Chapter Summaries

Sean, Joseph, and Luke toured the rapidly developed Tian Yuan Territory and witnessed its advanced farms, industrial zone, and newly developed Storage Module. Sean recognized the module’s world-changing potential and begged Su Mo to let the Red Spider Merchant Group sell it.

• A minor earthquake struck during the tour, and Su Mo explained that it was an omen for the coming Sea Splitting Earthquake after a seven-day warning period.
• Sean, Joseph, and Luke saw the territory’s mechanized farmland and thriving plantations, and Joseph realized Tian Yuan had built its agricultural machines in only eight months.
• At Dragon Rise Village, Su Mo showed them the industrial zone, including factories capable of producing military vehicles, weapons, and a broad range of industrial goods.
• Su Mo took Sean to the Module Factory and demonstrated a level-one Storage Module, which stored cargo and removed its weight while the cargo was inside.
• Sean tested the module and pleaded with Su Mo to let the Red Spider Merchant Group sell it across the continent.

Sean saw the potential of Tian Yuan Territory’s Module Technology and its expanding factories, while the Red Spider Merchant Group placed a major weapons order. In Qinggang City, local managers welcomed a Foundation merchant group’s arrival until Buden revealed that Red Spider would sign a Deep Cooperation Agreement with the Tian Yuan Alliance.

• Sean urged Su Mo to trust that the Red Spider Merchant Group could thrive in the changed world, and Su Mo told him that Module Technology had even more to offer.
• Wang Yuanshuai guided Sean and the others through Dragon Rise Village’s factories, where Sean was impressed by the Dream Refining Steel Plant and Tian Yuan Territory’s inexpensive weapons.
• Luke praised the weapons’ combat power, and Doomsday Madman sold Sean’s group more than half a month’s production capacity at an increased price.
• Buden told the gathered Qinggang City managers that a Foundation Land Merchant Group nearing Level Six had arrived with at least five hundred Fuel Rods.
• The managers celebrated the prospect of renewed trade and freedom from the Tian Yuan Alliance, but Buden warned that the Foundation might have joined forces with the alliance and revealed Red Spider’s planned Deep Cooperation Agreement with it.

As the city braced for the Punishment Disaster, Su Mo inspected the Red Spider Merchant Group’s heavily armed vehicles and visited Tian Yuan’s Research Institute. The major earthquake began just as Lü Kuan offered to show him progress on a water transportation project.

• News that the Red Spider Merchant Group planned a Deep Cooperation Agreement with the Tian Yuan Alliance spread, prompting Qinggang Shelter to send envoys to negotiate.
• On May 18, Su Mo relied on Tian Yuan Territory’s expanded coverage to keep Qinggang City and the Pumpkin Bunker within the earthquake’s protected area.
• Su Mo inspected the Red Spider Merchant Group’s modified armored vehicles, and Sean explained that the group needed its own weapons because the Foundation could no longer protect it.
• Su Mo told Sean to keep the merchant group in place while Tian Yuan prepared to establish its own merchant group and future trade routes.
• At the Research Institute, Lü Kuan told Su Mo that the water transportation project was progressing smoothly and offered to show it to him.
• A tremendous tremor struck beneath Su Mo and Lü Kuan as the disaster arrived.

The Sea Splitting Earthquake shook the New Continent for seven days, while Su Mo watched its effects from the protected Tian Yuan Territory. A vast river erupted from the ground, and Su Mo saw it as a major opportunity for trade and future development; meanwhile, large territories began contacting Tian Yuan during the brief daily windows when long-distance communication worked.

• The Game Panel announced that the seven-day Sea Splitting Earthquake was a Punishment Disaster, with reduced protection for indigenous people outside player territories and random player deployment planned afterward.
• Su Mo and Lü Kuan watched the earthquake devastate the uninhabited land beyond Tian Yuan Territory while the territory remained protected.
• Lü Kuan spotted a huge column of water erupting in the northwest, forming a river nearly one hundred meters wide.
• Su Mo celebrated the river’s potential for transport and trade, and asked to see the territory’s research results after the shaking stopped.
• As the disaster continued, territories focused on spring farming and resource shortages, while Tian Yuan’s liaison office received daily calls from large territories during the communication window.

