Chapter Summaries

Su Ye cleared two more tier two instances, upgraded his Workbench to tier three, and chose to remain at tier two to gather resources before breaking through. A three-month Hunting Points Event began, and players across the C13 Zone expected Su Ye to take first place.

• Su Ye sent his crew to regroup and replenish supplies, then cleared two more instances, earning an SS rank and an SSS rank and choosing a Fighting Secret Crystal, a tier two Workbench, and a Danger Secret Crystal.
• Su Ye combined four tier two Workbenches into a tier three Workbench and reached the required progress to break through, but decided to stay at tier two and collect more resources.
• A region-wide announcement launched a three-month Hunting Points Event that awarded points for killing monsters according to their strength.
• Su Ye recognized that being in the Tier Two Road Section gave him an early advantage, then ordered A Da to drive onward.
• Players in the C13 Zone chat and the leaders of the Fivefold Race expected Su Ye, known as Fuel Gauge or Never Checks the Fuel Gauge, to claim first place and focused on competing for second.

Su Ye and his crew encountered and slaughtered a horde of more than three thousand Tier Two Primitive Monsters, earning a huge haul of event points and loot. After collecting the drops, Su Ye ordered A Da to continue along the road, hoping to find more beast hordes.

• Fifteen detected a large group of life signs ahead, and Xing Meng’s drones confirmed they were more than three thousand Tier Two Primitive Monsters.
• Su Ye ordered A Da to slow down while Fifteen prepared the weapons and Xing Meng deployed the drones.
• Su Ye’s crew attacked the Black-Spined Frenzy Hyenas with the Gale Ranger’s weapons, drones, energy shield, and Ramming Horn.
• After about half an hour, Su Ye’s forces killed the last monster, and the event leaderboard showed [Never Checks the Fuel Gauge] more than a hundred thousand points ahead of second place.
• Xing Meng’s Cleaner Drones collected Tier Two loot and two hundred thousand Survival Coins, then Su Ye ordered A Da to keep moving.

Su Ye gained the Thunder Prison Cage skill and learned that the G35 Zone would merge with his zone the next morning. He prepared to profit from the larger market by crafting goods and organizing a second auction.

• Su Ye used Skill Stones to max out Thunder Prison Cage, a lightning skill that damaged and trapped enemies while strengthening him inside its cage.
• A region-wide announcement revealed that the G35 Zone would merge with Su Ye's zone at six the next morning, and players discussed the dangers and likely survivors.
• Su Ye ordered Fifteen and Xing Meng to prepare equipment and resources for sale after the merger.
• Su Ye asked Mo Yu to arrange a second auction with Whirlwind, then created a group chat and gave them administrator permissions.
• Mo Yu and Whirlwind gathered helpers, expanded the auction venue, and built a firelit stage from scrapped heavy trucks.

Su Ye held a second auction to help C13 Zone players prepare for the merger, earning Survival Coins and resources from the sales. He then listed affordable supplies for ordinary players, and they began selling rapidly as the merger approached.

• Mo Yu organized the second auction and gathered nearly a thousand players for the event.
• Su Ye arrived at the venue and praised Mo Yu and the others for preparing a professional auction stage.
• Mo Yu opened the auction, and players bought every lot, earning Su Ye 780,000 Survival Coins along with materials, fuel, and other resources.
• Su Ye announced in Regional Chat that he would list affordable supplies for the zone merger.
• Su Ye put bandages, ammunition, weapons, and other goods on the Trading Channel, where players quickly bought them.

With the zone merger approaching, Su Ye used Mo Yu’s Designated Service Area Card to visit the Shop Service Area and buy attribute-boosting Natural Treasures for Mo Yu and Whirlwind. Shang Yan hinted that the Survival Bank would soon hold an auction, so Su Ye saved his own funds and left with the items he had purchased for them.

• Su Ye learned that Mo Yu and Whirlwind still needed attribute points and agreed to use their Designated Service Area Card to shop for them.
• Su Ye lent Mo Yu and Whirlwind six first-tier Workbenches, and Mo Yu transferred him 360,000 Survival Coins for Natural Treasures.
• Su Ye traveled with A Da and Xing Meng to the Shop Service Area and met Shang Yan at the Commerce Tower.
• Shang Yan told Su Ye that he could not afford a Vehicle-Mounted Furnace and suggested he attend an upcoming Survival Bank auction.
• Su Ye spent Mo Yu’s 360,000 Survival Coins on first-tier Natural Treasures for Mo Yu and Whirlwind, then left the Commerce Tower.

