Chapter Summaries

Su Mo prepared for another calamity and used the Hope’s sea-breeze blessing, the Thought Ring, and carefully controlled wind and water to defend the ship from the Ocean Downpour. He survived the assault with the Hope losing only 24% durability.

• Su Mo glimpsed a mysterious figure wearing an old-fashioned pocket watch around his ankle before returning to the Hope’s cockpit.
• Su Mo powered and anchored the Hope, adjusted the Gong Gong System, and drank three bottles of Maotai to steady his courage.
• As the calamity began, Su Mo shaped opposing winds into a typhoon barrier that kept the rain away from the Hope for nearly fifteen minutes.
• Su Mo used the Thought Ring to control additional currents and raised eighteen walls of water around the Fire Control Radar.
• The Ocean Downpour shattered the typhoon barrier and most of the water walls, but the last three held long enough for the assault to weaken.
• Su Mo checked the Game Panel and laughed when he saw that the Hope had lost only 24% durability.

Su Mo repaired the Hope to full durability, tested its systems, and sailed toward the Great Canyon, expecting to face the foreign race. Finding no enemies there, he realized their twenty thousand fighters were likely targeting his Underground Shelter while he was away.

• Rebirth restored the Hope to 100% durability, and Gong Gong successfully launched it into the sea.
• Su Mo inspected the ship, confirmed its systems were working, and authorized Gong Gong to sail at maximum speed to the Great Canyon.
• The Hope passed both suspected ambush points without detecting any foreign-race fighters.
• Su Mo concluded that the foreign race had left the canyon clear to lure him away and attack his Underground Shelter.

After deducing that powerful human figures had arranged for twenty thousand aliens to attack Hope Village and destroy his Shelter Core, Su Mo decided to hunt down the plotters and the aliens instead of abandoning his core. He began planning how to locate the scattered tribes before the Ocean Disaster arrived.

• Su Mo left the Talisman Paper World after realizing the aliens’ plan was designed to force him to abandon his Shelter Core or let Hope Village be destroyed.
• Su Mo deduced that the twenty thousand aliens were scattered far from the lowlands and would assemble shortly before the disaster, while human leaders secretly expected him to fall.
• Su Mo resolved to kill the aliens and the people conspiring against him, then returned to the Underground Shelter and began drafting a plan.
• Su Mo determined that he needed long-range Radio Stations, upgraded Old Phones, and a code to locate and track the alien tribes.
• Su Mo found Radio Stations on the Trading Market and planned to use the Future World to tune them and transmit brief messages in thirty directions.

Su Mo tested Pei Shao’s loyalty, appointed him as Hope Village’s intelligence captain, and assigned him a covert mission to track the foreign races before the Waterfall Rainstorm. Afterward, Su Mo planned a powerful ship-mounted weapon and activated the Creation Lottery in hopes of obtaining a cannon.

• Su Mo questioned Pei Shao’s loyalty, and Pei Shao declared he would accept any mission and obey Su Mo’s orders.
• Su Mo gave Pei Shao a rifle and showed him radio equipment, explaining that village communications might fail.
• Su Mo ordered Pei Shao to prepare the Dihu and trusted companions, scout one direction for foreign races, and send their changing locations by radio before the disaster arrived.
• Pei Shao accepted the mission and promised to keep their conversation secret.
• Su Mo planned an area-of-effect weapon for the Hope, sketched a cannon, and activated the Creation Lottery.

Su Mo spent Survival Points drawing cards in the Void Space, seeking a powerful weapon for the Hope. After risking 11,000 points, he drew a card that resonated with the Hope and revealed a Level One Destroyer.

• Su Mo drew a Powerful Fishing Boat but rejected it because he needed weapons, not supplies.
• Su Mo drew a Fletcher-class Destroyer and weighed its anti-aircraft guns against its Mk-12 naval guns.
• Su Mo sensed that the Hope was calling him toward a particular card and continued drawing despite his dwindling Survival Points.
• Su Mo spent 11,000 points before the tenth card glowed and the Hope surged toward it.
• Su Mo revealed the final card and recognized the Level One Destroyer as the vessel he had operated in his dreams.

Su Mo equipped Hope with the Destruction Main Cannon and prepared ammunition and the Earth Tiger for the coming voyage while Hope Village developed and stocked materials for disaster-protection sales. With the disaster three days away, Su Mo planned to reveal its information the next morning and begin his long-awaited counterattack.

