Night of Despair

Chapter 226: Source of Water 2 Chapter 226: Source of Water 2 “Old Zhang, are you in there? I’ve figured out a way to solve the water problem—open the door! I walked around, and this place is the only one lit up; I knew you all were here!” Yu Hong’s voice rang out again.

Zhang Kaijun ignored him, crouched down, and gently lit the fuse.

Hiss.

The gray-white fuse burned, emitting a faint sound.

“Thanks for a death without pain.”

A member of the Returning Home Association murmured softly.

“May everyone return to the homeland in their hearts…”

“May everyone find their way home.”

Voices continued to rise.

Boom!!

Boom!!

Suddenly, a massive entity began to slam against the warehouse door.

Everyone instinctively trembled, but their eyes remained fixated on the burning fuse.

Boom!

The door began to bulge and deform.

“Goodbye.” Zhang Kaijun closed his eyes, the fatigue on his face seemingly eased at that moment.

He seemed to let everything go, dropping all the burdens he had carried.

Boom!!!

Suddenly, a loud noise.

The huge iron door was smashed, twisted, and a large hole burst inward at the center.

Through the hole, a massive black creature, like a toad, with a body five or six meters long, ferociously rushed into the hole, sweeping over everyone’s heads, and landed right on the lit fuse.

Puff!

Dust flew into the air, and a wisp of smoke rose.

The fuse went out.

A wild wind raged, causing everyone’s protective suits to shake violently.

Everyone was startled, frozen for a moment.

Click.

Just as everyone regained their senses and were about to draw their guns to shoot, they found that the black toad’s body was rapidly disintegrating, evaporating into black smoke.

“Old Zhang, I’ve been shouting outside for ages, why didn’t you respond??”

A burly black humanoid, dragging a massive iron ball a meter in diameter, stepped into the hole.

That toad was actually him… smashed in forcefully…

“….” Zhang Kaijun lifted his head and shifted his gaze from the toad, looking toward Yu Hong who entered.

“Is this a new type of humanoid disguise for the Black Disaster? Its strength is even above that of the elephant worm.”

He swiftly pulled out the pistol from his waist, turning and firing at the pile of explosives behind him.

Whoosh!

In a flash, a figure darted, his wrist holding the gun ached, and before he could pull the trigger, the barrel was gripped by a large hand and gently bent.

“Zhang Kaijun! Have you lost your mind!?” Yu Hong gripped his wrist with one hand, his eyebrows tightly furrowed.

“Being a part of the Black Disaster, your biggest giveaway is that Yu Hong and I have never met, so we couldn’t possibly recognize each other at first sight.” Zhang Kaijun’s expression was cold, and his other hand fiercely pulled out a black grenade, biting toward the pin.

Snap.

The grenade was knocked away, bouncing against the warehouse wall and falling to the ground.

“I can’t recognize him, but there’s a tag on your chest!” Yu Hong pointed at the name tag hanging over his heart.

Zhang Kaijun’s body stiffened, and he slowly lowered his head.

Indeed, he saw a white tag on his chest labeled ‘Gray City Military Commander Zhang Kaijun’…

“…..”

“Get it now?” Yu Hong was at a loss for words.

“Sorry… what are you here for?” Zhang Kaijun masked his embarrassment with coldness. But soon he got over it—he was ready to die anyway; what embarrassment was there to fear??

The embarrassment on his face vanished instantly.

And that exaggerated strength…what was up with this guy?

“I came to see what help I could provide; also, can you get me some enhancement serum for enhanced humans? The kind that makes you stronger and causes genetic mutations after you take it.” Yu Hong detailed.

“….. You’ve been watching too many movies, haven’t you?” Zhang Kaijun was speechless.

“Commander… are we still going through with the suicide?” The adjutant, not far away, couldn’t help but speak.

“The warehouse door is broken, and something has come inside. We must detonate it soon.” He pointed at the doorway where a huge, hairless gray-white bird was slowly squeezing in its head.

“Don’t keep talking about dying; let’s make a trade. I have a way to solve the water issue; you help me with the enhancement serum, how about it?” Yu Hong released Zhang Kaijun.

“If you truly are Yu Hong, perhaps you do have a way to deal with the Black Disaster outside. But the real problem isn’t them, it’s the water.” Zhang Kaijun said.

“You don’t believe me?” Yu Hong raised an eyebrow.

He looked around, seeing the numb expressions of the others.

Clearly, no one believed he could solve the water issue. Even Aurora City was struggling, let alone Black Wind Camp, a small outpost.

“It’s not that I don’t believe you, but it’s just not possible. The danger level of the Dissolving Leeches is too high; it’s not something that can be resolved with ordinary methods.” A white-haired old man from the science department calmly stated.

“My son, my grandson, they both died by its hand. I’ve got nothing left to lose. I went all in to research it deeply but still couldn’t find any solution.”

“Outside there are approximately three Multi-eyed Birds, two elephant worms, and several unknown Evil Shadows, which seem to be the vibrations of the Insect man. Even if the water source is solved, there’s no one left in the city; we won’t last much longer.” The adjutant said coldly.

“There’s no hope left. Maybe your enhancement magnitude far exceeds others, but…it’s not just a matter of fighting to solve these issues.” Someone shouted loudly.

