Chapter Summaries

Wu Heng led the convoy through Zombie-infested roads, clearing a blocked route before ordering the vehicles to rush past another group of Zombies. A stranded brother and sister spotted the convoy and tried to get its attention, while the vehicles continued onward.

• Wu Heng ordered the skeletons to fight a Zombie Horde blocking a side road, and Big Guy charged into the battle.
• Wu Heng had the skeletons move the corpses aside, then Li Yahong used the Forklift to clear wrecked vehicles from the road.
• At Yanghai Hotel, a brother and his wheelchair-using sister saw the Zombie Horde move toward Wu Heng’s convoy and realized a Rescue Team was passing nearby.
• The brother ran upstairs to the roof to get the convoy’s attention despite his sister’s protests.
• Li Yahong reported Zombies on both sides of the road, and Wu Heng ordered the convoy to rush through without stopping.

Wu Heng halted the convoy to investigate a survivor signaling from a rooftop, then sent Xiaoxiao to confirm the building was safe. After his skeletons cleared the Zombies around the vehicles, he decided the convoy would spend the night at the hotel with the two survivors.

• Qiangzi asked Wu Heng how he had awakened his ability, and Wu Heng explained the dangerous method of consuming Corpse Cores.
• Big Truck reported someone waving a red flag from a rooftop, so Wu Heng ordered the convoy to stop and sent Xiaoxiao to investigate.
• The man returned to his hotel room after attracting the convoy’s attention, and he and his wheelchair-using sister realized the rescuers were skeletons rather than living people.
• Wu Heng’s skeletons defeated the surrounding Zombies and moved their corpses off the road.
• Xiaoxiao confirmed that two survivors were inside the hotel and found no dangerous monsters, so Wu Heng chose to stay there until morning.

Wu Heng’s group rescued a brother and sister from the hotel and prepared to travel to the prison for a transaction. After spending the night in Luntam City, they set out with the convoy, leaving the prison deal ahead of them.

• Li Yahong told the brother and sister that the hotel was safe and offered them the choice of staying or joining the group; they chose to go with her.
• Wu Heng arranged for the survivors to rest at the hotel, then traveled through the Portal to Luntam City to eat before returning for the night.
• The next morning, Wu Heng’s group searched the hotel and nearby shops, boarded the vehicles, and prepared to leave.
• Wu Heng told Li Yahong to contact the prison and arrange to complete their transaction outside when the convoy arrived.
• The convoy set out toward the prison, passing through increasingly remote wasteland as Zombies occasionally rushed toward the road.

Wu Heng’s convoy reached South City Prison for a supposed weapons trade, but the prison group tried to rob them. After Wu Heng’s Skeletons killed the attackers, he questioned one of the dead and learned how the group planned to use captives.

• Brother Long ordered his men to seize the Auto Repair Shop’s supplies and people, killing men who resisted and sparing the women.
• Wu Heng’s convoy arrived at the agreed trading site, where Xiaoxiao spotted armed men hiding in the buildings.
• The prison group surrounded the vehicles and demanded that everyone get out, revealing that the trade had been a trap.
• Wu Heng sent the Skeletons to attack, and they killed the armed men while the convoy stayed inside its vehicles.
• Wu Heng collected the attackers’ guns and used Talk with Dead on one corpse, which revealed the group intended to use men as Zombie bait and keep women for their own use.

Wu Heng learned that Chen Jinlong controlled the prison with a large arsenal and an awakened ability, then returned to the residential complex with his convoy. The next day, he reported to the Adventurer's Guild in Luntam and met Duke, the orc assigned to Team 12.

• Wu Heng questioned corpses and learned that Chen Jinlong had seized the prison during the outbreak, consumed a Corpse Core, and commanded over a hundred guns.
• Wu Heng and Li Yahong decided to leave the prison alone and return with the convoy, while Qiangzi found a vehicle and a bag of ammunition.
• Chen Jinlong found his dead men at the village, blamed Little East Auto Repair, and returned to the prison rather than pursue the group after dark.
• Back at the residential complex, Li Yahong decided to warn survivors about the prison, while Wu Heng had skeletons collect the bodies and trained Bartholomew and Bawudong with rifles.
• Wu Heng returned to Luntam, reported to Deacon Gomez, and went to Team 12's lounge to meet Duke, the towering orc assigned as his teammate.

