Night of Despair-Chapter 205 - : Behind the Scenes 203

Chapter 205: Behind the Scenes 203

Mysterious dock.

Yu Hong, guided by the atomic lamp, was escorted by dragon lizards from all directions as soon as he disembarked, quickly making his way to the mansion.

In the darkness, there were fields of decay surrounding him.

Between the abandoned, rotting fields, a grey path was lit up in a ghastly green hue, winding and twisting its way to the mansion’s grand gates.

Yu Hong was now walking on this path.

He kept surveying his surroundings, peering into the fields of decay where he could faintly make out shadowy figures that stood silent among the overgrowth, unmoving, as if they were farmers at work.

‘These figures weren’t here when the dragon lizards came before…’ Yu Hong’s mind grew cautious.

But he dared not slow down, for through calculation, the Black Ship’s docking time was limited to twenty minutes. If he couldn’t complete his exploration within twenty minutes, he would have to suffer staying in this enigmatic zone for twenty-four hours.

This was something he couldn’t tolerate.

He ran along the path, and soon, a few dozen meters ahead would take him to the mansion.

Suddenly, a figure in a black robe burst out from the fields of decay on his right.

Hee hee hee…

The figure let out a sinister laugh, emitting an invisible disturbance.

In an instant, the disturbance enveloped Yu Hong, reversing his forward momentum to retreat.

“Hmm!?”

Yu Hong’s stride faltered.

“The same Black Disaster as before, it wasn’t an isolated event…”

He realized his sense of direction was being interfered with, so he stood still instead, and reached over his shoulder to retrieve the large iron ball.

The dragon lizards scattered into the fields, each entering the decay to guard the surrounding area, preventing any other Black Disasters from ambushing.

Whoosh!!

The iron ball started to rotate above Yu Hong’s head, creating a whooshing sound as it cut through the air.

Inner Qi covered the surface of the iron ball, emitting a faint pearlescent glow.

Thud!!

As the iron ball spun in circles, it naturally swept over every figure in the vicinity, and within a few rotations, it struck the figure in the black robe with extremely high speed.

The enormous weight, amplified by Inner Qi, instantly shattered the figure into dust, which dissipated as black smoke.

The wave of distortion affecting the direction disappeared at once.

Yu Hong reeled in the iron ball and strode forward.

‘Mixing up my sense of direction is no big deal, as long as I sweep over every area within my vicinity, standing still will also solve the problem.’

This was the solution he had come up with.

Crossing the last few dozen meters, Yu Hong finally stood before the gates of the white mansion.

Outside the gates, two pale lanterns shed a foreboding white light.

A couplet was hung on the door along with a horizontal inscription, but Yu Hong couldn’t recognize the characters.

Creak.

As if sensing Yu Hong’s arrival, the mansion gates slowly opened by themselves, revealing the scene inside.

In the courtyard, a massive landscape garden was enclosed within the grey-white walls.

Inside the garden were rockeries, streams, pavilions, and water wheels – the scenery was exquisitely crafted.

Aside from the landscape, what caught Yu Hong’s keen attention was a black stone sculpture placed at the center of the courtyard.

The sculpture resembled a dog, or perhaps a fox, pitch black with a few irregular, asymmetrical horns protruding from its forehead and squatting in the center of the courtyard, facing Yu Hong.

Crack.

The surface of the sculpture quickly fractured, splitting along lines as if something inside was attempting to break free.

Whoosh!

An iron ball, whistling through the air, smashed fiercely towards the sculpture.

With a weight of over five tons combined with the impact force unleashed by Yu Hong, it thundered towards the upper part of the sculpture.

At the same time, the upper body of the sculpture completely shattered, birthing a monstrous, blood-covered canine creature.

The creature had barely pushed out its head and opened its mouth to howl when –

Boom!!!

The iron ball crashed down, Inner Qi white light accelerated the impact, pressing down in an instant.

The ground trembled violently, and a large pit appeared out of nowhere at the center of the courtyard.

The monstrous canine was reduced to mincemeat, its sounds silenced, crushed beneath the iron ball and slowly steaming into black smoke, vanishing into nothing.

Yu Hong, his expression calm, grabbed the chain and pulled back the iron ball.

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He stepped into the courtyard,

looking around.

Hee hee hee…

Suddenly, a laugh came from a building on the left.

Boom!

The iron ball shot out, smashing through the building’s railing and into the room from where the laughter emerged.

The wall collapsed, the wooden door shattered, and black smoke billowed.

Yu Hong yanked back the iron ball, his face expressionless.

Hee hee…

Boom!

Laughter came from the right building, which was cut off midway by the iron ball that crashed through the wall and into the room, instantly disappearing.

It seemed that the enemy was provoked.

From the depths of the mansion, a deep roar rose swiftly.

Whoosh – a sound of air being torn came from afar.

Leaping from the depths of the mansion, a huge shadow suddenly sprang up.

It was an individual swollen all over, clad in heavy, dark armor – a chubby figure.

He wore no helmet; his face was filled with stitched cuts, his flesh pale – the visage of a waterlogged, swollen corpse.

Standing three meters tall, his leap brought a wicked wind, thunderously bearing down on Yu Hong.

“Hahaha!”

The fat figure was no longer laughing playfully but roared with arrogant laughter.

Its palms outstretched, sharp purple nails aimed at Yu Hong’s head.

Thump!!!

What greeted him was a huge iron sphere with a diameter of one meter.

The iron ball, whipped out at high speed like a cannonball, hit the fat man squarely in the chest mid-air.

The immense impact force smashed him down on the spot, breaking his armor, and sending flesh and blood flying in every direction. His strange laughter abruptly ceased as his hefty body crashed down, breaking a section of the surrounding wall, and then all was silent.

