Chapter Summaries

Lin An learned that the Black Domain offered valuable rewards and became interested in entering it to gain spiritual energy and strengthen himself. As he considered leading a team inside, a convoy from the Mount Lao Zombie Hunting Group rammed into his convoy and ordered them to stop.

• Yun Tian told Lin An that the Black Domain grew more dangerous the deeper people went, while Lin An learned that Yuan Feng had survived an expedition and advanced to the Second Order Peak.
• Lin An concluded that the Black Domain’s rewards could provide abundant spiritual energy and help him rapidly strengthen his body.
• Wang Kun offered to accompany Lin An into the Black Domain and share what his late friend had encountered, while the convoy Awakened hoped to join Lin An’s group.
• The convoy leader began asking Lin An to consider helping his team, but a rear passenger warned that another convoy was charging toward them.
• The Mount Lao Legion convoy rammed the last minivan, and an Awakened man ordered them to stop as the convoy leader recognized the Mount Lao Zombie Hunting Group.

Lin An’s convoy was stopped by the Mount Lao Zombie Hunting Group, whose members terrorized survivors under the guise of inspections. Lin An ordered his team to subdue them, leaving Fangs Man alive to answer questions about his father, the City Guard Commander.

• Wang Tian explained that the Mount Lao Zombie Hunting Group extorted survivors and killed those who resisted, and he asked Lin An to claim the convoy as his own.
• Fangs Man and his armed men surrounded the convoy, ordered everyone out, and threatened them while Zhang Tie’s off-road vehicle continued driving away.
• Lin An told his team to leave a few attackers alive, and Zhang Tie leaped into the convoy and began fighting the squad.
• Bear Dunce joined the attack, and the squad was crushed in under a minute while Fangs Man was left kneeling with his hands broken.
• Yun Tian questioned whether the group was keeping a low profile, and Zhang Tie defended their actions before Lin An began questioning Fangs Man.

Lin An questioned Xiao Fei about the Mount Lao Safe Zone, its Third Order Mutants, and people with knowledge of the Black Domain. As the convoy headed toward the Safe Zone, Xiao Fei secretly sent a signal while Lin An noticed and continued testing his Cataclysm Power.

• Lin An forced Xiao Fei to reveal that the Safe Zone had about 290,000 awakened people, including two Third Order, and several million Survivors.
• Xiao Fei said his father’s team had encountered two Third Order Mutants near the Black Domain and identified Yuan Feng and Liang Long as the people who knew most about it.
• Lin An ordered Xiao Fei tied up and taken along, then led the convoy toward the Safe Zone to seek information from Yuan Feng and Liang Long.
• Zhang Tie shared chocolate with the Survivors and chatted with them, easing the tense mood in the truck.
• Xiao Fei secretly transmitted a faint signal from a button near his collar, but Lin An detected it and ignored the attempt while focusing on his Cataclysm Power.

As the convoy approached the Mount Lao Safe Zone, Lin An considered how Cataclysm Power could let him strengthen his attributes at an accelerating rate. Zhang Tie stunned the convoy by producing stored food and beer, while Lin An summoned Yun Tian’s altered tank, leaving captive Xiao Fei shaken by the group’s power.

• Wang Tiangang offered Lin An’s group rice, worried that their conflict with the Hunter Corpse Squad would bring trouble at the Mount Lao Safe Zone.
• Lin An calculated that spending recovered spirit energy on Cataclysm Power could steadily raise his attributes and potentially lead to exponential growth.
• Zhang Tie brought out a hot pot, abundant food, and beer from Space Equipment, astonishing Wang Tiangang and the convoy.
• Yun Tian reported that Zombies and Mutants were blocking the road, and Lin An produced an altered tank from his ring.
• Yun Tian transformed into a nine-meter-tall mecha and charged toward the threat, while Xiao Fei stopped pretending to be dead and wondered who Lin An was.

After Xiao Fei sent an emergency video showing his defeat by a powerful convoy, Xiao Tianming returned to Yuan Feng's Safe Zone and reported the intruders' strength and interest in the Black Domain. Yuan Feng dismissed the danger and prepared to face them, while Xiao Tianming grew wary of the young man's terrifying physical power.

