Night of Despair-Chapter 179 - : Road 177

Chapter 179: Road 177

“So fast!?”

Yu Hong’s heart chilled; he hadn’t expected these insect men to be so swift. They hadn’t attacked before, and now they burst forth in a major assault, four of them charging at once.

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There was no time to think further; he quickly commanded the black lizards to strike at full speed.

The speed of the four black lizards, enhanced, was in no way inferior to that of the insect men, rapidly bursting through the mist.

Spit, spit, spit, spit!

Four globs of black phlegm shot out, flying towards the four insect men that had entered the array.

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Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible for the rapidly moving insect men to be easily hit, but just as they entered the outer courtyard, they felt a thick layer of transparent airflow rise from the ground, blocking them.

Boom.

They forcefully exerted themselves, shattering completely this layer of transparent airflow; but as soon as it dispersed, new streams of airflow rose again.

In an instant, within the outer courtyard, the forms of the four insect men were visibly slowed down.

From their previous pace of a hundred yards, it had suddenly dropped to thirty yards.

Thus, the four globs of black phlegm hit their targets perfectly.

Hiss!

The grating sound of corrosion rang out as black smoke began to seep from the faces and bodies of the four insect men.

They opened their mouths to let out silent screams, clearly incensed, trying to accelerate forward.

But just then, the same transparent airflow that had hindered them before, strengthened once more.

The airflow condensed and morphed, astonishingly transforming into four crow-sized black birds.

The crows circled the insect men, continuously striking them; with each hit, the insect men’s entire bodies shook, their speed further reduced.

‘This is…?’ Yu Hong, through the eyes of the black lizards, saw this unfold and was suddenly intrigued.

The tension he had just felt eased upon seeing the insect men restricted.

At this point, the insect men could at best move thirty yards.

It would take at least four seconds to cross the outer courtyard and another seven or eight seconds to reach him through the inner courtyard.

That time was enough for the black lizards to attract all the enmity.

‘It seems that the Crow Ruby and the bones of Speed Man that I had previously fused in have some additional extra effects.’

Yu Hong carefully observed the newly-appeared airflow crows and discovered they looked exactly like the mutant crows he had previously killed. Also, their speed was clearly abnormal, identical to the previous Speed Man, flickering in and out as they covered distances in an instant to attack, obviously inheriting some of the abilities of Speed Man.

Most crucially, each time the crows struck the insect men, the insects’ speed decreased even further.

By now, the four insect men had only charged halfway through the outer courtyard and their speed had reduced to that of a leisurely human walk.

‘Interesting.’ Yu Hong’s anxiety vanished entirely; after a quick calculation, with their current pace, it seemed unlikely the four insect men could withstand the duration of the array.

It should be known that the array was scheduled by duration, and fully charged, it lasted thirty minutes.

This represented thirty minutes of full-power operation. If the power was intermittently lowered, starting and stopping while absorbing and replenishing the Red Value, as long as expenditure and absorption remained even, then the duration of the array could be said to be nearly limitless.

Hiss!

The speed of the four insect men slowed increasingly, furiously trying to charge forward.

However, with each of their impacts, the black smoke rising from their bodies grew more abundant, and their surfaces began to burn with black flames.

This was the black fire of the array, an attack that would increase in damage over time.

Not long after, just a step away from the inner courtyard walls, the four insect men were completely immobilized.

Hiss!!

The airflow crows and the black fire continued to harm them unceasingly, causing their bodies to shrink smaller and thinner.

When they had halved in size, the insect men seemed to attempt retreat.

But by then, it was too late.

Their movements had been drastically slowed by the array, every action painfully sluggish.

Finally.

After another five or six seconds.

Outside the inner courtyard wall, a ‘tsk’ sound as four black flames ignited.

The black fire lasted a few seconds and then slowly extinguished, and the four insect men that had so domineeringly approached Yu Hong were completely dissolved and burnt to death.

“….” Even though he had somewhat anticipated this outcome, seeing it firsthand still filled Yu Hong with a profound sense of shock.

‘Such is the power of a fully enhanced array…’ he mused.

Four insect men, ah! They had been burnt alive before he had even taken action.

Even knowing the insect men would still recover, his current mood was extremely shaken.

From start to finish, he didn’t even need the black lizards to lure them; the array had resolved everything on its own.

‘While the insect men’s strength isn’t considered powerful, and their impact force is not high, their most dangerous aspect is their instant-kill ability. But with such effects from the array, the camp’s security is sufficiently ensured….’

Now that he had truly seen the four insect men be dealt with, Yu Hong finally felt a strong sense of security rising within him.

‘Even eighth-level insect men can be dealt with… It seems the camp can indeed be initially assured of safety….’

He clenched his fist, looked towards Old Zhou’s room, where faces with gaping mouths were just visible at the windows.

Old Zhou, having been woken up at some point, was staring blankly at the spot in the courtyard where the insect men had vanished, frozen in place for a long time. At this moment, Yu Hong had no idea what was going through his mind.

Without further ado, Yu Hong walked out of the stone castle and down the passageway to where the insect men had disappeared.

On the ground, there remained four burnt patches resembling the residue of burnt plastic, which he picked up one by one.

‘The threat of the insect men is finally resolved…. It should be safe out there now….’

The thought had just flickered through his mind when Yu Hong’s expression subtly changed. Through the mist surrounding the camp, he could barely make out the figure of a person in yellow clothing and a white skirt.

His gaze sharpened, realizing the Speed Man had come back to life again.

The Insect man had only just disappeared and this guy had already popped up. It was obvious that like the other Black Disasters, he had already revived, only being suppressed by the Insect man, unable to approach.

Taking a deep breath, Yu Hong stopped looking outside; after all, the other party couldn’t get in.

