Chapter Summaries

Li Chen upgraded the Star-Level Shelter and the Fully Automated Single-Soldier Weapon Production Line, unlocking greater capacity, stronger defenses, and advanced weapons. With room for five million people and new equipment available, he planned to bring all survivors in Y Province into the shelter before counterattacking.

• Li Chen asked Noah the cost to upgrade the Star-Level Shelter, then spent the required Energy Crystal Cores to begin the upgrade.
• Li Chen asked how Noah could restore its damaged computing power, and Noah said Earth lacked the energy needed.
• Li Chen reviewed newly unlocked System Shop items, then upgraded the Fully Automated Single-Soldier Weapon Production Line to Lv4 for 5,000 Level 7 Energy Crystal Cores.
• Noah announced that the weapon production line had unlocked several Level 6 weapons and protective combat uniforms.
• Noah announced that the Star-Level Shelter upgrade was complete, raising its capacity to five million and reinforcing its Protective Barrier with ten-meter-thick Superalloy Composite Material.
• Li Chen decided to transfer all survivors in Y Province into the Star-Level Shelter and prepare to counterattack.

After the Star-Level Shelter upgrade succeeded, Li Chen focused on boosting his soldiers’ combat power by upgrading their weapons and equipment production. He started manufacturing Sixth Generation electromagnetic cannons and chose Level 6 protective combat uniforms as his next priority, leaving the chapter with production underway and a further production-line upgrade still too costly.

• The Star-Level Shelter upgrade succeeded, giving it a Protective Barrier over ten meters thick and greatly improved armor.
• Li Chen began producing Sixth Generation portable individual and anti-air electromagnetic energy cannons, which offered greater range, accuracy, and firepower.
• Li Chen examined the Level 6 anti-material sniper rifle and full-body protective combat uniform, noting the rifle’s power and the suit’s strong defenses without restricting movement.
• Li Chen prioritized full-speed production of the protective combat uniforms so soldiers could wear them beneath Powered Exoskeletons.
• Li Chen considered upgrading the weapon production line but found its First Generation Tier 7 Energy Crystal Core cost too high.

Li Chen upgraded the Powered Exoskeleton and lightsaber production lines, inspected the Star-Level Shelter’s defenses, and ordered more Android Warriors and Guard Team candidates. Meanwhile, the First Generation Zombie King confronted the Second Generation Zombie King after a bloody battle between their forces.

• Li Chen upgraded the Powered Exoskeleton production line to Lv4, enabling it to produce Third Generation Powered Exoskeletons.
• Li Chen upgraded the lightsaber production line to Lv4, allowing it to produce Third Generation Lightsabers, and warned that Second Generation Zombies were developing rapidly.
• Li Chen found the Star-Level Shelter’s automated defenses covered its perimeter with almost no blind spots.
• Li Chen ordered the creation of forty thousand Android Warriors and told Dang Zhongcheng to recruit suitable survivors for Guard Team training.
• At the border between Donghai City and Hebi City, the First Generation Zombie King accused the Second Generation Zombie King of hostility, while the Second Generation Zombie King proposed cooperation.
• The First Generation Zombie King noted that his forces had lost nearly one-third of their nearly one hundred thousand core subordinates, though they had killed more than three hundred thousand Second Generation Zombies.

The First Generation Zombie King considered the Second Generation Zombie King’s proposal to unite against Hua Ju Laboratory, but demanded proof of his strength. The two Zombie Kings began a fierce duel, leaving their alliance undecided.

• After hours of fighting, the First Generation Zombie King’s forces dwindled to just over 60,000, while the Second Generation Zombies lost at least 200,000.
• The Second Generation Zombie King called for peace and proposed joining forces against Hua Ju Laboratory and the human survivors.
• The First Generation Zombie King weighed the benefits of cooperation but challenged the Second Generation Zombie King to prove his qualifications.
• The First Generation Zombie King used Mental Power to knock out most of the Second Generation Zombie King’s nearby subordinates.
• The Second Generation Zombie King ignored the Mental Power, vanished in a burst of speed, and attacked the First Generation Zombie King, beginning their duel.

Commander Zhang Kai led an 800-vehicle force into Y Province to help fight its zombie tide, but found Nanfu City overrun by up to two million zombies. As his troops retreated, hundreds of thousands of coordinated First and Second Generation Zombies pursued them, while a spy satellite recorded their alliance.

