Night of Despair-Chapter 428 - 426 concentration two

Wade looked around and sniffed the air, then walked towards the hatch, still wearing tattered clothes.

"Go there..." He pointed in the direction of the Blood Energy Group Research Institute closest to this location.

There, he planned to obtain a large amount of the special blood he had infiltrated to acquire.

In an instant, all the reborn soldiers who had been reinfused with blood followed him and sprinted toward that direction.

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"The concentration has risen again, but... something is strange."

Yu Hong and Ku Chan landed and were walking inside the palace where they were going to negotiate with the Festa officials.

The spacious palace corridor was flanked by trembling soldiers holding ceremonial spears.

They looked straight ahead without a glance to the sides – what might once have been considered disciplined, but now it was obvious to any outsider that they dared not look at Yu Hong and Ku Chan.

Currently, Yu Hong was holding a Red Value Detector, looking at the values as they rose again, reaching around twenty.

"There are only two possibilities for the Red Value to increase," Ku Chan said. "One is that low-level shadow Black Disasters are emerging in large numbers. The second is that there are a few high-level Black Disasters appearing."

"It shouldn’t be in Festa. Spirit Light’s power is now spreading rapidly across the country with the flow of people. They essentially act as dispersed Spirit Light sensors; as soon as any Black Disaster Monster approaches, I will be the first to sense it."

Yu Hong put away the detector.

"But the strange thing is, the Red Value is rising, but I haven’t received any response. In any case, Festa’s overall situation is almost settled, and we must act quickly in other regions."

"We are too short-staffed. Not enough personnel," Ku Chan replied.

"No matter. It will soon be enough. A large number of Festa’s intelligence personnel, soldiers, civil servants... they can all become our broadcasting nodes."

Yu Hong smiled and pushed open the heavy red doors at the end of the corridor.

The door had a sensor-based automatic opening system, which opened inward automatically with just a push.

Inside the five-meter high arched doorway, President Venita and a group of cabinet officials had already been waiting.

"It is an honor to meet Alliance Leader Yu formally and solemnly here," the President stepped forward and bowed sincerely. "I am very sorry for the unpleasant situation that happened with the Spirit Alliance before; it was our fault. In fact, before receiving a follow-up report from Rania, the Director of the National Security Bureau, I was completely unaware of the specific situation in Mana City."

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He paused, then continued.

"Rania hid a lot of facts, causing us to have a wrong perception and understanding of the Spirit Alliance’s goals and positioning which led to many misunderstandings... We have already dealt seriously with Rania and a series of related officials..."

"We..."

"Enough," Ku Chan, with furrowed brows, interrupted him. "We don’t have time to listen to your lengthy explanations. Now, you have two choices."

He looked at Yu Hong to ensure he had no intention of intervening and continued.

"First, give up everything and turn everything over to us for handling. Second, join us and handle the aftermath on your own. Time is running out. At any moment, the whole world could face a great threat. Keep it simple!"

"This..." The President was somewhat dumbfounded; he had seen swift decisions, but never one quite like this.

"I’ll count to three, and if there’s no decision, go to hell," Ku Chan narrowed his eyes, gripping the sword handle at his waist.

"One."

"Two."

"I choose the second! The second!" Venita knew he had no other choice and quickly voiced his decision.

He was well aware that in psychology, giving such a short amount of time is meant to prevent thinking and planning and to force a basic, deep-seated decision.

"Very well." Yu Hong flicked his finger, sending out a strand of silver thread that entered the bodies of the officials present.

"This is the power of Spirit Light, and you’ll have one chance to choose what attribute you want to enhance. Strength, speed, protection, recovery, lifespan – anything is possible. But remember, you only have one chance," he explained softly.

"This can’t be for real, right?" a Deputy Director from the National Land Security Bureau couldn’t help but speak up in refutation.

"Hmm?" Ku Chan’s gaze swept over, his immense Spiritual Cultivation no longer suppressed, instantly transformed into rippling waves, rapidly spreading out from him as the center and exploding.

Boom!

Terrifying pressure instantly fell upon the Deputy Director, causing him to drop to his knees with a ’puh,’ his hands struggling to support himself, trying to push up but his strength was meaningless against Ku Chan’s might.

At least hundreds of kilograms of pressure distributed evenly across his body.

After two seconds, he collapsed to the ground, blood oozing from his mouth, nose, and eyes.

Not only that, the aftermath of the heavy pressure affected everyone nearby; each of them changed their expressions dramatically, trembled, and became completely immobilized.

"Now, let’s talk about how to transfer Spirit Light to more ordinary people," Yu Hong stepped forward and scanned the high-ranking officials in the room.

"There are too many people. Let’s halve the number."

As soon as he finished speaking.

Hiss!

Half of the people in the room had silver light rapidly shining out of their mouth and nose, followed by the silver light flowing out like liquid and swiftly returning to Yu Hong.

Three seconds later, only four people remained standing on the floor tiles.

