Chapter Summaries

Sang Luoluo discovered that her broken leg had healed completely and wondered whether she had awakened a new ability, while keeping the Spirit Spring water’s possible role secret. She sold Asuo her remaining water, and Sang Yunpu prepared to come home from the hospital.

• Sang Luoluo’s X-rays showed that her fractured leg had healed, and she walked without pain.
• The doctor arranged to collect Sang Luoluo’s blood for the base laboratory, while Jian Cheng delivered a gene agent that she no longer needed.
• Sang Luoluo wondered whether her healing came from an evolved ability, the Spirit Spring water, or another cause, and learned that Wei Xing remained in intensive care with a high fever.
• Sang Luoluo sold Asuo her last 2,000 bottles of water and told him the wilderness water supply had been contaminated by radiation.
• Sang Yunpu messaged Sang Luoluo that he had been discharged and was coming to recuperate at her home.

Sang Luoluo welcomed Sang Yunpu home from the hospital, then took him shopping to furnish their apartment. After buying household supplies and clothes, she learned from Dr. Wang that she could join the Guard on an outing in three days and train at its facility.

• Sang Luoluo brought Sang Yunpu home, registered him for family access, and explained that she had bought a tent and basic supplies after their belongings were stolen.
• Sang Yunpu measured the apartment before he and Sang Luoluo visited a general store and bought appliances, kitchenware, tools, and other household necessities.
• Sang Yunpu planned to build a bunk bed rather than buy another tent, and Sang Luoluo agreed to gather suitable wood in the wilderness.
• Sang Luoluo and Sang Yunpu bought clothes, blankets, and quilts, with Sang Yunpu bargaining to lower the price.
• Sang Luoluo received Dr. Wang's message that she could join the Guard in three days and train at its training room.
• Sang Luoluo pushed Sang Yunpu home and arranged their purchases according to his instructions.

Sang Luoluo ate a rare home-cooked chicken lunch with Sang Yunpu, then went to the Guard training facility to begin preparing for her mission in three days. After struggling through demanding simulations, she showed accurate aim with a laser gun despite her poor physical test results.

• Sang Yunpu cooked chicken stewed with potatoes, and Sang Luoluo ate her fill before leaving for Guard training.
• Sang Yunpu set up the apartment’s appliances, solar panels, air conditioner, and other household items while Sang Luoluo was away.
• Sang Luoluo met instructor Qingtian, who tested her running in a virtual wilderness and judged her constitution and speed to be among the Guard’s worst.
• Sang Luoluo endured a difficult two-hour forest simulation, where mutant animals and insects chased her and she died repeatedly.
• Sang Luoluo demonstrated good laser-gun aim by hitting stationary targets and then firing at slowly moving ones.

Sang Luoluo trained at the Guard's facility while Sang Yunpu improved their home and processed a pig she brought back as mission payment. After three days of preparation, she left before dawn, and Sang Yunpu asked her to message him whenever she could.

• Sang Luoluo trained in shooting and combat, ate the meals Sang Yunpu prepared, and decided to keep practicing so she could survive outside the base.
• Sang Luoluo left fresh food and a whole pig in the refrigerator, explaining that it was payment from a secret mission; Sang Yunpu bought equipment and processed the meat into stored portions.
• Sang Yunpu finished preparing the pork and planned to buy a larger refrigerator, while Sang Luoluo noted that their home was too small.
• After three days, Sang Luoluo set out before dawn with food Sang Yunpu had prepared and promised to be careful on her mission.
• Sang Yunpu saw Sang Luoluo to the door and asked her to message him often; Sang Luoluo warned him that weak signals might prevent her messages from getting through.

Sang Luoluo joined the S16 Squad on a mission to collect specimens in Zone 33C, where she gathered mutant insects and found Crystal Cores. The squad encountered a snake after passing through giant eggplant plants.

