Night of Despair-Chapter 94 - : Rune 2

Chapter 94: Rune 2

Under excitement, Yu Hong did not continue to reinforce the talisman array that night; usually, he would take out the talisman array for reinforcement every night, calculating the time needed and increasing the number of arrays, so they could be reinforced together and be ready by the next day.

But this time, he decided to test the Black Mark enhancement chamber.

With one hand against the stone wall, Yu Hong silently recited in his mind:

“Reinforce the entire safehouse; direction: add a new room, same size as this chamber, extending toward the mountain. Keep the exterior unchanged, enhance the door’s strength, integrate seamlessly with the stone wall, and increase resistance to impacts.”

A black line flashed, and a countdown appeared: 6 days, 9 hours, 42 minutes.

“Would you like to reinforce this chamber?” Black Mark’s inquiry resonated.

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“Yes!” Yu Hong responded expectantly.

Instantly, the entire underground chamber flickered slightly and then returned to normal. The countdown on the wall also began.

After doing all this, Yu Hong retracted his hand, satisfied.

“Over six days, though the Black Mark will be unusable for now, once I get through and successfully reinforce, I can expand in this manner!”

“Once the reinforcement is done, the response team should have arrived. Then, with the intelligence, I can retrieve the nuclear generator. As long as the energy is secured, the water supply should also be directly resolved.”

Yu Hong felt that with the Black Mark’s enhancement and synthesis capability, he could perfectly integrate the water supply system and nuclear generator into the entire safehouse system.

This saved him tremendous amount of time for design planning and modification. After all, without the Black Mark, relying solely on himself, he wouldn’t even know how to install or integrate it into the safehouse.

After confirming the countdown had started, Yu Hong returned to the upper cave level and lay down to rest. Comforted, he slept soundly until nearly noon the next day.

He could have slept longer, but a sudden noisy ruckus outside woke him from his dreams.

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Outside the safehouse, in the stone-walled courtyard.

Wei Shanshan and Qiu Yanxi stood by their small wooden house, confronting about a dozen people just outside.

It was close to noon, and the daylight was at its brightest.

The group, comprising both men and women, each held different weapons, including machetes, clubs, daggers, and pistols.

Some wore the same school uniforms as Wei Shanshan, others wore camouflage, and one girl inappropriately wore a very short dress, revealing her pale thighs.

Regardless of their attire, at that moment, their faces showed intense terror and fear. A few of them were even trembling.

“Talismans, Large Pyroxene Stones! We need enough Large Pyroxene Stones and talismans!”

“Bring them out! Bring out the talismans!” shouted a young woman standing at the front, around her twenties, not as shapely as Qiu Yanxi but better-looking than Wei Shanshan, except for her not-so-pleasant face and some red blisters brought on by stress.

She was holding a submachine gun, pointing it at the mother and daughter inside the wall.

“So many people died last night! Damn you, you clearly have so many talismans and luminous stones here, why didn’t you bring them out to save everyone!? Why!!?” The girl’s eyes were filled with panic, her hands holding the gun trembled slightly, clearly extremely terrified, her voice growing louder as she shouted.

“Li Jingyuan!” Qiu Yanxi tried to suppress her fear of the gun, her body quivering as she spoke loudly. “Weren’t you taking refuge by the post office? What happened? Calm down, it’s noon now, the safest time, don’t be scared!”

She was after all a teacher, and facing primarily a group of students, her residual authority had some effect.

“Shadows… Too many shadows! We couldn’t hold them off! The post office wouldn’t let us stay! They’re also running low on talismans and Large Pyroxene Stones! In just one night… We lost eight people!” the leading girl screamed, “There are too many shadows outside! We can’t defend against them!! Without luminous stones, without talismans, we’re all going to die! We’ll die tonight!!”

She had bloodshot eyes.

“I don’t want to die!! I want Large Pyroxene Stones! Give me Large Pyroxene Stones!!”

“There’s a luminous stone mine nearby, you can go there to mine and save yourselves…” Qiu Yanxi started, but was interrupted by two gunshots. The bullets hit the grass beside her, throwing up black soil and splattering some mud on her feet, showing specks of red.

“Who the hell will go to the mine!? Am I an idiot!? What’s the difference between going there and being stupid or dead!? Ordinary luminous stones are useless! Large Pyroxene Stones, give me Large Pyroxene Stones!!” Li Jingyuan shouted furiously.

“I can call Mr. Yu out for a fair trade…” Qiu Yanxi tried again, but was cut off.

“Fair my ass! We have so many people here, and we have guns, why should we trade fairly with just him!? Everything should be brought out for everyone to share!”

“Share!!”

“Yes! Share!”

“If you don’t share, we’ll kill him!”

“We’re all going to die anyway! Let’s fight!!”

The group was obviously under extreme stress, already somewhat unhinged.

“There’s a Large Pyroxene Stone over there, I saw it!” Suddenly, someone pointed at a large piece of luminous stone in a corner of the courtyard and yelled.

“Fuck! Grab it!!” Li Jingyuan waved her hand, and instantly a group of boys rushed toward that large luminous stone.

“There are talismans too! And food! Call out that Yu! We’re taking this place!!” A tall boy shouted, wielding a gun as he charged towards the wooden door of the mountain cave safehouse.

These were the rejects pushed out by the people at the post office, lower in status and strength than those there.

