Chapter Summaries

Chu Han learned that the Abomination Human had eaten people from his parents’ residential complex, then killed him despite promising to spare him. After freeing the captives, Chu Han walked away, and when they demanded his protection and food, he answered with another axe strike.

• Chu Han severed Hu Menghao’s arms and ordered Wei An to kill him, then learned from the Abomination Human that Hu Menghao had set the trap using information from Wei An.
• The Abomination Human said that several zombie hordes had struck Chu Han’s parents’ residential complex and admitted that he had eaten its people, though he did not know whether Chu Han’s parents were among them.
• Chu Han promised to spare the Abomination Human, then killed him with the Asura Battle Axe and said that promises were for dogs when dealing with bastards.
• Chu Han broke open the captives’ cage and left with Li Yi and Wei An without looking back.
• The freed captives demanded that Chu Han protect them and give them food, and Chu Han struck with his axe as they called after him.

After killing a man who challenged him, Chu Han returned to his family home, grieving over the likely loss of his parents. Jiang Tianqing arrived with news that Chu Han’s parents had waited for him, leaving Chu Han hopeful as Jiang began to explain what had happened.

• Chu Han beheaded a man and told the people he had rescued that he was no better than a cannibalistic alien.
• Chu Han went home and sat before a family portrait while Li Yi and Wei An kept their distance.
• Jiang Tianqing entered the home at extraordinary speed and told Chu Han that his parents had waited for him for three months.
• Chu Han recognized Jiang Tianqing, asked about his parents, and invited him inside to talk.
• Jiang Tianqing ate some moldy bread, and Chu Han gave him water while waiting for him to explain.

Jiang Tianqing told Chu Han that soldiers had taken Chu Han’s parents to Chenxing Biological Park, where a vast, seemingly controlled zombie horde surrounded a military-occupied facility. Convinced his parents might still be alive, Chu Han prepared to head there while Jiang Tianqing slept before catching up.

• Jiang Tianqing told Chu Han that soldiers had taken his parents three days earlier and that they had mentioned Chenxing Biological Park.
• Jiang Tianqing explained that Chu Han’s parents had fed him for three months after his own parents became zombies.
• Jiang Tianqing said he had found Chenxing surrounded by orderly zombies and had seen military personnel entering and leaving.
• Jiang Tianqing gave Chu Han a crumpled paper with information about the zombies, then fell asleep after asking for two hours to rest.
• Chu Han ordered Li Yi and Wei An to set off for Chenxing.

Chu Han and his companions reached Chenxing, where thousands of zombies guarded the building, and Chu Han could find no opening. When he spotted a survivor group approaching, he quickly disguised himself and the others as filthy beggars to blend in; Ding Siyao noticed and followed his example.

• Chu Han, Li Yi, and Wei An reached a rooftop overlooking Chenxing after an unusually fast journey.
• Chu Han saw that at least five thousand controlled zombies surrounded the building and realized they could not force their way through.
• Ding Siyao spotted Chu Han's group from a nearby rooftop and wondered whether their arrival was a coincidence.
• Chu Han used Wang Cai's far sight to inspect Chenxing but found no gap in the zombies' defenses.
• Chu Han spotted a survivor team moving against the zombies and smeared grime and zombie blood over himself, Li Yi, and Wei An to disguise them.
• Ding Siyao saw Chu Han's disguise and hurried after them, dirtying himself as he went.

Rui Tianhe led survivors toward Chenxing, claiming that scientists had controlled the zombie horde and that it guarded their home. As the group entered, Ding Siyao realized Chu Han and his companions had quietly been walking beside him unnoticed.

• Rui Tianhe reassured the survivors that the nearby zombies would not attack them and said researchers had controlled them.
• The survivors grew eager to enter the base, and Zhao Zilong believed Rui Tianhe's claims and resolved to become a strong fighter.
• Ding Siyao, disguised as a refugee, joined the group and thanked Rui Tianhe for letting him follow.
• Rui Tianhe led everyone forward and promised Zhao Zilong he would not let him down.
• Ding Siyao noticed Chu Han and two companions had been walking beside him for several minutes without anyone recognizing them.

