Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi salvaged weapons and Rat Nest remains from the flooded Shelter while preparing to haul away the enormous Rat King's head. After the robots cleared the remaining enemies, the system confirmed that the Shelter had been occupied and could be dismantled.

• Yang Yi and Su Na split up on Underwater Level 8, with Su Na searching the Laboratory and Yang Yi sorting loot in the General Warehouse.
• Yang Yi recovered weapons, ammunition, and magic stones from a subsidiary warehouse, then began collecting Rat Nest remains.
• Yang Yi found the Rat King's head, identified its name as Horens, and learned that it could be placed in the Monster Gacha Machine.
• Yang Yi tried to lift the enormous head and considered using Su Na's special Spirit Potion to help carry it.
• The system notified Yang Yi that the Shelter had been successfully occupied and could now be dismantled.

Yang Yi weighed whether to dismantle the Shelter for materials or keep it as a base, then drank Su Na’s potion and gained a permanent Spirit increase at the cost of sanity and his fur. He ended the chapter bald, newly dependent on mana, and facing the rat head.

• Yang Yi checked the Shelter’s materials and storage, realized the Nightmare Star could not hold the enormous quantities, and sent the inventory details to Su Na without deciding whether to dismantle the ship.
• Yang Yi drank bottles A and B of the potion, permanently gained one Spirit, restored his mana, lost 20 Sanity, acquired Magic Addiction, and became bald.
• Yang Yi read the potion’s effects and learned that when his mana reached zero, his attributes would be halved and his health, stamina, and sanity would rapidly decline.
• Yang Yi complained to Su Na about losing his fur, and she asked him to bring her spinal fluid so she could make and drink the potion herself.
• Yang Yi agreed to provide the spinal fluid, considered making wigs, transformed into a werewolf, and looked at the enormous rat head.

Yang Yi used Limb Enhancement to haul the Rat King’s head to the Nightmare Star, where the Execution Rack transformed it into a trophy that greatly increased the ship’s capacity and granted a skeletal rat swarm. After inspecting the ship’s changes, he reunited with Su Na and learned she had found Vampire Serum and a prototype laser hand cannon.

• Yang Yi enhanced his limbs and carried the Rat King’s head through the passage before discovering that a conveyor belt could have transported it.
• Yang Yi used the Nightmare Star’s vines and Ancient Skeleton Arms to raise the head to the Execution Rack, which shrank it into the Rat King Skull trophy.
• Yang Yi received the trophy’s effects: increased ship capacity and durability, a changed hull appearance, and the ability to summon 10,000 Skeletal House Mice.
• Yang Yi inspected the Nightmare Star’s new self-cleaning black carpeting as Su Na asked him to bring her and the Xiaoji Robot aboard.
• Yang Yi found Vampire Serum and a prototype laser hand cannon that Su Na had recovered from Area C.

Yang Yi decided to preserve the Shelter as a future mobile base and ordered repairs before using the Gacha Machine on corpses for supplies and equipment. As World Chat opened at eleven, he learned from the Newspaper that a Player Forum had been created.

• Yang Yi and Su Na agreed to keep the Shelter, and Xiaoji estimated that repairing its power, cables, and security would take twenty to thirty days and require large quantities of supplies.
• Yang Yi ordered Xiaoji to begin repairs and learned that the Shelter’s production lines could also be fixed if they obtained enough supplies.
• Yang Yi used thirteen Conjoined Rat Nests in the Gacha Machine and obtained a House Mouse Squad Banner, which he planned to pair with Ratman Hero Capes.
• Yang Yi drew rewards from hundreds of Drowned Dead and Rat Slave corpses, obtaining several bottles of rum and grudges, a Rat Fur Set, and another Ratman Hero Cape.
• As the clock reached eleven, Yang Yi prepared to list goods for sale but read in the Newspaper that a Player Forum had been created.

The Great Newspaper suspended Sea Weekly and launched the Sea Forum, which Yang Yi explored using a lifetime account shared with Su Na. He discovered Su Na had posted under his One-Eye ID and then checked the forum’s new Item Trading section to see how he could sell his goods.

• Song Yingwen announced that Sea Weekly was suspended indefinitely and introduced the Sea Forum.
• Yang Yi received a lifetime forum account from Song Yingwen, shared its login with Su Na, and registered the ID One-Eye.
• Yang Yi explored the forum’s sections and learned that players could post, earn rewards for useful information, and browse archived content outside trading hours.
• Yang Yi found Su Na’s post seeking information about Extraordinary Paths and rejected her request to change his ID after players began debating whether he was the real One-Eye.
• Yang Yi visited the paid Item Trading section and recognized that its editable listings and search tools functioned like an online store.

