Chapter Summaries

After a global awakening scattered humanity across random environments, Lu Heng found himself alone in a frozen wasteland. He reached a small hollow in an earthen cliff for shelter, but still faced the cold, hunger, and lack of fire or food.

• Lu Heng woke on frozen ground and heard a global announcement that humanity had been randomly deployed and must survive to enter the next reincarnation.
• Lu Heng discovered a Survival Bracelet that provided environmental monitoring, message prompts, and a trading channel.
• Lu Heng searched for shelter and spotted a hollow in an earthen cliff that offered some protection from the wind.
• Lu Heng stuffed dry grass into his socks to insulate his feet and walked to the hollow.
• Lu Heng settled inside the hollow and began examining the shelter while considering the threats of cold and hunger.

After arriving in a frozen wasteland, Lu Heng found a starting chest and gathered basic survival gear before climbing toward higher ground to search for a Shelter site. He spotted a motionless dog watching him from a distant rise.

• Lu Heng checked the World Channel and learned that people had been scattered into different environments around the world.
• Lu Heng found a wooden chest among dead shrubs and obtained Shelter binding permission, basic clothing, cloth shoes, and a stone axe.
• Lu Heng put on the warm clothing and shoes, added dry grass for protection, and decided to climb to higher ground to scout for a Shelter site.
• As Lu Heng climbed and his view opened up, he saw a dog standing motionless on a distant rise and watching him.

Lu Heng faced a wounded wild dog on a frozen plain and fought to keep it from biting him. He pinned the exhausted beast down and waited for its strength to fade, leaving the struggle unresolved.

• Lu Heng spotted the wounded wild dog charging and prepared his stone axe and nearby stones.
• The wild dog circled and feinted before lunging at Lu Heng's arm.
• Lu Heng jammed a stone between the dog's jaws and drove it onto the frozen ground.
• Lu Heng pinned the dog as it thrashed, keeping its teeth from piercing his arm.
• Lu Heng held his position while the dog's struggles weakened and its cries grew hoarse.

Lu Heng killed the wild dog after a desperate struggle, then used his wristband’s gathering function to collect supplies and unlock storage. Wearing the processed hide for warmth, he set off across the frozen wasteland toward a forest that might offer shelter and resources but also unknown dangers.

• Lu Heng pinned the exhausted wild dog and struck its neck with a stone until it stopped moving.
• Lu Heng removed the stone from the dog’s teeth, then retched and struggled to recover from the killing.
• Lu Heng activated his wristband’s gathering function to avoid the smell of butchering, and the system unlocked ten storage slots.
• Lu Heng received dog meat, bones, canine teeth, and a clean hide, which he draped over himself for warmth.
• Lu Heng decided the exposed wasteland was too dangerous to remain in and headed toward the forest.

Lu Heng found a shallow cave at the forest’s edge, prepared it as a temporary shelter, and ate raw wild dog meat while reading messages in the 9527 Frozen Soil Zone. A newly posted message caught his attention, but its contents were not revealed.

• Lu Heng carefully searched the forest’s edge and found a dry, apparently unoccupied cave beneath a rocky slope.
• Lu Heng gathered branches, dry leaves, and dead grass, then arranged them inside the cave to make bedding and screen the entrance.
• Lu Heng rested in the shelter and read regional messages about other survivors facing cold, dangerous animals, and a lack of fire.
• Lu Heng took wild dog meat from storage and forced himself to eat it raw.
• Lu Heng noticed a newly posted message in the regional channel that seized his attention.

Lu Heng learned that the elderly and children would arrive after the first natural disaster, and that the wilderness and competition for supplies would grow more dangerous. After surviving a night of prowling beasts and suffering stomach problems from raw meat, he set out to find safer food and medicinal plants.

• Lu Heng read a global announcement explaining that elderly people, children, and the physically weak would be transported after the first natural disaster and reunited with relatives.
• Lu Heng decided to reinforce his shelter and stockpile supplies before the disaster and the arrival of more survivors.
• Lu Heng slept in his cave, then stayed motionless through the night as beasts roared and prowled outside.
• At dawn, Lu Heng relieved himself on open ground, covered his traces, and returned to the cave with lingering abdominal pain from raw wild dog meat.
• Lu Heng cleared the cave and went along the forest's outskirts to search for edible plants, nontoxic fruit, or herbs.

Lu Heng struggled to identify safe food among the unfamiliar plants in the frozen forest until he ate Red Pearl Berries and unlocked information confirming they were edible. After gathering berries and resolving to find a secure Shelter, he continued exploring and began clearing thorny bushes to reach a treasure chest.

• Lu Heng searched the forest edge for edible plants but could not identify the unfamiliar vegetation and decided to risk eating something.
• Lu Heng ate berries from a bush where birds were feeding, and his bracelet identified them as nontoxic Red Pearl Berries that soothed his stomach.
• Lu Heng harvested 78 Red Pearl Berries and checked that his Shelter binding was still incomplete.
• Lu Heng continued exploring and found a wooden treasure chest surrounded by thorny bushes.
• Lu Heng used his stone axe to slowly chop a path through the brambles toward the chest.

