Night of Despair-Chapter 151 - : Attitude 3

Chapter 151: Attitude 3

Slap, slap.

Yu Hong dusted himself off and through the smoke, he saw two motionless figures on the ground.

Another look at his own suit revealed a good amount of damage on the front, but the impact was only equivalent to being punched by his own strength.

Apart from the damage to the suit, there was nothing else wrong.

“This is good, a chance to completely resolve a hidden danger.”

He walked forward, grabbed Yao Feiling’s head, and lifted her up.

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“With a temper like yours, how have you survived this long?” he couldn’t help but wonder. If the two of them had really taken the rune mission, they could have avoided the upcoming severe Black Disaster, since it didn’t occur everywhere. That was the benefit of his good intentions. Unfortunately… these two couldn’t wait to turn against him.

“…” Yao Feiling, with who knows how many broken bones, could only stare at Yu Hong filled with hatred.

“Why hate me? I’ve been living just fine here, and you had to come looking for death. I built this camp with my own hands, and it’s my freedom to decide who stays and who goes, inviting you to leave.”

Holding onto her, Yu Hong walked over to Ding Shao and kicked her with his foot.

“You’re the one who had… improper… intentions towards us!” Yao Feiling cursed intermittently.

“With an attitude like yours? Harbouring improper intentions?” Yu Hong couldn’t help but laugh.

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly said,

“Do you think that because you have a pretty face and a good figure, everyone would covet your body?”

Yao Feiling didn’t speak, but the hatred in her eyes unreservedly gave her answer—that’s what she thought.

“That’s simple.” Yu Hong stretched out his hand and tore off her goggles and mask.

Beneath was a beautiful face already ruined by the grenade blast, covered in bloody gashes from the shattered mask cutting into her skin.

“Your face is already destroyed now, feel for yourself.”

Then, holding her, he came to a large tree.

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He pressed her chest against the tree trunk.

“Wait, what do you… think you’re doing!??” Yao Feiling suddenly felt a sense of doom and called out with difficulty.

“I’m curious to see what happens when you lose everything you’re proud of, how you’ll view others,” Yu Hong said calmly.

Momentarily after, Yu Hong released the unconscious Yao Feiling, allowing her to slide to the ground.

“Alright, it’s time to test the sisterly love between you two.” He thoughtfully went back to the camp to get them some anti-inflammatory medicine, one for each person.

In fact, Ding Shao had already awakened. The constitution of an enhanced human was not to be underestimated. Ding Shao was injured too, hit hard with a foot to her abdomen, and with her sister’s grenade going off at close range, she certainly sustained a concussion and internal injuries.

Although he didn’t know why she was pretending to be unconscious, if Ding Shao didn’t help Yao Feiling, the latter might not survive tonight in such a dangerous environment.

Truthfully, Yu Hong was most interested in Yao Feiling. He found it interesting to imagine the reaction of someone who believed everyone coveted her beauty when she lost it.

With fewer and fewer living people around, he was becoming less and less willing to destroy two living souls.

If it wasn’t for them trying to kill him, perhaps he might have let them go again.

After checking and removing their weapons and equipment, making sure there were no powerful explosives like grenades, he then returned to camp.

Upon entering the camp, the first thing Yu Hong saw was the sneaky Old Zhou and two others watching the show from the cabin window.

Inside the cabin, Old Zhou, Aisena, and Doctor Xu were squeezed against the window, heads touching, trying hard to see how the fight was going through the mist.

Unfortunately, the mist was too thick, and they could only make out that the tallest figure, Yu Hong, was the winner.

The rest of the details were shrouded in fog.

“Alright, enough, there’s nothing to see. Go back and rest,” Yu Hong waved them off, “Don’t set a bad example for the kids.”

“Yes!” Old Zhou quickly responded, tugging at the other two and closing the window.

Yu Hong pinched the two pistols in his hand and looked back.

The place where the two women had been now had only one person left. Ding Shao had stealthily got up and left at some point.

Only Yao Feiling was left lying quietly in her original spot, seemingly passed out.

As for Ding Shao, Yu Hong didn’t think much of it; he hadn’t held back with that kick.

A direct blow with all his current strength plus the amplification of Inner Qi could probably wreck a small car. Ding Shao looked fine on the surface only because the suit hid the wounds on her abdomen.

Whether or not she would survive… whether or not she’d be crippled if she did, was hard to say.

“Why can’t I encounter some normal people for once?” Yu Hong thought back on the survivors he’d met, few of them both normal and capable.

Shaking his head, he walked through the yard into the cave, set down his enhanced suit, and started the repair of the Black Mark.

While the countdown for repairs ticked away, he sat down cross-legged, pondering how to keep resisting the Black Disaster continuously.

‘Relying solely on consumable items, if all the Black Disaster were brainless idiots it would be fine, but the elephant worm proved the Black Disaster isn’t mindless… If it were slightly smarter, using weak Shadow Black Bugs to trigger booby traps and deplete my talisman plates, then all my arrangements would fail.’

‘Whether it’s the luminous stone talisman plate, the Radiation Hand Grenade, or the Vortex Talisman Plate, they are all irrecoverable consumable weapons. I must have… I must have a self-replenishing, sufficiently potent, area-effect countermeasure….’

He sat on the ground, racking his brain.

‘I have Inner Qi, two kinds of runes, black lizard, luminous stone herbs, but the only self-replenishing one is the luminous stone herb…’

He repeated the words luminous stone herb, mulling over them.

