Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi traveled with the Entertainment King Convoy and saw the Ghost Emperor leading his Yin Soldiers across the countryside, narrowly avoiding a direct encounter. The convoy stopped to rest and prepare a communal meal, where Lin Yi learned more about its celebrity leader and transcendents.

• Lin Yi rode with the Entertainment King Convoy as it traveled uphill, expecting its shared-supplies system to fail eventually.
• The convoy stopped when Lin Yi spotted the Ghost Emperor's massive army of Yin Soldiers marching nearby, with the Ghost Emperor's dragon carriage at its center.
• Convoy members explained that the Ghost Emperor was a powerful level-five Aberration who usually fought other Aberrations and did not target humans.
• Uncle Liu told Lin Yi the convoy would rest and serve flour porridge, while Lin Yi noticed its music formed a protective barrier around the group.
• Lin Yi saw celebrities among the convoy members, and Uncle Liu identified Xu Mu as their leader and strongest transcendent, then described Lin Qing'er's ability.

Lin Yi joined Uncle Liu’s convoy as they rested near an army of Yin Soldiers, and Uncle Liu asked him to look for his grandson, Liu Xiaotao. Lin Yi agreed and memorized Liu Xiaotao’s photo, but a hungry woman then insulted Lin Yi and tried to claim his food.

• The convoy watched the Yin Soldiers and shared flour gruel while Lin Yi reflected on the famous Transcendents among them.
• Uncle Liu told Lin Yi he had helped people in hopes that someone would check whether his missing grandson was alive.
• Lin Yi agreed to look for Liu Xiaotao after seeing his photograph and hearing that he might be with a convoy or in a Fortress near Chang'an.
• Uncle Liu offered Lin Yi more gruel, but a woman approached, asked for the food, and mocked Lin Yi as she warned Uncle Liu not to trust him.

Lin Yi defended Uncle Liu when Pang Xiuxiu tried to take his food, and Xu Mu ended the dispute to keep the convoy peaceful. As the convoy headed toward Big Willow Village, Xu Mu warned his companions not to provoke Lin Yi, whom he suspected was a powerful Sequence Eight.

• Lin Yi refused Uncle Liu's gruel and warned Pang Xiuxiu that her behavior would have gotten her killed in his former convoy.
• Pang Xiuxiu tried to grab Uncle Liu's bowl, but Lin Yi restrained her with the Duel King's Bandages.
• Xu Mu arrived and negotiated a peaceful resolution, and Lin Yi released Pang Xiuxiu for Uncle Liu's sake.
• Xu Mu scolded Pang Xiuxiu and told the convoy to finish eating before traveling to Big Willow Village to search for supplies.
• Lin Yi rested in Uncle Liu's truck while Xu Mu told his companions that Lin Yi was likely a Sequence Eight and should not be provoked.

Xu Mu led the convoy into Big Willow Village to search for supplies, using his anomalous speaker to make them harder for Aberrations to detect. Lin Yi sensed a powerful resentment nearby, then turned coldly toward Uncle Liu after Uncle Liu found water.

• Pang Xiuxiu resented Lin Yi for protecting Uncle Liu, while Wang Tong warned her not to provoke a Sequence Transcendent.
• Xu Mu sensed Aberrations in Big Willow Village, and Lin Qing'er confirmed the road into the village was safe.
• Xu Mu turned up his anomalous speaker, and the convoy entered the misty village to search for supplies before dark.
• Uncle Liu told Lin Yi about the speaker and stopped his tricycle outside an unoccupied room.
• Lin Yi sensed deep resentment from the far side of the village, while Uncle Liu found a small amount of rice in the room.
• Uncle Liu quietly told Lin Yi that he had found water, and Lin Yi turned toward him with a trace of coldness in his eyes.

Lin Yi and Uncle Liu searched a house in Big Willow Village and discovered that its water and rice were contaminated. After finding evidence of mutated animals, Lin Yi decided the village held dangers beyond Aberrations and drove them away.

• Uncle Liu found a half vat of water, but a mud doll grabbed him before Lin Yi killed it with one slap.
• Lin Yi discovered that the water was contaminated and the supposed rice consisted of insect eggs.
• Lin Yi found biscuit crumbs and opened a cabinet, revealing a giant spider beside the remains of basketball-sized mutated rats.
• Lin Yi warned Uncle Liu that mutated creatures might be more dangerous than the Aberrations, and they drove out of Big Willow Village.
• Pang Xiuxiu mocked Uncle Liu for fleeing, while Wang Tong urged the group to search a nearby shop for instant noodles.

