Do It!

Everywhere had Hanfu associations, and Hanfu associations inevitably had people who played with armor.

As one of the four largest cities, Linhai City had the rare kind of shop that sold ancient armor. This set of Mingguang Armor, forged with modern steelworking techniques alone, had cost Li Yang thirty thousand yuan.

By comparison, the fifteen-hundred-yuan Miao Dao was nothing much.

Li Yang's Mingguang Armor weighed a full forty jin, while the Miao Dao weighed around four jin. Carrying such heavy items back on an electric scooter had truly drained his strength.

Fortunately, whether he had transported the crossbow or the armor and Miao Dao, he had encountered no inspections and safely taken a taxi all the way home.

Otherwise, it really would have been troublesome.

His thoughts turning, the utterly exhausted Li Yang soon lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

"Click~~"

The door gave a soft sound as Lin Shiyu returned home with exhaustion written across her face. She immediately turned and blocked the doorway, sternly refusing to let Zhang Qiang outside come in.

"I'm telling you, Lin Shiyu, what's gotten into you? Do you still want the apartment in Room 4003 or not? Didn't we agree? We'd get divorced first to lie low for a while. It's not like we're really divorcing."

The man's voice from that morning drifted faintly in from outside. Lin Shiyu lowered her eyes and refused anyway, finally shutting the door with one firm motion.

A few unwilling spits sounded faintly outside before they finally moved away. Lin Shiyu breathed a sigh of relief, smoothed her hair, tossed her bag aside, and plopped onto the sofa. After staring blankly for a while, she got up, took off her shoes, changed into slippers, returned to her room, and peeled off her stockings from top to bottom, revealing her fair, slender legs.

She changed into a short-sleeved pajama top and pajama shorts, then took her toothbrush, cup, and towel to the bathroom. Passing Li Yang's tightly shut door, she could not help muttering.

"This guy hasn't shown himself all day. What's he doing?"

Feeling somewhat puzzled, Lin Shiyu recalled how he had not answered several of her calls, and how their noon chat had been hurried. She wondered if something had happened.

At that thought, Lin Shiyu pursed her lips, then remembered her own troubles. She immediately lost the mood to think any further, shut the bathroom door, and began to bathe.

"Splash, splash~"

Water poured down from the showerhead. Standing beneath the stream, Lin Shiyu looked at her pale, lush body and fell into a daze.

"Money..."

At nine, Lin Shiyu had finished showering and dried her hair, but Li Yang still had not returned. Puzzled, she sent him a message to ask about it. When she received no response, she frowned and returned to her room.

"This guy had better not disappear without saying goodbye again tomorrow."

With a headache brewing, Lin Shiyu sat before her computer and worked overtime for a while. At ten-thirty, she took a sip of water, then suddenly sighed in relief, instantly shut down her computer, and collapsed onto the bed.

"Click~"

The lights went out, and the room fell silent.

Eleven-thirty.

"Whew~"

Li Yang abruptly woke from his sleep, feeling clear-headed and refreshed from head to toe. He picked up his phone and checked the time. It was only eleven-thirty.

"Feels great~"

He got up and stretched. Li Yang found Lin Shiyu's chat window and replied that he was fine and thanked her for her concern. Then, using the dim light shining in from outside the window, he poured himself a glass of water and drank it sip by sip.

"Click~"

The light bulb came on, brightening the room. Li Yang looked at all the large and small items he had bought, his eyes flickering. At a thought, a portal radiating mysterious light appeared in the room.

The middle of the portal no longer showed the zombie scene, but a deep starry sky. On the Spirit Orbs embedded at its top, the first one constantly shifted through scenes of the apocalypse.

"World Gate."

Looking at the portal, Li Yang's emotions still surged once more. Only after he drained the water in his cup did he calm down and begin considering other questions.

What exactly was this gate? Where had it come from? What was its purpose?

But after thinking about it, what could a poor bastard like him possibly have that something capable of traversing worlds would want?

