Chapter Summaries

Wu Heng and Ortluk's team tracked three Wanted Criminals to a tavern and launched an arrest. Two were killed, while the third escaped into the street with Wu Heng's Dancing Lights marking him, and Yuri chased after him.

• Wu Heng learned from Beni that the three targets were staying in the tavern and told Ortluk where to find them.
• Ortluk assigned Yuri to watch outside while Wu Heng, Bartholomew, and Cavina went inside to arrest the Wanted Criminals.
• The Wanted Criminal guarding the stairs ran upstairs and warned his companions, but Cavina and Bartholomew engaged them in combat.
• Wu Heng shot two Wanted Criminals, while the third escaped through a window and fled with Dancing Lights circling him.
• Yuri chased the fleeing man as Wu Heng and Bartholomew jumped down after them; Ortluk and Cavina stayed behind with the dead criminals as mercenaries rushed into the tavern.

Wu Heng’s team captured three Wanted Criminals, collected their bounty, and discussed weaknesses in their tactics. The next day, Wu Heng led his Skeleton Squad to clear the road toward the hardware store while Li Yahong’s group watched from a rooftop and continued preparing Iron Spears.

• Yuri killed the Wanted Criminal who had fled, and Wu Heng’s team carried his body back to the Adventurer's Guild with the other two captured criminals.
• Captain Ortluk confirmed the criminals’ identities and distributed the bounty and their carried money, giving Yuri an extra share for her intelligence before she declined it.
• Ortluk reviewed the team’s lack of scouting, varied attacks, and ways to restrain targets, and the team agreed to address those shortcomings.
• Wu Heng checked the Skeletons’ levels in Zombie World and led them out to continue clearing the road to the hardware store.
• Li Yahong and her group watched the Skeleton Horde pass Little East Auto Repair, discussed its destination, and decided to keep making Iron Spears.

Wu Heng led the Skeleton Squad through a Zombie horde on Building Materials Street, gathered tools and gas masks, and returned to Little East Auto Repair Shop with the supplies. A huge humanoid Zombie appeared after his departure, while Wu Heng assigned two spear-wielding skeletons to help Li Yahong.

• Wu Heng used Grease Spell, fire, and Witchcraft Arrow as the Skeleton Squad fought through the Zombies, gaining experience and helping several Skeleton Warriors reach Level 5.
• After the battle, Wu Heng searched a hardware store and found tools, welding supplies, and a crate of gas masks, while the Mutated Dogs Xiaoxiao had spotted vanished.
• Wu Heng loaded the supplies and corpses onto handcarts and led the Skeleton Squad back toward the Auto Repair Shop.
• A huge humanoid Zombie emerged, crushed the two Mutated Dogs it had dragged along, swallowed their Corpse Cores, and watched the squad depart.
• Li Yahong and the others at the Auto Repair Shop were surprised when Wu Heng returned with supplies, and Wu Heng assigned Spear One and Spear Two to help her work.

Wu Heng expanded his skeleton workforce, traded supplies for iron spears, and searched for an antidote commission before finding a spellbook called Talk with Dead at the Black Market. The spell could let a corpse answer five questions, but casting it would prevent the corpse from becoming an Undead Unit.

• Wu Heng named the newly promoted skeletons Spear Two through Spear Seven and left two Level 5 skeletons with Li Yahong to help at the Auto Repair Shop.
• Wu Heng asked Li Yahong to report any Mutated Zombies, and she mentioned a strange humanoid Mutated Zombie near the hardware store.
• Li Yahong traded Wu Heng thirty-five iron spears for rice, sugar, and Anti-inflammatory Medicine, and Wu Heng armed more of his skeletons with the spears.
• Wu Heng learned that the Antidote Potion commission was unfinished, then found that the commission for his Alchemist corpse was also incomplete at the Black Market.
• Wu Heng discovered the Talk with Dead spellbook, which let a corpse answer up to five questions but made it impossible to convert that corpse into an Undead Unit.

Wu Heng bought a Talk with Dead Skill Book, an Organ Jar, and the Book of the Dead at the Black Market. After unlocking Talk with Dead and sending a Level 2 Corpse Core to the Zombie World in the jar, he began studying the book and learned that a Beginner Necromancer could control only about twenty Skeleton Warriors.

• Wu Heng bought the Talk with Dead Skill Book and Organ Jar from the black-robed stall owner, then persuaded the seller to offer him the Book of the Dead.
• Wu Heng placed his Level 2 Corpse Core in the Organ Jar and sent it to the Zombie World to keep it from spoiling.
• Wu Heng read the Skill Book, learned that Talk with Dead made the deceased answer five questions, and unlocked the skill.
• The next day, Wu Heng read the Book of the Dead in the Zombie World and learned that Beginner Necromancers could control around twenty Skeleton Warriors.
• Wu Heng looked at his densely packed skeletons after reading the limit.

