Night of Despair-Chapter 190 - : Dark Night 4

Chapter 190: Dark Night 4

Ignoring the dampness, Ding Shao forced her eyes open, enduring the discomfort of her eyelashes sticking to her eyeballs, and quickly turned around to look behind.

There was nothing.

She surveyed the other parts of the tent.

Still, no one was there, and the luminous stone talisman arrays hanging around her showed no signs of depletion.

Everything was the same as before.

After being on guard for a while, Ding Shao determined there were no problems, no dangers, and thought it might have been a false perception.

She breathed a sigh of relief, picked up a towel, and quickly wiped the water off her face.

But just as the towel covered her eyes,

that eerie feeling appeared once again!

Whoosh!

She quickly dropped the towel and tensely looked around her.

Nothing!

There was absolutely nothing.

It seemed like that sensation would only appear when her eyes were closed!

Ding Shao’s breathing became rapid.

She quickly backed up, grabbed her backpack which was always ready, and was about to run to the tent entrance.

Just as she rushed to the entrance, she blinked unconsciously.

Whoosh!

A gust of wind blew.

The figure at the tent entrance disappeared, and all was calm once more.

Outside the tent, in the isolation zone, the other various-sized tents were also deathly silent.

Just a few minutes ago, the lively sounds of activity were vibrant; now, they had all been paused and vanished entirely.

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The next day.

Inside a cave at Black Wind Camp.

“Last night, over a hundred people disappeared in the isolation zone! Of the twenty city defense teams patrolling outside the city, thirteen went missing,” Zhang Kaijun’s voice, heavy and filled with unspeakable weariness, came through the communicator.

“What caused it?” Yu Hong immediately understood that it wasn’t just him who had encountered an attack.

“Based on the traces and information from the survivors, this Black Disaster is named the ‘Close-Eye People’. Its danger level is between 5 and the highest 9, and we can’t rule out the possibility of it being War Level,” Zhang Kaijun said quickly. “The specific attack rule is that it appears next to the victim as soon as they close their eyes. Specifically, closing your eyes for the third time means certain death!”

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“…” Yu Hong was left speechless. How can one sleep without closing their eyes?

“The Pyroxene Secret Room cannot block it. This is a sign of a high-risk Black Disaster. We just can’t confirm how many people it needs to kill before it temporarily recedes,” continued Zhang Kaijun. “The key point is, this Black Disaster popped up out of nowhere last night, without any signs beforehand.”

“Same here,” Yu Hong quickly described the gray hands he encountered.

Compared to what the other was facing, his situation was still a lot lighter.

Grey City had gathered thousands of official members, and the isolation zone also had thousands of people. Now, with several hundred dead in an instant—although most were from the isolation zone—it was like losing a limb.

He thought about Li Rushan and the other two, and about Nana’s chubby little face. He wanted to ask about their situation, but the person on the other end seemed to have anticipated this and spoke first.

“The few people who came from your side, only one, Ding Shao, is missing; the others are relatively safe,” Zhang Kaijun reported. “Can we just call those gray hands the ‘Black Disaster’? I’ll test the exact scope of the attack further, thanks for that.”

This high level of attack had a clear first-encounter lethality; those unaware of it could potentially lead to widespread casualties upon first encounter.

Compared to the Close-Eye People, Zhang Kaijun was more afraid of this type of Black Disaster.

“Stay in touch. My team of experts told me that dramatic changes might occur next. I have confirmed the situation you asked me to test before. Indeed, during the Black Hour, the night outside occasionally brings unique phenomena not originally from the area.”

“The danger intensity has increased dramatically, and this is still before the night has fully come. I suspect that when there is no daylight at all, the troubles outside may escalate even more,” said Yu Hong.

“There’s a high probability of that happening, too bad for my trading team,” Zhang Kaijun lamented softly.

In such situations, the trading teams searching for the Black Disaster Rift halfway were definitely out of luck.

The two quickly discussed how to determine if one was infected.

Gray City had developed a multitude of special weapons pressed from luminous stone powder, such as luminous stone bullets, bombs, composite strong acid liquid sprays, high-density luminous stone nets, and more.

Coupled with new substances like extracts, their Blood Attraction Force had always kept casualties low.

And this time could be said to be the greatest loss Gray City had suffered since its creation.

After quickly finishing their discussion, they disconnected the communication, and Yu Hong looked at the heavy rain falling outside again.

He remembered the gray giant hands.

‘When the night falls completely, does that mean high-risk Black Disasters will appear in clusters…?’

Those hands, each capable of causing detectors to spike to tens of thousands of Red Value, were apparently part of a swarm.

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

Sudden rapid thumps came from outside.

Yu Hong quickly went out the door, walked through the tunnel, crossed the inner courtyard, and looked towards the outside of the fence in the outer yard.

Xue Ningning and Ou Li were desperately hitting the fence with sticks.

Both of them looked back from time to time.

Yu Hong followed their gaze towards the forest.

Even though it was daytime,

it was still white as day.

But in the forest, countless indistinguishable shadows stood densely packed.

They were scattered throughout the woodland, one after another, each standing silently, their bodies impeccably clean, without a single speck of dirt.

Yu Hong glanced over.

Through the mist, he could see hundreds of people densely packed within his field of vision.

