Chapter Summaries

Qin Mao discovered that his new ship was a wondrous item called the Eerie Coconut and completed its ownership ritual by feeding it blood. With the ship secured but lacking supplies and still injured, he made a freshwater collector and fishing rod, then began fishing.

• Qin Mao inspected his damaged ship and discovered that its mainmast was a thousand-faced eerie coconut incorporated during the upgrade.
• He learned that the Eerie Coconut could devour various powers, attack with its bloodthirsty coconut, and use its roots to help the ship move and steer.
• Qin Mao fed blood to the coconut tree, endured its eerie laughter, and became its owner, gaining control of its roots.
• Qin Mao considered his urgent needs for food, fresh water, and cooking supplies, but his injury and lack of resources limited his options.
• Qin Mao used salvaged materials to make a simple freshwater collector and fishing rod, then cast his line into the sea.

Qin Mao discovered that the Eerie Coconut attracted mutant fish and fed his catches to it, then examined the wondrous item materials recovered from Wang Tai. He learned that Just Verdict could be used by ordinary people through its special effect, but its binding conditions meant he could not use it yet.

• Qin Mao caught only mutant fish because the Eerie Coconut attracted eerie creatures, then fed the fish to the tree when it showed it could digest them.
• Qin Mao examined a bone fragment that the system identified as the Bone of Zor-Magru, but repairing it required far more Kill Points than he possessed.
• Qin Mao inspected a Blood Flea Skin map marked with a burning heart and a red cross, then put it away without understanding its purpose.
• Qin Mao examined Just Verdict and learned that its Equal Treatment effect let ordinary people fire bullets made from souls of their own kind.
• Qin Mao realized Wang Tai had used the gun while appearing fair to his crew, but could not meet its requirements to become a leader and complete three fair judgments.

Qin Mao survived a nighttime ambush by Cable Blood Leeches, using his Transcendent strength and Escape Restraints ability to kill three and collect their remains. As he recovered on the Eerie Coconut, several large ships approached through the green night.

• After finding no island or food, Qin Mao sailed through the day and fell asleep in the Captain's Quarters.
• A Cable Blood Leech secretly boarded and began draining blood from Qin Mao's shoulder, but he woke and pulled it away.
• Qin Mao used a claw hammer without effect, then tore the leech apart with his Transcendent strength on the deck.
• Two more Cable Blood Leeches wrapped around Qin Mao, but he escaped their restraints and tore both apart, gaining 1,000 Kill Points in total.
• Qin Mao collected the six pieces of leech remains and searched the ship for more before hearing a horn and spotting several large ships approaching.

Qin Mao encountered the fleet he had sailed with before and agreed to rejoin it, hoping to work with other people and get close to Su Miaomiao. The fleet’s leaders secretly recognized him as dangerous and debated whether to keep him aboard, leaving his welcome uncertain.

• Qin Mao recognized Yan Qi’s fleet and, after recounting his recent ordeal, agreed to rejoin them.
• Yang Fan, Ye Xuanyin, and Yan Qi gave Qin Mao food and water, then returned to their ships for the night.
• Ye Xuanyin concluded that about half of Qin Mao’s story was true and suspected he had recently killed someone.
• Yan Qi’s Yinling Orb reacted strongly to Qin Mao, while Yang Fan identified the Eerie Coconut as an Anomalous Object Vehicle.
• Ye Xuanyin and Yan Qi voted to keep Qin Mao, considering ways to control or use him, and awaited Yang Fan’s decision.

Qin Mao recalled how Su Miaomiao had betrayed him during the Eight-Eyed Ice Weird Spider attack and realized his earlier urge to save her may have been abnormal. After discovering she could influence his mind, he concealed his hostility and boarded the Hope Fleet, where its leaders welcomed him.

• Qin Mao remembered that he had planned to reveal his system to Su Miaomiao before the Eight-Eyed Ice Weird Spider attacked the island and the fleet sounded its evacuation signal.
• Qin Mao recalled saving Su Miaomiao from the monster, only for her to shove him away and tell him that his death would benefit her.
• Qin Mao woke, saw Su Miaomiao among the survivors, and felt her mental influence try to make him ignore her before his [Yearning for Freedom] ability resisted it.
• Qin Mao realized Su Miaomiao was a Transcendent and chose not to confront her, deciding instead to act cautiously and pursue a plan suited to her greed.
• Su Miaomiao worried that Qin Mao's new Transcendent aura made him dangerous and resolved to keep reinforcing her mental guidance.
• Ye Xuanyin, Yan Qi, and Yang Fan introduced themselves as Transcendents and captains of the Rose, Yaximu, and Hope, and Yang Fan welcomed Qin Mao to the Hope Fleet.

