Chapter Summaries

Shen Sui divided the outlaws’ loot and vehicles among the team, then planned to appoint survivor leaders to improve group management. The chapter ended with Lin Yu agreeing to tell Su Man and Scarface that they had been chosen and would receive the remaining jeeps.

• Shen Sui divided the supplies from the rear battlefield equally among the five teammates and offered weapons to the ordinary survivors.
• Shen Sui claimed the best armored pickup, while Zhai Guang and Lin Yu chose the other armored pickups, and Cheng Yuening chose a jeep.
• Yellow Hair and Ye Qing declined the available vehicles, preferring their own transports.
• Shen Sui asked the group to recommend capable survivors as leaders, and Lin Yu suggested Su Man and Scarface.
• Shen Sui approved the candidates, gave them the remaining two jeeps, and asked Lin Yu to tell them.

Shen Sui’s team reforms made Su Man and Scarface supervisors, while Lin Yu moved his supplies to his new vehicle and refused Ye Qing’s offer to exchange information about their pathways. The chapter ended with Ye Qing still unable to learn Lin Yu’s pathway.

• Lin Yu explained that Su Man and Scarface would supervise the survivors, assist Uncle Zhao, and receive food without being forced into Choices.
• Su Man and Scarface excitedly accepted their new roles, while the survivors envied them and Wu Han regretted not cultivating a relationship with Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu transferred his supplies from Ye Qing’s vehicle to the Armored Pickup as Ye Qing watched him with resentment.
• Ye Qing asked Lin Yu to exchange information about their pathways, but Lin Yu refused to reveal his.

Lin Yu’s convoy encountered a wilderness [Choice] offering a case of cola to anyone who ate ten McSpicy Chicken Burgers or drank a bottle of Cockroach Water. Seeing no penalty for failure, Lin Yu considered attempting the burger challenge.

• Lin Yu drove his heavy-duty pickup and used [Unknown Tracks] to conceal the convoy’s trail from pursuers.
• The convoy found a large wilderness [Choice], and Shen Sui and Uncle Zhao welcomed the chance to obtain supplies.
• The survivors discussed what rewards they hoped to receive while Shen Sui prioritized food and Yellow Hair joked about forbidden objects.
• The first option offered a case of cola for eating ten McSpicy Chicken Burgers in an hour or drinking 500 ml of Cockroach Water, with no penalty for failure.
• The survivors recoiled from the Cockroach Water, while Lin Yu decided the burger challenge might be manageable with his enhanced abilities.

The survivors chose a risk-free burger challenge, ate ten McSpicy Chicken Burgers, and some earned cola for finishing them. After everyone returned satisfied, a new choice appeared, offering tailored clothes for defeating a special zombie dog or killing ten thousand hornets.

• Shen Sui let the survivors take part in the burger choice without it counting toward their participation totals, and everyone chose A except for Yellow Hair, who briefly tried to make Zhai Guang choose B.
• Lin Yu entered a burger restaurant, ate all ten McSpicy Chicken Burgers, and received a case of cola.
• The survivors returned with full stomachs, and those who finished all ten burgers received cola; several ordinary people managed to finish them as well.
• Yellow Hair teased Ye Qing for never having eaten burgers before the apocalypse, and she and Shen Sui reflected that they had wasted their earlier chances to enjoy them.
• A new choice offered three sets of tailored clothing for either defeating a special-model zombie dog or killing ten thousand hornets within ten seconds.

Lin Yu analyzed the DZ-093 Model Zombie Dog and chose to face it for the reward of three custom-made outfits. Ye Qing and Cheng Yuening also chose Option A, while Shen Sui selected Option B.

• Lin Yu used Analysis on Option A and learned that the zombie dog was highly infectious but that he had a 99% chance of clearing the challenge without injury.
• Lin Yu chose Option A, and Ye Qing followed after deciding she could handle the challenge too.
• Shen Sui chose Option B, which Lin Yu believed suited Shen Sui's powerful psychic abilities.
• Cheng Yuening hesitated over the danger, then quietly chose Option A.

