Night of Despair-Chapter 206 - : Behind the Scenes 204

Chapter 206: Behind the Scenes 204

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Inside the Black Wind Camp.

Transparent air currents rose up like crows, constantly attacking the massive influx of shadows.

The shadows fell one after another, as if something extremely tempting within the camp was luring them, each recklessly charging toward the stone castle.

There were at least a thousand shadows surrounding it, layer upon layer, among which several huge figures called Big Skin joined the siege.

Outside the camp, looking at the air current crows condensed by the Array.

A mysterious figure stood on a tree branch, eyes wide with shock.

“What the hell is that thing? Can it even condense into little birds? Is it some kind of naked-eye special effect or some light and shadow technology?”

“It’s not a special effect… It should be a special attack deliberately shaped like crows. Just not sure what kind of attack it is…” Another voice also carried a hint of incomprehension and doubt.

“This camp definitely has a problem! And a big one at that!” the mysterious person said gravely. “It seems that Yu Hong is not here, which is convenient for us to make our move.”

“If we’re going to act, we need to do it quickly,” another agreed.

Without another word, the mysterious figure swiftly retreated, vanishing for a while.

A few minutes later, he reappeared on the tree branch, now with a dark, shoulder-mounted rocket-propelled grenade launcher on his shoulder.

In other words, a man-portable rocket launcher.

Aiming at the ground of the camp, the mysterious figure unlocked the safety, corrected the trajectory, and violently pressed the launch button.

Swish!

A streak of red light turned into a scarlet line, shooting out at a speed of hundreds of meters per second, flying into the mid-air of the camp, and crashing diagonally into the ground.

Boom!!!

A ball of fiery yellow flames burst open in an instant.

But eerily, the instant the fireball exploded, it was met by a swarm of air current crows, which darted out and positioned themselves in front of the Array.

The Array’s automatically triggered air current crows, which were meant to slow things down, ironically became a shield to block the explosion.

The wind component of the Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array twisted the direction of the blast instantly.

The fire component, which gifted the Array with a strong resistance to high temperatures, had no fear of the scorching heat.

Thus, the explosion of the rocket-propelled grenade, where most of the lethal force was centered, became merely a force of impact.

“Eh? This defense mechanism can even block a man-portable rocket?!” the mysterious person put down the emptied launcher tube, voice filled with surprise.

“One more shot, this mechanism is almost done for. I saw something silver-white in the crater blasted by the explosion; it must be the base component of this defense system. Just destroy this part and it should be finished,” another person whispered in the dark.

Hearing this, the mysterious individual carefully looked at the Array and indeed saw that the silver metallic components exposed in the crater, now slightly deformed and showing faint cracks.

And the influx of shadows around them was becoming smoother. It was evident that the camp’s defense mechanism had weakened considerably.

“Then let’s do this again.” The mysterious person chuckled. He reached into his backpack and pulled out another man-portable rocket, which was as long as a forearm, and loaded it into the launcher.

Then shouldered it and aimed.

“Wait! Yu Hong is back, we need to leave immediately! I’ve detected his individual reaction!” Another voice suddenly urged. “Shall we deal with him directly?”

“No, it won’t be good if we hurt him and mess up Sister Thunderbolt’s plan. Let’s go, retreat.”

Without another word, the mysterious figure turned and walked away. In the blink of an eye, he jumped onto a tree branch behind him, somersaulted in the air, and disappeared into the depths of the Black Fog.

“Wait, no, that’s not right! Yu Hong is approaching, and his speed is…!!” Suddenly, the voice of the other person became distorted, the latter half unsaid.

A burly figure abruptly appeared behind the mysterious person.

“Thunderbolt.”

Snap.

A large hand grabbed the mysterious person’s right ankle mid-air. The immense force made it impossible for him to break free.

“Wait… I am…!!” The person under the helmet had an extreme change in expression and started to shout urgently.

In an instant, he was grabbed by one leg and slammed down violently.

Bang!!

The ground trembled slightly.

The mysterious person’s right leg was completely smashed, and he lay on the ground, his black bodysuit torn open in several places, his glasses shattered, revealing a pair of pale and pupil-less eerie eyes underneath.

His broken right leg was fractured from the thigh, but no blood flowed out, only a pile of twisted and broken silver-black metallic parts.

“I…” The mysterious person opened his mouth, wanting to say something else.

But Yu Hong grabbed his hair with one hand and lifted him up.

“Where’s the other one?” he asked in a deep voice.

“You, you can’t do this to me… We, we mean no harm to you!” the mysterious person said in a disjointed manner.

“No harm?” Yu Hong glanced at the rocket launcher lying on the ground.

“It was just a test, to see if you were qualified to join our ranks…” the mysterious person quickly said.

“A test? Haha, you’re so weak and still have the nerve to talk about a test?” Yu Hong couldn’t help but laugh. “What makes you think I would want to join you? Because you’re weak enough?”

“…” The mysterious person clenched his teeth; he was still somewhat bewildered. According to the intelligence, Yu Hong had decent combat skills, and with the right equipment and weapons, he was almost as strong as the top enhanced individuals.

But now…

This was on par with the top enhanced individuals!?

He suddenly realized that the association had a huge error in their intelligence on Yu Hong and Black Wind Camp.

“Yu Hong, an individual’s power is limited. You are stronger than us, but you can never ensure your absolute safety,” a second voice also rang out from the surroundings.

“The Black Disaster is endless. As a researcher, you must know this. But we have a way to avoid it! Just join us!” the voice said.

