Chapter Summaries

After waking in an unfamiliar world with his apartment, Ye Fei discovered that a survival game had begun on a snowy mountain. He learned he had to find supplies and build a fence before nightfall, then uncovered a crude crate beneath the snow.

• Ye Fei woke up to find endless snow outside his apartment and realized he had been transported to another world with the room intact.
• A game interface activated, revealing Ye Fei’s low stats, empty inventory, and survival points.
• Ye Fei read a beginner quest requiring him to find supplies, open a supply crate, use tools and materials, and build a Basic Fence before nightfall.
• Ye Fei spotted a translucent marker in the snow, dug at its location, and picked up a crude wooden crate.

Ye Fei completed his first quest by building a fence, unlocked regional chat and trading, and chose warm clothing after beginner protection ended. He opened another supply crate and began investigating his house’s energy reserve.

• Ye Fei used the supplied lumber, nails, and hammer to build a fence around his house and completed the beginner quest.
• Ye Fei received a survival handbook and a basic survival supply crate, and unlocking his safe zone opened the chat and trading channels.
• Ye Fei inspected the regional chat and learned the world channel required combat power and Survival Points he did not have.
• Ye Fei tested the cold outside, chose and put on the five-piece warm clothing set, then went back indoors.
• Ye Fei opened the basic survival supply crate and received bread, water, Survival Points, house energy, and a choice of household items.
• Ye Fei checked the trading listings and noticed a house interface beside his Personal Panel.

Ye Fei learned how his apartment’s energy system worked, chose a broom and snow shovel, and cleared his yard to earn a Survival Point. Unable to sleep, he read the Snow Mountain chat channel and learned about a scammer and other players’ combat-power scores.

• Ye Fei checked the energy costs of his home’s furnishings and exchanged his two household-item choices for a large broom and a snow shovel.
• Ye Fei cleared the snow from his yard and received 1 Survival Point for completing the Clean Little Yard task.
• Ye Fei ate without using energy for the light, reflected on his past and his new circumstances, then opened the chat channel to observe other players.
• Ye Fei read players expose a scammer who had falsely claimed to be trapped outside the first task’s requirements.
• Ye Fei followed a discussion that placed most players’ combat power between 3 and 7, with scores of 8 or 9 considered strong for ordinary people.
• Players discussed whether 1 combat power was the minimum, citing an over-eighty-year-old father with 2 and a two-year-old child with 1.

Ye Fei completed his supply-search quest and began to suspect that he alone could see the game’s prompts and quest markers. While searching around his home, he spotted a red exclamation mark beside a supply crate marker, leaving him facing a possible danger.

• Ye Fei woke to a refreshed quest requiring him to find three supply crates and followed visible markers to dig up two.
• Ye Fei noticed that other people complained about finding crates without mentioning markers, and wondered if his prompts were exclusive to him.
• Ye Fei opened the crates and received food, water, low-grade timber, and a severely worn axe.
• Ye Fei tested the prompts on trees, snow, and a buried stone, then continued searching the area around his home.
• Ye Fei found another supply crate marker, but a red exclamation mark appeared in the snow nearby.

Ye Fei encountered a Snow Lurker while searching for supplies and discovered it was a tamable Snow Fox Cub. After completing his quest and cooking the chicken from the supply crate, he brought the injured cub inside, believing he had tamed it.

• Ye Fei used the red warning marker to avoid the Snow Fox Cub’s charge, and the cub crashed into a rock and injured itself.
• Ye Fei identified the cub as tamable, grabbed it with his axe ready, and retrieved the supply crate, completing his quest.
• Ye Fei opened the crate, found bread, water, and frozen chicken, then cooked the chicken into soup.
• The hungry cub whimpered outside, and Ye Fei comforted it and offered to let it stay with him.
• Ye Fei carried the trusting cub indoors and settled it in a basket, while the cub hoped to recover and reclaim its meat.