Wu Heng met Duke, a young Orc Beast Warrior assigned to his team, and received his first mission in Luntam City: investigate the murders of two women at the Wind-Drooping Grass Tavern. After questioning the corpses, he learned the killer was a thin human man in brown leather armor who carried a yellow cloth bundle, and planned to return that night to catch him.

• Wu Heng introduced himself to Duke and explained that Bartholomew and Bawudong were his Undead Retainers and members of the team.
• A staff member summoned Wu Heng to the Deacon, who assigned him to investigate a death at the Wind-Drooping Grass Tavern.
• Wu Heng and Duke traveled to the Outer City and learned that a killer had lured women from the tavern and murdered them.
• Wu Heng used Talk with Dead on the two victims, who described their killer as a thin human man wearing brown leather armor and carrying a yellow cloth bundle.
• Wu Heng told the worried Female Beastman that he and Duke would return that night to look for the murderer.

Wu Heng and his team caught and killed a Wanted Criminal who had been murdering women at a tavern, then collected the association’s reward. Back at home, Wu Heng used Level 1 Corpse Cores with antidotes to raise his attributes, and he later shared the reward with Duke.

• Wu Heng asked the Female Beastman to quietly prepare people to help catch the killer, then posted a commission to renovate his house.
• A cloaked man attacked a woman in an alley, but Wu Heng, Duke, Bartholomew, and Bawudong rushed in and shot him dead.
• The Female Beastman recognized the dead man as the tavern murderer, and Duke identified him as a Wanted Criminal from the association.
• Wu Heng left the body at the association morgue, then returned to the Zombie World and received potions from the Gnome Skeleton.
• Wu Heng consumed three Level 1 Corpse Cores with Special Antidote Potions, gaining one point each in Agility, Agility, and Strength.
• Deacon Gomez approved the mission reward, and Wu Heng gave Duke his half despite Duke saying he had not helped.

Wu Heng arranged renovations for his residence and bought a large stock of armor in Luntam City. The armory agreed to deliver the armor to his home, where he would pay for it.

• Duke collected the bounty for the Wanted Criminal and asked Wu Heng about missions, while Wu Heng told him to keep their secret weapon confidential.
• A Renovation Team arrived to discuss plans for Wu Heng’s residence, and they agreed on the design and a three-day schedule.
• Wu Heng took the Renovation Team to his residence, explained their work to Sword One and Sword Two, and let them begin.
• Duke led Wu Heng to Maoliao Armory, where Wu Heng asked about human-sized armor and chose a connected suit of Leather Armor.
• Wu Heng ordered 100 sets of Leather Armor and a set of Metal Plate Armor for 4,650 Silver Coins, and the owner agreed to deliver them to the Inner City.

Wu Heng sent letters to his friends, equipped his skeletons with armor in the Zombie World, and learned that South City Prison had found someone who knew the Auto Repair Shop’s location. Chen Jinlong questioned the man and demanded he point it out on a map.

• Wu Heng paid the Orc Owner for armor, then wrote letters to Yuri, Captain Ortluk, and Cavina and sent them through the association.
• Wu Heng moved the delivered armor through the Portal and equipped nearly two hundred level-five Skeleton Warriors with leather armor and Big Guy with iron armor.
• Wu Heng asked Li Yahong about the prison’s response to their radio accusations, and she said the prison denied the claims.
• Qiangzi spotted the armored Skeleton Soldiers and called others to look.
• At South City Prison, a man from Workers' Stadium claimed he knew the general location of the Auto Repair Shop, and Chen Jinlong ordered him to mark it on a map.

Chen Jinlong questioned a survivor about the Auto Repair Shop and sent Fourth Brother to verify the road was clear of Zombies. In Luntam City, Wu Heng arranged more armor, trained with Duke, and exchanged looted jewelry for silver coins at the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate, where the shop manager began probing him about his business.

• Chen Jinlong beat a survivor, then questioned him about the Auto Repair Shop and the few Zombies on the road there.
• Chen Jinlong ordered Fourth Brother to take the survivor out and check whether his account was true.
• Wu Heng agreed to have Glask make 100 sets of discounted leather armor and trained with Duke before sending him home.
• Wu Heng visited the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate and asked to exchange the gold and silver jewelry he had collected for silver coins.
• The shop manager valued Wu Heng's jewelry at 9,366 silver coins, then asked whether he was new to Luntam City and doing business.

Wu Heng commissioned necromancy supplies, settled into his new residence, and received a missing-person investigation with Team 8. The search led the group from Crag Bridge into a forest filled with humanoid insect cocoons.

