Desperate Night.

Chapter 189 Deterioration 189
Xue Ningning forcibly dragged Ou Li away.

They brought the enhanced detector sponsored by Yu Hong to determine whether the departure time was still in the gray hour.

The goal of this exploration is to find out why the surrounding environment has changed so much, and to determine whether the Black Disaster Rift can still be guaranteed to be safe.

At dawn the next day, the two women took the detector that Yu Hong lent them and went out.

They were wearing pyroxene blankets with swirling runes on them, with cold expressions on their faces, as they walked out of the camp.

Xue Ningning had made up her mind, but Ou Li was obviously too scared and was still a little confused.

She was dragged out by Xue Ningning.

Yu Hong still stayed in the camp, giving birth to new black lizards. The surrounding black lizards died all at once, which brought him great inconvenience in exploring the surroundings.

So when Xue Ningning and the others went out to investigate at dusk every day, he stayed in the cave to replenish the black lizards and strengthen the new formation.

Inside the cave, under the bright white light.

The warm temperature brought by the cooling pipes keeps the entire cave base at a constant room temperature of more than ten degrees.

On the heavy cave door, there are various combinations of runes densely engraved.

Each rune has an effective range. Taking advantage of this, multiple runes can be combined and superimposed together to form a rather complex mixed rune. This rune has the concealment effect of the pyroxene chamber, and also has the ability to store negative radiation and continuously release weak negative radiation.

This is a structure similar to a slow-release device that he made by combining the deceleration rune and the traction rune.

Not relying on the black seal, but simply the result of his own testing.

And he has now updated this result throughout the entire cave.

'The most primitive version of the formation still needs to release negative radiation that makes the black disaster disgusted. It is necessary to maintain this disgust, but not to make the formation runes unable to accumulate radiation. There is a balance to be struck in between.'

Yu Hong sat on the wooden chair, leaning back, feeling the defense system at the moment.

The inner wall of the cave, including the gate, is a core layer of defense.

Then there is the outer layer of the inner and outer courtyard formation, which is a modified Wind and Fire Soul-Slaying Formation strengthened by the black seal.

The black lizards that were originally on the outer layer are now recovering.

'Three layers of defense, the black lizard is still too weak.'

Yu Hong sighed and looked around the cave.

The two-story cave safe house was still quite safe. The multiple array protections made it impossible for the outside world to even discover the existence of the cave safe house.

The physical strength of the cave wall, which had been reinforced many times, was beyond his imagination. At least the bullets had tried and failed to make a deep hole. The hardness had at least increased several times.

However, when I think of those clustered people and ghosts... I'm afraid this kind of protection is...

After resting for a while, he stood up and did not go out. Instead, he checked the mine cultivation soil that the black seal was strengthening.

This was his fourth attempt to use the Black Seal.

The purpose is to cultivate and produce pyroxene ore as soon as possible. Now that the mine has disappeared, the radiation grenades cannot be replenished. The pyroxene graphite powder is related to many defense systems of the camp. Once the pyroxene cannot be replenished for a long time and the trading team is blocked by the black disaster and cannot come over, he can only try to produce pyroxene by himself.

In the basement.

The original soil that was counting down was still gray and black, with no changes except that it was slightly drier.

Yu Hong looked at the remaining time, 12 minutes.

almost.

He picked up the stone that he had obtained from the three previous strengthenings.

The three fingernail-sized stones are all grayish white, similar to pyroxene.

There are numbers written on the surface with charcoal: 123.

Yu Hong took the detector and moved closer to test them again one by one.

No. 1: '11.241'

No. 2: '9.245'

No. 3: '5.117'

The three enhanced white stones all emit red radiation. Although they are gradually changing towards negative values, they are still far from pyroxene for the time being.

Yu Hong waited for a while until the fourth countdown ended.

laugh.

The original soil blurred for a moment, and suddenly turned into a new white stone the size of a fingernail.

He quickly picked it up and put it on the detector for testing.

'0.214'

Seeing this number, Yu Hong finally showed a trace of relaxation on his face.

"It seems that this direction is correct. After adding the vortex rune, it really has an effect."

When he strengthened it, he clearly followed the function of pyroxene as the strengthening direction, but the synthesized stone was not pyroxene.

'In theory, pyroxene ore will automatically emit negative radiation, but the white stone I synthesized seems to be missing something. The vortex rune can only absorb red values ​​and will not emit negative radiation.'

Yu Hong thought about it and took out the test data he had recorded before.

He was not sure whether the white stone he made could be used. But by comparing the data before and after, he found that the radiation of the three white stones had dropped to varying degrees.

The red value fell, which meant it was approaching negative values. In this world where the radiation in the environment had a red value of 30 or 40 units, the red value in the cave was weak, but it had recently reached nearly 10 units.

Changes in the three white stones mean there is hope.

'Wait, maybe the difference is... time?'

Suddenly, he thought of something.

The white stone I made does have some effect of suppressing the surrounding red values, but the effect is very weak and is far from the original pyroxene.

Holding the three white stones, Yu Hong thought quickly in his mind.

'Why does the pyroxene ore still exist when it is immersed in red radiation, instead of automatically dissolving like ice in hot water?'

'Obviously, pyroxene ore is likely to have some special replenishment channel. And pyroxene should also have the ability to store negative radiation, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the huge difference between ordinary pyroxene and pyroxene marrow.' Thinking of this.

Yu Hong seemed to be sure that the direction of his strengthening was correct.