Wu Heng learned that the records on necromantic magic did not match his abilities, then led Li Yahong and the Skeleton Squad to Second Hospital after hearing survivors were trapped there with a Mutated Zombie nearby. Xiaoxiao entered the hospital and found the survivors facing a threat inside the medicine storage room.

• Wu Heng questioned a book's limits on skeleton control and corpse conversion after comparing them with his own abilities.
• Li Yahong brought thirty-five Iron Spears and told Wu Heng that survivors at Second Hospital were trapped near a Mutated Zombie.
• Wu Heng brought Li Yahong along as the Skeleton Squad traveled to the hospital, clearing Zombies on the way.
• The Skeleton Squad spotted a large gathering of Zombies and two Mutated Dogs in the hospital courtyard, and Wu Heng sent Xiaoxiao inside to investigate.
• In the medicine storage room, Gold Chain Man and his companion threatened three medical workers, but Xiaoxiao appeared and said Wu Heng had come to save them.

Xiaoxiao discovered survivors fighting inside the hospital, while Wu Heng led his forces into battle against the Zombie horde outside. The survivors remained trapped as the battle escalated, and Wu Heng sent his Skeleton Dogs and cat to attack the Mutated Dogs.

• Gold Chain Man mistook Xiaoxiao for a projection and attacked the nurses with the security guard, prompting the survivors to fight as Zombies gathered outside.
• Xiaoxiao escaped through a wall and told Wu Heng that survivors were fighting inside the hospital amid a large Zombie horde.
• Wu Heng learned from Li Yahong that her father’s modified car radio had picked up the survivors’ broadcast, then prepared his Skeleton Squad to fight the Zombies.
• Wu Heng had Bartholomew lure the horde toward the Skeletons, then used a Grease Spell and fire to channel the Zombies into their formation.
• Two Mutated Dogs dragged Skeletons out of the ranks, so Wu Heng sent four Skeleton Dogs and a cat to attack them.

Wu Heng discovered that a Big-Headed Zombie was directing the Zombie Horde, and his Skeleton Horde drove the zombies back before he halted the chase and reached Level 5. At the hospital, he searched for supplies and survivors, finding a terrified nurse hidden inside a freezer.

• The Zombie Horde used coordinated attacks to disrupt Wu Heng's Skeleton Horde, and he spotted a Big-Headed Zombie controlling them.
• Bawudong charged toward the Big-Headed Zombie, but a Normal Zombie carried it away, causing the Zombie Horde to fall into disarray.
• Wu Heng ordered the Skeleton Horde to pursue the fleeing zombies, gained a level, then halted the chase and had the skeletons fight off zombies from nearby alleys.
• Wu Heng and Li Yahong returned to the hospital, searched its storage room for a radio, and found a nurse curled up inside a freezer.

Wu Heng rescued nurse Wang Ke from the hospital, rewarded Li Yahong for her information, and began looking for a faster way to raise skeletons. He learned that a group-conversion skill called Battlefield of the Undead could be learned at Level 5, but the black-market seller said he did not have its Skill Book.

• Wu Heng found Wang Ke hiding in a cabinet at the hospital, confirmed she was uninjured, and had her retrieve the radio equipment while she and Li Yahong collected medicine.
• Wu Heng gave Li Yahong food in exchange for her help and left the radio equipment with her so she could gather reports about nearby Mutated Zombies; he told her to take Wang Ke back to the Auto Repair Shop.
• Wu Heng checked his new Level 5 specialty, raised two Skeleton Hounds from the Mutated Dog corpses, and collected their Level 1 Corpse Cores.
• At the Auto Repair Shop, Li Yahong introduced Wang Ke as a nurse and told the others she had traded information for the food.
• Wu Heng posted another potion-making commission, then went to the Black Market to buy the Battlefield of the Undead Skill Book.
• The black-robed stall owner said he did not have the Skill Book, but Wu Heng insisted that he was seriously buying it.

Wu Heng commissioned a rare Necromancy Skill Book, while Li Yahong’s group confirmed their radio equipment worked and told other survivors that some called Wu Heng King Yama. The next morning, Wu Heng’s landlord brought Mrs. Bookmela to ask him for help, leaving her request unexplained.

