Desperate Night

Xue Ningning dragged Ou Li away.

They took the enhanced detector sponsored by Yu Hong to determine whether the departure time was still in the gray hour.

The goal of this exploration was to find out why the surrounding environment had changed so much. At the same time, determine whether the Black Disaster Rift could still guarantee safety.

At dawn the next day, the two women took the detector lent to them by Yu Hong and went out.

They wore pyroxene blankets with vortex runes, looked indifferent, and walked out of the camp.

Xue Ningning was determined, while Ou Li was obviously too scared to be confused.

She was dragged out by Xue Ningning.

Yu Hong still stayed in the camp and gave birth to new black lizards again. The surrounding black lizards died in one breath, which brought him great inconvenience in exploring the surroundings.

So when Xue Ningning and the others went out to investigate every day in the gray hour, he stayed in the cave to replenish black lizards. Strengthen the new formation.

In the cave, under the bright white light.

The warm temperature brought by the cooling pipe kept the entire cave stronghold at a constant room temperature of more than ten degrees.

On the heavy cave door, there are various combinations of runes densely engraved.

Each rune has an effective range. Taking advantage of this, multiple runes are combined together to form a rather complex combination rune. This rune has the concealment effect of the pyroxene chamber, and it also stores negative radiation and can continuously release weak negative radiation.

This is a structure similar to a slow release device made by combining the deceleration rune and the traction rune.

It does not rely on the black seal, but is only the result of his own test.

And such results have been updated by him in the entire cave.

‘It is still necessary for the most primitive version of the formation to release negative radiation that makes the black disaster disgusted. Maintaining this disgust, but not making it impossible for the formation runes to accumulate radiation, there needs to be a degree in between. ’

Yu Hong sat on a wooden chair, leaning back on the chair, feeling the current defense system.

The inner wall of the cave, including the door, is a core defense.

Then there are the outer courtyard formations, which are the modified wind and fire soul-killing formations strengthened by the black seal.

The black lizards that were originally on the outer layer are now recovering.

‘Three layers of defense, the black lizards are still too weak.’

Yu Hong sighed and looked around the cave.

The two-story cave safe house is still in a fairly safe state. The multiple formations protect it, so that the black disaster outside can’t even find the existence of the cave safe house.

The physical strength of the repeatedly strengthened inner wall of the cave has exceeded his imagination. At least the bullets have been tried and can’t make a deep pit. The hardness has at least increased several times.

However, when I think of those clustered manpower and ghosts... Such protection is probably...

After resting for a while, he stood up and didn’t go out. He first checked the mine cultivation soil that the black seal was strengthening.

This was his fourth attempt to use the black seal.

The purpose is to cultivate and produce pyroxene ore as soon as possible. Now that the mine has disappeared, the radiation grenades cannot be replenished. The large pyroxene graphite powder is related to many defense systems of the camp. Once the pyroxene cannot be replenished for a long time, and the trading team is blocked by the black disaster and cannot come over, he can only try to produce pyroxene by himself.

In the basement.

The original soil that is counting down is still gray and black, except that it is a little dry, there is no change.

Yu Hong glanced at the remaining time, 12 minutes.

Almost.

He picked up the stone obtained from the previous three enhancements.

Three stones the size of a fingernail are all gray and white, similar to pyroxene.

There are numbers written on the surface with charcoal, 123.

Yu Hong took the detector and moved closer to test it again.

No. 1: '11.241'

No. 2: '9.245'

No. 3: '5.117'

The three enhanced white stones all emit red radiation. Although they are gradually turning to negative values, they are still far from pyroxene for the time being.

Yu Hong waited for a while until the fourth countdown ended.

Tsk.

The original soil blurred for a moment, and suddenly turned into a new white stone the size of a fingernail.

He quickly picked it up and put it on the detector for testing.

‘0.214’

Seeing this value, Yu Hong finally showed a trace of relaxation on his face.

‘It seems that this direction is correct. After adding the vortex rune, it really has an effect. ’

When he strengthened it, he clearly followed the function of pyroxene as the strengthening direction, but the synthesized stone was not pyroxene.

‘In theory, pyroxene ore will automatically emit negative radiation, but the white stone I synthesized seems to be missing something. The vortex rune can only absorb red values ​​and will not emit negative radiation. ’

Yu Hong thought about it and took out the test data recorded before.

He was not sure whether the white stone he made could be used. But the comparison of the data before and after made him find that the radiation of the three white stones had different degrees of red value decline.

The decline in red value means that it is approaching negative value. In this world where the radiation in this environment has a red value of 30 or 40 units, the red value in the cave is weak, but it has recently increased to nearly 10 units.

The changes in the three white stones mean that there is hope.

‘Wait, could it be that the difference is... time? ’

Suddenly, he thought of something.

The white stone he made does have some effect of suppressing the surrounding red value, but the effect is very weak, and it is far from the original pyroxene.

Holding the three white stones, Yu Hong thought quickly in his mind.

‘The pyroxene ore has been immersed in red radiation, why can it still exist, instead of automatically dissolving like ice in hot water? ’

‘Obviously, the pyroxene ore may also have some special replenishment channels. And pyroxene should also have the ability to store negative radiation, otherwise it is impossible to explain the huge difference between ordinary pyroxene and pyroxene marrow. ’

Thinking of this.

Yu Hong seemed to have determined that the direction of his strengthening was correct.

