Chapter Summaries

Li Feifei warned the nearby convoys that Anomalies were approaching, and both her convoy and Captain Hui’s prepared to flee. The convoys left in opposite directions, while the chapter ended by describing a military guide whose Train Sequence let him travel through the apocalypse without stopping.

• Zhou Qi and Wei Haoran complained that Chu Sheng had withheld information about a Supernatural Fruit’s time limit, and Li Feifei realized their convoy had sold supernatural materials too cheaply.
• Li Feifei sensed Anomalies approaching and gave Captain Hui a Sacrificial Item card that could help convoys locate one another.
• Captain Hui used divination to assess a safe route, while Li Feifei relied on her Wind Whisper Sequence to guide her convoy.
• Both convoys rapidly prepared to leave the service area, with Captain Hui’s convoy heading west and Li Feifei’s heading east.
• The chapter contrasted Eight Trigrams with Wind Whisper and mentioned a military guide whose Train Sequence let a train travel without stopping until the Apocalypse Era ended.

As the convoys split up, Captain Hui divined that Chu Sheng had to lead their convoy through a mass of Anomalies, so he rushed into Chu Sheng’s truck and gave directions. Chu Sheng sped toward an Eyeball Anomalies that caused hallucinations, and his strange red gaze blocked its illusions as they met on the highway.

• The Anomalies sensed the departing convoys and accelerated toward them from every direction.
• Captain Hui stopped his SUV, climbed into Chu Sheng’s truck, and warned that Chu Sheng had to lead the convoy or they would all die.
• Chu Sheng sped ahead while Captain Hui gave directions, and the survivors followed by vehicle or any other means they could manage.
• Chu Sheng saw a three-meter-tall Eyeball Anomalies ahead, and Captain Hui warned him to close his eyes against its hallucinations.
• Chu Sheng refused to shut his eyes, and his eerie red gaze created a gap in the Eyeball Anomalies’s illusion waves.

Chu Sheng used the Ramming Pickup’s Wild Boar Charge to run down an eyeball Anomalies and lead the group out of a deadly situation. As the truck raced onward, a golden-armored zombie roared several kilometers ahead.

• Chu Sheng transformed the pickup’s tires into pig’s trotters and accelerated to 450 kilometers per hour with Wild Boar Charge.
• The pickup struck the eyeball Anomalies and sent it crashing to the ground, but Chu Sheng saw through Human Eyes, Cat Pupils that it was still alive.
• Chu Sheng charged the Anomalies again, destroying it and leaving behind a sun-shaped Supernatural Material that he ignored.
• Brother Hui told Chu Sheng to keep driving and said they had escaped certain death by switching trucks.
• An Xi hurled her spear at something beside the speeding truck, while Old Man Li relaxed his grip on his chilies.
• A golden-armored zombie sensed the group’s living energy and roared from several kilometers ahead.

Chu Sheng pushed his upgraded pickup to 648 kilometers per hour to escape a gathering of powerful Anomalies, while An Xi recognized the approaching Golden Armored Zombie as a grave threat. The pickup raced far ahead, but An Xi's car reached its speed limit as the zombie closed in, leaving her readying her spear for a possible fight.

• Captain Hui warned Chu Sheng to keep driving after the convoy heard the Golden Armored Zombie's roar, and Chu Sheng accelerated past the other vehicles.
• Chu Sheng's pickup transformed its tires into pig trotters and surged to 648 kilometers per hour, racing past a streak of golden light and leaving most of the convoy behind.
• An Xi spotted the Golden Armored Zombie bounding toward the convoy and climbed down from the roof into A Xin's car.
• An Xi urged A Xin to drive faster, but A Xin could not push the car beyond its top speed of 203 kilometers per hour.
• An Xi summoned the Black Jade Bone Spear through the roof and prepared to fight if the Golden Armored Zombie caught up.

The convoy escaped the Golden Armored Zombie, which attacked and devoured people in the vehicles behind them, before a catlike Anomalies caused another deadly crash. The two powerful Anomalies continued feeding on the convoy’s tail as the surviving vehicles moved on.

• Zhu Qing braced against the Golden Armored Zombie’s foot as it stomped onto his vehicle, and An Xi knocked it off the roof with her Black Jade Bone Spear.
• The Golden Armored Zombie rose after the convoy passed and rammed a trailing vehicle, killing its passengers before feasting on them.
• Wu Jie, Wu Meng, Li Qian, and Zhou Dun escaped the attack, and Zhou Dun resolved to use his traded supernatural materials to protect himself and his sisters.
• A catlike Anomalies leaped onto another vehicle, causing it and two vehicles behind it to crash and killing everyone aboard.
• The catlike Anomalies fed on the crash victims while the Golden Armored Zombie attacked their necks, leaving the convoy’s surviving vehicles to pass by.

