Chapter Summaries

Su Mo completed a long negotiation with Adam, passed the game's inspection, and returned to the Hope with a trust license and rewards secured. After sleeping, he began planning to recruit talented survivors and found a warm reminder of home among his companions on the ship.

• Su Mo bargained with Adam for several hours, secured the final rewards, and exchanged a handshake with him before returning to the Hope.
• Su Mo learned that the inspection had lasted a day, realized the game relied on data to detect abnormalities, and went to sleep after ordering Gonggong to stand alert.
• The exhausted Tundra Fleet survivors slept through the day, while Su Mo woke in the afternoon and decided to recruit talented people from among the fleet's more than one hundred thousand survivors.
• Su Mo went downstairs and found Shen Ke cooking with Su Chan and Moore, whose kitchen scene reminded him of his childhood home.
• Su Mo helped fan the stove with Sea Breeze Blessing, then went to wash up feeling grateful for his life.

After the battle, Su Mo invited the fleet’s captains to join him on the New Continent and began recruiting survivors with exceptional talents. The first screening identified hundreds of candidates, and Su Mo prepared to lead roughly a thousand people in building a human stronghold.

• Su Mo summoned the captains to a meal and announced that he planned to recruit talented survivors for the New Continent; nearly everyone except Lu Yongyi volunteered.
• Su Mo allowed each recruit three family-member slots and said he would issue guidelines before holding a recruitment-planning session.
• The Tundra Fleet announced a celebratory banquet and recruitment drive, prompting survivors to report their skills and prepare for the event.
• Zhang Long presented Su Mo with the first talent rankings: more than thirty S-rank candidates, 129 A-rank candidates, and about 400 S-, A-, and B-rank candidates combined.
• Su Mo approved the initial screening, ordered strict verification of applicants’ qualifications, and changed into his Lamellar Armor as he considered building a human stronghold on the New Continent.

Su Mo welcomed the first twenty-seven S-Class Talents aboard Hope and tasked Shen Ke with assigning their dormitories. As the new crew settled in, Su Mo recognized their scientific potential and envisioned them helping transform the Lowland into a wasteland holy land.

• At Su Mo’s request, Zhang Long confirmed the selected S-Class Talents were eager to board despite Hope’s unfinished, unfurnished rooms.
• The first twenty-seven S-Class Talents climbed aboard Hope, changed out of their filthy clothes, and followed Liu Neng through the warship.
• Su Mo warmly greeted the new arrivals, explained they would build their own living and leisure areas, and asked Shen Ke to arrange their dormitories.
• After Su Mo left, the crew discussed the ship’s stability and speculated about the forces behind it.
• Su Mo listened to their scientific discussion, realized they had spoken partly for his benefit, and decided their research team could help develop the Lowland.

On the morning after the disaster officially ended, Su Mo inspected Hope, checked on the imprisoned alien specimens, and shared a meal with the new arrivals before their promised reward was due. At eight o’clock, everyone’s Game Panel erupted with the long-awaited update.

• Survivors across the Wasteland rose early and worked hard while watching the site where five meteors had appeared.
• Su Mo reviewed the surveillance footage, then secretly inspected Wolf Three and the other alien specimens, noting that Wolf Three was weakening ahead of schedule.
• Su Mo reassured Lu Yongyi that the reward was coming and hinted at it with a V sign, while Lu Yongyi discussed the new arrivals’ potential and their future roles.
• Su Mo and the crew began their first meal aboard Hope, and the assembled survivors kept checking the time as eight o’clock approached.
• At eight o’clock, everyone’s Game Panel exploded with a resounding boom.

As the sixth disaster ended, the game announced new population, player classification, and world-stage updates before distributing rewards. Su Mo upgraded the Hope to Lv6 and chose Individual Enhancement, then discovered an unexpected benefit among his special ability options.

• The game projected Su Mo and the Hope to all players, and Su Mo dispersed the clouds with a wave as reward notices began.
• The game reported that over 3.2 billion people had died, announced upcoming population deployment and a restart of player level classifications, and revealed that the New Continent phase had begun.
• Players chose between upgrading their Shelter or receiving a reset opportunity; ferry crews upgraded their vessels, while people without cores received a chance to start over.
• Su Mo chose the Shelter upgrade, bringing the Hope to Lv6, while many other players selected a complete core or upgraded their shelters.
• The game offered Individual, Vehicle, or Building Enhancement as the next reward, and Su Mo urged the Hope's crew to choose Individual Enhancement.
• Su Mo examined his rolled special abilities and realized that passing the game's review had brought him an unexpected benefit.

