Chapter Summaries

After learning that Shanghu had fallen, Chen Ye discovered an upgrade system that let him improve items using Slaughter Points. He borrowed the system’s first-time loan and spent all 300 points upgrading his bicycle, which finished just before dawn.

• Chen Ye and the survivor convoy heard a radio broadcast warning that Shanghu had become a forbidden zone, leaving the survivors without their hoped-for destination.
• At the convoy’s night camp, Chen Ye cooked his last instant noodles while keeping his crossbow ready against hungry survivors.
• When Chen Ye touched his blanket, a message revealed that he had awakened an item-upgrade system requiring Slaughter Points.
• Chen Ye accepted a loan of 300 Slaughter Points and chose to spend them all upgrading his bicycle so he would not fall behind the convoy.
• After a five-hour countdown, the system notified Chen Ye at dawn that the bicycle upgrade was complete.

Chen Ye tested his upgraded tricycle and rode with the convoy toward a town where survivors hoped to find supplies. As the vehicles stopped at the town’s eerie edge, Chen Ye felt an overwhelming sense of danger.

• Chen Ye discovered that his system-upgraded roadster had become a pedal-assisted tricycle with a roomy cargo bed.
• Jiajia asked to ride in Chen Ye’s cargo bed, but he refused, so she rode behind Qiangzi and urged him to take Chen Ye’s tricycle; Qiangzi declined because Chen Ye carried a hand crossbow.
• The convoy spotted a town ahead, and Chen Ye sped toward it on his tricycle while the other survivors hurried after him in search of supplies.
• As the convoy approached, the town’s sinister aura frightened the survivors, and the leading off-road vehicle braked sharply before entering.
• Chen Ye reached the town’s edge and felt icy terror as he looked at it.

Chen Ye searched a grocery shop in Apricot Blossom Town for supplies, but a Paper-Crying Child appeared in the darkness as the sunlight faded. Trapped inside by Jiajia and Qiangzi, he faced the supernatural entity with only a useless crossbow.

• Chen Ye avoided the distant supermarket and entered a small grocery shop to gather supplies while sunlight still reached the street.
• Chen Ye filled his backpack with food, cigarettes, and liquor, then noticed a Paper-Crying Child crouched in the darkness behind him.
• Chen Ye tried to escape, but someone had barred the glass door from outside with a wooden stick.
• Chen Ye saw Jiajia and Qiangzi beside his tricycle, and Jiajia spotted the Paper-Crying Child before urging Qiangzi to flee.
• The Paper-Crying Child sang for sweets, and Chen Ye fired a crossbow bolt that passed through it without harm.

Chen Ye escaped a supernatural creature in a shop after Jiajia and Qiangzi stole his tricycle, then pursued them through the streets of Apricot Blossom Town. He headed for the supermarket to recover it before sunset, while Jiajia and Qiangzi rode there to gather supplies.

• Jiajia and Qiangzi stole Chen Ye's tricycle while he gathered supplies in the shop.
• Chen Ye spotted them, and Qiangzi fled on the tricycle as Jiajia urged him to go.
• With a childlike supernatural creature closing in from the darkness, Chen Ye kicked down the glass door and escaped into the sunlight.
• Chen Ye set off after them, aware that shadows and watching eyes were spreading through Apricot Blossom Town.
• On the tricycle, Qiangzi worried that Chen Ye had escaped, while Jiajia mocked his fear and insisted they head to the supermarket.

Chen Ye entered a supermarket to gather supplies and encountered the White-Clad Scissor Woman and the Paper-Crying Child. As the horrors attacked the survivors, the burly man transformed into a three-meter giant, revealing himself as a Sequence Transcendent.

• Chen Ye found his belongings on his tricycle outside the supermarket and entered to scavenge supplies.
• Chen Ye spotted the White-Clad Scissor Woman prowling among the shelves and hid with other survivors.
• Chen Ye and the survivors quietly gathered food while avoiding the Scissor Woman.
• The Paper-Crying Child appeared and a survivor screamed, drawing the Scissor Woman toward the group.
• The Scissor Woman cut down several survivors as Chen Ye tried to flee.
• The burly man transformed into a three-meter giant and confronted the Scissor Woman.

