Chapter Summaries

Jiang Han questioned two Cat Lamp scouts about a zombie that had released flames, but their explanations offered little certainty. The scouts left with free train passes, and Xiya asked Jiang Han for a share of the next batch of Sea Siren hair.

• Jiang Han questioned the detective and assistant Cat Lamps about the flame-using zombie, and they disagreed over whether it had used magic.
• The detective Cat Lamp concluded that the zombie had used martial arts, and Jiang Han thanked the scouts and gave them three-month Cat's River Train passes.
• The Cat Lamps departed with the remaining saury, and Xiya told Jiang Han that the other scouts had mostly returned.
• Xiya asked Jiang Han for Sea Siren hair to make a Grand Magister cloak, and Jiang Han said she could spare enough to cut it to a bob.
• Xiya agreed to the limit and planned to check whether Kraken's hair had grown back.

Jiang Han arranged heat-resistant shields for giant cats and little cats, then worked with Xiya and Du Lingxuan to assign the long-delayed Cat Lamp transportation-route planning. The chapter left March Cat Peak City’s status as a transportation hub firmly defended by Jiang Han.

• Jiang Han ordered the Cat Lamp R&D lab to develop heat-resistant shields to prevent giant cats from collapsing after fire damage.
• Xiya asked Jiang Han which giant cats should plan Cat Lamp transportation routes, and Jiang Han insisted the important work could not be outsourced to witches.
• Xiya named a trusted office director from the Concubine Daughter Faction, and Jiang Han assigned her the route-planning job.
• Du Lingxuan advised sending two giant cats to plan routes for opposite sides of the territory to prevent a single transportation-hub metropolis from forming.
• Du Lingxuan teased Jiang Han about March Cat Peak City, but Jiang Han argued that its central location and connections made it the island’s essential transportation hub.

Jiang Han, Du Lingxuan, and Xiya finished work and watched hundreds of giant cats file out of the Giant Cat Tree. Jiang Han then took her friends to a special claypot soup restaurant on China Meow Food Street, where they began choosing their meal.

• Jiang Han and the other giant cat witches stopped working when quitting time approached, and Jiang Han joked that quitting time had arrived.
• The three witches watched office doors open in synchronized order as hundreds of giant cats emerged from the Giant Cat Tree.
• Jiang Han led Du Lingxuan and Xiya to China Meow Food Street, where their hints ruled out the cheapest dishes.
• Jiang Han brought her friends to the Scalding Cat Paw Claypot Soup House and explained its claypot soup and rice to Xiya.

After a lavish meal, Jiang Han agreed to trade Monster Cat furballs for Xiya’s Cat Spider silk brocade. Xiya also told her that next month’s Eileen Cup would be hosted by the East Japan Witches on Eileen’s newly acquired Youweixian Sky Island.

• Jiang Han’s guests Du Lingxuan and Xiya praised her cooking after eating, and Xiya asked whether she had Monster Cat furballs to trade.
• Xiya offered a hundred bolts of Great Cat Spider silk brocade, and Jiang Han agreed to exchange Monster Cat furballs, with other goods to make up any shortfall.
• Du Lingxuan grew sulky as Jiang Han and Xiya settled the deal, while Jiang Han reflected on how their past land exchanges had benefited her own territory.
• Xiya told Jiang Han that the next Eileen Cup event group would be hosted by the East Japan Witches on Youweixian Sky Island, a province Eileen had bought.

Jiang Han learned that the Eastern Isles Witch Association had leased three provinces to Eileen, Lilith, and Kraken after economic troubles, and Xiya sought to acquire Cat Spider silk production there. The chapter ended with Jiang Han agreeing to add territory in November in exchange for Xiya’s offer of two hundred bolts of silk brocade.

• Xiya explained that the Eastern Isles Witch Association had leased provinces to Eileen, Lilith, and Kraken after mishandling the F0 Broom Race and suffering economic problems.
• Jiang Han, Xiya, and Du Lingxuan walked around Maple Cat Tree Lake and discussed Giant Cats.
• Xiya proposed buying deeds to folded spaces from Eileen to bring Japan’s Cat Spider silk production under her territory and merge it into Jiang Han’s Giant Cat Island.
• Jiang Han objected that Xiya’s territory could not expand again so soon after acquiring Dragon Mountain Lake.
• Xiya offered two hundred bolts of Cat Spider silk brocade, and Jiang Han agreed that her territory could expand in November.

