Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi awoke cured of his paralysis aboard a ship in a sea-survival game, where players had to keep moving ahead of the deadly Black Fog. After studying his Sailing Log and discovering a powerful but unreliable pistol beside a dead captain, he left the cabin to inspect his ship.

• Yang Yi woke up healthy in a ruined captain's cabin after hearing the game’s rules and the warning that the Black Fog moved at ten knots.
• Yang Yi read the Sailing Log, learned his attributes and Iron Will talent, and saw that billions of players had been transported to the sea.
• Yang Yi read world chat and learned players had different ships and supplies, while some equipment called relics could damage aberrations at the cost of sanity.
• A sailing announcement said players’ starting conditions reflected their personalities and experiences.
• Yang Yi found a superior-quality, rusted flintlock pistol in the dead captain’s hand and read the captain’s notes about fishing and finding the gun.
• Yang Yi left the captain’s cabin and examined the passage and deck of his ship.

Yang Yi explored the cursed ghost ship Nightmare, checked other players’ ships and discoveries, and gathered a small amount of salvage while learning how difficult ship upgrades would be. He prepared to test the ship’s moldy fishing rod, hoping to catch fresh water or other useful supplies.

• Yang Yi searched Nightmare, found its empty, moldy hold, and learned that sleeping aboard it reduced energy recovery while its curse prevented normal fishing.
• Yang Yi read the world channel and saw players show off special ships, including the fast Gale, the evolution-inducing Sakura, and the heavily armed but slow Iron Will.
• Yang Yi learned that players could fish and inspected Nightmare’s barnacle-covered rod, which reduced the chance of catching normal fish and increased the chance of unidentified objects.
• Yang Yi set Nightmare to sail forward at full speed and spent three hours collecting over a hundred floating objects, yielding five units of timber and three units of cloth.
• Yang Yi found that Nightmare’s level-two upgrade required timber, cloth, and the captain’s remains, while ordinary ships needed fewer materials and Iron Will required steel.
• Yang Yi closed the chat, picked up the fishing rod, and prepared to fish.

Yang Yi began fishing from his ghost ship and discovered that his catches were strange abyssal fish that cost him sanity. After three hours he had caught eight Long-Legged Sardines but no fresh water, so he used one as bait and continued fishing.

• Yang Yi prepared a crude spear and flintlock, then cast his line in the Origin Sea.
• Yang Yi read the world channel and learned that anglers could catch monsters, treasure, and other strange objects, and that they should cut the line if a catch seemed dangerous.
• Yang Yi caught a Long-Legged Sardine, killed it with his spear, and shared its image in the world channel, causing over a billion people to lose sanity and block him.
• Xu Da warned Yang Yi about posting disturbing images and befriended him after learning that he sailed on a ghost ship.
• Yang Yi caught eight Long-Legged Sardines over three hours but found no fresh water, then used one sardine as bait and kept fishing.

Yang Yi caught a poisonous fish and a waterlogged chest containing a human-headed octopus, which he killed before collecting its remains and coins. As night brought reports of a Siren attack in the world channel, he slowed the Nightmare and eventually fell asleep amid faint whispers.

• Yang Yi caught a Cystic Spiny Puffer, lost sanity, and used its poisonous fluids to coat his spear.
• Yang Yi pursued a drifting chest, opened it, and shot the Human-Head Octopus that sprang out.
• Yang Yi collected the octopus's remains and 100 Conch Coins, then went to the captain's cabin as night fell.
• Yang Yi shared information about catching chests in the world channel and read reports, including a sailor apparently lured away by a Siren.
• Yang Yi reduced the Nightmare's speed to ten knots, returned to bed, and fell asleep while hearing faint whispers.

Yang Yi fought a Drowned Dead that entered the captain’s quarters, killing it despite its explosive death and injuring himself in the process. After discovering that the door had been open before the monster appeared, he heard footsteps behind him and felt something stab his left shoulder.

