Recaps

After reaching level 6, Luo Fan explored the newly expanded shop and tested the Spirit Void Step skill he had awakened. He discovered it greatly improved his jumping and made his footsteps nearly silent, then set off to test his running speed.

• Luo Fan found twelve new shop products, including food, drinks, gasoline, and medicine, and decided gasoline was his most urgent need.
• Luo Fan considered raising his Sequence level to earn more check-in funds and unlock further shop benefits.
• Luo Fan left the truck quietly while An Xiaoran and the others slept, then activated Spirit Void Step.
• Luo Fan leaped several meters into the air and landed silently, realizing the skill could help him move among buildings while scavenging.
• Luo Fan activated Spirit Void Step again and dashed off to test his running speed.

After testing Spirit Void Step and reaching Lv6, Luo Fan returned to the convoy and shared breakfast with An Xiaoran. Zhao Chunfeng revealed the convoy was running low on gasoline and proposed a trip to Jiangxin Town, only for Luo Fan to reveal he had already reached Lv6.

• Luo Fan tested Spirit Void Step and found it let him sprint at over 100 kilometers per hour for a short time.
• Luo Fan noticed a convoy motorcycle rider with the widow of a man who had died, then returned to the truck and rested beside the sleeping An Xiaoran.
• The next morning, Luo Fan made breakfast and gave An Xiaoran milk; Zhao Chunfeng and Niu Dagang arrived and arranged to trade for some of Luo Fan's greens.
• Zhao Chunfeng said the convoy had fuel for about a week and proposed traveling to Jiangxin Town, 130 kilometers away, to replenish it.
• Zhao Chunfeng suggested waiting until Luo Fan reached Lv6 and acquired Spirit Void Step, and Luo Fan told him he was already Lv6.

Luo Fan and the others prepared to enter Jiangxin Town to search for supplies and gasoline, with Zhao Chunfeng warning the convoy about the dangers ahead. Just as the group was about to set out, Rose joined them and tried to persuade Luo Fan to let her come.

• Luo Fan revealed that he had reached Lv6, surprising Niu Dagang, who worried he would soon be the weakest in the squad.
• Zhao Chunfeng explained that the route to Jiangxin Town would take about three days and that the group would inevitably face Fierce Beasts or supernatural horrors.
• After three days of travel, Uncle Li warned the Hope Convoy that searching Jiangxin Town would be dangerous and gave them one hour to return once they entered.
• Luo Fan, Niu Dagang, Zhao Chunfeng, and An Xiaoran agreed to use Niu Dagang's bus and split the supplies they found, with the combatants receiving larger shares.
• Rose boarded the bus and asked to join the search, but Luo Fan refused; she hugged his arm and pleaded that she would do anything he said.

Rose revealed that she had come to Jiangxin Town to hunt for treasure, and Zhao Chunfeng’s Divination suggested a little good fortune amid danger. Luo Fan led the group to a factory instead of the expected gas station, where survivors reported seeing half a woman’s face at a window, and Niu Dagang opened the locked gates.

• Rose admitted that she was following her Money Rat, Little Gold, to find treasure in Jiangxin Town.
• Zhao Chunfeng read the coins and divined a little good fortune amid danger, but said a fuller interpretation would take an hour or two.
• Luo Fan decided the group would stay together and prioritize collecting gasoline, then Xiao Wang drove the bus into town.
• Fierce Beasts attacked the group on the way, and Niu Dagang killed them with his fire axe.
• The group reached a locked factory instead of a gas station, and two survivors said they had seen half a woman’s face at a second-floor window.
• Luo Fan told Niu Dagang to break the lock, and Niu Dagang smashed it open and began pushing the factory gates aside.

Luo Fan and Niu Dagang discovered a partially filled fuel tanker at the factory, but Luo Fan killed a survivor who demanded a share of the gasoline. Rose then found more fuel inside a building, suggesting the factory was a black refinery.

• Luo Fan and Niu Dagang found a small tanker holding only six or seven hundred liters of fuel.
• A woman among the survivors demanded that everyone receive a share, and Luo Fan slit her throat with his Beast-Fang Short Blade.
• Luo Fan warned the other survivors not to ask for fuel, and they backed down in fear.
• Rose called out from a factory building that she had found much more fuel and that the factory appeared to be a black refinery.

