Desperate Night.

Chapter 47 047 Strengthening
In dense woodland.

In the dark green grass, a tall figure wearing stab-proof clothing and a helmet was walking quickly towards a certain direction of the forest.

After a while, the figure would stop, bend down, pull out some weeds from the ground, and stuff them into his cloth bag.

The figure wore leather gloves, hard leather boots, and a helmet that was wrapped tightly, leaving only a pair of eyes and a pair of nostrils exposed, like a fully armed knight from the Middle Ages.

He had a short knife on his waist and his eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings vigilantly.

Soon, a gray-white stone house slowly appeared in front of the figure.

There is a circular wooden fence around the stone house.

A taller, stronger man with short hair and wearing camouflage clothes was arranging something inside the fence.

Seeing the approaching figure, the man showed his habitual smile on his face.

"Brother Yu, you're here again?"

The man walked to the outside of the fence and stopped. It was Yu Hong who came out of the cave again.

"I've been around for a long time, but I didn't see any evil shadow." Yu Hong said in a muffled voice.

"After losing the infection carrier, the traces of the evil shadow will disappear under light after more than three days. In addition, if you find the carrier of the evil shadow, such as clothing, or items with black handprints, you can incinerate them at high temperature, but remember, don't watch nearby while the burning is taking place." Li Runshan explained.

"Why?" Yu Hong asked puzzled.

"Because when it burns, the evil shadow will reappear for the last time. As long as there are living people within 20 meters, it will launch an attack. As long as new living people are killed, it will repeat a new round of infection. In many places, because there is no way to completely eradicate the traces of the evil shadow, the only choice is to migrate. The town near you is such a case." Li Runshan sighed.

"No wonder." Yu Hong understood. "There are too many dark corners in this town, it's too easy for evil to hide."

"Yes, and the traces of evil shadows will move on their own." Li Runshan walked to the black pile of fire where clothes were burned before, and kicked the residue inside with his boots.

"This bunch of things wanted to move towards me before. I was the closest to it. Unfortunately, I burned them in time and blocked them outside the door. Of course, you have to be careful. After all, evil shadows are a new type of ghostly shadow hazard. New varieties may appear. A lot of experience is gained through slowly testing through human lives."

"So Brother Li is still in contact with the higher-ups?" Yu Hong guessed. If they weren't in contact, it would be impossible for Li Runshan to know the latest information about the evil shadow so easily.

"That's right. Actually, I won't hide it from you." Li Runshan smiled. "My main mission here is to guard the origin here and the pyroxene mine. I need to report the details of the changes here at any time. Of course, there are also benefits. Every once in a while, a supply team will pass by here and give me supplies. In terms of intelligence, I also have a newly developed enhanced communicator that can directly contact the post office."

Yu Hong nodded. If it weren't for such a guarantee, it would be unlikely for someone like Li Runshan to bring a child to such a dangerous place.

"There are not many people here. It's a good thing for us that Brother Li can come. Otherwise, we might really have to choose to move." He sighed.

"I came here alone and I need your support and cooperation. We should help each other. However, before I came here, I thought there were at least five or six families here, but I didn't expect there were only two of you." Li Runshan was a little helpless when he said this.

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I'm here to ask Brother Li to help me mail a letter." Yu Hong said, taking out a wooden board letter that he had written in advance.

Because there was no paper, we had to use thin wooden boards instead.

He wrote down some of the specific situations on his side, and experimentally placed an ordinary talisman wood board behind it.

It would be best if the talisman array could be sent over, and it wouldn't be a waste if it could help the little stammerer.

But if the talisman formation is lost halfway, he will try another method next time.

Yu Hong took out the wooden board and covered it with a piece of cloth.

There are two wooden boards, both put together and connected with wooden nails. It looks like a simple thickened structure. But only Yu Hong knows that the thickened board below is actually the talisman array board.

However, that side of the talisman array was sandwiched between two boards and could not be seen by outsiders.

"Sending a letter. The price may be a bit expensive since I have to wait for the supply team to arrive before I can send the letter." Li Runshan touched his chin and took the wooden board.

"Then can I ask how long it will take for the supply team to arrive?" Yu Hong asked quickly.

"The schedule given to me is once a month, but there will definitely be changes. I have just settled here and the supply team has promised to arrive within two weeks. So, it should be just a few days away," Li Runshan estimated.

"Then can we trade with the supply team?" Yu Hong asked.

"Of course not. The supply team can only trade with the postman, no one else is eligible." Li Runshan shook his head.

"Okay." Yu Hong was a little disappointed, but still understood. The postal system here seemed to have formed a screening mechanism with postmen as the core. Postmen became the most basic distributors in various places, holding huge profits.

From this perspective, it’s no wonder that Li Runshan’s daughter has such a greasy face. There is a reason for that.

"Okay, do you have anything else to do? If you mail it, it's just a letter, and the cost is one Silver Tower silver dollar. But if you don't have it here, you can use dried meat instead. The quantity you had before is ten dollars per bag, and you need twelve bags in total."

