Chapter Summaries

After the Shelters merged, Shen Yi chose Ling Miaor to stay with him and assigned Bai Chuyan and Chen Ya to organize and train maids. Jiangnan Yan later reported that her Shelter had grown, the airport was cleared, and soldiers were building defenses.

• Bai Chuyan brought seven women to Shen Yi, who selected Ling Miaor and ordered the others to become maids.
• Shen Yi told Bai Chuyan to work with Chen Ya on gathering beautiful women and training maids.
• Ling Miaor eagerly accepted that Shen Yi had chosen her, and Bai Chuyan led the women to wash up.
• Shen Yi read Song Qingwan's pleas for help in the group chat while eating fruit.
• Jiangnan Yan reported that her Shelter had taken in over a thousand people, including eleven women, two of them ability users.
• Jiangnan Yan said the dangers inside the airport had been cleared and Regiment Commander Long was leading construction of defensive lines and guard posts.

After spending the night with Ling Miaor, Shen Yi left the Shelter to explore Rongcheng University and look for survivors. He entered the overgrown campus, unaware that a mutated giant dog was sneaking up behind several girls.

• Shen Yi let Ling Miaor massage him and spent the night with her, then woke the next morning and inspected the Shelter and its surroundings with Telepathy.
• Bai Chuyan brought six maids to help Shen Yi wash up, and he shared breakfast with her, Ling Miaor, and the maids.
• Shen Yi left the Shelter for Rongcheng University, collecting five Ability Fruits along the way.
• Shen Yi spotted a flame-tailed mutated black cat near the school but ignored it when it did not attack him.
• Shen Yi entered the overgrown campus and saw several girls picking flowers as a mutated giant dog crept toward them.

Su Yingxue rescued He Nana from a mutated giant dog, but exhaustion left her trapped and seemingly moments from death. The dog froze just before reaching her as a voice from the Black Fog offered paid help.

• He Nana froze in terror when a mutated giant dog appeared, and Su Yingxue attacked it to save her.
• Su Yingxue wounded the dog with her Red Tassel Spear and sent He Nana and the other girls toward the teaching building.
• The injured dog blocked Su Yingxue’s escape route, and she fought on despite nearing exhaustion.
• Su Yingxue collapsed coughing as the dog pounced, but it stopped motionless just short of her spear.
• A voice from the Black Fog asked Su Yingxue if she wanted some paid help.

Shen Yi rescued Su Yingxue from a frozen mutated giant dog and agreed to take her and her three junior schoolmates with him. As they traveled through the campus, the thirsty girls asked for water, and Shen Yi offered it in exchange for each of them calling him “husband.”

• Shen Yi offered to kill the immobilized mutated giant dog if Su Yingxue agreed to follow him, and she accepted while asking to bring her junior schoolmates.
• He Nana and the other two girls left the building to look for Su Yingxue and saw Shen Yi destroy the giant dog with beams from his eyes.
• Su Yingxue invited the three girls to follow Shen Yi, and they all agreed to join him.
• Su Yingxue introduced herself to Shen Yi, and he let her and the other girls call him Mr. Shen.
• Shen Yi drank from a beverage bottle, then offered the thirsty girls water if each called him husband.

Shen Yi brought Su Yingxue and the other girls through the dangerous university campus, then went to find Xu Tingxia, a teacher the system had identified as a target. Xu Tingxia was alarmed when Shen Yi appeared inside her sealed room and offered to take her somewhere with plenty of food.

• Su Yingxue and the other girls called Shen Yi husband and gratefully accepted his bottled water.
• Shen Yi killed mutated snakes with fire and a swarm of mutated spiders with ice spears as he led the girls across campus.
• The system identified Xu Tingxia as a qualifying target whose recruitment would unlock a random resource.
• Xu Tingxia cooked mutated plants in her room while worrying that her alcohol fuel was running low.
• Shen Yi appeared in Xu Tingxia's sealed room and offered her food if she went with him, but she remained wary and wondered whether he was even human.

Shen Yi forced Xu Tingxia to leave her room and join his group, then reunited her with Su Yingxue. As they prepared to leave the school, Su Yingxue recognized a large mutant cat that had appeared on their path.