All of their faces were blurred, standing outside the array, only about five or six meters away from the fence.

Everyone quietly faced the campsite, in absolute silence.

“Mr… Mr. Yu!” Ou Li couldn’t help but raise her hand, “Can we, let us in first…just to the outer courtyard is fine!”

Her face was filled with terror, her face smeared with tears, snot, and saliva, clearly having been scared out of her wits before Yu Hong had arrived.

Whoosh!

The moment she spoke, all the shadows outside the campsite turned their gaze towards Ou Li.

They did not move forward, nor did they retreat, just like zoo visitors watching animals, they stood quietly outside the array, their gaze following the movements of the people inside.

Yu Hong inhaled a breath of cold air as he saw that among the crowd was the speed lady in a yellow coat and white dress he had killed earlier.

He knew that if he left those two outside the courtyard now, they would certainly face certain death.

So he hurriedly beckoned them.

“Get to the outer courtyard first!”

Only then did the two of them quickly climb over the fence and sit on the ground, gasping for air.

They had previously witnessed the strange effects of the array, where transparent crows would appear along its edges, blocking the entry of the Black Disaster.

Though they didn’t know what technique or method Yu Hong was using, as long as they could survive, anything was acceptable!

Without paying attention to the two of them, Yu Hong kept a close watch on the crowd outside.

In the mist, at a glance, it was full of people.

Despite so many people being there, not a single one made a sound, which was completely different from the previous shadows.

And the moment he had made a noise, he immediately attracted the gaze of a large portion of the crowd.

The detector inside his suit was going crazy with its readings, already reaching more than five hundred thousand.

Yu Hong closed the door and used the imprints in his mind to sense the status of the outer array, thankfully it was already replenished.

He quickly returned to the safety of the cave dwelling, where the densely packed runes on the inner walls gave him an added sense of security.

‘I must think of a way… If this is the Black Time, the danger is too high… If even I feel this dangerous, isn’t everyone else doomed to die….’

Bang bang bang bang.

Suddenly, there was the sound of wood knocking from outside.

All the black lizards had died, so Yu Hong could not see the situation outside, he could only go to the observation window in the passageway to look out.

Outside, the densely packed crowd was now all pounding the outer courtyard’s fence with sticks!

They… seemed to be mimicking the actions of Xue Ningning and the others just now!

The fence was shaking, and both Xue Ningning and Ou Li kept retreating, their faces pale.

“Fuck!” Yu Hong could no longer hold back, he took out all the remaining radiation hand grenades, placed them beside him, then clutched two, fixating his gaze on the eerie crowd outside.

He didn’t know what kind of creatures they were, but a look at the detector told him that they were certainly much stronger than the shadow entities.

He tightly gripped a radiation hand grenade, eyes locked on the shaking fence outside.

Fortunately… as time slowly passed, the fence did not fall, and the crowd outside gradually thinned out.

Until the Black Time slowly subsided.

Outside the fence, there was no one left, as if everything that had happened before was just an illusion.

Yu Hong sighed in relief.

Looking at Xue Ningning, who were equally exhausted, he said nothing and turned to go back.

He needed to quickly cultivate black lizards to replenish their numbers, and at the same time, the array needed to be strengthened.

Moreover, the changes like this in the Black Disaster gave him a feeling that it was constantly growing stronger.

Why were these changes occurring? When would such a deteriorating environment come to an end? Could everything ever return to how it once was?

Questions rose in Yu Hong’s mind.

Inside the cave, he practiced new traction runes with a charcoal pencil while deciding to increase the radiation storage capacity of the array.

And he also planned to reinforce a second array as a double layer of protection for the campsite.

Thump thump thump.

The knocking sound echoed once again, Yu Hong heard the sound of wood knocking once more.

He stood up and walked out of the cave, only to find that it was Xue Ningning and the others in the outer courtyard.

“We need to talk.” Xue Ningning’s expression was extremely serious.

Yu Hong scanned the surroundings to ensure that there were no other issues and then approached them.

“What do you want to talk about?”

“We can’t keep going on like this, why have things outside gotten worse again?? Just passively enduring everything, there will come a day when we can’t hold on any longer! Every stronghold and city has a limit to its defenses!” Xue Ningning said gravely.

“….What, do you want to do?” Yu Hong thought that as before, the other party wanted to enter further into the campsite to seek refuge. But he hadn’t expected…

“If things continue this way, everyone will die! You, me, Yiyi, everyone else in the city!” Xue Ningning pointed at herself, with remnants of fear still visible in her pupils.

“What do you think…?” Yu Hong said.

“We must investigate, otherwise, there is only one outcome. To be honest, I am very scared, but fear solves nothing!” Xue Ningning gritted her teeth, “So, I hope you can provide us with technical support, I want to take advantage of Gray Time, to find out why these things are happening!”

“If you can really do what you say, and it’s not a ploy to steal supplies, I can support you.” Yu Hong narrowed his eyes, comparing her with the others before, Xue Ningning, an officer with formal military training, seemed to have much greater willpower.

“In this situation, going out is a matter of life and death, supplies are only useful when people are alive.” Xue Ningning stated decisively.

“I don’t want to die in such a cowardly way in the gutter! If it comes to it, I’ll die fighting those monsters!!”