Chapter Summaries

Niu Wudi distracted the opera performer in red so the convoy could escape, but the village was swallowed by darkness and its apparitions attacked the vehicles. Lin Qi discovered that his electrical arcs let him injure a roof-clinging apparition and blinded it, leaving it stranded in a ditch as the convoy faced danger across the village.

• Niu Wudi charged the stage to draw the opera performer's attention while the convoy drove past, but falling paper spirit money began turning his shoulder into paper.
• The survivors escaped the stage's range, but dark clouds covered the village and apparitions began attacking the stalled vehicles.
• A villager apparition tore a hole in the roof of Lin Qi's vehicle, and Lin Qi used I Fine You 800 Yuan to weaken it before stabbing both its eyes with his electrically charged machete.
• The blinded apparition tried to break through the passenger-side window, but Lin Qi kicked it into a ditch, where it struggled to climb out.

Lin Qi helped Green Radish by lending her Ghost Cash while Niu Wudi fought the Red-Clothed Opera Performer to protect the fleeing convoy. The convoy escaped the eerie villagers, but Niu Wudi crashed nearby with most of his body turning into paper.

• Lin Qi used his ability to fine the eerie villagers, while Niu Wudi cleared them from the road and the convoy moved ahead.
• Niu Wudi transformed into a four-armed Giant Bear and held off the Red-Clothed Opera Performer as the vehicles fled.
• Three vehicles collided while trying to overtake, and the remaining convoy left their trapped occupants behind.
• Niu Wudi rescued survivors from the crashed vehicles and returned to Green Radish's truck for healing.
• Lin Qi lent Green Radish a thousand Ghost Cash and declined her invitation to join her squad, and she promised to have his back.
• Niu Wudi fell into a field with nearly his entire body transformed into paper, alarming Green Radish.

Lin Qi used Ghost Cash to lure the Red-Clothed Opera Performer away from Green Radish and Niu Wudi, but she accepted it as a betrothal deposit and promised to return for the rest of his bridal gifts. After the survivors escaped the anomaly, Lin Qi headed back with the team, hoping the captain could help him break off the unwanted engagement.

• Green Radish ran through the falling paper money to reach Niu Wudi, whose body had turned into paper, while the Red-Clothed Opera Performer dove toward her.
• Lin Qi offered the Red-Clothed Opera Performer Ghost Cash, then handed over five thousand when she demanded more.
• The Red-Clothed Opera Performer called Lin Qi her husband, declared the money a betrothal deposit, and promised to collect his bridal gifts in a few days.
• The Red-Clothed Opera Performer vanished, the darkness receded, and Niu Wudi returned to normal after Green Radish helped him back to the truck.
• Lin Qi told Green Radish what had happened, and she promised to ask the captain for advice when they returned.
• Lin Qi drove after the truck and called out to the system, but it did not respond.

Lin Qi was ambushed by the bald man and his five accomplices, but used his ability to immobilize and kill the leader before drawing the others away. When the group turned back to loot his SUV, Lin Qi became furious and prepared to defend his supplies.

• Green Radish refused to help Lin Qi shake off the Red-Clothed Opera Performer as they drove away from the village.
• Lin Qi opened two boxes in the SUV and found cases of milk and bundles of dried noodles.
• A sudden piercing sound caused Lin Qi to crash into a ditch, where six men led by the bald man surrounded him.
• Lin Qi immobilized the bald man with his ability and stabbed him in the heart, then ran toward the fields to separate the remaining attackers.
• The stubbled man began stealing supplies from Lin Qi's SUV, prompting the others to abandon the chase and loot it too.
• Lin Qi saw the men plundering his supplies and grew furious.

Lin Qi and Wang Feng’s group killed the men who had ambushed Lin Qi and recovered the stolen supplies. Back at the convoy, the old woman confronted Lin Qi again, and he slapped her with an electric shock hidden in the blow.

• Lin Qi used his ability to hold Stubbled Man in place as Wang Feng’s sedans ran him over, then helped Wang Feng’s men kill the other attackers.
• Wang Feng’s group helped pull Lin Qi’s SUV out of the ditch, and Lin Qi returned the stolen supplies to Wang Feng.
• Lin Qi, Wang Feng, and their companions drove back to the convoy, where the old woman rushed over and accused Lin Qi of threatening her.
• Lin Qi slapped the old woman and secretly coated his hand with electric arcs, making her cheek swell and stopping her cries.

