Recaps

As the Meatworm Wraith tide overwhelmed the Camp’s defenses, Chen Fan and his group ran short of Eerie Stones and faced near-certain death. Zhou Mo sacrificed himself to retrieve more stones, leaving the others with a chance to keep fighting.

• Chen Fan repeatedly activated Arrow Rain Storm, killing Meatworm Wraiths as the swarm poured through the Camp and the group’s Eerie Stones dwindled.
• The survivors realized the tide was passing through the Camp rather than targeting it, but the Meatworm Wraiths still threatened to destroy them.
• Chen Fan suggested hiding underground, but Wang Kui explained that Builders could not create Eerie Fire in Eternal Night.
• Little Qiu offered to run outside the wall and bring back Eerie Stones, accepting that he would not survive the attempt.
• Zhou Mo gave Little Qiu his Great Knife, jumped over the wall during an Arrow Rain Storm opening, gathered Eerie Stones, and threw the sack back over the wall before waiting for the swarm to kill him.

After the Meatworm Wraiths were swept away by a change in the wind, Chen Fan explained how the strange tide moved and promised Zhou Mo support in exchange for protecting the Camp. With the danger gone, Chen Fan sent Crippled Monkey and two others to collect Eerie Stones and Exotic Treasures.

• Zhou Mo stood outside the walls expecting to die, but the wind shifted and carried the Meatworm Wraiths away before they could attack him.
• Chen Fan explained that the Meatworm Wraiths followed the wind and that the change in direction had forced the strange tide to withdraw.
• Chen Fan returned Zhou Mo’s saber and promised to provide Eerie Stones for his Cultivation if Zhou Mo protected the Camp.
• Wang Kui teased Zhou Mo about his pose, while Crippled Monkey praised his bravery.
• Chen Fan told Crippled Monkey to lead two men outside the walls and collect the Eerie Stones and Exotic Treasures.

Chen Fan survived a meatworm wraith tide and tried to lure the Female Wraith into his Camp, but she saw through the trap and withdrew. At dawn, Zhou Mo recorded the night’s survival in his diary as the rainy season continued.

• Chen Fan saw that most Stations on the Ghosthide Map had gone dark, while Crippled Monkey brought back 484 eerie stones and three exotic treasures.
• Chen Fan held back from strengthening the Camp, planning to lure the Female Wraith inside before raising the defenses.
• Nearly a hundred strange entities returned with the sedan chair, but the Female Wraith refused to attack even when Little Qiu went outside the wall as bait.
• The strange entities retreated into the Eternal Night, and none approached the Camp again before dawn.
• Zhou Mo wrote about surviving the meatworm wraith tide and marked two of the rainy season’s thirty days as passed before Chen Fan read his diary.

After surviving the meatworm wraith tide, Chen Fan sent Zhou Mo to recruit the survivors at Qiuhe Wang Family Station No. 16 and Qi Chong to salvage supplies from nearby destroyed Stations. He counted the Camp’s gains, sheltered a newly sprouted flower, and went to sleep, expecting the Chen Family in Northbank City to react to his survival.

• Chen Fan ordered Zhou Mo to bring the survivors and supplies from Qiuhe Wang Family Station No. 16 back to Camp, and warned him to abandon the mission if necessary.
• Chen Fan sent Qi Chong to salvage usable supplies from destroyed Stations and return after turning his hourglass eight times.
• Crippled Monkey reported that the meatworm wraith tide had killed several seedlings, then showed Chen Fan a flower seed that had sprouted in the Farmland.
• Wang Kui and the others recovered forty-one eerie stones, bringing Chen Fan’s total to 529, along with three exotic treasures.
• Chen Fan built a small shelter over the flower buds, went to sleep, and anticipated that the Chen Family in Northbank City would react to Jiangbei Chen Family Station No. 37 surviving.

