Desperate Night.

Chapter 178 Road 178

"There are very few survivors here, and the surrounding area is almost completely black. If a war-level black disaster really occurs, the upper echelons of Donghe may also use nuclear weapons to directly wipe out this area. Compared to Flicka's ruthlessness, placing a few nuclear bombs near the no-man's land is simply no problem."

When he thought of this, he suddenly understood why Lao Li and the others were rushing to where there were many people.

"No! It's still too unsafe here! I need to continue to reinforce it!"

Suddenly, Yu Hong felt a sense of urgency again. He stood up and put his hand on the wall.

'Reinforce the Black Wind Camp.'

The reinforcement range is still this cave. The area of ​​the stone fortress outside is too large and not cost-effective. Strengthening an absolutely safe zone first is the best solution to save black seal time.

'Direction: Strengthen surface defenses to the point where they can withstand a large-yield nuclear explosion.'

After Yu Hong finished silently reciting the words, a black line suddenly appeared on the back of his hand, but soon, the black line returned.

"Cannot be strengthened." A cold mechanical voice sounded.

Yu Hong was not surprised. The requirements were too high. In fact, this reaction was expected. He was just trying it first.

Then, he silently recited the strengthening mantra again.

'Direction: Strengthen the outer layer of the safe house to protect against explosion-type damage.'

Anyway, he doesn't have anything else that needs to be strengthened urgently recently, so he might as well try one more round to see the effect. There's no rush to try the original soil, as he still has a lot of pyrotechnic graphite powder on hand, and since he hasn't made any more radiation grenades, the consumption has also decreased a lot.

A black line flashed in his eyes, but he didn't refuse this time.

'Should we strengthen the Black Wind Camp?'

The countdown appears: 7:20 on the 09th.

Yu Hong took a look at it, accepted it, and replied in the affirmative.

Now the Black Disaster was temporarily stable, but the safe house was still far from being able to deal with the explosion. He had to make up for this shortcoming as soon as possible.

The communicator was still repeating the news just now. It was obvious that New Aurora City was planning to use Flicka as a negative example to compare how gentle and just they were.

Swish.

The countdown begins.

Yu Hong breathed a sigh of relief and continued to adjust the knob to return the communicator to the chat channel with Zhang Kaijun and Weisong.

"Is there any other way?"

As soon as I came over, I heard Wei Song's somewhat anxious voice.

"No, the conditions on your side are limited. If you don't have the extract as bait to disguise a living person, you may not be able to survive this time relying solely on the existing conditions." Zhang Kaijun said calmly.

"What happened?" Yu Hong asked quickly. It seemed that something went wrong with Wei Song.

"Yu Hong, you're just in time!" Wei Song's voice rose. "Some members of my camp suddenly disappeared. At first, we thought they were killed by the Black Disaster when they went out. But for three consecutive days, people disappeared every day. The number was not large, only one each time. But no matter how we checked, we couldn't find the reason! I suspect there is a new Black Disaster that we haven't discovered or recorded! Just like the one you shared about turning your back to someone! Do you have any solution?"

"Have you tried everything?" Yu Hong asked with a sinking heart.

"Pyroxene secret room, detector distribution, sunlight material isolation, pyroxene spray to enhance air concentration, isolation of the dead, silencing with electronic sound, etc., I have done everything I can!" Wei Song was obviously a little panicked.

"How many people have died now?" Yu Hong continued to ask. He directly used death to replace missing.

"Thirteen! The most important thing is that they are all core members! All of them live in the core area of ​​the underground base! This means that the core area is completely unable to stop the black disaster and cannot guarantee absolute safety!" Wei Song said quickly.

"Have you investigated the common causes of death of all the deceased?" Zhang Kaijun asked.

"Yes, they all disappeared when they were alone." Wei Song replied.

As a leader, she certainly cannot be a good-for-nothing.

"Then let everyone work in groups of two. No one is allowed to be alone. Continue observing." Zhang Kaijun replied.

"I have an enhanced version of the red value detector here, which may be able to help. Wei Song, you know the address, you can come and get it." Yu Hong had no better idea.

"Your place is too far away. If I send someone over there, it will have to run at least a thousand kilometers," Wei Song said helplessly.

"New Aurora City is setting up an air caravan, using large silent drones to transport goods, flying along the Black Disaster Safety Rift, and has achieved initial success. If it doesn't work, you can apply to them, but I'm not sure if they will pay attention to you." Zhang Kaijun said in a deep voice. "After all, if I were them, I would directly send you a big one to completely destroy the hidden danger."

"."Wei Song was speechless.

Snapped.

She was offline. Since she couldn't get help online, it was impossible for her to continue chatting like usual.

"Yu Hong." Zhang Kaijun said calmly, "I have established a preliminary short-distance small-scale trade network here. Now we have contacted about six surviving strongholds of various sizes around us. The trading method is organized by me, and it uses the safe routes between the Black Disaster rifts to trade supplies and equipment. Do you want to join?"

"Material and equipment trading? Do you have anything I need? Selling pyroxene?" Yu Hong asked. The only thing he lacked now was pyroxene.