• Shen Yi told Xu Tingxia she had to come with him or be thrown outside to the mutant animals, and she agreed to leave.
• Xu Tingxia packed her treasured novels, and Shen Yi stored her belongings before taking her to meet the others.
• Xu Tingxia reunited with Su Yingxue, then learned that Su Yingxue called Shen Yi her husband and that he had already saved her and several students.
• As the group prepared to leave the school, a large black mutant cat appeared, and Su Yingxue recognized her as Little Blackie, a friendly mutant who had once saved her.

Shen Yi recruited the intelligent black cat Catnip with promises of food, then brought Su Yingxue and the others to his Shelter, where they saw the scale of his operation. After returning to his room, he summoned Ling Miaor, and the System unlocked a new supply when he took her in.

• Shen Yi used Mental Link to speak with Catnip, learned that the cat had saved people who once fed it, and persuaded it to become his pet with promises of food.
• Shen Yi gave Catnip fresh meat, and the cat accepted him as its master.
• Shen Yi brought Su Yingxue, Xu Tingxia, and the other women back to the Shelter, where they saw his armed subordinates and organized survivors.
• Bai Chuyan took the women to wash up and choose rooms while Shen Yi teleported back to his room.
• Shen Yi summoned Ling Miaor, and after she came to him, the System announced that he had unlocked the Giant Meat Stick supply.

Shen Yi kept Xu Tingxia and Su Yingxue at the Shelter, where they joined Ling Miaor in serving him, and he raised Dimensional Teleportation to level 19. That night, he kept Xu Tingxia alone and teased her about being speechless when it was time for practice.

• Shen Yi shared Giant Meat Sticks with Ling Miaor and invited Bai Chuyan and the newly washed girls into the room.
• Shen Yi decided Xu Tingxia and Su Yingxue could stay, while He Nana and the other girls would learn maid skills from Chen Ya.
• Ling Miaor, Xu Tingxia, and Su Yingxue took turns massaging Shen Yi, while Xu Tingxia wondered if she would soon become one of his women.
• Shen Yi ate Ability Fruits and raised Dimensional Teleportation to level 19, extending its range to 55 kilometers.
• That night, Shen Yi kept Xu Tingxia alone and asked why she could explain theory confidently but could not speak during practical work.

Shen Yi gained a fully equipped B-2 Spirit after taking in Xu Tingxia, then left the shelter to gather Ability Fruits. He detected Fang Juexia, whose shelter was being threatened by Liu Yu, and the chapter ended with a woman rushing in to tell her she had lost contact with her younger sister.

• Shen Yi received multiple fully equipped B-2 Spirit bombers as a System reward after taking in Xu Tingxia.
• Xu Tingxia woke beside Shen Yi, and the two spent more time together before eating a meal he had produced.
• Shen Yi fed Little Mint, left the shelter, and gathered six Ability Fruits while walking eight kilometers away.
• The System identified Fang Juexia as a potential target for a random supply reward.
• Fang Juexia accused Liu Yu of trying to force her shelter into merging by luring a mutated rhinoceros toward it.
• A young woman rushed into Fang Juexia's meeting and said she could not contact her younger sister.

Fang Juexia learned that Liu Yu’s supporters had mutinied during a supply run and taken Jiang Ning and five others hostage, demanding colored fruits and that Fang Juexia come alone. She agreed to the exchange but planned to bring a team and capture Liu Yu, while Jiang Ning urged the frightened hostages not to surrender.

• Jiang Yue told Fang Juexia that more than half the supply team had mutinied and imprisoned Jiang Ning and five others while waiting for Liu Yu.
• Wang Hu demanded colored fruits for each hostage, including two for Jiang Ning, and required Fang Juexia to come alone to make the exchange.
• Fang Juexia agreed to the trade but ordered Old Liu to bring ability users and Wang Quan so they could try to capture Liu Yu and his forces.
• Fang Juexia stopped Jiang Yue from joining the rescue team, then Jiang Yue told the mutineers she accepted their terms and asked them not to harm the hostages.
• Jiang Ning comforted her frightened companions and warned them that surrendering to Liu Yu would not keep them safe.

Shen Yi appeared at the warehouse to save Jiang Ning and demanded that she become his woman in exchange. After Jiang Ning accepted, Shen Yi froze Liu Yu’s armed men, leaving Liu Yu begging to become his lackey.