Jiang Han prepared to travel to the Eastern Isles with several witches and giant cats, where she would also check on the Eileen Cup event and possibly pose for promotional magazine covers. Jiang Miao decided to join the trip and asked Jiang Han to call her three days before they left.

• Jiang Han read about the Eastern Isles’ delicacies and watched Mao Philia and Mao'er Lite pack for the journey.
• Jiang Han grumbled that Jiang Xuan and Ye Keshu had left for Fog City with her travel gear, forcing her to buy replacement blankets for herself and the giant cats.
• Jiang Han told Jiang Miao she planned to visit the Eastern Isles with a group of witches and meet Alesha to discuss Eileen Cup promotional work.
• Jiang Miao said she was already planning to visit the Eileen Cup venue and asked to travel with Jiang Han.
• Jiang Han agreed to contact Jiang Miao three days before departure so she could pack her research boxes.

Jiang Han and the witches planned a visit to Northfield Sea Plains Province and learned more about Eileen’s purchase of a Japanese province. Kraken revealed that Eileen’s land acquisitions were part of a larger, still-unclear plan, and joined the group as an observer.

• Alesha proposed visiting Northfield Sea Plains Province for its hot springs, meals, and fish ponds, while Du Lingxuan and Kraken traded insults.
• Jiang Han asked Kraken why Eileen had bought a province in Japan and why the Japanese Witch Association had sold it.
• Kraken said Eileen needed fertile land in densely populated witch regions and was pursuing a plan connected to regional companies and extraterritorial legal rights.
• Alesha asked whether the group would observe Eileen’s activities, and Kraken confirmed that she had joined them as part of an observation team.

Jiang Han reviewed Alesha’s procurement list and explained its travel supplies while Lilian asked her for help obtaining a portable Giant Cat Nest. Jiang Han shared Cat Veer’s contact and promised to take Lilian to register at the workshop, then reflected on how Cat Cup marketing had made the Giant Cat Territory’s products popular.

• Jiang Han examined Alesha’s neatly written procurement list and read out the requirement for an adaptive heating-and-cooling tent.
• Kraken said Angelite would give her a new tent, and Lilian approached Jiang Han to ask for a portable Giant Cat Nest.
• Jiang Han agreed to sell Lilian one and gave her Cat Veer’s contact information, promising to take her to the workshop to register for membership.
• Jiang Han recalled how gifts of Cat Cups had helped Lilith promote the products, while Cat Veer’s marketing helped make them a pillar industry of the Giant Cat Territory.
• Jiang Han planned to start a small stream on her Cosmic Pigeon Official account.

Jiang Han brought her friends to Cat Veer's Giant Cat Workshop to buy supplies and check on a commissioned fireproofing device. Cat Veer agreed to help them, but the chapter left the device's status unrevealed.

• Jiang Han showed Lilian and the others the Cat Spider ranch and teased Histeria about hoarding brocade.
• Jiang Han and the witches reached March Cat Peak City and watched Cat Veer try to sell Ascension Cat Earmuffs to the Hotpot Giant Cat Lamp.
• The Hotpot Giant Cat Lamp chose a cat tree instead of combat gear, and Cat Veer let her leave with it.
• Jiang Han asked Cat Veer to arrange membership cards for her friends and show them the Version 9.5 fireproofing device plan.
• Cat Veer agreed to help Jiang Han with both requests.

Jiang Han visited Cat Veer’s workshop, where Cat Veer showed her a heavy fireproof umbrella designed for use in the Dead Magic Zone. After learning the prototype’s performance was reduced there, Cat Veer thought of an improvement and pushed Jiang Han out while promising a new version in five days.

• Cat Veer woke Cat Mila and Cat Ka and ordered them to help receive the visiting witches.
• Jiang Han followed Cat Veer into an orderly workshop powered by Vitality Crystals, where Cat Veer was forging a scepter for Ovi from her shed cat tail.
• Cat Veer gave Jiang Han a heavy mechanical umbrella and explained its heat-resistant construction and temperature limits.
• Jiang Han asked whether the umbrella had been tested in the Dead Magic Zone, and Cat Veer said its effectiveness had dropped by about 26%.
• Cat Veer conceived an improvement and hurriedly sent Jiang Han out, promising to make the next version in five days.

