A Night of Desperation-Chapter 279: Trap 277 One

Buzz…

Black Wind Camp.

A slight vibration disturbed Yu Hong, who was meditating in the camp, causing him to suddenly open his eyes.

His brows furrowed, feeling a slight tingling in his temples. The imprint of the Black Ship in his mind was releasing tiny currents of electricity like signals.

It was this stimulus that jolted him out of his meditation, causing the pain.

He moved his body slightly, brushing off the snow powder from his body, and stood up.

Behind him, a beam of pure white light shone through the viewing window of the cave, falling on the snow and illuminating an area of more than ten meters around.

Using this light, he scanned the fan-shaped area in front of him.

Outside the camp, there were no more Dragon Lizards patrolling, but the space was still empty, not even a Shadow Black Bug in sight.

The Ultimate Gate was still releasing blue mist ceaselessly, but no Spiritual Tides such as finger butterflies appeared anymore.

At this moment, both the Black Disaster and Light Disaster seemed to have entered a relatively stable stalemate phase.

Yu Hong looked up at the sky.

The black mist in the sky was gradually turning gray-black, not as deep as before.

It seemed that the changes brought by the Ultimate Gate had continued to transform the sky in this area.

He thought for a moment, sensing the continual stimulations and reminders from the Black Ship, then turned around and walked back to the cave.

Quickly packing up, he put on his protective suit and breathing valve.

Yu Hong directly came to the wooden bridge behind the camp, illuminated the bridge with an Atomic Lamp, and then…

He walked straight onto it.

Moving forward continuously, he soon stood at the end of the pier of the wooden bridge, facing a surging black river.

The Black Ship was moored on the river, constantly shaking and bumping against the pier, making noises.

Yu Hong tried to order the Black Ship to prepare to set off.

But as soon as the command was issued, the whole ship vibrated, and the hull began to forcibly move, only to have large pieces of black ship skin gradually fall off.

“Stop, come back!” Seeing this, Yu Hong could only order it to return and rest at the pier again.

Standing on the wooden bridge, he watched the surging water ahead, a hint of contemplation on his face.

After a good ten minutes or so.

Suddenly.

He took a step forward.

Plop.

A light sound.

He actually jumped directly into the Black River.

Like a plummet, his body splashed a little water, then submerged into the waters of the Black River.

Bubbles gurgled up from beside him.

He quietly sank, adjusting his posture underwater to a standard head-down-foot-up stance.

The traits of the Condensing Water Technique: underwater breathing and “night moth,” were activated simultaneously.

Black water around him was automatically controlled by the Cultivation Technique, condensing into an ultra-thin film of black water on the surface of his body.

It looked like he was soaked in black water, but in fact, using the Condensing Water Technique, there was still a layer of thin air between him and the Black River.

Holding his breath, Yu Hong stared intently at the movements in the Black River.

‘Since the Black Ship can traverse the Black River to various mysterious locations, and lands of vitality, does that mean that by entering here myself, I too can locate these lands of vitality?’

‘This Black River… what secrets does it conceal? Besides the lands of vitality, what else is there?’

With these questions in mind, he continued to sink, sinking deeper.

All around was pitch black, and he could see nothing;he could only deduce direction by sensing the concentration of Red Value.

The direction with low Red Value was above towards the surface, and high was downwards.

The imprint in his mind could also remind him which direction was towards the camp.

As Yu Hong carefully moved in the Black River, he suddenly felt a cold sensation in his arms.

He quickly took out a black starfish from the outer pocket of his protective suit.

‘It was dug up on Huangsong Island….’

Looking at this starfish, Yu Hong could clearly see its surface slowly emitting wisps of gray smoke.

‘It emitted black smoke on Huangsong Island, but here it changes to gray smoke?’

Yu Hong noted this change, observing that the smoke emitted by the starfish uniformly curved towards the lower right direction.

His heart stirred, and he manipulated the black water, consuming Inner Qi, and used the Condensing Water Technique to support himself as he delved in the direction where the gray smoke drifted.

Soon, there were stirrings in the surroundings.

Many tiny black bugs began to swim past him.

He randomly enveloped one with the Condensing Water Technique and examined it closely.

The bug bore eight legs, with an oval body resembling a sunflower seed, and its head formed a small triangle.

“Black ticks… this is the smallest creature unit of the Black Disaster… could this place possibly be the main base of the Black Disaster?”

Releasing the black tick, he continued to descend.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a huge dark shadow quickly flashed past him.

Yu Hong was startled, but due to the darkness, he could not see what flashed past. It seemed like a fish.

He steadied his nerves and continued to descend.

But as he sank deeper.

The shadows passing by him became more frequent. He also occasionally encountered familiar faces.

Such as Big Skin, elephant worm, Withered Woman, Speedster, Insect man…

As the depth increased, the strength of the Black Disaster appearing around him also intensified.

A continuous mix of strange laughter, bubbling sounds, sounds of swallowing food, singing, and more, intermittently emerged, blending together, reaching his ears.

Yu Hong’s expression remained unchanged, controlling the Condensing Water Technique, letting the Black River water morph into a serpentine form camouflaging as a member of the Black Disaster. Because he continuously absorbed Red Value, causing the Red Value Radiation concentration around him to be higher, it inadvertently masked other scents.

He simply disguised himself as a black snake, letting it drag him in the direction the gray smoke was flying.

Finally.