Su Mo received a joint communication from the Dragon Flag Territory, the Northern Territory Alliance, and the Golden Giant Eagle to discuss cooperation after the Sea Splitting Earthquake. Carnegie Lov introduced the Northern Territory Alliance and revealed that its 31 million people had only two and a half months of supplies on the Northern Ice Field.

• The chapter described how the future ruins’ open war had shifted into covert struggles over resources, while the expanded New Continent left the real Tian Yuan Territory with far greater strategic distance from its enemies.
• Gong Zhengyang told Su Mo that Dragon Flag, the Northern Territory, and the Golden Giant Eagle were calling together, and Su Mo went to the liaison office to answer.
• Su Mo reassured a liaison officer who had been chatting with another territory, then joined Gong Zhengyang in the room equipped for multi-party communication.
• Carnegie Lov introduced himself as leader of the Northern Territory Great Alliance, a union of 137 territories with a population of 31 million.
• Carnegie Lov explained that the Sea Splitting Earthquake had placed the alliance on the resource-rich but frigid Northern Ice Field, where its food supplies would last only two and a half months.

Su Mo offered the Northern Territory Alliance food, weapons, industrial production lines, and a trade deal for rare metals, while revealing that Tian Yuan Territory had nearly finished developing a cargo ship. After the other regional leaders showed interest in buying ships and technology, Su Mo introduced his proposal, the All the Stars in the Sky Plan.

• Esli Flutos challenged Carnegie Lov's request for supplies, pointing out the enormous scale of the Northern Territory Alliance and the difficulty of transporting resources to the Northern Ice Field.
• Su Mo offered Carnegie Lov resources, including food, weapons, and industrial production lines, and Carnegie promised to gather anything Su Mo needed in return.
• Su Mo requested more than ten rare metals, and Carnegie's advisers confirmed that the Northern Territory had all of them, with some already in stock.
• Long An Guo asked whether Tian Yuan Territory had cargo ships, and Su Mo said its ship was in testing and that his territory could also sell ships, components, and technical solutions.
• The leaders of the three other powers invited Su Mo to share his proposal, and he announced the All the Stars in the Sky Plan.

Su Mo secured agreement from the major factions to make Tian Yuan the hub of the All the Stars in the Sky Plan, then inspected the territory’s new fleet on the Giant Dragon Xian River. He left the inspection prepared to attack the dwarves to fulfill a new Challenge Task.

• Ka Saint, Long An Gu, and Flutos agreed to Su Mo’s plan for a trade and strategy network centered on Tian Yuan.
• After the communications fog cut off the meeting, Su Mo reflected on the five years he had spent in the wasteland and went to inspect the temporary dock.
• Su Mo saw that the Giant Dragon Xian River had formed across the reshaped landscape and examined the cargo ships, frigates, command ship, and guerrilla boats being tested there.
• Su Mo decided to target the dwarves after receiving a Challenge Task requiring him to destroy five dwarf towns and capture at least one thousand dwarves.

As the Giant Dragon Xian River opened the New Continent to trade, Liu Zhi and leaders from other territories traveled by sampan toward Su God's territory to make contact. Their journey ended with the fleet encountering a massive Tian Yuan fleet on the river.

• The opening of the Giant Dragon Xian River encouraged trade between territories, and Liu Zhi led a fleet of more than twenty sampans toward Su God's territory.
• After a Bewitching Wind passed, Liu Zhi ordered the fleet to continue, and the travelers stopped on the riverbank to rest and eat.
• Liu Zhi, Song Chunrui, Wang Bi, and Pang Dayuan discussed the Red Flower Gang's prospects for trade and joined the survivors in singing.
• A deep Ship Horn cut through the gathering, and Liu Zhi and the other leaders saw a huge fleet approaching.
• The travelers spotted a white Command Ship, seven escort vessels, and nearly thirty Guerrilla Boats, then recognized the Tian Yuan flag.

