A Night of Desperation-Chapter 265: Endgame

Blowing snow slanted across the sky.

Beneath the enveloping darkness of night,

Yu Hong’s figure stretched into a white line, shooting towards the distance.

Suddenly, he halted, stopping on an abandoned highway and looking ahead.

A colossal translucent whale with blood-red eyes, devoid of anything but gaping holes, slowly leaped from the ground.

The whale, akin to a mobile skyscraper, hundreds of meters in length, soared dozens of meters into the air before gently crashing back down into the earth.

It vanished into the concrete surface of the highway.

Soon, bizarre shapes of the Black Disaster densely populated the surface of the highway out of thin air.

There were spider-like giants with human heads and headless Black Giants several meters tall, including the familiar level-eight Insect man, Speed Man.

“Have they already evolved a means of free movement?” Yu Hong sighed slightly.

In such a world, the odds for humanity were getting slimmer.

“Indeed, it was right to think of using external forces to transform everything. As long as I can control the entry pace and degree of external forces, there will definitely be no trouble.”

At his location, less than a hundred meters from those swarms of Black Disaster, they had already spotted him and turned towards him, releasing thick black smoke.

The black smoke condensed, trying to form Black Fog again, but was immediately met by the blue mist emanating from behind Yu Hong, canceling each other out and hissing.

Yu Hong took a step forward, ready to activate his Inner Qi and break through the group of Black Disasters.

These Black Disasters were highly dangerous, and numerous. Even though he had reached a new level, he wasn’t arrogant enough to take them all on alone.

For any danger, he adhered to an absolute safety principle.

Zero tolerance to any danger was his first rule for survival.

So…

“Just blast through in one breath.”

He inhaled lightly, his body aglow with white light.

Snap.

His boot stepped forward.

Suddenly, he stopped and turned around.

A mysterious, eerie moaning sound was faintly emanating from behind.

As Yu Hong turned, his eyes also widened sharply.

In the night sky behind him, a giant blue butterfly, its body enormously vast, was slowly overtaking it.

The butterfly’s wings were like mist, seemingly intangible, covered in countless mysterious blue and white patterns.

As the butterfly spread its wings, each one obscured half of the night sky.

Together, the two wings completely covered the night sky.

For a moment, the entire sky lit up.

The brilliant blue light illuminated the vast mountain ranges and plains.

Buzz!!

It was then that the masses of Black Disaster in front of Yu Hong roared, emitting more black smoke.

All highly dangerous Black Disasters charged like an army, crazily towards the giant blue butterfly.

As if driven by some force, they brushed past Yu Hong, ignoring him completely, and directly lunged at the blue butterfly.

“It’s starting….” Yu Hong realized.

Suddenly, he remembered the Ultimate Gate he had activated in the camp.

“To release such a formidable beast so quickly… It seems…” Panic seized him, knowing he could no longer delay, he must speedily resolve the situation outside, and return to guard the Ultimate Gate at the camp.

His Cultivation Technique required massive amounts of Cosmic Divine Light to practice. Being near the gate would also allow the fastest speed and make it convenient to monitor what monsters might come out of it at any time.

With this in mind, he accelerated, moving upstream from the swarm of Black Disaster, continuing towards the headquarters of the Eternal Life Association.

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“How… how can… this be?!” Lin Yiyi stared dumbfounded at her father, Lin Handong.

She had imagined what it might be like to see her father again, what might happen.

But… no matter how much she imagined, she could not conceive that their actual encounter would be like this moment.

“Why is it like this!? Why would you treat Yiyi this way? Do you know how much she has suffered to find you?!” Ou Li, who had just had his leg broken in a fierce battle, couldn’t help but yell at Lin Handong.

“She is your own daughter, isn’t she!?” Xue Ningning could no longer restrain herself and shouted angrily.

Seeing Yiyi stammer and unable to speak, she felt an inexplicable heartache.

Having been with her for so long, they had become as close as sisters. They knew how much this girl had suffered since her family left.

“She was very young when you two disappeared. Only her mother was there to take care of her! Then one day, her mother also fell ill and couldn’t do anything.

Once the Black Disaster erupted, her mother left alone and never returned. From that time on, she lived alone, facing so many dangers outside! Rats, insects, tree bark, mud, in sheer hunger she ate it all!”

Xue Ningning stepped closer, raising her gun towards him.

“Eventually, it upset her stomach, her belly began to swell, lumps grew on her back, and her mind dulled from failing to wear and remove clothes properly, without timely treatment of a high fever…”

“And then because her father said he would come home at dusk, she disregarded the dangers of the Black Disaster and waited outside the village every day…”

“Is she really your own daughter!?” Xue Ningning opened the gun’s safety, speaking harshly. “Are you even human!? How can you bear to treat her like this!?”