Chen Ye escaped the supermarket after witnessing the scissors woman in white overpower a sequence transcendent and evading the Paper-Crying Child with candy. Outside, he killed Qiangzi, left Jiajia to be dragged into the darkness, and rode away with their supplies.

• A giant revealed himself as a sequence transcendent and fought the scissors woman in white, but she easily defeated and hurled him aside.
• Chen Ye tried to flee, offered candy to the Paper-Crying Child to free his ankle, and reached the sunlight with two bags of supplies.
• Jiajia and Qiangzi confronted Chen Ye over their vehicle, and Chen Ye shot and killed Qiangzi with his hand crossbow.
• Jiajia fled toward the supermarket, but a ragged figure seized her and dragged her into the darkness despite her pleas for Chen Ye to help.
• Chen Ye loaded the bundles onto his tricycle and rode away as the other survivors fled.

Chen Ye escaped the town with the convoy as its members fled before nightfall, then pushed himself to catch up on his tricycle. He reached the convoy’s campsite exhausted and resolved to replace his tricycle with an electric one.

• Chen Ye rode through the town gate after spotting a sword-wielding Sequence Transcendent heading toward the battle behind him.
• A barefoot man tasted the soil and ordered the convoy to leave immediately, while desperate survivors tried to stop them.
• Chen Ye kicked away a woman who grabbed his tricycle and raced after the departing convoy.
• Chen Ye pedaled until he caught up with the convoy at its campsite, where he saw a burly man with his left arm severed and the sword-wielding girl nearby.
• Chen Ye checked his system, saw that he had over twelve hundred slaughter points, and decided to replace his tricycle with an electric one.

Chen Ye designed an apocalypse-ready upgrade for his electric tricycle, but he lacked enough slaughter points to build the full version. After finding an abandoned motorcycle and using its parts to lower the cost, he started a six-hour upgrade that would turn the tricycle into a gasoline-powered vehicle.

• Chen Ye designed a reinforced, three-wheel-drive tricycle with solid off-road tires and an enclosed cab, but the full upgrade cost 3,500 slaughter points.
• Chen Ye revised the design to fit his limited points, then spotted an abandoned motorcycle and asked the system whether its parts could reduce the cost.
• Chen Ye dragged the motorcycle to his tricycle, and the system lowered the cost to 900 slaughter points by using its parts.
• Chen Ye confirmed the upgrade, starting a six-hour countdown, and then examined the supplies he had collected.

Chen Ye sorted the supplies he had taken from the supermarket and his companions while the battered survivors reached camp. He learned the ways to awaken Sequence powers, then spent his remaining Slaughter Points to discover that black dog blood could affect supernatural horrors.

• Chen Ye kept watch as a group of survivors caught up with the convoy, which had dwindled to fewer than a hundred people.
• Chen Ye checked his haul, found rice, snacks, cured pork, dried noodles, and clean clothes, then cooked rice with pork and Lao Gan Ma.
• Chen Ye asked the system how to awaken Sequence powers and learned that he needed a Sequence Serum or could self-awaken for three thousand Slaughter Points.
• Chen Ye spent his remaining three hundred Slaughter Points to redeem a method for dealing with supernatural horrors and learned that black dog blood could affect them.
• Chen Ye asked whether he could redeem gasoline and other supplies, but the system's prices made him decide against it except in an emergency.

After Chen Ye’s tricycle transformed into a motorized vehicle, survivors suspected he had awakened a transcendent sequence. A girl named Nana called his ability the mechanic sequence and led him to the convoy’s front group.

• Chen Ye inspected his upgraded motorized tricycle and decided he needed gasoline to keep pace with the convoy.
• Survivors mocked Chen Ye’s vehicle until they realized he had modified it overnight, then suspected he was a transcendent.
• Nana recognized Chen Ye’s transformation as evidence of the mechanic sequence and asked him to come with her.
• Chen Ye followed Nana to the convoy’s front group, where a barefoot young man with an unusual presence watched him.

Chen Ye was mistaken for a newly awakened Mechanic Sequence Transcendent and learned from Chu Che about the sequences, the supernatural threat, and the convoy’s desperate flight. After joining the group, he looked forward to a trading session where he might find supplies to upgrade his tricycle.