• The captain’s skeleton took Yang Yi’s fishing rod and caught something with a pale hand from the sea.
• Yang Yi woke from a nightmare about a drowned corpse and found the captain’s quarters door open as the Drowned Dead appeared.
• Yang Yi escaped onto the bow deck, used the ship’s wheel to evade the Drowned Dead, and shot it with his flintlock.
• The Drowned Dead grabbed Yang Yi’s ankle and exploded after he thrust his spear through its skull, leaving him with injured feet and a shallow arm wound.
• Yang Yi read the Drowned Dead’s entry in the log, wondered what the Monster Gacha Machine was, and realized someone had opened the cabin door before the creature arrived.
• Footsteps approached behind Yang Yi, and something stabbed his left shoulder.

Yang Yi fought the captain's animated skeleton aboard the ship and destroyed it after using a Human-Head Octopus to strengthen himself. Injured, exhausted, and unable to sleep, he planned to set up warning traps, but dawn came before he could rest.

• The captain's skeleton ambushed Yang Yi and stabbed his left shoulder, triggering his frenzied state.
• Yang Yi distracted the skeleton with the flintlock, ate a Human-Head Octopus, and overpowered it to seize its soul flame.
• The skeleton's skull reignited, so Yang Yi shot it into fragments and kept some of its bones and remains.
• Yang Yi dressed his wounds, warned the world chat to lock their doors, and went to bed with his gun nearby.
• Yang Yi planned to build noise-making traps, but he remained awake until dawn.

Yang Yi received an unexplained talent and used the Monster Gacha Machine to trade a Drowned Dead’s severed hand for a potion that could disguise him from lesser aberrations. After making noise traps and eating a raw sardine, he discovered that he had both a corpse toxin infection and food poisoning.

• Yang Yi found the Monster Gacha Machine on the bow deck and learned that his combat talent still needed to be unlocked.
• Yang Yi inserted the Drowned Dead’s severed hand into the machine and received Drowned One’s Grudge, a potion that made lesser aberrations ignore him for one minute at the cost of sanity.
• Yang Yi ate a raw long-legged sardine, then crafted and hung noise traps near the captain’s quarters.
• Yang Yi checked his status and discovered mild corpse toxin infection and food poisoning.

Yang Yi fished desperately for food, water, and medicine while his corpse toxin infection worsened, and a steel warship’s captain fled the encroaching Black Fog. The next morning, Yang Yi resumed fishing but collapsed unconscious on deck.

• Yang Yi ate raw Long-Legged Sardines to stave off starvation and discovered that repeated sanity shocks cost him fewer points while increasing his spirit experience.
• After hours of fishing, Yang Yi caught Eyeball Fruits that replenished his vitamins, salt, and water, easing his diarrhea, but he failed to find medicine for his infection.
• Yang Yi stopped fishing at night and read chat, where Iron Will discussed fleeing the Black Fog in a steel warship that he towed with a harpoon attached to giant sea creatures.
• Yang Yi woke the next day with worsening corpse toxin infection, reduced attributes, and low energy, then ate breakfast and returned to fishing.
• Yang Yi caught an Eyeball Fruit and other items before his vision went black and he collapsed unconscious on deck.

Yang Yi woke severely wounded and infected with corpse toxin, only to be ambushed by a pirate. He drove the attacker away, pursued him, and killed him, then noticed that his unknown skill’s unlock progress had increased.

• Yang Yi woke on the fifth day with critically low health and found a pirate ship grappling onto the Nightmare.
• An arrow struck Yang Yi, but he threatened the boarding pirate with his flintlock and frightened him into fleeing.
• Yang Yi’s first shot misfired, so he wounded the pirate with an arrow tipped with Cystic Spiny Puffer toxin.
• Yang Yi followed the fleeing pirate, boarded his ship, and killed him after his flintlock misfired once more.
• Yang Yi collected 400 Conch Coins and a pirate outfit, then noticed his question-mark skill’s progress had changed from 0/3 to 1/3.

Yang Yi occupied and dismantled the Pirate, gaining enough supplies to upgrade the Nightmare, but his worsening condition made him seek Holy Water. He traded the Drowned One's Grudge and other goods to Zhou Dai, who supplied him with two bottles and proposed working together.

• Yang Yi explored the Pirate, found its murdered former owner, and collected its supplies before dismantling the ship for materials and a blueprint.
• Yang Yi checked his declining Sanity and searched the trading channel for Holy Water to treat the corpse poison affecting him.
• Yang Yi offered Zhou Dai the Drowned One's Grudge, conch coins, resources, food, and water in exchange for Holy Water.
• Zhou Dai accepted Yang Yi's offer and sent him two bottles of Holy Water as a welcome gift.
• Zhou Dai revealed that undead repeatedly visited her ship and that she wanted the Drowned One's Grudge to help her survive.

