Night of Despair-Chapter 119 - : Intermittent 3

Chapter 119: Intermittent 3

Bang, bang, bang.

Bang, bang, bang.

The rapid knocking continued.

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Yu Hong was tidying up in the basement when he suddenly heard someone pounding on the safety house’s front door.

He quickly went upstairs and, from the peephole behind the board, saw Li Rushan standing at the door, impatiently knocking.

He approached the door but didn’t open it immediately.

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Instead, he tapped back gently according to their secret code as a reminder.

Immediately, Li Rushan changed to a rhythmic knocking pattern of one-three-one.

This was the identity verification code they had just agreed upon.

Assured the code was correct, Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief.

“What’s wrong, Old Li?”

He checked the Silver Talisman Plate behind the door, which showed no reaction, so he then opened the door to let Li Rushan in.

“I’m in trouble!” Li Rushan hurried in, looking distressed.

Strangely, as soon as the safety house door in the mountain cave shut, the indescribable chill that seemed to follow him vanished as if lifting a heavy burden.

Whew, whew!

Li Rushan gasped heavily, sweat visible on his forehead. He had run over quickly from the post office stone house and, combined with his nervousness, was drenched in sweat.

“Can I stay here for a while? I might be in trouble. I’m worried about affecting Nana.”

“You’re worried about Nana and not about me?” Yu Hong spoke, exasperated, but seeing the pleading look in the other’s eyes and considering their fairly good relationship, he ultimately did not refuse.

“You can stay here, but I’m still remodeling this place. You’ll have to stay in the wooden house outside. Don’t worry, I have special protection measures here; even the wooden house is safe.”

“The wooden house in the yard, right?” Li Rushan nodded in understanding. “Okay. Also, give me more talisman plates; I have a really bad feeling.”

“What happened to you?” Yu Hong squinted and quickly grabbed the Enhanced Red Value Detector, approaching the other and pressing the power button.

Beep-beep—the detector stabilized at the reading: 52.221.

Seeing this number, Yu Hong’s expression grew grave.

“It seems something indeed has its sights on you…”

Seeing this, Li Rushan was somewhat surprised because he had just checked himself and his own reading was normal. Why did it show a different number at Yu Hong’s place??

He glanced at the detector in Yu Hong’s hand, feeling it might be slightly different from his.

“Drink some water first, then tell me in detail what’s going on.” Yu Hong poured him a glass of water, and they both sat down.

“I feel like something has been following me. No matter what, I can’t shake it off.” At this moment Li Rushan sat down but kept looking back constantly, as if even within the cave, something persistently followed and watched him.

“Following you? Shadow? Evil Shadow? Or a Blood Tide Monster? When did this start?” Yu Hong asked quickly.

“Just now when I came back. Actually, when I went to collect bacterial packs, as I passed a large living room, I felt for a moment someone was following me, but I thought it was an illusion then and didn’t care.” Li Rushan ran his hands through his hair, feeling terrible.

“In the past, as long as I was within a talisman-protected area, I wouldn’t feel this. But this time… even when I returned to the stone house, something still felt off. You know my situation; if it was a normal shadow, I wouldn’t feel this. But this time, I’m sure it’s different. It’s definitely an Evil Shadow, and likely a type we haven’t encountered before!”

Yu Hong stood up and took a pen and paper, writing down:

‘1 — Tracks behind, but initially did not attack.

2 — The entity probably appears as a white, blurry figure, smiling, indistinct.

3 —…’

Thinking for a moment, he took the paper and showed it to Li Rushan.

“Anything else to add?”

“Does a cold back count?”

“Yes, you better stay put right here, I’ll go ask Zhou Xueguang and then check the post office for you.” Yu Hong quickly noted it down earnestly.

Regardless, he had a good relationship with Li Rushan, who was also one of the few food producers around. If he could help, he didn’t want anything to happen to him.

Previously, Yu Hong wouldn’t have bothered with such matters, but after his latest trip, his fear and concern regarding the Black Disaster had greatly diminished.

He also clearly understood what level his own strength was in the current environment.

After brutally killing little Du, who was fully enhanced, Yu Hong’s inner worries had significantly lessened.

“This trip out, I realized something, we can’t always be passive, letting them fully prepare and gather all their forces to attack us,” Yu Hong said earnestly. “We need to disrupt them proactively, to understand and weaken them as much as we can. That way, we can seize the biggest hope, more chances to live.”

Hearing this, Li Rushan looked startled, as if seeing Yu Hong for the first time.

“You’re right… but how do we disrupt them? We don’t even know what this thing is. If it were at the post office, I could use communication to inquire with higher-ups, but now I dare not go back.”

He sighed.

“But this time, I really need to rely on you. I feel that the thing behind me might not be inferior to a Language Person… Be careful.”

“Mm, got it. Anything else you want to add?” Yu Hong passed him the pen and paper.