Yang Yi opened One-Eye's Fine General Store and listed supplies, weapons, equipment, and a grafting skill book for sale. After making several trades, he slept and woke with the side effects of Dreamwalker (Nightmare), then headed to the Witch Laboratory to get fruit from the Vitality Sardine Tree.

• Yang Yi created One-Eye's Fine General Store, posted its trading terms, and listed supplies, firearms, equipment, and rat-fur sets.
• Yang Yi spotted two copycat stores using nearly identical names, then received Shen Guanquan's large order for weapons, ammunition, and Magic Stone, scheduling the trade for the next day.
• Yang Yi sold several weapons and magazines to other buyers, then sold the Limb Grafting Notes bundle to an anonymous player titled Chef.
• Yang Yi finished trading, turned down the Light Container, and slept for eight hours.
• Yang Yi woke with a headache and only 59 Stamina from Dreamwalker (Nightmare), then went to the Witch Laboratory to eat fruit from the Vitality Sardine Tree.

Yang Yi walked the Vitality Sardine Tree and confirmed that walking helped its fruit grow, then spent the day recycling Otherworldly Demon corpses and weapons for gacha pulls. After filling his warehouse, he listed usable weapons for sale and prepared to complete his trade with Shen Guanquan that night while avoiding the Collector.

• Su Na explained that ripe Vitality Sardine Legs fell off the Vitality Sardine Tree on their own, and Yang Yi took the tree for a walk.
• Yang Yi saw the tree's unripe leg grow after walking it, fed it Delicious Fertilizer, and planned to ask Shen Guanquan's Farmer whether it could be grown in quantity.
• Yang Yi and his crew recycled Otherworldly Demon corpses and weapons from the Shelter while he used the materials for gacha pulls.
• After nearly ten thousand pulls, Yang Yi obtained a second Low-Tier Abyss Soulstone and filled his warehouse with items, including a mountain of Rat Fur Sets.
• Yang Yi listed a damaged rocket launcher and other usable weapons in his shop and planned to finish his trade with Shen Guanquan before going to sleep and avoiding the Collector.

Su Na drank both bottles of the Magic Addiction Potion and advanced to the extraordinary, but her Sanity plunged and her new powers went out of control. Yang Yi subdued her with Sleeping Potion, then redirected her runaway energy ball, which blasted a hole through the Nightmare Star.

• Su Na drank bottles A and B of the Magic Addiction Potion and gained the path Witch Who Has Just Glimpsed the Truth as her hair turned white and her Sanity fell by 40.
• The Nightmare Star shook as Su Na floated in the Witch Laboratory, and Yang Yi rushed in to check on her.
• Yang Yi realized Su Na was not in her right state and tackled her to inject her with Sleeping Potion.
• Su Na conjured a dangerous altered Energy-Gathering Ball, but Yang Yi injected the full dose and she fell asleep.
• The energy ball went out of control, so Yang Yi aimed Su Na's hand away from them, blasting a hole through the Nightmare Star's port side and starting a fire.

Yang Yi rescued the Vitality Sardine Tree, discovered its soup boosted Stamina recovery, and enhanced his fishing rod. He opened his shop to new products while planning to question Su Na about her changed hair and full Mana after she woke.

• Yang Yi had the cabin and Witch Laboratory cleaned and repaired, then boiled the frozen Vitality Sardine Tree into soup that increased Stamina recovery.
• The Vitality Sardine Tree jumped out of the pot alive, and Yang Yi learned that its first soaking produced Vitality Sardine Soup (thin).
• Yang Yi enhanced the Pale Worm Fishing Rod with a Low-Tier Abyss Soulstone, improving its fishing effects and halving its Stamina consumption.
• Yang Yi ordered Little Three to arrange a night watch and noticed that Su Na's hair had turned mostly black while her Mana was full.
• Yang Yi's shop opened at 23:00 with discounted Rat Fur Sets and previews of Vitality Sardine products, including concentrated soup with stronger effects and a gourmet appetite risk.

Yang Yi completed a major weapons and Magic Stone sale to Shen Guanquan, then researched the Golden Commerce Guild and considered visiting it to buy supplies. The next day, he continued his Gacha work and learned that Su Na had changed after drinking the Magic Addiction Potion, gaining stronger attributes and a new Witch Form ability.

• Yang Yi sold Shen Guanquan weapons, ammunition, and ten thousand Magic Stones for 12,280,400 Conch Coins, then learned that the Vitality Sardine Tree could not be cultivated.
• Yang Yi chose Shen Guanquan to receive a Rat Fur Set and bought a small batch of Crystal Diamonds, while postponing the purchase of expensive Exceptional equipment.
• Yang Yi read updated intelligence about the Golden Commerce Guild, learned it honored its deals and offered discounts to holders of Collector's Contract Items, and considered sailing there.
• The next day, Yang Yi continued processing Gacha rewards after tending to the Vitality Sardine Tree.
• Su Na woke up and told Yang Yi that the Magic Addiction Potion had changed her Extraordinary Path, raised her attributes, and granted Witch Form when her Sanity fell below 50.

