Chapter Summaries

Li Chen welcomed Dang Zhongcheng into the Star-Level Shelter after arranging treatment for his mother, then announced a reward for unaffiliated survivors who collected Level 4 Zombie Energy Cores. A hidden spy in a Small Shelter prepared to attack, while Chewy Candy ate an Energy Stone without noticing any special effect.

• Li Chen learned that Dang Zhongcheng was a Level 3 genetically modified police academy student and recruited him after agreeing to treat his mother.
• Xu Ruoxi recognized Dang Zhongcheng as the younger brother of her fallen comrade and arranged for him to join her team.
• Li Chen offered unaffiliated survivors Advanced Evolution Fluid and residency at a Star-Level Shelter in exchange for three Level 4 Zombie Energy Cores within fifteen working days.
• A hidden figure told a spy in a Small Shelter to kill everyone there and turn the Star-Level Shelter upside down, claiming to be stronger than Li Chen.
• Li Chen gave Chewy Candy one of his Level 4 Energy Stones, and she ate it without feeling any special effect.

Li Chen learned that the Zombie Virus and Gene Evolution shared a principle, giving Doctor Yang hope that his research could help treat illnesses and reveal the virus’s secrets. Elsewhere, a mysterious woman slaughtered a shelter, while Skinny Monkey and a companion escaped her pursuit through an apparent trick.

• Chewy Candy ate three Level Four Energy Cores after Li Chen gave them to her, then fell asleep beside him.
• Doctor Yang told Li Chen that the Zombie Virus was a form of Gene Evolution and that Evolution Fluid contained DNA from the virus.
• Doctor Yang gave Li Chen his research report and promised to continue investigating the virus’s DNA.
• A woman wielding a light sword killed the residents of a small shelter while Skinny Monkey and a few others hid nearby.
• Skinny Monkey fled with a woman, but the attacker killed their companions and pursued the pair.
• Skinny Monkey and his companion escaped the attacker through an apparent trick, and she angrily called out to A Qi.

Skinny Monkey planned to flee with the woman to the Star-Level Shelter or Lila Shelter, while Dang Zhongcheng drank the Advanced Evolution Fluid and endured its painful effects. After he survived, he discovered a strange ability that transported him and Xu Ruoxi to Li Chen.

• Skinny Monkey decided that he and the woman had to leave their shelter and considered routes to the Star-Level Shelter or Lila Shelter.
• Xu Ruoxi warned Dang Zhongcheng to be careful as he began reporting for duty with the Guard Team.
• Dang Zhongcheng drank the Advanced Evolution Fluid Li Chen had given him and suffered intense pain as his body transformed.
• Xu Ruoxi stayed beside Dang Zhongcheng and urged him to keep living for his mother until his skin began to heal.
• Dang Zhongcheng told Xu Ruoxi he had learned something strange, and they suddenly appeared beside Li Chen, who asked what had happened to him.

Li Chen learned that Level 4 Zombies had appeared in unusual numbers on both sides of the strait, and Ning Jing suspected someone had deliberately sent them there. Li Chen led a nighttime investigation toward a cruise ship while Xu Ruoxi headed for the opposite shelter, as Long Hair neared the requirement to enter a Star-Level Shelter.

• Dang Zhongcheng collapsed unconscious after awakening what Li Chen suspected was a spatial ability, and Li Chen told Xu Ruoxi to bring him along on the investigation if he could go.
• Ning Jing reported that more than ten Level 4 Zombies had appeared across the two cities in half a day, suggesting someone had transported them across the fog-covered strait.
• Li Chen ordered Xu Ruoxi to investigate the opposite shelter while he and part of the artificial humans approached a cruise ship that was signaling across the sea.
• Long Hair continued killing zombies and collecting Energy Cores, leaving her one short of the requirement for a Star-Level Shelter.
• The survivors discussed how Level 4 Zombies targeted the strongest people in groups and killed them with ease.

Li Chen’s infiltration team was ambushed by zombies, and he warned Xu Ruoxi that a Zombie King might have appeared. While heading to support him, Xu Ruoxi encountered two fugitives from South Lake Shelter and learned their shelter had been attacked by outside forces targeting the Star-Level Shelter.

• Li Chen and five Android Warriors emerged from the fog surrounded by zombies, and one warrior was suddenly cut in half.
• Li Chen warned Xu Ruoxi to withdraw because the Zombie King might have appeared, and Xu Ruoxi set out to support him.
• Xu Ruoxi spotted two fleeing figures, shot one, and confronted Skinny Monkey as he tried to help the injured woman escape.
• Xu Ruoxi shot Skinny Monkey in the thigh and forced him to explain how outside forces had attacked South Lake Shelter.
• Xu Ruoxi introduced herself as the Star-Level Shelter Guard Team’s person in charge and told Skinny Monkey and the woman to follow her.

