Chapter Summaries

After being transported from Earth to Blue Star and then into the global Road Survival Game, Su Ye encountered five monsters who mistook him for a player they could kill. They were stunned to discover he was both human and a player, and the chapter ended with their leader asking about his name and where he had come from.

• Su Ye recalled how he had died on Earth and awakened in the body of an eighteen-year-old version of himself on an apparently empty Blue Star.
• The global Road Survival Game began, and Su Ye found himself in a pickup truck as five armed figures approached.
• Su Ye tried to start the truck, but the suited leader swung a blade that carved a long gully beside the vehicle.
• The five figures revealed they were monsters who targeted players, while Su Ye realized he could understand them.
• Su Ye told the monsters he was human and a player, leaving them astonished.
• The suited leader asked Su Ye for his name and the planet he had come from.

Su Ye verified his identity to Zhou Chang and learned about the highway survival game’s player interface and the powerful Fivefold Race. Zhou Chang explained how players could awaken talents, leaving Su Ye with a possible way to gain one during the beginner protection period.

• Su Ye answered Zhou Chang’s questions about Blue Star and Fenghai Province, and Zhou Chang introduced himself as the province’s richest person before conferring with the others.
• Su Ye inspected his attributes, pickup truck, chat, and trading interfaces, then set his nickname to “Never Check the Fuel Gauge.”
• Zhou Chang and the others called Su Ye out of his truck and explained that the survival game centered on five nonhuman tribes: the Tide Tribe, Flame Tribe, Feather Tribe, Frost Tribe, and Sand Tribe.
• Zhou Chang told Su Ye that Fivefold Race members began with far higher attributes than humans and that Su Ye’s survival would be especially difficult early on.
• Zhou Chang explained that Su Ye could advance to tier one when his physique and spirit both reached 10, then awaken a talent with a Talent Awakening Potion; ranking first in distance traveled during the seven-day beginner protection period could earn him one.

Zhou Chang explained the survival game's rewards and revealed that failed civilizations remain in the Gray Mist World as monsters, trying to earn back their player status. He promised to report Su Ye's unusual arrival to Blue Star's leaders, leaving Su Ye hopeful that humanity might help him survive the highway.

• Zhou Chang explained how rookies could earn a Talent Awakening Potion, Service Cards, and Survival Coins, and advised Su Ye to seek first place and save his Service Card until he had enough coins.
• Su Ye learned that players eliminated from the game became monsters, and that failed civilizations could earn survival points by stopping new players and eventually buy back their player status.
• Zhou Chang told Su Ye that Blue Star was led by seven War Gods and that he could contact one of them, who was his son-in-law.
• Zhou Chang revealed that Blue Star had failed its second survival run despite uniting, and said humanity might help Su Ye because this was his first attempt.
• Su Ye realized that he had entered the game a century after humanity and felt relieved that he had missed their failed runs.

Zhou Chang explained the Survival Game to Su Ye and helped him obtain powerful beginner gear by having Civilization Monsters adjust their drop rates. Su Ye gained a Gray Fog Medal and a Desert Eagle, and Zhou Chang prepared to let him claim more items.

• Zhou Chang explained the beginner protection period, supply crates, vehicle upgrades, secret realms, and Survival Game events to Su Ye.
• Zhou Chang said Civilization Monsters could adjust their item drop rates, and Brother Liu set the Gray Fog Medal's drop rate to seventy percent.
• Zhou Chang reduced Brother Liu's health, and Su Ye killed him with a rock, causing a Gray Fog Medal to drop.
• Su Ye learned the medal raised monster favorability by one, preventing monsters from attacking him first during the beginner protection period.
• Brother Hu set the Desert Eagle's drop rate to seventy percent, and Su Ye killed him after Zhou Chang reduced his health, obtaining the firearm.

Su Ye completed the initial trial, gained a Workbench and a Storage Ring, and began driving along the Survival Road. Meanwhile, Great Xia’s leaders gathered in the Hall of Civilization under the War God Chu Ge, Zhou Chang’s son-in-law.

• Su Ye killed Zhou Chang with the Scale-Breaking Blade and obtained a Workbench.
• The system announced Su Ye as the first player to pass the initial trial and awarded him an upgradeable Storage Ring.
• Su Ye stored his equipment and fuel, then drove off as the gray mist waited to advance the next morning.
• Su Ye read the players’ bickering in chat and considered hiding that he was an outsider to the Fivefold Race.
• Great Xia’s senior leaders gathered in the Great Xia Civilization Hall, where War God Chu Ge sat at the head.

