Desperate Night.

Chapter 85 Situation 085
Yu Hong took Wei Shanshan to the post office. After only ten minutes on the road, the girl was already out of breath, her face flushed, and she had to bend down to rest constantly.

After walking for half an hour, the two finally arrived at the stone house of the post office.

Old Li was talking to two tall young men in the yard.

Seeing Yu Hong coming over, he immediately waved his hand enthusiastically.

"Xiao Yu, how come you have time to come here at this time?"

Yu Hong glanced at the two men and saw that they frowned when they saw Wei Shanshan, as if they knew the girl. He immediately knew what was going on.

He pulled Lao Li over and whispered the situation to him.

"It's just a small matter. I just happened to be reporting the situation of the supply team to my superiors. This incident was quite a big deal. The superiors promised to send new people to support us, but it will take a few days for them to arrive." Li Runshan lowered his voice.

He glanced at Wei Shanshan and the two men.

"Most of these people are either rich or noble, and their status is special. If something happens, the impact will be huge, so I have to help them. If you have extra talismans, please help sell them to them. Don't worry, they can charge as much as you want, because these people are rich."

"That's fine." Yu Hong also smiled, but then he stopped smiling. "Can you handle those flying insects and gnawers?"

"It's okay, we'll be fine if we hide underground." Li Runshan nodded, "But I received news that the speed at which the black disaster is getting worse is accelerating. It's getting more and more dangerous outside, especially in the wild. In the future, the connection between cities may only be possible with armed supply teams with extremely high military power. This may be very troublesome. For a small place like ours, they may simply stop coming because of the shortened line length."

"What's the countermeasure from above?" Yu Hong's heart sank when he heard this. If the supply team can't come, or if the waiting time is extended, he and Lao Li may be in big trouble. Now it seems that it's no wonder that this guy let himself go... Ordinary people are afraid that this situation is really getting more and more hopeless.

"There is no solution. The black disaster has been slowly increasing since it appeared, but the speed of its increase has recently begun to accelerate. Otherwise, why do you think I would take the risk to recruit people? It's just to prepare for the future." Li Runshan laughed. "I can't do it. I have to expand the scale of lizards and dig humus soil. I can't finish it all by myself. I also have to dig pyroxene, maintain the house, and take care of Nana. These miscellaneous tasks all need people to do."

"You are quite cool." Yu Hong sneered, thinking that his reason was very reasonable.

"Don't blame me. You should also get some help from others. I'll give you a set of cultivation boxes for free, and you have to do mushroom cultivation by yourself. It would be terrible if we can't even connect at such a distance in the future." Li Runshan didn't mean to be joking and his expression restrained.

As he was speaking, he suddenly slapped his head, as if he had thought of something.

"You wait for me."

He turned and ran towards the stone house, and soon came out with another set of black boxes.

He stuffed the box into Yu Hong's arms and whispered.

"This is an instant communicator, connected to the local area network, with a range of one kilometer. We can use this thing to talk to each other directly when the time comes."

Yu Hong hugged the box and patted it. There were a lot of scattered things in it, and it made slight collision sounds when it was shaking.

"Great! We both happen to have solar power for charging."

"Well, I checked for you. Wei Shanshan's name is indeed on the list sent to me before. Her father is Wei Hongye, a master in nuclear energy research." Li Runshan changed the subject, "Why? Are you going to get something from her? But this girl belongs to their professional help-seeking team. I guess she used this identity to ask for help along the way. The promise must have been made to more than one person. You should be careful."

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's valuable. It depends on whether her father is willing." Yu Hong said calmly. "Can you contact his father?"

"I'll try." Li Runshan nodded.

He ran to talk to the other three people, then went into the stone house, leaving Yu Hong and the other three to wait quietly outside.

About ten minutes later, Lao Li opened the door again and waved to Yu Hong.

Yu Hong had an idea and went up to the stone house.

Soon Wei Shanshan was called in behind him.

The two came to the wooden table in the living room of the stone house, sat down, and faced a set of special silver audio-like instruments on the table.

"I'm Wei Hongye. Is Shanshan here?" An anxious and worried shrill male voice came from the instrument.

"Dad! I'm here! I'm next to you!!" When Wei Shanshan heard the voice, her eyes suddenly turned red and tears started to fall.

"Mom, Mom is dying. We are out of medicine! I am so scared of anti-inflammatory drugs. There are monsters everywhere outside recently! We just stopped here and several people died in just a few days."

She threw herself beside the instrument and burst into tears. Her voice was choked with sobs as she began to talk about the situation after they came here.

Yu Hong was listening on the side.

After the supply team got into trouble, this group of people immediately took some supplies and fled. Many people died along the way when they encountered ghosts. But most people gradually adapted.

But just when we got used to the strange shadows, the night gnawers came again, and several of them were gone in the blink of an eye.

Now the teachers and bodyguards in the team were about to collapse. They began to only protect the most important part of themselves, and ignored the rest, leaving them to fend for themselves.

"The entire team is now divided into three categories: children of high-ranking members of the United Army, children of local officials, and relatives of scholars and research institutes like us. We have the least support! They get all the food, drinks and medicines first, and we are the last to be assigned here. On the first night we came here, two people were gone from the team."