Yang Yi recovered from corpse poison and upgraded the Nightmare to level 2, learning that a storm would strike the Origin Sea in three days. A woman aboard the Astrologer spotted his strange fishing haul and became curious about him.

• Yang Yi drank two bottles of holy water, treated his arrow wound, and reduced his corpse poison infection to mild.
• Yang Yi upgraded the Nightmare to level 2, and a maritime announcement warned that an unprecedented storm would arrive in three days.
• Yang Yi inspected the Nightmare's expansion options and chose the Ancient War Room, then began fishing for food.
• The Astrologer’s captain used her Peep skill to watch Yang Yi eat bizarre fish and an eyeball, and she wondered how he had caught such treasures.

Yang Yi prepared for an approaching storm, then investigated an island after receiving an anonymous message pointing it out. He gathered shellfish and crafted a stone axe to cut down a coconut palm with a bronze chest hanging from it.

• Yang Yi practiced firing his unreliable flintlock and took stock of his food and supplies before the storm arrived.
• An anonymous sender told Yang Yi to look upper right, where he spotted an island; he circled it and found no signs of other players.
• Yang Yi went ashore and collected mud crabs, clams, and scallops.
• Yang Yi gathered 25 units of stone and crafted a crude stone axe rather than risk climbing the coconut palms or firing his gun.
• Yang Yi approached the tallest coconut palm, which held more than ten coconuts and a bronze treasure chest, intending to chop it down.

Yang Yi harvested Vitality Coconuts and crafted a drink that restored energy, then discovered signs of a huge creature on the island and sailed away to sleep. A Siren charmed him aboard the Nightmare while Su Na watched from the Astrologer and recognized the danger.

• Yang Yi felled a coconut tree, found Vitality Coconuts, and opened a chest containing the refresher recipe, salt, and a Reagent Rack.
• Yang Yi crafted a bottle of Vitality Coconut Juice Refresher and spent the day harvesting 38 Vitality Coconuts and 43 timber.
• Yang Yi found a thick, glowing trail of foul mucus leading inland and decided to leave the shore because a large creature was on the island.
• Yang Yi sailed the Nightmare twenty nautical miles away, drank the refresher, and fell asleep holding his flintlock.
• A Siren's song charmed Yang Yi, lowered his sanity, and drew him toward her despite the triggered noise trap.
• Su Na recorded observations of Yang Yi aboard the Astrologer, tracked the Nightmare, and recognized the Siren.

Yang Yi woke in a Siren cave after being charmed for three days and met Su Na, a bound player who claimed she had rescued him. Suspecting she had lured him there, he threatened her until she revealed her ship could provide nautical charts, then offered to free her in exchange for supplies and a month of charts.

• Yang Yi awoke naked in a cave, found his arm bitten by Su Na, and learned that three Sirens had charmed him and kept him captive for three days.
• Yang Yi checked his status, recovered his pirate outfit and flintlock, and questioned Su Na about her identity and how he had survived.
• Su Na pointed out a dead sailfish and urged Yang Yi to untie her before the Sirens returned, but he remained suspicious of her composure and his nightmare about her.
• Yang Yi aimed his gun at Su Na and demanded a reason to spare her, prompting her to offer her resources and reveal that her ship, the Astrologer, could display nautical charts.
• Yang Yi accused Su Na of luring him and threatened to take her ship, but after she defied him, he offered to save her for half her ship's supplies and a month of nautical charts.

Yang Yi freed Su Na and learned about the Sirens’ habits while preparing to fight them. As one Siren returned to the cave, Yang Yi refused Su Na’s offer of fish to block his ears and turned to face it.

• Yang Yi freed Su Na, who recovered by drinking Siren slime and eating raw sailfish.
• Su Na described the Sirens’ movements and weaknesses, and Yang Yi planned to fight them on land.
• Yang Yi checked his attributes and trained his strength by lifting the dead man’s corpse.
• A creature approached the cave, and Su Na warned Yang Yi that a Siren had returned.
• Su Na offered Yang Yi fish to plug his ears, but he refused and turned toward the Siren.

