Recaps

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night prepared to escort the Safe Zone’s enormous convoy, prioritizing their own survival while agreeing to clear the road. After a long boarding delay, the convoy finally set out, leaving the journey ahead.

• As the Safe Zone’s residents crowded onto trucks and buses, Dark Night discussed the mission, and Bai Yaoyao reminded the team to put their safety first.
• Meng Qilin greeted Dark Night, accepted two buns from A-Dai, and told Bai Yaoyao that thousands of people were still waiting to board.
• Bai Yaoyao spotted the woman she had previously helped and quietly slipped another tin of formula into her bag.
• Bai Yaoyao chose two pickup trucks, assigned Peiqi and Chenxuan to drive, and planned to break away with Dark Night if the convoy encountered a threat they could not handle.
• After the convoy finished loading, Meng Qilin ordered everyone to move out.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night traveled with the convoy on its first day, then caught an invisible man trying to steal food from their camp. Bai Yaoyao handed him over to Meng Qilin, leaving his fate to the Authorities.

• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night traveled slowly with the convoy while saving their strength and hoping to obtain high-level Crystal Cores at the base.
• Bai Yaoyao led her group away from the convoy to eat and rest, then sensed an unseen presence nearby.
• Bai Yaoyao waited until the invisible intruder returned and exposed him by throwing paint.
• The man pleaded that he was hungry and revealed that his invisibility ability lasted ten minutes unless he spoke.
• Bai Yaoyao handed the would-be thief to a soldier to take to Meng Qilin, expecting the Authorities to keep him under their control.

Bai Yaoyao and the convoy fought a level-five mutant eagle that attacked travelers, and the battle ended with the eagle dead and Bai Yaoyao wounded. After two gunshots nearly hit her during the fight, she searched the convoy for whoever had fired them.

• Bai Yaoyao learned that mutant dogs had damaged several cars at the rear of the convoy, and the group redistributed the passengers before continuing.
• A mutant eagle seized people from the convoy, and Bai Yaoyao coordinated the ability users and officials in a joint attack.
• Bai Yaoyao teleported onto the eagle and repeatedly stabbed its neck and eye, but the wounded beast later cut her arm as two gunshots narrowly missed her.
• Bai Yaoyao restrained the eagle with her psychic ability and severed one wing, while Peiqi treated her wound and A-Dai and Xiaomi attacked the beast.
• The convoy's fighters killed the mutant eagle, and Bai Yaoyao retrieved its beast core and stored its body before looking toward the convoy.

Bai Yaoyao confronted the Fierce Tiger Gang after Lin Yiran shot at her, and Dark Night killed Lin Yiran when she admitted to the attack. After a witness revealed Lin Yiran had an accomplice, Bai Yaoyao killed him with a Spatial Cut, leaving the surrounding crowd in shock.

• Bai Yaoyao asked who had fired the shot, and a woman identified Lin Yiran as the shooter.
• Lin Yiran pleaded for her life, but A-Dai kicked her and then snapped her neck before Meng Qilin could intervene.
• Bai Yaoyao questioned the Fierce Tiger Gang, and Chen Dahu insisted Lin Yiran had acted alone.
• The woman with the child revealed that a man at the back had helped Lin Yiran, and he begged Chen Dahu to save him.
• Bai Yaoyao used Spatial Cut to behead the accomplice, shocking the crowd.

Bai Yaoyao’s group cleared a roadblock, protected a mother and daughter from the Fierce Tiger Gang, and continued toward their destination. After A-Dai broke through to level four, the child shared gossip about Lin Menger confessing to Xie Shannan, while snow began to fall.

• Bai Yaoyao killed a Fierce Tiger Gang member, and Monkey disposed of his body alongside Lin Yiran’s.
• Fat Brother warned Chen Dahu not to mistreat the mother and daughter, and Meng Qilin arranged for them to ride with Professor Lin Zhengying and Lin Menger.
• A-Dai absorbed a level-four crystal core and broke through to level four in dark ability.
• A-Dai told Bai Yaoyao that Lin Menger had confessed to Xie Shannan with a braised chicken drumstick, but Xie Shannan had fled behind an ice wall.
• Bai Yaoyao noticed snow falling.

