Chapter Summaries

Su Mo uncovered the secret behind Fertile Soil Ocean God's disappearing memories and claimed a carefully maximized set of rewards from the ruins assessment. After advancing to Ocean General, he chose to bless Hope, while resolving to find the Wasteland Ocean God before another memory extraction caused disaster.

• Fertile Soil Ocean God explained that his memories of each ascension challenge vanished after twenty to thirty days, and Su Mo learned that finding the Wasteland Ocean God was the only way to prevent a looming crisis.
• Su Mo used the system to assess the risk of altering his rewards and chose to maximize his haul without advancing his title beyond the Fifth Order.
• Su Mo claimed the rewards, including resources, cards, and advancement benefits, and became an Ocean General.
• Su Mo examined his new title's abilities, which included stronger attributes, underwater breathing, and authority over lower-ranked title bearers.
• Su Mo selected Hope to receive the Ocean God's vehicle blessing.

Su Mo watched Hope sink beneath the sea as the Ocean God’s blessing transformed it into a vessel that could travel underwater. Hope gained the legendary Flying ability, and a Legendary Ascension mission unlocked.

• Su Mo prayed for a useful ability as Hope began sinking rapidly beneath the surface.
• Su Mo raised the Warship Flag, which released a golden shield around Hope as the ship submerged.
• Su Mo saw marine creatures gather peacefully around the shielded Hope, while Moore excitedly rushed onto the deck.
• Su Mo opened Hope’s updated attributes and learned it had received the Ocean God’s Blessing and gained the Flying ability.
• The Game Panel announced that Hope’s Legendary Ascension mission had unlocked.

After the Ocean God’s blessing gave the Hope the ability to dive and two Legendary Rank abilities, Su Mo activated its Legendary Ascension mission and spent the rewards on a Medium-Sized Machine Tool and an upgraded Eternal Lamp. The lamp boosted the Hope’s completion progress to 48%, leaving it four percent short of fifty.

• Su Mo tested the Hope’s diving ability, then activated its Legendary Ascension mission, which required three billion living beings to feel awe toward the ship.
• Su Mo advanced the machine tool blueprint to Medium-Sized Rank and used the resource reward to begin manufacturing it and prepare materials for five guided R-3 missiles.
• The random item advancement upgraded the unused Eternal Lamp to Epic Rank, granting it powerful illumination and morale-affecting abilities.
• Su Mo installed and bound the Eternal Lamp above the Firepower King, and it increased the Hope’s completion progress by eight percent to 48%.

Su Mo assessed humanity’s worsening prospects in the tsunami and concluded that a Three Races War was the only way to break the deadlock. He left the chapter considering how difficult it would be to provoke the war on both sides.

• Su Mo worried that damaged ships would leave humanity vulnerable to Ocean Alien Races and that the Hope alone could not rescue everyone.
• Su Mo rejected the Game Panel’s offer to publicize the Hope’s top-ranked disaster resistance through a livestream.
• Su Mo read World Channel messages about surviving the tsunami, including reports of a healing fish and warnings about a predatory fleet.
• Su Mo concluded that only a Three Races War could offer humanity a chance to escape the deadlock.
• Su Mo recognized that the war would require most humans to fight the aliens and the alien races to face a compelling reason to fight back.

Su Mo pieced together most of the clues behind the early tsunami and concluded that capturing an ocean alien commander could reveal the evidence needed to avert a Three Races War. While survivors organized into fleets during longer rest periods, leaders aboard the Tundra argued over whether to abandon nearly five thousand people on raft fleets.

• Su Mo reasoned that the ocean alien race likely caused the tsunami to gain an advantage, and spent the night analyzing information about both alien factions.
• By seven o’clock, Su Mo had unraveled about seventy percent of the key clues and decided he needed to capture an ocean alien commander with a Shelter Core to uncover the final evidence.
• On the third day of the tsunami, the rest intervals were extended to one hour, and survivors increasingly joined together into fleets to resist the waves.
• A meeting began aboard the Tundra, where Zhang Long and other leaders argued that the raft fleets burdened their defenses and should be abandoned.
• The Tundra’s leaders noted that six ocean alien forces were following them and warned that the raft fleet’s nearly five thousand people could become a weakness.

Lu Yongyi faced pressure from the fleet captains to abandon the growing raft fleet, but he told them to wait a little longer. Meanwhile, Su Mo woke aboard the Hope with a key insight into the aliens’ original intention and ordered a scan.