Luo Fan and the survivors found enough gasoline at an illegal refinery and began filling their containers and tanker, but Xiao Wang was discovered dead with his head missing. The survivors then realized several people had vanished, and the chapter ended with Xiao Wang’s seemingly living head calling for help from an upstairs window.

• Luo Fan offered the survivors food to help fill the tanker, and they agreed to load gasoline.
• Luo Fan found Xiao Wang beneath the tanker and dragged out his headless corpse.
• Niu Dagang rushed outside, grieved for Xiao Wang, and shouted for the hidden attacker to reveal itself.
• The survivors noticed that several people, including Yilong and Xiao Jiang, had disappeared.
• Xiao Wang’s head appeared at a second-floor window and called for help.

Luo Fan and the survivors discovered that a monster was using slugs to carry living human heads, then found their escape from the refinery blocked by a mass of slugs. With half their time in Jiangxin Town already gone, Luo Fan decided they had to go to the second floor and kill the monster.

• Xiao Wang’s head appeared at a second-floor window, carried by a snail-like slug, and Luo Fan stopped Niu Dagang from trying to save him.
• Luo Fan ordered the survivors to retreat, but they found the factory exit blocked by countless slugs.
• Niu Dagang and Luo Fan attacked the slugs, but every one they cut apart multiplied, and slugs devoured two survivors while keeping their heads alive.
• The slugs forced the survivors away from the doorway and blocked their escape, leaving them to look to Luo Fan for help.
• Niu Dagang said they had been in Jiangxin Town for half an hour, so Luo Fan decided they would go to the second floor and kill the monster.

Luo Fan and Niu Dagang found the giant slug beneath an eerie tree on the factory’s second floor and learned that physical attacks could not harm it. Luo Fan doused it with gasoline, provoking it to split into hundreds of slugs that spread toward them.

• Luo Fan, Niu Dagang, and An Xiaoran went upstairs while Niu Dagang asked whether Luo Fan had seen Rose.
• The group found a vine-covered floor, a small tree with a glowing flower, and the giant slug consuming a head and a fallen petal.
• Luo Fan and Niu Dagang discussed how the slug split when cut and seemed immune to physical damage.
• Luo Fan shot the giant slug with the Twin-Eye Bow, but it expelled the arrow unharmed.
• Luo Fan splashed gasoline onto the slug and said fire should work.
• The giant slug stretched upright, split into hundreds of small slugs, and sent them rushing toward Luo Fan and Niu Dagang.

Luo Fan and Niu Dagang discovered that fire could kill the uncanny slugs and used gasoline to hold back the giant slug. As the flames spread across the factory’s second floor, Luo Fan ordered everyone downstairs.

• Luo Fan tricked the slugs into advancing, then lit the gasoline covering them and watched the fire destroy them.
• The giant slug split off a gasoline-soaked part of itself and charged, so Luo Fan poured more gasoline to create a wall of fire.
• Luo Fan told Niu Dagang to fetch more gasoline, and Niu Dagang returned with two thirty-liter cans.
• An Xiaoran shielded Luo Fan as he fought off the slug duplicates and urged her to go downstairs.
• Niu Dagang threw the gasoline cans near the slug and the Uncanny Little Tree, and Luo Fan ignited a can with an arrow, setting the second floor ablaze.

Luo Fan and Niu Dagang prepared to leave Jiangxin Town after the fire killed the enormous slug, but Luo Fan returned to the factory to investigate the Monster Tree. He found Rose collecting petals from its flower and took its blood-red fruit before the group’s time to escape ran out.

• Niu Dagang buried Xiao Wang and started the repaired fuel tanker while Luo Fan learned they had fourteen minutes to leave Jiangxin Town.
• Luo Fan leaped into the burning factory and discovered that the Monster Tree had killed the enormous slug by draining it with its tentacles.
• Luo Fan found Rose holding a torch and collecting petals as the Monster Tree’s flower revealed a blood-red fruit.
• Luo Fan fought off the Monster Tree’s vines, cut down its flower, and stored the fruit before it fully ripened.
• Luo Fan left the factory, and Rose gathered her petals and hurried downstairs to escape.

As the survivors fled the factory, Luo Fan spotted the woman he had killed, now transformed into a powerful monster, and she attacked Rose. Luo Fan killed her and An Xiaoran healed Rose enough to stop the bleeding, then the group continued toward the edge of town with Rose chasing the bus.

