Desperate Night.

Chapter 249 Secret 249
Gray City Base.

In the huge space under the parking lot.

A group of people wearing thick protective clothing were standing quietly in front of three bodies lying on the ground.

The dark space was surrounded by gray-black concrete walls, and the only light source was the safety lights hung on the walls at intervals.

Green security lights, stiff corpses, cold and slightly smelly wind.

Together, they constructed the fact that this base was about to reach a desperate situation.

Everyone placed their hands gently on their hearts and observed a moment of silence.

"The temperature is too low. We can't bear it just by relying on conventional warming measures." One person said in a low voice.

"If we continue like this, even breathing will become a serious problem, and some of the gases in the air will be frozen and liquefied." Another person said, "I already felt some difficulty breathing when I was out for inspection yesterday."

"Without the sun, the temperature is extremely low, and it is an inevitable fact that oxygen is becoming less and less." The person standing in the front spoke with a cold and indifferent voice. It was Zhang Kaijun.

"Does the Research Department have any solution? If this continues, no one will survive!" Someone couldn't help but said anxiously.

"The oxygen supply equipment has been made, but it cannot be made portable. There are too many things missing, making it difficult to produce," Zhang Kaijun replied.

“Can’t you just put it in a plastic bag?” the man said helplessly.

"Yes, but it's not possible with plastic bags," Zhang Kaijun replied.

He reached into his pocket, took out a piece of transparent plastic bag, and rubbed it gently.

Click.

The plastic bag, which should have been soft, was gently rubbed into pieces by him.

Everyone fell silent.

"From now on, we must strictly follow the low temperature response plan given by the Research Department. Each isolation room must keep the heating plate on 24 hours a day. The cooling water pipes of the nuclear power motors are not enough to cope with the low temperatures in all areas." Zhang Kaijun ordered.

"What if we go somewhere else?" one woman couldn't help but ask.

"Hundreds of people are freezing to death every day in Aurora City, and they are also trying their best to take insulation measures. If they want to go out to other places, most of them will die at the hands of the black disaster they encounter on the road." Zhang Kaijun replied.

"What about Mr. Yu at the Black Wind Camp?"

"The Black Wind Camp has been under siege recently. The Eternal Life Association has set its sights on it. The stone fortress in the camp has been destroyed, and the living environment is not safe enough." Zhang Kaijun continued to answer.

"But if we continue like this, we won't be able to hold out for much longer." The woman's tone was filled with despair. "The black disaster is still invading, and even our weapons are beginning to become unusable. If the temperature gets even lower."

"If you can't change the outside, then work on changing yourself." Zhang Kaijun said calmly.

He turned around and faced the crowd.

"We will transform all of them into enhanced humans in batches. Only when we all become enhanced humans will our resistance to temperature be much higher. At the same time, we will completely seal off the only passage to the outside. The supplies we have stockpiled in advance will be enough for us to consume for at least ten years."

Everyone present was stunned by his words.

It is known that strengthening a person will shorten his lifespan and change his temperament. But if he does not adapt now, he may not be able to survive even for the next month.

From this perspective, becoming a strengthened human may be the only solution.

For a moment, everyone fell into silence.

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2023, October.

Yu Hong reached out and gently wrote down the current time.

More than half a year has passed since he came into this world.

Putting down the notebook, he glanced at the silver crescent mark on his left hand. The newly enhanced Moon Calling allowed him to choose a summoned individual of his choice.

This is the powerful secret technique obtained by Black Seal after purifying the original Moon Calling. It is a secret technique from the Wuji Demon Palace.

"It has been less than half an hour since the last attack. We can head to the wooden bridge now to deal with this black ship attack as soon as possible."

He changed his equipment, stood up and looked around at everything in the cave.

'To resolve the Eternal Life Association's bait attack on the camp, the solution is to enhance the concealment and defense of the camp, so that the Black Disaster cannot detect it, and the Association cannot locate it, and then relocate it later.

The second is to resolve the association individuals who put out bait in advance. The third is to hedge against the bait.'

The door opened with a click.

He walked out of the cave and closed the door behind him.

He took a deep breath, and a ball of snow suddenly exploded under his feet.

A few seconds later, the others had reached the back of the cave again and turned on the atomic lamp to illuminate the dim wooden bridge behind.

The wooden bridge is still old and gray, but Yu Hong has improved the guardrails on both sides, making it look much more formal, somewhat like a pier.

call.

White air spurted out from both sides of Yu Hong's breathing valve. He took a step, stepped onto the wooden bridge, and walked towards the depths step by step.

He walked in the black fog and soon came to the large, decayed and dark black ship again.

He jumped in one step and landed on the deck.

The black ship also slowly left the dock and sped away along the wide Black River towards the distant black fog.

The boat was rocking and swaying in the black water. After more than ten minutes of sailing, the fog in front finally dissipated.

A pier built of gray-white rocks appeared in sight.

Behind the pier is a large area of ​​gray-white rock, which looks like a white island made entirely of rocks.

It was quiet, foggy, surrounded by black water, and empty of human figures.