“Daughter? Of course….” Lin Handong’s face calmed down, “not.”

Suddenly, his face revealed a hint of indifferent mockery.

Not so!?

The voice of these two words wasn’t loud, but in the underground tunnel at that moment, it kept echoing repeatedly.

It wasn’t that the voice was loud enough, but upon hearing this statement, everyone suddenly went quiet.

Not so!?

Lin Yiyi’s eyes widened as she stared intently at Lin Handong.

“Dad…!!” She gasped heavily, trying to speak, but could only utter one word before she seemed to be choking, unable to move.

Xue Ningning, Ou Li, and the others were equally dumbfounded, never expecting Lin Handong to give such an answer.

“Fuck! Are you even a man at all!?” Li Wang couldn’t help but roar.

He didn’t know the full story, but just by looking at the similar faces of these two, and hearing that after Lin Yiyi had suffered so much and finally found her father, to then be rejected by him, a fire of anger surged within him.

“I’m not talking nonsense…” Lin Handong revealed a faint smile.

He looked at everyone.

“Lin Yiyi was never my daughter from the beginning. After all, I never even married, so how could a daughter suddenly emerge out of nowhere?”

This answer stunned Xue Ningning and the others.

Lin Yiyi’s complexion gradually turned pale, losing all color. She looked blankly at her father, her mind buzzing. It seemed as if her entire existence had lost its meaning, on the verge of collapse.

“Why!?” Xue Ningning rushed forward, grabbed Lin Handong by the collar, and pressed the muzzle of a gun under his chin. “What the hell are you talking about! Ah!!!?”

“It’s simple.” Lin Handong was not at all disturbed by being grabbed or threatened by the gun.

“Because Lin Yiyi had her face altered to look like mine when she was a child.”

His tone was calm as if speaking about an unrelated person’s matters.

“From the beginning, she was just an abandoned infant with unknown origins, whom we found in a trash pile and raised until a certain age, even arranging a father, a mother, and a grandfather for her to create a seemingly normal family.”

“Later, I grew tired of it and left first. Her grandfather also left under the guise of a mission because, after all, staying in a run-down village was really dull.”

“It turned out that the fake mother actually developed feelings for her, foolishly cared for her for many years,” Lin Handong said, revealing a nostalgic smile.

“Later, when she tried to interfere with our original plan and tried to tell her the truth, the disobedient pawn naturally had to be dealt with.”

“Mom…mom…!” Lin Yiyi’s vision blurred with tears upon hearing this.

She remembered.

She remembered everything from her childhood.

Those years filled with intense fear and panic.

Yes, most of the time, it was her mother holding her, comforting her.

But… in her memories, there were also moments when her father and grandfather taught and comforted her.

Why…

Why…

Could it be that all of that, everything, was fake?

“I never took care of you,” Lin Handong said, knowing what Yiyi was thinking and smiled.

“Everything you remember about me and your grandfather was implanted… There is a kind of Black Disaster called memory traces which makes implanting false memories quite convenient.”

Bang!!

Suddenly Xue Ningning punched him hard on the side of his face.

“Fuck you!!” Xue Ningning shouted angrily as she threw a punch.

But Lin Handong merely had his head tilted by the force of the punch then lightly turned it back.

“Talking so much, I actually want to tell you that picking you up from the trash and raising you for so long was already a great favor. Now, it’s time for you to repay us…”

“Repay your mom!!” Xue Ningning punched him in the face again.

However, her punch was effortlessly caught by his hand.

Lin Handong’s strength easily suppressed the enraged enhanced human, Xue Ningning, with one hand!

He held her fist, his smile slowly fading.

“Shut up!”

With a casual throw, his arm suddenly stretched out, grabbed Xue Ningning, and flung her over ten meters, pressing her hard against the stone wall.

Bang!

The stone wall shattered, trapping Xue Ningning completely unable to move.

“Yiyi, let’s go.”

Lin Handong looked at Lin Yiyi, and with another hand, he casually snapped his fingers.

Snap.

By then, Lin Yiyi, already plunged into a complete collapse of her world view, shuddered, stood up blankly, and slowly walked towards Lin Handong.

Clearly, Lin Handong and others had long since placed some kind of control mechanism on her.

Anyone who had suffered so much, hoping to find their biological parents and grandfather, only to discover that the truth was all a lie.

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All that was beautiful was just a lie.

She was nothing but an abandoned infant thrown away in a trash pile…

Even the warm memories of her parents in her mind at this moment were implanted…

Such an ending nearly negated all meaning in her life.

Lin Handong led her, step by step, turning around and walking deeper into the tunnel.

Li Wang and the others tried to launch a surprise attack, but in the moment they raised their guns, they lost sight of the two figures.