Chapter Summaries

Lin Li and Du Zhuo continued driving passengers so Lin Li could complete his commission, while Lin Li’s jokes repeatedly unsettled the veteran driver. After using a public restroom, Du Zhuo told Lin Li about his friend’s permanent cigarette burn from smoking while using a stall.

• Lin Li reassured Du Zhuo that he had gathered data by observing passengers and decided to keep accepting app orders without canceling trips.
• Du Zhuo explained where drivers could wait for passengers and how the ride-hailing platform’s order filters and penalties worked.
• Lin Li and Du Zhuo took more orders, bringing Lin Li’s commission progress to 4/10 by eight-thirty.
• Du Zhuo asked Lin Li to drive to a public restroom, where Lin Li startled him by pretending to offer a lifetime supply of paper before passing tissues under the stall.
• Du Zhuo smoked outside the restroom and told Lin Li that his friend had permanently scarred himself by flicking cigarette ash onto his penis while smoking in a stall.

Lin Li completed his task with Du Zhuo and gained the Parasitic Seed ability, which he upgraded to copy half of a target’s beneficial growth. After finishing their work, Lin Li and Du Zhuo headed out for late-night food before returning to the station.

• Lin Li and Du Zhuo finished ten requests from unfamiliar Imperial Citizens, completing Lin Li’s task and earning him an improved physique, a random ability, and System Currency.
• Lin Li tested Parasitic Seed on Du Zhuo, then upgraded it twice to increase its copying rate to 50% and allow two seeds at once.
• Lin Li considered using Parasitic Seed on powerful cultivators in the Cultivation World and planned to seek help from Shān Qīng Daoist and Deng Wen.
• Lin Li paid Du Zhuo, thanked him for his help, and told him they had collected enough experimental data for the night.
• Du Zhuo offered to treat Lin Li to late-night food and took over driving, while Lin Li responded to Du Zhuo’s praise of the sun with a crude, absurd rant.

Lin Li spent a late night at Brother Sun's BBQ Shop, then met Yang Liang and Yan Aosong at a café the following evening. Their stories about bizarre disputes and a raid ended with both men silently glaring at Lin Li after he made a suggestive historical joke.

• Du Zhuo took Lin Li to Brother Sun's BBQ Shop, where the regulars traded outrageous stories about Brother Sun's connections and Lin Li struggled to avoid their scalding liquor.
• Lin Li said goodbye to Brother Sun and the regulars after enjoying the barbecue and their company.
• While waiting at a café, Lin Li joked with his friends in a group chat about Bai Bufan being mistaken for a dog's owner.
• Yang Liang and Yan Aosong arrived, and Yan Aosong described dealing with a man who spat on other people despite claiming he never spat on the ground.
• Yang Liang recounted a raid where a client and technician demonstrated their supposed dice game, prompting Lin Li to make a suggestive joke about Zhou Yu and Huang Gai.
• Yan Aosong and Yang Liang silently turned their unfriendly gazes on Lin Li after he joked that Chu Sheng seemed to be everywhere in Xiling.

Lin Li helped Yang Liang and Yan Aosong raid a convenience store suspected of selling counterfeit cigarettes, while maneuvering the arrest for his mission. After the suspects were taken away, he directed the two officers to a second location.

• Lin Li told Yang Liang and Yan Aosong that Jili Convenience Store would receive counterfeit cigarettes, and said the delivery could lead them to the workshop producing them.
• Yan Aosong questioned Lin Li about his undercover agents, but Lin Li repeatedly answered only, "Be sincere."
• A black sedan delivered boxes to Jili Convenience Store, and Lin Li took the payment cash before provoking the owner into calling the police.
• Yang Liang and Yan Aosong identified themselves and inspected the shop, finding counterfeit cigarettes and sales records before taking the owner and driver into custody.
• Lin Li checked his mission progress, then gave Yang Liang and Yan Aosong the location of another target and watched them argue over whose car he should ride in.

Lin Li, Yang Liang, and Yan Aosong raided a village counterfeit-cigarette workshop with other Demon Suppression Envoys. Lin Li deliberately let a fleeing suspect escape so he could chase him himself, and caught up with the man nearby.