Li Chen and his companions were ambushed by a Level 5 Zombie and a Zombie King while trying to escape the island, and the fog concealed the approaching enemies. Surrounded by five more Level 5 Zombies and a horde, Li Chen ordered the Android Warriors to fight their way toward the Star-Level Shelter.

• Xu Ruoxi escaped a mutated Level 5 Zombie's grasp, while the Android Warriors realized their bullets could not kill it.
• Li Chen and the Android Warriors fought through the zombies and tried to retreat as the Giant Ship sailed away and a zombie horde approached.
• A hidden attacker killed an Android Warrior, but Li Chen severed the attacker's arm and learned it was the Zombie King.
• The Zombie King regrew its arm, threatened Li Chen with an endless horde, and declared that humans would lose to zombie evolution.
• Five Level 5 Zombies arrived and surrounded Li Chen's group, so he ordered the Android Warriors to fight toward the Star-Level Shelter.

Li Chen fought five Level 5 Zombies while his Android Warriors were overwhelmed, and the Zombie King watched before withdrawing. Dang Zhongcheng teleported Li Chen and the last surviving android back to the Star-Level Shelter, where Li Chen asked whether Xu Ruoxi had returned.

• Li Chen ordered three Android Warriors to break through the Southeast Defense Line and fought the five Level 5 Zombies himself as the horde closed in.
• The Zombie King watched Li Chen’s rapid regeneration, then disappeared into the darkness as the battle dragged on and the Android Warriors began to fall.
• Dang Zhongcheng woke aboard the ship and learned from Ning Jing that his Mental Power ability could only be used twice a day.
• The Guard Team received a call for reinforcements after Noah sent Li Chen’s location to the Star-Level Shelter, and Dang Zhongcheng teleported to the battlefield despite Ning Jing’s warning.
• Dang Zhongcheng returned Li Chen and the last surviving android to the Star-Level Shelter, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Li Chen recovered enough to ask Ning Jing whether Xu Ruoxi had come back.

Xu Ruoxi drank the Advanced Evolution Fluid while the Android Warriors held off a Giant Zombie, then evolved and defeated it. Li Chen learned that Xu Ruoxi had survived and received Evolution Energy and her awakened talent, while Noah reported that structural disassembly was complete.

• Li Chen learned that Xu Ruoxi was missing and sent Noah to explain the situation as the Guard Team rushed out.
• Xu Ruoxi asked the Android Warriors to hold off the Giant Zombie for ten minutes, then drank the Advanced Evolution Fluid despite the risk.
• The Android Warriors fought the Giant Zombie and were battered and destroyed while Xu Ruoxi endured the fluid’s painful effects.
• After ten minutes, Xu Ruoxi stopped the Giant Zombie’s attack, struck it with newfound strength, and defeated it before collapsing.
• The Guard Team arrived at dawn to find zombie corpses and exhausted survivors, and Li Chen received 80,000,000 Evolution Energy and Xu Ruoxi’s awakened talent.
• Noah told Li Chen that structural disassembly was complete, and Li Chen examined the detailed principles behind the button.

Li Chen prepared the Star-Level Shelter for new arrivals and watched two women, Mia and Tang Chuxue, fight to decide which would join. Tang Chuxue appeared to be losing, but Dang Zhongcheng suspected Xu Ruoxi would choose her.

• Li Chen questioned Xu Ruoxi about her evolution, ordered her and Dang Zhongcheng to rest, and considered using the aircraft carrier as new threats emerged.
• Two women arrived at the Star-Level Shelter with three Level 4 Energy Cores, and Li Chen told them to fight for a place in the shelter.
• Mia introduced herself and attacked Tang Chuxue, using explosive strikes to injure her and gain the advantage.
• Tang Chuxue blocked Mia's knife with her palm, knocked the weapon away, and continued fighting despite her injuries.
• Dang Zhongcheng asked Xu Ruoxi whether she would ultimately choose Tang Chuxue.

Mia defeated Tang Chuxue in the arena, but Li Chen exposed her as a likely Hua Ju Laboratory operative and had her detained for questioning. Tang Chuxue joined the Star-Level Shelter after Noah cleared her.

• Mia activated a hidden ability that boosted her speed and strength, then defeated Tang Chuxue.
• Li Chen ordered Mia to shake his hand, and when she tried to leave, he told the Guard Team to detain her.
• Xu Ruoxi stopped Mia as she fled, and Li Chen tore away her sleeve to reveal her extensive prosthetics and a concealed palm button.
• Li Chen identified Mia's prosthetic model as the latest version and accused her of belonging to Hua Ju Laboratory, but she denied knowing the lab.
• Li Chen had androids take Mia away for questioning, then welcomed Tang Chuxue into the shelter after Noah scanned her and found no problems.

