Chapter Summaries

Shen Ye fled the eldritch horrors with Qin Shuwen, who could no longer keep up, and escaped the night by riding until dawn. He reached the Rock Carriage Team’s camp alone, carrying Qin Shuwen’s supplies and request to protect his family if he found them.

• Qin Shuwen collapsed from exhaustion and told Shen Ye to leave him behind, asking him to look after his wife and daughter if he encountered them.
• A gray fog carrying the horrors pursued them, and Qin Shuwen stayed behind while Shen Ye rode away.
• Shen Ye heard Qin Shuwen scream but kept pedaling until sunrise, when the pursuing cold vanished.
• Shen Ye recalled that he had awakened the Sequence Asura, which had helped him survive the apocalypse.
• Shen Ye reached the Rock Carriage Team’s camp, where Steward Huang marked Qin Shuwen as dead.
• Shen Ye checked Qin Shuwen’s backpack and found food, drinks, and emergency medicine.

Shen Ye fought off Old Mrs. Zhao’s grandson after the boy stole his instant noodles, and Song Lei ruled that the theft had come first while warning Shen Ye not to use excessive force. When Shen Ye gained two Killing Points, he realized the boy had died and that his Asura Sequence could grow stronger by collecting them.

• Old Mrs. Zhao’s grandson stole two packs of instant noodles from Shen Ye, and Shen Ye kicked him into a roadside railing after he tried to bite him.
• Old Mrs. Zhao accused Shen Ye of attacking her grandson, and Liu Bing threatened to kill him before Steward Huang and Song Lei arrived.
• Song Lei heard a witness confirm the boy had stolen the noodles, then warned Shen Ye about using too much force and left without punishing him.
• Shen Ye received two Killing Points and realized the boy had died.
• Shen Ye recalled that his Asura Sequence granted him enhanced physical abilities, Asura Treasury, and Blood Refinement, all of which depended on Killing Points.

Song Lei and Song Shiya suspected that Shen Ye was hiding his identity as a sequencer, while Steward Huang asked to search for supplies. The chapter ended when Song Shiya questioned Huang about why he was unafraid of anomalies, and he produced a strange bronze disk.

• After checking the news on his phone, Shen Ye found that the network had stopped working.
• Song Lei told Song Shiya how Shen Ye had kicked Old Madam Zhao's grandson into a railing, and Song Shiya suspected Shen Ye was a sequencer.
• Song Shiya reassured Song Lei that Shen Ye might not be a match for him, a tier nine Beastman Sequence member.
• Steward Huang asked Song Lei to search for supplies, but Song Lei exposed Huang's real motive: his own food was running out.
• Song Shiya asked why Huang was not afraid of anomalies, and Huang took a bronze disk with a bone-white bead from his pocket.

Steward Huang showed Song Lei and Song Shiya an uncanny item, and Song Lei organized a convoy search for supplies. Shen Ye then learned that Lin Wanqiu had a dangerous uncanny saber and began negotiating to trade for it.

• Steward Huang offered Song Lei the Life Disk, and Song Shiya arranged for her brother to pay five packets of instant noodles in exchange.
• Song Lei announced that the convoy would leave three hours early and charge vehicles five percent of any supplies found during a town search.
• Shen Ye considered joining the search because he needed water and wanted a better vehicle.
• Lin Wanqiu approached Shen Ye to trade food for an item, and he initially refused.
• After Shen Ye recognized her black saber, Ghost Head, as a powerful uncanny weapon with a dangerous drawback, he agreed to negotiate for it.
• Shen Ye handed Lin Wanqiu his backpack and told her it held all the food he had left.

Shen Ye traded supplies with Lin Wanqiu, then fought off Liu Bing after Liu Bing blamed him for his son’s death. Song Lei stopped Shen Ye from retaliating, and Liu Bing left with his family still bent on revenge.

• Lin Wanqiu traded Shen Ye a valuable item for food and revealed that Steward Huang had previously cheated her.
• Old Mrs. Zhao wailed over her grandson’s death, and Liu Bing charged at Shen Ye with a wrench.
• Shen Ye kicked Liu Bing away before the wrench could hit him and picked up the weapon.
• Song Lei intervened, ruled that Liu Bing’s son had been in the wrong, and warned Liu Bing to leave the Rock Carriage Team if he sought revenge.
• Liu Bing left with his mother and wife, casting Shen Ye a threatening look as Shen Ye chose not to challenge him while Song Lei was present.