• Niu Dagang drove the idling tanker out of the factory as the survivors prepared to escape Jiangxin Town.
• Luo Fan offered to carry the survivors' collected gasoline on the bus, then spotted the murdered woman crouched on the factory roof.
• The monstrous woman leaped toward Rose, and An Xiaoran shielded her from the first attack.
• The woman shattered An Xiaoran's Shield and wounded Rose, but Luo Fan shot her through the skull before she could strike again.
• An Xiaoran healed Rose, and Luo Fan drove the bus toward the edge of town while the survivors loaded their gasoline aboard.
• Rose recovered enough to stand and hurried after the bus despite her wounds.

After escaping Jiangxin Town, the Hope Convoy raced through the night, leaving many survivors behind before stopping to rest. Rose then awakened her Sequence and went to tell the other Sequence Users.

• An Xiaoran healed Rose after the group escaped Jiangxin Town, and Zhao Chunfeng allowed the survivors five minutes to rest before the convoy departed.
• Several survivors paid food or gasoline to ride in the vehicles, while others stayed on foot as the convoy sped away.
• After dark, dark figures at the Black Refinery followed Rose’s blood trail toward the Hope Convoy.
• The convoy drove for hours, losing more survivors along the way, then stopped to rest for one day and two nights.
• Rose felt a mysterious aura awaken within her, went to the bus, and announced that she had awakened her Sequence.

Luo Fan confronted Rose about her suspicious actions at the Black Refinery and argued that she had manipulated the convoy to stay while she searched for the Monster Tree’s fruit. Niu Dagang accused her of causing the deaths of the people who remained, including Xiao Wang.

• Rose revealed that she had awakened the Spell Sequence, and the convoy welcomed her as its new ranged attacker.
• Luo Fan congratulated Rose, then told her to leave the Hope Convoy; Zhao Chunfeng asked him to explain.
• Luo Fan pointed out that Rose had searched the refinery buildings and rushed upstairs for the Monster Tree’s petals, suggesting the treasure she sought was its fruit.
• Luo Fan accused Rose of stalling the convoy by revealing the refinery’s extra gasoline and provoking an argument, so she could search for the treasure.
• Niu Dagang angrily asked Rose whether her actions had caused the deaths at the refinery, including Xiao Wang.

After Rose admitted to deliberately stalling the convoy and offered her Mara Flower petals as compensation, Zhao Chunfeng persuaded Luo Fan and Niu Dagang to give her one last chance. The group divided the petals, and Luo Fan ended by asking An Xiaoran what she needed to do to advance to a Professional Sequence.

• Luo Fan, Niu Dagang, and Zhao Chunfeng rejected Rose for causing Xiao Wang's death and endangering other survivors, and Rose pleaded to stay with the convoy.
• Rose offered her twelve Mara Flower petals as compensation, and Zhao Chunfeng explained that Mara Fruit could grant a Professional Sequence while the petals raised Sequence levels.
• Luo Fan agreed to give Rose one last chance after Zhao Chunfeng supported her, and Zhao Chunfeng divided the twelve petals among the four Sequence Users.
• An Xiaoran gave her three petals to Luo Fan because she was already Lv10, and Luo Fan asked what requirements she needed to meet to advance to a Professional Sequence.

After reaching Lv8 by eating Mara Flower Petals, Luo Fan woke up blind and suspected that blindness was the price of using his Twin-Eye Bow. Zhao Chunfeng judged the blindness was probably temporary, and Luo Fan regained his sight after about half an hour.

• An Xiaoran told Luo Fan that love was the advancement requirement for her Professional Sequence, then declined to explain further.
• Luo Fan ate all six Mara Flower Petals from Rose and advanced to Lv8, then decided to save the remaining petals for later.
• Luo Fan received his scheduled check-in reward, slept, and woke to find he could see nothing despite An Xiaoran confirming it was daylight.
• Niu Dagang fetched Zhao Chunfeng, who examined Luo Fan and concluded that his blindness was likely the Twin-Eye Bow's temporary usage price.
• Luo Fan waited in his truck, and his sight returned after about half an hour.

Luo Fan and the other Sequence Users shared a rare hot-pot meal when a wounded python fled past them, pursued by Professional Sequence User Lian Ziqiong. After Lian Ziqiong killed the python, she asked to join them for a meal in exchange for something, and Luo Fan welcomed her.

