Recaps

Su Chen led the survivors to a coal mine, where they began gathering fuel and searching for heavy machinery to clear snow. After finding and starting an excavator, he recruited Lei Zhenghao to operate it, leaving the group better equipped to travel through the snow.

• Su Chen shared grilled beast meat with Yang Defa and some survivors while the group prepared a communal meal and assigned people from Xintang Town to different groups.
• Gao Yue and Fan Hui regretted their situation but stayed together, then spent the night hungry beside a bonfire.
• At dawn, the survivors spotted a coal mine west of their camp, and Su Chen led the convoy toward it.
• Su Chen called Yang Defa and Huang Wei to help search for heavy machinery instead of gathering coal.
• Yang Defa started a buried SANY excavator by bridging its starter terminals, and Huang Wei found the construction worker Lei Zhenghao to operate it.

Su Chen gathered mining vehicles and forced the convoy south, using wolf howls to overcome the survivors’ protests as their memories and spirits faded. After Xiao Zixia woke, she discovered a strange Thorn Tattoo and warned Su Chen that a blizzard was coming.

• Su Chen collected two excavators, two loaders, three coal trucks, diesel, and chains, then prepared the convoy to clear a path south.
• When survivors protested about leaving the coal mine, Su Chen had Yang Defa imitate wolf howls, prompting the convoy to move out.
• The convoy traveled five kilometers by noon, and Su Chen stopped to provide a hot meal as the group grew tired and less focused.
• Xiao Zixia awoke in the Refrigerated Truck, received a black bear hide and fifty kilograms of meat, and learned that Blue Snow could impair people’s minds.
• Xiao Zixia found a Thorn Tattoo on her abdomen and told Su Chen that a blizzard was coming.

Su Chen struggled to keep the convoy alive through a blizzard while Snow Demon Servants attacked, and discovered that Su Xi had awakened the Pager into an Anomalous Object by using her ability. The chapter left him facing a car-sized wolf emerging from the snow.

• Xiao Zixia sensed an approaching blizzard, and Su Chen warned Yang Defa and Huang Wei, who tied the vehicles together and prepared the convoy.
• The blizzard began, and Su Chen sent the Loader and Excavator to clear snow so the vehicles could keep running.
• Three Snow Demon Servants attacked the convoy, and Huang Wei patrolled outside to kill them while Su Chen stayed in the Refrigerated Truck.
• The Pager broadcast the convoy members’ whispered complaints, and Su Chen inspected it and learned it was Anomalous Object 131900.
• Su Chen confronted Su Xi for using her ability on the Pager and found that her legs had become thinner; she said she had wanted to help him.
• A car-sized wolf emerged from the snow as Su Chen looked out the window.

Su Chen's convoy avoided a fight with a pack of seven wolves, then killed a fast, two-headed Snow Demon Servant by trapping it in a burning vine net. Huang Wei was badly injured, so Su Chen ordered the convoy to keep moving, while the words on his hand became unfamiliar.

• The seven wolves ate the Snow Demon Servant corpses and left without attacking Su Chen's group.
• A two-headed Snow Demon Servant knocked Huang Wei down, but Xiao Zixia made a vine net and Su Chen set it on fire to slow the creature.
• Huang Wei chopped off the variant's heads but suffered severe burns, leaving the group without his fighting strength.
• Su Chen had Yang Defa move the convoy onward through the blizzard, and the wolves followed to fight over the charred corpse.
• Su Chen looked at the characters on his hand and realized they had become unfamiliar.

Su Chen learned that everyone in the Snow Demon Hunting Ground would keep losing memories and pushed the convoy onward despite mounting complaints. The intelligence revealed a safe Hot Spring Pool beyond the hunting ground, but Su Chen ordered the convoy to keep heading south without stopping.

• Su Chen gave Huang Wei antibiotics and continued driving the convoy while its members complained about the lack of rest, food, and bathroom breaks.
• At midnight, Su Chen received intelligence confirming that memory loss would continue, the Snow Demon might appear, wolves were tracking him, and the blizzard would soon stop.
• Su Chen learned that a safe Hot Spring Pool lay at the edge of the hunting ground and contained an anomalous object.
• After Xiao Zixia announced that the snow had stopped, Su Chen ordered the convoy to keep heading south and revealed that he knew about the Hot Spring Pool.

Su Chen led the convoy through the Snow Demon’s territory after showing them a glimpse of the colossal creature, then reached the boundary between the snowy and rainy areas. The convoy found a marker for Hot Spring Village, confirming that their destination was real.

