Chapter Summaries

As supernatural horrors spread through Shanghai, Lin Yi used his Divine Thief and Holy Mother sequences to aid Liu Ruyan while trying to escape with her convoy. When the convoy accelerated to flee a pursuing monster, Liu Ruyan’s driver abandoned Lin Yi, leaving him injured on the roadside.

• Lin Yi puzzled over the screw stolen by his Divine Thief sequence and checked the contribution score above Liu Ruyan, which rose when he gave her water.
• Lin Yi observed the convoy’s heavily modified lead vehicles and wondered how their guide had seemed prepared for the apocalypse.
• The convoy accelerated after its leader shouted for everyone to speed up, and Lin Yi clung to the roof of Liu Ruyan’s red sedan.
• A three-meter-tall black apparition caught and devoured people who had fallen behind the fleeing convoy.
• After the monster receded into the distance, Liu Ruyan’s driver swerved and flung Lin Yi onto the roadside, where he hit the ground in severe pain.

After Lu Sheng and Liu Ruyan abandoned him, Lin Yi raced after their convoy and encountered a supernatural entity armed with a blood-red dagger. He survived its first strike by sacrificing an arm, discovered his Saint Mother Sequence could regenerate it at a cost to Liu Ruyan’s marker, and prepared to use Sequence: Thief against the entity.

• Lu Sheng and Liu Ruyan discussed leaving Lin Yi behind and worried about finding supplies once their stock ran out.
• Lin Yi tracked Liu Ruyan’s marker and sprinted after the convoy, sensing danger as he ran through the dark.
• Lin Yi found a hooded supernatural entity ahead and sensed another threat behind him, leaving him no safe route to flee.
• Lin Yi dashed past the hooded entity, but it appeared beside him and attacked with its dagger; he lost an arm while narrowly avoiding a fatal wound.
• Bloody mist regenerated Lin Yi’s arm, while Liu Ruyan’s marker dropped from 40 to 20.
• As the entity approached again, Lin Yi activated Sequence: Thief, intending to take its weapon.

Lin Yi stole a powerful blood dagger from an eerie creature and returned to the convoy, where he found Liu Ruyan missing an arm from the injuries transferred to her. After she and Lu Sheng rejected his help, Lin Yi approached Lu Sheng with a gift of jewelry.

• Lin Yi used Sequence: Thief to take the Broken Blood Dagger and escaped as the eerie creature dissolved into blood and its robe vanished.
• Lin Yi read the dagger’s traits and cost, realizing he could use Sequence Holy Mother’s death substitution to survive its heart-offering price.
• Lin Yi wrapped the dagger in gauze, hid it in his backpack, and rode a shared bicycle back to the convoy.
• Lin Yi ignored survivors asking about missing loved ones and searched for Liu Ruyan.
• Lin Yi found Liu Ruyan with her right arm gone and offered her supplies, but she took them and told him to leave while Lu Sheng sneered at him.
• Lin Yi kept smiling and offered Lu Sheng colorful jewelry, saying, “Here’s to a hundred happy years together.”

Lin Yi tested ways to gain Contribution by tripping and threatening Huang Nana until she thanked him, then planned to max out someone’s Contribution. The convoy set off the next morning and reached the outskirts of a small town, while Lin Yi raised Liu Ruyan’s Contribution to 50 by taking jewelry from abandoned cars.

• Lin Yi found that jewelry and gratitude could raise Contribution, then deliberately tripped Huang Nana and forced her to thank him repeatedly.
• Xiao Chusheng challenged Lin Yi, but a burly convoy member intervened and announced rules against fighting and coercion.
• Lin Yi resolved to max out someone’s Contribution and spent the night beside his shared bike, stroking the wrapped Blood Dagger.
• The convoy set off the next morning, having dwindled to a little over a hundred survivors, and Lin Yi collected jewelry from abandoned cars to raise Liu Ruyan’s Contribution to 50.
• After three hours on the road, the convoy approached a small town, exciting several survivors.

