Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi and Blind Cheng confronted Yuan Yu, Zhang Xu, and Wang Haodong over Yuan Yu’s Anomalous Object. After proving their strength, Lin Yi killed Yuan Yu and ordered Zhang Xu to retrieve the object that repelled the mist and join them.

• Lin Yi revealed Blind Cheng was a Sequence Six, and Blind Cheng used black chains to capture Wang Haodong.
• Yuan Yu and Zhang Xu tried to flee, but Lin Yi trapped them in a Blood Prison.
• Blind Cheng cut through the Blood Prison with the Horizontal Saber and urged Lin Yi to hurry before Mist Slaves surrounded them.
• Lin Yi strangled Yuan Yu with the Duel King's Bandages and asked Zhang Xu where she kept the Anomalous Object that kept the mist away.
• Lin Yi released Zhang Xu from the Blood Prison and told him to retrieve the object, bring their supplies, and come with them.

Lin Yi took Yuan Yu’s Anomalous Objects and left with Blind Cheng and Zhang Xu, while Yuan Yu unexpectedly returned from the dead. Yuan Yu set off after them, intent on using her knowledge of southern Gansu Province to retaliate.

• Zhang Xu handed Lin Yi Yuan Yu’s Anomalous Objects, including the Anti-Fog Porcelain Plate Maker and her anomalous saber.
• Blind Cheng secretly killed Wang Haodong with Iron Chains, and Lin Yi told Zhang Xu to load the supplies and follow their car.
• Lin Yi drove into the dense fog with Blind Cheng and Bai Le, while Zhang Xu followed and the other van stayed behind.
• Yuan Yu appeared beside the stranded van, ordered its passengers to go with her, and used her Person-Name Compass to guide the driver.
• Yuan Yu said she planned to use her familiarity with southern Gansu Province to give Lin Yi and Blind Cheng a difficult time in return for killing her.

Lin Yi and his companions reached Cool City as he hoped to find his parents and Bai Le searched for his grandparents. Yuan Yu followed them into the city, revealing that it was a deadly aberrant domain whose rules she planned to use to kill them and claim their supplies.

• Lin Yi, Bai Le, and Zhang Xu reached Cool City, and Lin Yi let Zhang Xu join them after his car ran out of gas.
• Blind Cheng warned Lin Yi that Cool City was dangerous and that finding their families in the city would be difficult, so Lin Yi told Bai Le to watch the Person-Name Compass closely.
• Zhang Xu told Lin Yi that Yuan Yu had an iron plate anomalous object that could locate people, but they had not found it.
• Yuan Yu followed Lin Yi's group toward Cool City and told her driver that the city was an aberrant domain with deadly rules.
• Yuan Yu said she would lead her companions by following the rules and planned to take Lin Yi's group's supplies after they died.

Lin Yi, Blind Cheng, Zhang Xu, and Bai Le entered Cool City and found its residents living normally despite the apocalypse outside. An alarm sounded, the traffic lights went dark, and the cars ahead suddenly sped away.

• Lin Yi noticed that there were unusually few abandoned cars as the group approached Cool City, and Zhang Xu said Yuan Yu had warned them to stay away from the city.
• The group crossed into Cool City and saw residents washing clothes, dancing, and relaxing outdoors.
• Lin Yi stopped behind traffic at a red light and realized the city still had working electricity and ordinary traffic.
• Bai Le said the Person-Name Compass pointed toward an upcoming intersection.
• An alarm rang across the city, the traffic lights went dark, and the cars ahead suddenly raced forward.

Lin Yi and his companions took shelter in Cool City when the first alarm sounded and learned that the red talisman stones could help hide people from aberrations. After a local woman explained the city’s dangerous alarm rules, Lin Yi realized they were trapped in a rule aberration zone.

• Lin Yi led Blind Cheng, Bai Le, and Zhang Xu into a roadside house as residents fled from the first alarm.
• A local woman gave them red talisman stones, which Lin Yi identified as anomalous objects that could reduce the chance of an aberration discovering them.
• Blind Cheng sensed a humanoid aberrant creature with three heads and six arms searching outside.
• The woman explained the rules for the alarms, including hiding during the first, avoiding impostors in the fog during the second, and going outside to seek talisman stones at night.
• Lin Yi recalled Liu Chuan’s warning about rule aberrations and told Blind Cheng and the others that Cool City was one.

Lin Yi and his companions crossed a rule-based Aberration zone and followed the Person-Name Compass to Sunshine Garden Community, where Bai Le found his grandparents and Lin Yi found his parents. The chapter left them facing an awkward reunion with Lin Yi’s father leading a religious gathering and Bai Le’s grandparents welcoming him.

