Night of Despair
Chapter 122 - 122: Information 120

"It's wrong!! Everything's completely wrong!! The Language Humans, the Language Humans are coming!!"

Fang Shijun's face was drenched in sweat, his body trembled slightly, and he took steps backward.

"Where's the data?? Recalculate the passage! Chen Xinji, hurry!" Xue Ningning shouted urgently, her face pale.

Last time, they lost a few teammates during a similar moment, and now this scene was repeating itself, they feared...

"No changes in the data, it's too late!!" Chen Xinji was just as flustered, constantly operating the program on the computer, calculating with the latest data.

The sky around them gradually darkened, as if something had covered it with a veil.

It clearly wasn't time for nightfall, yet the light of day had dimmed significantly.

"What's the Red Value now?!" Xue Ningning yelled.

"Still 0! I can't get a reading! There's no way to measure it!" Chen Xinji's hands were shaking.

"Move! Get out of here!" Xue Ningning gritted her teeth, supported her body, and led the charge forward.

The group followed her, quickly weaving between the buildings.

But eerily, after a few minutes, they seemed to be going in circles and found themselves back at the place they had just left.

They were back in front of the more than twenty-story building!

The group looked extremely distressed and quickly tried to leave again.

But the second time, the third time, the fourth time!

They still returned to the original spot, even when running straight in one direction, they appeared to circle back.

"It's over!!" Fang Shijun squatted down, trembling all over, "We're doomed... we're doomed... This damn thing isn't even the Language Humans!! It might be some other Evil Shadow... All our equipment was prepared wrong..."

The rest remained silent, a subtle despair swept through the team.

"Will we... also disappear in the park like those other teams??" Chen Xinji murmured.

"...." Xue Ningning had no reply, at that moment, she held a metal pendant on her chest, her eyes filled with sorrow, yet also a glimmer of resolve.

"Everyone, leave behind a letter for your families... just in case someone makes it out." Chen Xinji said, lowering his head. He paused for a moment, took out paper and pen with trembling hands, and was the first to start writing.

They couldn't get out...

They were completely trapped in this eerie park.

Beep.

Suddenly, an ear-piercing alarm sounded.

Stammering Yiyi froze, seeing the others looking at her, she thought for a moment, slapped her forehead, and began rummaging through her backpack. Quickly, she pulled out a Red Value Detector.

The detector seemed a bit different from the ones issued to the team; its LCD screen displayed more parameters and items.

"....The alarm, sounded." She still wasn't clear why the others were so despairing and operated the detector slowly, "There's a Red Value change!"

She aimed the detector in different directions and then stopped in the direction front-right.

"It says, run that way. Red Value, lowest."

Xue Ningning also had a detector on, but it didn't trigger an alarm. Hearing the sound, her dismal mood was momentarily interrupted, and she became curious as to why her detector remained silent while Stammering Yiyi's did not.

But as she glanced in the direction of Stammering Yiyi, her expression turned stunned.

"Yiyi... why does your detector have a decimal point?"

She quickly took out her detector, which displayed 0, while Lin Yiyi's detector showed 0.122.

And not only that, this value marked a specific direction from which it was coming.

"My, friend, gifted, it's, advanced." Lin Yiyi said with a proud smile.

"Advanced detector?" Xue Ningning was taken aback, looking at the detector and then at the surroundings. Did detectors come in advanced versions?

She patted her detector, which still displayed zero.

Looking at Fang Shijun and Chen Xinji, who had almost given up, she had a flash of thought and quickly made up her mind.

Since there was no way to get out of this park, and Yiyi's detector had activity, rather than bumping around aimlessly, it would be better to take a gamble....

"Go, follow the direction your detector indicates!" She immediately commanded.

"Okay!" Lin Yiyi confirmed the direction, grabbed Ou Li with one hand, and the detector with the other, and dashed off in the direction of the lowest Red Value.

The rest, pulled by Xue Ningning, hurriedly followed.

Before long, Lin Yiyi ran hundreds of meters, and ahead, another gate leading out of the park appeared.

The three of them were only a few dozen meters from the gate.

Fang Shijun and Chen Xinji's eyes suddenly shifted from despair to joy!

"It's the gate! We can get out!!"

They hadn't expected that Stammering Yiyi's straightforward operation, without relying on all those messy instruments, could find a way out using just a detector!

The two didn't have time to think too much and immediately rushed toward the gate.

Beep beep!

Suddenly, the detector sounded again, Stammering Yiyi stopped and checked it, and without hesitation, turned and moved in the direction indicated.

She believed Yu Hong wouldn't harm her, so she executed the information from the detector without doubting.

"Wait! That way is almost out!" Ou Li couldn't help but shout. "Put me down!" She began to struggle.

"No, go."

Slap.

Stammering Yiyi slapped her, and Ou Li immediately quieted down, her eyes clearing.

"We're friends, we'll go together!" Stammering Yiyi said earnestly, hauling her along at a swift pace, quickly changing direction.

