Chapter Summaries

Su Ye learned how his Intuition talent worked and raised his mental attribute to improve it. Zhao Wen explained Great Xia’s plans for his development and asked him to choose between rapid, dangerous growth and a steadier, lower-profile path.

• Su Ye told Zhao Wen he had won the Mileage Leaderboard, collected its rewards, and awakened the Intuition talent.
• Zhao Wen described Intuition’s warning, lie-detection, and decision-guidance abilities, along with talents and opponents that could fool it.
• Su Ye spent his five free attribute points on mental, raising the attribute to seventeen and recovering from fatigue.
• Zhao Wen explained that Great Xia would supply resources to accelerate Su Ye’s growth after the Beginner Period ended.
• Zhao Wen outlined the dangers posed by the Fivefold Race and other civilizations, then asked Su Ye to choose between aggressive growth and steady, discreet development.

Su Ye chose to stop hiding his strength and rely on Great Xia’s help to grow quickly, despite the threat of other civilizations. After Zhao Wen explained the resources and training plans Great Xia had brought, Su Ye killed Zhao Wen and his team and faced the awakened White Wolf boss.

• Su Ye told Zhao Wen he would rather grow stronger openly than hide from other civilizations, and Zhao Wen promised Great Xia would support him.
• Zhao Wen revealed that his team carried upgraded Storage Rings, equipment, Instance Crystals, and a Secret Realm Crystal for Su Ye.
• Su Ye asked about instances, secret realms, skills, and weapons, and said he preferred spears while waiting for the Logistics Department’s recommendations.
• Zhao Wen ordered his team to begin, and Su Ye killed Zhao Wen and the other sixteen after they reduced their health to 1%.
• The White Wolf boss awakened after the team returned to the Gray Mist World and charged at Su Ye, who used Eye of Detection to inspect it.

Su Ye killed the White Wolf boss, collected its drops, and looted Zhao Wen and the others’ supplies before examining the Instance and Secret Realm Crystals. He activated Autopilot and Radar, then entered the Training Room to spar with Zhou Daqiang.

• The White Wolf boss charged Su Ye but could not attack him because of the Gray Fog Medal, so Su Ye shot and killed it, collecting its drops.
• Su Ye merged ten Storage Rings, withdrew supplies from the trading interface, and equipped four pieces of First Tier gear that raised his Physique to 18.
• Su Ye examined two Instance Crystals and a Secret Realm Crystal, deciding to sell the Zombie Empire Instance Crystal to the Fivefold Race rather than enter it.
• Su Ye collected the Gas Station’s fuel and dismantled its remaining resources before returning to the Gale Ranger.
• Su Ye activated Autopilot and Radar, entered the Training Room, and began sparring with Zhou Daqiang.

Ling Yue held a video conference with Feather Tribe officers before the purge, ordering them to stay alert and conserve their strength. His officers urged him to use his rewards to enter a service area and attack Su Ye, but Ling Yue warned that a failed attack could drive Su Ye to arm the Feather Tribe’s rivals.

• Ling Yue created group chats and a leadership video conference to coordinate his several thousand Feather Tribe subordinates.
• An officer reported that the tribe ranked in the top twenty percent for mileage, and Ling Yue ordered everyone to keep driving and remain vigilant until the purge countdown ended.
• The officers reported stronger monsters and better drops, and Ling Yue warned them not to enter instances or secret realms recklessly.
• The officers urged Ling Yue to use his Designated Service Area Card and Expedition Card to target Su Ye and seize his resources, Workbench, and information.
• Ling Yue rejected an immediate attack, warning that Su Ye might survive and use his Workbench to equip one of the Feather Tribe’s rival clans.

Ling Yue contacted Su Ye to ask about service areas after receiving a Designated Service Area Card, while the leaders of the Fivefold Race chose to avoid attacking Su Ye until they had better odds. Su Ye began negotiating a price for his information, leaving Ling Yue facing a demand for three thousand Survival Coins.

• Ling Yue and the other Four Clans’ leaders decided to leave Su Ye alone until they could defeat him with confidence.
• Su Ye lost a simulated battle against Zhou Daqiang after lasting nearly seventeen minutes and reviewed the fight to learn from it.
• Ling Yue messaged Su Ye and revealed that he had received a Designated Service Area Card and wanted information about service areas.
• Su Ye refused Ling Yue’s offered blueprints and resources, then asked for Ling Yue’s Expedition Card as payment.
• After Ling Yue refused to give up the Expedition Card, Su Ye demanded three thousand Survival Coins for the information.

