Chapter Summaries

Li Chen used Noah to publicize the Star-Level Shelter’s strength and fairness, hoping survivors across the Dragon Kingdom would join willingly and opposing forces would submit without a fight. Meanwhile, Hua Ju Laboratory prepared to move its assets and urged allied shelters to resist the Star-Level Shelter.

• Videos of Li Chen subduing five Third Generation Zombies spread worldwide, drawing widespread praise for the Star-Level Shelter.
• An online poll showed that 99.4% of more than fifty million voters were willing to join the Star-Level Shelter.
• Li Chen used the publicity to attract survivors and pressure shelters in the Dragon Kingdom and abroad to submit or remain neutral.
• Hua Ju Laboratory headquarters ordered its branches to prepare for battle and relocate scientists, equipment, and test subjects.
• Kang Dengchun told cooperating shelters to crush the Star-Level Shelter’s plans, treating them as expendable cannon fodder.

Kang Dengchun ordered a secret evacuation as Hua Ju Laboratory’s allies prepared to turn the shelters against Li Chen and the Star-Level Shelter. Meanwhile, the Second Generation Zombie King formed a plan after seeing Li Chen control Third Generation Zombies, and the Flying Brigade detected two powerful targets approaching Dragon Nation.

• Kang Dengchun ordered researchers of Level 2 and above to evacuate and had Hua Ju Laboratory’s important assets transported away.
• Yu Shiqiang urged shelter leaders to fight Li Chen and the Star-Level Shelter to protect the Eternal Life Project, while Yang Zhi proposed spreading false claims that Li Chen had created the Zombie Virus.
• The Second Generation Zombie King watched Li Chen command Third Generation Zombies and left Gorilla in charge as he went out.
• The Flying Brigade searched for Third Generation Zombies near their suspected landing point and detected two extremely high-energy sources approaching at high speed.
• The Flying Brigade commander ordered all combat squads to use Formation Three and prepare for battle.

Li Chen arrived with Big One and encountered the Star-Level Shelter’s flying squadron, whose commander mistook Big One for a hostile Third Generation Zombie. After identifying the hidden zombie army in the forest, Li Chen learned that Big One could sense it and that it numbered over a million.

• Big One detected 318 stealth aircraft ahead, and Li Chen recognized them as the Star-Level Shelter’s flying squadron.
• The squadron locked its fire-control radars onto Li Chen and Big One, but the pilots disengaged after Li Chen identified himself through Mental Power.
• Liao Changfeng ordered the aircraft to open fire when he saw Big One, and Li Chen shut down their fire-control radars before revealing himself.
• Li Chen explained that Big One was an ally and learned from Noah that the Third Generation Zombies were camouflaged in the forest below.
• Big One confirmed that over one million Third Generation Zombies were hiding nearby, and Li Chen asked whether it could command them.

Li Chen sent Big One to test whether it could command the more than one million Third Generation Zombies below. Big One’s dramatic landing revealed the hidden zombies, and the chapter left Li Chen and the Flying Brigade watching as Big One tried to assert its dominance.

• Li Chen let Big One descend alone to try to command the Third Generation Zombies, while the pilots marveled at what they thought was his Personal Charm.
• Big One plunged from more than twenty-one kilometers up and crashed into the forest, blasting several thousand concealed Third Generation Zombies away.
• The impact exposed the surrounding Third Generation Zombies, but none dared approach the larger Big One.
• Big One roared and beat its chest to declare its status as leader, while the aircraft’s radars sounded alarms and Li Chen focused his senses on what would happen next.

Li Chen tried to prevent Big One’s confrontation with millions of Third Generation Zombies from escalating by finding a way to make more Favorability Potions. Noah explained how to unlock a synthesis formula by decomposing a potion, and Li Chen obtained the raw materials needed to synthesize Beginner Favorability Solution.

• Big One roared at the Third Generation Zombies, but they answered with roars of their own instead of submitting.
• Li Chen asked Noah how to obtain more Favorability Potions, and Noah suggested using the Synthesis and Conversion function.
• Noah explained that Li Chen could unlock a synthesis formula by decomposing an existing potion into its raw materials.
• Li Chen used ten First Generation Level Seven Energy Crystal Cores to decompose a bottle of Favorability Potion.
• The decomposition succeeded, and the system detected enough raw materials to unlock the Beginner Favorability Solution formula.