• Xiao Tianming rushed his City Guard Army back to Mount Lao Safe Zone after Xiao Fei sent him footage of his injuries and the convoy that had defeated him.
• Xiao Tianming judged the convoy to include several powerful Awakeners, possibly Third Order, and noticed that they were interested in the Black Domain.
• Xiao Tianming reported the convoy to Yuan Feng, who listened in an underground complex while training with overwhelming physical strength.
• Yuan Feng dismissed the possibility that the outsiders were Third Order and mocked them for coming to his territory.

Xiao Tianming tried to persuade Yuan Feng and Liang Long to attack the outsiders who had captured his son, but the two Third Order Awakeners saw through his schemes. Yuan Feng favored caution and a peaceful exchange over provoking a powerful enemy, while Liang Long wanted to seize the outsiders’ Space Equipment, leaving their response undecided.

• Xiao Tianming warned Yuan Feng that the outsiders had killed people, captured Xiao Fei, and sought information about the Black Domain.
• Liang Long dismissed the outsiders as unlikely to be Third Order, and Yuan Feng ordered Xiao Tianming to gather Awakeners and attack if they refused to release Xiao Fei.
• After Xiao Tianming left, Liang Long asked Yuan Feng whether they should intervene, and Yuan Feng said it did not matter if some Awakeners died.
• Yuan Feng said they could give a genuine Third Order outsider information about the Black Domain, but Liang Long argued that the information was valuable and the Space Equipment was worth stealing.
• Yuan Feng said they would wait and kill the outsiders if they were not the people he had in mind.

Lin An’s convoy approached the Mount Lao Safe Zone, where Xiao Tianming had mobilized awakeners to ambush them and rescue Xiao Fei. The convoy reached the city with Lin An already aware of the defenders, while Zhang Tie mocked the Safe Zone’s shabby appearance.

• Mount Lao Safe Zone’s awakeners drove Survivors away from the walls and prepared an armed reception for the approaching convoy.
• Xiao Tianming’s aide ordered the defenders to kill Lin An quickly while avoiding harm to Xiao Tianming’s son, Xiao Fei.
• Bear Dunce noticed the defenders, and Lin An used his Mental Strength to detect Yuan Feng and Liang Long inside the Safe Zone.
• Xiao Fei watched Lin An from the vehicle and fantasized about punishing him and the others if they fell into his hands.
• Zhang Tie complained that the Mount Lao Safe Zone looked run-down as the convoy continued toward it.

Lin An’s convoy entered the ramshackle Mount Lao Safe Zone with captured members of the Hunter Corpse Squad, throwing the Outer City into panic. Xiao Tianming led an Awakened force out to confront them, while Lin An appeared to be caught off guard by the encirclement.

• Zhang Tie and Bear Dunce criticized Mount Lao Safe Zone’s filthy Outer City and weak defenses as the convoy approached.
• Survivors gathered to trade with the convoy until they recognized the bound Hunter Corpse Squad members and fled in alarm.
• Xiao Tianming realized the crowd had exposed his ambush and ordered weapons readied as thousands of Awakened appeared on the wall.
• Xiao Tianming charged out with four Second Order Peaks and more than three hundred Advanced Second Order Awakened, demanding the convoy hand over the Hunter Demon Squad.
• A figure appeared atop the vehicle, seeming frozen as Xiao Tianming’s force surrounded the convoy.

Zhang Tie faced Mount Lao’s Awakener Legion alone and revealed his Third Order strength by enduring their concentrated skills and blasting their front ranks back with Transcendent Bear’s Roar. Xiao Tianming ordered everyone to focus fire on him, while Liang Long rushed to the battlefield and Yuan Feng recognized the Silver Giant Bear with terror.

• Xiao Tianming led the Awakener Legion’s charge toward the convoy, while Yuan Feng and Liang Long watched from the city wall.
• The Legion opened with coordinated control and ranged skills, and Zhang Tie stepped forward to take the attacks head-on.
• Zhang Tie transformed into a Silver Giant Bear and survived nearly a hundred skills with only singed fur.
• Zhang Tie used Transcendent Bear’s Roar to knock back the front ranks and injure Xiao Tianming, who realized he was a Third Order Awakener.
• Xiao Tianming ordered the Legion to focus fire on Zhang Tie, and Liang Long leaped from the wall to join the fight.
• Yuan Feng trembled as he recognized the Silver Giant Bear.

Zhang Tie devastated Liang Long’s Awakener Legion while Lin An subdued the reinforcements with his Descent Domain. Yuan Feng recognized Lin An from the Deathmatch and fled, but Lin An captured Liang Long, who demanded to know who he was.

