Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi and his companions encountered a Little Snowman that resisted their attacks, then searched a village shop and a frozen courtyard for supplies. The chapter left Lin Yi hacking open a chest freezer while his group explored the village for food.

• Lin Yi’s group learned that a Tier One Aberration called Little Snowman was nearby, and it attacked and killed two convoy members.
• Shen Chuchu’s attacks failed to harm the Little Snowman, so Wang Meng crushed it, but no gray energy appeared to confirm its death.
• The group searched a shop for food and supplies, then Lin Yi, Wang Meng, and Shen Chuchu found three people frozen in the courtyard behind it.
• Lin Yi searched the house, Wang Meng dug vegetables out of the snow, and Shen Chuchu gathered chili peppers and looked for livestock.
• Lin Yi stood before a chest freezer and hacked at it with the Soul-Devouring Saw.

Lin Yi and his companions gathered frozen food and pork from a house, then fled the village when they realized a more dangerous Aberration had been alerted. At the convoy, Liu Chuan ordered everyone to leave immediately, and Lin Yi threw an old woman out of the way when she tried to stop them.

• Lin Yi and Wang Meng loaded a freezer full of frozen food, while Lin Yi and Shen Chuchu collected pigs from a pen.
• Wang Meng carried the supplies out in his transformed Giant form, and the group encountered villagers fleeing from the little snowman Aberration.
• Lin Yi and Shen Chuchu realized the little snowman had fled from another, stronger Aberration and ran for the village entrance.
• The fleeing survivors followed them, and Liu Chuan confirmed that the Aberration had not yet emerged before ordering the convoy to depart.
• Some people demanded that the convoy wait for missing relatives, but Liu Chuan declared anyone still inside dead and insisted they leave.
• An old woman tried to block the convoy, so Lin Yi grabbed her and threw her toward the village entrance.

Lin Yi killed the old woman who tried to stop him, and the convoy left the village. After reaching Feng County, Liu Chuan warned Lin that an Aberration had followed them into the convoy.

• Lin Yi shot the old woman who challenged his right to survive, silencing the convoy and allowing everyone to leave the village.
• Granny Niu argued with the other survivors in her van while clutching the supplies she had taken and trying to appease her hungry grandson.
• The convoy reached Feng County and parked overnight in an underground garage where Liu Chuan sensed no Aberrations nearby.
• Liu Chuan realized an unseen Aberration had followed the convoy since the village and warned Lin that it was likely one of the two Aberrations from there.

Lin Yi and Liu Chuan discovered that a Little Snowman Aberration had hidden in Granny Niu’s bag and followed the convoy. After they burned it, they divided their food supplies and prepared hot pot.

• Liu Chuan sensed an Aberration among the vehicles at the rear, but Lin Yi could not find it when he searched.
• Granny Niu’s grandson opened their black bag, and a Little Snowman emerged and attacked Granny Niu.
• Lin Yi cut the Little Snowman apart with the Soul-Devouring Saw, but Liu Chuan explained that fire was needed to kill it.
• Liu Chuan set the Little Snowman and Granny Niu’s head on fire, then confirmed there were no more Aberrations nearby.
• Lin Yi and Liu Chuan arranged to divide their food supplies and began preparing hot pot with Wang Meng.

After Lin Yi’s group enjoyed a rare hot pot meal, Wang Meng searched the frozen building for firewood and encountered a strange wooden door that transported him into a cage. Other members of the convoy also vanished through similar doors, and Wang Meng found some of them imprisoned nearby.

• Lin Yi, Liu Chuan, Wang Meng, Shen Chuchu, Wang Gui, Zhang Wei, and Li Kun shared a hot pot meal and divided the remaining supplies.
• Wang Meng went upstairs to find firewood, dismantled a wooden desk, and returned it to the underground garage.
• Wang Meng resumed searching the building while other convoy members scavenged nearby buildings.
• After reaching the third floor, Wang Meng found a strange wooden double door that prevented him from leaving and displayed two inscriptions.
• Wang Meng opened the left-hand door leaf and was pulled through before the door vanished.
• Other convoy members encountered similar doors, and Wang Meng found himself locked in a cage with some of his companions imprisoned nearby.

Wang Meng was trapped in a cage-filled space where rainbow bubbles forced prisoners to answer questions truthfully or face death. After admitting he had abandoned the Fitness Convoy during the Queen Convoy’s attack, he received a powerful weapon and returned to the underground parking garage, troubled by the reward.

• Wang Meng and more than a dozen others appeared in cages surrounded by murderous Little Snowmen, and one woman was killed when she failed to touch a rainbow bubble.
• Wang Meng touched a rainbow bubble and received a question about whether he had deliberately abandoned the Fitness Convoy during the Queen Convoy’s attack.
• Wang Meng admitted that he had fled alone because he feared dying, insisting he believed his survival gave the convoy a better chance.
• A larger rainbow bubble gave Wang Meng blood-red brass knuckles, and his cage vanished as he was transported back to the second-floor corridor.
• Wang Meng returned to the underground parking garage with his supplies and told Shen Chuchu that he had found something strange upstairs and brought back a Weird Object Weapon.

