A Night of Desperation-Chapter 266: Endgame Six

“Send two to rescue! The others, report to headquarters immediately! Something has changed! They took Lin Yiyi away for a specific reason!” Li Wang shouted sternly.

Like waking from a dream, a group of people hurriedly accelerated out of the tunnel to find a suitable location to set up a temporary signal amplifier.

After Xue Ningning was pulled down, she didn’t wait for their response and ran towards the depths of the tunnel on her own.

Ou Li shouted from behind her, “I’m going too.”

Then, after rushing out a few meters, he circled back.

“Yiyi!” Her body trembled, and she slumped to the ground, gasping heavily.

“I’m sorry… I’m too weak… and I’m injured… I really… really…”

“Damn it!” snapped Li Wang, “It’s fine, I’ll take you with me! None of my team members will be left behind! You guys withdraw first!”

He quickly picked up Ou Li and chased after Xue Ningning.

“Wait…!!” In desperation, Ou Li tried to speak.

But the air rushing into her mouth only made her swallow gas, and she couldn’t make a sound.

She just felt a large hand grab the collar of her neck, and before she knew it, she was whisked shakily toward the depths of the tunnel.

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Underground in the ancient castle.

Depth: 1355 meters.

A vast octagonal black pool stood silently in the large cavern.

The cavern walls were carved with countless talisman arrays from the Yingshan civilization.

Large and small, various types of talisman arrays were interwoven, all converging towards the empty black pool below.

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

The crisp sound of a clock’s second hand ticked continually in the cavern.

The pool occupied all the ground space of the cavern, with only the pool’s rim marked with ridges where someone could stand.

This massive pool measured over three hundred meters both in length and width, with prominences on the pool walls forming the ridges which etched out numerous runes.

If Yu Hong were here, he would recognize that these runes mainly symbolized condensation, guidance, compression, and focus.

The Eternal Life Association’s seven members, including the president, stood at the pool’s center.

From number one to number seven, these were the real spots reserved for those who could make wishes at the Night Pool.

“Number eight was unfortunate… having his Gate of Despair forcibly shut. Otherwise, he should have been here too.”

“He lacked the strength and someone exploited that weakness—it’s indisputable,” said the second member, a mature and elegant female voice.

“Get ready. Once the other arrives, we can officially start,” the president said with a smile. He seemed in good spirits as his gaze rested on a petite figure carried on number three’s shoulder.

That was the recently kidnapped Lin Yiyi.

She was unconscious, bound, and carried like an object on number three’s shoulder.

“The fruit has finally ripened… Our years of preparation have paid off,” the president said excitedly, reaching out towards number three.

Number three brought Lin Yiyi over and laid her on the ground before the president.

With a flick of his right hand, the president released his cane and easily grabbed Lin Yiyi’s neck, lifting her into the air.

His left hand reached out from his sleeve, holding a pure silver short dagger, its handle engraved with numerous Yingshan characters.

“It’s about to… begin…”

The president’s voice was filled with unparalleled anticipation.

He clutched the dagger and aimed it at Yiyi’s chest.

Suddenly, he paused, the dagger hanging in mid-air.

“Let’s wait until the others have arrived—the timing must be synchronized… otherwise, it’ll be troublesome if it’s too late…”

He withdrew the dagger.

Just then, a part of the stone wall beside the dry pool was burst open with great force.

Bang!

Dust flew about.

Two figures, mingled with the dust, swiftly entered through the breach and landed firmly at the bottom of the pool.

“We’ve arrived;this is the place!” Leading them was the red-haired, muscular Leiya.

She was dressed in a black leather outfit, holding a translucent dagger in one hand, with two different-length black guns strapped to her back.

Her exposed skin was pale, her face hidden behind a black mask, revealing only her eyes.

Behind her was a man dressed in a black suit, his face disfigured.

“We’ve found it. It’s definitely here.”

The disfigured man looked up and immediately locked eyes with the burly fifth member among the seven.

“Saren, it’s been a while. I didn’t expect you to still be alive,” the fifth member said coldly.

“My family betrayed by you, my kin dead or mutated, living a life that’s neither human nor ghost,” the disfigured man replied icily.

“Interesting,” the fifth member laughed, “Keeping such a secret, breakouts from the family were inevitable even without me. Do you really think you could have avoided it? Rather than letting outsiders take the chance to make a wish, I might as well do it myself. What wrong did I do!?”

“Yes… you’re not wrong, and neither are we. That’s why I’m here today, to kill you—it’s only natural, right and proper,” the disfigured man declared coldly.

“Haha.” The fifth member was noncommittal and too lazy to respond.

“Now, all the main characters are here…” The president, still grasping Lin Yiyi and clutching the dagger tightly, looked towards Leiya.

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“Capture her.”

Suddenly, the other six members moved forward in unison.

Their robes fluttered open, revealing their eerie bodies full of dark, hollow voids below.

Each had countless circular holes, as if they were pierced through with cylindrical metal rods. At a glance, each person had at least a hundred on their body.

Such injuries would normally be fatal.

But these six were able to talk and move freely.

“Partial fusion with the Black Disaster?” Leiya’s expression grew solemn.