Qin Mao introduced himself as a Sequence 1 Apocalypse Shipwright and negotiated with Yang Fan, Ye Xuanyin, and Yan Qi over the costs of repairing ships and managing his vessel’s need to kill something each day. He joined Yan Qi to inspect the Yaximu’s leak, where they found its Shipwright, Xu Ran, unable to stop seawater from entering a cabin.

• Qin Mao met Yang Fan, Ye Xuanyin, and Yan Qi, then heard how they had survived the apocalypse and formed the Hope Fleet.
• Qin Mao agreed to repair ships in exchange for materials and supplies, warning that the work consumed transcendent power and shortened his lifespan.
• Qin Mao told the group that his ship required him to kill something every day, and Yang Fan agreed to save their live fish for him.
• Qin Mao asked Yan Qi about his habit of speaking Nang Language, and Yan Qi explained that he had picked it up to amuse a girl he liked.
• Yan Qi led Qin Mao to the Yaximu’s leaking cabin, where Xu Ran stood unable to stop the seawater despite repeated repairs.

Qin Mao inspected the badly damaged Yaximu while Xu Ran and Zhao Yuechuan insisted it could not be repaired. Su Miaomiao exposed his supposed past as a fraud and turned the crew against him, but Qin Mao struck her and challenged Zhao Yuechuan to wager his life on whether Qin Mao could fix the ship.

• Xu Ran and Zhao Yuechuan told Yan Qi that the Yaximu was beyond repair and that the crew should abandon it.
• Yan Qi asked Qin Mao to inspect the damage, but Su Miaomiao interrupted and claimed Qin Mao had no ship-repair skills and had once been imprisoned for telecom fraud.
• Su Miaomiao told the crew that she and Qin Mao had dated for seven or eight years, prompting many survivors to distrust and condemn him.
• Yang Fan and Ye Xuanyin watched without defending Qin Mao as the crew questioned his worth.
• Qin Mao slapped Su Miaomiao, then asked Zhao Yuechuan whether he could throw him into the sea if Qin Mao repaired the ship.

Qin Mao bet Zhao Yuechuan that he could repair the damaged [Yaximu] in ten minutes, while the fleet’s captains mistakenly feared he planned to blow up the ship. Qin Mao used 700 Kill Points to repair the hull in under a minute, leaving the outcome of the bet and the fleet’s reaction still to come.

• Qin Mao wagered that he could make the [Yaximu] seaworthy in ten minutes, and Zhao Yuechuan accepted after Su Miaomiao urged him to call Qin Mao’s bluff.
• Qin Mao told everyone to leave the cabin, and Yang Fan led the others out while Zhao Yuechuan promised to return after a smoke.
• Yang Fan realized Qin Mao had survived an exploding pirate ship and suspected he planned to blow up the [Yaximu], so the captains transferred the survivors to the [Rose] and the [Hope] and moved the ships away.
• Qin Mao checked the repair cost and spent 700 Kill Points to fix the [Yaximu]’s hull.
• The ship’s damaged section rapidly transformed, and Qin Mao completed the repair in less than a minute.

Qin Mao finished repairing the Yaximu, astonishing the Hope Fleet and establishing himself as its Shipwright. After making Zhao Yuechuan serve as bait and accept supplies in place of the remaining time, Qin Mao went with Yan Qi to inspect the fleet’s storerooms for payment.

• Qin Mao completed the ship repairs, and the returning survivors were shocked to find the damaged and flooded sections restored.
• Zhao Yuechuan conceded Qin Mao’s superior shipwright skills, and Yang Fan welcomed Qin Mao into the Hope Fleet as a companion.
• Qin Mao had Zhao Yuechuan serve as live bait, then accepted supplies from him in exchange for ending the remaining time.
• Yan Qi brought Qin Mao to the fleet’s storerooms to let him choose payment for repairing the Yaximu.

Qin Mao bargained with Yan Qi for food and supplies from the Yaximu fleet in exchange for helping repair the ship. He used most of his Kill Points to repair and upgrade practical gear, leaving himself well stocked with water, cooking equipment, and other useful items.

• Qin Mao inspected the Yaximu fleet's food stores and learned that the supplies were privately owned, while everyone shared the cost of repairing the ship.
• Yan Qi showed Qin Mao a storeroom of miscellaneous belongings, and Qin Mao selected toiletries, household items, and several broken objects he planned to fix.
• Qin Mao returned to the food store and demanded a large assortment of rice, meat, condiments, water, and dried noodles, then haggled with Yan Qi until they agreed on smaller quantities.
• Yan Qi summoned a skeleton to carry the supplies onto the Eerie Coconut, then complained about Qin Mao to Yang Fan and Ye Xuanyin.
• Qin Mao split the food between two cabins and used Kill Points to repair or upgrade desalination equipment, a flashlight, a blanket, a cooker, and a wok.

