A Night of Desperation-Chapter 225: Trouble 1

Yu Hong’s body was ablaze with white Inner Qi flames, his hair shooting upward like spikes.

Amplified by Inner Qi, his voice boomed like thunder, causing the entire warehouse to vibrate with humming resonance.

Everyone present felt their eardrums buzzing, completely subdued by him in that moment.

The strength of one man had actually managed to overpower a War Level Black Disaster, rendering it unable to retaliate. What kind of new weapon was this?!

Seeing this, Yu Hong finally relaxed and spoke again.

“Roar!!”

Suddenly, the Leopard King behind him rose up and roared in fury, swinging a paw at him.

“Shut up!!”

Yu Hong released Old Zhang, spun around, and sprinted, delivering a direct kick to the Leopard King’s abdomen.

Boom!!

The tremendous explosive force instantly caved in the massive belly of the Leopard King, bursting open a large hole in its back.

Its enormous body, like a giant skin ball, zipped diagonally through a hole in the rear wall and disappeared into the Black Fog.

The noise quickly died down.

The warehouse returned to silence.

Everyone stared blankly at Yu Hong, watching the unreal, special-effect-like white flames of Inner Qi on his body.

“The Language Person was right… This damn thing is really just a fake game!!”

Suddenly, someone laughed loudly, lifted a gun, and shot at the dynamite.

Bang!

A large piece of stone fell from the wall, smashed forward by Yu Hong, accurately blocking the bullet in front of it, sparks scattering off the surface of the stone.

Yu Hong’s figure flashed, he grabbed the person’s gun barrel and snapped it, then slapped the man, knocking him unconscious.

“Old Zhang, are you awake now?” Afterwards, he dispersed the flames on his body and walked up to Zhang Kaijun.

“…..” With half of his face swollen like a bun, Zhang Kaijun remained silent, but beneath his goggles, his eyes still held an indescribable shock.

“I can get pure water sources, enough for everyone present here to drink. So don’t give up, there’s still hope,” Yu Hong said earnestly, looking down.

He extended his hand, and in his palm, a clear water ball quietly floated and spun.

“….” Seeing this incredibly fantastical sight, Zhang Kaijun’s pupils constricted once more, and he was completely still.

“Free?” Suddenly, he spoke.

“Get real,” Yu Hong lifted the water ball for others to see, scoffed coldly a few times. “It’s a trade, no free meals for anyone!”

Seeing the water in his hand, everyone’s eyes filled with disbelief.

Some people came closer, trying to discern if it was real, but given Yu Hong’s exaggerated violence, they didn’t dare to continue.

Most people’s minds were muddled, after all, in this scientific era, suddenly encountering someone completely unscientific.

Inner Qi, flames, and even controlling water!

This man named Yu Hong, from the beginning, seemed to be entirely different from everyone else!

Yet, this different style also rekindled a glimmer of hope in the hearts of the once-despairing elites present.

‘If there’s water… maybe, we can still hold on!?’

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Inside the cave.

Lin Yiyi gently set down the nurse’s cold wrist, silent.

Under the dim green light of the atomic lamp, the nurse’s pale face remained serene and tired as if she were still unconscious.

“I’m sorry…”

After a while, she softly uttered two words.

“It’s been five days, she passed away quite cleanly, sparing her further suffering,” The foreign man nearby said calmly.

Over five days, Lin Yiyi and he had together visited a hunter’s cabin near where the Black Disaster roamed, successfully using a diversion to get some supplies.

Unfortunately, as the temperature dropped, by the time they returned from their final supply trip, the nurse had long lost her breath.

“Martin, who… exactly are you?” Lin Yiyi had been working with him to secure supplies for the past few days and had learned his name.

She was gradually able to discern that he wasn’t a bad person.

After all, a bad person wouldn’t risk leading the Black Disaster away for no reason.

“Me?… A confused person who doesn’t know what he can do,” Martin said indifferently, the nurse’s death seemingly common in his eyes.

“But you, you’re interesting…” His gaze rested on Lin Yiyi, “Your body bears traces of a late-stage human fusion with Black Disaster… meaning, you have both the traits of a mutated person and aspects of the Black Disaster. This is similar to what the Eternal Life Association initially wanted…”

“Retaining human intellect and desires, while acquiring partial immortality from the Black Disaster and being unattackable by lower-level Black Disasters…”

“… I, don’t under, stand…” Lin Yiyi frowned.

“Not understanding is correct, most people in this world don’t understand,” Martin smiled. “Like me, my family and I have always guarded a big secret, about why this world has fallen to this state. It’s a secret about certain people, certain powers, who, for their impossible wishes, have committed unimaginably cruel evil deeds. Do you want to know?”

“…. Yes.” Lin Yiyi had a vague guess, and her expression grew serious.

“You’re a good girl… though a bit slow-witted, I….” Martin paused, suddenly frowning, “Wait, something’s coming in… Let’s deal with it first.”

His expression turned grave, and he stood up, looking towards the cave entrance.

Lin Yiyi also stood up, looking outside.

Under the flashlight beam.

At the cave entrance, a figure cloaked in a black cape stood motionless.

Behind the figure, the cold whistling wind blew, and snowflakes fluttered down.

But below his feet, groups of black shadows moved like living things, continuously flowing and shifting.

“Parasitic Man! Rated as War Level…” Martin’s expression became serious, “Be careful.”

He stepped forward, emerging into the open.

Suddenly his eyes widened, and around his eyes, numerous thin, dark red tendrils like hair burst forth.