Su Ye helped Mo Yu and Whirlwind complete their tier two breakthrough quests by having A Da weaken monsters for them to kill. After they broke through, Su Ye resumed driving, and the G35 and C13 Zones merged at six in the morning.

• Su Ye sent Mo Yu the first-tier Natural Treasures he had bought for Mo Yu and Whirlwind.
• Mo Yu and Whirlwind accepted quests to kill three tier two monsters each, and Su Ye offered to help them on the Tier Two Road Section.
• Su Ye ordered A Da to find monsters and leave six alive; A Da overpowered eight Red-Scale Clan monsters and tied them up without killing them.
• Mo Yu and Whirlwind killed the weakened monsters, completed their quests, and broke through to tier two.
• Su Ye sent Mo Yu and Whirlwind home to practice with their new strength, then continued driving until the G35 Zone and C13 Zone merged at six in the morning.

After G35 and C13 Zones merged, players learned they would share G35’s deadly conquest event, and G35 players began attacking C13 players. Ling Yue explained that Changming Yushi had organized the Hundred Thousand after his forces killed the Fivefold Race leaders, then proposed a small team to assassinate him.

• The merged zones announced that players would share monthly events, including G35’s daily conquest attempts, frightening C13 players.
• Su Ye considered the danger of the conquest event and watched G35 players begin targeting C13 players as the population fell.
• Ling Yue told Su Ye that Changming Yushi had led an attack that killed the Fivefold Race leaders and then formed the Hundred Thousand.
• Ling Yue called Su Ye and proposed sending a small team to kill Changming Yushi before the conflict became an all-out battle between the zones.

Ling Yue offered Su Ye 500,000 Survival Coins to kill Changming Yushi, who was preparing to attack him. Before the deal could proceed, over a thousand players from the G35 Zone challenged Su Ye, and he decided to deal with them first.

• Ling Yue told Su Ye that Changming Yushi knew his identity and was gathering forces to kill him, then offered 500,000 Survival Coins for Su Ye to eliminate him.
• Su Ye accepted Ling Yue's offer, saying the payment covered Changming Yushi's life and warning Ling Yue that he would not protect him if he came along.
• Mo Yu told Su Ye that G35 Zone players had attacked her and tried to capture her for information about him, so Su Ye told her to stay safe and seek shelter with him if needed.
• More than a thousand G35 Zone players challenged Su Ye in under a minute.
• Ling Yue offered to bring people to help, but Su Ye told him not to interfere while he dealt with the challengers.

Su Ye prepared to counterattack more than a thousand G35 Zone players, but a horde of over three thousand tier-two monsters intercepted their convoy and began tearing it apart. He watched the battle from a nearby rise, ready to take advantage of the chaos.

• Su Ye ordered Fifteen, A Da, and Xing Meng to prepare to kill the players campaigning against them.
• Fifteen detected a horde of three thousand monsters ahead as branching roads appeared and more than a thousand G35 Zone vehicles arrived.
• Bro Shit ordered his convoy to charge through the monsters, and the players opened fire as the two sides collided.
• The players discovered the monsters were all tier two, and the horde smashed vehicles, killed players, and trapped the convoy.
• Su Ye watched from the Gale Ranger and realized the players and monsters had collided before he could attack either group.

Su Ye kept his Gale Ranger at the edge of the battle, using its turret to kill escaping monsters and players while Brother Pi struggled against the Beast Horde. After Brother Pi summoned more than three thousand G35 Zone players, Su Ye prepared a hidden drone ambush and charged the Army-Breaker Cannon as the reinforcements joined the fight.

• Su Ye ordered A Da to circle the battlefield while Fifteen used the Light Machine-Gun Turret to eliminate escapees, with Xing Meng's drones scouting from above.
• Brother Pi's battered vehicle came under attack from tier two monsters, and his men warned that they could not reach Never Checks the Fuel Gauge.
• Brother Pi rejected retreat and called for reinforcements from the G35 Zone, hoping to kill Never Checks the Fuel Gauge and seize his resources.
• After receiving war declarations from more than three thousand G35 Zone players, Su Ye ordered Xing Meng to deploy the drones, Fifteen to charge the Army-Breaker Cannon, and A Da to find a firing position.
• The G35 Zone reinforcements arrived and coordinated their vehicles to kite the monsters, temporarily stabilizing the battle.

Su Ye stopped Brother Pi’s retreat with the Gale Ranger’s Army-Breaker Cannon, then used his Drones and Tier Three Vehicle to destroy the G35 Zone convoy and the Tier Two monsters. After the battle, Xing Meng sent Cleaner Drones to collect the spoils.