Su Ye sold Ling Yue information about the Service Areas for 1,500 Survival Coins, highlighting the Shop Service Area and its Talent Awakening Potion. Ling Yue believed Su Ye had not awakened a talent and underestimated him, while Su Ye kept the Cemetery and Intelligence House secret.

• Ling Yue offered 1,500 Survival Coins for Su Ye's information, and Su Ye accepted the payment.
• Su Ye described the Repair Shops, Foot Bath Shops, Restaurants, Hospitals, Transit Stations, Fortune-Telling Houses, and Shop Service Areas.
• Su Ye told Ling Yue that the Shop Service Area sold a Talent Awakening Potion but concealed information about the Cemetery and Intelligence House.
• Ling Yue assumed Su Ye had not awakened a talent and believed he would need to save a fortune before buying a potion.
• Ling Yue offered to pay for more exclusive information in the future, and Su Ye ended the chat with 5,789 Survival Coins.

Su Ye chose two combat skills after meeting four Great Xia Soldiers, who promised to arrange a way for him to obtain them. The soldiers then lowered their health so Su Ye could kill them and collect the items they dropped.

• Su Ye decided to save the Zombie Empire Instance Crystal for a future auction and use it to profit from Ling Yue and the other leaders.
• Su Ye’s radar detected four unknown targets, and he met four Great Xia Soldiers on the highway.
• The soldiers presented active and passive skill options, and Su Ye selected Cloud-Piercing Thrust and Wave Stacking.
• The soldiers said they would report his choices and arrange for him to obtain the skills.
• The four soldiers reduced their health to 1%, and Su Ye killed them, causing four items to drop.

The Purge began on the Survival Road, killing or eliminating nearly two-fifths of the C13 Zone players in an hour. After it ended, Su Ye ignored invitations to join Chat Groups and sent Mo Yu to infiltrate them while helping him improve his Vehicle.

• Su Ye found two duplicate Function Modules and two Gray Fog Medals, then returned to training in his Vehicle.
• The Purge began, and Su Ye watched the C13 Zone player count plummet as players pleaded for help and were eliminated.
• Su Ye shut the chat channel and resumed training until the Purge ended an hour later, leaving 614,785 players in the zone.
• Players vowed to work harder and formed Chat Groups, but Su Ye ignored their invitations and told Mo Yu to join them and monitor their messages.
• Su Ye sent Mo Yu speed-boosting shoes and two Function Modules, and Mo Yu accepted them before Su Ye received another Radar alert.

Su Ye entered Great Xia’s Withered City Instance after upgrading his Vehicle and met Zhou Daqiang, who explained how to collect Memory Fragments. The chapter ended with Zhou’s men handing Su Ye all ten fragments, completing the first quest objective.

• Three Great Xia Soldiers delivered orders and two Function Modules to Su Ye, and he obtained the Magnetic Anti-Slip module.
• Su Ye began upgrading his Vehicle with a speed focus and installed the Magnetic Anti-Slip module and new protective components.
• Su Ye used Great Xia’s Instance Crystal and entered the Withered City Instance, where the system tasked him with collecting ten Memory Fragments.
• Su Ye encountered Zhou Daqiang and more than a hundred Great Xia men, who explained that Memory Fragments normally came from completing tasks for special characters.
• Zhou Daqiang had ten of his men give Su Ye their Memory Fragments, completing the collection objective.

Su Ye received a clue and an Access Token to enter the Withered City, where Great Xia’s people promised to guide him through the instance and help him earn the highest rating. He killed sixteen soldiers assigned villain roles in the Withered Suburbs, raising his rating and collecting valuable loot.

• Su Ye received a mirror showing a hidden dog hole into the Withered City, and Zhou Daqiang gave him an Access Token for the main gate.
• Zhou Daqiang explained that Su Ye needed three Access Cards from the hospital, bank, and Library to enter City Hall, where the boss awaited.
• Zhou Daqiang sent sixteen Great Xia soldiers assigned villain roles to face Su Ye, explaining that killing them would raise his instance rating.
• Su Ye killed all sixteen soldiers with his Scale-Breaking Blade, triggering rating and reputation notifications.
• Su Ye collected two skill books, potions, Survival Coins, fuel, and physique and mental attribute potions from the fallen soldiers.

