Chapter Summaries

After the Cauldron City mission was announced, Lin Hui set out with Su Qingqian for an abandoned aviation parts factory to obtain titanium alloy and upgrade the RV. They arrived to find the New Light Mutual Aid Association blocking the factory, where its president, Tang Chuan, introduced himself.

• Players across the region panicked over the Cauldron City mission, while Lin Hui calculated the distance and calmly prepared to travel there.
• Lin Hui drove toward the Abandoned Aviation Parts Factory, planning to collect titanium alloy and upgrade the RV to level 4.
• The Sky Tyrant Alliance, Rose Society, Ironblood Heavy Industries, and Feral Wolf Guild mobilized for the mission, and the Feral Wolf Guild's new leader planned to hunt other players.
• Lin Hui and Su Qingqian reached the factory and found a group of vehicles barricading the road.
• The New Light Mutual Aid Association's president, Tang Chuan, had his men lower their guns and introduced himself to Lin Hui.

Lin Hui agreed to help Tang Chuan’s New Light Mutual Aid Association attack the Aerospace Auto Parts Factory, while planning to use them to assess the danger. Tang Chuan secretly intended to exploit Lin Hui, seize his RV, and take the women with him after the battle.

• Tang Chuan introduced himself to Lin Hui and offered him thirty percent of the factory’s supplies in exchange for help fighting the White Thorns.
• Lin Hui accepted the offer and drove his RV through the factory gates as Tang Chuan ordered the guild’s convoy to follow.
• Tang Chuan promised Liu Xi the high-strength titanium alloy they had agreed on, and she followed in her modified sports car.
• Wang Bin questioned whether Tang Chuan would really give Lin Hui a share, and Tang Chuan revealed his plan to betray him after the fighting.
• Tang Chuan disclosed that a tier 3 female White Thorn was laying eggs in the factory alongside the tier 1 and tier 2 White Thorns, then set out with Wang Bin to watch Lin Hui’s attack.

Lin Hui followed Tang Chuan’s convoy into an abandoned factory to hunt White Thorns, but the Mutants ambushed the vehicles and began tearing through them. When Tang Chuan called for Lin Hui’s autocannon, Lin Hui claimed its fire-control system was rebooting and left the convoy to hold off the attackers.

• Lin Hui entered the abandoned Aviation Parts Factory with Tang Chuan’s convoy and wondered what had happened to the planet’s former inhabitants.
• Tang Chuan gave Lin Hui a walkie-talkie, and Su Qingqian discovered it contained a tracking device.
• Lin Hui and Su Qingqian noticed the factory was unnaturally quiet as the convoy moved through it.
• Fifteen or sixteen White Thorns ambushed the convoy, dodging gunfire and attacking the modified vehicles.
• Tang Chuan asked Lin Hui to use his autocannon, but Lin Hui claimed its fire-control system was rebooting and told Tang Chuan to hold them off.

Tang Chuan used his Spirit Art: Mire to trap the White Thorns while Liu Xi and the other players killed them, but his greed and hostility toward Lin Hui grew. As the convoy entered the factory’s central area, a shriek and a huge mutant’s sudden attack impaled a Humvee, revealing a new threat.

• Liu Xi shot a charging tier 2 White Thorn through its weak point, while Lin Hui’s RV repelled another White Thorn’s bone spike and he killed it with one armor-piercing shot.
• Su Qingqian repaired the RV’s scratched windshield with her Machinery specialization, drawing Tang Chuan’s intense interest.
• With his defensive line collapsing, Tang Chuan used Spirit Art: Mire to trap the White Thorns, and Liu Xi and the surviving players killed them.
• Tang Chuan and Lin Hui exchanged polite remarks as the convoy continued toward the central warehouse, while Tang Chuan’s gaze turned murderous and Lin Hui dismissed the threat.
• A piercing shriek shattered nearby glass, then a massive figure impaled a Humvee and its four occupants with a giant bone spike.

Tang Chuan’s attempt to redirect the Tier 3 White Thorn toward Lin Hui’s RV turned against the monster when Lin Hui shot it down and crushed it. Tang Chuan fled, but the RV’s chain gun aimed at his vehicle.

• The Tier 3 White Thorn tore through the New Light Mutual Aid Association convoy, killing nearly everyone while Liu Xi escaped and Tang Chuan retreated.
• Tang Chuan used the Eye of Scapegoating to redirect the White Thorn’s hostility toward Lin Hui’s RV.
• The White Thorn abandoned Tang Chuan and dived at the RV, but Lin Hui fired the rooftop chain gun and knocked it out of its charge.
• Lin Hui drove the RV over the fallen White Thorn, crushing it beneath the vehicle.
• Tang Chuan watched in horror as the RV’s chain gun turned to aim at his vehicle.

