Night of Despair-Chapter 122 - : Information 120

Chapter 122: Information 120

“It’s all wrong! Completely wrong! The Language Person is coming!!”

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Fang Shijun’s face was covered in sweat, his body shivering slightly as he stepped backwards.

“Where are the numbers?? Recalculate the passage! Chen Xinji! Move it!” Xue Ningning’s urgent voice rang out, her complexion turning pale.

They had lost several teammates in a similar situation last time, and now with the scene unfolding again, it was likely…

“There’s no change in the data, we don’t have time!!” Chen Xinji was also in a state of complete disarray, continuously working the computer program, synthesizing the latest data for calculations.

The sky gradually darkened around them, as if something had draped a veil over the heavens.

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It wasn’t anywhere near nightfall yet, but the daylight had dimmed significantly.

“What’s the Red Value now?!” Xue Ningning shouted.

“It’s still 0! Can’t detect anything! It’s impossible to get a reading!” Chen Xinji’s hands were trembling.

“Let’s move! Get out of here!” Xue Ningning gritted her teeth, pushed herself up, and took the lead, rushing forward.

A line of people followed her, quickly weaving through the buildings.

But eerily, minutes later, it was as if they had gone in circles and returned to the exact spot they had just left –

In front of the twenty-plus-story building!

The faces of the team darkened to the extreme as they hurriedly moved away again.

But the second time, the third time, the fourth time!

They still found themselves back where they started, even if they ran straight in one direction, it was like circling back to the starting point.

“We’re done for!!” Fang Shijun collapsed to the ground, his whole body quaking, “We’re dead… we’re definitely dead… this sure as hell isn’t the Language Person!! It could be some other Evil Shadow… our equipment is all prepared for the wrong thing…”

The rest were silent, a faint sense of despair spreading throughout the team.

“Are we… going to disappear in the park like those other teams??” Chen Xinji said in a low voice.

“…” Xue Ningning had no response. In that moment, she clutched the metal pendant at her chest, her eyes filled with sorrow, but also flashing with a certain determination.

“Everyone, leave a last will… If someone can get out, remember to take them to our families…” Chen Xinji said, head lowered. He paused, his hands shaking as he was the first to pull out pen and paper and started writing.

They couldn’t get out…

Completely trapped in this bizarre park.

Beep.

Suddenly, a grating alarm went off.

Ou Li, startled, saw the others looking towards her, thought for a moment, then slapped her forehead and started searching in her backpack. Soon, she pulled out a different Red Value detector.

This detector seemed slightly different from the ones issued to the team, with its liquid crystal display showing more parameters and options.

“… The alarm went off,” she said slowly, still not understanding why the others were so desperate, fumbling with the detector, “There’s a Red Value, it’s changing!”

She compared directions with the detector, stopping at a point to the front right.

“It says, run that way! The Red Value is the lowest.”

Xue Ningning also had a working detector on her, and hearing the noise, her despondent mood was briefly interrupted, confusion arising – why didn’t the detector on her react, and only Ou Li’s raised the alarm?

As her gaze inadvertendly flicked towards Ou Li, her expression instantly froze.

“Yiyi… how does your detector have decimals??”

She quickly took out her own detector, which showed 0. But Lin Yiyi’s detector read 0.122.

And not just that, the value also indicated a specific direction, indicating where the signal was coming from.

“My, friend, gave me, this, advanced one,” Lin Yiyi said with a proud smile on her face.

“Advanced detector??” Xue Ningning startled, glancing at the detector and then back at their surroundings. There were advanced detectors too?

She tapped her own detector, which continued to show a zero.

Looking at Fang Shijun and Chen Xinji, who had nearly given up, she suddenly had an idea and made a quick decision.

Since we can’t find a way out of this park, and since Yiyi’s detector has some response, it’s better to take a gamble than to fumble around blindly…

“Go, follow the direction indicated by your detector!” she immediately commanded.

“Okay!” Lin Yiyi confirmed the direction, grasped Ou Li with one hand and the detector in the other, and, full of energy, started running towards the direction with the lowest Red Value.

The rest, jerked into action by Xue Ningning, hurriedly followed.

Before long, Lin Yiyi had run a hundred meters, and they could see another gate leading out of the park.

They were only a few dozen meters from the gate.

Fang Shijun and Chen Xinji’s eyes shifted from despair to surprise!

“It’s the gate! Can we get out!!??”

They couldn’t believe that Ou Li’s fiddling, without using any of those complicated instruments, simply relying on one detector, had actually found a way out!

The two didn’t have time to think more and were about to rush towards the gate.

Beep beep!

Suddenly, the detector sounded again, Ou Li stopped in her tracks, checked it, and without hesitation turned away in the direction indicated by the detector.

She trusted Yu Hong wouldn’t harm her, so she executed the information given by the detector without doubt.

“Wait! We can get out just over there!” Ou Li couldn’t help but shout. “Put me down!” she began to struggle.

“You can’t, get out.”

Thwack.

Ou Li was slapped by Ou Li, who immediately quieted down, her eyes regaining clarity.

