Chapter Summaries

Jiangnan Yan reported that the shelter had over a hundred residents, and Shen Yi approved recruiting everyone in the residential complex and supplying them with food. After breakfast, Shen Yi took Murong Xue into the bedroom, while Han Ruoxi accepted her role at the shelter and resolved to improve her standing; Shen Yi then unlocked new supplies.

• Jiangnan Yan told Shen Yi that she had recruited forty-three survivors and asked whether the shelter should take in everyone in the residential complex.
• Shen Yi agreed to expand the shelter, told Jiangnan Yan to count the remaining residents within three days, and promised to provide supplies.
• Shen Yi ate seven bowls of rice and a roast chicken, leading Murong Xue to suspect that he had a physique-enhancing ability.
• Han Ruoxi washed the dishes and decided to keep working hard and training her legs so Shen Yi would continue to value her.
• Shen Yi took Murong Xue into the bedroom and successfully unlocked new supplies.

After Murong Xue helped Shen Yi unlock Frost Condensation Ability Fruits, Shen Yi ate one and gained the ice-creation ability. He left Murong Xue with several elemental Ability Fruits, but she felt humiliated by his distant treatment.

• Shen Yi discovered that taking in Murong Xue had unlocked Frost Condensation Ability Fruits and praised his luck.
• Shen Yi ate a Frost Condensation Ability Fruit and gained an ice ability that let him create and control ice within 20 meters, along with resistance to low temperatures.
• Murong Xue questioned Shen Yi about his supply of Ability Fruits, suspecting that he had a major secret.
• Shen Yi decided to consume more Frost Condensation Ability Fruits to raise the ability's level.
• Shen Yi tossed several elemental Ability Fruits to Murong Xue, got dressed, and left the bedroom, while Murong Xue angrily called him a bastard.

Shen Yi gave Han Ruoxi the Mental Link Ability and supplies, then left to check Lin Zhiwei’s infected arm. He found the injury was worsening and warned that it might ruin her arm if it was not treated soon.

• Shen Yi reassured Han Ruoxi, gave her Mental Link Ability Fruits, and explained how the ability let her communicate over long distances.
• Shen Yi left using Instant Movement to check on Lin Zhiwei, while Han Ruoxi happily practiced her new ability and ate fruits to level it up.
• Murong Xue emerged from the bedroom, dismissed Han Ruoxi’s ability as worthless, and ordered her to hand-wash the bedsheets.
• Shen Yi visited his grandmother and younger sister with supplies, then went to Qu Xiaoxiao’s home to examine Lin Zhiwei’s injury.
• Shen Yi found Lin Zhiwei’s arm infected and oozing pus, and warned that it could be ruined without prompt treatment.

Shen Yi took Lin Zhiwei to City Hospital to treat her infected arm and search for medicine, leaving supplies with Jiangnan Yan to support the shelter before they departed. After bypassing a roadblock set by robbers, they reached the hospital, where Shen Yi sensed survivors and doctors inside.

• Shen Yi offered Lin Zhiwei amputation or a trip to City Hospital, and she chose to seek treatment for her arm.
• Shen Yi left supplies with Jiangnan Yan, then set out with Lin Zhiwei for City Hospital.
• Shen Yi and Lin Zhiwei drove until blocked roads forced them to continue on foot, and Shen Yi spotted a gang of robbers lying in wait.
• When Lin Zhiwei's infected wound worsened, Shen Yi froze it to ease her pain and carried her past the roadblock with Shun.
• Shen Yi and Lin Zhiwei arrived at City Hospital, where Shen Yi sensed survivors, including doctors.

Shen Yi and Lin Zhiwei arrived at City Hospital, where survivors were barricaded on the outpatient building’s sixth floor against a violent group of thugs. Shen Yi asked the frightened survivors for a doctor who could treat external injuries, but no one answered.

• Shen Yi used Telepathy to locate surviving doctors and nurses at City Hospital and chose the outpatient building after two women triggered system prompts.
• The sixth-floor survivors defended their shelter while two men secretly planned to betray Vice President Wang and let the thugs upstairs.
• Shen Yi and Lin Zhiwei suddenly appeared in the corridor, interrupting the men’s attempted ambush of Vice President Wang.
• Shen Yi drew a pistol and asked whether anyone could treat external injuries, but the survivors were too frightened to respond.