• Lin Li joked with Yang Liang and Yan Aosong as they approached the suspicious workshop and waited for reinforcements.
• Yang Liang led the Demon Suppression Envoys in an assault that uncovered counterfeit-cigarette machines and detained the workers inside.
• Lin Li spotted a thin man escaping through a hidden door and told Yang Liang to let him go, then followed him out.
• Lin Li used his marking ability to track the fleeing man and sprinted after him.
• Lin Li caught up with the man and taunted him as they ran side by side.

Lin Li helped take down a counterfeit-cigarette operation and captured a worker who had tried to flee, whose attempts to win sympathy or bargain only made Lin Li more determined to arrest him. After the suspects were taken away, Lin Li completed his task and received new rewards.

• Lin Li restrained the fleeing worker, questioned him, and rejected his attempts to gain release by pleading or proposing friendship and enmity.
• Lin Li returned with the worker to find that Yang Liang and the others had subdued the counterfeit-cigarette gang and gathered evidence from the workshop.
• Yang Liang ordered the evidence registered and seized, then arranged for the suspects to be escorted to the station for separate questioning.
• Yang Liang offered Lin Li a reward for his contribution, but Lin Li declined and joked that he might use it to blackmail Yang Liang and Yan Aosong later.
• Lin Li watched the suspects leave and received the completed-task rewards, including the Immune to All Poisons title and the Voice of All Things ability.

Lin Li spent the ride home tormenting Yang Liang, then arranged to look for a car as a way to trigger a new system task. After chatting with Chen Yuying and checking the group chat, he ended the night joking with his friends.

• Lin Li reviewed his new Voice of All Things ability and the Heavenly Mystery Talisman in the shop, then rode home with Yang Liang.
• Lin Li confused Yang Liang with jokes and radio banter until Yang Liang promised to buy him two bags of Hami melons for staying quiet.
• Lin Li paid Deng Zi and told him to pass a gold block to Li Sheng, then decided he no longer needed help with the fake-cigarette operation.
• Lin Li contacted Brother Sun about finding a used car, hoping that buying one might trigger a Mecha World task, but postponed the plan because their schedules did not match.
• Lin Li chatted with Chen Yuying, checked the lively group chat, and joined Bai Bufan in teasing Wang Ze about the history of attacking Wala.

Lin Li and Chen Yuying attended Sunday tutoring, where they learned the schedule for the Xue Zhi Cup finals and joked about meeting at the exam venue. Back in Class 4, the students traded absurd jokes and devised ridiculous plans to help Zhou Baowei deal with his upset stomach.

• Lin Li met Chen Yuying at the school gate, and they joked together on the way to the Lecture Hall.
• Chen Tianming told Lin Li about a game that made him imagine having a home with Qiao Qiao, then fled when Lin Li threatened to hit him.
• The tutor announced that the Xue Zhi Cup finals would take place at Pingjiang No. 1 Middle School the following Sunday, and Lin Li and Chen Yuying discussed whether they could meet there.
• After tutoring, Lin Li and his classmates joked about history, pool, and Zhou Baowei's expensive buffet meal.
• Zhou Baowei said he was taking medicine early to ambush a virus, and his classmates responded with increasingly outrageous suggestions.

Lin Li returned to Apocalypse World and discovered that the system had placed him beneath a bed while two people were having sex. When the woman’s partner came back, her lover hid under the same bed and found Lin Li already waiting there.

• Lin Li used his weekly return to travel to the selected unnamed node in Apocalypse World.
• Lin Li realized he was trapped beneath a bed as a couple made love above him.
• Lin Li inspected the bedroom and prepared to sneak out, but footsteps approached from outside the door.
• The woman warned her lover that someone had returned, and the man tried to hide under the bed.
• Lin Li made room for the man, who froze in shock when he saw Lin Li already beneath the bed.

Lin Li was mistaken for an adulterer while hiding under a bed, but the absurd excuses made by the woman and Xiao Lü kept the affair from being exposed. When a system task told Lin Li to convince four other people he was innocent, he realized someone else was hidden in the wardrobe.

• Lin Li denied cheating to the shirtless man beneath the bed, who accused him of making his girlfriend suck his bodily fluids.
• Xiao Lü returned, noticed the messy bed and underwear, but believed the woman's increasingly implausible explanations.
• The shirtless man accused Lin Li again and swore he would suck Lin Li's bodily fluids if Lin Li had not come to cheat.
• Lin Li received a system task to convince the other four people in the room that he was innocent, though he could count only three others.
• Lin Li searched the wardrobe with his Divine Sense and asked his roommate whether he knew the person hiding inside.