"What!? How much!?" Yu Hong's eyes widened, thinking he had heard wrongly.

"Twelve bags." Li Runshan said easily, "This is still a preferential price. After all, it's a new place and new customers, so I have to give some discounts. Other places usually charge 15 kilograms of jerky."

“.”Yu Hong was speechless.

After a long silence, he suddenly remembered a silver dollar he had looted from two soldiers. He searched his body and quickly took out the silver dollar. "Silver Tower Silver Dollar, is this it?" He showed the other party the silver dollar.

"Oh, yes, yes, that's it. If you have it, then it's easy." Li Runshan nodded repeatedly and a smile appeared on his face again.

"Then use this. Also, do you have any long-distance communicators for sale here? I bought a solar generator there before, which can be used to charge." Yu Hong asked again.

"I don't have it for now, but when the supply team arrives, I can ask for it. There are quite a lot of people who want it. In some large gathering places, everyone likes to sell it." Li Runshan nodded in agreement. "By the way, if you see someone passing by nearby, you can persuade them to stay and settle down. The more people there are, the easier it will be for us to be self-sufficient. Don't you think so? Otherwise, we have to do everything by ourselves, which is more or less too tiring."

"Okay." Yu Hong nodded.

Leaving the stone house of the post office, he took a last look at the window of the house.

A chubby little head in the window was staring at him quietly, its bright little black eyes full of curiosity.

"What's wrong? Why are you staring at me?" Li Runshan walked to the window and reached out to rub his daughter's hair.

"That uncle looks a little weird." Eisina answered in a low voice.

"What's strange about that? He is a rare and normal person. It's rare to meet a normal person these days. People in many places become a little abnormal after living alone for a long time." Li Runshan said with a smile.

He also looked at Yu Hong, watching the figure slowly walking farther and farther away, until he completely disappeared into the depths of the forest, then he turned his gaze back to his daughter.

"I don't know, but I just feel that no matter who that uncle looks at, he looks like stone." Eisina shook her head, not knowing how to describe it.

"Stone?" Li Runshan tried to imagine carefully, but he couldn't imagine what it felt like.

"That's right. He's not afraid of anything and seems very confident." The fat girl Aisina frowned and squeezed out another sentence.

"Well, now that you mention it, it's true. On the surface he looks normal, but compared to people from other places, he's a little too normal. He doesn't have that frightening feeling." Li Runshan nodded, thoughtfully.

"That's it!" Aisina nodded quickly.

"It's okay. No matter what kind of person he is, I have dad here to protect you." Li Runshan smiled again.

"Dad is the best." Aisina narrowed her eyes and rubbed her face against the other's hand.

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Yu Hong walked slowly on the way back. He had just stopped by to see Dr. Xu Ruoying. The guy had recovered a lot and even gave him a portion of her homemade herbal powder.

Yu Hong also gave him a large pyroxene in return, as an exchange.

There are only a few living people around, and the environment outside is getting worse and worse. In the end, he still hopes that the other party can persist in living.

On the way back, he soon came to the place where Eve's clothes were before. He held the silver talisman wooden board in one hand and took out the dagger in the other hand. He searched the ground but could not find the whereabouts of the clothes.

Only then did he truly believe that the traces of the evil shadow had been solved by Li Runshan.

"From this man's reaction, it should not be his first time to deal with evil shadow traces. He looks very relaxed. In addition, he dared to bring his daughter with him. His daughter's name is not in the style of his country. It is obvious that his partner may be a foreigner."

Yu Hong speculated in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Li Runshan was not a simple person.

But he soon changed his mind and decided that no matter how simple the other party was, as long as he didn't harm himself, he wouldn't care what the other party did.

In fact, the more powerful the opponent is, the safer they will be.

We quickly returned to the cave. Along the way, we didn't see any evil shadows or even any strange figures. It was extremely peaceful.

Yu Hong closed the door and looked at the countdown carefully. There were still more than three days left for the leg technique strengthening.

He suppressed his expectations, drank a glass of water first, then ground the diopside into powder, made diopside graphite, and then started producing new talisman wood boards.

While the black seal is being strengthened, he cannot sit idle.

After making a few wooden talisman arrays, he stood up again and cooked a pot of protein bar sweet soup. While drinking it, he studied the method of drawing the runes of the silver talisman array.

The silver rune array has obvious depth and shallowness requirements, and its difficulty is far greater than that of the large pyroxene rune array, so he has not been able to replicate it until now.

After finishing the food, time went by quickly and it was already afternoon. He got up again and started practicing Gaoti Fa in the house.

Two hours of advanced physical training every day was a strict task he set for himself.

After finishing, rest for more than half an hour, wipe the sweat, replenish food, or even take a nap. These are all normal procedures.

But today, after finishing his exercise, when Yu Hong was wiping his sweat, he suddenly stopped.

He felt some tiny spots on his abdomen rapidly gathering together, and soon they converged into a new cool air.

"The fourth cool air! It's getting thicker and thicker." Yu Hong was delighted. The thicker the cool air, the more confident he felt.

(End of this chapter)