• Lin Yi explained how rule-based Aberration zones worked and led the group onward after the alarm ended.
• Bai Le followed the Person-Name Compass to Sunshine Garden Community, and Lin Yi realized the destination was his own home.
• Lin Yi and his companions saw Li Dahai leading a crowd alongside Lin Xiujuan, whom Bai Le thought had been brainwashed.
• Lin Yi revealed that the strange cult-leader monk was his father, leaving the group unsure whether to approach him.
• Bai Le jumped out of the car and reunited with his grandparents, who asked where his father was.

Lin Yi reunited with his parents and discovered that his father, Li Dahai, had become a Sequence Eight transcendent in the [Monk] sequence. The family and Lin Yi’s companions sheltered inside the Buddhist shrine Li Dahai had made of their home, where he explained his new powers and the stone tablet behind them.

• Lin Yi got out of the Hummer and reunited with Li Dahai and Lin Xiujuan, then questioned whether his father had been possessed because of his cult-like appearance.
• When the second alarm sounded, Li Dahai sent Lin Yi home as the thick fog approached, and Lin Yi called Blind Cheng and Zhang Xu to join them.
• At apartment 201, Li Dahai locked the door and placed a Buddha statue by the entrance, revealing that the home had become a shrine filled with Buddhist images and statues.
• Li Dahai explained that the stone tablet had awakened him as a Sequence Eight [Monk] transcendent after he and Lin Xiujuan lost contact with Lin Yi.
• Li Dahai said the tablet recorded the complete [Monk] sequence pathway, visible only to people in that sequence, and that chanting, praying, and gathering followers let him advance.

Lin Yi learned the five known rules governing Cool City and suspected that a powerful Anomalous Object, rather than an aberration, was behind them. Blind Cheng’s account of a similar object in Qing City reinforced Lin Yi’s theory, but four of Cool City’s rules remained unknown.

• Li Dahai explained the [Monk] Sequence, which progressed from Monk at Sequence Nine to Buddha at Sequence Zero.
• Lin Yi asked Li Dahai about Cool City, and Li Dahai described its air-raid siren and the five rules survivors had discovered.
• Li Dahai explained the rules about taking shelter, enduring fog, staying outside, answering midnight knocks, and sacrificing supplies to giant aberration statues.
• Lin Yi and Blind Cheng questioned whether the rules were designed to help aberrations hunt people, and Blind Cheng suspected someone was controlling them.
• Blind Cheng revealed that an Anomalous Object ranked 222 had once protected a village in Qing City in exchange for sacrifices.
• Lin Yi connected Cool City’s rules to the Seven-Colored Door and concluded that a powerful Anomalous Object’s influence likely covered the city.

Lin Yi and his companions learned about the strange rules in Cool City and considered using Bai Le’s uncanny luck to find the Anomalous Object behind them. After the third alarm, Blind Cheng captured a Tier One Ghost Shadow, leaving Lin Yi wondering why such a weak Aberration had appeared in Gansu Province.

• Li Dahai revealed that survivors who opened the door to the knocking Aberration could receive supplies, Anomalous Objects, or Awakening Potions, and learned that Lin Yi was Sequence Seven and Blind Cheng was Sequence Six.
• Blind Cheng warned Lin Yi’s family not to mistreat Bai Le, and Lin Yi and Blind Cheng realized Bai Le might help them locate the Anomalous Object affecting Cool City.
• Li Dahai urged Lin Yi and the others to stay in Cool City, and later led them outside after the fog thinned.
• When the third alarm sounded, Blind Cheng used his Bamboo Cane to investigate, then rushed inside the building with his Horizontal Saber.
• Blind Cheng emerged with a captured Ghost Shadow, and Lin Yi recognized it as a Tier One Aberration that normally appeared in southern cities.

After the air-raid sirens ended, Lin Yi left Sunshine Garden Community to visit his old friend Liu Peng, while Blind Cheng and Zhang Xu stayed behind to rest. He found Liu Peng beating three robbers outside his family’s supermarket, and recognized that they were afraid of him.

• Blind Cheng killed the Ghost Shadow, and the community residents felt safer with Lin Yi and his companions there.
• After the third air-raid siren passed, Li Dahai told Lin Yi to show his friends around, but Bai Le stayed with his grandparents and Blind Cheng and Zhang Xu chose to sleep.
• Lin Xiujuan told Lin Yi that his old friend Liu Peng had visited the community, so Lin Yi took Despair's Opening and went to see him.
• Lin Yi arrived at Liu Peng's family supermarket and saw three men carrying stolen goods flee from inside.
• Liu Peng chased the men out and beat one with a baseball bat, while all three cowered instead of fighting back.
• Lin Yi stopped Liu Peng and realized the three men recognized and feared him.