• Wu Heng paid the Snake Emblem Consortium a deposit to collect Necromancy Skill Books and Burial Ground materials, then bought potion ingredients and inspected his residence.
• Wu Heng approved the residence’s flooring and wall coverings, sent the potion materials to the Zombie World, and practiced swordsmanship.
• Deacon Gomez assigned Wu Heng and Fischer to investigate a missing association member, and Fischer’s Team 8 made clear they looked down on Wu Heng’s two-person team.
• Wu Heng, Duke, and Team 8 questioned the missing man’s wife and learned he had disappeared near Crag Bridge while gathering materials.
• The group found bloodstains near the collapsed bridge, followed the trail into the forest, and discovered humanoid insect cocoons hanging throughout the trees.

Fischer’s Team 8 entered the spiders’ territory while searching for Abudu and was attacked by a giant spider and its swarm. Wu Heng took another route, found three living captives, and confirmed Abudu’s identity just as the spider swarm charged their group.

• Team 8 found an orc corpse inside a cocoon and encountered a giant spider carrying countless smaller spiders.
• Bull tried to communicate with the spider, but it attacked, forcing Fischer’s team to fight the swarm and target the mother spider.
• Wu Heng led Duke through a detour after Xiaoxiao scouted the web-covered forest from above.
• Wu Heng’s group found a giant tree hung with cocoons, freed three survivors, and woke one with a potion.
• Wu Heng confirmed that the survivor was Abudu, then a giant spider and its swarm charged toward them.

Wu Heng led Team 12 in fighting off a Giant Spider Swarm and rescued three captives, but Team 8 escaped with their carriage. Back at the association, Fischer accused Wu Heng of abandoning Team 8 and demanded that the deacon revoke his captaincy and put him on a Wanted List.

• Wu Heng ordered Duke and the rescued captives to flee while he and his allies fought the Spider Swarm with skeletons and Bawudong.
• Xiaoxiao reported that Team 8 had escaped, and Wu Heng ordered the skeletons to collect the spider corpses and cocoons before heading toward Crag Bridge.
• Wu Heng reunited with Duke and the three rescued people, learned Team 8 had taken their carriage, and led them toward town on foot.
• Fischer told Deacon Gomez that Team 12 had abandoned Team 8 during the battle and demanded that Wu Heng lose his captaincy and be listed as wanted.

Wu Heng defended Team 12 against Team 8’s accusation of fleeing by calling a rescued witness, and the deacon suspended Team 8 while awarding the mission reward to Team 12. After returning home, Wu Heng inspected his newly completed residence and then went to the Zombie World, where he saw the giant spider corpse.

• Fischer accused Wu Heng of abandoning Team 8 during the battle, but Wu Heng denied it and said he had fought a Giant Spider Swarm while investigating clues.
• Wu Heng called Mr. Abudu as a witness, and Abudu confirmed that Wu Heng had rescued him from the spiders.
• Deacon Gomez suspended Team 8, awarded the mission reward to Team 12, and warned Fischer not to cause trouble for Wu Heng’s team.
• Fischer suspected that Team 12 had used Team 8 to distract the spiders while rescuing the victims, and Wu Heng warned Duke to be cautious around Team 8.
• Wu Heng inspected his newly completed residence, put away his belongings and Skill Books, and headed to the Zombie World.
• Wu Heng emerged from the stairwell in the Zombie World and saw a massive spider corpse atop the corpse pile.

Wu Heng discovered that spiders could not be raised as skeletons, so he transformed the Giant Spider and more than two hundred smaller spiders into Ghouls, then raised the corpses from nearby cocoons as skeletons. Afterward, Li Yahong reported that the prison had gone silent and that there was news about Level 2 Mutated Zombies.

• Wu Heng checked the Book of the Dead, learned that ordinary spiders could only be transformed into Ghouls, and confirmed that Bone Manipulation Technique failed on a spider corpse.
• Wu Heng transformed the Giant Spider into a Level 11 Ghoul Giant Spider Mother, named it Spider Mother, and turned more than two hundred smaller spiders into Ghouls that gathered on its back.
• Wu Heng had the skeletons open the nearby cocoons and used Battlefield of the Undead to raise the human and Orc corpses inside as skeletons.
• Wu Heng contacted Li Yahong, who said the radio station had no news, the prison had stopped responding, and reports had surfaced about Level 2 Mutated Zombies.

