A Night of Desperation

Chapter 254: Future 252

Soon, Yu Hong stood in front of the gray-black wall, gazing up silently.

Swoosh.

He suddenly leaped, precisely landing in front of the window he had discovered last time.

Through the round window, that man with the disheveled short hair and pale face was still on the other side.

Seeing him appear, the man immediately became excited, beating on the window incessantly with his hands.

Without hesitation, Yu Hong took out a sheet of paper and with a charcoal pencil, swiftly wrote a line of Night Text characters.

He couldn’t write, but he was able to copy directly from the translator machine.

“My name is Hong, and I am a traveler who strayed into this place by mistake. Who are you, and why are you imprisoned here?”

The man seemed to understand and quickly

while Yu Hong was healing, he turned on his communicator and received devastating news.

“Aurora City Number Three has collapsed….”

Chen Yaofeng’s voice was somber.

“The canopy collapsed, the nuclear reactor exploded for unknown reasons, and I’ve completely lost all contact with that place….”

“The current temperature outside is negative 89 degrees….” Zhang Kaijun said.

At such temperatures, even if people wore the warmest, thickest clothes, without heating facilities, they wouldn’t survive a day.

And from Aurora City Number Three to the other two, it would take at least ten days by the swiftest light travel.

They were doomed….

Snap.

Chen Yaofeng turned off the communicator.

Zhang Kaijun also exited the channel.

Only Yu Hong remained, not exiting.

He just sat there, the tens of thousands of people in Aurora City Number Three, all dead just like that.

In such desperate circumstances, life seemed to have become nothing but simple numbers.

He sat quietly.

His Dao Breath Circulation trait automatically cultivated the Condensing Water Technique for him.

One hour.

Two hours.

Three hours…

Pfft.

Suddenly, a black, eerie pattern emerged on Yu Hong’s body.

The pattern flashed and was gone, lasting only two seconds before it vanished on its own.

‘Condensing Water Technique has reached completion, trait acquired: night moth.’

‘Night Moth (Regeneration increases by 75% at night, resistance to toxins increases by 100%).’

The moment the notification sounded,

Yu Hong’s injuries began to visibly twitch, recover, and heal.

He stood up, his palm opening, as black mist from the surrounding air gathered and spiraled, condensing into a diamond-shaped ball of qi that slowly rotated.

The greatest takeaway wasn’t the traits of the Condensing Water Technique, but the control over the black mist itself, which was his biggest surprise.

At this very moment, his senses became acutely aware of the Black Fog particles all around in the air.

They too were a vaporized form of the Black River water, another physical manifestation of the Red Value.

Combined with his original Thunderbolt Inner Qi, which was a modified version from the Black Mark capable of absorbing Red Value to condense Inner Qi,

Yu Hong now operated the Condensing Water Technique, manipulating a vast amount of high-purity black mist around his body.

The Thunderbolt Leg Technique frantically absorbed the black mist, transforming it into Inner Qi, endless and boundless.

Right now, the only thing that could limit his Inner Qi was the physique of his body.

‘This is perfect….’

Yu Hong walked out the door.

Lifting his hand towards the Black Fog outside.

Hum.

A faint white light swirled and lit up in the palm of his hand.

Endless Inner Qi, as if costing nothing, furiously converged in his palm.

Then, the Condensing Water Technique was activated.

Inner Qi was rapidly consumed, starting to cycle.

Red Value was absorbed, transformed into Inner Qi, prompting the Condensing Water Technique, further increasing the density of the surrounding Black Fog, and accelerating the absorption of the Red Value.

This cycle made the Inner Qi within Yu Hong grow more and more abundant, more concentrated.

His entire body began to emit white flames. Without even unleashing Inner Qi, just in its natural state, it ignited into white flames.

Slowly, black cloud-like patterns began to appear on his chest and back.

Countless Inner Qi furiously compressed and condensed, gradually forming into a liquid of higher concentration within his body.

The liquid’s flow accelerated, quickly burning into flames. From the inside out, it began to refine Yu Hong’s entire body.

The aura on his body began to strengthen bit by bit, and as time passed, it gradually began to emit a vast negative radiation.