Song Lei led the convoy into Changchun Village after his bronze disc indicated it was safe, and the survivors gathered at the village supermarket to search for supplies. Shen Ye noticed a strange film on the entrance glass, then smelled rotting corpses inside and grew wary.

• Song Shiya and Song Lei realized their route seemed to be missing a township, but later found a sign for Changchun Village, also known as Snake Village.
• Song Lei used his bronze disc at the village entrance, and its bead did not glow deep red, so he declared the village safe.
• Most of the convoy entered the village, while Lin Wanqiu and her assistants stayed behind and a woman in a Camry watched with faintly glowing purple eyes.
• Song Lei led the survivors to the village supermarket, where Shen Ye noticed a thin film on the glass door before entering.
• Shen Ye smelled rotting corpses inside the supermarket and became alert to danger.

Shen Ye entered Limin Supermarket to gather supplies and discovered giant eggs and human remains among the rotting food. As people became trapped upstairs by eerie creatures, Song Lei’s Life Disk glowed blood-red, signaling that they were surrounded.

• Shen Ye found three slime-covered giant eggs beside human remains in the supermarket’s first-floor fresh food section.
• He gathered bottled water, chocolate, and compressed biscuits on the second floor, avoiding the rice and flour over which people fought.
• Shen Ye encountered more giant eggs among the shelves, including one whose cracked shell seemed close to hatching.
• Screams erupted downstairs as people fled back upstairs, shouting that eerie creatures had appeared and locked the exit.
• Song Lei questioned a fleeing man, then saw the Life Disk’s bead turn deep red as it warned that eerie creatures surrounded them.

Shen Ye and the others fought their way through a supermarket overrun by Green-Scaled Snake Demons, with Shen Ye using Ghost Head to kill several of them. They reached the first floor amid a massacre, and Shen Ye picked up a car key as they passed a dead man.

• A Green-Scaled Snake Demon hatched beside Shen Ye, and he killed it with Ghost Head, earning 78 slaughter points.
• More Green-Scaled Snake Demons emerged, and Song Lei transformed into a werewolf to protect Song Shiya and fight them.
• Shen Ye dodged a snake demon's corrosive venom and killed it with a strike to its unscaled neck, earning 69 slaughter points.
• Shen Ye and Song Lei led the group through the second floor toward the stairs as at least twenty snake demons attacked, and Steward Huang was swallowed.
• The survivors reached the first floor and found more than a dozen people dead among the scattered food and slime.
• Shen Ye took a car key from beside a dead man in a suit as he continued moving.

Liu Bing trapped Shen Ye, Song Lei, and the supermarket survivors inside with the snake demons to avenge his son. As a second-tier snake demon attacked Song Lei, Shen Ye saw its next killing blow closing in.

• Liu Bing revealed that he had locked the supermarket doors and used a strange membrane to seal the glass, trapping everyone inside with the snake demons.
• Liu Bing, his wife, and Old Mrs. Zhao taunted the trapped survivors and vowed to kill them for their son's death.
• A second-tier snake demon descended the stairs, and Song Lei told Song Shiya to stay behind him while he attacked it.
• Song Lei used Berserk to fight the second-tier snake demon, but it struck him into a wall and tore a chunk of flesh from his ribs.
• Shen Ye warned Song Lei as the snake demon lunged at his right arm with its jaws.

Shen Ye killed the tier-two Snake Demon and escaped the supermarket with Song Lei and Song Shiya, then executed Liu Bing, Old Mrs. Zhao, and Liu Bing's wife. Song Shiya tried to heal Song Lei's grave injuries, but her healing ability could not stop the demon's venom.

• Shen Ye ambushed the Snake Demon and severed its head with Ghost Head, gaining a green snake scale and 234 kill points.
• Shen Ye, Song Lei, and Song Shiya fought through the tier-one Snake Demons and escaped when Shen Ye cut the chains and opened the doors; the sunlight drove the monsters back inside.
• Liu Bing begged Shen Ye for mercy, but Shen Ye killed him, Old Mrs. Zhao, and Liu Bing's wife.
• Song Shiya used her healing ability to stop Song Lei's bleeding, but the tier-two Snake Demon's venom resisted her light and continued to endanger him.

Song Shiya could only slow the tier-two snake demon’s poison in Song Lei, so the survivors fled Changchun Village as the Green-Scaled Snake Demons pursued them beneath the red moon. By dawn, they had escaped the horrors, but Song Lei’s condition had worsened, and Shen Ye came to see him in the truck.

