Night of Despair-Chapter 417: Operation 415 Chapter Three

"The people from this so-called Spirit Alliance don’t seem to be as irrational and cruel as the members of other cults," Deputy Director Rekus, a bald black man, spoke up. "They are more like special forces with clear objectives, their killing, actions, and efficiency are all very high."

"Do you think we can recruit them?" Rania looked at her colleagues.

"No, they’ve already killed our team members, and on the contrary, I think that such rational criminals are, in a way, more dangerous than evil spirits during this critical period. After all, most evil spirits can’t leave their birthplace too far," Regus explained.

"So, let’s make a decision now. Those in favor of recruiting the Spirit Alliance, raise your hands. Those in favor of completely suppressing and eradicating them, press the buzzer on the table."

"Up to now, the core numbers of the Spirit Alliance have initially approached more than a hundred people. All of them voluntarily follow Qing Huang and contribute their own strength. To have grown to this extent in just four or five days... If given more time..." Augustus sighed.

Everyone fell silent, looking at the rapidly drawn Spirit Alliance and Huailin Mental Hospital on the blackboard.

Both sides were represented by text, circled with a large round circle. Two separate circles were drawn, indicating that the level of urgency for both sides was nearly equivalent.

Beep...

Finally, the first person pressed the buzzer.

Then the second, then the third.

"Let the Tsunami Special handle this, quickly and decisively, arrest them on charges of endangering national security," Rania instructed. "I have a very strong sense of insecurity about this Spirit Alliance. I always feel like they’re going to cause some major incident."

"Do we need to request cooperation from the local garrison to take action?" Someone asked.

"We can, but that takes too long. Mainly let Tsunami take action," Rania nodded. "Capture their core figures directly, that Yu, the Spirit Alliance Leader, and the whole Spirit Alliance will fall apart."

"Understood!"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

But what no one noticed was that since Roman had returned, he had become as if a different person.

Now, hearing the plan, he bowed his head, and his eyes revealed a vacant and strange expression for an instant.

Even he seemed completely unaware of this bizarre gaze.

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Night.

Yu Hong sat alone in front of a coffee shop, holding a cup of milk coffee with steam wafting from it, looking at a booklet on the Cloud Transformation Technique shared by Ku Chan.

The strengthening session had just ended, and now this originally simple booklet had turned into a small book entirely crafted and engraved from silver.

The Silver Book...

This booklet seemed to have no difference from the Cloud Transformation Technique anymore.

On the surface of the cover, a large decaying face was engraved, surrounded by a ring of interlaced fingers that encased the face.

"Can this thing really be used?" Yu Hong gently touched the Silver Book, without needing to sense carefully, he could feel an extremely thick aura of evil exuding from the book.

He used to disbelieve that an aura could be termed evil, thinking that it was only the user who determined the morality of a power, and the power itself had no right or wrong.

But after encountering this power... he truly understood that Evil Power really exists...

The moment this power contacted him, it began to transform into various eerie whispers, trying to make him release his own repression and fetters, peel away reason, and unleash his instinctual desires.

Do whatever you want. Satisfy all your cravings.

’No matter what, if it really can devour Spirit Disaster Black Disaster for my own use, this Cultivation Technique is worth it.’ Yu Hong, resisting the urge to strengthen once more, flipped open the Silver Book to the first page.

’This book is modified from one of the Seven Alchemy Secret Techniques of Sky Wish Sect—the Red Food Method.’

’The Red Food Method is divided into three levels. The first level: Raw Food. The second level: Fried Food. The third level: Refined Food.’

’Sky Wish Sect was rebuilt on the ruins of the Infinite Demon Palace after its downfall, with the aim of devouring all things to perpetuate oneself. But later on, an accident occurred in the battle against the Source Disaster. By consuming too much, they were assimilated and became a part of the major Source Disasters, hence perished.’

’The three levels of the Red Food Method, each level requires the mastery of a corresponding Array to alchemically transform all things into the All Things Pill Transformation. The ultimate state will give birth to three Head of Greeds, representing the aspiration to devour the world and people.’

Below was the cultivation method for the first level. The beginning of the cultivation was very simple; it just needed spiritual power to outline an extremely complex red Array in the mind, nothing more.

Yu Hong sipped on his coffee while carefully reading the Silver Book in his hands.

The contents of the book were written in a language that others could not understand, so he did not bother to hide it.

Soon after finishing the entire booklet, he closed his eyes and began to attempt constructing the first level Array.

But what was strange was that despite his formidable cultivation, he could only construct a small part of it before it collapsed on its own.

Moreover, this small part of the Array, bizarrely, did not disappear after his failure.

He began to slowly absorb certain gray particles from the surrounding air, gradually solidifying the array patterns from a state of spiritual power.

"Interesting." Yu Hong noticed that the array was absorbing the red value radiation from the surrounding air!

