Chapter Summaries

After expanding the Hope and recovering from his exhausting analysis of the Material Conversion Engine, Su Mo prepared the villagers for their migration to the New Continent. He ordered them to leave at midnight, and the chapter ended with Hope Village ready to disembark.

• The villagers awoke to find the Hope's interior had expanded, and Chen Shen told them they had reached the Landing Point and should prepare to leave.
• After a full night's work analyzing the Material Conversion Engine, Su Mo slept for six hours, drank Psionic Water, and reviewed his progress.
• Su Mo ordered the villagers to bring only personal belongings and two days' rations, leaving the Hope behind for him to handle later.
• Su Mo told Lü Kuan and the others that the Brain Box would remain aboard the ship, and Connie reported that Wolf Three's symptoms were worsening.
• After checking on Wolf Three and confirming preparations were complete, Su Mo raised the Hope flag and ordered the villagers to disembark for the New Continent in fifteen minutes.

Su Mo led Hope Village across the New Continent toward its territory under the game’s Rapid March privilege. After an unusually easy journey, the group arrived to find the territory’s month-flooded lowlands barren and desolate.

• Su Mo reached the New Continent, learned that 1,405 players were under his command, and received the Pioneer privilege with its Rapid March bonus.
• Su Mo gathered the villagers and shrank Hope Village into a palm-sized object that he stored in a leather bag.
• Hope Village set out for its territory, and Su Mo rested in a cart with Su Chan and Oreo as the group crossed broad, empty plains.
• After learning they had covered 1,000 kilometers in nine hours, Su Mo sensed danger and ordered the group to minimize its rest and hurry onward.
• Su Mo and all 1,405 villagers reached their territory that afternoon and found its lowlands barren after a month under seawater.

Su Mo led 1,405 villagers into the Depression, where the land was barren and salt-damaged, and rallied them to rebuild their home. After the game granted the territory development choices and Su Mo received a private selection of special buildings, he uncovered the entrance to his buried Underground Shelter.

• Su Mo and the scouts found that Hope Village's territory was isolated from the fertile land outside, but Su Mo determined that its seawater-soaked soil had become saline-alkali land rather than liquefied soil.
• Zhang Long suggested moving to more fertile land, but Su Mo reminded the villagers that the Depression was his home and urged them to rebuild it; Connie confirmed that it had been just as barren before.
• All 1,405 villagers rushed into the territory, and the game awarded everyone a 15-day attribute boost and offered Su Mo three choices for initial land, trees, or a stream.
• Su Mo received a private offer to choose a Weather Station, Farm Tool Production Center, or Training Ground, and he decided to wait before choosing.
• Su Mo, Su Chan, Moore, and the others reached the hill concealing the Underground Shelter, where Su Mo and Moore cleared the mud and opened the entrance.

Su Mo welcomed Su Chan back to the Underground Shelter, showed her its resources, and promised to protect her as the Great Blizzard approached. He then began planning Hope Village’s development with its administrators, and the chapter ended with scouts reporting a large camp east of the territory that might have seen human activity.

• Su Mo reopened the Underground Shelter with Su Chan and showed her its vehicles, oil well, generator, and Psionic Water Well.
• Su Mo showed Su Chan her room and reassured her that she could leave the coming disaster preparations to him.
• Su Mo ordered Chen Shen to set up tents and dispatch scouts to map the territory around Iron Stone Mountain.
• Shen Ke and Zhang Long proposed ways to house the settlers, prepare for the Great Blizzard, and trade iron for resources.
• Chen Shen returned with the scouts’ report that they had found a large camp 135 kilometers east, with possible signs of human activity.

Su Mo discovered that dwarves had occupied the coal mine near Hope Village and sent an armed team to capture one alive. As the team approached the barbican, they realized its walls were living organisms and its red circles were enormous eyes, just as the gate opened.

• Liu Peiqiang reported that more than thirty nonhuman figures had emerged near the territory, and Su Mo identified their fortified camp as the site of Hope Village’s coal mine.
• Liu Peiqiang confirmed that the camp’s inhabitants were dwarves, and Su Mo sent seventeen armed men led by Li Hu to capture one alive.
• Su Mo gave the team seventeen rifles and ammunition, then asked Shen Ke to bring Moore and additional support.
• The assault team encountered increasing physical and mental pressure as it crossed the territory boundary, and six members stayed back while eleven advanced.
• Li Hu’s team reached the barbican and discovered that its walls were living organisms and its giant red circles were eyeballs.
• The barbican’s gate opened in front of Li Hu’s team.

Li Hu’s squad ambushed a Dwarf convoy to seize its coal, weapons, and captives, but the marked coal could not be stored and a pursuing force caught up with them. Liu Peiqiang stayed behind to buy time and nearly sacrificed himself, until Su Mo’s reinforcements arrived and declared that no one could die without his permission.