They were fortunate to be unharmed, but even then, they were trembling and horror-stricken, not daring to make a sound.

"I am very reasonable," Yu Hong said to the four, earnestly, "In the time ahead, I hope we can work together sincerely. To complete the entire Festa national Spirit Light Strengthening Plan. No problems, right?"

The few remaining people nodded frantically.

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October 15th.

At precisely noon.

A large-scale mysterious silver orb event occurred in Festa Capital Weilanser.

Later, the meteorological department explained it as a large spherical lightning phenomenon.

Despite countless expressions of doubt, the explanation was set in stone.

Following this, the Presidential Palace Ares Palace issued a new presidential decree.

It announced a half-month-long free National Strengthening Needle injection campaign.

Using the national treasury as the foundation, it provides a free Strengthening Needle injection to every Festa citizen.

The company responsible for this Strengthening Needle was a newly established biopharmaceutical company called Qingjing Tian.

The Spirit Alliance Headquarters also moved from Mana City to the capital, Weilanser.

The office location was changed to Ares Palace.

Yu Hong took over the Presidential Office, becoming the absolute symbol and spiritual leader within the Festa Spirit Alliance.

"According to plans sent by the Central Intelligence Agency, this Strengthening Needle campaign should quickly take effect. Festa has a permanent resident population of 126 million people, with a floating population between 60 to 80 million. To successfully spread it everywhere, the Spirit Alliance needs to dispatch personnel to various places to serve as the core sources for spreading the Spirit Light."

Yu Hen kept busy organizing various intelligence materials. Initially, Yu Hong worried he might be too tired, but now, it seemed like the old man was enjoying himself, too absorbed to contemplate others.

"Just let the elder decide." Yu Hong dripped a drop of Eye Drops, and the red light in his eyes started to become increasingly unstable and brighter.

In these two days, it seemed that with the continuous strengthening of the Spirit Light, the last layer of his Capturing God Skill was also in its final sprint.

He could distinctly feel that the last layer, Ding, should be completed within these two days.

"Understood." Yu Hen put down the laptop, "Also, I’ve found new information about ’xing’."

"Let’s hear it."

"According to some records left here, after some individuals’ minds were eroded by the Black Disaster, they wrote down a large amount of text content."

Yu Hen quickly took out a portable projector, connected the mobile disk, and aimed it at the lowered projection screen.

Snap.

The lights dimmed.

A line of small characters lit up on the projection screen.

’1981·11·9. 3:12 PM.’

Inside the picture, a narrow, enclosed white room slowly emerged.

Within the room, there was only a brown circular wooden stool.

Sitting on the stool was a disheveled and emaciated man.

The man was wearing an oversized and ill-fitted white hospital gown, with stark black and white stripes.

"Qiu Zepeng, please try to recall in detail everything you felt after being possessed by those strange shadows."

From behind the camera angle, a deep, aged male voice sounded solemn.

"Um, sure." The man lowered his head, his voice clear. "I’ve always had a special and strong memory since I was young, as you know. I am a pretty good hypnotist, for others and for myself, I believe I have decent hypnosis techniques. So, after suffering an accident, I immediately gave myself a suggestion as a switch."

He paused.

Then he continued.

"After I recovered from the severe injuries, I used the switch to re-delve into everything I encountered before, and I discovered a secret from it."

"What secret? Is it about the evil spirits?" asked the old voice outside of the camera.

"Yes. I found that they seem not to be... purely.... how should I say it?" Qiu Zepeng seemed troubled as he grabbed and rubbed his hair hard.

What followed was an intense struggle that lasted over ten minutes, during which the man kept making strange murmurs, sometimes standing up and pacing back and forth, sometimes smashing the wall erratically.

He was completely unlike the normal person from before.

"This recording was found in Ares Palace’s most highly secret archives that have been preserved for many years," Yu Hen took the opportunity to explain in a serious tone.

"What did this man experience?" Yu Hong asked.

"His body was the type that was very susceptible to evil spirit possession, so he often encountered strange incidents of possession since he was very young," Yu Hen explained.

"At first, his family and people around him thought he was pretending, until one time, in a possessed state, he snapped the arm of an older bully who wanted to pick on him."

"Interesting." Yu Hong continued to watch.

In the footage, as the fast-forwarding continued, the man’s words finally began to show some coherence.

"They don’t want... don’t want... ’xing’, only with ’xing’... can they find... save... save the self.... so, they’re also constantly looking...."

Qiu Zepeng slammed his head against the wall in pain.

"Looking for, they?" Yu Hong keenly noticed these two words.

In Festa language, the terms used for people and non-humans were different.

These "they" clearly referred to those evil spirits.

"Looking for itself implies possessing a certain level of rationality. By evil spirits, you mean the Black Disaster, right? I never realized that the Black Disaster could also have rationality...." Yu Hong started to say but suddenly remembered the partially transformed Black Disaster girl he had encountered a few times before. He immediately fell silent.