As sudden snowfall made the journey toward City D Base deadly for the poorly equipped convoy, Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night stayed warm in their RVs and shared food with others. The convoy prepared to set off after a freezing night that killed twelve people, while Monkey repaired a vehicle whose battery had been chilled by the cold.

• Meng Qilin distributed warm clothes as snow began falling, while Bai Yaoyao gave Dark Night down jackets and snow boots and brought out two heated RVs.
• Meng Qilin tried to deliver padded clothes to Dark Night, but saw its members enjoying grilled meat and beer in short sleeves and returned with the bundle.
• Twelve people died during the freezing night despite Meng Qilin's efforts, and he ordered the convoy to pack up and hurry toward City D Base at dawn.
• Peiqi and the others played in the snow, and Bai Yaoyao accepted a roasted sweet potato from Li Pengliang and shared it with her group.
• Monkey repaired a vehicle that would not start because its battery had likely gotten too cold, while Bai Yaoyao showed Xie Shannan their plentiful grilled Mutant Beast meat after he offered to share food.

Bai Yaoyao led the survivors against a mutant sweet potato plant that erupted beneath the road and drained people of their blood. She descended underground to search for its source and discovered a human-shaped sweet potato about twenty meters below.

• Bai Yaoyao sensed energy beneath the road, warned everyone, and stored the vehicles before vines erupted and killed several earth ability users.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered the fire ability users to attack the pit and told ordinary people to retreat, while Meng Qilin helped organize their escape.
• The fire attack revealed a field of mutant sweet potatoes, whose vines drained people and multiplied when cut.
• Bai Yaoyao told Dark Night to protect themselves, then jumped into the pit to search for the plant’s main body.
• Bai Yaoyao fought through the vines underground and found a human-shaped sweet potato about twenty meters below.

Bai Yaoyao captured a humanoid Mutant Sweet Potato, stopped the sweet potato vines from regenerating, and forced the creature to grow food in her space. After her group repaired the road and resumed their journey, Bai Yaoyao sensed that someone was watching her and warned her teammates.

• Bai Yaoyao used Spring Water and Spatial Cuts to capture the Mutant Sweet Potato, then repeatedly slammed it until she could store it in her space.
• The Mutant Sweet Potato vines lost their energy, allowing Meng Qilin and the others to clear the remaining sweet potatoes.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered the Mutant Sweet Potato to grow twenty sweet potatoes a day, and Great Sage made candied sweet potatoes for the group.
• Meng Qilin arranged to collect the sweet potatoes and repair the road and bridge before Bai Yaoyao's group set off again.
• Bai Yaoyao sensed an unseen watcher and alerted her teammates, who became more vigilant.

As Dark Night’s convoy neared City D Base, Bai Yaoyao put Doggie through relentless training, and the group grew stronger along the way. Just before they were due to arrive, a mutant eagle snatched Doggie and carried him into the sky.

• Bai Yaoyao brought out Doggie and the other mutant beasts so Xiaomi and the group could spar with them.
• After seeing Doggie struggle against Xiaomi, Bai Yaoyao decided he needed training, and Lulu began attacking him with lightning.
• Dark Night kept training during the journey, and Doggie’s strength improved enough for him to hold his own against several people at once.
• Xie Shannan watched Dark Night and wondered whether they might accept him instead of the Family.
• As the convoy neared City D Base, Bai Yaoyao sensed danger and shouted a warning, but a mutant eagle swooped down and carried Doggie away.

A mutant eagle kidnapped Doggie to take revenge on Bai Yaoyao’s group, but the team chased it into the forest and fought to rescue Doggie. After subduing the eagle, Bai Yaoyao abandoned the idea of taming it and killed it.

• The mutant eagle seized Doggie and flew toward the forest, so Monkey turned the vehicle around and chased it while Stone shot its wing.
• Bai Yaoyao and the others entered the forest after the injured eagle, while A-Dai and Xiaomi scouted ahead.
• Doggie fell from the eagle after peeing on its face, landed in a tree, and joined A-Dai and Xiaomi in fighting it.
• Bai Yaoyao directed the group to draw the eagle toward Great Sage, who and the little rabbit weighed it down until Bai Yaoyao struck its injured wing with a Spatial Cut.
• Little Crook restrained the wounded eagle, and Bai Yaoyao killed it after deciding not to try to tame it.

