Chapter 1829 - 470: Hei Ye Before Dawn (3)

Chapter 1829: Chapter 470: Hei Ye Before Dawn (3)

"We need absolute security. I have confidence in our people, but the Bone Splitting Clan might still possess interrogation techniques we are unaware of. Once someone leaks the existence of the dark web... we can’t afford to gamble."

Understanding Tu Hu’s idea, Qi Ming decided to implant micro bombs inside the Spirit Rhinoceros Crystal Stone.

They crafted the Spirit Rhinoceros Crystal Stones into special devices capable of eavesdropping on the conversations of the implanted. As soon as any implanted clan member shows signs of betrayal or actions that might expose the dark web, they are executed by detonation.

For the survival of the clan, they had to turn the hidden blade against their own people.

After this, the crafting plan was launched.

The core materials used were introduced on the resources requirement list provided to the Bone Splitting Clan as: conductive material, used to upgrade transmission efficiency of next-generation communication nodes.

The Bone Splitting Clan, who received this list, understood neither the technology nor whether the materials had any issues.

The Bone Splitting Clan, having established the habit, decisively coordinated materials from all over according to the requirements.

During the mass production, Qi Ming’s team used the spiritual imprint technology of the Dream Weaving Crystal Stone to seal the stones, ensuring the Bone Splitting Clan, or their slaves, couldn’t decipher the internal communication logic.

Batch after batch of Spirit Rhinoceros Crystal Cores disguised as "new communication node enhancement components," were secretly delivered to scattered clan members through transportation routes controlled by Tiexin.

The clan members receiving the crystal cores quickly completed the implantation following instructions.

The entire process was silent and unnoticeable.

Over the years, the dark web came alive.

It became an invisible bridge of communication among the Downspirit Clan, with each region forming different groups within the dark web, allowing all Downspirit Clan members to converse and understand situations in various areas through the web.

During this period, a new building appeared in New Star Valley.

In the eyes of the Bone Splitting Clan, this building monitored communication network status across regions, adorned with numerous green dots, each seemingly representing a normally operating communication node.

In reality, each green dot represented a Downspirit Clan member connected to the dark web.

When betrayal or other uncontrollable situations arose at the monitoring center, a red mark indicating "cleanup" would light up, and the Spirit Rhinoceros Crystal Stone would be detonated.

During this period, Tu Hu often hopped between channels in different regions, listening.

He heard young Downspirit members sent to the "Black Stone Mine," reporting in a voice suppressed with excitement about the number of Bone Splitting Clan warriors in their area and the living conditions there.

He heard frontline clan members responsible for maintenance report the arrival time and approximate scale of a new legion from the Bone Splitting Clan.

Apart from the groundwork for counterattacks, there was occasional warmth.

Tu Hu heard a slightly youthful voice cautiously @ the clan members in New Star Valley on a channel designated as "Gray Rock Hill Supervision Station":

"Brother Yan, are you still in Residential Area 3? Could you... spare some time to check on my mom for me? Her legs are weak, she lives in the old building east of Blue Star Square... Tell her I’m doing well here, the workload isn’t heavy, so she shouldn’t worry."

After a brief silence on the channel, a voice responded:

"Sure, I’ll swing by when I patrol tomorrow and give you a peace of mind report."

There were also clan members yearning for their homeland who asked in the channel whether the berry fields in New Star Valley were still there, as it was once where they lived.

Upon receiving affirmative answers from other clan members, the emotional longing conveyed through the conscious waves was unmistakable.

Tu Hu might even occasionally hear young Downspirits in small channels exchange information about berry seeds from different places, discussing where to open a new experimental field when they return home... These tenacious sparks of life in adversity moved Tu Hu more than any military intelligence.

As the dark web continuously expanded in scale.

Hope, wisdom, resilience, the repressed breath of life, and bloodline kinship... were quietly transmitted through this invisible network.

Every request and response on the dark web was the faint light that supported the Downspirit Clan to keep moving forward in dire circumstances.

Additionally, under the enlightenment of Dream Weaving Clan knowledge, Jingsi’s team completed a more covert strategic deployment combined with existing materials.

The Bone Splitting Clan pursued ultimate individual power, yearning for any potion that could temporarily stimulate potential.

Jingsi’s team capitalized on this fondness, introducing several types of war potions.

The most esteemed by the Bone Splitting Clan was a red potion called "Blood Rage Potion."

It could greatly enhance the user’s strength, speed, and pain tolerance for a short period, with side effects of brief mania and weakness.

The Bone Splitting Clan warriors were utterly unguarded, and drinking the "Blood Rage Potion" swiftly became a habit for many elite soldiers during significant battles or life-and-death struggles.

Behind this gift of strength, Tu Hu carefully weighed its pros and cons.

They had the capability of producing slow-acting poisons, but the accumulation of slow-acting poisons would eventually reach a point of eruption.

It’s akin to an invisible countdown, forcing them to hastily launch a counterattack before the poison’s full outbreak and the resulting mass death in the Bone Splitting Clan.

Setting a specific timing for the counterattack.

The risk of this approach was too great.

Their choice was to blend an inert substance into the potion, leaving a residue each time the Bone Splitting Clan warriors consumed it.

This inert substance would not adversely affect the Bone Splitting Clan warriors and was highly covert.

They would wait for the moment of ultimate counterattack to deploy a specific "Neutralizing Agent" dispersing through air or water sources, which would become the spark to ignite the fuse.

Upon contact with the neutralizing agent, the Bone Splitting Clan warriors would be instantaneously activated, igniting from within by their own strength.

Moreover, weapon curses, environmental corrosion, mount betrayal, and other covert threads advanced in sync.

At this stage, every conquest and plunder by the Bone Splitting Clan further fueled the flames of vengeance for the Downspirit Clan.

When "Fierce Beast Bone Armor" became the standard for troops, and "Blood Rage Potion" became a pre-battle ritual... the Bone Splitting Clan would not expect that these sources of their invincibility were becoming the noose tightening around their own necks.

Nourished by the enemy’s greed, the edge of the Downspirit Clan sharpened ever more keenly in the shadows.

In Tu Hu’s eyes, the victorious trajectory of this revenge war had become clear.

Now, what remained was to continue honing the blade in the darkness before dawn.

Endure until the bowstring is a Full Moon, and the blade is finely tempered.

Allow the Bone Splitting Clan to meet their Destruction in the forces they most rely on.

The Downspirit Clan would also, at that moment, stride towards resplendent revival, surpassing the previous Peak, standing on a new historical height.