Chapter Summaries

Fan Shang defended his supplies and Little Black from Li Qiang’s gang, killing the men who attacked him and leaving the onlookers terrified. He turned on the wounded young man who had threatened his cat and finished him with the fire axe.

• Fan Shang refused to hand over his vehicle, supplies, and axe when Li Qiang’s men tried to take them.
• Li Qiang recognized that Fan Shang might be a Sequence User or have been changed by a supernatural horror, but he failed to stop his companions.
• When the sleazy young man reached for Little Black and stabbed at the cat, Fan Shang hurled his axe into the man’s hand and killed two attackers with a knife and steel pipe.
• Fan Shang pulled the axe from the wounded young man’s hand and killed him despite his pleas and offer of supplies.
• The convoy’s witnesses watched in terror as Fan Shang struck the young man twice in the neck and once in the head.

Fan Shang killed Li Qiang after discovering that the gang leader had tried to ambush him, then found the convoy’s three sequence transcendents watching him. The chapter left Fan Shang facing Liu Tie, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue.

• Li Qiang realized Fan Shang was a sequence transcendent and tried to flee as Fan Shang killed the sleazy young man.
• Fan Shang pursued Li Qiang despite his pleas and offers of supplies, a vehicle, and obedience.
• Li Qiang insulted Fan Shang and lunged at him with a knife, but Fan Shang dodged, broke his jaw with a kick, and killed him with his axe.
• Fan Shang chopped apart Li Qiang’s head and turned to check the other bodies.
• Liu Tie, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue applauded nearby as Fan Shang noticed the convoy’s three sequence transcendents.

Fan Shang met the convoy leaders Liu Tie, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue after they learned he had returned and suspected he had awakened as a Sequence Transcendent. He confirmed their suspicions and agreed to speak with them somewhere more private.

• Zhou Ping praised Fan Shang for surviving the anomaly and criticized Li Qiang, while Liu Tie insisted the convoy needed rules and stability.
• Zhou Ping explained that a thin man had reported Li Qiang's group to Steward Huang, who then informed the convoy leaders.
• Zhou Ping introduced himself, Liu Tie, and Lin Xue to Fan Shang.
• Liu Tie asked Fan Shang whether he had awakened as a Sequence Transcendent, and Fan Shang admitted that he had.
• Liu Tie invited Fan Shang to talk in the leaders' vehicle, and Fan Shang agreed.

Fan Shang stayed behind to destroy the two corpses’ heads, then looted supplies from the dead men and went with Cheng Chen to find their cars. He reached the vehicles, relieved to be safe for now and eager to search them, while Jiang Yu watched him with resentment.

• Fan Shang smashed the two corpses’ heads to ease his suspicions, then searched all four bodies and found food, water, lighters, and cigarettes.
• Fan Shang offered half a bottle of water and the dead men’s clothes to anyone who could lead him to their cars, then chose his former classmate Cheng Chen.
• Fan Shang insisted Cheng Chen accept the payment and warned him against trying to use their connection to gain his backing.
• Fan Shang noticed Jiang Yu watching him, unaware that she looked away with venomous resentment.
• Cheng Chen led Fan Shang to the two cars, and Fan Shang approached them with his axe, eager to search for supplies.

Fan Shang joined Liu Tie, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue for a meal and learned about their Sequence abilities. The introductions ended with Liu Tie revealing that he was a Grade C farmer, while Fan Shang had yet to share his own Sequence.

• Fan Shang scavenged supplies from Li Qiang and his companions’ cars, then returned to the convoy.
• Zhou Ping served Rune Meat Porridge, and Fan Shang’s constitution increased by 0.5 after he drank it.
• Liu Tie explained that Zhou Ping had a Grade D chef Sequence that let him make food that improved people’s strength.
• Zhou Ping introduced himself, and Lin Xue revealed her Grade C ice mage Sequence and gave Fan Shang an ice sphere.
• Liu Tie introduced himself as a Grade C farmer who could work the land and gain strength.