Lin Yi, Liu Chuan, and Shen Chuchu entered a Multicolored Wooden Door that transported them to a prison where people had to answer questions about their secrets. Pei Haonan confessed to killing his girlfriend and received Ghost Shadow skin, while Lin Yi realized the questions could expose his own secrets.

• Wang Meng returned with Weird Object Weapon Knuckle Dusters and told Lin Yi, Liu Chuan, and Shen Chuchu about a Multicolored Wooden Door inside the building.
• Lin Yi, Liu Chuan, and Shen Chuchu found the door on the third floor, and Liu Chuan and Shen Chuchu found themselves compelled to enter.
• Lin Yi opened the door marked [Answer All Questions Candidly], transporting the three into separate cages among other prisoners and murderous Little Snowmen.
• Pei Haonan explained that prisoners had to answer questions from rainbow bubbles and that Wang Meng had survived by revealing a painful secret.
• Pei Haonan confessed that he had killed his girlfriend, and a rainbow bubble rewarded him with Ghost Shadow skin.

Lin Yi survived the truth-question trial and received a Promotion Potion, then returned voluntarily through another multicolored wooden door to seek more rewards. He told the trapped survivors that they could earn rewards by answering truthfully and eagerly asked for more questions.

• A man who answered his question was killed by the Little Snowmen, leading Lin Yi to conclude that lying brought lethal punishment.
• Lin Yi truthfully admitted that he had concealed his identity as a dual-Sequence Transcendent with an [Enhancement] Sequence and received a Promotion Potion.
• Lin Yi returned to the third-floor corridor and decided to save the potion for later because he still needed to find a Sequence Eight [Blade-for-Hire] for advancement.
• Lin Yi found another multicolored wooden door on the fourth floor and chose [Answer All Questions Candidly], returning to the question space voluntarily.
• Lin Yi showed Liu Chuan the Promotion Potion, told the survivors that truthful answers earned rewards, and called for more questions as Shen Chuchu eagerly volunteered.

The survivors discovered that answering the Rainbow Bubble’s questions honestly earned rewards, while Liu Chuan and Shen Chuchu vanished after receiving theirs. Lin Yi won an anomalous baseball bat, then searched for another Five-Color Door and entered the only one he could find, labeled “Obey the Order and Follow the Strange Path.”

• A woman answered a Rainbow Bubble’s question honestly and received a case of instant noodles, prompting the other survivors to compete for rewards.
• Liu Chuan answered a question and received an Awakening Potion, then vanished; Shen Chuchu later received a blood-red blade and also disappeared.
• Lin Yi admitted he could abandon the convoy and received the High-Voltage Baseball Bat, along with a note insulting him.
• Lin Yi went looking for Five-Color Doors and found the truth option missing on the seventh floor, where both doors bore the same strange-path order.
• Lin Yi pushed open the Five-Color Door and vanished into its gentle light.

Lin Yi awoke in the Five-Color Door’s Truth or Dare game and discovered he had to survive a deadly beach volleyball match against a crowd of people with his face. After exploiting the bomb volleyball’s countdown to eliminate opponents, he took the ball from another contestant and continued the game.

• Lin Yi woke on a beach, failed to reach his parents by phone, and realized the black volleyball at his feet had a countdown.
• After Lin Yi threw the bomb volleyball, a woman returned it, and it exploded, killing her and injuring others.
• Lin Yi recognized he was in the Truth or Dare game, and Little Snowman announced that whoever remained standing when the countdown ended would win and leave with the reward.
• Lin Yi waited until the final seconds before throwing the volleyball into a crowd, where it exploded and eliminated several contestants.
• When a man with Lin Yi’s face tried to copy his tactic by holding the next volleyball, Lin Yi snapped his arm and seized the ball.

Lin Yi survived the Truth or Dare game but received only a box of instant noodles, while other convoy members won Anomalous Objects. He learned that several people had awakened the [Blade-for-Hire] Sequence, offering a possible way to resolve his own advancement problem.

• Lin Yi won Truth or Dare by forcing the identical-faced contestants to pass around the bomb volleyball, but his reward was braised beef noodles.
• Lin Yi returned to the underground garage and heard Liu Chuan had won an Anomalous Object vehicle while Shen Chuchu had won a pair of Anomalous Object blades.
• Liu Chuan explained that participants could only take part in Truth or Dare once and that the Five-Color Door was a special Anomalous Object.
• Lin Yi inferred that something was wrong with the Sequence Awakening Potion after Liu Chuan asked whether to use his.
• Liu Chuan revealed that everyone who received a potion had awakened the [Blade-for-Hire] Sequence, and Lin Yi realized they might help him avoid becoming an Aberration.
• Liu Chuan advised Lin Yi to wait until one of the new [Blade-for-Hire] Sequence members reached Sequence Eight before acting, and said he would give Wang Gui a potion afterward.

