Chapter Summaries

Su Qiao agreed to find the Northwest Base, believed to lie within 100 kilometers of their current location, and studied the original owner’s maps and diary to narrow down its location. She prepared to lead the team out the next day, while an uneasy feeling about their situation lingered.

• Professor Jiang revealed that the Northwest Base should be within 100 kilometers and asked Su Qiao to locate it.
• Su Qiao said she could find the base’s direction within half a day, and Professor Jiang scheduled the team’s departure for the next day.
• Su Qiao brought Han to a small cave and began studying her maps and diary while he quietly stayed beside her.
• Su Qiao shook off her unease with Han’s help, then used the maps, diary, and original maps to narrow the search area.
• Su Qiao began recalling local customs, legends, and ancient cities to identify where the base had been built.

Su Qiao studied possible defensive locations for the Northwest Base while Han pressed her for more of her blood and pretended to sleep. The chapter ended with Han secretly deciding to find a better place for them to live.

• Su Qiao marked a border fortress city, an abandoned military base, and a wilderness prison as possible locations for the Northwest Base.
• Han pulled Su Qiao down and told her to sleep, but she insisted on studying and cultivating.
• Han asked Su Qiao for more blood, and she gave him three drops after he silently protested.
• Su Qiao ordered Han to sleep, and he obediently lay down while she returned to her research.
• Han secretly opened one eye and decided not to sleep because he feared Su Qiao might leave and wanted to find them a better home.

Su Qiao and the group traveled toward their destination, but hundreds of Mutated Humans ambushed them and cut off their escape. Han revealed his lethal power while protecting Su Qiao, leaving her and 444 questioning how much he understood.

• Su Qiao led the group along the mapped route, and they traveled more than twenty kilometers before stopping at a cave for the night.
• Hundreds of Mutated Humans attacked, so Gao Cheng led Professor Jiang toward the weakest part of the encirclement while Liu Muyu and the others fought their way after them.
• Su Qiao pulled Han along as she followed the group, but they soon encountered another huge force of Mutated Humans blocking their path.
• Su Qiao fought with a Great Machete, and Han stepped in front of her and killed dozens of Mutated Humans by making their heads explode.
• Su Qiao and 444 wondered whether Han’s growing language skills and instinctive killing ability made him more mysterious than they had thought.

Su Qiao and the man fought their way through a horde of mutated humans, who appeared to target them specifically. After escaping, Su Qiao suspected someone was directing the attacks, while others also realized their route was being anticipated.

• Su Qiao asked for a safer escape route and led the man southeast, keeping his ability to fly secret.
• The mutated humans abandoned the others and swarmed toward Su Qiao and the man.
• Su Qiao and the man fought back-to-back until the remaining mutated humans fled into the woods.
• Su Qiao concluded that someone behind the attacks was targeting her, though she could find no likely enemy in the original body's memories.
• Others remarked that the attackers repeatedly followed them and seemed to know their route in advance.

Gao Cheng and his group suspected a mole after the mutated humans targeted them, while Su Qiao tried to keep Han fed without letting him drink her blood. The group left the bloody battlefield wary of one another, and Su Qiao continued teaching Han as they traveled.

• Gao Cheng considered whether a spy had exposed the group, but found no answers and stopped to rest.
• Han refused mutated beast meat and blood, so Su Qiao made Blood-Meat Pellets for him instead.
• Su Qiao warned Han that drinking her blood could make her sick or kill her, and Han decided he did not want her to die.
• Gao Cheng told everyone to leave the battlefield, and Ding Hongguang agreed as the group hurried away from the corpses.
• Su Qiao continued teaching Han during the journey, and his vocabulary grew to three or four words at a time.

After five days of travel, Su Qiao and the others reached the overgrown ruins of the former Northwest Base and confirmed it was the site they sought. They began searching for its research institute, where they hoped to find medicine or a formula that could extend their lives.

• Su Qiao confirmed that the ruins were the former Northwest Base and explained why she had chosen the old prison as their destination.
• Liuzi found a collapsed section of the perimeter wall, and the group discovered more evidence that the ruins had once been a major base.
• The group cleared a path through the vegetation and explored the sprawling remains of the base.
• Professor Jiang explained that the base had once housed up to twenty million people before wars and natural disasters brought it down.
• Liuzi asked where the research institute was as the group continued searching for the life-extending medicine or formula.

Su Qiao told Professor Jiang that the Medicinal Solution Research Institute was in the South District, not the base’s center, and he chose to follow her lead. The group headed toward the South District while Jiang Keyun complained that her uncle favored Su Qiao.

• Professor Jiang studied the map and suggested searching the base’s center for the Research Institute while Han effortlessly killed the Mutated Insects and Mutated Plants attacking the group.
• Su Qiao said records placed the Medicinal Solution Research Institute in Area C, the South District, though she did not know why it had been built there.
• Jiang Keyun criticized Su Qiao, but Professor Jiang put away the map and ordered the group to go to the South District first.
• Su Qiao realized that Professor Jiang was Jiang Keyun’s uncle and resolved to take revenge if Jiang Keyun had pushed her into the Underground Cave.

