Chapter Summaries

A Spider Mother and its Spider Swarm overwhelmed the prison defenses, allowing the skeleton horde to overrun the compound. Wu Heng’s group entered to find Chen Jinlong, but he escaped by leaping from a fourth-floor window with a hostage after revealing an awakened ability.

• The Spider Swarm breached the rear wall, poisoned and killed the guards, and helped the Skeleton Horde enter the prison.
• Chen Jinlong abandoned the wall, while the skeletons overran the prison and surrounded the remaining survivors in buildings.
• Xiaoxiao located Chen Jinlong on the fourth floor, and Wu Heng led Li Yahong and the skeletons to his room.
• Bartholomew failed to pick the locked security door, so Big Guy and Second Big Guy smashed it open despite Chen Jinlong’s threats of explosives.
• Chen Jinlong fired his shotgun at Big Guy, seized a woman, and jumped from the window, his body transforming as he escaped.

Wu Heng's group defeated Chen Jinlong and took control of the prison, where Wu Heng raised Chen Jinlong as a skeleton. He discovered the prison's extensive facilities and seized hundreds of firearms and a large stock of ammunition.

• Wu Heng ordered his skeletons to surround Chen Jinlong, then helped bring him down with gunfire and the blows of Big Guy and Second Big Guy.
• Wu Heng gave a badly injured woman a Healing Potion and had Li Yahong arrange a room for her to rest in until dawn.
• After the prison was secured, Wu Heng used Bone Manipulation Technique on Chen Jinlong and learned that he had possessed the Potential Burst ability.
• Wu Heng transformed the remaining corpses into skeletons and found a prison map showing the facility's three areas and utility buildings.
• Wu Heng located the armory and Ammunition Depot, collecting more than five hundred firearms and a large supply of ammunition.

Wu Heng made the prison his new base and returned to Luntam City to pursue work and gather supplies. He bought two Necromancer Skill Books from the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate and asked Lecia about acquiring a shop in the Lower City.

• Wu Heng agreed with Li Yahong to use the prison as a base and directed the survivors to identify and remove any prisoners who had harmed people.
• Qiangzi's convoy arrived at the prison, and Wu Heng left the others to inventory its resources before traveling to Luntam City.
• Wu Heng learned from Duke about a bandit group along the Trade Route whose leaders and core members were Wanted Criminals, and told Duke to keep investigating.
• Wu Heng met Lecia at the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate and bought the Life Sustaining Technique and Disease Ray Skill Books.
• Wu Heng asked Lecia whether the conglomerate could help him buy a shop in the Lower City, and she said it could.

Wu Heng considered renting a storefront, learned two Necromancy Spells, and checked on the prison survivors before receiving a reply from Slyther in Blackstone Town. Her letter revealed that Yuri had received his message and that Slyther planned to visit with her soon.

• Wu Heng reviewed the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate’s storefronts and prices but decided to wait before choosing one.
• Wu Heng unlocked Disease Ray and Life Sustaining Technique, then told the Skeleton Hags to continue studying their Skill Books.
• Wu Heng visited the prison, heard from Li Yahong that the new survivors and repairs were settled, and instructed her to fuel the vehicles for a trip to bring more people and equipment.
• Wu Heng received two letters at the association and read Slyther’s update about Blackstone Town, Yuri, and a planned visit.
• Wu Heng found a Gold Coin in Slyther’s letter and realized his message to Yuri had likely reached Slyther instead.

Wu Heng replied to letters from Slyther, Ortluk, and Yuri while Fischer hired a gang leader to assassinate him. The deacon sent Wu Heng and Duke to verify a report about a wanted criminal at an abandoned manor, where they found orcs standing guard.

• Wu Heng wrote and delivered replies to Slyther, Ortluk, and Yuri, asking Slyther to visit sooner and congratulating Ortluk on his relationship with Tulisa.
• Fischer paid a gang leader six hundred Silver Coins to kill newly transferred association captain Wu Heng and leave no survivors.
• The deacon assigned Wu Heng to verify intelligence about wanted criminals at an abandoned manor outside the city.
• Wu Heng took Duke to the manor, where they found orcs guarding the grounds.

Wu Heng and his team attacked a group of eight beastmen hiding in an abandoned manor and killed them. After reaching Level 6, Wu Heng searched their supplies and had Duke check the corpses against the association’s Wanted List.