Qin Mao tried to fulfill [Just Verdict]'s ownership ritual, but Su Miaomiao arrived and revealed she had long been extraordinary. She used [Mind Control] to make him disclose the Eerie Coconut's nature and his recent experiences, then pressed him to explain how he escaped the Eight-Eyed Ice Weird Spider.

• Qin Mao considered how to complete [Just Verdict]'s three fair trials, but found no disputes aboard the harmonious [Yaximu].
• Su Miaomiao approached Qin Mao, tried to appeal to their past friendship, and boarded the Eerie Coconut despite his insults and threats.
• Su Miaomiao revealed she had been extraordinary for a long time and used [Mind Control] to make Qin Mao obey her.
• Qin Mao told Su Miaomiao that the Eerie Coconut was an Anomalous Object and explained its blood-watering ownership cost.
• Su Miaomiao made Qin Mao recount his recent experiences, then asked how he had escaped the Eight-Eyed Ice Weird Spider.

Qin Mao resisted Su Miaomiao’s mental control, uncovered her powers, and returned to searching for a situation that would make Just Verdict recognize him as its master. He found a dispute aboard the Yaximu and approached the children involved, while the chapter’s author’s note said the next three chapters could be skipped.

• Qin Mao pretended to answer Su Miaomiao’s questions while resisting her mental control, then realized she had been manipulating him and others for a long time.
• Qin Mao left the Eerie Coconut, drank fresh water, and searched the Rose and Hope for a matter to judge, but found nothing.
• Qin Mao tried to trigger Just Verdict by staging a fight between two Mutant Fish and pronouncing absurd sentences, but the weapon did not respond.
• Two children on the Yaximu argued over a game, and their chase knocked over a survivor’s fishing bucket and an old woman.
• Qin Mao leaped from the Eerie Coconut onto the Yaximu and walked toward the children.

Qin Mao provoked a dispute with two children and their parents, then forced the family to acknowledge that his ruling was fair, advancing [Just Verdict]'s ownership ritual by one-third. After Yang Fan made the family apologize and announced a rule to control noisy children, Qin Mao spotted something that delighted him and headed toward it.

• Qin Mao took the children's spicy strips after declaring that both had lost, and eating them advanced [Just Verdict]'s ownership ritual.
• When the children and their parents insulted him, Qin Mao slapped all four of them, and a crowd gathered as the parents accused him of bullying them.
• Yang Fan arrived, ordered the family to apologize to Qin Mao, and told them to leave the fleet if they refused.
• Qin Mao made the children confirm that his ruling was fair, completing another third of [Just Verdict]'s ownership ritual.
• Yang Fan announced a rule requiring parents to control their children aboard the fleet, and Qin Mao later spotted something and headed toward it.

Aboard the Hope, Qin Mao intervened in a couple’s argument over naan and used his [Just Verdict] ability to take the bread for himself. With the ritual’s progress surging, he returned to the Eerie Coconut pleased and looked for another dispute, but the fleet had gone silent to avoid his attention.

• A couple on the Hope argued over whether their naan had been divided fairly, and Qin Mao offered to settle the dispute.
• Qin Mao repeatedly redistributed the bread until only two tiny bites remained, then claimed the scraps and both bites as his fees.
• When Qin Mao demanded to know whether his judgment was fair, the frightened couple agreed, advancing the master-binding ritual for [Just Verdict].
• Qin Mao returned to the Eerie Coconut, ate and drank, then searched the [Hope], [Rose], and [Yaximu] for another dispute to judge.
• Survivors across the fleet stayed quiet or concealed their disagreements because they feared Qin Mao would take advantage of them.

Qin Mao tricked the children into accepting seawater as a fair prize, completing [Just Verdict]’s bonding ritual and claiming the gun. He left for a meeting aboard the [Hope], while a hidden figure later boarded the Eerie Coconut and cut open his wrist.

• Qin Mao offered Red Scarf and Black Shirt a cup of water as the prize in a rock-paper-scissors game, and Red Scarf won after his father distracted him.
• Qin Mao gave the children seawater, got both children to call his judgment fair, and completed [Just Verdict]’s bonding ritual.
• Red Scarf’s parents took the cup from him and discovered it contained seawater, but they feared Qin Mao too much to protest.
• Qin Mao headed to the [Hope] to attend the meeting Yang Fan had requested, while nearby survivors decided to avoid him.
• A figure secretly boarded the Eerie Coconut, slashed his wrist, and resolved to endure fifteen days of pain to live better.

