Chapter Summaries

Wu Heng scavenged materials and assembled long spears for his skeletons, then bought pitchforks in Blackstone Town to test as weapons against Zombies. The chapter ended with him arming twenty-two skeletons with the new iron-pipe spears.

• Wu Heng searched the shops near the commercial street and found metal pipes and tools in Xinyi Advertising.
• Wu Heng bound Fruit Knives to iron pipes to make spears, then had Sword One, Sword Two, Crossbow One, and Crossbow Two assemble more.
• Wu Heng raised more skeletons from the corpses before returning to Blackstone Town.
• Wu Heng bought all five pitchforks available at the Weapon Shop and sent them to the Zombie World.
• Wu Heng practiced swordsmanship, then returned to the rooftop the next day and equipped twenty-two skeletons with iron-pipe spears.

Wu Heng led his skeleton squad to a gold and silver processing shop after deciding to avoid the crowded commercial street, and collected its jewelry. The chapter ended when a child spoke to him from behind, startling him inside the shop.

• Wu Heng armed his skeletons with spears and pitchforks, then formed them into a spear wall to fight Zombies in an alley.
• Bartholomew lured dozens of Zombies into the formation, where the skeletons killed them and gained experience.
• Three large black rats attacked Wu Heng from a third-floor window, but he killed them with a Witchcraft Arrow and the Skeleton Dogs tore them apart.
• Wu Heng used the Bone Manipulation Technique on the rats, producing Skeleton Mice, but found no Corpse Cores in them.
• Wu Heng searched the Fu Heng Silver Shop and found gold and silver jewelry in its display case and a safe.
• As Wu Heng packed the jewelry into his backpack, a child's voice asked what he was doing there.

Wu Heng met a ghost girl in a gold shop and agreed to trade food for gold from her family. After she led him to her home, he heard Zombies roaring from the bedroom.

• Wu Heng found a ghost girl in the gold shop, and she explained that it belonged to her family.
• The girl offered to give Wu Heng her family's gold if he brought food for her grandfather and father.
• Wu Heng gathered food from a nearby Grain and Oil Store and returned to the gold shop.
• Wu Heng led the Skeleton Army through a Zombie-filled residential complex to the girl's apartment.
• The girl called for her grandfather and father, the front door slammed shut, and Zombies roared from the bedroom.

Wu Heng returned from clearing a residence with gold and more converted skeletons, then collected the commissioned antidotes and met his team’s new Druid member, Yuri. The team received Level 3 merit and began choosing from seven high-grade rewards.

• Wu Heng killed two Zombies, looted a safe containing gold and valuables, and converted the corpses into Skeletons.
• Wu Heng collected three completed Special Antidote Potions from the Adventurer's Guild.
• Captain Ortluk introduced Yuri, a new Druid, to Wu Heng, but Yuri snubbed him.
• Ortluk reported that the team’s injuries were improving and that the guild was still investigating the Divine Punishment Cult incident.
• Ortluk announced the team had received Level 3 merit and presented seven high-grade rewards for the three members to choose from.

Wu Heng and his teammates chose rewards, discussed ghosts and ways to obtain equipment, and then Wu Heng was summoned by Vice Deacon Slyther. The chapter ended as he rode with her toward the western part of the city.

• Ortluk introduced several rewards, and Wu Heng chose the Hunting Ring while Ortluk took defensive armor and Cavina took the Witch Doctor Mask.
• Wu Heng asked about dealing with ghosts and acquiring Skill Books and equipment, and Ortluk explained that he could apply to the association or post a commission.
• Wu Heng and his teammates discussed taking ordinary commissions once Ortluk and Cavina had recovered.
• Yuri arrived at Wu Heng's home and told him that her aunt, Vice Deacon Slyther, was waiting for him.
• Wu Heng gathered his things, joined Slyther in her carriage, and traveled with her toward the western part of the city.

Wu Heng learned about Blackstone Town’s hidden Black Market and increased his attributes by consuming three Corpse Cores, then returned to the Zombie World to find his ghost causing chaos among his skeletons. The chapter left him ordering the skeletons to stand still after the ghost fled into a neighboring building.

