A Night of Desperation-Chapter 271: Vitality One

Outside Aurora City.

The once pitch-black mountain and forest were now partially illuminated by the distant blue light, no longer completely devoid of any brightness.

Lin Yiyi stood alone with Yu Hong on a cliff, not far from a group of people from Aurora City.

Xue Ningning, Ou Li, along with Chen Yaofeng and associated guards—anyone with slight relevance was present.

They had come to see Yu Hong off on his journey.

“Are you really not considering coming back with me?” Yu Hong asked again.

“Go back and just stay in one place, doing nothing?” Lin Yiyi typed on her electronic writing pad and then propped it up to read.

This was a custom typing pad made especially for her. With the matching input method, it allowed her to communicate at the speed of normal speech.

“The Night Pool did not descend, everything should not be a big problem. The intensity of the Black Disaster won’t increase anymore. After thoroughly understanding the existing data of the Black Disaster, the danger should be largely reduced…” Yu Hong said, “It’s fine if you don’t come back with me. But, your mother…”

“She has always been here.” Lin Yiyi raised her hand and pointed to her heart, her face revealing a gentle smile.

“I will go search, find a way to restore her human form…” she continued typing.

“I understand…” Yu Hong nodded.

He turned his head back, behind him the golden Agrius stood quietly in the distance, waiting for him.

“If one day you feel tired, you can come find me…”

Lin Yiyi did not speak, just silently stared.

She watched as Yu Hong turned his back to her, waved his hand, then his figure flashed, appearing directly above the massive head of Agrius.

The huge beast turned its head and carried him away slowly towards the distance, as if without any reluctance. But only Yiyi knew that the bead from that spearman was still in her clothing pocket.

“Yiyi, you didn’t ask what the blue light from Black Wind Camp was?” Xue Ningning approached from behind and spoke with a complex expression.

“No…” Yiyi shook her head.

“What a pity, I think if it were you who asked, Yu Hong would definitely reveal some secrets to you.” Xue Ningning said helplessly.

“If he wanted to tell me, he wouldn’t have waited until now without saying anything. I trust him,” Yiyi typed.

“Do you think, Yu Hong living alone, not interacting with others, not sheltering women, haha, and having no other interests, what does he truly want? Even the tempting lures from Lin Handong couldn’t succeed… What kind of person is he really?” Xue Ningning sighed, slightly frowning.

“No, idea…” Yiyi shook her head, just watching Yu Hong’s figure gradually disappearing into the mist, feeling an inexplicable emptiness in her heart.

“But, I know… he is, in this world, the, kindest, person to me.” She stated earnestly.

“Yeah, indeed, after all, he saved you so many times…” Xue Ningning couldn’t help but laugh.

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On the way back.

Yu Hong stood atop Agrius, looking around.

As the mist dissipated from the blue light, the closer he got to the camp, the thinner the black fog in the air, and the higher the transparency.

Yu Hong noticed that the Black Disaster around him was almost invisible.

He guessed it might be due to it being neutralized by the Light Disaster;this neutralization slowed down the revival speed of the Black Disaster significantly.

Until he reached the camp unobstructed, only a little more than two days had passed.

Click.

Inside the camp.

Yu Hong put down the ice block in his hand and looked at the Ultimate Gate that he had isolated by himself.

He had constructed a circle of ice walls around the entire Ultimate Gate to block the outside view.

The gate of the Ultimate Gate was half-open, and inside was still a faint shimmering blue light.

This way, the blue light released from the gate was confined to one direction, and light pollution was greatly reduced.

Sizzle.

At that moment, a blue butterfly flew out of the crack of the gate and disappeared into the outside black fog in the blink of an eye.

Yu Hong didn’t mind;he had seen this scene many times since his return.

He looked up at the distant sky.

Outside was still dark, with an additional hint of blue.

‘The trouble with the Eternal Life Association is resolved, next is to ensure that we can safely survive the Cold Disaster…’

Some of the Association’s intelligence and data were examined.

Regarding the Cold Disaster, although what Lin Handong’s group knew was certainly not as much as the chairman’s knowledge, it was enough to alert everyone about what might follow.

Yu Hong sighed, opened the door, returned to the cave, took off his coat, and shook off the snowflakes.

He sat in front of the communicator and gently turned on the switch.

After a slight hissing noise, the speaker quieted down.

Yu Hong practiced his Righteous Skill while waiting.

About ten minutes later.

Finally, a familiar male voice came through the communicator.

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“It seems that the Eternal Life Association issue was handled smoothly,” Zhang Kaijun said. “Any valuable intelligence?”

“A lot,” Yu Hong said, “The main part is about the Black Disaster, about the Cold Disaster.”

“Free?” Zhang Kaijun paused before squeezing out two words.

“Free,” Yu Hong exhaled, “According to the captured intelligence from the Eternal Life Association, the Black Disaster is just the first step of the Source Disaster. After it follow the Cold Disaster, Drought Disaster, Wind Disaster, and so on… According to the legacy of the Yingshan civilization, this disaster known as the Source Disaster will continue in cycles, non-stop.”

“Non-stop…” Zhang Kaijun was clearly stunned by this news. “Why… Is the intelligence reliable?”