Green Radish treated the old woman who had attacked Lin Qi, secretly leaving her unable to move, speak, or stand while claiming the side effects were random. Lin Qi sorted his damaged supplies and went to share the salvaged canned fruit with Wang Feng's group, while Scarface prepared a plan to seize control of the convoy before Lin Qi and Green Radish could join forces.

• Green Radish healed the old woman's swollen cheek, then left her unable to move her arm, speak, or stand, saying the treatment's costs were random.
• Lin Qi realized Green Radish was taking his side and that the helpless old woman would likely be abandoned by the survivors.
• Lin Qi found that most of his canned fruit had shattered, salvaged thirteen intact jars, and ate some of the rest.
• Lin Qi decided to share the remaining fruit with Wang Feng's group and walked toward them.
• Scarface asked Number Two about their plan, and Number Two said the Command Seizure Plan was progressing with several survivors willing to help.

Lin Qi learned that the Red-Clothed Opera Performer had cursed him, and he would die if he could not pay her bride price. After sharing canned fruit with the convoy and leaving Wang Feng to teach Yi Xue's classmates how to find supplies, Lin Qi heard Lili angrily confront him.

• Lin Qi gave Wang Feng and the others canned fruit, and Green Radish told him the captain believed he was cursed by the Red-Clothed Opera Performer.
• Green Radish said Lin Qi would die if he could not pay the bride price, then disappeared before returning his thousand Ghost Cash.
• Lin Qi invited Yi Xue to take canned fruit, but declined to teach her classmates how to find supplies.
• Wang Feng offered to teach Yi Xue and her classmates, and Yi Xue took two partly filled jars to join them.
• Lin Qi sat in the SUV and considered the system's favorites feature before Lili shouted that he had shared canned fruit with everyone but her.

Lin Qi faced threats from Bo Gang and Blondie as the convoy traveled through the night to escape an anomalous entity. During a brief rest, the old woman Lüluo had reprimanded came to his door with a basket, then revealed a cursed banknote linked to the Red-Clothed Opera Performer.

• Bo Gang and Blondie confronted Lin Qi, but they left when Liu Yan announced the convoy was about to depart.
• The convoy continued through the night because an anomalous entity was pursuing it, and Liu Yan later called a one-hour rest stop.
• An old woman knocked on Lin Qi's door with a basket of snacks and pretended to apologize for what had happened earlier.
• Lin Qi unlocked the door, and the old woman grabbed a cursed banknote from the basket as her arm began turning into a paper effigy.

Lin Qi watched the convoy investigate the paper figure left by the old woman, then used his Virtual Panel to favorite and buy Leibi. The search uncovered another paper corpse, and the survivors identified him as the mastermind behind the banknotes.

• The old woman turned into a paper figure after the banknotes she held fell over her body, and Wang Feng asked Lin Qi whether the anomaly had followed them.
• The captain ordered Liu Yan and the survivors to search the vehicles for whoever had planted the banknotes.
• Green Radish took the old woman's paper body to study, while the captain warned Lin Qi to stay away from her and then meekly followed her away.
• Lin Qi favorited Leibi, learned that he could favorite only three products per month, and bought and drank a bottle.
• The searchers found a paper corpse in a vehicle, and the survivors identified him as the mastermind behind the banknotes.

Lin Qi rested while Xiao Wu drove, then took the wheel as the convoy continued through the apocalypse. A sudden downpour halted the convoy, and the chapter left Lin Qi watching a young man dance wildly in the rain.

• Liu Yan dispersed the survivors after identifying a supposed mastermind, while Wang Feng quietly told Lin Qi that the accusation was a cover to prevent panic and that the real investigation was secret.
• Wang Feng assigned Xiao Wu to drive for Lin Qi, who slept after being awake for twenty-four hours.
• Lin Qi woke at ten in the morning, took over driving, and learned that the administrator was offering steamed buns to survivors who took in people traveling on foot.
• Lin Qi stopped to patch the hole in his vehicle’s roof, but a sudden torrential downpour forced Liu Yan to halt the convoy.
• Green Radish made her young driver test the collected rainwater, while Lin Qi collected water but waited to see whether it was safe.
• As thunder rolled, Lin Qi spotted a young man dancing in the rain and called him a Jiahao.

