Chapter Summaries

Li Chen fought the Bewitching Zombie Woman, but Chewy Candy erupted with overwhelming Mental Power when the enemy wounded him again. The woman escaped Chewy Candy’s grasp after claiming the Zombie King had sent her to save the princess, leaving Chewy Candy confused and Li Chen’s group stunned.

• The Bewitching Zombie Woman overpowered Li Chen with her Mental Power and stabbed him, but his Regeneration Power healed his wounds.
• After Li Chen cut the Bewitching Zombie Woman’s cheek, she flew into a rage and prepared to attack him again.
• Chewy Candy unleashed her Mental Power, knocked Li Chen down, and seized the Bewitching Zombie Woman by the throat to protect her dad.
• The Bewitching Zombie Woman told Chewy Candy that the Zombie King had sent her to save the princess, causing Chewy Candy’s power to weaken.
• The Bewitching Zombie Woman broke free with a burst of Mental Power and crashed into the Protective Barrier.

Li Chen survived the Bewitching Zombie Woman’s attack, who revealed that the Zombie King had sent her to rescue Chewy Candy before escaping through the Protective Barrier. With the next Zombie Tide less than two hours away, Li Chen took Xu Ruoxi and soldiers to the weapons production base, where they found evidence of Chewy Candy’s growing strength.

• Li Chen called Chewy Candy back to her senses as the Bewitching Zombie Woman merged into the Protective Barrier, promised to return, and vanished.
• Li Chen comforted Chewy Candy, who asked who the Zombie King was and who she was, while he worried about the threat of a Tier 7 Zombie.
• Dang Zhongcheng, Xu Ruoxi, and several thousand soldiers arrived, knelt before Li Chen, and were sent back to their duties.
• Noah told Li Chen that the next Zombie Tide would erupt in one hour and forty-seven minutes, so he took Xu Ruoxi and two companies of soldiers to the production base.
• Li Chen and Xu Ruoxi found Mia dead in a Powered Exoskeleton, with her own dagger driven through its protection into her heart, and Li Chen considered how powerful Chewy Candy had become.

Li Chen investigated how Mia had obtained weapon blueprints, ordered a security inspection, and learned the lower-level designs had been kept in production workshops. Outside the Star-Level Shelter, Ren Changhe was stopped by Fanghua Shelter troops searching for their missing commander, Luo Fanghua, and Zhao Cheng refused to clear the road.

• Li Chen identified the blueprints and Powered Exoskeleton equipment on Mia as evidence of her infiltration, and ordered her body sent to Doctor Yang for examination.
• Xu Ruoxi ordered the Weapon Production Base inspected and its vulnerabilities sealed, while Li Chen told her to distribute the newly produced Powered Exoskeleton equipment.
• Noah explained that low-level weapon blueprints had been kept in production workshops for manual operation, while higher-level designs were stored digitally under Noah's protection.
• Li Chen left the Weapon Production Base, thinking that he needed to talk with Chewy Candy about Mia's death.
• Ren Changhe's returning Relief Force was intercepted by Zhao Cheng and Fanghua Shelter soldiers, who asked about Luo Fanghua after losing contact with her following her visit to negotiate.
• Ren Changhe said he would ask Li Chen for information, but Zhao Cheng refused to move aside until Fanghua Shelter received definite news about Luo Fanghua.

Ren Changhe and Zhao Cheng’s forces faced off as the Star-Level Shelter Command Center monitored them, while Li Chen confronted Chewy Candy about her origins and the Corpse King. The chapter ended with Li Chen asking what she would do if the Corpse King made her oppose him and the Star-Level Shelter.

• Zhao Cheng’s soldiers surrounded Ren Changhe’s thousand-plus Guard Team troops, and both sides raised their weapons.
• Ren Changhe contacted the Star-Level Shelter Command Center instead of escalating the confrontation.
• Li Chen found Chewy Candy waiting for answers about the Corpse King, the woman zombie, and her identity.
• Chewy Candy asked why humans had to be enemies with zombies, prompting Li Chen to decide he could no longer hide the truth.
• Li Chen asked whether Chewy Candy would oppose him and the Star-Level Shelter if the Corpse King demanded it, and she asked whether she was connected to the Corpse King.

Li Chen told Chewy Candy that she was the Zombie King's sister, and she revealed that she already knew she was a zombie. After they cleared the air, Chewy Candy said she would stop calling him Dad, leaving Li Chen to wonder whether she was preparing to leave as he was summoned to hear news about Fanghua Shelter.

