Night of Despair-Chapter 150 - : Attitude Two

Chapter 150: Attitude Two

“Yes,” Zhang Kaijun said in a heavy voice. “According to investigations, many of the antique murals the Meisha family sold off are related to relic runes and contain quite a bit of gold and silver antiques. Although there’s no direct evidence proving they triggered the Black Disaster, the Meisha family is definitely connected to it!”

“What’s the use of finding them now?” Wei Song sighed. “Enough people have already died…”

“But what if we could completely shut down the Black Disaster?” Zhang Kaijun insisted.

“Are you suggesting we can put all the Black Disasters back in the world?”

The two of them chatted back and forth, with Yu Hong mostly listening in on the side while he continuously made new Radiation Hand Grenades.

With these as his confidence, he feared nothing, no matter which of the three types of Black Disasters approached.

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After the communication ended, Yu Hong also made six more Radiation Hand Grenades.

He stood up, put on his suit, and prepared to be on standby at any moment. At the same time, he stepped out of the courtyard and reminded Old Zhou to be cautious during these times. He had long passed on the intelligence information about the three dangerous types of Black Disasters to Zhou Xueguang, and asked him to share it with Nana and Dr. Xu.

As for the two women outside, he also had Old Zhou give them a heads up to avoid this area.

It was out of humanitarianism; whether they listened or not was none of his concern.

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More than ten kilometers away from Black Wind Camp.

A broken-down black sedan, covered in dried bloodstains, was moving along the highway at an unhurried pace.

The windows were shattered, and the tires were flat, yet the car moved eerily silently, without a sound of tires crushing the road.

Through the window, one could see a middle-aged man with glasses sitting in the driver’s seat.

Dressed like a successful businessman in a black suit and red tie, the man had a slightly chubby face with a neatly-trimmed mustache over his mouth and nose.

He drove with a smile, gazing straight ahead, as if he wasn’t driving in the perilous wilds of Shadow but taking a short weekend trip to relax and breathe in the fresh air.

Oddly, no matter what lay ahead on the road, the middle-aged man’s expression remained unchanged.

Smiling.

He kept his eyes on the road ahead, always smiling.

After a while, the black sedan approached the highway near Black Wind Camp.

Suddenly, the car seemed to detect something, began to slow down, and then came to a gradual stop.

Click.

The door opened.

The middle-aged man inside released the steering wheel, seemingly waiting for a passenger to get out.

Click.

The car door suddenly closed on its own.

The sedan then slowly moved forward again, gradually heading into the distance and vanishing into the mist.

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Black Wind Camp – Inner Courtyard.

“This is some freshly air-dried beef jerky, mushroom jerky, and cockroach jerky. If you don’t want them, I won’t make any,” Old Zhou said, placing a large plastic bag in front of Yu Hong,

As he opened the bag, yellow-brown pieces of mushroom jerky and lizard jerky mixed together were revealed.

“It hasn’t rained lately, but the fog is too thick. There’s only a little time in the morning for drying. It’s getting harder to get by these days. Without the sun and with the air getting damper, we don’t know what to do,” Old Zhou sighed, his face showing some worry.

“Don’t go out in the next few days, not even to the outer courtyard, and remember to stay inside,” Yu Hong said as he picked up the bag, saying no more.

“Yeah, I know. By the way, those two women came again, they want to talk to you,” Old Zhou mentioned.

“Ignore them,” Yu Hong replied. His gaze shifted towards the outer courtyard fence, where the fog was too thick to see clearly. Only indistinct silhouettes of people standing there could be made out.

“They have guns. I’m afraid they might get desperate… It’s okay for me, but it would be troublesome for Nana and Dr. Xu,” Old Zhou cautioned.

“You make a good point,” Yu Hong conceded after some thought and nodded. These days, he had been entirely focused on practicing to enhance his Inner Qi and making grenades, with Old Zhou handling everything else—and he was doing a good job.