While Big One fought the scar-faced Third Generation Zombie King, Li Chen used the Synthesis and Conversion function to recreate Favorability Potion and learned how its hidden synthesis system worked. He left the battle unresolved and obtained eleven bottles of the potion.

• Liao Changfeng ordered the aircraft to disperse as the Third Generation Zombies began fighting, and Li Chen entered the Super Transport Plane through its wall and took control.
• Li Chen identified the scar-faced, Tier 5 Third Generation Zombie as the king selected in Feizhou and watched it fight Big One for leadership.
• Li Chen concluded that the other Third Generation Zombies would accept Big One as their ruler if it won, but would attack it if it lost.
• Li Chen found the Favorability Potion formula after disassembling a bottle, then synthesized eleven bottles using the available materials and an Energy Crystal Core.
• Li Chen worked out that the system permanently unlocked formulas when he disassembled items into their raw materials, and that Energy Crystal Cores could supply missing materials.

Li Chen synthesized thousands of Beginner Favorability Potions while Big One battled the Third Generation Zombie King. He used the potion to subdue the king, named him Macho Number One, and prepared to give him orders as the surrounding Third Generation Zombies watched in confusion.

• Li Chen synthesized nearly twenty thousand Beginner Favorability Potions and realized he needed far more to cover the Primeval Forest.
• Big One and the Third Generation Zombie King exchanged powerful blows, and Li Chen realized their fight could continue indefinitely.
• Li Chen brought several thousand bottles to the ground, stopped Big One, and dropped a potion onto the Third Generation Zombie King's forehead.
• Li Chen poured a full bottle of potion over the king and named him Macho Number One, who knelt and pledged obedience.
• The hundreds of thousands of Third Generation Zombies watched their king submit to Li Chen in bewilderment.

Li Chen appointed Macho Number One and Big One as joint Third Generation Zombie Kings and ordered them to announce their rule. Most of the surrounding zombies submitted, and Li Chen planned to secure the loyalty of the holdouts later.

• Li Chen named Macho Number One and Big One joint Third Generation Zombie Kings, and both accepted his command.
• Li Chen told Liao Changfeng to move the aircraft away and keep the others back while Macho Number One addressed the zombies.
• Macho Number One announced Big One's appointment and challenged anyone who rejected it.
• Most Third Generation Zombies knelt in submission, while Macho Number One and Big One intimidated the remaining holdouts into kneeling.
• Li Chen decided to use Favorability Potions on the reluctant zombies at a more suitable location and rewarded Macho Number One and Big One with Energy Crystal Cores.

Li Chen ordered Big One and Macho Number One to gather the Third Generation Zombies in Plain Country, but worried that their growing strength could make them difficult to control. He discovered that he could convert a Beginner Favorability Potion into a Beginner Loyalty Potion, which promised permanent, absolute obedience.

• Big One swallowed the Level 6 Energy Crystal Core, and he and Macho Number One released powerful mental pressure that stirred the surrounding Third Generation Zombies.
• Li Chen ordered Big One and Macho Number One to gather the Third Generation Zombies in Plain Country, and they pledged to obey him.
• Li Chen realized that the more than one million Third Generation Zombies could become a threat as they evolved, and recalled how Chewy Candy had developed independent thoughts despite her favorability toward him.
• Li Chen opened the conversion panel and discovered a wide range of potions, including the Growth Potion and the Loyalty Potion.
• Li Chen read that the Beginner Loyalty Potion would permanently make a target fully obedient, then began converting a Beginner Favorability Potion into one.

Li Chen gathered millions of Third Generation Zombies on a plain and ordered his forces to spray them with Favorability and Loyalty Potions. As the potion rain fell, Caesar appeared behind Li Chen and introduced himself as the Second Generation Zombie King.

• Li Chen ordered the aircraft to return to the Star-Level Shelter, leaving a thousand Super Transport Planes behind.
• Big One and Macho Number One led millions of Third Generation Zombies to the plain Li Chen had chosen.
• Li Chen told Liao Changfeng to mix Favorability Potion and Loyalty Potion and spray them over the horde.
• A mysterious man appeared behind Li Chen and identified himself as Caesar, the Second Generation Zombie King.

Li Chen confronted Caesar, the Second Generation Zombie King, who revealed his intention to conquer Li Chen and attacked him with Mental Power. As their clash continued, Liao Changfeng’s team sprayed medicine over the Third Generation Zombies, whose frenzy subsided and whose ranks began to form orderly formations.