• Li Chen admitted that Chewy Candy and the Zombie King were brother and sister, and Chewy Candy said she had already learned the truth.
• Chewy Candy explained that she had tested Li Chen and the Star-Level Shelter to see whether they truly cared about her, and she chose not to become their enemy.
• Li Chen asked whether Chewy Candy would obey the Zombie King if he ordered her to attack humans, and she said she would make her own choice.
• Chewy Candy asked why humans and zombies could not live peacefully, then told Li Chen she would no longer call him Dad.
• Xu Ruoxi told Li Chen that Ren Changhe had news about Fanghua Shelter, and Chewy Candy urged him to handle his business while she stayed behind.

Chewy Candy left the Star-Level Shelter, prompting the Zombie King to send Shura after her while threatening Li Chen. At the shelter, Li Chen showed Zhao Cheng footage revealing that an impostor had replaced Luo Fanghua, leaving Zhao Cheng horrified.

• Chewy Candy thanked Li Chen, promised not to attack the Star-Level Shelter unless her life was threatened, kissed his cheek, and left through the Protective Door.
• The Zombie King sensed Chewy Candy had left the shelter and ordered Shura to bring her to him after she headed in the opposite direction from his location.
• Li Chen received Zhao Cheng and asked whether he had noticed anything unusual about Luo Fanghua.
• Li Chen showed Zhao Cheng surveillance footage of the impostor controlling soldiers, impersonating Feng Liang, attempting to kill Li Chen, and escaping.
• Zhao Cheng realized the original Luo Fanghua had been killed, and Dang Zhongcheng told him the impostor was not human.

After learning that Fanghua Shelter’s leader had been a Tier 7 zombie in disguise, Li Chen refused to admit Zhao Cheng’s people into the Star-Level Shelter but supplied them with weapons and forces to defend themselves. As the Zombie Tide approached, Fanghua’s soldiers took up positions and a mysterious figure watched the shelter from an abandoned building.

• Dang Zhongcheng called the Bewitching Female Zombie inhuman, and Li Chen warned Zhao Cheng that zombies had evolved beyond Tier 7.
• Zhao Cheng knelt before Li Chen and asked him to take in Fanghua Shelter’s soldiers and residents.
• Li Chen refused immediate admission but promised military support and advanced equipment, with possible entry into the Star-Level Shelter after the Zombie Tide.
• Li Chen told Noah to record Fanghua’s soldiers’ performance, then Noah announced that the full Zombie Tide would erupt in forty-three minutes.
• Li Chen equipped Fanghua’s soldiers with railguns, lightsabers, and Powered Exoskeleton gear, while their civilians gathered near the underground entrance under guard.
• As the sky darkened and the alarm warned that thirteen minutes remained, a graceful figure watched the Star-Level Shelter from an abandoned building, and someone appeared behind her.

Chewy Candy returned to watch the battle near the Star-Level Shelter, where Shura confronted her and tried to take her back to the Zombie King. Their clash left Chewy Candy questioning why zombies and humans had to fight, while Shura prepared to force her to leave.

• Chewy Candy returned after seeing a zombie horde advancing toward the Star-Level Shelter and was approached by Shura, whom the Zombie King had sent to bring her home.
• Chewy Candy attacked Shura with Mental Power and a dagger, using combat techniques she had learned from the Star-Level Shelter’s database, but his bones stopped her dagger.
• Shura warned Chewy Candy that he would use force if necessary, and she challenged him to act.
• Shura expanded his body and released Mental Power stronger than Chewy Candy’s, then accused her of worrying about the humans at the Star-Level Shelter.
• Chewy Candy asked Shura why zombies and humans had to kill each other, and he replied that they were different species, not one another’s people.

Shura attacked Chewy Candy after she refused to return with him, while Li Chen sensed danger from afar. As a new Zombie Tide reached the Star-Level Shelter, Li Chen mobilized its defenders and noticed the sky growing strangely dark.

• Chewy Candy refused Shura's demand to return, so he attacked her and threatened to destroy the Star-Level Shelter to distract her.
• Shura struck Chewy Candy into the ground, leaving her swallowed by dust.
• Li Chen sensed Chewy Candy and an unfamiliar Mental Power fluctuation, then ordered the shelter's troops to take their positions as Noah announced a new Zombie Tide.
• Li Chen put on Third Generation Powered Exoskeleton equipment and took a Second Generation lightsaber before heading to the surface.
• Li Chen saw the massive Zombie Tide and an unusually dark sky, asked Noah how long the anti-air cannons could fire, and sensed Chewy Candy's presence again.

Li Chen left battlefield command to Xu Ruoxi and Dang Zhongcheng so he could rush to Chewy Candy, who was fighting Shura. As the battle continued, Chewy Candy gained control of her powers and began to overpower Shura, who responded by unleashing a stronger aura.