The group found the Ability Guild and bronze statues in the ruins of the Northwest Base before discovering that the research institute had recently been burned down. Gao Cheng suspected another team had destroyed it and that someone in their own group had leaked their location and purpose.

• Liuzi and Xiao Wu found a bronze plaque identifying the dilapidated building as the Ability Guild.
• Professor Jiang identified two enormous bronze statues as memorials to a former dean and her husband, a renowned expert.
• Gao Cheng found the research institute’s sign and showed the group that the site had been blackened by a recent fire.
• Gao Cheng confirmed the ashes were still warm and concluded that someone had burned the institute before the group arrived.
• Gao Cheng suspected another team was nearby and that someone in their group had leaked their whereabouts and purpose.

Gao Cheng and Professor Jiang suspected that someone had taken the target items and considered whether there was a mole in their team. After the team searched the nearby area and found no one, they were left without clues about where to go next.

• Ding Hongguang angrily demanded that the suspected mole reveal themselves, while Su Qiao asked the system to watch him for suspicious behavior.
• The team proposed that Mutated Humans or a foreign Ability User team might have taken the items, and Professor Jiang agreed those possibilities could not be ruled out.
• Captain Gao ordered everyone to search nearby in pairs and told them to report any danger rather than act alone.
• The team returned after twenty minutes without finding anyone or any Mutated Humans, and Professor Jiang remained unsure what to do next.

Su Qiao and the others searched the underground research lab, finding it ransacked and its computers stripped of their hard drives and chips. Su Qiao discovered a hollow space behind some cabinets, and Professor Jiang came over to investigate.

• Su Qiao reminded the group that the research institute might have an underground lab, and Professor Jiang led them to search for its entrance.
• The group found a damaged doorway and entered the underground lab, where they found ruined equipment, scattered wreckage, and scraps of burned documents.
• Su Qiao suggested the computers might still be useful if their hard drives and chips remained, but the group found those components had been taken.
• Gao Cheng warned the group that whoever had ransacked the lab might ambush them to silence them.
• Su Qiao and a man moved cabinets aside and knocked on the wall, discovering a hollow space behind it; Professor Jiang came over to ask what she had found.

Su Qiao found a safe hidden inside a wall, and Han opened it without damaging what was inside. The group discovered old medicinal formulas and a USB drive, while Professor Jiang identified the papers as work left by the great dean a thousand years earlier.

• Su Qiao sensed that the wall was hollow, and Han broke through it to reveal a hidden safe.
• Gao Cheng removed the safe, but Han sliced its door off before Gao Cheng could use his Gold Element Ability.
• Su Qiao opened the safe and found a USB drive and papers listing medicinal agents and formulas.
• Professor Jiang examined the papers and identified them as a formula left by the great dean about a thousand years earlier.
• Ding Hongguang questioned how Su Qiao had found the safe, and Gao Cheng defended her by pointing out that she was a Mental Ability User.

Su Qiao recognized the pharmaceutical formulas in the safe as her own handwriting and tried to recall why she had left them there. She began repairing an ancient USB drive while Gao Cheng searched the base, and the chapter ended with her asking Xiao Si to investigate the plane ahead.

• Su Qiao recognized her handwriting and familiar formulas among the papers from the safe.
• Professor Jiang asked Su Qiao to check the USB drive, and she found that its damp, rusted data could not be read without repairs.
• Su Qiao said she needed electronic parts and tools to repair the USB drive and modify her computer.
• Gao Cheng ruled out other hidden safes, then assigned patrols and led a search of the base.
• Su Qiao, Han, Professor Jiang, and Liu Yue remained in the basement, each focused on their own task.
• After failing to remember when or why she had written the formulas, Su Qiao told Xiao Si to investigate the plane ahead.

Su Qiao repaired an old USB drive and began modifying her smart computer so she could read it, while 444 searched her memories for clues that she had visited Planet D before. She left Han sulking as she promised to take him somewhere later.

• Su Qiao wondered whether she had visited Planet D before, and 444 began checking her old memory spheres for evidence.
• Su Qiao told Professor Jiang that she had repaired the USB drive but needed to add a USB port to her incompatible smart computer.
• Professor Jiang waited eagerly while Liu Yue teased him about his excitement and admired Su Qiao's technical skill.
• Han tried to make Su Qiao stop working and go to sleep with him, but she coaxed him into sitting back down.
• Su Qiao whispered that she still had to take Han somewhere later, and Han looked doubtful as he considered whether she was telling the truth.

Su Qiao finished modifying the computer and opened a document from the USB drive containing architectural blueprints and topographic maps. The group debated what the plans were for, while Professor Jiang concluded they dated back a thousand years.

• Han agreed to wait for Su Qiao, then considered moving their home and dismantling parts of the Underground Room to make it more comfortable for her.
• Su Qiao completed the computer modification and told Professor Jiang he could insert the USB drive.
• Su Qiao opened the drive and found a document with twelve images: six architectural blueprints and six topographic maps.
• Liu Yue and the others wondered whether the plans showed the old Northwest Base, while Professor Jiang studied them closely.
• Captain Gao suggested the blueprints might belong to a research institute or a weapons facility, but Professor Jiang said the old papers and handwriting showed they were from a thousand years earlier.

