Chapter Summaries

Doctor Yang reported that he had extracted the Zombie Virus DNA, allowing Intermediate Evolution Fluid production to expand, while Li Chen responded to a Zombie King threat and arranged support for the Survivor Alliance. The chapter ended with the alliance receiving a congratulatory visit from the Star-Level Shelter.

• Doctor Yang told Li Chen that Intermediate Evolution Fluid could soon be mass-produced and requested more zombie specimens for his research.
• Li Chen assigned Dang Zhongcheng to supply Doctor Yang with specimens and then heard a Guard Team member report a message warning that humanity would perish within seven days.
• Li Chen ordered Doctor Yang to send fifty bottles of Intermediate Evolution Fluid to the Survivor Alliance once production expanded.
• Li Chen said he would visit the Crystal Coffin as the Survivor Alliance prepared to build its new home.
• Guard Team First Squad Captain 0031 arrived at the Survivor Alliance to congratulate it on its official establishment.

Li Chen sent the Survivor Alliance a large donation of Energy Cores and Intermediate Evolution Fluid, giving them confidence they could survive the coming corpse tide. At the Star-Level Shelter, Chewy Candy recognized a familiar scent from the woman sealed in the Crystal Coffin, leaving Li Chen wondering if she was Chewy Candy and the Corpse King's mother; the chapter ended when someone collided with him.

• Big Brother opened the gate after Li Chen's messenger left ten boxes of supplies outside for the Survivor Alliance.
• The Survivor Alliance found 10,900 Energy Cores and a box of Intermediate Evolution Fluid, and its members gained confidence they could survive the seven-day corpse tide.
• Noah failed to identify the woman in the Crystal Coffin, and Li Chen suspected she might be an alien species.
• Chewy Candy told Li Chen that the woman had a familiar scent, though she was sure they had never met.
• Li Chen wondered whether the woman was Chewy Candy and the Corpse King's mother, then carried Chewy Candy back to his room.
• Someone bumped into Li Chen and hurriedly apologized.

Li Chen faced a misleading online campaign accusing the Star-Level Shelter of abusing Mia while rival shelters plotted to exploit the coming fight with the Zombie King. After a failed mission, the system offered double rewards for clearing new zombie hordes within five hours, but required Li Chen to bring the Zombie King along, prompting him to think of someone.

• Tang Chuxue thanked Li Chen for remembering her name, and he encouraged her to keep proving herself at the Star-Level Shelter.
• A misleading video of Mia being beaten fueled online attacks on Li Chen, while people from the Star-Level Shelter defended him.
• Leaders of several medium-sized shelters discussed using the public backlash and the coming battle with the Zombie King to weaken Li Chen, though Xiao Liu doubted their plan.
• Xu Ruoxi read the forum posts and considered explaining that Mia had come to the Star-Level Shelter as a spy, but she abandoned the idea and trained instead.
• Li Chen received a failed mission notice, then learned he could earn doubled rewards by clearing newly marked zombie hordes within five hours.
• The system told Li Chen that the Zombie King had to accompany him for the reward to count, and Li Chen thought of someone.

Li Chen took Chewy Candy with him as he led a team from the Star-Level Shelter toward the most dangerous zombie location, while Xu Ruoxi assigned Tang Chuxue to accompany him. As the teams departed, Mia noticed the prison guards were gone and began trying to smash her way out, but a sudden sound outside startled her.

• Li Chen invited Chewy Candy to go out with him, then used Noah to identify the most dangerous of the five zombie locations near the Star-Level Shelter.
• Li Chen divided the forces into five teams, and Xu Ruoxi reluctantly accepted her assignment to Team Four after asking to stay with him.
• Xu Ruoxi told Tang Chuxue to follow Li Chen and report any danger, while Dang Zhongcheng grew suspicious of Tang Chuxue.
• Li Chen led his remaining elite warriors toward the marked location as the other teams set out for their targets.
• Mia realized the prison guards were absent, began smashing the iron door, and stopped when she heard a sound outside.

A mysterious man broke into the Star-Level Shelter, forced Mia to become his inside agent, and implanted a red gemstone that bound her to his commands. Meanwhile, Li Chen and his group reached the Corpse King's supposed location, where Chewy Candy sensed hidden enemies nearby.

• The mysterious man passed through the iron wall, subdued Mia, and offered her a choice between becoming a zombie mother body or serving as his inside agent.
• Mia accepted the inside-agent role, and the man implanted a red gemstone in her abdomen that healed her wounds and made her obey him.
• The man revealed his plan to use Mia against Li Chen and mentioned leaving Chewy Candy in Li Chen's care if he survived.
• Li Chen and his companions found the location Noah had named deserted, and Li Chen suspected the Corpse King was setting a trap.
• Chewy Candy sensed that unseen enemies were present and told Li Chen they were right there.