Jiahao was struck by lightning after demanding that the heavens make him Extraordinary, and Lin Qi’s convoy witnessed a headless giant whose steps shook the earth. After the giant vanished, the convoy sped off in a hurry, leaving Lin Qi struggling to keep up as trouble approached.

• Jiahao danced in the rain, challenged the heavens to make him Extraordinary, and was struck by lightning as his companions rushed to carry him back to their vehicle.
• Lin Qi and the survivors saw a battered, headless giant walking in the distance, each step making the earth tremble.
• After the giant disappeared, Liu Yan warned that something seemed to be approaching and ordered the convoy to keep its lights on and stay together.
• The modified heavy truck moved to the front and cleared the road as the convoy hurried onward.
• Wang Feng traded Lin Qi a bag of high-calorie food for two cans of gasoline, then warned him to keep up as the Transcendent Squad sped ahead.
• Lin Qi floored the accelerator to catch the convoy, and his car radio crackled before falling silent.

Lin Qi and Xiao Wu ignored a Radio Wraith that tried to lure them out of their car during the downpour. As the convoy sped on, they discovered a towering wave of corpses racing toward them across the land.

• The Radio Wraith imitated Wang Feng to trick Xiao Wu into leaving the car, but Lin Qi recognized the deception and silenced it with his fine.
• Lin Qi passed a stopped car whose passengers had fallen for the wraith’s trick and were getting out to investigate.
• A second radio transmission from Wang Feng warned Lin Qi and Xiao Wu not to leave the car, and they continued following Wang Feng’s vehicles through the rain.
• The Radio Wraith kept speaking through the radio, but Lin Qi and Xiao Wu ignored it as they drove past an overturned car.
• Xiao Wu heard the eerie voice coming from outside the radio and pointed Lin Qi toward the rearview mirror.
• A lightning flash revealed a three-story wave of contorted corpses, trees, and mud sweeping toward the convoy.

Lin Qi fled the Corpse Tide, escaped its route by taking a side road, then doubled back to follow its trail toward the Transcendent Squad. He discovered that corpses were floating in the flooded fields alongside the convoy, revealing another anomaly.

• Lin Qi realized the Corpse Tide paused briefly to devour survivors, and he spotted the three serious offenders ramming other vehicles to slow them down.
• Lin Qi led Wang Feng and the other vehicles onto a side road, and the Corpse Tide continued along the main route.
• Lin Qi turned back to follow the Corpse Tide's trail and catch up with the Transcendent Squad.
• Wang Feng pointed out that corpses were floating in the flooded fields and keeping pace with the cars.

As a tide of corpses closed around the vehicles, Lin Qi realized their movements followed a rule: they ignored people who lay flat and backed away. He ordered the others to lie down, but the final sedan was trapped and swallowed by the corpses, leaving Lin Qi and the survivors waiting motionless in the rain.

• Corpses swarmed the road, and Lin Qi saw a woman escape them by backing out of an overturned vehicle while lying flat.
• Lin Qi recognized a rule-based anomaly and ordered Wang Feng to stop, then told Xiao Wu and the others to get out and lie down.
• Wang Feng, Scarface, and survivors from another vehicle followed Lin Qi's example and lay flat as the corpses approached.
• The final sedan driver tried to run Scarface over, but corpses piled beneath the car and stopped it.
• The corpses broke into and swallowed the final sedan while Lin Qi held still among the survivors.

Lin Qi survived the Corpse Tide and set off with the others to find the convoy, but a Mirror Ghost began appearing in the vehicles' mirrors and affecting their minds. Wang Feng warned Lin Qi not to look at it, just as the entity appeared across Lin Qi's windshield.

• Lin Qi endured the hour-long Corpse Tide by staying still, then waited until the rain stopped before getting up.
• Scarface fled in his van, and Lin Qi decided to find the convoy before pursuing him.
• Lin Qi followed the Corpse Tide's cleared path through the darkness and saw a waterlogged woman in his rearview mirror.
• Xiao Wu became dazed and reached toward a second mirror, so Lin Qi knocked him unconscious and smashed the mirror, but the woman appeared on the windshield.
• Wang Feng warned Lin Qi that looking at the Mirror Ghost affected people's minds, and Lin Qi asked how he could avoid looking at the woman on his windshield.

