A Night of Desperation-Chapter 258: Searching for Two

In the forest shrouded in the Black Fog.

Two tall figures wearing silver metallic masks were silently gazing at the orange light emanating from the direction of Black Wind Camp.

“The Cold Disaster is getting more severe, location transmission is too strongly interfered with, even the Association’s technology can’t completely eliminate the interference. We can only launch it from a close distance,” one of them said with a sense of helplessness.

“This time, the bait is definitely sufficient, and it will also blow up the resistance mechanism of Black Wind Camp, which should reveal Yu Hong’s Inner Qi resistance methods,” the other said.

“Let’s go, after this, it might be difficult for us to come out again. The protective methods against the Black Disaster are useless against the Cold Disaster… This might be our last free action before establishing the new city,” the first person sighed.

“Brother Hao, speaking of which, why did you want to join the Association in the first place?” the latter asked casually.

“For my dad. The Association offered the only heart transplant organ.”

“Me too, for my little brother… Fortunately, everything is moving in a good direction. Although it is tough for us outside, they are living happily in the underground new city,” the latter said with a laugh.

“Yes. To live a peaceful and quiet life in these times, only the Association can make it happen,” Brother Hao said softly, “So, as the Chairman said, everything we’re doing now is a necessary sacrifice, for the future, for a better life… we have no other choice.”

“Let’s go.” He turned around and walked towards the distant Black Fog. “Return to headquarters to report.”

Swoosh!

Just then, a beam of white light flashed by.

Pfft!

The person behind Brother Hao was instantly held by a powerful force by the neck, immobilized against a withered tree.

“Who’s there!?” Brother Hao turned abruptly, reflexively throwing out a large cloud of black powder with his right hand.

Whoosh!

A strong wind blew, sending the powder billowing back onto him.

Pff, pff, pff.

The powder ignited, glowing red.

He tried to pat it off in a hurry, but before he could see clearly, a burly figure had already appeared in front of him.

“Found you… finally.”

The figure reached out, snapping both of Brother Hao’s arms in an instant.

Crack, crack came two crisp sounds.

Brother Hao grunted in pain, kicking up his leg in an attempt to fight back.

His kick landed on the other’s knee but made a blunt sound like kicking a rock.

He immediately realized.

“You are… Yu Hong!?”

“What exactly does the Eternal Life Association want to do?” Yu Hong grasped his forehead with one hand, also feeling a sense of relief.

He had finally caught the Association’s slip-up. If he hadn’t cleared the surrounding Black Disaster beforehand, allowing these two to blend in with the Black Disaster horde, he really wouldn’t have been able to find them.

Now that the surrounding Black Disaster had disappeared and had not yet recovered, the appearance of these two was as visible as fireflies in the night to Yu Hong.

“Also, tell me the address of the Eternal Life Association, and I’ll spare your life,” Yu Hong added.

“Uh… The Association wants to conduct a selection. Only those who can hold out to the end have the right to enter the new world, to become the new humankind…” Brother Hao replied with a dry laugh.

He had heard of Yu Hong’s combat strength from the documents, so he simply did not resist.

He was not one of those remote-controlled modified people;he was alive, and dead meant losing everything.

“New humankind? What makes the Association confident it can survive the Black Disaster?” Yu Hong was surprised.

“The Association has special weapons inherited from the ancient Yingshan civilization that can seal and resolve most of the Black Disaster,” Brother Hao revealed the secret without hesitation.

“Yingshan civilization…” Yu Hong narrowed his eyes, “Can the Eternal Life Association truly achieve eternal life?”

“Every formal member gets one wish-granting opportunity. The more life sacrificed, the more they can receive,” Brother Hao quickly answered, fearing that a slow reply would mean certain death for him.

“By sacrificing others’ lives, each member has used their own methods to sacrifice a large number of lives in rituals. Thus, the effectiveness of their wish-granting opportunity varies. But such a qualification is only available to those of high status and power. We are just subordinates, not qualified.”

“One last question,” Yu Hong’s inner doubts were partly resolved, “Where is the Association’s headquarters?”

“Do you want the chance to make a wish? I’ve seen them make wishes, and anything can be achieved, even bringing back the dead. Regaining youth, obtaining superhuman strength, etc., all can be done,” Brother Hao continued, “I can refer you.”

“Give me the location,” Yu Hong’s voice grew colder.

“Alright… I’ll tell you, it’s at…” Brother Hao chuckled dryly, starting to speak.

“East…”

Beep!!!

Suddenly, a sharp, piercing noise erupted from him.

A red light flashed instantly, followed by a loud bang.

Boom!!!

A red flame burst from within Brother Hao, expanding violently into a huge fireball over seven to eight meters in diameter, engulfing Yu Hong nearby.

Rings of explosive waves stirred the air, spreading in all directions, turning into strong winds, scattering the snow powder on the ground, revealing the dark earth below.

Bang!

At that moment, the flame was dispersed by a burst of white from within.

The white, incandescent light swirled out, quickly dissipating the red ashy flames.

Yu Hong’s body blazed with sky-reaching white flames as he looked at the remains of Brother Hao in his hand, now reduced to mere char.

Then he turned his head toward the other man.

That person had already been blown to countless pieces of flesh, dead beyond doubt.

The hard-earned clue was cut off at the crucial moment.

His face contorted fiercely as he swung back his palm and pressed down hard.

Whoosh!!

A stream of white Inner Qi transformed into a powerful wind, pushed against the ground, instantly extinguishing the flames and clearing a wide circular area over ten meters in diameter.

He quickly came to an understanding.

These two were likely sent on purpose to give him partial information.

The Eternal Life Association had rituals that could fulfill almost any wish, as long as the price was high enough, as long as enough lives of others were given. Then everything would be possible.