The North River Chen Family learned that Station 37, where Chen Fan had been exiled, was one of only two Wasteland Stations to survive the early rainy season. The Family Head called an emergency meeting and asked Chen Quan, the heir who had sent Chen Fan there, to explain his thoughts.

• Attendant Liu used five Level-2 Eerie Stones to build a phantom Arrow Tower, impressing his servant with his growing skill as a Builder.
• Chen Quan arrived at the emergency meeting and noticed that Attendant Liu had not been invited.
• The Family Head revealed that Chen Fan had been sent to Station 37 with his servant Crippled Monkey and only three eerie stones.
• Chen Quan began to defend the decision as following the Family's rules, but the Family Head interrupted him.
• The Family Head reported that Station 37 and Station 16 were the only Wasteland Stations to survive the first three days of the rainy season, then asked Chen Quan to give his thoughts.

The Chen Family Head and the elders discussed Chen Fan's survival at Station 37 and considered whether he had found a Builder Inheritance left by his late mother. Attendant Liu interrupted before they could reveal their suspicions, while Chen Quan secretly took comfort in the early rainy season.

• The First Grand Elder and the other elders attributed Chen Fan's survival to luck, and Chen Quan suggested rescuing his older brother.
• The Chen Family Head recalled that his late wife had once hidden at Station 37 and asked Chen Quan whether he had sent Chen Fan there.
• The elders argued that Chen Fan could not have become a Builder through an inheritance, while the Chen Family Head privately suspected an unknown treasure might have changed the rules.
• Attendant Liu entered the Council Hall, and the Chen Family Head concealed the discussion as the elders hid the Ghosthide Map.
• After the meeting ended, Chen Quan remained behind, trembling before deciding that the early rainy season was in his favor.

Zhou Mo found Old Chen and his subordinate dead by suicide at Station 16, then took their belongings. Back at his own camp, Chen Fan discovered that a Sealed Copper Pipe blueprint let him add a copper pipe module to structures, and he began testing the discovery.

• Zhou Mo and his subordinate reached Station 16 and found that it had no defensive structures.
• Zhou Mo entered Old Chen's hut and found Old Chen and his subordinate hanging from the rafters.
• Zhou Mo ordered his subordinate to collect crops and took the dead men’s valuables, clothes, and hemp rope.
• Chen Fan checked the rapidly growing crops and examined the exotic treasures he had collected.
• Chen Fan used the Sealed Copper Pipe blueprint to unlock building modules and attached a copper pipe to the Eerie Fire.
• Chen Fan spent twenty eerie stones to build a twenty-meter copper pipe and prepared to test it on the camp’s structures.

Chen Fan discovered that copper pipes connected to the Eerie Fire extended his Camp’s safety zone, then used the new Building Module to link and customize buildings. Zhou Mo returned with grim news: every person at Qiuhe Wang Family Station No. 16 had died by suicide, leaving Chen Fan’s Station as the only one in the Wasteland.

• Chen Fan extended a copper pipe beyond the Camp and discovered that the Eerie Fire carried the safety zone along it.
• Chen Fan tested different pipe widths and configurations, confirming that pipes of different sizes joined seamlessly and that he could customize the Building Module freely.
• Chen Fan connected the Arrow Towers to the Eerie Fire so they could draw on its eerie stones, then built a rain-fed boiler and a pipe-based heating system for his house.
• Chen Fan planned to use Ground Spikes Traps as pistons for a future circulating heating system and admired how the copper pipes linked his Camp’s buildings.
• Zhou Mo and his subordinate returned, and after Crippled Monkey verified they were not Impostors, Zhou Mo told Chen Fan that everyone at Qiuhe Wang Family Station No. 16 had hanged themselves, leaving their Station as the only one in the Wasteland.

Chen Fan repaired Camp’s damaged City Wall, expanded its defenses with ten upgraded Arrow Towers, and built a Sacrificial Tower. As eternal night fell, he watched the Gray Fog and revealed a new bulge in Camp’s safety zone.