Jiang Han hosted her sisters for a shopping trip, a meal, and an outing at Banyan Cat Lake, then joined their debate about a dinosaur program. The group agreed to sleep in Xiya’s Pharaoh Giant Cat nest and watch it together in the morning.

• Jiang Han ran into Alesha, who wished she had been holding bread like a manga heroine, and Jiang Han teased her before leaving.
• Lilian said the shop’s goods were good but about thirty percent more expensive, while Xiya and the Glass Giant Cat started play-fighting until Kraken pulled them apart.
• Jiang Han treated the witches to a meal and tea by Banyan Cat Lake, and Du Lingxuan reassured her that they were sisters.
• Xiya invited the others to bathe, and Lilian proposed watching a dinosaur program using a Mars connection core she had stolen from her sister’s house.
• The witches argued over whether a Tyrannosaurus could defeat a Tarbosaurus, then agreed to sleep in Xiya’s nest and watch the program in the morning.

Jiang Han and the others visited Xiya’s lavish oasis cat nest, where Xiya showed off its desert and spring features and treated the witches to dessert. Lilian installed a Mars direct-link core, while Jiang Han thought about finding her younger sister a blond, blue-eyed cat lamp partner.

• Jiang Han admired the artificial desert outside Xiya’s oasis and listened as Xiya explained its costly earth-vein facilities.
• Xiya showed Jiang Han and the others the Peach Blossom Spring-style oasis, including its streams, hot springs, and giant cat nests.
• Jiang Han complained of hunger, pressured Xiya into providing food, and the witches enjoyed warm yellow egg tarts.
• Lilian installed the Mars direct-link core she had taken from her sister, Lilith.
• Jiang Han remembered Zhen Ling’s question about Caroline and considered finding her younger sister a blond, blue-eyed cat lamp partner.

Jiang Han toured her territory with Cat Carlo and learned that Giant Cat Lamps were secretly minting fish-bone currency. Before they could crack down on the mints, Jiang Han brought Cat Nesting into the investigation to ensure it was handled fairly, then decided to involve Cat Carl as well.

• After a night of chatting, Jiang Han tied Xiya's tail to Du Lingxuan's tail before leaving the cat nest for her inspection.
• Cat Carlo told Jiang Han that Giant Cat Lamps were secretly making fish-bone coins and using them to issue currency.
• Jiang Han agreed the private mints had to be stopped, while Cat Carlo explained she needed the lord cat's authority to enforce the rules.
• Jiang Han paused the inspection and invited Cat Nesting to join, prompting Cat Nesting to warn against letting one faction handle the case alone.
• Jiang Han decided to call Cat Carl too and said she wanted to eat her electric pickled mustard greens.

Jiang Han spent her windfall and valuable goods to secure Olivia’s authorization to build Cat Lamp railways for her expanding territory. Olivia also promised to have Carla oversee the project, leaving Jiang Han ready to develop a major freight route.

• Jiang Han invited Olivia, Vera Lamp, and Sha'er Lamp to tea and asked Olivia about buying supplies and buildings.
• Jiang Han proposed building Cat Lamp trains and railways to transport goods across her growing territory.
• Olivia explained that Cat Lamp railways required registered, military-grade construction and her authorization to establish Cat River anchor points.
• Vera and Sha'er explained how anchor points, tunnels, stations, and trains connected distant regions and circulated freight.
• Jiang Han gave Olivia her windfall, Cat Spider silk brocade, and three plots near Banyan Cat Lake in exchange for authorization and a promise to have Carla supervise the project.

Jiang Han and the others inspected the Dead Magic Zone project and discovered that Eileen’s transactions had left the territory with a 16-million Witch Gold debt and 18 million in assets. They then saw Cat Carlo unveil emergency supply capsules for Cat Lamps and witches heading into the Dead Magic Zone.

• Jiang Han recruited Bold Cats from the Cat World’s northern region to practice in the Dead Magic Zone.
• Jiang Han saw the transaction ledger showing 16 million in debt and 18 million in assets, while Histeria explained that Eileen had routed money through their project.
• Jiang Han, Xiya, and Du Lingxuan joked about how they would spend the money, then Cat Carlo arrived with the preparations complete.
• Jiang Han and the others watched a launcher fire a metal capsule, and Cat Carlo identified it as an emergency supply capsule for Cat Lamps.
• Cat Carlo showed them that the capsule held food, drinks, ammunition, medical injectors, and return backpacks, and explained that the injectors triggered witches’ self-healing.

