Chapter Summaries

Li Chen fought Chewy Candy after she suddenly attacked him and revealed the strength of a Tier 7 Peak zombie. Bewitchment and three other powerful zombies appeared in his room, and Chewy Candy declared she would kill him, leaving Li Chen unsure what had changed her.

• Li Chen subdued Chewy Candy briefly, but she unleashed powerful Mental Power and thorned vines, broke free, and attacked him again.
• Li Chen clashed Mental Power with Chewy Candy, shaking the shelter and alerting Dang Zhongcheng, Xu Ruoxi, and the other officials to an intrusion.
• Bewitchment and three other High-Level Zombies appeared in Li Chen's room, and Li Chen recognized Bewitchment from their earlier encounter.
• Bewitchment hinted that her transformation ability had helped the zombies infiltrate the shelter, though Li Chen could not explain how they had entered his room undetected.
• Chewy Candy attacked Li Chen again and said she would kill him, prompting him to demand that Bewitchment explain what had happened to her.

Chewy Candy attacked Li Chen after Hua Ju Laboratory’s nanobots erased her memories and influenced her thoughts. Li Chen learned the cause and asked Bewitchment to help subdue her as his companions gathered outside.

• Bewitchment ordered her three zombie subordinates to report Chewy Candy’s attack to the First Generation Zombie King, and they teleported away.
• Bewitchment told Li Chen that Chewy Candy had awakened with no memories after being unconscious and had left the main force voluntarily.
• Li Chen asked Noah to scan Chewy Candy, and Noah found nanobots interfering with her judgment and memory-repair cells, along with unexplained cellular abnormalities.
• Li Chen blamed Hua Ju Laboratory and urged Bewitchment to help him subdue Chewy Candy.
• Dang Zhongcheng, Xu Ruoxi, and the others called to Li Chen from outside his heavily protected room.

Li Chen fought Chewy Candy while warning Bewitchment that the Nano-Level robots were burning out Princess’s brain, and the officers waited outside the Protective Door. Meanwhile, a cargo fleet delivered iron cages to a Tropical Continent, where a mysterious black figure landed on the flagship.

• Li Chen told Dang Zhongcheng and the others to stay outside, then warned Bewitchment that Princess’s brain would burn out unless she rested.
• Chewy Candy struck Li Chen into the Protective Door, shaking the Star-Level Shelter as Dang Zhongcheng prepared to enter and Xu Ruoxi stopped him.
• Dang Zhongcheng ordered combat units to strengthen patrols while he and Xu Ruoxi anxiously waited outside the door.
• A cargo fleet delivered iron cages to a Tropical Continent, and its captain received an order to release the goods before praying for forgiveness.
• The captain opened the containers and cages remotely, then saw a black figure land on the flagship and ordered a level one alert.

A secretive group declared the first phase of the Titan Project a success as mutated creatures attacked ships. Back in Li Chen’s room, Bewitchment betrayed him during his fight with Chewy Candy and stabbed him, leaving Chewy Candy holding his fading body.

• A colossal cargo ship was hurled into the fleet, and ships exploded amid attacks by mutated creatures.
• A person in charge announced the Titan Project’s first phase had succeeded to a masked conference room.
• Li Chen and Chewy Candy fought until Bewitchment joined Li Chen, strengthening their combined Mental Power.
• Chewy Candy bound Li Chen with vines, and Bewitchment revealed her betrayal before stabbing him in the forehead.
• Chewy Candy regained her clarity, caught Li Chen as he fell, and cried out while his life force faded.

Chewy Candy realized Nanobots had been controlling her and, while holding the dying Li Chen, killed Bewitchment with a vine. The commanders rushed into the room and prepared to kill Chewy Candy, but Li Chen spoke up just as Dang Zhongcheng was about to fire.

• Chewy Candy mourned Li Chen as his life force faded, then pierced Bewitchment through the body with a Pitch-Black Great Sword Shaped Vine.
• Dang Zhongcheng, Xu Ruoxi, and the other commanders passed through the Protective Door and found Li Chen gravely wounded with a dagger in his forehead.
• Xu Ruoxi questioned how the dagger could threaten Li Chen despite his Regeneration Talent, while the other commanders blamed Chewy Candy and threatened her.
• Chewy Candy discovered Nanobots throughout her body had been controlling her mind and tried to remove them so she could avenge Li Chen and confront Hua Ju Laboratory.
• Dang Zhongcheng pressed his Electromagnetic Energy Cannon to Chewy Candy's head, but a hand pushed the weapon aside as Li Chen spoke.