“Just one more thing, like I said just now, every time that thing appears, my back feels cold, not psychologically, but actually cold, lowering my body temperature and slowing my movements.” Li Rushan quickly took it and scribbled down.

“Anything else?”

“That’s it.”

“Alright, let’s go. I’ll get some things for you; we’ll head to the wooden house outside.” Yu Hong stood up, took a stack of talisman plates from a wooden frame, thought for a moment, then also took a Silver Talisman Plate, putting them together and handing them to Li Rushan.

“Take these for now.”

Li Rushan was seeing the Silver Talisman Plate for the first time and closely examined it.

“Is this an advanced version?”

“That’s right, one of these is equivalent to ten regular ones,” Yu Hong said somewhat exaggeratedly, but it wasn’t far from the truth.

“Good stuff…” Li Rushan exclaimed, “Thanks a lot!”

“Let’s go, there are too many secrets in this place, I don’t want to show you,” Yu Hong said quite directly.

“Okay, but speaking so bluntly can be hurtful,” Li Rushan replied, holding the Silver Talisman Plate, somewhat regaining a relaxed demeanor.

“My biggest trait is being straightforward,” Yu Hong responded.

Click.

The wooden door opened, and the two walked out one after the other.

Yu Hong pushed open the door of the cabin and placed an Enhanced Red Value Detector on the wooden bed.

“This detector of mine has also been modified; its precision is extremely high. You can try it immediately if you feel something is wrong.”

“Yeah, alright. Thank you,” Li Rushan nodded, paused, then added, “The last shipment of your sunlight materials through the internal channels should be arriving soon, I’ll give you a discount then.”

He was well aware that for Yu Hong to assist without a second thought in such a dangerous environment was no easy feat. He remembered this favor; including the previous one, he owed Yu Hong twice now.

“Can’t it be shipped anymore?” Yu Hong paused, then asked.

“There’s no ‘anymore.’ From now on, we can only rely on ourselves. However, I can try to contact the folks in Baihe City who haven’t relocated yet, but the supplies will definitely not be as good as before. Don’t get your hopes up,” Li Rushan sighed.

Yu Hong said no more and left, closing the door behind him.

After locking the door, he took the recorded papers, the remaining two Silver Talisman Plates, a stack of ordinary talisman plates, and put on the Enhanced Polar Bear Suit; then he hurried towards the post office.

Along the way, he held the detector, continuously checking the fluctuating Red Value displayed.

‘31.224.’

‘31.532.’

The environmental Red Value had risen to 31 and had stabilized completely.

Whoosh.

As he walked, Yu Hong exhaled, surveying the surrounding woodland.

In the gray, foggy mist, he could only vaguely make out the outlines of trees five or six meters away.

Click.

Click.

Click.

His boots crushed the dry leaves on the ground, producing a rhythmic crackling sound.

While hurrying, Yu Hong occasionally picked up the detector to check the variations in the numbers.

Click.

Click.

Snap.

Suddenly, he halted his steps.

Swish— he spun around sharply to look behind him.

The gray, fog-enshrouded woods behind him were quiet, eerie, and chilly.

“Just now… something was following me,” Yu Hong thought back to the situation moments ago, where an extra sound of crushing leaves had mixed with his footsteps.

This sound might be unnoticeable to an ordinary person, but he was energetic and focused, always alert to the changes around him, which was why he noticed it so quickly.

Once he confirmed there was nothing, no one behind him, Yu Hong turned back and continued forward.

This time he quickened his pace, his hand tightly clutching the Silver Talisman Plate, ready for action.

He encountered no more issues on the way, and fortunately, he arrived safely at the post office.

The post office, a stone building, was empty. The large door of the deserted building was tightly shut.

Yu Hong looked around outside the yard, then entered, circled the building to ensure everything was alright, and then went to the front door.

He pulled out the key Li Rushan had given him, gently inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it.

Click.

The door opened.

But Yu Hong suddenly paused.

For at the moment he made the sound of unlocking, a similar, extremely faint sound of footsteps came from behind him.

Those footsteps were like the crisp sound of high heels striking the wooden steps in front of the stone building.

Subtle and brief.

Yu Hong maintained his pose as he was about to open the door.

His peripheral vision, however, cautiously glanced at a side window of the stone building.

The window was nailed with thick wooden planks, but some broken glass still remained on the outside.

Through a shard of this glass, he caught a glimpse of the situation behind him.

Reflected in a triangular piece of glass was a vague white figure with long black hair, standing two meters behind Yu Hong, quietly smiling.

Yu Hong froze.

He didn’t continue opening the door but slowly withdrew the key and slipped it into his pocket.

Then.

“Screw you!”

Whoosh!

Suddenly, he turned and lunged forward, drawing a Silver Talisman Plate from his pocket and swinging it forward.

At the same time, he also swung the Red Value Detector.

Bang!

His arm tensed, his robust forearm like a hammer, fiercely smashing onto the wooden step, cracking and indenting it.