Night of Despair-Chapter 199 - : Believe 3

Chapter 199: Believe 3

After repeatedly smashing the riverbank with the large iron ball,

the sky gradually darkened, transitioning into a chaotic time.

The riverside mud had completely turned into a rugged, broken terrain.

Yu Hong stood still, shook the mud and water off the iron ball, and set it aside.

He took out an atomic lamp from his lower back and held it high.

Once again, he slowly approached the direction of the wooden bridge.

Under the green light of the lamp, the previously smashed muddy area revealed the broken wooden bridge once more.

‘Does it not affect it at all?’

Yu Hong realized in his heart.

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But this time was different; he didn’t see that strange man in black.

The bridge was empty and quiet.

The black planks of the bridge extended into the mist ahead, with no end in sight.

Standing still, Yu Hong quietly stared at the wooden bridge. A sudden sense of despair rose in his heart.

‘What’s the point of living in such a world? Constantly struggling for survival, human hope diminishing more and more, not even a moment of leisure can be achieved…’

A slight tendency toward self-destruction emerged in his mind.

‘Wait!’ Suddenly, his Inner Qi circulated and rushed into his brain, reviving Yu Hong’s spirit.

He took two steps back, his face showing a trace of lingering fear.

‘Without the Black Disaster, it’s just a bridge leading to negative thoughts of self-destruction! This place…is a bit sinister!’

Yu Hong’s expression shifted slightly as he looked at the empty wooden bridge, wanting to return to the camp.

Warm, bright, dry, safe – that was what he most desired.

But…

This relentlessly approaching wooden bridge gave him considerable unease.

‘I need to investigate thoroughly…otherwise, if it overlaps with the camp and some troubling changes occur, it would be disastrous.’

Having made up his mind, Yu Hong took another two steps back. Suddenly, a shadow dashed out from beside him.

It was a dragon lizard!

It took the lead and rushed onto the bridge.

With the light from the atomic lamp, Yu Hong saw firsthand the dragon lizard step onto the bridge and dash into the mist, disappearing.

He quickly tapped into the dragon lizard’s vision.

Hiss.

Continuous, clear sounds of friction came through; the dragon lizard was moving swiftly across the bridge.

Seconds later, it suddenly stopped and reached the end of the wooden bridge.

At the end of the bridge lay a wide, pitch-black river, not at all the small creek previously seen.

The dark river churned with some unknown viscous masses.

On the river, there rested a two-story tall black wooden ship.

‘A big ship?’

Yu Hong observed the ship through the vision of the dragon lizard.

Its shape resembled an ingot, its sides raised and the middle sunken. The hull was black, covered in rotten, hollow traces, and the sails hanging from the mast were like fishing nets, mostly torn.

Setting down the atomic lamp, Yu Hong once again looked toward the wooden bridge.

It was still shrouded in darkness, nothing could be seen.

‘Let’s go up and take a look.’ Yu Hong controlled the dragon lizard, which leaped out and easily entered the ship.

Inside, the ship was empty. The deck was damaged and decayed, and a skeleton in gray-black clothes was leaning askew against the inner side of the ship, motionless.

Zzz.

Suddenly, for some unknown reason, the decaying black ship slowly began to move, breaking away from the dock of the wooden bridge, heading deeper into the mist.

In no time, the entire black ship vanished, never to reappear.

And the vision of the dragon lizard also went black, disconnecting.

Yu Hong exhaled and lifted the atomic lamp forward.

The wooden bridge ahead had disappeared.

‘It seems related to the black ship…’

He stood still, not moving, deciding to wait and see what would happen next; he didn’t believe that the newly reinforced dragon lizard would just disappear so easily.

After a short wait, a blurred vision surged into his mind again.

Yu Hong staggered, nearly unable to stay upright.

It was the dragon lizard.

The dragon lizard was still alive!

Swoosh!

Quickly, from the darkness, a dragon lizard burst out of the mist, lightly glided past Yu Hong, and stopped on the muddy ground.

The dragon lizard returned and stopped by Yu Hong’s side, motionless.

Yu Hong squatted down, examining the dragon lizard’s body.

‘No injuries, it seems the place the black ship went isn’t dangerous.’

After some thought, he ultimately decided not to go in personally. More investigation was needed regarding the black ship.

Returning to the camp, he placed the large iron ball in the yard and rinsed it with a hose, restoring it to its previous cleanliness.

Then he let the dragon lizard out to continue patrolling the surroundings before Yu Hong returned to the cave, retrieving the recently acquired sunlight paint and the monitoring system.

‘Once the Array is fully reinforced, I’ll install this.’

Recalling the self-destructive thoughts he had earlier, Yu Hong quickly ate something and started a new round of practice with the Thunderbolt Leg Technique.

Inner Qi surged, saving him once before, and evidently, Inner Qi mastery could counteract that mysterious influence.

He decided to focus on completing the Thunderbolt Leg Technique mastery.

Time slowly passed.

Soon, another half day had gone. The second subsidiary Array was successfully integrated soon after.

The Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array was further supported, enhancing the safety of the entire camp.

Once the Black Mark was free, Yu Hong immediately took out the monitoring system and placed it on the ground.

With one hand on it.

‘Enhance the monitoring system, direction…’ Images of perfectly monitoring the surroundings of the camp formed in his mind.

At the same time, the energy and nuclear engine connections were being overlaid, along with the change of camouflage color and the enhancement of clarity, as well as the ability to monitor every room in the stone castle and every corner of the camp….