Yang Yi and Su Na killed one Siren but were ambushed by two more, forcing them out of the cave. They reached the flooded edge of the island in the middle of the storm and split up to fight the pursuing Sirens.

• Yang Yi broke free of the Siren’s charm and shot her dead, then agreed to give Su Na the intact corpse in exchange for her ship’s resources and another month of nautical chart guidance.
• Two smaller Sirens sprang from the pool, sang at Yang Yi and Su Na, and chased them out of the cave after Yang Yi’s flintlock misfired.
• Yang Yi and Su Na found the island’s route blocked by storm waters, and Su Na revealed that the storm had begun two days earlier.
• Yang Yi shot one pursuing Siren in the arm, then told Su Na to keep it occupied while he dealt with the other.

Yang Yi and Su Na killed the three Sirens, then learned that an approaching storm made it urgent to reach the Nightmare. Yang Yi found Su Na’s personal treasure bag and considered how it might help him cross the water.

• Yang Yi killed one Siren with rocks, then helped Su Na subdue the last one and strangled her at Su Na’s request.
• Su Na examined and began dissecting a Siren, while Yang Yi checked the log and learned that the creature was a Lesser Siren.
• Yang Yi read the weather and announcements, discovering that a storm was sweeping across the Origin Sea and the black fog would speed up to 15 knots.
• Yang Yi found that the island was almost submerged and the Nightmare lay several hundred meters offshore, too far for him to swim safely.
• Yang Yi noticed Su Na’s Witch’s Personal Treasure Bag and approached her with an idea.

Yang Yi and Su Na built a raft to reach their ships, but a giant sea snake attacked them along the way. Yang Yi killed it in a desperate underwater fight, and Su Na rescued and treated him before they reached their vessels.

• Yang Yi asked Su Na for rope, then gathered materials and built a raft with her to cross the water to their ships.
• A giant sea snake struck the raft, and Yang Yi jumped into the water to fight it while Su Na stayed aboard.
• The snake coiled around Yang Yi and bit his shoulder, but he fired a shot into its head and fatally wounded it.
• Yang Yi began sinking after the fight, and Su Na jumped into the water and rescued him after the rope connecting them snapped.
• Su Na performed CPR, treated Yang Yi's bite, and helped him reach the ships; afterward, she recorded observations about his fighting instincts in her journal.

Yang Yi and Su Na reunited aboard the Nightmare and agreed to cooperate through the storm while Yang Yi treated their injuries and gathered supplies. After trading Siren relics for Holy Water, they left the island together with a large stock of Vitality Coconuts.

• Yang Yi welcomed Su Na aboard, shared a Vitality Coconut Juice Refresher, and agreed to work with her again through the storm.
• Yang Yi fed Siren flesh and the sea serpent's skin into the Monster Gacha Machine, obtaining Siren's Voice, Siren's Tears, and Sea Serpent's Fang.
• Yang Yi traded the two Siren items and a refresher to Zhou Dai for three bottles of Holy Water, then made Su Na drink one to help treat her injuries.
• Yang Yi and Su Na decided to tie their ships together with grappling hooks so the slower Astrologer could keep pace with the Nightmare.
• Yang Yi and Su Na circled the island once, collected 92 Vitality Coconuts, and split them evenly.

Yang Yi struggled to steer the battered Nightmare through the intensifying Storm Sea while Su Na dissected the Siren and unlocked her Forbidden Scholar talent. After reports of underwater monsters attacking ships, Su Na crossed over to help repair the Nightmare and prepare for the danger ahead.

• Yang Yi learned from the chat channel that Xu Da had escaped the Storm Sea, while he and Su Na remained far behind in the storm.
• Su Na dissected the Siren in the Astrologer's cabin, studying its anatomy and noting its weakening rejection between human and fish organs.
• Yang Yi dodged fast-moving ship debris as repeated collisions damaged the Nightmare, and the system prevented him from using a blueprint to modify it.
• A player reported something ramming his ship underwater, and his final message mentioned a fishman before he disappeared.
• Su Na completed her study of two Otherworldly Demons and unlocked the Forbidden Scholar talent, which reduced her maximum sanity and opened the Occultism System.
• Yang Yi summoned Su Na to the Nightmare, asked her to repair its durability, and told her to remain aboard because monsters might attack.