Lin Yi reunited with Liu Peng and learned that Yuan Yu had survived being strangled and was now in Cool City, plotting against him and Blind Cheng. After killing three men who had attacked Liu Peng’s family, Lin Yi promised to find antibiotics for Liu Peng’s sick parents, just as a police car arrived.

• Lin Yi reunited with Liu Peng, who told him three men had broken into his supermarket and attacked him and his father.
• One of the men said Yuan Yu had returned to life after Lin Yi strangled her and had sent them to Cool City to target Lin Yi and Blind Cheng.
• Lin Yi killed the three men with a single sword slash despite Liu Peng’s warning that the police might pursue him.
• Liu Peng explained that his parents were ill and needed antibiotics, and Lin Yi promised to help him find medicine.
• A police car arrived at the scene.

Lin Yi killed the chief’s brother-in-law after the man insulted his mother, then warned the police not to interfere and went into the community to find the person behind the earlier attack. Liu Peng recognized that the target was likely connected to their former classmate Yuan Fei and hurried after Lin Yi.

• Li Minghui arrived with two officers and ordered Lin Yi to come with them for killing three men, but Lin Yi claimed he had acted in self-defense.
• The chief’s brother-in-law cursed at Lin Yi, who drew his knife and killed him with a single slash.
• Lin Yi told Li Minghui that he was a Sequence Seven Transcendent with powerful allies, then refused to go to the station and warned the police against seeking revenge.
• Lin Yi told Liu Peng to look after Uncle Liu and Auntie Liu before entering the community to kill the person behind the attack.
• Liu Peng realized the target was probably related to Yuan Fei, their former class monitor, and rushed after Lin Yi with a baseball bat.

Lin Yi tracked Yuan Yu to Yuan Fei’s apartment and confronted her before she could use a hidden rule against him. Yuan Yu revealed that Gao Yue Xi had recruited her to test Lin Yi, leaving him to learn more about their connection.

• Liu Peng told Lin Yi that Yuan Yu was likely staying at Yuan Fei’s apartment, and Lin Yi sent him home for safety.
• Yuan Yu prepared a hidden rule to kill Lin Yi, but the message it produced was the warning “Run!”
• Lin Yi burst into apartment 802, where Yuan Yu admitted that an anomalous object had let her escape death once.
• Yuan Yu told Lin Yi that someone had asked her to test him, and he suspected Gao Yue Xi had supplied her with anomalous objects.
• Yuan Yu revealed that she and Gao Yue Xi had been college roommates and that Gao Yue Xi had used an anomalous object to contact her.

Lin Yi killed Yuan Yu despite her attempt to contact Gao Yue Xi, who warned that killing in Cool City would lead to his death. He then confronted the police outside the residential complex, where Zhang Jiankai tried to manage the volatile situation.

• Yuan Yu relayed Gao Yue Xi's request to speak with Lin Yi, but Lin Yi killed her and wrote the news on the paper.
• Gao Yue Xi threatened Lin Yi by invoking his aunt and warned that he would die in Cool City after killing someone, then the paper burned to ash.
• Lin Yi left Yuan Yu's body with her parents and dragged it out of the residential complex, while Yuan's Father planned to seek shelter from Xiao Fei.
• Police officers and three Sequence Transcendents confronted Lin Yi outside, and an officer identified him as the murderer.
• Zhang Jiankai's wife urged him to arrest Lin Yi, but Lin Yi threatened her and Zhang slapped her before asking Lin Yi to respect Cool City's rules.
• Lin Yi explained that he had a personal grudge against Yuan Yu and that Zhang's brother-in-law had been too foul-mouthed to spare.

Lin Yi left with Yuan Yu’s corpse after Zhang Jiankai backed down and promised to bring antibiotics. At Li Mengru’s home, Yuan Fei’s parents arrived and asked her to shelter them after Lin Yi killed Yuan Yu.

• Li Minghui warned Zhang Jiankai that Lin Yi was a Sequence Seven with powerful friends, so Zhang slapped his wife and apologized to Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi agreed to meet Zhang the next day and took Liu Peng home to look for antibiotics; Zhang promised to bring some.
• Zhang ordered his wife to abandon her revenge and praised Li Minghui, promoting him to deputy chief.
• Yuan Fei cooked while Li Mengru played mahjong with former classmates who praised her and asked for her help.
• Yuan Fei’s parents rushed to Li Mengru’s home and asked to stay there, saying Lin Yi had killed Yuan Yu and torn down their door.