“Yu Hong, this guy is still the same as before….” Dr. Xu calmly held her stomach, leaning against the wall, murmuring softly.

She quietly watched everything.

Recalling that time when Yiyi was with him, starting to build a safe house outside, he was the same back then, saying things others couldn’t understand.

Standing at the edge of the explosives, Yu Hong scanned the people present.

Among the thirty or so people there, most had cold, numb eyes, having long lost hope.

In their eyes, apart from numbness, the most prevalent was exhaustion.

“Sorry….” Yu Hong’s face became solemn. “Maybe the method I am using is somewhat different from what you imagine, but…”

“Mr. Yu, thank you for risking your life to come into the city and rescue us at this time. But,” the elderly scientist from the research department took off his glasses and gently wiped them with his clothing. “It’s meaningless… Without water, a normal adult can’t survive for more than five days.”

“I understand, that’s exactly why….” Yu Hong began.

“You should leave. There’s no hope here anymore, quickly!!” Zhang Kaijun suddenly changed his expression and drew a gun, which was already off safety.

“There’s no need for this.” Yu Hong stretched out his hand, palm facing upwards, ready to condense the moisture in the air to show him.

“ARGH!”

Suddenly, the large warehouse door was violently smashed open by a giant Multi-eyed Bird.

The sharp beak of the Multi-eyed Bird, like a drill, fiercely penetrated the door, completely tearing the already damaged warehouse door into several pieces, scattering them on the ground.

“ARGH!”

The giant Multi-eyed Bird flapped its wings again, and its legs powered a furious dash to the nearest man, who was two meters tall.

BANG!

A heavy gunshot sounded.

The giant Multi-eyed Bird’s entire body was blown apart instantaneously, from head to tail.

“Nice shooting!” Yu Hong couldn’t help but exclaim when he saw this.

Merely enhancing physical combat, it was already impressive if one could handle a second-level Black Disaster alone. But with the specialized luminous stone thermal weapons, a shot to a vital spot could take down a fourth-level Multi-eyed Bird in one go.

“Alright, everyone look at me!” He raised his hand, and a large number of water droplets had already begun to condense in his palm.

“I can….”

BOOM!!

In a flash, the left wall of the warehouse burst open from a huge dark figure that charged out and fiercely slammed into Yu Hong, who was raising his hand.

BANG!!!

Unprepared, Yu Hong was sent flying, smashing through the wall and disappearing into the Black Fog.

“ROAR!!!”

The dark figure stood six meters high, twelve meters long, nearly filling the warehouse, shaped like a pitch-black leopard.

On its head were a pair of silver horns resembling those of a goat, with dark red flames burning in its eyes.

‘Level Eight Black Disaster, Black Sheep Leopard King.’
“FIRE!” Zhang Kaijun looked up and calmly watched the towering giant leopard.

Among those present, those who had guns began shifting their aim, targeting the explosives.

Everyone’s hands were trembling.

Zhang Kaijun walked step by step towards the Leopard King.

He gently brought his hands together in front of him.

“May each of us be able to return to our desired homeland….”

“ROAR!”

The Leopard King stood upright and slammed its massive body ferociously down onto Zhang Kaijun.

AAAAHHHH!!!!

A loud booming sound accompanied by a terrifyingly angry roar.

BOOM!

The wall behind the Leopard King burst apart.

A figure surrounded by flames charged into the warehouse, striking fiercely at the Leopard King’s head from the left.

BANG!!!

The terrifying force of thousands of tons instantly kicked in the Leopard King’s black head, caving it in.

The enormous body of the Leopard King was kicked upward, floating off the ground.

“Thunderbolt Final Form!!”

Yu Hong hung suspended in the air, suddenly turning around, his right leg whipping down like a cleaver.

“Descending Slash!!”

BOOM!!!

He and the Leopard King together plummeted meteor-like, crashing into the warehouse floor, knocking several slower individuals flying.

But even those who were sent flying scrambled to their feet, eyes peering through their helmets in disbelief at the scene before them.

“!!!!!!?”

“I’m dreaming, right?!” The deputy fiercely pinched his own thigh, eyes dry and stinging from being kept wide open, yet he dared not close them.

An enhanced human had just kicked an eighth-level Blood Tide Black Disaster into defeat!?

Flipped it over!!?

“My god….”

“My heavens….”

“That’s got to be fake, right?!”

The people there almost couldn’t believe their eyes.

Humans could defeat Black Disasters of even War Level, but that was with weapons.

Yet relying purely on physical combat, no one could withstand beyond a third-level.

An eighth-level Black Disaster meant it feared almost no thermal weapons, killing enhanced humans and ordinary humans with no distinction.

A tank was like paper in front of it, small explosives like mere firecrackers.

Without several times supersonic heavy artillery or large quantities of buried explosives, it was almost impossible to kill such a Black Disaster.

But now….

“Hurry up and detonate the explosives, if we don’t act soon we won’t….” Zhang Kaijun suddenly shouted harshly.

BANG!!

Unfortunately, before he could finish, a figure flashed next to him, a punch landing right on his jaw.

“SHUT UP!!” Yu Hong fiercely punched Zhang Kaijun, sending him floating into the air, then grabbed him by the hair.

“Will you all damn let me finish my sentence!! Ah!!?”

“I said, water! I can solve it! Everyone just damn stop moving!!!”