"This cultivation technique has not just been modified... it has been completely replaced with something else!"

Speechless, he memorized it, then borrowed some pen and paper from the café’s waitress to copy down the first layer and translate it into something Ku Chan could understand.

Then, he stood up and returned to headquarters with the paper in hand.

He needed to personally test it before passing it on to Ku Chan for monastic practice, given that, judging by the inertia of the Black Mark’s foundational techniques, they were all reinforced based on his own physique and spirit, without consideration for their suitability for others.

Additionally, he was also planning to start choosing an organ on his own body for one-way, long-term reinforcement against the Black Disaster.

The organ he chose was his left eye.

He had only just taken the booklet and was approaching the iron gate of the headquarters when Yu Hong suddenly glanced sideways toward a black van speeding towards him from the right.

Not only that, but at the same time, people from several other directions rapidly raised a feeling of being watched and aimed at.

"Take care of them," Yu Hong calmly ordered.

A Spirit Alliance member guarding outside the iron gate nodded slightly, quickly drew a handgun from behind his waist, and walked head-on towards the direction of the van.

These new members were mostly retired, disabled veterans from Mana City, who served Fista all their lives, only to find in the end that the so-called spirit of freedom offered them no security in their later years and even their personally purchased insurance delayed to age, resulting in financial distress and inability to maintain themselves.

Now, it was the Spirit Alliance that gave them a chance at a new life with healthy bodies. So, for them, there was no moral burden in working for the Spirit Alliance.

Yu Hong paid no attention to the ordinary people attacking outside. At his current level, such low-level attacks were meaningless to him, like child’s play.

What he was more concerned about was the development speed of the various aspects of the Spirit Alliance.

"Alliance Leader, the live stream is about to start. Want to take a look?" Qing Huang came down from upstairs with a laptop, smiling at him.

"What format are we using for live streaming?" Yu Hong was also curious about this emerging method and whether it could attract enough traffic to join the Spirit Alliance.

"It’s quite simple," Qing Huang said as he placed the laptop in front of Yu Hong and turned the screen.

Immediately, the screen displayed an extremely sexy, pure girl dressed in a black three-point bikini covering her body.

The long-haired girl twisted her body and held a white advertisement board promoting the Spirit Light Mutual Aid Alliance.

The advertisement read: Spirit Light Mutual Aid Alliance welcomes you to join. Countless beauties are waiting for you. Let fate bring us together to meet, to know, and to love. Contact number...

"..." Yu Hong watched the live stream that resembled an erotic website’s promotion, his expression gradually losing its smile.

"There’s also this version," Qing Huang hurriedly switched pages.

Suddenly, a muscular man wearing only briefs appeared, holding an advertisement board for the Spirit Alliance, boldly swaying and dancing to the music.

"..."

"I also have an elderly version, a chubby version, a skinny version, a traditional clothes version, and a disabled version. In total, over thirty variations suitable for all kinds of viewers. The promotional effect is top-notch!" Qing Huang said with a hint of pride, "According to the data, in just two days, the number of online viewers reached as much as six or seven million! We’ve added servers several times."

"Very well..." Yu Hong was speechless, but as long as it was effective.

"The live stream is going smoothly, and, in the process of developing members these past days, we’ve also discovered some unexpected information," Qing Huang continued.

"What is it?"

"It’s about ’xing’."

"What!?" Yu Hong’s eyes widened, and he shifted his gaze from the screen to Qing Huang.

"Based on my recent collection of information, this area is likely where the Black Disaster first began its infiltration. Neither Hope City nor Taoist Sect was actually the first. The Black Disaster had already left seeds on both sides. But not here."

"Where did the information about ’xing’ come from?" Yu Hong asked.

"A professor specializing in research on Church purification cases. After joining us, he hoped to use his research to improve his Spirit Light level. You know, the higher the Spirit Light level, the greater the enhancement gained."

Qing Huang continued: "According to his research, the first person to discover traces of the Black Disaster in the Church claimed to have seen an entity known as ’xing’. And it was after his declaration that other cases began to emerge one after another, but ’xing’ never appeared again."

Yu Hong pondered for a moment.

"Don’t act rashly for now, hold off on anything related to the Black Disaster. First, deal with parts of the plan. I suspect the Source Disaster has reached the higher echelons, and it’s likely controlled by a certain intelligence level."

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"Understood," Qing Huang nodded.

"Continue to promote Spirit Light with all your might..." Yu Hong instructed. "Also, have Ku Chan come over."

"Okay."

After Qing Huang left, Ku Chan came down from upstairs, where he had been focused on cultivating his secret techniques at a critical moment, and was called down.

"Take a look at this cultivation technique; I’ve modified it for you," Yu Hong handed the page he’d copied to him.

He had just concentrated and tried it out, only to find that there were no prompts suggesting it was meant only for his exclusive use.