Suddenly, an inexplicable spark flashed through his mind.

‘The luminous stone herb automatically repels the Shadow Black Bug by absorbing Red Value continuously and then converting it into negative radiation. And the reason why the Vortex talisman array and the luminous stone talisman array can’t do it is exactly this. They can’t regenerate.’

‘But what if, I use the luminous stone herbs in combination with the Vortex talisman array for reinforcement? Could I possibly fortify into a kind of living, self-replenishing range talisman array? Or rather, produce a stronger type of luminous stone herb?’

Thinking about this, a new spark of inspiration ignited within him.

Now that the Black Mark was vacant, replenishing his equipment would take less than half an hour, enough time to see if this idea would work.

He stood up at once, checked the Black Mark to ensure the repair suit was complete, then brought in a luminous stone grass from outside and placed it beside a just-finished Vortex Talisman Plate.

He reached out and pressed down.

Just as he was about to start quietly reciting the enhancement incantation, Yu Hong suddenly remembered something.

His eyes flickered, pausing for a few seconds before he slowly voiced his thoughts inside.

‘Enhance the Black Wind Protection Array, direction: automatically absorb Red Value to repair itself, reduce negative radiation release under normal conditions, and automatically release stored radiation upon detecting a Black Disaster.’

He wasn’t certain if such enhancement would be successful, but it was worth a try.

The luminous stone grass, as his first binding mark, had somewhat fallen behind, so it was time for an enhancement.

Hss.

In an instant, a black line emerged from the back of Yu Hong’s hand, flowing towards the luminous stone grass and the Vortex Talisman Array beneath his palm.

The black line vanished, and a familiar, cold mechanical voice sounded.

‘Do you wish to enhance the Black Wind Protection Array?’

Yu Hong’s heart eased, being able to enhance it was good news.

He looked at the red countdown digits that appeared on the Vortex Talisman Plate: 5 hours and 51 minutes.

A short amount of time, it seemed to be a simple merger of the two.

He felt a little disappointed, but with the high-risk Black Disaster possibly striking at any moment, a shorter time also had its benefits.

‘Yes.’ He immediately gave his affirmative response.

A mere five hours, he could wait.

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Dozens of kilometers away, within a sparse mangrove forest.

A massive elephant worm, over six meters tall, was making its way step by step toward a predetermined direction.

Before long, the elephant worm had slowly receded into the mist and vanished from sight.

After its colossal form had completely disappeared, several people began to stand up one after another from the dry and moldy bushes within the mangrove forest.

These people were all draped in camouflaged grey-black luminous stone blankets; they were shabby and filthy, their lips cracked, bodies trembling, but they dared not make a sound.

More than ten people silently carried their luminous stone blankets and moved away from the direction the elephant worm had taken.

Wei Shanshan closely followed her father Wei Hongye and mother Qiu Yanxi; the three of them were draped in specially made luminous stone blankets and were in the best condition among this group.

“Harris has already gone ahead to the stronghold. We must seize a stronghold this time; we can’t keep moving. We’re low on supplies. The concentration of the Red Value outside is also getting higher, and the dangers are growing stronger,” Wei Hongye explained softly.

“Are we really sure about this?” Qiu Yanxi couldn’t help but question in a low voice. “That stronghold’s leader doesn’t seem easy to deal with.”

“Don’t worry, with the insectoid toxin traps I’ve designed, along with Harris’s skills, just a small chance to get close is enough to instantly restrain their leader,” Wei Hongye confidently stated. “Then he will come out and lead us in.”

“Okay,” Qiu Yanxi nodded, holding her limp right arm, bending down and moving forward.

Seeing her husband’s unwavering confidence, she actually had more to say but now was not the time to continue.

“It’ll be fine; by this time tomorrow, we’ll be in control of a small stronghold. If it didn’t have a water source within, I would normally not even consider such a place, but now… to think we have to scheme to take it… how fate plays with us,” sighed Wei Hongye.

The group slowly moved forward and soon arrived in front of a small forest building surrounded by a cement wall.

The wall had a metal gate with a white sign hanging beside it: Red Forest Mountain Management Committee.

Creeak… The metal gate was slowly opened from the inside.

A group of black-clad, fully armed personnel carrying guns swiftly stepped out, quickly approaching the group of more than ten refugees.

Two individuals led the armed group of gunman; one was muscular with a large white star pattern on the sleeve of his protective suit.

The other, not wearing a helmet, revealed a shiny bald head—it was none other than Harris, the research institute’s undercover security chief.

From a distance, he exchanged a glance with Wei Hongye, signaling him to coordinate their move.

A hint of a smile curled at the corner of Wei Hongye’s mouth, his hand quietly touching the gun at his waist.

He had already noticed that at least half of these people were security guards from the research institute whom he had gradually been sneaking in over the days.

Watching Harris getting closer, his gun slowly shifting towards the other leader.

Suddenly.

Bang!

A gunshot.

Wei Hongye, who had just stood up, felt as if punched in the chest, and his body violently flew backward, crashing to the ground.

Blood splattered from him.

Not just him, the other disguised members of the refugees who had not had time to react were accurately shot down, one after another.

The ones firing the guns were Harris and the other members by his side.

“Harris!!!” A roar of disbelief erupted from Wei Hongye; he stood up again, his body seemingly inflating in size, and fired three bursts at Harris, but the prepared Harris dodged them all.

“How dare you betray me!?”