• Luo Fan, An Xiaoran, and the other Sequence Users gathered with food to enjoy a hot pot after resting and collecting supplies.
• Rose asked whether Luo Fan could store fresh produce for the group, and Luo Fan explained that his storage space was only about the size of a wooden chest.
• A wounded python Fierce Beast burst from a nearby grove and fled past the group without attacking them.
• Lian Ziqiong appeared and used her Assassination Sequence skills to kill the python.
• Lian Ziqiong recognized Luo Fan and asked to join their meal in exchange for something, and Luo Fan welcomed her.

Luo Fan hosted Lian Ziqiong, a lone Lv12 Shadow assassin, and learned about trade and communication among sequence users. Before she left, they exchanged gifts, with Lian giving him a python tendon to strengthen his bow.

• Lian Ziqiong praised the Hope Convoy’s fair treatment of survivors and explained that she traveled alone to hunt Fierce Beasts and Weirds.
• Lian told Luo Fan to call her Brother Lian, then introduced herself as a Lv12 Shadow assassin and shared her communication phone number.
• Lian explained that sequence users traded Fierce Beast Meat, used newly made communication phones, and held exchange meetings; she also shared news of attempts to awaken sequence users in large numbers.
• After their meal, Luo Fan gave Lian five jin of apples as thanks for the information.
• Lian extracted a tendon from the dead python and gave it to Luo Fan to use as a stronger bowstring, then turned invisible and left.

Luo Fan upgraded his Twin-Eye Bow with a python-tendon string and used Mara Fruit petals to raise his Sequence level to Lv9. As he settled in for the convoy’s final night of rest before traveling again, someone knocked on the vehicle door.

• Luo Fan explained that he gave Lian Ziqiong apples because she would feel obliged to repay a gift, while Zhao Chunfeng teased him about his motives.
• Rose redirected the group’s discussion toward obtaining a Doomsday Phone, and Luo Fan said buying one depended on luck.
• Luo Fan replaced his Twin-Eye Bow’s string with python tendon, increasing its effective range from about fifty or sixty meters to eighty or ninety.
• Luo Fan considered what goods to bring to a future Exchange Meeting but could not decide what to trade.
• Luo Fan ate all eight Mara Fruit petals and rose from Lv6 to Lv9, then received his midnight check-in reward of 90 yuan.
• As Luo Fan closed his eyes on the convoy’s final night of rest, someone knocked softly on the vehicle door.

Niu Dagang asked Luo Fan to help gather the materials he needed to advance to the Professional Sequence, and Luo Fan agreed. After Zhao Chunfeng divined a possible target, the group prepared to set out despite the ominous warning.

• Niu Dagang told Luo Fan he had reached Lv10 and needed scales, hide, and a weird crystal to complete his advancement materials.
• Luo Fan agreed to help Niu Dagang gather the missing materials, and Niu Dagang left to discuss the plan with Zhao Chunfeng.
• Zhao Chunfeng agreed to use divination to find an opportunity, while Rose volunteered to assist in a fight.
• The Hope Convoy traveled for two days, then stopped to rest as Zhao Chunfeng called Luo Fan and the others to Niu Dagang's bus.
• Zhao Chunfeng pointed the group toward a target eight to ten kilometers away, warned it might be a Weird, and said his divination was ominous but not a sign of great misfortune.

Luo Fan and his companions set out to hunt a ranked Fierce Beast and found a huge blue-green deer feeding by a lake. Their first attack went badly: the deer’s freezing aura and strength overwhelmed Niu Dagang and Luo Fan, leaving Luo Fan disarmed and facing its charge.

• Luo Fan scouted ahead and found a ranked deer eating a Fierce Beast beside a lake.
• Luo Fan assigned Niu Dagang to hold the deer’s attention, Rose to attack from range, and An Xiaoran to provide support.
• Niu Dagang charged the deer, but its antlers forced him backward while Rose’s Missile did little damage.
• Luo Fan tried to stun the deer with Sap, but its freezing wind slowed him and covered Niu Dagang in ice crystals.
• The deer flung Niu Dagang aside, shattered An Xiaoran’s Shield, and launched Luo Fan into the air, knocking his short blade away.
• The deer turned on the weakened Luo Fan and leaped at him with its bloodied jaws open.

