A Night of Desperation-Chapter 250: Secret 248
Within the window, there was a narrow bedroom.
Gray bedding, pale yellow wooden cabinets, a wall adorned with wilted flower baskets.
A long-haired girl in a black dress sat on the bed, hugging her knees and burying her face into them, motionless.
Thump, thump, thump.
Yu Hong knocked on the glass.
The girl remained motionless, without any reaction.
So, he knocked harder.
Thump, thump, thump.
Still, the girl did not react.
Yu Hong took a deep breath and circulated his Inner Qi through his right arm.
He clenched his fist and smashed it forward.
Bang!!
This strike, imbued with the burst of Inner Qi, sent the impact force soaring to several dozen tons.
The glass window emitted a dull thud but, eerily, not even a single crack appeared.
Yu Hong exhaled and stopped looking at the window where the girl was. He continued to look upward.
Boom!!
Just then, the glass window violently shook, and inside it a pale, delicate face of a girl appeared.
She was smiling, pressed against the glass, her deep green eyes filled with humor as she gazed at Yu Hong.
The immense pressure slowly began to distort her face, but the girl kept her gaze fixed on Yu Hong, unmoving.
Such a stare made Yu Hong feel a hint of discomfort.
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He observed the girl’s twisted face and suddenly raised his fist and struck again.
Bang!!
The tremendous impact harshly collided with the window, causing the glass to tremble fiercely and pushing the girl’s face slightly back.
After doing this, Yu Hong no longer paid attention to her but quickly continued to climb upward.
Soon, he saw another window with an empty room inside, no one there.
As he kept elevating, windows kept passing by him.
Most of these windows held individuals who looked normal, but their mental consciousness seemed off.
He tried communicating with them multiple times, but ultimately, it was all in vain.
This repetition continued until, after passing the sixteenth window, an old crack appeared in the wall above him.
Yu Hong stopped.
He was well aware of the astonishing hardness of this tall wall, so he understood how difficult it must be to leave a crack on it.
A piece of paper was stuck within the crack.
Yellowed and creased paper.
As it rustled, Yu Hong reached out to pry it out and unfolded it.
On it was a line of sloppy writing in Night Text.
“Find the star, and you will answer everything, obtain everything… and completely escape from the Black Disaster, escape from despair….”
“I have found half, but there’s no time left for the rest…”
Below were some jumbled characters, indecipherable as actual text or random doodles.
At the bottom, there was a line of small text.
“Beyond this wall is another world facing the same despair;I thought I had found redemption, found hope, but unfortunately… everyone’s plans failed, there was never a chance of success from the beginning…. all, everything, was doomed to destruction, to disappearance….”
Yu Hong frowned as he read the paper through a translator, comparing it to the information he had acquired before.
He suddenly felt that the handwriting on the paper seemed to contain a faint, familiar aura.
This aura, he had felt it a little from the Daoist Scriptures of the True Origin Sect before.
‘These two seem to have the same origin….’
‘The Black Ship’s wooden bridge seems to be their handiwork, so it makes sense that their message appears here. As I could come here through the Black Ship, they must have been here too. But….’
Yu Hong’s brow furrowed, he pocketed the paper, and continued climbing upward.
He needed to hurry before the Black Ship might leave;otherwise, waiting for another round to return would be necessary.
Yu Hong realized there are clues about that mysterious star here, and also discovered traces of the True Origin Sect.
He was very interested in the True Origin Sect.
As it was the first force he had seen that could confront the Black Disaster for a long time without itself wavering.
Although the Yishan civilization left behind things like luminous stones to counter, compared to the True Origin Divine Light of the True Origin Sect, which could stabilize and support a safe space for many years even after all the people died.
This showed its might.
Additionally, it seemed that the Black Ship’s wooden bridge was also associated with them. Yu Hong pondered if he could find the method to control the Black Ship, the threat of Black Wind Camp could be dealt with easily. The Array would be unburdened.
He continued to climb upward, but this time he hadn’t climbed for long before he faintly heard a deep growl emanating from the wall above.
Yu Hong slowed down, adjusted his breathing, and looked upward.
Black Fog was dispersing above, only allowing him to see about twenty meters higher.
Yu Hong focused his gaze, filled his body with Inner Qi, and heightened his perception to the maximum.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a massive black shadow pounced down from directly above.
The shadow charged at Yu Hong like a high-speed train, aiming to knock him straight down.
In the nick of time, Yu Hong leaped to the left, releasing his hands and shifting several meters sideways, then re-anchored his feet into the wall, avoiding the collision.
Hiss!
He quickly turned back and finally saw clearly what was attacking him.
It was a creature, half clinging to the wall like a gecko, black and massive.
The monster’s body was covered in various pustules, with only one golden eye on its head, and its limbs were sharp black spikes. It clung to the wall like a large patch of black slime.
“Not bad speed… but not quite enough to get me!”
Yu Hong took a breath, the Thunderbolt Leg Technique activated, and he suddenly let go from the wall and dropped.
The sound of the wind whistled rapidly past his ears. The detector he carried also began to change rapidly.
As the monster actually followed closely behind, speeding down the stone wall after him.
Accompanying the monster’s rapid movement, its body, over thirty meters long, eerily transformed into a black smoky mass, insubstantially rushing towards Yu Hong.
Puff.
Yu Hong managed to grab onto the stone wall in time, his Inner Qi covering his whole body and lighting up with white light, and he swung his fist upward.
Bang!!