• Li Chen asked Caesar whether he had chosen his own name, and Caesar rejected the idea that he belonged to Hua Ju Laboratory.
• Caesar avoided Li Chen’s question about his visit until he declared that he had come to conquer Li Chen.
• Caesar attacked Li Chen with Mental Power, and Li Chen resisted, leaving the two apparently evenly matched.
• Liao Changfeng ordered his team to continue spraying the medicine instead of trying to join the fight.
• The medicine calmed the Third Generation Zombies and caused them to organize into orderly ranks.

Li Chen and the Second Generation Zombie King Caesar remained locked in a Mental Power contest while the Third Generation Zombies unexpectedly formed ranks and grew hostile toward Caesar. Li Chen revealed the horde’s reaction as proof that he was bound to win.

• The Third Generation Zombies voluntarily formed neat ranks as Liao Changfeng and the soldiers aboard the Super Transport Planes watched and discussed their behavior.
• Liao Changfeng warned the soldiers not to attack the zombies because Li Chen had ordered them to spray the mysterious medicine instead.
• Li Chen and Caesar continued their Mental Power contest, acknowledged that neither could defeat the other without suffering heavy losses, and exchanged words.
• Li Chen pointed out that the Third Generation Zombies were staring at Caesar with intense hostility, shocking the Zombie King.

Li Chen and Big One and Macho Number One attacked the Second Generation Zombie King, driving him into a crater surrounded by Third Generation Zombies. Meanwhile, the Star-Level Shelter detected incoming missiles and ordered its residents to take cover.

• The Second Generation Zombie King realized the Third Generation Zombies regarded Li Chen as their master and prepared to retreat.
• Li Chen attacked the Second Generation Zombie King as Big One and Macho Number One joined the fight, but the King overpowered Macho Number One and blocked Li Chen's Sword Qi Strike.
• Li Chen nearly struck the Second Generation Zombie King's head with his Tier 3 Lightsaber before Big One kicked him into a deep crater.
• Countless Third Generation Zombies descended into the crater and overwhelmed the Second Generation Zombie King.
• The Star-Level Shelter sounded alarms about incoming missiles, and residents were told they had eighteen minutes to take cover.

As missiles targeted the Star-Level Shelter, Xu Ruoxi and the commanders evacuated survivors into underground shelters while trying to contact Li Chen. Noah confirmed Li Chen was safe and ordered them to identify the attackers; the chapter ended with the shelter discovering that several Dragon Kingdom shelters had launched missiles and coordinated an online smear campaign.

• Xu Ruoxi calmed survivors over the broadcast as commanders guided them into emergency shelters, while Dang Zhongcheng brought experts and engineers into the Star-Level Shelter.
• The shelter's automated defenses launched to intercept twenty-seven incoming conventional missiles, and Xu Ruoxi worried that Li Chen might be in danger.
• Dang Zhongcheng asked Noah for Li Chen's location, and Noah said Li Chen was safe and ordered them to locate the attackers and strike back.
• A subordinate reported that the missiles came from Jiang Shan Shelter, Yuan Da Shelter, Galaxy Shelter, and other shelters in the Dragon Kingdom.
• The Network Warfare Unit reported online rumors accusing the Star-Level Shelter of creating zombies, and Dang Zhongcheng declared that the attackers had made themselves enemies of the shelter.

Li Chen questioned the battered Second Generation Zombie King about his hidden plans while his giant Third Generation Zombie horde moved across the devastated plains. Five hours earlier, the king’s Second Generation Zombies had seized shelters across Province G and launched missiles at the Star-Level Shelter, leaving Li Chen to probe the king’s mind for the location of his subordinates.

• Li Chen ordered Big One and Macho Number One to move their Third Generation Zombie troops away from the horizon as the horde advanced.
• The Second Generation Zombie King taunted Li Chen about attacks on his Main Camp, prompting Li Chen to grab his head and use his Mental Power to read his memories.
• Five hours earlier, Second Generation Zombies attacked Jiang Shan Shelter and other shelters across Province G, overwhelming their defenses.
• Gorilla forced Commander Yu Shiqiang to activate the shelter’s weapons systems and unlock remote control of the Weapon Depot before killing him.
• Gorilla and the other Second Generation Zombie commanders launched missiles from the shelters at the Star-Level Shelter.

