Chapter Summaries

Luo Fan and the rescue forces reached Yi City, where the military built a bridge across the abyss while battling Fierce Beasts. As the breakout effort began, Luo Fan stayed near the bridge’s midpoint and used his Sniper Rifle to support the advance.

• Luo Fan saw that a deep abyss encircled Yi City, and fighter jets sent over the city were shot down by Fierce Beasts and ranged attacks.
• A Sequence User grew vines across the abyss, and other Sequence Users formed them into a wide bridge while the military fought off attacking flying beasts.
• The military deployed heavy weapons to suppress Fierce Beasts as survivor teams gathered and waited for the people inside Yi City to reach the bridge.
• After receiving orders that the survivors were expected in about fifteen minutes, Luo Fan told Zhao and Xiao Ran to stay behind and crossed with Niu Dagang, Lin Feifei, Han Shanzhong, and Jiang Shengnan.
• Luo Fan stopped near the bridge’s midpoint as An Xiaoran cast Holy Light Descent on him, then he fired his Weird Gun at Fierce Beasts across the bridge.

Luo Fan and the other Sequence Users cleared a massive wave of Fierce Beasts, but he suspected the battle was too easy. Zhao Chunfeng’s Peering showed a vision of a future nighttime attack in which a One-Eyed Giant Weird struck Luo Fan down, so Zhao Chunfeng rushed to warn him.

• Luo Fan conserved his ammunition, switched to close combat, and helped the Hope Convoy fight off the Fierce Beasts on the bridge.
• After about ten minutes, the fighters had nearly cleared the beasts, and Jiang Shengnan’s third-tier mount had borne much of the pressure.
• Luo Fan questioned why Yi City’s defenders seemed so weak, noting that only two third-tier Fierce Beasts had appeared.
• Zhao Chunfeng’s Peering showed the battlefield at night, with survivors fleeing and a One-Eyed Giant Weird attacking the bridge.
• Zhao Chunfeng saw the giant strike Luo Fan and hurried across the bridge to warn him.

Rose watched the Hope Convoy fight at the Yi City battlefield and saw Luo Fan’s improved marksmanship. After Zhao Chunfeng foresaw Luo Fan dying to a Third-Tier Weird at night, Luo Fan led the convoy into Yi City to help the survivors, but a sudden darkness brought an endless Weird Tide.

• Rose found Niu Dagang, Han Shanzhong, Lin Feifei, An Xiaoran, and Luo Fan among the fighters and noticed Luo Fan’s precise shots.
• Zhao Chunfeng warned Luo Fan that his Peering showed the rescue battle lasting into the night and Luo Fan dying to a Third-Tier Weird.
• As the Yi City survivors neared the bridge, the military ordered the Professional Sequence users to advance into the city.
• Luo Fan decided the Hope Convoy would fight for eight hours and then leave together, and he led the others into Yi City.
• Ghost Howls sounded, dark clouds blotted out the sky around Yi City, and countless Weird emerged to form an endless Weird Tide.

Luo Fan and the Sequence Users fleeing Yi City were trapped by a Weird Tide summoned beneath unnatural darkness, and a falling locomotive broke their escape bridge. As the One-Eyed Giant advanced toward them, Luo Fan sent Xiao Hei to attack it, slowing the giant with a rule-type skill.

• Luo Fan joined the Sequence Users escaping Yi City, but dark clouds covered the sky and a vast Weird Tide appeared, led by a nearly hundred-meter-tall One-Eyed Giant.
• Luo Fan recognized the giant from Zhao Chunfeng's warning and led the retreat toward the bridge, but a locomotive crashed down and broke it.
• Sequence Users began repairing the bridge with vines while Xiao Hei rushed in from the darkness and attacked nearby Weirds.
• Luo Fan called Xiao Hei to stop the approaching One-Eyed Giant, and Xiao Hei climbed onto its shoulder and stacked attacks that reduced its speed by 30%.