‘It seems that it is not the black seal strengthening that has a problem. The effect of my enhanced white stone is so weak. The key is the lack of a long-term infiltration and charging process. The previous mine must have a channel for continuously charging negative radiation. And as time goes by, the pyroxene ore is gradually filled. ’

Thinking of this, he quickly found tools and used large pyroxene graphite powder to draw vortex runes driven by internal energy on the three white stones.

Then wait for the result.

After doing this, the black seal was also empty. The black lizard does not need to occupy the black seal to revive.

Yu Hong came back to the first floor and picked up a rune array that he tried to combine from the wooden table.

There was a Chinese character scribbled on the wooden board. It represented the second formation.

‘Use the newly acquired traction rune as the main body and the vortex rune as the core, and add it to the wind and fire slaughtering spirit formation outside as the second secondary formation to strengthen the total radiation reserve of the main formation. This idea is not a big problem. ’

He recalled the scene when he encountered a large number of gray people before.

The formation was still lethal, but the total radiation was too small, and it was immediately consumed by the number advantage of the black disaster.

Picking up the second formation wooden board, Yu Hong walked out of the cave, walked out of the passage, and stood in the empty inner courtyard.

Under the white light, it was still dark outside the outer courtyard fence.

It was now gray time, and Xue Ningning and the others were still investigating the situation around. The camp was deserted.

Squatting down, Yu Hong put down the wooden board with one hand, and then pressed it on the ground.

‘Strengthen the black wind protection formation, direction’ Yu Hong imagined the area, range, and strength covered by the second secondary formation in his mind, and linked and superimposed it on the edge of the main formation.

Soon, his own design was basically recognized by Black Seal, who believed that it had the effect of replenishing the total radiation reserve.

So he gave it further strengthening.

‘Do you want to strengthen the Black Wind Protection Array? ’

‘Yes. ’

The countdown appeared, and the time was: 7:53 on the 1st.

Yu Hong stood up and breathed a sigh of relief.

Now all he had to do was wait until the strengthening was over and see the effect. If possible, he planned to strengthen a few more secondary arrays and link them to the main array as its backup energy pack.

After doing this,

he continued to the inner courtyard and began to expand the size of the breeding cave next to the edge of the cave.

That is, mining in short.

Because the stone fort was built before, this temporary cave breeding house was stranded.

This time he planned to expand the camp cabin again to make a temporary residence for outsiders inside the formation that could at least shelter from the wind and rain.

Such a residence can be used for visitors and reserve members between formal members.

The outer courtyard is still too dangerous. Whenever the formation and the black disaster confront each other, reserve members like Xue Ningning will be affected.

After digging for a while, there were subtle footsteps in the outer courtyard. In the pouring rain, two figures wearing thick pyroxene cloaks came in from the fence entrance.

They quickly entered a wooden shed in the outer courtyard, shook off the rain on their bodies, put down some things they found, and then walked towards Yu Hong.

Soon, the two entered the brightest area, revealing two young faces wearing breathing valves.

It was Xue Ningning and Ou Li.

"Mr. Yu, we have completed the verification this time." Xue Ningning approached and said quickly. "The black disaster rifts have not changed. The changes that occurred during the black time, as well as the new black disasters, do not affect the original distribution of black disasters at other times. They are like existing in two different areas and different spaces, and do not interfere with each other."

"Yes, when we go out during the gray time, the same location and the same area, we encounter the same as before. But when it comes to the black time, these places have a new batch of black disasters. The danger is far greater than before." Ou Li said in a deep voice.

"In other words, the black time will turn originally safe places into extremely dangerous areas? Then at other times, can originally dangerous places also become safer areas during the black time?" Yu Hong put down the rock-cutting hammer in his hand and asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know about this. In addition, we also found the wooden bridge behind the camp that you mentioned, which only appears when it is illuminated, but we did not have any distance or direction confusion." Xue Ningning continued.

"How did you do it?" Yu Hong asked curiously.

"Using a flashlight to illuminate from a long distance, we can vaguely see the existence of the wooden bridge. Perhaps it is too far away and there is no black disaster attack." Xue Ningning replied.

After knowing the specific location of the Black Disaster, their safety was greatly guaranteed.

"Now that we have confirmed that the Black Disaster rift is fine, we plan to investigate the reasons for the change in the Black Disaster's intensity." Xue Ningning continued.

"What are you going to do?" Yu Hong asked.

"According to previous intelligence, the location where the Black Disaster first broke out must have traces of why it broke out in the first place, and the people of the Mesha family must have the secret. We plan to investigate the origin first, and then track down the Mesha family."

Yu Hongguang felt that Xue Ningning's words were a fairy tale. In such a dangerous outside world, there were only two enhanced people, and they were not full-body enhanced people. Their strength was not much stronger than that of ordinary people in the face of the black disaster, but they actually wanted to run so far to track down the source.

He was silent.

Because he felt that the two of them would definitely die.

After a few breaths of silence.

"Go alone like this." Yu Hong said. "You will die."

"Someone has to do it. If I can find useful information before I die, it can also reduce the burden on those who come later." Xue Ningning's eyes were calm. "In this way, at least I won't die meaninglessly."

"But I don't want to." Ou Li on the side couldn't help but twist his face, but didn't dare to speak too loudly, so he was ignored by Xue Ningning.

Yu Hong thought for a while.

"Wait a moment."

He turned around quickly and entered the cave.

Turn on the communicator.

"Zhang Kaijun, are you there?"

"Of course, in order to contact more information from all over the world, I'm always there." Zhang Kaijun's voice came from the other side.