Lin Yi returned to Sunshine Garden Community with Yuan Yu’s corpse and prepared to burn it, explaining that she could revive and had tried to take revenge on him. His father instead demanded to know more after Lin Yi mentioned that Yuan Yu had threatened him using Aunt, prompting Li Dahai to urgently ask where she was.

• Li Mengru refused to avenge Yuan Fei’s aunt and reassured Yuan Fei that Lin Yi was unlikely to target the family.
• Li Mengru decided to visit Lin Yi with gifts to clear up any possible ill will.
• Lin Yi dragged Yuan Yu’s corpse to his building, where Li Dahai and Bai Le recognized it.
• Lin Yi poured gasoline over Yuan Yu’s corpse and said he would burn it to prevent her from reviving again.
• Lin Yi told Li Dahai that Yuan Yu had threatened him using Aunt, and Li Dahai urgently asked where his sister was.

Lin Yi reunited with his family in Cool City and recounted the dangers he had survived on his journey. After Bai Le asked to join the Survival Rules Convoy, Director Zhang Jiankai visited with antibiotics, and Lin Yi asked him to explain Cool City's rule against killing.

• Lin Yi told his family about Li Han's safety, burned Yuan Yu's body, and joined Li Dahai in performing her soul rites.
• Lin Yi recounted his encounters with powerful aberrations, the Island Nation people, the Ghost Emperor, and the convoys he had met along the way.
• Lin Yi's family agreed to leave Cool City with him, and he accepted Bai Le and his grandparents into the group.
• Director Zhang Jiankai brought antibiotics for Lin Yi, who sent them with Li Dahai to Liu Peng.
• Lin Yi asked Zhang Jiankai what would happen to him if he killed someone in Cool City.

Zhang Jiankai told Lin Yi that the next offering would trigger a rule making every Sequence Transcendent in Cool City hunt him, and Lin Yi suspected an Anomalous Object was behind the city's rules. As Lin Yi planned to seek Bai Le’s help finding it, Li Mengru arrived with Yuan Fei and her parents to apologize for their role in a personal feud.

• Zhang Jiankai explained that the rule “those who kill shall be killed” would single out Lin Yi and offer his killer a chance to leave Cool City.
• Lin Yi, Blind Cheng, and Zhang Xu speculated that an Anomalous Object controlled Cool City, and Lin Yi asked them to bring Bai Le to help find it.
• Zhang Xu left to fetch Bai Le, while Zhang Jiankai answered the door for Li Mengru and her companions.
• Li Mengru brought supplies and asked Lin Yi to forgive Yuan Fei and her parents, explaining that they had not known about his feud with her aunt.

Lin Yi learned that the TV Station Building might hold the anomalous object affecting Cool City and went there alone as the air-raid siren sounded. At Liu Peng’s supermarket, he discovered that Red Rune Stones came from a pit near the building, where people had vanished or returned mad, and suspected the object was at its bottom.

• Lin Yi reassured Li Mengru that his dispute with Yuan Yu was over, while Blind Cheng sensed that one of her companions had wanted Lin Yi dead and Lin Yi suspected Yuan Fei.
• Bai Le joined Lin Yi and the others for breakfast, and his offhand suggestion that the anomalous object might be at the TV Station Building prompted Lin Yi to head there alone.
• An air-raid siren sounded after Lin Yi left the residential complex, and he sheltered at Liu Peng’s supermarket, where Liu Peng gave him a Red Rune Stone.
• Liu Peng told Lin Yi that Red Rune Stones had appeared around a bottomless pit by the TV Station Building, where people had disappeared and one person had returned mad.
• Lin Yi suspected that the pit might contain the rule-bound anomalous object and decided he needed to investigate it.

After the fifth siren, a slaughter mark appeared over Lin Yi, prompting most of Cool City's Sequence Transcendents to hunt him for a chance to escape. Lin Yi reached the TV Station Building and found a fog-filled sinkhole surrounded by Red Rune Stone fragments, where he faced an armored man who approached to challenge him.

• Liu Peng kept the supermarket door shut against an Aberration, but the third siren sounded soon after the second, and Lin Yi sent Liu Peng's family to find his parents before running toward the TV Station Building.
• The fourth and fifth sirens sounded, and a bloody slaughter mark appeared above Lin Yi, revealing his location to every Sequence Transcendent in Cool City.
• Wang Zhenming refused to join the hunt, while two other Sequence Transcendents left the hospital to pursue the marked target.
• Wan Kun gathered his gang at City No. 2 Middle School, and nearly eighty percent of Cool City's Sequence Transcendents mobilized to hunt Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi reached the TV Station Building and inspected the sinkhole and Red Rune Stone fragments before a man in bronze steam armor approached, claiming he had arrived first.