Because they lacked enough talismans and Large Pyroxene Stones, even though they had taken refuge in an underground facility, many still perished overnight.

This cruel reality instantly shattered their hopes.

They had attempted to cause trouble for a group composed of military families and guards, but after dropping a few bodies, they had to flee.

On the way, desperate, they thought of Yu Hong’s place.

Lacking food, talismans, and Large Pyroxene Stones, they immediately rushed here, trying to grasp at this last lifeline.

“Charge! Break in!! Those two are fine, there must be enough Large Pyroxene Stones here!” someone shouted, leading the charge into the courtyard.

“Why the hell should so many of us listen to just a few of them!?”

“Either way, we’re fucking dead!! Fuck it!!”

Li Jingyuan also rushed in with the crowd, ignoring the mother and daughter at the wooden house’s entrance.

More than ten people swarmed into the yard, trampling over luminous stones and grass as they headed for the wooden door.

The leading boy raised his gun, aiming at the lock of the wooden door, ready to start firing.

Whoosh.

The wooden door suddenly swung open, and a shadow darted out, hitting the boy square in the chest.

Bang!

The gunman was thrown backward, a piece of his rib snapping, blood spurted from his mouth as he heavily crashed onto the stone wall and rolled onto the ground, blood scattering everywhere.

This sudden dramatic change immediately caused everyone who was charging forward to halt their voices.

Everyone paused, their gazes converging on the swinging open wooden door.

Inside the doorway.

Yu Hong, standing nearly six-feet-three in full armor, slowly walked out the gate.

His whole body was clad in a complete set of enhanced polar bear bulletproof armor, resembling a heavy tank, holding a giant Shield in one hand and the Wolf Fang Club in the other. He stepped forward, his 300-pound weight lightly landing on the front yard’s grass.

Puff.

His long boots sank deeply.

His descending body also brought a light airflow, scattering across the entire courtyard.

The airflow stirred the luminous grass, causing it to distort and spread out in all directions from Yu Hong as the center.

Sigh…

A substantial white vapor sprayed from Yu Hong’s breath valve, blowing towards both sides of the helmet, forming two white streaks.

“I gave you fairness,” he lifted his head, looking over the group in the courtyard.

“Is this how you repay me?”

His voice was deep, instantly snapping a few close by into sobriety.

“Fuck your fairness! You hoarding all those Large Pyroxene Stones and talisman arrays, watching us die—Is that your fairness?”

“Beat him to death!”

“Kill him! Use guns!”

Bang bang bang bang!

Li Jingyuan was the first to raise her microgun, unleashing continuous fire at Yu Hong.

Gunshots filled the air, bullets hitting the heavy duty bulletproof armor on Yu Hong, sparking off.

Not just her, there were two more guns continuously firing at Yu Hong.

Bullets from three guns hit the bulletproof armor and the giant Shield, sending wood chips flying, the clash intensely fierce.

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“Foolish!” Yu Hong lifted the giant Shield, bent down, and charged forward!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

With continuous three steps, he crashed into three people ahead like a raging rhinoceros.

They were caught off guard, knocked away by the direct hit from the Shield, scattering like bowling pins.

Without pause, Yu Hong charged to the courtyard wall, lifted the giant shield with one hand and slammed it down.

Bang!

The Shield brutally smashed into Li Jingyuan.

The tremendous force blew her sideways without a grunt, blood trailing in the air, and she fell motionless beyond the wall.

Yu Hong turned around, sweeping the Wolf Fang Club effortlessly like brushing aside sticks, knocking two more people into the air.

Then, discarding the Shield, he grabbed another man by the collar with one hand and smashed him to the side.

Bang!

The sound of bones fracturing filled the air.

The man collided with two nearby, creating three spurts of blood.

Lastly, Yu Hong flung the Wolf Fang Club to the side, its howling noise tracing a circle, effortlessly hitting two trying to escape.

The upper bodies of the two were instantly bent, they collapsed to the ground, no longer making a sound.

The Wolf Fang Club rolled on the ground until Yu Hong walked forward, picking it up with one hand.

“A bunch of weak fools.”

He sighed.

Standing up, he looked around at the bloody carcasses scattered across the courtyard, shook his head lightly, and walked towards a young man who was slowly crawling, his lower body completely crushed by the shield.

“You…!!” The man struggled, staring at Yu Hong with painful, blood-shot eyes, wanting to say something.

Puff.

A Wolf Fang Club smashed down on his neck, cutting off his life.

Yu Hong sadly put away the club.

He was not someone who relished killing, but sometimes, people have to do things they’d rather not do…

After finishing this, he looked up to see Qiu Yanxi and her daughter, who were already stunned.

They stood in place, in front of their wooden house, bodies splattered with blood, expression blank, as if they were scared silly.

“Go rest,” Yu Hong sighed. “The killer is always killed. I didn’t want this, it was their fault.”

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Qiu Yanxi’s eyelids twitched, suddenly feeling surged by an intense sense of absurdity.

Watching Yu Hong shake his head and sigh, almost with pity as he returned to his cave, leaving behind the bloody corpses littering the yard.

Holding her daughter’s head, she suddenly remembered the mentally ill murderer that appeared halfway through their journey.

‘… It’s not my fault… they forced me to eat theirs!! They forced me!!’ The man’s voice and the current Yu Hong were identical.