Chapter Summaries

Bai Yaoyao and the Dark Night Squad opened the Dark Night Store with free oden and a public ribbon-cutting attended by City D Base leaders. The leaders accepted festive parting gifts as the store prepared to welcome its customers.

• Dazhuang guarded the entrance while Bai Yaoyao set out free oden for customers who made purchases.
• Chen Jing explained the oden offer, recounted how the Dark Night Squad saved her child from the Li Family, and announced an auction and other goods for sale.
• Wang Jingyu arrived with Meng Qilin, Xie Shannan, and Secretary Wu, and Bai Yaoyao invited Secretary Wu and Wang Jingyu to cut the ribbon.
• Bai Yaoyao chatted with the leaders, served Secretary Wu oden, and sent Monkey to prepare parting gifts for the visitors.
• Bai Yaoyao added a Self-Heating Knee Brace and a Waist Brace to Secretary Wu's bag and extra Huazi Cigarettes to Wang Jingyu's.

Secretary Wu and Wang Jingyu appreciated the generous supplies Captain Bai had given them, while Bai Yaoyao oversaw the Dark Night store’s crowded opening and considered hiring a young boy. The boy brought her a handmade opening gift, and Bai Yaoyao saw how carefully he had made it.

• Secretary Wu found warmers, food, and other valuable supplies in his gift bag and admired Captain Bai’s thoughtfulness.
• Wang Jingyu shared cigarettes with his longtime team members and planned to bring nutritious food home to his pregnant wife.
• Bai Yaoyao left the crowded Dark Night store to Chen Jing and watched Dazhuang force customers to line up.
• Two brothers praised the store, promised to keep promoting it, and received Golden Throat Lozenges from Bai Yaoyao.
• Bai Yaoyao agreed to ask the young boy whether he wanted to try working as a shop assistant.
• The boy gave Bai Yaoyao a carefully handmade string of firecrackers to celebrate the store’s opening.

Bai Yaoyao hired Xue Yang to work at Dark Night’s shop, then took the squad on a dangerous A-Rank mission to find survivors in villages around City D. As Wang Jingyu and Xiao Xiaoshan arrived to arrange the expedition, they found Dark Night training hard ahead of their departure.

• Bai Yaoyao accepted Xue Yang’s firecrackers and hired him as the shop assistant, offering him pay, meals, and accommodation.
• Xue Yang enthusiastically advertised Dark Night’s shop while Bai Yaoyao and her companions left to find a mission.
• Bai Yaoyao accepted a 4,000-point A-Rank mission to accompany an Authorities team to nearby villages and search for survivors.
• Wang Jingyu told his trusted squad leader, Xiao Xiaoshan, that they would depart with Dark Night the next day.
• Wang Jingyu and Xiao Xiaoshan visited the General’s Residence and found Bai Yaoyao sparring with Dark Night’s Beasts and training her reflexes.

Bai Yaoyao welcomed Wang Jingyu and Xiao Xiaoshan, who was to captain the next day’s mission, and hosted them for a meal cooked by Great Sage. Later, she checked the Dark Night Store’s first-day earnings, rewarded its staff, and prepared to leave for several days.

• Wang Jingyu introduced his brother-in-law Xiao Xiaoshan as the Search and Rescue Team captain joining Bai Yaoyao’s mission, and clarified that Dark Night would retain overall command.
• Bai Yaoyao invited Wang Jingyu and Xiao Xiaoshan to dinner, where Great Sage’s cooking amazed them; Wang Jingyu left a level three Crystal Core as payment.
• Bai Yaoyao visited the Dark Night Store and learned it had earned 32,158 points on its first day, then gave Chen Jing, Xue Yang, and Dazhuang each a 50-point bonus.
• Chen Jing asked to extend the opening event, and Bai Yaoyao trusted her to make the decision.
• Bai Yaoyao furnished Xue Yang’s bedroom, restocked the store, and told Chen Jing to ask Wang Jingyu for help while she was away for five or six days.

Dark Night prepared for a rescue mission with Storm Squad, whose members tried to challenge Bai Yaoyao’s authority. Bai Yaoyao assigned the mission to Dark Night and sent Doggie to fight Storm Squad alone, leaving the teams on the verge of a confrontation.

• Bai Yaoyao explained that points would eventually buy valuable items such as Gene Serum, and the group set out the next morning through deep snow.
• At the base gates, a Storm Squad member insulted Dark Night, and Xiao Xiaoshan sent for Wang Jingyu while siding with Bai Yaoyao’s team.
• Wang Jingyu arrived and apologized, while Storm Squad captain Yang Fan offered Bai Yaoyao a feigned apology and tried to impress her.
• Bai Yaoyao said Dark Night would handle the mission and challenged Storm Squad to fight Doggie without the others intervening.
• Storm Squad prepared to kill Doggie, and Bai Yaoyao calmly told Stone to trust him.