• Yang Xiao reported that Nanfu City had fallen, its shelters were gone, and a failed breakout had left no survivors.
• Zhang Kai examined satellite imagery and ordered the convoy to withdraw three kilometers, establish a defensive line, and avoid gunfire where possible.
• Zombies from Nanfu City noticed the drones and began pouring out of the city and nearby towns.
• Zhang Kai recognized that the drones had revealed the troops and ordered an immediate retreat without engaging the zombies.
• Hundreds of thousands of First and Second Generation Zombies pursued the convoy in coordination as a spy satellite recorded them.

Li Chen led a legion into Hebi City to rescue scattered survivors while avoiding exposing their locations to the zombies. As his squads began moving out, Liao Wu’s shelter remained trapped, nearly out of supplies and unable to contact anyone.

• Li Chen rejected an all-channel broadcast, ordered his soldiers to advance on foot, and used Noah’s map to locate survivors across Hebi City.
• Li Chen assigned fifty Combat Squads to rescue survivors and planned a heavy-firepower strike after the evacuation.
• Transport Planes dropped supplies, and Li Chen led one squad as the other forty-nine headed for their assigned locations.
• In a damaged southeastern Underground Shelter, Liao Wu and nearly thirty thousand survivors faced a zombie horde with little food and no ammunition.
• Liao Wu and the First Legion Commander remained unable to contact the Star-Level Shelter or other shelters, leaving them dependent on rescue.

After an explosion shook the Power Room, the shelter’s Vice Commander proposed leading the survivors to Giant Assault Vehicles and escaping to the Star-Level Shelter. Fear and disagreement left the breakout plan stalled as zombies gathered outside.

• An explosion shook the Power Room, and the injured Liao Wu said they might die there before falling silent.
• The Vice Commander proposed a breakout in ten minutes, planning to escort survivors to fifty Giant Assault Vehicles in the top-floor garage.
• Survivors questioned whether the vehicles remained intact and whether the route was safe, and many refused to leave.
• Impacts sounded outside the doors, and the Vice Commander warned that intelligent zombies might understand their plan.
• A survivor stirred up more fear, prompting hesitant civilians to reject the breakout while the commanders looked to their Deputy Commander for guidance.

Li Chen led seventy Android Warriors into the Second Home shelter to rescue its survivors and killed the Tier 6 Peak Zombie Commander. He used his Mental Power to control the commander, who then issued orders to the zombies, revealing a way for Li Chen to influence entire hordes.

• Li Chen led his Combat Squad into the shelter and guided them down through its dark, zombie-infested levels.
• Li Chen detected a Tier 6 Peak Zombie Commander and went ahead alone to confront it.
• Li Chen killed the commander before it could alert the other zombies, then used his Mental Power to control its body.
• Li Chen ordered the commander to tell its subordinates to retreat, and the commander spread its Mental Power through the ventilation shaft.
• Li Chen suddenly connected to the zombie hordes' senses and realized he could use a commander to influence its subordinates.

Li Chen used an Initial Tier 6 Zombie Commander to order more than a hundred thousand zombies in Second Home to retreat, conserving his own Mental Power as the Android Warriors followed him toward the Power Control Room. When the commander weakened under the strain, Li Chen reinforced their mental connection to keep the zombies moving.

• Li Chen located the Power Control Room and found its corridor surrounded by tens of thousands of zombies.
• Li Chen ordered the Initial Tier 6 Zombie Commander to make its subordinates retreat five kilometers away.
• The Android Warriors followed Li Chen as the zombies filed past them without attacking.
• Li Chen ordered the commander to speed up the retreat, but repeated commands left it bleeding and close to collapse.
• Li Chen used his own Mental Power to hold open the failing mental connection and accelerate the zombies.

Li Chen evacuated the zombie army from the Second Home shelter, then discovered a concealed Tier 7 Mid-Stage zombie waiting to ambush him. As they fought, a gigantic flame-marked zombie appeared above the shelter and began smashing the skylight with a massive boulder.

• Li Chen used the Initial Tier 6 Zombie Commander to lead more than one hundred thousand zombies away from the Second Home shelter, and the street zombies followed them.
• Li Chen ordered seventy Android Warriors to rescue the people inside the shelter, then killed the Tier 6 Peak Zombie Commander and took its Energy Crystal Core.
• Li Chen detected an invisible Tier 7 Mid-Stage zombie and pretended to keep walking so he could draw out its attack.
• The Tier 7 Mid-Stage zombie attacked Li Chen, but he evaded it and blocked its retreat with an energy barrier and flying debris.
• The Tier 7 Mid-Stage zombie roared to summon the zombies outside, then charged Li Chen as the shelter shook.
• A gigantic zombie covered in fiery red Flame Markings appeared above the shelter and struck its skylight with a massive boulder.

