A Night of Desperation-Chapter 267: Final - Seven

Clang!

The piercing sound of the collision made everyone’s eardrums ache.

A long-distance bullet, flying with deadly precision, struck the side of the president’s dagger, forcefully deflecting it to one side.

The president’s wrist twisted, nearly dislocated by the immense impact.

He turned his head toward the direction from which the bullet came.

Xue Ningning, Ou Li, and Li Wang had appeared at some point on the edge of the pool’s wall, looking down from above.

The one holding the gun was none other than Xue Ningning.

She cradled a black anti-material sniper rifle in her hands, its muzzle still smoking.

Bang!

Without any superfluous words, the second shot was fired.

The bullet instantly covered hundreds of meters, hitting the president squarely in the forehead.

Boom!

His head jerked to the side, surprisingly not penetrated by the bullet, just knocked askew.

“You insects! Stop interfering!” he exclaimed furiously.

With a violent swing of his knife toward the direction of the three, he released a Black Fog.

The Black Fog took the form of a dark bird and flew towards them.

The piercing cry of the bird detonated, and even before the bird reached them, an invisible oppressive force descended upon the trio from mid-air, immobilizing them.

Ah!

Li Wang roared, his muscles swelling and blood filling his veins as he laboriously took a step forward to shield the other two, lifting a metallic Shield in his hands.

Boom!

The Shield was struck by the Black Fog bird, as if hit by a speeding car, sending the three flying backward, crashing into the stone wall behind them, blood spewing from their mouths, embedded in the wall, unable to move.

“Yiyi! Wake up! Wake up!!” Xue Ningning yelled, her words slurred.

“Dare you still shout!” the president swung his dagger fiercely in that direction again.

This time, no one could stop the second strike of the Black Fog bird;the three would surely die if struck.

But…

With a squelch, a thick arm of dark red flesh suddenly appeared in front of the president’s dagger, the palm blocking the sharp tip, preventing it from advancing even an inch.

That dark red body of flesh rang out with the clash of metal upon impact.

The president looked up in mild shock at his opponent.

The one who had blocked him was a two-meter-tall, blood-red-muscled, twisted humanoid monster.

“Where did this ugly thing come from?”

“Don’t…move, my…friend!!”

Lin Yiyi, whom he had by the neck, suddenly opened her blood-red eyes, and with a fierce grip, seized his arm.

Crack crack…

She clasped the president’s arm tightly, causing the muscles to twist and tear as she rotated with immense strength, severing the muscle fibers.

“??!” The president, with his other fist clenched, struck at Lin Yiyi’s head.

But the blow was caught by the Spear-Hand.

Their powerful forces clashed violently, trembling fiercely in mid-air, neither able to move.

Spear-Hand, usually displaying a rigid smiling face, now seemed to express another emotion.

That appeared to be anger…

“Dare say, I’m ugly!??”

Buzz!

Behind him, six blood-flesh spears burst forth from his skin, extending and wrapping around like six curved beams of light, stabbing the president from all sides at lightning speed.

The immense piercing power and completely unpredictable attack method left the president with no time to respond accurately;merely trying to retreat and dodge, he was impaled by the blood-flesh spears.

Pupupupupu!

The spear pierced through his body, plunging into the ground and pinning him in place, unable to move.

Seizing the opportunity, Lin Yiyi broke free and with a powerful punch—a release of all her strength and fury—her fist cut through the air, letting out a sharp screech as it slammed heavily into the president’s face.

Boom!

The loud noise echoed, and rings of black flesh, like shattered stone, splashed outward.

The sudden turn of events stunned the other six members of the association.

The Spear-Hand that had appeared so suddenly had ambushed the president in an instant, his body pierced like a rag doll, followed by Lin Yiyi unleashing all her strength in a punch.

The punch gruesomely smashed half of the president’s intact head.

Could it be that everything was over just like that?

Leiya and Saren momentarily paused their fierce battle with the six members.

As they hesitated, unsure of whether to continue or not,

The president’s body suddenly exploded, breaking into masses of Black Fog which quickly reassembled in another spot, forming an unscathed body.

“Strange creature. Not a Black Disaster…” The mask on his face broke away, revealing a sullen, weathered countenance.

His forehead and the corners of his eyes were covered in dense wrinkle patterns, like tree bark.

“I didn’t want to reveal my true form… But now it seems…”

He swiftly dodged the attack from the Spear-Hand, lightly tapped the ground with his foot, and leapt into the air.

“Now you will see the strongest power I’ve gained through the Gate of Despair! The power of the strongest human!!”

He outstretched his arms.

Black Fog gushed out of all the cavities on his body, enveloping him.

The Black Fog completely submerged him, then rapidly expanded, quickly covering dozens of meters around.

Seeing this, Lin Yiyi swiftly retreated, avoiding the Black Fog’s reach, climbing along the stone wall to save Xue Ningning and the others from the pool’s edge.

The other association members also withdrew, watching silently with Leiya, pausing the struggle to see what would unfold.

Not just Lin Yiyi, but even they felt an ominous premonition.

Thump!

Suddenly, from beneath the Black Fog, a black foot, over a meter long, stretched out.

The foot heavily stepped on the ground, gathering strength, and stepped out of the Black Fog.

What appeared before everyone’s eyes was astonishingly a smaller version of a Black Giant slowly emerging from the Black Fog!

“However, in place of features, the Black Giant’s face was embedded with the entire body of the chairman.”

