Lin Anchen stepped through the deserted street and kicked open the door of a shop facing the street at 97 Fengming Road, Linjiang Market.
As the entertainment district of Linjiang City, this area was almost deserted during the day.
But at night, it would become extremely lively with the opening of bars and karaoke halls.
"Bang!"
The hard leather boot kicked the rolling shutter door, making a sudden, harsh noise.
Without any hesitation.
The symbolic iron door was kicked open after a few kicks, cracking a gap half a person high.
As a "tea house" for gambling transactions at night, the guard didn't even bother to close the inner door.
After all, it was a gathering place for many black forces, and no one dared to steal from here.
"Who the hell is kicking the door? Tired of living?"
Inside the tea house, a middle-aged man with full-arm tattoos and a cigarette in his mouth cursed as he jogged over.
His half-hanging slippers slapped on the floor.
The interior was dim, but the decoration was decent.
Lin An bent down to enter the store, comparing the location on his phone.
The route and the marked red dot matched.
"I'm talking to you, dare to pretend you didn't hear?
"Are you deaf or what?"
"This should be it."
Lin An muttered to himself, completely ignoring the tattooed man swinging his fist.
He casually put away his phone, moved slightly, and easily dodged the incoming punch.
Side step, down elbow!
As if predicting the move, Lin An, with rich combat experience from his past life, stepped around to the tattooed man's back.
"Bang!"
The elbow swung out, the hard elbow joint slamming into the tattooed man's spine three inches below.
A scream of pain.
"Shut up."
The right fist swung out with a whistle.
Lin An casually struck, knocking him to the ground.
The fallen tattooed man cursed repeatedly, his chin bleeding from the fall, looking extremely miserable.
"You're asking for death!"
Full of resentment and anger.
The tattooed man struggled to prop himself up with his hands, reaching for his waist with his right hand.
Lin An's eyes were cold, and he stomped down.
Seeking death.
The hard sole instantly stomped on his temple, the tattooed man had no resistance, passing out in an instant, the short knife he had just touched fell to the ground.
Kicking the body blocking his way aside, Lin An casually surveyed the interior of the tea house.
In his previous life, there were some omens before the apocalypse arrived.
Some nodes where reality and the other dimension overlapped had already appeared on the eve of the apocalypse.
In his memory, a very rare piece of equipment would appear here.
It was a ring fused with space fragments!
As a space ring essential for movies and everyone in China, it was extremely rare in the apocalypse.
Not only that, even equipment was extremely scarce.
Unlike regular games where any monster would drop equipment.
In the doomsday game, most awakened ones, whose strength far surpassed ordinary people, might not even have a piece of their own equipment until their death, let alone a space ring.
In his previous life, this precious space ring was obtained by a small thug.
Not only did he awaken his talent with the equipment, but he also established a safe zone using the storage function of the ring.
The space ring could store supplies, keeping them safe and insulated.
It was practically an essential tool for going out, killing, and arson!
Lin An eagerly searched around.
Half an hour later.
"Splash."
He helplessly poured a bucket of ice water over the tattooed man's head.
Couldn't find it.
The man shivered all over from the cold water, instinctively opening his mouth to curse.
"You mother..."
A kick struck out.
Before the tattooed man finished speaking, Lin An kicked and broke his teeth.
Blood mixed with broken teeth fell to the ground.
"I ask, you answer."
"Dirty mouth, you die."
He didn't know where this guy got so many dirty words.
Lin An stepped on his neck with one foot, his gaze cold.
"Gulp."
"Don't kill me!"
Swallowing his saliva, the tattooed man seemed to react. He looked at him with some fear.
He usually relied on his involvement in the underworld to show off and act arrogantly.
But when faced with a real tough guy, he was genuinely afraid.
"Where's the ring?"
"Or any jewelry?"
The tattooed man was stunned. He thought Lin An was just here to cause trouble.
Stealing something?
No.
Robbing something?
You should have said so earlier!
The tattooed man felt a bit aggrieved.
He had just stayed here because he played cards too late last night.
If he had known Lin An was here for something, he definitely wouldn't have fought.
"I don't know, I'm not the boss here."
The tattooed man hesitated for a moment, carefully answering, though his speech was somewhat unclear.
Seeing Lin An's eyes looking like he was ready to kill him, he hurriedly continued:
"The office on the second floor seems to have a lot of stuff, but it's locked!"
"Bang!"
The leather boot kicked his face.
After getting the answer, Lin An kicked the tattooed man unconscious again.
Picking a lock?
Piece of cake.
Coming from a military background, he had also practiced lock-picking skills.
Time passed, and the man on the ground remained unconscious, his face imprinted with dirty shoe prints.
Half an hour later.
Lin An carried a fire axe and violently broke down the door.
The expensive wooden door had a perfectly intact security lock, but the center of the door was full of smashed marks.
"Click."
He entered and turned on the light by the wall.
Lin An carefully inspected the room, noticing something unusual.
"Is this a spatial... fluctuation?"
The room seemed to have been unoccupied for some time, with a faint musty smell lingering in the air.
In the corner of the room.
A fist-sized, mysterious blackness floated in mid-air.
The blackness seemed to have taken over a piece of emptiness.
Lin An took a deep breath, his eyes fixated on a silver-white gleam within the blackness.
He was overjoyed.
That was... a space ring!
In his previous life, this ring caused quite a stir.
Everyone in Linjiang City knew that the thug made his fortune here.
He went from an ordinary person to a powerful awakened one.
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 his fingertips felt as if they disappeared.
Ignoring the abnormality, his expression hardened, and he thrust half of his hand in, grabbing the ring.
"Buzz! Buzz!"
Continuous waves emanated instantly, a chilling aura spreading from the black hole.
"Roar!!"
A roar suddenly came from the black hole, with dense deathly energy desperately spreading outward.
Run!
Lin An grabbed the ring and bolted!
Although he didn't know what it was, it seemed he had provoked something serious.
He hadn't heard of any disturbances in his previous life.
Could it be because he took the ring early?
Lin An didn't have time to think. He sprinted out the door.
The silver-white ring was clutched tightly in his palm.
"Beep."
"Apocalypse game player detected."
"Beep. Detection failed, no dataized body found."
"Warning!"
"Warning!"
The piercing alarms echoed in his mind, filling him with inexplicable unease.
The dense deathly energy behind him spread like the tendrils of an abyss, extending outward like it was alive.
No way out!
Lin An's expression hardened as he smashed through a window and jumped from the second floor.
As soon as he hit the ground, a wave of extreme weakness and darkness filled his vision.
His consciousness faded, and he instantly passed out.
The ring in his palm slowly merged with him, becoming one with his body.