Uncle Liu and Lin Yi warned the people outside Big Willow Village that mutated animals were inside, prompting them to sound their horns. Xu Mu and the others discovered a two-headed black cat and swarms of giant spiders, then fled toward the entrance as the mutated animals began hunting them.

• Uncle Liu returned from Big Willow Village and warned that giant spiders and rats had consumed the supplies and threatened those still inside.
• Lin Yi confirmed Uncle Liu's warning, so the people outside honked their vehicles to alert the villagers.
• Wang Tong urged Pang Xiuxiu to leave, but she stayed to wash her hair in water from a vat.
• Xu Mu and the others investigated the horns and noticed movement around them, while a two-headed black cat watched from a roof.
• Lin Qing'er spotted the black cat, and Xu Mu realized it was not an Aberration before giant spotted spiders surged out of the rooms.
• Zhou Qingping led the group toward the village entrance as the mutated animals began hunting the outsiders.

Convoy members dismissed Uncle Liu’s warnings about mutated creatures in Big Willow Village and went back inside to gather supplies and catch spiders. Old Wu escaped and confirmed that giant spiders, house centipedes, and rats had killed people, prompting the group to sound the horn and warn those still inside.

• People who had escaped Big Willow Village complained about being summoned and blamed Uncle Liu for warning of Mutated Creatures.
• The group mocked Uncle Liu and headed back into the village to search for supplies and catch spiders, despite Lin Yi’s warning that they would die.
• Old Wu rushed out and described being attacked by palm-sized Spotted Spiders and a fast house centipede that killed Old Li.
• The Convoy realized Uncle Liu’s warning was true, and the man leading the group ordered them to honk and alert the people inside.

Lin Yi warned the Convoy that Big Willow Village was overrun by mutated creatures, but people went inside and many were killed or injured. After the survivors fled and the creatures stayed within the village, Lin Yi told Xu Mu that he had survived dangers far worse, including a level five aberration and a zombie horde that nearly wiped out a convoy of over a thousand.

• Lin Yi told Uncle Liu to back the tricycle away from Big Willow Village and warned that they might have to flee if the creatures came out.
• Survivors escaped the village, reported swarms of spiders and house centipedes, and blamed the woman who had encouraged them to go inside.
• Xu Mu and his injured companions fled the village, and the Convoy moved its vehicles to the road while watching for the creatures.
• After no more survivors emerged and no creatures left the village, Xu Mu asked Lin Yi how he had recognized the danger.
• Lin Yi told Xu Mu that he had faced level five aberrations and a zombie horde that killed nearly everyone in a convoy of more than a thousand people.

Lin Yi warned Xu Mu that survival in the apocalypse required prioritizing the convoy’s strongest members and abandoning people when necessary. He left Xu Mu to consider changing the Entertainment King Convoy’s sharing policies, while Lin Yi’s equipment enhancements neared completion.

• Xu Mu asked Lin Yi how he would respond to a dangerous situation, and Lin Yi said he would abandon people and run.
• Lin Yi criticized the Entertainment King Convoy for sharing supplies and argued that sequence transcendents needed enough food to stay strong and protect the group.
• Xu Mu accepted Lin Yi’s advice and went to check on the other convoy members.
• Lin Yi told Uncle Liu that he considered him already dead, and Uncle Liu reflected on how hard survival had been.
• Lin Yi checked the countdowns on his belongings and saw that their enhancements were nearly finished.

Lin Yi gained several useful Anomalous Objects, including a watch with storage space, while the Entertainment King Convoy prepared to rest. When Uncle Liu and Xu Mu exposed the supposed rice as insect eggs, Lin Yi urged Xu Mu to assert his authority and deal with Pang Xiuxiu.

• Lin Yi discovered that his clothes had become Anomalous Objects and found that his watch could store nonliving items.
• The Entertainment King Convoy gathered supplies from Big Willow Village to share among the survivors.
• Uncle Liu warned the convoy that the rice was actually insect eggs, but Pang Xiuxiu and others dismissed him.
• Xu Mu examined the grains with a flashlight, confirmed they were insect eggs, and rebuked Pang Xiuxiu.
• Lin Yi told Xu Mu that keeping Pang Xiuxiu in the convoy would cause trouble and urged him to establish his authority as captain.

Lin Yi exposed Pang Xiuxiu’s suspicious insistence that the Convoy eat eggs from Big Willow Village. When a mutated horsehair worm emerged from her corpse, he cut it apart and set it on fire, warning that the creature could infect someone else.