Whirr.

Yu Hong grabbed the chain and retracted the iron ball.

“So weak and yet you dare laugh in my face? Hmph.” He shook his head slightly, carrying the iron ball drenched with white blood and flesh, and walked towards the depths of the mansion.

He hadn’t walked far when a gaunt, three-meter-tall shadow that was thin as a stick and shrieking, burst out of a room and pounced towards him at top speed.

With a muffled thud, the tall thin shadow was smashed back the way it came.

The room he was in was instantly crushed, and even the wall where the room’s door was located collapsed completely.

‘With the strength of the Erosion Array at the wooden bridge, it’s impossible that this place is full of such garbage… Come out, don’t hide…’ Yu Hong muttered to himself.

He walked straight towards the depths of the mansion, smashing an iron ball through any loft he encountered, and likewise, crushing any surrounding wall to pass through.

He never took the indirect route.

Anything that dared make a sound nearby was met with a devastating blow from the ball.

At first, many things in the mansion made quite the commotion, but later it seemed they all understood that whoever made a noise would be going to their demise, and thus, silence prevailed.

In less than ten minutes, Yu Hong had directly arrived at the deepest part of the mansion.

A large garden overgrown with weeds.

The black weeds were nearly half a person tall, hiding much of the garden’s original layout.

In the very center of the garden was an altar.

A long altar that seemed to be used for conducting ceremonies, paying homage to the heavens and earth.

On it were offerings, an incense burner, a short sword, some tied-up unknown grass roots, and a roll of cloth scriptures weighed down with a black stone.

Out of these, the incense burner was continuously emitting a thin stream of black smoke.

Before even getting close, the readings on Yu Hong’s detection device skyrocketed.

Since entering, the detector’s readings had been jumping between several tens of thousands and over a hundred thousand.

But at this moment, the numbers on the LCD screen quickly soared above three hundred thousand and continued to climb.

Four hundred thousand.

Five hundred thousand.

Seven hundred thousand…

The detector finally stabilized around a Red Value of eight hundred sixty thousand.

Yu Hong stopped in his tracks and stared intently at the altar without moving.

‘Even a level eight Black Disaster only clocked in at around a hundred thousand Red Value, and this eight hundred sixty thousand Red Value is just from keeping my distance… It seems that this thing is likely the core of this place…’

During these days, he had conducted tests using dragon lizards and knew that this area was an isolated island.

Surrounded by black river water that flowed unceasingly.

The only thing of exploratory value on the island was this mansion.

And now, he felt that he had probably found the source behind the Erosion Array that infiltrated the wooden bridge…

‘What to do?’ He observed the altar, especially the incense burner, which looked very dangerous.

‘Only eight minutes left, I must make a decision quickly.’

Looking at the incense burner, Yu Hong pondered for a moment, then took down the iron ball, grabbed the chain, and started swinging it over his head, circling round and round.

The iron ball’s circling speed steadily increased. Faster and faster, more and more urgent.

The whooshing gradually turned into a heavy wailing sound.

Whoosh… Whoosh…

A immense wailing sound, under the infusion of Inner Qi, slowly turned into a bizarre laugh.

Tiny white flames began to burn on the surface of the sphere.

Boom!

In an instant, the speed of the iron ball peaked and it was hurled forward.

Turned into a dark shadow, it smashed towards the altar’s incense burner.

The black smoke billowing from the incense burner suddenly condensed at that moment, turning into a giant hand, a hand measuring four to five meters in length and as thick as a bathtub, reaching out to catch the flying iron ball.

The iron ball and the giant hand collided in midair.

Hum!!!

Amid the massive impact sound, a circle of gray transparent ripples spread out around them.

The iron ball was sent flying back and caught by Yu Hong with both hands, but the tremendous force of the collision also propelled him backwards, slamming him hard into a white wall.

As bricks and stones tumbled down, dust flew up.

Yu Hong stood up straight from the rubble, inspecting the large iron ball with its spikes broken off.

‘Very strong force, but it seems… it hasn’t managed to pose a threat to me…’

He set down the iron ball, unscathed, with only his gloves gripping the ball twisted and distorted, with fragments of metal broken off like the ends of snapped sugarcane, full of spikes.

He simply removed the gloves and discarded them.

Inner Qi continuously surged through him.

A white flame began to glow and burn on his shoulders, head, and arms, surging and leaping into the sky.

The Thunderbolt Transformation of the Fifth Layer was running at full strength.

A faint laughter, mad and unrestrained, emerged from the surrounding air, the kind that only manifested when the Thunderbolt Leg Technique was used with full force. Yet, it was abnormal that it had appeared now without being used.

“Let’s see if I can kill you…”

Yu Hong crouched, once again embracing the iron ball. His eyes grew dark as if he were a predator about to hunt.

Beep, beep, beep…

Just then, the detector on his collar suddenly emitted an alarm sound.

The time had come!!

The Black Ship was about to leave!!

The alarm was set a few minutes ahead as a buffer for the return journey.

Yu Hong’s eyes swiftly lost their murderous intent, and the Inner Qi flames around him instantly dimmed and died.

‘Such a pity…’

He glanced at the giant dark hand one last time, then turned and left without hesitation.

Along the way, the dragon lizards he controlled had already gathered the remains of the Black Disasters he had just crushed, their mouths bulging as they followed him in a quick retreat.

After Yu Hong left, the massive dark hand dissolved once again into black smoke and returned to the incense burner.

However, having been so fiercely smashed just now, the black smoke emanating from the incense burner seemed to have weakened slightly.