• Song Shiya used her Sequence 9 Healer power to slow the poison spreading through Song Lei, then loaded him into the delivery truck.
• Shen Ye and Song Shiya left Changchun Village with the convoy, passing houses where Green-Scaled Snake Demons watched them.
• Under the red moon, Shen Ye spotted snake demons chasing the vehicles and realized the horrors were stronger at night.
• Song Shiya led the convoy until they shook off their pursuers in the latter half of the night, then stopped at dawn in a place with a broad view.
• Shen Ye followed Song Shiya into the truck and saw that the poison had spread to Song Lei’s chest.

As Song Lei succumbed to poison, he disbanded the Rock Carriage Team and asked Shen Ye to protect Song Shiya and end his suffering. After Song Lei died, Shen Ye gave the remaining survivors a choice, while Song Shiya privately confronted An Ning about why she had stayed outside Changchun Village.

• Song Lei explained that the Life Disk had failed to detect the snake eggs, then disbanded the Rock Carriage Team and asked Shen Ye to look after Song Shiya.
• Song Shiya tried to heal Song Lei, but Shen Ye agreed only to protect her as far as he could and, at Song Lei's request, granted him a quick death.
• The survivors buried Song Lei, and Shen Ye told them they could travel with him but would have to rely on themselves or find another protected carriage team.
• Song Shiya took An Ning aside and questioned why she had stayed outside Changchun Village, bluffing that she could detect lies.

Shen Ye questioned An Ning about why she had concealed her danger-sensing ability, and she explained how her Pathfinder skills worked and why she had been afraid to speak up. Song Shiya revealed her Healer abilities, while Shen Ye kept the details of his unusual Asura Sequence to himself.

• An Ning admitted that her newly awakened Pathfinder ability had warned her that Changchun Village was dangerous, and Song Shiya angrily blamed her for the deaths.
• Shen Ye separated the women and defended An Ning, who explained that Steward Huang had dismissed her warning and that she had been afraid no one would believe her.
• An Ning described her Pathfinder skills, Path of Survival and Eye of Perception, and Shen Ye recognized their value for guiding a convoy.
• Song Shiya disclosed her Healer Sequence skills, Light of Holy Healing and Inspiration, then asked Shen Ye about his sequence.
• Shen Ye explained that he still did not understand his unusual Asura Sequence, while privately assessing its skills and Killing Points.

Shen Ye spent killing points to use Blood Refinement on Ghost Head, giving it a new ability, then learned that further refinements would cost far more. Song Shiya healed his wounded arm, leaving him recovered as the group remained on the road.

• Shen Ye counted his supplies and 2,064 killing points from the trip to Snake Village, then chose to test Blood Refinement rather than the Asura Treasury.
• Shen Ye spent 1,000 killing points to refine Ghost Head, which gained the Intangible trait alongside its existing abilities.
• Shen Ye discovered that Ghost Head could be refined again, but its second refinement would cost 10,000 killing points.
• Shen Ye inspected a green-scaled king snake scale and learned it was a crafting material for Weird Objects.
• Song Shiya offered to heal Shen Ye's injured arm, and her Light of Holy Healing restored it in less than five minutes.

After Lin Wanqiu was abandoned by Zhao Qian and Li Shu, An Ning agreed to let her travel in her car, and the group continued south while Shen Ye fought off Eldritch attacks. Near Fugang County, Shen Ye and Song Shiya realized that the roads were taking longer than their maps indicated and wondered whether the world was growing bigger.

• Song Shiya examined Ghost Head, praised its power, and returned it to Shen Ye before he slept until afternoon.
• Lin Wanqiu told Shen Ye and Song Shiya that Zhao Qian and Li Shu had stolen their car while she slept in a tent, leaving her with only a backpack of food and water.
• An Ning invited Lin Wanqiu to ride with her and share driving duties, and Lin Wanqiu gave An Ning half her remaining food and water.
• Over the next two days, An Ning guided the convoy south from Xiangnan Province into Yuedong Province, and Shen Ye defeated two attacks by first-tier Eldritch.
• Near Fugang County, Song Shiya compared their route with the map, and Shen Ye realized that the roads seemed longer than their marked distances and asked whether the world was growing bigger.

