Chapter Summaries

Su Wei collected and assembled professional filming equipment, then began documenting life at his cabin in Alaska. After filming Cotton Candy and the snowy landscape with a camera and drone, he edited a short video and registered a social media account to start building his personal brand.

• Su Wei drove through deep snow to the freight station and collected five cases of filming equipment.
• Su Wei unpacked and assembled a Sony camera, lenses, microphones, tripods, drone, and other accessories at his cabin.
• Su Wei filmed Cotton Candy yawning and playing, capturing a close-up of the fox’s bright blue eyes.
• Su Wei flew the drone over his cabin, Emerald Lake, and the Pillar Mountain Range to capture the winter landscape.
• Su Wei edited a fifteen-second cinematic video of Cotton Candy and registered a social media account.

Su Wei prepared to film his first solo hunt on Kodiak Island, then rode into the snowy wilderness to pursue the dangerous brown bear Missing Ear. The chapter left him navigating the middle section of Pilan Creek as the hunt began.

• Su Wei filmed an introduction describing the hundred-thousand-dollar commission to hunt Missing Ear, a four-hundred-kilogram male bear on the north slope.
• Su Wei left food and water for Cotton Candy, loaded his camera gear and weapons onto the Thunder God 8000, and set out before dawn.
• Su Wei rode through deep snow and dense birch forest toward the hunting area while narrating his location and the rising terrain.

Su Wei tracked the Kodiak brown bear Missing Ear across Pillar Mountain after finding its fresh paw prints and following signs of its passage. He reached a V-shaped valley and began searching for a sheltered sniping position, knowing the starving bear could attack without warning.

• Su Wei used a drone to locate enormous fresh paw prints near the mouth of a V-shaped valley and identified them as Missing Ear's trail.
• Su Wei hid his snowmobile, activated the Hunting Module, and followed the highlighted trail on foot while filming the tracking process.
• Su Wei found deep claw marks and brown hair on a birch tree, then explained the bear's size and his choice of rifle and ammunition.
• Su Wei discovered fresh droppings containing berry skins and bloody bone fragments, indicating that Missing Ear was extremely hungry and dangerous.
• Su Wei spotted a recessed rock chamber beneath a cliff that could serve as a sheltered sniping position.

Su Wei waited in ambush for Missing Ear, but the shifting valley winds made a long-range shot dangerously unreliable. As the bear began circling toward cover, Su Wei sensed a brief lull in the crosswind and prepared to act.

• Su Wei kept his rifle trained on Missing Ear while the bear stopped near the infrared sensor and turned toward his ledge.
• Su Wei’s Hunting Module showed an unstable trajectory, warning that a shot in the turbulent wind could only wound the bear.
• Missing Ear began circling toward a snow-covered slope that would block Su Wei’s view.
• Su Wei recalled Black’s advice to feel the wind, then closed his eyes and sensed a brief lull near the valley floor.
• Su Wei opened his eyes and ignored the flickering trajectory guide as the brief opportunity arrived.

Su Wei shot Missing Ear with his .300 Winchester Magnum and waited ten minutes to confirm the brown bear was dead. He approached the body with his Ruger revolver and stopped five meters away to check it more closely.

• Su Wei adjusted his scope for the wind and shot Missing Ear as the bear rubbed against a tree.
• Missing Ear collapsed in the snow, and Su Wei chambered another round and watched for signs of life.
• Su Wei waited ten minutes before leaving his position, then checked his camera and collected the spent casing.
• Su Wei slung his rifle, drew his Ruger Super Redhawk, and descended toward Missing Ear’s body.
• Su Wei stopped five meters from the bear, aimed at the back of its head, and kicked a stone against its paw.

Su Wei killed the enormous Kodiak brown bear Missing Ear, gained a Hunting Module upgrade, and began skinning the carcass before nightfall. He continued working carefully on the hide, aiming to preserve it for a specimen.

• Su Wei confirmed Missing Ear was dead and filmed an account of the fatal shot.
• The Hunting Module advanced to LV3, improving ballistic guidance and adding environmental correction and weakness vision.
• Su Wei measured Missing Ear at three meters and five centimeters and assessed the difficulty of processing the bear on the steep slope.
• With only five hours before sunset, Su Wei began skinning Missing Ear with his Alaska Harpoon survival knife.
• Su Wei continued separating the hide from the flesh, explaining that the paws and their digits had to remain intact for the specimen.

Su Wei butchered a brown bear and hauled its hide, gallbladder, tenderloins, meat, and bones onto his overloaded snowmobile. During the stormy trip home, he spotted two green eyes ahead in the woods and readied his revolver.

• Su Wei removed the bear's hide, gallbladder, and tenderloins, then wrapped them in a waterproof tarp and carried them back to his snowmobile.
• Su Wei butchered more than 600 jin of bear meat and bones, slid the bundled spoils down a scree slope, and dragged them to the vehicle with a winch.
• Su Wei secured the meat and bearskin to the snowmobile and set off into the night as the wind and snow worsened.
• Su Wei braked when two green lights appeared less than twenty meters ahead, then drew his Ruger Super Redhawk and aimed at the unseen creature.

