Chapter Summaries

Su Chen tried to understand the mirror girl by studying the supermarket graffiti and changing into clothes resembling those in her drawings. Xiao Zixia revealed the girl’s name was Mengqi and recalled how Mengqi had saved her during the apocalypse, while Su Chen picked up a fox mask.

• Su Chen gave his food to the little girl, hoping to earn her goodwill, but she remained vacant after eating.
• Su Chen examined the supermarket graffiti and suspected its drawings of family life and monsters reflected the little girl’s memories and longings.
• Su Chen searched the clothing section and put on a white suit, believing the girl might want to experience having a father or being protected by family.
• Su Chen asked Xiao Zixia for the little girl’s name, and Xiao Zixia said it was Mengqi.
• Xiao Zixia remembered that Mengqi had appeared through a shard of a shattered mirror and made a sleazy man vanish when he attacked her.
• Su Chen picked up a cute fox mask from the clothing section.

Su Chen spent his time in Xintang Town playing with Mengqi, learned about her lonely past, and promised to return. After Mengqi sent him back, Su Chen drew an Escape Map before passing out, and Su Xi led the convoy west as strange blue snow began to fall.

• Su Chen put a Fox Mask on Mengqi and played with her at the amusement park, skating, and swimming.
• Su Chen grilled the sausage Mengqi had prepared, shared it with her, and realized he was nearing the three-hour limit in Xintang Town.
• Su Chen promised Mengqi he would return, then saw memories of her childhood in the hospital and her parents abandoning her.
• Mengqi sent Su Chen back to the street, where Huang Qi was missing and Yang Defa helped carry Su Chen to the refrigerated truck.
• Su Chen drew an Escape Map for Su Xi, then passed out, and Su Xi drove the truck west with the convoy.
• A north wind brought blue snowflakes that settled into frost as the weather changed.

After awakening, Su Chen learned that the convoy had entered the Snow Demon's hunting ground, where blue snow caused memory loss and dangerous creatures roamed. When a Giant Bear approached the stranded convoy, Su Chen got out to face it with the Pig-Killing Knife.

• Mengqi stayed behind in Xintang Town, insisting that Su Chen would return for her.
• Su Xi drove the convoy while Su Chen remained unconscious, and the others watched blue snow fall as the convoy continued north.
• Su Chen woke after about eight hours, found the convoy stranded in deep snow, and took over driving from Su Xi.
• Su Chen's updated intelligence revealed that the convoy had entered the Snow Demon's hunting ground and needed to travel 30 kilometers south to escape.
• Su Chen learned that blue snow caused memory loss, Snow Demon servants and Fierce Beasts lurked nearby, and a coal mine lay close to the convoy.
• A Giant Bear emerged from the snow near Yang Defa's truck, and Su Chen warned Su Xi to stay inside before getting out with the Pig-Killing Knife.

Su Chen and the others fought a giant bear, with Su Chen using copied Sequence abilities and a vine-tethered knife to help bring it down. After the fight, Wang Xiumei spotted a white corpse in the snow, and it suddenly turned its head toward them.

• Su Chen copied the Werewolf and Florist abilities as Huang Wei and Xiao Zixia joined the fight against the giant bear.
• Xiao Zixia restrained the bear with vines, and Huang Wei wounded it with Yang Defa’s knife, but the bear broke free and attacked her.
• Su Chen used a vine to guide the Pig-Killing Knife into the bear’s eye, then joined Huang Wei in fighting it at close range.
• Su Xi drove the refrigerated truck toward the bear, but Su Chen crawled clear and stopped her before it hit him.
• Wang Xiumei spotted a white-haired corpse in the snow, and it suddenly whipped its head around as Yang Defa moved to inspect it.

Su Chen identified the attackers as paralyzing Snow Demon Servants and took precautions against the memory-erasing snow while Xiao Zixia recovered. After dividing the Giant Bear’s spoils, he ordered fires built west of the vehicles to ward off the creatures and melt the snow, while Yang Defa kept other survivors from claiming the meat.

• Huang Wei severed a Snow Demon Servant’s head after its venomous tongue struck at him, and Su Chen used the system to identify it and warn the group that more were nearby.
• Su Chen explained that the Snow Demon Servants’ venom could paralyze people and that powerful creatures would arrive in three days, while leaving through the deep snow would be difficult.
• Xiao Zixia collapsed after using Vines, and Su Chen carried her to his Refrigerated Truck to rest without revealing her weakness.
• Su Chen and Su Xi warned the others to avoid direct contact with the harmful snow and wear raincoats, while Su Chen wrote information on his hand as a precaution.
• Su Chen butchered the Giant Bear and divided its spoils, giving Huang Wei the organs and a hundred jin of meat, then taking two hundred jin for himself and reserving the rest for Xiao Zixia.
• Su Chen had Yang Defa build a long line of fires west of the vehicles to deter Snow Demon Servants, and Yang Defa’s men kept the other survivors from taking the bear meat.

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.