Fan Shang officially joined Liu Tie’s convoy and told Liu Tie, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue that he belonged to the [House Guard] Sequence, while keeping the details of his abilities vague. After sharing Rune Meat Porridge and discussing their sequences, the group settled in for the night.

• Liu Tie invited Fan Shang to join the convoy, and Fan Shang accepted, prompting Zhou Ping to celebrate the addition of a fourth Sequence Transcendent.
• Fan Shang discovered that only the first mouthful of each pot of Rune Meat Porridge increased constitution and wondered whether different ingredients could produce other benefits.
• Fan Shang chose not to reveal his full abilities and described his [House Guard] Sequence as an offensive sequence that grew stronger against unauthorized intruders in his territory.
• Zhou Ping reacted awkwardly to Fan Shang’s sequence, while Lin Xue and Liu Tie defended its usefulness.
• The group finished the Rune Meat Porridge, and Fan Shang lay back down in the vehicle.

Fan Shang woke to find the convoy’s survivors preparing a sparse meal and recognized his former classmates, the twins Tang Qingyu and Tang Qingxue. Tang Qingyu feared that Fan Shang might learn their secret, while the handbook she guarded promised a path for the sisters to awaken as Sequence Transcendents.

• Fan Shang woke after surviving the night and saw that the eerie moon had vanished, leaving the sun overhead.
• Fan Shang noticed Fatty Cheng, the counselor’s family, and his former classmates Tang Qingyu and Tang Qingxue among the remaining convoy survivors.
• Tang Qingyu and Tang Qingxue grew wary when Fan Shang looked their way, then recognized him as their former classmate and learned he had become a Sequence Transcendent.
• Tang Qingyu warned Tang Qingxue not to reveal their secret handbook, recalling the danger they faced from other survivors and insisting they needed a Yin Object to awaken.
• Tang Qingyu retrieved the glowing Corpse Stitcher’s Handbook and believed a Yin Object would let her understand it and awaken into the [Corpse Stitcher] Sequence.

Fan Shang ate instant noodles, learned that the convoy would pass a supply point, and traveled with the others toward a terrifying, ruined city. The convoy stopped before entering the city, where a sign revealed they had reached Jinghuai Town.

• Fan Shang cooked instant noodles beside his car while Little Black neared the end of its assimilation.
• Liu Tie told Fan Shang, Zhou Ping, and Lin Xue to prepare to gather supplies at a point the convoy would pass around two in the afternoon.
• Fan Shang asked Zhou Ping how Liu Tie knew the supply point's location, and Zhou Ping guessed it might relate to Liu Tie's sequence or past.
• The convoy traveled for nearly five hours and spotted a ruined city that filled Fan Shang and the other survivors with dread.
• The convoy stopped before reaching the city, and the mist cleared to reveal a sign reading Jinghuai Town.

Fan Shang and the convoy entered Jinghuai Town to scavenge supplies before leaving the area. After an invisible horror attacked a survivor, Fan Shang saw a blood-covered infant spirit and fled as screams erupted throughout the town.

• Liu Tie explained the half-hour scavenging limit and told the group to prepare to enter Jinghuai Town.
• Zhou Ping offered survivors stamina-boosting porridge in exchange for twenty percent of their supplies, while Liu Tie demanded the same share from those following the Sequence Users.
• Fan Shang and the others searched the deserted town, and Fan Shang filled his bag with supplies from shops.
• A survivor across the street begged Fan Shang for help against something he could not see, but Fan Shang ran toward his car.
• Fan Shang saw a blood-red handprint appear on the man's back, then watched a blood-covered infant spirit drain him and turn toward Fan Shang.
• Fan Shang escaped by car as the infant giggled and screams spread through the town.

Fan Shang, Liu Tie, and the convoy escaped a town pursued by an incorporeal horror, but the danger followed them. Fan Shang’s symbiosis with the Heterochromatic Black Cat completed just as a scream erupted among the survivors.