Bai Yaoyao and her group searched the forest for Stone and Dada Juan, rescued both from a mutant tree, and set out to leave with them. A mutant wild boar herd seemed to be approaching as the ground began to shake.

• Bai Yaoyao and her group followed Dada Juan’s scorched-leaf trail after failing to find him and Stone near the forest’s edge.
• Doggie found Dada Juan trapped in a leaf high in a tree and accidentally cut him loose, but Xiao Shiliu, Chenxuan, and Bai Yaoyao helped slow his fall and catch him before Xiaomi treated his poisoning.
• Doggie led the group to Stone, who was trapped in a mutant tree; Little Crook, Great Sage, Xiao Shiliu, and Chenxuan helped free him and cushion his fall.
• Bai Yaoyao put Stone and Dada Juan on stretchers and led the group toward the forest’s edge.
• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu quickly killed and stored a charging mutant wild boar, then the ground began shaking and Peiqi wondered if a herd was coming.

Bai Yaoyao discovered the mutant wild boars were chasing an awakened Strength Fruit, then lured it into her space with Spring Water. She left the fruit under the Mutant Sweet Potato’s guidance and demanded that it grow new fruit for her.

• Bai Yaoyao and her companions fled the charging mutant boars, but realized the herd was not chasing them and reached the main road safely.
• Bai Yaoyao pursued the herd with Big Meow and spotted an ocher-colored fruit she recognized as a possible Strength Fruit.
• Bai Yaoyao sent Big Meow to drive the Strength Fruit toward her and used Spring Water to persuade it to enter her space.
• The mutant boars charged at Bai Yaoyao, but she escaped into her space with Big Meow.
• Bai Yaoyao told the Strength Fruit it had to grow at least one new fruit each month, then called for the Mutant Sweet Potato to explain the rules.

Bai Yaoyao returned from hunting and found Keke surrounded by a group of men, who were quickly subdued by Dark Night. After the men threatened them and continued to harass them, Bai Yaoyao ordered Big Meow, Doggie, and Great Sage to kill them, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Mutant Sweet Potato comforted the newly arrived Strength Fruit while Bai Yaoyao hunted down and killed a level-three mutant wild boar.
• On her way back, Bai Yaoyao found several men surrounding Keke and offering to take her home.
• Xiaomi attacked the men, and Keke joined the fight with her special ability, leaving all seven bound before Bai Yaoyao arrived.
• The pretty boy threatened the group and tried to recruit Keke, but Bai Yaoyao told Dark Night to leave and summoned Big Meow, Doggie, and Great Sage.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered the three beasts to kill the seven men and leave obvious traces of their attacks.

Bai Yaoyao’s group covered up their arrival after killing a privileged ability user, then traveled toward City D Base and discussed their plans. They reached the base’s guarded entrance and joined the long line to enter.

• Bai Yaoyao ordered Baozi to erase the group’s tracks and bring the three survivors to meet them, then explained that they should avoid conflict with the dead man’s powerful backers.
• Bai Yaoyao detoured with the group to disguise their route, waited for the beasts to catch up, and washed Doggie after it returned covered in blood.
• Bai Yaoyao told Peiqi that the group had captured a strength-fruit-producing mutant plant, and the others joked together as they headed for the base.
• Bai Yaoyao planned to use City D Base as a temporary stop before traveling to Huaguo Main Base in A City to seek information and contact the Authorities.
• Bai Yaoyao’s group reached City D Base, joined the long entrance line, and Monkey offered to scout ahead.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night entered City D Base after reporting their abilities and impressing the registration staff. Wang Jingyu welcomed them and offered to show them around, while Meng Qilin thanked Bai Yaoyao and gave her a points card.

• Bai Yaoyao decided Dark Night would report their actual abilities, except for Peiqi’s telepathy, and urged everyone to focus on getting stronger.
• Bai Yaoyao and the team registered their names and abilities, revealing three level-four users and nine level-three users to the stunned staff member.
• Bai Yaoyao stored the vehicles in her space, and the staff member reported Dark Night’s arrival to a supervisor.
• Wang Jingyu introduced himself as the military official overseeing City D Base security and warmly welcomed Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night.
• Meng Qilin arrived with Xie Shannan, asked after Doggie, and gave Bai Yaoyao a City D Base points card containing 4,000 points.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night learned about the base and rented the secluded General's Residence for their group. After touring the nearby mission hall and market street, they entered their new home.

