Desperate Night.

Chapter 194 Hope 194

'The outside world is getting worse and worse, I must prepare for a rainy day. Now that I have determined that these two are the key to my safety, then after the weapon enhancement is completed, I will focus on strengthening these two.'

'The formation must provide all-round protection, covering the underground and the sky, expanding the range, and increasing the buffer space to prevent the black disaster from speeding over the formation and rushing to the core area.'

'The appearance of the dragon lizard means that many of the residues of the black disaster have a good strengthening effect, and the airflow crows in the formation also have a good effect. Therefore, it is also important to collect such residues and use them for synthesis and strengthening in the future.'

'After the dragon lizards' nests are built, we will study whether they can be further strengthened. If not, we will study new synthetic organisms. If we have one or two marks, we may have three or four. We must explore this aspect in the future.'

Yu Hong quickly wrote down all the key points.

'Compared to internal training, I now see clearly that directly strengthening the formation and marking the creatures will bring much greater improvements. In this increasingly dangerous environment, the best strategy is to first obtain a safer living environment and then practice internal strength.'

After identifying the reinforced formations and movable creatures such as dragon lizards, Yu Hong had a goal in mind and felt much more relaxed.

Although he was still worried about Yiyi's situation, he had done everything he could now and could only pray for her silently.

Yiyi seems to have a special physique. When she is quiet and motionless, she will be ignored by the Black Disaster and will not be attacked. This physique makes her survival rate higher than others.

With the equipment and supplies he gave me, as long as I was careful and not reckless, and slowly retreated when encountering high-risk black disasters, and always observed the fluctuations in the red value of the detector, there shouldn't be any big problems.
Yu Hong cooked something and ate it, then rested for a while and continued to practice. The improvement brought to him by the fifth level of Thunder Leg was far beyond his expectations. His movement speed and explosive response speed were enhanced far beyond that of ordinary people.

'After ensuring the running speed, the next step is to improve the defense ability. Many black disasters dare not even contact each other. Once they fight, they will be bound to be restrained. Therefore, the protection of oneself must be improved. Selecting a suitable skill is the key.'

After imagining the future, he finished practicing and refining his internal energy, then turned on the communicator.

This time the communicator seemed to be interfered with. It did not connect to Zhang Kaijun's channel immediately, but instead emitted a series of hissing sounds of electricity.

Waited for a while.

Communications have returned to normal.

Zhang Kaijun's rather tired voice came out from the speaker.

"Sorry, something happened here and I'm dealing with it." The voices were accompanied by bursts of gunfire.

"Do you carry the communication with you?" Yu Hong asked.

"Yes, it's just an extension." Zhang Kaijun replied, "Two hours ago, I received some unfortunate news that I need to inform you of."

".You said?" Yu Hong paused and said. In this world, there is rarely good news, and he has gotten used to it.

"The investigation team failed." Zhang Kaijun said, "They joined the elite from Aurora City. They took a helicopter and found that someone had entered Black Tree Village before them. So the investigation team decided to split up. One part tracked the people ahead and tried to contact them to get more information. The other part followed the original plan and went straight to the ruins of the first black disaster in Black Tree Village, but..."

"I have a question. The country must have investigated the source relics before. If they didn't find anything before, why can they guarantee that the investigation team can find clues now?" This is what Yu Hong has always been puzzled about.

"According to intelligence from unknown sources, the First Aurora City received news that the black disaster originated from the black well, and the black well originated from the seal of the ruins. At the beginning, because no one confirmed it, it did not receive support. Later, the situation worsened and there was nothing we could do. The formation of an investigation team was our last resort." Zhang Kaijun replied.

"That is to say, Aurora City and you don't know whether the investigation team can be of any use?" Yu Hong understood.

Hearing that someone from Black Tree Village had entered first, he guessed that it was probably Yiyi and An'an, but he did not rule out the possibility that there might be others.

"Yes, the specific detailed information is all in the New Aurora City. It is said that linguists there have deciphered some unknown texts in the ruins and found out some of the reasons for the outbreak of the black disaster. But at that time, there was no evidence to prove its effectiveness, so it was shelved. Now the situation is different." Zhang Kaijun explained.

Yu Hong finally understood it this time.

In other words, at first, the higher-ups didn't take the information about seals seriously. Later, after trying other methods and seeing too many deaths, they had no other choice but to try these weird methods.

"Also, the people I sent out for the transaction should be arriving soon. It won't be a problem for the second round to come along the Black Disaster Rift." Zhang Kaijun said.

"Okay." Yu Hong responded.

Bang! The communication is disconnected.

He sat at the table, was silent for a while, sighed, stood up, and continued to practice in the basement.

In the current situation, what else can we do besides practicing?
Rather than going out, the best option for him is to stay where he is and continue to strengthen the camp.

Time flies by during the hard training.

Just when Yu Hong was fully immersed in his practice, the patrolling dragon lizard outside the camp suddenly gave him a hint through a mark.

This was his instruction. If there was any movement other than the black disaster, report it to him promptly.

