Recaps

Fan Shang protected Little Black, awakened the Underworld Soldier Sequence, and survived several horrors while the convoy’s leaders took notice of him. After killing Li Qiang’s gang, he joined Liu Tie, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue, who revealed their own Sequences.

• Fan Shang refused to surrender his supplies, then killed Liang You and Wang Xiaoxue when they tried to take Little Black and turn the survivors against him.
• Fan Shang fled the Infant Wraith, Compound-Eyed Sunflower, and Cat-Faced Ghost as the convoy lost many survivors.
• Wang Xiaoxue’s head attacked Fan Shang, and he awakened the Underworld Soldier Sequence when he refused to die.
• Fan Shang killed Wang Xiaoxue and the Compound-Eyed Sunflower, then spent Survival Points to recover from his wounds.
• Fan Shang escaped the Cat-Faced Ghost with the injured Little Black and used Edict of Coexistence to link their lives and help the cat heal.
• Li Qiang and his men tried to rob Fan Shang, but Fan Shang killed them after one of them threatened Little Black.
• Liu Tie, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue introduced themselves and invited Fan Shang to speak with them after he admitted he had awakened a Sequence.
• Fan Shang scavenged Li Qiang’s cars, then learned that Zhou Ping had a chef Sequence, Lin Xue was an ice mage, and Liu Tie was a farmer.

Fan Shang joined Liu Tie’s convoy, helped defeat the Grudge-Crying Ghosts, and learned more about Little Black and the world’s dangers. After escaping a deadly rain calamity, the convoy chose to take the Provincial Highway so its Sequence Users could grow stronger.

• Liu Tie invited Fan Shang into the convoy, and Fan Shang met his former classmates Tang Qingyu and Tang Qingxue, who guarded a handbook they hoped would awaken them.
• The convoy entered Jinghuai Town to scavenge, where a blood-covered infant spirit killed survivors and forced everyone to flee.
• When Grudge-Crying Ghosts attacked the convoy, Fan Shang gained Yin-Yang Eyes, helped Liu Tie and Lin Xue kill them, and earned Survival Points.
• Fan Shang killed a survivor who demanded that Sequence Users compensate and protect the crowd, and Liu Tie warned others not to make the same demand.
• Liu Tie told Fan Shang about Little Black, Sequence ranks, and the powerful Hope Convoy leader Li Cunxing, while Zhou Ping agreed to supply Fan Shang with Rune Meat Porridge in exchange for protection.
• Fan Shang used 4,000 Survival Points to enhance Little Black’s bloodline, then escaped with the convoy when an unnatural rainstorm threatened to submerge the highway.
• Liu Tie identified the storm as a calamity created by Rain Man, and the convoy drove beyond its range as the Black Tide engulfed Jiang City.
• Fan Shang agreed to join Liu Tie’s plan to take the convoy onto the Provincial Highway, and Zhou Ping and Lin Xue chose to go with them.