After a tense encounter in the storm, Su Wei discovered the green lights belonged to a reindeer and returned to his cabin exhausted with the bear hide and meat. He preserved the hide, reunited with Cotton Candy, cleaned up, and cooked himself a steak as the Life Module awarded experience.

• Su Wei recognized the silhouette as a reindeer, startled it away with the snowmobile's horn, and continued home through the snow.
• Su Wei reached the cabin at night, carried the bear hide and skull into the garage, and salted the hide for preservation.
• Cotton Candy rushed to greet Su Wei when he entered the cabin, and he stroked the animal before washing his bloodstained clothes and showering.
• Su Wei cooked beef tenderloin with rosemary and a runny egg, earning cooking experience and Life Module experience.

After recovering from his hunt, Su Wei discovered that his teaser video had attracted more than fifty thousand views, largely because audiences were captivated by Cotton Candy. He accepted that the fox might become the face of his channel as he considered how the unexpected attention could help his plans.

• Su Wei ate steak by the fireplace with Cotton Candy and recovered most of his strength.
• Su Wei checked his phone and saw that his teaser video had passed fifty thousand views.
• Su Wei watched the video and read comments praising Cotton Candy, which had become the focus of the audience's attention.
• Su Wei teased Cotton Candy about becoming a superstar and reconsidered his plan to build a lone-wolf hunter persona.
• Su Wei decided the video's unexpected popularity could help him monetize his personal brand sooner.

Su Wei called Laurent Laroche to report that he had killed Missing Ear and completed the brown bear commission. Laurent was impressed and arranged to inspect the carcass at his restaurant the next morning before paying Su Wei $100,000.

• Su Wei checked the strong response to his YouTube and TikTok video, then called Laurent Laroche about the commission.
• Su Wei told Laurent he had killed Missing Ear on Pillar Mountain, brought the carcass back, and prepared the hide, meat, and intact gallbladder.
• Laurent questioned how Su Wei had tracked the bear so quickly in the blizzard but accepted that the carcass matched his requirements.
• Laurent praised Su Wei's abilities and arranged for him to bring the bear to the restaurant's kitchen the next morning for inspection and payment.

After securing a $100,000 deal for his bear trophies, Su Wei watched his TikTok teaser of Cotton Candy go viral and transferred the footage from his hunt to his laptop. Exhausted, he put the footage away without editing and left the next steps for later.

• Su Wei agreed with Laurent to accept payment by bank transfer and planned to meet him the next day.
• Su Wei checked that the bear hide was thoroughly salted and inspected the stored bear meat in the garage.
• Su Wei noticed his TikTok account gaining followers as his Cotton Candy teaser surpassed 300,000 views and 100,000 likes.
• Su Wei considered the video’s popularity a source of future advertising and sponsorship revenue, but chose not to interact with commenters.
• Su Wei transferred the footage from his Sony FX3 memory card to his laptop, then put the drive away because exhaustion made editing impossible.

Su Wei woke to construction crews pouring the foundation for his exhibition hall and inspected the work with foreman Matt. Matt admired Su Wei’s successful hunt, while Su Wei confirmed the flue placement and approved the costly road construction.

• Su Wei woke to the sound of heavy machinery and saw workers pouring concrete into the reinforced foundation pit.
• Matt noticed the bloodstained tarp covering Su Wei’s snowmobile and praised him for bringing back formidable prey through the snowy conditions.
• Matt explained that the concrete mix and foundation met demanding strength standards, and Su Wei checked that the flue had been positioned correctly.
• Matt described the road crew’s excavation and layered roadbed plan, and Su Wei insisted that the necessary infrastructure costs could not be avoided.

Su Wei loaded the bear meat and hide onto his truck and drove them to the Chart Room to sell them to Laurent. He arrived at the restaurant’s kitchen loading dock and opened the tailgate.

• Su Wei assured Matt that he would provide the money to keep construction going and told him to focus on the work.
• Su Wei loaded the bear meat and hide onto his Raptor and secured the cargo.
• Su Wei drove toward Kodiak Town and called Laurent, who told him the restaurant’s kitchen crew was waiting for the bear.
• Su Wei drove his muddy, bloodstained truck into the Chart Room’s clean kitchen alley and stopped by the loading dock.
• Su Wei ignored the startled apprentices, walked to the rear of the truck, and gripped the tailgate latch.

Su Wei delivered a freshly killed Kodiak bear to Laurent Laroche, who paid him $100,000 and brought the meat into his restaurant’s processing room. As the staff began breaking it down, a prized Japanese knife struck the bear’s shoulder bone and caught.