• Sang Luoluo left Sang Yunpu and joined Jian Cheng and the S16 Squad for a mission to Zone 33C.
• Lei Qi told Sang Luoluo about the S16 Squad's evolved members, and she gave him an egg and asked him to look after her.
• Zhang Yunyun detected mutant rats and swarms of flying insects, and the squad fought off the insects as Sang Luoluo collected their corpses and removed three Crystal Cores.
• Sang Luoluo spotted a pile of Crystal Cores in a rat burrow but marked the location because it was too deep to reach during the fight.
• Yan Lang's squad killed dozens of mutant rats while Jian Cheng collected specimens, then Sang Luoluo offered to store whole eggplant plants for research.
• Zhang Yunyun heard a snake nearby and warned the squad.

Sang Luoluo and S16 Squad captured a dangerous mutant caterpillar, whose poisoned bristles injured several guards, then continued searching the eggplant grove for food and Crystal Cores. After Yan Lang agreed to pay Sang Luoluo to store the team’s eggplants, the squad found a Crystal Core and began searching nearby while staying inside the grove.

• Jian Cheng urged the guards to capture the mutant caterpillar alive, but it fired poisoned bristles that injured Sang Luoluo and many guards before Yan Lang secured it and Sang Luoluo stored it.
• The caterpillar’s toxin left several guards badly swollen and feverish, so Yan Lang sent ten injured people back to the base by helicopter while Sang Luoluo remained with the mission.
• The next day, S16 Squad fought off mutant flying insects and collected eleven edible giant eggplants, which Sang Luoluo stored for a twenty-percent service fee after negotiating with Yan Lang.
• Li Zhang discovered a tiny Crystal Core, prompting Yan Lang to let the team search for more while warning everyone not to leave the eggplant grove.

Sang Luoluo searched the eggplant grove for food and crystal cores after Yan Lang’s group left to rescue Li Tai, then was seized by a mutant giant snake. She escaped by pulling the snake into her space, where she killed it and found a crystal core near its tail.

• After Li Tai was carried off by a mutant giant eagle, Yan Lang sent Lei Qi and the others to rescue him, leaving Sang Luoluo, Jian Cheng, and An Ping in the grove.
• Sang Luoluo collected edible bird eggs and a mutant grasshopper, found a small crystal core inside an eggplant tree, and stored food that An Ping found.
• Sang Luoluo sensed danger, and An Ping spotted several mutant giant snakes; the three fired at them and tried to flee.
• A mutant giant snake coiled around Sang Luoluo while An Ping and Jian Cheng ran away, and An Ping refused Jian Cheng’s suggestion to return for her.
• Sang Luoluo pulled herself and the snake into her space, where she restrained and killed it, then located a crystal core near its tail.

Sang Luoluo survived the giant mutant snake, found edible food and Crystal Cores, and reunited with Yan Lang's team. After rescuers took the seriously injured back to base, the remaining team began gathering mutant eggplants at daybreak.

• Sang Luoluo killed a giant mutant snake, unlocked her sweet potatoes, and searched the eggplant grove for edible produce and Crystal Cores.
• Sang Luoluo unearthed a Crystal Core that unlocked her potatoes and pigpen, collected edible mutant earthworms, and felled a huge tree to store as wood.
• Yan Lang and the others returned with the injured Li Tai, and Sang Luoluo told them she had been separated from Jian Cheng and An Ping after mutant snakes attacked.
• The team found Jian Cheng and An Ping, and Jian Cheng spoke with Sang Luoluo after she survived the snake attack.
• A helicopter took Jian Cheng, Li Tai, and three other seriously injured teammates back to base, and the remaining team started gathering mutant eggplants at daybreak.

Sang Luoluo and her team encountered aggressive mutant honeysuckle and she found a Crystal Core that unlocked cornfields in her space. That night, pink mist from vines and mutant animals overwhelmed their camp, leaving only ten survivors, with Sang Luoluo and Lei Qi awake and waiting for help.

