Recaps

Su Nian survived Happiness County’s ghosts, gained new powers, and joined Hao Ren and the convoy as they faced increasingly dangerous wraiths. After escaping the Lamp-Skin Wraith and its companion, Su Nian severed the Shadow-Seam Wraith’s threads and found it approaching the convoy.

• Su Nian escaped the Maggot Willow, killed two survivors who tried to rob him, and joined the convoy near Happiness County.
• Su Nian recognized Basket-Carrying Granny as a ghost, escaped her pursuit with Hao Ren and Gong Qing, and awakened the Blood Eye.
• Su Nian found a Ford Raptor, killed Jiang Hu and two others who confronted him, and drove back toward the convoy as Basket-Carrying Granny pursued him.
• Su Nian broke the Scapegoat Ghost’s killing rule, then lured four ghosts away from Hao Ren and Gong Qing before returning to the convoy.
• Su Nian killed Fang Cheng at Su Yue’s request, later killed Liu Yan after identifying her connection to the Substitute Death Specter, and learned about Sequences and Beacon Towers from Hao Ren.
• Su Nian and Hao Ren fought the Lamp-Skin Wraith at a gas station, killed it, and then escaped its companion, the Shadow-Seam Wraith, after it attacked their shadows and damaged the Raptor.
• Su Nian upgraded his Sin-Cleaving Butcher’s Knife, returned to the convoy without removing the Shadow-Seam Wraith’s mark, and watched Zhang Ping hire Tang Zhou and Tang Chen.
• The Shadow-Seam Wraith reached Su Nian through his shadow, but he severed its threads and found it in the gray mist as it asked to take the survivors’ skins.

Su Nian became captain, fought deadly wraiths, and brought new Awakened into the convoy as it struggled to secure food and escape danger. The convoy gained a powerful armored vehicle, while Li Cheng’s search for a way to awaken left him marked by a strange haze.

• Su Nian and the others destroyed the Shadow-Seam Wraith, and Su Nian used its needle to repair equipment before accepting the convoy’s captaincy.
• Su Nian welcomed Su Yue after she demonstrated her healing ability, then helped her kill Cao Chong for maiming her husband.
• Su Nian’s convoy fought Jiang Tian’s Black King Convoy before fleeing the Grave-Crying Specter and its Yellow Wraith, Grave Worms, and Corpse Puppets.
• Su Nian and his companions escaped the Grave-Crying Specter, changed course to seek supplies, and began sharing food and Curios among the survivors.
• Wen Keyi planted Purple-Gold Rice, and Tang Zhou asked Su Nian to let her drive for him.
• Su Nian recruited Xia Lingling after learning she was a Sequence Nine Drinker, then upgraded the Cinnabar Jade Pendant into a sigil that merged with his body.
• Su Nian combined six battered vehicles with his Raptor to create a twenty-ton armored vehicle, and Tang Zhou took the wheel as Big Black Bull hauled it.
• Li Cheng persuaded Sun Hao to turn against the Awakened, found a suppressed rifle, and was marked by gray-black haze.