“This towering black figure, resembling a small mountain over ten meters high, stood before everyone.”

He suddenly swung his arm, snatching the approaching spearman in his grasp and squeezing tightly.

Boom!!

With immense force, blood oozed from the spearman’s compressed body as he screamed continuously.

“So weak…” the chairman chuckled softly, “You should take pride in having forced me into this form… Now, let’s not waste any more time.”

He glanced at Lin Yiyi and casually tossed aside the spearman.

“I had thought this was a sure victory, but an unexpected turn has occurred, it seems we must fight swiftly.”

Whoosh!

In an instant, he bent over and pushed off the ground.

Despite the massive frame, he moved with the speed of the wind and appeared in front of Lin Yiyi and the others.

His huge face suddenly loomed before them, in the air less than four meters away.

With a lightning-fast grab,

A tremendous roar echoed as his massive palm caught Lin Yiyi, who couldn’t dodge in time, once again in his grip.

Without hesitation, his other hand extended a nail, thrusting rapidly toward Yiyi’s heart.

This time he would not waste time – he aimed to carve out a heart first.

“Yiyi!!” Xue Ningning and the others shouted.

But it was already too late.

The sharp, knife-like fingertip pierced the skin, drawing blood.

Lin Yiyi’s body shuddered, losing the strength to resist.

She weakly lifted her hands, trying to push away the giant finger, but her feeble strength was meaningless to the Black Giant, like mosquitoes to a giant.

“Yiyi.”

It seemed she heard someone calling her name.

The voice was so tender,

Like that of a mother.

“Mom… Mom…”

At that moment, she saw the black finger growing larger, filling her entire vision, and also a mysterious figure in a white dress, with decaying, long hair, suddenly appearing in front of her.

The figure stood with its back to her, arms outstretched, taking her place to be pierced by the finger through the chest.

“Yiyi… live on…”

Her mother’s gentle voice echoed.

The long-haired figure turned slightly, and though the face was rotting, it still reminded Yiyi of her mother’s beautiful visage.

Rip!

In an instant, the figure was torn apart by the massive black hand, scattering into pieces.

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Yiyi reached out, wanting to embrace her mother, but her hand froze in midair.

The flicker of hope and warmth she had just felt before her heart could be filled was cruelly shattered.

She watched her mother’s face, those gentle eyes, torn into pieces by the unsympathetic force, then turning into Black Fog and being utterly destroyed.

“Ahhh!!!!”

A torrent of indescribable pain, grievance, and anger flooded out along with her tears.

Amidst the bellowing cries,

The tattoo on Lin Yiyi’s back suddenly brightened, a dazzling golden light burst forth, stirring up gusts of wind.

Roar!!!

A massive, gold lightning-bathed lizard-like beast, its exaggerated thirty-meter length, surged out from the golden light.

The terrifying size of the giant lizard dwarfed the Black Giant, resembling an adult to a child;as soon as it burst forth, it lunged over Yiyi, crashing into the Black Giant midair.

Boom!!

The two enormous creatures smashed into the earth, shattering the surface of the pool and causing large fragments of stone to explode everywhere.

The golden light clashed with the Black Fog, counteracting each other.

The two giants began to brawl wildly, occasionally crashing into the surrounding stone walls, creating dents and cracks.

The Black Giant tried to struggle to his feet with swinging fists, but to his horror, he found his strength paling in comparison to the mysterious giant lizard.

The force of his punches seemed to be halved by something, barely causing any pain, while a single casual swipe of the creature’s claw could tear his flesh;had it not been for the Black Fog healing his wounds continuously, he feared he would have been killed instantly.

“What is this thing! What is it!!?” he roared furiously, struggling to comprehend.

Not just him, all present shared the same bewilderment,

Including Lin Yiyi, dazed on the ground.

She had no idea where the thirty-meter-long exaggerated beast had come from.

But more than that, she cared about her mother.

With tears soaking her cheeks, she knelt on the ground, trying to pick up the pieces of her mother’s torn body.

But those pieces were vanishing swiftly, turning into black smoke, blending into the Black Fog.

“So it’s true, you’ve always been there, always by my side…” At that moment, her stammer seemed to have vanished.

Kneeling on the ground, her hands reached out for an embrace, but there was nothing to hold.

Whimper!

She cried out again, her body trembling uncontrollably.

At that moment, she keenly felt something disappear from within her… Something was missing… and would never return…

“What is that… exactly?” Leiya and Saren stood together, still some distance away, watching the epic struggle of the enormous Agrius in amazement.

“I don’t know…” Saren was equally perplexed, “I’ve never seen a Black Disaster like this.”

“It’s probably not a Black Disaster… That golden light…” Leiya took out emergency medication and put it in her mouth, trying to recover her strength and vitality while the situation had eased a bit.

“Eternal Life Association… this time they might have truly capsized. I have a feeling they’ve messed with some mysterious power beyond their control…” Leiya swallowed the pill with a gulp.

“Just now, I was ready to help you activate the last chip, to unleash all your body’s potential, all the injections… I never expected…” Saren mused.

“Perhaps, there’s no need for a desperate fight… If it ends like this, it’s good;maybe we won’t have to die and can finally experience what normal life is like for once,” Leiya said with a forced smile.

Elsewhere,

The remaining six members of the Association were silent, watching their chairman being completely overwhelmed.

“Folks, it seems the chairman is in a bad situation,” said the second-ranking elderly woman with a grave voice.