Recaps

Cao Xianming calculated an eighty percent chance of completing the mission to collect one hundred living zombies, despite Wang Ying believing she could incapacitate them with a few slashes. The Survival Convoy entered the zombie-filled city, where Wang Ying drew her blade as the horde charged.

• Wang Ying said the crowded zombies could be incapacitated with three slashes, while Cao Xianming calculated an eighty percent mission success rate.
• Cao Xianming asked Front Desk Robot 001 about the zombies, learned to seek Mechanic Kang Yixiang, then accepted the Forced Dispatch Mission and received gate authorization.
• The Survival Convoy left the Mechanical City in vehicles led by Yang Yong's Demoness Pickup Truck and passed through the Light Gate.
• The convoy encountered a street packed with twisted zombies, which sensed the living and swarmed toward them.
• Wang Ying drew the Black Gold Bone Blade, and the lunging zombies suddenly froze.

Cao Xianming realized the mission’s rising zombie count would trigger increasingly dangerous enemies, culminating in the Zombie King at ninety. The Survival Convoy changed its formation to prepare for the coming fight as Zhang Bihuang began casting the Grand Holy Light Art.

• Wang Ying cut down groups of zombies with the Black Gold Bone Blade, and Cao Xianming discovered that severed limbs quickly decayed while only ten zombies from the first street could be retrieved.
• As the mission count climbed to fifty, Cao Xianming sensed an Eerie approaching and saw a blood-red marker on the Data Model.
• Cao Xianming deduced that an Eerie would emerge at fifty, variant zombies at eighty, and the Zombie King at ninety, and warned the convoy over the radio.
• Cao Xianming ordered Wang Ying to conserve his power for the Zombie King, sent Zheng Xiaofeng to help hold it back, and told the others to save their abilities.
• Zhang Bihuang climbed onto the Off-Road Vehicle and began casting the Grand Holy Light Art.

Cao Xianming and the convoy fought zombies while Yang Yong spotted a fast, seemingly incorporeal eerie that began circling them for an opening. When mission progress reached 80/100, a hulking variant zombie appeared, and Liu Hong charged it despite being weaker.

• Xiao Xuan slowed nearby zombies with holy light and crushed one with her fists while Yang Yong’s flying daggers disabled others, raising mission progress.
• Cao Xianming tracked an anomaly that moved faster than the vehicles, and Yang Yong spotted a broken-necked figure in a dark alley.
• Yang Yong’s daggers passed through the figure until he coated one with his power and embedded it in its chest; it pulled the dagger free, vanished, and began circling the convoy.
• Cao Xianming warned that the eerie was moving around Yang Yong at high speed and searching for an opening, so the convoy slowed and heightened its vigilance.
• When mission progress reached 80/100, a massive variant zombie smashed through a wall and charged toward the convoy.
• Liu Hong transformed using Flesh Titan Sequence One, Flesh Apprentice, and fought the brute, matching its punch but yielding a step under its greater strength.

The Survival Convoy fought a variety of mutated zombies as the mission advanced, until the Zombie King awakened and summoned every zombie in the area. Cao Xianming ordered a retreat toward the Light Gate, but Liu Hong stayed behind.

• Liu Hong fought a hulking zombie alone while Xiao Xuan held back, and Yang Yong trapped and killed a fast zombie with his throwing knives.
• Ma Xiaotong struck a defense-type zombie with lightning, and the convoy members fought off more variants as mission progress reached 90/100.
• The Zombie King awakened and roared commands that Mang Dabiao recognized as a summons to every mutated zombie in the area.
• Cao Xianming saw countless red dots converging on the Light Screen and ordered the convoy to retreat toward the Light Gate.
• Zombies poured in from all directions as the convoy pulled back, but Liu Hong did not retreat.

The Survival Convoy fought near Mechanical City's Light Gate while Yang Yong hurried to complete their mission before the Zombie King could stop them. After the king ordered the zombies to retreat and attack from range, Yang Yong unleashed a massive assault on the horde.

• Zheng Xiaofeng pulled Liu Hong away from the giant zombie and warned him that the Zombie King had arrived.
• The convoy retreated toward the Light Gate, where the Zombie King stopped a hundred meters away and watched them warily.
• Yang Yong used his flying daggers to disable and send three speed-type zombies through the Light Gate, bringing the count to 94/100.
• The Zombie King understood Cao Xianming's call for six more and ordered its zombies to withdraw and attack from a distance.
• Yang Yong unleashed energy from the blood-red eyes on his body and summoned three thousand flame blades, which fell upon the retreating horde.