• Slyther took Wu Heng and Yuri on a carriage ride, told him about Blackstone Town’s Black Market, and invited him to go with them the next morning.
• After returning home, Wu Heng disinfected and consumed three Corpse Cores, using potions to withstand the poison and gaining attributes each time.
• Wu Heng noticed that his Constitution and Agility had become his highest attributes, admired his muscular body, and went to rest.
• The next morning, Wu Heng arrived in the Zombie World and found the little girl-shaped ghost leading nearly seven hundred skeletons on a chaotic chase across the rooftop.
• The ghost fled into a neighboring building when Wu Heng approached, and he ordered the skeletons to stand by.

Wu Heng contracted the wraith Lan Xiaoxin, whom he called Xiaoxiao, and promised to help her find her mother when they could reach the city. After an explosion sounded at the East Side intersection, he sent Xiaoxiao to investigate.

• Wu Heng raised more skeletons and confronted the little wraith, who asked him to bring her dead grandfather and father back to life and let her stay with him.
• Wu Heng contracted the wraith after she agreed to obey him, and his Necromantic Magic strengthened her fading spirit body.
• Xiaoxiao asked Wu Heng to save her mother in the city, and he promised to take her there when it was possible; she told him her name was Lan Xiaoxin.
• An explosion sounded at a pharmacy near the East Side intersection, drawing nearby Zombies, and Wu Heng sent Xiaoxiao to see what was happening.

Wu Heng watched a Mutated Cat flee from a Giant Zombie and hide in his residential complex, then left for the Black Market with Slyther and Yuri. At the market, he learned that the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate stored valuables and recognized only its receipts.

• Xiaoxiao scouted the pharmacy and showed Wu Heng a Giant Zombie fighting a Mutated gray cat; the cat fled toward his residential complex with a Zombie horde behind it.
• Wu Heng ordered the skeletons to shelter as the Mutated Cat and Zombies entered the complex, then returned to Blackstone Town with Bartholomew to meet Slyther and Yuri.
• Wu Heng traveled with Slyther and Yuri to a woodland manor, paid to enter its Black Market, and browsed the stalls.
• Wu Heng noticed a snake-head sign above the stairs and learned from Slyther that the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate stored valuables and recognized only its receipts.

Wu Heng bought two Necromantic Magic Skill Books at the Black Market and discovered that a receipt from a Wanted Criminal was tied to the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate. After investigating the Zombie World, he learned that the Town Hall and Adventurer's Guild had rejected his request to convert a level-12 corpse, which was due to be incinerated that night.

• Wu Heng bought Weakening Ray and Corpse Preservation Skill Books at the Black Market, where Slyther also gave Yuri a healing necklace.
• Wu Heng checked a receipt taken from a Wanted Criminal and recognized the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate's snake emblem, concluding the criminals had wanted to retrieve a deposit.
• Xiaoxiao told Wu Heng that the Giant Mutated Zombie was inside a nearby building and that the gray giant cat was dead.
• Ortluk told Wu Heng that the Town Hall had rejected his request to convert the level-12 corpse and that Steward Yazde also opposed him having a second Undead Retainer.
• Ortluk said an Adventurer Team and the Blackstone Town guard would incinerate the corpse that night.

Wu Heng retrieved the Gray Hawk Sword Technique, the Silver Wing Water Pattern Sword, and his stored money from the Black Market, then bought a burial shroud. At dusk, he joined the guild’s cremation mission while Xiaoxiao secretly followed the squad carrying the elder’s corpse.

• Ortluk told Wu Heng to abandon converting the level-12 corpse and explained that he would help cremate several Divine Punishment Cult corpses at dusk.
• Wu Heng considered whether to leave the corpses alone or secretly move one to the Zombie World, then traveled to the Black Market with Bartholomew.
• Wu Heng withdrew the Gray Hawk Sword Technique, the Silver Wing Water Pattern Sword, and his stored Silver Coins from the Black Market.
• Wu Heng exchanged a gold bar for Silver Coins and bought a burial shroud from the black-robed vendor.
• At the guild’s underground morgue, Wu Heng joined the squads as they prepared to carry out the corpses for cremation.
• Wu Heng watched the First Squad leave with the elder’s corpse as Xiaoxiao detached from him and followed them.

Wu Heng stole the Divine Punishment Cult Elder's corpse before it could be cremated and brought it to the Zombie World to turn into a skeleton. When he opened the corpse's stitched chest, he discovered that its organs were missing.