• Li Hu and his seventeen-man squad ambushed forty-five Dwarves and captured six after killing the Dwarf Captain’s mount and cutting off his weapon hand; Liu Peiqiang lost an arm in the fight.
• The squad discovered that the coal bore another person’s mark and could not be placed in Storage Spaces, so they loaded it onto the lizard carts and fled while pursued.
• As the convoy neared the lowland border, Liu Peiqiang asked Li Hu to leave him behind, then held off roughly three hundred Dwarves with his rifle so the others could escape with the coal.
• Liu Peiqiang prepared to detonate an Explosive Pack, but reinforcements from Hope Village arrived and cut down the pursuing Dwarves with long-range gunfire.
• Li Hu and the others reached Liu Peiqiang, and Su Mo told him over a walkie-talkie that no one in the lowland could die without his permission.

Su Mo’s villagers forced the Cole Dwarves to retreat, rescued Liu Peiqiang, and brought four carts of coal back to the territory. Su Mo erased the coal’s tracking marks and learned more about the dwarves’ Old World Technology, while appraisal of the lizards revealed their unusual breeding potential.

• Su Mo confronted the Cole Dwarves over the stolen Old World Technology, and their leader abruptly fled with his force after hearing Su Mo’s threat.
• The villagers collected weapons and other spoils, returned to the territory, and Su Mo used the Shan Hai Painting card to reattach Liu Peiqiang’s severed arm.
• Su Mo discovered that the coal was marked by Old World Technology to report its location, then spent 690 Survival Points to erase the marks.
• Su Mo warned Li Hu that marked objects could expose the territory and told the villagers to leave any such finds for him to handle.
• Su Mo appraised the Coolie Earth Lizards and learned they could eat almost anything, travel long distances, and develop lasting loyalty through a special breeding method.

Abei rushed toward the Dwarf royal city with evidence that the King of Humans had been found, but a series of explosions killed him before he could report. Su Mo returned safely to Iron Stone Mountain with coal and prisoners, celebrated with the villagers, and began examining the Dwarves’ captured technology.

• Abei delivered the King’s Decree to Gatulu and boarded a concealed underground train bound for the royal city, carrying a locator that tracked the mark.
• The locator displayed “boom?” just before an enormous chain of explosions erupted and killed Abei.
• Su Mo spotted the distant mushroom cloud, rejected Li Hu’s suggestion to attack the Dwarves, and ordered the convoy to return to Iron Stone Mountain with the coal.
• Su Mo and the villagers celebrated the convoy’s return, then he took the Dwarf prisoners and captured items to the Underground Shelter for interrogation.
• Su Mo examined the Dwarven weapons and became especially interested in the Force Field Shield, which could protect its user from direct kinetic attacks.

Su Mo tested a sphere force field shield, then interrogated Dwarf Polly and learned the scale of the Dwarf Race and the rules governing access to Old World Technology. Polly revealed that the alien races planned a coordinated attack on Su Mo, but that his barren depression was also the safest place to develop; Su Mo kept him as an informant and resolved to use resource cards to grow the territory.

• Su Mo activated the sphere force field shield, tested its protection, and canceled it after seeing how quickly it used energy.
• Moore awakened Dwarf Captain Polly with cold water and spinning, and Polly surrendered and offered information in exchange for his life.
• Polly reported that the Dwarves had roughly 500,000 people, controlled nineteen territories, and restricted Old World Technology to high-level or influential members.
• Polly explained that alien races planned a coordinated strike against Su Mo and offered Black Stone Camp's defenses and mining access as useful intelligence.
• Su Mo kept Polly in his camp for a future opportunity, then returned home and decided to activate all his resource cards the next morning.

While Chen Shen organized Hope Village’s work in the rain, Su Mo activated twelve resource cards and transformed the depression with fertile land, mountains, and other resources. He discovered that the harvest included a four-million-ton high-quality tungsten deposit, leaving him delighted by the territory’s new prospects.

• Chen Shen warned Hope Village’s residents not to eat the lizards, explaining their breeding potential and possible bloodline abilities.
• Su Mo made beef noodles for Su Chan and the others, then prepared Psionic Water and diesel before opening the shelter at eight.
• Su Mo activated a Level 1 card that created five mu of fertile land and a Level 2 card that produced a fruit-tree mountain.
• Su Mo activated all twelve resource cards, and the depression gained fertile land, forests, mineral veins, a freshwater lake, grass, yaks, sheep, carp, and fruit trees.
• Su Mo inspected the harvest and found a Level 4 high-quality tungsten mine with four million tons of reserves.

