Chapter 158: Attack of 156 II
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“The Enhanced Red Value Detector can detect the vast majority of Black Disasters, more advanced than the official ones. It can counteract and repel Radiation Hand Grenades with danger levels of four or even higher, a solar-powered jeep that serves as a Pyroxene Secret Room. A special enhanced suit that can withstand most bullets, and in terms of weapons, guns and knives…”
As Yu Hong continued speaking, Ding Shao’s expression grew increasingly astonished.
*Repelling forth-level and even higher Black Disasters with just weapons and tools? Isn’t that a bit exaggerated?*
*Is this camp storing an entire alliance army’s arsenal? Such high intensity.*
“It’s more than enough, far beyond my imagination. If what you’ve said is true… then… going out to find people, as long as we avoid head-on encounters with high-risk Black Disasters, the safety level will be quite high….” Ding Shao swallowed, feeling her throat dry.
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“But aren’t you afraid I’ll run off with all the stuff?” she asked again.
“Just think about that yourself,” Yu Hong didn’t answer. “If you agree, I’ll provide you with some high-risk Black Disaster intelligence that I have. You need to be cautious and avoid them on your own.”
“…..” *Intelligence to avoid high-risk Black Disasters?*?!
Ding Shao felt numb.
Yao Feiling, eavesdropping on the side, also felt numb.
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If everything Yu Hong said was true, coupled with his high personal strength, and the camp having water and electricity, it would mean that the Black Wind Camp could be the safest camp they’d encountered, except for Hope City.
There was no comparison!
And such a camp, who wouldn’t want to join…
So Ding Shao readily agreed.
Once her injuries healed, their transaction could officially begin.
Stepping out of the wooden shed, Yu Hong sighed.
The outside was becoming increasingly dangerous, and even someone like him with the assistance of the Black Mark could only barely be self-sufficient… *He hoped Stammering Yiyi was safe and could hold out until Ding Shao arrived for rescue…*
Returning to the cave, he refused Li Rushan’s organized temporary celebration party, went into the basement alone, and continued cultivating Inner Qi and nurturing the black lizard.
Within the camp, everyone celebrated Lao Li’s safe return, drinking the beer he brought back from outside, eating the jerky and mushroom soup they were long tired of.
Among the items Lao Li brought back was also a large quantity of salt. Even with sparing use, the ten-plus bags of salt could last for a long time. This guy, taking advantage of the large vehicle size, crammed in whatever supplies were lacking.
If not for such gathering, he wouldn’t have taken so long to return from outside.
Adding salt to the monotonous mushroom soup completely changed the taste, making it much more palatable.
At this time, outside the outer courtyard of the camp, within the secondary safety zone patrolled by the black lizard.
Figures with dirty, ragged clothes slowly emerged from the mist, densely approaching the camp.
Behind them, a female figure in a yellow dress and white skirt quietly gazed at the camp, waiting for something.
As they approached the camp, the large group of figures entering the secondary safety zone was quickly discovered by the patrolling black lizard.
Thud thud thud.
Globules of black saliva shot out, hitting the figures and dissolving them into puddles of black water within seconds.
But there were too many figures. Layers upon layers, they moved toward the camp, the mist obscuring any sight of an end.
“The Black Disaster is here!!” Yu Hong, the first to notice something amiss, stopped practicing and rushed out of the cave, loudly warning everyone.
“Everyone to the wooden house!” he shouted sternly.
The few who were celebrating paused immediately, turned to look at Yu Hong, and upon confirming he wasn’t joking, Li Rushan quickly took command.
“Leave the stuff, get to the wooden house immediately!”
“Keep the Radiation Hand Grenades ready, pull them when necessary, don’t throw them. At critical moments, detonate them on your body, and it will blast Black Disasters away from a radius of over ten meters!” Lao Li clearly had experience using the Radiation Hand Grenades.
“Close the door, don’t look outside. Some Black Disasters will cause problems just by making eye contact!” Zhou Xueguang quickly reminded, refusing to be left out.
In less than ten seconds.
The previously bustling scene in the camp plunged into emptiness and silence.
The blackened ground after the decay of the luminous stone grass was shrouded only by the swaying white lights in the wind.
The lights piercing through the mist vaguely illuminated the large crowd slowly encroaching from outside the outer courtyard.
“So many….” Yu Hong gasped. He could discern that the crowd consisted entirely of shadows, but normally such a large gathering of shadows shouldn’t happen.
“Something is driving them over,” Li Rushan emerged to stand with him, also donning enhanced suits.
“You’re still hurt, why are you out?” Yu Hong frowned.
“It’s nothing, I’ve gained a lot of experience from this trip outside. Do you have grenades? I’m pretty accurate.” Lao Li smiled.
Without a word, Yu Hong dragged out a crate of Radiation Hand Grenades from the cave.
“Conserve them. I suspect more large threats are coming,” he advised.
“Understood!” Li Rushan nodded. “Lao Zhou wanted to come out too, but I have him looking after everyone else. Don’t take it the wrong way.”
“Mm, I know.” Yu Hong understood this explanation was meant to avoid any misinterpreted cowardice on Zhou Xueguang’s part.
Very soon, the crowd of shadows was near the outer courtyard fence.
They squeezed together, wearing tattered clothes, some with smiles, others with expressionless faces, all with pitch-black eyes lacking sclera.