“We, are friends, let’s go together!” Ou Li said earnestly, hefting the person up and quickly changing direction.

Another side, Xue Ningning and her two companions calmed down, stopped in their tracks, exchanged a glance, and then with gritted teeth and a reluctant gaze at the gate, decisively followed after Stutter.

Since Stutter had found an exit once, she could definitely find one again.

They were all rational people, and seeing the hope before them, they immediately made the most correct move.

That was, to follow Lin Yiyi!

Soon after, within a mere fifteen minutes, the group kept making turns, running along, and miraculously didn’t run into a single circle.

It was as if this perilous park was nothing but a fake movie set. The recent experiences had all been illusory.

Even the Evil Shadow seemed to let them scurry about without coming to disturb them.

Xue Ningning was anxious at first, but as time went on, her expression slowly turned to one of astonishment.

Then came confusion, shock, and finally serious contemplation.

Eventually, ten minutes later.

Bang!!

The park’s iron railing was broken by Stutter’s shoulder, and after she kicked off the jagged edges that could cause scrapes, she led the way and slipped out easily.

The alarms from the detectors abruptly stopped, and silence ensued.

After all five had wriggled out, they sprinted away from the park, only stopping after they had run 500 meters away.

“Safe… now!” Stutter set down the detector and Ou Li, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and revealed a cheerful smile.

Ou Li’s head was still buzzing, and she leaned over, taking deep breaths.

Xue Ningning, still half in doubt, finally relaxed after confirming they were safe and then turned her attention to the peculiar Red Value detector that had been alarming incessantly.

“Yiyi… where did you get this detector?” At this moment, she was not only filled with the joy of being saved, but also with the realization of just how powerful the detector was.

If this detector, which could sense the Language Person, could be widely distributed, how many teams could be spared from death in confrontations with Language Persons?!

“This is, from, my, friend!” Lin Yiyi honestly replied.

“Your friend…!” Xue Ningning stared in astonishment; if the detector were confirmed to be no fluke, she too would want such an impressive friend.

Fang Shijun and Chen Xinji were still in disbelief that they and their companions had really made it out.

After quickly checking their equipment data and reestablishing communication with their superiors, they finally confirmed that they truly had reestablished contact and had indeed escaped from the garden.

Both men shared a moment of relief and silent gratitude before turning their gaze to Stutter.

Silence fell for a moment.

“Didn’t you say we were a burden?” Ou Li regained her composure and, looking at the two men, mocked coldly.

Although she too was shocked by how incredible Stutter suddenly seemed, unleashing her pent-up anger from earlier was the best way to relieve the stress from the threat of death.

After a moment of silence, Fang Shijun shook her head.

“Indeed, Lin Yiyi was a big help this time, but…” Her gaze turned solemn, “She just had good luck with that special Red Value detector. Be honest with yourselves, without that special detector, what could you do?”

“Besides that special detector, wasn’t your role in coming here only to be a burden? Especially you.” She stretched out her slender finger to point at Ou Li’s chest.

“You, so full of yourself; if it weren’t for us saving you, you’d have ended up dead inside…!” Ou Li immediately became infuriated by the contemptuous gesture and raised her voice.

Others around them quickly stepped forward to hold back both parties.

“It was Lin Yiyi who saved me, it’s none of your business!” Fang Shijun retorted disdainfully.

Finally, giving Stutter a glance, she let out a sigh and walked over to her.

“Regardless, I owe you a life!”

She placed her hand on Stutter’s shoulder.

“From now on, if anyone bullies you, I’ll take them down!”

Stutter looked at her, bewildered, then at the fuming Ou Li.

“I feel the same!” Chen Xinji joined in, coming over to place a hand on Stutter’s other shoulder.

Watching the scene, Xue Ningning, holding back Ou Li with one hand, showed a relieved smile on her face.

She suddenly felt very fortunate; if she hadn’t insisted on having Lin Yiyi join the team against all advice, perhaps she would now be like the other teams, missing in the park, killed by the Language Person.

Could this be what they call, ‘good people receive good rewards’??

Yu Hong carefully ended his cultivation session, adjusted his breathing, and slowly got up.

The second fusion and optimization of his Cultivation Technique had indeed become much stronger than before.

While training, he distinctly felt countless fine particles being absorbed into his body.

These particles came in a vast array of types and shapes, each giving him a distinct feeling, and he could absorb only a very small part of them.

Yet even so, the speed at which he was gathering Inner Qi had quickened far beyond what it was before.

In this short time, two-thirds of his second layer of Inner Qi had already formed.

It wouldn’t be long before the second layer of Inner Qi was fully complete.

Rising to his feet, he returned to the ground floor and stood at the entrance, looking out over the yard.

In the yard, the lush luminous grass emitted a faint white glow as the sky gradually darkened.

But the outermost ring, which he had fostered with his new Inner Qi, seemed somewhat different.

Yu Hong squinted and looked closely.

He vaguely realized that the glow from that ring of grass seemed brighter than the surrounding luminous stones of the same type.

‘Could it be that my Inner Qi affects the quality of the luminous stones I cultivate??’