• Brother Pi ordered the G35 Zone convoy to retreat after its players ran low on ammunition and struggled against the Tier Two monsters.
• Su Ye had A Da aim the Gale Ranger at Brother Pi’s convoy, and Fifteen fired the Army-Breaker Cannon, vaporizing Brother Pi, nearby Vehicles, and more than a dozen monsters.
• Su Ye ordered Xing Meng to deploy the Drone swarm, which attacked the fleeing players as Fifteen activated the Gale Ranger’s defenses and weapons.
• A Da charged through the battlefield in the Gale Ranger, while Su Ye’s forces killed the remaining players and monsters in less than fifteen minutes.
• Xing Meng sent Cleaner Drones to gather Survival Coins, supplies, and monster materials from the battlefield.

Su Ye collected a huge haul after the battle and set out to confront Changming Yushi, who gathered more than a thousand vehicles to meet him. The two forces faced each other as Changming Yushi mistook Su Ye's approaching convoy for evidence that he needed backup.

• Xing Meng reported that the battlefield yielded supplies from 4,315 players and more than three thousand tier two monsters, including valuable crystals, equipment, potions, blueprints, and Survival Coins.
• Su Ye installed the recovered Caltrops Dispenser and Shatterblade on the Gale Ranger, then ordered Xing Meng to sort the loot.
• Ling Yue warned Su Ye that Changming Yushi had mobilized more than a thousand players, but Su Ye said he would leave in ten minutes, and Ling Yue agreed to join him.
• Su Ye activated conquest mode against Changming Yushi and drove the Gale Ranger into the newly formed fork in the road.
• Changming Yushi prepared his assembled forces for battle as Su Ye's vehicle and a convoy of more than a thousand vehicles approached.
• Changming Yushi relaxed when he saw Su Ye's convoy, assuming Su Ye had brought reinforcements because he could not defeat him alone.

Su Ye launched a solo assault on Changming Yushi’s force of more than a thousand Vehicles, relying on the Gale Ranger’s defenses and weapons to overwhelm them. The Drone swarm joined the attack from above as the enemy formation fell into chaos.

• Changming Yushi rallied his players to attack Su Ye, while Su Ye sent Ling Yue and the others away from the coming battle.
• Su Ye’s forces located Changming Yushi in the enemy formation and found no traps or special preparations.
• Su Ye charged the enemy line alone in the Gale Ranger, and the G35 Zone players opened fire.
• The Gale Ranger’s Energy Shield deflected the attacks, and its Ramming Horn, Gravity Field, and Shatterblades tore through the front line.
• Su Ye ordered Xing Meng to send the concealed Drone swarm into the battle, where it attacked the fleeing players from above.

Su Ye used the Gale Ranger’s caltrops to break Changming Yushi’s defensive line, then turned the enemy’s Tier Two Mana Cannons back on themselves with the Mirror Reflection module. He killed Changming Yushi with the Army-Breaker Cannon, and watched as fleeing players summoned more potential targets with false calls for help.

• Su Ye deployed caltrops that punctured the fleeing vehicles’ tires and caused crashes, destroying nearly half of Changming Yushi’s force.
• Changming Yushi revealed fifty Tier Two Mana Cannons and ordered them to fire at the Gale Ranger.
• Su Ye activated the Energy Shield’s Mirror Reflection module, sending the cannon beams back and destroying the enemy emplacements.
• Su Ye ordered A Da to position the Army-Breaker Cannon, which killed Changming Yushi with one shot.
• The surviving players fled and sent deceptive calls for reinforcements, drawing new red dots onto Su Ye’s Radar.

Su Ye massacred the reinforcements lured to the battlefield, then accepted payment from Ling Yue for killing Changming Yushi. He allowed the Fivefold Race leaders to post footage of the battle to intimidate the G35 Zone players before driving away.

• Su Ye used the Gale Ranger’s weapons to destroy successive waves of players, while fleeing players lured in more reinforcements to save themselves.
• Yan Kuang, Ling Yue, and the other Fivefold Race leaders watched from a distance, then discussed posting their battle footage after Su Ye’s slaughter ended.
• Su Ye ordered Xing Meng and the Cleaner Drones to collect valuable resources from the wreckage of several thousand Vehicles.
• Su Ye drove to Ling Yue’s convoy and asked for his payment; Ling Yue transferred one million Survival Coins, including an extra five hundred thousand as an apology.
• Ling Yue asked Su Ye for permission to post the battle footage, and Su Ye agreed before the Gale Ranger left.