Shen Yi forced the survivors at City Hospital to reveal surgeon Jiang Huimin, who examined Lin Zhiwei and agreed to operate on her infected arm. As thugs began clearing obstacles on the stairs, Jiang Huimin took Lin Zhiwei and several nurses into a room to perform the operation.

• Shen Yi threatened the sixth-floor survivors until Vice President Wang called Jiang Huimin forward as a surgeon.
• Shen Yi shattered the ice around Lin Zhiwei's arm, and Jiang Huimin examined the infected wound and determined it could be treated without amputation.
• Shen Yi produced the medicines Jiang Huimin needed and ordered her to operate, warning the survivors to cooperate.
• Thugs downstairs began moving obstacles aside, frightening the survivors on the sixth floor.
• Jiang Huimin selected several female nurses as assistants and took Lin Zhiwei into a hospital room to begin the operation.

As Jiang Huimin operated, Shen Yi waited by the door while Zhou Guangyi urged a younger survivor to betray him. When the younger man considered warning Shen Yi, Zhou Guangyi killed him and claimed the victim had planned to defect, leaving Vice President Wang doubtful of his story.

• Jiang Huimin began the operation with female nurses assisting, while Shen Yi sat by the door and ignored the thugs downstairs.
• Zhou Guangyi told the younger man that Shen Yi’s gun might be fake and urged him to betray Shen Yi before the thugs attacked.
• The younger man decided to warn Shen Yi, but Zhou Guangyi stabbed him in the throat with a scalpel.
• Zhou Guangyi claimed the younger man had tried to betray the survivors and attacked him first, while the dying man could not expose the lie.
• The younger man died thinking of his wife and daughter, and Vice President Wang questioned Zhou Guangyi’s account.

After Zhou Guangyi killed Ma Xiaoming, Shen Yi shot Zhou dead when he approached to demand food, terrifying the survivors. A hospital dean dismissed the gunshot as a bluff and urged the thugs downstairs to keep clearing the barricades and storm the sixth floor.

• Vice President Wang banned Zhou Guangyi from touching weapons, and the survivors supported the order without defending Ma Xiaoming.
• Zhou Guangyi approached Shen Yi and demanded food, claiming he had killed Ma Xiaoming to protect him.
• Shen Yi shot Zhou Guangyi dead when he ignored Shen Yi's warning to leave.
• The survivors recoiled in fear, while the thugs at the stairwell paused after hearing the gunshot.
• The hospital dean insisted the sixth-floor survivors had no guns and incited the thugs to clear the barricades and attack.

Shen Yi agreed to help the hospital survivors in exchange for Nurse Jiang Yutong sleeping with him, but let her go when she refused. After identifying Jiang Yutong as someone who could unlock a supply item, he prompted Vice President Wang to turn the survivors against her.

• The thugs resumed clearing the barricades after deciding the gunshots had been a bluff.
• Vice President Wang asked Shen Yi to protect the survivors, and Shen Yi demanded that Nurse Jiang sleep with him in return.
• The survivors pressured Jiang Yutong to agree, but she pleaded with Shen Yi to let her go.
• Shen Yi released Jiang Yutong, then saw a system prompt identifying her as a goddess who could unlock a random supply item.
• Vice President Wang spoke to the survivors, who turned hostile toward Jiang Yutong and began insulting and blaming her.

Jiang Yutong was pressured by the survivors to give in to Shen Yi, and she finally agreed after they threatened and humiliated her. Shen Yi teleported with her to a hospital room to unlock his reward while monitoring the corridor, leaving the survivors to fend for themselves.

• Two nurses and other survivors blamed Jiang Yutong for refusing Shen Yi and demanded that she sacrifice herself for the group.
• The survivors threatened to throw Jiang Yutong out, and Vice President Wang offered no meaningful defense.
• Jiang Yutong agreed to Shen Yi’s demand, prompting the survivors to praise her and promise repayment.
• Shen Yi teleported with Jiang Yutong to a hospital room, judging through Telepathy that the thugs would not reach the sixth floor for at least thirty or forty minutes.
• Shen Yi began unlocking the reward while Jiang Yutong cooperated without gaining any favorability toward him.

After Jiang Yutong unlocked a supply of cabbage and pork buns, Shen Yi fed her and listened as she asked him to abandon the survivors in the hallway. He refused to break his promise to help them, but gave Jiang Yutong two pistols so she could take revenge herself.

