Chapter 3

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Lin An strode through the empty street and kicked the door of a shop facing the street with one foot.

As an entertainment street in Linjiang City, there was almost no one around during the day.

But at night, when bars and karaoke lounges opened, it would become extremely lively.

"Bang!"

The hard leather boot kicked the metal roller shutter door, making a sharp and jarring sound.

Without any hesitation.

The symbolic iron sheet door was kicked open in a few kicks, leaving a gap as tall as a person.

As a "teahouse" for gambling and transactions at night, the guard didn't even close the inner door.

After all, it was a gathering place for many criminal forces, and no one dared to steal here.

"Who the hell is kicking the door? Are you tired of living?"

Inside the teahouse, a middle-aged man with tattoos all over his arms, holding a cigarette, ran over cursing.

His slippers slapped against the floor as he ran.

The shop was dimly lit but well-decorated.

Lin An bent down to enter the shop and compared the location on his phone.

The route matched the red dot marked on the map.

"The hell, you dare to ignore me when I'm talking to you?"

"Are your ears deaf?"

"It should be here."

Lin An muttered to himself, completely ignoring the tattooed man who was about to punch him.

He put his phone away and moved slightly, easily dodging the aggressive punch.

Side step, elbow strike!

As if predicting it, Lin An, with his rich combat experience from his previous life, changed his steps and moved behind the tattooed man.

"Bang!"

The elbow tip swung out, and the hard elbow joint hit the tattooed man's spine three inches down.

A scream of pain.

"Shut up."

The right fist swung out with a whistling sound.

Lin An casually hit him, knocking him to the ground.

The tattooed man, lying on the ground, cursed and spat blood from his chin, looking utterly miserable.

"You're asking for death!"

Full of resentment and anger.

The tattooed man struggled to get up, reaching for something at his waist.

Lin An's eyes turned cold, and he stepped down with his foot.

Asking for death.

The hard sole of his shoe instantly stomped on the tattooed man's temple, and he lost consciousness in an instant, the short knife in his palm falling to the ground.

Kicking the body out of the way, Lin An casually surveyed the inside of the teahouse.

In his previous life, before the apocalypse, there were some signs.

Some nodes where the real world and the other dimension overlapped had already appeared before the apocalypse.

In his memory, an extremely rare piece of equipment would appear here.

It was a ring fused with a spatial fragment!

As a spatial ring, which was a must-have in films and novels, it was extremely rare in the apocalypse.

Moreover, equipment itself was extremely scarce.

Unlike in games where every monster dropped equipment, in the apocalypse, most awakened individuals, who were far stronger than ordinary people, might not have a piece of equipment even until their death, let alone a spatial ring.

In his previous life, this precious spatial ring was obtained by a small-time thug.

He not only awakened his talent with the equipment but also established a safe zone using the ring's storage function.

The spatial ring could store supplies, keeping them safe and warm.

It was a powerful tool for survival and combat!

Lin An searched around with some anticipation.

Half an hour later.

"Rustle."

He poured a bucket of ice water over the tattooed man's head, looking helpless.

Couldn't find it.

The man shivered from the cold water and instinctively started cursing.

"You f***ing..."

A kick.

Before the tattooed man could finish, Lin An kicked out, shattering his teeth.

Blood and broken teeth fell to the ground.

"I ask, you answer."

"Talk dirty and die."

Where did this guy get so many dirty words from?

Lin An stepped on his neck with one foot, his eyes cold.

"Gulp."

"Don't kill me!"

The tattooed man swallowed, seemingly realizing the situation, and looked at him fearfully.

He usually bullied people with his criminal background, but when he met a real tough guy, he was genuinely afraid.

"Where is the ring?"

"Or where are the jewelry and such?"

The tattooed man was stunned. He thought Lin An was here to cause trouble.

Is he stealing something?

No.

Is he robbing something?

Why didn't you say so earlier!

The tattooed man felt a bit wronged.

He had just stayed up late playing cards last night and fell asleep here.

If he knew Lin An was here for something, he wouldn't have attacked him right away.

"I don't know, I'm not the boss here."

The tattooed man hesitated for a moment, shrinking his head and answering cautiously, but his speech was slurred.

Seeing Lin An's eyes, which looked like he was about to kill him, he quickly continued:

"There are a lot of things in the office on the second floor, but it's locked!"

"Bang!"

The leather boot kicked his face.

Lin An got his answer and kicked the tattooed man unconscious again.

Lock picking?

No problem.

He had also practiced lock-picking skills in the military.

Time passed, and the man on the ground remained unconscious, his face marked with dirty shoe prints.

Half an hour later.

Lin An violently broke the door with a fire axe.

The valuable wooden door, with its anti-theft lock intact, was now full of marks from the axe.

"Click."

He entered and turned on the light by the wall.

Lin An carefully surveyed the room, and something unusual caught his attention.

"Is this... a spatial... fluctuation?"

The room seemed to have been unoccupied for a while, and a faint musty smell filled the air.

In the corner of the room.

A fist-sized, mysterious black object floated in the air.

The blackness seemed to occupy a blank space.

Lin An took a deep breath and stared intently at a silver-white glint in the blackness.

Overjoyed.

It was... the spatial ring!

In his previous life, this ring had caused quite a stir.

Everyone in Linjiang City knew that the thug had started his rise to power here.

From an ordinary person to a powerful awakened individual.

He eventually established a safe zone outside the city.

The legendary equipment was right in front of him!

Lin An decisively reached for the ring, and the feeling at his fingertips disappeared.

Ignoring the abnormality, he steeled himself and inserted half his hand, grabbing the ring.

"Buzz! Buzz!"

Continuous fluctuations instantly spread, and a chilling aura emanated from the black hole.

"Roar!!!"

A roar suddenly came from the black hole, and a dense aura of death spread outward.

Run!

Lin An grabbed the ring and ran!

Although he didn't know what it was, it seemed he had provoked something formidable.

He hadn't heard of any such disturbances in his previous life.

Maybe it was because he had taken the ring early.

Lin An didn't have time to think and dashed out of the door.

The silver-white ring was tightly clutched in his palm.

"Beep."

"Detected an apocalypse game player."

"Beep. Detection failed, no digital body found."

"Warning!"

"Warning!"

A sharp alarm echoed in his mind, causing an inexplicable unease.

The dense aura of death behind him seemed like the tendrils of an abyss, extending outward with a life of its own.

No way to run!

Lin An steeled himself and smashed through the glass, jumping out of the second-floor window.

As soon as he landed, extreme weakness and darkness filled his vision.

His consciousness faded, and he instantly passed out.

The ring in his palm slowly disappeared, merging with him.<!--over-->