• Fan Shang and Liu Tie led the survivors out of town as horrors attacked those who fell behind.
• Zhou Ping recognized the convoy’s frantic escape as a warning and fled, while the people waiting outside panicked too late.
• After driving for hours, the survivors stopped and discovered that more than twenty people were missing or dead.
• Zhou Ping and Liu Tie argued, and Liu Tie revealed that they had encountered an incorporeal horror.
• Fan Shang’s symbiosis with the Heterochromatic Black Cat completed as someone screamed for help inside the convoy.

A bluish-purple baby-like weird entity attacked survivors in the convoy, killing the Tattooed Man and then targeting a sleazy young man. When the young man begged Liu Tie for help and blocked his car, Liu Tie killed him with a punch as the entity remained behind him.

• The Tattooed Man screamed as a bluish-purple hand grabbed his shoulder, and the survivors realized a weird entity was attacking when water hung in midair behind him.
• The bluish-purple baby appeared on the Tattooed Man’s back, cried, and twisted his neck before vanishing.
• The convoy panicked and scattered, while Fan Shang’s group prepared to flee from the head of the convoy.
• The weird entity targeted a sleazy young man, who ran to Liu Tie’s car and begged him to save him in exchange for his supplies.
• Liu Tie ordered the young man to move, then punched him and burst his head when he refused to get out of the way.

The convoy fell into chaos as an invisible uncanny creature killed survivors, while Fan Shang extracted Yin-Yang Eyes from Little Black. Fan Shang gained a blue-gold eye that changed his vision, leaving him poised to see what ordinary people could not.

• Liu Tie killed a man after an uncanny child vanished, but another woman was chosen and blocked Zhou Ping's car.
• The bluish-purple infant appeared behind the woman, tore off her head, and vanished as survivors fought over cars and escape routes.
• Liu Tie and Fan Shang abandoned their cars as the convoy became too dangerous to flee through.
• Fan Shang saw that his Edict of Coexistence had strengthened Little Black and offered him a choice between Evil-Repelling and Yin-Yang Eyes.
• Fan Shang extracted Yin-Yang Eyes, and a blue-gold vertical pupil appeared in his left eye as his vision changed.

Fan Shang used his azure-gold eye to see the Grudge-Crying Ghosts marking survivors, while Liu Tie prepared to use a rotten incense Sacrificial Object against them. Fan Shang took the incense and agreed to guide Liu Tie’s attack, as the group faced the threat of being trapped and killed.

• Fan Shang saw bluish-purple infants clinging to marked survivors and killed a man who ran toward him, but his axe passed through the infant on the man’s back.
• The infant moved to mark another survivor, while Liu Tie and the others realized they could not escape the Grudge-Crying Ghost.
• Liu Tie took out a half-rotten stick of incense and explained that its smoke drew weird entities in and revealed their locations.
• Fan Shang stopped Liu Tie from lighting the incense, took it, and said his eye already let him see the ghost.
• Fan Shang learned the incense was a consumable Sacrificial Object that attracted both weird entities and the person who lit it.
• Liu Tie asked Fan Shang to direct his attack, and the temperature around them began to drop.

The Grudge-Crying Ghost marked the convoy survivors and killed them despite Lin Xue’s ice attacks. Fan Shang’s death announcement revealed that the ghost became physical while killing, and he realized this offered a way to fight it as the ghost crawled toward Zhou Ping.

• Lin Xue’s ice crystals passed through the Grudge-Crying Ghost, which continued killing survivors and marking them.
• The ghost marked Zhou Ping, while Liu Tie prepared talismans and Zhou Ping handed out strength-boosting objects.
• Fan Shang realized he and the others had been marked, triggering a death announcement that revealed the ghost took physical form while killing.
• Fan Shang inferred that his announcements required him to be under threat and recognized a possible way to kill the ghost.
• Zhou Ping warned that the Grudge-Crying Ghost was crawling toward him.