Jiang Han, Xiya, and Du Lingxuan arranged how to divide the supplies and salvage recovered from the Dead Magic Zone. After Cat Lamps brought back materials from an abandoned foundry, Jiang Han proposed that they go down themselves to establish a foothold and investigate the fire-breathing zombies.

• Cat Carlo explained that the Cat Lamps had bought supplies to load into pods for the cats to retrieve, avoiding the risk of distributing food directly.
• Cat Carlo showed Du Lingxuan a return backpack containing Dead Magic Brass, cement, machinery, and placer gold recovered from the Dead Magic Zone.
• Du Lingxuan proposed receiving seventy percent of the proceeds in exchange for helping with the expedition and providing the zone's coordinates.
• Jiang Han proposed giving Du Lingxuan seventy percent of basic building materials, splitting valuable materials evenly, and auctioning technical items among them.
• Jiang Han suggested that she, Xiya, Du Lingxuan, and several giant cats descend into the Dead Magic Zone to establish a foothold and investigate the fire-breathing zombies.

Jiang Han and her companions descended in a specially built airship into the Dead Magic Zone, where magic was failing and they prepared to face zombies with firearms. The chapter left them equipped for the coming fight, though Jiang Han was still silently confronting her pink, cat-themed assault rifle.

• Giant Cat Heavy Industries' airship began its emergency descent into the Dead Magic Zone and shut down its buoyancy power.
• The airship lurched during the descent, and Xiya broke a bone before resetting it with a Cat Spider silk bandage.
• Jiang Han inspected her special-metal pistol as the airship's magical systems faded in the Dead Magic Zone.
• Cat Carlo explained that ordinary 9mm rounds struggled against the zombies, while .50-caliber firearms and Jiang Han's Kitty K63 could penetrate them.
• Jiang Han looked down at the pink, cat-themed Kitty K63 and fell silent.

Jiang Han and the witches landed in a Dead Magic Zone with the Giant Cat Lamps, where they fought through zombie hordes and escaping waves of fire while searching for a base site. They headed toward a large modern building, with the cats demanding food as they went.

• Jiang Han, Xiya, Du Lingxuan, and the Giant Cat Lamps descended from the airship and fought off zombies with their guns.
• The airship departed, leaving the group to retreat west as zombies and fire-breathing zombies closed in.
• Jiang Han led the group through a bookstore and into a shifting back alley while the Giant Cat Lamps used heavy umbrellas to block the flames.
• Jiang Han restored the Giant Cat Lamps' morale with extra-concentrated chocolate, and they endured a third, weakened wave of fire.
• Du Lingxuan suggested finding a suitable base, and Jiang Han pointed the group toward a large modern building after a Giant Cat Lamp called for food.

Jiang Han and her team fought through the monster-infested Dead Magic Zone and chose a hospital as a tentative base. They learned that otherworldly survivors had already been there and might know about an airship and a way to leave.

• Jiang Han led the team through the streets, where Histeria killed thorn pigs and a Giant Cat Lamp was struck by their poisonous bone spikes.
• The Giant Cat Lamps killed a flame-spewing zombie that smashed one of their explosive rounds aside and dodged nearly three meters.
• Jiang Han and her team navigated the chaotic Dead Magic Zone and settled on a hospital as a tentative base.
• Cat Carlo spoke with local Cat Lamps, who said mushroom people and lion people had mentioned precious medicines, an airship, and leaving the zone.
• Jiang Han worried that the mushroom people and lion people might be survivors from other worlds who had arrived before them.

Jiang Han and her companions entered a corrupted world and began clearing a hospital to establish an outpost. The Giant Cats’ fear of the dark delayed the basement operation until Jiang Han reminded them that they could glow.

• Jiang Han decided to seize a stronghold and investigate the local creatures, then entered a hospital with Xiya and Du Lingxuan.
• Jiang Han shot two dormant zombies clinging to the hospital ceiling, and the group discovered a poster depicting four-armed monsters.
• Jiang Han assigned the Giant Cats to clear the basement and gather corpses while she and the witches divided the upper floors.
• The Giant Cats raised concerns about searching the dark basement, and Jiang Han reminded them that Giant Cat Lamps could glow.