Recaps

Song Xiaozhu built up Liu Family Village’s warehouses, communications, and defenses while recruiting Lu Xiaofang as a trading partner. After Lu Xiaofang warned her that the Three Kills Gang and God-Favored squads threatened Test Site No. 49, Song Xiaozhu prepared the village for battle and brought Lu Xiaofang into the community.

• Song Xiaozhu synthesized a personal terminal, connected it to Skynet, and learned about the God-Favored, the Han-Tang Group, and the breaches across the Testing Grounds.
• Song Xiaozhu investigated Lu Xiaofang and learned that she and her ill twin sister Lu Xiaochu were struggling to survive in Tianfu Holy City.
• Song Xiaozhu chose a quest to protect 3,000 base members, planned to strengthen Liu Family Village, and began making warehouses, traps, and communications equipment.
• Song Xiaozhu contacted Lu Xiaofang anonymously and arranged for her to carry 500 skinning knives from Liu Family Village to the city.
• Lu Xiaofang feared the knives might be contaminated and refused to sell them, but Song Xiaozhu assured her they were ordinary, and Lu Xiaochu confirmed they were useful tools.
• Song Xiaozhu told Lu Xiaofang to sell the knives, and Lu Xiaofang learned from Guang Qin that the Three Kills Gang and God-Favored squads might attack Test Site No. 49 to seize its Heart of the Creator.
• Lu Xiaofang reported the danger to Song Xiaozhu, who ordered materials stockpiled and prepared a Grand Banquet to raise Leadership Value and strengthen the village.
• Lu Xiaofang brought her merchant’s case to Liu Family Village, joined the community, and let Song Xiaozhu inspect the case’s hundred storage slots.

Song Xiaozhu prepared Liu Family Village for the Three Kills Gang’s attack while facing Fan Cang and the dangers of the God-Favored struggle. After the villagers defeated the gang, Fan Cang and four other God-Favored remained nearby as Song Xiaozhu upgraded her Synthesizer to level four.

• Song Xiaozhu sent Lu Xiaofang a merchant squad with fresh beast meat and supplies, then discovered Fan Cang had entered her room and learned he intended to use her as bait.
• Song Xiaozhu upgraded her crafting abilities and established remote control of Liu Family Village, while Xiao Yunjie organized the villagers and the merchant squad gathered Awakening Stone Fragments.
• Lu Xiaofang led her group safely back to the village with supplies as Song Xiaozhu mapped the enemy’s movements and prepared the villagers for the Three Kills Gang’s attack.
• Song Xiaozhu gave the villagers Primordial Water and revealed her plan to fight beside them, while Qiu Shuyu set out to seek help from Wen Changye.
• Song Xiaozhu witnessed Ci Yu and Ning Yao’s confrontation end in their deaths, then recovered Ning Yao’s Awakening Stone and gained her Dark Element Erosion ability.
• Song Xiaozhu rejected the temptation to pursue power through killing God-Favored, then armed Yu Luo’s young archers with Quantum Arrows to cripple the Three Kills Gang.
• Liu Xuangang and the Hunters killed the immobilized gang members, raising Song Xiaozhu’s Slaughter Value to 10,000, and Song Xiaozhu refused to exchange it for Quantum Coins.
• Song Xiaozhu erased the Slaughter Value exchange function, upgraded the Synthesizer to level four, and saw Fan Cang approach her shop as four other God-Favored waited nearby.

Song Xiaozhu defended Liu Family Village from Fan Cang, whose assault forced her to turn the fallen Hunters into Undead and defeat him. After learning the truth behind Fan Cang’s memories, she met Shen Qi, who revealed that Li Shijian had plotted to draw her out and steal the Creator.

• Song Xiaozhu rejected trade and slaughter, prepared weapons, and faced Fan Cang, who revealed the testing grounds’ deception and admitted causing thousands of deaths.
• Fan Cang killed the gathered God-Favored, while Song Xiaozhu held to her promise to protect Liu Family Village and later proved her Slaughter Value was zero when the rankings named her first in Leadership Value.
• Fan Cang attacked the village’s shield, and Song Xiaozhu used upgraded cannons and vehicles before reviving five hundred fallen Hunters as Undead.
• Song Xiaozhu’s fifty thousand duplicated Undead overwhelmed Fan Cang, who vanished after accusing her of becoming like him.
• Song Xiaozhu received Fan Cang’s memories, learned Mu Qing had not betrayed her, and questioned whether her own memories had been altered.
• Shen Qi entered Liu Family Village and apologized to Song Xiaozhu, then explained that her memory loss had helped conceal her from Soul Search.
• Song Xiaozhu affirmed Xiao He’s identity, and Shen Qi accused Li Shijian of betraying Li Shihai and using the God-Favored conflict to lure her out and steal the Creator.

Song Xiaozhu rescued Qiu Shuyu from Li Shijian’s hypnosis and confronted the memories of their shared past, while Li Shijian’s account exposed how Li Shihai created the Hatching Nest and the God-Favored. The arc ended with Li Shijian understanding Li Shihai’s records and the origin of the system governing the Fortresses.

• Shen Qi explained Li Shihai’s role in building the Fortresses, while Qiu Shuyu was abducted and awakened as Li Siyuan under Li Shijian’s influence.
• Song Xiaozhu strengthened Liu Family Village and helped survivors reclaim polluted land, establish communities, and grow crops as her Leadership Value rose.
• Li Shijian took Shang Xiaoyue and manipulated Qiu Shuyu, while Shen Qi warned Song Xiaozhu that Li Shijian was a level-six Hypnotist using personal terminals to control people.
• Song Xiaozhu went to the Clouds and found Qiu Shuyu driven mad by the Heart of the Creator fragments, then killed and synthesized her into an Undead Queen.
• Li Shijian showed Song Xiaozhu a recording of her childhood in the Hatching Nest, revealing that she and Li Shijian had once planned to destroy the Synthesizer and resist Li Shihai.
• Song Xiaozhu refused to kill Li Shijian or destroy the Synthesizer, and he shattered his Awakening Stone before Qiu Shuyu brought Song Xiaozhu home.
• Li Shijian recalled Li Shihai’s betrayal, killed him with the other children, and learned from his diary that the Synthesizer came from the asteroid that destroyed human civilization.
• Li Shijian read how Li Shihai built the Holy City and ninety-nine Fortresses, failed to control the Polluted Beasts, and created the Hatching Nest and God-Favored in search of a successor.