Chapter Summaries

Lin Hui awakened in a global road survival game with a nearly empty RV and the Gray Fog closing in. As he prepared to search for supplies, he received a unique ability that granted a Golden Trait each time his vehicle leveled up.

• Lin Hui woke in a Civilian Class-C RV and read the survival rules in a Black Manual, learning that the Gray Fog would pursue players and that resource boxes were scattered along the road.
• Lin Hui checked his status and vehicle panels, discovering that his RV had only 2% fuel, a badly worn tire, and no weapons.
• A regional announcement identified C-996 as the Zombie Wasteland and warned that the Gray Fog was 30 kilometers away, spreading at 30 kilometers per hour.
• Lin Hui read the panicked Regional Channel and decided to search for resource boxes despite the danger of leaving his vehicle.
• Lin Hui started the RV and received the unique Golden Modifier per Level ability, which let him assign a Golden Trait to a vehicle component whenever the vehicle leveled up.

Lin Hui used the golden Infinite trait on his RV’s fuel tank, giving the vehicle endless fuel and greatly enhanced power as the black fog advanced. After speeding past other players, he began collecting supply crates and found valuable Universal Fuel to trade or share with them.

• Lin Hui applied the Infinite trait to his RV’s fuel tank, creating an Infinite Fuel Reactor that kept the tank full and doubled the engine’s power.
• Lin Hui accelerated to 100 kilometers per hour and raced down the road while other players struggled to conserve fuel.
• A player watched Lin Hui’s RV thunder past and shouted in disbelief as it disappeared into the distance.
• Lin Hui spotted a green-glowing supply crate, brought it into the RV, and found a unit of Universal Fuel inside.
• Lin Hui continued racing along the road and collecting supply crates while players behind him complained about the harsh survival game.

Lin Hui weathered a deadly cold wave in his RV, using his unlimited fuel to stay warm, trade supplies, and cook a hot meal. As he resolved to strengthen the RV, something scratched at its door.

• Lin Hui stopped to rest and saw that his front-left tire was moderately worn.
• A cold wave dropped the temperature to -10°C, and Lin Hui read desperate messages from survivors who lacked fuel and heat.
• Lin Hui used his full fuel supply to heat the RV to 26°C and sorted the supplies he had collected from more than a hundred crates.
• Lin Hui sold ten portions of Universal Fuel for food and other supplies, including an Axe Gun with three rounds left.
• Lin Hui cooked and ate a Lamb Hot Pot Meal, restoring his fullness and sanity as he decided to improve the RV.
• A dull thud and the scrape of sharp claws came from the RV door, making Lin Hui freeze and sharpen his gaze.

Lin Hui killed a powerful Zombie by crushing it against a highway guardrail with his RV, earning an upgrade blueprint and other supplies. After seeing that Li Shuang was stranded nearby, he chose to seek materials to strengthen his vehicle instead of rescuing her.

• A Strength-Type Zombie attacked Lin Hui’s RV, denting the door and threatening to break inside.
• Lin Hui drove the RV into the Zombie and crushed it against a guardrail, killing it and earning a Vehicle Upgrade Blueprint, Universal Fuel, and a bottle of Sprite.
• Lin Hui inspected the damaged RV and learned its upgrade required steel and three more units of rubber to reinforce its armor and expand its interior.
• Li Shuang asked players for help in the Regional Channel, but Lin Hui refused to rescue her and drove away to search for steel and tires.

Lin Hui found a crashed military helicopter that could provide steel for his RV upgrade, but road spikes crippled his tires before he could reach it. Three strangers arrived and tried to lure him from the RV, and Lin Hui exposed their ambush as Scarface turned murderous.

• Lin Hui checked the survivor count, learned about the previous night’s deaths, and set out to gather materials for upgrading his RV.
• Lin Hui spotted a crashed military helicopter and lured an Agile Zombie away from the wreckage.
• Lin Hui returned toward the helicopter and discovered that road spikes had punctured all four tires of his RV.
• A yellow sports car arrived, and a blond man, Scarface, and a woman approached Lin Hui under the pretense of offering help.
• Lin Hui accused the men of planting the spikes, and Scarface threatened him after the blond man’s deception was exposed.

Lin Hui killed Scarface and the blond man after they tried to rob him, then refused to take Li Shuang with him. When an Agile Zombie killed her, he escaped in his RV and headed for the crashed military helicopter to find materials for an upgrade.