• Lin Yi challenged Pang Xiuxiu’s motives and demanded that her supporters eat the eggs if they believed they were safe.
• Xu Mu ordered Pang Xiuxiu to eat an egg, but a hairlike parasite darted into her head while Lin Yi held her by the throat.
• Pang Xiuxiu convulsed and shriveled into a corpse as a black, finger-thick creature burst from her belly.
• Lin Yi recognized the creature as a mutated horsehair worm and cut it in two with Zhou Qingping’s machete.
• Lin Yi poured alcohol on the worm and set it alight to prevent it from infecting someone nearby.

After a deadly incident in Big Willow Village, Lin Yi learned that Liu Chuan’s Survival Rules Convoy was heading to White Lotus Fortress and decided to travel there with Xu Mu’s convoy. The Northern Settlement had come under threat from several powerful aberrations, leaving White Lotus Fortress as the likely destination for both groups.

• Lin Yi and the convoy burned the mutated Horsehair Worm, and Xu Mu and Zhou Qingping discussed abandoning resource sharing after Pang Xiuxiu died.
• Uncle Liu admitted he was shaken by watching Pang Xiuxiu die, while Lin Yi kept watch through the uneventful night.
• Lin Yi asked Xu Mu for the route to White Lotus Fortress and proposed traveling there with his convoy.
• Xu Mu told Lin Yi that three level five aberrations and more than a dozen level four aberrations had approached the Northern Settlement.
• Xu Mu revealed that Liu Chuan’s Survival Rules Convoy had asked other convoys to spread the news that it was headed to White Lotus Fortress, and Lin Yi decided to go there.

The Entertainment King Convoy reached New Prosperity Town, where Xu Mu ended shared supply distribution and told everyone to find food for themselves. Lin Yi entered the seemingly empty town to search for the supermarket, wary of the dangers that might be waiting there.

• The convoy traveled toward White Lotus Fortress while Lin Yi considered its Seven Kings and the faith in a god that had once controlled Yu Xinghe.
• At the entrance to New Prosperity Town, Xu Mu announced that convoy members would keep whatever supplies they found and could no longer rely on shared food.
• The convoy members argued over the new rules, while Xu Mu led his group into town and Lin Yi told Uncle Liu to survive by keeping his own supplies.
• Uncle Liu entered town after reflecting that staying alive was his only chance to see his grandson again.
• The convoy members crowded into a shop to seize food and other supplies, while Lin Yi bypassed it and headed for the supermarket.

Lin Yi and the Entertainment King Convoy scavenged a supermarket in New Prosperity Town and found no signs of aberrations or recent activity. Wang He’s map showed the town belonged to a county in the northeast, leading Lin Yi to suspect that New Prosperity Town had moved to Shaanxi and might even be alive.

• Lin Yi searched Xinda Supermarket, stored supplies in his Rolex, and wondered why New Prosperity Town showed no signs of aberrations or scavenging.
• Xu Mu and the others arrived, gathered supplies, and agreed with Lin Yi that the town’s eerie emptiness was suspicious.
• Wang He showed the group a map identifying New Prosperity Town as a settlement in Tianyuan County in the northeast.
• Lin Yi suggested that the town had moved from the northeast to Shaanxi and might be alive.

New Prosperity Town transported Lin Yi and the Convoy from the Wasteland to snowy Qing City, where a Snow Jellyfish swarm trapped them in a blizzard. With his hallucination-breaking Anomalous Object missing, Lin Yi told the others to shelter in their vehicles and sent instructions for the Convoy to head to Gansu Province.

• Lin Yi and the others fled New Prosperity Town after learning it could move, while Xu Mu used a megaphone to warn the townspeople to escape.
• Outside town, Lin Yi recognized the changed landscape as Qing City, where a Snow Jellyfish swarm was bringing down heavy snow.
• Lin Yi discovered his Anomalous Object was missing and told everyone to stay inside the vehicles with their engines off.
• Lin Yi said he would wait ten minutes before going out to destroy the swarm if it did not leave.
• Lin Yi asked Xu Mu to contact the leader of Survival Rules through Void Hall and tell the Convoy to skip White Lotus Fortress and go to Gansu Province, where Lin Yi hoped to meet them at his family home.

Xu Mu passed Lin Yi’s message to Liu Chuan in the Void Hall, confirming that Lin Yi was alive and directing the Survival Rules Convoy toward Gansu Province. Liu Chuan advised Xu Mu to travel with Lin Yi to Three Gorges Fortress, while Feng San showed an unsettling interest in finding Xu Mu.

