Recaps

Song Xiaozhu used her mysterious Workbench to scavenge, craft tools, and survive an attack while pretending to be a weak Artisan. With Bai Jing away and Shang Bao’s disappearance threatening to draw suspicion, she gathered materials and began relying on Qiu Shuyu’s help.

• Song Xiaozhu discovered the Workbench’s recipes, struggled to synthesize materials, and eventually crafted a hoe and knife that helped her scavenge.
• Song Xiaozhu earned money at the recycling station, where Shang Bao recognized her, then returned to the shack and concealed Bai Jing’s absence.
• Song Xiaozhu synthesized low-pollution water and gave some to Qiu Shuyu, who became more trusting and stopped suspecting her.
• Song Xiaozhu learned Bai Jing had gone to treat an injured man in Liu Family Village, while Shang Bao took advantage of his absence to attack her.
• Song Xiaozhu paralyzed Shang Bao with milk candy, and Qiu Shuyu killed him with her axe before helping Song Xiaozhu clean the shack.
• Song Xiaozhu erased Shang Bao’s body with the Workbench, earned rewards for completing her Growth Quest, and told Qiu Shuyu she had awakened as an Artisan.
• Song Xiaozhu unlocked recipes for meals, a pickaxe, and medicinal material, then made edible food and crafted an axe and pickaxe while collecting supplies.
• Song Xiaozhu learned Bai Jing would be away for several days and feared Shang Bao’s family would eventually search the shack, then welcomed Qiu Shuyu back with timber and a meal.

Song Xiaozhu advanced her Synthesizer, gathered materials, and began selling graded stone axes while keeping her abilities secret. After making her first sales and reserving the best axe for Qiu Shuyu, she learned that Shang Dayuan was searching for the missing Shang Bao.

• Song Xiaozhu crafted a Crude Storage Box, unlocked new recipes and achievements, and chose a quest to complete ten transactions rather than plunder people.
• Song Xiaozhu and Qiu Shuyu went to the logging camp, where Qiu Shuyu joined Tian Man’s crew and left Song Xiaozhu to gather materials and craft.
• Song Xiaozhu made storage boxes, medicinal materials, meals, and fertilizer, while Qiu Shuyu’s stone axe impressed the loggers before cracking in Tian Man’s hands.
• After Qiu Shuyu brought home her wages, Song Xiaozhu decided to establish herself through her crafting ability while keeping the Synthesizer secret.
• Song Xiaozhu made graded stone axes, and Tian Man and Luo Liuzi arrived at Qiu Shuyu’s shack with an iron axe as an apology.
• Song Xiaozhu revealed that she had made the stone axes, explained their grades, and sold standard-grade axes to Tian Man and Luo Liuzi for three yuan each.
• Luo Liuzi bought a second-grade axe for ten yuan, while Song Xiaozhu reserved her more effective first-grade axe for Qiu Shuyu.
• Shang Dayuan stormed into the community tavern with his son-in-law, worried because Shang Bao had not appeared.

Song Xiaozhu built relationships through her crafted axes, advanced her Synthesizer, and began planning a larger trade with Tian Man and Luo Liuzi. As her sales operation took shape, Bai Jing returned to treating the wounded in Liu Family Village, while Song Xiaozhu prepared to unlock batch production.

• Song Xiaozhu sold axes to Tian Man and Luo Liuzi, revealed she was a Craftsman, and gained their support as Shang Dayuan searched Bai Jing’s shack for Shang Bao.
• Song Xiaozhu and Qiu Shuyu went to the logging camp, where Fan Cang killed an Acidic Crawler and warned that the isolation belt might fail, and Song Xiaozhu resolved to level up quickly.
• Song Xiaozhu repaired her Workbench into a level 2 Synthesizer, unlocked raw iron and medicine recipes, and earned Quantum Coins from achievements and transactions.
• Song Xiaozhu made anti-inflammatory tablets and clean water, while Bai Jing treated infected villagers and killed Xiaohua to end her suffering.
• Song Xiaozhu demonstrated axe synthesis to Tian Man and Luo Liuzi, then agreed to work with them under limits on pricing and sales.
• Luo Liuzi told Song Xiaozhu about Old Chen’s family and their discounted scrap iron, giving her a possible future source of materials.
• Song Xiaozhu set wholesale prices and accepted orders for 10 axes from Luo Liuzi and 50 from Tian Man, relying on future batch production rather than making every axe by hand.
• Tian Man and Luo Liuzi spent the next two days selling axes to loggers while Qiu Shuyu stayed with Song Xiaozhu at the logging camp.

Song Xiaozhu developed professional tools and medicine while Bai Jing brought her into contact with Mu Qing and sought help for Liu Family Village. After supplying medicine to the wounded villagers, she prepared to build a business and discovered that Random Synthesis could yield a recordable recipe.

• Song Xiaozhu and Qiu Shuyu found iron in a buried truck bed, which Song Xiaozhu used to synthesize professional axes and hemostatic powder.
• Bai Jing returned with Xiao Tong, and Song Xiaozhu confessed that she had killed Shang Bao, lost her memories, and possessed a mysterious Synthesizer ability.
• Bai Jing explained Awakened abilities and identified Song Xiaozhu as an All-Purpose Craftsman, then brought her limited medicine to treat Xiao Tong.
• After learning that Liu Family Village had many wounded, Song Xiaozhu agreed to make medicine from foxtail grass and refused payment for the urgently needed supplies.
• Bai Jing took Song Xiaozhu and Qiu Shuyu to meet Mu Qing, where Song Xiaozhu tested an unusually effective professional iron axe and synthesized medicine from gathered herbs.
• Song Xiaozhu chose to establish a shop in Liu Family Village and arranged to buy scrap iron from Old Chen's family while continuing to sell axes.
• Song Xiaozhu upgraded several recipes, unlocked antidote, and spent Quantum Coins on a level 2 Random Synthesis attempt.
• Song Xiaozhu synthesized a professional axe into fresh meat, learned that it could be recorded as a custom recipe, and asked the Synthesizer about the cost of recording another.