My Apocalypse Territory

He uttered that sentence.

Wang Ran fell into a deep sleep.

When he awoke, he found that everything before him had transformed.

No longer the ordinary man incapable of trussing a chicken, his every action harnessed tremendous power.

So powerful that even he, himself, dared not believe it.

In just a few short hours, he had been reborn.

All he needed to do was handle some simple tasks for that mysterious benefactor.

Exactly.

Killing the suitable Awakeners and collecting souls, to Wang Ran, this was as easy as pie.

After all, what's impossible to achieve with great power in hand?

…

The mysterious patron left some information in his mind.

Wang Ran quickly became familiar with his new abilities, discovering that not only his strength but also his speed and physical condition had improved countless times.

His body had partly mutated and grown stronger.

In his body resided a powerful and mysterious force, which, when summoned, allowed him to perform various strange and potent tricks.

What excited Wang Ran even more was the promise from the mysterious person: for every certain amount of souls he returned, he would be granted even greater power.

…

The souls that the mysterious person demanded were young, Awakened, and saturated with intense negative emotions, be it rage or despair.

The higher the negativity, the better the quality of the soul.

The first target Wang Ran chose was the dog couple he hated the most.

The male Awakener was tortured to death by him.

His ex-girlfriend, who betrayed his first love, was also tortured to death by him.

Recalling how those two had looked at him with horror and regret, and remembering how they had begged like dogs, Wang Ran felt a burst of satisfaction deep within him.

The more he tortured, the more exhilarated he became.

The last pair of souls collected, even being ordinary people like his girlfriend, were praised by the mysterious patron for their excellent quality.

He was thus endowed with a new power by the mysterious person, becoming even stronger.

"How foolish I was before. Women, huh, with power and wealth, what do I lack in terms of women?"

Over the past few days, Wang Ran had frantically scouted and gathered target information, contributing many exquisite souls to the mysterious patron, his strength skyrocketing.

At this moment,

Inside a particular room.

Wang Ran stood on the blood-stained floor.

Around him,

Both the walls and the windows were covered with a layer of dark, ink-like gauze.

In front of him, a male and a female Awakener lay on the ground, their faces etched with pain.

The male Awakener struggled to stand, grabbing the Combat Saber that had fallen nearby, and charged forward, slashing fiercely.

"You bastard, die!"

However,

Before the male Awakener's Combat Saber could fall, Wang Ran's shirt on his back ripped open, and a black thread emerged from the exposed muscles.

It lashed out like a long whip, swift as lightning.

The male Awakener was sent flying by the black thread, crashing heavily against the room's walls.

Strangely enough, despite the forceful impact, the wall remained intact, that dark, ink-like gauze, seemingly separating the room from the outside world.

More and more black threads emerged from Wang Ran's back.

Wang Ran approached the female Awakener, who lay immobilized on the ground, and chuckled a few times.

Under the gaze of the other male Awakener, whose eyes were nearly bursting with fury,

The black threads wound around the female Awakener, lifting her into the air.

The dance of the lines was like a frenzied swarm of devils.

"Devil, you… you devil!"

Rip!

Boom!

Crack!

Spurt!

And the screams of the female Awakener.

The splatter of blood, the contorted faces, the limbs bound…

And the black gleam obscuring everything.

Three minutes later.

Wang Ran looked at the two bodies that had been tormented beyond human recognition and chuckled a few times. He activated that mysterious force within him and sealed the souls of the two, which had not yet dissipated, inside their heads.

He then grabbed their jaws and necks and tore off their heads by force, tossing them into a carry-on bag he had with him.

Through the gaps in the bag, one could faintly see several heads with wide-open eyes, stained with blood, their eyes still showing disbelief.

…

…

Elsewhere.

At the Security Bureau, including Captain Lei and several Captains, rushed over with their subordinates.

Several members of the Security Team were already maintaining order here.

Crossing the police line, Captain Lei entered the room and saw three decapitated victims lying on the ground.

As expected, all three of them had lost their heads.

But what was different was...

"Captain, the time of death for these three doesn't exceed forty minutes."

"Good," Captain Lei turned to one of the team members, "Huang Yu, can you discern anything?"

The called upon team member was not very strong, only at the third layer of Awakening, yet other Security Team members looked at him expectantly.

Huang Yu stepped forward a few paces and crouched down.

He closed his eyes and his nose twitched.

As a Special Series' olfactory ability user, his nose was much more sensitive than that of a police dog. If the perpetrator weren't so tricky, they would not be without a clue in this case until now.

But this time...

After a moment, Huang Yu's eyes snapped open, "I've got it! Follow me!"

He dashed off, following the faintest trace of information left in the air.

Other members of the Security Team, aside from a few left to process the scene, all closely followed behind.

An excited gleam filled their eyes.

'Could we finally catch them this time?'

...

In a high-end residential community.

Huang Yu stopped in front of a tall building, "It should be around here, but I can't pinpoint a more exact location."

Captain Lei waved a big hand, "First and second squads, seal off the building's surroundings. Captain An, Captain Xu, shall we go up together?"

The three captains, along with some elite members, entered the apartment building.

Despite this high-end community being home to mostly well-known Awakeners, they could not forcibly search the premises.

But it was still permissible to knock on doors and make inquiries, and most Awakeners understood the stakes involved.

As long as the criminal was still in the building, they were confident of capturing them!

Huang Yu was also part of the search team. As he ascended each floor, he carefully sniffed for any differences in the surrounding scents.

Suddenly, his expression changed, "The scent of blood, a strong smell of blood."

For Huang Yu, the thick smell of blood was like a bonfire in the darkness.

But strangely, he was certain that he hadn't smelled even a hint of blood in the air before this.

Without time to think further, everyone hurriedly followed the direction of the blood scent at top speed.

Soon, Captain Lei and several team members arrived in front of a certain apartment door.

He forcibly broke in.

Inside the living room, they saw two headless corpses on the ground.

And standing beside the bodies, Wang Ran also appeared somewhat surprised.

"Grab him!"

Two Security Team members with guns in hand surrounded him.

Swoosh!

In the next moment,

Black threads shot out like lightning, lashing out at the two Security Team members.

They were sent flying backward like cannonballs, crashing through the walls and rolling into another room.

"Open fire!"

Dada dada—

Orange-yellow bullets flew out.

Black threads danced behind Wang Ran, blocking some of the bullets.

He moved like a specter, flashing to the window. The anti-theft bars, under the slicing of the black threads, were as fragile as tofu.

Grabbing a travel bag peppered with bullet holes, Wang Ran didn't hesitate to jump out through the opening in the anti-theft bars.

...

Captain Lei hurried to the window but was a step too slow.

He leaned out to look.

From the eighth floor, even someone with his abilities would not escape injury if they fell from such a height.

But in his line of sight, the suspect who looked to be in his early twenties wrapped the black threads around the anti-theft bars to slow his fall, easily landing on the ground from the eighth floor.

'Good thing we were ready outside, he can't escape!'

Captain Lei breathed a sigh of relief.

This favorable situation couldn't be allowed to collapse.

...

Wang Ran looked at the members of the Security Bureau now surrounding him.

From all directions, there were those ready for close combat and others prepared for ranged attacks.

At first,

Seeing the Security Team members made his heart thump violently, instinctive fear driving him to escape through the window.

But now,

Only after being completely surrounded did he remember—

He was no longer the Wang Ran of the past, he possessed unparalleled strength.

An instinctual counterattack had already left two Security Team members seriously injured.

Now, even though there were more people, what of it...

Wang Ran coldly surveyed these lapdogs of the Security Bureau, slowly setting the luggage bag he was holding down.