Qin Mao learned the Hope Fleet’s survival laws and its members’ Sequence abilities, then watched Ye Xuanyin heal his shoulder by transferring the wound onto paper and eating it. The chapter left Qin Mao stunned by the uncanny power of the fleet’s healer.

• Yang Fan explained the Hope Fleet’s iron laws and survival rules to Qin Mao.
• Qin Mao questioned the rule requiring absolute trust in the captain, and Yang Fan explained that his Navigator Sequence helped the fleet avoid disasters and find islands.
• Yan Qi, Qin Mao, and Ye Xuanyin introduced their Sequences and abilities.
• Ye Xuanyin drew Qin Mao’s shoulder wound onto a page and transferred it off his body.
• Ye Xuanyin folded the wound-marked page, ate it, and revealed her ability as Wound Devourer.

After joining Yang Fan’s fleet, Qin Mao named his ship [Ten-Thousand-Li Divine Radiance], but his [Free Person] taboo left him weak after he ate his fill. He discovered that the Eerie Coconut had fed itself blood and glimpsed Su Miaomiao aboard the [Yaximu], then made a lavish meal that weakened him even further.

• Qin Mao thanked Ye Xuanyin for healing his arm and declined Yang Fan’s offer of help with his sails.
• Qin Mao named his ship [Ten-Thousand-Li Divine Radiance], and Yang Fan, Ye Xuanyin, and Yan Qi reluctantly accepted the name.
• Qin Mao realized that eating his fill had triggered his [Free Person] taboo, causing persistent weakness and threatening his abilities.
• Qin Mao found that the Eerie Coconut had drunk its fill of blood and grown a second, egg-sized coconut, then glimpsed Su Miaomiao aboard the [Yaximu] during his staged blood offering.
• Qin Mao cooked instant noodles with luncheon meat and ate them using a broken fruit knife, only to find himself even weaker afterward.

Qin Mao recovered from the weakness caused by violating his Sequence taboo and learned that his former girlfriend might be dangerous. After a nighttime commotion involving the Eerie Coconut, the fleet resumed its voyage toward an island.

• Qin Mao met Zhong Baoguo, who warned him that his former girlfriend had been involved with Zhou Hao and might have plotted against him.
• Zhong Baoguo said the woman secretly left a plastic bottle on a mast each day and drank its water at sunrise, then revealed that he was ninety-seven years old.
• A woman secretly fed blood to the Thousand-Faced Eerie Coconut, whose laughter frightened the fleet and made Qin Mao explain that no unfamiliar eerie was present.
• Qin Mao recovered his Transcendent Power overnight and saw five silver roses appear on [Just Verdict], bringing its ammunition capacity to seven bullets.
• Yang Fan led the fleet toward an island to gather supplies, unaware of the danger awaiting them.

Qin Mao’s fleet reached a small island where survivors gathered bluegrass roots, but two people mysteriously walked into the sea before a pair of eerie creatures attacked. Qin Mao escaped to the Eerie Coconut, then dismissed [Just Verdict] as a useless toy gun, leaving the others still fleeing the Bloodfang Warthogs.

• Qin Mao landed with the survivors and dug up bluegrass roots for food.
• Wang Laosan walked into the sea and disappeared, and the survivors discovered that Zhao Cuihua was missing as well.
• A Bloodfang Warthog emerged from the island’s center, and Yang Fan ordered everyone to retreat to the ships.
• The Bloodfang Warthog crushed a fleeing survivor as Qin Mao raced back to the Eerie Coconut.
• Qin Mao drew [Just Verdict] but decided it was a toy gun useless against eerie creatures and put it away.

The fleet escaped the Bloodfang Warthog, but Yang Fan feared an eerie creature might still be following them. After night fell, a splash and cries for help suggested someone had gone into the sea again.

• Yan Qi and Yang Fan discovered that the Bloodfang Warthog’s eyes were vulnerable, but its thick hide kept the skeletons from harming it.
• The fleet escaped as Yan Qi used a skeleton rib to knock the warthog’s leap short, sending it into the sea.
• Qin Mao reunited with his old schoolmate Zhang Yu and brought him aboard the Ten-Thousand-Li Divine Radiance.
• Yang Fan warned the fleet that an eerie creature might be following them and ordered everyone to stay in pairs and remain vigilant.
• After dark, Qin Mao fed blood to the Thousand-Faced Eerie Coconut, then the fleet heard a splash and cries to rescue people who had sunk into the sea.