Night of Despair-Chapter 182 - : 180 Thrilling Moments

Chapter 182: 180 Thrilling Moments

On the other side, Yu Hong returned to the cave, opened the communicator, took the stone talisman, and started attempting to infuse Inner Qi using ink powder—an effect generated via this method previously.

Soon, Zhang Kaijun’s slightly weary voice transmitted from the communicator.

“Arrived? I’ve surveyed the route; the safety of the Black Disaster Rift is confirmed, you decide on the first batch of trading materials.”

“Get me a set of leg guards, made of the highest strength alloy. Also, some laundry liquid, laundry powder, and all other possible chemical products like soap,” Yu Hong casually said.

For the first trade to test the route, naturally, one wouldn’t carry the best goods.

“Then, I need a retractable Vortex Talisman Plate from your side, prepare more,” Zhang Kaijun said in a grave tone.

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“What about Wei Song?” Yu Hong asked.

“She hasn’t come online. I spoke with her before; more and more people are dying on her side, no results from the investigation, they’ve decided to just relocate,” replied Zhang Kaijun. “She suspects a high-risk Black Disaster has intruded, but can’t detect it herself.”

“Can only wish her good luck then,” Yu Hong said.

“By the way, I heard from those who came from your side that your physical strengthening exceeds ordinary enhanced people, can you trade techniques?” Zhang Kaijun was clearly eyeing the Cultivation Techniques of Yu Hong. From the people who came from Yu Hong’s side, he knew this guy seemed unusually strong physically, quite abnormally strong, and could even physically confront some Black Disasters, making him suspect Yu Hong might possess some confidential techniques.

“My methods are unsuitable for anyone other than myself; otherwise, I would’ve already enhanced the strength of others. But unfortunately,” Yu Hong replied.

“Are you free now?” asked Zhang Kaijun. “If I want to employ you for help, what’s the price? You need to take action personally.”

“I don’t want to go out for now,” Yu Hong flatly refused. His Thunderbolt Leg progress was good, but without an Array, his personal strength was only comparable to a level five or six Black Disaster. Before finding a solution to the contact issue, meeting an insect-like instant kill Black Disaster meant he would have to flee immediately.

Zhang Kaijun was about to speak when he immediately saw Wei Song come online.

“Wei Song, how is it?”

“…Things are very bad, I’ve requested aerial support, but Aurora City declined. They’re only willing to offer drone support services, and it’s very expensive,” Wei Song’s voice bore deep fatigue.

“Have you confirmed what Black Disaster it is?” Yu Hong asked.

“Over thirty people have died, confirmed to be a new variant of Black Disaster, no records available, its lethality isn’t even the most troubling part, the most troubling is… other aspects…” Wei Song said tiredly, “especially the way this Black Disaster appears.”

“What way?” Yu Hong immediately thought of Lin Yiyi, his brows instantly furrowing.

“Shadow,” Wei Song answered. “It uses shadows as carriers, suddenly appearing. Or rather, its form in the early stages closely resembles ordinary shadows, easily causing people to relax their guard and making it hard to detect until it’s too late.”

“How do you plan to handle it?” Yu Hong asked with a frown.

“Blood lure…” Wei Song said helplessly.

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Hundreds of kilometers away from Black Wind Camp.

On a dilapidated lakeside road.

Buzz.

A fully armed black armored vehicle was madly speeding along the road.

The vehicle wobbled, like a drunken driver, swerving curves on the path.

Inside the car.

Xue Ningning’s face was stern as she drove with one hand, holding down the wildly struggling Chen Qiaosheng with her other hand.

“Let go of me! It’s not safe here; we can’t stay in the car, can’t stay!” At this moment, Chen Qiaosheng had lost his usual shy demeanor, his muscles bulged, and veins protruded as he twisted madly even though he was tied up.

The other passengers, An’an, Ou Li, Lin Yiyi, Fang Shijun, Chen Xinji, all sat motionless in their seats, eyes closed, silent.

