Night of Despair

Chapter 224: Testing Two

“Let’s go, confirm the positioning direction,” the commanding officer sat in the largest armored vehicle, his expression cold, standing beside him were a few people including Xue Ningning and An’an.

“The interference around us is getting stronger, without enough power support, even we can’t easily receive messages,” the commander said coldly.

“…” Xue Ningning wanted to say something, but felt that no matter what she said, it wasn’t as serious as the current atmosphere.

To find Yiyi, this team had dealt with many Black Disasters along the way, but there had also been numerous casualties. Just for one person…

Xue Ningning hadn’t expected that after their report, such a high-level rescue squad would be summoned.

“Our ammunition reserve is running low, we can’t afford to encounter a second Black Blood Rhino. This type of Black Disaster is too tough, capable of reviving three times in a row, each time stronger than the last. According to the positioning locator sensed nearby, Lin Yiyi’s position should be around here, right?” the commander asked.

The assistant operating the war vehicle’s radar at the back nodded upon hearing this.

“Yes, it’s around here, precise location is hard to ascertain.”

“Release the drones and the new type of mechanical spiders, search slowly within a resistance remote control range of five hundred meters,” commanded the officer, “Now that another member of the Meisha family has been located and positioned by the main investigation team, once we find Lin Yiyi, we will immediately regroup and assist the second team in tracking.”

“Understood,” the assistant nodded.

“The one that attacked Yiyi’s returning team was the Black Blood Rhino. After this clearing, it should last us a while, right?” Xue Ningning asked quietly.

“Naive. The Black Blood Rhino is a newly appeared level seven Black Disaster from the Blood Tide branch. Its biggest strength is its thick blood and rapid revival. We cleared one last time, and it could completely revive in less than half a day.”

“So we only have half a day? Twelve hours?” asked Xue Ningning, her complexion changing.

“No, only ten hours left. If we don’t find her, we’ll have to retreat and beat the Black Blood Rhino again,” the commander spoke coldly.

He stealthily glanced at the assistant beside him, their eyes communicating.

If it were just for the rescue, naturally, they wouldn’t mobilize so many elite troops just for Lin Yiyi. The key lay in the intermittent signals sent back by Lin Yiyi’s locator, indicating that another member of the Meisha family might be with Lin Yiyi.

Their real orders were to find the target and send everything around them to the sky!

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On the highway.

Yu Hong walked step by step towards the Black Blood Rhino, dragging a huge, heavy, spiked iron ball behind him.

The hissing friction sound was especially clear in the silent dark night.

“Moo!!”

The Black Blood Rhino couldn’t hold back any longer, lowered its head, aimed its sharp horn at Yu Hong, and charged fiercely.

Bang bang bang bang!

Among the dull footsteps, the rhino, like a heavy battle tank, rushed towards Yu Hong at a speed of at least one hundred fifty yards.

The ground trembled, and cement chips flew.

Yu Hong didn’t retreat. He swung the iron ball, spinning it rapidly over his head.

Around and around.

The speed increased more and more.

Watching as the rhino was about to reach him.

Suddenly, Yu Hong’s eyes widened fiercely, he let go of the iron ball allowing it to soar into the air, and then he covered his legs in white light and kicked straight ahead!

Boom!!!

With an explosion of Inner Qi, his kick carried several hundred tons of force, striking the rhino’s chin and sending it flying upwards.

Yu Hong pulled on the chain, catching the rhino with the iron ball in mid-air.

Then he pulled down with all his might.

The iron ball instantly crashed onto the rhino, the spikes digging into its flesh, attaching it tightly, and together they smashed downwards with added gravity.

With a thunderous crash.

The highway’s cement surface collapsed into a fall, creating a hole more than a meter deep.

“Fairly easy.”

Yu Hong walked forward, looking down at the hole where the Black Blood Rhino lay battered and immobile.

He grabbed the chain, pulling the iron ball up, ready to check for any remnants.

Suddenly, the rhino’s wounds quickly enveloped in black smoke.

“Moo!!”

The next second, an unscathed Black Blood Rhino burst out from the hole, slamming heavily into Yu Hong.

Thump!!

The enraged rhino kept hitting, and after emerging from the hole, it slammed Yu Hong against a mountainside.

The echoed bangs vibrated, the rhino roared, pushing against the mountainside with more force.

Debris scattered, lime drifting.

A pair of large hands suddenly embraced the two sides of the rhino’s head.

“Lift!”

The entire Black Blood Rhino was entirely lifted up, its tail facing the sky.

Despite its frenzied struggles and wildly flailing hooves, it couldn’t escape the grip of the hands.

“Thunderbolt!”

Yu Hong, unharmed, walked out from the stone wall, hefting the rhino up with force and tossing it.

With a swoosh, the Black Blood Rhino the size of a small sedan was rolled up into the air five meters high.

“Type Five!!”

As the rhino fell, not quite hitting the ground, a lightning-fast figure leaped high, intercepting and cleaving down in a Battle Axe Style.

Boom!

Under the tremendous noise, the rhino’s waist was almost broken, collapsing inward significantly.

Its entire body then thunderously crashed down near the mountain wall, smashing into another deep, giant meteoric crater.

As the dust settled.

Yu Hong appeared at the edge of the crater in a flash, hands lifting the spiked iron ball, swinging it high over his head, spinning rapidly.

