Catskill was Lynn's family home in the state of New York. It was located in the mountainous region of the city.

The village life here wasn't the best, so his parents got married, and moved to the city of Newark. 

After a few years, the couple started to pick up their lives, and then, Lynn was born. He had been a very smart boy since he was a child, and had a bright future, but unfortunately it didn't go as planned. 

After many setbacks, Lynn's parents had no choice, but to go back to their hometown.

On the way back, Lynn's father lost control of their newly bought car and had a collision with an oncoming truck.

He died on the spot.

Left alone with her son, Lynn's mother tried her best to raise him.

When he became fifteen years old, she used the family's savings to send him to technical college, and gave him the family's heirloom, an obsidian crystal to commemorate his coming of age.

After graduating, Lynn failed to find a suitable job, but found himself in charge of some electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and bricklayers, so he decided to form his own work team.

At the beginning, he took some small jobs, but later he got more and more comfortable. So he started looking for contracts for larger renovation projects.

After two years, he met a contractor named Chandler, and the two of them became closer together.

As a more qualified contractor, he became the one in charge of their payment. But then, about the end of the year, when he was meant to dole out wages, he disappeared.

The workers who didn't get their wages smashed his office, and then someone finally called the police.

But this contractor had disappeared from the world, and vanished without a trace with the engineering money.

Angry, Lynn took his close friends to search for him but there was no luck. Later that evening, in a van, Lynn drove Dannie and Sammie from the village to a neighboring city.

As soon as the car got off the highway, Sammie, who was sharp-eyed, found at a glance that the driver next to him seemed to be the wanted Chandler.

Even though the man was wearing a disguise, he recognized him from his voice and manner of speech.

After paying their own money, Lynn stepped on his van's accelerator, pursuing Chandler's car. He continued to step on the accelerator as the van shot forward with great speed.

Seeing that the sky was beginning to darken, Dannie shouted. "Faster."

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"Don't let him escape, Lynn." Sammie urged anxiously, staring at the back of the fast disappearing car.

"Don't worry, even if this van falls apart, I will catch up with him." Lynn replied.

Soon afterwards, he realized the Audi car in front had started to decelerate and was turning towards the gas station. So, he also turned towards the gas station not far ahead.

There were two large rows of gift boxes of various colors outside the gas station, blocking the glass of the supermarket inside.

Also, there was an old motorcycle parked in front of the supermarket, so it was difficult for anyone inside the supermarket to see what was happening outside.

Chandler honked the horn three times in the car, but no one came out. So casually, he pushed open the car door, and walked towards the supermarket and shouted. "Is anyone here?."

Still no one responded. So, he looked around for a while, and discovered that the whole place was empty.

There was not even the barking of a guard dog.

As soon as he opened the door of the supermarket, he was pulled inside with a gun placed on his forehead.

"Don't move! Your hands behind your head!"

"No, don't shoot. I'm not here to take anything.." Chandler was a little frightened by the sudden development, and quickly raised his hands, and glanced left and right with trembling lips.

There were four people in the supermarket. There was also an old man and a handsome girl, both tied back and squatting on the ground, with gags in their mouths.

One of them was searching Chandler, when he noticed Lynn and his friends. "We got company!" 

Two guys with guns rushed towards the entrance to the supermarket, while the last one kept watch over the captives.

Lynn and the others were about to rush through the entrance of the supermarket when all of a sudden, the door opened and two men wearing Balaclava rushed out.

One of them pointed a short gun in his hand at the three of them.

Lynn and his friends were shocked by the scenery in front of them. They didn't know who these people were or what they were doing there. So they immediately stopped, and looked at each other.

Lynn and his friends were bracing themselves for any possible outcome, when the third one joined the two men and ran towards their motorcycle.

As soon as the driver of the motorcycle stepped on the accelerator, it spewed long exhaust gas in a high pitched scream.

"Stop them! Thieves!" Chandler rushed out with blood on his face, and went straight after the motorcycles, but was met with several gun shots.

Chandler immediately dropped to the ground. Lynn and others who were chasing after him also dropped to the ground, all of them rolling away in different directions.

"Asshole, don't you know this is a gas station?" Sammie shouted at the fleeting thieves as he got up from the ground.

"Fire!" Someone suddenly screamed, realizing that the gas pump had started to burst into flames.

"Run!" The four of them crawled and ran away from the gas station!

Before they could run far enough, there was a loud banging sound, coming from the back.

Lynn felt his body shook as a shock wave mixed with debris smashed at him. He opened his mouth wide and screamed, but he couldn't hear his own voice.

The surrounding sceneries spread out in his sight, little by little, like slow motion.

He saw Dannie flying forward slowly, not far away from him, his limbs slowly drawing circles in the air.

Someone was sent flying, farther away, fluttering slowly likewise. Judging from his clothes, Lynn deducted that person to be Chandler.

As large masses of fire rolled over and gradually overwhelmed everybody in the vicinity of the gas station. Lynn eyesight was filled with flashes of raging fire.

Slowly, the flames became brighter, and Lynn who was being blinded by this strong fiery light, couldn't open his eyes. "Am I going to die like this?"

He slowly stretched his hands to his eyes, and then stretched them forward, trying to grab something. But there was nothing in front of him, only endless light. 

After a few seconds, his body slowly flew towards the white light.

Before he knew it, everything became nothingness, and his consciousness gradually dissipated.