Chu Ge learned that a Fivefold Race player had passed the Initial Trial by killing five Great Xia subordinates, including Zhou Chang. Zhou Chang revealed that they had let the player, Su Ye, kill them because he was a human from Great Xia, leaving Chu Ge to investigate Su Ye and what his success might mean for humanity.

• Chu Ge discussed the Fivefold Race’s player numbers and Great Xia’s early eliminations, then urged the hall to suppress good-item drop rates.
• Three Gray Mist announcements reported that a Fivefold Race player had passed the Initial Trial, alarming civilizations across the world.
• Chu Ge saw that the player had killed five of Great Xia’s subordinates, including his father-in-law, Zhou Chang.
• Chu Ge summoned Zhou Chang and the other four, and Zhou Chang explained that they had deliberately let Su Ye kill them.
• Zhou Chang told Chu Ge that Su Ye was human, from Great Xia, and a freshman at Fenghai University, and explained that helping him might reveal whether humans could escape the Gray Mist World or learn about the game’s end.

Su Ye searched a countryside house for supplies and learned that the Gray Fog Medal kept nearby zombies from attacking unless he struck first. After finding food, water, and materials, he opened a supply crate and received a Scorching Thermos.

• Chu Ge took charge of the news about Su Ye and considered how Great Xia could help him reach the end of the road.
• Su Ye drove through the barren landscape until he found a three-story house.
• Su Ye tested the Gray Fog Medal, killed three zombies one at a time, and collected their drops.
• Su Ye searched the house and found bottled water, instant noodles, tools, and assorted materials.
• Su Ye discovered a supply crate in the courtyard and opened it to obtain a Scorching Thermos.

Su Ye used his thermos to make instant noodles, then learned that Mo Yu had a blueprint for a double-shot hand crossbow. Since Su Ye had a workbench, he traded Mo Yu a crossbow, fifty bolts, and ten units of fuel for the blueprint, leaving him able to produce the weapon.

• Su Ye heated water in his thermos, ate instant noodles, and traded the leftover broth for bread.
• Su Ye drove onward, killed three monsters, and received only a hair tie as loot.
• Su Ye saw Mo Yu ask how to use a blueprint and messaged him to ask about trading it.
• Mo Yu shared a Simple Double-Shot Hand Crossbow Blueprint, and Su Ye realized his workbench could use it to mass-produce ranged weapons.
• Su Ye negotiated with Mo Yu and traded one hand crossbow, fifty bolts, and ten units of fuel for the blueprint.

Su Ye recorded a hand crossbow blueprint, bought materials, and began mass-producing hand crossbows and bolts. He tested one by killing a mutant wild boar guarding a supply crate, and two glowing orbs appeared above its corpse.

• Su Ye promised his Cousin a hand crossbow and recorded the blueprint in his workbench.
• Su Ye bought crafting materials from the trading interface, spending all his food and water to obtain the scarce trigger components.
• Su Ye crafted a Simple Double-Shot Hand Crossbow and bolts, tested the weapon, and continued production while driving.
• Su Ye approached a mutant wild boar guarding a supply crate and shot it at point-blank range with two bolts.
• Two glowing orbs appeared above the dead boar, and Su Ye reached out to touch them.

After killing a primitive mutated boar, Su Ye obtained meat, Gale Leather Boots, and an Energy-Saving Module that let him prepare to upgrade his truck. He sold his hand crossbows and received an unusually confident offer from Ling Yue, prompting him to ask Mo Yu whether he knew the player.

• Su Ye collected the mutated boar meat and equipped the Gale Leather Boots, which increased his movement speed.
• Su Ye opened the supply chest and obtained an Energy-Saving Module that improved vehicle fuel efficiency by 20%.
• Su Ye traded a hand crossbow and fifty bolts to Mo Yu, then listed another crossbow for sale and announced it in the chat channel.
• Su Ye ignored players seeking free weapons or offering worthless goods and read the serious trade inquiries.
• Ling Yue offered to buy all of Su Ye's hand crossbows, and Su Ye asked Mo Yu whether he knew Ling Yue.