Doggie defeated and humiliated the Storm Squad, allowing Dark Night to take the mission and its 2,000 points. After Dark Night departed, Wang Jingyu fined the Storm Squad for firing a gun, and its members unknowingly spent their remaining points buying replacement coats from Bai Yaoyao’s store.

• The Storm Squad surrounded Doggie, but he dodged their attacks and shredded all their clothes while mocking them.
• Yang Fan fired a pistol at Doggie, who dodged the bullet, wounded him, and pinned him down before peeing on his face and sparing him.
• Bai Yaoyao told Wang Jingyu that Dark Night would take the mission, and he agreed to give the team the points.
• Dark Night and Xiao Xiaoshan’s group prepared to leave, while Doggie wiped the blood from his paw on Yang Fan’s coat before joining Bai Yaoyao.
• Wang Jingyu fined the Storm Squad 2,000 points for firing a gun inside the base, and its members spent their remaining points buying coats from the Dark Night Store.

Bai Yaoyao’s team continued through the snow after hearing a mysterious bang, then followed Doggie to a guarded settlement near their mission destination. The chapter ended with the villagers checking Xiao Xiaoshan’s credentials and allowing the group to approach.

• Bai Yaoyao and her team heard a deafening bang but detected no nearby creatures or energy, so they ate and prepared for possible danger.
• Bai Yaoyao decided to keep traveling through the night, and her team led the convoy with a snowplow.
• Doggie sensed people ahead, and Bai Yaoyao’s group concealed their vehicles and followed him through deep snow.
• Bai Yaoyao and her companions found a crude wall and watchtowers, where an old man warned them that outsiders were unwelcome.
• Xiao Xiaoshan identified the group as an official rescue team and threw over his work ID for inspection.
• After verifying Xiao Xiaoshan’s ID, the villagers put away their weapons and approached the team.

Bai Yaoyao ordered the survivors of a mountain village to evacuate to City D Base and prepared the convoy for the journey. As they traveled through silent towns, an avalanche suddenly swept down toward the trucks.

• Bai Yaoyao and her group entered a mountain village, where the chief explained that its remaining residents were mostly elderly people and children.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered the villagers to pack and leave for City D Base within half an hour, and Xiao Xiaoshan supported her decision.
• Xiao Xiaoshan gave the villagers padded coats and arranged for them to ride in covered truck beds, while Bai Yaoyao instructed him to make the tarpaulins easy to release in an emergency.
• The convoy traveled through snowbound, silent towns as Bai Yaoyao kept scanning and the others joked during the uneventful journey.
• Bai Yaoyao shouted for Great Sage to get out, Dark Night gathered the group, and Bai Yaoyao put the beasts in her space as enormous masses of snow rushed down the slopes.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night survived the avalanche and began rescuing the buried convoy, but the rescue descended into chaos when an old woman stirred up the injured villagers. Bai Yaoyao killed the woman, leaving the crowd in turmoil.

• Bai Yaoyao used her spatial ability to keep snow from burying Dark Night as the avalanche covered the convoy, while Xiao Xiaoshan helped evacuate villagers.
• After the avalanche stopped, Bai Yaoyao organized the rescue with Doggie, Little Crook, and Dark Night, and sent Peiqi and Chenxuan to treat the injured.
• The rescuers uncovered casualties and treated survivors, while Peiqi prioritized a severely wounded soldier over an old woman's less-serious injured son.
• The old woman shouted that the soldiers were neglecting the villagers and provoked others to demand treatment out of turn.
• Bai Yaoyao returned with the unconscious Xiao Xiaoshan, saw the crowd turning chaotic, and killed the old woman with a Spatial Blade.

Bai Yaoyao used lethal force to stop villagers from disrupting the rescue, while her team continued searching the avalanche site and saved a missing child. After the rescue ended, the exhausted team complained about how hard their 6,000 points had been to earn.

• Bai Yaoyao killed the troublemaking old woman and later silently killed her frightened son with Mental Pressure.
• A Little Soldier died shielding a child from a falling rock, and the rescued villagers joined the search for survivors.
• Bai Yaoyao sent Doggie and Little Crook to find Big Ox, who was recovered unconscious and still clutching Fat Brother's lollipop.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Big Ox Spring Water and used the Small Jade Piece while Peiqi treated him, and the child began to recover.
• Monkey complained about earning 6,000 points after the rescue, and Lulu hit him with a snowball for stripping off his shirt in the cold.