• Wu Heng reassured Yuri that his team had killed the attackers and refused to sell her food, but promised to bring her some the next day.
• Arnel and Tulisa escorted the corpse to a cremation site, where Little Wraith's distraction let Sword One switch it with another body.
• The guards burned the substitute corpse without checking it, and Xiaoxiao returned to Wu Heng with news that the plan had succeeded.
• Wu Heng retrieved the real corpse and used the Bronze Key to send it and Sword One to the Zombie World.
• Wu Heng had Bartholomew cut open the corpse's stitched chest and found its internal organs missing.

Wu Heng turned the organ-stripped corpse into the powerful level 12 skeleton Bawudong and studied a sword manual with Sword One. The next day, he opened the stairwell doors to draw in the Zombie horde, then sent Bawudong to face the approaching Giant Mutated Zombie.

• Wu Heng used Bone Manipulation Technique to convert the corpse into an iron-boned skeleton and named him Bawudong.
• Wu Heng inspected Bawudong's powerful attributes and abilities, then returned to Blackstone Town to rest.
• Wu Heng read the sword manual and studied swordsmanship with Sword One, but gained no new skill.
• In Zombie World, Wu Heng spotted the Giant Mutated Zombie and told Bawudong to deal with it or hold it back.
• Wu Heng opened all four stairwell doors, drawing the Zombies into a clash with his Skeleton Warriors.
• The Giant Mutated Zombie charged into the stairwell, and Wu Heng sent Bawudong downstairs to fight it.

Wu Heng and his skeletons fought off the Zombie Horde while Bawudong battled a Giant Mutated Zombie in the stairwell. When the horde turned on Bawudong outside, Wu Heng ordered a counterattack and sent Bartholomew to help him.

• Wu Heng used Grease Spell, fire, crossbow bolts, and thrown furniture to kill Zombies and stop them climbing the building.
• Bawudong fought the Giant Mutated Zombie through the stairwell, eventually knocking it down the stairs and pummeling its head.
• The Giant Zombie charged out of the stairwell, and Bawudong leaped from a third-floor window to pursue it.
• Wu Heng weakened the Giant Zombie with Weakening Ray as Bawudong resumed fighting it, while the Zombie Horde turned and charged at Bawudong.
• Wu Heng ordered his skeletons to fight their way out and sent Bartholomew to help Bawudong.

Wu Heng and his skeletons defeated the zombie horde, and he turned the Giant Zombie into a powerful level 11 Skeleton Warrior named Big Guy. At the wrecked survivor bus, Wu Heng found a modified recorder playing a message urging people not to give up hope.

• Bawudong and Bartholomew killed the Giant Zombie, and the skeletons helped finish off the remaining zombies.
• Wu Heng raised the Giant Zombie as a level 11 Skeleton Warrior and named it Big Guy after finding a strange, blood-veined Corpse Core nearby.
• Wu Heng sent Xiaoxiao to scout the area, then took skeletons to inspect a wrecked survivor bus.
• Wu Heng found a modified cassette recorder in an Iron Box and played a message telling people to keep surviving.

Wu Heng listened to a radio broadcast urging survivors to hold out for rescue while converting a massive pile of corpses in the Zombie World. After Yuri demonstrated her Druid transformations, a new broadcast revealed that Level 2 Corpse Cores could grant special abilities, though they carried a high risk of infection.

• Wu Heng learned from a modified radio recorder that survivors had been trying to reach a Gathering Place, but he decided to rely on his own strength rather than seek protection.
• Wu Heng returned to the residential complex and spent the day converting hundreds of corpses into skeletons before going back to Blackstone Town with Bartholomew.
• Yuri visited Wu Heng, shared Instant Noodles with him, and demonstrated that she could transform into a Terror Raven and a wolf.
• Wu Heng declined Yuri's invitation to visit the Black Market the next day and resumed studying the Gray Hawk Sword Technique after she left.
• Wu Heng continued converting corpses while listening to the radio, which explained that Level 2 Corpse Cores could sometimes grant special abilities but were highly infectious.

Wu Heng learned that Corpse Cores could enhance people and that Level 2 cores might grant special abilities, then searched the East Side for supplies and commissioned research into an antidote. He ended the chapter at the Black Market, asking for help collecting Alchemists’ corpses.

