Desperate Night

The next day, Baiqiu Village.

The warm wind blew, and the sun was 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 wore a helmet and carried a black mace. The spikes of the stick shone light silver in the sun, which was very ferocious.

Not long after, 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 a backpack from his back, opened the bag, and took out a palm-sized yellow wooden board from it.

On the wooden board was inlaid a jade round pyroxene talisman array.

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

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

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

Time passed by bit by bit.

Five minutes later.

Bang! !

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

It was Yu Hong.

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

Hiss!

Behind him, a woman in black clothes with a collapsed head was approaching quickly, stretching out her pale and 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 rushing out of the door that opened a crack, avoiding the grab behind him.

And caught off guard, the black-clothed woman's hand hit the door nailed with the talisman array wooden board.

Ah! ! !

The sharp invisible sound wave exploded, and the black-clothed woman's right hand quickly became transparent and twisted, like mist blown by the wind, about to dissipate.

Then her whole body seemed to be strongly disturbed, twisting rapidly and stirring up a lot of ripples.

Puff!

A few seconds later.

The woman in black disappeared on the spot.

The wood board of the talisman array on the door also completely changed from jade to grayish white, and the array pattern was broken.

After the shout, everything returned to calm.

On the gravel road, Yu Hong slowly got up, staring at the talisman array on the door.

"The effect is actually stronger than ordinary big pyroxene. So it seems that the power of big pyroxene or talisman array seems to be related to the specific area of ​​talisman array."

This is not the strongest silver talisman array, but just an ordinary big pyroxene talisman array, and one piece can actually resist a ghost.

After collecting the nails and the talisman array wood board, he carefully judged the range of the talisman array.

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

This mark was like a circle drawn by lime, surrounding the talisman array itself. This thing didn't exist originally, but after the talisman array and the ghost shadow touched, it emerged by itself.

Yu Hong reached out and touched it gently, making sure that it couldn't be erased. The mark had 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 recorded it on the newspaper. He put away his things and left quickly.

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

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

It was the ghost shadow of the woman that had just been dispersed.

But this ghost shadow of the woman seemed to be reconstructing, and her body was gradually becoming clearer from blurry.

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

Soon he left Baiqiu Village, picked up some dry firewood and returned to the cave.

He took out the large pyroxene ink again and filled the broken lines of the rune array on the wooden board. Then he stretched out his hand and pressed it.

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

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

The board inlaid with this rune array is very thin, almost as thick as a mobile phone. And he made more than ten boards of this thickness, all piled in the corner.

Since he found that Eve was infected with the black handprint, he came back and began to prepare to deal with the evil shadow.

Ordinary large pyroxene will definitely not be able to stop it. Someone has already tried it. The effect of a large pyroxene is at most equivalent to a bag of ordinary pyroxene. And so many people in the town died overnight, it is impossible that no one took a bag of pyroxene to try.

More likely, the bag of pyroxene is completely useless.

So, he needs a more effective means of response.

And the rune 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 and closer, Yu Hong stopped drawing, put the board away, stood up, and held the mace at hand.

He stared at the door vigilantly, slowly moving forward, and the footsteps also approached synchronously.

The viewing window of the door was closed, and only the faint sunlight could be seen through the gap.

Although the light was bright and hot, a strong and 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 stopped moving.

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

One minute.

Two minutes.

Three minutes.

There was no movement outside.

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

This large pyroxene had been silently consumed by half, and it stopped at this time and returned to silence.

Huh.

He breathed a sigh of relief. Reached out and pulled open the baffle of the viewing window, looking out through the window.

It was sunny outside, the wind was gentle and the weather was beautiful, empty, and there was nothing.

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 again.

Bang! ! !

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

With a loud bang.

The rotten face of the human face squeezed into the iron mesh tightly, pressing the mesh to creak and 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! !

Buzz! ! !

In an instant, the large pyroxene behind the door instantly turned into white powder. At the same time, the other two pieces of pyroxene in Yu Hong's hand also shattered together.

These large pyroxenes could not stop the human face from entering.

And at this moment.

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

This higher-level rune array, which was strengthened for two days, suddenly burst out with pure and powerful invisible fluctuations at this time.

The fluctuations were like ripples, instantly spreading throughout the gate, and even the entire cave stone wall around the gate was covered.

As the wave covered, the rotten face flashed in an instant, like a phantom, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Everything was quiet in an instant.

The iron mesh of the viewing window of the gate was still damaged, but the face just now had disappeared.

Huh!

Huh!

Huh!

Yu Hong was stiff all over, and only then did he react and gasped.

He just couldn't control his body at all.

It was too sudden!

The opponent's attack was so oppressive that he was shocked and didn't react at all to how to deal with it.

When he came to his senses and prepared to move, 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 who had just arrived in this environment. Even if he was terrified, he would not be completely unable to move.

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

That feeling of fear.

He looked down at his body. On the coat on his chest, there was a light gray-black handprint that was slowly fading and disappearing.

"Withered girl?"

He guessed.

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

If the silver talisman array had not taken effect, he would have been caught just now and encountered unknown dangers.

He bent down and carefully checked the silver talisman array, and found that the silver on the talisman array was a little lighter, obviously some of its power was consumed.

"Tomorrow is the high tide period, it seems that I can't go out casually in the future."

Yu Hong checked the degree of damage to the viewing window, stretched out his hand, and prepared to strengthen the recovery, 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.

Not long after, when the countdown ended, he began to stretch out his hand and press on the door to repair the broken wire mesh.

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

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

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Inside Jenny's cave.

Eve wiped the black handprint on her buttocks with a wet towel, but no matter how she wiped, the handprint did not move at all and remained as dark as before.

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

Snap!

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

Jenny was holding the stick, her face was cold, with a hint of panic, and she was nervously paying attention to the surroundings.

"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, and she raised her head, her eyes had long been red and swollen from crying. "Even Old Yu is dead. I can't escape"

"Go to the isolation room. Quick!" Jenny said sternly.

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

She pushed aside a piece of bear skin hanging on the wall, revealing a silver metal door underneath.

She pushed the metal door horizontally, 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 hear me clearly!?"

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

"Tomorrow is the high tide period. I'll go out and find a way for you now." Jenny put down the stick, stepped 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.