Lu Heng explored Frost Forest, found supplies and a plant guide, and gathered safe vegetation before encountering a camouflaged venomous snake. He retreated to safety, then returned with a sturdy stick to confront the deadly threat.

• Lu Heng found a chest containing bread, mineral water, a spare stone axe, and the Frost Forest Plant Guide.
• Lu Heng ate bread softened with Red Pearl Berry juice, drank water, and used the guide to identify and gather nontoxic plants.
• Lu Heng spotted a camouflaged venomous snake near a tree and cautiously backed away from it.
• Lu Heng decided the snake was too dangerous to leave alive, found a thick wooden stick, and approached it again.

Lu Heng killed a venomous snake and salvaged its materials, then found and bound a natural cave as his residence. The cave remained unprotected, and he left to gather the thirty units of standard timber needed to build an enclosed Shelter.

• Lu Heng struck the venomous snake with his club, narrowly avoided its counterattack, and beat it until it stopped moving.
• Lu Heng dismantled the snake, collected its materials, and struggled to carry them because his wristband had only ten Storage Slots.
• Lu Heng found a dry, secluded cliffside cave, checked it for danger, and bound it as his exclusive residence, Frostforest Cave.
• Lu Heng learned that upgrading the cave into a Beginner enclosed Shelter required thirty units of standard timber, and that twigs and dead branches did not qualify.
• Lu Heng decided to leave the cave and cut timber for the Shelter.

Lu Heng gathered the last logs and built a basic shelter at the cave entrance, giving him protection from the cold wind and small beasts. After eating and making a bed from leaves and dog hide, he fell asleep in the cave.

• Lu Heng chopped trees for logs, startled a wild rabbit, and damaged his stone axe when he threw it and missed.
• Lu Heng used the remaining logs to build a basic enclosed shelter at the cave entrance.
• Lu Heng inspected the shelter’s protections and learned that upgrading it would require stone and more logs.
• Lu Heng ate bread with Red Pearl Berry pulp, spread dry leaves in the cave, and went to sleep wrapped in dog hide.

Lu Heng gathered useful plants in Frost Forest while searching for materials and a way to start a fire. He found a supply chest containing food, water, matches, purification tablets, and rope, easing several of his immediate shortages.

• Lu Heng collected water dripping through the cave rock and planned to find a way to start a fire before gathering stone and logs.
• Lu Heng identified Frostleaf Grass as tinder and gathered White Salt Mugwort for its trace salts and alkalis.
• Lu Heng identified Frozen Silk Grass and collected it to use as cord.
• Lu Heng spotted a wooden box wedged in a tree, climbed up, and opened it.
• Lu Heng took two bottles of mineral water, two packs of compressed bread, waterproof matches, water purification tablets, and a coil of hemp rope from the chest.

Lu Heng drove a Coldland Burrowing Beast away from his supplies, then built a fire pit in the Shelter and roasted wild dog meat. As he waited for dinner, he heard another cautious creature approaching the cave entrance in the darkness.

• Lu Heng used his bracelet to identify the approaching Coldland Burrowing Beast and struck a tree with his stone axe to frighten it into the woods.
• Lu Heng returned to the Shelter, dug a fire pit near the entrance, and lined it with flat stones.
• Lu Heng lit a fire, cut up the wild dog meat, seasoned it with White Salt Mugwort, and roasted it over the flames.
• Lu Heng washed Red Pearl Berries and White Salt Mugwort while waiting for the meat to cook.
• Lu Heng heard cautious footsteps outside, grabbed his stone axe, and watched the dark cave entrance as another creature approached.

Lu Heng killed a Coldspine Badger that entered his cave to steal his roast meat, then used his survival bracelet to identify and dismantle it. With his food safe and stone axe intact, he stored the materials and settled back into the cave.

• Lu Heng's bracelet failed to identify the badger-like beast as it approached his roast meat.
• Lu Heng restrained the beast and repeatedly slammed it into the frozen ground until it died.
• Lu Heng's bracelet identified the creature as a Coldspine Badger after its death.
• Lu Heng ate the roast meat and recovered his strength.
• Lu Heng used the bracelet to dismantle the Coldspine Badger and stored its meat, hide, and bones in his spatial backpack.

Lu Heng gathered exactly twenty logs for the Shelter upgrade in Frost Forest, wearing down his stone axe and exhausting himself in the process. Rather than return to rest, he set out deeper into the woods to explore while the damaged axe still had some use, where a dry branch snapped nearby.