• Wu Heng paid a deposit to commission the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate to find the Skill Book Battlefield of the Undead.
• Li Yahong’s group assembled their radio equipment, and Li Yahong told them to keep working and conserve gasoline.
• Wang Ke told radio listeners she had been rescued from Second Hospital, and Li Yahong identified her rescuer as someone called King Yama.
• Li Yahong warned nearby survivors about a large-headed Commander Zombie east of Second Hospital.
• The next morning, Rudger introduced Mrs. Bookmela to Wu Heng, and she pleaded with him for help.

Wu Heng and Yuri investigated the disappearance of a woman’s son, questioning the dead kidnapper and learning that he sold children to a masked trafficker. Wu Heng went to the Blushing Mermaid Tavern to look for clues, where he stopped Beni to question her.

• A woman asked Wu Heng to find her missing son, and he agreed to investigate without accepting her money.
• Wu Heng recruited Yuri, who obtained an Investigation Order so they could inspect the guard’s morgue.
• Wu Heng used Talk with Dead on the suspected kidnapper, who said he sold children to a trafficker at the Blushing Mermaid and described him as a man with a southern accent who smelled of smoke.
• Wu Heng asked Yuri to consult the Vice Deacon while he investigated the tavern, and they split up.
• At the Blushing Mermaid, Wu Heng paid Beni for two Mist Cocktails and stopped her from leaving so he could talk to her.

Wu Heng and Yuri tracked the people suspected of buying stolen children to a warehouse, where they discovered the Adventurer Teams and guards were targeting the same foreign Mercenary Group. As the authorities surrounded the group and demanded that its members come in for questioning, the mercenaries rolled two smoking objects toward them.

• Wu Heng paid Beni for her earlier information, and she told him that a southern Mercenary Group had rented a warehouse in the western warehouse area.
• Wu Heng and Yuri searched the warehouse area with Bartholomew, but ranger birds spotted them and Captain Arnel brought them to Vice Deacon Slyther.
• Wu Heng told Slyther that he and Yuri had traced the stolen children to a suspected buyer from the south, and Slyther ordered them to wait while the others handled the arrest.
• Wu Heng secretly sent the invisible Xiaoxiao to follow the arresting party as he and Yuri watched the guards and Adventurer Teams surround the target building.
• Slyther confronted the mercenary leader and asked him to come in for questioning, and he agreed before two smoking objects rolled out from behind him.

Wu Heng and the town squad stopped a mercenary attack, rescued three children, and killed the intruders. The next day, Yuri told Wu Heng that her aunt wanted to see him, and he wondered whether her aunt might hit him too.

• Slyther's teams fought off the mercenaries' arrows and poisonous insect swarm, killed most of them, and rescued three children.
• Wu Heng and Yuri killed a wounded attacker who had leaped into Wu Heng's courtyard, and Slyther's squad confirmed the enemies were dead.
• Tulisa told Wu Heng that the rescued children were safe and that their parents could collect them from Town Hall the next day.
• Wu Heng told the landlord that the children had been found, and the landlord went to notify their mothers.
• Yuri met Wu Heng at his door and said her aunt wanted to see him; when Wu Heng asked whether her aunt had hit her, Yuri nodded.

Wu Heng learned that the Sacrificial Mask had been commissioned by the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate, then collected and drank a potion that counteracted the Level 2 Corpse Core's severe effects. After gaining a major boost to his attributes, he heard from Wang Ke that Li Yahong and the others had gone missing.

• Slyther brought Wu Heng and Yuri to the Association morgue, where Wu Heng used Talk with Dead on a corpse.
• The corpse revealed that it had sold a Sacrificial Mask, which enhanced sacrifices, on commission from the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate, and said it had abducted children because it liked boys.
• Slyther said Wu Heng's merits and rewards for the case would be issued later, then left him and Yuri at the Team Lounge.
• Wu Heng collected a newly formulated potion and two Antidote Potions from the Association and paid 115 Silver Coins.
• Wu Heng swallowed a Level 2 Corpse Core, gained Strength, Constitution, and Agility, and drank the potion to quell the pain and rage it caused.
• Wang Ke contacted Wu Heng over the Walkie-Talkie and warned him that Li Yahong and the others had gone out that morning and still had not returned.

Wu Heng went to find Li Yahong after learning she had not returned from searching for gasoline. He found her and her companions captured by Yang Dabin’s gang, just as the gang was about to assault her, when several huge skeletons charged toward them.

• Wang Ke told Wu Heng that Li Yahong and four others had gone north for gasoline and had not returned.
• Wu Heng sent Xiaoxiao ahead to search and led the Skeleton Squad north along the road.
• Yang Dabin’s men captured Li Yahong and her companions beside their fuel drums and demanded to know where they planned to go.
• Li Yahong told Yang Dabin about the Survivor Base in Changying District, but he refused to go and threatened her group.
• Yang Dabin’s men beat the captives and forced Li Yahong onto a car, but a group of large skeletons charged toward them.