Lin Yi gathered supplies and gasoline in Dama Town, where he witnessed an Eerie Little Girl kill a woman inside a convenience store. After the burly man said eerie creatures could not be exposed to sunlight, Lin Yi reunited with Liu Ruyan and Lu Sheng and gave them the items they requested.

• Lin Yi used Thief to fill a backpack with supplies and headed to a gas station to find a vehicle and gasoline.
• Lin Yi saw an Eerie Little Girl devour a middle-aged woman inside the convenience store.
• The burly man told Lin Yi that eerie creatures could not be exposed to sunlight as survivors fled the store.
• Liu Ruyan and Lu Sheng collected supplies, and Lin Yi gave Liu Ruyan jewelry and Lu Sheng gasoline.
• The burly man praised Lin Yi's kindness, and Lin Yi replied, "Guaranteed to be kind!"

Lin Yi fled the gas station as Weirds attacked the town, then followed a convoy to the town entrance. There, a filthy boy who had been calling him “Master” approached him, while Elder Qi confirmed the boy did not seem to be a Weird.

• Lin Yi handed Liu Ruyan gasoline, then fled when Little Loli Weird emerged and attacked the survivors at the gas station.
• Lin Yi avoided a towering Scythe Weird and a spider-like Weird while following the fleeing convoy.
• A blindfolded young man with a transcendent combat sequence challenged Scythe Weird, repeatedly getting smashed aside as the convoy escaped.
• Lin Yi reached the town entrance with the convoy and noticed Liu Ruyan and Lu Sheng still had contribution points while Huang Nana had escaped.
• Elder Qi said the approaching filthy boy had no Weird aura, but the boy passed Li Yong and walked straight to Lin Yi, calling him “Master.”

Lin Yi traveled with the convoy and took in a foolish boy he nicknamed Big Dummy. When refugees from Xiaohe Village approached the camp, Big Dummy suddenly warned that they were monsters.

• Elder Qi led the convoy away from Dama Town, and it traveled for a day without encountering any anomalies.
• Lin Yi let the persistent boy follow him, gave him dry snack noodles, and marked him as a gray reserve for Holy Mother Contribution.
• As the convoy rested, Lin Yi examined a mysterious screw and watched the camp while the travelers gathered around their vehicles.
• More than a hundred refugees emerged from the woods, claiming they had fled the destruction of Xiaohe Village.
• Big Dummy's vacant eyes cleared, and he pointed at the refugees and shouted, "Halt! Monsters!"

Lin Yi joined Elder Qi’s convoy with Da Sha after Da Sha sensed that the refugees were dangerous, and chose to establish his own force. When Liu Ruyan demanded to join him, Lin Yi let Bai Xiaoyu’s guards handle her.

• Da Sha warned that something was wrong with the refugees, so Lin Yi retreated with him while Elder Qi and Li Yong arranged to bring the refugees into the convoy cautiously.
• Elder Qi offered Lin Yi a place with one of the convoy’s forces, but Lin Yi chose to establish his own and met Bai Xiaoyu of the Songstress Sequence.
• Elder Qi directed Lin Yi and Da Sha to travel with Da Hu’s vehicle, while Bai Xiaoyu discussed how to deal with the suspected eerie entity.
• Liu Ruyan demanded that Lin Yi let her join the core convoy, and Lin Yi pretended he could not help her because he had only gotten in through Da Sha.
• Bai Xiaoyu ordered her guards to leave Liu Ruyan half alive, and they began beating her as she protested the convoy’s rules.

Lin Yi tricked Liu Ruyan into giving him a backpack of supplies, then joined the convoy as it traveled to another town. After finding an SUV, he used Sequence: Thief to steal all the supplies from Liu Ruyan’s red sedan.

