Chapter 28: Skullcrusher's Hand

Blue equipment?

Lin An's eyes burned with passion; in his past life, the equipment that all players in Linjiang City dreamed of was right before him.

Although he couldn't check its attributes before obtaining it.

But Lin An was certain that this equipment was the 【Skullcrusher's Hand】!

「Swish. 」

Lin An held the bone spur against the zombie doctor's head, and in an instant it stabbed in a bit.

With just a little force, he would mash his brains.

In the face of Lin An's strength, the zombie doctor's reinforced bones were as brittle as biscuits.

「Give me my things in exchange for your life. 」

「Not enough. 」

Lin An tilted his head, his gaze fixed on the bloody skeleton.

「It.... is... mine... 」

「Killing you makes it mine. 」

Lin An rudely interrupted the zombie doctor.

The department door won't hold much longer.

If this zombie can only speak but offers no value, there's no need for him to waste more time.

He promised Wen Ya he could go check a nearby building, and the dispensary Zhang Tie mentioned was also necessary to visit.

Time is urgent; if he delays until night.

At night, the zombies' terror level increases by a notch, and falling into the corpse horde again would be too dangerous.

「No! 」

In the zombie doctor's scarlet eyes, anger appeared almost humanlike.

Interesting.

He actually can get angry, and even suppress his emotions.

Lin An fell into thought.

Silence.

The zombie doctor froze in place, seeming to hesitate about something.

Hesitate?

Lin An felt a slight stir in his heart; if this zombie had wisdom, it would naturally realize that if it offered no value, it would surely die.

Then what is it hesitating about?

Lin An deliberately showed impatience, his right hand holding the spur exerting slight force, feigning readiness to strike.

In the next second he would crush its skull.

「Stuff... have! 」

It sensed Lin An's killing intent, and in desperation it strained to utter a few words.

「What stuff. 」

「Say another word and I'll kill you. 」

「Also, take off the glove. Otherwise I'll chop off your hand. 」

「No... can't!... I... if I take it off... I'll die! 」

A flash of fear crossed its eyes, and it instinctively protected its right hand.

「If you don't take it off, you die now! 」

Lin An's killing intent erupted, and the temperature in the room seemed to drop a few degrees.

Anger peaked, and it seemed unable to suppress its craving for flesh and blood.

「Roar! 」

The zombie doctor's gloved right hand suddenly slammed toward Lin An's chest.

Rather than saying it exerted force again, it's more like the glove dragged its whole body toward Lin An.

「Seeking death! 」

「Crack! 」

Lin An's expression hardened as he directly struck, twisting off its right hand.

「Klak. 」

He kicked out, the explosive force shattering its knee, revealing stark white bone stubble.

The gap between a first-level mutant and Lin An's strength could not be made up by a single glove.

Moreover, this guy can only be considered a pseudo-first-level.

Lin An picked up the severed hand from the ground and directly took off the glove.

The glove on the severed hand intermittently emitted rippling blue waves.

「Ding, obtained blue equipment: 【Skullcrusher's Hand】 (Excellent)」

「【Skullcrusher's Hand】 blue excellent: equipment level requirement: level 1 (first level)」

「Equipment attribute: Strength +5. 」

「Additional effect:??? 」

「Equipment evaluation: This equipment lacks a key part; perhaps you can find a way to complete it to unleash its true power. 」

「After completing the equipment, its quality rises from excellent to epic tier. 」

What should be embedded in the central part of the glove?

Lin An couldn't wait and directly put on the glove.

A muffled grunt.

The glove, as if alive, suddenly tightened around his right hand, snugly adhering to his flesh.

At the same time, a surging power flowed from the glove into his heart.

"Ding, strength attribute +5."

Lin An's expression lit up with joy.

On just the third day of the Doomsday Game's launch, he already possessed such power.

This rate of growth was so fast even he found it hard to believe.

His fist clenched, and bone-cracking sounds rang out in the air.

One punch could likely shatter a light armored vehicle outright!

The feeling of growing stronger was addictive.

Lin An looked at the missing part on the glove, feeling puzzled.

Key component? True power?

Hard to imagine what effects would appear if this glove were completed.

No wonder it was the apocalypse gear praised and longed for by countless players of the River-facing city in his past life.

As Lin An was pondering,

The zombie doctor's eyes flashed with a hint of fear; feeling no pain, it ignored the agony of its broken legs.

Without hesitation, it used its sole remaining hand to scramble quickly across the windowsill, trying to flee the office.

Lin An gave a cold chuckle.

Still trying to run?

With a howl of force, he reached out with one hand and effortlessly ripped the zombie's head off.

The headless body continued to scrape at the windowsill on instinct.

Such injuries were not fatal for a doctor turned zombie.

In Lin An's hand, the head's mouth opened and closed, its eyes full of hatred.

For zombies, as long as the brain isn't destroyed, any injury is irrelevant to them.

"Three seconds—tell me where the missing part on the glove is."

"Three."

"Two."

Death countdown.

The hatred in the zombie doctor's eyes turned to fear.

With intelligence comes fear of death.

"Save... people... I... tell... you!"

"People and... things... are in the nearby big... building!"

Under the threat of death, its speech speed was forced to quicken a bit.

Lin An's heart stirred slightly.

Save people?

The nearby building?

Isn't that the building where Wen Ya's mother is?!

The number of zombies in the nearby inpatient building might be less than here, but not by much.

Compared to the emergency surgery's open hall-and-corridor layout, the inpatient building is filled with countless rooms.

Facing zombie ambushes, the danger level is no lower than here.

"Why would it be there? Are you trying to lure me over?"

Lin An asked in a low voice, directly ignoring the two words "save people."

But hearing the zombie doctor say that, he also believed that even if the key component wasn't there, the building likely held something.

Upon entering, the zombie had its back to the door, constantly staring at that building.

"Please... beg... you... refuse... there... I have... my child..."

"Glove... his... gift! The thing... is there!"