• Lu Heng carefully felled trees and trimmed their trunks into standard logs, stopping when he had exactly twenty.
• He stored the logs in his bracelet and inspected the badly worn stone axe, realizing it could no longer handle heavy logging.
• Though exhausted, Lu Heng decided to use the axe’s remaining usefulness for a short exploratory trip.
• After checking that the cave and fire were safe, Lu Heng headed deeper into Frost Forest.
• A dry branch snapped somewhere in the woods, but Lu Heng paused briefly and continued forward.

Lu Heng encountered four Cold Stiffs in the woods and fought them after his worn stone axe became stuck in one of their bodies. Armed with only his Wooden Spear, he killed two and prepared to face the last two before returning to the Shelter.

• Lu Heng heard the Cold Stiffs approaching after a branch snapped beneath his foot and struck the first one with his stone axe.
• The first Cold Stiff fell, unlocking a compendium entry that revealed its corpse poison could drain stamina through a scratch.
• Lu Heng's stone axe lodged in a second Cold Stiff, so he abandoned it and drew his Wooden Spear to evade another monster's poisoned claws.
• Lu Heng dodged the remaining Cold Stiffs' slow attacks and thrust his spear into their joint weaknesses, killing two of them.
• Lu Heng assessed the Wooden Spear's limited durability and waited for an opening to finish off the last two Cold Stiffs.

Lu Heng defeated four Cold Stiffs, collected their materials, and avoided leading danger back to his cave refuge. While detouring through the forest, he found a treasure chest containing a Basic Processing Table, bread, and purified water, solving his immediate obstacle to crafting a bone dagger.

• Lu Heng killed two Cold Stiffs with a boulder and wooden spear after failing to retrieve his stone axe.
• He collected four material cards from the corpses and hurried away from the noisy fight site.
• Lu Heng detoured from his route to the refuge, marked his path, and climbed a tree to inspect his spoils.
• He learned that the Bone Dagger blueprint required a workbench and stored the cards without recording them.
• Lu Heng spotted a hidden treasure chest and found a Basic Processing Table placement card, two bags of bread, and two bottles of purified water.

Lu Heng found a dried riverbed while returning to his cave and gathered stone before discovering a Black Iron-Level Treasure Chest filled with useful survival supplies. After gaining black iron and five permanent storage slots, he marked the riverbed as a resource site and continued safely toward his shelter.

• Lu Heng turned back toward his cave and found a dried riverbed with scattered fish bones, which he noted as a possible clue to water farther into the forest.
• Lu Heng collected 15 units of suitable stone but stopped digging when his exhausted stamina made gathering more too risky.
• Lu Heng discovered and safely opened a Black Iron-Level Treasure Chest containing an iron axe, hiking shoes, a metal lighter, and waterproof fabric.
• Lu Heng dismantled the empty chest for 5 units of black iron and received 5 permanent bracelet storage slots as a milestone reward.
• Lu Heng marked the riverbed as a stone source and followed his trail marks back toward the cave without incident.

Lu Heng returned safely to his cave and organized his new equipment, improving the shelter and his ability to survive. After forging a bone dagger, he checked the shelter upgrade requirements and planned to gather the remaining stone the next morning.

• Lu Heng reached his cave, checked that the area was undisturbed, and secured the wooden door behind him.
• He tried on abrasion-resistant hiking boots, set aside his new iron axe, and sealed gaps in the door with waterproof cloth.
• Lu Heng used his metal lighter to start a fire and deployed the basic processing station.
• He forged a bone dagger from hard bone, giving himself a close-combat weapon to complement his wooden spear.
• Lu Heng checked the shelter upgrade panel, saw that he still needed fifteen units of stone, and planned to return to the ancient riverbed at daybreak.

Lu Heng endured his aching body to quarry the stone he needed, finally gathering enough materials to complete his requirements. As he headed back to the Shelter, he heard something moving in the bushes and retreated without investigating.

• Lu Heng ate his remaining berries and some bread, then sharpened his wooden spear and prepared his weapons.
• Lu Heng reached the Ancient Dry Riverbed and struggled to pry stone from the hardened mud while his body ached.
• Lu Heng gathered the final pieces and reached thirty units of logs and thirty units of stone, though his hands were bloodied.
• Lu Heng heard something stir in the bushes, backed away, and hurried toward the Shelter as the sound fell silent.

After escaping the unsettling sounds in the forest, Lu Heng returned safely to his cave and upgraded it into a sturdier, more spacious shelter. He read reports of rapidly changing weather across the continent, leaving him uneasy about the changes ahead.

• Lu Heng followed his marked route back through the silent forest and confirmed the cave entrance was undisturbed.
• Lu Heng used his wristband to upgrade the cave after confirming he had enough logs and stone.
• The upgrade reinforced the cave with fitted stone bricks and wooden frames, added a smoke vent and an indoor latrine, and made the space more comfortable.
• Lu Heng read World Channel messages reporting abnormal cooling, withering plants, and drying conditions, and quietly worried about what they meant.