About seven or eight minutes later, the black water gradually lightened, allowing a glimpse of the scenery a little further away.

Just then, right in front of him, a massive vertical black wall appeared.

In the deep, strange waters of the Black River, the appearance of a vast, wide, smooth black wall was undoubtedly a very peculiar occurrence.

On the wall, a circular light spot over two meters in diameter was quietly embedded in the middle.

The light spot was greyish-white, blooming a striking and unique white light amid the dark river water.

At this moment, the edges of this white light had attracted quite a number of unknown entities.

And around the perimeter, apart from Yu Hong, there was a large mass of oddly shaped shadows, all clustered together, swimming near the light spot.

The shadows writhed, devouring each other, but none wanted to leave the vicinity of the light spot. Even if some were being swallowed, they did not move.

Yu Hong controlled himself, stopping when he was still about twenty meters away from the light spot.

He controlled the Condensing Water Technique, continuing to condense the black snake and completely enveloping himself within the belly of the snake.

Despite the high-speed consumption of his Inner Qi, the surrounding Red Value also skyrocketed, absorbing into his body and converting to Inner Qi, basically achieving a balanced cycle. This allowed him not to worry about depletion.

But…

He watched as the grey smoke drifting from the starfish in his hand permeated through the black water’s thin membrane, slowly floating toward the light spot, forming a suspicion in his mind.

‘Could the place with the light spot be where Huangsong Island is located?’ he guessed.

He never expected the starfish he picked up during the day to have this function.

After observing the light spot for a while, Yu Hong saw that the number of shadows gathering around it was extremely numerous.

He decided to return and leave.

If he directly approached under these circumstances, he would undoubtedly be discovered by the countless Black Disasters surrounding it.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, in the black water to Yu Hong’s right, numerous currents transformed into hair-like fine strands, converging into a five-meter-tall humanoid with a white glowing edge.

The humanoid had two red lights glowing from its head, extending a hand to grasp the surface of the water snake Yu Hong had condensed.

Through the surface, its red eyes stared intently at Yu Hong hidden inside.

The humanoid was about the same size as the water snake, holding it with one hand yet exuding an indescribably immense power.

Yu Hong felt that this power was extraordinarily exaggerated, comparable to the Black Giant.

The control of the Condensing Water Technique by the black snake was quickly overwhelmed, his expression drastically changed, and he immediately abandoned the snake, retracting backward from the tail of the snake.

Swoosh!

He was like an egg, flying out from the tail of the water snake formed by the Condensing Water Technique, quickly covering a hundred meters.

Plop!

Just as he had left the water snake for less than two seconds.

A muffled sound erupted from where he was, and Yu Hong completely lost control of the water snake. The water snake exploded.

Ah!!

He heard a series of sharp screams in his ears, as the Condensing Water Technique recaptured the surrounding black water, re-condensing a black fish, carrying him back the way they came.

But this time, the return journey was not as calm as before.

The black fish was continuously confronted by huge, pale human faces.

Their mouths opened and closed silently in the water as if speaking. Each face was at least a hundred meters wide.

Yu Hong passed by them, floating like sesame seeds between gigantic basins.

Using Inner Qi to control the Condensing Water Technique black fish, he acutely sensed the enormity of these faces.

He also sensed that they all seemed to be converging towards the direction of the light spot, approaching it.

“xing….”

“xing…..”

A series of deep, distorted voices of both men and women mixed together, simultaneously calling out a syllable.

This sound, originating from an unknown source, made one’s ears itch,

Yu Hong skillfully maneuvered the black fish to dodge the collisions of the pale human faces.

He skillfully passed between the faces, swimming towards the camp direction.

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The detector on the protective suit had already lost its value, the readings far exceeding the limits, stuck on a garbled interface.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time.

Plop!

Yu Hong’s head popped out from the surface of the Black River.

He leaped out, leaving the black water and landed steadily on the wooden bridge dock of the camp.

Looking back at the Black River, he recalled the scene he had just witnessed, and a vague guess formed in his heart.

‘If the light spot is indeed the location of Huangsong Island, then that light spot might represent a point of leakage. The Black Disaster is slowly infiltrating the area where Huangsong Island is located through the location of the light spot.’

Recalling his time in the Black River, that feeling of pitch-black darkness all around.

Gloomy, despairing, oppressive.

Yu Hong suddenly understood why the monsters in the Black River were so frantically chasing the light spot.

Standing on the wooden bridge.

He suddenly looked up, and in the area where he had just emerged from the water, a humanoid shadow with a white glowing edge was slowly rising from the Black River.

By the time he saw it, the humanoid had already emerged more than half.

‘Followed me back!?’ Yu Hong immediately came to a conclusion.

He pressed the reset on the detector.

Beep.

A piercing alarm sounded in a blink of an eye, the Red Value on the detector skyrocketed, exceeding the safety threshold, reaching one hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, a million…

And it was still climbing.

As the Black Ship could also affect the detection results, Yu Hong pressed off the detector, removing it and throwing it away.

‘This thing is no longer useful…’

He watched the white-light humanoid stepping on the water’s surface, its five-meter-tall body towering over him.

“Agrius.”

He took a step back, golden electric arcs lighting up behind him, from which a huge black lizard fiercely pounced.

The thirty-meter-long Agrius leaped over a large distance of the Black River in a blink, its claw striking towards the white-light humanoid on the water’s surface.