• Zhou Mo returned with forty-eight Eerie Stones and other supplies, and Chen Fan sent him to rest.
• Chen Fan used one Eerie Stone to repair the damaged section of the City Wall.
• Chen Fan spent Eerie Stones to build and upgrade ten Arrow Towers, connect them to the Eerie Fire, and reserve fuel for them.
• Chen Fan built a Sacrificial Tower that could turn Strange Entity corpses into Special Resources.
• Eternal night descended, and Crippled Monkey noticed a bulge in Camp’s safety zone as Chen Fan ordered everyone to stay alert.

Chen Fan assigned Qi Chong and A Le to manage the Camp’s newly fruitful Farmland and future livestock after Qi Chong lost a Ghosthide Map on an expedition. A Le helped Qi Chong embrace the work, and the two looked forward to rising in rank as the Camp grew.

• After a peaceful night watch, Chen Fan noticed the first crops had ripened and assigned Qi Chong to harvest them while Zhou Mo led a safer trip to nearby ruined Stations for resources.
• Chen Fan reassured Qi Chong, who had lost a Ghosthide Map and returned empty-handed, and put him in charge of the Farmland.
• Chen Fan appointed A Le, a former pig farmer, to manage animal husbandry once the Camp acquired livestock, and asked him to help Qi Chong for now.
• While harvesting, Qi Chong told A Le he felt disappointed to be farming again, but A Le argued that working for Chen Fan could lead to greater success than their old jobs.
• Qi Chong regained his enthusiasm for farming, and he and A Le joked that their work would bring glory to their family.

Chen Fan inspected two exotic treasures, harvested the Camp’s crops, and upgraded the Farmland to Level 2. He arranged for Qi Chong and A Le to tend the communication seeds, then went to address the heating system’s remaining problem.

• Chen Fan identified a Great Knife exotic treasure and a Flesh Wraith Parent-Child Seed, planning to give the knife to Zhou Mo and plant the seeds for long-distance communication.
• Qi Chong reported that the Camp had harvested ten Monkey Head Mushrooms and eighty eerie stones, and Chen Fan distributed the mushrooms among the residents.
• Chen Fan asked Qi Chong and A Le to take turns watering the seeds with wraith blood and using strange entity corpses as fertilizer.
• Chen Fan spent ten eerie stones to upgrade the Farmland to Level 2, making its soil black and more fertile.
• Chen Fan headed to an empty patch of ground after noting that the hot water in the Copper Pipes needed to be replaced manually when it cooled.

Chen Fan built a piston-powered 2.0 Heating System that used Ground Spikes to move rainwater through the Camp’s boiler and pipes. After explaining the invention and giving Zhou Mo a Great Knife exotic treasure, Chen Fan left the others to prepare for nightfall.

• Chen Fan modified Ground Spikes into a piston structure and connected it to the Camp’s boiler and copper pipes to create a continuous heating system.
• Crippled Monkey and the others marveled at Chen Fan’s invention, while Wang Mazi realized Chen Fan’s abilities went beyond his inherited Builder skills.
• Chen Fan explained that the system could recycle wastewater after the rainy season by adding a buffer device and connecting the drainage pipe to the piston.
• Zhou Mo returned with a good haul, and Chen Fan gave him the Great Knife exotic treasure before heading inside to rest.
• Crippled Monkey told Zhou Mo that the piston was part of Chen Fan’s secret new field, mechanics, but Zhou Mo admitted he understood none of the explanation.

Chen Fan sought a way to reach distant abandoned Stations and recover their eerie stones, then devised a vehicle powered by upgraded Beast Trap Ground Spikes. The Camp began gathering materials for his prototype before Eternal Night, while the vehicle’s success remained uncertain.