A few individuals among them even had decaying skin, with large bloody wounds exposed, looking even more grotesque.
“Hold on.” Yu Hong quickly restrained Li Rushan from throwing grenades. “I’ve buried new special equipment underground in the camp, let’s see its effects first.”
Li Rushan glanced at him in surprise, nodded, and lowered his hand.
Although accustomed to the boss’s endless new technologies, seeing so many shadows… he couldn’t help but think the boss might be overconfident…
If this continued, those two women’s wooden shed at the outer courtyard would be overrun by shadows, risking catastrophe if anything went wrong.
“Don’t rush….” Yu Hong spoke in a deep voice, his eyes under the helmet focused intently on the approaching layers of shadows.
Five meters.
Three meters.
One meter.
As the first male shadow’s pale and decomposing hand entered the half-meter range of the outer courtyard fence area.
Hiss!!
A powerful, invisible, silent negative radiation erupted like a fountain from the ground.
The radiation sprayed over two meters high like a fountain, then exploded like fireworks in the sky, instantly encompassing several meters around.
Furthermore, throughout the area beyond the fence, negative radiation fountains erupted one after another, with the ensuing intense radiation engulfing all nearby shadows within several meters.
In an instant, many shadows caught in the spread began to fade and dissipate into black smoke completely.
The Black Wind Protection Array had automatically triggered and activated!
“Holy shit…this tech….!!” Li Rushan couldn’t see the fountain-fireworks-like array effect but could see the masses of shadows abruptly disappearing.
Obviously, he wasn’t an idiot, realizing this was a protective mechanism set up by Boss Yu Hong.
“Boss, you’re so badass!! Universe number one!!!” Li Rushan exclaimed breathlessly, giving a thumbs up.
“Stay focused, this is just an appetizer!” Yu Hong remained calm, feeling the light dots marking the Black Wind Protection Array in his mind.
The light of the array was rapidly dimming, despite automatically replenishing at a fast pace; it struggled against the overwhelming influx of shadows.
“Throw the grenades,” Yu Hong suddenly instructed.
Lao Li immediately tossed them with force.
Two grenades tumbled through the night sky in parabolic arcs, crossing over thirty meters.
Under normal circumstances, grenade throwing distance was usually between 30 to 50 meters, though radiation grenades being relatively lighter allowed Lao Li, even injured, to throw such distances, demonstrating his significant physical prowess.
Thud thud!!
The grenades fell outside the fence, exploding in massive ripples of negative radiation of 7000.
The astonishingly powerful negative radiation instantly cleared two large circular areas over ten meters in diameter.
All shadows in those areas were thoroughly turned to ash.
“Awesome! More!!” Lao Li laughed heartily.
“Less talk! Watch out for verbal loitering!” Yu Hong chided with a frown.
Lao Li immediately fell silent.
The two managed, under Yu Hong’s guidance, to continually ease the burden on the array, maintaining a delicate balance.
As long as the Black Wind Protection Array remained intact, the camp interior stayed absolutely safe.
Inside the wooden house, Lao Zhou peeked out, his eyes widened at the camp’s hidden, astonishing array’s effects.
“Amazing! Absolutely amazing!!” He thought meeting Yu Hong midway must have been a stroke of luck born from unknowable fortune accumulated over a lifetime or more.
Given this level of protection, other strongholds would have long been overrun.
Near the wooden shed area.
As dense shadows encroached, Ding Shao and Yao Feiling both believed they were doomed.
Both, numb-faced, thought there was no escape and were prepared for death.
Especially Ding Shao, after just making a deal with Yu Hong and seeing hope, to now…
Just then, the approaching shadows abruptly scattered.
It seemed like some invisible, silent attacks continuously bombarded the shadows, ceaselessly clearing them.
Both women, half-reclined, saw one empty gap after another cleared amidst the shadow crowd.
Then occasionally within the camp, grenade-like objects would fly into the shadow crowd.
These were even more exaggerated, clearing vast areas of shadows at a single explosion.
One thrown would clear over a ten-meter radius.
“This…couldn’t be what he mentioned… Radiation Hand Grenades… right?” Ding Shao marveled, feeling she truly witnessed something spectacular for the first time.
If all of this was true, seeing the shadows unable to breach even the camp perimeter.
Ding Shao felt the external mission she thought was a lifeline looked surprisingly promising…
Seeing such a massive swarm of shadows failing to penetrate even the outer layer of the camp highlighted the enormous technological prowess within Black Wind Camp.
Across from her, leaning against the shed, Yao Feiling wore a complex expression, gazing outside without a word, moved at first but quickly silent.
Time elapsed continuously.
Ten minutes.
Twenty minutes…
More than half an hour….
The influx of shadows gradually thinned, who knows how many the array had eliminated; their numbers were starting to dwindle.
Since around ten minutes prior, Yu Hong and Li Rushan hadn’t even used grenades for assistance, as the array’s self-restoring capabilities alone sufficed against the current density of shadows.
So both just quietly monitored the situation, ensuring no significant changes occurred.
But then, from behind the shadow crowd, a distinct black shape slowly emerged.
The moment it appeared, it suddenly accelerated and charged into the outer courtyard of the camp.
Bang!!
The fence shattered into pieces, flying, and in the light, a massive form was revealed.
It was an elephant worm towering six meters tall and over ten meters in length!!