• After the Snow Jellyfish drifted away, Lin Yi told Zhou Qingping to have the convoy warm their engines while they waited for Xu Mu.
• Xu Mu met Liu Chuan in the Void Hall and relayed Lin Yi’s message to avoid White Lotus Fortress and head to Gansu Province, where Lin Yi would reunite with them.
• Xu Mu explained that his convoy had encountered New Prosperity Town and been transported to Qing City, prompting the captains to discuss the town’s dangers.
• Liu Chuan told Xu Mu to ask Lin Yi to take the convoy to Three Gorges Fortress, where they could get vehicles and supplies.
• Feng San offered to find Xu Mu and bring him padded coats, but Liu Nian and Liu Chuan warned him against provoking Lin Yi.
• Liu Chuan said Lin Yi could kill an Aberration Symbiote as powerful as a Level Four Aberration, while Liu Nian worried that Feng San’s Mystery Sequence transcendent might get his convoy killed.

Lin Yi’s convoy decided to wait for the Spring and Autumn Convoy and take its vehicles and supplies. Meanwhile, Feng San learned that Xu Mu’s Entertainment King Convoy was nearby and prepared to lead his people to it, hoping to seize its female celebrities.

• Lin Yi dismissed Xu Mu’s suggestion to lie low and said they would take the Spring and Autumn Convoy’s vehicles and supplies.
• Xu Mu arranged for the group to rest, eat, and use speakers to deter Aberrations while they waited for warmer clothes.
• Feng San told the woman with him that the Entertainment King Convoy had entered Qing City and said he wanted to meet its celebrities.
• Feng San summoned Cao Lei, Pang Gui, An Haonan, Yi Wenjuan, and Zhang Xingxing, then announced they would head for Xu Mu’s convoy.
• Cao Lei eagerly agreed to go, while Zhang Xingxing warned that they did not know how powerful the other convoy was.
• Feng San said he would use the Anomalous Object Compass to locate Xu Mu and ordered the convoy to follow his vehicle.

The Entertainment King Convoy faced the Spring and Autumn Convoy in the snow, hoping to trade for warm clothing while guarding against danger. Feng San and Cao Lei secretly planned to seize their supplies and women as they approached under the pretense of friendly negotiations.

• Xu Mu forbade the convoy from entering New Prosperity Town again and ordered everyone to stay in their vehicles when another convoy appeared.
• Lin Yi and Xu Mu prepared to confront the approaching Spring and Autumn Convoy, recognizing that they needed warm clothing and might have to fight for it.
• Feng San introduced himself as the Spring and Autumn Convoy’s captain and brought several Sequence Eights, including Cao Lei, whose Fire Mage pathway warmed the surrounding snow.
• Feng San and Cao Lei privately agreed to assess the Entertainment King Convoy before taking its women and supplies.
• Feng San feigned friendliness and asked Xu Mu to arrange a group photo, but Xu Mu refused and pressed him to discuss the trade.

Feng San demanded that Xu Mu trade the female celebrities in his convoy for warm clothing, but Lin Yi trapped the opposing convoy in Blood Prison and began killing them. After murdering Feng San and Cao Lei, Lin Yi turned toward the terrified survivors.

• Feng San demanded the female celebrities as payment for supplies, while Cao Lei and the others openly targeted members of Xu Mu's convoy.
• Xu Mu asked Lin Yi what to do, and Lin Yi unleashed Blood Prison, trapping everyone in a crimson cage.
• Feng San offered the warm clothing for free, but Lin Yi snapped his neck and claimed the opposing convoy.
• Lin Yi pinned Cao Lei into the pool of blood and crushed his head after Cao Lei's flames failed to stop him.
• An Haonan panicked and blamed Feng San, but Lin Yi told him that the strong preyed on the weak.

After killing An Haonan, Lin Yi executed Yi Wenjuan and learned that Bai Le’s mystery-type sequence was [Luck], so he spared Bai Le, Zhang Xingxing, and Pang Gui. As the convoys prepared to merge and travel north, Pang Gui revealed that Bai Le’s luck had repeatedly disrupted their journey to the Northern Settlement.

• After An Haonan died, Lin Yi questioned Yi Wenjuan, Zhang Xingxing, and Pang Gui about whether Yi Wenjuan deserved to die, while Pang Gui condemned Feng San and the others.
• Lin Yi discovered Bai Le had the [Luck] sequence, and Yi Wenjuan explained that his luck had helped their convoy find supplies and survive encounters with Aberrations.
• Lin Yi killed Yi Wenjuan but spared Pang Gui, Zhang Xingxing, and Bai Le, then announced that the two convoys would merge and set out.
• Lin Yi asked Pang Gui to lead the way and provide warm clothes, and Pang Gui explained that their convoy had avoided the Northern Settlement after repeated bad luck on the way there.