Su Mo examined his territory’s new resources and used the updated system panel to assess its poor living conditions, resident needs, and potential. He discovered new information and scoring functions, then unlocked territory upgrades and learned that Territory Points could modify the weather.

• Su Mo assessed the twelve resources, noting that Fruit Tree Mountain could help residents immediately while most animals and minerals would take time to benefit the territory.
• Su Mo opened the system’s new territory panel and saw that residents had poor health and work efficiency, needed shelter, meat, and hot baths, and remained pessimistic about the territory’s prospects.
• Su Mo listened to three messages carried by the wind, identifying Hu Ren’s complaints, a foreign race’s threat over an underground transport tunnel, and Feng Mengyue’s remarks about trade between foreign races.
• Su Mo reviewed his Survival Point rewards and learned that white points upgraded items, blue points could affect living creatures, and Territory Points could upgrade his territory.
• Su Mo opened the newly unlocked Territory Upgrade panel and discovered that Territory Points could modify the weather.

Su Mo spent the Depression’s Territory Points on potential, then led Chen Shen and the villagers through newly flourishing land, where they discovered fruit, livestock, a lake full of fish, forests, and Hot Stone. After the villagers prepared a trench, Su Mo summoned Hope and declared they would build a city on the New Continent.

• Su Mo chose to spend all 7.3 Territory Points on potential, raising the Depression’s value from 7.12 to 14.42.
• Chen Shen brought Su Mo ripe apples from Fruit Tree Mountain, and Su Mo ordered the harvest distributed to everyone.
• Su Mo led the villagers to newly appeared grassland, where they found ten sheep and ten yaks, then to a freshwater lake containing thousands of fish.
• The group discovered Oil Pine and Scots Pine forests and dug up a small piece of Hot Stone before Su Mo ended the search.
• Su Mo noticed the boosted potential improving the land, crops, rain, and iron ore as the villagers finished preparing a trench.
• Su Mo summoned Hope into the trench and told the villagers to move their belongings aboard so they could build a city on the New Continent.

Su Mo and the Lowland administrators assessed their dwindling supplies and the neighboring races, including the technologically advanced humans of the Radiant Empire and the powerful Demon Soul Race. Su Mo decided to seek contact with the tree people after winter, while looking for safe, valuable goods to trade and recognizing that the Lowland had hidden reserves despite its weak infrastructure.

• Su Mo approved freely distributing food so the villagers could keep working and delayed planting until after the Heavy Snowfall.
• Pei Shao reported that the Lowland was surrounded by dwarves, tree people, the Demon Soul Race, and humans from the Radiant Empire, whose body modifications determined their rank and abilities.
• Su Mo agreed to consider contacting the Radiant Empire after winter to trade for and study its modification technology.
• Pei Shao described the tree people as potential trading partners interested in high-level plants and the Demon Soul Race as a mysterious, powerful neighbor that feared the cold and opposed the Radiant Empire.
• Su Mo dismissed Dwarf Polly's frightening guesses about the Demon Soul Race and decided the Lowland should first approach the tree people and seek their laborers.
• Su Mo resolved to cultivate high-quality crop seeds for trade, since revealing Psionic Water or Yuan Energy Fruit could put the weak Lowland at risk.

Su Mo and Su Deben discussed the lowland’s urgent building needs before rain forced the villagers to shelter in the newly generated Farm Tool Production Center. Watching them share fish soup there, Su Mo decided the Lowland would develop through distinctive cuisine and use food to trade with the foreign races.

• Su Deben praised Su Mo’s conviction to win, and Su Mo assured him that the foreign races were no match for them.
• Su Mo proposed building modular prefab houses and planned to ask the treants for labor, while he and Su Deben assessed the shortage of materials and the approaching snow.
• As heavy rain made the tents unlivable, Su Mo chose the Farm Tool Production Center from the Game Panel and generated it as a dry shelter for the villagers.
• The villagers crowded into the illuminated center, changed into dry clothes, and gathered around Su Mo as fish soup was served.
• Watching the villagers eat, Su Mo decided to develop the Lowland through food and use its cuisine to win over the foreign races.

Su Mo accepted a Level-Five alliance pact with Zhu Ling of the Ancient Treant Race, opening a potential path to trade while remaining wary of the Treants’ motives. As heavy rain threatened his territory and villagers, he treated the sick with Psionic Water and prepared to spend Territory Points to end the rainy season.

• Zhu Ling introduced himself as chieftain of the Ancient Treant Race and proposed an alliance with Su Mo.
• Su Mo accepted the Level-Five alliance pact, which allowed visits and trade between their territories under set terms.
• Su Mo inspected the rain-damaged lowlands and feared worsening rainfall would undermine the land and the shelter’s foundation.
• At the Agricultural Tool Center, Su Mo shared upgraded Psionic Water with the villagers, and their fevers and colds quickly cleared.
• After confirming his territory earned 1.1 Territory Points, Su Mo opened the System Panel to spend points on the weather.