“Get ready, someone replace me!” Xue Ningning kept her eyes wide open, unblinking as she stared ahead.

“It’s my turn now!” Chen Xinji said in a deep voice, standing up and groping his way to the passenger seat.

“Ready.” Xue Ningning, her eyes filled with bloodshot veins, tears continuously sliding down her cheeks, yet she dared not blink.

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In an instant, she stood up, closed her eyes. Simultaneously, another figure rushed over, took the driver’s seat, and opened his eyes to take the steering wheel.

The seamless handover had Xue Ningning quickly sitting where Chen Xinji had been, eyes shut tight.

Chen Qiaosheng’s struggling noises continued to fill the car, now it was Chen Xinji holding him down.

“His strength is getting stronger!” As soon as Chen Xinji took over, he felt something was off.

The strength of Chen Qiaosheng’s struggle faintly seemed to surpass his.

“He’s completely fallen into a hallucination…” Xue Ningning spoke gravely.

“Is it really just a hallucination?” An’an interjected.

“Just keep holding him, as long as someone with open eyes touches him, he won’t disappear!” Xue Ningning was unwavering.

“I can’t hold him down much longer!” Chen Xinji’s hand clearly felt weak.

He drove, sweat dripped down into his eyes, forcing him to involuntarily blink.

At that moment, suddenly he felt something was wrong in his grip, quickly turned his head, and glanced at the person he was holding.

That glance made goosebumps explode all over his body.

The person he was holding was no longer Chen Qiaosheng, but instead a stranger in a gray outfit, long hair, standing in the car.

The stranger’s hair parted, revealing a blurred but familiar face with a smile…

That face… was unmistakably Chen Qiaosheng!!

Ah!

Chen Xinji’s skin burst with dense, tiny bumps, he screamed, his eyes quickly whitening, and the vehicle he controlled swerved sharply.

Squeal, a sharp screech of brakes sounded.

An armored vehicle smashed into a roadside concrete barrier and came to a sudden halt with a loud bang.

The door opened quickly, and shadows burst out, sprinting towards the distance to escape.

“Yiyi, run!!” Ou Li looked back as he ran but saw Lin Yiyi actually grabbing Chen Xinji, who was convulsing, trying to drag him out of the vehicle.

And Chen Qiaosheng, who had just been with them, had completely disappeared.

Ou Li panicked and shouted urgently,

“That guy is contagious! Don’t go near him!!”

“Xin…ji… isn’t, dead yet!!” Lin Yiyi shouted back loudly.

She exploded with brute force, lifted Chen Xinji straight up, and jumped out of the vehicle.

“Yiyi!! Let me go…” Chen Xinji frothed at the mouth, “As soon as you touch me, you absolutely must not… close your eyes… otherwise… you…”

“I know, I’ll get infected, just, touch you, and keep, my eyes, open,” Lin Yiyi gritted her teeth.

“I said… let me go!! Dying here isn’t so bad… living in this world is just torture…” Chen Xinji struggled to break free from the grip, but before he could finish speaking, he began convulsing violently like one with epileptic seizures.

“Let me… go!! Ahh!!” Suddenly, Chen Xinji got up, struggled free with all his might, ran a good distance, and leaped into the roadside lake.

Boom!!

Mid-air, his entire body was covered in flames and exploded, scattering his body parts into the water.

Everyone was stunned…

“F*ck!” Xue Ningning smashed her fist onto the ground. Chen Xinji could have lasted a while, just needed to get through the initial infection phase, but he chose to kill himself with his own grenade.

“Chen Xinji… you damn…!!” Fang Shijun’s eyes reddened. She had joined the team with Chen Xinji and never expected that they would just encounter an unknown Black Disaster along the way and…

“He must have blinked…” An’an clenched her teeth. “According to our previous speculation, the next attack should have been one day later… We must figure out a way to deal with this, otherwise…”

They hadn’t even reached Black Tree Village, and they had already lost two team members… Even though they had mentally prepared themselves…

“Radiation hand grenades work, but we have to catch the moment he appears. This guy is like a Language Person, doesn’t show up until the very end. And once he does, the attack is incredibly quick!” Ou Li stated simply. Even if she and the others weren’t close, she still felt a sense of dread and fear of death.