• Zhou Mo reported that the Camp had recovered 218 eerie stones from two destroyed Stations, but the remaining abandoned Stations were too far away to reach on foot in a day.
• Zhou Mo told Chen Fan that he had approached a strange egg on the Wasteland, so Chen Fan sent him out into the rain to wash away any scent that might attract Strange Entities.
• Chen Fan assessed the Camp’s resources and decided he needed to recover the eerie stones in distant ruins to fund the City Wall upgrades.
• Chen Fan upgraded a Beast Trap and experimented with Copper Pipes, devising a crude engine that used Ground Spikes to drive a piston.
• Chen Fan ordered the Camp to prepare materials for a vehicle, and Wang Mazi, Qi Chong, Zhou Mo, and Crippled Monkey began dismantling wood and processing Entity remains for its parts.

Chen Fan’s Camp tested a crude, hand-powered cart that could travel nearly as fast as a horse. That night, the Female Wraith led a much larger attack and used Meatworm Wraiths as bombs against the Camp’s walls.

• Chen Fan and the Camp’s residents built a Plank Cart powered by a Ground-Spike Engine, and Zhou Mo tested it by driving beyond the Camp and back.
• Chen Fan told Zhou Mo to let Qi Chong and his partner test the Cart before he used it to visit nearby Stations.
• After night fell, Chen Fan saw the Female Wraith arrive with over three hundred strange entities and nearly a hundred captured Meatworm Wraiths.
• The Female Wraith launched a full assault, and Bamboo Pole Entities hurled Meatworm Wraiths at the City Wall while the Arrow Towers shot many of them down.
• Chen Fan realized the attackers were using the Meatworm Wraiths as hand grenades, corroding the City Wall with their ghostly green liquid.

Chen Fan and the others survived a fierce assault by strange entities, but the Female Wraith used her sedan chair to enter the Camp and reveal herself. She stood naked before the defenders atop the City Wall as the chapter ended.

• Bamboo Pole Entities hurled Meatworm Wraiths at the City Wall and sent Mantis Entities over it while hordes of creatures charged the Camp.
• The Level-3 Arrow Towers killed the High-Grade Bamboo Pole Entity and cleared the attackers inside and outside the wall.
• Crippled Monkey blocked a Mantis Entity's ambush, and an Arrow Tower bolt killed it; the battle ended with the defenders unharmed.
• Chen Fan watched the Female Wraith retreat, but she sent her sedan chair and its Bamboo Pole Entity carriers charging into the Camp.
• The sedan chair exploded, killing the carriers, and the Female Wraith appeared before Chen Fan and the others atop the City Wall.

Chen Fan and the Camp survived an attack led by a Female Wraith whose hallucinations nearly left them helpless, then defeated her with their Arrow Towers. By morning, they had salvaged the battlefield and found a rare Building Blueprint among the spoils.

• Chen Fan snapped out of the Female Wraith's hallucination and shoved Wang Mazi and the others behind the Parapet as her hair struck at them.
• The Arrow Towers overwhelmed and killed the Female Wraith after her attempt to target Chen Fan failed.
• Chen Fan ordered the damaged City Wall rebuilt, and the Camp's people gathered eerie stones and exotic treasures while taking turns on watch.
• At daybreak, Zhou Mo left with his men and the Great Knife to gather resources from nearby destroyed Stations, while Qi Chong and his partner processed the corpses.
• A Le skinned the Female Wraith on Chen Fan's orders, and Chen Fan inspected the battlefield haul, which included three exotic treasures and a rare Building Blueprint.

Chen Fan upgraded the Eerie Fire to level three and chose a rare transformation that reduced the construction cost of every Camp structure by one Eerie Stone. He realized the free Copper Pipes could help extend the safety zone and began planning how to use them across the Wasteland.

• Chen Fan reviewed the previous night's spoils, including an Altar blueprint, a single-use Torch, and a Wraith Hide whose contents required Human-Blood Wraith Flowers.
• Chen Fan considered visiting Northbank City after the Rain season but decided he first needed to survive the season and plan for his safety outside his Camp.
• Three hours before Eternal Night, Chen Fan replenished the Eerie Fire's supply and upgraded it to level three.
• Chen Fan chose the rare upgrade that reduced all Camp construction costs by one Eerie Stone, usable ten thousand times per day.
• Chen Fan surveyed the expanded fifty-meter safety zone and realized the upgrade could make Copper Pipes effectively free, inspiring a plan to extend the safety zone toward Northbank City.