Su Na advanced to Extraordinary and discovered that her witch form was physically changing her body, while Yang Yi planned the next steps for the Nightmare Star. Yang Yi enhanced the White Bone Token and updated his sales post with newly collected weapons.

• Su Na celebrated advancing to Extraordinary through her own work, and Yang Yi warned her that witch form risked draining her Sanity.
• Su Na said she would use her discoveries to seek a way to lower Yang Yi's Pollution, then went to inspect the damaged Witch Laboratory.
• Su Na secretly examined her body and found her right middle finger had an extra joint, while her skin had paled and her hair tips had turned white.
• Yang Yi gave Su Na two Low-Tier Abyss Soulstones and explained his plan to gather 20 million Conch Coins to buy Crystal Diamonds from the Golden Commerce Guild.
• Yang Yi enhanced the White Bone Token into a Bone Demon Token, brought the Vitality Sardine Tree into the Laboratory, and listed newly collected weapons in his updated post.

Yang Yi sold supplies while saving Conch Coins, then visited the Shelter’s Control Room after Xiaoji restored its power. Registering his Grade A Access Card made him the Shelter’s highest-access administrator and acting commander, though the system still listed the Nightmare Star as his ship.

• Yang Yi sold spoils and supplies, while Su Na used his contact ID to seek Magic Books.
• Six days later, a player reviewed the Vitality Sardine Soup and warned others that it was poor value compared with Vitality Coconut Juice Refresher.
• Yang Yi’s Conch Coin balance reached 18.27 million as he planned to focus on selling basic supplies.
• The Little Three Robot summoned Yang Yi to the Control Room and explained that the Central Power Furnace had been repaired.
• Xiaoji told Yang Yi that the Shelter could sail again, though only 22.7% of its security system had been restored.
• Yang Yi registered his Grade A Access Card, becoming the Shelter’s Grade A Access Administrator and acting commander as the Control Room restarted.

Yang Yi learned how the Shelter worked and put Seerte in charge of moving it to his original coordinates after the Nightmare Star left. He then explored the Shelter’s recycling operations with Xiaoji, discovering that the robots had sorted the garbage and assembled land-operation modules, and that House Mouse remains could be turned into food.

• Yang Yi met Seerte, reviewed the Shelter’s capabilities, and designated it as a temporary sea base.
• Yang Yi ordered Seerte to move the Shelter to his original coordinates after the Nightmare Star left and to prevent others from boarding.
• Yang Yi invited Xiaoji to accompany him to the Golden Commerce Guild, and Xiaoji eagerly suggested it could work as a chef.
• Yang Yi found that the robots had sorted most of the garbage and assembled two land-operation expansion modules from preserved parts.
• Xiaoji explained that the Shelter could recycle waste into materials and that House Mouse remains could be recycled into food.

Yang Yi launched One-Eye Brand canned food, instant noodles, and compressed biscuits for sale, attracting heavy demand and earning more than twenty million Conch Coins. After trading ended, he went to sleep while a strange robed figure that had been near the Nightmare Star for hours slipped backward into the sea.

• Yang Yi brought food back to the Nightmare Star, assigned Xiaoji Robot to care for the Vitality Sardine Tree, and had the Skeleton Rats and Ancient Skeleton Arms sort and transport supplies.
• Yang Yi priced his synthetic food cheaply and prepared an advertisement for One-Eye Fine General Store.
• At 23:00, Yang Yi posted the advertisement ten times, and players rushed to buy the food, especially the instant noodles.
• Yang Yi spent the trading hour fulfilling orders with help from the ship’s crew and sold about one-fifth of his stock, bringing his balance above twenty million Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi decided to raise the minimum order to 100 items, then returned to his quarters and fell asleep.
• A gaunt figure in a Scale-Covered Robe remained near the Nightmare Star for five hours after Yang Yi fell asleep, then flew backward headfirst into the sea.

Yang Yi finished preparing supplies and equipment while waiting for the Shelter’s defense system repairs to finish. With departure planned in two days, he checked the forum for updates and reviewed his remaining preparations.

• Yang Yi fed himself and the Maw of Gluttony fish porridge, reaffirming their arrangement that it would fight for him in exchange for regular meals.
• Yang Yi read a player’s positive review of One-Eye Brand Food, which he had made from House Mouse remains and organic waste.
• Yang Yi noted that selling most of his goods had raised his balance to 53,528,330 Conch Coins and that his ship’s supplies were ready.
• Xiaoji reported that the Shelter’s defense repairs were 89.7% complete and would take another one to two days, so Yang Yi planned to depart then.
• Yang Yi checked his upgraded diving suit and other preparations before returning to the Faction Intelligence forum.