Su Ye negotiated a bulk hand-crossbow deal with Ling Yue, the Feather Tribe's young chief, and used the supplies to upgrade his pickup into a Speedster. While the vehicle upgrade began, Su Ye offered the same terms to representatives of four other tribes.

• Su Ye learned from Mo Yu that Ling Yue was the Feather Tribe's young chief and commanded around a thousand people.
• Ling Yue agreed to supply 415 Simple Trigger Components, and he and Su Ye haggled over a large crossbow-and-bolt order.
• Ling Yue bought Su Ye's existing 113 hand crossbows and 5,000 bolts, transferring supplies and all 415 trigger components.
• Su Ye started the workbench mass-producing more crossbows and chose the Speedster upgrade for his pickup, incorporating the Energy-Saving Module.
• Su Ye contacted representatives of four other tribes and offered to sell them crossbows if they supplied their own Simple Trigger Components.

Su Ye secured deposits from the other four tribes by refusing to let them jump ahead of the Feather Tribe’s order, then received 100 units of fuel from Ling Yue as a tip. His pickup finished upgrading into a powerful Speedster truck, and he drove off hoping to improve his mileage ranking.

• Su Ye rejected the other four tribes’ offers to pay extra for priority and told them the Feather Tribe’s earlier order would be fulfilled first.
• The four tribes accepted the arrangement and paid their deposits, giving Su Ye a large haul of resources.
• Ling Yue praised Su Ye for honoring the Feather Tribe’s order and gifted him 100 units of fuel.
• Su Ye inspected his upgraded black Speedster truck, noting its improved speed, fuel efficiency, tires, and defenses.
• Su Ye filled the truck with fuel and sped down the highway, resolving to keep upgrading it to compete for the mileage lead.

After completing his orders and surviving his first day on the road, Su Ye cooked Mutant Wild Boar meat and raised his physique. The mileage rankings went live, revealing Ling Yue in first place and Su Ye at 5,711th, while Su Ye considered waiting for functional modules before upgrading his vehicle further.

• Su Ye finished five large orders, collected supplies, and roasted Mutant Wild Boar meat at his campsite.
• After eating one piece, Su Ye received a notification that his physique had increased from 0.9 to 1.4, and he stored the remaining meat.
• The system announced that the Novice Period Mileage Rankings were live, with final regional results and rewards scheduled for seven days later.
• Su Ye saw Ling Yue leading the rankings at 2,600 kilometers, followed by four buyers of his hand crossbows, while he ranked 5,711th with 1,625 kilometers.
• Su Ye concluded that his vehicle had strong potential because he had saved opportunities to use functional modules and hoped other humans would find some the next day.

Su Ye drove through the dangerous night road before deciding to stop and craft bolts. Meanwhile, Great Xia’s leaders agreed to help him reach the end of the road, while keeping his existence secret from other Blue Star civilizations.

• Su Ye encountered a sudden roadblock and a massive sinkhole, then saw other players reporting deadly night-road hazards in the world chat.
• Su Ye stopped driving, set the workbench to craft bolts, and went to rest.
• Chu Ge urged the Great Xia leaders to help Su Ye, arguing that his progress could reveal what lay at the end of the road and improve their next survival attempt.
• The leaders agreed that helping Su Ye offered substantial benefits with little cost.
• Chu Ge opposed informing other Blue Star Civilization Halls because some might sabotage Su Ye to preserve their false immortality in the Gray Mist World.

Su Ye survived the first night, strengthened himself, and sold a large batch of crossbow bolts before meeting Great Xia soldiers sent to support him through Spark Operation. They explained that Humanity had replaced the other people on his highway and tasked him with taking first place in the novice mileage rankings; Su Ye asked whether they could choose what items they dropped.

• Chu Ge officially launched Spark Operation, naming Su Ye its spark and replacing the other Humanity members assigned to his highway with Great Xia soldiers.
• Su Ye woke to find the highway restored, ate Mutant Wild Boar meat, and saw that over seventy thousand people in his C13 Zone had died.
• Su Ye collected and sold one hundred thousand crossbow bolts to Ling Yue and the others, then drove down the highway.
• Su Ye met Wang Rui and two Great Xia soldiers, confirmed they had come to support him, and returned their salutes.
• Wang Rui explained Spark Operation, the goal of securing first place in the novice mileage rankings, and the plan to help Su Ye obtain a dungeon item after the novice period.
• Su Ye asked Wang Rui whether the soldiers could choose which items they dropped.