Skinny Monkey nearly got killed by Tang Chuxue but was spared when a Guard Team member interrupted them. Li Chen upgraded Regeneration to Level 2, then discovered Chewy Candy had a tentacle.

• Skinny Monkey left the infirmary and ran into Tang Chuxue, who held a dagger to his shoulder and warned him not to speak.
• A Guard Team member called Tang Chuxue away to continue registration, and Skinny Monkey decided not to report the encounter to Li Chen.
• Li Chen worried that the Corpse King would keep evolving and spent fifty million Evolution Points to raise Regeneration to Level 2.
• The upgrade increased Li Chen's healing and let him control every muscle, while promising further abilities at higher levels.
• Chewy Candy woke up hungry, and when Li Chen gave her three Level 4 Energy Cores, he felt a slick tentacle and turned toward her in alarm.

After Chewy Candy gained fused vines and tentacles and developed an urge to attack, Li Chen took her along to investigate a critical breach at the coastal shelter. He led a three-team operation into the underground laboratory to eliminate the Zombie King, whose location remained unclear.

• Chewy Candy revealed her new vines and tentacles, and Li Chen gave her a Level 4 Energy Core before inviting her to join him.
• Li Chen received a mission to eliminate or stop the Zombie King at the dilapidated coastal shelter and ordered Xu Ruoxi to stay behind while Dang Zhongcheng accompanied him.
• Li Chen warned the team about Level 5 Zombies, assigned the Guard Team to surround the target, and sent them into the underground laboratory.
• Li Chen and Dang Zhongcheng entered the dusty laboratory, where Li Chen remarked that its few routes would prevent anyone inside from escaping.

Li Chen confronted the Zombie King at the laboratory, where the two argued over Chewy Candy and the second zombie tide in Hebi City. Elsewhere, Skinny Monkey panicked after recognizing a woman at Star-Level Shelter and considered fleeing, but his companion urged him to tell Chief Xu.

• Dang Zhongcheng noticed the laboratory was unusually cold, but Li Chen led Team Two toward the room where the Zombie King waited.
• Li Chen entered and fired at the Zombie King, whose tentacle blocked the bullet as Level 4 Zombies emerged to protect him.
• The Zombie King revealed that Chewy Candy was his twin sister and admitted launching the second zombie tide in Hebi City, while claiming he had spared people from Star-Level Shelter.
• Li Chen rejected the Zombie King's justification and said they had nothing to discuss.
• Skinny Monkey told a woman that his enemy had appeared at Star-Level Shelter as a Guard Team member and threatened him before.
• The woman urged Skinny Monkey to report the enemy to Chief Xu so they could earn merit.

Skinny Monkey tried to warn Xu Ruoxi that Tang Chuxue had hidden her identity, but he failed to speak with her privately. Meanwhile, the Corpse King challenged Li Chen to protect every shelter in Hebi City within seven days, then escaped through a wall as Li Chen’s teams arrived.

• Skinny Monkey and the woman decided to tell Xu Ruoxi that Tang Chuxue had concealed her identity and joined the Guard Team as a survivor.
• Skinny Monkey asked Xu Ruoxi to talk privately, but Tang Chuxue interrupted, and Xu Ruoxi postponed their conversation until that night.
• Skinny Monkey returned to wait for another chance to warn Xu Ruoxi, then hurt his hand punching the Super Composite Material wall.
• The Corpse King told Li Chen that every shelter in Hebi City, including the Star-Level Shelter, would be destroyed within seven days and promised a useful reward if Li Chen prevented it.
• Li Chen refused to apologize and demanded that the Corpse King reveal what it knew, but an explosion sounded and the Corpse King escaped through the wall as the First Team and Team Three arrived.

Li Chen's group failed to stop the Corpse King, took the Crystal Coffin, and faced an imminent zombie tide after the city announced the start of a game. At Lila Shelter, Li TieZhu learned that a zombie horde wearing the uniforms of its fallen soldiers was approaching and asked Mei Yi whether they should fight.

• The Corpse King escaped despite the squad's gunfire, and Li Chen ordered everyone to inspect the Crystal Coffin instead of chasing him.
• Li Chen's team failed to open the coffin and carried it away as he studied Noah's map of the specimen-lined route.
• The city's alarms sounded, a woman announced "Game Start," and Noah warned Li Chen that a zombie tide was about to erupt.
• Li TieZhu and Mei Yi discussed strengthening Lila Shelter, and a woman reported that repairs were nearly complete.
• The woman told Li TieZhu that the approaching zombie horde wore the uniforms of Lila Shelter's fallen soldiers, and he asked Mei Yi whether they should fight.

