A Night of Desperation-Chapter 256: Future 254

“No hope left?” Yu Hong realized and his mood immediately turned heavy again.

“You can go up and have a look. The higher you go, the stronger the ship captains become. Maybe they’ll give you a different answer,” Yang Chenhe said with a bitter smile.

“Okay.” Yu Hong took a breath, looked up, and channeled Inner Qi into his hands.

Hiss hiss hiss!

He climbed at an extremely fast pace, quickly heading upwards.

One hundred meters, five hundred meters, one thousand meters!

Five thousand meters!

He soon reached the window of that neurotic girl’s room again.

The girl was still sitting on the bed, motionless, completely ignoring him.

Continuing upward, Yu Hong passed window after window of varying sizes, only to see captains who had lost their sanity.

Some were pacing back and forth, repeating the same action.

Some lay on the floor muttering to themselves while others shook all over, foaming at the mouth, as if stricken with some disease.

There were others who had suffocated themselves, long dead in their beds.

As Yu Hong climbed, the windows he passed gradually contained no more living people.

The rooms visible through the windows were left with only mummified corpses.

One by one, male and female, most were lying on their beds, heads facing the window, as if they had still been hoping to leave this place before they died.

After climbing for another ten minutes or so, Yu Hong gradually stopped seeing new windows.

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He paused and looked up.

The endless wall still plunged into the Black Fog with no end in sight.

‘How high have I climbed? Ten kilometers? Twenty kilometers?’ He couldn’t remember.

Letting go with one hand, Yu Hong turned to look behind him.

Behind him was the cold, rolling abyss of endless Black Fog, and beyond that, nothing.

He didn’t know how much longer he would need to climb to reach the top, but he couldn’t possibly keep climbing indefinitely.

Immediately, he let go and allowed his body to start falling downward.

Thud.

Every now and then, Yu Hong would reach out and fiercely grab at the stone wall to slow his descent.

Descending was much faster than climbing.

Soon, he was back at the lower levels, back to the window of Yang Chenhe.

“I’m leaving. Is there anything you want to say to me?” he wrote on a piece of paper.

“All I want to say is, if you find a way out of this hopeless situation, remember to come back and tell me,” Yang Chenhe managed a grim smile.

“…If I can still come back, I will,” Yu Hong felt that the other had no intention of going out at all.

He released his hold, landed gently, took one last look at the window, then turned and hurried towards the dock.

This time, having mastered the Condensing Water Technique to completion, having resolved the issue with Agrius, and the erosion of the wooden bridge, the crisis at the camp was completely lifted.

By rights, Yu Hong should have felt a huge relief.

But after boarding the ship and looking back at the endless high wall,

The gray-black wall bore countless mottled traces, and he could vaguely see Yang Chenhe at the window, waving gently at him.

Yang Chenhe’s waving hand suddenly clenched a dagger, and he lightly sliced across his own neck with one stroke.

Thud.

Blood surged out, soaking his collar and the front of his shirt.

“Teacher… it turns out that hope was already gone…”

He leaned quietly against the window, his body slumped against the wall, watching the departing Black Ship in the distance, without closing his eyes, his pupils just gradually losing focus.

In the end, there was no pain on his face, only emptiness, an emptiness of lost hope. The faith he thought still existed had perished unknown years ago… All turned to naught.

“This disgusting world… this disgusting dead end…”

Aboard the Black Ship.

Yu Hong was expressionless.

“Perhaps, this world never intended to leave us any way out…”

He watched as the island slowly receded, slowly disappearing into the Black Fog.

The cold wind blew, and snowflakes scattered.

He turned and walked to another side of the ship, waiting for the camp to arrive.

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“There’s no more hope,” he declared.

At Gray City Base,

Zhang Kaijun, wrapped up heavily with a group of team members, stood in front of the base entrance.

The base’s heavy doors, thick enough to withstand tank cannon fire, kept falling with a rumbling noise, dividing the inside from the outside into two different worlds.

“Humanity has no more hope…” Zhang Kaijun said calmly, “To barely survive until the supplies run out, that’s the end of it all.”

“What about Aurora City? Aren’t they able to do anything?” his deputy challenged unwillingly.

Zhang Kaijun did not answer, but turned and walked towards the depths of the underground base, his heavy boots stepping with a thud.

Beside him, lining the corridor, were the bodies of base members who had passed away, leaning against the wall motionless.

Extreme cold didn’t defeat them;what defeated them was a sudden outbreak of a new type of poisonous air different from before.

Caught off guard, over half of the base personnel couldn’t survive more than three hours.

Some tried to flee the base crazily, seeking rescue from the outside. Trying to find Aurora City.

But they didn’t get far before they disappeared into the Black Fog, losing contact.

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Aurora City number two.

At the edge of an outpost outside the city,

an invisible, blurry figure, silent with the snow, passed the outpost and darted towards the gathering mass of various Black Disasters in the distance.

Evil Shadows, Blood Tide worms, and all sorts of Black Disasters were the prey of this blurry figure.

It approached rapidly, but halfway there, it silently disintegrated and disappeared.

Seconds later,

within the mass of Black Disasters, an Insect man suddenly pounced on an elephant worm, tearing it apart in a frenzy.

Not only that, all the surrounding Black Disaster swarmed the Insect man and elephant worm at that moment.

Soon, the Insect man was overwhelmed and perished, but the turmoil didn’t end;instead, the target of the Black Disaster’s assault shifted to other entities.

In less than several minutes,

the Black Disaster group, numbering over a thousand, had slaughtered each other until only a few remained.

The last few Insect men devoured each other, quickly disintegrating and turning into black smoke that dissipated and billowed up.