Wei Shanshan explained everything in detail with a crying voice.

"Where's Yan Xudong? Didn't that kid promise me to protect you?" Wei Hongye's heart ached when he heard this on the other end of the line. He asked angrily
"Brother Dong, he went out to find water the next day and never came back," Wei Shanshan cried. There was silence on the other end of the line, and then a long sigh was heard after a while.

"Who is the postman who is contacting me now?"

"My name is Li Runshan. Director Wei, you are too polite. Just call me Old Li." Li Runshan said quickly.

"Brother Li has also heard about my daughter's situation. I wonder if you can help?" Wei Hongye requested.

"In fact, there is no problem with simply living here, but what Wei Shanshan lacks is anti-inflammatory drugs. I have run out of them, and only another settler nearby, Mr. Yu Hong, has them. So the key now is to exchange them with Mr. Yu Hong." Li Runshan quickly explained the situation.

"So is Mr. Yu Hong nearby?"

"He's right there."

"Okay, then, could you please help my daughter and my wife, Mr. Yu? Whatever compensation you need, I will definitely send it to you later if I can get it." Wei Hongye said sincerely.

This is exactly what Yu Hong was waiting for.

"Okay. I want one of those miniature nuclear batteries or something like that, is that okay?" He immediately put forward the condition.

"Nuclear batteries. Current technology is still a long way from making miniature nuclear batteries." Wei Hongye said speechlessly. It sounded like the words of someone who didn't understand cutting-edge research in nuclear energy.

"I need a long-term stable indoor energy source. I don't know much about this. So, as long as you can help me solve this problem, I will help you protect your daughter and wife." Yu Hong said quickly.

With his current condition, it shouldn't be a problem to protect two people. As long as there is no exaggerated evil shadow like Yu Ren in the short term, it will be fine.

The person on the other end of the communication hesitated for a moment.

"I understand what you mean. Since radioactive raw materials are very rare and under strict supervision, I do not have the right to use them privately, so I cannot give you the actual nuclear energy. However."

"But what?" Yu Hong frowned.

"But there is an abandoned town near where you are. There is something you need in it. I can give you the specific location." Wei Hongye did not say it explicitly, but his meaning was obvious. As a senior executive of the Nuclear Energy Research Institute, he could not have said in the postal communication process that he used public tools for personal purposes and gave away nuclear energy equipment.

But if we change the approach and give a key piece of information to Yu Hong and let him get it himself, it would be completely different. I don't know how many people he sold this information to.

Legal, compliant and reasonable.

"Okay!" Yu Hong heard the subtext. Although there might be a risk of being fooled, he had no other choice in this situation.

If he could really obtain a nuclear energy system, he wouldn't have to worry about energy problems for decades. A short reactor could last thirty years, and a long one could even last sixty years.

This would completely solve one of his biggest headaches.

With energy, the water supply system can also operate to ensure the supply of water.

"Next, my condition is that you and Mr. Li protect Shanshan and her daughter together until the new reception team arrives. And the things you want will also be delivered along with the reception team. Is that ok?" Wei Hongye said in a deep voice.

"Deal!" Yu Hong said quickly.

This is actually equivalent to taking a gamble. If it succeeds, the profits will be huge. If it fails, he will just waste a few days of time, which is not a big deal.

"But how can you guarantee that the news you give me is true?" Yu Hong asked again.

"I can't guarantee that," Wei Hongye said after a moment of silence, "but I can tell you another important piece of news."

"You say." Yu Hong said.

"Aurora City and Silver Tower are almost unable to hold on. There are too many casualties on the front line, and no one can stop the nightmare-level black disaster. They ignore most of our weapons, and only sunlight materials can avoid and resist them, but the output of sunlight materials is too low. Since the disappearance of the last elite death squad last month, the situation has been out of control." Wei Hongye sighed.

"Out of control? What does that mean?" Yu Hong became serious, and Li Runshan beside him also looked dignified. It was obvious that he didn't know this news either.

"It's literally out of control. The front line can't hold it back. The real danger is coming soon. Shadows and other things are just minor troubles. After the war level, nightmare level, and the newly appeared Gate of Despair..."

Wei Hongye's words made the hearts of everyone present beat wildly.

"If the front line can't hold off, then endless eerie and evil shadows will madly pour into the inner area. By then, the situation in the wild won't be so safe anymore. The density and frequency will be many times higher than it is now. At the same time, those who are truly dangerous will also rush in, with no one to stop them," he continued.

"United Forces" Li Runshan asked.

"In fact, let me tell you a fact." Wei Hongye said, "The weapons and equipment of the coalition forces are useless against many evil shadows and black disasters, including pyroxene weapons. They can't be killed, and they can't die. Even the ghost shadows will revive and reappear not long after being dispersed by pyroxene weapons. So once the defense line collapses, those monsters that can recover quickly will also come in."

"What about nuclear bombs? Why not use nuclear bombs?" Li Runshan couldn't help but interrupt.

"How do you know it's useless?" Wei Hongye asked back.

(End of this chapter)