• Zhang Tie charged into the Awakener Legion, using his Third Order strength to slaughter its members and withstand their attacks.
• Yun Tian watched Zhang Tie overwhelm the Legion, while Lin An protected the convoy and prepared to stop the reinforcements.
• Lin An unfolded his Descent Domain, forcing the charging Awakeners to their knees and weakening Liang Long.
• Yuan Feng recognized Lin An from the Deathmatch and fled toward the edge of the Safe Zone, but Lin An ordered him to return.
• Lin An appeared before Liang Long and restrained him, and Liang Long asked who Lin An was.

Yuan Feng fled toward the Black Domain rather than risk revealing its secrets to Lin An, who captured Liang Long and took control of Mount Lao’s Safe Zone. Lin An learned that Yuan Feng knew more about the Black Domain, but Liang Long’s answers left the danger inside it unresolved.

• Yuan Feng calculated that Lin An could catch him and chose to escape into the Black Domain instead of returning to face him.
• Zhang Tie approached Lin An with Liang Long, and Liang Long realized Lin An was the powerful figure he had heard about.
• Lin An let Yuan Feng go because he could not kill him from that distance and suspected Yuan Feng knew a secret about the Black Domain.
• Liang Long confirmed that the fugitive was Yuan Feng, commander of Mount Lao’s Safe Zone.
• Lin An found that Mount Lao’s Spiritual Energy Node was only Second Order and learned that Yuan Feng had entered the Black Domain four times and ventured deep inside.
• Lin An asked whether the Black Domain’s Supernatural Events chased people out or whether survival depended on running fast.

Lin An examined Liang Long’s records of the Black Domain’s many Supernatural Events and learned how Cursed Objects worked. The chapter left him wondering what the Black Domain was and why it had vanished from accounts in his previous life.

• Liang Long explained that Supernatural Events and Meme infections stopped working outside their ranges, and recalled surviving a woman in white in the Black Domain.
• Lin An reviewed records of forty-seven Supernatural Events, eleven Meme events, and three unclassified events, then wondered why no one had mentioned the Black Domain in his previous life.
• Zhang Tie examined Liang Long’s Blood-Colored High Heel, which let its wearer move quickly across any surface and pass through obstacles.
• Mo Ling handled the high heel without apparent pain, while Liang Long explained that it consumed Vitality and spread black patterns that could turn users into Paranormal Entities.
• Lin An concluded that Cursed Objects were unique to the Black Domain and grew more curious about its origins.

Lin An and Mo Ling speculated about the Black Domain while waiting for dawn, and Lin An tried to understand the Blood-colored High Heels. Mo Ling sensed a powerful presence inside the shoe, but touching it through her Mental Strength caused pain.

• Mo Ling refused to leave Lin An's lap, and Lin An reflected on why she felt drawn to him and struggled to fit in with the Survivors.
• Lin An worried about the Savior System's thirteen-hour mission countdown but could not identify the source of the coming crisis.
• Lin An and Mo Ling discussed whether the Black Domain consisted of real scenes connected by Teleportation points, but they lacked enough information to explain how scenes from different periods appeared.
• Lin An asked Mo Ling to probe the Blood-colored High Heels with her Mental Strength, and she felt intense pain before saying the presence inside was very big.

Lin An and Mo Ling entered the Black Domain to investigate the trapped gathering place and its Spiritual Energy Seeds. After a strange encounter made Lin An retreat backward through the mist, Mo Ling drew her dagger and challenged the approaching figure.

• Lin An reviewed the Black Domain’s history and learned that Black Mist had trapped a gathering place whose survivors hoped powerful Awakeners would lead them out.
• With seven hours remaining on the countdown, Lin An chose a relatively safe route into the Black Domain, bringing Mo Ling while Zhang Tie and Yun Tian stayed outside with Liang Long.
• Inside, the landscape shifted to a mist-covered dirt road, and the System disabled communications as Lin An cautiously scanned their surroundings.
• Mo Ling followed Lin An while privately resenting him for walking ahead and leaving her tired after she had spent the night absorbing Death Qi from the Blood-colored High Heels.
• Mo Ling kicked a pebble that struck Lin An’s heel, but he stiffened and hurried backward without turning around, prompting her to draw her dagger and demand to know who he was.

Mo Ling was attacked by the Nameless One while separated from Lin An, but Lin An encountered a disguised copy of her as he neared the Black Domain’s boundary. He exposed and destroyed the impostor, then charged back into the fog toward the real threat.