But Ding Shao and Yao Feiling weren’t an issue Old Zhou could handle.

With that in mind, Yu Hong put the bag inside the cave, then walked directly towards the figures.

Exiting the inner courtyard and crossing the grass of the outer courtyard, he stopped inside the fence and looked at Ding Shao and Yao Feiling, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.

Both women looked exhausted, with heavy dark circles under their eyes and their suits torn and blood-stained all over. Ding Shao had lost her helmet, leaving only her face mask and goggles.

Yao Feiling’s previously carried rifle was gone, leaving only a long dagger holstered at her thigh.

They both looked very haggard.

As Yu Hong approached, Ding Shao once again spoke with a pleading tone.

“Mr. Yu, what will it take for you to let us join the camp?”

The truth was, they weren’t as disheveled as they appeared to be. They’d just been dealing with the Multi-eyed Bird for the past few days, suffering from lack of rest and running low on weapons and ammunition. They realized it would truly be dangerous to continue on their own.

So the two crafted a strategy, first pretending to be in a miserable state to probe Yu Hong’s thoughts and see if they could successfully join the camp.

If they could, that would be best. If not, their feigned weakness would lower his guard, and then… they would attack suddenly. Overpowering Yu Hong was the plan.

After careful consideration, they contemplated taking Old Zhou, Nana, and Dr. Xu as hostages, but after observing from a distance, they realized that Yu Hong kept to himself in a cave with much stronger defenses and was unwilling to let the others enter, not even little Nana.

This clearly indicated that Yu Hong was extremely selfish.

Based on this conclusion, taking the others hostage was unlikely to achieve their goal and would instead alarm Yu Hong, causing him to hide in the cave and never come out. That would make taking over the camp much more difficult in the future.

Therefore, to ensure success on their first attempt, they decided to make Yu Hong their target.

First, they would show their own weakness, then tempt him with their beauty to lower his guard.

Finally, they would move quickly to capture him.

They also considered that Yu Hong might be a highly skilled individual, so it would be best not to harm him. Controlling him by incapacitating rather than killing him would be the best approach to make him serve them.

Snapping back to the present, the two women intently watched Yu Hong, awaiting his response.

“If you’re willing to let us in,” Ding Shao bit her lower lip, her cheeks flushed after just washing her face with camp water, “Lingling and I will do anything you ask…” Unconsciously tugging at the front of her suit, she revealed… a small gap.

On one side, Yao Feiling wordlessly tugged at her companion and naturally leaned forward, pulling open her own suit at the chest to reveal a deep cleavage that far surpassed Ding Shao’s.

“Yeah, just let us join, and we can keep you company!” she said with a mournful tone, “We can’t take it anymore, we really can’t stand it out there…”

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“If you want to join, it’s not impossible,” Yu Hong said, looking at the two girls in front of him. They were indeed quite beautiful and seemed to be quite capable, as they had managed to survive so many days outside, getting past the Multi-eyed Birds, hiding from the Black Disaster worms, and the elephant worms.

Indeed, they had some skills.

“You agree!?” Both women were startled, their expressions showing ecstatic joy.

But inside, they were already tensing up, ready to draw their guns at any moment.

“There’s a condition,” Yu Hong nodded, “As long as you can do it, you can join the Black Wind Camp.”

The two women had already subtly reached for the high-potency pistols strapped to their backs.

“What’s the condition?” Ding Shao asked quickly.

“Do you know the kind of rune that is drawn on the Large Pyroxene Stone?” Yu Hong spoke seriously, “If you help me find three new runes that are different from the ones I have here, I’ll accept you into the camp.”

He was thinking that, rather than letting these two die here for nothing, it would be better to make use of them to search for the runes.

Finding three new runes would require them to search far and wide, and normally, they would need to visit three different relics to collect them all. The difficulty was enormous, and it was very likely to be a life-threatening endeavor.