• Jiang Yutong unlocked a supply of cabbage and pork buns, and Shen Yi shared a basket and mineral water with her.
• After eating, Jiang Yutong asked Shen Yi not to save the survivors in the hallway, calling them untrustworthy and cruel.
• Shen Yi agreed with Jiang Yutong’s assessment but said he would keep his promise to deal with the thugs downstairs.
• Jiang Yutong accepted that Shen Yi would not abandon the survivors and resolved to take revenge herself.
• Shen Yi gave Jiang Yutong two Da Hei Xing pistols with sixteen bullets so she could pursue her revenge.

Shen Yi arrived with Jiang Yutong to confront Qian Guangming’s thugs, who had taken over the sixth floor and abused the survivors. The standoff ended with Jiang Yutong shooting one of the thugs, shocking the armed crowd.

• The thugs stormed the sixth floor, subdued the survivors, and searched rooms for missing women.
• Qian Guangming offered Vice President Wang a place in his shelter in exchange for accepting his coercive rule.
• Shen Yi and Jiang Yutong appeared, and the survivors turned to Shen Yi for help.
• Qian Guangming tried to recruit Shen Yi while his men gathered around him and Jiang Yutong.
• After the thugs jeered at her, Jiang Yutong fired her gun and shot a man in the face, leaving the crowd stunned.

Jiang Yutong shot a thug and took control of the survivors’ captors, while Shen Yi froze the remaining thugs with his Level 7 Frost Condensation. After Shen Yi left to check on Jiang Huimin, Jiang Yutong turned to settle scores with Vice President Wang and the other survivors who had wronged her.

• Jiang Yutong shot a thug with the Type 54 Pistol and felt exhilarated rather than afraid as the thugs surrendered.
• Jiang Yutong refused to shoot more thugs because she had no grudge against them, making Vice President Wang fear that she intended to take revenge on him.
• Shen Yi snapped his fingers and froze more than twenty thugs into ice sculptures while carefully avoiding the survivors.
• Shen Yi explained that his Level 7 Frost Condensation could precisely freeze dozens of people, with a maximum range of 800 meters, but took considerable stamina.
• Shen Yi left Jiang Yutong to handle the survivors and used Instant Movement to enter Jiang Huimin’s ward.
• Jiang Yutong, moved by Shen Yi’s trust and kindness, turned toward Vice President Wang and the survivors to settle old scores.

After Jiang Yutong exacted revenge on the sixth-floor survivors, Shen Yi secured Lin Zhiwei’s recovery and recruited Jiang Huimin and the nurses to join him. He looted the hospital’s medicines and generators, then spotted a familiar woman and wondered why she had returned.

• Jiang Yutong punished the sixth-floor survivors who had helped pressure her, while Vice President Wang and a few others had been spared.
• Shen Yi arrived after Lin Zhiwei’s surgery, and Jiang Huimin explained that the wound had been treated but would leave her arm changed.
• Shen Yi gave Jiang Huimin and the nurses food and water, then decided to take them back to his Shelter and build a medical department.
• Jiang Huimin led Shen Yi to the medicine storeroom, where he collected the hospital’s medicines and equipment.
• At Jiang Huimin’s suggestion, Shen Yi also took the hospital’s large and small generators.
• Shen Yi searched the hospital with Telepathy and spotted a familiar woman, wondering why she had returned.

Shen Yi treated Lin Zhiwei, gathered hospital supplies, and led the women away after Jiang Yutong had taken revenge on the survivors who had forced her. Outside the hospital, Shen Yi spotted strange green-skinned people wandering unharmed among mutated plants.

• Shen Yi saw Qin Xiang fighting a mutated animal outside City Hospital but decided not to approach her.
• Shen Yi returned from scavenging and gave the injured Lin Zhiwei food before leading her, Jiang Huimin, and several nurses out of the ward.
• Jiang Huimin saw the frozen thugs and corpses in the corridor and realized Shen Yi had terrifying powers; she also reflected on her own career as a chief surgeon.
• Jiang Yutong greeted Shen Yi as her husband after taking revenge on the survivors who had forced her, and Shen Yi noticed her loyalty was extremely high.
• Shen Yi used Telepathy outside the hospital and found green-haired, green-skinned people wandering stiffly without being attacked by mutated plants.