• Su Wei opened the truck bed to reveal the bear meat, skull, and pelt to the apprentices.
• Laurent Laroche inspected the bear and praised how recently and skillfully it had been butchered.
• Laurent paid Su Wei the agreed $100,000, pushing Su Wei’s savings past three million dollars.
• Laurent ordered his staff to carry the bear inside and prepare it as that night’s star ingredient.
• A sous-chef tried to cut through the bear’s shoulder joint, but his sujihiki knife caught on the dense bone.

Su Wei took over butchering the brown bear after the sous-chef broke Laurent Laroche’s knife trying to cut its shoulder. He demonstrated how to separate the joint and trim the meat, leaving Laurent impressed by his expertise.

• The sous-chef’s Japanese sujihiki knife snapped while he tried to cut through the bear’s shoulder, and Laurent rebuked him.
• Su Wei entered the kitchen, drew his Alaska Harpoon Survival Knife, and told Laurent the bear had to be butchered his way.
• Su Wei located the shoulder joint, dislocated it with his knife, and separated the foreleg without striking bone.
• Su Wei explained that brown bear meat required trimming along its dense fascia rather than following the muscle grain.
• Su Wei said he had already separated the bear’s tenderloin, and an apprentice brought it in wrapped in waterproof oilcloth.

Su Wei proposed serving the bear tenderloin as two contrasting dishes for Laurent’s demanding Seattle guest, Charles. Laurent approved the idea, leaving the kitchen to prepare a meal built around ice and fire.

• Laurent asked Su Wei how to prepare the bear meat for Charles, a wealthy guest seeking a true taste of Alaska.
• Pierre objected to Su Wei’s suggestion of a savage, conquest-themed meal, but Laurent listened as Su Wei explained Charles’s desires.
• Su Wei proposed searing one portion of tenderloin on volcanic rock using bear fat and serving the other as thin slices marinated with spruce needles and Kodiak blueberries.
• Laurent accepted Su Wei’s proposal and called out to Pierre.

Su Wei directed the Chart Room kitchen in preparing bear tenderloin with a blueberry and spruce marinade, winning Laurent’s trust with precise culinary knowledge and knife skills. As the meat changed color in the marinade, Su Wei’s Life Module revealed that his new recipe could briefly stimulate courage and decisiveness.

• Laurent ordered Pierre to heat a volcanic rock slab and followed Su Wei’s instructions for the dish.
• Su Wei used frozen spruce branches from his truck and flash-frozen blueberries to prepare a marinade.
• Su Wei stopped Pierre from adding too much salt and measured out eight grams for the blueberries.
• Laurent lent Su Wei his custom yanagiba, and Su Wei cut the bear tenderloin into twelve translucent slices.
• Su Wei placed the slices in the marinade, and the Life Module identified the recipe as Touch of the Aurora, which produced a faint courage effect.

Su Wei prepared two bear-meat dishes that impressed Laurent and Pierre, demonstrating how his cooking skills and special effects could give the Chart Room an edge with hunting clients. Laurent declared that the dish would help elevate the restaurant before Michelin judges, while Su Wei said he had earned his commission.

• Su Wei served Laurent blueberry-and-spruce-marinated bear meat, whose Courage effect filled Laurent with a primal desire to hunt.
• Pierre tasted the raw bear meat and was stunned by its tenderness and flavor, then began recording Su Wei’s methods.
• Su Wei seared bear tenderloin on a red-hot volcanic stone slab and served it medium rare without seasoning.
• Laurent praised the dish and predicted the Seattle owner would put the Chart Room before Michelin judges.
• Su Wei told Laurent he had earned his hundred-thousand-dollar commission with a clear conscience.

Su Wei accepted Laurent’s offer to attend the Chart Room feast as a special consultant and secured a $20,000 appearance fee and future first-purchase rights. He then returned to Emerald Lake, where Matt’s team had rapidly completed the access road and foundation, and arrived as construction continued.

• Su Wei shook Laurent’s hand and agreed to attend the whole-bear feast as a special consultant for $20,000 and future first-purchase rights.
• Su Wei saw Matt’s photo showing that the property’s road and foundation were finished and noted his account held $2,858,200.
• Su Wei drove from Kodiak Town to Emerald Lake along the newly completed gravel road.
• Su Wei found Matt’s crew and heavy machinery working beside the poured foundation.
• Matt called out to Su Wei as he got out of his pickup.

Su Wei paid Matt the full $500,000 construction installment, securing the crew’s commitment to accelerate work at Emerald Lake. He demanded a smoother road for wealthy clients, and Matt explained that the gravel base needed weeks of heavy rolling before a finished surface could be laid.

• Matt showed Su Wei the completed foundation and gravel road, then asked for the $500,000 second payment.
• Su Wei transferred the full amount without haggling, and Matt pledged to use premium materials and bring steel structures to the site the next day.
• Su Wei told Matt the road needed to suit low-clearance luxury vehicles and requested asphalt or seamless concrete.
• Matt explained that the road sat over unstable permafrost and marsh, so the gravel base had to be compacted by heavy trucks before paving.