• Su Chen kept the convoy moving toward the hot spring pool, and the prospect of bathing persuaded many complainers to press on.
• Su Chen spotted the enormous, many-eyed Snow Demon feeding on Snow Demon Servants, and distracted drivers crashed into one another.
• The Snow Demon glanced at Su Chen’s convoy but continued flying away, while the blizzard shifted away from them.
• Su Chen urged everyone to keep moving toward the safe hot spring pool, and the frightened convoy started forward in confusion.
• After half an hour, the convoy crossed into the rainy area, where Su Chen turned onto a side road and passed a marker for Hot Spring Village.

Su Chen and the convoy reached Hot Spring Village, where the system reported a protective Anomalous Object, three survivors, and no time limit on the village’s safety. After the group settled into the hotel’s hot springs, a scream from the women’s bath sent Su Chen rushing to check on his sister.

• Su Chen read the village’s intelligence and wondered why the supposedly safe location had no time limit and so few survivors.
• Su Chen met an elderly woman at the Golden Spring Hotel, who offered the convoy hot springs and food in exchange for supplies.
• Su Chen asked Xiao Zixia to look after his sister, and the convoy split up to use the hotel’s baths.
• Su Chen relaxed in the hot spring with Yang Defa, but worried that their journey had been unusually smooth.
• A scream came from the women’s bath, and Su Chen jumped up and rushed toward it.

Su Chen discovered that the old woman’s grandson, Xu Zihao, was a Sequence One Ghoul and suspected the pair were involved in the villagers’ disappearances. Following the smell of blood to the hotel basement, he found captive streamer Zhou Shufen, who said the boy ate people and the victims had been rendered into fat.

• Su Chen used the system to identify Xu Zihao as a Sequence One Ghoul with powerful regeneration and an urge to kill.
• After Xu Zihao threatened to kill him, Su Chen struck him three times and called him by name, startling the old woman into taking the boy away.
• Su Chen warned Yang Defa not to accept food from the old woman and copied Huang Wei’s heightened sense of smell to track blood through the hotel.
• Su Chen followed the scent to the basement and found Zhou Shufen tied up, then freed her with a knife.
• Zhou Shufen told Su Chen that the victims had been rendered into fat, then followed him out of the basement.

Su Chen confronted the old woman after Zhou Shufen accused her of drugging people and turning their bodies into fat, but the kitchen search and food test seemed to support the old woman’s denials. Su Chen remained suspicious, had the old woman and her grandson restrained, and continued searching the hotel until another scream rang out.

• Fan Hui argued with Yang Defa for refusing to let the convoy eat the old woman’s food, and Su Chen arrived and backed Yang Defa.
• Zhou Shufen identified the old woman as the person who had drugged her and killed the villagers, but the kitchen search found ordinary meat and cooking oil.
• Su Chen ordered the old woman to eat the food and drink the soup, then struck her with a vase when she lunged at him.
• Su Chen ordered Yang Defa to tie up the old woman and her grandson and told the others to search the hotel.
• Su Chen searched the third floor for bodies, and another scream suddenly rang out in the hotel.

Su Chen found evidence that the old lady had killed people and processed corpses in the hotel, then considered what to do with her and the little boy. As the survivors cooked outside, Huang Wei recovered and reached Sequence Two, and Su Chen told him about the murders and the Anomalous Object.

• A survivor discovered corpses and corpse oil in the cold storage, prompting the group to vomit and leave the second floor.
• Su Chen planned to interrogate the old lady about the Anomalous Object and ask the group whether anyone would raise the little boy.
• Su Chen wheeled Su Xi outside, where the survivors cooked their own food; Zhou Shufen asked to join his group, but he rejected her.
• Huang Wei emerged from the hotel with healed wounds, and Su Chen inspected him and found that he had reached Sequence Two with new abilities and a blood-related cost.
• Su Chen told Huang Wei that the old lady and the boy had killed and eaten people, then asked Huang Wei to help find the Anomalous Object.

Su Chen discovered that the Human-Skin Lantern protected Hot Spring Village by consuming corpse oil made from the dead, and learned it could keep the village safe until midnight. After Xiao Zixia executed the old woman, Su Chen asked who would take in the cannibal boy, and Fan Hui hesitantly raised her hand.