• Wu Heng learned from the recorder that Corpse Cores came in three grades, carried infection risks, and might grant abilities at Level 2; he decided to send his core to the Adventurer's Guild for research.
• Xiaoxiao and the skeletons brought Wu Heng the Mutated Cat’s corpse, which he raised as a Level 5 Skeleton Leopard Cat named Little Gray; he suspected the Giant Zombie had taken its Corpse Core.
• Wu Heng led the Skeleton Horde to the East Side intersection, looted a pharmacy, a Grain and Oil Store, and other shops, then returned the supplies to his residential complex.
• Wu Heng posted a commission at the Adventurer's Guild to test a Corpse Core and develop an antidote.
• Wu Heng went to the Black Market and asked the staff to collect the corpses of Alchemists.

Wu Heng commissioned the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate to find an alchemy specialist’s corpse, then joined his team’s plans for future work and led his skeletons to fight Zombies in the Zombie World. A rooftop observer watched the battle and told Cao that the skeletons and Zombies were fighting each other.

• Wu Heng commissioned the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate to find a corpse suited to alchemy and paid a 300 Silver Coin deposit.
• Wu Heng agreed with Ortluk to take a suitable commission with Cavina and Yuri to improve their team coordination.
• Wu Heng bought potions from the Antler Merchant Shop and went to the Zombie World with his skeletons.
• Wu Heng led the Skeleton Squad north toward a hardware store, ordering them to attack as more Zombies appeared.
• A man on a rooftop watched the skeletons fight the Zombies and told Cao that the underworld was having internal strife.

Wu Heng and his skeletons defeated a horde of zombies at the Water Supply Management Office, and his first summoned skeleton gained a soul and was named Spear One. After Xiaoxiao spotted survivors, Wu Heng followed them toward their Gathering Place, where the people at Little East Auto Repair discussed the skeletons and planned to escape by train.

• Wu Heng led his skeletons in a battle against more than two hundred zombies at the Water Supply Management Office, defeating them despite some losses.
• Wu Heng inspected his first summoned Skeleton Warrior after it reached Level 5 and named it Spear One when it gained the Basic Soul trait.
• Xiaoxiao spotted two survivors fleeing across the rooftops, and Wu Heng decided to follow them to their Gathering Place.
• At Little East Auto Repair, a wounded woman and three others discussed the skeletons, then planned to leave once they gathered supplies and finished welding a train.
• Xiaoxiao passed through the wall and told the pale-faced woman that her uncle wanted to talk to her.

Wu Heng negotiated with Li Yahong's survivor group, offering food and supplies in exchange for Iron Spears rather than forcing them to join him. The group agreed to make what they could, and Li Yahong ordered them to start the generator.

• Xiaoxiao told Li Yahong that Wu Heng wanted her to follow him and warned that he might kill her if she refused.
• Wu Heng learned about the Auto Repair Shop group's supplies and sent Xiaoxiao and Little Gray to collect a Walkie-Talkie.
• Li Yahong's group prepared to flee as the animal skeletons approached, but Xiaoxiao asked her to hand over a Walkie-Talkie for Wu Heng.
• Wu Heng offered Li Yahong's group food in exchange for Iron Spears, and they negotiated a deal that included rice, sugar, medicine, and meat.
• Wu Heng returned to the Water Supply Management Office area to scavenge before heading back to the residential complex.
• After the Skeleton Army left, Li Yahong accepted the arrangement and told her group to start the generator and make Iron Spears.

Wu Heng joined the Fourth Squad to hunt three wanted criminals at the Blushing Mermaid Inn and entered the tavern undercover after spotting a likely target. The chapter ended with a bearded man in a hat watching him from the second-floor railing.

• Wu Heng learned that Yuri had visited his home and found her at the Adventurer's Guild with Ortluk and Cavina.
• Ortluk explained that the squad would hunt three wanted criminals staying at the Blushing Mermaid Inn to practice teamwork.
• Yuri searched the inn from the air but could not identify the criminals, so Wu Heng offered to investigate inside instead of Ortluk.
• Wu Heng entered the tavern with Bartholomew, ordered a Mist Cocktail, and noticed a bearded man in a hat watching from upstairs.