Li Chen learned that the Second Generation Zombie King had impersonated human shelters to provoke the Star-Level Shelter into launching missiles and weakening itself. He stopped Dang Zhongcheng just before the missiles fired, leaving the defeated Zombie King to ask for one favor.

• Dang Zhongcheng ordered the Star-Level Shelter to fire missiles at the shelters he believed had attacked them.
• Li Chen urgently stopped the launch and revealed that Second Generation Zombies had attacked the shelters and impersonated them.
• Li Chen explained that the Second Generation Zombie King had planned to make the Star-Level Shelter waste its weapons, deploy its forces, and become vulnerable to a zombie assault.
• Li Chen mocked the Zombie King’s scheme and noted that the missile strike could have devastated every city and shelter in Province G.
• The Second Generation Zombie King accepted defeat and asked Li Chen to grant him one request.

Li Chen spared the defeated Second Generation Zombie King and offered him a choice between submission and death. After drinking two potions, the king became Li Chen’s loyal subordinate and introduced himself as Caesar.

• The Second Generation Zombie King asked Li Chen to destroy Hua Ju Laboratory, but Li Chen said he would not kill him.
• Li Chen implied that survival would require the defeated king to become his subordinate and offered him two potions.
• The Second Generation Zombie King drank the Beginner Favorability Potion and Beginner Loyalty Potion.
• The king knelt before Li Chen, introduced himself as Caesar, and declared himself Li Chen’s most loyal subordinate.
• Li Chen helped Caesar stand and told him that true loyalty had to be proven through actions.

Li Chen ordered the Second Generation Zombie King to gather the Second Generation Zombies at Province B's Plains, then planned a counterattack against Hua Ju Laboratory using the loyal Third Generation Zombies. He sent half the Third Generation Zombies to attack the laboratory's bases and took the rest back to the Star-Level Shelter for construction and other uses.

• Li Chen told the Second Generation Zombie King to gather the Second Generation Zombies at Province B's Plains, and Big One and Macho Number One helped lift the suppression on his Mental Power so he could recover and leave.
• Li Chen ordered Big One and Macho Number One to return with him to the Star-Level Shelter and assigned half the Third Generation Zombies to attack Hua Ju Laboratory's various bases.
• Li Chen planned to use the remaining Third Generation Zombies as laborers in Province Y and keep them for other purposes.

Li Chen ordered the Third Generation Zombie Kings to destroy Hua Ju Laboratory’s experimental bases and capture its important members, while the laboratory’s leader recognized Star-Level Shelter as a threat backed by an unknown force. Li Chen returned to the shelter, rewarded his loyal guardians, and prepared to announce something to his commanders.

• Li Chen ordered Big One and Macho Number One to destroy Hua Ju Laboratory’s experimental bases, capture valuable members, and kill the rest.
• The cold and glamorous woman learned that Star-Level Shelter was attracting survivors and that Li Chen could control the Third Generation Zombies, then ordered the International Shelters to meet and warned them that Li Chen threatened their plan.
• The woman reviewed satellite information about Star-Level Shelter’s weapons and Donghai City, suspected a mysterious force was helping Li Chen, and gave the fat, balding supervisor a Galaxy Hard Drive to study.
• Li Chen returned to Star-Level Shelter with Big One and Macho Number One, and the survivors soon grew accustomed to the new Zombie King.
• Li Chen rewarded the Four Great Vajra and the two Zombie Kings with energy crystal cores, gave the Four Great Vajra Beginner Loyalty Potion, and summoned his commanders to the Conference Room.

Li Chen told the Star-Level Shelter’s leaders that he had subdued the Second and Third Generation Zombies, including their Zombie Kings, and warned them to prepare for the newcomers. He then opened a Super Deluxe Gift Pack and examined newly acquired potions and recipe fragments.

• Li Chen informed Xu Ruoxi and the Conference Room that the Third Generation Zombies had been subdued and would gradually arrive at the Star-Level Shelter.
• Li Chen added that the Second Generation Zombies and their Zombie King would arrive in two or three days, and asked everyone to prepare a place for them.
• Li Chen explained that two Third Generation Zombie Kings would lead the zombies and should be treated politely because they would be important fighters.
• Li Chen opened a Super Deluxe Gift Pack and received Beginner Berserk Potions and a Healing Potion Recipe Fragment among other rewards.
• Li Chen read that the Berserk Potion temporarily increased strength by fifty percent, then checked the synthesis panel to learn more about the Healing Potion Recipe Fragment.