• Sang Luoluo paid Lei Qi to cut down trees, then warned him about dangerous mutant honeysuckle; its vines attacked him, and the team secured several plants for research.
• Sang Luoluo found a hidden Crystal Core in a flower bud, unlocked thirty mu of cornfields, harvested the corn, and planted another crop.
• Sang Luoluo woke with a strong sense of danger and joined Zhang Yunyun's warning that mutant animals had entered the camp.
• Sang Luoluo and Lei Qi discovered pink mist had incapacitated most of the camp and mutant animals had killed many teammates; only ten people remained alive.
• Lei Qi found a hole gnawed through the electric fence, and Sang Luoluo blocked it with a rock from her space.
• Lei Qi traced the pink mist to flowering vines outside the fence and urged Sang Luoluo not to approach them while they waited for a signal from the base.

Sang Luoluo and Lei Qi fought off mutated rats and tried to protect the unconscious survivors as fast-growing vines trapped them. With the group deteriorating and no signal, they tested whether Sang Luoluo's space could hold people, then packed up their supplies and prepared to seek help.

• Lei Qi killed a mutated rat that emerged from a tunnel, and Sang Luoluo baited more rats with poisoned steamed bun slices before spraying pesticide on the vines.
• Lei Qi treated Zhang Yunyun and warned that the unconscious survivors, including Yan Lang, might not survive without help.
• Lei Qi asked whether Sang Luoluo's space could hold people, and she confined him there briefly before letting him out.
• Lei Qi decided they had to find a place with a signal, so Sang Luoluo stored the unconscious survivors in her space inside a tent.
• Lei Qi ordered the group to take useful equipment, and Sang Luoluo stored the dismantled supplies in her space.

Sang Luoluo and Lei Qi used peanuts to lure and kill mutant rats while searching for Crystal Cores, and Sang Luoluo discovered a pink core that expanded her space’s crops. As Elder Yan sent the S17 Squad to find the missing S16 Squad, Lei Qi jumped down to bait more rats, leaving Sang Luoluo to count his kills and promised peanuts.

• Sang Luoluo and Lei Qi escaped the pink-flowered vine, killed attacking mutant rats, and Sang Luoluo dug up the vine and a large rock with an excavator.
• Sang Luoluo cracked the rock to reveal a pink Crystal Core, which unlocked ten mu of peanuts and thirty mu of wheat in her space.
• Lei Qi killed a mutant rat that stole a peanut kernel, and he and Sang Luoluo found a small Crystal Core in its body and agreed to split the value in food and cores.
• Sang Luoluo used peanuts to lure groups of mutant rats toward the excavator while Lei Qi shot them, despite his protests about wasting food.
• Elder Yan, worried after the S16 Squad’s signal disappeared, sent the S17 Squad in two helicopters to rescue them.
• Lei Qi made a deal with Sang Luoluo for one peanut per rat killed, then jumped down as bait and drew more than a dozen mutant rats from a burrow.

Lei Qi and Sang Luoluo collected Crystal Cores after Lei Qi killed a swarm of mutant rats, then became trapped in a tree by mutant wolves. Sang Luoluo’s rocks gave them a chance to fight back, and she prepared to use more debris and rat corpses as bait.

• Lei Qi killed 235 mutant rats, and he and Sang Luoluo searched their corpses for Crystal Cores before leaving the area.
• Sang Luoluo collected a newly sprouted, low-radiation vine and gave Lei Qi the agreed 235 peanuts.
• Lei Qi and Sang Luoluo encountered mutant wolves and climbed a tree, where they feared they might be trapped overnight.
• Sang Luoluo lured the wolves toward mutant rat corpses and crushed two with rocks, allowing Lei Qi to shoot and kill more.
• Lei Qi asked Sang Luoluo to keep throwing rocks and rat corpses when he gave the signal, and she began drawing the wolves in again.

