Recaps

Qin Mao escaped the Hope, awakened as a Lone Walker, and survived alone with an eerie coconut-powered ship. He rejoined Yan Qi’s fleet, where he discovered Su Miaomiao among the survivors and concealed his plans while resisting her mental influence.

• Su Miaomiao shoved Qin Mao into the Eight-Eyed Ice Weird Spider, but he escaped the island and vowed to live for himself and take revenge.
• Qin Mao joined Wang Tai’s Hope as a shipwright, then learned that its survivors were treated as ammunition and that a fourteen-day deadline was approaching.
• After surviving the coconut-selling anomaly on Stone Ape Island, Qin Mao stole Wang Tai’s Sequence Potion and other hidden items.
• Qin Mao escaped as Wang Tai blew up the Hope, upgraded his raft into a sailboat, and drank the perfected potion after Wang Tai died.
• Qin Mao awakened as a Sequence 1 Lone Walker and took control of the Eerie Coconut incorporated into his ship.
• After fighting off Cable Blood Leeches, Qin Mao encountered Yan Qi’s fleet and agreed to rejoin them.
• Qin Mao woke aboard the fleet and recognized Su Miaomiao, resisted her mental guidance, and chose to hide his intentions while she resolved to keep influencing him.
• Ye Xuanyin, Yan Qi, and Yang Fan introduced themselves as captains and welcomed Qin Mao to the Hope Fleet.

Qin Mao joined the Hope Fleet, repaired the Yaximu, and gained control of Just Verdict while contending with Su Miaomiao and the dangers drawn to his ship. After exposing Fu Qingshi and helping kill the Chang-Driving Pufferfish, Qin Mao uncovered clues about the apocalypse’s earlier beginnings and received a note from Yang Fan that left him alarmed.

• Qin Mao agreed to repair the Yaximu for supplies, then fixed its flooded hull in under a minute and joined the Hope Fleet.
• Su Miaomiao used Mind Control on Qin Mao, but he resisted her and pursued disputes across the fleet to complete Just Verdict’s ownership ritual.
• Qin Mao learned about the fleet’s rules and his companions’ Sequences, while his Free Person taboo weakened him and the Eerie Coconut grew a second coconut.
• The fleet’s island expedition ended in a Bloodfang Warthog attack, and a Chang-Driving Pufferfish later followed the ships and caused more deaths.
• Qin Mao exposed Zhang Yu as the dead scientist Fu Qingshi, whose mental abilities had hidden corpse impostors among the survivors.
• Qin Mao and the others killed the Chang-Driving Pufferfish, agreed on rules for dividing its loot, and learned that Red Scarf had pushed Xuanxuan overboard.
• Su Miaomiao continued feeding the Eerie Coconut, while the fleet’s fishing catches dwindled and Qin Mao concealed his suspicion that his ship was attracting creatures.
• Qin Mao and Yang Fan connected old skeletons and remains to signs that people had sailed into danger before the apocalypse fully descended, and Qin Mao received a chilling note from Yang Fan.