'It seems that there is no problem with the black seal enhancement. The key is that the effect of my enhanced white stone is so weak. The key is the lack of a long-term infiltration and charging process. The previous mine must have a channel for continuously charging negative radiation. And as time goes by, the pyroxene ore is gradually filled.'

Thinking of this, he quickly found tools and used graphite powder to draw spiral runes driven by internal energy on the three white stones.

Then wait for the results.

After doing all this, the black seal was empty. The black lizard's revival did not need to occupy the black seal.

Yu Hong returned to the first floor and picked up a talisman array from the wooden table that he was trying to assemble.

Scribbled on the board was a Chinese character for "two", representing the second formation.

'Use the newly acquired traction rune as the main body and the vortex rune as the core, and add it to the wind, fire and soul-killing formation outside as the second secondary formation to strengthen the total radiation reserve of the main formation. This idea is not a big problem.'

He recalled the previous encounter with a large number of gray hands.

The formation's lethality was still sufficient, but the total amount of radiation was too small, and it was immediately consumed by the numerical advantage of the black disaster.

Picking up the second array plank, Yu Hong walked out of the cave, out of the passage, and stood in the empty inner courtyard.

Under the white light, it was still pitch black outside the outer courtyard fence.

It was now gray, and Xue Ningning and the others were still investigating the situation. The camp was deserted.

Squatting down, Yu Hong put down the wooden board with one hand and pressed it to the ground.

'Strengthen the Black Wind Defense Array, direction.' Yu Hong imagined the area, range, and strength covered by the second secondary array in his mind, and linked them to the edge of the main array.

Soon, his own design was basically recognized by Black Seal, who believed that it had the basic effect of replenishing the total radiation reserves.

So it was further strengthened.

'Should we strengthen the Black Wind Defense Formation?'

'Yes. '

The countdown appears, the time is: 1:7 on the 53st.

Yu Hong stood up and breathed a sigh of relief.

Now all that's left is to wait until the strengthening is completed and see the results. If possible, he plans to strengthen a few more sub-arrays and connect them to the main array as backup energy packs.

After doing this,

He continued to come to the inner courtyard and began to expand the size of the breeding cave right next to the edge of the cave.

It is also called mining.

Because the stone fort was built before, this temporary cave breeding house was stranded.

This time he planned to expand the camp cabin again, making it a temporary residence for outsiders that could at least shelter from wind and rain and be located inside the formation.

Such residences can be used for visitors and reserve members between formal members.

The outer courtyard is still too dangerous. Whenever the formation fights against the black disaster, reserve members like Xue Ningning will be affected.

After digging for a while, they heard faint footsteps in the outer courtyard. In the pouring rain, two figures wearing thick pyroxene cloaks came in from the fence entrance in the rain.

They quickly entered a wooden shed in the outer courtyard, shook off the rain on their bodies, put down some things they had found, and then walked towards Yu Hong.

Soon, the two entered the area with the brightest lights, revealing two young faces wearing breathing valves.

It was Xue Ningning and Ou Li.

"Mr. Yu, we have completed the verification this time." Xue Ningning approached and said quickly. "The black disaster rift has not changed. The changes that occurred during the black time and the new black disasters have no effect on the original distribution of black disasters at other times. They are like they exist in two different areas and different spaces, and do not interfere with each other."

"Yes, when we went out during the gray hour, the same locations and the same areas, we encountered the same things as before. But when it was dark, these places were replaced by a new batch of black disasters. The danger was far greater than before." Ou Li said in a deep voice.

"In other words, will the originally safe places become extremely dangerous areas when it is dark? Then at other times, can the originally dangerous places also become safer areas when it is dark?" Yu Hong put down the chisel hammer in his hand and asked in a deep voice.

"That's not clear. In addition, we also found the wooden bridge behind the camp that you mentioned, which only appears when illuminated by light, but we did not experience any confusion in distance or direction." Xue Ningning continued.

"How did you do it?" Yu Hong asked curiously.

"Using a flashlight from a distance, I can vaguely see the existence of the wooden bridge. Perhaps it is too far away and there is no black disaster attack." Xue Ningning replied.

After knowing the exact location of the black disaster, their safety was greatly guaranteed.

"Now that we've confirmed that there's nothing wrong with the Black Disaster rift, our next step is to investigate the reason for the change in the intensity of the Black Disaster." Xue Ningning continued.

"What are you going to do?" Yu Hong asked.

"According to previous intelligence, the place where the black disaster first broke out must have traces of why it broke out in the first place. And the people of the Mesha family must have the secret. We plan to investigate the place of origin first, and then track down the Mesha family."

Xue Ningning's words sounded like a fairy tale to Yu Hongguang. In such a dangerous outside world, there were only two enhanced people, not even full-body enhanced people, whose strength was not much stronger than that of ordinary people in the face of the black disaster. Yet they wanted to run so far to track down the source.

He was silent.

Because he felt that the two opponents were bound to die.

After a few breaths of silence.

"If you go alone like this," Yu Hong said. "You will die."

"Someone has to do it. If I can find useful information before I die, it will also reduce the burden on those who come after me." Xue Ningning's eyes were calm. "This way, at least my death will not be meaningless."

"But I don't want to." Ou Li on the side couldn't help but twisted his face, but didn't dare to speak too loudly, so was ignored by Xue Ningning.

Yu Hong thought about it.

"Wait a mininute."

He turned quickly and entered the cave.

Open the communicator.

"Zhang Kaijun, are you there?"

"Of course, I'm always here to get more intelligence from all over the place." Zhang Kaijun's voice came from the other side.

(End of this chapter)