Old Li hadn’t even returned with one type yet, let alone three.

Of course, if they really were capable of finding all three, then Yu Hong would not mind letting them join.

If they could achieve that, it would prove that the two of them had great capabilities, and perhaps in the future, he could send them to collect other runes as well.

No matter what they chose, he would not lose out.

That was Yu Hong’s thought.

“Three runes?” Ding Shao and Yao Feiling were a bit stunned. They were not clear about what this condition meant. They had indeed seen the runes on the Large Pyroxene Stone, but they were completely clueless about the other runes.

How to obtain them, where to find them, and the difficulty involved were all unknown to them.

Originally, they thought Yu Hong was after their bodies, that he had finally reached the point where he would reveal his true nature. But…

“May I ask, where do we find these three runes?” Ding Shao asked in a low voice.

“Go to the relics near other luminous stone mines. Each relic will have only one unique rune,” Yu Hong said.

“…..”

Upon hearing this, both women fell silent.

In such a dangerous environment, they could barely handle a few more days outside, let alone traveling to an unknown distance to find relic runes!

This wasn’t giving them hope for joining; this was sending them to their deaths!!

“I’m gonna fucking kill you!!”

Finally, an enraged roar.

Yao Feiling raised her hand and drew her pistol, its safety already off, and aimed directly at Yu Hong’s chest.

Her finger pulled the trigger.

Bang!

Just at that moment, her cheek violently struck.

A thick metal black glove slapped her across the left side of her face.

The enormous force burst forth in an instant, piercing through the helmet, shattering the goggles, and landing on the delicate skin of her cheek.

Whoosh!

Yao Feiling was sent flying, her head facing outward as if her hair was grabbed, and she slammed heavily onto a large rock to her left.

A dull sound echoed as she groaned in pain, dazed by the strike, her mind buzzing, leaning against the rock with her mind going blank and a nauseating feeling of wanting to vomit surging up.

On the other side, Ding Shao simultaneously drew her gun, taking advantage of the moment Yu Hong moved to throw Lingling, she pulled the trigger like lightning.

Pop pop pop pop!!

The continuous auto pistol’s muzzle flared, firing four bullets in a blink, hitting Yu Hong squarely in the chest.

Unexpectedly, the specially designed armor-piercing bullets hit Yu Hong’s suit, only shattering the outer metallic shell, then got embedded in the ceramic layer in the middle, stuck and immobile.

She was quick, and indeed all shots were fired, but…

The bullets seemed… useless.

Ding Shao swallowed hard, looked up, and saw Yu Hong standing unmovably before her.

Suddenly, she ducked, avoiding a slap, but she could not dodge the kick aimed at her lower abdomen.

Bang!!

She was knocked flying backward, crashing into a tree trunk three meters away, wood chips flying, slowly sliding down, her body curled up into a ball, unable to move.

The power difference was too great; with Inner Qi amplifying his strength, Yu Hong’s power level was entirely on a different scale from theirs.

“Aaah! I’m going to kill you!!”

On the side, Yao Feiling screamed in fury, scrambling up and throwing a dark object at Yu Hong.

As the object was thrown, a faint hissing sound filled the air.

A grenade!?

Ding Shao’s heart leaped in alarm, at such a close distance, if it exploded, all three of them would be…

Boom!

A massive explosion erupted, the exaggerated blast force expanding, covering a five-meter radius, slamming into all three of them.

And crucially, Yao Feiling had silently counted down the wait time, throwing the grenade to explode on impact.

Good sister Ding Shao was the first to be blown away, tumbling to the ground, her front side a bloody, charred mess, consciousness fading.

Yao Feiling was likewise blasted into the air and smashed to the ground, unable to rise again.

Yu Hong…

He stood his ground, retreating several steps and crashing into a pre-set fence, breaking several thick branches.

But that was all.

His current physique, amplified by Inner Qi, could easily withstand the residual force that penetrated the reinforced suit.