His fist, enveloped in white light, hit the monster transformed into Black Fog.
The two collided with a muffled sound.
Yu Hong, who had faced Black Disaster before, had found his Inner Qi nearly invincible in enhancing his strength.
But this time, the sensation of his punch connecting was very bizarre.
As soon as his fist touched the opponent, a series of noisy, deafening voices abruptly filled his ears.
“Agrius!”
“Dragon of Xianglv, the Divine Decay Bloodline!”
“The Great Immortal, undying and eternal, forever as one!”
“Immortal Strong Wall Warden—Agrius!”
Countless voices repeated this chant, as if singing a hymn.
Crack.
In an instant, streaks of golden lightning flashed from the Black Fog transformed monster, striking Yu Hong as he threw his punch.
Hiss hiss hiss!
The dense lightning instantly turned him into a golden light bulb.
The electric current stimulated his Inner Qi to automatically defend, and pure white Inner Qi flames shot up into the sky, directly confronting this sudden burst of golden lightning.
Boom!!
Yu Hong plummeted rapidly, enduring the electric shocks with difficulty and continuously grasping the walls to decelerate.
At last.
Boom!
On the island’s ground, the rocks violently collapsed and shattered.
Yu Hong crashed heavily into a deep pit, and then…
‘Kill!!’
Suddenly, a streak of white light like a shooting star surged from the deep pit, charging towards the approaching Black Fog monster.
The white flames and the golden lightning collided, rapidly consuming each other.
A few moments later, the Black Fog solidified, transforming back into the monster.
It was unscathed except for a bloodied, shredded wound on one of its front claws.
Yu Hong stepped back several paces, his body emerging from the white flames.
His expression was grave as he stared intently at the opponent.
‘Power was strangely countered by something… Plus, that golden lightning consumes too much Inner Qi.’
He recalled the voices he had heard, the Immortal Strong Wall Warden, Agrius…
‘If those voices were real, then maybe defeating this guy could solve the core problem of this place!’
Feeling certain, Yu Hong took a deep breath, the white flames on his body suddenly surged.
‘Try again!’
He vanished in an instant, delivering a fierce kick to the side of the monster.
The Thunderbolt Leg Technique, like a battle-axe, slashed horizontally across the monster’s waist.
Boom!
As he watched this leg strike release hundreds of tons of force, poised to hit Monster Agrius.
At that moment, a faint layer of golden lightning rapidly appeared on Agrius’s surface.
The golden light swiftly annihilated the Inner Qi and also significantly weakened the exaggerated impact force exerted by Yu Hong.
Yu Hong, naturally exerting hundreds of tons of force, was now reduced to a tenth, merely a few dozen tons.
A light kick on the monster merely burst a few blackish-yellow pustules leaking revolting viscous fluid, then had no further effect.
Instead, the monster’s tail swung like a giant python’s, creating a sonic boom that struck Yu Hong’s waist in a flash.
Boom!!
Yu Hong felt as though he was thrown up into the clouds, tumbling through the air.
Everything in his sight was spinning, trembling.
Waves of intense pain came from his body, strength seeming to rapidly drain from the sore spots.
“That hit hard!”
He gritted his teeth and reached out to grab the ground.
Both palms carved deep gullies, creating resistance.
Rolling over to stand up, Yu Hong barely steadied himself before he sensed a dark shadow pouncing directly at him.
Boom!
His entire body’s Inner Qi burst into flames, his hands rapidly forming seals, using Thunderbolt Transformation instantly.
Brilliant white Inner Qi quickly wove behind him into a four-meter-tall half-human form.
Roaring flames of Inner Qi covered the figure’s surface.
Kill!!
Yu Hong roared, and the Condensing Water Technique operated at the same time, covering his hands, and together with the figure, he punched at Monster Agrius.
The punch hit the monster’s swinging right claw.
Golden lightning flashed, Inner Qi flames on Yu Hong’s hand were instantly torn apart, his entire body’s Inner Qi began to be frenziedly consumed, and the erupted thousands of tons of force seemed to be unloaded by something, leaving only a tenth to hit Agrius.
Puff!
Yu Hong’s arm instantly broke, and the rebounding force hurled him backward, rolling in mid-air before heavily landing on the rocky surface in front of the dock.
He barely had time to be shocked by his defeat but quickly propped himself up with one hand, his right leg burst out with all its remaining Inner Qi, launching a heavy white light kick forward.
“Thunderbolt Five Forms!!”
He bellowed as his right leg smashed to the ground like lightning.
The ground exploded, creating a wide pit several meters across.
With the huge reactive force rebounding from the pit, Yu Hong was blown backward, skillfully using the momentum to land on the hard deck of the Black Ship by the dock.
Thud, Yu Hong knelt on one knee, rising to face the rapidly approaching Monster Agrius on the dock.
Watching it rush to the edge of the Black Ship, almost boarding it as well, Yu Hong’s tension peaked.
Fortunately, Agrius did not board the ship but instead crawled back and forth a few times, then transformed into Black Fog and returned the way it came.
“Phew…”
Yu Hong heaved a deep breath, relaxing for the first time and only then feeling intense stabbing pain in his right arm and left leg.
‘Indeed, no one can guarantee a win every time… I’ll need some time to recover. Just not sure if the Daoist Scripture Array was slowed down.’
He thought back to the recent encounter with the monster, feeling that the golden electricity on the monster greatly countered his own Inner Qi.
‘Next time, I’ll need to find a way to handle that golden arc… The weakening effect was too drastic…’