Chen Fan built a Three-Wheeler to speed up laying Copper Pipes for a Highway and upgraded an Arrow Tower into an Arrow Fort. After Zhou Mo reported that Doppelganger Wraiths had killed his companion, Chen Fan prepared to take him back and kill them.

• Chen Fan realized he needed to develop a Cart before he could lay the Highway efficiently, then called Qi Chong away from the Farmland to help.
• Chen Fan and Qi Chong tested the Three-Wheeler 2.0, laying ten kilometers of Copper Pipe in less than an hour.
• Chen Fan upgraded a Level-3 Arrow Tower to Level 4, turning it into an Arrow Fort, and chose increased firing speed.
• Zhou Mo returned to the Camp and told Chen Fan that Doppelganger Wraiths had killed his companion and left behind the resources they had collected.
• Chen Fan comforted Zhou Mo and offered to take him back to kill the Doppelganger Wraiths.

Chen Fan and Zhou Mo rode an upgraded Arrow Tower mounted on a Three-Wheeler to attack the Impostors at Wang Kui's former Camp. After killing the older Impostors and trapping the younger ones, Chen Fan sent Zhou Mo to check the Wooden Hut for baby Impostors.

• Chen Fan mounted and upgraded an Arrow Tower on a Three-Wheeler, creating an Arrow Cart, then took Zhou Mo to confront the Impostors.
• Chen Fan used three eerie stones to activate the Arrow Fort after the Impostors entered the Camp's range, and its lightning bolts killed the charging older Impostors.
• Chen Fan drove the Arrow Cart in circles to keep the Impostors in range, killing the older ones and catching the younger ones in Beast Traps.
• After the Impostors stopped emerging from the Wooden Hut, Chen Fan told Zhou Mo to investigate it while he stayed outside to cover him.

Chen Fan captured Doppelganger Wraiths and built a Breeding Farm, hoping to produce more eerie stones, before preparing the Camp’s defenses for Eternal Night. Meanwhile, a Meatworm Wraith tide attacked Northbank City, where the Wild Wolf Gang leader reinforced the City Wall as the defenders struggled to hold it.

• Zhou Mo confirmed that a Wooden Hut held Doppelganger Wraith Young, and Chen Fan suspected the Rainy Season was a breeding season for strange entities.
• Chen Fan brought 27 adult Doppelganger Wraiths and 37 young back to the Camp and built a Breeding Farm, assigning A Le to manage it.
• Chen Fan prepared a Three-Wheeler equipped with a Level-4 Arrow Fortress as another defense against Eternal Night.
• Zhou Mo wrote that Er Gou had died and worried whether the Camp could survive the Rainy Season.
• A Meatworm Wraith tide battered Northbank City’s City Wall, and the Wild Wolf Gang leader used a Token to cover it with steel plating and Strange Formation Runes.

The Wild Wolf Gang Leader spent the gang’s reserves to defend Northbank City, inspiring citizens to donate what they had. The Chen Family Head refused to help and ordered his disciples to disguise themselves as gang members and steal the donations, leaving the city’s defense and the gang’s fate uncertain.

• The Wild Wolf Gang Leader used a precious token to reinforce the city wall, then ordered the gang to open its storehouses and defend Northbank City to the death.
• Citizens brought eerie stone and exotic treasures to Wild Wolf Gang members, while a gang member left his parents to answer the emergency summons.
• The Chen Residence elders discussed the gang’s stand and the Chen Family’s failure to support the city, while the Second Elder recalled that Chen Fan had become a Builder after being driven into the Wasteland.
• The Chen Family Head rejected joining the defense and ordered Chen Family disciples to wear Wild Wolf Gang clothing and collect the citizens’ donations, especially near the North River Market.

