Night of Despair-Chapter 214 - : Confusion Four

Chapter 214: Confusion Four

The white Inner Qi flames rapidly dimmed and went out.

Yu Hong stood in place, watching the giant body slowly crash down.

Boom!

A heavy sound spread as the giant broke two dead trees and fell face down on the ground, motionless.

White blood slowly flowed from beneath it, then evaporated into black smoke.

“So, what meaning does your existence hold?”

Yu Hong exhaled, and the white half-human figure behind him silently dispersed, turning into countless fine threads that burrowed back into his back.

His expression returned to calm, he turned around, no longer looking at the scene, and in a flash, he disappeared from the spot, heading back to the camp.

Minutes later.

Inside the camp cave.

Yu Hong took off his shirt to inspect the multiple ruptured wounds on his body, swiftly applying iodine.

A loud roar suddenly echoed from a distance.

It sounded somewhat like a Multi-eyed Bird but thicker and louder than most.

Yu Hong paused in wiping his wounds.

The dragon lizard he had left at the previous battlefield had died.

After the small Black Giant died, most of it dissolved into black smoke, and since he had to wait too long for it to evaporate, he decided to leave the dragon lizard to watch the corpse while he retreated first.

As expected, something went wrong.

“There’s something that killed the dragon lizard. It must be one of the small Black Giant’s kind,” Yu Hong guessed in his mind.

Despite the aftermath, he was very calm at the moment.

The power boost Thunderbolt Transformation gave him was immense, before the activation, he could easily lift a car weighing several tons with his bare hands.

With such strength, fully kicking with maximum speed, considering his body weight, speed, force exertion, and a perfect vertical angle, he could produce a momentary impact force of a hundred to two hundred tons.

Such power would be unbelievably exaggerated to an ordinary person.

But against a slightly bigger Blood Tide Monster, it was quite ordinary.

Technically, Yu Hong could still enhance further; it wasn’t a matter of speed, but that his own bones and flesh couldn’t tolerate more. Just like an ordinary person going all out: if they punched a wall, the one getting injured would definitely be their fist, not the wall.

What often determined the upper limit of impact force was the body’s own tolerance.

Just moments ago, after activating Thunderbolt Transformation, his bones and flesh significantly hardened and his speed also increased, combining the two, his momentary destructive power linearly improved.

Defeating that small giant was therefore nothing unexpected.

After all, that fellow was only about ten meters tall and had no special abilities.

Hmm, having elongated necks and arms or such, were completely useless abilities for Yu Hong; they were as good as none.

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Putting his thoughts aside, Yu Hong decided to test his limit strength when he had time.

Stepping out of the cave, the air outside was chilly, and the ground was covered with white frost.

He stood in the inner courtyard close to the stone castle walls, quietly waiting.

Soon after.

Swoosh! A black dragon lizard abruptly jumped out of the darkness, crawled in front of him, and spat out a gray-white stone orb covered with cloud patterns.

The stone orb was only the size of a fist. It looked a bit like…

“Could this be… the small giant’s eyeball??” Yu Hong suddenly remembered what it was.

He had noticed during the encounter that the small Black Giant’s eyes were not like human eyes but made of this stone-like material.

“This didn’t evaporate and disappear? Looks like it left behind something good.”

Yu Hong had left four dragon lizards there.

The purpose was to collect any leftovers from the corpses.

After all, remnants from the Black Disaster were quite helpful to him.

Using them for Black Mark synthesis might bring some unexpected surprises.

It didn’t matter if the guarding dragon lizards died; bringing back the leftovers was what mattered.

Picking up the eyeball, Yu Hong turned it over to observe.

‘The giant’s eyeball is evidently different in size from its body; it must have shrunk.’

Stowing away the giant’s eyeball, he, bare-chested and with lingering warmth from his boiling blood, thus surveyed the outer courtyard.

Before long, near the vehicle entrance, he discovered a huge footprint.

From an aerial view, the footprint was clearly human-shaped.

About thirty meters long and over nine meters wide, broader at the front and narrower at the back, with five toes.

The footprint had landed just right at the camp’s right side, crushing part of the fence; its length was nearly half of the entire outer yard, which was about as long as the camp fence itself.

Combining the whole outer and inner yard, it was around sixty meters in square dimensions.

Walking out of the camp, Yu Hong squatted by the deep pit made by the footprint.

The pit, over ten meters deep, resembled a dried-up pond in the night, deep enough to kill someone if they jumped down.

“Maybe I should consider building a spaceship to get away sooner.”

Looking at the footprint pit, Yu Hong couldn’t help shaking his head in resignation.

He had no desire to confront such a level of monster head-on.

Now, with his full-speed burst, combining Thunderbolt Transformation with his body’s strength, he might momentarily produce a thousand tons of impact force.

Impact force itself can’t traditionally be measured in weight, but converting it to weight makes it more comprehensible.

