Desperate Night

Gray City Base.

In the huge space under the parking lot.

A group of people wearing thick protective clothing are standing quietly in front of three bodies lying on the ground.

In the dark space, there are gray and black concrete walls all around. The only light source is the safety lights hanging on the wall at intervals.

Green safety lights, stiff bodies, cold and slightly smelly airflow.

Together, they build the fact that this base is about to go to the end of the world.

Everyone put their hands gently on their hearts and mourned.

"The temperature is too low. We can't bear it with just conventional warming measures." One person said in a low voice.

"If it continues, even breathing will become a serious problem, and some gases in the air will be frozen and liquefied." Another person said, "I already felt a little difficult to breathe when I went out for inspection yesterday."

"Without the sun, the temperature is extremely low, and it is an inevitable fact that oxygen is getting less and less." The person standing in the front said, his voice was cold and indifferent, it was Zhang Kaijun.

"Is there any way for the research department? If this goes on, no one can survive!" Someone couldn't help but said anxiously.

"The oxygen supply equipment has been made, but it cannot be portable. There are too many things missing, and it is difficult to produce." Zhang Kaijun replied.

"Can't we just put it in a plastic bag?" The man before said helplessly.

"Yes, but plastic bags cannot be made." Zhang Kaijun replied.

He reached out from his pocket and took out a bunch of transparent plastic bags and rubbed them gently.

Snap.

The plastic bag, which should have been soft, was rubbed into pieces by him.

Everyone was silent.

"From now on, strictly follow the low temperature response plan given by the Research Department. Each isolation room must keep the electric heating plate on for 24 hours. The cooling water pipeline of the nuclear power motor is not enough to resist the low temperature in all areas." Zhang Kaijun ordered.

"What if we go to other places?" A woman couldn't help asking.

"There are hundreds of people freezing to death every day in Aurora City, and they are also trying their best to take insulation measures. If you want to go out to other places, most people will die in the hands of the black disaster on the road." Zhang Kaijun replied.

"What about Mr. Yu in the Black Wind Camp?"

"The Black Wind Camp has been under siege recently. The Eternal Life Association has set its sights on him. The stone fortress in the camp has been destroyed, and the living environment is not safe enough." Zhang Kaijun continued to answer.

"But if we continue like this, we won't be able to hold on for long." The woman's tone was filled with a hint of despair. "The Black Disaster is still invading, and even our weapons are beginning to become unusable. If the temperature gets lower."

"If you can't change the outside, then try to change yourself." Zhang Kaijun said calmly.

He turned around and faced everyone.

"Transform the enhanced people in batches. Only if we all become enhanced people, our resistance to temperature will be much higher. At the same time, completely close the only passage to the outside. The supplies stockpiled in advance are enough for us to consume for at least ten years now."

Everyone present was stunned by his words.

It is known that enhanced people will reduce their lifespan and change their temperament. But if they don't adapt now, they may not be able to survive even next month.

From this point of view, becoming an enhanced person may be the only solution to deal with it.

For a while, everyone fell silent.

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January, 2023.

Yu Hong reached out and gently wrote down the current time.

It has been more than half a year since he came to this world.

Putting down the notebook, he glanced at the silver crescent mark on his left hand. The newly strengthened Moon Calling gave him the qualification to choose a summoned individual he wanted.

This is the powerful secret method obtained after the black seal purified the original Moon Calling. The secret method from the Wuji Demon Palace.

‘It has been less than half an hour since the last attack. Now we can go to the wooden bridge and solve this black ship invasion as soon as possible. ’

He changed his equipment, stood up and scanned all the furnishings in the cave.

‘To solve the bait attack of the Eternal Life Association on the camp, the solution is to enhance the concealment and defense of the camp, so that the black disaster cannot detect it, and the association cannot locate it, and then move it later.

The second is to solve the association individuals who put the bait in advance. The third is to hedge against the bait. ’

The door opened with a click.

He walked out of the cave and closed it with his backhand.

He took a deep breath, and a ball of snow suddenly exploded under his feet.

A few seconds later, he had come to the back of the cave again, turned on the atomic light, and illuminated the hazy wooden bridge behind.

The wooden bridge was still shabby and gray, but Yu Hong built and improved the guardrails on both sides, which looked more formal, and a bit like a dock pier.

Huh.

White air spurted out from both sides of Yu Hong's breathing valve, and he stepped onto the wooden bridge and walked towards the depths step by step.

He walked in the black fog and soon came to the decayed and dark large black ship again.

He jumped in one step and landed on the deck.

The black ship also slowly left the dock, along the wide black water river, and accelerated away towards the black fog in the distance.

The hull was bumping and shaking in the black water. After more than ten minutes of driving, the fog finally dissipated in front.

A dock built of gray-white rocks appeared in the field of vision.

Behind the dock was a large piece of gray-white rock land, which seemed to be a white island made entirely of rocks.

Quiet, foggy, surrounded by black water, and no one was around.