Second Generation Zombies attacked the Second Home shelter, drawing the Initial Tier 7 Mid-Stage Zombie away from Li Chen, who hurried to rescue the survivors. At Guangsha Shelter, Xu Ruoxi planned to lure the Second Generation Zombies toward her force, while survivors in Second Home noticed the zombies had left the passage.

• A fat Tier 5 Second Generation Zombie and its allies bombarded the skylight with boulders, provoking the Initial Tier 7 Mid-Stage Zombie into abandoning its fight with Li Chen.
• Li Chen realized Second Generation Zombies had arrived and hurried away to rescue the survivors before either side could gain power by devouring the other's genes and energy.
• Xu Ruoxi learned that 13,227 survivors were inside Guangsha Shelter and ordered Yang Jinyu to lure a group of Second Generation Zombies toward her concealed force.
• Survivors in Second Home's Power Control Room saw that the zombies had left the passage and asked the deputy commander whether they should risk going out.

Zhou Wen and the survivors of the Second Home Shelter discovered that the zombies had left the passage and prepared to flee for the top-floor garage, but they found the Commander dead. As Zhou Wen led them out, they saw that the zombies had nearly clawed through the Protective Door.

• Zhou Wen and the other commanders confirmed that the zombies had left, and Zhou Wen urged the survivors to seize the chance to reach the garage.
• Zhou Wen discovered that the Commander had died and told the survivors they had to escape before the zombies returned.
• The survivors armed themselves with whatever they could find, and Zhou Wen led them toward the Power Control Room door.
• When the Protective Door opened, the survivors saw deep claw marks showing that only a thin layer remained before the zombies broke through.
• The survivors saw a scene beyond the open door that made their expressions change.

Li Chen rescued the survivors in the Second Home Shelter and organized nearly ten thousand combat personnel to evacuate and join the rescue effort. He and his seventy Android Warriors then headed for other shelters, arriving at an entrance besieged by Second Generation Zombies.

• Li Chen opened the Protective Door and found Zhou Wen and the survivors of the Second Home Shelter.
• Li Chen ordered the Android Warriors to distribute lightsabers to the shelter’s combat personnel and instructed Zhou Wen to lead their evacuation.
• Zhou Wen promised to use the shelter’s weapons and supplies to help rescue other survivors.
• An Android Warrior captain asked why Li Chen had not recruited the nearly ten thousand combat personnel, and Li Chen said he could handle the zombies himself.
• Li Chen and his seventy Android Warriors reached the entrance, where Second Generation Zombies were pounding on the Light-Transmitting Bulletproof Glass.

Li Chen persuaded an intelligent First Generation Tier 7 Mid-Stage Zombie to prioritize fighting the Second Generation Zombies instead of attacking the survivors. He led Zhou Wen and tens of thousands of survivors out of the shelter and found the two zombie groups locked in a massive battle, which he planned to use to their advantage.

• Zhou Wen ordered the survivors to form a defensive formation when fiery-red Second Generation Zombies appeared outside the shelter.
• A massive Second Generation Zombie crashed through the ceiling and died, revealing the First Generation Tier 7 Mid-Stage Zombie beneath it.
• Li Chen used Mental Power and Silver Tongue to convince the Tier 7 zombie that the Second Generation Zombies were its greater threat.
• The Tier 7 zombie flew out to fight the Second Generation Zombies, and Li Chen led the survivors toward the exit.
• Li Chen and the survivors reached the surface, where First and Second Generation Zombies were slaughtering one another, and he ordered his group to circle around the battle and leave.

Li Chen and the other commanders rescued hundreds of thousands of survivors, while Shura and Gorilla ended their battle and agreed to cooperate. The First Generation Zombie King realized the Second Generation Zombie King intended to subdue zombies in other regions.

• Li Chen watched the convoy carry survivors from the Second Home Shelter to safety, then led his seventy Android Warriors toward another rescue site.
• Xu Ruoxi and the other commanders rescued survivors across multiple cities, and more than thirty shelters joined the operation, bringing the force to over 250,000 combatants.
• Shura and Gorilla fought in the mountains near Donghai City, then stopped when they realized continued fighting could reveal their location to Hua Ju Laboratory.
• The Second Generation Zombie King proposed cooperation, and the First Generation Zombie King agreed while warning him not to hinder his forces.
• The First Generation Zombie King concluded that the Second Generation Zombie King planned to subdue zombies in other regions, and the two Zombie Kings joined hands.