“I don’t know. But from what we can see now, the Eternal Life Association had already anticipated the Black Disaster and the Cold Disaster,” Yu Hong said. “According to the information, they described that the stage where our human civilization emerged was an extremely short and accidental gap in the history of the whole world. For the vast majority of the remaining time, the Source Disaster was the norm…”

“The only good news is that the Eternal Life Association has ended, and their Night Pool can no longer descend, so the intensity of the Black Disaster cannot increase further,” Yu Hong continued. “But even without the next stage of the Black Disaster, the current stage is not easy to deal with.”

“…”

The communicator fell silent.

Both of them understood that although the Eternal Life Association was the instigator and the starting point, these things were no longer important. What mattered was that the arrival of the Black Disaster and the Cold Disaster had become a fact.

“Now Aurora City is doing all it can to research ways to completely kill the Black Disaster,” Yu Hong said. “How are things on your side?”

“I’ve completely sealed off the passages to the surface. The food we have in storage is enough to last us for many years,” Zhang Kaijun said.

Yu Hong said nothing more.

Although he had unleashed the Light Disaster, that mere Ultimate Gate only had the upper hand at the start, due to issues with concentration and density.

After he returned, the surrounding black mist continuously neutralized the blue light, once again suppressing the Cosmic Divine Light within a small area.

The continuously emerging Spiritual Tide was also kept at bay, although the condition of the creatures from the Light Disaster was unknown, it was inevitable that they kept getting attacked by the Black Disaster.

After a long silence, the two disconnected the communicator.

At this point, there really wasn’t much left to say.

After the release of the Light Disaster, one improvement was that the communication signals had been restored somewhat.

Yu Hong stretched out his hand and gently touched the surface of the communicator.

His eyes squinted slightly.

Sitting in his seat, he did not move for a long time.

Until more than half an hour later, he stood up, walked to the door, and through the observation window, he stared at the Ultimate Gate outside releasing blue light.

He watched the blue light moth-like entities continually flying out of the gate, without shifting his gaze.

Just like that.

Life once again returned to the way it was when he was alone.

No contact, no living people, and this time not even a shadow.

His only companions were the occasional blue light butterflies flying out. And the slowly but steadily improving cultivation of the Taiyuan True Method.

Two days later.

The Black Mark enhancement finished.

Yu Hong stood in the ruins of the courtyard, looking down at the Array embedded in the ground.

Silently, the Array Patterns underground blurred for a moment and then vanished.

When they reappeared, they were directly overlaid on the outer layer of the mountain cave, appearing on the outermost surface of the safe house cave.

From Yu Hong’s perspective, he could only see the densely embedded silver Array Patterns appearing on the stone walls beside the cave’s door.

He stood in the snowy ground, looked down at the ground, then crouched down and began to dig rapidly through the earth with his hands.

Before long, the snow was dug open to reveal black soil, and as he continued, the black soil was removed, leaving an empty space devoid of any traces of the Array.

He stood up, brushed the snow off his hands, and let out a sigh of relief.

With closed eyes, he checked the first imprint in his mind.

Within the white light of the imprint, the pattern belonging to the Array now took on a shape like a shrinking bud.

As soon as his consciousness touched it, he received a blurry message.

‘Wind and Fire Slaughter Spirit Array (Contracted State): Can be deployed anytime to cover the surrounding area, establishing an isolation Array. State transitions do not affect its integrity.’

“It worked!”

With a thought, Yu Hong issued a command for it to unfold.

Instantly, a flash of silver light occurred, and the Array Patterns on the surface of the cave disappeared.

At his feet, however, the ground lit up with patches of silvery, net-like Array Patterns.

The Array Patterns extended all the way to the area more than sixty meters outside the camp, where they then stopped.

At the same time, the outer high walls also followed, rising from the ground and regenerating.

The previous outer courtyard walls had been quite damaged, but now, with a contraction and expansion, the walls were automatically repaired wherever they had been broken.

Yu Hong checked and confirmed there were no problems, and it was no different from the previous large Array.

Only then did he satisfyingly retract the Array.

“These five days of strengthening really had a good effect.”

He glanced at the detector he was wearing.

‘Temperature: -98.7 degrees.’

Seeing this, Yu Hong suddenly understood Zhang Kaijun’s choice.

The bigger threat now was no longer the Black Disaster, but the Cold Disaster.

He fell silent for a moment, recalling the information about the Twelve Rituals of the Eternal Life Association and the Source Disaster.

‘Indeed, there will be continuous disasters one after another in the future. We can’t always stay in one place. We must strengthen the camp’s ability to move.’

Running was the only correct approach. He felt this world was beyond salvation, but it was still possible to create a self-sufficient, closed-loop space.

Without hesitation, he crouched down again and gently placed his right hand on the ground.

‘Strengthen Black Wind Camp.’

In this moment, his consciousness quickly encompassed the entire camp cave, as well as the wooden bridge and the Black Ship behind it, wrapping them all in.

After gaining control of the Black Ship, he had long wanted to integrate it into the camp, making it a special method of moving the camp.

Now that the Black Mark had finished strengthening, and there were no external disasters threatening him.

The Eternal Life Association had also been eradicated.

Next, it was time to take the necessary time and solve this matter.