• Lin Yi stepped in after Bai Xiaoyu’s men beat Liu Ruyan and handed her a backpack, earning 100 contribution from her.
• Lin Yi returned to the convoy, where Elder Qi ordered everyone to keep watch overnight and flee if anything unusual happened.
• The convoy reached a town, and Lin Yi left Li Yong and Da Sha to search for supplies while he looked for a vehicle.
• Lin Yi found an undamaged SUV that had run out of fuel, filled it with gasoline, and drove toward the largest supermarket.
• Lin Yi used Sequence: Thief from his SUV to empty Liu Ruyan’s red sedan of its supplies.

Lin Yi looted flour from a gas station turned noodle shop, then returned to find a Mantis Weird slaughtering survivors at the supermarket. He exploited Huang Nana for contribution points before fleeing town with the convoy, which escaped after Bai Xiaoyu slowed the Weirds with her song.

• Lin Yi used Sequence: Thief to steal flour from the noodle shop and left, unaware that a red-eyed presence watched him from the kitchen.
• Lin Yi returned to find survivors fleeing a three-meter-tall Mantis Weird inside the supermarket.
• Lin Yi tripped Huang Nana and repeatedly made her thank him for a backpack of supplies, earning enough contribution to max out another person.
• Lu Sheng tripped a fleeing man to escape the Mantis Weird, but the creature pursued him.
• Bai Xiaoyu sang to slow the Weirds, allowing the survivors to escape the supermarket despite her pale face from overusing her ability.
• Lin Yi picked up Big Dummy and followed the supply-laden convoy out of town as it searched for a campsite before nightfall.

Elder Qi decided to sacrifice survivors without vehicles to escape the anomaly believed to be hiding among the villagers, while Lin Yi bound the Blood Dagger to himself. The convoy fled after the anomaly killed Xiao Chusheng and Liu Ruyan, and by dawn Lin Yi had chosen Xiao Chusheng as his next target to replace Da Sha.

• Elder Qi told Lin Yi and the others that he could not identify the anomaly and decided to sacrifice survivors without vehicles to protect Sequence Transcendence.
• Lin Yi stabbed himself through the heart with the Blood Dagger, endured its agonizing hunger, and bound the wondrous item to himself.
• A villager lured Xiao Chusheng away, killed him, shed her own skin, and took his appearance.
• After a man screamed and Liu Ruyan was found withered, the modified convoy fled, while Lin Yi recognized that the anomaly was being blamed for the deaths.
• At dawn, Elder Qi stopped the convoy to rest and estimated that about a hundred survivors remained.
• Lin Yi decided to target Xiao Chusheng, who had once helped Huang Nana, as a replacement for Da Sha.

Lin Yi tried to befriend the disguised monster Xiao Chusheng, while Huang Nana conspired with him to kill Lin Yi. The convoy fled from a towering, living willow covered in smiling bodies, but as night fell, Li Yong reported that his vehicle had run out of fuel.

• Lin Yi gave Xiao Chusheng instant noodles and later jewelry, but received only minimal Contribution and remained unaware that Xiao Chusheng was a body-stealing creature.
• Bai Xiaoyu teased Lin Yi about his habit of giving away supplies and jokingly named the convoy the Disabled Alliance.
• Huang Nana whispered to Xiao Chusheng that she had a way to kill Lin Yi during their next supply search.
• The convoy received a warning that a supernatural entity was approaching and fled, seeing a gigantic willow with living branches and smiling people hanging from them.
• Elder Qi kept the convoy driving through the day to escape the entity, and two vehicles fell behind after running out of fuel.
• Li Yong told Elder Qi that his own vehicle had run out of gas.

The convoy escaped the pursuing horror, rested, and learned from Elder Qi that their route would soon cross a grassland formed by the apocalypse’s merging worlds. Lin Yi then visited Xiao Chusheng and discovered that playing cards with him quickly earned contribution points.