Lin Hui killed Tang Chuan after his Spirit Art mire failed to stop the RV, then turned his autocannon on Wang Bin. A more fully evolved male White Thorn arrived and targeted Lin Hui’s RV, leaving him facing a powerful new threat.

• Wang Bin surrendered to Lin Hui, while Tang Chuan tried to bargain with the Eye of Scapegoating after admitting it had provoked the tier-three White Thorn.
• Lin Hui rejected Tang Chuan’s offer and pressed the autocannon’s firing button.
• Tang Chuan unleashed Spirit Art: Mire, but the RV’s Constant Traction let it drive through the liquefied ground and charge at him.
• Lin Hui shot Tang Chuan dead, then aimed the autocannon at Wang Bin’s vehicle.
• A nearly four-meter male White Thorn impaled Wang Bin and fixed its scarlet eyes on Lin Hui’s RV and the dead female White Thorn.

Lin Hui teamed up with Liu Xi to kill a tier 3 male White Thorn, then collected the spoils and bargained with her for information about specializations and extraordinary items. Liu Xi explained the eight specialization categories and their advancement, leaving Lin Hui with more to learn about the mysterious Eye of Scapegoating.

• Liu Xi revealed the male White Thorn’s vulnerable spot and offered to help kill it in exchange for 200 units of high-strength alloy and information about specializations.
• Lin Hui agreed to the deal, and he and Su Qingqian drew the White Thorn’s attention while Liu Xi shot the weak point in its neck, killing it.
• Lin Hui collected the Eye of Scapegoating from the swamp and salvaged supplies, machinery, and 1,500 units of high-strength alloy from the factory and its surroundings.
• Liu Xi recognized Lin Hui’s spatial ability and explained that specializations belonged to eight categories, could be advanced with blueprints and materials, and that extraordinary items carried strange powers and side effects.

Lin Hui traded potent antibiotics for Liu Xi’s temporary service as a sniper after her wound became infected. Liu Xi accepted the deal and was brought aboard Lin Hui’s RV to help with the Cauldron City mission.

• Lin Hui learned from Liu Xi that top guilds exchanged intelligence and gave her 200 units of high-strength titanium alloy for the information.
• Liu Xi collapsed as the virus spread from her left-arm wound, and she coughed up black blood.
• Lin Hui offered Liu Xi potent antibiotics in exchange for working as his long-range support until the Cauldron City mission ended.
• Liu Xi accepted the temporary job, and Lin Hui gave her the medicine.
• Lin Hui asked Su Qingqian to help Liu Xi into the RV.

After recovering from her infection, Liu Xi woke in Lin Hui’s luxurious RV and experienced a hot shower for the first time in days. As the RV traveled toward its next destination, she recognized its extraordinary technology and asked Lin Hui to share information, beginning with his name.

• Liu Xi woke healed in the RV after drinking the potent antibiotics and accepted Su Qingqian’s offer of a hot shower.
• Liu Xi savored the shower, then dressed in a professional outfit and joined Lin Hui in the living area.
• Lin Hui offered Liu Xi coffee, and Su Qingqian served her a freshly brewed Americano.
• At Lin Hui’s instruction, Su Qingqian drove the RV toward their next destination while Liu Xi noticed its smooth suspension and seemingly inexhaustible power.
• Liu Xi asked Lin Hui to share information with her and asked what his name was.

Lin Hui learned from Liu Xi that the Sky Tyrant Alliance had overwhelming resources and military vehicles, but he decided to strengthen his RV instead of backing down. He used a Vehicle Upgrade Blueprint to begin upgrading the RV from Lv3 to Lv4.

• Liu Xi recognized Lin Hui as the player who had scored the first kill on a Tier 3 White Thorn and explained why she had left the Rose Society.
• Liu Xi told Lin Hui that the Sky Tyrant Alliance was the strongest major guild, with thousands of elite players and a leader whose Lv.6 vehicle carried armed helicopters and main battle tanks.
• Liu Xi warned Lin Hui that the alliance's heavy firepower and pooled resources could make it dangerous to confront them.
• Lin Hui decided to arm his RV until others would not dare challenge it and began its Lv3-to-Lv4 upgrade using the required materials.

Lin Hui upgraded the RV to Lv.4 and gained the golden trait Infinite Synthesis, which let him turn scrap steel into perfect-grade blue titanium alloy. He ordered Su Qingqian and Liu Xi to stockpile materials and clear monsters so he could arm the vehicle before reaching Cauldron City and confronting Zhao Tianba.