"Sure. I have enough inventory to last for decades, so giving you some is nothing. I need the vortex rune plates you have, as well as some high-end equipment and weapons. Can you repair them? I am good at biomedicine here, but the other aspects are too poor."

"Sure. What's the specific price?" Yu Hong asked.

"One standard size vortex symbol plate in exchange for one kilogram of standard density pyroxene"

"Too cheap." Yu Hong began to bargain with the other party. He was very interested in the various materials from Zhang Kaijun. Pyroxene could also be used as a backup in case the original soil could not produce any research results.

After a heated argument, the two reached a consensus. "By the way, there are a few people from your side who came to my place. There is a little girl named Aisina who claims that she can be immune to the attacks of the Black Disaster. They want to join Gray City, did you know that?" Zhang Kaijun suddenly changed the subject and said in a deep voice.

"It's them." Yu Hong was stunned. "Follow the rules." He said calmly.

Since the other party has made his choice, he will not interfere.

"Of course we have to follow the rules. This is a matter of safety. It's useless even if you beg for mercy." Zhang Kaijun smiled.

"Oh, right," he reminded, "According to satellite observations, there may be continuous heavy rains in the near future. Be prepared."

"Don't worry." Yu Hong no longer planned to go out. After the Black Lizard was strengthened, the three-kilometer radius was enough for him to collect various things with the help of the Black Lizard.

After the communication ended, Yu Hong took out four black plastic-like objects left by the insect man.

Listening to the incessant heavy rain outside, I was lost in thought.

the following few days.

He continued to practice the Thunder Kick, and his internal energy quickly reached the eighth root of the third level. Together with the second level of internal energy that had not disappeared, he now had seventeen roots of internal energy, which showed amazing endurance.

But every time he relaxed, he would think of the insect man before, and he dared not even touch him. There was also the huge bird-shaped black disaster passing by in the distance, and the huge ocean black disaster that destroyed Baihe City.

Compared to these horrible monsters, his strength is far from enough.

Seven days passed quickly, and the strengthening of the black seal was completed. There was no major change in the entire cave this time, except that the walls and wooden doors were secretly thickened by a large layer, which could not be seen without careful observation.

Old Zhou is still busy all day and no one knows what he is doing. Apart from occasionally bringing over the baked dried meat and mushrooms, no one can see him anywhere else.

With Black Seal free, Yu Hong began to experiment with strengthening the original soil in the mine. When he tried with just the original soil, Black Seal always failed, so he began to try to add various other things into it and synthesize them together.

Time passed day by day, and soon, the ninth internal energy of his third level Thunder Kick Technique was about to be successfully condensed.

hiss.
Inside the stone castle.

Yu Hong wrote the date on the wooden board with charcoal: December 22, 12.

The black pen tip moved across the brown wooden board, causing powder to fall off.

Boom, boom, boom.

Suddenly, there was a clear sound of wood knocking coming from the outer courtyard fence.

Lao Zhou, who was digging a drainage ditch in the yard, heard the noise, put down his shovel, took out a radiation grenade from under his raincoat, and carefully approached the direction of the sound.

The heavy rain outside was still falling, and the camp was full of water.

After a while, Lao Zhou pushed open the door of the public passage, shook the water off his raincoat, took it off, and walked quickly towards the stone fortress.

On the second floor of the stone fortress, he pushed open the wooden door and raised the bag in his hand.

"Boss, there's a postman! The post office is open again!?" A strange look of shock and joy appeared on his face.

"Postman?" Yu Hong was also slightly surprised.

"Well, he's a speed-enhanced person who runs very fast. His last name is Chen Jiaze. He said that the high-risk black disaster is now basically fixed, the black disaster fissures have been solidified and mapped, and it is now initially passable, with a relatively high level of safety." Old Zhou was a little excited.

"It's good news," Yu Hong smiled. He had actually received the news from Zhang Kaijun before, but he didn't expect that the postman would deliver the goods to his door not long after.

This surprised him somewhat.

After all, even if the insects outside were destroyed and did not revive for the time being, there were still people like Speed. If you made a mistake in running away, you would be gambling with your life.

"But to be honest, Chen Jiaze seems a little silly." Old Zhou lowered his voice and shook his head slightly.

"No normal person would want to go out at this time," Yu Hong said calmly.

"Isn't this bullying those people with fully enhanced bodies?" Old Zhou sighed.

Yu Hong said nothing and took the package.

The package was wrapped in thick waterproof plastic bags, layer upon layer, very thick and solid.

With a scratch of his fingernail and a little force, he easily cut the outer plastic bag completely open.

Inside was a black rectangular metal box.

When I opened the lid of the box, I found some foam crumbs stuffed inside. Between the white plastic was a grayish-white stone wrapped in thick plastic again, and under the stone was a letter.

A hint of curiosity arose in Yu Hong's heart.

In such a harsh environment, how could someone still write to him?
He took out the stone and looked at it first. Through the transparent plastic, he paused slightly and found that the stone was actually somewhat similar to the symbol style in the pyroxene ruins.

Moreover, this symbol seemed to be one he had never seen before.

Putting the stone down, he picked up the envelope again.

The envelope was light yellow, with two lines of words written on the surface in crooked handwriting.

'From Yu Hong himself.'

'Sender: Lin Yiyi.'

(End of this chapter)