• Wang Jingyu asked Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan whether Dark Night could be trusted, and both vouched for Bai Yaoyao and her team.
• A young soldier gave Bai Yaoyao a base booklet and explained the housing options and her gold card discount.
• At the rental center, Bai Yaoyao chose the General's Residence, a secluded property with three courtyards and fourteen bedrooms, for 850 points a month.
• Bai Yaoyao accepted the keys and toured the mission hall and market street with Dark Night before the young soldier led them to the residence.
• Liu Liang declined Bai Yaoyao's pork jerky and left, but she used her spatial ability to put it in his clothes before taking everyone inside.

Bai Yaoyao and her companions settled into the General's Residence, checked it for surveillance, and prepared to celebrate their new home. The chapter ended with the group and their beasts sharing a lively hot pot meal.

• The young soldier discovered Bai Yaoyao had secretly given him pork jerky, and Wang Jingyu shared a piece before the soldier hurried home with the rest.
• Bai Yaoyao and her companions explored the General's Residence, where Xiao Shiliu broke a halberd and the group chose bedrooms.
• Bai Yaoyao checked the residence for cameras and listening devices, then gave Spring Water to the Strength Fruit, the Mutant Sweet Potato, and Little Crook.
• Bai Yaoyao ate a newly grown Strength Fruit but noticed no immediate change in her strength.
• Bai Yaoyao brought out hot pot for a housewarming feast, and the companions and beasts ate together.

After strengthening herself with the Strength Fruit, Bai Yaoyao tested her new power and took her team to the mission hall to register. The staff member recognized her as a level four three-ability user and hurriedly corrected their rude treatment.

• Bai Yaoyao assigned seven beasts to a nightly watch roster and left Strength Fruit off until she could assess its loyalty.
• Bai Yaoyao sensed her strength had doubled, then lifted a four-hundred-jin Little Rabbit with ease and rewarded it and Strength Fruit with food and Spring Water.
• Bai Yaoyao and her companions discussed the mysterious crying they had heard and went to the mission hall to learn how to earn points.
• Dark Night overheard people discussing the death of Li Ruida, whom a mutant beast had killed near the base.
• Bai Yaoyao confronted the inattentive registration clerk, submitted her team form, and the clerk discovered she was a level four three-ability user.

Bai Yaoyao registered Dark Night as an S-Rank squad and accepted two missions to gather crystal cores. At the base entrance, she turned Wang Jingyu’s attempt to get close to the squad into an affectionate exchange that left him reluctant to send them on dangerous missions.

• A staff member photographed Dark Night’s members and completed their S-Rank registration after Bai Yaoyao approved.
• Bai Yaoyao accepted missions to clear the Food Wholesale Market route and retrieve intact exhibits from the City D Museum.
• Sun Tao loudly wished Dark Night success, and Bai Yaoyao gave him two bags of Shile Potato Chips.
• Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night toward the base entrance, declining to exchange points for crystal cores until they returned.
• Wang Jingyu greeted Bai Yaoyao and offered to treat the squad to a meal, hoping to build a connection with them.
• Bai Yaoyao acted concerned for Wang Jingyu and gave him goji berry tea, leaving him feeling unable to send his new ‘family’ on dangerous missions.

Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night and the Authorities Sixth Squad to a wholesale market, where she discovered more level-four zombies than the mission briefing had reported. Dark Night entered the market without the Sixth Squad and defeated the first zombie, while Bai Yaoyao named the Strength Fruit Little Earthy Yellow.

• Wang Jingyu introduced the Authorities Sixth Squad and asked Bai Yaoyao to look after them during the mission.
• Bai Yaoyao led everyone to the agricultural wholesale market and sensed four level-four zombies, so she directed the vehicles toward the southwest corner.
• Bai Yaoyao told the Sixth Squad to stay in their vehicle, then led Dark Night over the wall and released the mutant beasts and mutant plants for the fight.
• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night surrounded a level-four speed zombie, and Bai Yaoyao struck it with her Baseball Bat before the Strength Fruit smashed out its Crystal Core.
• Bai Yaoyao praised the Strength Fruit and named it Little Earthy Yellow, prompting it to eagerly seek another target.

Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night through a training session against Level-Four and Level-Three Zombies, encouraging the team to develop combined attacks. When Doggie awakened the ability to spit fireballs, the beasts became fiercely competitive, leaving Dark Night struggling to get kills.