• Zhang Long and the other captains argued that the Tundra Fleet should leave the raft survivors behind before the Ocean Alien Race attacked.
• The captains reminded Lu Yongyi that they would support his decision, whether he chose to wait, abandon the rafts, or fight.
• Lu Yongyi told the captains to wait a little longer.
• Su Mo woke after four hours of sleep and ordered Gonggong to use Firepower King and sonar to scan a specific direction.
• Su Mo wrote down his deductions and realized a crucial point about the Land Alien Race and Ocean Alien Race’s original intention.

Su Mo pieced together the Five Great Royal Clans’ Ocean Hunting Plan and realized they were targeting humanity to recover their losses as the Wasteland’s fortunes shifted. He decided to break their plan by triggering a three-race war and sent the Hope toward the nearby battlefield.

• Su Mo reasoned that the Five Great Royal Clans had devised the Ocean Hunting Plan to exploit humanity and recover their investment before the Wasteland’s changing balance brought them losses.
• Su Mo concluded that the royal clans had used the Welfare Disaster and tsunami to gather humanity, then maneuvered the Land Alien Race and Ocean Alien Race against one another while keeping humanity as the prize.
• Su Mo decided to provoke the ordinary aliens into attacking humanity before the seventh day, triggering a Three Races War and ending the tsunami before the royal clans could act.
• Gonggong detected biological combat reactions nearby, and Su Mo ordered the Hope to approach the battlefield and stop thirty kilometers away.
• Su Mo ordered Moore to the Cannon Room and vowed to make the aliens feel the Hope’s power.

Su Mo used Hope to rescue the Land Alien Race by shelling the Ocean Alien Race, and the Golden Haired Lion King’s livestreams made him a celebrated protector among alien races. By the fourth day, the Land Alien Race had regained its fighting spirit while the Five Great Royal Clans began to grow uneasy.

• Alien races flocked to the Disaster Resistance Channel when the Golden Haired Lion King began livestreaming, and Su Mo’s shell destroyed roughly three hundred Ocean Alien Race members threatening the Land Alien Race.
• Su Mo sent Connie to collect the treasure chests, and the Land Alien Race welcomed Hope’s crew as honored allies.
• The Golden Haired Lion King livestreamed again soon afterward, and two shells wiped out seven hundred Ocean Alien Race members while rescuing two hundred injured Land Alien Race members.
• Su Mo launched fourteen attacks and defeated more than seven thousand enemies, earning a Golden Box, nine Silver Boxes, and nearly fifty ordinary boxes.
• The Land Alien Race’s confidence surged, and it won tens of thousands of clashes against the Ocean Alien Race as human survivors enjoyed a safer night.
• When the tsunami ended and the fourth day arrived, the Five Great Royal Clans could no longer sit still.

Su Mo rejected Crystal Dragon’s offer and decided to turn the tsunami into a Three Races War, sending Lu Yongyi demands for humanity’s preparations. Lu Yongyi responded to the growing raft fleet by vowing to gather every raft and survivor.

• Connie told Su Mo that Crystal Dragon offered supplies, status, and recognition of the Ao Clan in exchange for stopping the Ocean Hunting Plan.
• Su Mo demanded that the Five Great Royal Clans recognize the Ao Clan as supreme over all alien races, then ended the call after Crystal Dragon refused.
• Su Mo concluded he could trigger the Three Races War and sent Lu Yongyi instructions to announce and reorganize the Ocean Hunting Plan, gather vessels and people, and fight alien provocations.
• At a meeting on the Tundra, Zhang Long reported that the fleet had grown to 11,852 rafts and 49,687 people, with numbers expected to keep rising.
• Lu Yongyi laughed at the officials’ alarm and declared that he would gather 25,000 rafts before the next day.

Lu Yongyi revealed that humanity could avert the final tsunami by fighting in the Three Races War, and he ordered an attack on the aliens surrounding the human fleet. Su Mo learned that the authorities had approved his proposal and were mobilizing hundreds of thousands of ships for the coming battle.

• Lu Yongyi calmed the captains and suggested the final tsunami might not come, prompting Zhang Long to realize humanity could fight the aliens instead.
• Lu Yongyi announced that official ships would receive orders and that humanity could resolve the tsunami disaster by fighting in the Three Races War.
• Lu Yongyi revealed a map showing more than seventy thousand humans surrounded by fewer than ten thousand aliens, then ordered the fleet to strike first.
• The captains began planning their attack as Lu Yongyi relayed Su Mo's proposal and the authorities' preparations, including plans to gather more than 80% of humanity within two days.
• Su Mo woke at eleven and read Lu Yongyi's six messages, learning that 694,800 official ships were being mobilized and that the battle might allow around 40% of humanity to reach the New Continent.

