Once it was down on the ground, Space Brother Dao lived on the compressed food in the escape pod and rode out the days when sand and stones filled the sky.

It buried Tang Yaya's body and felt its intelligence rise a little; it was smarter than before. But back then it was still just a dog. It had become an iron beast without knowing what to do about it, and it could only guard the escape pod, not daring to stray far.

Not long after, it met a human survivor.

He was a goofball with a smart mouth and a dog lover, and once he recognized it as Space Brother Dao, he treated it well.

Space Brother Dao lived with this man, whose name it never knew, for over a month. They had adventures together, dragged the escape pod together to a good spot, and began to build a base.

They meant to settle there for good.

But one day the man was bitten by an evolved beast that had wandered in.

Space Brother Dao came bounding back, went berserk, and killed the evolved beast, but the man died after leaving his last words. Rage drove Brother Dao on for weeks, hunting down other evolved beasts without letup. Its body grew huge, its strength climbed fast, and its IQ kept rising.

At last it broke free of its rage, and suddenly understood the last words the man had left it.

"Brother Dao, go find people. You need to live with humans, not with wild beasts." The man had hoped Brother Dao could leave the ranks of wild beasts behind instead of sinking, in this scarred world, into a beast that ate raw meat.

Once Space Brother Dao understood, it dragged the escape pod along and set out to find humans.

It didn't know how far it went.

It didn't know where it went.

In any case, it made its way here to Changsha and finally met human survivors, who recognized it as Space Brother Dao and lived alongside it. From then on, the powerful Space Brother Dao took on…