Night of Despair-Chapter 152 - : Attitude at 150 Degrees

Chapter 152: Attitude at 150 Degrees

“Betrayal? You think you’re still the high and mighty director from before? Poor fellow, compared to the powerful President Wen, I’d rather side with someone stronger.” Harris said with a smile while shooting.

“Just didn’t expect that you had also undergone enhancement transformations and were quietly wearing a bulletproof vest.” After his repeated shootings proved futile, he immediately threw away his gun and rushed forward to engage in close combat.

Boom!!

In an instant, the two collided.

Within seconds, both were startled by the tremendous force of each other’s punches, blood spraying wildly around.

Harris was forced to retreat repeatedly, no match for his opponent.

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Boom!!

A gunshot rang out. Wei Hongye was shot in the chest with an armor-piercing bullet by someone ambushing him, blood gushing out immediately.

“I’m going to kill you! How dare you betray me!” he roared, still landing a punch on Harris’s face.

If it weren’t for the gunshot, his strength and skills would have perfectly suppressed his opponent. Unfortunately…

“Betrayal? You didn’t say that when you stole Director Gao’s patents.” Harris stepped back and shook his head, using the shooting to buy himself some time. “You can rob others, I’m just learning from you. Hand it over, you can’t escape.”

“Yanxi, take Shanshan and run! Run!” Wei Hongye yelled loudly. “I’ll come find you later, go now!”

The fight between the two left everyone else around them stunned.

At that moment, a roar erupted, and Qiu Yanxi quickly recovered from the shock, grabbing her daughter and fleeing towards the distance.

She hadn’t run far when a gunshot hit her right leg, spraying blood and causing her to fall to the ground.

“Run! Shanshan, run!!” Qiu Yanxi let go of her daughter, pushing her far away before she fell.

Wei Shanshan was still in a daze, turning to look at her mother and her father being surrounded. She stood there, unsure of what to do.

“Run!!” Qiu Yanxi pulled out her pistol and returned fire, shouting loudly.

Her shout seemed to awaken the fear and survival instincts within Wei Shanshan.

Tears flooding her eyes, she turned and ran frantically.

She dared not look back, only hearing behind her the screams of her father and her mother’s angry curses.

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Inside Black Wind Camp.

Yu Hong, Old Zhou, and Aisena were sitting beside a wooden cabin, shielded from the chilling wind by the cabin and seated around a slowly burning bonfire, quietly chatting.

It was getting dark, but the detector showed it was only one in the afternoon.

“The temperature is dropping; it’s going to be tough without fire,” Yu Hong said in a deep voice. “I can run some electric lines from the cave for power, but we don’t have any electric heating equipment…”

“There must be some in the residential area. The nearby abandoned town should have some, my arm can move a bit now, let’s head out early tomorrow to look,” Old Zhou whispered. “The temperature must be around three degrees now.”

“Don’t go, let’s just keep the fire going in the cabin for now. We can go to the post office and get some stone stoves to use,” Yu Hong suggested,

He looked sideward toward the yard outside.

The gray fog-shrouded forest was gloomy and silent.

And the low fence around the camp seemed to sharply delineate safety from danger.

Inside was safe, outside was dangerous.

“It seems even the Multi-eyed Bird’s call can’t be heard today,” he murmured.

“Yes… Boss, I also found something you might need to pay attention to,” Old Zhou whispered.

“What?”

“I smelled something in the air, an unpleasant smell. Not just me, Nana and Dr. Xu smelled it too.”

“An unpleasant smell?” Yu Hong sniffed carefully for a while before faintly detecting a faint foul smell in the air.

It was like some wires had been burned, hardly noticeable unless you paid attention.

He was originally waiting for the enhancement array to finish, taking the opportunity to step out and get an update from Old Zhou about the camp.

Unexpectedly, he learned this.

“Let’s study this after some time passes, just ignore it for now. I’ll get you a few sets of respiratory filter masks to use for the time being,” Yu Hong said.

“Okay,” Old Zhou nodded.

“Uncle Yu, do you know when my dad will be back?” Aisena asked quietly.

The fire’s red glow cast a somewhat gaunt reflection of her face, now thinner than before. Her skin grew paler from lack of sunlight, with her mixed-race features becoming more prominently beautiful.

“I’m not sure, but he should be fine,” Yu Hong reassured. “Your dad took a lot of good stuff with him; he’s experienced, not so easy to run into trouble.”

“I want to help.” Aisena bowed her head, hugging her knees. “I don’t want to draw anymore or learn words. I want to be useful. I don’t want to be a burden.”

“Why would you be a burden? Nana, you’re so hardworking and cute, no one would think you’re a burden,” Yu Hong said with a smile.

“I’m not cute! Dr. Xu told me that useless people die the fastest,” Aisena lifted her head, earnestly saying, “I don’t want to be useless!”

She showed an unprecedented seriousness on her cheeks.

“Nana is not useless…” Old Zhou started to comfort her but was quickly interrupted by the little girl.

“I’m not joking,” she earnestly grabbed Old Zhou’s hand. “My illness has gotten a lot better here, though my dad told me never to tell anyone about this, but…”

She paused.

“But I think Uncle Zhou and Uncle Yu are trustworthy people. Dr. Xu said if I don’t try hard, I’ll just end up marrying Uncle Yu, and I don’t want to be a wife. I want to be a useful person!”

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Both men were at a loss for words.

“Nana, be good… It’s getting dark, you should go back and read and learn words now,” Old Zhou said with a smile.

“I have an illness that, unless suppressed by the luminous stones, will slowly emit stuff like those shadows,” Aisena calmly mentioned.

“….” This statement made Yu Hong, who had also been about to speak, pause.

