Apocalypse: The Primordial Pearl Recognizes Its Master, Starting with Infinite Space

Lin Chen and Li Ya and the others had already retreated more than 30 feet away.

In the distance, the crowd was swallowing Chang Chengye whole.

Meanwhile—

"Bang."

Chang Hao's body was slammed onto the frozen ground. Lin Chen's left foot landed on his back, not too hard, just enough to press his pale face against the ice, preventing him from lifting his head.

Lin Chen was carrying two people in his hands, one each: Leng Zhijie and Zhang Zicheng.

Chang Chengye was frantically channeling his supernatural powers, calling for two puppets to rescue him. The two puppets roared incessantly, their limbs thrashing violently, their toes carving messy furrows in the ground, and the veins on their necks bulging.

But they couldn't budge an inch; their strength was far too inferior, and all their efforts were in vain.

"Young Master Chang, how does it feel to lose your backer? Isn't it despairing?"

Lin Chen didn't look down, but looked at the crowd in the distance and asked.

"Please, let me go, I'll never do it again. The people who attacked you were sent by my dad, it has nothing to do with me." Chang Hao cried and begged for mercy, his tears instantly freezing into ice crystals in the minus seventy degree Celsius temperature.

Lin Chen was speechless. To survive, he was actually selling out his father: "You're such a filial son."

Li Ya came to greet her.

Her gaze swept across the faces of the two struggling men and landed on Chang Hao's face, which was covered in snow and as white as paper.

His brows furrowed.

"Do you have a grudge?"

Lin Chen did not answer immediately.

"Let him try it too," Lin Chen said.

Li Ya didn't understand.

"What should we taste?"

Lin Chen did not explain.

He looked up at Zhou Tiannian and the others outside the gate and called out, "Zhou Tiannian."

Zhou Tiannian shuddered, almost leaping as he turned around, rushing to Lin Chen in three strides: "Boss Lin!"

He stopped, his back ramrod straight. The smile lines on his face stretched from the corners of his eyes all the way to his ears, unstoppable even by the cold.

Today he's truly seen things for the first time. What is head-on collision? What is overcoming skill with brute force?

Compared to what Boss Lin did today, those are just the work of a brute.

To kill someone, you must first destroy their spirit!

"Come on," Lin Chen said.

Zhou Tiannian immediately leaned his ear closer.

"Send men to hunt him down." Lin Chen's voice was very soft, and the corners of his mouth were even slightly upturned. But he felt a chill run down his spine, straight to the top of his head.

"We'll finish him off in two months."

He paused, then emphasized it again.

"A day earlier or a day later won't work. Besides, he's being hunted down, not enjoying himself."

Zhou Tiannian glanced quickly at Chang Hao, who was sprawled on the ground, and his Adam's apple bobbed.

"Boss Lin... what if he dies prematurely?"

Lin Chen looked at him.

Zhou Tiannian immediately swallowed the rest of his sentence, "Then whose is it?"

"Well... he wasn't completely dead by then—"

Lin Chen was still looking at him.

Zhou Tiannian stopped swallowing.

He wished he could cut his tongue out.

"Understood, understood! Don't worry, Boss Lin! I'll personally oversee this! I guarantee it'll be handled flawlessly! If I die before it's done, it's my dereliction of duty! If I'm not completely dead by the time it's done, it's my incompetence! Just you wait and see!"

Lin Chen withdrew his gaze: "Once this matter is settled, the snowmobile debt will be waived."

Zhou Tiannian's eyes instantly lit up like two searchlights.

That's 100,000 first-tier crystal cores, enough for them to work hard for several days.

Today's trip was definitely worthwhile.

He waved his hand behind him, and two trusted confidants immediately jogged over.

"Take him away." Zhou Tiannian gestured towards Chang Hao with his chin. "Take good care of him, don't kill him."

Chang Hao was dragged up from the ground.

He overheard their conversation, his face filled with fear and despair: "We... this is the first time we've met..."

His voice trembled, "What happened before was just a power struggle... why did you have to be so cruel to me alone..."

He wanted to beg Li Ya for help. They knew each other before the apocalypse, and he had even pestered Li Ya.

Before he could utter a sound, a hand had already covered his mouth tightly and dragged him away from the crowd.

Li Ya stood there, looking at Lin Chen's profile: "You hate him."

This wasn't a question. Lin Chen remained silent for a long time: "...He chased after me."

Li Ya was taken aback. She didn't know what kind of conflict the two had in the past, and Chang Hao had just said that this was the first time they had met.

However, she knew that Lin Chen never lied.

She simply hummed in response and didn't ask any further questions.

The crowd was still gathered around Chang Chengye. The physical bodies of third-tier ability users were not just for show; the scratches, kicks, and punches of ordinary people were completely ineffective. Only those ability users could cause harm.

At this point, Zhang Zicheng and Leng Zhijie had stopped struggling, presumably because Chang Chengye was too preoccupied with other matters.

Lin Chen looked away: "I have something to take care of."

Before he finished speaking, his figure had already disappeared from the spot.

At the entrance to the supply depot deep inside the shelter, two guards were smoking.

"What's going on outside?" the young guard asked.

"Who cares what's going on?" The older guard threw his cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it out with his toe. "It's none of our business anyway. We just need to keep an eye on the warehouse."

"Too."

The two fell silent.

They gazed at the gray sky, but did not see—a black shadow swept past them.

The young guard suddenly shivered.

"Didn't you feel...?" He glanced back at the closed iron gate, "...a little cold just now?"

The older guard rolled his eyes at him: "When isn't this damn weather cold?"

The young guard didn't say anything.

He just felt that behind that door, it seemed...too quiet.

The crowd in the square finally dispersed, and the former mayor had become a pile of unrecognizable, slowly cooling, and inhuman minced meat on the ground.

The two guards at the supply depot finally mustered their courage and pushed open the door. They stood at the entrance like clay sculptures whose souls had been taken away.

Then they turned and ran, soon arriving at the square shouting, "Supplies—the supply depot is empty! Completely empty! Go tell Mayor Chang—!"

Lin Chen had returned to the original spot at some point.

A few snowflakes clung to the hem of his clothes, and his breathing was steady, as if he had just gone for a walk.

Li Ya glanced at him, wondering why Lin Chen was so obsessed with "emptying the enemy's warehouse."

The crowd did not erupt in panic as expected; only a few sensible people showed solemnity, while most others remained immersed in their hatred for Chang Chengye.

"Mr. Lin." A voice came from behind, and Lin Chen turned around. It was a SWAT team member, very young, about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with two red patches on his cheeks from the cold and his lips chapped.

His gaze shifted to Zhang Zicheng behind Lin Chen: "Our captain..."

Lin Chen instantly understood, and then pushed the vacant-eyed Zhang Zicheng to him: "Oh, you took them away. You only took them away to prevent Chang Chengye from using them."

The SWAT officer took Zhang Zicheng from him, opened his mouth, and finally asked, "Is there really no hope for our captain's recovery?"

Lin Chen didn't want to lie to him, so he told the truth: "I don't know either, but the world has changed a lot, and there are countless kinds of superpowers now. I can't rule out the possibility that I might encounter a superpowered person who can solve this kind of problem in the future."

A glimmer of hope appeared in the SWAT officer's dull eyes. He saluted Lin Chen and said, "Understood, thank you, Mr. Lin!"

He then left with Zhang Zicheng.

Soon, Leng Zhijie was also taken away by a survivor with powerful superpowers. He was also someone who had been rescued by Leng Zhijie and hoped that he could cure Leng Zhijie one day.