A thousand tons sounds impressive, but that’s just a burst, not sustained force.

“The key is… with the speed and mass combined, how powerful is the impact when this thing hits?” Yu Hong couldn’t imagine.

He had speed, but so did they.

An enormous creature weighing hundreds of thousands of tons, when it stomped down at full speed—the impact…

They weren’t going to just stand still and let him hit them.

So…

Whoosh.

Yu Hong stood up.

“Better to run.”

He turned around and returned to the camp, arriving at a slightly crushed fence and carefully checked the countdown of the reinforcement.

Soon, he found the countdown display on another fence.

This thing was still intact, as if the reinforcement process had nothing to do with the items being reinforced.

This sense of déjà vu intensified Yu Hong’s belief that the Black Mark might have been a stolen finished product directly from somewhere.

This could also explain why the more precise the request, the more difficult it was to enhance the Black Mark, and why it always indicated insufficient foundational information.

But once switched to free play, any enhancement was possible. The only difference would be the time and energy consumed.

“Temporary crisis averted, but more Black Giants are passing by lately… The camp must stay hidden. We can’t be flaunting lights. Also, where are these Black Giants heading? To the new Aurora City?”

He knew there were only two Aurora Cities in the entire Eastern River region.

Had these elite cores of the contemporary Eastern River congregated there? Maybe that’s where the Black Giants were headed?

Thinking this, Yu Hong turned off the camp’s public lights.

Relied solely on the Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array to fend off the Blood Tide Black Insects.

Though this placed a heavier load on the array, it was less conspicuous and much safer.

The passing hulking giants truly frightened him.

“They say after you fight the little ones, the big ones come next. Hopefully, the small one I killed hasn’t been discovered.”

Yu Hong took one last look at the darkened camp, then he firmly closed the door, locking the bright white lights inside the corridor.

Amid the whirring sound of the air purification units, inside and outside the door, darkness and light were like two different worlds.

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First Aurora City, the frontline.

Dozens of two-hundred-meter tall Black Giants raced across the expansive black plain towards a massive city fortified with white light.

Boom, boom, boom!

The continuous firing of heavy grenade cannons echoed.

Some shells landed, exploding on the ground to create pits tens of meters wide and deep.

Others exploded on the bodies of the Black Giants, their supersonic projectiles penetrating with terrifying force, leaving uneven white flesh wounds.

Beneath the feet of the Black Giants, a tide-like mass of black Blood Tide Insects surged.

Mixed within this sea of insects were numerous Big Skins and Elephant Worms, resembling armored vehicles and siege engines, relentlessly charging at the black fortified city, only to crash into the thick brown alloy city walls.

The walls, which had once been smooth and flawless, were now pockmarked and rough as a toad’s skin.

Machine guns peppered the walls, ceaselessly strafing.

Burning projectiles enhanced with incendiaries were continuously thrown down, igniting massive fires that reduced the wave of insects to countless plumes of black smoke.

In the sky.

Countless hairless Multi-eyed Birds and indistinguishable species of bizarre Black Disaster birds, swirled around airliner-sized grey-white creatures, diving towards the city fortress above.

These airliner-sized gray-white creatures, composed of viscous cement-like fluid, had wide wings, lizard-like tails, long necks resembling that of a plesiosaurs, and their heads bore enormous, twisted, and decaying human faces, which emitted piercing screams downward.

Anti-air missiles, dense like fireworks, soared to intercept the Black Disaster creatures above, exploding into bright yet brutal fireworks.

A thick concrete protective layer was also constructed above the entire city.

This was another Aurora City located outside Xin Zhilei’s control, and it was on the most dangerous frontlines.

Inside the city, residents were instructed to stay indoors and wait out the Black Disaster attack.

At this moment, in a polygonal black building at the center of Aurora City.

Outside its entrance hung a sign for the Aurora Military Commission.

Hum.

On the empty street, a heavy armored military vehicle quickly drove into the iron gate of the building, stopping at the entrance.

Fully armed guards came forward to check credentials and then stepped back to salute.

The vehicle door opened.

A tall, robust man with tired, graying hair dressed in a black military uniform stepped out. His uniform bore the simple insignia of five golden suns.

“General, Yang Chijun’s team has caught a small lead on the Eternal Life Association.”

An elderly, stooped man with white hair, wearing a white researcher’s robe, approached and whispered.

“Let’s talk inside,” the man nodded. “No matter what, we must resolve the aftermath this time, and eradicate internal problems root and branch.”

“Yes!”

“Also, Minister Xin Zhilei has requested control over the medium-range nuclear missiles, and the specific location has been reported.”

“Send the verification team to check if it’s necessary. Misuse of large-yield hydrogen bombs by Flicka has already caused instability in the earth’s crust there,” the general spoke with a focused expression.

“Minister Ouyang has new progress in his investigation into Minister Xin, and it looks like there indeed is a problem.