Chapter Summaries

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.