The North Star Fleet encountered a group of newcomers traveling to Tian Yuan Territory and cautiously established contact. After confirming they were diplomatic personnel from four territories, Cui Lu welcomed them aboard and agreed to transport them, leaving the visitors astonished by the fleet and eager to reach Tian Yuan Territory.

• Cui Lu ordered the fleet to approach a group of sampans cautiously, and the North Star Fleet formed a defensive posture.
• Liu Zhi identified the newcomers as representatives from the Red Flower Gang, Black Shark Gang, Divine Might Territory, and Fire Phoenix Valley, whose prior radio contacts were confirmed.
• The fleet lowered its weapons and brought Liu Zhi, Pang Dayuan, Song Chunrui, and Wang Bi aboard the Central Command Ship, where they marveled at Tian Yuan Territory's ships, craftsmanship, and armed guards.
• Cui Lu introduced himself, heard about the group's difficult ten-day journey, and agreed to transport them and their boats without charging a fare.
• The four representatives returned to shore excited by the familiar sense of security aboard the ship, and Liu Zhi's group prepared to ride with the fleet to Tian Yuan Territory.

Liu Zhi and the other envoys traveled aboard a Tian Yuan Territory frigate and were astonished by its speed, generous hospitality, and modern payment system. After learning that their gold could buy far more food than they expected, they realized Tian Yuan’s low prices could present a major opportunity for their territories.

• Liu Zhi and the other three envoys marveled at the frigate’s speed and discussed buying a Guerrilla Boat to make travel between their territories easier.
• A sailor apologized for interrupting their lunch and served the delegation meat buns and side dishes, which the travelers eagerly devoured.
• Liu Zhi and Pang Dayuan offered a sailor gold nuggets to buy more buns, but he returned the gold and gave them additional food for free because Tian Yuan used Identity Cards and did not accept gold.
• Song Chunrui and Wang Bi reacted with disbelief when Liu Zhi explained that four gold nuggets could cover meals for more than two hundred people for a day in Tian Yuan.
• Liu Zhi urged the envoys to rest and see the territory’s prices for themselves, pointing out the opportunity its affordability could offer their home territories.

Liu Zhi and the other visitors from the Four Great Territories arrived in Tian Yuan Territory and were overwhelmed by its ships, infrastructure, and bustling towns. Their bus carried them toward the Central Grand Hotel in Hope Town, where the familiar streets made the wasteland feel like home.

• Liu Zhi protested when the sailor explained that Su Mo could not personally welcome them, and the visitors learned that their hotel stay would be free until he received them.
• Liu Zhi and the others watched two powerful Tian Yuan fleets meet on the river, then saw civilian powerboats and a submarine in operation.
• The visitors disembarked at Tian Yuan Territory's busy dock and rode buses past Dragon Rise Village's industrial zone.
• Liu Zhi and the other passengers saw Hope Town's restaurants, shops, and welcoming streets and felt as though they had returned home.

Liu Zhi experienced the comfort and prosperity of Hope Town, then discovered that the Red Flower Gang's members had spent surprisingly little on a night of feasting. Meanwhile, Su Mo watched outsiders shop in Tian Yuan Territory and saw Liu Zhi place an enormous order, leaving him optimistic about trade with other territories.

• Liu Zhi admired the Central Grand Hotel and the photographs documenting Tian Yuan Territory's growth before falling asleep through the storm.
• Liu Zhi found that the Red Flower Gang had gone out for barbecue and beer, but Zhang Yuan explained they had spent only about one and a half gold beans after exchanging their money at a favorable rate.
• Su Mo watched recordings of outsiders buying Tian Yuan Territory's goods and considered Earth players and their territories a promising market.
• Liu Zhi ordered one hundred thousand quilts through the scheduled delivery service, worth three million Tian Yuan Copper Coins, and Su Mo celebrated the sale.