Lin Li exposed the men hiding under the bed and in the wardrobe while Xiao Lü confronted An Ping over her apparent infidelity. The wardrobe revealed Xiao Huang’s brother, Lu Minghuo, leaving the room’s tangled relationships even more confusing.

• Lin Li deliberately spoke from under the bed, prompting Xiao Lü to discover him and Lu Mingyan hiding there.
• Xiao Lü stopped Lu Mingyan from leaving by blasting the wall with electricity, then demanded that An Ping explain what was happening.
• An Ping denied knowing Lin Li, and Lin Li said he had gotten lost but suggested that two men had been involved.
• Lin Li revealed that someone else was in the wardrobe, and Xiao Lü and Lu Mingyan recognized the man as Lu Minghuo, Lu Mingyan’s brother.

Lin Li fought off Xiao Lü, Xiao Huang, and Lu Minghuo after they suspected him of being an unknown intruder, completing his mission by establishing a fearsome image. When an invisible gunman and armed reinforcements appeared, Lin Li defeated the gunman and vanished using the Two Forms Dust Barrier.

• Lin Li learned that Lu Minghuo and Lu Mingyan were brothers involved with An Ping and Xiao Lü, then tried to calm the ensuing confrontation.
• Xiao Lü, Xiao Huang, and Lu Minghuo turned their attention to Lin Li as an unexplained outsider, and Lin Li defeated them with his abilities and system items.
• Lin Li completed Task Two, received his rewards, and prepared to leave the room to explore Lighthouse City.
• An invisible gunman shot at Lin Li, but Lin Li hardened his body, revealed the attacker with milk powder, and knocked him unconscious inside the Two Forms Dust Barrier.
• Lin Li detected armed reinforcements outside, considered his options, and chose to disappear along with the mist.

Lin Li escaped the Lighthouse group in Apocalypse World, treated his bullet bruises, and decided to avoid that historical node for now. Back at school, he joked with his classmates about finals, power, and lewd pictures, until Wang Ze grabbed Yang Bangjie and the class watched rather than helping.

• Lin Li withdrew the Two Forms Dust Barrier and vanished before Xiao Lü could stop him.
• Back in his bathroom, Lin Li used Healing on the bruised bullet wounds and concluded that his injuries were minor.
• Lin Li renamed Node 2 and decided to avoid returning to Apocalypse World while the Lighthouse group was still searching for him.
• At Nansang Middle School, Lin Li and his classmates discussed the weekend, finals, and their plans, while Zhang Haoyang's interpretation of a classical Chinese passage sparked jokes about power.
• Yang Bangjie boasted about saving up power for the weekend, but Wang Ze seized him and joked about repaying him as the other students watched and cheered.

Lin Li went with Brother Sun to meet a used-car dealer and found ten yuan tucked with a note claiming it borrowed a year of the taker's lifespan. Lin Li believed the note and took the money, arguing that refusing the giver’s kindness would be wrong.

• Qin Zeyu imagined a freshman girl falling for him, then discovered his classmates had all left without teasing him.
• Lin Li left school with Bai Bufan and Zhou Baowei, then went home to change before meeting Brother Sun.
• Brother Sun drove Lin Li to a used-car lot and waited outside its locked gate.
• Lin Li found a ten-yuan note containing a handwritten message that taking it would borrow one year of his lifespan.
• Brother Sun suggested putting the money back, but Lin Li insisted the giver had done him a kindness and kept it.

Lin Li triggered a timed mission to stop and punish three acts of Mecha theft after visiting a used-car lot with Brother Sun and Wei Xuan. He arranged for Deng Zi to find cases involving female suspects and learned that Chen Yuying’s father planned to drive her to an upcoming exam.

• Brother Sun and Lin Li debated the ambiguous lifespan note, and Lin Li pocketed the money and year of lifespan.
• Wei Xuan arrived and unlocked the used-car lot’s triple-locked gate while Lin Li received a mission to stop three acts of Mecha theft within two months.
• Lin Li messaged Deng Zi and required that women be involved in the theft cases and among those arrested.
• Lin Li arrived at the lot as Chen Yuying messaged him that her father had offered to drive her to the exam at Pingjiang High School.
• Lin Li teased Chen Yuying about her punctuation after she asked why her father was insisting on driving her.