Su Mo chose the Scientific Talent ability, then humanity received rewards that included luck-based tasks and privileges to reduce disasters or aid settlers on the New Continent. The chapter ended with survivors celebrating the chance to establish roots on the New Continent.

• Su Mo rejected Rapid Acceleration and Animal Communication, chose Scientific Talent, and felt his concentration and memory improve.
• The game issued the third Platinum-Level reward, offering players Gamble Luck or eligible shelter leaders Govern the Stars.
• Players chose their luck reward, with ordinary survivors selecting Gamble Luck and setting tasks for daily lucky bags.
• The game announced Reproduce and Thrive, which reduced disaster severity for players near the New Continent for 270 days.
• The game announced the Pioneer privilege for players who landed on the New Continent within thirty days, and survivors celebrated humanity's chance to put down roots.

Survivors chose whether to head for the New Continent or seek safety in the deep sea, while Su Mo claimed his personal disaster rewards and opened treasure chests. His new Treasure Chest Master title helped him obtain the first fragment of Aladdin’s Magic Flying Carpet, leaving him with the prospect of collecting the rest.

• After the rewards were distributed, official captains warned survivors about the New Continent, and most shelter groups decided to head for the deep sea.
• Su Mo ordered the Tundra crew to renovate their quarters, then agreed to have lunch with Lu Yongyi.
• Su Mo claimed an Epic-Level Shelter entry bonus, cores, a five-star Terrain Modification Card, and five points added to all his attributes.
• Su Mo opened a Rare-Level treasure chest and found another Pointing Needle, a wrench, and a damaged fragment of Aladdin’s Magic Flying Carpet.
• Su Mo opened ten Gold Treasure Chests at once, earned the Rare-Level Treasure Chest Master title, and used its Bonds draw to obtain Part 1 of the Magic Flying Carpet.

Su Mo opened Gold Treasure Chests and collected four parts of Aladdin's Magic Flying Carpet, concluding that the missing Part 4 was essential to making it fly. He decided to hunt nearby foreign races for supplies and a chance to obtain the final part, then joined Lu Yongyi aboard the Tundra to plan an attack.

• Su Mo opened Gold Treasure Chests and found Part 5, a Fine-quality carpet fragment that could adjust its size and buffer impacts.
• After several unsuccessful rounds, Su Mo found Part 3, which enhanced its holder's strength and speed and shielded them from gravity.
• Su Mo decided his remaining treasure chests were unlikely to yield the crucial Part 4, so he planned to take the Hope out to hunt foreign races.
• Gonggong reported that the nearest foreign-race activity had been detected 195 kilometers away, and Su Mo went to the Tundra to speak with Lu Yongyi.
• Su Mo proposed attacking the foreign races before departure, and Lu Yongyi eagerly agreed to fight.

Su Mo led the Tundra Fleet on a high-speed overnight campaign, using the Hope’s cannons to destroy alien forces while human crews collected the spoils. After the fleet killed about 160,000 aliens without casualties, Su Mo suspected the game would intervene if he continued and decided not to push his luck.

• The Tundra Fleet set out under Su Mo’s command, with Lu Yongyi coordinating the ships and rafts as they sped north toward alien gathering places.
• Su Mo told the captains that the survivors would collect spoils rather than join the fighting, and the fleet began attacking alien groups with shells from the Hope.
• The Hope destroyed alien forces throughout the night while dispatched crews gathered materials and chests from each battlefield.
• After the fleet annihilated about 160,000 aliens without human casualties, Su Mo ended the hunt and led everyone to collect the spoils.
• Su Mo watched the crews celebrate and reassured Oreo that he was not addicted to killing, while suspecting the game would intervene if he continued the campaign.

After the battle, Su Mo reviewed the approaching game update and the survivors’ haul, then prepared to open the Gold Treasure Chests for the magic carpet’s final component. His twenty-three-chest draw produced a massive pillar of golden light, but the reward was not yet revealed.

• Su Mo slept after the battle and checked the update preview, learning that most game functions would close for fourteen days after noon the next day.
• Su Mo read Chen Shen’s report on Hope Village’s supplies and new refugees, including fifteen retired soldiers, then reviewed Lu Yongyi’s report on the returning survivors and treasure chests.
• Su Mo divided the treasure chests, keeping all 42 Gold Treasure Chests, 224 Silver Treasure Chests, and 2,000 Bronze and Black Iron Treasure Chests while leaving other supplies for the survivors.
• Su Mo collected the Gold Treasure Chests from the Tundra and returned to the captain’s cabin to try to obtain the magic carpet’s final component.
• Su Mo’s first four chest draws yielded no promising result, so he opened twenty-three chests at once and triggered a huge pillar of golden light.