Li Chen and the Guard Team discovered that the zombies Chewy Candy sensed were underground and found a hidden entrance. Dang Zhongcheng entered and discovered a chamber full of zombies confined in glass tubes.

• Chewy Candy sensed zombies nearby, and Li Chen heard their roars beneath the ground.
• Li Chen ordered the Guard Team to search for an underground entrance, and Tang Chuxue pinpointed a small hole.
• Li Chen refused to use fire to investigate, and Dang Zhongcheng volunteered to enter the hole with a rifle.
• Dang Zhongcheng activated his wristband flashlight and saw numerous aggressive zombies trapped in glass tubes filled with experimental fluid.

Chewy Candy bit Li Chen during a painful memory episode, triggering his zombification as Regeneration drained his Evolution Energy. Noah said the soldiers could save him by sacrificing their own evolutionary power, but they would become ordinary people if they gave too much.

• Chewy Candy screamed and bit Li Chen, drawing blood and leaving him terrified that he would turn into a zombie.
• Li Chen asked Noah how much Evolution Energy he needed to upgrade Regeneration, but he had only one hundred million of the required three hundred million.
• As his consciousness faded, Li Chen ordered the soldiers to open fire and live on, but none of them could bring themselves to shoot.
• The soldiers noticed Li Chen's skin alternating between bluish-gray and rosy, and Noah warned that his Evolution Energy was nearly depleted and corpse transformation would begin.
• The soldiers asked Noah whether they could give Li Chen their Evolution Energy, and Noah said they could, though they would lose their evolutionary power and become ordinary people if they gave too much.

Dang Zhongcheng and the Guard Team sacrificed their Evolution Energy to save the unconscious Li Chen, leaving them drained as his body began to recover. As everyone collapsed, a woman appeared and threatened that Li Chen would die even if he survived the zombies.

• Dang Zhongcheng explained that saving Li Chen required burning away Gene Evolution to produce Evolution Energy, and Noah said two people would need to lose all their genes.
• Dang Zhongcheng offered all his Evolution Energy, but the Guard Team members insisted on sacrificing theirs instead.
• Noah extracted Evolution Energy through the soldiers’ wristbands, causing them severe pain while Li Chen’s condition improved.
• After the extraction reached completion, Li Chen coughed up blood and began recovering, while the exhausted soldiers fainted.
• A woman appeared and said that Li Chen would die even if he got past the zombies.

Tang Chuxue revealed that she had only pretended to be incapacitated so she could kill Li Chen, but Dang Zhongcheng and Chewy Candy stood in her way. Chewy Candy turned Tang Chuxue’s attack against herself, leaving her stabbing her own chest.

• Tang Chuxue got up, revealed her deception, and threatened to kill Li Chen while Chewy Candy stayed beside him to protect him.
• Dang Zhongcheng revealed that he had also been pretending to be unconscious and kicked Tang Chuxue’s dagger away.
• Tang Chuxue and Dang Zhongcheng fought, and her superior speed and strength left him badly injured.
• Tang Chuxue struck at Chewy Candy, but Chewy Candy forced her to wound her own hand.
• Chewy Candy continued to control Tang Chuxue, who slowly drove her dagger into her own chest.

Li Chen survived after the soldiers sacrificed their Evolution Energy, while Chewy Candy killed Tang Chuxue to protect him. Li Chen forgave Chewy Candy and led the weakened soldiers away, worried the Zombie King might have mind-control abilities too.

• Chewy Candy used her mind-control ability to make Tang Chuxue stab herself, killing her as she tried to attack Li Chen and Dang Zhongcheng.
• Noah announced that Li Chen's Regeneration evolution had succeeded after the soldiers transferred 200 million Evolution Energy to him, leaving two of them ordinary people.
• Dang Zhongcheng told Li Chen how the soldiers had saved him, and Li Chen thanked them and embraced the brothers who had sacrificed their strength.
• Li Chen comforted Chewy Candy, forgave her, and promised not to leave her after she tearfully admitted she was wrong.
• Li Chen worried that the Zombie King might also control minds, then ordered the weakened soldiers to retreat and carried one of the men who had lost all his genes.

After returning to the Star-Level Shelter, Li Chen collected the zombie-tide rewards and honored the warriors who saved him, then rested with four days remaining before the Zombie King's Seven-Day Agreement. Elsewhere, Mia’s identity was being reshaped into the Zombie King’s servant, while a mysterious man enslaved Li Dacai and declared that Li Chen was bound to lose their game.