• Su Mo selected the Destruction Main Cannon for Hope and added identifying Curse Tiger Clark to his voyage objectives.
• Su Mo produced the first cannon shell and trained Bionic Mechanoids to manufacture ammunition while Pei Shao modified the Earth Tiger for off-road travel.
• Chen Shen reported that Hope Village had developed Energy Absorption Gel, and Su Mo approved large-scale purchases of White Sap Tree raw materials.
• Hope Village bought most of the available White Sap Tree stock and prepared to begin mass production and sales after Su Mo announced the disaster information.
• Su Mo returned to the shelter, noted that only three days remained before the disaster, and anticipated beginning his plan the next day.

As Su Mo slept through the start of the thunderstorm, Hope Village worked through the night preparing Energy Absorption Gel, while Tundra Shelter gathered its people to inspect the enormous sailing battleship it had built. Tundra Shelter’s ship showed how far the shelter had recovered, and the chapter ended by pointing to the man behind its rise.

• Su Mo fell into a deep sleep as a thunderstorm began, and Hope Village villagers worked through the night making and packing Energy Absorption Gel.
• Tundra Shelter villagers walked through the storm to a hill sheltering their new ship, then entered in an orderly line to see it.
• Tundra Shelter had grown to 780 people and dozens of new houses since its split with Ying Tianlong.
• The narration described the wasteland’s shipbuilding tiers, from rafts and sandboats to sailing battleships.
• Tundra Shelter’s wooden sailing battleship measured 61 meters in deck length and displaced 1,500 tons.
• The chapter revealed that a man behind Tundra Shelter had made the ship’s construction possible.

Lu Yongyi and Tundra Shelter’s managers planned how to recruit Su Mo to join them at sea, while Su Mo trained and prepared for the journey. The chapter left Su Mo facing rising floodwaters as the storm continued and his intelligence team’s long trip became more difficult.

• Lu Yongyi learned that Shen Ke had completed Su Mo’s trade for explosive formulas and ordered the shelter to handle all of Su Mo’s future trade requests immediately.
• Lu Yongyi asked Shen Ke whether she had persuaded Su Mo to accept Tundra Shelter’s offer of reserved seats, and she said he had repeatedly declined her hints.
• Tundra Shelter’s managers debated how to invite Su Mo to join them, and Lu Yongyi told them to write recruitment plans for a vote.
• Su Chan worried that Su Mo would arrive on a raft while Tundra Shelter had a battleship, and the managers remained unaware that he was training in his Underground Shelter.
• Su Mo discovered his maximum strength had risen to 235 kilograms, trained for an hour and a half, and collected more than 2,000 Survival Points.
• Su Mo went outside in a waterproof Combat Suit and saw standing water spreading across the wasteland, threatening his intelligence team’s journey of more than 1,500 kilometers.

Su Mo prepared Pei Shao and the upgraded Earth Tiger for an expedition to map foreign races, then returned to the chat channels after a long absence. He announced that a disaster would arrive in three days, leaving the Area Channel in an uproar before he moved to the World Channel to make his announcement.

• Su Mo upgraded the Earth Tiger, sent Pei Shao a message to collect it, and prepared him to investigate the area around the depression.
• Su Mo cleaned his workbench and checked the Area Channel, where he saw that 001 Channel ranked first in global human combat power.
• Su Mo read messages from Liang Jian, Cai Junfeng, Sun Xian, and others, then announced that the disaster was three days away.
• The Area Channel erupted with reactions to Su Mo's return, and Su Mo left it and switched to the World Channel.

With three days remaining before the Ocean Disaster, Su Mo saw that desperation had driven survivors toward violence and betrayal, then used the World Channel to warn everyone about the catastrophic downpour and reef attacks. After his warning spread, he sent Pei Shao out from the depression toward the twelve o’clock direction and ordered him not to return until told.

• Su Mo reviewed the World Channel and concluded that disorder, looting, and collusion with alien races had spread as survivors lost faith in organized support.
• Su Mo posted a World Channel notice promising to share information about humanity’s survival, drawing the entire wasteland’s attention.
• Su Mo described the Ocean Downpour’s extreme rainfall, ten-second Waterfall Rainstorm, and reef attacks, prompting survivors to react with shock and rush to prepare.
• Su Mo waited as the World Channel resumed, satisfied that his warning had reached everyone, and kept his final message unused.
• Su Mo told Pei Shao to leave the depression in the twelve o’clock direction and not return until he gave an order.

Su Mo used Connie’s access to the foreign-race chat to exploit their growing panic and division over his return and the coming Ocean Descent Disaster. As the Five Great Royal Clans faced accusations and infighting, Su Mo agreed to let Connie intensify the conflict.

