Desperate Night.

Chapter 37 037 Secret (Thanks to Chief Genius Gargamel)
The next day, Baiqiu Village.

The warm breeze blows, and the sun is at its hottest at noon.

In front of the deserted bungalows in the village, a tall figure in gray and black stab-proof clothing was walking slowly on the gravel road, as if inspecting the surrounding environment.

The figure was wearing a helmet and carrying a black mace. The spikes on the mace shone a faint silver color in the sun, looking quite ferocious.

After a while, the figure raised his head, revealing Yu Hong's expressionless white face.

He paused and stopped in front of a slightly larger, dark stone house.

Without saying a word, he quietly took off a backpack from his back, opened the bag, and took out a palm-sized yellow wooden board from it.

Inlaid on the wooden board is a large round jade pyroxene rune array.

He gently pasted the wooden board of the talisman array on the door panel of the stone house, and then gently fixed it with nails.

Putting down his hand, he opened the door, looked at the darkness inside, took a deep breath, and walked in.

Soon, his figure disappeared into the darkness and fell into silence.

Time passed bit by bit.

five minutes later.

Bang! !

A figure suddenly rushed out from the darkness and ran towards the gate.

It was Yu Hong.

His face was calm, and several of the spikes on the mace in his hand had become bent.

hiss!
Behind him, a woman in black clothes with a caved-in head was approaching quickly, flashing and stretching out her pale, rotten right hand to grab his back.

Just when the woman's hand was only a dozen centimeters away from Yu Hong.

Suddenly he rushed forward and rolled to the ground, just in time to rush out through the door that had opened a crack, avoiding the grab from behind.

The woman in black was caught off guard and her hand hit the door with the wooden board nailed with the talisman array.

what! ! !
A sharp invisible sound wave exploded, and the right hand of the woman in black quickly became transparent and distorted, like mist blown by the wind, about to dissipate.

Then her whole body seemed to be strongly disturbed, quickly twisting and causing a large number of ripples.

puff!
A few seconds later.

The woman in black disappeared on the spot.

The wooden board of the talisman array on the gate also completely changed from jade to grayish white, and the array patterns were also broken at different points.

After the shout, everything returned to calm.

On the gravel road, Yu Hong slowly got up, his eyes fixed on the talisman array board on the door.

"The effect is even stronger than that of ordinary pyroxene. It seems that the power of pyroxene or the talisman array is related to the specific area of ​​the talisman array."

This is not the strongest silver talisman array, but just an ordinary large pyroxene talisman array. One piece can actually resist a ghost shadow.

After collecting the nails and the wooden boards of the talisman array, he carefully judged the range of the talisman array's effect.

There was a circle of faint grayish-white marks on the wooden door surrounding the talisman array board.

This trace is like a circle drawn by lime, surrounding the talisman itself. This thing did not exist originally, but after the talisman and the ghost shadow touched, it emerged by itself.

Yu Hong reached out and touched it gently, confirming that it could not be wiped off. The mark had already been engraved on the wooden door.

He withdrew his hand thoughtfully and judged the size of the circle. It was about three times the size of the talisman array.

He took out a charcoal pencil and made a note on the newspaper, then packed up his things and left quickly.

After walking for a distance, he suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind him. He hurriedly turned around and looked towards the stone house he had just left.

Inside the stone house, the wooden door was open, and in the shadows inside, stood the blurry figure of a woman in black.

It was the ghostly female figure that had just been dispersed.

However, the ghostly figure of the woman seemed to be reconstructing, and her body was gradually becoming clearer from blurry.

Yu Hong withdrew his gaze, estimated the time in his mind, lowered his head to record the data, and then left quickly.

He soon left Baiqiu Village, picked up some dry firewood, and returned to the cave.

He took out the Dahui ink again and completed the broken lines of the rune array on the wooden board, then he stretched out his hand and pressed it on it.

A black line flashed, and a countdown automatically appeared on the wooden board: 45 minutes.

After doing all this, Yu Hong walked to the corner and took out a thin wooden board talisman array that he had started making yesterday.

The board used to inlay the talisman array was very thin, almost as thick as a mobile phone. He made more than ten boards of this thickness and piled them all in a corner.

Ever since he discovered that Eve was infected with the Black Handprint, he returned and began to prepare to deal with the evil shadow with all his strength.

Ordinary large pyroxene would definitely not be able to stop it. Someone had already tried it. A large pyroxene would at most have the same effect as a bag of ordinary pyroxene. And with so many people in the town dying overnight, it was impossible that no one would try with bags of pyroxene.

More likely, the bagged pyroxene is completely useless.

Therefore, he needs a more effective response method.

And the talisman array is the trump card he prepared.

Sitting in the corner, Yu Hong picked up a board and drew a large pyroxene rune array on it.

Click.

Just then, there was a faint sound of footsteps outside the door.

Click.

Click.

The sound was slow and rhythmic, stepping on dry branches and getting closer and closer.

As the sound got closer, Yu Hong stopped drawing, put the board away, stood up and held the mace at hand.

He stared at the door vigilantly and slowly moved forward, his footsteps approaching synchronously.