Official organizations began gathering survivors into regional assembly points as more than a thousand rafts joined into a stable Raft Ferry. Meanwhile, Su Mo’s Hope continued toward the Tundra Fleet, and he activated the fully charged medium-sized machine tool, earning a lottery opportunity for his exceptional survival odds.

• Official organizations announced that nearly seven hundred thousand vessels would gather survivors across 1,500 regions.
• In Region 816, survivors linked more than a thousand rafts together, forming a Raft Ferry that they upgraded with shared materials and Disaster Points.
• Several people on the Raft Ferry spotted a fast-moving vessel underwater, and their speculation about it spread into increasingly wild rumors.
• Su Mo surfaced the Hope after Gonggong reported no human activity within 200 kilometers and reviewed the machine tool’s capabilities and production plans.
• Su Mo fully charged and started the medium-sized machine tool, and the game awarded him one Medium lottery opportunity for having over a 99% chance of surviving the disaster.

Su Mo won the lottery’s grand vehicle prize and watched it advance into an Epic-grade Sun Chasing Yacht, which he left unclaimed in the game panel. He then began preparing five heavily enhanced R-3 Ballistic Missiles for the coming battle against the Five Great Royal Clans’ Evil Gods, as the final 55 hours began.

• Su Mo drew the Vehicles grand prize, and the game advanced the Ocean-Crossing Speedboat through Rare grade into an Epic-grade Sun Chasing Yacht.
• Su Mo inspected the yacht’s size and stored it in the game panel rather than claiming it, since he had no immediate way to use it.
• Su Mo fed the Intermediate Machine Tool materials for five R-3 Ballistic Missiles and decided to strengthen their warheads with explosives and Psionic Water.
• Su Mo had the alien grunts dismantle 500 shells while machinists produced TnT for the missiles.
• Su Mo started the 48-hour production of the five missiles, then returned to the Main Deck as Gonggong announced it was seven in the evening and only 55 hours remained.

On the eve of the Three Races War, Su Mo and the Hope crew shared a final feast while humanity’s fleets prepared for battle. The Tundra Fleet celebrated a stunning victory over the Ocean Alien Race, and four powerful human ships arrived in Ocean War Zone 001 after midnight.

• Su Mo invited Moore, Oreo, Connie, and the others to choose a final meal before Combat Readiness, then hosted a hot pot feast aboard the Hope.
• Su Mo climbed to the Hope’s fourth level and thought about the village, the Tundra Fleet, and the unknown capabilities of humanity’s large shelters.
• Lu Yongyi and the Tundra Fleet captains celebrated after their ships’ modern firearms routed the Ocean Alien Race, killing more than 7,000 enemies during the pursuit.
• Liu Neng and Zhang Long warned the captains that the fleet still needed defenses and training, while Lu Yongyi privately worried about the coming operations and resolved to hold out until meeting Su Mo.
• Four enormous human ships sailed into Ocean War Zone 001 shortly after midnight, with the largest brightly lit.

The Dragon Flag Shelter debated whether to deploy the Biological Specific Inhibitor against the alien races despite the risk that it could eventually harm humans. Dragon Leader approved the planned battle, and the chapter ended with Ruan Bo discovering that Dragon Leader’s folder contained the name Su Mo.

• Xie Yongqiang reported the war-zone deployments, ocean conditions, and experimental results to Dragon Leader and the other leaders.
• Five leaders urged Dragon Leader to deploy the inhibitor, while Jia Ruo argued that the decision should focus on humanity’s survival and future.
• After eating together, Dragon Leader approved the plan to coordinate with the other war zones and use the inhibitor.
• Ruan Bo explained that the inhibitor could suppress alien abilities but might mutate and become deadly to humans.
• Dragon Leader revealed that leaders across the wasteland were waiting for Su Mo, whose name Ruan Bo spotted in Dragon Leader’s folder.

Su Mo tested Hope One’s upgraded Rocket Propelled Grenades in battle and confirmed their power against the Ocean Alien Race. After Oreo suddenly sensed a major threat, Su Mo ordered the alien foot soldiers to stay still, but their bodies began transforming.

• Su Mo examined a Rare-grade Rocket Propelled Grenade and prepared to test Hope One’s launch module.
• Su Mo and Connie livestreamed a three-rocket attack on a clash between the Ocean Alien Race and Land Alien Race, then collected the spoils.
• Su Mo judged the launch module effective against ordinary alien races after the battle ended.
• Oreo rushed to Su Mo in alarm, prompting him to order the alien foot soldiers to crouch and remain motionless.
• Su Mo sent Li Li to fetch Moore, but the fourteen crouching alien foot soldiers began transforming.