Li Chen's Guard Team fought off a medium-sized zombie horde that Dang Zhongcheng suspected was a greeting from the Corpse King, who had challenged Hebi City's survivors to survive his seven-day game. At the Star-Level Shelter, Skinny Monkey tried to warn Xu Ruoxi about someone beside her, but Tang Chuxue interrupted him.

• Mei Yi and Li TieZhu urged the Lila Shelter Guard Team to fight rather than let the residents be hurt, and the team shot at their former brothers who were being controlled after death.
• Li Chen ordered his team to retreat while fighting and notify nearby forces, then rallied the reinforcements outside the shelter to face the Corpse King's first attack in his seven-day challenge.
• The Guard Team killed the medium-sized horde, and Li Chen gained Evolution Energy as they found few Level 4 zombies and no Level 5 zombies.
• Dang Zhongcheng suggested the horde felt more like a greeting than an attack, and Li Chen called the Corpse King arrogant.
• Skinny Monkey returned to the infirmary and told the woman to find Li Chen if anything happened to him, then accepted that Xu Ruoxi might kill him.
• Skinny Monkey approached Xu Ruoxi to warn her about the person beside her, but Tang Chuxue interrupted and asked why he was there.

Skinny Monkey tried to warn Xu Ruoxi about Tang Chuxue but kept quiet when Tang Chuxue threatened him. After Tang Chuxue left, Skinny Monkey hinted he was not as cowardly as she believed, while Li Chen left the shelter after killing the zombies.

• Xu Ruoxi asked Skinny Monkey what he wanted, and he tried to find a private place to warn her about Tang Chuxue.
• Tang Chuxue asked about Skinny Monkey's wife and arranged to visit her in the infirmary.
• Xu Ruoxi told Skinny Monkey that the Star-Level Shelter had no open positions and suggested he try Lila Shelter.
• Tang Chuxue ambushed Skinny Monkey in the corridor, stabbed his thigh, and threatened his wife if he spoke up.
• After Tang Chuxue left, Skinny Monkey claimed he was not a coward.
• Li Chen left the shelter after killing the zombies and ordered that two-thirds of the loot be taken while the rest was left for the survivors.

Li Chen distributed Energy Cores to wandering survivors and announced the coming zombie tide, while Noah and the Guard Team kept shelter members from taking the free resources. After collecting their cores, several hundred wandering survivors decided to form an alliance to improve their chances of survival.

• Li Chen gave survivors free Level 3 Zombie Energy Cores and ordered the Guard Team to maintain order, limiting each person to ten.
• Li Chen told Dang Zhongcheng he wanted to offer survivors a chance to grow stronger and instructed Noah to post the Zombie King's warning and the resource announcement on the forum.
• Survivors learned that another zombie tide was coming and rushed to collect Energy Cores near the coast.
• Noah denied passage to members of other shelters, and the Guard Team warned them to leave the line or face being shot.
• Several hundred wandering survivors agreed to form an alliance, and their leader said it would have no room for slackers.

A group of wandering survivors formed a democratic Survivor Alliance and began discussing where to establish a base. After returning to Star-Level Shelter, Li Chen realized Chewy Candy might share a connection with the Corpse King and forbade her from leaving the shelter for seven days.

• A respected survivor known as Big Brother rejected the idea of creating a shelter and proposed forming an equal Survivor Alliance, with himself as temporary leader.
• The survivors supported Big Brother and prepared to discuss a base, while some decided to consult the commander.
• Li Chen returned to Star-Level Shelter, saw Chewy Candy, and remembered that she could walk through walls like the Corpse King.
• Li Chen asked Chewy Candy whether she would choose him or an older brother who opposed him, and she said she hoped they could reconcile.
• Li Chen told Chewy Candy to stay inside for seven days, and she reluctantly agreed.

Li Chen ordered ten thousand Level 3 Energy Cores sent to the Survivor Alliance and heard Dang Zhongcheng’s case for cooperating with them before asking about Dang Zhongcheng’s abilities. Meanwhile, Doctor Yang cracked the DNA sequence, and a mysterious zombie left a cryptic yellow flag outside the Star-Level Shelter.

• Li Chen ordered a team member to give the Survivor Alliance ten thousand Level 3 Energy Cores, despite the team member’s objections.
• Dang Zhongcheng argued that the Survivor Alliance was worth associating with because its members had formed a democratic, mutually supportive community rather than an authoritarian shelter.
• Li Chen dismissed the team member to train, then invited Dang Zhongcheng into the room to discuss his abilities.
• Doctor Yang announced that he had replicated the data from a segment of DNA, and Ning Jing urged him to report the breakthrough to Li Chen.
• A mysterious zombie evaded the Star-Level Shelter guards’ gunfire and left a yellow flag bearing the words, “Heaven has fallen; humanity must perish?”