If it was a common Black Disaster, she wouldn’t care, but these were the top ranks of the Eternal Life Association. The Black Disaster they fused with wasn’t likely to be trash.

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Bang!

At the entrance of the tunnel.

The camouflaged passageway was suddenly grabbed by Yu Hong with one hand and flipped aside.

On the lamp racks erected on both sides, two temporarily charged lamps emitted bright white light.

This light dispersed much of the Black Fog surrounding the area.

“This is the place…”

Yu Hong looked down at the dark tunnel below, had a thought, and immediately several dragon lizards went in first to scout the path.

After quickly confirming there were no problems, he gently leaped and jumped into the tunnel.

Whoosh!

The moment he entered the tunnel, the blue mist on his body rapidly spread out, counteracting and neutralizing the dense Black Fog inside.

“This is the direction…” Yu Hong briefly judged, then his figure suddenly turned into a white line, rushing into the tunnel at high speed and disappearing from sight.

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Inside a dry pool.

The torn chests of two association members rapidly healed, returning to their original state, then joined the other four in surrounding Leiya and her companion.

At the very center, Leiya was covered in blood with uneven marks all around her on the ground.

Not far off were also charred remains of explosions.

She knelt on the ground, her mind somewhat dizzy.

She had thought that after her multiple enhancements, her body and consciousness had reached their peak, but just after engaging, she found herself completely outmatched in speed, power, and healing.

Within mere seconds, her pride in her strength was effortlessly crushed by the crude fighting skills of these men.

“Leiya, you are the one I released… and the one I created. From the beginning, I have always guarded against you…” the President said with a smile. “Even though I didn’t expect the enhanced person to be you, I have grasped everything about you;what do you think you have to win against me?”

“You really think you’ve already won!?” Leiya slowly stood up, her injuries laboriously sealing the wounds, which were usually quick to heal but now struggled even to close.

Shh.

She pulled a thin, translucent white dagger from the outer side of her thigh.

The dagger had serpentine, horned creatures wrapped around the handle, slightly wriggling as if they were alive.

“Primordial luminous stone?” the President exclaimed in surprise, “You still have this!?”

His brow furrowed beneath his mask.

“I thought I had destroyed all of it… every last residue!”

“The Meisha family’s uncles and aunts helped me… I finally found one,” Leiya gripped the dagger tightly and suddenly charged at the people surrounding her.

This time, they were extremely wary of the dagger, no longer confronting her head-on.

“Not a bad plan… caught my only loophole,” the President spoke solemnly, “but, relying just on a dagger to turn the tables…”

He suddenly whispered an incantation.

Dark Fog rose buoyantly from the talisman arrays carved around, streaming into the pool.

Suddenly, the Black Fog enveloped the other six, lifting them into the cloud, speeding them up significantly.

Like black lines in the pool, they darted back and forth.

Leiya, already hard-pressed, now faced even greater pressure.

A lapse in attention and a kick to the flank sent her flying, struggling to right herself and stabilize.

“Now! Take her heart!” the President suddenly shouted urgently.

Six figures pounced toward Leiya, extending their claw-transformed hands.

And at that moment.

A black figure rushed from the side.

It was the disfigured man, Saren Meisha.

His body expanded rapidly, ballooning out like an airbag, protecting Leiya, blocking all attacks.

“Go!” he roared.

Thump thump thump thump!!

In the continuous sound of massive collisions, he spat blood profusely, with strange bulges continuously wriggling on his body since merging with the Black Disaster.

Seizing the opportunity, Leiya leaped through a gap on the left, like a red streak, swooping low, darting underneath six figures to charge at the President holding Lin Yiyi.

The primordial luminous stone dagger in her hand suddenly lit up with a blinding white light.

Boom!

The light exploded, covering the entire pool cave.

In the white light, intense fighting sounds erupted intermittently.

After several minutes.

The light slowly dissipated.

Leiya lay on her back, her face and body covered with dense bloodstains.

In front of her, the Eternal Life President held a silver dagger, his chest sporting a large black cavity, through which the pool’s back wall was visible.

Puh.

The President spat out a mouthful of black blood.

“To destroy the primordial luminous stone at the cost of disrupting the ritual… did you think… I wasn’t prepared?”

He laughed softly again.

“Saren, Leiya… I’ve known for years that you were the real threats, the real trouble. So my preparations against you began several years ago…”

“I’m very aware that in this world, the only ones who could possibly hinder me are you two.”

He walked to one side and picked up the lying Lin Yiyi.

“So, although I wasn’t sure if there was any residual primordial luminous stone left, I had long collected a special drug targeted against it…”

“If the primordial luminous stone could be concealed by mineral veins, I found the surrounding rock layers that seal it, extracted key components… and regularly ingested them… until now… my resistance to the primordial luminous stone has reached levels you couldn’t imagine!”

His laughter gradually grew louder, as he watched Leiya’s unwilling angry expressions and heard Saren’s desperate roars as he struggled helplessly.

“Now… everything comes to an end… your hearts are mine…”

“Next, is my era!”

The President gripped the dagger and stabbed it toward Yiyi’s chest.

Ding!

A clear ringing sound.