Sang Luoluo and Lei Qi survived a pack of mutated wolves until Qi Feng and the S17 Squad rescued them, and Sang Luoluo brought the unconscious survivors out of her space. Elder Yan sent most of the group back for treatment and ordered Qi Feng’s remaining team and Sang Luoluo to continue the laboratory mission, leaving them to proceed with heavy armor and experimental-material details.

• Sang Luoluo dropped a drumstick to lure the mutated wolves into Lei Qi’s line of fire, and the two killed several wolves and ants while trapped in a tree.
• Qi Feng led the S17 Squad along Lei Qi’s marks, fought through the remaining wolves, and found Lei Qi and Sang Luoluo alive.
• Qi Feng helped Sang Luoluo onto the helicopter, and she brought Yan Lang and the other unconscious survivors out of her space.
• After receiving Qi Feng’s report, Elder Yan ordered most of the group to take Yan Lang and the others back for treatment while Qi Feng, the S17 Squad’s remaining elites, and Sang Luoluo continued the laboratory mission.
• Qi Feng kept the S16 Squad’s equipment, obtained Elder Yan’s authorization and a list of experimental materials, and led the team onward as Sang Luoluo heard them complain about being assigned Yan Lang’s unfinished mission.

Sang Luoluo and the S17 Squad rested safely before entering a forest of giant scallions to collect samples and supplies. They found edible mutant insects and earthworms, gathered firewood, and pushed deeper into the forest while watching for rabbit burrows and coping with the scallions’ pungent smell.

• Qi Feng led the S17 Squad to a safe campsite, where Sang Luoluo ate, spoke with Sang Yunpu, and slept while half the squad kept watch.
• At daybreak, the squad entered a scallion patch, fought swarms of giant flying insects, and collected scallions and insect samples.
• Sang Luoluo found a Crystal Core underground that unlocked ten mu of scallions in her space, then agreed to transport edible earthworms and mutant grubs for a twenty-percent fee.
• The squad gathered firewood, and Sang Luoluo collected low-radiation wildflowers before Qi Feng killed a giant mutant rabbit.
• Lei Qi urged the squad to search for rabbit meat, but Qi Feng kept the mission first and agreed they could explore rabbit burrows if they passed any.
• The scallion forest’s pungent odor gave Sang Luoluo a headache, so she drank Spirit Spring water and put on a mask.

Sang Luoluo hid from the mutant giant eagles in a rabbit burrow, where she found Crystal Cores that unlocked new livestock areas in her space. When an eagle seized her and tried to carry her away, she pulled it into her space and survived the fall, but the remaining eagle still threatened the team.

• Lei Qi, Qi Feng, He Fei, and the others fought the mutant giant eagles while Sang Luoluo hid in a rabbit burrow.
• Sang Luoluo found a pile of Crystal Cores in the burrow, collected them, and unlocked cattle and sheep pens in her space.
• The mutant giant eagles overwhelmed the team, and one grabbed Sang Luoluo from the burrow entrance.
• Sang Luoluo pulled the eagle into her space and fell from the treetops, with her exoskeleton cushioning her landing.
• Qi Feng and the others reached Sang Luoluo, who told them the eagle was restrained in her space but asked what weapon could kill it.

Sang Luoluo helped the Guard team defeat two mutant giant eagles, though she was injured in the process. After the team made camp to recover, she offered hot pot base and mutant eggplants for a shared rabbit meal.

• Sang Luoluo blinded the first mutant giant eagle with He Fei's laser gun, then killed it with a grenade.
• Qi Feng drew the second mutant giant eagle's attention while Lei Qi carried Sang Luoluo close enough for her to store it in her space; its wing threw them aside and injured her.
• Sang Luoluo killed the trapped eagle, and Qi Feng had her store the other eagle's corpse so the team could claim its valuable materials.
• The team set up an electric fence and treated their wounds, while Qi Feng explained that the Guard's Wound Heal Fast worked better than counterfeit ointment sold outside.
• Lei Qi and Hu Tian persuaded Qi Feng to let the team cook rabbit, and Sang Luoluo offered hot pot base and mutant eggplants for the meal.