Lin Qi fled the black-haired woman’s attack after his Ghost Cash failed to affect her, while Wang Feng and the other drivers abandoned him. The Red-Clothed Opera Performer appeared and stopped the woman’s hair, declaring that Lin Qi was under her protection.

• Lin Qi learned too late that he had to keep watching the woman in the mirror, and the shards he swept away reassembled on the hood as she drew near.
• The woman’s hair burst through the hood’s reflection and surged toward Lin Qi, forcing him to abandon the SUV and flee.
• Wang Feng briefly tried to pull Lin Qi into his sedan but recoiled in terror and drove off with the other vehicles.
• The Red-Clothed Opera Performer appeared behind Lin Qi and used falling spirit money to turn the approaching hair into paper.
• The Red-Clothed Opera Performer faced the SUV and challenged the black-haired woman for daring to harm Lin Qi.

Lin Qi survived the black-haired woman’s attack when the Red-Clothed Opera Performer destroyed her, but the encounter left him more convinced that he had to gather betrothal gifts. He returned to the convoy injured, where a stranger offered to treat him.

• The Red-Clothed Opera Performer assimilated the black-haired woman into a paper figure and warned Lin Qi not to stray before vanishing.
• Lin Qi drove onward, deciding to seek out female supernatural entities and use the Red-Clothed Opera Performer’s hostility toward them to obtain Ghost Cash.
• Lin Qi found the convoy, where Wang Feng apologized for leaving him behind and helped him with Xiao Wu, clothes, and a first-aid kit.
• Lin Qi struggled to treat his injuries until an unfamiliar girl noticed him and offered to help.

Lin Qi refused Green Radish’s healing and let Yi Xue tend his wounds, then agreed to trade food for her washing his clothes. Meanwhile, Li Xiang’s jealousy of Lin Qi hardened into hatred, and he began considering how to change his behavior in the apocalypse.

• Lin Qi refused Green Radish’s offer of healing and accepted Yi Xue’s help dressing his wounds.
• Li Xiang saw Yi Xue with Lin Qi, rejected Scarface’s attempt to recruit him, and hinted to Teacher Gu that he would stop pretending to be a good student.
• Lin Qi gave Yi Xue two packets of instant noodles as payment for treating his injuries.
• Yi Xue asked Lin Qi for work in exchange for supplies, and he agreed to give her biscuits to wash his clothes.
• Yi Xue took Lin Qi’s clothes and searched nearby abandoned vehicles for rainwater to use in washing them.

Lin Qi learned that Jiahao had become an Extraordinary after being struck by lightning, prompting survivors to imitate him, and watched Jiahao demonstrate his lightning whip. Lin Qi bought more Leibi and a Good Luck Tire through an advertisement, then opened his trunk and was overwhelmed by what he saw.

• Lin Qi woke to survivors shouting and gesturing wildly, and Wang Feng explained that they were copying Jiahao after he gained a lightning-type sequence ability from being struck by lightning.
• Jiahao showed off his lightning whip, impressing the survivors and making Lin Qi envy his power.
• Lin Qi bought a bottle of Leibi, strengthened his electric arcs, and purchased a Good Luck Tire for 998 Ghost Cash through an advertisement.
• Wang Feng returned with teammates and a replacement windshield, and Lin Qi opened his trunk to inspect the tire before his vision went dark.

Lin Qi repaired his vehicle with singing good luck tires, rested with the convoy, and spent the morning talking with Wang Feng. Their quiet day ended when more than a hundred ragged survivors approached along the road.

• Lin Qi discovered that his good luck tires loudly sang when the vehicle started, then paid another thousand Ghost Cash to silence them.
• After sleeping through the night, Lin Qi woke to find the convoy resting and cooked a meal before exercising.
• Lin Qi watched Jiahao lead his roommates in exercises and decided not to disturb Yi Xue about his clothes.
• Wang Feng shared his worries about his wife and child with Lin Qi while they smoked together.
• A crowd of over a hundred ragged survivors approached the convoy, and Wang Feng hurried toward them.