Ye Fei inspected his See Through talent and the medicines from his Level One Survival Pack while waiting for chicken soup to finish cooking. He found the soup granted a modest recovery effect, then compared it with a speed-boosting grape listed in the trading interface.

• Ye Fei confirmed that the Snow Fox cub was not yet his pet and examined his See Through talent and household energy use.
• Ye Fei opened the Level One Survival Pack and received blood replenishment, mind restoration, and pet affection pills, but withheld them from the cub.
• The Snow Fox cub smelled the Pet Affection Pill and clung to Ye Fei's hand, while Ye Fei refused to give it anything until it was his pet.
• Ye Fei finished cooking chicken soup, which gained green quality and a 5% recovery-rate effect, then served himself while the cub waited.
• Ye Fei checked his attributes and compared the soup with a blue crystal grape listed for sale that granted 5 speed points.

Ye Fei fed the recovering little fox and discovered that objects from his simulated home could not be taken outside. While searching the snowy wilderness, he found a dying pine seedling and a supply crate containing food, water, and single-use Chinese cabbage seeds.

• Ye Fei gave the little fox cooled chicken soup and a chicken head, then let it sleep in the basket.
• Ye Fei tried to carry the fox outside in the basket, but the basket vanished, so he caught the fox and put it in his coat pocket.
• Ye Fei realized that objects in his home were simulated copies that could not leave the house, unlike items obtained in the world.
• Ye Fei searched near home and found a dying pine seedling beneath the snow, then stored it in his Inventory.
• Ye Fei opened a supply crate and received bread, water, and five single-use Chinese cabbage seeds.

Ye Fei continued searching the snow with his injured Snow Fox tucked in his jacket, while the fox mistook his care for that of a parent. After returning home with supplies and feeding the fox, Ye Fei rested as they waited for dinner to cool.

• The Snow Fox decided to stay in Ye Fei’s pocket, believing he was treating it like his cub, while Ye Fei wondered why it had accepted him as its owner.
• Ye Fei fed the Snow Fox a Pet Heart Pill, restoring its health and increasing its loyalty; the fox’s appreciation raised its loyalty further.
• Ye Fei searched the snow through the afternoon, found four supply crates, and used another Pet Heart Pill to bring the Snow Fox’s health nearly back to full.
• Ye Fei returned home, cleaned the yard for a Survival Point, and carried the Snow Fox inside.
• Ye Fei prepared chicken soup, set the Snow Fox beside his pillow, and rested while checking the chat channel as the food cooled.

Ye Fei dismissed a recruiting group that promised martial arts training in exchange for Survival Points, then named the little fox Qingxue and settled in for the night. The next morning, he prepared breakfast and checked a new quest requiring him to collect five supply crates for five Survival Points.

• Ye Fei searched the Boxing Champion Hall recruiter’s past messages and decided its offer of a training guide for Survival Points sounded like empty promises.
• Ye Fei tried several names for the little fox, settled on Qingxue, and fed her chicken soup and meat before bed.
• After Ye Fei fell asleep, Qingxue crawled over and curled up against his shoulder for warmth.
• Ye Fei woke with Qingxue beside his neck, reheated the leftover chicken soup, and planned to add three eggs and eat bread with it.
• Ye Fei checked his Random Quest and learned he needed to collect five supply crates that day to earn five Survival Points.
• While Ye Fei swept the yard, Qingxue ran along the fence and then leaped toward his chest.

Ye Fei completed his daily supply quest, unlocked the Survival Mall, and spent his points on a planting tool set. After planting a pine seedling by his yard, he unexpectedly earned five survival points, leaving him eager to prepare soil for vegetables.

• Ye Fei cared for Qingxue, then set out with her to search for supplies.
• Ye Fei collected five supply crates and completed his daily quest, unlocking the Survival Mall.
• Ye Fei spent his twenty survival points on a Planting Tool Set.
• Ye Fei planted a Pine Seedling by his yard and received five survival points as a reward.
• Ye Fei decided to turn the soil so he could plant vegetables next.