The Zombie King stopped the convoy just before it could collect its hundredth zombie and attacked Yang Yong, revealing overwhelming strength. Wang Ying’s blade light could not hurt it, but the Zombie King feared the Eerie General’s blade spirit, allowing her to hold it off while the Monk moved to act.

• Mang Dabiao and Zheng Xiaofeng sent zombies through the Light Gate, bringing the count to ninety-eight.
• The Zombie King struck down Yang Yong’s flame blade and roared at the convoy, while Mang Dabiao translated its words.
• The Zombie King prepared to leap at Yang Yong as Cao Xianming ordered Wang Ying to stop it and the others to capture the remaining zombies.
• The Zombie King shattered Wang Ying’s charged blade light between two fingers and leaped toward Yang Yong.
• Wang Ying attacked with the Black Gold Bone Blade, and Cao Xianming realized the Zombie King feared the Eerie General’s blade spirit.
• Wang Ying’s attacks kept the Zombie King occupied, giving the Monk a chance to make his move.

A sniper from Mechanical City sabotaged the Survival Convoy’s mission by killing the ninety-ninth captured zombie, while the Zombie King broke away from Wang Ying and attacked Yang Yong. Yang Yong confronted him with the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and the Heaven-Breaking Strike, but the clash’s shock wave showed Yang Yong was at a disadvantage.

• The Monk captured a zombie with his Dragon-Shaped Qi Force, but an unknown sniper shot it in the head, leaving mission progress at 98/100.
• Cao Xianming tracked the sniper’s marker to Mechanical City and concluded someone there wanted to stop the mission.
• The Zombie King charged at Yang Yong, ignoring Wang Ying’s attacks, and Yang Yong ordered Zheng Xiaofeng to block the sniper while the others captured zombies.
• Yang Yong taunted the Zombie King, expanded the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, and knocked him back half a step.
• The Zombie King struck the furnace aside and attacked Yang Yong with a fist covered in tiny insects.
• Yang Yong met the Zombie King’s punch with the Heaven-Breaking Strike, and the resulting shock wave swept toward the Survival Convoy, showing Yang Yong had the lower hand.

Yang Yong and the Survival Convoy escaped the Zombie King through the Light Gate after a desperate fight, then submitted their mission in Mechanical City. They received only three tubes of Nutritional Military Rations, and Cao Xianming proposed going after the hidden gunman who had attacked them.

• Yang Yong drew the Zombie King’s attacks while Zheng Xiaofeng carried a Zombie toward the Light Gate, and Yang Yong knocked the Zombie King away to save him.
• Yang Yong forced Zheng Xiaofeng and the others through the Light Gate, then escaped as Cao Xianming closed it and the Zombie King pulverized a nearby building.
• Yang Yong spat blood containing wriggling black particles, and the exhausted convoy members regrouped inside the Light Gate.
• Cao Xianming submitted the mission and received three tubes of Nutritional Military Rations, which enraged the group.
• Cao Xianming found he could not calculate the Elders’ situations inside Mechanical City’s Core Area, then suggested they could beat up the hidden gunman who had shot at them.

Kang Yixiang led Cao Xianming and the Survival Convoy to the hideout of the gunman who had attacked them. After Liu Hong defeated the man, Cao Xianming ordered him to preserve the exoskeleton, hoping to use it himself.

• Kang Yixiang arrived at the Outer City gate, and Cao Xianming persuaded her to lead the group to the gunman.
• Cao Xianming used his Data Model to find a dilapidated house where the gunman was hiding.
• Zheng Xiaofeng smashed through the house with his shield, and the gunman emerged and was knocked down by Liu Hong.
• Yang Yong took the gunman's Star-Shattering Ripples sniper rifle and inspected it.
• The gunman's exoskeleton powered down during his fight with Liu Hong, who defeated him.
• Cao Xianming told Liu Hong to remove the exoskeleton carefully, and everyone froze when they saw the man without it.

Cao Xianming and Yang Yong learned that Mechanical City had developed Flesh Batteries from zombie flesh, allowing ordinary people to wield Curios. After interrogating Wang Xiuqiang, Yang Yong consumed his body and soul, leaving Kang Yixiang terrified and kneeling.