“So is that why you brought a rocket launcher to blow up my camp?” Yu Hong retorted.

“…” Both went silent.

“This is actually a misunderstanding…” the mysterious person said with difficulty. “We were just testing the limit of your camp’s defensive capabilities…”

Boom!

Yu Hong slapped the person’s face with a backhand. The immense force instantly broke his neck.

Crack. A symphony of breaking bones.

The mysterious man died on the spot. His head was limp, hanging by a layer of skin on the left side.

“I was just testing the protective limits of your cervical spine,” Yu Hong said coldly.

“…” The other person had no words in response.

Several seconds later, he spoke in a dry voice.

“Yu Hong, you will regret this… you have no idea what you’ve missed…”

Whoosh!

Suddenly, Yu Hong turned his head to look to the front left, his body flaring with a white light, and disappeared on the spot.

In the black forestland. A blurry human figure was frantically sprinting, attempting to escape into the distance.

But as he ran desperately, a burly figure suddenly appeared on the open ground beside him.

It was Yu Hong.

“Being able to run around aimlessly, even with the Black Disaster all around, it seems like you have something to rely on,” Yu Hong said calmly as he ran.

His breathing wasn’t the least bit ragged from the sprinting.

Only a speed far exceeding his current one would result in such calmness.

Realizing he couldn’t escape, the man finally slowed down abruptly and halted.

“My speed has already reached the limits of the enhanced humans! How can you catch up so easily…”

Beep beep beep…

Suddenly, Yu Hong’s expression shifted, and in the blink of an eye, he backed away, retreating a dozen meters in an instant.

Boom!!

The mysterious man’s body suddenly exploded, orange-yellow flames engulfing the area seven or eight meters around him.

Flesh burst forth alongside the high-temperature flames, shattering the nearby mud, stones, and trees.

Yu Hong raised a hand to shield his face, the bulletproof suit he wore slightly charred.

As for the impact, it merely caused his body to sway a little.

Lowering his hand, he looked at the deep crater created by the explosion, narrowing his eyes.

‘In such a perilous situation, to encounter an organization that uses implanted bombs to control life and death?’

If it were peacetime, he would believe it, but now, in an age close to the apocalypse, such an organization’s threat of implanting bombs had little, if any, deterrence for people already facing death at any moment.

‘If the bomb’s deterrence isn’t strong, then the purpose of this bomb is a bit interesting…’

He moved forward and quickly cleaned up the remnants of the other person.

Unfortunately, all items had been shattered by the explosion. Unrecognizable.

Returning to the body of the other person he had come across earlier, to his surprise, that body had also exploded.

There was just a charred pit left, with the edges of the surrounding trees ignited, glowing with specks of red light.

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White Moth Mountain Range.

Within the massive mountain range that spans the middle of Donghe territory.

A line of ambulances, flashing red and green lights, were speedily returning in the direction of New Aurora City under the guard of armored vehicles, along the fissures.

Due to the Black Disaster’s attack on the investigative troops ahead, causing severe casualties, this batch of ambulances was specially tasked with transporting the wounded back for recuperation.

Lin Yiyi and others were also aboard.

She and Xue Ningning were transported separately because her constitution made her injuries relatively lighter, so her transport priority was later.

It was the gray hour.

The dark mountain roads amidst the pitch-black mountains had no moonlight, illuminated only by the lights of the vehicles.

The convoy seemed to blindly navigate through a dark fog. Without the satellite navigation in the vehicles, they would not even know how to return.

Lin Yiyi sat propped up in the ambulance bed, glancing sideways at the road rushing by outside. The severe dizziness from the violent impact still persisted in her mind.

“Don’t worry, we’ve driven this route many times; it’s one of the most stable fissures. On either side, there are Level 9 group-living Black Disasters, equally matched, and neither side can cross this boundary,” the caring nurse assured her gently.

“I… don’t want to go back….” Yiyi shook her head. Her injuries were not too serious, and she did not need to go back for recuperation.

Having just found a trace of her father and grandfather, she was impatient in her heart, eager to immediately pursue the next clue.

“But no matter what you do, you need a healthy…” the nurse continued.

Boom!!!

Suddenly, a huge noise startled Lin Yiyi into a daze.

She and the nurse both clutched their ears, pressing against the side of the vehicle.

Outside the window, an armored vehicle in front was lifted off the ground, tumbling past the window.

“Get out!” the nurse yelled sternly.

She pulled Yiyi open the door and rolled out.

Just as they had jumped out, a large, rotting, gray-white spider suddenly pounced from above the ambulance.

The spider was over the height of a person, its eight legs spread out, like a giant long-legged washbasin atop the vehicle’s roof.

Its legs gently pierced into the vehicle as if searching for the living inside.

Gunfire rang incessantly, and Lin Yiyi, in a daze, was pulled by the nurse into a frantic run, fleeing aimlessly in an unknown direction.

Before they knew it, they had entered a pitch-black cave and hid behind a large rock, covering themselves with a luminous stone blanket, daring not to breathe too loudly.

Outside, the continuous sounds of brutal screaming and explosions could be heard, as the nurse trembled all over, silently shedding tears.

Yiyi could only tightly grasp her hand, trying to offer comfort.

“That’s a Blood-eating Dragon, they are most attracted to moving things and are unaffected by any shielding devices.”

Just as the two were in extreme anxiety, from deeper within the cave, suddenly a despondent male voice was heard.