• Su Chen identified the hotel’s lantern as an Anomalous Object that concealed the village from Weird Entities by consuming one corpse’s worth of oil for about two hours of protection.
• Su Chen arranged for people to watch the lantern, rested in the Refrigerated Truck, and heard wolves howling across the Snowfield without investigating.
• After waking at four in the afternoon, Su Chen found the old woman awake and revealed that he knew about the Human-Skin Lantern, the corpse oil, and her grandson’s ability.
• The old woman explained that replacing the lantern’s oil at midnight would shelter the village for another day, then begged the group to spare her grandson.
• Xiao Zixia poisoned the old woman at Su Chen’s request, and Su Chen asked Gao Yue and Fan Hui whether either would adopt the boy.
• Fan Hui hesitantly raised her hand after Su Chen described the boy as a Sequence.

Su Chen tried to decide what to do with Xu Zihao, while Fan Hui secretly freed him and hid him in Gao Yue's car. As the convoy settled in for the third day, wolves howled closer outside the village.

• Su Chen rejected Huang Wei's offer to adopt Xu Zihao and ordered Fan Hui to watch the boy while the convoy searched Hot Spring Village for weapons and supplies.
• Fan Hui threatened Xu Zihao, secured his promise to obey her, and hid him in the trunk of Gao Yue's car.
• When Su Chen discovered the boy missing, he used Sequence Two, Blood Wolf, to locate him but let Fan Hui's deception pass.
• Huang Wei accepted that Xu Zihao had escaped, and the Blood Moon darkened the hotel lights as wolves howled closer to the village.

Su Chen destroyed the Human-Skin Lantern and discovered a Bronze Bell hidden within it, an Anomalous Object that could conceal nearby traces from pursuit. After burning the Golden Spring Hotel, he led the convoy out of Hot Spring Village and spotted a lone Giant Wolf retreating.

• Su Chen reviewed the new intelligence, which marked escape routes, nearby convoys and threats, and warned that Fog Valley’s fog was poisonous.
• Su Chen used the Pig-Killing Knife to tear apart the Human-Skin Lantern, while Yang Defa splashed black dog blood on the animated human skins to stop them.
• Su Chen found the Bronze Bell concealed among the lantern’s remains and learned that it could conceal traces within a hundred-meter radius.
• Su Chen had the Human-Skin Lantern’s remains swept into the Golden Spring Hotel and set the hotel on fire.
• Su Chen led the convoy away from Hot Spring Village and saw a Giant Wolf retreating nearby.

Su Chen's convoy fled as the wounded wolf king followed, while Xiao Zixia warned that an extreme downpour was approaching. At the burning Golden Spring Hotel, Butcher's Predator convoy arrived too late to find the Anomalous Object and pursued Su Chen's group through the rain.

• Su Chen avoided attacking the wolf king and hurried his convoy onward as Weird Entity 89034 pursued them.
• Xiao Zixia warned Su Chen that an extreme downpour would arrive within an hour, and he ordered the convoy to accelerate.
• Gao Yue worried that rain would ruin her car, while Fan Hui worried about the boy hidden in the trunk.
• Butcher arrived at the burning Golden Spring Hotel with the Predator convoy and questioned Strategist about why he had failed to find the village.
• Strategist blamed an Anomalous Object for blocking his perception, but Butcher ordered the convoy to pursue Su Chen's group.
• The Predator convoy set off as torrential red rain fell, while the Golden Spring Hotel continued to burn.

Su Chen’s convoy fled from a pursuing survivor convoy through heavy rain, leaving Gao Yue and Fan Hui stranded when their car stalled. The pursuers stopped to question them, and Fan Hui tried to save herself by revealing the Hope Convoy’s supplies and Anomalous Object before offering information about another Sequence.

• Su Chen ordered his convoy to speed up after searchlights and gunfire came from a survivor convoy pursuing them.
• Gao Yue’s car stalled, and Su Chen ordered the others to keep driving rather than stop for Gao Yue and Fan Hui.
• Huang Wei hesitated to abandon them, but Zhang Xiaomeng reminded him they were not alone, and he drove on with the convoy.
• Butcher stopped the Predator Convoy beside Gao Yue and Fan Hui, tore off their car door, and questioned them about the convoy ahead.
• Fan Hui told Butcher about Su Chen, the Hope Convoy’s three Sequence members, its supplies, and its Anomalous Object.
• When Butcher grabbed Fan Hui by the neck, she offered to tell him about another Sequence, making him pause.

Butcher killed Fan Hui, took Xu Zihao, and sent Gao Yue to the convoy’s cages as his group fled a Weird Bird. After learning that the hostile convoy was catching up, Su Chen planned ways to slow and attack them, then ordered the Hope Convoy to organize resistance.