• Da Hu and Bai Xiaoyu held a horror back at a gas station while the convoy refueled, then rejoined the vehicles as they departed.
• After the convoy rested for forty-eight hours, Elder Qi said they would enter a grassland and needed to gather supplies before crossing it.
• Elder Qi explained that the apocalypse was merging two worlds and said the grassland was their only viable route, despite powerful horrors near City C.
• Lin Yi reviewed the Blood Dagger’s abilities and reflected on the convoy’s survivors and leaders.
• Lin Yi invited Xiao Chusheng and Lao San to play Fight the Landlord, repeatedly teamed up with Xiao Chusheng, and gained fifty contribution points from him.

Lin Yi used Huang Nana’s crowd of survivors to gain contribution points by handing out supplies, then set off with Elder Qi’s convoy toward the grasslands. As the convoy traveled, a forgotten screw in Lin Yi’s pocket grew warm for no apparent reason.

• After Lin Yi left, Xiao Chusheng eagerly challenged Third to play Landlord.
• Huang Nana gathered about twenty survivors to ask Lin Yi for food, and Lin Yi led them to his SUV and gave away its supplies.
• The crowd took everything, including an old woman who showed a gray contribution score of fifty, while Lin Yi gained contribution points from them.
• Elder Qi told the burly guard that he feared for the convoy’s chances and privately considered how his Guide ability indicated every route led to death.
• Elder Qi used his anomalous walking stick to identify the grasslands as the relatively safest route, and the convoy set out the next morning.
• Lin Yi regarded the survivors as backups for his own survival, then noticed that a forgotten screw in his pocket had become warm.

Lin Yi was ambushed by Lu Sheng, Huang Nana, and Xiao Chusheng, then trapped inside a noodle shop with a Butcher Anomaly. He died and resurrected, stole the Anomaly’s Rolling Pin, and killed it, while the Blood Dagger revealed new information about its abilities.

• Lin Yi filled ten containers with gasoline before Lu Sheng, Huang Nana, and Xiao Chusheng rammed him into a noodle shop and blocked the entrance with a truck.
• Lin Yi discovered the bloodstained Butcher Anomaly in the dark shop and used Sequence: Thief to steal its Rolling Pin.
• The Butcher bound Lin Yi with the hands in its chest, dragged him inside, and ground him to pieces.
• Lin Yi resurrected in a cloud of scarlet mist, used Sequence: Divine Thief to behead the Butcher, and complained that his clothes had not returned with him.
• Lin Yi searched the kitchen for clothes and examined the Blood Dagger, which identified itself as the Broken Blood Dagger, sequence 2020, with Sacrifice and Rend traits.

Lin Yi escaped the noodle shop with Da Sha, found a new vehicle, and recovered his stolen gasoline and supplies. When he reached the city outskirts, he discovered Elder Qi’s convoy had already left without him.

• Lin Yi cut through the cargo compartment, escaped, and found Da Sha waiting outside with bloodied fists.
• Lu Sheng watched Huang Nana turn into minced flesh inside his car, then fled to warn Elder Qi and Li Yong.
• Lin Yi gave Da Sha the Rolling Pin, whose strength depended on its user and whose cost was mental derangement.
• Lin Yi found his stolen gasoline and supplies in the red car, loaded them into a new off-road vehicle, and scavenged more from nearby shops.
• Elder Qi ordered the survivors to leave the city after hearing Lu Sheng’s account and learning that Lin Yi and Da Sha were missing.
• Lin Yi drove to the outskirts and realized the convoy had already departed.

After his SUV broke down in the dark, Lin Yi traveled on foot with Da Sha and met Xu Zhong and Clown, survivors whose convoy had been destroyed by a terrifying aberration. The four joined forces to reach Lin Yi’s convoy, killing three aberrations at an overturned school bus before continuing into the darkness.