Luo Fan used Xiao Hei to weaken the One-Eyed Giant while Sequence Users fought to hold the bridge and repair its gap. After Jiang Shengnan interrupted the giant’s attack, the crowd’s retreat collapsed into chaos, and Luo Fan moved toward the giant to stop its descending palm.

• Luo Fan had Xiao Hei reduce the One-Eyed Giant’s defense by 60%, then switched to the Golden Contract and kept attacking.
• Sequence Users divided their forces between holding off the Weird Tide and protecting the bridge repairs, but the One-Eyed Giant smashed the repairs with two dump trucks.
• Jiang Shengnan merged with her brown bear and charged the One-Eyed Giant, forcing it to stagger and miss the bus it threw at the bridge.
• The bridge repairs were completed, but the Sequence Users panicked and fled in disorder, allowing the Weird Tide to overrun their line.
• The One-Eyed Giant reached the bridge and brought its enormous hand down as the crowd fled, while Luo Fan advanced toward it, relying on the activated Golden Contract to stop the blow.

Luo Fan used his Death Immunity to block the cyclops’s strike, knocking the giant down and surviving unharmed. As the battle continued and troops prepared to destroy the bridge, Luo Fan reached an Uncanny Artifact cannon and asked about its power and side effects.

• Luo Fan charged the cyclops and took its palm strike, using Death Immunity to remain unharmed while the recoil knocked the cyclops onto its backside.
• Sequence Users fled across the bridge while Weirds attacked, and a commander ordered troops to prepare to destroy the bridge.
• The cyclops rose and roared as the Nightmare Nekomata raced through the fighting.
• Luo Fan leaped out of his crater, used Spirit Void Step to reach an Uncanny Artifact cannon, and asked a nearby person how powerful it was and what side effects it had.

Luo Fan used a Second Tier Uncanny Artifact cannon to kill the peak third-tier One-Eyed Giant and rose to Lv19. The survivors destroyed the bridge to stop the Weird Tide, but the ground began shaking violently.

• Luo Fan learned that the cannon's shots weakened its user for ten minutes per shot on the following day, then took control of it and aimed at the One-Eyed Giant.
• Luo Fan fired three shells in one second, blasting off the One-Eyed Giant's arms and punching a hole through its chest, killing it.
• Luo Fan's sequence level increased to Lv19, and he realized he had gained two levels in a row.
• After the commander called for help, the Sequence Users charged onto the bridge and fought the Weird Tide while retreating.
• Once the survivors had withdrawn, the cannons destroyed the bridge, but the ground began shaking violently.

The abyss beneath Yi City filled with rising earth, unleashing the Weird Tide and sending the humans fleeing. Luo Fan escaped by bus with An Xiaoran, Murong Xuan, and two pets, while a sword-wielding Sequence User helped from the roof; a female humanoid Weird collected the One-Eyed Giant’s crystal and headed after Luo Fan.

• The ground shook as earth rose from the abyss, and Luo Fan realized that powerful Weirds might control both the weather and the earth.
• With the abyss about to disappear, the humans fled in every direction, and Luo Fan drove off with An Xiaoran, Murong Xuan, and two pets, leaving their other companions behind for the moment.
• A Sequence User jumped onto Luo Fan’s bus roof and helped fight off Weirds and clear a boulder with icy sword energy.
• The abyss filled, and the Weird Tide poured out of Yi City, overrunning fleeing humans and swallowing a fighter jet and a tank despite their attacks.
• Several injured Sequence Users sacrificed themselves by exploding and killing nearby Weirds.
• A female humanoid Weird took the One-Eyed Giant’s third-tier Weird Crystal and other crystals, then ran in the direction Luo Fan’s bus had gone.

Luo Fan and the others fought through the Weird beneath the dark clouds and neared the sunlight, but a strange ash-like Weird attacked the bus. It seized An Xiaoran and began draining her as Luo Fan warned her too late.