Wu Heng led Li Yahong and a large skeleton force toward a reported Giant Zombie, defeating a horde of Zombies along the way. As they approached the monster, four rooftop survivors spotted the advancing spear formation and stared in shock.

• Wu Heng ordered four Skeleton Hags to study magic books, then unlocked Beginner One-Handed Sword Mastery while practicing with Bawudong.
• Wu Heng and Li Yahong set out with their skeletons after learning the Mutated Zombie was likely a Giant Zombie.
• Wu Heng used Witchcraft Arrow and Grease Spell while armored spear skeletons formed a wall and defeated several hundred Zombies.
• Xiaoxiao located the Giant Zombie near a flower bed, and Wu Heng ordered the skeletons to form up and advance toward it.
• Four survivors crossing between rooftops heard the Zombies roar and saw Wu Heng's spear formation, then exclaimed in astonishment.

Wu Heng’s Skeleton Horde defeated a Giant Zombie and cleared a path for survivors to join Li Yahong’s group at the Auto Repair Shop. In Blackstone Town, Deacon Slyther received a letter addressed to Money Cat.

• Wu Heng used Grease and Fireball spells to ignite the approaching Zombies, then ordered Big Guy and Bawudong to defeat the Giant Zombie.
• After the Giant Zombie fell, Wu Heng ordered the Skeleton Horde to advance and wipe out the remaining Zombies.
• Li Yahong offered nearby survivors a place with her group, and eight people later returned in a van and agreed to come along.
• Wu Heng told Li Yahong to protect her own people as the group escorted the new survivors to the Auto Repair Shop.
• At the Adventurer’s Guild Hall in Blackstone Town, Slyther took a letter addressed to Money Cat and returned to her study.

Slyther received a personal letter from Wu Heng, while he raised a new giant skeleton and began organizing his team around investigating Wanted Criminals. After returning to the Zombie World, Wu Heng found human corpses in the residential compound and heard Li Yahong calling him over the walkie-talkie.

• Slyther read Wu Heng's letter about his new captain position and his invitation to visit, then wrote a reply and left for the Black Market with Yuri.
• Wu Heng raised the Giant Zombie as the level 11 skeleton Second Big Guy, recovered a Level 2 Corpse Core, and converted the remaining corpses into about a thousand skeletons.
• Wu Heng told Duke to investigate Wanted Criminals and asked him about ranged weapons, then visited Maoliao Armory and bought another suit of iron armor.
• Wu Heng returned home, left the Skeleton Hags studying, and opened a Portal to the Zombie World.
• Wu Heng found several human corpses in the residential compound, and Li Yahong called him over the walkie-talkie.

Wu Heng learned that South City Prison had attacked the Auto Repair Shop, then led a convoy and Skeleton Army toward the prison to retaliate. At night, his group reached the prison’s heavily guarded walls and waited in the darkness for an opening.

• Wu Heng had a Gnome Skeleton treat Jia Yingying’s gunshot wound and learned from a corpse that South City Prison had sent twelve men to capture Li Yahong and kill the others.
• Wu Heng decided to go to South City Prison the next day, collected the attackers’ weapons, and prepared vehicles and skeletons for the journey.
• At South City Prison, Chen Jinlong grew concerned when Old Six’s group failed to return and ordered his men to stay alert.
• Wu Heng led the convoy to the village below the prison, left Jia Zheng behind to watch the vehicles, and advanced with the Skeleton Army.
• Wu Heng and Li Yahong surveyed the prison’s high, illuminated walls and guards, then concealed themselves in the darkness to wait for the guards to grow tired.

Wu Heng led a nighttime assault on the prison, but its defenders used guns and gasoline to repel the Skeleton Army’s first attack. As Wu Heng ordered the assault to spread and Spider Mother to move, a new threat approached the prison’s other side.

• Wu Heng waited until the prison guards grew drowsy, then ordered Big Head Skeleton to advance the Skeleton Army under the searchlights.
• A guard spotted the skeletons and raised the alarm, prompting the prison defenders to fire guns and machine guns that shattered many skeletons.
• Wu Heng sent riflemen to suppress the wall while the skeletons climbed it, but the defenders doused their bone ladders with gasoline and set them ablaze.
• Li Yahong suggested retreating and laying siege, but Wu Heng insisted on taking the prison that night and ordered the skeletons to spread out and Spider Mother to move.
• Chen Jinlong recognized the attack as connected to the Auto Repair Shop, cursed its leader through a loudspeaker, and threatened to enslave her.
• A sound like high heels striking tile approached the prison wall opposite the main battle.