The tendrils kept growing from around his eyes, quickly covering his entire face.

Hiss!

He opened his mouth, and his tongue too was like a set of dark red tendrils, similar to a snake’s.

Swish!

In an instant, Martin lunged, moving at a speed almost imperceptible to Lin Yiyi, toward the cloaked Parasitic Man.

Boom!!

A large cloud of black smoke enveloped the cave entrance, obscuring all vision for a time.

After several minutes.

The Black Fog cleared, and the cloaked figure quietly retreated away from the cave entrance and disappeared into the Black Fog.

Martin stood still on the spot, gasping for breath, with a huge bloody hole suddenly appearing in his chest where his heart should have been.

Yet, he didn’t seem to care.

Turning around, Martin looked at Yiyi with his dark red eyes full of brutality and bloodlust, the hole in his chest rapidly healing itself.

Despite the fatal injury, his gaze remained fixed on Yiyi’s eyes, unchanged.

One second.

Two seconds.

Boom!!

In an instant, Martin took a step forward and charged like an arrow toward Lin Yiyi.

With one swipe,

his right hand ferociously clawed towards Yiyi’s head.

His sharp fingernails, each one like a bayonet and over ten centimeters long, were straight and sharp.

Crack!

“Wait…!!!”

Lin Yiyi, terrified, tried to resist, but she was too slow.

By the time she managed to react, her hair and the protective suit on her back were already caught by his claws.

In an instant, a tremendous force yanked her from the ground.

Whoosh!!

She felt the world spinning around her, and she was tossed out of the cave like a ball by a tremendous force.

Just as she flew out of the cave,

in the dark night sky, a series of orange fire lines streaked downwards, densely entering the interior of the cave.

Boom!!

A massive explosion sounded, accompanied by ballooning fireballs that erupted in the cave at the same time.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!

The fire lines continued to descend.

Ten streaks.

Twenty streaks.

Thirty streaks!

Until the bombardment continued for dozens of seconds.

The cave was completely turned into ruins, charred black. The bombing then ceased.

Where the cave had been, along with the mountainside and the ground, was now a huge crater.

The high temperature had reddened the rocks, and dark red magma was faintly visible at the bottom of the crater, with thick smoke billowing.

Lin Yiyi, in severe pain all over, crawled up and stared blankly at the scene before her.

She had just thought Martin couldn’t control himself and wanted to attack her.

But…

“Martin…” she lowered her head and saw something on the ground in front of her that had been thrown out with her.

She walked forward and picked it up.

It was a black rectangular USB drive, as long as an adult’s index finger.

Attached to it was a red cord made of braided hawthorn branches.

Yiyi remembered, this was also something Martin had stuffed to her and thrown out with her.

“Why….” Lin Yiyi murmured softly as she looked at the still smoking crater.

She now realized that when Martin grabbed her and threw her out, he was actually trying to protect her… from the incoming barrage of rockets.

Just then, from the depths of the black fog, a faint sound of engines approached.

There were people!

Someone was coming near!!

Instinctively, Yiyi stuffed the USB drive into her pocket and turned toward the direction of the sounds.

“Yiyi!? Is that really you?”

From afar, a searchlight shone on her.

It was Xue Ningning’s voice!!

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Gray City.

Trucks loaded with boxes drove out of the city gate and into the black fog.

In the thick fog where visibility was almost zero, the headlights were like two orange arrows piercing the mist, illuminating an area more than ten meters ahead.

In the leading vehicle,

Zhang Kaijun and Yu Hong sat side by side.

Zhang was driving, Yu Hong in the passenger seat.

“Are you sure you don’t want to come to my place? Given our acquaintance, I could offer you a reserve member status,” Yu Hong asked.

“No thanks. Your area is surrounded by high-risk Black Disasters. According to satellite cloud imaging, it’s one of the two areas with the highest Red Value concentration nearby. Right next to it is a War Level Black Disaster, dying there is even quicker,” Zhang Kaijun replied coldly with his usual biting tone.

“What do you mean ‘dying quicker’? Haven’t I managed just fine on my own until now?” Yu Hong argued.

“One grain of rice and a bowl of rice, the level of attraction to a starving person is different,” Zhang Kaijun stated.

“…” Yu Hong was at a loss, knowing the other was right. “So, what’s your plan?”

“Close to your location, find an area with a lower concentration of Red Value radiation. This way, I can easily transport water from your place while avoiding potential high-risk Black Disasters,” Zhang Kaijun said coolly. “Speaking of which, with your place being so dangerous, why haven’t you moved earlier?”

“… I’m.. eh, waiting for an opportunity…,” Yu Hong squeezed out an excuse.

“Got reasons you can’t talk about?”

“Pretty much.”

“Then a piece of advice, try to limit the number of people. Once the count exceeds ten, the attraction to the Black Disasters will skyrocket.”

“…Ten people, huh? Okay…”

Zzzt.

Suddenly, up ahead in the street, a group of raggedy barrier people appeared out of nowhere.

They looked wan and worn, covered in bloodstains, their eyes filled with panic, as if they had just escaped from a place of extreme horror.

“Survivors.” Zhang Kaijun pulled out his gun, checked the luminous stone bullets inside, and shut off the alarm-triggering enhanced detector.

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“Level five Black Disaster Evil Shadows often appear on the roads, disguised as survivors to block passing vehicles. Their mode of attack is possession;once they come within three meters, passengers and drivers in the vehicle will be possessed, lose consciousness, and become puppets, creating vehicular accidents.”