Su Ye explained his urgent needs to Wang Rui and learned what items Wang Rui and his teammates could provide. The group prepared to make the first drops for Su Ye, and Wang Rui reduced his two teammates to critical health so they could die and trigger them.

• Wang Rui explained that potential drops were randomized, refreshed over time, and refreshed upon death, while drop rates could be adjusted.
• Su Ye told Wang Rui that he needed a larger Storage Ring, vehicle modules, blueprints, attribute-boosting items, and help navigating dangerous roads at night.
• Wang Rui promised to report Su Ye's needs and revealed that he carried a tier-one Illusionary Form mask that could disguise Su Ye from other civilizations' races.
• Wang Rui said his teammates carried functional modules, though their effects would remain unknown until they dropped.
• After the soldiers adjusted their drop rates for Su Ye, Wang Rui struck them with his dagger until each had only 1% health and told them to proceed.

Su Ye honored Wang Rui and his two teammates after they sacrificed themselves, then collected a Sprint module, fuel, and an Illusionary Form Mask. He began upgrading his pickup along the extreme speed path and sought information about the Fivefold Race so he could use the mask safely.

• Wang Rui and his two teammates lowered Su Ye's health to 1%, then asked him to finish them and entrusted Great Xia's hopes to him.
• Su Ye killed the three soldiers, collected a Sprint Function Module and one hundred units of fuel, and obtained Wang Rui's Illusionary Form Mask.
• Su Ye saluted the fallen soldiers and watched the system clear their bodies.
• Su Ye chose the extreme speed upgrade path for his level 2 pickup and incorporated the Sprint module into the upgrade.
• While the pickup began its ten-minute upgrade, Su Ye opened the chat channel to learn what the Fivefold Race looked like.

Su Ye traded fuel to desperate players for photos and information about the Fivefold Race, then used an Illusionary Form Mask to transform himself into a Feather Tribe noble. He completed the transformation and examined his new body.

• Su Ye offered a Tide Tribe player ten units of fuel in exchange for a full-body photo and learned what the tribe looked like.
• Su Ye gathered photos of all five tribes by trading fuel for images, then spent more fuel questioning a Feather Tribe player about bloodline ranks.
• Su Ye learned that bloodline determined status within each tribe and that gray-white hair and pure white eyes marked Feather Tribe nobles.
• Su Ye used the Illusionary Form Mask to customize a tall, pale Feather Tribe appearance with noble features.
• Su Ye confirmed the design, endured the mask's painless transformation, and saw that his hands had become broad and pale.

Su Ye saved his Feather Tribe noble appearance, upgraded his pickup to level 3, and nearly died testing its extreme speed. Meanwhile, Great Xia prepared a support team to help him improve his supplies, vehicle modules, and attributes.

• Su Ye saved his Feather Tribe noble appearance in the Mask and planned to make presets for the other tribes.
• Su Ye's pickup upgraded to level 3, reaching a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour with a Sprint module.
• In the Great Xia Civilization Hall, Chu Ge organized support for Su Ye's storage, vehicle modules, and attributes, and Elder Wang confirmed that a research team was ready.
• Su Ye activated Sprint and drove at 1,500 kilometers per hour, then passed out for ten seconds and nearly crashed.
• Su Ye stopped, vomited, and ate Mutant Wild Boar meat, raising his physique attribute to 2.4 and helping him recover.

After suffering severe dizziness at triple speed, Su Ye traded Mutant Wild Boar meat for other stat-boosting meat and raised his physique to 4.9 and mental stat to 3.1. He resumed driving at 300 kilometers per hour and stopped when he spotted a Supply Crate on the highway.

• Su Ye searched the trading channel for items that could increase his stats, then contacted Ling Yue and traded three pieces of Mutant Wild Boar meat for three pieces of Mutant Wolf Meat.
• Su Ye ate a piece of Mutant Wolf Meat and raised his physique to 2.9.
• Su Ye bargained with the leaders of the other four tribes and traded away his remaining Mutant Wild Boar meat for Mutant Beef and Mutant Snake Meat.
• Su Ye ate all the meat, raising his physique to 4.9 and his mental stat to 3.1.
• Su Ye drove at up to 300 kilometers per hour without discomfort and stopped after spotting a Supply Crate on the highway.