Bang.

The black ship gently approached the shore and crashed into the wooden piles of the dock.

Yu Hong skillfully jumped off the black boat and landed on the hard rocky ground of the dock.

He squatted down and reached out to touch the ground.

The ground was hard and rough, as if countless sands were fixed and unable to move, and it felt a little rough to touch.

He stood up and walked forward a few steps.

There was a sign standing on the ground on the right.

‘Prison Island’

The sign was made of metal, with a yellowish background, and a lot of blocky paint fell off the edge, revealing a brown background.

Three night texts were played from the translator, causing Yu Hong to pause slightly.

‘Prison? A place where something is imprisoned? ’

He frowned slightly.

Keep walking forward.

The fog in front of him dissipated.

On the island more than ten meters away, a huge gray-black high wall blocked his way forward.

On both sides of the high wall, it extended into the fog that could not be seen at the end. There was no end above it either, as if it was endless.

Yu Hong carefully sensed the surroundings and confirmed that there were no living creatures, so he approached the high wall.

Walking to the wall, he stretched out his hand and gently touched the wall.

The rough, cold, hard, and ordinary stone feel was reflected in his mind.

Picking up his hand, he put it under his nose and smelled it. There was no smell.

Bang.

Suddenly, Yu Hong clenched his fist and hit the wall.

The fist hit the wall hard, smashing a piece of rubble and debris, but that was all.

The hardness of the wall was far beyond his imagination. Apart from a shallow fist mark, there was no change.

‘We must find the source and solve the core of this island, otherwise the erosion of the wooden bridge to the formation will not stop. ’

Yu Hong looked around, exerted force on his feet, suddenly accelerated, and rushed to the left.

The whistling sound of the wind kept ringing in his ears.

In the mist in front, the high wall continued to extend, as if there was no end in sight.

After running for five minutes in a row, Yu Hong paused.

‘If we keep running like this, and still can’t find the edge, it will be troublesome to return.’

He scanned the surroundings again, and confirmed that there was still nothing, quiet and deserted, so he continued to focus on the high wall.

His sight kept wandering on the high wall, looking for clues.

Soon, he found a small black window, just above the wall more than 30 meters above the ground.

The window was round, and it was hard to see what was inside from the bottom up.

Yu Hong scanned left and right, and grabbed the rough surface of the high wall with his palm. The spikes on his boots popped out and stabbed into the wall a little bit.

Then, he climbed up little by little, slowly approaching the window.

Although he might be able to reach it by jumping up, Yu Hong still planned to approach slowly and observe slowly.

The stone powder was picked out by his five fingers and fell down.

Two minutes later, Yu Hong climbed under the round window.

Snap.

He grabbed the outer edge of the window with his right hand, used the force to move up, and slowly moved his sight up to look into the window.

Inside the window, there is a thick, blurry glass.

The inside of the glass is already covered with white ash and stains, and you can only vaguely see that there is a room inside.

A simple room similar to a prison.

Dark, empty, a row of rusty black metal bars form the prison door.

The door and the window are facing each other.

Through the prison door, you can see a dark horizontal prison passage outside.

Dongdong.

Yu Hong reached out and knocked on the glass, trying to break it with force.

But the strange thing is that with his current powerful strength, he actually increased his strength and couldn't break the glass.

After knocking several times in a row, even using his internal energy, he was sure that he couldn't break it.

He turned around and planned to check somewhere else.

Dongdong.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the glass in the window.

Yu Hong was stunned, and stepped forward again to look through the glass.

A pale face with messy hair appeared on the inside of the glass window, showing him an anxious look.

The other party was also knocking on the glass with his hands, and seemed to be saying something, but no sound could be heard at all.

Yu Hong touched the translator, but this time the translator did not give any response.

He reached out and touched the edge of the glass window, trying to find a gap, but unfortunately the edge of the window was tightly closed and integrated.

"Hey, can you hear it?" Yu Hong said loudly against the glass.

But the man on the other side shook his head and pointed to his ears to indicate that he could not hear anything.

Yu Hong glanced at the detector on his collar. The value on it was only one or two hundred, which was obviously unqualified for the wooden bridge that could erode the base formation.

If the red value was so small, the formation would not be so easily eroded.

It was obvious that the other party was not the source.

He thought about it and continued to climb up.

Crossing the round window, all the way up.

The knocking sound was soon left behind by him.

Up, up, up.

Yu Hong did not stop for a moment, the speed was getting faster and higher.

He didn't know how high he had climbed, but he looked down and saw a sea of ​​black clouds formed by black fog, which was endless.

He continued to climb.

He didn't believe that this wall would have no end.

After climbing for hundreds of meters, a window finally appeared on the upper right wall again.

It was the same round window again.

Yu Hong moved over and looked at the detector.

'-1232.441'

The red value was over a thousand. This made him realize that his direction was right.

He climbed to the window and looked inside through the blurry and dirty glass.