After the Anomalies attack killed many people, Chu Sheng and Captain Hui reflected on how close their convoy had come to destruction. Meanwhile, Li Feifei’s convoy continued fleeing the Anomalies, with Zhou Qi and Wei Haoran holding off the pursuers.

• The convoy stopped after escaping the Anomalies, and its survivors counted only seventy or eighty people left from more than two hundred.
• Chu Sheng realized that his confidence had been misplaced and that their survival had depended on changing vehicles and upgrading the pickup’s tires.
• Captain Hui explained that his divination had only revealed danger and that he had failed to account for Anomalies chasing another convoy.
• An Xi mourned the dead while sitting beside her Black Jade Bone Spear.
• Wei Haoran shielded Li Feifei’s convoy from a Horse-headed Man, and Zhou Qi crippled it with a shot from his Hand Cannon.
• Li Feifei told the convoy over the walkie-talkie that they had escaped the encirclement and urged them to speed up along the road ahead.

After the convoy stopped to regroup, Chu Sheng helped Zhou Dun choose materials for a Sacrificial Item and had him and his sisters help rebuild the pickup. Chu Sheng spent Survival Points to upgrade it into the Rampage Truck, leaving the convoy to inspect his new vehicle.

• Zhou Dun asked Chu Sheng to craft a Sacrificial Item, and Chu Sheng advised him to trade for zombie fingernails while Zhou Dun, Li Ling, and Li Qian helped rebuild the pickup.
• Chu Sheng checked his increased balance of 21,140 Survival Points and directed Zhou Dun and the girls to assemble the vehicle into a small truck using parts from two salvaged cars.
• Chu Sheng excluded the pickup's Sacrificial Item tires and chassis from the upgrade and spent 19,730 Survival Points to transform the truck.
• The upgrade produced the Rampage Truck, with an enclosed cargo box, extra length and tires, and a sleeping space above the cab.

Chu Sheng finished upgrading his pickup into the Rampage Truck and agreed to upgrade An Xi’s vehicle the next day. Meanwhile, Wu Meng and Wu Jie noticed Zhou Dun’s connection to the Sequence supernaturals and suspected he was hiding something important.

• Chu Sheng inspected the Rampage Truck’s new abilities and saw that its ranking had risen to 4761, while the upgrade left him with 1410 survival points.
• An Xi gave Chu Sheng a Sun Pattern supernatural material and a severed tail, and he promised to upgrade her vehicle tomorrow because using his ability again might make him pass out.
• An Xi said her Supernatural Heart from the Brat Anomalies was still beating and suggested fusing it into a vehicle’s engine.
• Wu Meng and Wu Jie counted the supplies and food Zhou Dun and his companions had left them, estimating the food would last more than two months.
• Wu Jie questioned why Zhou Dun had approached Chu Sheng and helped him, and Wu Meng suspected the two items Zhou Dun had kept were important.

Wu Meng learned that supernatural material could be exchanged for Chu Sheng’s help making a Sacrificial Item, while Zhou Dun realized he had withheld that information and might have angered both Chu Sheng and Captain Hui. After preparing his upgraded truck for the night journey, Chu Sheng joined the convoy and worried about how many people had died.

• Wu Meng left Wu Jie behind and offered Zhou Dun a backpack of food in exchange for learning what he had given Chu Sheng.
• Zhou Dun explained that the gift was supernatural material from an Anomalies, which could be used to ask Chu Sheng to make a Sacrificial Item, and realized he had failed to spread the news as Captain Hui had instructed.
• Chu Sheng ate compressed biscuits inside the Rampage Truck and decided he needed to add a window during a future upgrade.
• When Captain Hui’s driver announced the convoy would leave in ten minutes, Chu Sheng refueled the Rampage Truck with his remaining gasoline.
• The convoy set out under the blood-red moon, and Chu Sheng reflected that an Anomalies encirclement had reduced their numbers from over two hundred to just over eighty.

Chu Sheng recalled how people had murdered the Sequence Adept who protected them, leaving him distrustful of humanity and unwilling to recruit subordinates without a way to control them. After he accidentally rammed An Xi’s SUV, he acted unusually kind, convincing An Xi that an Anomalies might have possessed him.

• Chu Sheng remembered how survivors ambushed and killed the Sequence Adept who had helped them escape the city, then tried to gain her powers by eating her.
• Chu Sheng decided not to recruit subordinates until he had a Sacrificial Item that could keep them in check or take them down with him.
• Chu Sheng accidentally drove his truck into An Xi’s SUV and pushed it into Brother Hui’s vehicle before stopping.
• Chu Sheng apologized to An Xi and said he had decided to embrace the sunshine and stop being so dark-minded.
• An Xi returned to her car, told A Xin she suspected Chu Sheng had been possessed by an Anomalies, and went to ask the captain for a divination.