Su Ye learned two combat skills and tested a powerful spear combo before leaving the Withered Suburbs for the Withered City. After entering the desolate city with his Black Iron Token, he was greeted by a man in a black trench coat and baseball cap.

• Su Ye reached 100% exploration in the Withered Suburbs, completed all hidden side quests, and received an A rating.
• Su Ye learned Wave Stacking and Cloud-Piercing Thrust, then combined them with his Armor-Piercing Spear to smash through a large tree.
• Zhou Daqiang praised Su Ye's attack power and told him to enter the city, where someone would guide him.
• Su Ye showed his Black Iron Token to the guards at the Withered City gate, and they let him pass.
• Su Ye found the city abandoned and discovered he could not store its vehicles before a man in a black trench coat welcomed him.

Su Ye entered City Center Hospital to retrieve three access cards, with Wu Jun guiding him to the entrance and Zhou Kai meeting him inside. Zhou Kai explained Great Xia’s theory that the survival game might allow Gray Fog civilizations to help struggling civilizations, and Su Ye continued deeper into the hospital.

• Wu Jun led Su Ye to City Center Hospital, where Su Ye killed the five security guards with one spear strike and collected five attribute potions.
• Wu Jun told Su Ye the hospital alarm was part of the scripted sequence and waited outside while Su Ye entered alone.
• Su Ye drank three Physique Attribute Potions and three Mental Attribute Potions, raising his base attributes to 11.5 physique and 16.5 mental.
• Zhou Kai met Su Ye in the hospital lobby, dressed as a doctor, and agreed to guide him through the sequence.
• Zhou Kai explained that Great Xia believed the survival game might let Gray Fog civilizations help civilizations struggling to survive, and he led Su Ye toward the first-floor pharmacy.

Su Ye collected useful supplies, an Employee Card, and a detailed map from the hospital pharmacy, then gathered Survival Coins and attribute potions from the registration counter. Zhou Kai led him toward the basement morgue, where one of the three keys to the hospital director’s office was located.

• Su Ye learned that most pharmacy medicine had expired, then took Fine Bandages, a Stimulant Injection, an Employee Card, and a hospital floor plan.
• Su Ye killed the two pharmacy workers and collected two Mental Attribute potions they dropped.
• Zhou Kai led Su Ye to the payment counter, where Su Ye collected 2,000 Survival Coins before killing the three workers there.
• Su Ye collected two Physique Attribute potions and one Mental Attribute potion from the payment-counter workers.
• Zhou Kai explained that the morgue held one of the three keys needed to enter the hospital director’s office and led Su Ye toward the basement.

Su Ye and Zhou Kai swept the hospital, collecting supplies and defeating the people stationed on each floor. On the fifth floor, Zhou Kai revealed that he was the hospital inspector and an elite monster, then let Su Ye kill him for the final key to the director’s office.

• Su Ye used the Employee Card to reach the morgue, where he received a key, three Medical Kits, and a Soul-Suppressing Bell before killing three men for their Physique potions.
• Zhou Kai led Su Ye through the hospital’s second, third, and fourth floors, where Su Ye killed the stationed comrades and collected their resources.
• On the fifth floor, Su Ye found the director’s office locked by three keyholes and learned he needed one more key.
• Zhou Kai revealed that he was the hospital inspector and the strongest elite monster beneath the hospital director, and said his key would drop if Su Ye killed him.
• Su Ye combined Cloud-Piercing Thrust and Piercing Thrust to kill Zhou Kai, who dropped two items.

Su Ye opened the Dean's Office and discovered that the dean boss was Li Xin, who gave him nine Redflame Fruits and explained the Instance's hidden storyline. After absorbing the first fruit, Su Ye learned that the Access Card was in a safe and that he would need to defeat Li Xin to obtain its key.

• Su Ye collected Zhou Kai's Key (3) and Redflame Fruit, then used the three keys to open the Dean's Office.
• Li Xin emerged as the hospital's dean boss, recognized Su Ye, and explained that the system required Su Ye to kill him for the safe key.
• Li Xin gave Su Ye nine Redflame Fruits, bringing his total to ten, and told him to eat them.
• Su Ye ate a Redflame Fruit while Li Xin described how the city lord, bank president, hospital dean, and Library director had conspired to sacrifice indebted citizens.
• Li Xin explained that the city lord was the tier-two final boss, and Su Ye's first Redflame Fruit increased his Physique by one point.