He turned back to the tunnel and headed for the cave.

After discovering the Speed Man blocking the entrance, Yu Hong lost the interest to go out and simply decided to focus on Cultivation within the safety of the camp.

His days were spent either cultivating or chatting with Zhang Kaijun and Wei Song through the communications, and occasionally with Old Zhou. However, this guy seemed to be preparing something. He was constantly clanking away, and it was unclear what he was working on.

Besides these activities, Yu Hong also began to attempt strengthening a secret manual for an Inner Strength that suited his needs.

But time after time, the attempts ended in failure.

“Insufficient basic information, unable to strengthen.”

The Black Mark’s feedback made Yu Hong’s brows furrow as he lifted his right palm from the paper.

He closely examined the basic content of the Inner Strength he had written. He had simplified everything that he could think of and extracted the most fundamental methods of Inner Qi Cultivation.

But to no avail.

Every time he tried to add something that would make cultivation possible for ordinary people, the Black Mark would indicate that the information was incomplete and the foundation inadequate.

“I need a successful foundational structure that allows ordinary people to cultivate Inner Qi… But where the hell do I get a template for ordinary people practicing Qi Cultivation?” Yu Hong was at a loss for words.

This had been many attempts already, and obviously, the Black Mark had not been able to obtain information about ordinary people’s Inner Qi, which made it incomplete unless he could directly get a set of the Inner Qi foundation that anyone could cultivate. Otherwise…

Inside the cave, Yu Hong moved various items around, placing them neatly.

Microwave, refrigerator, fully automatic washing machine, induction cooker, all kinds of kitchenware – everything was there.

After several outings, whether it was Old Zhou or Old Li, they had brought a lot of various household items.

They even brought back a smart toilet seat.

Now the camp lacked nothing in terms of appliances. They simply had to be installed for use.

After the Array had been strengthened and the Insect man crisis resolved, Yu Hong began to arrange the various appliances, planning to put them into use.

While he was organizing, he pondered the situation with the Inner Strength.

“Maybe I should change the approach. Since I can’t create an Inner Strength that everyone can practice, I’ll take mine as the base. I’ll share a part of my power, using my own Inner Qi to control and influence others…”

Unable to produce an Inner Qi Technique, he didn’t want the Black Mark to remain idle, so he simply got up, walked to the entrance of the cave, and stepped outside.

Standing in the tunnel and looking through the door, a thought crossed his mind. Suddenly, in the mist outside the camp, the shadow of a black lizard flickered by.

The black lizard left the vicinity of the camp, accelerated through the mist, and approached the luminous stone mining area.

Although its body had grown in size, it had talisman Array Patterns for camouflage integrated into it, further supplemented by the Black Mark, which had enhanced its movement speed.

In its current state of motion, it was like a silent shadow gliding through the misty woods.

Soon, the black lizard arrived at the original luminous stone mining area.

The three-kilometer control distance was enough for it to leave the camp and come here.

Pausing outside a mine, the black lizard chose one at random before charging forward, entering the mine.

Before long, it returned to the camp with its mouth full of something large and hurried back toward the camp.

Minutes later,

Yu Hong, stepping into the yard, reached out his hand and scooped out a large clump of black soil from the black lizard’s mouth, bagging it in plastic.

This was the original earth from the mine where the luminous stones had grown. Now that the luminous stones had been depleted, Yu Hong planned to use the Black Mark to attempt to strengthen and produce original luminous stones.

Since the mine had been able to produce luminous stones, this indicated that the mine itself had the basic conditions to create them. Thus, it made sense for him to use the basis of the mine to strengthen and synthesize the original luminous stones.

“If successful, it could alleviate the material supply of luminous stones to some extent. After all, I don’t need much, mainly for setting up Arrays.”

Yu Hong took the original earth from the mine and headed back to the tunnel.

Whether it would work or not, he still had to try.

But…

Boom.

A deep rumble of thunder resounded outside, and seconds later, heavy rain poured down.

The curtain of rain immediately blurred the woodland, even more indistinct than when shrouded in mist.

Yu Hong glanced at the rain curtain and suddenly had an ominous feeling.

He returned to the cave and turned on the communicator.

He had now enhanced the communicator with a vortex talisman array using the Black Mark, which automatically emitted negative radiations continuously when activated.

He had turned the explosive release of the vortex talisman array into a slow release.

With the deceleration Array Patterns, he could easily achieve many effects that were not possible before.

Click.

The communicator turned on, and after a brief static noise, the channel remained on the national broadcast station.

Immediately, the sound of broadcasting came through.

“To repel a War Level Black Disaster, Frilka without any notification on November 23, suddenly detonated 13 Giant God Bombs in its own Mo’er Region. The blasts successfully obliterated a vast area of Black Disaster hollow virus, while the shockwave and strong radiation also resulted in over three million civilians in the Mo’er Region not surviving.”

“According to Frilka’s War Committee, the action was to completely eradicate the double-digit number of Black Wells that had newly emerged in the Mo’er Region, not just for the virus. Zheng Yingguo from the new Aurora City Joint Military criticized the move, stating that Frilka’s actions completely disregarded civilian casualties, violated the International Nuclear Energy Convention, and caused massive civilian casualties. The Donghe Joint Military expressed serious protest and announced from the 25th, they would completely break away from the Frilka Joint Military.”

“November, huh…” Yu Hong was somewhat taken aback, realizing it was Frilka’s hydrogen bombs before.

“They’ve gone mad…” The fear must have been overwhelming to resort to a hydrogen bomb that killed millions at once.

The hollow virus was evidently a highly contagious Black Disaster.

‘What if this place also gets bombed because of the Black Disaster?’ Suddenly, this possibility sprang to his mind.