Captain Hui reassured An Xi that Chu Sheng was safe, while Zhou Dun planned to borrow supernatural materials to fuse a Bone Club and zombie fingernails into his Tang Dao. Chu Sheng refused to perform the fusion because he needed to conserve his mental energy, then fell asleep and dreamed of the girl who had saved people at the start of the apocalypse.

• Captain Hui cursed himself, reassured An Xi that Chu Sheng was fine, and was punched by her after speaking cryptically.
• Captain Hui considered how to use the tortoise shell he had traded for from Zhou Dun.
• Wu Meng suggested Zhou Dun borrow the supernatural material needed to pay Chu Sheng for fusing his Bone Club and zombie fingernails into his Tang Dao.
• Zhou Dun went to ask Chu Sheng for the fusion, but Chu Sheng said he could not do it because his mental energy had not recovered.
• Chu Sheng climbed onto his vehicle, ate, and fell asleep after learning the Anomalies had pursued another convoy.
• Chu Sheng dreamed of the girl who had saved people at the start of the apocalypse, watching as she cried for help from inside a pot.

Chu Sheng woke with a powerful hunger, then kept watch overnight with Zhu Qing, who confessed that his Black Blade Gloves had cut him and triggered their strange cost. By morning, An Xi reminded Chu Sheng to give her the engine Sacrificial Item.

• Chu Sheng ate his last compressed biscuits and noticed his windowless truck compartment needed a window.
• Chu Sheng spotted Zhu Qing hiding behind a rock with blood-stained black gloves, then climbed onto the truck roof to look at the stars.
• Zhu Qing explained that the gloves had cut him in his pocket, forcing him to masturbate as their cost.
• Zhu Qing told Chu Sheng that the convoy needed awakened people to keep watch, and Chu Sheng agreed to join him.
• Chu Sheng watched the stars from the truck roof for about two hours as the sky brightened.
• An Xi greeted Chu Sheng while brushing her teeth and reminded him about her engine Sacrificial Item.

Chu Sheng fused An Xi’s black heart with the Off-Road Vehicle’s engine, creating a supernatural engine with unlimited range and powerful abilities. After An Xi advanced her sequence and briefly grew tiger ears, Chu Sheng considered using the Sun Pattern to make a nuclear-powered truck.

• Chu Sheng pulled An Xi to the Off-Road Vehicle to retrieve the black heart for his fusion ability.
• An Xi advanced her sequence, grew fluffy tiger ears, and received information about her new abilities after Chu Sheng touched one.
• Chu Sheng fused the black heart with the Off-Road Vehicle’s engine, creating a perpetual motion engine with overdrive and self-repair abilities.
• An Xi marveled at the engine’s impossible perpetual motion, while Chu Sheng thought about using the Sun Pattern to create a nuclear-powered truck.

Captain Hui told Chu Sheng, An Xi, Zhu Qing, and Old Man Li that the convoy had to cross an Unfamiliar Territory because both roads led through it and leaving the road meant abandoning their vehicles. He warned that Anomalies were growing stronger, while his divination suggested crossing was safer than turning back.

• Captain Hui gathered Chu Sheng and An Xi and revealed that divination had detected an Unfamiliar Territory ahead.
• Captain Hui explained that the convoy could not go around the territory without leaving the road and sacrificing its vehicles, so the group agreed they had little choice but to proceed.
• Captain Hui said that turning back offered only a slim chance of survival because powerful Anomalies were approaching, and Chu Sheng recalled that Anomalies seemed stronger than before.
• Captain Hui shared records from Li Feifei describing how an Aggregated Machine had grown larger and stronger over two months before her convoy killed it by kiting it.
• Old Man Li urged everyone to focus on surviving and growing stronger, and An Xi's cat ears appeared and disappeared as the group recognized that she had reached sequence 8.

Captain Hui's group agreed to enter the unfamiliar territory the next morning, and Chu Sheng prepared to upgrade his truck. He accepted Zhou Dun's offer to pay extra on credit and fused two supernatural materials into a new sacrificial blade.

• Zhu Qing, An Xi, Chu Sheng, Old Man Li, and Captain Hui agreed to enter the unfamiliar territory after preparing for the day.
• Chu Sheng decided to upgrade his truck with An Xi's returned Sun Pattern and the severed tail, but paused to consider fusing Zhou Dun's sacrificial item.
• Zhou Dun asked Chu Sheng to fuse two materials on credit and agreed that Chu Sheng could claim his sacrificial item if he failed to repay the debt.
• Chu Sheng used Zhou Dun's big bone, zombie fingernails, and Tang Dao to create the Toughbone Corpse-Poison Blade, ranked 8146.

