Survival in an apartment, starting with a stroke of luck on a plane

He identified the direction and quickly moved towards the area where he had previously killed the burly man and the skinny player.

Based on the leaked key information, he quickly located the couple's apartment.

The two apartment buildings are not far apart.

Lin Yu wasted no time and took out his key to open the door.

The burly man's apartment reeked of sweat and cheap liquor, and his belongings were scattered and disorganized.

After searching, Lin Yu found the burly man's "assets": 8 game coins, some black iron-grade weapons, a few portions of ordinary food and water, and some materials and props.

"It's better than nothing." Lin Yu put the things away.

He didn't choose to demolish the apartment, after all, that would be too much of a waste of time. It was already close to nightfall, so it was better not to waste any more time.

Lin Yu decisively left and headed to the apartment of the skinny player.

The skinny player's apartment was even more shabby, with almost nothing decent about it.

In the end, they only managed to collect 5 game coins, some materials, and some broken equipment.

They also gave up on demolishing the house.

Two raids yielded a total of 13 game coins. The equipment and items were average, with few rare materials, resulting in a mediocre harvest.

Clearly, neither of them were particularly skilled players; they had already spent almost all their in-game currency before even entering the game.

Having finished his harvest, Lin Yu didn't linger and quickly left the area, speeding towards his apartment.

……

Lin Yu was very fast; his 13 points of agility allowed him to move like a cheetah through the ruins.

He deliberately avoided the main roads and chose relatively secluded alleys.

But the light faded faster than expected, and shadows quickly spread throughout the town, causing visibility to drop drastically.

As he walked through a narrow alley lined with towering, dilapidated stone walls on both sides, an indescribable, chilling stench, a mixture of blood and decay, suddenly filled his nostrils.

At the same time, a chilling sense of crisis, stemming from instinct, instantly made Lin Yu stop in his tracks.

"Waaah..."

A low, guttural hiss, as if squeezed from the depths of a throat, came from the shadows around the corner of the alley ahead.

Lin Yu's pupils contracted sharply, and he stopped abruptly, lowering his center of gravity. His right hand flashed out from his waist with the [Yan Shuangying's Twin Pistols], and he focused intently, instantly activating the [Infrared Thermal Imaging] skill.

The gas mask helmet instantly switched the field of vision, and the cold colors outlined the contours of the world.

At the corner ahead, a distorted humanoid silhouette, emitting an unusual color, slowly "stood up" from the shadows, then walked out of the alley and came to Lin Yu.

Upon seeing the enemy, Lin Yu frowned slightly.

That thing... has completely deviated from human form.

It was nearly two meters tall, but extremely thin, as if all the muscles and fat in its body had been drained, leaving only a layer of pale, wrinkled skin tightly wrapped around its jagged skeleton, and it was not wearing any clothes.

Its limbs were unusually long, with twisted and bent joints, and black, sharp, hook-like claws extending from the ends of its fingers and toes, digging deeply into the cracks in the stone slabs of the ground.

Its head is long and narrow, hairless, and the outline of its skull is clearly visible beneath its pale skin.

Its face was twisted and deformed, its mouth split open to its ears, revealing two rows of jagged, sharp fangs that gleamed with a cold light. Most chilling of all were its eyes—without pupils, only two empty holes burning with eerie green flames, staring intently in Lin Yu's direction.

Ghoul!

"roar--!"

Seeing Lin Yu stop and assume a fighting stance, the ghoul let out a sharp, piercing roar, a sound like metal scraping against glass.

It landed on all fours, like a giant, deformed spider, and pounced on Lin Yu with a speed far exceeding human limits, accompanied by a foul stench.

It moved so fast that it almost became a pale afterimage in the dim light.

"So fast!" Lin Yu thought with a chill. This speed was definitely faster than his own. Without hesitation, he raised both guns.

Puff puff puff puff—

Yan Shuangying's dual pistols spewed out tongues of fire, and more than a dozen bullets, like a metal storm, accurately enveloped the ghoul's head, chest, joints and other vital points!

Puff puff……

Most of the bullets hit the ghouls, tearing their skin, embedding themselves in their bones, and splattering out a few drops of viscous black blood.

However, the bullets did not harm the ghoul; they only slightly slowed it down. The wounds caused by the bullets, under the movement of the black blood, were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"As expected." Lin Yu's heart sank; conventional weapons had negligible damage to ghouls.

The ghoul's pounce was only momentarily slowed by the impact of the bullet. Its eerie green eyes blazed with ferocity, as if enraged, and it moved three times faster.

The sharp claws, accompanied by a piercing whistle that seemed to tear through the air, went straight for Lin Yu's heart.

"Press!"

At the critical moment, Lin Yu uttered a low shout and activated the [Seven Subduing Demons Techniques of Green Mountain Path - Suppression Technique].

hum!

An invisible, terrifying pressure, like a mountain collapsing, suddenly descended upon the ghoul.

"Well--"

The ghoul's ferocious charge came to an abrupt halt. Its emaciated body suddenly sank, and its joints creaked under the strain, as if it had been slammed to the ground by an invisible giant hand.

For the first time, astonishment and pain appeared in its eerie green eyes. Its ferocious roar turned into a suppressed whimper as it struggled desperately, but its body seemed to sink into solidified asphalt, and its movements became extremely slow and difficult.

opportunity!

Lin Yu's eyes were icy cold, and he didn't hesitate at all. He loosened his grip on the gun handle with his left hand, and tightened his grip on the hilt of the [Demon Sword] with both hands, unleashing his full power in an instant.

The ghostly light on the Demon Sword surged!

"kill!"

[The Seven Secrets of Subduing Demons in the Green Mountain Path - The Killing Technique]!

Om-!

The ancient sword was instantly enveloped in a layer of condensed silver-white light, a demon-slaying power aimed at evil spirits.

Lin Yu pushed off with his feet, shattering the stone slabs on the ground. His body shot out like an arrow, thrusting his sword straight at the ghoul's head, which was pinned down and unable to move.

puff!

The sharp sword tip pierced the ghoul's shriveled head without any resistance.

The silvery-white demon-slaying power surged wildly into the ghoul's body like a scorching hot iron.

"Awooo—!!!!"

The ghoul let out an unprecedented, extremely mournful howl.

The sound was filled with unimaginable pain. Where its head was pierced, no blood spurted out; instead, thick, inky black smoke billowed out, accompanied by the sizzling sound of flesh being burned.

It worked! Lin Yu was overjoyed.

However, the next second, something unexpected happened!