Su Mo found the final piece of Aladdin's Magic Flying Carpet and repaired the complete carpet for free after discounts and a lottery reward. The carpet became an Epic- item with powerful flight and passive bonuses, though its proxy genie ability remained locked and the game imposed restrictions on combat use.

• Su Mo identified the pristine fifth component as Part 4, which could fly for thirty seconds even while incomplete.
• Su Mo assembled all five parts, and the game applied stacked discounts and a lottery reward that made the repair free.
• Su Mo chose to repair the carpet immediately, and the five pieces fused into a large, radiant magic carpet.
• The game warned Su Mo that the carpet could not be used in combat and would disintegrate if he exceeded its battle-use limits.
• Su Mo appraised the repaired carpet and learned it could fly for five minutes at 100 meters, move at 20 meters per second, and grant him magical attribute and recovery bonuses.

Su Mo examined the treasure chest rewards and outlined machinery, medicine, and biological engineering as priorities for rebuilding civilization in the basin. He stored his research notes as the system update approached its final minutes.

• Su Mo tested the epic-grade magic carpet’s shrinking and concealment abilities, then set it aside while the Tundra Fleet watched.
• Su Mo cataloged the treasure chest rewards, including seventeen resource cards and numerous manifestation cards, and decided that exploring former Yan Country ruins would be more useful for base development.
• Su Mo considered humanity’s limited time to advance technology and hoped the upcoming billion-level system function would help upgrade civilization.
• Su Mo wrote plans to prioritize machinery and medicine, while also researching biological engineering, human-machine control, and adaptability to extreme environments.
• Su Mo stored his notes in his Storage Space and saw that only four minutes remained on the system update timer.

After the system recognized Su Mo as humanity’s spiritual leader, it unlocked Civilization Upgrade, a function that let him advance humanity through technological eras by meeting set conditions. Su Mo saw that the Stone Age requirements were almost complete and resolved to reach the New Continent and pursue the path back to the Information Age.

• The system completed its billion-level update, disabling Creation, Training Ground, and Modification while adding Civilization Upgrade.
• Su Mo read that more than ninety percent of humanity acknowledged him and learned that his leadership had triggered the system’s early leap-style upgrade.
• Su Mo discovered that Civilization Upgrade could raise humanity’s era and give designated people lasting mastery of technologies, while Wonders could improve his people’s attributes.
• Su Mo saw that the Stone Age’s first four conditions were already met and that building a qualifying twenty-meter statue remained.
• Su Mo found Territory Upgrade locked and decided to use the Ocean God Envoy Experience Card after the next game update, settle matters with the Ocean God, and head to the New Continent.

As the Tundra Fleet prepared to scatter ahead of the game’s update, Lu Yongyi presented Su Mo with a communicator and named him Honorary Chairman of the Human Destiny Community. Su Mo accepted humanity’s promise to unite and aid him when he called, and the fleet’s gathering resumed its celebration.

• The Tundra Fleet’s survivors received shares of supplies from treasure chests and gathered on deck to discuss their hopes and plans.
• Lu Yongyi told Su Mo that Dragon Leader had sent him a rare bottle of liquor, then presented him with a communicator on behalf of the Human Destiny Community.
• Lu Yongyi explained that the community had made Su Mo its Honorary Chairman, giving him the right to call on humanity’s forces for help with one matter.
• Lu Yongyi pointed out how the captains, crewmen, guards, and other survivors showed their goodwill toward Su Mo, explaining that his influence had grown beyond his personal control.
• Su Mo accepted the honor and the communicator, and the tense crowd relaxed and resumed its lively gathering.

Su Mo and Su Chan tested the magic carpet’s ability to fly before the Tundra Fleet departed, and Su Mo prepared Hope Village for his long absence. When he discovered Zhong Qingshu had vanished without answering messages, his attempts to locate her failed, leaving her whereabouts unknown.

• Su Mo returned to Hope after feasting with Lu Yongyi and planned to part from the Tundra Fleet the next morning.
• Su Mo showed Su Chan that the magic carpet could fly, and they rode it above Hope before its five-minute power limit ran out.
• Su Mo told Hope Village’s managers he would be away for at least half a month, canceled plans to gather more survivors, and warned them to be cautious around people traveling toward the New Continent.
• Su Mo learned Zhong Qingshu had left two days earlier to find someone and had not replied to messages, though her avatar remained lit.
• Su Mo asked Oreo to sense whether Zhong Qingshu was in danger, then used a Pointing Needle to search for her, but it failed because she was beyond its range.