• Cao Xianming questioned Kang Yixiang about the Outer City's ban on killing, and she determined that Wang Xiuqiang was not covered by it.
• Yang Yong repeatedly woke and beat Wang Xiuqiang until he revealed that the Third Elder had brought a convoy into Mechanical City through private connections.
• Wang Xiuqiang said he had not seen another living person since arriving, and Cao Xianming discovered a warm lump of zombie flesh inside the Curio sniper rifle that functioned as a Flesh Battery.
• Yang Yong learned that Kang Yixiang had been in Mechanical City for only a little over a month and did not know its secrets.
• Yang Yong used the Nine Nether Yuanchen White Bone Ring to consume Wang Xiuqiang's body, then absorbed his soul with the Four Yang God-Sealing Banner.
• Kang Yixiang watched Wang Xiuqiang disappear and fell to her knees in terror.

After recovering from his fight with the Zombie King, Yang Yong explored Mechanical City's Outer City and then spent his days cultivating while waiting for materials to forge Curios. Meanwhile, unknown figures watched him and coveted his Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace Sequence as he continued opening Apertures in Room 303.

• Yang Yong burned the black threads left by the Zombie King out of his Bone Armor and ate Sweet Potatoes to recover from his injuries.
• Yang Yong toured the sparsely populated Outer City with Mang Dabiao and Yezi, finding no treasures and worrying that the Love Letter Ghost was trapped beyond the Bronze Mirror.
• Yang Yong waited for the Second Elder to provide Curio-forging materials and devoted his time to cultivation, opening about one Aperture a day.
• A secret group decided to watch Yang Yong and wait until Mechanical City's core area was unsealed before making a move against him.
• Yang Yong remained in Room 303 as the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace hovered above him and forced open another Aperture.

Yang Yong discovered that Mechanical City's Blood Moon was only a lighting device and that the Outer City was likely an enclosed space. While his consciousness was away investigating it, someone raided his room, and a child Eerie attacked the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace as he rushed back.

• Yang Yong flew the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace to the supposed Blood Moon and discovered it was a thirty-meter lighting device made by Mechanical City.
• Yang Yong concluded that Mechanical City’s Outer City was likely a hidden enclosed space with artificial lights, then sensed someone pulling a sack over his meditating body’s head.
• Yang Yong hurried back toward his body, fearing the intruder might release the Evil Eye Master’s consciousness and the White-Bone Giant from within him.
• A child Eerie appeared beside the furnace and repeatedly knocked on it, slowing its descent.
• Yang Yong summoned a fire dragon from the furnace and saw the Eerie’s pale face, black-hole eyes, rouge spots, and pigtails.

Yang Yong escaped the Little Girl Eerie and found his physical body in a building, where two starving Outer City residents had kidnapped him to force him to forge a Curio. After the men mistook his unconscious body for a corpse and feared punishment for having a dead person in their home, Yang Yong returned to his body as they approached to dispose of it.

• The Little Girl Eerie destroyed Yang Yong's fire dragon, then vanished before he could lure it back to the ground.
• Yang Yong traced his physical body to a building and overheard two men explaining that they had kidnapped him to make him forge a Curio without payment.
• Yang Yong learned the men needed a Curio to persuade Mechanical City to move somewhere safe before letting them leave.
• The older man discovered Yang Yong had no breath or heartbeat and scolded his subordinate for bringing home a corpse.
• Yang Yong steered the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace into his body while the two men decided to dispose of him quietly.

Yang Yong woke after being kidnapped by Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le, who explained that they had taken him hoping to obtain a curio and escape the Mechanical City’s harsh conditions. He claimed their fine sand, a material he wanted to use to reforge his flying daggers, leaving the two men despairing.

• Yang Yong woke and confronted Zhang Le and Wang Yanfeng, using his flying daggers to make them explain themselves.
• Wang Yanfeng knelt and apologized, while Zhang Le revealed that he belonged to the incomplete shadow stalker sequence and explained why he called Wang Yanfeng his boss.
• Zhang Le told Yang Yong that they had come to the Mechanical City with a convoy but were left with barely enough rations to survive, so they sought a curio to secure a safer destination and leave.
• Wang Yanfeng showed Yang Yong a cloth bundle containing several thousand grains of fine sand.
• Yang Yong recognized the sand as a material suitable for reforging his Heavenly Dragon Slash Flying Daggers and took it, leaving Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le stricken with despair.

Yang Yong forged Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le’s Bone Daggers into Curios called Soul Thread Cutters, then learned that Wang Yanfeng wanted to join the Survival Convoy. Yang Yong left their acceptance to Cao Xianming but saw a chance to learn what the two men knew about Mechanical City.

• Yang Yong forged two Bone Daggers into Soul Thread Cutters and warned Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le that using them could destroy their memories and souls.
• Zhang Le planned to keep his Soul Thread Cutter, while Wang Yanfeng was moved by Yang Yong’s fair treatment and considered joining his convoy.
• Wang Yanfeng dropped to his knees and asked Yang Yong to let him and Zhang Le join the Survival Convoy.
• Yang Yong explained that Cao Xianming had to approve new members, then extended his hand to Wang Yanfeng while considering what the men could reveal about Mechanical City.