Yang Yi caught up on new faction intelligence and learned that Knight of Justice had discovered the Extreme Winter Sea, prompting him and Su Na to consider how the Sea of Miracles fit into the world’s sea regions. He tried to share information about Rat Slaves and the Rat King Skull, but an administrator locked his post for review because its contents could cause mental pollution.

• Yang Yi read about how players could join the Radiant Holy Church by paying money and the Fire Worship Cult by surviving five minutes over a fire, and reflected on his title as Fire Worship Cult Grand Elder.
• Yang Yi searched for exceptional enhancement stones, then saw a chat message directing players to Knight of Justice’s post about finding the Extreme Winter Sea.
• Knight of Justice reported crossing a boundary in the black fog into the Extreme Winter Sea and said he had recorded its coordinates.
• Yang Yi messaged Su Na, and they discussed whether the Sea of Miracles was also a special sea region and what might make it special.
• Yang Yi published a post titled [Terrifying rats] with images and information about Rat Slaves and the Rat King Skull, but an administrator locked it for review.

Yang Yi prepared the Nightmare Star and the Shelter for a long voyage while searching for a way to restore his hair. As the ships set sail toward the zero coordinates, Su Na struggled with a Potion intended to reduce Pollution Depth and resolve Yang Yi’s mutations.

• Yang Yi’s disturbing House Mouse post was featured by the Great Newspaper, and the forum announced that it would begin reviewing images.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na about the hair-growth Potion, then decided to seek Black-Thread Corpse-Manipulating Worms and other remedies himself.
• Xiaoji arrived with a land-operation module, which Yang Yi loaded onto the Nightmare Star alongside the Rotary Beam Cannon.
• Yang Yi had Seerte turn off the Shelter’s lights and run silent before steering the Nightmare Star out of port.
• The Shelter split into five ships and set sail toward the zero coordinates on Yang Yi’s World Sea Chart.
• Su Na struggled to identify what had gone wrong while brewing a Potion to reduce Pollution Depth and resolve Yang Yi’s mutations.

Su Na investigated why potion results varied despite identical procedures and decided to test other recipes before returning to the problem. Three days later, she brought Yang Yi an Energy-Recovery Potion, which restored his Stamina but left him unable to stop moving.

• Su Na concluded that unknown variables caused potion quality to fluctuate and planned to investigate other recipes, including one made with a Vitality Sardine Leg.
• Yang Yi ordered Xiaoji to interrupt Su Na's research after eight hours and sent the Old Captain toward a location marked on the World Sea Chart.
• During the next three days, Yang Yi trained and fished while the Nightmare Star continued toward the Golden Commerce Guild.
• Su Na gave Yang Yi a purple Energy-Recovery Potion, and he drank it after she teased him about his bald head.
• The potion fully restored Yang Yi's Stamina and put his body into a state of extreme excitement that made him unable to stop moving.

Yang Yi tested Su Na's Hyperactivity Potion, managed his dwindling Light Containers, and fished up a live Merman for Su Na. After suffering the potion's delayed exhaustion, he later caught a Black-Thread Corpse-Manipulating Worm, but eating it did not restore his hair.

• Yang Yi drank Su Na's Hyperactivity Potion, ran at high speed for fifteen minutes, and found his Stamina remained high after its excitement wore off.
• Yang Yi discovered a Light Container had been used up, decided to conserve the remaining containers, and set one up with the Mutated Giant Anglerfish's lantern before fishing.
• Yang Yi caught a Merman and gave it alive to Su Na for her Laboratory.
• Eight hours after taking the potion, Yang Yi suffered its exhaustion side effects, rested, and avoided strenuous exercise the next day.
• Five days later, Yang Yi caught a Black-Thread Corpse-Manipulating Worm, which Xiaoji cooked into noodles, but eating it did not make Yang Yi's hair grow back.

Yang Yi and his companions discovered giant Black Shadows emerging from the sea’s black fog and surrounding the Nightmare Star. As they tried to escape, misty hands slowed the ship, and the giants began closing in.

• Yang Yi reviewed his attributes and decided to keep leveling them while searching for a way to upgrade Iron Will.
• The Old Captain abruptly stopped the Nightmare Star, and Yang Yi spotted a giant figure hidden in the black fog with Three Eyes.
• Su Na used the Eye of Greed Telescope while Xiaoji’s radar detected growing numbers of giant anomalous entities around the ship.
• Yang Yi and Su Na activated their Light Containers and tried to steer the Nightmare Star through a gap in the encirclement.
• Misty black hands gripped the hull and slowed the ship, dissolving where the Light Containers shone as faint voices rose from below.
• The giants began converging on the Nightmare Star as the black fog grew more active.