• Luo Fan sent Xiao Hei out to thin the pursuing Weird, then joined the fight while Murong Xuan drove and a silver-haired saber-wielding Sequence User guarded the bus.
• After traveling seven or eight kilometers, the bus neared the edge of the dark clouds, and Luo Fan used his Weird Gun to kill approaching and flying Weird.
• Luo Fan shot an eight-limbed Weird that was draining another Sequence User, but its body rippled around the bullet and dissolved into ash.
• The Weird re-formed beside Luo Fan, and holy light from An Xiaoran struck it without destroying it.
• The Weird materialized inside the bus and reached for An Xiaoran; her Windwalker Boots let her dodge its embrace, but it grabbed her hand and began draining her.

Luo Fan and the others escaped the Cloud-Covered Area, but An Xiaoran continued to waste away from the special Weird’s attack. As Luo Fan searched desperately for a Third-Order Weird Crystal to save her, a female humanoid Weird crossed into the sunlight and approached them.

• The Nightmare Nekomata destroyed the special Weird before it could finish draining An Xiaoran, and Luo Fan carried her onto the bus.
• The bus reached the sunlight beyond the Cloud-Covered Area, where the Weirds stopped at the boundary between light and darkness.
• Luo Fan discovered that An Xiaoran was still shrinking; sunlight and a Second-Order Weird Crystal slowed the effect but did not stop it.
• Luo Fan offered baby bok choy and his rule-type Uncanny Artifact in the Trading Section for a Third-Order Weird Crystal, but no one accepted the trade.
• After waiting, Luo Fan opened his private messages to contact Master Wen Hao, while a female humanoid Weird crossed the boundary and walked toward the group in sunlight.

Rose broke her cover to save An Xiaoran, walking into sunlight despite the danger and giving Luo Fan a Third Tier Weird Crystal. Luo Fan used it to try to keep An Xiaoran alive, while the mysterious female Weird’s identity and intentions remained unclear.

• Rose secretly followed Luo Fan’s bus in Weird form and killed a special Weird that attacked An Xiaoran, then escaped the other Weirds with Deceptive Doppelgänger.
• As An Xiaoran weakened in the sunlight and a Second-Order Weird Crystal failed to help, Rose overcame her fear of Luo Fan and walked out of the shadows.
• Murong Xuan spotted the female Weird approaching, and Luo Fan and the silver-haired man readied themselves as she crossed into sunlight and spoke.
• The female Weird asked whether Luo Fan needed a high-tier Weird Crystal, then gave him the Third Tier Weird Crystal from the One-Eyed Giant.
• Luo Fan replaced An Xiaoran’s Second-Order Weird Crystal with the Third Tier Weird Crystal, hoping it would stop her body from shriveling.

Luo Fan obtained a third tier Weird crystal from Rose, allowing An Xiaoran to begin recovering, but Rose postponed naming her demands until An Xiaoran healed. As the bus left Yi City, Luo Fan met the silver-haired swordsman Ximen Chuixue, whose manner reminded him of the deceased Ai Si.

• Rose gave Luo Fan a third tier Weird crystal, and An Xiaoran's body began to recover as she absorbed its energy.
• Rose said she would discuss her demands after An Xiaoran had fully healed, then withdrew into the shadows.
• Luo Fan warned Murong Xuan and the silver-haired man that Rose was an unusual Rule-Type Weird, then carried An Xiaoran onto the bus as Murong Xuan drove away from Yi City.
• Rose watched the bus leave and regretted giving away a top-grade third tier Weird crystal without asking for anything in return.
• Luo Fan learned that the silver-haired man called himself Ximen Chuixue, a Lv21 Frost Swordsman Sequence, and his talk about acting cool reminded Luo Fan of Ai Si.
• Luo Fan stopped chatting with Ximen Chuixue and messaged Jiang Shengnan, Han Shanzhong, Zhao Chunfeng, and the others to check on them.

Luo Fan waited anxiously for word from his friends after the Yi City Weird Tide, then reunited with the wounded Han Shanzhong and Lin Feifei. Zhao Chunfeng finally messaged that he and Niu Dagang were on their way to meet Luo Fan.