On the other side, Xue Ningning and the three calmed down, stopped, exchanged glances, chewed on their lips in reluctance as they looked at the gate, but decisively followed Stammering Yiyi.

Since Stammering Yiyi had found one exit, she would surely be able to find a second.

They were rational people, and seeing this hope, they made the most correct decision immediately.

Which was, to follow Lin Yiyi!

Next, within just fifteen minutes, the group kept changing directions, always jogging, and astonishingly didn't encounter a single loop.

It was as if this perilous park was merely a fake set for filming movies. What they had just experienced was all false.

The Evil Shadow even let them sprint around without interference.

Xue Ningning was worried at first, but as time went by, her expression gradually turned surprised.

Then perplexed, astonished, and finally thoughtful.

Finally, after ten minutes.

Bang!!

A section of the iron railing in the park was knocked down by Stammering Yiyi's shoulder, she then kicked away the possibly injurious jagged edges, leading the way to slip out side.

The detector's alarm abruptly ceased, plunging the moment into silence.

After all five had slipped out, they sprinted away, not stopping until five hundred meters beyond the park.

"It's safe... now!" Stammering Yiyi put down the detector and Ou Li, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and smiled with relief.

Ou Li's mind still buzzed, lowering her head to take deep breaths.

Xue Ningning, half-believer and half-doubter, after fully confirming their safety, exhaled with relief and then fixed her gaze on the peculiar Red Value Detector that had just kept alarming.

"Yiyi.... where did you get this detector?!" she asked, no longer just filled with the thrill of rescue but also with a discovery of the detector's powerful capability.

If this detector that could detect the Language Humans could be widely used, how many teams could be saved from death fighting them!??

"This, my, friend, gifted, it!" Lin Yiyi answered honestly.

"Your friend....!" Xue Ningning's expression was one of disbelief. If this detector wasn't just a fluke, she wanted a badass friend like that, too.

Fang Shijun and Chen Xinji, at this point, still couldn't believe they had actually made it out.

The two quickly verified the equipment data, communicated with their contacts, and finally confirmed they had truly restored communication and escaped from the park.

After a brief moment of relief and silence, their gazes inevitably fell on Stammering Yiyi.

For a moment, they were speechless.

"Weren't you saying we were a burden?!" Ou Li snapped back, glaring at the two with icy sarcasm.

Even though she was also astonished by Stammering Yiyi suddenly proving so capable, now seemed the best moment to vent her suppressed anger and alleviate the stress of narrowly avoiding death.

Fang Shijun stayed silent for a moment, then shook his head.

"We indeed owe Lin Yiyi this time, but...." She fixed her gaze firmly, "She just got lucky with a special Red Value Detector. To be brutally honest, without that special detector, what would you have accomplished?"

"Besides that special detector, weren't you only being a burden by coming in? Especially you." She pointed a slender finger at Ou Li's chest.

"Who are you to talk big? If we hadn't saved you, you'd have died in there sooner or later…!" Ou Li, provoked by the disdainful gesture, raised her voice in anger.

The others quickly stepped in to separate the two.

"Lin Yiyi saved me, so mind your business!" Fang Shijun sneered.

After glancing at Stammering Yiyi one last time, she sighed, turning to face her.

"No matter how, I owe you my life!"

She placed a hand on Stammering Yiyi's shoulder.

"In the future, if anyone bullies you, I'll take them down!"

Stammering Yiyi looked at her in confusion, then at Ou Li struggling in anger beside them.

"Me too!" Chen Xinji said, coming over and placing his hand on Stammering Yiyi's other shoulder.

Xue Ningning watched this scene, gripping Ou Li's arm, a satisfied smile on her face.

She suddenly felt fortunate, if she hadn't insisted on having Lin Yiyi join the team, she might have ended up like the others, disappearing in the park, murdered by the Language Humans.

Could this be, the proverbial saying that good deeds are rewarded?*

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Yu Hong carefully finished his cultivation, adjusted his breathing, and slowly stood up.

The cultivation technique optimized through a second fusion was indeed much stronger than before.

While training, he distinctly felt countless tiny particles being absorbed into his body.

These particles were of various types and shapes, each giving him a different sensation, but only a small portion could be absorbed.

Even so, the speed at which he gathered Inner Qi had increased drastically compared to before.

In such a short time, his second layer of Inner Qi was already two-thirds complete.

It wouldn't be long before the second layer of Inner Qi would be fully formed.

Standing up, he returned to the ground floor and looked out towards the yard.

The yard was covered with lush luminous stone grass, which began to emit a faint white glow as it gradually darkened outside.

And around the perimeter, where he had used his new Inner Qi to stimulate growth, seemed somewhat different.

Yu Hong focused intently.

He vaguely noticed that the glow from that area seemed brighter than the surrounding luminous stone grass of the same type.

*Could it be, his Inner Qi could also affect the quality of the luminous stone grass he cultivated?*