The door's peephole was closed, and only a sliver of sunlight could be seen coming in.

Although the light was bright and hot, a strong, biting chill still slowly rose from Yu Hong's heart.

Click.

Click.

The footsteps were still approaching. Finally.

The sound stopped.

The owner of the footsteps seemed to stop not far from the gate.

The other party seemed to be considering and hesitating, and then stopped moving.

Yu Hong also walked behind the gate, holding a mace in one hand and two large pyroxenes in the other, gently pressing against the wooden door.

One minute.

Two minutes.

three minutes.

There was complete silence outside.

Yu Hong's tense nerves gradually relaxed. He glanced at the large pyroxene placed behind the door.

This large pyroxene had been silently consumed halfway, and now it stopped and returned to silence.

call.
He breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out his hand, opened the window shutter, and looked out through the window.

It was a bright and sunny day outside, but the sky was empty and there was nothing there.

Seeing this scene, Yu Hong let out a long breath, replaced the large pyroxene behind the door, and then reached out to pull the baffle back.

Bang! ! !
At this moment, a pale white face suddenly stuck to the iron mesh of the visitor window.

There was a loud bang.

The rotten faces of the people were pressed tightly into the iron mesh, causing the mesh to creak and seem about to break at any time.

The human face stared at Yu Hong and exerted force again.

It actually broke through the iron mesh and squeezed in through the viewing window! !
hum! ! !
In an instant, the large pyroxene behind the door turned into white powder. At the same time, the other two pyroxenes in Yu Hong's hand were also shattered.

These large pyroxenes cannot prevent human faces from entering.

And just then.

The silver rune array on the back of the door suddenly lit up with a silver light.

This higher-level talisman formation, which had taken two days to strengthen, suddenly burst out with pure and powerful invisible waves.

The wave was like ripples, instantly spreading across the entire gate, covering the entire stone wall of the cave surrounding the gate.

As the waves covered the area, the rotten human face flashed for an instant, like a phantom, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Everything fell silent instantly.

The iron mesh of the door's viewing window was still in a damaged state, but the face just now had disappeared.

call!
call!
call!
Yu Hong's whole body was stiff, and only then did he react and gasp for breath.

He just now was completely unable to control his body.

too suddenly!

The opponent's attack was so oppressive that he was startled and had no idea how to deal with it.

By the time I came to my senses and prepared to take action, everything was over.

"No! There is a special force that is forcibly fixing me!" Yu Hong recalled carefully. Logically, he was no longer a newcomer to this environment. Even if he was terrified, he should not be completely unable to move.

But the feeling just now made him feel as if he was back to the beginning.

That feeling of fear.
He looked down at his body and saw a faint gray-black handprint on the chest of his coat that was slowly fading and disappearing.

"Withered girl?"

he guessed.

Compared to the ghost shadow, the intensity of the attack just now was far, far greater.

If the silver talisman array had not taken effect, he would have been caught and faced unknown danger.

He bent down and carefully examined the silver talisman array and found that the silver color on the talisman array had faded a little, obviously some of its power had been consumed.

"Tomorrow is the peak season, it seems we can't go out casually anymore."

Yu Hong checked the extent of the damage to the viewing window, stretched out his hand, and prepared to strengthen the restoration, but suddenly remembered that there was something counting down before, so he could only wait for the time being.

So he simply pulled a stool over and sat down in front of the door to recover his strength.

Soon, when the countdown was over, he began to reach out and press on the door to repair the torn wire mesh.

Soon the barbed wire was repaired, and Yu Hong began to replenish the consumed silver talisman array.

It took two full hours for the silver rune formation to recover, and everything looked the same as before. But in fact, Yu Hong had a rough estimate of the strength of the withered girl's evil shadow.

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Inside Jenny's cave.

Eve took a wet towel and wiped the black handprint on her buttocks vigorously, but no matter how hard she wiped, the handprint remained motionless and remained as black as ever.

She looked panicked and even a little flustered. Seeing that she couldn't wipe it off, she wanted to grab a knife and try to cut off her own flesh.

Snapped!
A stick hit her hand hard from the side, knocking the knife to the ground.

Jenny was holding the stick. Her face was cold and a little panicked as she nervously looked around.

"Don't do meaningless things! You are not dead yet, there is still hope! Don't give up on yourself!"

"But mom!" Eve's face was pale, she raised her head, her eyes were already red and swollen from crying. "Even Old Yu is dead. I can't escape."

"Get into the isolation room. Quick!" Jenny snapped.

Eve was startled, but gritted her teeth, turned around and quickly walked to a wall of the bedroom.

Pushing aside a piece of bear skin hanging on the wall, a silver metal door was revealed underneath.

Eve pushed the metal door open sideways, got in, and closed it with her backhand.

"From today on, you can only stay in there." Jenny said in a deep voice, "until the handprint disappears completely. Do you understand? "

"I heard it clearly." Eve's voice came out muffled from the silver metal door.

"Tomorrow is the peak period. I'll go out and find a solution for you now." Jenny put down the stick, walked forward to put down the bear skin, then took a bag of pyroxene, looked at the clockwork clock, and walked out of the cave quickly.

(End of this chapter)