Fan Shang directed Liu Tie and Lin Xue to strike the Grudge-Crying Ghost when it revealed its physical form to kill Zhou Ping. They wounded it and saved Zhou Ping, but the ghost rapidly healed and overwhelmed Liu Tie, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Fan Shang told the others that the Grudge-Crying Ghost became vulnerable when it revealed its true form, and Zhou Ping waited as it targeted him.
• The Grudge-Crying Ghost appeared on Zhou Ping and reached for his head, but Liu Tie and Lin Xue attacked it.
• Liu Tie smashed the ghost's skull with his hoe, forcing it into physical form and freeing Zhou Ping from its icy presence.
• The Grudge-Crying Ghost survived, healed its wounds with black mist, and attacked Liu Tie as his strikes failed to stop it.
• Liu Tie called on Lin Xue to attack while the ghost continued to regenerate.

Liu Tie and the others defeated one Grudge-Crying Ghost, but a second one appeared on Liu Tie’s back and nearly killed him. Fan Shang intervened with the ghost road and his axe, then attacked the creature as the others watched.

• Lin Xue froze the Grudge-Crying Ghost, and Liu Tie beat it down with his hoe until it dissolved, leaving an eyeball behind.
• A second Grudge-Crying Ghost appeared on Liu Tie’s back, and he could not pull it off.
• Liu Tie used a Lightness Talisman to hold back the creature’s hand and prepared to use his second talisman.
• Fan Shang summoned the ghost road, rushed in with his Fire Axe, and chopped the Grudge-Crying Ghost off Liu Tie’s back.
• Fan Shang advanced on the wounded creature and lunged at its forehead with his axe.

Fan Shang overwhelmed and killed the Grudge-Crying Ghost, using his Ghost Road to prevent it from escaping. He picked up the skull it left behind and received Survival Points for assisting in and completing the kill.

• Fan Shang pinned the Grudge-Crying Ghost down and repeatedly hacked at it while eerie blue flames burned away its black mist.
• The weakened ghost feigned an attack, then tried to flee, but Fan Shang extended a Ghost Road to trap it.
• Fan Shang caught up with the ghost and chopped it apart, killing it and leaving behind a small skull.
• Liu Tie explained that the skull could be used by certain Sequences to make Sacrificial Objects, while Little Black came to Fan Shang's side.
• Fan Shang received 500 Survival Points for assisting in the kill and 2,000 for killing the Grudge-Crying Ghost.

Fan Shang and Little Black killed the Grudge-Crying Ghosts, but the attack left nearly twenty convoy members dead. As Liu Tie organized the survivors, a woman blamed Fan Shang and the sequence users for failing to protect them sooner.

• Fan Shang checked his survival points, and Liu Tie explained that his injuries came from using a talisman.
• Zhou Ping questioned Fan Shang about the Ghost Road and Little Black, and Fan Shang claimed they were part of his House Guard abilities.
• Liu Tie led the group back to the convoy, where they found that the two Grudge-Crying Ghosts had killed nearly twenty people.
• A woman grieving beside her man's body accused Fan Shang of acting too late and getting the victims killed.
• Zhou Ping defended Fan Shang, but the woman insisted that the sequence users should have protected everyone, and Zhou Ping angrily challenged her.

Fan Shang confronted a woman who blamed him for the survivors’ deaths and demanded supplies and future protection. After she continued making demands, Fan Shang killed her with an axe.

• The woman claimed Sequence Users were responsible for protecting ordinary people, and some survivors agreed with her.
• Fan Shang stopped Zhou Ping from attacking and asked the woman what compensation she wanted.
• The woman demanded supplies for herself and the crowd, blaming Fan Shang for deaths during the monster attack.
• Fan Shang challenged the crowd to explain why their losses were his fault, but the woman insisted he owed them supplies and protection.
• Fan Shang asked whether she was finished, then killed her with an axe.

Fan Shang killed a woman who had provoked him, and Liu Tie warned the survivors that Sequence transcendents had no duty to protect them. The convoy cleared the road and continued until nightfall, where it stopped to rest.

• Fan Shang killed the woman with his axe as Jiang Yu watched with resentment.
• Zhou Ping called Fan Shang badass, and Liu Tie and Lin Xue approved of his actions.
• Liu Tie told the survivors that he would kill anyone who demanded protection from Sequence transcendents.
• The convoy cleaned up and removed the bodies, then set off again without delay.
• The convoy traveled until nightfall, stopped to rest, and the survivors resumed talking and laughing.