Su Mo watched as aliens across the wasteland suddenly lost their special abilities, turning the balance of power in humanity’s favor. Human survivors celebrated their victories, while the chapter left Su Mo wondering whether humanity’s rapid rise would truly go as smoothly as it seemed.

• Su Mo ordered the surviving aliens to stay crouched and fired warning shots after three of their companions dried into corpses within seconds.
• Su Mo checked the World Channel and read reports of aliens losing their abilities as humans fought back and overwhelmed them.
• Human fleets slaughtered Fierce Tiger and Sea Serpent forces, while other formerly powerful alien races suffered similar reversals.
• Su Mo checked Connie’s alien panel and saw that most aliens at sea had died, including every alien with a rating below 0.5.
• Su Mo considered how humanity might rebuild civilization on the New Continent, then questioned whether events would unfold so easily.

Su Mo learned from Oreo that the inhibitor would repeatedly weaken and strengthen the aliens, eventually turning them into infectious, mindless monsters. He concluded humanity had to exploit the aliens’ current weakness and urgently contacted the upper echelons to coordinate an offensive.

• Su Mo questioned Moore about the isolated aliens and learned their recovery would depend on their former strength, followed by repeated cycles of weakening and replenishment.
• Moore explained that each cycle would strengthen the aliens, and creatures unable to endure later replenishments would become mindless monsters capable of infecting others through bites.
• Oreo predicted that the aliens would transform into monsters after four replenishments, while Su Mo realized their recovery would coincide with the coming war between the three races.
• Su Mo decided humanity should attack the weakened aliens before they recovered and urged the upper echelons to rally survivors into clearing their sea areas within two days.
• Lu Yongyi sent Su Mo the contact card for Long An Guo, the head of Dragon Flag Shelter, described as Huaxia’s strongest Official Shelter.

Su Mo contacted Long An Guo, director of Dragon Flag Shelter, to investigate whether trials of the Biological Specificity Inhibitor had revealed a danger to humanity. After reviewing the alien-race data, Su Mo warned that a disaster could arrive within two days and called for an immediate hunt to test whether affected creatures had regained their strength.

• Su Mo organized his concerns about the inhibitor and video-called Long An Guo instead of discussing them by text.
• Long An Guo showed Su Mo the inhibitor trial reports from six large shelters, including results from nearly thirty thousand alien subjects.
• Su Mo found that the only recorded anomaly involved a Fire Spider that regained strength by eating its own kind, then weakened again and was killed by other spiders.
• Su Mo noticed that the trial data showed no other recoveries and asked whether any creatures treated three days earlier were still alive.
• Long An Guo confirmed that his base held several such creatures, and Su Mo requested an immediate hunting squad to test whether their strength had returned.

Su Mo warned humanity that the aliens had been hiding their recovered strength and would soon retaliate, prompting the six large shelters to launch a coordinated offensive. Humanity won a bloody first strike, but aboard Hope, Su Mo realized that the aliens were rapidly regaining their powers.

• Su Mo learned that the aliens had feigned weakness until the researchers attacked, then struck back, and he warned Long An Guo that their strength would recover and casualties could reach 45%.
• Su Mo urged the shelters to attack before the aliens could retaliate, and Long An Guo coordinated the warning across the wasteland ocean.
• Su Mo ordered Lu Yongyi to have the Tundra Fleet kill nearby aliens and delay any counterattack until the fleets could meet.
• Lu Yongyi used the drawing board to locate the alien groups and led the Tundra Fleet in a surprise assault that killed tens of thousands.
• The six shelters coordinated a general offensive, and humanity killed nearly 20% of the alien population while gaining strength and confidence.
• Su Mo watched Wolf Three demonstrate his enhanced strength and Wind Blade, then grew alarmed at how quickly the aliens were recovering.

Su Mo prepared Hope Village and himself for the coming war as the Ocean Alien Race recovered its strength. The Human Destiny Community Headquarters announced that humanity must choose whether to flee or fight, while the aliens coordinated faster and began moving toward an attack.

• Su Mo ordered Moore, Li Li, and Connie to monitor the aliens, investigate their strength gains, and blame the inhibitor on the Ocean Alien Race.
• Su Mo warned Chen Shen about the threat and instructed Hope Village to assist survivors cautiously, recruit screened people with talents, and let no human group climb the mountain.
• Su Mo inspected three completed R-3 Ballistic Missiles and decided he had to wait for divisions among the aliens to create an opening.
• On March 8, the Human Destiny Community Headquarters released a letter presenting survivors with the choice to flee or fight, and the World Channel filled with arguments and pleas.
• Humanity’s information cocoons prevented its factions from uniting, while the Ocean Alien Race quickly agreed to attack humans and regain strength.