• Bai Yaoyao led the group to fight another Level-Four Zombie, and A-Dai and Xiaomi tested their combined dark-and-light attack.
• Bai Yaoyao assigned the next Level-Four Zombie to A-Dai and Xiaomi, and Dark Night began training through coordinated fights against stronger zombies and one-on-one fights against weaker ones.
• A horde of one or two hundred zombies gathered, so Bai Yaoyao told everyone to finish quickly and avoid endangering ordinary people outside.
• Bai Yaoyao discovered she could shift a Level-Three Zombie with her spatial ability and accidentally stole Doggie's kill.
• Doggie entered a furious killing spree and unexpectedly awakened the ability to spit fireballs, while the other beasts joined the competition for kills.
• Dada Juan asked Bai Yaoyao to put the beast army away, but the beasts refused and charged into the fight.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night helped the Authorities Sixth Squad clear a wholesale market, then trained Doggie and Rabbit to fight for themselves. After they replenished their energy, Bai Yaoyao offered to escort the Sixth Squad back to base before Dark Night continued toward the City D Museum.

• Dark Night and the Authorities Sixth Squad cleared the battlefield, collected crystal cores, and divided up to search the shops for surviving zombies.
• Bai Yaoyao let Doggie and Rabbit face a zombie, then explained that Doggie could remain safely in the space or fight alongside her; Doggie chose to fight, while Rabbit wanted to hide in the space.
• Bai Yaoyao sent Rabbit back to fight beside Doggie, and the group continued clearing zombies throughout the wholesale market.
• After clearing the market, Bai Yaoyao's group rested and ate ginger soup and mutant beast meat while the Sixth Squad loaded supplies.
• Bai Yaoyao offered to drive the Sixth Squad back to base before taking Dark Night to the City D Museum.

Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night to the City D Museum to clear zombies and salvage cultural relics. After the team pushed themselves to improve, they collected the museum’s artifacts and twelve level-four crystal cores.

• Bai Yaoyao escorted the Sixth Squad and its supply trucks safely near the base, then left with Dark Night.
• Bai Yaoyao warned her excited team to stay alert before leading them to the City D Museum.
• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought over kills and wiped out more than two hundred zombies in the museum plaza, exhausting most of the team.
• Bai Yaoyao gathered the museum’s intact and shattered artifacts into her space after the team found the building badly damaged.
• Bai Yaoyao counted the day’s haul and found twelve level-four crystal cores, enough for one each.

After collecting artifacts and packages, Bai Yaoyao and her crew returned to the base, turned in their mission, and spent points at the Authorities' store. The chapter ended with Bai Yaoyao exchanging points for four level-four crystal cores and storing them in her space.

• Monkey suggested stopping at a parcel distribution center, and Bai Yaoyao led the crew inside to collect several warehouses' worth of packages and shelving.
• Liu Liang recognized Bai Yaoyao at the base gate, told her that her gold card let her skip the queue, and escorted the crew inside.
• Bai Yaoyao turned in the artifacts and received 2,000 mission points, bringing her balance to 5,150 after rent.
• Bai Yaoyao and the crew browsed the Authorities' store, where A-Dai chose ice cream and Monkey bought a gold chain.
• Bai Yaoyao exchanged points for four level-four crystal cores, which military personnel delivered in combination-lock cases.

Dark Night ate at the Li Family's Mutant Beast Barbecue Restaurant, where Bai Yaoyao learned about its costly menu and discussed opening a shop at A City Base. The group ended the evening reflecting on whether the Apocalypse would ever end, while A-Dai happily enjoyed a Kids' Meal.

• Bai Yaoyao recognized the restaurant as belonging to the Li Family, whose wealth and influence in City D Base she had learned about from Liu Liang.
• The server recommended the restaurant's expensive Immortal Meat, but Bai Yaoyao chose other dishes for the group instead.
• Bai Yaoyao said Dark Night could open a shop at A City Base to earn points, and Monkey excitedly shared his dream of running a business.
• Lulu recounted her brief stint as a trainee and performer, prompting Keke to ask whether the Apocalypse would ever end.
• A-Dai said the Apocalypse had brought the group together, and Bai Yaoyao cheered the child up with a Kids' Meal.