• Wu Heng used Xiaoxiao to scout the manor and learned that eight beastmen, including a crossbow guard, planned to stay overnight.
• The beastmen spotted Wu Heng and Duke and fired a crossbow bolt that knocked Duke down, so Wu Heng threw a Poison Mist Grenade and ordered the skeletons to attack through the smoke.
• Wu Heng’s skeletons and Duke fought the beastmen while Wu Heng used spells and gunfire; Bawudong killed an axe-wielding beastman, and Bartholomew killed the crossbowwoman.
• Wu Heng gained enough experience to reach Level 6, then searched the beastmen’s packs and found money and three Slave Contract Scrolls.
• Wu Heng gathered the corpses and showed Duke the association’s Wanted List so he could identify any wanted criminals.

Wu Heng returned to Luntam City after killing a Wanted Criminal and claimed the bounty with Team 12. Back in the Zombie World, he used magic to keep a badly injured woman alive through surgery, then raised a dead Female Beastman as a Level 9 Skeleton Guard.

• Wu Heng confirmed the dead orc was a Wanted Criminal, and Deacon Gomez awarded Team 12 the bounty and a choice of mid-tier item.
• Wu Heng went to the Zombie World, where Li Yahong told him the woman injured alongside Chen Jinlong was near death.
• Doctor Guan Zhiguang said the woman needed surgery but lacked the necessary conditions, so Wu Heng ordered him to proceed and used Life Sustaining Technique to stop her bleeding.
• The surgery was completed, and Wu Heng gave the woman medicine before leaving her recovery in the others' care.
• Wu Heng raised the Female Beastman's corpse with Bone Manipulation Technique, creating a Level 9 Skeleton Guard.

Wu Heng raised a skilled crossbow skeleton and six orc skeletons, then led his convoy back toward the Auto Repair Shop. As the convoy arrived, Qiangzi warned over the radio that a Mutated Zombie was at the shop.

• Wu Heng named the crossbow-specialist skeleton Hunter One and gave her a sniper rifle and an assault rifle to learn.
• Wu Heng raised six orc skeletons, named them Beast One through Beast Six, and assigned them as guards.
• The next morning, Wu Heng left skeletons to guard the prison and took the rest of his convoy back toward the Auto Repair Shop.
• Li Yahong drove the convoy, and she and Wu Heng discussed staying at the shop for two or three days to move skeletons and supplies.
• As the convoy neared the Auto Repair Shop, Qiangzi radioed that a Mutated Zombie was there.

Wu Heng’s convoy killed a Gecko Mutation Zombie at the Auto Repair Shop, and Jia Yingying recovered before returning home. In Luntam City, Butcher Roche prepared a gang attack on someone connected to the Association, while Wu Heng raised the slain Zombie as a Level 13 Skeleton Terror Claw Monster.

• Wu Heng ordered the convoy to stop and sent his skeletons to fight the Gecko Mutation Zombie, while Hunter One’s gunfire knocked it from the wall and the skeletons finished it off.
• Li Yahong and the others entered the Auto Repair Shop, where Wang Ke said the Zombie had come from the Building Materials Market.
• Wu Heng returned to the residential complex, where Jia Yingying had recovered, and sent her home with Jia Zheng before reassigning the patrols.
• In Luntam City, Butcher Roche ordered his gang to attack that night, leave no survivors, and bring back all the bodies, trusting Fischer to cover up the operation.
• Wu Heng used the Bone Manipulation Technique and raised the dead Zombie as a Level 13 Skeleton Terror Claw Monster.

Wu Heng’s skeletons stopped a Spike Gang assassination attempt, and he learned that their leader, Roche, had accepted a contract to kill him. Afterward, Wu Heng visited Lecia at the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate to look for items that could conceal his appearance, where she showed him two options.

• Wu Heng named the Level 13 Terror Claw Monster and added it to the patrol, then gave its unusual Corpse Core to the Alchemy Skeleton to test and use in a potion.
• Spike Gang members entered Wu Heng’s residence with Hallucinatory Incense, but his skeletons ambushed and killed them, while Wu Heng took out the lookout.
• Wu Heng used Talk with Dead to learn that Roche, the Spike Gang’s level 10 boss, had accepted a commission to kill him, though the corpses could not identify the employer.
• Wu Heng carried the bodies through the Portal and, after a sleepless night, went to the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate to ask Lecia about concealing his appearance.
• Lecia presented Trickery Silver Earrings that blurred the wearer’s face and a Shapeshifting Veil that changed their appearance and imitated voices, but made its wearer unconsciously flirt with men.