Su Mo used Territory Points to change the weather, then began organizing construction and steel production as the hollow recovered from the rain. When treants arrived to visit the territory, he decided to use their glowing leaf and the virtual reality equipment to deceive them and turn them into publicity for the hollow.

• Su Mo saw the hollow’s Territory Potential rise after the rain washed salt from the soil, and he reviewed recordings revealing the treants’ alliance plans and the Radiant Empire’s need for heat-dissipation technology.
• Su Mo spent a Territory Point to clear the weather, and the rain stopped after about forty minutes.
• Villagers cleared saltwater from the surrounding land and began leveling the ground for a new village; Su Mo agreed to provide steel and started the furnace.
• Su Yuan reported that treants had reached the territory boundary and requested a visit, prompting Su Mo to seek a way to mislead them.
• Lü Kuan suggested using virtual reality equipment with treefolk genes, and Su Mo prepared to adjust its parameters using the treants’ glowing leaf.

Su Yuan and Pei Shao escorted Zhu Chuan and the treants into Su Mo’s territory, where a series of intimidating gates, guards, and formations convinced them of its strength while costing them most of their gifts. Su Mo welcomed the exhausted Zhu Chuan and asked what he thought of the South Heaven Gate Plan.

• Zhu Chuan dismissed the territory’s apparent weakness but gave Su Yuan and the villagers meal leaves after they repeatedly hinted for gifts.
• Su Yuan and Pei Shao led the treants through the mountains, where Zhang Long and Liu Neng appeared at the South Heaven Gate and accepted more gifts before letting them pass.
• The treants entered a lush inner world whose vitality astonished Zhu Chuan and his companions.
• Zhu Chuan gave rice leaves to the guards and more gifts to the groups they encountered on the way to the village.
• Su Mo welcomed the depleted treants, helped Zhu Chuan up after he collapsed, and asked what he thought of the South Heaven Gate Plan.

Su Mo sent Zhu Chuan and the Treants home after using a staged visit and Psionic Water to win their goodwill and secure a trade prospect. The Lowland celebrated a major haul of Rice Leaves, while Su Mo planned to cultivate the Primordial Rice Leaf Seed and use future trade to expand the territory’s influence.

• Su Mo bid farewell to Zhu Chuan, who promised to pass on his invitation and seek a trade route between their territories.
• After leaving the Lowland, Zhu Chuan revealed that he had secretly traded for an Immortal Peach pit and planned to use what he learned to challenge the conservatives in his clan.
• The Lowland’s villagers celebrated a harvest of more than three thousand Rice Leaves and other, more valuable varieties.
• Su Mo rewarded the people who had helped with the Treants and examined the Original Rice Leaf Seed, whose planting could produce increasingly nutritious food.
• Su Mo reflected on how his deception and Psionic Water had persuaded the Treants, then began considering the Lowland’s next trade and how to prepare for possible discovery.

Su Mo’s Virtual Reality demonstration inspired the Lowlands villagers to work harder on preparing a settlement, while a rich harvest of Rice Leaves promised to feed their Coolie Lizards for months. As the group planned another visit to the treants, Su Mo announced he would join by transferring his consciousness into the robot.

• Su Mo explained to Lü Kuan that the villagers’ new ambition came from experiencing a sense of accomplishment, and warned that the Lowlands had become a chariot that could not stop.
• Chen Shen reported a large harvest of Rice Leaves, and Su Mo approved feeding the lower-grade leaves to the Coolie Lizards while saving the better grades.
• Chen Shen proposed returning to the treants’ territory to gather more supplies, and Su Mo decided to go with him to ensure the operation’s safety.
• Lü Kuan and Chen Shen tried to dissuade Su Mo from risking himself, but Su Mo said he would go through the robot by extending his consciousness from the Brain Box.

Su Mo rewarded Hope Village’s workers with lucky bags and announced that their rewards belonged to them, introducing private property and trade as the foundation for the territory’s future growth. He left the management team to consider the reform while planning to fund scientific research through the economy it would create.

• Lü Kuan took heart from Su Mo’s promise to help Brain Box residents and returned to the Underground Shelter to work on technology development.
• Hope Village’s workers compared their high completion rates and eagerly awaited their lucky bags after finishing the day’s construction.
• Su Mo praised the villagers’ ambition, distributed lucky bags, and promised to protect their rewards from forced trades.
• Su Mo told the management team that the territory needed trade and private property instead of relying on communal distribution.
• Su Mo returned toward the Underground Shelter, intending for villagers to pay for future technology and thereby support scientific research.