Chapter Summaries

Luo Fan learned that Zhao Chunfeng’s Divination would be unreliable for two days and was asked to deal with the convoy member who had leaked information. After Zhao explained the bottleneck between Lv10 and becoming a Professional, Luo Fan unexpectedly advanced to Lv3 in the Assassination Sequence.

• Zhao Chunfeng told Luo Fan that killing the black bear had weakened his Divination for about two days and asked him to keep the convoy alert.
• Zhao Chunfeng asked Luo Fan to deal with the person who had leaked information to Luo Dahai, saying Luo Fan needed to establish authority.
• The Hope Convoy resumed traveling, stopped at dusk, and watched a train carrying survivors pass nearby.
• Zhao Chunfeng told Luo Fan that reaching Lv10 did not guarantee becoming a Professional, since only a small fraction of Sequence Users could overcome the bottleneck.
• Luo Fan felt an invisible pulse from his body and discovered that his Assassination Sequence had reached Lv3.

Luo Fan reached Lv3, learned that early Basic Sequence levels did not prove he was a genius, and raised his standing in the Hope Convoy by killing an information leak. At midnight, a Paper-Sheet Anomaly attacked the convoy, turning two survivors into pictures as Luo Fan and the others witnessed its deadly ability.

• Zhao Chunfeng explained that Luo Fan's rapid leveling came from fighting ranked Fierce Beasts and eating their meat, while Zhao had reached Lv10 in half a month and then hit a bottleneck.
• Luo Fan killed a survivor who had secretly leaked information to another convoy, earning greater trust from the Hope Convoy.
• Luo Fan received a 30-yuan check-in reward at midnight and considered buying An Xiaoran plain milk.
• A woman reported that an anomaly had turned her sleeping husband into a picture, and Luo Fan, Zhao Chunfeng, and Niu Dagang investigated.
• A second survivor saw the anomaly approaching, and Luo Fan watched the flat, head-on-visible Paper-Sheet Anomaly pass through the man and turn him into a picture.

Luo Fan and the others faced a paper-thin supernatural entity that turned anything passing through its body into a two-dimensional image while dodging attacks between strikes. They realized its ability had a cooldown, but when it lunged at Niu Dagang again, it dodged the rock he threw, leaving him in immediate danger.

• Luo Fan and Zhao Chunfeng saw the entity turn a survivor into a two-dimensional image, while Niu Dagang's iron rod and Zhao Chunfeng's bullets failed to hit it.
• The entity lunged at Niu Dagang and turned his iron rod into a two-dimensional image as he dodged aside.
• Luo Fan reasoned that the entity could only use its dimensional attack at intervals and dodged when it was not attacking.
• Zhao Chunfeng urged the survivors to throw objects at the entity during its attacks, and they gathered rocks and other items.
• When the entity lunged at Niu Dagang again, it twisted aside to dodge his rock, leaving him with nothing to defend himself.

Luo Fan used his Uncanny Artifact bow to force the uncanny creature to dodge until its phasing ability went on cooldown, then rushed in and stunned it with Sap. The creature was left pinned by all twenty-four arrows.

• Luo Fan shot the uncanny creature with his Uncanny Artifact bow, whose arrows repeatedly turned and pursued it whenever it dodged.
• Luo Fan fired all his remaining arrows while tracking the creature’s roughly thirty-second ability cooldown.
• Luo Fan charged the creature with the Beast-Fang Short Blade and struck its head with the hilt, activating Sap.
• The uncanny creature froze as the twenty-four arrows struck and bristled across its body.

After killing the uncanny entity, Luo Fan advanced to Lv5 and continued traveling with the Hope Squad while his check-in funds increased. Four days later, he reached Lv6, awakened Spirit Void Step, and received a notification that the shop update was complete.

• Luo Fan killed the uncanny entity with Myriad Arrows Return to the Sect, advancing his Sequence to Lv5.
• Zhao Chunfeng explained that fighting and killing uncanny entities increased a Sequence User’s power, and that reaching Lv6 would awaken a second skill.
• Luo Fan returned to the truck, checked on An Xiaoran, and worried that he had not discovered the Twin-Eye Bow’s cost.
• The next morning, Luo Fan used his shop funds to make dough-drop soup for Zhao Chunfeng, Niu Dagang, and An Xiaoran.
• The Hope Convoy continued its journey, and Luo Fan’s Check-in Funds rose to fifty yuan after he reached Lv5.
• Four days later, Luo Fan reached Lv6, awakened Spirit Void Step, and saw a notification that the shop update was complete.

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.