Tian Yuan Territory’s first foreign trade with the Four Great Territories went smoothly, while Su Mo studied the Dwarves and discovered that Red Flower Gang’s river routes could provide a path into their hinterland. He decided to prepare an expedition using that route, while accounting for the possibility that the Dwarves were setting a trap.

• Red Flower Gang and the other three territories bought supplies from Tian Yuan, and Minister Shen Ke offered resource exchanges as an alternative to paying in gold.
• Su Mo reviewed the territories’ intelligence and learned that Red Flower Gang’s leader, Ji Wuming, had fought repeated battles against the Dwarves.
• Zero presented a detailed terrain map showing that ships could travel through Red Flower Gang’s tributaries and reach the Dwarves’ hinterland.
• Su Mo reviewed footage from the previous night and concluded that the route had been mentioned unintentionally, but he still planned for a possible Dwarven trap.
• Su Mo called for Su Deben and announced that they had a major job ahead.

Travelers from the Four Great Territories grew unwilling to leave Tian Yuan Territory, and Liu Zhi and the other envoys feared the consequences when they returned. Su Mo agreed that Tian Yuan would accept anyone who chose to stay and hinted at a new cooperation plan to resolve the envoys’ dilemma.

• After several days enjoying Tian Yuan Territory, most travelers openly decided they did not want to return, leaving Liu Zhi and the other three envoys anxious about facing their lords.
• Su Mo summoned the envoys to Tian Yuan Shelter and heard Pang Dayuan admit that he wanted to bring Fire Phoenix Valley to join Tian Yuan Territory.
• Su Mo arranged for the travelers to sail home the morning after tomorrow with an armed fleet accompanying them.
• Liu Zhi explained that travelers who stayed could cause trouble for the envoys and their families back home.
• Su Mo said Tian Yuan would not reject people who chose to stay, but proposed a new form of cooperation to protect the territories’ friendship and address the envoys’ immediate problem.

Su Mo proposed replacing the future Identity System with the Tian Yuan Alliance, offering aid to territories in exchange for mutual benefits. Liu Zhi returned with approved citizenship applications for the Red Flower Gang survivors and introduced a second option, the Honeycomb Plan.

• Su Mo explained that the Tian Yuan Alliance could help the Red Flower Gang territory improve and asked what resources it could offer in return.
• Liu Zhi and the other three returned to the hotel with approved Tian Yuan Territory citizenship applications for the survivors who wanted to stay.
• Liu Zhi told the survivors that signing would let them stay and that their families could later be brought over by fleet.
• Liu Zhi warned that another opportunity had conditions and revealed a thick Tian Yuan Alliance Cooperation Agreement marked The Honeycomb Plan.

Liu Zhi presented the Honeycomb Plan to Red Flower Gang survivors, offering alliance support and a chance to build prosperous territories of their own. Su Mo secured the southern suburbs’ agreement to open a port and planned a waterway and naval port, while Hunter Tiger reflected on how seeing hope had changed him.

• Liu Zhi urged the Red Flower Gang survivors to join the Tian Yuan Alliance, promising military protection, construction aid, and rewards for qualified survivors they sent to Tian Yuan.
• The four men returned their Citizenship Application Forms untouched, while Su Mo approved accelerating the fleet’s formation and bringing nearby territories into the alliance.
• Su Mo learned that the southern-suburb Mole People had not answered the port ultimatum and went with Hunter Tiger to obtain their administrators’ agreement.
• The southern-suburb administrators signed an Opinion Letter supporting port access after Harbor Shelter faced pressure from the others.
• Su Mo told Hunter Tiger he planned to build a waterway connecting the western suburbs to the Fifth Ring and explore constructing a small naval port.
• Hunter Tiger said his newfound caution might come from having seen hope.

Tian Yuan Territory prepared a large shipment for the Four Great Territories while Su Mo and Qiao Yuansheng debated how the Honeycomb Plan could reshape the balance of power between lords and residents. The North Star Fleet departed with twelve cargo ships, but Su Mo hurried away from the send-off as another disaster was about to arrive.

