A Night of Desperation-Chapter 235: Resistance at 233

Research Department.

“It seems that at the end of the day, water source is the core issue, right?” Yu Hong sighed, lightly tapping his fingers on the desk.

“That’s exactly it. Hundreds of thousands of people in Aurora City need a large amount of water every day to sustain their livelihoods. We’ve somehow noticed some issues with Xin Zhilei, but as long as she can ensure the water supply, we can only turn a blind eye.” Adili said helplessly.

“The three Aurora Cities in the East River, don’t the other Aurora Cities have corresponding methods?” Yu Hong asked.

“The other Aurora Cities are too far from here, never close to the Black Disaster that pollutes the water sources. Only our number two Aurora City completely relies on groundwater to supply the city,” Adili explained.

Yu Hong pondered thoughtfully.

He indeed could create water, but this wasn’t a small outpost that needed only a few thousand liters of water to solve the problem;the daily water usage for drinking alone for hundreds of thousands of people far exceeded the total amount of water he could condense.

After all, he couldn’t possibly stay here all day creating water.

Therefore, finding a real solution to the water source was crucial.

“What method does Xin Zhilei use, do you know?” Yu Hong thought and asked.

“We’ve investigated, but there are no leads, we only know that whenever she goes down to the pumping system, it can normally supply water for a week. After she leaves, we’ve dispatched a large number of manpower and experts, but they can’t find the real reason.”

“The difficulty with the water source lies in the Black Disaster’s Dissolving Leeches. If a way could be found to counter this type of Black Disaster…” Yu Hong frowned.

“I’ve heard Mr. Yu is adept at dealing with the Black Disaster, do you have any thoughts in this area?” Adili asked gravely.

“….” Yu Hong didn’t immediately reply but rapidly flicked through a stream of thoughts in his mind.

‘Under what circumstances would the Black Disaster move on its own, leave?’

‘The answer is when it gets displaced and killed.’

‘So how do you kill the Dissolving Leech?’

Yu Hong thought of using the Black Mark to concoct a special poison targeted specifically at this kind of Black Disaster, but since the Black Mark was undergoing strengthening now, so….

The Condensing Water Technique, maybe he could try… to see if it could separate.

“In that case, Minister Adili, do you have a water sample contaminated by the Black Disaster’s Dissolving Leeches?”

“….Yes.”

Adili seemed to guess that Yu Hong had a plan.

Soon, Old Man Yan Yuqiu brought in a cup of pale gray water that looked like it had lime mixed into it.

In the transparent glass beaker, the water inside swayed slightly, looking no different from slightly dirty water.

“This is the contaminated water;it’s fine as long as it’s not ingested, but once it enters a human body, it quickly breeds a large amount of Dissolving Leeches. Then the person parasitized by these leeches would quickly turn into a human bomb with immense explosive power. Moreover, the bits of flesh and blood blown out also carry massive amounts of Dissolving Leech eggs, polluting any surrounding liquid,” Yan Yuqiu explained helplessly.

He placed the cup of water on the table next to Yu Hong.

“Do you have any ideas, Mr. Yu?”

“Mm… a little.” Yu Hong nodded.

He didn’t hide it;he extended his right hand, hovering it over the cup.

“If you have seen my information, you should be clear that I am the only remaining master of Inner Strength in existence today, so I want to try to use Inner Qi to see if it can resolve this Black Disaster.”

Yan Yuqiu opened his mouth to speak, then stopped, but seeing Yu Hong starting to focus, he too shut his mouth and waited for the result.

Buzz.

Soon a faint white light lit up in Yu Hong’s hand.

This fantastical scene suddenly caused Yan Yuqiu and Adili to catch their breath.

This was not one of those terrifying natural disasters like the Black Disaster, but a force produced by a person, a living, non-enhanced person, on his own.

Enhanced people and mutants, while still within their scientific understanding, but this glowing Inner Qi completely exceeded their comprehension.

Like a rune system, unfamiliar and mysterious.

As time passed.

Gradually, the gray water in the cup began to separate, with the top layer turning clear and the bottom remaining gray-black.

Yu Hong silently operated the Condensing Water Technique, but at this moment, he clearly felt the difficulty of extracting with the Condensing Water Technique had increased significantly.

Compared to directly extracting from the Multi-eyed Bird, it was much harder.

After more than ten minutes.

Yu Hong finally withdrew his hand, a trace of flush crossing his face.

By this time, the water in the cup had all appeared in his palm, slowly rotating in suspension.

Only a layer of gray-black writhing mud remained in the cup.

“I….” Yu Hong began to speak but suddenly, the Inner Qi in his body abruptly stopped, and a great amount of Inner Qi began to gather and swirl in his Dantian, then a complex twisted pattern emerged on the sphere of Inner Qi.

Success!

Yu Hong was pleased with himself, then he broke off what he was about to say.

He understood that this was the Condensing Water Technique finally breaking through to the fifth layer and obtaining the first characteristic after reaching the fifth layer complete.

“Wait a moment.” He closed his eyes, sitting quietly as the Inner Qi sphere inside his body slowly released an invisible sort of wave, covering his entire body.

A mysterious change made his body start to itch and ache.

Quickly, a magical feeling allowed him to suddenly realize. He seemed to have gained a certain characteristic from the Condensing Water Technique, by controlling regular water through practice.

At this moment, the feedback sound of the Black Mark rang out again.