• Butcher killed Fan Hui after she revealed that Xu Zihao had a Sequence, then took the boy and declared him his son.
• Butcher’s convoy imprisoned Gao Yue, drove off survivors to distract a Weird Bird, and continued its pursuit as the injured Wolf King followed.
• Su Chen saw on the Escape Map that the convoy was catching up and concluded that its members were enemies.
• Su Chen planned to block the road, use a mudslide, and lead the pursuers into areas with Weird Entities and Fierce Beasts.
• Su Chen radioed the Hope Convoy, warned that hostile survivors were pursuing them, and ordered the convoy to organize resistance at an upcoming turn.

Su Chen’s convoy escaped a pursuing gang by setting an oil-soaked vehicle trap at a corner, inflicting heavy losses and briefly splitting the enemy convoy. He then planned to trigger a mudslide with Chen Siwen’s help, while recognizing that his group needed stronger weapons.

• Su Chen’s group blocked the road with vehicles, spread fuel, and removed a sign before continuing their escape.
• Butcher’s Predator Convoy rounded the corner and crashed into the trap; burning vehicles and collisions killed or injured several pursuers.
• Gao Yue saw the convoy’s setback from her cage and hoped Su Chen had caused it.
• Su Chen spotted Butcher’s armored vehicle and the enemy convoy, then planned to use a mudslide to delay them.
• Chen Siwen told Su Chen she could make bombs, and Xiao Zixia confirmed she had fertilizer for the plan.
• Su Chen ordered the group to stop at a landslide-prone area and resolved to find more powerful weapons.

Su Chen tried to slow the pursuing Predator Convoy with explosive feints, but the traps barely delayed Butcher, and the enemy caught up. The chapter ended with the Predator ramming the convoy and Scavengers firing heavy crossbows at them.

• The Strategist foresaw a possible mudslide and warned Butcher before passing out, while the Wolf King emerged from the burned vehicles and vented its anger on the corpses.
• Su Chen tested an explosive on a sunny slope, but the blast only briefly stopped part of the Predator Convoy before Butcher continued the pursuit.
• When a sedan carrying three people from Yang Defa's village began breaking down, Su Chen ordered them to transfer to the School Bus and pushed the convoy onward.
• Su Chen tried another explosive at a possible landslide site, but Xiao Zixia found the soil unsuitable, and the Predator Convoy caught up before he could find another location.
• The Predator rammed the Loader as Su Chen ordered the convoy to keep moving, while Scavengers fired heavy crossbow bolts that struck several vehicles and shattered the Refrigerated Truck's side mirror.

Su Chen’s Hope Convoy fought off the Predator Convoy’s attacks while trying to escape, but mounting losses left them struggling to break away. Su Xi secretly used her strange alarm clock to trigger a landslide that split the pursuing convoy, though Butcher stopped the slide before it could trap the Fire Engine.

• Huang Wei and Xiao Zixia used their abilities to attack the pursuing raiders while Yang Defa tried to shield the convoy with his Truck.
• Chen Siwen’s smoke bombs let Su Chen order the convoy to break through, but the Predator Convoy continued pursuing them and collecting captives.
• Su Xi reassured Su Chen, then secretly threw an alarm clock with spider-like legs onto the road as Su Chen ordered Chen Siwen to use the remaining bombs.
• The bombs and a crossbow bolt triggered a landslide that forced the Predator Convoy to stop and split into two groups.
• Butcher used his power to halt the sliding earth, allowing the Fire Engine to pass while the rest of the Predator Convoy remained divided.

After escaping a landslide, Butcher’s convoy repaired its vehicles while Xu Zihao advanced to Sequence Two and slaughtered captives to grow stronger. At Fog Valley, Su Chen learned the enemy’s abilities through a captured Pager and began planning an ambush to eliminate Butcher’s convoy.

• Butcher ordered his group to repair their vehicles as the Predator Convoy used an excavator to clear the landslide.
• Xu Zihao advanced to Sequence Two, killed a man to absorb his vitality, then killed seven women and grew to adult size while Butcher watched.
• An Alarm Clock secretly transformed into a metal ball and attached itself to one of the vehicles.
• Su Chen brought his damaged convoy to Fog Valley and considered using the poisonous valley as an ambush site.
• The Pager revealed Xu Zihao’s new abilities, the strategist’s Sequence Two Priest status, and Butcher’s Blood Qi attack and impending advance to Sequence Three.
• Su Chen resolved to use the information to devise a scheme that would trap Butcher in Fog Valley.