“Even a Speed Man follows several attack rules, I don’t believe encountering this Black Disaster means certain death!! We must have overlooked something, didn’t find where it began accumulating evidence!!” Xue Ningning clenched her teeth.

“Right! If it truly were a guaranteed death upon encounter, this Black Disaster would have been nationally reported and famous by now! Its level would definitely be at the War Level!” Ou Li agreed.

“Should we… head to Black Wind Camp? They must have lots of radiation hand grenades there, it’d be definitely safe!” An’an suddenly suggested. “Didn’t Hong tell Yiyi that we could seek refuge there if we face danger? One day should be enough to get there!”

“…” Lin Yiyi fell silent.

She didn’t want to risk implicating Hong, but to just watch as her teammates died to the Black Disaster was painfully hard for her.

“If this continues, we’re all going to die! Think carefully, how were we infected when we first encountered that thing!?” Xue Ningning raised her voice. “Who was infected first!? Why!?”

“No matter what, let’s first head to Black Wind Camp for supplies, our radiation hand grenades might not be enough! To take down that thing, we need these!!” An’an continued.

“Based on the detector’s readings, this creature is at least a level six Black Disaster, without finding exact mechanics for precision strike, we need to rely on massive negative value radiation saturation strike! I don’t think Black Wind Camp can achieve this!” Fang Shijun also didn’t want to implicate others.

“Then just trade for radiation hand grenades, and then we leave!” Xue Ningning decided. “Absolutely not implicating anyone else! Yiyi, this is the only way out!” She looked towards Lin Yiyi, still silent.

Lin Yiyi looked at team leader Xue, knowing they had no other options, and nodded.

“Let’s go! Back to the car!!”

Xue Ningning commanded sternly.

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Black Wind Camp.

“Three people disappeared today, two of them were power enhancers… we still haven’t figured out the killing mechanism…”

Through the communicator, Wei Song’s voice was hoarse.

“Isn’t pairing them up enough?” Zhang Kaijun asked solemnly.

“Mm, both of them went together.”

“What about the Pyroxene Secret Room?”

“It couldn’t block them, they would mysteriously open the door themselves and then disappear. Later I tied people up, and indeed nothing happened temporarily, but as soon as they were untied, they immediately disappeared…”

“This situation isn’t something a low-level Black Disaster can achieve…” Hong suggested. “It’s probably a new mutation of the Black Disaster.”

“I’ve got it here too,” Zhang Kaijun spoke calmly, “ISOLATED dozens in the containment strip, after setting off several luminous stone bombs, there wasn’t much noise…”

“May not be successful, be cautious with the follow-up, if it’s like a Language Person, you’ll need to constantly monitor the Red Value,” Hong advised.

These past few days, his Inner Qi had reached the ninth root, the Thunderbolt Leg Technique third layer achieved, and his body once again began another round of enhancement.

The Inner Qi did not dissipate, but continued accumulating, moving into the fourth layer.

“Up till now, I’ve also encountered a mutated Black Disaster once, environmental conditions are deteriorating too fast. I’m worried it might further…”

Zhang Kaijun began to say, but suddenly paused, stopping.

Not just him, Wei Song as well, both of them simultaneously fell surprisingly silent.

Not only them but everyone who could see the sky at that moment, Old Zhou, everyone in Gray City, Yiyi’s traveling team, countless people from other outposts.

Right at this moment, they all slowly raised their heads, looking towards the sky.

The sky that was just bright and grayish-white was now visibly darkening at a rate noticeable to the naked eye.

In less than ten seconds…

The bright sky had completely fallen into darkness.

And the time was still only ten-thirty in the morning…