Su Mo prepared to leave the Tundra Fleet behind, sent messages to Zhong Qingshu, and organized rewards for the Hope’s crew before the game update began. As the world entered a 14-day update and the game functions went offline, he summoned the Ocean God Envoy Experience Card.

• Su Mo confirmed that the Pointing Needle could not locate Zhong Qingshu beyond its range and decided to wait for her or seek a higher-grade tracking item.
• Su Mo announced the Hope’s departure for the New Continent, and the fleet left after he and Lu Yongyi exchanged farewells.
• Su Mo told Gonggong to keep the Hope stationed in place during the update and sent Zhong Qingshu messages with travel details.
• Su Mo bought useful goods on the Trading Market and announced food rewards for the crew’s plans to fortify the depression.
• The game began a 336-hour update, its functions went offline, and Su Mo summoned the Ocean God Envoy Experience Card.

Su Mo used Fertile Soil Ocean God's power to locate Ocean God in the sea of stars, then connected the clue to a rocket hidden in a mysterious military base. He planned a covert trip to retrieve it and summoned the Sun Chasing Yacht to assess it for the journey.

• Su Mo absorbed the Ocean God Envoy's power and used Fertile Soil Ocean God's breathing technique to locate Ocean God above the wasteland.
• Su Mo realized that a rocket hidden in the Expeditionary Force's mysterious military base might let him reach Ocean God in the sky.
• Su Mo used Gonggong to map the base's location and learned it was 1,335 kilometers away, a journey of about 21 hours on Hope.
• Su Mo decided to consider taking the Sun Chasing Yacht to keep his trip concealed and summoned it from the Storage Space.
• The Sun Chasing Yacht assembled on the sea as a two-level vessel more than thirteen meters long.

Su Mo discovered that the Sun Chasing Yacht was an epic vessel powered by light, with powerful self-repair and upgrade potential. After learning its controls and testing its speed, he decided to copy Gonggong’s backup into it and set off for the New Continent.

• Su Mo witnessed Wu Yuan’s story, in which he shot down seven of nine suns and wounded an eighth before collapsing aboard the Sun Chasing Yacht.
• Su Mo appraised the yacht and learned that it could absorb light for power, sail silently, repair itself, and eventually be upgraded into other kinds of vehicles.
• Su Mo inspected the yacht’s light-charging power source and modern cockpit, then started the vessel and was thrown from his seat by its sudden acceleration.
• Su Mo tested the yacht by circling Hope and decided to install a backup of Gonggong so he could use its Automatic Driving System on the journey.
• Su Mo chose to leave for the New Continent soon and study the yacht during the trip, preserving time to repair the rocket and prepare for its launch.

Su Mo prepared to leave the Hope for a two-day trip to the ruins aboard the Sun Chaser, setting strict security orders and arranging supplies before departing. The yacht set course under Gong Gong’s control, while Su Mo began studying the scientific manuals he had brought along.

• Su Mo summoned the Hope’s senior officers, ordered them to keep his departure secret, secure the ship, and monitor the alien while he was away.
• Su Mo showed the Sun Chaser to the officers after Su Chan questioned how he would travel safely without the Hope.
• Su Mo gathered supplies and selected manuals on mechanical engineering, aerospace, and biology to study during his voyage.
• Su Mo said goodbye to Su Chan, used his magic carpet to reach the Sun Chaser, and ordered Gong Gong to navigate to Point Four while avoiding creatures.
• The Sun Chaser departed as the Hope continued on its own course, and Su Mo began reading aboard the yacht.

Su Mo studied biology aboard the Sun Chaser while Gonggong brought him toward the ruins’ suspected location. After Oreo found a clue in the sea, Su Mo dived to 5,200 meters and felt a rocky structure he recognized as the ruins.

• Su Mo caught up with the resting Tundra Fleet, then continued studying through the night aboard the Sun Chaser.
• He checked the ship’s progress, finished the introductory biology textbook, and ordered Gonggong to scan for the ruins while avoiding living creatures.
• After Gonggong’s search found nothing, Oreo alerted Su Mo to a spot in the sea, and Su Mo stopped the ship before diving down alone.
• Su Mo descended through the darkness to 5,200 meters, where he touched a hard rocky object that he recognized as the ruins.