Bang.

The black ship gently approached the shore and crashed into the wooden piles of the pier.

Yu Hong skillfully jumped off the black boat and landed on the hard rock ground of the dock.

He squatted down and reached out to touch the ground.

The surface of the ground is hard and rough, as if countless grains of sand are fixed and unable to move, and it feels a bit rough to the touch.

He stood up and took a few steps forward.

There is a sign standing on the ground on the right.

'Prison Island'

The sign is made of metal, with a yellowish base color, and a lot of paint has fallen off the edges, revealing a brown base color.

The three words of Yewen played out from the translation machine, causing Yu Hong to pause slightly.

'Prison? A place where they keep something?'

He had a slightly frown on his face.

Keep going.

The fog in front of him dissipated. On the island more than ten meters away, a huge gray-black wall blocked his way forward.

The high walls stretched into the endless fog on both sides. There was no end to the top either, as if it was endless.

Yu Hong carefully sensed his surroundings, made sure there were no living creatures, and then approached the high wall.

Walking to the wall, he stretched out his hand and gently stroked the wall.

The rough, cold, hard, and ordinary feel of stone fed back into his mind.

He picked up his hand, put it under his nose and smelled it, but there was no smell.

Bang.

Suddenly, Yu Hong clenched his fist and hit the wall.

His fist slammed into the wall, sending a cloud of rubble and debris flying, but that was all.

The hardness of the wall was far beyond his imagination. Apart from a shallow fist mark, there was no other change.

"We must find the source and solve the core of this island, otherwise the erosion of the wooden bridge to the formation will not stop."

Yu Hong looked around, exerted force on his feet, suddenly accelerated, and rushed to the left.

The sound of the wind kept ringing in his ears.

In the mist ahead, the high wall stretched on and on, as if there was no end in sight.

After running for five minutes in one breath, Yu Hong paused.

"If we keep running like this and still can't find the edge, it will be difficult to return."

He glanced around again, making sure it was still empty, quiet and deserted, and continued to focus his attention on the high wall.

His eyes kept wandering over the high walls, searching for clues.

Soon, he found a small black window high on the wall more than thirty meters above the ground.

The window is round, and looking up from the bottom, it is difficult to see clearly what is inside.

Yu Hong glanced around, grabbed the rough surface of the high wall with his hands, and the spikes on his boots popped out and stabbed into the wall a little bit at a time.

Then he climbed up little by little, slowly approaching the window.

Although he might be able to reach it by jumping up in one go, Yu Hong still planned to approach slowly and observe carefully.

The stone powder was dug out by his five fingers and scattered down.

Two minutes later, Yu Hong crawled under the round window.

Snapped.

He grabbed the edge of the window with his right hand, used the force to move upwards, and slowly moved his gaze upwards to look inside the window.

Inside the window, there is a thick, blurry glass.

The inside of the glass was covered with white dust and stains, and one could only vaguely see that there was a room inside.

A simple room similar to a prison.

Dark and empty, with a row of rusted black metal poles forming the prison door.

The door and window are facing each other.

Through the prison door, you can see a dark horizontal prison passage outside.

dong dong.

Yu Hong reached out and knocked on the glass, trying to break it with force.

But the strange thing was that even with his current powerful strength, he couldn't break the glass even if he increased his strength.

He knocked on it several times in a row, even using his internal energy, until he was sure that he couldn't break it.

He turned around and planned to check somewhere else.

dong dong.

Suddenly, someone was knocking on the glass from inside the window.

Yu Hong was stunned, then stepped forward again and looked through the glass.

A pale face with messy hair appeared on the inside of the glass window, looking at him anxiously.

The other party was also knocking on the glass with his hands and seemed to be saying something, but no sound could be heard.

Yu Hong touched the translator, but this time it did not give any response.

He reached out and touched the edge of the glass window, trying to find a gap, but unfortunately the edges of the window were tightly sealed and integrated.

"Hey, can you hear me?" Yu Hong said loudly against the glass.

But the person opposite shook his head and pointed at his ears to indicate that he could not hear anything.

Yu Hong glanced at the detector on his collar. The value on it was only one or two hundred, which was obviously not up to standard for a wooden bridge that could erode the base's formation.

If the red value was so small, the formation would not be eroded so easily.

It is obvious that the other party is not the source.

He thought about it and continued to climb up.

Go past the round window and all the way up.

The thumping sound was soon forgotten by him.

Up, up, up.

Yu Hong never stopped, his speed was getting faster and faster, and his altitude was getting higher and higher.

He didn't know how high he had climbed, he just looked down and saw a boundless sea of ​​black clouds formed by black fog.

Keep climbing.

He didn't believe that the wall would never end.

After climbing for several hundred meters, finally, a window appeared again on the upper right wall.

This time it's the same round window.

Yu Hong moved over and took a look at the detector.

'-1232.441'

The red value was over a thousand. This made him realize that he was on the right track.

Climbing to the window, Yu Hong looked inside through the blurry and dirty glass.

(End of this chapter)