Yang Yong brought Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le to meet Cao Xianming after learning they had information about Mechanical City and several vacant houses. The two men waited for Cao Xianming to assess their request to join the Survival Convoy.

• Wang Yanfeng handed Yang Yong the Soul Thread Cutter as a pledge, but Yang Yong returned it and said he valued curio materials and information about Mechanical City.
• Wang Yanfeng explained that his former convoy had acquired ten houses in the Outer City, and that the rest of the group had died during a mission to collect live zombies.
• Yang Yong realized the houses would remain unclaimed while Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le were alive, then invited them to meet the convoy captain.
• Yang Yong took Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le to the Outer City First Hotel, where Cao Xianming began calculating whether they genuinely wanted to join the Survival Convoy.

Cao Xianming welcomed Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le into the Survival Convoy with food and a promise of fair treatment, prompting them to offer information about Mechanical City. As the convoy prepared to leave the Outer City First Hotel, Front Desk Robot 001 demanded 119,000 battle merits and the Security Robots transformed to prevent their departure.

• Cao Xianming explained the Survival Convoy's rules and gave Wang Yanfeng and Zhang Le flour and bowls of noodles, moving them to share what they knew about Mechanical City.
• The Survival Convoy members packed to leave the cramped hotel after learning they could move out.
• Front Desk Robot 001 stopped Cao Xianming and demanded 119,000 battle merits for the convoy's six-day stay after deducting its mission reward.
• The Security Robots transformed into Combat Robots and aimed their weapons at the convoy, blocking its departure.

Yang Yong and the Survival Convoy secured free credit and homes in Mechanical City while Cao Xianming prepared for the Core Area to open. On the seventh day, the fog cleared, outside information reached the Nine Great Elders, and the Third Elder opened his eyes as the city's factions faced a new struggle.

• Wang Yanfeng warned Cao Xianming that Mechanical City's weapons could destroy ordinary people, so Cao claimed the group had an agreement with the Second Elder.
• Kang Yixiang vouched for the convoy, and Front Desk Robot 001 offered Yang Yong an interest-free credit line of 300,000 battle merits.
• Yang Yong signed the contract, received a wrist-worn device holding the battle merits, and the convoy filled ten houses in the Outer City.
• Cao questioned Wang Yanfeng about Mechanical City while preparing for the Core Area to open and the Nine Great Elders to appear.
• After seven days, the fog lifted from the Core Area and outside information flooded the Council of Elders' system.
• The Third Elder opened his eyes as the struggle among Mechanical City's factions resumed.

The Third Elder learned that his plan to expel the Survival Convoy had failed, while the Second Elder recognized the Third Elder’s sabotage and focused on confirming Yang Yong’s ability to forge Curios in batches. The Second Elder enclosed the convoy and sent Yang Yong materials and blueprints, then his representative asked how long one forging took.

• The Third Elder received news that the Survival Convoy had not been expelled and realized his plan had failed.
• The Second Elder discovered that the Third Elder’s agents had targeted the convoy, but held back from confronting him until he confirmed Yang Yong’s abilities.
• The Second Elder ordered combat robots to surround the convoy’s homes and construction robots to build a towering alloy wall around them.
• A pale-faced man arrived with three sets of crafting materials and blueprints from the Second Elder, refusing to speak with Cao Xianming and addressing Yang Yong directly.
• Yang Yong examined incomplete blueprints for a large, precise lens assembly, and the man asked how long a single forging took him.

Yang Yong agreed to craft the Curio in three days, provided he could work under the real Blood Moon. After Mechanical City approved his condition, Mang Dabiao simplified the complicated blueprint into a far more efficient design.

• Yang Yong estimated that crafting the Curio would take three days, stunning the pale-faced man.
• Yang Yong demanded access to the real Blood Moon, and the Second Elder approved the request.
• Mechanical City opened the artificial canopy so genuine sunlight reached Yang Yong’s building.
• Yang Yong studied the blueprint but decided its complex patterns were too risky to craft from directly.
• Mang Dabiao revised the blueprint, reducing its energy pathways to three efficient lines.
• Yang Yong examined Mang Dabiao’s new design and recognized it as a usable blueprint.

Yang Yong began crafting a scope in the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, using the Blood Moon’s energy and the three simplified energy pathways he had redrawn. As the furnace drew down a pillar of blood-red light over the sealed district, the Second Elder watched Yang Yong’s many Curios emerge and realized his gamble had paid off.

