Night Without End
Chapter 100 - 65 The Decision of the Parents

Chapter 100: Chapter 65 The Decision of the Parents

In this icy winter night, even the traveling merchant Xu Cheng broke into a cold sweat, his deep understanding of the desert only led him to revere it more.

He realized that tonight, without a doubt, there was a "major incident"!

Many people panicked, filled with dread for the unknown; perhaps if they understood, if they knew the truth, they wouldn’t be this terrified.

The main thing was, this pitch-black environment exacerbated people’s unease, even if they stretched their hands to their eyes, they could not see anything.

Now many were as good as blind, their life and future not in their own control, only able to resign to fate.

Qin Ming fared somewhat better, able to vaguely make out objects nearby, maintaining his composure, hand gripping the Mutton Fat Jade Iron Blade, ready to strike out at any moment!

Suddenly, the sobbing of a woman came from behind, causing many people’s hearts to jump.

"Sorry..." the woman said, crying.

"Then let me go, I’ve lost a lot of blood from my neck, my head is almost severed," the man said, hoarse and weak.

...

Not far from the caravan led by the traveling merchant, Cui Hong was drenched in sweat. After luring the Old Elephant away, he quietly returned.

Because after arranging with Old Elephant that Cui Chongyi wouldn’t be in lethal danger, he hurried back to catch up with the nearby Cui Chonghe.

Cui Hong knew some conditions of the desert, but at his level, as long as he didn’t court death, passing through the edge was no issue.

He walked along the cliffside, but ended up walking in large circles at the same spot. He quickly recited the Heart Clarity Spell and utilized a powerful secret technique, and finally made progress again.

Just when Cui Hong glanced back unintentionally, his scalp tightened—the thing was following him.

In the dense, boundless night fog behind, a pair of gigantic eyes, indifferent, merciless, their chilling glint piercing through the fog.

Those eyeballs were as huge as houses, drawing nearer!

The outline of the unknown creature was unclear, but it was presumed to be enormously large.

Cui Hong felt his hair stand on end, strong as he was, if it wasn’t for that accidental glance, he wouldn’t have noticed it in advance.

In front of the creature, there was a small, bloody lantern, rather insubstantial in size, about as big as those hung in front of large households, but it pierced through the night fog as if someone was holding it, leading the way for that massive being.

Cui Hong did not dare to delay and hastened his pace. He had never encountered such a situation; if it was something emerging from the desert, he had no idea what to do.

The night fog grew denser, and even Cui Hong’s senses were almost stripped away, his keen spiritual sense clouded. He even accidentally fell from the rugged mountain path into the desert.

He felt something was amiss; the ground beneath his feet was wet, sticky, with traces of water on the sand that were steaming hot, and he was standing right on it.

Cui Hong quickly leaped up, returning to the mountain path, his complexion grim. He actually smelled a strong odor of urine emanating from under his feet—who had done this?

At that moment, the desert had become even more abnormal, the dense fog undulating like stirring waves.

When Cui Hong looked back again, he discovered that the pair of huge eyes was very close to him!

Moreover, under the illumination of the blood lantern, he could vaguely discern a massive white-furred creature.

"It’s far faster than me, extremely dangerous, and can... catch up with me!" Cui Hong realized the gravity of the situation.

However, as the desert exhibited strange phenomena, the white-furred creature narrowed its eyes and then unexpectedly turned and ran, the blood-colored lantern also moving away, dimming rapidly.

...

"Darn, it seems the desert has been violated," Xu Cheng muttered in astonishment; this situation was rarely seen, who would dare to act rashly in such a place?

In that vast desert, the fog surged like ocean waves, crashing against the cliffs on one side.

Precisely because of this, Xu Cheng reoriented himself.

"What do we do now?"

"Don’t panic, this is not our concern!" Xu Cheng spoke up, comforting everyone.

At this point, even the woman’s sobbing stopped, and the procession ahead holding torches dimmed, nearly disappearing.

Suddenly, someone quivered, "Brother Xu, something is feeling my ankle, it’s all coarse hair, piercing through my clothes."

Not just him, several others felt it too.

Qin Ming caught sight of a small creature and was about to swing his Mutton Fat Jade Iron Blade.

"Don’t move rashly!" Xu Cheng intervened, then he fell silent, for this time it was his turn; a creature rubbed against him as if he were a tree stump.

"We climb the mountain!" He knew that before the end of Shallow Night, they simply couldn’t walk out of the desert’s edge.

The group quickly climbed up, following a less steep area to the nearest and lowest cliffside, which was nearly a kilometer high.

"Let’s rest here today, we’ll continue once the fog clears tomorrow," Xu Cheng said.

"Let’s travel through the mountains," someone suggested, truly frightened by the desert.

Xu Cheng shook his head, "The mountains ahead are thousands of meters high, each piece of land harbors dangerous alien species; we traveling merchants never try to cross this mountain range."

Contrary to everyone’s expectations, the man who earlier weakly cried that his neck was about to break did not die but had lost quite a bit of blood.

After ascending the cliff, he avoided the hooded woman as if he had seen a ghost.

"I’m sorry, it’s my first time traveling far; I was too nervous and accidentally scratched you."

"It’s... fine!" the man moved away.

The teenager’s face turned pale as he covertly glanced at a few strands of black hair in his hand, and as the cold wind howled, he even saw the fur under the woman’s gray cloak.