Sang Luoluo and Qi Feng’s team collected food, firewood, timber, and mushroom samples as they pushed deeper into the forest. The chapter ended with Qi Feng warning that a pack of mutated wolves was approaching and pulling Sang Luoluo into a tree for safety.

• Sang Luoluo accidentally added an entire packet of hot pot base, and the group shared a spicy meal of mutated rabbit and eggplant.
• After resting, Sang Luoluo stored the group’s equipment and followed Qi Feng’s team deeper into the forest as they gathered samples and firewood.
• Sang Luoluo offered peanuts in exchange for timber, and the team felled thirty-two giant trees for her to store.
• Qi Feng tested the peanuts and found their radiation reading was zero before the team divided them among themselves.
• In a mushroom-covered area, Qi Feng ordered everyone to gear up while He Fei collected samples with Sang Luoluo.
• A detector alarm signaled an approaching pack of mutated wolves, and Qi Feng pulled Sang Luoluo up into a tree with a cable.

Sang Luoluo helped Qi Feng’s team defeat a pack of mutant wolves, then accidentally absorbed a gigantic mutant brown bear into her space. The group camped overnight and continued through the forest the next morning, but drifting spores got beneath He Fei’s hood and caused an intense itch on his neck.

• Sang Luoluo dropped enormous logs onto the mutant wolves while Qi Feng and the others fired, killing the pack’s attackers.
• A mutant brown bear arrived and ate the wolves; when Sang Luoluo fell from a branch onto it, she absorbed it into her space.
• Qi Feng’s team harvested useful parts from the wolf corpses, and Sang Luoluo washed away the blood before they built a log shelter for the night.
• At dawn, Sang Luoluo packed away the shelter and collected more logs, rocks, and mutant cockleburs as the team traveled onward.
• Spores slipped through a gap in He Fei’s hood and landed on his neck, making it itch intensely.

After mushroom spores left Qi Feng and the others unconscious, Sang Luoluo isolated them in her space and set out alone to find a signal and call the base for help. She coated herself in garlic water to repel mutant insects and continued toward the route back.

• After the group escaped the mushroom forest, Qi Feng recognized that several people were hallucinating and prepared a shelter, but he and the others eventually fell unconscious, leaving Sang Luoluo to watch over them.
• Sang Luoluo stayed awake through the night as rain flooded the area, then found Xiao Li and Fatty had developed fevers and decided she needed to reach a signal for help.
• Sang Luoluo put the six unconscious people into her space, packed away the shelter, and set out alone along their route back.
• When mutant flying insects attacked and her shooting proved unreliable, Sang Luoluo retreated into her space, fed the unconscious group nutrient solution, and searched for protective gear.
• Sang Luoluo wrapped herself in cotton, sprayed it with concentrated garlic water, and continued through the forest, fighting or trapping mutant insects along the way.

Sang Luoluo reached a signal in the mutated mushroom forest and requested rescue for herself and the sick Qi Feng and five others. While waiting, she sheltered from a mutated wild boar and captured three giant mutated eagles in her space, but the fourth attacked the arriving rescue aircraft.

• Sang Luoluo used a compass to navigate the mushroom forest, collected Crystal Cores, and treated the six people after finding that they had fevers.
• Sang Luoluo received Sang Yunpu's messages and sent her coordinates and a distress request to the base Guard and the laboratory.
• The Guard and laboratory confirmed that a rescue team was setting out, so Sang Luoluo built a shelter from giant logs and fought off a mutated wild boar.
• A giant mutated eagle killed the boar and gathered with three others above Sang Luoluo's shelter; she lured three eagles into her space one by one.
• The Guard's eight-person rescue team arrived by aircraft, and the remaining giant mutated eagle attacked their aircraft as Sang Luoluo hid beneath the logs.