• Li Chen confirmed the shelter had enough Energy Crystal Cores to keep its weapons firing through the expected zombie attack and handed command to Xu Ruoxi and Dang Zhongcheng.
• Dang Zhongcheng volunteered to take one regiment to support Li Chen, while Xu Ruoxi handled the other fronts.
• After Shura smashed her into the ground, Chewy Candy unleashed her Mental Power and struck him with transformed vines and several mental attacks.
• Chewy Candy adapted as she fought, gradually gaining the upper hand and telling Shura she was attacking him because he had defied his superior.
• Shura was blasted away by Chewy Candy's Punishment attack, then rose and unleashed a whirlwind as his aura rapidly grew.

Shura transformed into an armored skeletal warrior and battled Chewy Candy, leaving her gravely wounded and falling toward the ground. Li Chen’s psychic attack drew Shura’s attention as Li Chen and Dang Zhongcheng’s Guard Team faced a massive zombie horde.

• Shura covered his body in Bone Armor, caught up to Chewy Candy, and struck her with his Bone Blade.
• Chewy Candy counterattacked with her dagger and vines, damaging Shura, but Shura resolved to kill her and pursued her with a Bone Blade in each hand.
• Shura sensed Li Chen’s Mental Power attack and turned toward the Star-Level Shelter.
• Li Chen drove toward the battle, while Dang Zhongcheng followed with a convoy of Guard Team soldiers.
• A massive zombie horde charged from every direction, and the Guard Team formed a defensive position as Shura dove toward them.

Li Chen and Dang Zhongcheng used Fifth Generation Individual Anti-Air Electromagnetic Energy Cannons to blast Shura from the sky and cut a path through the surrounding zombie tide. As Li Chen drove toward the injured Chewy Candy, the Guard Team continued advancing and firing.

• Li Chen took Dang Zhongcheng’s cannon and struck Shura, whose Bone Armor cracked but who remained able to fight.
• Shura charged the humans, and the Guard Team fired a barrage of more than a thousand cannons that charred him and sent him falling from the sky.
• Dang Zhongcheng ordered the soldiers to fire on the approaching zombie hordes, killing many with their cannons.
• Li Chen drove into the horde with an escort, using his cannon to blast open a passage while Dang Zhongcheng and the others followed.
• Chewy Candy crawled out of a crater and saw Li Chen leading the convoy toward her.

Li Chen defeated the wounded Shura in a clash of Mental Power and rescued Chewy Candy, but both were left badly injured. After waking in the hospital, Li Chen learned the zombie horde had sent in an Air Force Unit of sixth-order zombies, inflicting heavy casualties on his forces.

• Shura threw his Bone Blade at the weakened Chewy Candy, but Li Chen intercepted it with his Mental Power.
• Li Chen and Shura fought over control of the Bone Blade until Dang Zhongcheng distracted Shura, allowing Li Chen to send it back toward him.
• Dang Zhongcheng and the Guard Team fired their Electromagnetic Energy Cannons at Shura, while Li Chen found Chewy Candy gravely wounded and ordered Dang Zhongcheng to take her for treatment.
• A swarm of black figures descended on the Star-Level Shelter forces as Li Chen and Chewy Candy were taken for medical care.
• Li Chen woke in the hospital and learned that the zombie horde's sixth-order Air Force Unit had caused heavy casualties.

After waking from nearly seven hours of unconsciousness, Li Chen assessed the Star-Level Shelter’s severe losses and countered the zombie air assault with newly deployed anti-air cannons. He learned the defeated Tier 7 Zombie had escaped, while the Zombie King punished the badly injured Shura for failing to capture someone and threatening the king’s sister.

• Li Chen learned that over five thousand Guard Team soldiers and Android Warriors had been killed or injured, and saw that flying zombies were causing the heaviest losses with Sonic Attacks.
• Li Chen discovered the shelter’s air force had been wiped out, then deployed twenty Fully Automatic Anti-Air Electromagnetic Energy Cannons that drove the bird-shaped zombies beyond their range.
• Li Chen asked Noah about the Tier 7 Zombie and learned it had survived and escaped while he was unconscious.
• At the Abandoned Underground Laboratory, the Zombie King rebuked the injured Shura for failing to bring someone back and attempting to kill the king’s sister, then ordered him to become a subject in a new experiment.

Shura was taken by the Corpse King’s human collaborators for experiments as they discussed investigating the Star-Level Shelter’s new technology. Back at the shelter, Li Chen spent 480 million Evolution Energy to raise his Spirit to 300 and discovered that his Psychic Wave had become vastly stronger.

• Shura recognized the figures beside the Corpse King as humans and struggled to attack them, but his injuries and exhausted Mental Power left him unable to move.
• The humans declared that they would take Shura as a Tier 7 Mutant specimen and pressed the Corpse King to uncover the Star-Level Shelter’s new technology.
• Li Chen learned that Chewy Candy had passed the critical stage of surgery, then returned to his room to rest and handed battle command to Dang Zhongcheng and Xu Ruoxi.
• Li Chen checked his Attribute Panel, saw that he had 1.34 billion Evolution Energy, and chose to strengthen his Spirit rather than save for a Regeneration upgrade.
• Li Chen spent 480 million Evolution Energy to raise his Spirit from 220 to 300, recovering from his mental exhaustion.
• Li Chen used Psychic Wave to open and close a heavy Protective Door and discovered he could easily manipulate objects throughout the room.