• Luo Fan heard from Han Shanzhong and Jiang Shengnan, but Zhao Chunfeng did not reply, leaving him worried about Zhao Chunfeng and Niu Dagang.
• Luo Fan checked on the recovering An Xiaoran while waiting with the Nightmare Nekomata and Money Rat.
• Han Shanzhong and Lin Feifei returned on a motorcycle, and Luo Fan saw that Han Shanzhong had lost his left arm while saving Lin Feifei.
• Han Shanzhong asked about An Xiaoran, Zhao Chunfeng, and Niu Dagang, and Luo Fan said Zhao Chunfeng had not contacted him.
• Lian Ziqiong messaged Luo Fan to ask if he was alive, and he replied briefly before Zhao Chunfeng's message arrived.
• Zhao Chunfeng told Luo Fan that he and Niu Dagang were on their way, and Luo Fan asked whether Niu Dagang was with him.

After escaping the Weird Tide, Luo Fan and Han Shanzhong discussed their injuries and the convoy’s gains before Zhao Chunfeng and Niu Dagang arrived. Zhao Chunfeng warned that something was seriously wrong with Dagang, and Luo Fan’s expression changed as he looked at him.

• Luo Fan learned from Zhao Chunfeng that Dagang was alive and that he and Niu Dagang were on their way to the Hope Convoy.
• Han Shanzhong drank Healing Potions and told Luo Fan that losing an arm would not stop him from fighting Weird.
• Luo Fan introduced Ximen Chuixue as a powerful Lv21 Frost Swordsman, and Han Shanzhong suspected he might want to join the convoy.
• Han Shanzhong revealed he had reached Lv20, while Lin Feifei said her Corpse Explosion had helped her reach Lv19 after killing hundreds of Weird and Fierce Beasts.
• Zhao Chunfeng and Niu Dagang arrived, and Zhao Chunfeng told Luo Fan that something was very wrong with Dagang.

After escaping Yi City, Luo Fan and the surviving Hope Convoy members stopped to recover and assessed their injuries and sequence levels. Murong Xuan used the materials they had gathered to advance to a professional sequence, leaving the group ready to continue onward.

• Luo Fan noticed that Niu Dagang was beginning to transform into a Weird after a special-type Weird kissed his forehead before dying.
• Zhao Chunfeng led the convoy away from Yi City, and the survivors drove for six or seven hours before stopping more than a hundred kilometers away.
• Over dinner, Niu Dagang reported reaching Level 16, while Zhao Chunfeng said he remained Level 14, and the group praised Luo Fan's defensive skill.
• Luo Fan and the others pooled their gathered materials so Murong Xuan could advance to a professional sequence.
• Murong Xuan absorbed the materials through a magic circle and announced that she had successfully advanced.

Murong Xuan advanced to the Enhancement Master sequence, and the Hope Convoy discussed how to use her new skill and hunt Weirds to gather the crystals it required. Ximen Chuixue agreed to join the convoy, but Niu Dagang suddenly cried out in pain just as they finished making plans.

• Luo Fan asked Murong Xuan about her advancement, and she explained that her Enhancement skill used Weird Crystals to strengthen Uncanny Artifacts.
• Murong Xuan described the rising crystal costs and the risks of failure as enhancements accumulated, prompting the convoy to consider which artifacts to improve.
• Luo Fan proposed hunting first-tier Weirds and weaker second-tier Weirds, and the convoy set rules for distributing spoils and paying for Murong Xuan's services.
• Zhao Chunfeng asked Ximen Chuixue about his plans, and Ximen Chuixue agreed to fight second-tier Weirds for a share based on his contribution.
• Niu Dagang suddenly clutched his head and cried out in pain.

Niu Dagang developed horns and worsening signs of turning into a Weird, so Luo Fan promised to kill him if he lost control and sought help from Master Wen Hao. An Xiaoran woke up and, instead of accepting milk from Luo Fan, walked toward Niu Dagang.