‘Characteristic acquired: Underwater Breathing.’

Hiss…

Yu Hong took a long breath.

Last time he obtained a trait, it was when he refined the Thunderbolt Leg Technique to its peak, obtaining the Dao Breath Circulation. Now, to obtain a second trait so quickly, there was no doubt it was also thanks to that first trait.

‘Just like the traits obtained by disciples of the Yunshui Jiugong sect recorded before, the most common and easiest trait to obtain from ordinary clear water, is underwater breathing. It seems I’m no different from the ordinary disciples in this aspect. Then there’s the other type of water from the Black River…’

He chose two types of liquid control, one was clear water, and the other was the mysterious Black River water.

For the second type, he was quite excited about what trait he could acquire.

‘Theoretically, mastering the Condensing Water Technique could allow one to control hundreds of liquids, but traits could only be obtained from the initial two chosen. I estimate that after breaking through to the sixth layer, I should be able to obtain…’

Yu Hong was still unsure what effect the underwater breathing trait had, at this time his priority was to address the situation outside.

“Just now, about the method to deal with this Black Disaster,” he said as his other hand clutched a cup, channeling his Inner Qi.

Instantly, the Dissolving Leech in the cup turned into black smoke in the blink of an eye, evaporating into the air and disappearing.

“I can handle some of the contaminated water, but it requires time and consumption of Inner Qi. For solving the drinking water for the entire city, it’s not very useful. Thus, I personally think the best method is to obtain the secret of purifying water sources from Xin Zhilei,” he stated earnestly.

“Why would anyone willingly share such a secret?” Adili sighed, somewhat disappointed.

“At a time of such human crisis, is she really going to keep the secret of safe water usage to herself, for her own selfish desires?” Yu Hong exclaimed with a shocked expression.

“…” Yan Yuqiu and Adili had no words in response.

“At such a crisis situation, for the sake of the majority’s safety, personal secrets shouldn’t remain hidden. Minister Zhilei still holding onto such a secret is suspicious…” Yu Hong furrowed his brows as he continued analyzing.

“People are selfish… it’s understandable,” Adili said a bit awkwardly.

He felt a bit strange. Are you the minister, or am I? What era are we in? How can you say such conscience-betraying words?

Except for a few with ulterior motives who oppress others by high-sounding talk, most countries would not rob someone’s secret wealth in this way, and even if there were, they certainly wouldn’t say it openly.

Because this undermines the cohesion at the core of any organization.

In the information age, once such news spreads, an organization like this would soon lose all its cohesion and fall apart.

“Alright, let’s discuss what that gray-black substance you just separated out was,” Adili whispered.

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In the city, beneath a residential building.

Bang!

A muffled blast exploded.

Between floors, a resident’s security door was blown open.

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Followed by a burst of rapid gunfire.

Outside the window of this residence, a long rope was thrown down, and figures quickly slid down it.

Xue Ningning and others hurried downstairs, not even touching the ground before they jumped down and knocked over several black-clad men waiting outside.

Taking the lead, a few enhanced individuals forcibly engaged in close combat, breaking the arms of the black-clad men, then took Lin Yiyi along with an important USB drive and dashed towards the street outside.

Bang.

At that moment, the windows upstairs were smashed, several black-clad men poked their heads out, saw Xue Ningning and others escaping, instantly fired a few shots but missed, and could only likewise leap to grab the rope and slide down.

But only halfway down.

Bang! A gunshot.

The rope was severed, and a string of black-clad men fell heavily from the fourth floor, crashing to the ground and groaning in pain.

“Damn, my shooting is still so awesome!” Xue Ningning laughed as she pretended to blow smoke from the nonexistent barrel of her gun, then, along with an admiring An’an and Lin Yiyi, she holstered her weapon and continued to blend into the crowd.

As for the others like Li Han, they had already dispersed and changed jackets, disguising themselves as ordinary pedestrians blending into the street scene.

The group quickly left, evading pursuit, and soon regrouped in a temporarily halted factory within the city.

“What do we do now? How did those black-clad men find us?” Xue Ningning asked gravely.

Currently, they were divided into two teams, one led by her including An’an and Yiyi, the investigative trio.

The other team was led by Li Han, comprised of eight members of the investigative volunteer team. Although they were all from the investigation department, they weren’t exactly die-hard followers of Xin Zhilei.

“Now with this evidence, we can completely go to Commissioner Chen Xiguang! We can expose and denounce Xin Zhilei!” As the deputy commander, Li Han naturally had some connections in the city.

He seemed a bit confident in his statement.

“How do we expose her? Even Commissioner Chen wouldn’t dare take action against Xin Zhilei now, she holds the secret method to extracting clean water sources,” Xue Ningning shook her head.

“But if the secret in this USB drive is… if it’s true…” Li Han’s expression became grave.

This implied that the fact everyone believed the Meisha family had unleashed the Black Disaster might be partially overturned.

The Meisha family might be culpable, but they were likely just participants, not the orchestrators.

Behind them, there was a bigger power lurking…

Snap.

Snap.

Snap.

Suddenly, the clear sound of footsteps, the sound of leather boots, slowly approached from the shadows of the factory.

Everyone’s hearts tightened, they quickly drew their guns and spread out, looking in the direction of the sound.

Lin Yiyi, holding the USB drive, stayed in the back, ready to run if necessary.