Lin Yu defeated a zombie dog in the Choice and received three sets of tailor-made clothing suited to combat and harsh conditions. After returning, he saw Shen Sui, Ye Qing, and Cheng Yuening in their new outfits, while Ye Qing grew more curious about Lin Yu’s abilities as another Choice appeared.

• Lin Yu killed a charging zombie dog with a single machete strike and completed the Choice.
• Lin Yu selected three outfits: a breathable dark combat set, a warm winter combat set, and a protective suit for extreme environments.
• Lin Yu returned to reality and found Shen Sui and Ye Qing wearing their new outfits, while Cheng Yuening remained difficult to spot.
• Yellow Hair regretted skipping the clothing Choice and blamed Zhai Guang, who objected.
• Ye Qing thanked Lin Yu, then became increasingly curious about his pathway and the secrets he was hiding.
• A third Choice appeared.

A choice offering 200 liters of gasoline forced Shen Sui to select twenty survivors to participate, until a slender woman argued that Option A was survivable and Option B would fling people from the ground. She chose A herself, while the selected survivors still faced their choices.

• Shen Sui decided the team needed the gasoline and ordered the twenty lowest-ranked survivors to step forward for the choice.
• Uncle Zhao read out names as Scarface brought the twenty selected survivors out of the crowd, prompting them to plead with Shen Sui.
• The slender woman stepped forward and explained that stored heat would keep the planet from freezing if the sun went out for one minute.
• The slender woman warned that a sudden twenty-percent increase in planetary rotation would hurl people and objects away at high speed, making Option B deadly.
• The slender woman chose Option A to refresh her choice count.

Yue Sheng led twenty other survivors to choose Option A in [Choice], surviving a minute of total darkness and earning barrels of gasoline. The team collected its share of their supplies, and Yellow Hair gave Lin Yu his gasoline share to repay him for a cream bun.

• Yue Sheng introduced herself to Shen Sui and chose Option A, prompting the other survivors to follow her lead.
• Lin Yu declined to enter [Choice], while Yue Sheng and twenty survivors vanished as the countdown ended.
• After one minute in a silent, lightless world, Yue Sheng and the others returned alive with two hundred liters of gasoline each.
• The survivors thanked Yue Sheng, and she reflected that she had volunteered to prove her value and improve her ranking.
• Shen Sui and Uncle Zhao collected the team's share of the gasoline, and Lin Yu received 140 liters.
• Yellow Hair gave Lin Yu his own 140-liter share, saying it repaid him for the cream bun.

After Lin Yu used [Clear Path Ahead] to confirm the squad could safely camp overnight, Su Man gave him a list of three survivors who had plotted against him. At midnight, Lin Yu used a new Analysis charge to examine the human-skin substance dropped by the Resentful Corpse.

• Lin Yu accepted a 140-liter drum of gasoline from Yellow Hair in return for a piece of cream bread.
• Lin Yu checked the surrounding dangers with [Clear Path Ahead] and told Shen Sui the squad could camp there and leave in ten hours.
• The squad set up camp and relaxed around a campfire while Lin Yu reviewed his recent transformation alone in his pickup.
• Su Man gave Lin Yu the names of three survivors who had lost their left hands in the vehicle [Choice] and had planned to harm him.
• At midnight, Lin Yu gained three more uses of Analysis and used one to investigate the Resentful Corpse's human-skin substance.

Lin Yu fused the Resentful Corpse skin with Scarface’s broadsword, creating a Transcendent Weapon that shocked his companions. The next morning, he used [Clear Path Ahead] and saw something that darkened his expression.

• Lin Yu rejected using the Resentful Corpse skin to make potion ingredients or form a parasitic bond, and chose to wrap it around Scarface’s broadsword.
• The skin covered the blade and merged with it as Lin Yu sensed their resentment intertwining.
• Shen Sui, Yellow Hair, Zhai Guang, Ye Qing, and Cheng Yuening rushed to Lin Yu’s vehicle after sensing the resentment, but found him alive with a newly made Transcendent Weapon.
• Shen Sui explained that the weapon was valuable, while Zhai Guang grew jealous and Ye Qing and Cheng Yuening left.
• Lin Yu and the others rested through the night, and Lin Yu woke refreshed the next morning.
• Lin Yu activated [Clear Path Ahead], saw the threads around him, and his expression darkened.