Luo Fan, Niu Dagang, and Rose killed a Ranked Fierce Beast without casualties, but the ominous divination had not been resolved. A little-girl Weird appeared by the lake, and Luo Fan recognized it as a rule-type Weird.

• Luo Fan used Spirit Void Step to evade the deer while Niu Dagang restrained it and Rose attacked from range.
• Luo Fan shot the deer repeatedly with his enhanced Twin-Eye Bow, killing it with an arrow through the skull.
• Rose recalled Brother Zhao's ominous divination, and Luo Fan realized their easy victory did not explain it.
• A pale little-girl Weird emerged from the woods holding a balloon, and Luo Fan could not lock onto her with the Wraith Eyes.
• The Weird invited them to play, and Luo Fan realized they had encountered a rule-type Weird that could only be killed by following its unknown rules.

Luo Fan and his group were forced to play a bomb-balloon game with a rule-based Weird, and Luo Fan struggled to find a way to survive. An Xiaoran held the balloon until it exploded, smiling at Luo Fan as the game reached its deadly climax.

• Luo Fan warned Niu Dagang and Rose to stay calm and avoid acting until they understood the Weird's rules.
• The Weird made the group form a circle and explained that the balloon would grow as they passed it, exploding and killing whoever held it when the game ended with one survivor.
• Luo Fan could find no clue to the game's rules as the Weird started the game and passed the balloon to Rose, then Niu Dagang.
• Niu Dagang handed the balloon to An Xiaoran, who held it despite Luo Fan's urgent requests to pass it on.
• An Xiaoran smiled at Luo Fan as the balloon in her hands exploded.

An Xiaoran recalled losing her family and finding a new home with Luo Fan, then deliberately took the exploding balloon to protect him. The balloon’s explosion killed the Rule-Type Weird instead, and An Xiaoran revealed that she had advanced to the Professional Sequence.

• An Xiaoran remembered how her father, mother, and brother died, leaving her alone in the Luo Family Town Squad.
• After joining the Hope Convoy, An Xiaoran found comfort in Luo Fan’s kindness, milk, and the chance to fight alongside him.
• When the Rule-Type Weird made the survivors pass around an exploding balloon, An Xiaoran took it from Niu Dagang and refused to give it to Luo Fan.
• The balloon exploded, but the Weird dissolved into starlight instead of killing An Xiaoran.
• Luo Fan pulled An Xiaoran into his arms, and she told him she had advanced to the Professional Sequence.

Luo Fan and his companions returned safely after encountering a Rule-Type Weird, and the convoy shared the spoils from their hunt. An Xiaoran revealed that she had advanced to the Holy Light Angel Sequence, leaving everyone eager to learn its requirements and skills.

• Zhao Chunfeng guessed that the Rule-Type Weird had withheld a rule that reversed the game's outcome if someone played intending to die.
• The group divided the Fierce Beast meat, hide, and Weird crystal, with Niu Dagang receiving the hide and crystal he needed for his advancement.
• Luo Fan revealed that he had reached Sequence Lv10, while Niu Dagang had not yet advanced to a Professional Sequence.
• An Xiaoran announced that she had reached Lv11 in the Holy Light Angel Sequence.
• Zhao Chunfeng asked An Xiaoran about her advancement requirements, and Luo Fan asked whether she had awakened a Professional Sequence skill.

An Xiaoran explained that her Holy Light Descent strengthened allies and weakened enemies, then demonstrated its power by boosting Luo Fan’s attributes. After the group settled in to rest, An Xiaoran asked Luo Fan about the advancement conditions for his professional sequence now that he had reached Lv10.

• An Xiaoran said she awakened the Holy Light Angel sequence by giving of herself and sacrificing herself out of love, and explained Holy Light Descent’s effects.
• At Luo Fan’s request, An Xiaoran cast Holy Light Descent on him, and he matched Niu Dagang’s strength despite being in the assassination sequence.
• Luo Fan and the others agreed to rest after Zhao Chunfeng noted that the conspicuous holy light had attracted attention from the Hope Convoy.
• Luo Fan warned An Xiaoran not to sacrifice herself like that again, and she pretended to be asleep before admitting she had heard him.
• An Xiaoran asked Luo Fan whether he had reached Lv10 and why he had not told the group his professional sequence’s advancement conditions.