• Lin Hui upgraded the RV to Lv.4, doubling its defense, weight, and space while improving its autocannon and adding a second-story operations room.
• Lin Hui gained the golden trait Infinite Synthesis and applied it to the RV's storage cabinet, allowing him to synthesize materials inside its spatial warehouse.
• Lin Hui transformed scrap steel into armored ballistic steel, high-strength titanium alloy, and then perfect-grade blue titanium alloy.
• Lin Hui gave the blue titanium alloy to Su Qingqian to examine and ordered her to dismantle scrap while Liu Xi killed monsters.
• Lin Hui vowed to stockpile materials and arm the RV before reaching Cauldron City, where he intended to confront Zhao Tianba.

Lin Hui drove the upgraded RV through a zombie horde, while Liu Xi and the vehicle’s weapons eliminated Corroders and Predators. After the one-sided slaughter yielded a Basic Gene Potion and other supplies, Lin Hui turned his attention to a survivor convoy nearby.

• Liu Xi spotted a convoy surrounded by over two hundred zombies, including Corroders and Predators, and Lin Hui accelerated toward them.
• Lin Hui’s RV crushed the ordinary zombies as Liu Xi shot the Corroders from the rooftop loft.
• Lin Hui used the 30 mm Chain Autocannon to obliterate the attacking Predators.
• Su Qingqian reported that they had killed 250 zombies, five Corroders, and twelve Predators and collected a Basic Gene Potion, medications, and other supplies.
• Lin Hui stopped beside the battlefield and looked toward a survivor convoy sheltering behind a ruined gas station.

After Lin Hui saved five survivors from a zombie horde, he offered to buy scrap metal from them in exchange for valuable supplies. The survivors recognized him as the player who achieved the Tier Three First Kill, accepted his offer, and prepared to gather scrap for him.

• Lin Hui's RV crushed the zombie horde, and Su Qingqian disassembled wrecked vehicles into scrap metal.
• Li Xian offered Lin Hui a Basic Gene Potion and asked to follow him, but Lin Hui instead proposed trading supplies for scrap metal.
• Lin Hui offered three thousand units of scrap metal for Universal Fuel or goods of equivalent value, and Li Xian agreed to work with him.
• The survivors recognized Lin Hui from the server-wide Tier Three First Kill announcement and decided to collect scrap metal across the area.
• Lin Hui sent Li Xian food, water, Universal Fuel, grenades, a rifle, and ammunition as payment for the potion.

Lin Hui and his companions enjoyed the RV’s warmth and comfort after a day of fighting, while Su Qingqian explained how specialization proficiency worked. The chapter ended with Lin Hui relaxing in luxury as Liu Xi and Su Qingqian emerged from their showers.

• Su Qingqian demonstrated the RV’s new automatic cleaning module, which washed away the day’s grime without anyone needing to go outside.
• Su Qingqian explained that Machinery proficiency increased by building and repairing devices, while Liu Xi said her Shooting proficiency had reached 100% and she needed a rank 2 upgrade blueprint.
• Liu Xi speculated that specialization upgrade blueprints might be found in the Land of Mist rather than the Zombie Wasteland.
• Lin Hui offered Liu Xi a salad to accompany dinner because she seemed unaccustomed to Su Qingqian’s spicy chicken noodles.
• Liu Xi emerged from her shower in a silk slip dress, then Su Qingqian came out wearing one of Lin Hui’s oversized shirts.
• Lin Hui set aside his tablet and enjoyed the RV’s warmth and comforts with Liu Xi and Su Qingqian.

Lin Hui examined the Eye of Scapegoating and used his stock of potions to push his Constitution beyond human limits. He ended the night at Constitution 150 and Mind 15, newly confident but still preparing for the Cauldron City mission four days away.

• After the movie, Liu Xi took the night watch upstairs while Lin Hui and Su Qingqian settled in for the night.
• Lin Hui inspected the Eye of Scapegoating and realized Tang Chuan had used it to redirect the White Thorn’s hostility toward him.
• Lin Hui injected three Basic Gene Potions, raising his Constitution to 50 and reaching the human enhancement threshold.
• Lin Hui used the Intermediate Gene Serum and endured intense pain before his Constitution rose from 50 to 150.
• Lin Hui tested his enhanced strength, hearing, and night vision, then drank a Basic Mental Strength Potion that raised his Mind from 5 to 15.

Lin Hui’s RV was surrounded by the Feral Wolf Guild after a fleeing driver falsely claimed it held a Lv5 Vehicle Upgrade Blueprint. When the guild leader recognized Su Qingqian and taunted her over Xiao Ya’s death, Lin Hui prepared to avenge her and ordered Liu Xi to spare the leader but attack the rest.