After the new Sequence Transcendents returned from the Five-Color Door, Qian Wenjun tried to keep them in line and prepare them to serve the convoy. Little Zhou challenged his authority, and Lin Yi noticed that Qian Wenjun possessed an Anomalous Object.

• The newly awakened Sequence Transcendents discussed asking Captain Liu for hot pot, but Qian Wenjun told them they needed supplies to trade and warned them to follow the convoy’s rules.
• Liu Chuan told the group they could rest that night and that he would explain Sequences the next day, while making clear they would eventually help keep watch.
• Qian Wenjun explained the watch duty, but the Hook-Nosed Man complained about protecting ordinary people and refused to accept Qian Wenjun’s authority.
• Little Zhou accused Qian Wenjun of relying on an Anomalous Object and stormed back to his car with a woman.
• Lin Yi told Shen Chuchu that Qian Wenjun had been hiding the fact that he also possessed an Anomalous Object.

Lin Yi, Shen Chuchu, and Liu Chuan explained the [Blade-for-Hire] Sequence's price to Qian Wenjun, warning him that its deterioration of eyesight would eventually lead to blindness. Qian Wenjun learned that the Northern Settlement existed and that its strongest fighter was a powerful [Blade-for-Hire] Transcendent, but he remained at the weakest rank in the convoy.

• Lin Yi told Qian Wenjun that his group had survived encounters with two Tier Five Aberrations and a Zombie horde, warning him not to underestimate Aberrations.
• Qian Wenjun revealed that his [Blade-for-Hire] Sequence had worsened his eyesight, and Lin Yi and Shen Chuchu explained their own Sequence prices.
• Liu Chuan confirmed that deteriorating eyesight was the [Blade-for-Hire] price and said Qian Wenjun would go blind at Sequence Eight, while gaining greatly improved hearing.
• Liu Chuan told Qian Wenjun that the Northern Settlement's strongest fighter belonged to the [Blade-for-Hire] Sequence and had reached Sequence Six.
• Liu Chuan warned Qian Wenjun that his group was the convoy's weakest and urged him to advance beyond Sequence Nine one step at a time.

Wang Meng returned from the Five-Color Door with new Anomalous Objects as the convoy prepared to leave Qing City, but Liu Chuan revealed that frozen Three Gorges and a level-four Aberration threatened their route. He also reported that Zhou Haitao had advanced to sequence eight [Black Emperor] and was leading nearly ten thousand people near Mount Tai, though he had apparently lost his mind.

• Liu Chuan explained sequences to Qian Wenjun and his group while hiding the feud between [Blade-for-Hire] and [Criminal].
• Wang Meng returned bleeding with arrows in his back, explained that he had fallen while escaping a trap-filled tunnel, and showed off bracers and shoes he had obtained from the Five-Color Door.
• Liu Chuan introduced Qian Wenjun's five sequence transcendents to Wang Meng, and Lin Yi planned for the convoy to leave after breakfast.
• Liu Chuan warned that the Three Gorges were frozen and that a level-four giant python and many Little Snowmen awaited the convoy along the route.
• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi that Zhou Haitao had reached sequence eight [Black Emperor] after performing the Fengshan rites at Mount Tai and was camped there with nearly ten thousand people, seemingly insane.

Liu Chuan explained that Zhou Haitao’s [Emperor] Sequence required unusual fate and that its power was beginning to emerge, while the convoy returned from the Five-Color Door with its spoils. The next morning, Little Zhou tried to force his way into Lin Yi’s hot pot, and Lin Yi injured him and poured boiling broth over him before noticing a red laser aimed at him from a distant building.

• Liu Chuan told Lin Yi and Shen Chuchu that Zhou Haitao had completed rites on Mount Tai, gathered nearly ten thousand followers, and gained the suppressive ability called “Sacred Majesty.”
• Lin Yi went to sleep, and the convoy returned with its members keeping the spoils they had found at the Five-Color Door.
• Little Zhou tried to rob returning convoy members and later demanded to share Lin Yi’s hot pot, ignoring Liu Chuan’s warning about the rules.
• Little Zhou reached for Lin Yi’s bowl and chopsticks, so Lin Yi snapped his wrist and pinned him to the ground.
• Lin Yi poured scalding broth over Little Zhou, dragged him outside, and then saw a red laser trained on him from a distant building.