Besides, it had given him such an opportunity. If it wanted something, then let it want something. Either way, he was not losing out.

He could now enter an Apocalyptic World. Would he continue traveling to other worlds in the future?

And just how much potential value did the Apocalyptic World hold...

"The World Gate isn't the Apocalypse Gate. There should be other worlds I can enter. Setting everything else aside, even if the Apocalyptic World is merely a fallen world inhabited only by zombies, its enormous supplies are already an unimaginable opportunity for me."

There was no need to worry about what others might want from him. Even if he knew, he had no ability to stop them. Since that was the case, why not take things as they came and make good use of what he had...

Li Yang's gaze flickered, and his thoughts quickly settled.

He looked at the round orbs atop the portal. Only the first one shone; all the rest were dim.

Could one orb represent one world?

His heart stirred. Li Yang withdrew the World Gate, then turned his gaze toward the armor, Miao Dao, and crossbow beside him.

Should he travel to the Apocalyptic World now and take all the gold from that Gold Shop to improve his current financial situation?

Or... wait a few more days, train his combat ability some more, become more proficient with the crossbow, and so on.

After all, those were zombies!

Life-and-death stakes!

Li Yang poured another glass of water and tipped his head back, drinking it all. Looking at the crossbow, a flash of resolve passed through his eyes.

"Crossbows are illegal. Here in Linhai City, I can't keep carrying it around every day at risk."

There were definitely many zombies in that world, but only a small number would be affected by its scent. At most, he would only need to face a few zombies. With this full iron armor, a crossbow like a gun, and a Miao Dao, if he still could not handle a few zombies, then wouldn't all those squats and pelvic-floor exercises have been for nothing?

How long would it take before improving his combat ability produced results? No one could be sure whether he would be arrested in this world for breaking the law.

Rather than that, he might as well do it!

"There's no day like today."

Putting down the cup, Li Yang went out to use the toilet. Seeing no light leaking from Lin Shiyu's room, he relaxed. Returning to his room, he locked the bedroom door, drew the curtains, cocked the crossbow and loaded an arrow, then began putting on the armor piece by piece.

Putting on armor was no easy task. Even though he had worn it twice at the shop, Li Yang still spent twenty minutes carefully putting it on according to the steps.

The instant he put on the armor, he felt a heavy weight pressing down on him. Li Yang then put on the helmet with the faceplate that he had specially requested. His head sank under the weight, and he unaccustomedly twisted it from side to side. Next, he tied a headlamp onto the armor above his head, tested its brightness, and set it to diffuse mode to avoid too strong a beam.

Then he strapped on the Miao Dao, tied a sack and a quiver to himself, put on rubber gloves, gripped the automatic crossbow, and moved. His figure instantly vanished from the spot.

"Whoosh..."

In the next moment of shifting time and space, Li Yang went from his brightly lit bedroom into the Gold Shop, which was likewise shrouded in night.

Bright moonlight spilled across the street. The instant Li Yang appeared, he caught the attention of a zombie inside the shop.

"Grrghh!!"

The zombie let out a strange roar. Its blurry figure twisted through the moonlight as it lunged at Li Yang, but the counter blocked it for a moment. Li Yang's headlamp immediately shone over, revealing a middle-aged zombie in his sight.

"Thud~"

The crossbow, which had remained aimed the entire time, instantly lined up its sight with the zombie's head. He pulled the trigger, and the fifteen-centimeter bolt instantly sank into the zombie's skull.

"Thump~"

The zombie's corpse toppled to the floor. After checking around to confirm there were no other zombies in the Gold Shop, Li Yang gave it three more bolts before abruptly pulling out his sack. Looking at the shattered glass door of the Gold Shop, he began swiftly stuffing gold from the nearby display cases into it.

"Clatter~"

With the pleasant sound of gloved hands scraping against the display case, golden jewelry fell into the sack piece by piece.