A Night of Desperation-Chapter 280: Trap 278 Two

Bang!

Water splashed in all directions as a human figure instantaneously appeared behind Agrius, gently pointing a finger.

Its fingertip immediately burst forth with countless black threads.

These numerous threads poked into Agrius’s back scales, causing it so much pain that it angrily roared.

Golden arcs of electricity suddenly surged, severing the black threads and turning them into nothing.

The man and the lizard began a frenzied struggle.

The figure made of white light constantly flickered, attacking Agrius’s body with large amounts of black threads from every blind spot.

Agrius, on the other hand, charged and broke through with golden electric light weakening every attack, and any wound it suffered would heal automatically.

Whereas its golden arcs, upon contact with its opponent’s body, would directly remove large chunks of black flesh.

For a moment, the two fought to a standstill.

Yu Hong stood on the wooden bridge, with an unusually solemn expression.

Not for any other reason, but because further away under the waters of the Black River, shapes of white light bordered with black human figures began to vaguely emerge;the second, the third, the fourth… their contours already visible…

‘Come back!’ he commanded Agrius to return.

Instantly, a flash of golden light, the giant lizard flew back to Heavenly River, and Yu Hong retracted his aura, controlling the waters of Black River to fly up, forming an elliptical water membrane around himself again.

The black water flowed, hiding his and Agrius’s presence quickly, leaving only the residual traces of their aura from before.

Once the aura was cut off, the white light figures also began to aimlessly search around.

Seizing the moment, Yu Hong jumped onto the Black Ship, and sensing that it was fully charged, he quickly controlled it to leave the spot, rushing in the direction of Huangsong Island.

As for the camp, as long as there’s no one inside, it wouldn’t attract the Black Disaster. It would be safer instead.

And if that patch of light is indeed the region of Huangsong Island, then the moment the light fully opens, the creatures lurking in the Black River, eying it covetously, will certainly swarm in.

‘Those creatures are much stronger than the initial ‘shadow’ Black Disaster… At that depth, they must be at least Level Eight or Nine Black Disaster… If we don’t want the region there to be destroyed by the Black Disaster, we must quickly find the location of that light patch, as well as determine if there are other similar light exits and entrances.’

Yu Hong didn’t want the land of vitality he had just discovered to be completely destroyed by the Black Disaster.

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Huangsong Island.

“What strong wind.”

Inside an abandoned house.

Zhao Sisi withdrew her gaze from the window, feeling a bit cold, she then remembered she was only wearing a thin undershirt, so quickly she opened the door and stepped out.

She went to the room next door, belonging to Song Siyu, and gently knocked on the door.

“Who is it?”

“It’s me, Sisi,” Zhao Sisi replied, “I’m here to see if I left anything in here?”

She pushed the door open and saw the tent inside the room was opened, with Song Siyu holding a notebook as if she was keeping a journal.

Seeing her enter, Song Siyu quickly closed and put it away.

“What are you looking for? Come and search yourself,” Song Siyu said, now dressed in close-fitting autumn clothes and wearing fluffy pink cat-ear headphones on her head.

Zhao Sisi quickly crawled into the tent to search carefully but, after a while, she did not find her gold bracelet.

“Could I have dropped it on the way back?” she couldn’t help guessing. Right away, she planned to go back to her room to get dressed and go out to look for it.

“It’s so late, go look for it tomorrow, you won’t be able to see anything in the dark,” Song Siyu reminded.

“If we have to leave tomorrow morning, it’s better to find it earlier,” Zhao Sisi shook her head.

“But Mr. Yang told us not to leave the area surrounded by the red line tonight,” Song Siyu frowned.

“Do you really believe that? That old man named Yang obviously just wants to scam money, only Gao Wen would actually believe him. So gullible,” Zhao Sisi scoffed.

“Although I don’t really believe in it either, when it comes to these things, it’s better to be safe than sorry. It’s so late now, and it’s unlikely that anyone on the island would happen to pick up your necklace. Take my advice, go out and look for it tomorrow,” Song Siyu persuaded.

“Alright, alright…” Zhao Sisi hesitated for a moment, feeling the darkness and cold outside, she realized she might not find anything anyway if she went out at this time.

So she nodded and gave up.

After saying goodbye to her best friend, she went back to the tent in her room and lay down to rest.

But as she slept, she always felt as if something was missing from her wrist.

Different from the others, her family was just of a common worker background, not any kind of second-generation rich, nowhere near as wealthy as Song Siyu, Gao Wen, and Wei Chengjun.

She had saved up for a long time to buy that gold bracelet and wore it out this time just to save face in front of her friends.

If it was lost…

With this thought, Zhao Sisi eventually could not resist, and quietly got up.

She remembered having promised her best friend, so she didn’t feel it was right to ask for her company now.

She mustered her resolve, dressed, took her flashlight, and silently walked along the dark corridor of the house to the exit security door.

Click.

The door opened.

Bursts of cold wind poured in through the gaps.

Shivering from the chill, she looked at the pitch-black streets outside, bit her lip, and stepped out.

Outside, there were a total of three red lines, hanging tautly in mid-air, forming three giant circles that encircled the house.

Zhao Sisi approached cautiously, only to find that the red line left no gaps for entry and exit.