• Niu Dagang's skin, eyes, and mind changed as horns grew from his forehead, and he asked Luo Fan to kill him if he became a Weird.
• Luo Fan promised Niu Dagang, then posted on the Sequence User Forum asking how to reverse his condition.
• Master Wen Hao assessed Niu Dagang's affliction as a difficult dying curse and said the Aerospace Base's countering artifact had been lost, but he would consult other bases.
• Lin Feifei's controlled Weird corpses defended the Hope Convoy while Luo Fan waited for news and considered getting more vehicles.
• An Xiaoran woke up, said she felt all right, and walked barefoot toward Niu Dagang instead of taking the milk Luo Fan offered.

After waking, An Xiaoran used her new Holy Light Dispel skill to cure Niu Dagang, while the Hope Convoy recovered and hunted Weirds over the following days. With their supplies and Weird Crystals replenished, Luo Fan had Murong Xuan begin enhancing his Uncanny Artifacts.

• An Xiaoran used Holy Light Dispel to restore Niu Dagang's body to normal, then collapsed from exhaustion as Luo Fan caught her.
• An Xiaoran revealed that she had reached Level 16 and that Holy Light Dispel could remove curses and other abnormal conditions.
• Luo Fan told Han Shanzhong to watch the forum for ways to regenerate his lost arm, and Master Wen Hao messaged that Blessing Type skills might counter curses.
• Over the next two or three days, the Hope Convoy hunted more than fifty First-Tier Weirds and three Second-Tier Weirds, found three vehicles, and gathered Weird Crystals.
• Luo Fan counted forty-three First-Order Weird Crystals and seven Second-Order Weird Crystals, then asked Murong Xuan to enhance his Twin-Eye Bow to +6.

Luo Fan had Murong Xuan enhance his Twin-Eye Bow to +6, raising its attack power while reducing its blindness side effect, and then had her enhance An Xiaoran’s Amplification Tome. The Hope Convoy’s Sequence Users enhanced their Uncanny Artifacts, and Luo Fan changed the subject when Ximen Chuixue began listing his equipment.

• Murong Xuan used thirty-three First-Order Weird Crystals to enhance Luo Fan’s Twin-Eye Bow to +6, succeeding after two failed attempts.
• Luo Fan paid to appraise the bow and learned it scored 98, had greatly increased attack power, and caused one minute of blindness for every three arrows fired.
• Luo Fan tested the bow by shattering a millstone-sized rock with an Armor-Piercing Arrow and decided to use it at medium-to-close range.
• Luo Fan had Murong Xuan enhance An Xiaoran’s Amplification Tome to +3 and paid her for both enhancements.
• Niu Dagang, Han Shanzhong, Lin Feifei, and Murong Xuan enhanced their own Uncanny Artifacts, while Zhao Chunfeng did not have any eligible equipment.
• Ximen Chuixue listed his Second Tier Uncanny Artifacts, so Luo Fan interrupted him and asked Han Shanzhong about advancing to a second-tier sequence.

Luo Fan and An Xiaoran left the Hope Convoy to avoid drawing a powerful female weird to the group, heading southwest after Zhao Chunfeng’s divinations. Less than two hours into the drive, Luo Fan received a message from Jiang Shengnan and abruptly stopped the bus.

• Han Shanzhong explained that his advancement required killing an unknown target about fifty kilometers away, and Luo Fan said he could not join because of the danger threatening An Xiaoran.
• Luo Fan told the convoy about the female weird who had spared them and predicted she would return when An Xiaoran recovered; Zhao Chunfeng divined that Luo Fan and An Xiaoran would turn misfortune into good fortune.
• Luo Fan and An Xiaoran prepared to leave, and Murong Xuan gave Luo Fan a bundle of underwear before he set out.
• Zhao Chunfeng divined that the southwest was the best direction, so Luo Fan drove there with An Xiaoran and Xiao Hei.
• After driving for less than two hours, Luo Fan received a message from Jiang Shengnan and slammed on the brakes.