Li Chen revealed that he had faked his death with Bewitchment to break Chewy Candy free from Nanobot control, relying on his regeneration power to survive. He healed the badly wounded Bewitchment, leaving her indebted to him.

• Li Chen rose after recovering from the dagger wound, astonishing Dang Zhongcheng, Chewy Candy, and the other commanders.
• Li Chen explained that he and Bewitchment had staged his death to trigger Chewy Candy's memories and free her from the Nanobots' control.
• Chewy Candy apologized to Bewitchment for stabbing her, and Li Chen caught Bewitchment as she collapsed.
• Li Chen used his regeneration talent to heal Bewitchment's chest wound, spending more than half an hour and exhausting himself.
• Li Chen told the recovered Bewitchment that she owed him a favor, and she stared at him in disbelief.

Li Chen learned that Nanobots implanted in Chewy Candy were causing her murderous commands, and Noah explained that destroying them with an Electromagnetic Energy Cannon would kill her. After Doctor Yang arrived to examine her, Noah revealed there was another dangerous method, and Li Chen demanded to hear it.

• Chewy Candy asked Li Chen why he had saved Bewitchment, and he said he knew they were not the real enemies.
• Chewy Candy was overwhelmed by a command to kill the humans, so Li Chen asked Xu Ruoxi to summon Doctor Yang.
• Noah explained that a Sixth-Generation Electromagnetic Energy Cannon could destroy the Nanobots, but Chewy Candy would not survive the attack.
• Xu Ruoxi brought Doctor Yang to examine Chewy Candy, while Noah told Li Chen that another dangerous method existed.
• Li Chen ordered Noah to explain the alternative, warning that Chewy Candy could become a deadly threat if she went berserk again.

Li Chen learned that Chewy Candy’s body contained hundreds of millions of Nanobots and that an electromagnetic attack might destroy them but could kill her too. With Chewy Candy close to going berserk, he chose Noah’s alternative of freezing her until they found a cure.

• Noah suggested using an intense electric shock to destroy the Nanobots, while Doctor Yang warned that an Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon could also destroy Chewy Candy’s cells.
• Doctor Yang estimated that Chewy Candy had hundreds of millions of Nanobots inside her body, too small to remove through surgery.
• Chewy Candy grabbed Li Chen and demanded that he kill her before she lost control again.
• Noah told Li Chen that freezing Chewy Candy would put her Nanobots into dormancy without killing her.
• Li Chen promised to save Chewy Candy, and she agreed to be frozen as he ordered her taken to the Liquid Nitrogen Freezing Room.

Li Chen froze Chewy Candy to halt the Nanobots harming her, while Bewitchment insisted on being frozen alongside her. After Noah explained that opposing Nanobots could hunt down Hua Ju Laboratory’s machines, Li Chen found that human scientists could not make them and asked Noah for the knowledge needed.

• Bewitchment blocked Li Chen’s group from taking Chewy Candy, then agreed to let them freeze Chewy Candy after Li Chen explained the plan, insisting that she be frozen too.
• Li Chen took Chewy Candy and Bewitchment to the Liquid Nitrogen Freezing Room and placed them in hibernation pods, confirming that Chewy Candy was alive and asleep.
• Li Chen asked Noah how to solve the Nanobot problem, and Noah explained that Hua Ju Laboratory controlled its Nanobots remotely and that other Nanobots could hunt them down inside Chewy Candy.
• Li Chen summoned the scientists in his Star-Level Shelter, but they said humanity could not yet produce Nanobots.
• Li Chen asked Noah to teach him knowledge beyond current human technology.

Li Chen sought Noah’s guidance on obtaining nanotechnology and prepared for the Star-Level Shelter’s expansion across A Province. At the Hua Ju Laboratory’s Nanhai City branch, its leaders discussed failed efforts against the shelter and their lost nanobots, while preparing the next stage of the Titan Project.

• Li Chen asked Noah how to obtain nanobots, and Noah advised him to focus on the problems that most urgently needed solving.
• Li Chen considered taking control of A Province and read online disputes between the Rebel Alliance and Zhao Fenghua’s Shelter Alliance before heading to a meeting with the High-Level Commanders.
• At the Hua Ju Laboratory’s Nanhai City branch, a young leader reported that the three Android Warriors sent against the Star-Level Shelter had been captured and lost contact.
• The young leader said Sherry’s three hundred million nanobots had also gone silent after the attempt to destroy the Star-Level Shelter, then asked the laboratory heads to explain why.
• The laboratory heads speculated that the nanobots had been blocked or destroyed, while one person remained silent.