Shen Ye and the others decided to head west to avoid the dangerous Pearl River Delta, then stopped at a gas station to refuel. Shen Ye killed two invisible Green-Skinned Eldritch that ambushed him and Song Shiya, and the group prepared to continue their journey.

• Song Shiya explained that the Red Moon had changed the landscape, making roads longer and erasing buildings, and warned that the Pearl River Delta was likely overrun with Eldritch.
• Shen Ye suggested traveling west toward sparsely populated regions, and Song Shiya, Lin Wanqiu, and An Ning accepted the plan.
• An Ning used her Pathfinder ability to detect two Tier One Eldritch inside a gas station, then fell asleep from the strain.
• Shen Ye entered the gas station with Ghost Head while Song Shiya followed to support him.
• A Green-Skinned Eldritch attacked Song Shiya from behind, but Shen Ye knocked her aside and cut it in two.
• A second Green-Skinned Eldritch ambushed Shen Ye, but he dodged and killed it before checking the Life Disk and confirming they were safe.

After resting at the gas station, Shen Ye agreed to reunite the vehicles as a convoy and persuaded An Ning to lead it, with Song Shiya and himself as deputies. The group settled on a name inspired by Shen Ye’s memories of Qin Shuwen: Dawn.

• Lin Wanqiu shared a fuel can with Shen Ye, and the group divided the remaining supplies after refueling their vehicles.
• Song Shiya thanked Shen Ye for saving her, and the women and Shen Ye took turns washing at the gas station.
• Song Shiya proposed reuniting the vehicles into a convoy, and Shen Ye agreed.
• Shen Ye rejected the role of leader and persuaded An Ning to guide the convoy, while he and Song Shiya took deputy roles.
• Lin Wanqiu suggested Hope Convoy, Song Shiya offered Morning Light and Daybreak, and Shen Ye proposed Dawn after remembering Qin Shuwen.

The Dawn Convoy was ambushed by Zhao Biao and his men, who demanded their supplies and the women. Shen Ye fought Zhao Biao after he transformed into a Sequence 9 Giant, but Zhao Biao’s strength and defense left the battle unresolved.

• The four members officially named their group the Dawn Convoy and set off west from the Fukuoka Gas Station.
• Zhao Biao’s convoy surrounded them, and he demanded their supplies and claimed Song Shiya and Lin Wanqiu for himself.
• Shen Ye attacked Zhao Biao with Ghost Head, prompting Zhao Biao to transform into a Giant over three meters tall.
• An Ning identified Zhao Biao as a Sequence 9 Giant and warned Shen Ye that he was powerful but slow.
• Zhao Biao struck Shen Ye and sent him flying, while Shen Ye killed Zhao Biao’s two lackeys as they approached Song Shiya.
• Song Shiya healed Shen Ye, who resumed fighting Zhao Biao but only managed to inflict shallow wounds against the Giant’s tough defense.

Shen Ye killed Zhao Biao, a Giant Sequence Awakened who had attacked the Dawn Convoy, but suffered serious injuries in the fight. With Zhao Biao dead, survivors from his convoy asked to join Shen Ye’s group, and Song Shiya asked how many remained.

• Shen Ye evaded Zhao Biao’s attacks until Zhao Biao knocked him down and moved in to stomp him.
• Shen Ye grabbed Ghost Head and stabbed Zhao Biao beneath his raised leg, triggering the blade’s Instant Death effect and killing him.
• Song Shiya healed Shen Ye’s injured ribs as An Ning and Lin Wanqiu gathered around him.
• He Yumin explained Zhao Biao’s crimes and pleaded for the surviving convoy members to join the Dawn Convoy.
• Song Shiya asked how many survivors remained, and He Yumin said a little over fifty.

Shen Ye set strict rules for joining the Dawn Convoy, and more than fifty survivors chose to stay. An Ning revealed that she was the convoy’s Pathfinder captain, while the group prepared to travel together.

• Song Shiya persuaded Shen Ye to let Zhao Biao’s former followers join the convoy.
• Shen Ye told the survivors they had to fend for themselves, keep their own supplies, and obey the convoy’s rules; none of them left.
• Shen Ye claimed Zhao Biao’s RV, and He Yunping handed over its keys and explained that he had driven for Zhao Biao.
• He Yumin explained that He Yunping had helped protect other survivors, and several people offered to share their vehicles with him.
• At Shen Ye’s prompting, An Ning introduced herself as the convoy’s captain and Pathfinder, and welcomed the survivors to the Dawn Convoy.