So she bent over and stepped over the lowest red line, then leaned forward and wriggled through the gaps between the lines to get out.

Snap.

She effortlessly drilled out, dusted off her hands, and hurriedly followed the previous path with her flashlight in hand.

Just as she left the range of the red lines.

Deep on the island, Old Yang, who was investigating the situation in a pitch-black valley, suddenly changed his expression.

“Not good! Someone has come out!”

Before he left, he repeatedly cautioned Gao Wen and the others to be attentive, to not leave the protected area of the red lines, to avoid being discovered.

But now those few completely disregarded his advice.

“We must go back immediately! Otherwise, everyone there will die!” Old Yang turned around, intending to leave.

Snap.

Suddenly, a pale, decaying arm grabbed his left shoulder.

That was a shadowy figure in white with long hair, who appeared instantly behind him, holding him down firmly.

If Yu Hong were here, he could instantly recognize the true nature of this figure.

Shadow.

This was an extremely standard shadow, looking like a living person, its face hidden under long hair with a strange smile. Its body was also subtly emitting a faint Red Value Radiation.

“Here we go!” Old Yang was touched by the shadow but did not disappear instantly;instead, his touched shoulder hissed as if searing meat.

Black smoke arose, and a look of pain crossed his face. He immediately struck with one hand, sending a yellow talisman paper accurately into the shadow’s abdomen.

Puff!

The shadow instantly turned into black ash, scattering all over the ground.

Even the Red Value Radiation that it carried was instantly dispersed by the purifying self-combustion of the talisman paper, as if it had never appeared.

Old Yang quickly turned around, wanting to return the way he came, but unexpectedly, there were already three or four pale figures standing behind him.

“This is troublesome… I don’t have enough talisman papers….” Old Yang’s face changed slightly, as he began to look left and right for gaps to break through.

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Whoosh.

On the side of the double-layered shop, a figure flickered and arrived at the side of the building, stepped lightly, and leaped gently with the aid of the wall, entering one of the room’s windows.

After steadying himself, the figure was illuminated by the soft moonlight on one side;it was none other than Yu Hong who had just come down from the Black Ship.

He exhaled, hearing the intermittent breathing sounds from the surrounding rooms, Gao Wen was even snoring.

‘It seems no one noticed.’ He glanced at the detector’s time, ‘The Black Ship’s recharge took over two hours. It seems like I have to leave for two hours of recharge every two days. On my own, without the Black Ship, I can’t come to Huangsong Island. That spot of light definitely won’t work, if I break something by coming in and let the high-risk Black Disaster in as well, that would be trouble…’

Recalling the hundreds or thousands of high-risk Black Disasters surrounding that spot of light, Yu Hong felt a slight tingling in his heart.

Those depths were almost populated by Level Eight or Nine Black Disasters, even if he could block them temporarily, if a Breakthrough Level War Level one…

Without the help of an Array, he didn’t think he could fend off everything.

‘The sea star can guide the way, but it only points towards the light spot. For the time being, I can only travel via the Black Ship.’

Yu Hong took off his clothes and crawled into the tent, inhaling the fresh scent of women’s perfume in the tent, the same scent that Song Siyu wore.

Clearly, this tent was previously used by Song Siyu herself.

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Gradually, Yu Hong relaxed his body, immersed his mind, and entered into the cultivation state of the Taiyuan True Method.

According to the current pace, his Second Layer of the Dawn Realm would probably make a breakthrough soon.

At the earliest, one month;at the latest, three months.

The peculiar aspect of this Cultivation Technique is that often, Yu Hong could feel that the technique itself, the Cosmic Divine Light itself, seemed more eager to enter the next layer than he was.

Combining the fact that this Magic Skill originated from the Taiyuan Orthodox Sect, which was annihilated due to guiding in the Source Disaster, maybe its abnormality is the norm.

Therefore, he proceeded with extreme caution at every step.

The cultivation of the Taiyuan True Method involves collecting some Cosmic Divine Light and then integrating and refining it within the body.

So, one doesn’t need to stay by the Ultimate Gate at all times;it’s only necessary to visit occasionally to ensure the progress of the Cultivation Technique.

And right as Yu Hong concentrated on cultivating, a pale figure flashed past just outside the rings of red lines around the house.

Squeak.

The locked security door suddenly clicked open, the door panel moved automatically without wind, slowly opening to a small gap.

A vague white figure stepped over the red line circle and slowly walked into the corridor.

Swoosh.

“Here it is… finally found it!”

Outside the house, on a mountain path, Zhao Sisi bent over with a flashlight and picked up a rabbit-shaped gold bracelet from the ground, sighing in relief.

“Now that it’s found, hurry back, it’s too cold… Is it going to rain?”

She looked up at the sky with some concern and quickly walked back toward the double-layered shop.

All around was dark, with only about ten meters visible ahead and behind her on the long mountain path.

Beyond that was pitch darkness.

Zhao Sisi, though not a believer in superstitions, started to get scared.

Thereupon, she took a deep breath.

Patter, patter, patter.

She broke into a run.

“Just run a bit to warm up.”

The moment she started running, a pale hand reached out from behind her but grabbed nothing.