Lin Yi and his companions confronted a little girl named Aru after discovering she had made the sniper rifles aimed at them. They learned her grandmother had entered the Five-Color Door and left a letter asking them to protect Aru, so Lin Yi invited her to join the convoy heading north.

• Shen Chuchu warned Lin Yi and the others that several snipers had them in their sights, and Liu Chuan and Wang Meng went to investigate the opposite building.
• Wang Meng reached the third floor and found Aru beside a sniper rifle, while Liu Chuan discovered the fifth-floor target was only a standee.
• Lin Yi questioned Aru and learned her grandmother had entered the Five-Color Door five times and had not returned.
• Lin Yi told Aru that her grandmother was dead and invited her to travel with the Survival Rules Convoy toward the Northern Settlement; Aru agreed.
• Aru gave Lin Yi her grandmother's letter, which revealed that the grandmother had become an Aberration and begged strangers to take Aru north and keep her safe.

Lin Yi and Liu Chuan discovered that Aru, the little girl they rescued, was the [Artificer] they had been searching for, and brought her into the convoy. As the convoy left for Shaanxi Province, Liu Chuan entered the Void Hall and told the other captains they had encountered the Pasture Herder.

• Lin Yi handed Aru’s letter to Liu Chuan, who learned that Aru was an [Artificer] capable of making anomalous-object toys.
• Aru agreed to make toys for the convoy, and Lin Yi carried her downstairs to join Shen Chuchu.
• Liu Chuan told Shen Chuchu to keep Aru’s identity secret, while Lin Yi warned that he still planned to deal with Little Zhou later.
• Liu Chuan told Qian Wenjun that aberrations were approaching, and the convoy set off through the snow toward the Three Gorges area and Shaanxi Province.
• In the Void Hall, Liu Chuan told Liu Nian and the other captains that his convoy had encountered the level-five Pasture Herder and asked why so many captains had gathered.

In the Void Hall, Liu Nian warned Liu Chuan that human factions were turning against each other and described the dangers gathering in Shaanxi Province. Liu Chuan left after refusing to share information with an evasive newcomer, who learned that Liu's convoy was among the strongest.

• Liu Nian told Liu Chuan that newcomers had reached Sequence Eight and warned him that convoy captains often excluded Prophets who were not captains.
• Liu Nian said humanity was still divided, then told Liu Chuan that Farstar Fortress had betrayed Qian Jianguo, made soup from his corpse, and was pursuing a New Human Plan.
• Liu Nian warned Liu Chuan to avoid Shaanxi Province because two fortresses, several level-four Aberrations, and dangerous factions had gathered there.
• Liu Nian cautioned Liu Chuan about a fortress leader from the Island Nation who had used an Anomalous Object to bring Aberrations across, then left the Void Hall.
• A short Prophet questioned Liu Chuan about his convoy without identifying his own, so Liu Chuan threatened him and left without giving information.
• A Prophet told the newcomer that Liu's convoy was ruthless, had defeated the Kunlun Convoy, and ranked among the top five in strength.

Liu Chuan realized a swarm of Tier Three Snow Jellyfish had trapped the convoy in an illusion, so the group hid in an underground garage until the creatures passed. Lin Yi took the lead when they set out again, with the swarm nearby and likely to pursue them.

• Liu Chuan sensed an Aberration above the convoy and warned that the vehicles were circling inside the city, so Wang Gui drove into an underground parking garage.
• Liu Chuan ordered everyone to stay inside their cars, and Lin Yi spotted a car-sized Snow Jellyfish drifting into the garage.
• Liu Chuan identified the creatures as a swarm of Tier Three Snow Jellyfish that could freeze people and create illusions, and Lin Yi chose not to attack them.
• After the swarm drifted out, Liu Chuan explained that Wang Gui had been caught in its illusion and asked Lin Yi to lead the convoy using the Soul-Devouring Saw's resistance to illusions.
• Lin Yi took the lead and prepared to speed through the snow while Liu Chuan warned that the Snow Jellyfish might spot and chase them.

Lin Yi led the convoy through a blizzard while Aberration Snow Jellyfish pursued them and distorted the road. He guided the surviving cars out of the city, but nearly ten vehicles failed to follow and were left behind.

• Lin Yi sped away from the underground garage as the Snow Jellyfish swarm appeared, and Pei Haonan’s car raced to catch up.
• Lin Yi saw the road change under the swarm’s influence and turned onto a route that looked like it led into a building; Liu Chuan ordered the others to follow him.
• Several drivers rejected the turn, and three cars slammed into a building and exploded as the snow buried the road around the remaining vehicles.
• Lin Yi’s convoy escaped beyond the city and stopped on a mountain road when the snowfall eased and the Snow Jellyfish did not follow.
• Liu Chuan and Wang Gui realized that nearly ten cars were missing, while Pei Haonan said the cars behind him had followed the driver who led them straight ahead.