Various surveillance system functions were requested by him to be reinforced by the Black Mark.

Soon, a black line flashed.

The inquiry from the Black Mark appeared, and a countdown was automatically generated.

“Enhance the surveillance system?”

Countdown: 6 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes.

“…..” This time… isn’t it a bit too long?

Yu Hong remained silent.

But considering the demand for the surveillance system. Plus, the Array had no issues now, and the dragon lizards naturally needed time to integrate into nests.

To deal with the approaching trouble similar to the wooden bridge, he still confirmed the initiation of the enhancement.

The cardboard box of the surveillance system flickered slightly, and immediately the countdown began.

Yu Hong also continued to train hard in the basement. The increasingly dangerous outside world gave him an increasingly strong sense of urgency.

One day.

Two days.

Four days.

Six days…

The fifth layer of Inner Qi from the Thunderbolt Leg Technique refined forth,

and without any surprise, the surveillance was successfully strengthened.

Fortunately, during these six days, there hadn’t been any troubling matters, and the surroundings of the camp were still the same as always, seemingly entering a new period of stability.

With the continuous increase in Inner Qi, Yu Hong felt his body become more sensitive, and every movement became much more precise than before.

Between movements, the changes and transitions became faster and faster.

These days, he almost went to check the wooden bridge behind the camp every day, and the bridge was approaching the camp every day.

Sometimes it approached quickly, sometimes slowly.

By the end of the surveillance system’s enhancement, the wooden bridge was just 200 meters away from reaching the rocky mountain behind the camp.

Once it touched the mountain rock, the distance from the cave safe house was just about a dozen meters in a straight line.

This was a very dangerous distance.

Inside the cave,

Yu Hong sat in the second basement level, observing the liquid crystal screens embedded in the wall, which displayed images from inside and outside the camp.

“The surveillance provided by Zhang Kaijun inherently had infrared thermal imaging and Red Value radiation imaging capabilities, now with the enhancements, the effect is very good…”

He watched the high-clarity liquid crystal video, quite satisfied.

The entire surveillance system covered nearly thirty meters outside the Black Wind Camp as a secondary safety zone.

Within this range, the mist couldn’t obstruct the penetrating surveillance.

Another surveillance installation was embedded in the mountain above the camp, looking downward.

It revealed the entire Black Wind Camp built along the mountain, resembling a huge semicircle facing Baiqiu Village and the forest.

Beyond the outer fenced area of the camp, sparse humanoid shadows occasionally appeared.

These shadows, just as they appeared in the video, were immediately incinerated by the swiftly passing dragon lizards.

Within the thirty meters outside the perimeter of the camp, the density of these shadows was kept quite sparse.

Yu Hong expanded this screen with his hand to inspect the details.

With the screen’s high clarity, upon enlargement, one could see a dragon lizard breathing fire and killing two newly revived humanoid shadows, then quickly leaving for other areas.

“Almost there, the number of dragon lizards can integrate into a nest now. Take advantage of the current stable situation outside.”

Yu Hong nodded slightly.

“Outside of the Black Period, the Earth Pond Dragon Lizards can maintain a large piece of peace in the secondary safety zone. Not bad… Once the nest is established and the numbers rise, we should be able to wrestle a bit with the surrounding high-risk Black Disaster!”

Inside the basement, a glint of cold light flashed through Yu Hong’s eyes.

Always being besieged and intimidated, living in fear, was only because he had no means of counterattack before.

Now, with the emergence of the Earth Pond Demon Nest, he saw a glimmer of hope to turn the situation around.

Your shadows can revive endlessly, and my demon nest’s dragon lizards can also continuously spawn dragon lizards!

When the time comes, we’ll see whose strength is greater, who cleans up the other faster!

Having confirmed the perfection of the surveillance.

Yu Hong stood up, went to the first floor, left the cave, and followed the pathway all the way into the stone castle.

He checked and maintained every breeding box before leaving the stone castle for the newly excavated new stone cave.

In the stone cave, wires pulled from the wall connected to a light bulb.

Under the bright white light, a total of nine dragon lizards, like nine long black bags, had already been lying on the ground, waiting for a long time.

On the gray-white stone walls, various runes he had just engraved covered the surface.

This place had already become a semi-hidden space combined with a Luminous Stone Secret Room and concealed runes; as long as the entrance was blocked with rune boards, it was a perfect, sealed hidden space.

“Let’s begin.” Yu Hong activated a marker for the dragon lizards in his mind.

Inside the marker, nine white dots of the dragon lizards, swiftly collided and merged with one another as his consciousness moved them.

And in the reality of the cave.

The heads of the Earth Pond Dragon Lizards began to move toward the most central one, squeezing together.

They quickly squeezed into a meatball.

A massive meatball, at least as tall as a person, formed.

Hiss.

The surface of the meatball suddenly split open with a dark red fissure.

Dim red firelight flickered and seeped out from the fissure.

Whoosh!

Simultaneously, the temperature in the cave began to climb rapidly. A faint burnt odor permeated the air.

A noise, like numerous snakes hissing simultaneously, emanated from inside the meatball.

Puff!

Suddenly, the bottom of the meatball also split open.

The opening wriggled and squeezed a few times, then ‘puffed’ out a white giant egg.

The egg, the size of a basketball and covered with gray-black spots, was stained with a lot of transparent mucus.

As soon as it came out, it cracked several times, and a black lizard over a meter long emerged from it.

The black lizard turned its head a few times to eat the eggshell, shook its body, lay in front of Yu Hong, bowed its head to the ground, and then stopped moving.