Li Chen maxed out his Physique, endured the painful destruction and reshaping of his body, and woke with extraordinary strength. After discovering he had slept for over ten hours, he worried that the zombie horde’s assault might still be underway.

• Li Chen decided to strengthen his Physique after concluding that Mental Power was crucial against Shura and other enemies.
• Li Chen spent 480 million Evolution Energy to max out his Physique, and intense heat destroyed and reshaped his body.
• Li Chen woke with a transformed body, powerful stamina, and strength he realized he needed time to control.
• Li Chen checked his Attribute Panel and found that his Evolution Energy had risen to 1.62541 billion.
• Noah told Li Chen he had been unconscious for ten hours, twenty-seven minutes, and thirty-six seconds, and Li Chen wondered whether the attack on the Star-Level Shelter had ended.

After recovering, Li Chen learned that the main Zombie Tide had nearly been defeated and that Chewy Candy was out of mortal danger. When a smaller Zombie Tide reappeared, he headed to the battlefield to fight and ensure he qualified for Noah’s promised reward, boosting the soldiers’ morale by contacting Xu Ruoxi.

• Noah told Li Chen that his subordinates had defeated most of the Zombie Tide and that Chewy Candy was recovering in the Intensive Care Unit.
• Li Chen tried to use his Mental Power to pass through the Protective Door but failed, then went to check on Chewy Candy.
• Noah detected a returning Zombie Tide of thirty thousand to fifty thousand zombies, and Li Chen decided to join the fight so he could claim the promised reward.
• Li Chen contacted Xu Ruoxi as he entered the elevator, and his voice reassured her and the soldiers that he had recovered.
• Xu Ruoxi’s troops rallied at Li Chen’s call and launched a new encirclement against the remaining zombies.

Li Chen recovered from his injuries and joined the battle, effortlessly killing Tier 6 Zombies with newly enhanced abilities. He learned that Dang Zhongcheng had been wounded while saving Xu Ruoxi from a Flying Zombie.

• Li Chen heard the battle over the radio, emerged from the elevator, and saw the Star-Level Shelter’s forces overpowering the zombies with fifth-generation weapons.
• Li Chen charged into the horde and quickly killed more than a dozen Tier 6 Zombies, whose mental states seemed impaired by his Mental Power.
• Xu Ruoxi realized Li Chen’s strength, speed, and Mental Power had dramatically increased, despite his recent injuries.
• Li Chen asked where Dang Zhongcheng was, and Xu Ruoxi explained that he had been injured while saving her from a Flying Zombie attack.

Li Chen joined Xu Ruoxi’s exhausted soldiers in wiping out a small wave of zombies, then searched the battlefield for an unusual specimen for Doctor Yang. A Tier 7 Flying Zombie ambushed him with a sonic attack, and Li Chen used his Mental Power to bring it crashing down as he vowed to capture it alive.

• Li Chen helped Xu Ruoxi and her soldiers destroy the zombie wave, then told Xu Ruoxi to rest and check Dang Zhongcheng’s injuries.
• Li Chen explained he wanted to find an unusual Tier 7 Zombie for Doctor Yang to study, and Xu Ruoxi inferred he meant creatures like Chewy Candy or the Bewitching Female Zombie.
• A Tier 7 Flying Zombie attacked Li Chen and Xu Ruoxi from above with a Sonic Attack, injuring Li Chen’s ears.
• Xu Ruoxi and the Guard Team fired at the flying zombie, but it dodged their Electromagnetic Energy Cannons.
• Li Chen focused his Mental Power on the Tier 7 Flying Zombie, broke through its will, and caused it to fall while he declared he would capture it alive.

Li Chen used his Mental Power to subdue a Tier 7 Flying Zombie, but the effort left him badly weakened. As he and Xu Ruoxi faced the subdued creature, the Zombie King appeared and warned that taking its subordinate would not be easy.

• Li Chen controlled the Tier 7 Flying Zombie as it fought back with Sonic Attacks that injured Guard Team warriors.
• Xu Ruoxi ordered the warriors to spread out while Li Chen continued straining to overpower the Flying Zombie.
• Li Chen overcame the creature, which crashed to the ground, and collapsed after confirming it could no longer resist.
• Xu Ruoxi asked whether they should kill the Flying Zombie, but Li Chen said they should wait.
• The Zombie King appeared, and Li Chen warned Xu Ruoxi to watch out for Sonic Attacks.
• The Zombie King praised Li Chen's use of Mental Power and declared that he would not let Li Chen take his subordinate easily.