many types of Dead Angles there are?" Xinde La said. At the same time, he slowly walked to the door and closed it.

"Types?"

"Yes, there are many, many types of Dead Angles, so you need to say what Dead Angle you entered, so that you can accurately find the information."

After he closed the door, he took out a silver-black U-disk-like thing from his pocket and handed it to Li Cheng颐.

"Just open it against the whiteboard or the wall."

Li Cheng颐 took the thing and looked at it carefully. It seemed to be a miniature flashlight. There was a simple switch button on the side.

He looked it over and aimed the bulb end at the white wall on the left.

He pressed the button with a snap.

Hiss.

A white beam of light radiated from one end of the thing, reflecting on the white wall.

Suddenly, a colorful screen more than four meters long and wide appeared on the wall.

In the screen, rows of yellow folders were neatly arranged, with at least hundreds of them.

"This is the Dead Angle information I have collected, a lot, right?" Xinde La said softly from behind.

"A lot." Li Cheng颐 narrowed his eyes, carefully looking at the names of these folders, which were all pure numerical codes.

"First of all, I want to tell you the most important rule about Dead Angles." Xinde La continued.

"There are generally only two ways to leave the Dead Angle."

He stretched out two fingers.

"First, for every person who dies among the living people who enter together, the remaining people can leave temporarily once. Then they will go in again after two months.

This is also one of the reasons why we call this phenomenon a Dead Angle."

Li Cheng颐's pupils shrank slightly, thinking of his current situation.

"Is it like I am now?" he asked.

"Yes. Someone must have died in the Dead Angle you entered, so you were temporarily released.

Of course, the interval time for entering after leaving is not necessarily fixed for two months. This is just a general number we have calculated." Xinde La continued.

"The second way to leave is to completely find the way to escape the Dead Angle.

Each Dead Angle has a special way to escape. These methods are strange, but they are all closely related to their origins.

For this reason, I formed this company and absorbed a small number of special personnel to help me investigate this part together."

"How many people like me have joined you?" Li Cheng颐 asked.

"Not many." Xinde La said concisely.

"How many is not many?" A sense of foreboding rose in Li Cheng颐's heart.

"Including you, there are two." Xinde La said indifferently. "At most, there were ten or so people, but later, there were only two left."

".....Are they all dead?" Li Cheng颐's heart felt a little blocked, and his voice was a little low when he asked.

"Maybe, anyway, for those of us who have never been to a Dead Angle, they are all missing. We don't see people alive or dead." Xinde La sighed.

"In this case, if many people enter a Dead Angle at the same time, wouldn't they be able to extend their survival time by dying one at a time? Looking at it this way, there should be people who have truly completely escaped from the Dead Angle, right?" Li Cheng颐 reacted instantly.

"Yes and no." Xinde La replied.

"What do you mean?"

"Literal meaning." He walked to the position next to Li Cheng颐, stood still, and looked up at the projection screen on the wall.

"Indeed, some people have found a way to leave the Dead Angle with the help of external forces, that is, by using the method you said.

But...they also encountered another big problem."

"What problem?"

"Once people start dying in a Dead Angle, the danger will be greatly increased the next time other people enter."

"Increased..." Li Cheng颐's heart trembled. "To what extent is it increased?"

"I don't know." Xinde La shook his head. "My son is missing inside, and I really want to know if it is possible to completely escape from the Dead Angle...."

"Then what about those people who found the exit?" Li Cheng颐 asked again.

"They will continue to encounter new Dead Angles after two months until they disappear."

"......"

Li Cheng颐 finally understood why this phenomenon was called a Dead Angle.

"Don't worry, the longest record is from an official who survived more than thirty Dead Angles. Work hard, and maybe you can too!" Xinde La patted him on the shoulder to comfort him.

"In other words, you want to find your son? Didn't you say he was dead?" Li Cheng颐 continued to ask.

"Maybe he's just missing."

"Okay." Li Cheng颐 didn't ask any more questions. "How should I start?"

"Tell me everything from beginning to end, how you got in, what it was like after you got in, and how you got out." Xinde La's face became serious.

Li Cheng颐 did not delay and immediately told him everything about how he first entered the omen, then completely entered, encountered monsters, and so on.

Of course, all the content involving the Evil Flower was omitted by him, so the fact that the monster's face was torn apart by him once was also concealed.

In any case, the ability of the Evil Flower's flower language and the Flower Scale Armor would be his biggest trump card, and there could be no leakage.

"You mean, you met someone who went in with a gun?" Xinde La asked thoughtfully.

"Yes. That person was definitely prepared, otherwise he wouldn't have gone straight to the crevice where I was hiding.

In addition, I also saw strange symbols at the entrance of that suddenly appeared crevice." Li Cheng颐 replied.

"The omen can allow you to prepare supplies in advance, and it will naturally allow others to prepare in advance. If that person happens to be qualified to hold a gun and can get a gun, it is normal to bring a gun into the Dead Angle. It's just that I'm not sure if he is an official. No... probably not..." Xinde La stroked his chin.

"Then what should I do?" Li Cheng颐 asked with a frown.

"If you want to survive, you not only have to face the dangers in the Dead Angle itself, but also learn to face the threats brought by others. And among these threats, the biggest possibility is various weapons."

Xinde La walked to the side and quickly wrote a few words on the whiteboard with a black pen.

'Physical Fitness, Weapons, Response Mode.'

"These three areas are what you need to strengthen and learn in these two months. If you still want to survive."

Li Cheng颐 put down the projection flashlight in his hand and looked at the whiteboard.

"Do you have arrangements?"

"Of course. The floor below here has been taken over by me as an indoor training center for you and another assistant to use.

As for weapons, you have to learn how to protect yourself when facing various weapons. Then learn how to use various weapons yourself.

The reason why mastering weapons is put later is because ordinary weapons, including guns, have very weak effects on the various dangers in the Dead Angle. The biggest role of a gun is against people."

"I thought there was a big organization behind you." Li Cheng颐 suddenly said something irrelevant.