Lin Li agreed to ride with Chen Yuying and her mother to Pingjiang, then went with Wei Xuan and Brother Sun to inspect used cars. He rejected several absurdly battered vehicles and left the search ongoing after learning a cheap Maybach was an accident car.

• Chen Yuying told Lin Li that her mother had invited him to ride with them to Pingjiang, and Lin Li accepted.
• Lin Li visited the used-car lot with Wei Xuan and Brother Sun and inspected a dilapidated Xiali N3 that had to be pushed by hand.
• Lin Li rejected the Xiali and a Wuling Hongguang after neither triggered a mission.
• Wei Xuan showed Lin Li and Brother Sun a Maybach S480 priced at 240,000 and explained that it was cheap because it had been in an accident.
• Lin Li and Brother Sun joked about the Maybach’s possible dangers, and Lin Li did not decide to buy it.

Lin Li examined used cars with Wei Xuan and rejected a flood-damaged vehicle after learning two bodies had drowned inside it, then returned to the barbecue restaurant with Brother Sun. He entered Random Node 3 in the Apocalypse World, discovered that Voice of All Things could control zombies through spoken commands, and began testing how far the ability could go.

• Lin Li inspected used cars with Wei Xuan, learned that the most expensive car had been soaked in corpse water, and decided not to buy it.
• Lin Li joked to Brother Sun that he wanted a car to bake biscuits with babies, then returned with him to the barbecue restaurant.
• Lin Li chose Random Node 3 and appeared inside an office in a ruined city filled with zombies.
• Lin Li found that the drone he had left in YunGuang City had no signal, then tested Voice of All Things on nearby zombies.
• Lin Li discovered that zombies obeyed spoken commands and understood simple instructions and arithmetic, but became confused by more complicated tasks.
• Lin Li ordered the zombies in the street to form ranks and follow a series of drill commands.

Lin Li used Voice of All Things to recruit and command a zombie army, testing the ability while training his undead soldiers. He spotted an unusually agile, iron-gray zombie that fled his commands, and recognized it as Pantao.

• Lin Li organized the zombies into the Lin Family Army, assigning them numbers and ordering them through drills and recruitment.
• Lin Li used his command to make the veteran zombies jump in unison, then taught the new recruits to copy them.
• Lin Li tested Voice of All Things, realized controlling many zombies consumed mental power, and ordered most of the army to fight one another.
• Lin Li commanded newly arrived zombies to join the slaughter, but an agile, iron-gray zombie resisted and escaped into the ruins.
• Lin Li recognized the fleeing zombie as Pantao and shouted that it was disloyal.

Lin Li tracked a mature mutant to a vast, organized horde of mutant zombies, which detected his mech and attacked. After fighting off several airborne mutants and seeing the interference steadily worsen, he decided to retreat and explore the area later.

• Lin Li marked the fleeing mutant, dealt with the remaining zombies after the Voice of All Things ended, and pursued it in his mech.
• The mutant led Lin Li to a huge zombie horde filled with organized mutants, which searched the battlefield for him.
• A mutant sensed Lin Li’s mech and signaled the horde, whose energy field began interfering with the mech as zombies and flying mutants advanced.
• Lin Li used Death's Sigh and the mech’s weapons to strike down several mutants, then chose to leave the area before the interference disabled his mech.

Lin Li prepared for a trip to Pingjiang with Chen Yuying and her mother, Song Shen, while joking with friends in a group chat. The chapter left him traveling to the competition with Chen Yuying and Song Shen after his answer about who counted as very handsome made them laugh.

• Lin Li noticed a system task to display his physique to more people and planned to complete it during a future trip to the apocalypse world.
• Lin Li spent Saturday at home and went to dinner with Chen Yuying and Ding Sihan.
• Lin Li waited for Chen Yuying and Song Shen while chatting with Zhang Haoyang, Chen Tianming, and Fan Rou in their group chat.
• Song Shen arrived to drive Lin Li and Chen Yuying to Pingjiang, and the three joked about where Lin Li and Chen Yuying should sit.
• Song Shen praised Lin Li's looks, and Lin Li called Zhang Zuolin very handsome, making Chen Yuying laugh.