Wu Heng bought a shapeshifting veil and used it to disguise himself as an ordinary woman while searching for Spike Gang leader Roche. After following the gang’s boss lady back to their residence, he broke in with Bartholomew and Bawudong, but found only her clothes and heard water running in a nearby room.

• Wu Heng bought the Shapeshifting Veil for 2,500 Silver Coins and discovered he could adjust the illusion’s appearance.
• Wu Heng disguised himself as an ordinary middle-aged woman and went to the Lower City to search for Roche.
• Wu Heng found the Spike Gang’s base empty, then heard tavern patrons discuss the Warhammer Party’s blockade of the roads.
• Wu Heng followed the Spike Gang’s boss lady out of the tavern after learning Roche was not there.
• Wu Heng returned to the gang’s residence at night, found the boss lady’s clothes in an empty room, and sent Bawudong into the room where he heard water running.

Wu Heng raided the Spike Gang boss’s home, forced Wen Mansha to reveal that Fischer had hired Roche to kill him, and bound her to him with a Slave Contract. Wen Mansha promised to help him kill Roche and described the gang’s failed assassination, while Wu Heng began questioning her about Fischer.

• Wu Heng confronted Wen Mansha in her bath, and she revealed that Fischer had paid Roche five hundred silver to arrange his assassination.
• Wu Heng decided Wen Mansha could be useful but forced her to sign a Slave Contract to secure her obedience.
• Wen Mansha told Wu Heng that Roche had fled outside the city and would likely return within three days if he thought it was safe.
• Wu Heng ordered Wen Mansha to alert him when Roche returned and questioned her about Fischer’s involvement and the gang’s plans after the failed assassination.

Wu Heng learned that Roche and Fischer were behind the attempt on his life, recruited Wen Mansha to help him track Roche and take over the Spike Gang, and confronted Fischer at the Adventurer's Guild. He then returned to the Zombie World and prepared to lead Li Yahong’s group to the commercial street.

• Wu Heng questioned Wen Mansha, learned Roche was a level-ten warrior with seven level-eight core members, and ordered her to report Roche’s whereabouts and gradually take control of the Spike Gang.
• Wen Mansha left Wu Heng’s house and dismissed the guards, while Wu Heng bought alchemy supplies and went to the Adventurer's Guild.
• Wu Heng encountered Fischer, traded guarded remarks about the attempted break-in, and decided not to report him to the Guild.
• Wu Heng checked the security at his home, traveled to the Zombie World, and gave the gathered medicinal ingredients to the Alchemy Skeletons.
• Li Yahong told Wu Heng her group had collected hospital equipment and planned to search nearby shops, so Wu Heng told her to prepare for a trip to the commercial street.

Wu Heng and Li Yahong drove a Skeleton Army to the commercial street to collect supplies, but a huge Rat Swarm attacked them. As the skeletons fought the rats, a Zombie Horde poured onto the road, leaving Wu Heng facing two advancing threats.

• Wu Heng and Li Yahong drove toward the commercial street, where they discussed their past encounters with Zombies and the need to stay alert at the prison.
• Li Yahong spotted a black shape near the restaurants, and Wu Heng realized it was a rat as large as a wildcat.
• A vast Rat Swarm surged from the restaurants, and Wu Heng used Grease Spell and Fireball Spell before ordering the skeletons to attack.
• Wu Heng sent Xiaoxiao to scout the restaurants, where she found a nest containing even more rats.
• Li Yahong warned Wu Heng that a large Zombie Horde was charging toward them from the commercial street.

Wu Heng defended his Skeletons against a Rat Swarm, a Zombie Horde, and Mutated Dogs. After driving back the rats and killing the dogs, he ordered the Skeletons to advance against the still-attacking Zombies.

• Wu Heng formed the spear-wielding Skeletons into a Spear Formation to hold back the Zombie Horde and ordered Hunter One to watch the Mutated Dogs.
• Wu Heng used gasoline cans and a Fireball Spell to ignite the Rat Swarm, driving the rats into nearby shops.
• Hunter One shot the Mutated Dogs as the Skeleton Dogs charged and tore into them.
• Wu Heng sent Big Guy and Second Big Guy into the Zombie Horde, then ordered the spear-wielding Skeletons to advance.