• Li Chen returned to the Star-Level Shelter, received rewards including Auxiliary Evolution Fluid, and decided to hold a Commendation Meeting.
• Li Chen personally praised the warriors who saved his life, awarding them Auxiliary Evolution Fluid, medals, Energy Cores, and Evolution Fluid.
• Li Chen ended the meeting and went to bed, noting that four days remained until the Zombie King's Seven-Day Agreement.
• Mia questioned herself in her cell as the Zombie King's influence altered her memories, appearance, and sense of identity.
• A mysterious man implanted a red gemstone in Li Dacai and made the Century Shelter leader declare himself the man's slave.
• The man said Li Chen was bound to lose the game and angrily objected that Li Chen had made his sister call him Dad.

Xu Ruoxi and Dang Zhongcheng interrogated Skinny Monkey over his concealed knowledge of Tang Chuxue, while Li Chen reviewed the shelter for spies. Skinny Monkey learned that his woman, A Qi, had waited outside the interrogation room for hours to plead for him, and broke down in tears.

• Xu Ruoxi ordered guards to take Skinny Monkey to the Interrogation Room after confronting him about concealing what he knew.
• Skinny Monkey recounted his background and his encounter with Tang Chuxue during six hours of questioning by Xu Ruoxi and Dang Zhongcheng.
• Li Chen reviewed files on important shelter residents as the shelter uncovered spies, and he considered finding teachers for Chewy Candy.
• Dang Zhongcheng told Xu Ruoxi that Skinny Monkey's woman had been kneeling outside for five hours, and Xu Ruoxi sent guards to take her back to her room.
• Xu Ruoxi told Skinny Monkey that his woman had come looking for him, and he wept as he called her A Qi and said he was not worth her sacrifice.

Skinny Monkey revealed to Li Chen that he was Mo Zhishu, a former Special Researcher for Hua Ju Laboratory's Southern District, and explained how the laboratory and its elite leaders caused the zombie crisis. He left Li Chen with the knowledge that Hua Ju Laboratory had allied with aliens, while Li Chen resolved that the people responsible would pay.

• Skinny Monkey revealed his name, Mo Zhishu, and claimed to know the secret Li Chen wanted to learn.
• Li Chen questioned Mo Zhishu privately about Hua Ju Laboratory and its role in the apocalypse.
• Mo Zhishu said Hua Ju Laboratory's leaders created the zombie crisis to pursue immortality and stronger bodies through human experimentation.
• Mo Zhishu explained that Hua Ju Laboratory's rulers had contacted aliens and sold the planet to them.
• Mo Zhishu described his work studying society's response to zombies and said Heavenly Net would have silenced him if he had exposed the laboratory before the apocalypse.
• Li Chen became enraged at Hua Ju Laboratory and silently vowed that its leaders would pay.

Li Chen brought Mo Zhishu to examine the Crystal Coffin and asked him to find a way to open it. Mo Zhishu completed the task overnight, granting Li Chen Prite Star Language proficiency, but the coffin remained shut.

• Li Chen took Mo Zhishu underground to see the sleeping woman in the Crystal Coffin, and Mo Zhishu noticed that it could not be opened normally.
• The Corpse King reported to his boss that everything was ready, then left and vowed to succeed so he and his sister could live with their mother.
• Mo Zhishu recalled classified files from Hua Ju Laboratory and said the healing coffin required an incantation in an alien language.
• Li Chen agreed to let Mo Zhishu study the coffin overnight, while Noah activated a mission to grant Li Chen Prite Star Language proficiency once it was opened.
• Mo Zhishu worked through the night and completed the mission, but Li Chen found the Crystal Coffin still tightly shut.

Li Chen completed the mission and spoke with the mysterious alien woman sleeping in the Crystal Coffin, who explained that she viewed the devastation on his planet as survival of the fittest. Chewy Candy recognized the woman as her mother and warned that opening the coffin would kill her, while her mother was already growing weaker.

• Li Chen heard the woman in the Crystal Coffin speak to him in the Prite Star Language and learned she called his galaxy the Seventh Nebula.
• Li Chen challenged the woman over the slaughter and social upheaval aliens had caused on his planet, but she defended it as survival of the fittest.
• Chewy Candy arrived, recognized the woman as her mother, and stopped Li Chen from opening the Crystal Coffin, warning that her mother would die if he did.
• Chewy Candy told Li Chen that her mother was growing weaker even with the coffin closed, and she cried as the woman comforted her.
• The woman privately threatened Li Chen not to harm Chewy Candy, while Li Chen insisted he meant her daughter no harm and asked how much time she had left.
• Chewy Candy cried that asking questions was useless, leaving Li Chen shocked and uncertain how little time remained.