• Lin Hui shot and killed the blond man and Scarface after they threatened him and admitted to using road spikes to trap him.
• Li Shuang revealed her name and begged Lin Hui to take her, but he refused and dismantled her taxi for rubber tires and steel.
• Li Shuang grabbed Lin Hui's leg as an Agile Zombie rushed toward them, and Lin Hui escaped into his RV, leaving her outside.
• The Agile Zombie caught and killed Li Shuang while Lin Hui watched from inside the RV.
• Lin Hui drove away while the zombie fed and headed toward the crashed military helicopter to gather materials for his RV upgrade.

Lin Hui dismantled a crashed military helicopter and used its high-grade steel to evolve his damaged RV into a heavily armored Lv.2 war machine. He gained golden Never Wears Out tires and faced the Agile Zombie, whose attack barely marked the RV’s armor.

• Lin Hui dismantled the crashed military helicopter and collected ballistic armor steel, rubber, a Fire-Control Chip, and Precision Electronic Components.
• Lin Hui used the helicopter steel and rubber to evolve the RV into a Heavy Assault Type with reinforced armor, a spiked ram, and wheel-hub spikes.
• Lin Hui received the golden Never Wears Out modifier and applied it to all four tires, making them puncture-proof and granting constant traction.
• The Agile Zombie charged the RV and struck the armored door, leaving only a shallow white mark.

Lin Hui killed zombies with his upgraded RV and discovered its new auto-pickup function, then began hunting monsters for supplies and an upgrade blueprint. After obtaining a blueprint to upgrade to Lv.3, he drove straight over another player’s caltrops without damaging his tires.

• Lin Hui crushed a tier 1 Agile Zombie against a roadside boulder and found its loot had been automatically collected inside the RV.
• Lin Hui saw the Regional Channel announcement that Zhao Tianba had upgraded to Lv.3 and received an Autopilot Module, prompting Lin Hui to seek his own upgrade.
• Lin Hui decided to hunt zombies instead of searching for scarce supply crates and charged into groups of them with his RV.
• Lin Hui ran down more than a hundred zombies and obtained a Vehicle Upgrade Blueprint for Lv.3.
• Lin Hui drove over steel caltrops set by another player, and his Never Wears Out tires remained undamaged.

Lin Hui tried to gather the armored ballistic steel needed to upgrade his RV, but the four major guilds were monopolizing high-end materials. After he offered to buy Axe Gun ammunition instead, Su Qingqian proposed trading him nine rounds for antibiotics.

• Lin Hui reviewed the level-three RV upgrade options and chose the perfect plan, which required ninety more units of armored ballistic steel.
• Lin Hui read the recruitment notices from the Sky Tyrant Alliance, Rose Society, Ironblood Heavy Industries, and Feral Wolf Guild, then decided against joining or founding a guild.
• Lin Hui posted offers for armored ballistic steel, but bought only twenty units after an hour because powerful guilds were snapping up scarce materials.
• Lin Hui posted an offer to buy Axe Gun ammunition because he had only one round left.
• Su Qingqian privately offered Lin Hui nine rounds of Axe Gun ammunition in exchange for antibiotics.

Lin Hui traded for coordinates to an abandoned arms factory and drove toward it, hoping to find materials for upgrading his RV. After he rejected Wang Gou’s offer to join him, Wang Gou secretly tipped off the Feral Wolf Guild about Lin Hui and his vehicle.

• Lin Hui traded antibiotics for Axe Gun rounds with Su Qingqian, then paid one unit of Universal Fuel for coordinates to a zombie-infested abandoned arms factory.
• Lin Hui decided to drive toward the factory and posted a request for modern weapons before setting off.
• Lin Hui stopped at a deserted gas station to clean his RV and refused Wang Gou’s offer to join him.
• Wang Gou drove away, then contacted Guo Yong of the Feral Wolf Guild and reported Lin Hui’s armored RV and location.
• Guo Yong promised Wang Gou ten units of Universal Fuel if the tip proved true, and Wang Gou agreed to keep watch on Lin Hui.

Lin Hui was ambushed by the Feral Wolf Guild while approaching the Abandoned Arsenal, but he drove his RV through their blockade and into the compound. The Guild pursued him inside and found itself trapped among zombies, including a Tier 2 Strength-Type Zombie.