• Shen Yi used Telepathy to locate Jiang Ning and saw that Liu Yu’s men had surrounded the warehouse.
• Shen Yi appeared inside the room and offered to save Jiang Ning if she became his woman.
• After Shen Yi revealed the size and strength of the enemy group, Jiang Ning agreed to his condition and asked him to kill them.
• Shen Yi blew open the door and confronted Liu Yu and his men outside the room.
• Shen Yi froze the advancing underlings in ice, and Liu Yu fell to his knees and begged to become Shen Yi’s lackey.

Jiang Ning killed Liu Yu with Shen Yi’s help, then reunited with her aunt, Fang Juexia, and introduced Shen Yi as her boyfriend. Fang Juexia invited Shen Yi to their Shelter, hoping his powerful ice ability would help protect them.

• Shen Yi handed Jiang Ning a handgun and guided her as she shot Liu Yu dead.
• Fang Juexia heard the gunshot, entered the warehouse, and found frozen people, including Shelter members.
• Jiang Ning reunited with Fang Juexia and introduced Shen Yi as her boyfriend, though she did not know his name at first.
• Fang Juexia thanked Shen Yi for saving Jiang Ning and the survivors, and he told her his name.
• Fang Juexia invited Shen Yi to their Shelter, and he agreed before shattering the frozen people into powder with his ability.
• Fang Juexia hoped Shen Yi would stay at the Shelter and considered giving him its highest authority.

Shen Yi offered the Shelter's women clean water and demanded that Fang Juexia and her family submit to him. Fang Juexia and Jiang Ning accepted, while Jiang Yue remained furious, and Shen Yi waited for the system reward after spending four hours with the two women.

• Fang Juexia offered Shen Yi a cup of their scarce water, but Shen Yi produced several bottles of mineral water for everyone to drink.
• Shen Yi demanded that Fang Juexia, Jiang Ning, and Jiang Yue submit to him, and Jiang Yue accused him of taking advantage of them like Liu Yu.
• Fang Juexia accepted Shen Yi's offer as a way to protect her family, and Jiang Ning revealed that she had already agreed to be with him.
• Jiang Yue ran into another room as Fang Juexia and Jiang Ning called Shen Yi their husband and joined him.
• Shen Yi spent more than four hours with Fang Juexia and Jiang Ning, then waited for the system reward.

Shen Yi welcomed Fang Juexia, Jiang Ning, and Jiang Yue into his Shelter, then learned that two Shelters were fighting nearby. As Shen Yi went to investigate, he detected Li Yumeng as a potential resource unlock, while her group encountered a heavily armed patrol from his Shelter.

• Shen Yi fed Fang Juexia, Jiang Ning, and Jiang Yue, then brought them and the survivors from Fang Juexia's Shelter to his own.
• Bai Chuyan arranged for the newcomers to settle in, and Shen Yi spent the next few days reviewing his recent gains.
• Bai Chuyan told Shen Yi that two Shelters might be fighting near their Shelter, so they went to investigate.
• The system detected Li Yumeng and indicated that taking her in would unlock a random resource.
• Li Kuang, Li Yumeng, and Xiao Wu searched for a Shelter while fleeing Cai Liyuan's group, then found themselves surrounded by armed people emerging from the Black Fog.

Li Kuang and Li Yumeng sought refuge from Cai Liyuan’s forces, but a clash with Shen Yun’s armed group brought the shelter’s hidden strength into view. After Shen Yi agreed to take the siblings in, they were led to his office to discuss Cai Liyuan’s secret.

• Li Kuang explained that Cai Liyuan had defeated his group and offered information about Cai Liyuan in exchange for shelter.
• Shen Yun’s men arrived to capture Li Kuang and Li Yumeng, but the shelter’s captain confronted them with guns.
• Shen Yun used his metal-controlling ability to disarm the shelter’s guards, while Li Kuang and Li Yumeng prepared to fight.
• A hidden sniper killed Shen Yun, and the shelter’s squad captured most of his remaining men, though one ability user escaped.
• Chen Ya reported the clash to Shen Yi, who agreed to take in Li Kuang and Li Yumeng and asked for them to be brought to his office.

Li Yumeng and Li Kuang sought shelter in Shen Yi’s Shelter by offering information about Cai Liyuan, but Shen Yi used the meeting to force Li Yumeng into serving him and mentally altered Li Kuang into a loyal follower. Meanwhile, Cai Liyuan learned that Shen Yun had died and ordered an attack on Shen Yi’s Shelter, while Shen Yi told Li Yumeng that his people were already handling the threat.