Doctor Chen declined to speculate about the Star-Level Shelter’s missing records and followed a young official to examine strange data. Meanwhile, the Shadow Organization discussed the Third Generation Zombies overrunning Africa and planned to recruit powerful shelters, while the Chief Decision Maker addressed the Star-Level Shelter’s repeated refusal.

• Doctor Chen told the scientists that they lacked enough evidence to draw reliable conclusions about what happened inside the Star-Level Shelter.
• The young official asked Doctor Chen to analyze strange data that the intelligence department had failed to decipher, and Doctor Chen followed him out of the conference room.
• The Shadow Organization’s External Liaison Officer reported that Hua Ju Laboratory had deployed Third Generation Zombies in Africa, where fourth-stage zombies had emerged and the continent had fallen.
• The External Liaison Officer proposed inviting capable shelters worldwide to join as Outer Members and help fight the zombies.
• The Chief Decision Maker learned that the Star-Level Shelter had refused another invitation and ordered the organization to blacklist any shelter that refused more than three times.

Li Chen announced the Great Wall Project and his broader plans to rebuild Earth, while warning commanders and scientists about Third Generation Zombies. After inspecting the Super Protective Barrier production line, he reviewed the situation in Province A and prepared to test something before departing with the assembled troops.

• Li Chen warned the assembled commanders and scientists that Hua Ju Laboratory had developed Third Generation Zombies and that a prolonged war was coming.
• Dang Zhongcheng explained that the Great Wall Project was already underway, and Li Chen said experts would later help design and build the barrier.
• Li Chen outlined plans for an integrated Protective Barrier in Province Y and tasked Doctor Yang with restoring Earth's biodiversity.
• Li Chen inspected the Steel 001 Super Protective Barrier production line, where automated equipment produced and transported ten-by-ten-meter metal blocks.
• Li Chen reviewed a holographic map of Province A as Dang Zhongcheng reported that the equipment was packed and the troops were assembled; Li Chen went outside to conduct tests.

Li Chen tested the weight and defensive strength of the Original Block barriers produced for the Great Wall Project. After commanders bombarded one with Sixth-Generation Electromagnetic Energy Cannons for over ten minutes, it remained unmarked, and Dang Zhongcheng asked whether Li Chen was satisfied.

• Li Chen led the commanders to the production line and used his Mental Power to lift an Original Block, which weighed five thousand tons.
• Li Chen ordered the commanders to fire their weapons at the barrier to test how much damage it could withstand.
• Li Chen and the commanders bombarded the Original Block with Sixth-Generation Electromagnetic Energy Cannons for more than ten minutes.
• The Original Block sank about two meters into the ground but remained completely unscathed, astonishing the commanders.
• Dang Zhongcheng asked Li Chen whether he was satisfied with the test.

Li Chen tested Steel 001 Type Super Metal against fifty Fully Automatic Railguns, and it remained unmarked after twenty minutes of bombardment. He was satisfied with its defensive strength but said its ability to withstand Third Generation Zombies remained unknown, just as Noah sent him a notification.

• Li Chen ordered Dang Zhongcheng to bring in Fully Automatic Railguns to test the Original Block more forcefully.
• Fifty railguns bombarded the Super Metal for twenty minutes while Li Chen protected the commanders with a Mental Power barrier.
• The bombardment blasted the block from the ground, but the Super Metal remained unharmed except for a faint dark-red discoloration.
• Li Chen said Steel 001 Type Super Metal could still be tested against Third Generation Zombies only when they arrived.
• Noah's notification suddenly rang out in Li Chen's mind.

Li Chen assigned Xu Ruoxi to take four Type 001 Super Metal samples to Africa for testing against Third Generation Zombies. After clarifying that she would not carry the metal by hand, he revealed that Noah had produced a super-large transport plane and took the commanders and scientists to see it.

• Li Chen received a mission from Noah to deliver Type 001 Super Metal samples to Africa for strength testing.
• Li Chen decided to send Xu Ruoxi with four pieces of Super Metal to test whether they could withstand Third Generation Zombies.
• Xu Ruoxi and the others mistakenly thought Li Chen expected her to carry the metal herself, and Li Chen explained that he meant to use a super-large transport plane.
• Li Chen summoned vehicles and took Xu Ruoxi, the commanders, and the scientists back to the Star-Level Shelter to see the transport plane.

Li Chen showed the commanders the Star-Level Shelter’s enormous transport planes and assigned Xu Ruoxi to test their super metal against a Third Generation Zombie. In Cloud Sea City, the Second Generation Zombie King Nick demanded that the survivors leave the city, leaving the First Generation Zombie King unsure whether Nick was serious.