Wu Heng rescued Li Yahong and her companions from local thugs, gained equipment and fuel, and found that his high Constitution weakened the effects of Level 1 Corpse Cores. In another world, Beni overheard a tavern conversation about missing children rescued from a warehouse district raid.

• Yang Dabin and his men fled the Skeleton Dogs, but the monsters caught and killed them.
• Wu Heng freed Li Yahong and her companions, questioned the dead thug, and took two handguns and two Stab-Proof Vests.
• Wu Heng gave Li Yahong a Stab-Proof Vest and invited her to collect fuel with him at a gas station the next day.
• Wu Heng swallowed two Level 1 Corpse Cores and found that their attribute benefits and toxic effects had weakened as his Constitution rose to 25.
• Beni overheard customers at the Blushing Mermaid Tavern say that an Adventurer Team and the guards had raided warehouses and rescued missing children.

Wu Heng trained Skeleton Warriors, practiced the Gray Hawk Sword Technique, and met with his squad to inspect a Magic Item that could trap one target in an illusion. He then joined Li Yahong on a trip to collect fuel, where she told him about a prison Survivor Base in the south of the city.

• Wu Heng had Skeleton Warriors practice spear attacks on Plastic Mannequins, then practiced the Gray Hawk Sword Technique after returning to Blackstone Town.
• An Association staff member summoned Wu Heng to the Team Lounge, where Ortluk showed the squad a Lure Silver Bracelet that inflicted an illusion on one target.
• Ortluk explained how to resist Trap Type and Mental Type skills, and the squad agreed to watch for enemies affected by the bracelet.
• Wu Heng went to the Zombie World and met Li Yahong, then led the Skeleton Squad with her toward a gas station to collect fuel.
• Li Yahong told Wu Heng that a prison Survivor Base in the south of the city reportedly had rifles and Sniper Rifles to defend against Zombies.

Wu Heng collected fuel with Li Yahong, obtained the Battlefield of the Undead skill book in Blackstone Town, and began reading it. Meanwhile, the Big-Headed Zombie led a huge horde toward the Commercial Building, trapping four survivors inside.

• Wu Heng and Li Yahong reached a gas station, where Li Yahong showed him how to scoop gasoline from the Oil Well.
• Wu Heng and the skeletons filled two drums with gasoline and returned Li Yahong to the Auto Repair Shop.
• Wu Heng collected the Battlefield of the Undead skill book from a Serpent Emblem Conglomerate agent and paid the remaining 72 Silver Coins.
• Wu Heng returned to his residence and began reading the skill book.
• Near Second Hospital, a Big-Headed Zombie led a horde toward the Commercial Building and charged it after spotting four survivors at a window.
• The four survivors panicked and prepared to run.

Wu Heng used Battlefield of the Undead to convert the Zombie World’s corpse pile into a large skeleton army while continuing his trade with Li Yahong. After finishing the conversion and preparing to take the skeletons out to fight monsters, he learned that a huge group of Zombies was approaching.

• Wu Heng repeatedly cast Battlefield of the Undead, raising hundreds of skeletons at a time and building up his Mental Power with potions and rest.
• Li Yahong delivered more than two hundred Iron Spears, collected food for her Gathering Place, and told Wu Heng she planned to take in nearby survivors; he agreed.
• In Blackstone Town, Wu Heng bought more than twenty bottles of Mental Potion and diverted Yuri when she spotted Captain Ortluk and Tulisa walking together.
• The next day, Wu Heng converted the remaining corpses into skeletons, bringing his army to roughly two thousand five or six hundred soldiers.
• Xiaoxiao returned and warned Wu Heng that a large number of Zombies were coming.

Wu Heng prepared his Skeletons to defend against a massive Zombie Horde led to the residential compound by the Big-Headed Zombie. As the battle intensified, Xiaoxiao found the Commander Zombie hiding in a distant building, and Wu Heng spotted its location.

• Xiaoxiao showed Wu Heng a huge Zombie Horde approaching, and he recognized the Big-Headed Zombie that had escaped from the hospital.
• Wu Heng warned Li Yahong that the Horde was nearing the Auto Repair Shop and told her to prepare gasoline drums while he faced the threat.
• Wu Heng arranged his Skeletons as the Zombie Horde approached, while two survivors watched the opposing forces from a rooftop.
• Wu Heng used Grease Spell and fire against the charging Zombies, and the Skeletons fought back as the Horde struck their formation.
• Xiaoxiao found the Big-Headed Zombie watching the battle from a building, and Wu Heng looked toward its hiding place.