The spinning speed of the iron ball became faster and more urgent.

Eventually, it was almost just a blur.

The shrill howling sound, accompanied by the adhesion of Inner Qi, grew even sharper.

Moo!!

Just then, black smoke billowed out of the pit, and the rhino’s angry roar sounded again.

Almost simultaneously, a huge spiked iron ball crashed down, lightning-fast, into the stone pit.

Boom!

Countless fragments of rock and soil splashed, bursting out from the force of the impact.

The rhino in the pit went silent.

“It’s over,” Yu Hong looked at the detector, the Red Value began to decrease rapidly.

A dragon lizard automatically came to his side, allowing him to pick up an atomic lamp and shine it below.

Inside the pit, copious amounts of black smoke billowed up, and the rhino’s body was already disappearing and evaporating.

Only a black, bone-like relic was left behind.

Yu Hong had the dragon lizard collect the relic and estimated his current strength.

‘Three bursts of Inner Qi in ten seconds, dealing with a level-seven Blood Tide Monster, I’m noticeably stronger than before. I didn’t even use the Burning State or the Thunderbolt Transformation.’

However, reflecting on the recent battle, Yu Hong felt there was a sense of power not being efficiently used.

“The Meteor Hammer is indeed only suitable for a finishing blow, for use at the end of a battle, using the Wolf Fang Club in the meantime feels more substantial, the power delivery smoother,” he pondered, then suddenly thought of a method.

“I can actually use the Meteor Hammer as a melee weapon… the chain has its own weight limit, often needing accumulated force, slow and troublesome. But if I just grab the iron ball to smash, using the chain to retrieve the weapon, wouldn’t that be much more convenient?”

With this thought, Yu Hong dragged the slightly deformed Meteor Hammer, shook his head slightly, and continued towards Huafeng City.

About ten more minutes passed.

He paused his steps briefly and looked to the left.

On the left side of the highway, a white car was parked on the side of the road, in the driver’s seat sat a black-haired woman in a white dress.

Seemingly noticing Yu Hong too, the black-haired woman in the white dress slightly moved.

Hiss!!

A large number of black seaweed-like threads rapidly crawled out from under the car.

The dense black threads quickly covered the highway, rushing towards Yu Hong.

Boom!!

In an instant, a spiked iron ball whistled out, hitting right at the driver’s seat of the white sedan.

The car was instantly flattened, flew backward, and fell into a cliff beside the road, disappearing into the darkness.

Along with those emerging black threads, they were also dragged far away, disappearing without a trace.

‘Looks like it’s quite convenient,’ Yu Hong, satisfied, retracted the iron ball and stood by the road, quietly watching the distance, waiting for dawn.

According to his estimate, this was likely the closest highway to Huafeng City.

Time slowly passed, and he continuously manipulated a pea-sized black droplet on his shoulder.

Even while out testing, he hadn’t forgotten to practice the Condensing Water Technique using the properties of Tao Breath Circulation.

Woo…

Suddenly, a bone-chilling wind swept by.

Yu Hong shivered slightly, even he felt a bit cold, so he quickly looked in the direction from which the wind came.

Hum…

On the highway, a dilapidated bus was shaking and driving along the battered road towards him.

The bus’s exterior was mainly green and white, with the words “Yuanpeng Motors” printed on the side.

In the dark, illuminated by the faint green light of the atomic lamp, Yu Hong could only see the rough outline of the bus’s exterior. Beyond that, he could see nothing.

Among the wooing engine sounds, the bus gradually approached.

Only then did Yu Hong see that both the driver’s seat and side windows were pitch black, with no lights inside.

The bus slowly drove past him, without stopping, and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Yu Hong retracted his gaze and gradually dissipated the Inner Qi in his body.

He had faintly sensed that the bus seemed similar to the Black Ship.

The value on the Red Value detector had approached nearly a million at that moment.

But this strange existence seemed not to intentionally harm living beings.

After retracting his gaze, he once again looked towards the direction of Huafeng City.

A few more minutes passed.

The sky finally began to brighten gradually.

The black fog slowly lightened, turning into gray fog.

The thin gray fog also revealed vague distant scenery.

Yu Hong, savoring this rare daylight, let his gaze fall upon the city still covered in black slime.

Hiss…

Seeing that city, his expression changed slightly.

In the middle of the towering black city, a black giant as tall as a skyscraper was half-kneeling, motionless.

Numerous tentacle-like black slimes were constantly moving in and out of its back, seemingly hollowing out the insides of the giant.

‘This damn… even the Black Giant has fallen!!?’ Yu Hong’s expression grew solemn, knowing that the Black Disaster of Huafeng City had definitely reached War Level.

He immediately turned and walked back the way he came.

Being so close to a War Level Black Disaster, the sense of safety he had just felt plummeted again.

Returning to the camp, Yu Hong focused his mind and fully committed himself to intense cultivation.

Once the Black Mark had enhanced the radar, it immediately enhanced the Array, tossing all the relics he had into the great Array.

He designated the direction to enhance the killing power of the Array, which also involved something similar to an eyeball obtained from the small Black Giant.

While he was intensely focused on enhancing his own abilities in various ways.

Several days later.

His control over the black water improved, and his Condensing Water Technique successfully moved to the next level.

At this time, a convoy from Aurora City once again arrived at the camp.