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Such a ritual, leveraging others as the price to harvest one’s wishes. What could be more tempting than this?

Every person has desires, and when a wishing machine that requires someone else to pay the price instead of oneself appears before them, the vast majority would be tempted.

Even Yu Hong was somewhat swayed at this moment.

He wanted to leave this desperate world, to return to the ordinary world he once knew, to live an average, unremarkable life.

Not like now, always ready to fight for survival, constantly training hard in his cultivation technique, where occasional rest was the greatest luxury.

Returning to the camp.

Yu Hong quickly activated his communication device, ready to share the recent situation.

But as soon as he turned on the device, Chen Yaofeng’s voice came through in broken fragments.

“Yu Hong! The investigation team found… the Association’s headquarters!”

“So soon!?” Yu Hong was startled, skepticism rising before joy.

“It’s not quick, to be precise, someone deliberately notified us of the secret,” Chen Yaofeng swiftly added. The interference in the communicator was very strong at the moment.

“Who?” Yu Hong asked.

“Basasi Meisha.”

“A person from the Meisha family!?” It seemed to dawn on Yu Hong.

The Eternal Life Association and the Meisha family, from the video in that USB drive, seemed not to be entirely on the same side.

“It’s from the data in the USB drive that we made significant strategic changes towards the Meisha family, and finally got in touch with a surviving member of the Meisha family within the East River territory. That’s Basasi. He inadvertently discovered some clues left by a traitorous member of the Meisha family from the past while gathering information for our allied forces, and from that, he deduced the specific location of the Eternal Life Association headquarters,” Chen Yaofeng quickly explained.

“Then we rapidly assembled an investigation team;as you know, with this kind of weather and climate, forming an investigation team to go outside for investigation is like a desperate gamble, without substantial confidence, our several Aurora Cities wouldn’t dare to act so recklessly.”

“The investigation team, after covert detection, confirmed they discovered an underground transportation tunnel of the Eternal Life Association, leading directly to the underground headquarters!”

“Let me know the specific location as soon as it’s found, send me the coordinates!” Yu Hong quickly ordered.

“The initial tracking of the tunnels must begin with infiltrating the transportation tunnels, following their goods, and once at the headquarters, they will send the signal for location. We’re also waiting,” Chen Yaofeng said.

“I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time…” Yu Hong licked his lips;the people from the Eternal Life Association had been constantly seducing, harassing, attacking him.

Just now, even the array had been remotely bombarded, resulting in damage.

The Black Mark still needed who knows how long to repair…

This account had to be settled with them, no matter what.

With that thought, Yu Hong suddenly asked.

“Where is the investigation team now? Send me the location.”

“Sure!” Chen Yaofeng agreed readily.

Shortly, a detailed set of latitude and longitude coordinates were transmitted from the communicator.

Yu Hong noted them, took out a map to calculate the position and direction from his own location.

Then he stepped out of the cavern.

“Agrius.”

He whispered quietly.

Silently, the huge Dragon of Xianglv emerged from behind him and appeared.

“Go there, follow her.”

He sent the command through his mind.

Whoosh!

Agrius instantly turned into Black Fog, shooting out, and disappeared into the Black Fog in the blink of an eye.

Leaving Yu Hong alone, standing in the courtyard.

“One more day.”

He turned and headed back to the cave.

In one more day, a new cultivation technique to counter the Black Disaster, born from the True Origin Divine Light, was about to be unveiled.

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Near a gloomy village, in the abandoned vast rice fields.

Covered with snow, the rice fields had long since frozen solid, incredibly firm.

Camouflaged armored vehicles and rocket cars were neatly lined up, all parked on this patch of land.

Four vehicles from the two major East River Aurora Cities were dispatched for the investigation team.

Each was equipped with a small nuclear engine to ensure the functionality and heating of the vehicle’s interior.

The region of Furlica had also sent three similar modified vehicles.

A total of five vehicles gathered in this vacant field, ready to follow the discovered underground tunnel and infiltrate the Association’s headquarters.

“According to the people from the Meisha family, that is an underground city named New City. Many years ago, the Eternal Life Association had already begun secretly moving the populace there from the surface,” the investigation team from the East River gathered, changing into specially made warm suits, each wrapped up looking like astronauts, clumsy as a flock of grey and black penguins.

The speaker was the East River investigation team leader, known as the Power King, Han Zhen.

As one of the strongest enhanced beings from Aurora City, his physique and strength were in proportion;ordinary bullets at close range could only pierce a bit of his skin.

Unless it was specialized firearms and bullets, conventional firearms were no longer very effective against him.

“This time we must completely blast the entire Association base from the inside, neutralize it! Once they lose material resources and logistical support, what they have left is just a few individuals with some ability. They won’t pose a big threat.”

While Han Zhen spoke, he was busy checking the various devices, weapons, and medicines on him.

“Yiyi, are you still thinking about your grandfather?” Xue Ningning quietly asked in the team, gently holding Lin Yiyi’s hand.

“Don’t worry, according to the clues provided by Commissioner Chen, it’s preliminarily confirmed that your grandfather and father’s situation is related to one of the Eternal Life Association’s initial setups. The first outbreak of the Black Disaster within East River was due to those trash from the Association,” Ningning explained.

“…Yeah, I, I know.” Lin Yiyi, after so many experiences and tough training in the city, had long since changed in temperament. In terms of combat, whether it was marksmanship or hand-to-hand combat, she was already far stronger than she had been before.

At that moment, from the Black Fog in the distance, a faint black mist suddenly approached, soundlessly merging into her back and lurking motionlessly, turning into a small lizard-like black pattern.

And amidst the team, no detector reacted, nor could the specialized radar perceive it.