Recaps

Song Xiaozhu arranged a move to Liu Family Village, secured a long-term axe contract with Mu Qing, and fought off Cui Jiao’s ambush on the way. Welcomed by Xiao Yunjie, she set up Taobao Shop and opened it with her companions, who still felt uneasy in their new home.

• Song Xiaozhu proposed opening a shop in Liu Family Village, and Xiao Tong won Xiao Yunjie’s support for the move and the offer of an old residence.
• Song Xiaozhu revealed to Mu Qing that she was an All-Purpose Craftsman, declined his offer to live in the Fortress, and agreed to supply his logging camp with 2,000 axes a month.
• Luo Liuzi fled his family and joined Tian Man, while Luo Tong and Chen San pursued Song Xiaozhu, and Mu Qing sheltered Tian Man and Luo Liuzi from Cui Jiao’s men at the logging camp.
• Song Xiaozhu made bows and special arrows, then used them with Qiu Shuyu, Tian Man, and Luo Liuzi to defeat Cui Jiao’s ambush on the road to Liu Family Village.
• Hu Yuan identified Song Xiaozhu as an Awakened and a Weapons Specialist, while Song Xiaozhu’s group arrived safely in Liu Family Village and Xiao Yunjie welcomed them.
• Xiao Yunjie gave Song Xiaozhu the former village chief’s residence for her shop, and Song Xiaozhu named it Taobao, completing a Growth Quest and unlocking new recipes.
• Song Xiaozhu synthesized several new items and opened Taobao Shop with Qiu Shuyu, Tian Man, and Luo Liuzi, who remained nervous about their new surroundings.

Song Xiaozhu expanded her shop and used the iron ore beneath the Earth Temple to produce weapons and supplies for Liu Family Village. As the village prepared to flee the Fortress’s coming collapse, she and Xiao Yunjie agreed not to hand the Awakening Stones to Fan Cang.

• Song Xiaozhu opened her shop, which villagers quickly bought out, while Xiao Yunjie ordered guards to watch it and warned Xiao Tong that the village faced danger from Hu Yuan.
• Xiao Yunjie and Liu Xuangang revealed that Fan Cang intended to excavate the Earth Temple and use the villagers’ flesh and blood to restore the barrier, so they planned to arm the village and escape when it failed.
• Song Xiaozhu helped secure Old Chen’s family’s release by sending Old Chen to Old Madam Hu with a bow and arrows, then discovered she could synthesize iron raw material directly from the ore beneath the temple.
• Song Xiaozhu crafted hundreds of steel blades and sabers, found Awakening Stones in the ore, and offered Liu Family Village generous contracts for its iron and weapons.
• Song Xiaozhu made a sturdy storage box, produced thousands of steel sabers in bulk, and helped arrange for Liu Family Village to contact Deer Town as a possible refuge.
• Chen San brought Old Chen’s family back to the village and contracted with Song Xiaozhu for steel sabers and special arrowheads, while Song Xiaozhu completed a major order and earned 20 Quantum Coins.
• Song Xiaozhu equipped the villagers with weapons and stockpiled food, water, and oil as Liu Family Village prepared for danger and she removed more than half the iron ore wall.
• Song Xiaozhu showed Xiao Yunjie and Liu Xuangang six Awakening Stones, and Xiao Yunjie said they would keep them from Fan Cang after Song Xiaozhu explained that they were extras.

Song Xiaozhu supplied Liu Family Village with gear and safe Polluted Beast meat, then upgraded the Synthesizer and explored its new recipes. As the beast tide continued and Xiao Tong suffered a severe injury, Song Xiaozhu’s advanced medicine saved him, while the village faced dwindling supplies.

• Song Xiaozhu learned from Bai Jing that Awakening Stones were dangerous and could bind the Awakened to a fixed profession, while Tian Man and Luo Liuzi hesitated over whether to awaken.
• As the Guard Team fought the beast tide with Xiao Yunjie’s traps, Song Xiaozhu crafted protective leather gear and found Awakening Stone Fragments in Polluted Beast hearts.
• Song Xiaozhu synthesized antidote from matter found in a beast’s stomach and used it to make Polluted Beast meat safe to eat.
• Song Xiaozhu brought the meat and protective gear to the front line, where Xiao Yunjie pledged to follow her and she gained Leadership Value.
• Song Xiaozhu killed trapped Polluted Beasts to complete her growth quest, upgraded the Synthesizer to level 3, and received new synthesis and research features.
• Song Xiaozhu unlocked recipes including Energy Stones, grenades, repeating crossbows, and Energy Armor, named the self-aware Synthesizer Xiao He, and began exploring employee recipes.
• A tall, thin figure atop a massive beast struck Xiao Tong, leaving him severely injured, and Song Xiaozhu realized the village needed to gather more raw materials.
• Song Xiaozhu gave Xiao Tong an advanced anti-inflammatory capsule, and after he woke in pain and tore at his bandages, Xiao He explained that the medicine had triggered his strong self-healing.

Song Xiaozhu strengthened Liu Family Village after the beast tide, uncovered the truth about Ink City and the Testing Grounds, and built ties with the Scavenger Community. The village began qualifying as a base, but Song Xiaozhu still needed to improve its construction, support, defense, and trade values.

• Song Xiaozhu helped the village celebrate surviving the beast tide, then unlocked the Employee Backpack recipe and assigned Tian Man and Luo Liuzi to gather medicinal materials and wood.
• Song Xiaozhu arranged aid and relocation plans for survivors from Deer Town, the logging camp, and the Scavenger Community, while learning that Fan Cang had left Ink City.
• Leina claimed that the Day After Tomorrow Society was liberating Testing Grounds and explained the Heart of the Creator, but she deceived Xiao Yunjie into trading Polluted Beast hearts for a broken terminal.
• Song Xiaozhu used the terminal to unlock Formula Research and Development, while Bai Jing confirmed that she and Fan Cang carried Hearts of the Creator and explained the Testing Grounds’ purpose.
• Song Xiaozhu chose to help the surrounding communities grow strong together, and Tian Man and Luo Liuzi returned with large supplies of gathered materials using their Employee Backpacks.
• Song Xiaozhu sent Tian Man to aid the ruined Scavenger Community, where he arranged food, medicine, water, and scrap trades despite conflict with Luo Liuzi’s father.
• Song Xiaozhu gathered Awakening Stone Fragments herself, while Tian Man’s work in the Scavenger Community earned Leadership Value and established a supply agreement.
• Song Xiaozhu synthesized a communicator and found that the community’s residents counted toward her base population, but her construction, popular support, defense, and trade values still needed improvement.