Chu Sheng crafted Zhou Dun a Toughbone Corpse-Poison Blade and prepared to upgrade his Rampage Truck before the convoy entered an unfamiliar region. News of his ability to make Sacrificial Items spread through the convoy as he began the upgrade.

• Chu Sheng explained the Toughbone Corpse-Poison Blade's abilities and warned Zhou Dun not to lose it in the region they would enter the next day.
• Zhou Dun returned to Wu Meng, Wu Jie, Li Qian, and Li Ling with the blade, while Wu Meng and Li Ling suspected he was hiding part of his agreement with Chu Sheng.
• Zhou Dun told other survivors that Chu Sheng could craft Sacrificial Items, drawing a crowd and stirring the convoy into an uproar.
• Chu Sheng began fusing three supernatural materials with his Rampage Truck as his final upgrade before entering the unfamiliar region.

Chu Sheng completed a major upgrade to his vehicle by fusing three supernatural materials into it, creating the Netherbone Car with endless solar power, heavy armor, self-repair, and other abilities. He celebrated finally having a vehicle that met his needs, while its listed usage costs remained harmless to him.

• The Sun Pattern material fused with the roof’s solar panels, Zhou Dun’s white bone merged into the vehicle’s framework, and the pangolin-like severed tail fused into its outer shell.
• An Xi, Zhu Qing, Captain Hui, and Old Man Li watched the transformation and discussed how powerful their sequence abilities were.
• Chu Sheng became absorbed in the fusion and noticed afterward that his mental power had greatly increased, prompting him to consider using the process to advance his sequence.
• The transformed vehicle became the bone-white Netherbone Car, with armored scales outside and a skull that emitted green ghostfire inside.
• Chu Sheng read the Netherbone Car’s abilities, including endless solar charging, rollover prevention, self-repair, armor, and life-aura concealment, and declared that he had everything he needed.

Chu Sheng upgraded his car into a fast, heavily armored vehicle concealed by ghost fire, drawing envy and wary attention from the convoy. After two days of rest, the convoy prepared to depart, and Chu Sheng’s newly eerie car startled Xiao Lin when he came to summon him.

• Zhu Qing, Captain Hui, Old Man Li, An Xi, and others admired Chu Sheng’s upgraded car, while Zhu Qing hoped it would help them escape danger.
• Wu Jie envied Chu Sheng’s car, and Wu Meng assured him they would one day have one of their own.
• Survivors fantasized about the car and some approached Chu Sheng to become his followers, but he refused to trust ordinary people.
• The convoy rested and recovered for two days before Xiao Lin woke Chu Sheng and told him they would leave in ten minutes.
• Chu Sheng’s ghost fire lit the car’s interior as he spoke with Xiao Lin, frightening him and unsettling the survivors watching nearby.

Chu Sheng led the convoy into unfamiliar territory as the sun turned moon-white, while Captain Hui’s divination failed. The chapter left the group facing a sudden surge of Anomalies ahead.

• Captain Hui joined Chu Sheng’s car, followed by Zhu Qing and Old Man Li, and An Xi later appeared with the Black Jade Bone Spear.
• Chu Sheng drove the five Sequence Adepts at the head of the convoy and warned Zhu Qing that spilled blood inside the Netherbone Car would turn its occupants into bones.
• As the convoy advanced, the clear sky darkened and the sun transformed into a moon, frightening the survivors.
• Captain Hui could calculate nothing beyond their survival probability, then warned Chu Sheng of danger ahead as the Crimson World revealed dense black energy and numerous Anomalies.

Chu Sheng accelerated the Netherbone Car into a horde of zombies and eerie animals as the convoy raced across a darkened landscape. He struck the first Eerie Cat, but the collision damaged the car’s scales and slowed it slightly as the charge continued.

• Chu Sheng and the convoy found the highway gone and raced along a dirt road beneath a sunlit sky that had darkened like evening.
• Chu Sheng spotted a horde of twenty zombies and numerous black, red-eyed animals blocking the road.
• Chu Sheng transformed the Netherbone Car’s tires into pig’s hooves and accelerated to 714 kilometers per hour, while A Xin used Engine Overdrive to speed up her vehicle.
• The eerie animals charged toward the convoy, and the Netherbone Car hit an Eerie Cat, which dissolved into black vapor and knocked a zombie down with its falling paws.
• The collision scattered some of the Netherbone Car’s scales and slowed it, but Chu Sheng kept charging forward.