• Su Mo considered how his disaster warning had influenced survivors and decided he needed to ensure the foreign races still carried out their planned attack.
• Su Mo brought Connie to the Hope and connected to her foreign-race panel to inspect the World Chat.
• Connie explained that Clark’s propaganda had convinced the foreign races that Su Mo would be killed, but his warning about the disaster had now shaken their confidence.
• Foreign races argued over whether Su Mo’s warning was true, while Snowy Flying Bear accused the Five Great Royal Clans of failing to kill him and possibly deceiving their allies.
• Su Mo watched the foreign races turn against one another, and Connie offered to fuel the dispute; Su Mo told her to proceed.

Su Mo used Connie to intensify the crisis of trust among the Five Great Royal Clans, pushing the alien attack toward open conflict, then contacted Chen Shen's group by shortwave radio. He returned through the Light Gate with the final piece of information he needed before setting out to sea.

• Su Mo reasoned that human spies had pitched an attack plan to the Five Great Royal Clans, and Clark's public boast had trapped the clans into following through.
• Connie changed her nickname to Golden Haired Lion King and provoked Crystal Dragon, Yuan Pig, and the Five Great Royal Clans in world chat.
• Su Mo encouraged Connie, told her to call him Director, and sent her back to learn from Oreo while he prepared for the voyage.
• Su Mo tuned the PRC-2090 radio to fourteen megahertz and overheard Pei Shao and Wei He discussing the Earth Tiger.
• Su Mo used the Heaven Stealing Secret talisman and a timed Light Gate to return to the Captain's Cabin with the final location information.

Hope Village’s villagers anxiously awaited the results of their enormous investment in White Sap Tree sap, while Su Yuan and Chen Kai discussed their faith in Su Mo. When Pei Shao returned from a mission, Su Yuan’s riddle led him to believe Su Mo had been trying to flush out foreign enemies and a possible mole.

• Su Yuan worried that his 95% contribution of stored food would be lost, and Chen Kai reassured him by recalling how Su Mo had once saved them from starvation.
• Chen Kai pointed out the celebratory smell of beef-and-carrot buns steaming on the mountain, and Su Yuan took it as a sign that the investment had gone well.
• The intelligence team returned to Hope Village in the Earth Tiger, and Pei Shao arrived distracted after completing his mission.
• Su Yuan told Pei Shao to sniff the air, prompting Pei Shao to conclude that Su Mo had used the rain and driving route to flush out foreign enemies and conceal a possible mole.
• Pei Shao invited Su Yuan to join the intelligence organization, but Su Yuan declined and then noticed that Su Mo had arrived.

Su Mo learned that Chen Shen had prepared an alien blessing and praised Hope Village’s preparations as the village’s Energy Absorption Gel business brought in huge profits. With the Ocean Disaster approaching, he organized the final tasks before departure and planned to reunite with his little sister during the voyage.

• Su Mo smelled a new blessing near Iron Stone Mountain and was pleased that Chen Shen had arranged a surprise for him.
• Su Mo praised the villagers’ work and promised a communal feast with plenty of meat, boosting their morale.
• Su Mo reviewed Hope Village’s Energy Absorption Gel earnings and scheduled the remaining preparations for the 19th through the 21st before the Ocean Disaster arrived.
• Su Mo wrote down a ten-day voyage mission to pick up his little sister and looked forward to their reunion.
• Chen Shen told Su Mo that the village had earned a 897% return so far and said the villagers had planned a going-away present for him.

Su Mo learned that Hope Village had used a Trading Market loophole to obtain a blessed object, and he approved buying more blessings as a possible business. After hearing that Pei Shao’s team had uncovered an ambush of 23,400 members of other races, Su Mo praised the intelligence work, then returned from the feast reflecting on Hope Village’s future.

• Chen Shen explained how sellers could use the Trading Market’s inspection period to have another race bless an item, and Su Mo approved the purchase and suggested having Connie sell blessings.
• Su Mo learned from Pei Shao that 23,400 members of other races had gathered in three forces around the depression to ambush the area.
• Su Mo praised Pei Shao’s intelligence work, and Pei Shao interpreted his remarks as a lesson in keeping intelligence confidential.
• Su Mo ate and drank with Chen Shen, Pei Shao, Zhong Qingshu, and villagers at the communal feast, then headed back with meat for Oreo and the others.
• Walking home, Su Mo envisioned the depression becoming an independent kingdom and Hope Village growing into a town and city where human civilization could take root.

Su Mo reviewed humanity’s preparations for the approaching disaster, spoke with Shen Ke, and agreed to join Tundra Shelter’s expedition aboard his own ship. After Shen Ke sent him the Huaxia authorities’ complete attack plan, he condensed its 8,500 words into four stages.