• Lin Hui spotted the Feral Wolf Guild’s convoy surrounding his RV and heard Guo Yong demand the vehicle and supplies.
• Lin Hui refused to surrender and rammed a Dirt Bike, crushing its rider before driving toward the Abandoned Arsenal.
• Guo Yong ordered his gunner to shoot at the RV, but the bullets failed to damage it, and Lin Hui smashed through the Arsenal’s gate.
• Guo Yong and his men followed Lin Hui into the Arsenal, where zombies attacked them and the RV disappeared from sight.
• A horde of zombies emerged with a Tier 2 Strength-Type Zombie at its front, and Guo Yong ordered a retreat before the zombies blocked the gate.

Lin Hui let Guo Yong and the other motorcyclists be overwhelmed by the zombies, then killed the tier-two Strength-Type Zombie with his RV and cleared the munitions factory. He found a huge cache of weapons and ammunition, along with 500 units of armored ballistic steel.

• Lin Hui watched as the zombie horde killed the motorcyclists and the tier-two Strength-Type Zombie crushed Guo Yong’s pickup and killed him.
• Lin Hui rammed the injured tier-two Strength-Type Zombie repeatedly with his RV until it died, earning a Vehicle Advancement Blueprint and a Basic Gene Enhancement Serum.
• Lin Hui spent half an hour clearing every zombie in the munitions factory, losing three sanity in the process.
• Lin Hui searched the factory and found its armory, where he collected 30 crates of axe gun ammunition, 10 crates of anti-tank mines, and 10 crates of grenades.
• Lin Hui discovered 500 units of armored ballistic steel in the armory’s raw-materials section.

Lin Hui upgraded his RV to Lv.3, gaining heavy armor, an autocannon, and the Space Folding trait, which let him collect the Arsenal’s supplies and wreckage. He left the emptied Arsenal in his newly armed vehicle, carrying a vast stockpile of weapons and goods.

• Lin Hui used the Lv.2-to-Lv.3 advancement plan to evolve his RV, doubling its armor and adding a 25 mm M330 “Big Wasp” Chain Autocannon.
• Lin Hui drew the golden Space Folding trait, giving the RV’s storage compartment 100,000 cubic meters of space, preservation, access control, and automatic collection.
• Lin Hui applied the trait to the RV’s storage cabinet and collected the Arsenal’s steel, ammunition, grenades, and landmines.
• Lin Hui disassembled Guo Yong’s Heavy Pickup Truck and several Dirt Bikes, then gathered supplies scattered around the Arsenal.
• Lin Hui drove his Lv.3 armed RV out through the Arsenal’s gates after clearing the area of anything useful.

Lin Hui destroyed Wang Gou’s van, injected a Basic Gene Potion, and encountered a tier 3 White Thorn mutant near a disabled tank. He drove toward the creature to study it and try to kill it.

• Lin Hui locked onto Wang Gou’s van and destroyed it with a 25 mm armor-piercing round, killing Wang Gou.
• Lin Hui read bounty posts seeking Gene Serums and injected the Basic Gene Potion, raising his Constitution from 5 to 15.
• Lin Hui spotted a tier 3 White Thorn mutant attacking a main battle tank and learned that its attributes and skills were unavailable.
• Lin Hui steered his armed RV toward the White Thorn and stopped within autocannon range.

Lin Hui fought and killed the tier 3 Mutant White Thorn with his RV’s autocannon after identifying a weak spot in its armor. His first kill of a tier 3 monster earned him rare rewards and a screen-wide announcement, while he resolved to keep upgrading his vehicle.

• Lin Hui fired an armor-piercing round at White Thorn, but it dodged the shot and rapidly healed from its wound.
• White Thorn charged Lin Hui’s RV and struck its armor with a corrosive bone spike, damaging its defenses.
• Lin Hui used radar scanning to spot a pale armor plate on White Thorn’s right waist and opened fire as it approached.
• Lin Hui destroyed White Thorn’s weak point with repeated autocannon shots and killed it with a final round.
• Lin Hui received bullets, gene items, and a rare antibiotic, and earned the first-kill-of-a-tier-3-monster achievement and a screen-wide announcement.
• Lin Hui ignored recruiters and buyers messaging him about the Intermediate Gene Serum and decided he needed to upgrade his vehicle further.

Lin Hui killed a tier 3 White Thorn and discovered Su Qingqian trapped in a disabled tank. He recruited her Machinery specialization after she repaired his RV, then let her board and continued onward.