• A girl identified Chen Ye as a Mechanic Sequence Transcendent because of his modified tricycle, and the convoy reacted with awe and envy.
• Chen Ye met Chu Che, a Guide Sequence Transcendent, and Nana, a Sword Immortal Sequence Transcendent, who introduced themselves and explained the Mechanic Sequence.
• Chu Che told Chen Ye that supernatural entities were growing stronger, that Sequence Transcendents struggled to fight them, and that his Guide ability helped the convoy sense threats and find safe routes.
• Chu Che welcomed Chen Ye as the convoy’s fourth Sequence Transcendent, and Chen Ye accepted that he would join them.
• Chen Ye learned that he had to trade for gasoline and looked forward to the convoy’s proposed trading session as a chance to obtain tricycle upgrade supplies.

Chen Ye joined the convoy’s fair supply exchange and searched for gasoline and useful equipment. He found a repair tool kit he wanted, but the vendor asked for five kilos of rice or two cases of instant noodles.

• Chu Che, Nana, and the recovering Titan Sequence man organized a two-hour supply exchange under Chu Che’s fairness rule.
• Chen Ye met Zhou Lan, the convoy’s celebrity, who asked to see his women’s clothes.
• Chen Ye rejected Chu Che’s offers to trade a red animal pelt and gasoline for his rice and other food.
• Nana offered Chen Ye handheld consoles and blades, but quoted ten kilos of rice for her gasoline.
• Chen Ye spotted a repair tool kit at the bus stall, and a balding vendor offered it for five kilos of rice or two cases of instant noodles.

Chen Ye negotiated for supplies during the convoy’s trading session and pressured Zhou Lan into giving him a can of gasoline in exchange for future protection. Zhou Lan accepted, though she was furious and humiliated by his demand.

• Chen Ye traded for repair tools by agreeing to repair the bus twice for free, then bought seasonings with instant noodles.
• Chen Ye failed to find gasoline and considered trading rice for it and Nana’s blade.
• Zhou Lan offered Chen Ye a can of gasoline for eight jin of rice, hoping he would protect her and her younger brother, Xiao Xiao.
• Chen Ye demanded the gasoline for free in exchange for helping Zhou Lan later, reminding her that he was a Sequence Transcendent and she was an ordinary person.
• Zhou Lan angrily accepted Chen Ye’s offer.

After Zhou Lan gave Chen Ye a can of gasoline, her brother took it back, but Chen Ye traded information about black dog blood’s effect on the uncanny for gasoline and a machete. The convoy set off with Chen Ye following the bus, while Zhou Lan’s car brought up the rear.

• Zhou Xiaoxiao took back the gasoline Zhou Lan had given Chen Ye, and Zhou Lan let him do it.
• Chen Ye told Chu Che that black dog blood affected the uncanny and traded the information for a can of gasoline.
• Chen Ye shared the same information with Nana and traded it for an outdoor machete.
• Chu Che obtained two black dogs from their owners for Chen Ye, who also acquired two small bags of their blood.
• Chen Ye soaked adjusted crossbow bolts in black dog blood as the convoy prepared to leave.
• The convoy departed with Chu Che leading, while Chen Ye followed the bus and Zhou Lan’s car followed behind him.

Zhou Lan worried that offending Chen Ye might threaten her and Zhou Xiaoxiao’s place in the convoy, while Chen Ye traded supplies, learned about Iron Lion’s regenerative ability, and prepared for the convoy’s next stop. As the group planned to search Longevity Village, a terrified scream announced that something uncanny had appeared in camp.

• Zhou Xiaoxiao told Zhou Lan that Uncle Abao had refused to reveal what Chen Ye had said, and insisted the sisters could survive without his help.
• Chen Ye fueled his motorized tricycle with the gasoline he had traded for and watched Chu Che guide the convoy along a safe route.
• Chen Ye saw Iron Lion’s severed arm partly regenerated and traded a two-kilowatt-hour power bank for Iron Lion’s gratitude and information.
• The convoy repeatedly changed direction to evade uncanny entities, while Chen Ye made more than a hundred crossbow bolts coated in black dog blood.
• Chu Che announced that the convoy would search Longevity Village for supplies the next day, and Chen Ye considered the chance to earn slaughter value.
• A scream rang across the camp as someone cried that something uncanny was there.

Chen Ye’s convoy took in dozens of survivors who had escaped from Deer City, now overrun by anomalies. As the camp settled in, an unfamiliar woman accused the convoy of discriminating against women.