Shen Yi discovered that green-skinned mutated humans could attack and infect survivors, while Qin Xiang reached City Hospital in search of doctors and encountered a corridor full of frozen corpses. The chapter left Shen Yi questioning how the mutation worked after noticing the infection might not be what he had expected.

• Shen Yi observed green-skinned mutated humans wandering the streets and noticed that they avoided cracks in the ground.
• Qin Xiang entered City Hospital to find doctors for injured survivors and found murdered nurses and other corpses as she searched upstairs.
• Qin Xiang reached the sixth floor and found more than twenty people frozen into ice sculptures before a survivor begged her to save them from a murderer.
• Shen Yi watched two mutated humans attack survivors and saw the bitten men's skin turn green within seconds.
• Shen Yi realized the infection might differ from what he had assumed.

Shen Yi watched infected mutants die after passing the infection to two survivors, while the newly infected wandered into the Black Fog. Lin Zhiwei theorized that an intelligent virus was gathering human memories to evolve and urged Shen Yi to capture a mutant, but he refused; their conversation ended with Shen Yi realizing she had worked through the night and worsened her wound infection.

• Shen Yi observed two mutants die after infecting survivors, while the infected survivors rose and wandered into the Black Fog without attacking anyone.
• Shen Yi described the event to Lin Zhiwei, who eagerly asked him to capture a mutant for research.
• Lin Zhiwei theorized that the virus transferred between bodies, absorbed memories, and might be evolving under the direction of a mother body.
• Lin Zhiwei offered to produce an improved genetic serum within five days if Shen Yi helped her capture a mutant, but Shen Yi refused because of the infection risk.
• Shen Yi questioned why Lin Zhiwei had previously estimated ten days for the serum, and she explained that new research on Xiao Ha had accelerated her work.
• Shen Yi realized Lin Zhiwei had gone downstairs in the middle of the night to work, worsening her wound infection.

Shen Yi killed the bandits who had blocked the road home, then discovered several hundred orderly survivors in a distant villa complex. He wondered whether their community was a wild Shelter.

• Lin Zhiwei admitted she had been working overtime to study mutants, but Shen Yi ordered her to recover before catching one.
• Shen Yi and the women encountered armed bandits blocking the road, and he killed their hidden leader and the rest of the group with his abilities.
• Lin Zhiwei watched Shen Yi fight with her X-ray vision and wondered how he had gained new abilities.
• On the way home, Shen Yi searched for Ability Fruits and spotted several hundred orderly survivors in a villa complex six or seven kilometers away.

Shen Yi discovered Fu Yunxi, a capable shelter leader whose system score matched Murong Xue’s, and decided to seek her out. Meanwhile, Fu Yunxi mobilized a rescue after Supply Team Two vanished near a department store, while Shen Yi returned to his complex and prepared a laboratory for Lin Zhiwei.

• Shen Yi spotted Fu Yunxi leading an orderly shelter and learned that winning her over would unlock a random supply item.
• Fu Yunxi learned from Lin Tu that Supply Team Two had lost contact near the Department Store, including Lin Tu’s sister.
• Fu Yunxi sent two search-and-rescue teams, led by a combat-capable ability user, to investigate the missing team.
• Fu Yunxi worried that losing Supply Team Two would threaten the shelter’s scarce supplies, especially its water.
• Shen Yi cleared a building and installed a generator and laboratory equipment for Lin Zhiwei, then summoned Jiang Huimin to his room.

Shen Yi pressured Jiang Huimin into becoming his woman, and she unlocked a valuable supply of table salt. He gave her Mental Link Ability Fruits and joined the women discussing shelter management, while Liu Yueyue worried that she would soon be cast out.

• Jiang Huimin nervously considered whether refusing Shen Yi would put her life at risk and asked how many women he already had.
• Shen Yi pulled Jiang Huimin over and took her in, triggering the system to unlock table salt.
• Shen Yi celebrated the salt’s value, gave Jiang Huimin Mental Link Ability Fruits, and told her she could contact him if she needed anything.
• Shen Yi joined Xu Wanting, Jiangnan Yan, and the others as they discussed shelter management, then asked Xu Wanting to cut up watermelons.
• Liu Yueyue helped Xu Wanting with the melons and worried that Shen Yi would soon kick her out.