• Yang Yong waited for the Blood Moon to rise, then opened the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace and added the scope’s materials according to the blueprint.
• The furnace activated Yang Yong’s Curios, which absorbed the Blood Moon’s energy and drew a pillar of light through the skylight.
• Yang Yong guided the materials through the three energy pathways as the furnace began shaping the scope and excess energy formed a blood-colored mist.
• The bloody pillar shone beyond the sealed district, attracting unseen watchers in the shadows.
• The Second Elder observed Yang Yong surrounded by numerous Curios and stared wide-eyed at their number.

Yang Yong staged two apparent forging failures to conceal his success while Mechanical City's elders watched and debated whether to exploit him. As he began a third batch, Cao Xianming detected an unknown figure standing behind him.

• The Third Elder learned that Yang Yong's Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace was a newly emerged Sequence and planned to seize the ability using a hidden accomplice.
• After refining for a day, Yang Yong acted terrified as the furnace exploded and produced a charred lump, then immediately started another batch.
• Yang Yong staged a second explosion and apparent failure, prompting the Second Elder to let him continue while questioning whether his forging could succeed.
• Yang Yong secretly welcomed the wasted materials and began his third batch, planning to keep up his performance to obtain more supplies from Mechanical City.
• Cao Xianming used his Data Model to investigate those watching Yang Yong, identified the Second and Third Elders, and noticed a short, thin figure with two pigtails standing behind him.

Cao Xianming encountered a mysterious little girl whose presence drained his Supernatural Power, while Yang Yong completed the Star-Eclipse Spyglass and delivered it to Wang. The Second Elder agreed to provide Yang Yong with the Ideal Grain Seed, and Yang Yong’s forging work continued.

• Cao Xianming tried to analyze a strange little girl, but the effort rapidly drained his Supernatural Power, and she vanished when he greeted her.
• Cao Xianming left his room and spent the night in the living room before immersing himself in cautious calculations about the girl.
• Yang Yong finished forging a scope, stored it away, and pretended to sleep while Mang Dabiao carried him downstairs.
• Yang Yong presented Wang with the Star-Eclipse Spyglass, whose skill dealt massive damage at the cost of vitality and impaired vision.
• Wang reported the successful Curio to the Second Elder, who approved another thirty sets of materials and agreed to give Yang Yong the Ideal Grain Seed.

Yang Yong received an Ideal Grain Seed from the Mechanical City and gave it to Cao Xianming to study, then asked Mang Dabiao how to block outsiders from spying on the convoy. Mang Dabiao recalled that Yezi's domain could conceal them, so Yang Yong woke Yezi to ask for help.

• Yang Yong received an Ideal Grain Seed kernel from Xiao Wang, rejected the offer to trade ten Curios for cultivation information, and handed the kernel to Cao Xianming for analysis.
• Cao Xianming told Yang Yong about a little girl he suspected might be an Eerie and listed three possible explanations for her nature.
• Yang Yong noticed Cao Xianming's exhausted state, urged him to rest, and then asked Mang Dabiao how to stop outsiders from prying into the convoy.
• Mang Dabiao said his formations required unavailable spirit stones but recalled that Yezi's domain could block prying eyes.
• Yang Yong brought the Two-Colored Strange Mud and World Tree sapling upstairs, woke Yezi, and prepared to ask her for help.

Yezi expanded her domain around Yang Yong, blocking outside observers and letting him resume cultivating while the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace forged the materials he had gathered. As Yang Yong advanced the furnace from sixty-one to ninety-four apertures, factions in Mechanical City failed to spy on him and began seeking the Rescue Convoy’s Bone Daggers instead.

• Yezi expanded her domain to eleven meters and enclosed the rooftop, cutting off the gazes that had watched Yang Yong for four days.
• Yang Yong summoned the Ten-Thousand-Forged Primordial Furnace, put all the curio materials inside, and resumed cultivating as it forged.
• Yang Yong forced the furnace’s apertures open one by one, advancing it from sixty-one apertures to ninety-four and feeling its sensations flow through his body.
• Mechanical City factions tried multiple methods to penetrate Yezi’s domain, but even a Sequence user who claimed to see through barriers failed.
• People in Mechanical City tried to trade for the Rescue Convoy’s Bone Daggers, but the convoy refused because the daggers belonged to Yang Yong.
• After that failed, some people tried bribing convoy members to ask Yang Yong to forge curios, while others began hunting ordinary members of the Rescue Convoy outside the city.