Province A’s commanders debated whether to retreat or defend Nanfu Bridge against a million-plus zombie army, and Zhang Kai ordered his troops to hold the East Bank for the chance to destroy the horde and claim its Energy Crystal Cores. As his forces prepared, zombies quietly entered the Nanfu River upstream.

• Yang Xiao urged Zhang Kai to retreat, but Zhang Kai argued that the wide Nanfu River and lack of nearby bridges would let the army trap the zombies at Nanfu Bridge.
• Li Dakai warned that the zombies might swim across, while Guo Jianjiu backed Zhang Kai’s plan because there was no evidence humanoid zombies could cross rivers unaided.
• Yang Xiao cautioned that aquatic zombie creatures could pose a threat, but the commanders favored risking battle for the Energy Crystal Cores.
• Zhang Kai ordered his troops to establish a firepower blockade on the East Bank, expand drone reconnaissance, and call the main force for support.
• Upstream, a line of zombies quietly entered the Nanfu River and disappeared beneath the water.

First and Second Generation Zombies secretly cooperated under orders from their Zombie Kings while Li Chen prepared to rescue survivors from a damaged shelter. When Li Chen took control of a First Generation commander, the First Generation Zombie King’s powerful Mental Power suddenly reached him through the connection.

• First and Second Generation Zombies crossed the river together as two high-ranking zombies discussed their orders to make peace with humans while opposing Hua Ju Laboratory.
• The Tier 7 First Generation Zombie proposed turning humans into zombies without killing them, and the two groups prepared to disperse when a drone approached.
• Li Chen led seventy Android Warriors toward the second shelter and learned that the First and Second Generation Zombies had stopped fighting.
• Li Chen used his Mental Power to control a Tier 6 Peak First Generation commander and ordered the First Generation Zombies to attack the Second Generation Zombies.
• The First Generation Zombie King’s Mental Power swept into Li Chen’s mind, alerting him that the Zombie King was watching him.

Li Chen learned that the First Generation Zombie King had invaded his mind and freed a zombie commander from his control. The king proposed an alliance against Hua Ju Laboratory, but Li Chen refused to answer until he could see Chewy Candy.

• Li Chen realized the First Generation Zombie King had controlled the zombies and broken his hold on a Tier 6 Peak zombie commander.
• Noah explained that the First Generation Zombie King's unusually powerful Mental Power came from his specially modified brain.
• The First Generation Zombie King told Li Chen that he and the Second Generation Zombie King had agreed to stop attacking human shelters and proposed a new agreement.
• The First Generation Zombie King invited Li Chen to join their effort to destroy Hua Ju Laboratory and build a peaceful world.
• Li Chen asked where Chewy Candy was, learned the First Generation Zombie King called her Sherry, and demanded to see her before discussing an alliance.

Li Chen rejected the First Generation Zombie King’s demand while deciding to keep the Star-Level Shelter’s defenses ready and rescue the remaining survivors. Meanwhile, Zhang Kai’s forces found the zombies standing motionless across the Nanfu River, and he ordered them to open fire despite Yang Xiao’s concern.

• The First Generation Zombie King threatened to destroy the Star-Level Shelter if Li Chen refused, then offered him ten hours to leave safely.
• Li Chen suspected the Second Generation Zombie King and refused to lower his guard, though he recognized that peace between the zombie kings could ease other threats.
• Li Chen ordered his forces to move out and rescue survivors after Xu Ruoxi reported that the zombies had stopped attacking.
• Zhang Kai’s forty thousand soldiers prepared to defend the Nanfu River, where he observed a motionless zombie horde across the water.
• Zhang Kai tested the horde with a 105 Cannon shell, but the zombies remained still, so he ordered his troops to open fire.
• Yang Xiao warned Zhang Kai against attacking the unmoving zombies and suggested holding their position.

Commander Zhang Kai ordered an artillery barrage against the stopped zombie army despite Yang Xiao’s objections, but invisible zombies infiltrated the command tent and attacked the officers. As Zhang Kai tried to warn the guards, invisible enemies also struck the troops along the riverbank.

• Yang Xiao and the other officers urged Zhang Kai to wait for reinforcements instead of provoking the zombies, but Zhang Kai threatened Yang Xiao and demanded preparations for an artillery barrage.
• The messenger who had hesitated to carry out Zhang Kai’s order was suddenly bitten and began turning into a zombie.
• Zhang Kai shot the transforming messenger, then discovered another zombie flickering into view behind him and attacking the command tent.
• Invisible zombies attacked the commanders and staff, and Zhang Kai ordered the guards to warn the troops before the tent erupted into gunfire and screams.
• The officers along the riverbank lost contact with the command post, and invisible enemies began attacking their own unit as well.