• Su Mo saw that Chen Shen had published the Energy Absorption Gel formula and that Huaxia shelters were gathering White Sap Tree colloid to help people survive the disaster.
• Su Mo called Shen Ke and learned that Tundra Shelter had grown to more than eight hundred people, with refugees collecting colloid across the plain.
• Su Mo agreed to join Shen Ke’s expedition aboard his own ship, Hope, and said he would meet Tundra Shelter at sea with five others, including his pets.
• Su Mo asked Shen Ke about humanity’s attack plan, and she forwarded the complete plan from the Huaxia authorities.
• Su Mo read the plan and summarized it under four stages: arrive at the front, divide the battlefield, fight on their own, and turn the tables.

Su Mo and Zhong Qingshu analyzed humanity’s naval attack plan and questioned why its three key war zones were expected to win. Their reasoning led Su Mo to a daring theory about the 1st War Zone, which he planned to verify at sea.

• Su Mo wrote down the Human Attack Plan’s strict requirements for shelters to participate.
• Su Mo invited Zhong Qingshu to the Underground Shelter and showed her the plan’s simplified and original versions.
• Zhong Qingshu identified the plan’s divided fronts and questioned how the 1st, 5th, and 12th War Zones could secure victory.
• Su Mo and Zhong Qingshu weighed the risks across the war zones and proposed three reasons the 1st War Zone might accept its dangerous position.
• Su Mo connected those possibilities to terrain he had glimpsed in the Shan Hai Painting and formed a daring theory.
• Su Mo considered his route around the war zones, replied to Shen Ke about their rendezvous, and went to sleep on the second-to-last day before the disaster.

Su Mo prepared Hope Village for his departure by arranging supplies, weapons, and lifeboats, then toured places tied to his past. He returned to Iron Stone Mountain to find the villagers had decorated it to celebrate his voyage.

• Su Mo read the disaster-preparation discussions, checked the market and his rewards, and identified a weak Lizardman blessing stone that could grant Hope a durability-recovery blessing.
• Su Mo made four excellent-grade lifeboats, arranged for supplies to be loaded onto Hope, and left Hope Village a large stockpile of firearms, ammunition, and explosives.
• Su Mo drove around his territory, loaded traded goods onto Hope, poured Maotai over the buried Deep Sea Shelter in memory of Ma Gu, and repaired its upper level.
• Su Mo revisited the Saltpeter Mine, the ruined Lizardman camp, Kobold Castle, old Candlelight Village, and other places from his past.
• Su Mo returned to Iron Stone Mountain and found the villagers had decorated the entrance and hung a banner celebrating his voyage as a small step for him and a giant leap for Hope Village.

Su Mo presided over Hope Village’s second general assembly, where the management reported the settlement’s progress and he revealed a vast arsenal of weapons he would leave behind. Before departing, he suspended production duties and gave the villagers a long vacation to study and strengthen Hope Village until he returned for them.

• Su Mo walked through Hope Village and arrived at the assembly platform, where Chen Shen opened the meeting and Hong Kangcheng reported that their food supplies could theoretically feed all 145 villagers for three years and seven months.
• Qi Qin and the other managers reported on the militia, weapons, disaster defenses, and the village’s rapid growth.
• Su Mo had militiamen display twenty Type 80 General Purpose Machine Guns, thirty M-1 Rifles, sixty K-1 Handguns, ammunition, and two flat lifeboats, which he left for the village to defend its interests.
• Su Mo suspended production duties from midnight and ordered the villagers to spend their long vacation studying combat techniques, technology, and shelter development.
• Su Mo left the assembly to return to the mountaintop, and the villagers cheered as they celebrated their new weapons and time off.

Su Mo finished moving his supplies aboard the Hope, sealed the Underground Shelter, and completed preparations for the coming disaster and his departure. As the villagers gave him a tearful farewell, he promised to return and told them to guard the lowland.

• Su Mo spent his final night in the Underground Shelter sorting his belongings, bathing, and sleeping in his old bed.
• Su Mo moved the remaining supplies and equipment onto the Hope, then used the system to seal the Underground Shelter beneath steel plates.
• Su Mo and Moore and Connie coated the Hope with Energy Absorption Gel, assembled a safe house, and finished preparing the ship for the disaster.
• The villagers gathered beneath the Hope, gave Su Mo a meal of handmade dumplings, and shouted their farewells.
• Su Mo cried out that the villagers should stay safe and guard the lowland, and they promised to wait for his return.