• The Nameless One struck Mo Ling, sending her flying and triggering a Special Event mission.
• Lin An carried a seemingly exhausted Mo Ling through the thickening fog toward the area’s white boundary, unaware that she had been replaced.
• A shrill cry and heavy footsteps came from the fog behind them, and the false Mo Ling urged Lin An to flee.
• Lin An noticed that Mo Ling’s body was cold and that she would never admit to being afraid, so he crushed the impostor’s head.
• The No-Face asked how Lin An had seen through its disguise, and Lin An charged back into the fog.

Mo Ling fought a powerful monster while trapped in the No-Face event, and Lin An arrived just in time to save her. As he carried her onward, a mysterious face watched them and noted that neither the monster nor the dead man had been cleared away by the System.

• Mo Ling used consumables and her dagger to hold off the Scorched Corpse, but she was badly injured and nearly killed.
• Lin An slashed the monster with a Sword Breath and rescued Mo Ling.
• Mo Ling clung to Lin An and complained that he should have carried her from the start.
• Lin An killed the No-Face and continued toward the next area while wondering how it had altered his perception.
• A huge face in the Black Mist observed Lin An and remarked that the System had not cleared away the monster or the dead man.

Chu An ordered Dragon Security to lure Mutant Number 02 toward the coastline while preparing to investigate the spreading White Fog, a deadly Meme Incident. Despite An JingTian’s warnings, Chu An entered the fog alone, leaving thousands of awakened ones watching anxiously.

• Chu An ordered his forces to contact the South Sea War Zone’s Safe Zone and lure Mutant Number 02 west toward the coastline, accepting any price.
• An JingTian reported that the White Fog had spread across thirteen square kilometers and was advancing faster, while every awakened one sent inside had died or gone mad.
• Chu An concluded that more deaths would worsen the Meme Incident and said he would investigate its root himself.
• An JingTian offered to send stronger squads as Chu An’s vanguard, but Chu An refused and entered the White Fog alone as thousands watched.

Chu An entered the white fog and endured its repeating broadcast and increasingly violent illusions while calmly testing how they worked. He found a Broadcast Station and played a survivor’s recording, which ended after describing a crash, as three corpses with bullet holes in their foreheads lay inside.

• Chu An walked through the fog and observed illusions of Zombies and artillery attacks without reacting.
• He recovered from a simulated explosion and concluded that the attacks were illusions that might affect belief or perception.
• Chu An tracked the broadcast’s nine repetitions and three-minute intervals before finding a Broadcast Station and a crashed Off-road Vehicle.
• He played the cassette recording, which recounted an early Zombie attack and Lao Chen’s attempt to escape with his family before the tape jammed.
• Chu An saw three corpses inside the Broadcast Station, each with a bullet hole in the forehead.

Chu An examined the corpses in the Broadcast Station before a deepening interference pulled him into a vision of the family’s final days. The vision ended on the fifth day, as the starving survivors heard gunfire while waiting for a rescue that had not arrived.

• Chu An found a mother and child dead in the Broadcast Station beside a man who had shot himself, and counted four rounds fired from the pistol.
• Chu An felt the broadcast interference intensify and was pulled into a vision of the family trapped in the station.
• Lao Chen barricaded the doors with his wife and child after a horde of Zombies surrounded them, and he reassured his family that help would come.
• On the second day, Lao Chen guarded the Iron Gate while the family endured thirst and listened to warnings about the fog and an approaching rescue.
• On the third day, Lao Chen gave his wife their last bottle of urine to drink after they ran out of water.
• On the fifth day, the child was too weak to move, and Lao Chen heard distant gunfire while the broadcast warned survivors to stay indoors.

Chu An experienced a Meme that merged his thoughts with a starving man's despair inside a sealed Broadcast Station, driving the man to kill his wife and child before trying to shoot himself. Soldiers finally broke in and rescued him, revealing that the broadcasts and warnings had been illusions.

• On the sixth night, the man heard a Rescue Team retreat after encountering a monster and lost hope of being saved.
• On the seventh morning, Chu An was forced into the man's mind as the Meme intensified and merged their thoughts.
• Believing the approaching rescuers were an illusion, the man shot his wife and child, then tried to kill himself when his gun jammed.
• A soldier smashed open the Iron Gate, pulled the man to safety, and asked why he had ignored their calls.
• The man saw that the broadcasting console had never been connected to power and realized the warnings and broadcasts had deceived him.