• Su Qingqian and Liu Xi noticed that Lin Hui seemed stronger and more imposing after the night’s rest.
• A man in black threw something onto Lin Hui’s RV and falsely told the pursuing Feral Wolf Guild that it carried a Lv5 Vehicle Upgrade Blueprint.
• Lin Hui ordered Liu Xi to shoot the fleeing man’s tires, and she hit both left tires from the RV’s rooftop combat room.
• The Feral Wolf Guild surrounded Lin Hui’s RV, and its leather-jacketed leader demanded the vehicle, supplies, and Su Qingqian.
• The leader recognized Su Qingqian and mocked her about Xiao Ya, causing Su Qingqian to break down and try to rush outside.
• Lin Hui calmed Su Qingqian, ordered Liu Xi not to kill the leader, and accelerated toward the guild convoy.

Lin Hui and Liu Xi destroyed the Feral Wolf Guild convoy that threatened Su Qingqian, and Lin Hui tortured its surviving deputy hall master before killing him. Su Qingqian found relief in the revenge, but Lin Hui turned his attention toward the people who had drawn the trouble to them and two pursuing pickups.

• Lin Hui drove the armored RV through the Feral Wolf Guild convoy while Liu Xi picked off armed attackers, destroying the vehicles and killing everyone except the leather-jacketed deputy hall master.
• The injured deputy hall master threatened Lin Hui with the Feral Wolf Guild’s leader and his supposedly tank-like Lv5 vehicle, but Lin Hui refused to back down.
• Lin Hui shot the deputy hall master repeatedly to avenge Xiao Ya and Su Qingqian, then killed him with a final shot to the forehead.
• Su Qingqian thanked Lin Hui and wept in his arms as he comforted her.
• Lin Hui looked down the road and noted that the people who had drawn trouble toward them and two pursuing Feral Wolf Guild pickups were still unaccounted for.

Lin Hui caught up with the Feral Wolf Guild members pursuing the man in black, killed them, and recovered the Lv5 vehicle upgrade blueprint. He also killed the man in black for using him as a shield, then joined Su Qingqian in looting the battlefield.

• The Feral Wolf Guild stopped the man in black and demanded the Lv5 vehicle upgrade blueprint as Lin Hui's RV approached.
• Lin Hui and Liu Xi opened fire on the Guild members, killing them, and Lin Hui took the blueprint from the man in black.
• Lin Hui killed the man in black after he admitted he had used Lin Hui as a shield.
• Lin Hui and Su Qingqian dismantled the vehicles and collected supplies, including forty-three firearms and an RPG.
• Su Qingqian ran over to Lin Hui with something she had found.

Lin Hui used the Feral Wolf Guild’s hacked communicator to learn that a convoy was approaching, then had Su Qingqian remove its tracking systems before fleeing. After hearing guild members mention a major plan near Cauldron City, Lin Hui decided to pursue the convoy that had gone the wrong way, but with a different tactic.

• Su Qingqian decrypted the Feral Wolf Guild communicator and revealed that one of its convoys was closing in on Lin Hui’s group.
• Lin Hui had Su Qingqian remove the communicator’s physical and software trackers, then ordered the RV to leave.
• A goateed Feral Wolf Guild man found Seven’s dead body, reported his death, and led a convoy to pursue the suspected killers.
• Lin Hui listened in as guild members discussed a big plan near Cauldron City and ordered their convoys to watch for suspicious groups.
• Su Qingqian pointed out that the pursuing convoy was heading away from them, and Lin Hui said they would chase it using a different tactic.

Lin Hui prepared an ambush for the Feral Wolf Guild while Su Qingqian modified mines, a drone, and a voice-cloning device, and Liu Xi took charge of battlefield control. After trading fuel for Li Xian’s scrap iron and synthesizing it into blue titanium alloy, Lin Hui focused on stealing a reconnaissance radar chip from the Guild to upgrade his vehicle.

• Lin Hui assigned Su Qingqian to modify Anti-Tank Mines and a drone for remote attacks, and to build a voice-cloning device; Liu Xi agreed to control the battlefield and target the Guild’s lead vehicle.
• Lin Hui turned the black RV off the highway toward the road used by the Feral Wolf Guild convoy and found Li Xian’s message offering 150,000 units of scrap iron.
• Lin Hui traded Li Xian’s group 50 portions of Universal Fuel for the scrap iron and offered to buy scrap glass at the same rate.
• Lin Hui synthesized the scrap iron and other materials into 270 units of blue titanium alloy, including 90 perfect-grade units.
• Lin Hui decided to obtain the reconnaissance radar chip needed for his level-five upgrade by capturing and dismantling a Guild vehicle.