Su Chen devised a plan to lure Butcher’s group through Fog Valley, using signs and the poisonous fog to mislead them before preparing an ambush. As the Predator Convoy entered the valley in pursuit, Xiao Zixia followed Su Chen’s route and disappeared into the fog ahead of them.

• Su Chen ordered the group to cover their faces, sent Xiao Zixia and Huang Wei to wait outside the fog, and drove into Fog Valley with the others.
• Su Chen and Su Xi mapped the winding route, and Su Chen planted signs directing travelers across a bridge and then left at a fork.
• After emerging from the fog, Su Chen planted a warning sign and organized the group to dig covered pits and prepare rocks at a bend in the road.
• Xiao Zixia reported that the Predator Convoy had arrived, and Su Chen told her to follow his route through the fog and then move to the left side of the road.
• Butcher led the Predator Convoy into Fog Valley in pursuit, while Xiao Zixia crossed the bridge and vanished into the fog ahead of them.

Butcher pursued Su Chen’s convoy through Fog Valley, repeatedly misreading signs and losing people to hidden dangers. After an unseen attack battered his convoy, he pressed on and stopped at another warning sign.

• Butcher ignored the bridge sign, took the fork, and fled back to the bridge after ghostly statues attacked his convoy.
• At a second fork, Butcher sent hounds down both roads, learned the left route was safe, and crushed the sign telling him to go left.
• Weird Entities chased Butcher’s convoy, while a collision with a scouting motorcycle and further crashes disrupted the pursuit.
• Vines and unseen enemies attacked Butcher’s convoy in the fog, and his people suffered casualties as he ordered them to fight back.
• Butcher drove on through Fog Valley and stopped when he encountered a sign that read, “Danger ahead. Stop for a moment!”

Su Chen fought the bandits after their convoy was trapped, killing Xu Zihao by bluffing that he had been poisoned. The battle remained unresolved as Ye Tong drew a gun on him.

• Butcher’s convoy was ambushed with falling rocks and hidden pits, leaving vehicles overturned and drivers trapped.
• Huang Wei attacked Butcher and held him off as his bleeding increased his strength.
• Su Chen learned Butcher’s abilities and watched Huang Wei fight, then faced Xu Zihao, who demanded to know whether Su Chen had killed his grandmother.
• Su Chen claimed Xu Zihao had been fed Seeds and implanted with metal, then used plants and his Pig-Killing Knife to kill him.
• Ye Tong appeared, and after Su Chen assessed his Sequence One abilities, Ye Tong drew a gun and ordered him not to move.

Su Chen tricked Ye Tong into lowering his gun, then copied Xiao Zixia’s ability and helped bring down Butcher after Huang Wei was incapacitated. The Metal Insect killed Butcher, and Su Chen was reunited with Su Xi, whose lower legs were gone.

• Su Chen bluffed Ye Tong into lowering his gun, passed him, and Ye Tong played dead.
• Su Chen copied Xiao Zixia’s Plant Manipulation ability as she secretly poisoned and incapacitated Butcher’s men.
• Butcher defeated Huang Wei and turned his attention to Su Chen and Xiao Zixia.
• Su Chen pretended to surrender and offered Butcher the Pig-Killing Knife, then touched him and used Butchering the Ox to shatter his legs.
• Xiao Zixia sent vines toward Butcher, and the Metal Insect pierced his skull and killed him.
• Su Chen saw Su Xi in a wheelchair and realized her lower legs were gone.

After Su Xi lost her legs in the battle, Su Chen comforted her and dealt with the aftermath of Butcher’s defeat. The Pig-Killing Knife absorbed Butcher’s Sequence and grew stronger, while footsteps in the fog left a new threat approaching.

• Su Chen comforted Su Xi, then let the Pig-Killing Knife consume Butcher’s corpse and checked on the wounded Huang Wei.
• Ye Tong explained the Predator Convoy’s vehicles and members to Su Chen, who went into the fog searching for the Strategist.
• Su Chen found the convoy’s unconscious prisoners and learned from Xiao Zixia that she could cure their poison, then ordered the survivors to prepare to leave.
• The survivors recovered the vehicles and gathered the unconscious people while the Pig-Killing Knife absorbed Butcher’s Sequence and upgraded.
• Su Chen inspected the upgraded Pig-Killing Knife, then heard footsteps coming from the fog.