He and Old Zhou exchanged glances and then turned their attention back to Aisena.

“What do you mean? Are you saying that you also emit Red Value radiation?” Yu Hong asked as simply as possible.

“My dad said that if I don’t use luminous stones to suppress it, I’ll become one of those guys outside,” Aisena explained.

Yu Hong and Old Zhou stared at the little one, remembering that she was sick, and Li Rushan had never mentioned what illness she had.

This little one’s mother was unknown, only suspected to be a researcher from Silver Tower.

Immediately, Yu Hong took a detector, pressed it closely against Nana’s skin, and pushed the detection button.

Beep.

The LCD screen displayed the numbers: 8.533.

Then he measured himself and Old Zhou; neither exceeded 2.

In the camp, talisman arrays surrounded the underground, with luminous stones continuously emitting negative radiation to neutralize the Red Value in the air.

In such an environment, Aisena still had a Red Value radiation of 8.

“Maybe what she says is true?” Old Zhou was somewhat convinced.

“Of course it’s true. If I don’t suppress it for two days, I can go out and gather information for you, deliver messages and such. As long as it’s not a special Black Disaster, no one will attack me,” Aisena seriously replied.

“How do you know no one will attack you?” Yu Hong narrowed his eyes as he stared at the child. She seemed to harbor quite a secret.

“Before Dad found me, I snuck out many times,” Aisena answered.

Yu Hong looked at the child and suddenly remembered, when they first came here to live, it was Old Li who took just the two of them here. Old Li often went out alone to gather firewood, mine, dig soil, fetch water, etc. Only Aisena was left in the house.

But he always seemed cheerful, apparently never worried about his daughter running into trouble.

Now it seems… this little one truly has an unusual constitution…

“Nana, go study first. Don’t tell anyone about your condition from now on. Understand?” he instructed.

“Mm,” Aisena nodded firmly.

“Old Zhou, take her back,” Yu Hong gave Old Zhou a look, and the latter nodded, stood up, and took Nana back to the house.

Soon after, the gentle sound of a child’s reading came from the house.

Yu Hong doused the campfire and stood up, his mind still pondering the secret he had just heard.

He checked the time; the Black Mark enhancement was about to be completed. He was somewhat excited to see whether the Black Wind protective array would work.

Immediately suppressing his curiosity about Aisena’s secret, he turned and walked back toward the cave entrance.

Roar!!

Just then, a harsh, piercing screech came from beyond the security fence.

Multi-eyed Bird!

Yu Hong paused, turned around, and looked in the direction of the call.

“And it’s not an ordinary Multi-eyed Bird… This call is much louder and rougher than others…”

He was quite familiar with Multi-eyed Birds from Black Disasters; hearing the sound now, he knew this was a standard large Multi-eyed Bird, a level-four Black Disaster.

“Couldn’t resist anymore?”

It had been some time since the safety zone of the camp had been expanded. Previously, Ding Shao and two living people outside were luring these Multi-eyed Birds. But now those two were gone, and only the camp remained the most significant gathering place for living people.

They had resisted all these days, proving their endurance.

Yu Hong turned around, already dressed for battle, wearing his suit.

He exhaled, stepping towards the source of the sound.

Passing through the inner courtyard, he signaled to Old Zhou and the others to hide and keep quiet. Yu Hong reached the fence, just in time to see a flesh-colored, large Multi-eyed Bird, bald and featherless, standing ugly on the ground next to Yao Feiling.

Its massive, sharp beak and two rows of dense red eyes were focused on Yao Feiling, seemingly assessing where to bite first.

On the ground, Yao Feiling’s face was streaked with tears, looking despairingly at the monster before her. All her limbs were severed and she had been abandoned by Ding Shao, now unable to move, lying helplessly, her wounds becoming putrid.

The her from two days ago would hardly recognize the person now lying on the ground.

“I.. don’t want… to die,” she sobbed, her face contorted.

Yu Hong’s arrival caught the attention of the Multi-eyed Bird.

“The fresh flesh attracted the monster, didn’t it?” He glanced at Yao Feiling on the ground, thoughtful.

The vitality of enhanced humans was indeed exaggerated; even after her limbs were severed, surviving a point-blank grenade explosion and several heavy blows from him, she still had so much blood yet was able to hold on for so long.

“You might use your beauty to move it, let it spare biting you. Then have it carry you away,” Yu Hong said seriously.

Yao Feiling paused, closed her eyes.

“No matter how you mock me, it doesn’t matter. At this close distance, if I die, you won’t escape either! The speed of a giant Multi-eyed Bird far surpasses your imagination, and without depending on camp weapons to fight, you also…”

Boom!!!

Suddenly, a thunderous, muffled sound erupted.

Before she could finish, Yu Hong had vanished from sight and reappeared having grabbed the giant Multi-eyed Bird, his right leg smashing up with a knee strike!!

Thud thud thud thud!!!

In a continuous series of heavy impacts, the Multi-eyed Bird struggled only briefly before the relentless knee blows mashed its lower body into a bloody mess, blood and flesh flying, bones shattered.

It howled in agony and before it could even cry out a few times, it abruptly stopped.

Plop.

Yu Hong tore off the bird’s head with one hand, crushed it under his foot, and ripped the bird’s body into small bits.

Casually discarding the corpse, Yu Hong shook the bloody mess off his body, watching as they quickly disintegrated into black smoke, his expression under the mask utterly unflinching.

Turning back to look at the stunned face of Yao Feiling.

“You were right; its death was indeed faster than I expected.”

With the sound of his footsteps, Yu Hong walked past her, climbed over the fence, and returned to the outer courtyard.

He needed to return to check on the enhanced array.