• Li Chen brought the scientists and commanders to see the super-sized transport planes and shared their extraordinary specifications.
• Xu Ruoxi agreed to test the super metal against a powerful Third Generation Zombie, and Li Chen warned her the mission was dangerous.
• Li Chen assigned Dang Zhongcheng to provide logistics and support while the other commanders and scientists took up their duties.
• Xu Ruoxi departed with three Combat Squads and four blocks of super metal, while Dang Zhongcheng returned to the Underground Command Center.
• Nick announced through Mental Power that zombies would occupy Cloud Sea City and gave its shelters a deadline to decide whether to evacuate.
• The First Generation Zombie King watched Nick’s announcement and questioned whether his supposed negotiations were serious.

The Second Generation Zombie King threatened Cloud Sea City’s shelters into evacuating, sparking panic and debate across nearby regions while searches for Noah’s Star-Level Shelter soared. As Li Chen flew to Province A with supplies and Android Warriors, Zhao Fenghua called to warn him that the zombies were stirring again.

• The First Generation Zombie King criticized the Second Generation Zombie King’s threats as expulsion rather than negotiation, and the Second Generation Zombie King asked what would count as friendly negotiation.
• Cloud Sea City’s shelters argued over whether to evacuate, fight, secretly flee, or prepare in silence, while nearby cities also began discussing how to respond.
• Survivors shared the zombie threat online, causing a surge of anxiety and driving searches for Noah’s Star-Level Shelter past two hundred million.
• At dusk, Li Chen boarded an automated Super Transport Plane bound for Province A with supplies, weapons, equipment, and five thousand Android Warriors.
• Zhao Fenghua called Li Chen about the news, warning that the zombies were stirring again and blaming Li Chen’s ambitions for the disunity among Province A’s shelters.

Li Chen used panic over the Zombie Kings and the Star-Level Shelter’s strength to draw survivors toward his shelter, while forcing Zhao Fenghua’s alliance to confront the Rebel Alliance. As Noah exposed the battle and the rebels’ movements to the entire city and online, Wang YuHui concluded that resistance had failed and urged the rebels to surrender before Li Chen arrived.

• Li Chen saw that survivors in Province A were seeking information about the Star-Level Shelter and rebuked Zhao Fenghua for complaining instead of resolving his internal conflicts.
• Li Chen ordered Zhao Fenghua to produce results within an hour and sent him the coordinates of nearby Rebel Allied Forces.
• Noah displayed a holographic map throughout the city and warned that rebels with anti-armor weapons were advancing, while battle footage was livestreamed online.
• Zhao Fenghua ordered the Shelter Alliance forces to attack, and commanders from other shelters joined the counterattack.
• Wang YuHui realized Noah had infiltrated the rebels’ network, gathered more than a hundred Decision Makers and shelter representatives, and urged them to surrender before Li Chen arrived.

Wang YuHui argued that the shelter Decision Makers should surrender to Li Chen, but many rejected his advice and vowed to resist. He led those willing to surrender away, warning them that the alliance’s weak public standing, technology, and numbers made victory impossible.

• The shelter Decision Makers rejected Wang YuHui’s call to surrender and mocked him as a coward, insisting they would fight Li Chen.
• Wang YuHui angrily left with the Decision Makers who supported surrendering and swore that the others would lose.
• Some of Wang YuHui’s followers worried that Li Chen might reject them, but Wang said Li Chen wanted to rebuild social order and had spared them before.
• Wang YuHui pointed out that the shelters had lost public support and were outmatched in technology, equipment, and online influence.
• Wang YuHui warned that the Resistance Alliance greatly outnumbered them and that the holdouts in the Conference Room had no chance of winning.

Wang YuHui persuaded Province A’s Decision Makers to accept surrender, and Li Chen contacted them with conditions for forgiveness. As Li Chen approached Province A, he assessed the retreating forces and warned that surrender alone would not spare them from consequences.

• Wang YuHui convinced the Decision Makers that resisting Li Chen was hopeless, and they discussed how to contact him and the Shelter Alliance.
• Li Chen used his Mental Power to speak to the Decision Makers, who knelt and begged him for another chance.
• Wang YuHui asked what they had to do to earn Li Chen’s forgiveness, and Li Chen surveyed the situation across Province A before replying.
• Li Chen said the Star-Level Shelter would not support idlers and that they had to make up for their mistakes through merit to earn rewards.