Ye Fei planted vegetables, followed Qingxue to a Green-Quality Supply Crate, and returned home to plant a second tree. After feeding Qingxue two Heart Pills, he saw her happiness reach its maximum and her growth speed increase.

• Ye Fei planted two Tomato Seeds and three Chinese Cabbage Seeds in his yard, then ate chicken soup with Qingxue.
• Qingxue led Ye Fei uphill to a Green-Quality Supply Crate, which he collected before finding a Dying Pine Seedling and white-quality Ice.
• Ye Fei returned home and planted the second tree in his yard, raising his greenery value to 10 and earning 10 survival points.
• Ye Fei fed Qingxue two Heart Pills, increasing her loyalty to 75 and bringing her happiness to its maximum, which doubled her growth speed.

Ye Fei sold ice and pine needles, made a friend from the Grassland, and gathered more materials before nightfall. He ended the day with nineteen Survival Points, still one point short of buying a Crafting Bench.

• Ye Fei sold his ice and pine needles through the trading interface and used poor-quality timber to protect his vegetable patch.
• A player from the Grassland with combat power 9 asked Ye Fei to become friends and trade privately, but Ye Fei explained he could not afford an axe to gather more ice.
• Ye Fei chopped down another dead tree, collected timber, ice, and pine needles, and listed the latter materials for sale.
• Ye Fei cleaned his yard for one Survival Point, ate dinner with Qingxue, and watched players argue in the chat channel as night fell.

Ye Fei opened a Green-Quality Supply Crate and bought a Semi-Finished Crafting Station so he could make the components for a wooden house. After chopping trees until he had enough timber, he queued up the parts for the house and left them crafting.

• Ye Fei opened the Green-Quality Supply Crate and received supplies, fabric, timber, and a Worn Axe.
• Ye Fei bought a Semi-Finished Crafting Station and discovered recipes for wooden house components.
• Ye Fei calculated that he needed far more timber than he had to build a modest house.
• Ye Fei completed the day's quest by finding three Supply Crates, then chopped trees near home until he had 334 low-grade timber.
• Ye Fei returned home and queued up the wooden house components, which would take over an hour to craft.

When the Novice Home disappearance countdown began, Ye Fei gathered timber and started building a replacement house while other players panicked about the deadline. His little fox grew more loyal after sharing its bread with him, then watched in alarm as his old house vanished during construction.

• A noon announcement gave players twelve hours before their Novice Homes disappeared, and Ye Fei continued chopping trees to gather timber for a new house.
• Ye Fei found a mysterious sapling while harvesting wood and put it in his inventory to plant later.
• The little fox woke up, split its bread with Ye Fei, and gained five loyalty points because it believed he was weak and cared for it.
• Ye Fei began rebuilding his house, and the original house dissolved into smoke as soon as he placed the first wooden wall.
• The little fox panicked at the sight of Ye Fei's vanished house and worried that he would freeze in the snow.

Ye Fei finished building his wooden house and used the construction reward to craft basic furnishings. He was left with a place to sleep and cook, but snow was already piling up in the yard.

• Ye Fei learned that Qingxue had reached maximum loyalty and begun basic evolution, then returned to building the house.
• Ye Fei gathered timber and completed the house, earning a House Construction Gift Pack.
• Ye Fei opened the gift pack and received a smelting furnace, a crafting bench, four recipes, and survival points.
• Ye Fei bought fabric and iron ore, then crafted a bed, bedding, a boiler, and tableware.
• Ye Fei placed the bed and boiler in the house and moved the large machines outside, where he found windblown snow piling up in the yard.

Ye Fei completed a fence around his house and unlocked defense and hunting modes, then Qingxue finished evolving into a Level 2 Snow Fox cub. As Ye Fei prepared to sleep, he learned that strange dangers were emerging both in his snowy region and elsewhere, leaving him wary of the night ahead.