Su Qiao received a flood of memories from 444 about having visited this plane 300 years after the apocalypse, but the sudden information left her dizzy. Han took her to rest, revealing that he could summon a bed and a glowing pearl from his storage space, while Su Qiao became more certain of her guess about him.

• 444 told Su Qiao she had come to this plane 300 years after the apocalypse and uploaded the plane's memories into her mind.
• Su Qiao grew dizzy from the memories, and Han caught her and insisted she rest and take medicine.
• Han carried Su Qiao into a lounge, produced a bed with a wave of his hand, and set a glowing pearl beside it.
• Han told Su Qiao to close her eyes and rest, but he could not provide medicine because he did not know where to find any.
• Su Qiao claimed she had already taken medicine, but Han called her a liar and went to fetch her bag from the Research Lab.

Su Qiao discovered that Han could produce objects from a spatial pocket, though he did not understand what it was, and fell asleep before asking him more. At dawn, Professor Jiang was found injured and the USB drive, medicine formula, and Su Qiao’s computer were missing, causing the group to suspect Su Qiao and Han.

• Su Qiao asked Han to produce water and realized he could summon a bottle of mineral water from his spatial pocket.
• Su Qiao wondered why Han had lived in an Underground Cave and slept in a Stone Coffin, but Han covered her eyes and told her to sleep.
• At dawn, Su Qiao and Han followed the commotion to the rest room, where Liu Yue treated the unconscious Professor Jiang.
• Liu Yue reported that Professor Jiang had been attacked and that the USB drive and medicine formula might have been stolen; Gao Cheng found Su Qiao’s mini-computer smashed.
• Ding Hongguang suspected a mole, and Liuzi and the others looked suspiciously at Su Qiao and Han because Su Qiao had left the group and returned with Han.

Su Qiao and Han were suspected of stealing the USB drive and Medicinal Formula, but Professor Jiang identified the culprits as talking Mutated Humans. The group was left wondering how the Mutated Humans had entered unnoticed and why they wanted the research.

• Jiang Keyun accused Han, but Su Qiao argued that he had no reason to sneak around and could easily defeat the team.
• Gao Cheng defended Su Qiao and Han, pointing out that Su Qiao had already read the USB drive and had no need to steal it.
• Professor Jiang woke and said that a speaking Mutated Human had attacked him.
• Liu Yue helped Professor Jiang sit up as he explained that he had heard two Mutated Humans speaking.
• Gao Cheng and the others speculated that the Mutated Humans had used powerful or unusual abilities to get past their guards.
• The group wondered why the Mutated Humans wanted the Medicinal Formula and USB drive.

Su Qiao and the team realized that an intelligent Mutated Human leader had stolen supplies, but they postponed pursuing him while Professor Jiang recovered. Then they discovered Su Suya had been injured and abducted, and the team began searching for clues.

• Su Qiao explained that an intelligent Mutated Human leader might steal supplies to improve his intelligence and awaken abilities, and Professor Jiang agreed.
• Gao Cheng proposed resting for two days before pursuing the Mutated Humans because Professor Jiang was injured and their camp was unknown.
• Ding Hongguang discovered that Su Suya was missing and that her room had been ransacked, with blood on the floor.
• Su Qiao asked Xiao Si what it had done the previous night, and Xiao Si explained that Han's Mental Power had kept it from moving around.
• Gao Cheng determined that Su Suya had been slightly injured and taken away, then sent the team to search for clues.
• Su Qiao took Han and chose a direction to search.

Su Qiao suspected Ding Hongguang of being a mole and prepared a trackable Special Perfume to trace the Mutated Humans. When she went looking for the man who had flown off, she found the others gathered outside, staring at someone flying overhead.

• Su Qiao and Ding Hongguang suspected that Ding Hongguang was deliberately framing her, and she told him to keep watch on the man.
• Su Qiao decided to make Special Perfume so she could track Mutated Humans without alerting them.
• Su Qiao completed the perfume in the Research Lab and learned that the man had flown out through a window.
• Su Qiao left the lab to look for him and found the team watching a flying person overhead.
• Gao Cheng warned the team to find cover and stay alert.

Han returned with a wild boar after secretly searching for food, and Su Qiao tried to keep his flight from drawing attention. He offered her the meat, then revealed he was hungry for the blood-pellet meatballs she made, while privately planning to take her to a new home later.

• Han flew back and dropped a huge wild boar in front of Su Qiao, saying he had caught it for her.
• Ding Hongguang mocked Han for obeying Su Qiao, and Han offered to kill him until Su Qiao stopped him.
• Han told Su Qiao he had run out of candy, meaning the blood-pellet meatballs she made from high-level Mutated Animals.
• Su Qiao realized Han had gone hunting because he wanted food and promised to make him meatballs.
• Han offered to catch more meat for Su Qiao, but she said she only liked eating meat.