• A scream threw the camp into panic, but the figures emerging from the woods turned out to be survivors rather than anomalies.
• The newcomers told Chu Che and the others that Deer City had fallen, and that only a few dozen of the more than two hundred people who fled its underground parking garage remained.
• Chu Che checked that the survivors had not brought anomalies with them and allowed them to join the convoy under its rule of fairness, offering them one day of food.
• Chu Che assigned several middle-aged women to help prepare porridge while Chen Ye rested in his truck, thinking about reaching Longevity Village and earning Slaughter Points.
• An unfamiliar woman shouted that the camp was unfair because women were doing all the work while men did nothing.

Chen Ye watched Chu Che turn a woman’s complaint about women cooking into an opportunity for hungry survivors to earn food, and the woman was attacked by those she claimed to represent. The convoy continued toward Longevity Village, but Chen Ye’s breakfast was interrupted when a child tried to snatch his food.

• A woman accused Chu Che of unfairly making women cook, so Chu Che assigned the cooking to men and gave the women a break.
• After the men received bread for their work, two middle-aged women blamed and assaulted the woman who had protested.
• Chen Ye realized Chu Che had used the complaint to give supply-poor women a chance to earn food, and the convoy continued toward Longevity Village.
• The next morning, Chen Ye cooked rice with cured pork and wild greens while newly arrived survivors watched hungrily.
• An old woman asked Chen Ye to share his meal with her grandson, but the child grabbed at his bowl, prompting Chen Ye’s anger.

Chen Ye punished a boy and his grandmother after the child tried to steal his food, drawing sharply divided reactions from the convoy. As the convoy set out, the pair were left isolated, and Chen Ye warned them that their absent relatives might never return.

• The boy tried to snatch Chen Ye's food, so Chen Ye slapped him while nearby onlookers and the Zhou sisters reacted.
• When the grandmother defended her grandson and he glared at Chen Ye again, Chen Ye kicked the boy, knocking out several teeth, then kicked the grandmother when she tried to fight him.
• Chen Ye dismissed the boy as an animal, while Nana, the Young Sword Immortal, and others supported his actions and Zhou Xiaoxiao grew afraid of him.
• Chen Ye warned the grandmother and grandson that their absent relatives might never return, leaving the grandmother pale and the child in tears.
• Chu Che ordered the convoy to move, and the grandmother and grandson eventually got up without anyone helping them as Chen Ye drove away on his motorized tricycle.

Chen Ye and the convoy reached a safe shelter as they traveled toward Longevity Village, where Chu Che gathered the leaders to discuss their next move. He revealed an Eavesdropping Radio, wondrous item 01257, and the chapter ended as Nana explained its ranking and promised to show what it could do.

• Chen Ye rode with the convoy and worried about preparing his tricycle and supplies for winter.
• At the evening shelter, Chen Ye noticed someone watching him with hostility while he ate and settled into his cargo bed for the night.
• Uncle Abao brought Chen Ye to a meeting with Chu Che, Nana, Iron Lion, and the young swordswoman.
• Chu Che warned that Xu Jiaojiao had rallied over a dozen newcomers and seemed to be plotting something.
• Chu Che said the convoy would reach Longevity Village the next morning and brought out his Eavesdropping Radio, number 01257, which Nana identified as a wondrous item.

Chen Ye and the convoy used the Eavesdropping Radio to learn that Longevity Village held valuable supplies but was crawling with supernatural horrors, then planned a joint collection mission. The radio unexpectedly broadcast Captain Chu's private insults about the convoy, leaving him facing an angry Nana drawing her sword.

• Chu Che used the Eavesdropping Radio, which identified Longevity Village's supplies, safe well, and SSS danger rating from over a hundred supernatural horrors.
• Chen Ye agreed to join the convoy's supply run, and Chu Che proposed dividing the supplies among himself, Nana, Iron Lion, and Chen Ye.
• The group planned to search the supermarket beneath the village's large willow tree and then the village chief's cellar.
• The radio replayed Chu Che's insulting remarks about Nana, Iron Lion, Chen Ye, and Zhou Lan in front of everyone.
• Nana confronted Chu Che and began drawing her longsword as Iron Lion protested the insults.