Bai Yaoyao led the survivors on foot after their vehicles were trapped, then stopped in a deserted town for the night and suspected an intelligent zombie was gathering the others. She helped the exhausted group settle in and made sure Xiao Xiaoshan and his teammates ate before the journey continued.

• Bai Yaoyao learned that only a little over 170 of Xiao Xiaoshan's people remained and that two teammates had died, then led everyone through the snow with snowblowers.
• Bai Yaoyao stopped the group in a small town at dusk, where she and her teammates found no zombies or mutant beasts.
• Bai Yaoyao suspected an intelligent zombie was gathering low-level zombies and shared her concern with Dark Night, whose members welcomed the prospect of a fight.
• Xiao Xiaoshan distributed the group's remaining food and offered Bai Yaoyao supplies in exchange for points when they returned to base.
• Bai Yaoyao refused his food, provided hot water and Self-Heating Rice for Xiao Xiaoshan's teammates, and parked two RVs across the store entrance to block the wind.

Bai Yaoyao reprimanded Chenxuan for being too softhearted during the day’s crisis, then worried when he slapped himself and sent Fat Brother to check on him. After rewarding Little Earthy Yellow and assigning Xuan Qi to keep watch, she settled in for the night.

• Xiao Xiaoshan refused a middle-aged man’s request for rice, and Bai Yaoyao said she would have stopped helping him if he had given it away.
• Bai Yaoyao stayed behind with Chenxuan and scolded him for failing to act decisively, warning that his softheartedness could have led to more deaths.
• Chenxuan accepted the scolding, then slapped himself to remember the lesson, so Bai Yaoyao woke Fat Brother to check on him.
• Fat Brother gave Chenxuan a lollipop, and Chenxuan realized Bai Yaoyao had sent him and rested peacefully.
• Bai Yaoyao praised Little Earthy Yellow for producing another fruit and promised it Spring Water, prompting Mutant Sweet Potato to decide to produce one extra fruit a day.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Xuan Qi to watch for movement within two thousand meters and moved him into a water-filled tank with spirit spring water.

Bai Yaoyao learned that a horde of four to five thousand zombies led by a level-five speed-type zombie was approaching, and she and her allies prepared to fight. After planting bombs and arming Xiao Xiaoshan’s group, Dark Night moved out to thin the horde as the zombies entered range.

• Xuan Qi warned Bai Yaoyao that the horde was approaching, then revealed it contained about four or five thousand zombies after briefly falling asleep.
• Bai Yaoyao chose to fight, assigned Xiaomi and A-Dai to help plant bombs, and told the others to alert Xiao Xiaoshan’s group.
• Bai Yaoyao, Xiaomi, and A-Dai planted several lines of bombs while Fat Brother, Stone, and Chenxuan dug a trench and built an earthen wall outside the Small Town.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Xiao Xiaoshan and the able-bodied adults weapons, and they took up ambush positions as the first bombs exploded.
• Dark Night advanced to thin the horde, while Bai Yaoyao lent Lulu the Small Jade Piece and warned everyone to retreat if they could not hold their ground.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought the zombie horde with explosives, firearms, and their abilities while she searched for the level-five zombie. After the battle reached close quarters, Xuan Qi revealed that the level-five zombie was right behind Bai Yaoyao.

• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night bombarded the horde and fired sniper rifles, while Bai Yaoyao joked with the team about her past bombings and museum thefts.
• Lulu unleashed a broad lightning attack with Chenxuan amplifying her ability, and Bai Yaoyao added three bombs before charging into the horde to plant more.
• Bai Yaoyao used Teleportation to retreat after bombing the horde, while Stone and Xiao Xiaoshan shot down two of four speed zombies and Bai Yaoyao killed the other two.
• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night's fighters attacked at close quarters as A-Dai and the beast legion killed zombies, but Bai Yaoyao still could not locate the level-five zombie.
• Xuan Qi told Bai Yaoyao that the level-five zombie was right behind her.

Bai Yaoyao furiously killed a level-five spatial zombie, then led Dark Night and the Authorities through a retreat as zombies swarmed them. She drew the horde toward a music-playing device and bombed the gathered zombies.

• Bai Yaoyao used Spatial Cut, Mental Pressure, baseball bats, and gunfire to kill the level-five spatial zombie after it tried to teleport away.
• Bai Yaoyao refused Xuan Qi’s protection and fought on with A-Dai, while Xiao Xiaoshan and his team covered them with gunfire.
• Bai Yaoyao gave A-Dai the Small Jade Piece to restore his energy, and Xiaomi, Stone, and Fat Brother fought together as the group’s strength dwindled.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered everyone to retreat toward Small Town and tossed a music-playing device to draw the zombies away from them.
• Bai Yaoyao hurled five bombs at the zombies that had gathered around the device, setting off a series of explosions.