Su Ye counted the enormous spoils from destroying Changming Yushi’s forces, then continued toward the third-tier stretch as Ling Yue’s video and warnings stirred the chat channel. After Su Ye’s brutality drew criticism, Mo Yu told him she and Whirlwind were punishing his slanderers, and Su Ye sent her weapons to help.

• Xing Meng reported that Su Ye’s forces had killed 7,413 enemies and collected 13.42 million Survival Coins, along with resources, blueprints, Workbenches, cards, and fuel.
• Su Ye learned that 185 vehicle-mounted weapons had been destroyed, fused most of the recovered Storage Rings into his own, and gave large-capacity rings to Xing Meng and A Da.
• Su Ye ordered A Da to drive toward the third-tier stretch, while Ling Yue posted a video of the battle and warned the C13 Zone against invasions.
• Players praised Su Ye in the chat channel, but when one player criticized his massacre, an attacker revealed he had sent over a thousand players to invade that critic.
• Mo Yu told Su Ye that she and Whirlwind were dealing with people who slandered him, and Su Ye sent her seized weapons and equipment.

Su Ye prepared for the Survival Bank auction by selling surplus gear and building his funds to thirty-five million Survival Coins. After meeting three Great Xia Soldiers, he learned how to avoid drawing attention at the auction, then shocked them with the size of his fortune.

• Su Ye received an invitation to the Survival Bank auction and decided to buy a Vehicle-Mounted Furnace.
• Su Ye sold unwanted equipment, items, and potions to Ling Yue, Yan Kuang, Xiyun, and the other Fivefold Race leaders, raising his funds above thirty-four million Survival Coins.
• Fifteen spotted three figures ahead, and Su Ye met a team of Great Xia Soldiers who brought him three tier two Secret Realm Crystals.
• Su Ye told the soldiers about the zone merger and Monthly Event, then asked for advice about the Survival Bank auction.
• The team leader warned Su Ye to conceal that he was a player and how many Survival Coins he had, then reacted in disbelief when Su Ye said he had thirty-five million.

Su Ye went to the Survival Bank auction after learning that spending thirty million Survival Coins at his first auction could upgrade his Silver Card to a Gold Card. He watched the auction begin and saw its sales surpass a billion Survival Coins, while waiting for items he could use.

• The team leader explained how Su Ye could obtain a Gold Card and its privileges, then Su Ye defeated the three opponents and collected their Secret Realm Crystals.
• Su Ye used a Designated Service Area Card to travel to the Survival Bank, changed his appearance back to his human face, and told Xing Meng and A Da to stay in the vehicle.
• The mechanical guards confirmed Su Ye's Silver Tier VIP status and let him into the auction, where an attendant escorted him to a seat on the fifth floor.
• At nine, Hong Li began the auction with a Tier Six Thunderclap Rockbreaker Hammer, which sold for twenty-three million Survival Coins.
• Su Ye passed on the first lots because they were unsuitable for his Tier Two level, while the auction's total sales exceeded a billion Survival Coins within an hour.

Su Ye won the Void Walker Engine and the Vehicle-Mounted Furnace at the auction, then used Xi Po as cover to bid freely on other lots. He left the auction with the furnace secured, over twenty-six million Survival Coins spent, and several additional items won.

• Su Ye bid against Xi Po for the Void Walker Engine and won it for 8.1 million Survival Coins.
• Su Ye joked with the Minotaur that he enjoyed making Xi Po angry, then waited for the Vehicle-Mounted Furnace to appear.
• Su Ye bought the Vehicle-Mounted Furnace for its one-million-Coin starting price after Xi Po declined to bid.
• Su Ye used Xi Po as cover, bidding on lots to maintain his NPC disguise and winning several items.

Su Ye spent most of his remaining Survival Coins on a Cultivation Room, a Storage Room, and a Seed of Life, then earned a Gold Card when the auction ended. On the drive back, Xing Meng recommended two Discarded Talents to manage the new facilities, and Su Ye discovered that he already owned the seed Qingya wanted.

• Su Ye bought the Cultivation Room, Storage Room, and Seed of Life, leaving himself with only a six-figure balance.
• The auction ended after a damaged mech sold for 6.3 billion Survival Coins, and Su Ye's bank card upgraded to gold tier.
• Su Ye returned to his Vehicle and asked Xing Meng for recommendations to manage his new facilities.
• Xing Meng recommended Ember Iron, a blacksmith who wanted ancient forging records, and Qingya, who wanted a seed of the Tree of Life.
• Su Ye showed Xing Meng the Seed of Life he had just bought, which was exactly what Qingya wanted.