• Ye Fei built a new fence around his house, which completed his home and unlocked defense and hunting modes.
• Ye Fei read the mode descriptions, planted the unidentified Sapling near the fence, and continued clearing snow from the courtyard.
• Qingxue finished evolving into a Level 2 Snow Fox cub with combat power 10, and Ye Fei gave her bread and water.
• Ye Fei messaged his friend in Grassland, who described a smoking volcano and flashes of fire on a mountain visible across the grasslands.
• Ye Fei wondered whether the players shared one location or occupied separate spaces, then saw fierce winds and swirling snow outside his own house.

Ye Fei set out to hunt in the snow for his new daily quest and discovered a wild rabbit with a wolf lurking nearby. After seeing Qingxue the Little Fox’s enormous claws and accepting her confidence, he let her approach the wolf while he continued toward the rabbit.

• Ye Fei woke early, cleared the overnight snow, and prepared to hunt after seeing his new quest to hunt three animals.
• Ye Fei spotted animal tracks near his home and carefully followed them through the snow.
• Ye Fei found a wild rabbit and noticed a wolf hiding behind a dead tree nearby.
• Ye Fei checked the wolf’s combat power and saw that it matched Qingxue the Little Fox’s, then let her go after she showed him her sharp claws.
• Qingxue burrowed beneath the snow toward the wolf while Ye Fei continued toward the rabbit.

Ye Fei and Qingxue killed a wounded rabbit and a wolf, then returned home to harvest the animals and prepare Rabbit Meat. After selling materials and making room in his Inventory, Ye Fei set out with Qingxue to hunt again.

• Ye Fei killed a dying wild rabbit, but a gray wolf ambushed him; Qingxue attacked the wolf while Ye Fei struck it with his axe.
• Qingxue crippled the wolf’s neck, and Ye Fei finished it off, earning one Survival Point for each kill.
• Ye Fei carried both corpses home and bought a Prey Butchering Knife for 25 points, then harvested leather, meat, bones, and sinew.
• Ye Fei put the Rabbit Meat on to stew, listed leather, bones, and sinew for trade, and stored the Wild Wolf Meat in his Inventory.
• Ye Fei and Qingxue went back outside to search for more prey after he checked that the bloodstains had disappeared.

Ye Fei and his friend from Grassland chatted about hunting and their university, then realized their versions of Q University might belong to different worlds. The chapter left them wondering whether they were communicating across parallel worlds.

• Ye Fei reassured his friend that people who lost their houses had survived, though they suffered from the cold and poor recovery.
• His friend said he could see sheep and wolves but lacked a weapon, and Ye Fei explained that he had killed a rabbit with a woodcutting axe.
• Ye Fei and his friend discovered they were both male Q University alumni, with Ye Fei as the older graduate and his friend as a new student.
• His friend mentioned an academic department and physical cultivation, which Ye Fei had never encountered at his own Q University.
• Ye Fei and his friend recognized that their universities and combat abilities differed enough that they might come from parallel worlds.

Ye Fei spoke with a junior from a parallel world, then completed his daily hunt with Qingxue and returned home to cook rabbit meat. Checking his status confirmed that equipment and food bonuses did not increase personal combat power.

• Ye Fei learned that Grassland/0090-1144-3656 came from a parallel world and explained that his world relied on technological weapons rather than fighting marine creatures.
• Ye Fei resumed hunting with Qingxue and found a hare with combat power 4, which Qingxue killed in one strike.
• Ye Fei completed his Random Quest, received 9 Survival Points and a Level-One Hunting Pack, and harvested the hare for materials.
• Ye Fei returned home with Qingxue, cooked rabbit meat that granted a temporary speed boost, and shared the meal with her.
• Ye Fei checked his Personal Panel and confirmed that equipment bonuses did not count toward his personal combat power.