• Lin Yi’s SUV broke down at night, so he loaded supplies onto himself and Da Sha and continued toward the convoy on foot.
• Clown appeared and vanished as Lin Yi and Da Sha tried to attack him, then Xu Zhong emerged and proposed that they team up.
• Xu Zhong told Lin Yi that a mass of rotting flesh and human legs had scattered his convoy and swallowed most of its survivors; Lin Yi revealed that his ability could guide them toward his convoy.
• The group found Old Wang’s overturned, burning school bus, where three aberrations were feeding, and decided to fight through them rather than take another route.
• Clown stalled one aberration, Xu Zhong and Da Sha fought the others, and Lin Yi used his Blood Dagger to behead all three.
• Xu Zhong mourned the dead from his convoy, but Lin Yi urged the group onward; the Blood Dagger rose six places in the sequence rankings after the slaughter.

Lin Yi returned to the convoy with Xu Zhong and Zhao Xing, then confronted Lu Sheng and Xiao Chusheng, who had tried to get him killed. He discovered that Xiao Chusheng was an eerie creature wearing Lu Sheng’s skin, and chose to keep the creature alive after its Contribution rose beyond his usual limit.

• Lin Yi drove Xu Zhong, Clown, Zhao Xing, and more than forty survivors to Elder Qi’s convoy, then left the negotiations to Elder Qi.
• Lin Yi revealed that he was a Sequence Transcendent and claimed to have awakened the Assassin sequence before taking Lu Sheng and Xiao Chusheng into the darkness.
• Lu Sheng attacked Xiao Chusheng with a rock, and Lin Yi spared Lu Sheng after his Contribution rose to one hundred.
• Lin Yi watched as Xiao Chusheng’s corpse split open, White Bone killed Lu Sheng, and the eerie creature took Lu Sheng’s skin.
• White Bone returned to the convoy disguised as Lu Sheng, while Lin Yi kept its Contribution of 170 secret and returned to the convoy with Da Sha.
• Dozens of gray survivors with displayed Contribution approached Lin Yi as he ate.

Lin Yi collected supplies from grateful survivors and let several elderly people take more, earning six maxed-out Contributions before declining Elder Qi’s trading party. The convoy entered a strangely cold grassland, where roaring engines and wild laughter suddenly sounded around them.

• Survivors returned Lin Yi’s supplies, and he let an old woman and several other elderly people take more, gaining six maxed-out Contributions.
• Lin Yi declined Xu Zhong’s offer to take supplies and later refused Li Yong’s invitation to Elder Qi’s trading party.
• The convoy set off at daybreak and drove onto a grassland that seemed unnaturally separated from the road.
• Lin Yi hurried into Li Yong’s vehicle when the temperature suddenly dropped, while Elder Qi used his cane to find safe spots through the tall grass.
• After the convoy had traveled for about two hours, countless engines roared across the grassland as wild laughter rang out.

Lin Yi’s convoy fought off a gang of corpse-like bikers, then regrouped and distributed their salvaged vehicles and weapons. Lin Yi’s mysterious screw transformed into a Universal Wrench, which repaired a damaged vehicle on its own, and he learned it was an upgradeable Anomaly component stolen from someone.

• Masked Biker Gang members attacked the convoy with shotguns, but Elder Qi’s heavy truck and armored pickup wiped them out with machine-gun fire.
• Xu Zhong discovered that the bikers had already been dead, and Elder Qi ordered the convoy to repair vehicles after five survivors died and thirty lost their transportation.
• Elder Qi announced that he was close to breaking through to Sequence Level 2 and withdrew to cultivate.
• Li Yong distributed motorcycles and leather jackets for temporary use, while Lin Yi traded supplies for a shotgun and ammunition.
• Lin Yi’s screw transformed into a silver wrench, which autonomously repaired a vehicle in under a minute.
• A notification identified the wrench as an upgradeable Universal Wrench that could repair and assemble products, and Lin Yi wondered if its previous owner would come after him.