Su Ye absorbed ten Redflame Fruits, increasing his Physique by 10, then defeated Li Xin to obtain the dean’s notes and the first Access Card. After completing the hospital exploration with an S rating, he left with Wu Jun and entered the Library.

• Su Ye absorbed ten Redflame Fruits as Li Xin advised, raising his Physique to 31.
• Li Xin told Su Ye that the Library held something that could increase his Mental Attribute and asked him to take the dean’s key after killing him.
• Su Ye defeated Li Xin with a Wave Stacking-enhanced thrust and obtained the dean’s notes and the Dean’s Safe Key.
• Su Ye opened the dean’s safe and collected the Hospital Access Card, then received an S rating for fully exploring the hospital.
• Su Ye reunited with Wu Jun, who led him to the Library and waited outside as Su Ye squeezed through its entrance.

Su Ye entered the Library and met Sun Yi, the Great Xia Soldier assigned to play its deranged curator, along with twenty-three Zombie-like comrades. Sun Yi gave Su Ye a Mental Gray Crystal, which he absorbed to raise his mental attribute by ten points.

• Su Ye emerged from a fissure into the Library and encountered Sun Yi leading more than twenty Zombies.
• Sun Yi explained that the Zombies were Great Xia personnel playing the Library’s victims and said Su Ye could clear the area by killing them and then him.
• Sun Yi gave Su Ye a Mental Gray Crystal that could increase his mental attribute by ten points.
• Su Ye followed Sun Yi’s instructions and absorbed the crystal, boosting his base mental attribute to 28 and his total mental attribute to 30.

After clearing the Library, Su Ye collected its Access Card and used a Skill Upgrade Stone to raise Cloud-Piercing Thrust to level 2. He reached the bank seeking the final Access Card and learned that its manager, Wu Yuan, carried a silver-tier bank card.

• Su Ye defeated the twenty-three Great Xia Soldiers in Zombie form and collected their Mental Attribute Potions and Physique Attribute Potions.
• Sun Yi gave Su Ye a Skill Upgrade Stone, then Su Ye killed him and collected the stone and the Library's Access Card, bringing the Instance rating to S+.
• Su Ye used the Skill Upgrade Stone on Cloud-Piercing Thrust, raising it to level 2, then met Wu Jun and headed to the bank.
• Wu Yuan welcomed Su Ye at the bank and said that its seventeen employees were ready to be killed because they had helped prolong the city lord's life.
• Wu Yuan told Su Ye that he carried a silver-tier Survival Bank card containing five thousand Survival Coins and offering additional benefits.

Su Ye cleared the Withered City bank, obtained a Silver Bank Card, and collected the three Access Cards needed to enter City Hall. After he opened its fortress-like gate with Wu Jun, he found armed guards and hundreds of skeletal figures inside.

• Su Ye defeated Wu Yuan and his companions, earning an SS rating for exploring the bank and advancing Wave Stacking to level 2.
• Su Ye collected the dropped items, bound Wu Yuan’s Silver Bank Card, and deposited his Survival Coins to raise its balance to 12,835.
• Su Ye showed Wu Jun the Access Cards for the hospital, Library, and bank, and Wu Jun led him to City Hall.
• Su Ye inserted the three Access Cards into the scanner, opening City Hall’s metal gate.
• Su Ye and Wu Jun saw more than a hundred armed guards and several hundred skeletal figures gathered in City Hall’s plaza.

Su Ye rescued the imprisoned residents of City Hall, raising his instance rating to SS+, then entered the castle with Wu Jun to confront the city lord. After seeing the powerful boss emerge from his coffin, Su Ye learned that Wu Jun himself was the final boss of Withered City.

• Wu Jun explained that the City Hall guards and imprisoned residents were comrades, and that rescuing the residents was necessary for an SSS rating.
• Su Ye killed the guards, and Wu Jun organized the residents' evacuation without casualties.
• The system raised Su Ye's instance rating to SS+, and Wu Jun led him into the castle.
• A corpse-like figure emerged from a black crystal coffin, and Su Ye identified him as the Tier Two City Lord of Withered City.
• Su Ye asked who was playing the city lord, and Wu Jun revealed that he was the instance's final boss.