• Tian Yuan factories loaded the first batch of goods for the Four Great Territories, while food and restricted goods remained barred from export.
• Su Mo told Qiao Yuansheng that Tian Yuan Alliance could replace lords who refused to cooperate, prompting them to discuss the risks and benefits of the Honeycomb Plan.
• Su Mo argued that Alliance assistance could win public support and that the plan had to account for war, disasters, and other threats facing humanity.
• Cui Lu reported that the cargo ships were loaded and the North Star Fleet was ready, so Su Mo ordered Qiao Yuansheng to prepare the Four Great Territories as a trial run.
• Twelve cargo ships departed under North Star Fleet escort, and Liu Zhi watched from an escort vessel as Su Mo abruptly left the shore because another disaster was imminent.

Su Mo faced three disaster choices that threatened Spring Planting, food reserves, or the territories’ technology, and sought expert estimates before deciding. Katerina reported that a single metabolic doubling would require about 1.47 times the resources, while further doublings would sharply increase consumption, leaving Su Mo still weighing the consequences.

• Su Mo discovered that the disaster cycle had returned to its normal frequency and examined the three available disasters: Three Cold Springs, Binge-Eating Disorder, and Magnetohydrodynamic Storm.
• Su Mo judged that Three Cold Springs could ruin Spring Planting, Binge-Eating Disorder could overwhelm food supplies, and Magnetohydrodynamic Storm could destroy vital equipment.
• Su Mo decided to consult agricultural experts and Katerina, then contact the Three Great Territories before choosing a disaster.
• Katerina told Su Mo that one doubling of metabolism would require about 1.47 times the resources, while two doublings would require about 5.53 times and three about 9.18 times.
• Su Mo calculated that the Northern Territory Alliance might need about one million tons of food over five days if its thirty million people faced the increased consumption.

After weighing the territories’ concerns and reviewing crop simulations, Su Mo chose Three Cold Springs as the next disaster. Survivors learned that a severe cold snap was coming, leaving rice growers especially fearful for their harvests.

• Dragon Flag warned that binge eating could threaten its resources if the Autumn Harvest was affected, while Golden Giant Eagle said its southern food reserves could cover the crisis and Carnegie Lov complained about the immense burden of waste.
• Su Mo considered how disasters would affect regions differently and asked No. 0 to present simulations of low temperatures’ effects on crops.
• No. 0’s results showed that semi-winter wheat could retain much of its germination rate at extreme cold, but rice yields could fall to zero after five days at minus twenty-seven degrees.
• Su Mo chose Three Cold Springs in the World Cauldron, and the game announced the disaster to survivors.
• Survivors cursed the forecast and debated its effects; wheat growers found reassurance, while rice-growing territories feared losing their crops.

After the coming cold threatened rice crops across the Wasteland, Lu Guangyin prepared to flee Dream Moon Territory with its supplies while Xi Ruyue chose to stay and protect its people. Su Mo learned that Xi Ruyue was seeking his help and ordered his people to investigate what had happened.

• A disaster announcement warned that temperatures would fall to minus thirty degrees in seven days, putting rice crops and the livelihoods of rice-growing territories at risk.
• Dream Moon Territory's residents panicked and blamed Lu Guangyin as crowds surged toward the center of the territory.
• Lu Guangyin secretly loaded supplies onto Flatbed Carts and urged his followers to flee, offering Xi Ruyue the lord's position if she stayed behind.
• Xi Ruyue negotiated for two-thirds of the supplies to remain, and Lu Guangyin left with one-third; she then told Chu Chaofei she had stayed because fleeing would betray the people who trusted them and that she hoped to save them.
• Su Mo assessed the need to expand Tian Yuan Territory's population and alliance, then received word that Xi Ruyue had asked for his help.
• Su Mo told Gong Zhengyang to find out what had happened in Dream Moon Territory before they responded.