Chen Fan discovered that the flower planted by Crippled Monkey was a mature Green Grade Human-Blood Wraith Flower, the rare material needed to reveal the writing on Wraith Hide. Meanwhile, the Chen family elders agreed they would offer him the position of Family Head if he survived the Rainy Season and chose to return.

• The Chen Family Head considered bringing Chen Fan back into the family if he survived, but resolved to eliminate him if he became a threat and refused to return.
• The Chen family elders agreed Chen Fan would make a better Family Head than Chen Quan if he survived the Rainy Season and was willing to lead them.
• After a quiet night, Chen Fan found that extending the Copper Pipe road had drained extra Eerie Stones, so he disconnected it from the Camp.
• Chen Fan sent Zhou Mo and a young worker out on the Three-Wheeler to gather resources from distant abandoned Stations.
• Qi Chong told Chen Fan that Crippled Monkey's flower had bloomed, and Chen Fan identified it as the Human-Blood Wraith Flower needed to reveal the writing on Wraith Hide.

Chen Fan learned that the Female Wraith had crafted the Wraith Hide as protective armor while waiting for her lover, a powerful Wraith King who might return during the Rain season. As he considered how to prepare for the likely threat, he and A Le investigated how the Rain affected strange entities.

• Chen Fan extracted liquid from the Human-Blood Wraith Flowers, revealing a poem and the Wraith Hide's ability to block a lethal attack.
• Chen Fan inferred that the Female Wraith had made the hide for her beloved, a Wraith King with a powerful force, and feared the King would come looking for him.
• Chen Fan tucked the Wraith Hide against his chest and considered turning the Female Wraith's stored skin into armor.
• A Le reported that young strange entities lacked eerie stones and that Doppelganger Wraiths stopped mating when sheltered from the Rain.
• Chen Fan concluded that the Rain affected different strange entities in different ways and considered whether it had caused the Female Wraith pain.

Chen Fan continued building his Eerie Fire Highway while considering the Camp’s need for more workers and learning that Wang Mazi's Subordinate had concealed Eerie Stones. As Eternal Night approached, Chen Fan decided to upgrade his Wooden Hut to see whether it could improve cultivation.

• Chen Fan laid Copper Pipes through the wilderness with Qi Chong and considered recruiting a Builder to maintain the growing network after the Rainy Season.
• Qi Chong told Chen Fan that Wang Mazi's Subordinate had secretly kept Eerie Stones instead of handing them over during the Camp’s crisis, and Chen Fan told him to keep the matter quiet.
• Chen Fan returned to the Camp, built another Level-1 Farmland, and assigned Qi Chong to transplant Crops collected from other Stations.
• Chen Fan weighed the slow benefits of cultivation against the danger of remaining weak after Zhou Mo survived a Doppelganger Wraith encounter that killed Chen Fan's Subordinate.
• Chen Fan decided to spend Eerie Stones upgrading the Wooden Hut, hoping it might offer a way to accelerate cultivation.

Chen Fan upgraded the Wooden Hut outside the City Wall into a two-story Stone House with a Shadow-Viewing Formation, then reflected on the Camp’s losses and his wish to protect its people. He remained committed to building a safe home rather than seeking power or trying to save the world.

• Chen Fan upgraded the Wooden Hut to Level 2 with Eerie Stones and chose the peace-of-mind path.
• He spent twenty more Eerie Stones to turn the hut into a two-story Stone House and selected the Shadow-Viewing Formation.
• Chen Fan admired the Camp’s improved appearance and decided to save his remaining Eerie Stones for a later upgrade.
• On the City Wall, Chen Fan remembered the subordinate who had died and considered how the Camp had carried on without a funeral.
• Chen Fan decided that his dream was to make the Camp safe enough to protect everyone who trusted him.