• Lin Hui collected the White Thorn's loot and found Su Qingqian emerging from the stranded tank.
• Su Qingqian asked Lin Hui for a ride and offered her Machinery specialization in exchange.
• Su Qingqian repaired the RV's corroded armor and restored its defense to 100%.
• Lin Hui dismantled Su Qingqian's tank for materials and allowed her to board the RV.
• Su Qingqian was stunned by the RV's warmth and amenities, especially its shower, as Lin Hui drove on.

Lin Hui took Su Qingqian to search an abandoned industrial district for titanium alloy needed to upgrade his RV. He left her dismantling wrecks as his vehicle smashed through rubble and zombies, giving her a glimpse of how safe life could be with overwhelming strength.

• After Su Qingqian showered, Lin Hui showed her the Lv.4 vehicle advancement blueprint, which required high-strength titanium alloy.
• Su Qingqian told Lin Hui that an abandoned Aviation Parts Factory nearby might contain titanium alloy, though rubble and zombies made it dangerous to reach.
• Lin Hui accelerated through the collapsed buildings, relying on the RV’s indestructible tires and Alloy Spiked Ram to smash obstacles aside.
• Lin Hui stopped beside an overturned wreck and ordered Su Qingqian to dismantle useful materials while he cleared a path.
• Over the next few hours, Su Qingqian stripped abandoned vehicles and searched factories as Lin Hui crushed rubble and zombies with the RV.

After Su Qingqian spent the afternoon helping Lin Hui, he made her wash the RV’s bloodied ram with drinking water, then rewarded her with a hot-pot dinner. Over food and beer, Su Qingqian eagerly agreed to keep working for him and began sharing her past.

• Lin Hui stopped for the night and gave Su Qingqian mineral water, then told her to use it to clean the blood off the RV’s ram before she could eat.
• Su Qingqian reluctantly washed the ram in the cold, upset that Lin Hui had wasted precious drinking water.
• Su Qingqian returned to find Lin Hui cooking spicy hot pot with meat, vegetables, and cold beer, and he told her to shower before joining him.
• Su Qingqian cried while eating, recalled surviving on hard compressed biscuits and cold water, and asked Lin Hui for more chilies.
• Lin Hui promised her regular meat and plenty of chilies if she worked hard, and Su Qingqian agreed to dismantle anything he asked, even a Gundam.
• Su Qingqian relaxed over dinner and told Lin Hui she was from Zhejiang Province and had been a first-year art academy student before the apocalypse.

Su Qingqian told Lin Hui how Xiao Ya died while helping her escape from the Feral Wolf Guild, then gave him Xiao Ya’s Zombie Wasteland map chip. After Lin Hui claimed the bed and made Su Qingqian sleep on the floor, they settled in for the night, with Su Qingqian feeling safe despite her clueless boss.

• Su Qingqian told Lin Hui that Xiao Ya had sacrificed herself to help her escape from the Feral Wolf Guild and thanked him for killing some of its members.
• Lin Hui promised to help Su Qingqian get justice if they encountered Xiao Ya’s killer and decided she was useful as his employee.
• Su Qingqian gave Lin Hui Xiao Ya’s Electronic Map Chip, which displayed nearby landmarks, including an abandoned Aviation Parts Factory.
• When they found only one bed in the RV, Lin Hui gave Su Qingqian a blanket for the floor and told her to monitor the Regional Channel for upgrade materials or Gene Serum.
• Lin Hui and Su Qingqian went to sleep, and she felt secure beside him despite resenting that he made her sleep on the floor.

Lin Hui and Su Qingqian shared a comfortable breakfast while the Regional Channel revealed that fewer than a million survivors remained. After Lin Hui strengthened himself with another Basic Gene Potion, a regional announcement set a five-day deadline for all players to reach Cauldron City and survive there.

• Lin Hui and Su Qingqian ate breakfast in the RV and saw that the regional survivor count had fallen below one million.
• Lin Hui injected a Basic Gene Potion, raising his Constitution from 15 to 25.
• Lin Hui told Su Qingqian to post a public buy listing for a Basic Gene Potion and offer any price.
• The system announced the first-stage mission: players in C-996 Region had 120 hours to reach Cauldron City and survive there for 24 hours, or the areas outside the city would be engulfed by concentrated Gray Fog.