Wu Heng and Li Yahong looted the commercial street after the Skeleton Squad cleared its Zombies, collecting clothing, gold, jewelry, and other supplies. They returned with the convoy, carrying the haul and the rat corpses they had gathered.

• Wu Heng ordered the Cleaver Skeletons to finish off the remaining Zombies near the commercial street.
• Wu Heng sent Li Yahong and the skeletons to gather clothing while he searched several banks and found gold bars and commemorative coins.
• Wu Heng looted a jewelry store, collecting gold and jade jewelry, luxury goods, and five small gold bars.
• Wu Heng met Li Yahong at a clothing store, agreed to take the undergarments, and tried on a jacket she had chosen for him.
• Wu Heng ordered Bighead to have the skeletons carry the corpses and supplies back with the convoy, and they collected intact rat corpses along the way.

Wu Heng raised five Skeleton Dogs, unlocked Gray Hawk Slash, and exchanged his guild reward for the Feather Fall skill book. After the convoy left for the prison, he arrived at the Team Lounge and found Duke with a new beastman recruit.

• Wu Heng had Hunter One bond with a hunting-dog Skeleton and gave the Alchemy Skeleton five Corpse Cores to make potions.
• Wu Heng unlocked Gray Hawk Slash and tested it against Bawudong, who easily caught his wrist.
• Wu Heng sent Skeletons to protect Li Yahong's convoy as it returned to the prison, then went to the Adventurer's Guild.
• Wu Heng exchanged an intermediate item reward for a Feather Fall Skill Book.
• Wu Heng entered the Team Lounge, where Duke introduced him to a new Female Beastman member.

Wu Heng investigated a series of blood-draining murders in the Outskirts and decided to use Duke in disguise as bait to draw out the killers. Three suspects surrounded Duke on a northern road, and he charged at them.

• Marta joined Wu Heng's team as a Level 7 Ranger and introduced her tamed Black Feather Eagle.
• Duke told Wu Heng about murders in the Outskirts that resembled the killings by a Wanted Criminal they had previously killed.
• Wu Heng questioned the victims' corpses and learned that attackers in black cloaks who reeked of blood had killed them after dusk.
• Wu Heng used the Shapeshifting Veil to disguise Duke as a female beastman and sent him to the northern area as bait.
• Three men surrounded Duke, and he charged at them after they mocked his appearance.

Wu Heng and his team uncovered and destroyed the Blood Worship Cult, rescued imprisoned women, and captured wanted criminal Paltchak, whose belongings included a Blood Goblet Wonder. After returning to the Association, Wu Heng headed to Wen Mansha's residence.

• Duke and Wu Heng questioned three dead cultists, learning that the Blood Worship Cult had eight members and a hideout to the north.
• Wu Heng's team found the cult's house, killed its members, rescued three imprisoned women, and captured its leader, Paltchak.
• Wu Heng identified a Blood Goblet Wonder among Paltchak's possessions and arranged to claim the wanted bounty.
• Wen Mansha discreetly told her gang's men to leave their post as Wu Heng's carriage passed the tavern.
• Wu Heng delivered the corpses to the Association, then took an umbrella and headed to Wen Mansha's residence.

Wu Heng collected rewards, commissioned alchemist corpses, rented a shop in Luntam City, and returned to the Zombie World, where Li Yahong told him about a new shelter led by someone who controlled flames. The chapter ended with Wu Heng questioning whether elemental abilities could truly awaken.

• Wu Heng visited Wen Mansha, promised to make her the Spike Gang leader after Roche returned, and gave her new clothes the next morning.
• Wu Heng collected the autopsy bounty and paid the Serpent Emblem Conglomerate to obtain five level-ten-or-higher alchemist corpses.
• Wu Heng rented a shop with a courtyard and warehouse, arranged for it to be cleaned, and named it Customers Come Often Grocery Store.
• Wu Heng returned to the Zombie World, where Li Yahong reported that the prison remained stable and that the Flame God Shelter was recruiting survivors.
• Li Yahong told Wu Heng that the Flame God Shelter's leader could control flames, and Wu Heng asked whether people could awaken elemental abilities.