Li Chen watched the woman in the Crystal Coffin draw a strange symbol as black frost spread across it, then used Intermediate Evolution Fluid to reveal her message. Her condition stabilized, but Chewy Candy forbade Li Chen from opening the coffin, leaving him to seek experts who could interpret the symbol.

• Li Chen struggled to choose what to ask the woman about the alien invasion before the Crystal Coffin began turning black.
• The woman slowly drew a strange symbol on the coffin lid while gray-black frost obscured it, and Li Chen poured Intermediate Evolution Fluid over the lid to clear it.
• Chewy Candy sensed that her mother's life had stabilized, but became frightened and insisted that Li Chen must not open the coffin.
• Li Chen reassured Chewy Candy and allowed her to stay beside her comatose mother while Mo Zhishu left to rest.
• Li Chen decided to find knowledgeable people to analyze the symbol and wait until the woman woke before questioning her.

Li Chen saved the Alien Woman in the Crystal Coffin by pouring Intermediate Evolution Fluid over it, then prepared to face a special zombie horde for doubled rewards. Mia asked to join the battle after deciding to tell Li Chen about Hua Ju Laboratory, and he took her along.

• When black frost spread across the Crystal Coffin again, Li Chen poured several hundred bottles of Intermediate Evolution Fluid over it, and the frost faded as Chewy Candy sensed her mother was safe.
• Li Chen promised Chewy Candy he would keep the Alien Woman alive and ordered Noah to maintain the Crystal Coffin, though Chewy Candy said her mother was in a deep sleep.
• The system announced a special zombie horde near the Star-Level Shelter and offered doubled energy rewards if it was eliminated within two hours.
• Mia told Li Chen she had made up her mind to discuss Hua Ju Laboratory and asked to join the battle as a member of the Star-Level Shelter.
• Li Chen assembled Team 1 and Team 5 and led the team, including Mia, toward the marked area.

After reaching Tier 6 Gene Evolution, Li Chen led his team through a zombie horde to master his new strength. A fast Tier 6 Bone Scythe Zombie ambushed him, and Li Chen was still fighting it as he grew more confident in the battle.

• Li Chen charged into the horde, killing zombies and using the fight to stabilize his Tier 6 realm while his team advanced behind him.
• A six-armed Bone Scythe Zombie ambushed Li Chen and attacked with its four scythes.
• Li Chen tried to strike the zombie’s legs, but a Tier 5 tongue zombie pulled him out of the air and nearly left him exposed to a counterattack.
• The team opened fire, destroying the tongue and giving Li Chen a chance to escape the Bone Scythe Zombie’s attack.
• Li Chen told Dang Zhongcheng to protect the others and continued dueling the Tier 6 Zombie, adapting to its speed and becoming more adept with his newfound power.

Li Chen mastered the initial power of Tier 6 Gene Mutation while fighting a Tier 6 Zombie, using its frenzy to make it kill its own allies before he defeated it. After earning 200,000 energy, he charged back into the zombie horde.

• Li Chen severed the Tier 6 Zombie’s lower arms and wounded it, then retreated when it spun its Bone Scythes into a deadly storm.
• A Tier 5 Flesh Tongue Zombie grabbed Mia, but Li Chen maneuvered the pursuing Tier 6 Zombie into shredding it; Mia fell to the ground.
• Li Chen led the enraged Tier 6 Zombie through the horde, causing it to slaughter its own allies while his team fired from a distance.
• Li Chen severed all four of the Tier 6 Zombie’s Bone Scythes and cut it in half, earning 200,000 energy from Noah.
• Li Chen adjusted his breathing and charged back into the zombie horde.

Li Chen listened as Mia claimed to have abandoned the laboratory and revealed its plans for gene assimilation, but he and Dang Zhongcheng remained suspicious of her. He then found Chewy Candy asleep on the Crystal Coffin beside her still-unconscious mother and let her visit again if she told him when her mother woke.

• Li Chen returned to the Main Camp with his team after killing the Tier 6 Zombie and clearing the remaining zombies.
• Mia told Li Chen and Dang Zhongcheng that the laboratory worked with aliens and was assimilating the genes of its leaders and zombies, and she offered to spy for them.
• Li Chen dismissed Mia and told Dang Zhongcheng he planned to entrust her with an important task while keeping her under watch.
• Li Chen went to check on the woman in the Crystal Coffin and found Chewy Candy asleep beside her, with tears on her face.
• Li Chen comforted Chewy Candy and allowed her to visit her mother as long as she told him immediately when the woman woke up.