Yu Hong paused his Qi training, looked outside through the dragon lizard's vision, quickly put on his enhanced suit, left the cave, and came to the outer courtyard fence.

It was already dawn.

Outside the fence stood a short man in a thick black cloak, with his head down and a thick rusty helmet on his neck, coughing with phlegm from time to time from his breathing valve.

Compared to Yu Hong, he was only as tall as Yu Hong's chest, and his entire body was covered with gray-white pyroxene runes and hidden runes.

The cloaking rune was obviously ineffective, and Yu Hong could immediately identify the pattern as invalid without injecting internal energy into it.

"I'm Shu Cheng. I'm entrusted by Commander Zhang of Huicheng to come to the Black Wind Camp to trade for necessary resources." The man lowered his head, his voice humble and calm, without any of the panic and fear of the refugees and survivors outside.

"You ran such a long way by yourself?" Yu Hong was a little surprised. He looked up at the thick fog behind the other person. There was no one behind him, and the farther place was submerged in the fog and could not be seen clearly.

"More than that, there are three of us in total. In order to safely transport resources and goods, we have all undergone a certain degree of body modification. Please forgive us, Mr. Yu." The man who called himself Shu Cheng continued.

"Renovation?"

"Yes. Because of the emergence of high-risk black disasters, the single-layer pyroxene chamber design has become ineffective. Therefore, the expert group of Gray City has given a triple guarantee suggestion of reducing the breath of living people, increasing the number of pyroxene chamber layers, and assimilating and concealing the breath." Shu Cheng said with a smile.

"Reduce the breath of living people. You..." Yu Hong's eyes fixed, and before he finished speaking, he was stunned by the other party's lifted up right leg.

Shu Cheng's right leg is not made of flesh and blood, but a prosthetic limb.

Then, the other party rolled up his left leg and left hand, which were all black metal prosthetic limbs.

"Besides, the raw flesh on my body has been reduced to the maximum possible extent."

Shu Cheng removed the hood of his cloak, revealing his bare ears and nose.

His ears and nose were cut off!
"According to research, the Black Disasters are a special group that targets fresh flesh and blood, and they are engaged in predatory activities. Therefore, as long as you reduce the amount of fresh flesh and blood on your body as much as possible, you can significantly reduce your presence."

“.”Yu Hong was speechless.

"In addition, my entire body is tattooed with pyroxene powder. There are three layers in total: one layer on the skin, one layer on the inner armor, and one layer on the outer coat. I need to protect them well to avoid any mistakes when I walk, which is quite hard." Shu Cheng said with a smile.

"What about assimilating and covering up the aura?" Yu Hong asked. "How did you do it?"

"Ah, this..." Shu Cheng let out a strange, low laugh. He put on his hood again and lowered his head, like a hunchbacked dwarf.

"According to laboratory tests and calculations, we have implanted some low-level radiation residues of the Black Hazard in our bodies. As a researcher, you should also know that sometimes low-level Black Hazards are not necessarily worse than high-level ones. It's just that some have less lethality and range, and their performance is a little worse. So."

He paused, then continued.

"We will implant these black disaster residues into the body and let it emit red radiation slightly higher than the environment, so as to confuse the breath of living people. Of course, the price of this is that our life span will be shortened to about five years. But it doesn't matter. Even so, there are still many people willing to do this operation."

Yu Hong was speechless.

He thought that some of the survivors he had met before had done everything to the extreme in order to survive, but now, seeing Shu Cheng coming from Huicheng, he knew what extreme meant.

"Okay, let's exchange resources as soon as possible. We have brought some of the things you need here." Shu Cheng said.

"Okay!" Yu Hong turned around and took out the vortex rune board from the cave. This thing was not like the radiation grenade. It needed black seal to strengthen the design and then be processed.

This thing can be mass-produced using internal energy, so it's not considered precious.

The two hundred vortex rune plates that were prepared, along with a radiation grenade, were given to the other party to study the structural design. After that, Gray City will probably be able to convert the vortex rune plates into radiation grenades in batches.

This will also greatly increase the defensive strength over there.

The main thing Yu Hong traded was pyroxene powder. After the pyroxene mines disappeared, pyroxene powder became a scarce resource.

Two hundred vortex rune plates plus a grenade consumed less than one kilogram of pyroxene powder, but the exchange amount was two hundred kilograms of pyroxene powder.

This is more than enough for macros to last for a long time.

In addition to pyroxene powder, these things were also exchanged for a bucket of Sunshine No. 7 special material paint.

"In the current environment, pyroxene powder will be offset by the red value in the air, so I dare not bring too much. Please understand. This is the first transaction. Here is a simple monitoring system for you, which can be used with an ordinary power plug."

Shu Cheng took out a white box from the pocket on his back.

The packaging box is the size of a magazine and as thick as a dictionary.

The surface is an LCD screen with an advertising picture surrounded by six miniature cameras.

The words "Jinhe Technology" are printed on the side.

(End of this chapter)