• Li Yumeng revealed that Cai Liyuan could accelerate fruit growth or possessed a plant that produced unlimited colorful fruit, but Shen Yi covered the desk with fruit from his spatial storage and said he had no need for the information.
• Shen Yi offered to admit the siblings to his Shelter if Li Yumeng served him; Li Yumeng agreed, and Shen Yi had Chen Ya take her away and mentally changed Li Kuang into a loyal follower.
• At the Shen Gong shelter, Cai Liyuan learned that Shen Yun had been killed at Deep Bay One and ordered his people to attack the Shelter responsible.
• After washing up at Bai Chuyan’s Shelter, Li Yumeng heard Shen Yi say he had sent people to deal with the Shen Gong shelter, then approached him willingly.

Cai Liyuan’s group was ambushed in the Black Fog by Shen Yi’s forces, and a rocket strike killed Cai Liyuan before the attack turned into a massacre at the Shen Gong shelter. Meanwhile, Shen Yi took in Li Yumeng and unlocked a new type of supplies.

• Cai Liyuan led his group through the Black Fog, where a sniper began shooting them from hiding.
• Cai Liyuan tried to retreat to his shelter, but a guided rocket struck and killed him despite Feng Wenbo’s attempt to protect him.
• The firearms squad entered the Shen Gong shelter and attacked its occupants on the captain’s order to spare only women and children.
• Shen Yi was intimate with Li Yumeng, and a system message announced that he had successfully taken in a goddess and would unlock a random type of supplies.

After taking over the Shen Gong shelter, Shen Yi let Bai Chuyan manage its growing forces while he stayed out of routine affairs. When Bai Chuyan reported that the dead were supposedly coming back to life near Jinniu District, Shen Yi used Telepathy to discover the corpses were controlled puppets gathering under an unknown force.

• Shen Yi shared Xiao Ba's Takoyaki with Li Yumeng, and Bai Chuyan then reported that the Shen Gong shelter had been taken and Cai Liyuan killed.
• Bai Chuyan proposed keeping survivors with useful skills and letting the rest leave, and Shen Yi gave her authority over Shelter affairs and supplied her with weapons.
• Over the next few days, Bai Chuyan expanded the Shelter to more than two thousand people, occupied the former Shen Gong territory as the Moat, and established it as a defensive line.
• Shen Yi planted Loyalty Imprints in ability users and most incoming survivors to secure his authority.
• Bai Chuyan told Shen Yi that reports described dead people reviving and attacking the living, and said she had sent people to confirm the rumors.
• Shen Yi used Telepathy to find that the revived corpses were controlled puppets gathering near Jinniu District, though he did not identify their controller.

Shen Yi learned that sheltering Min Anqing could unlock a random supply, while Min Anqing’s group encountered Rong Zhuang’s displaced survivors and led them to a warehouse full of mutated mantises. The two groups prepared to face the insects while secretly weighing how they could benefit from each other.

• Shen Yi’s system detected Min Anqing and revealed that sheltering her could unlock a random supply.
• Min Anqing learned that armed newcomers had taken control of Jinniu District and warned her group to avoid them.
• Rong Zhuang and Xiao He met Min Anqing and Ruan Zhimei after fleeing Jinniu District, where the new shelter had forced smaller teams out.
• Min Anqing invited Rong Zhuang’s group to help retrieve supplies, while Rong Zhuang privately considered taking over her shelter.
• Min Anqing led the group to a warehouse and disclosed that it contained a group of half-meter-long mutated mantises with blade-like forelegs.

Min Anqing’s group entered a warehouse to loot supplies, but discovered it was full of mantis eggs and were attacked by female mantises. Just as the mantises were about to kill Min Anqing, Shen Yi arrived and froze them, leaving her stunned by his power.

• Rong Zhuang and Xiao He agreed to help Min Anqing raid the warehouse in exchange for half the supplies, while Min Hao used his pheromones to lure the mutated mantises away.
• Min Anqing’s group entered the warehouse and began collecting supplies, but Rong Zhuang and Min Anqing found shelves covered in what appeared to be insect eggs.
• Female mantises emerged from the Black Fog and attacked; Rong Zhuang fled but was killed, while Min Anqing was cornered.
• Shen Yi left the Supermarket Shelter and appeared at the warehouse, freezing the mantises with a burst of ice.
• Min Anqing turned to Shen Yi and asked if he had frozen the mantises.