After all was settled, an invisible distortion rose from the underground of the area, assembling into a transparent human shape.

The human shape continued toward the next gathering place of the Black Disaster.

And that place was closer to the district of Aurora City.

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Black Wind Camp.

Yu Hong stood in the center of the camp, the erosion on the wooden bridge had disappeared completely.

The Array had returned to its original complete state. And they had gained a powerful summon like Agrius.

Now, Black Wind Camp had drastically increased its strength. But there wasn’t a trace of joy on his face.

At this moment, the detector on his collar showed the temperature had plummeted to -92 degrees.

The gas he exhaled quickly merged with other substances in the air, condensing into white powder that scattered and settled on the ground.

“This hopeless world should not exist…” He turned and went back into the cave.

He activated the communicator, but the other two still hadn’t come online, or perhaps they couldn’t anymore.

Such low temperatures put a great strain on materials. Most known materials and defense systems would fail at such low temperatures.

And nearly all electrical equipment would freeze and stop functioning.

He took out pen and paper and once again recorded his current experience with Inner Qi cultivation and the route of cultivation, creating a basic Inner Qi circulation system.

Then, he placed the Pure Yuan Spirit Calming Scripture and the Star River Taoist’s record book together on top of it, stacking them.

Then he reached out.

“Strengthen Cultivation Technique, aim: to completely destroy Black Disaster, destroy Cold Disaster.”

Yu Hong silently recited in his mind.

All along, he had been strengthening techniques to protect himself, to preserve his own life. But he had never thought about taking the initiative to change, to attack proactively, to destroy everything.

But now, he had come to understand a principle.

“Defending all the time only keeps one in a constant state of tension and fatigue, only by resolving all dangers in one breath and then resting at ease, can one truly preserve oneself with a Secret Technique.”

“Attack, attack, and attack again!!”

“Whether it’s humans, monsters, or Black Disaster! Those who dare obstruct my advancement shall be completely destroyed!”

Looking at the stacked blue-glowing booklets, Yu Hong heard the feedback from the Black Mark.

“Do you wish to strengthen the Cultivation Technique?”

“Indeed, it’s feasible…” He realized in his heart.

Essentially, this was a test to see if True Origin Divine Light truly had the potential to destroy Black Disaster.

And the result was affirmative.

“Countdown: 11 days 2 hours 9 minutes.”

“Confirmed,” Yu Hong calmly resolved in his mind.

The countdown began, and he checked the time, before slowly walking towards the Dragon Lizard Nest cave.

Boom!!

Suddenly, there was another explosion from outside, obviously a suicide drone from the Eternal Life Association being intercepted by the dragon lizard mid-flight.

Yu Hong paid it no heed, merely watching the rapidly breeding Dragon Lizard Nest in silence.

Next, all he had to do was wait.

The steadily increasing number of dragon lizards and the forthcoming True Origin Divine Light Technique might bring a glimmer of last hope to this world on the brink of destruction.

Yu Hong simply sat down cross-legged inside the cave, settling on the ground.

One day.

Two days.

Five days.

Eight days.

Ten days.

The dragon lizards outside gradually regained their numbers.

Beep beep.

Suddenly, a series of horn sounds came from beyond the high wall.

Yu Hong returned from his resting meditation and walked out of the cave.

Outside the wall, a large armored vehicle, over ten meters in length and covered in camouflage, was parked on the roadway.

Click.

The armored vehicle door opened. A wave of heat emerged.

Two thickly armored figures jumped out and approached.

“Mr. Yu! We’re here as promised!” Xue Ningning’s voice came from the first figure’s helmet.

“Yu, Hong!” Lin Yiyi’s voice was the second.

“It’s been a while,” Yu Hong’s stern face softened. “Looks like you’re doing well.”

“We are, indeed. We came out this time to chase down clues about the Eternal Life Association. Those bastards actually lured a War Level Black Disaster to attack the city!! Not just our East River, but Frica, the Free Alliance, all of Aurora City were attacked by War Level Snow Demons they enticed. Many died or were injured! Those madmen might not even be human, just wanting to wipe out all of humanity.” Xue Ningning’s tone was angry and emotional at the mention of the Eternal Life Association.

“Are you certain you’ve found clues?” Yu Hong asked.

“Definitely, to be precise, we’ve discovered an automated factory supplying them with materials, and through the transportation routes, we determined the location of their headquarters,” said Xue Ningning.

“Can’t we just drop a nuclear bomb on them?” Yu Hong asked.

“The launch device is frozen… stuck…” Xue Ningning said with resignation. “Besides, the Eternal Life Association holds too many secrets. The intent from all the major cities of Aurora is to join forces to conquer it, then capture and interrogate for secrets.”

“If you find their spot, remember to inform me,” Yu Hong nodded. He glanced at Yiyi.

Yiyi, who had undergone corrective surgery, no longer had a hunched back. Her body was upright, her cheeks in the helmet were rosy like red apples. At this look, she was just a normal, even slightly pretty, young girl.

“Yiyi,” Yu Hong said. “Give me your hand.”

Lin Yiyi, puzzled, extended her right hand, which Yu Hong grabbed, turning palm upward, placing something there.

“When you encounter an opponent you can’t handle, take it out and crush it,” Yu Hong said earnestly.

“Okay!” Lin Yiyi nodded seriously.

“Is that it? No other support?” Xue Ningning seemed somewhat dissatisfied at the side.

“It’s enough,” Yu Hong smiled.

If their investigative team had truly uncovered the Association’s clues, then this time would be the end for that disgusting lot.

As long as the address was confirmed, he wouldn’t mind making a personal visit, to eliminate future troubles.