After Dark Night defeated the zombie horde, Bai Yaoyao helped everyone recover and took a cheerful group photo amid the corpses. Once Xiao Xiaoshan's team finished collecting crystal cores, Bai Yaoyao prepared to return to the base and planned to upgrade her spatial ability.

• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night killed the remaining zombies after a battle that lasted until morning, then rested and celebrated their victory.
• Bai Yaoyao gave the exhausted group spring water and mutant beast meat while Xiao Xiaoshan and several others began collecting crystal cores.
• At Lulu's wish, Bai Yaoyao asked Xiao Xiaoshan to photograph the group, and everyone posed with smiles and peace signs.
• Xiao Xiaoshan's team finished collecting the crystal cores while Xuan Qi stood guard and Dark Night slept.
• Bai Yaoyao received five sacks of cores, including over sixty level-four cores, and prepared to return to the base so she could work on upgrading her spatial ability with the level-five core Little Crook had collected.

Bai Yaoyao caught a villager stealing Crystal Cores and killed him after discovering he had hidden one even after returning the others. She rewarded those who helped gather the cores with food and gloves, then prepared to leave with Xiao Xiaoshan's group.

• Peiqi warned Bai Yaoyao that a villager looked guilty, and Bai Yaoyao discovered he had stolen level-four Crystal Cores.
• The villager denied stealing, then returned nine cores while secretly keeping another; Xiao Xiaoshan found the last one when Bai Yaoyao called him out.
• Bai Yaoyao killed the villager with a Spatial Blade and collected all ten Crystal Cores.
• Big Ox explained that the dead villager's mother had been buried in the snow and had not been found.
• Bai Yaoyao gave seventeen villagers who helped gather cores Instant Noodles and gloves, and gave Xiao Xiaoshan's teammates cores and food.
• Bai Yaoyao told everyone to eat quickly before they moved out.

Bai Yaoyao led the exhausted villagers toward the base, stopping at a factory for shelter when Xiaomi and A-Dai found no other place to stay. The factory’s leader recognized her by the alias Bai Qian and welcomed the group inside.

• Bai Yaoyao treated the helpers to fried chicken and burgers after A-Dai chose the meal.
• Xiao Xiaoshan repeatedly stopped to help the exhausted villagers, and Big Meow killed two Mutant Dogs along the way.
• As the group continued through the frozen wilderness, the village chief scolded villagers who complained about leaving their homes.
• Xiaomi and A-Dai found a factory occupied by about twenty people, and Bai Yaoyao went ahead to speak with them.
• The factory leader recognized Bai Yaoyao as Bai Qian, recalled that he had once helped her, and invited the crowd inside.

Bai Yaoyao’s group negotiated for warehouse space with Yi Yunhui’s team, then settled in and ate hot pot while Yi Yunhui’s teammates considered taking advantage of her supplies. When a woman repeatedly insulted Bai Yaoyao, Big Meow clawed her face, leaving Yi Yunhui’s team to reconsider how they treated Dark Night.

• Yi Yunhui offered Bai Yaoyao’s group warehouse space in exchange for compressed biscuits, and Xiao Xiaoshan negotiated the deal.
• Bai Yaoyao refused Yi Yunhui’s attempts to draw her into conversation and led Dark Night into another warehouse, where Xiao Xiaoshan later settled the remaining villagers.
• Bai Yaoyao laid out a lavish hot pot meal for Dark Night and its beasts, impressing Yi Yunhui and his teammates with her supplies and spatial ability.
• Yi Yunhui’s teammates discussed robbing Bai Yaoyao’s group and taking her, while one woman kept insulting Bai Yaoyao.
• Big Meow darted over and clawed the woman’s face, causing her to scream and faint.

Bai Yaoyao recognized Yi Yunhui’s group as the notorious Warmth Special Ability Team from Hongguang Base in L City and decided they could not be allowed to leave. She and her companions killed Yi Yunhui, Yuan Xin'er, and the rest of the group.

• Big Meow beat up Yuan Xin'er, and Yi Yunhui demanded that Bai Qian surrender the mutant beast and come apologize to L City’s base chief, Yuan Hongguang.
• Bai Yaoyao recalled Hongguang Base’s corruption, its fall, and the Warmth Special Ability Team’s crimes, then threatened to kill Yi Yunhui’s group.
• Yi Yunhui urged Bai Yaoyao to have a healer treat Yuan Xin'er and promised to mediate with Yuan Hongguang.
• Peiqi healed Yuan Xin'er, then stabbed her in the neck while Bai Yaoyao stopped Yi Yunhui from intervening.
• Bai Yaoyao used her abilities to kill Yi Yunhui, and the Dark Night team prepared to attack the rest of the Warmth Special Ability Team.