Chu Han and Ding Siyao infiltrated a group of survivors and stayed wary of each other as they crossed a path surrounded by thousands of controlled zombies. They reached Chenxing, where armed soldiers appeared to welcome the survivors, leaving Chu Han uncertain about Ding Siyao’s mission and the situation inside.

• Chu Han pulled Ding Siyao back into line after Ding nearly exposed himself, and the two silently agreed to cooperate until they got inside.
• The survivors followed Rui Tianhe through the encircling horde of about five thousand controlled zombies, with Zhao Zilong supporting an injured middle-aged man and Li Yi and Wei An clinging to Chu Han.
• Chu Han hid his lack of fear as the group reached Chenxing’s clean, zombie-free entrance.
• Rui Tianhe told the survivors to wait for a military inspection, and a well-equipped unit of soldiers emerged from Chenxing.
• Chu Han noticed Ding Siyao’s genuine surprise at the soldiers and reconsidered his theory about Ding’s mission.
• A middle-aged man welcomed Rui Tianhe and invited the survivors inside so accommodations could be arranged.

Chu Han and the survivors entered Chenxing’s underground rooms, where Rui Tianhe’s soldiers locked everyone except Zhao Zilong inside for an alleged inspection. As the starving survivors ate the suspicious meat, Chu Han and Ding Siyao stayed cautious, and Chu Han studied the architectural blueprint Jiang Tianqing had given him before collapsing.

• Chu Han, Li Yi, Wei An, and Ding Siyao followed Rui Tianhe and the survivors into Chenxing’s underground rooms.
• Rui Tianhe’s soldiers locked the survivors behind iron doors, while Rui Tianhe told Zhao Zilong that they were undergoing an inspection.
• Soldiers slid meat-scented meals beneath the doors, and Rui Tianhe took Zhao Zilong upstairs to the Evolver cafeteria.
• Chu Han and Ding Siyao refused to eat, and Ding Siyao judged the soldiers to be undisciplined bandits in military uniforms.
• Chu Han unfolded Jiang Tianqing’s wrinkled blueprint of the Chenxing complex and realized how much effort Jiang Tianqing had spent finding it.

Li Yi and Wei An realized Chenxing was feeding people human flesh, while Chu Han and Ding Siyao searched for a way out and discovered their missions were connected through An Fei. Shangguan Yuxin returned to Nandu Survivor Base and reunited with her father, Shangguan Rong, after his promotion to general.

• Li Yi and Wei An concluded that Chenxing's human flesh came from Evolvers, since ordinary people who ate it became aberrants.
• Chu Han and Ding Siyao agreed to cooperate to escape Chenxing, and Chu Han found a possible way out after studying the blueprint.
• Ding Siyao told Chu Han that his missing Tiger Fang Team partner was An Fei, and Chu Han revealed that an aberrant had killed him.
• Ding Siyao fell silent as Chu Han considered the links between An Fei, Hu Menghao, the Tiger Fang Team, Chenxing, and the aberrants.
• Shang Jiudi brought Shangguan Yuxin to Nandu Survivor Base, where Shangguan Yuxin saluted her father, Shangguan Rong, and congratulated him on his promotion.

Shang Jiudi hijacked a helicopter to reach Anluo City and find Chu Han, while Bai Yun'er also headed there. At Shangjing Survivor Base, Commander Mu ordered Major General Anze to destroy the mutants in Anluo City and search for Chu Han.

• Shang Jiudi forced the pilot to turn the helicopter toward Anluo City so she could find Chu Han.
• Bai Yun'er asked Fan Jian for directions to Anluo City and sped away; Fan Jian suspected she was going to find Chu Han.
• Dragon Tooth Squad’s report confirmed that at least a hundred mutants near Anluo City controlled five thousand zombies.
• Luo Ming warned the conference that the mutants could become a much larger threat if left unchecked.
• Commander Mu ordered Major General Anze to lead troops against the mutants and search for Chu Han.

Chu Han entered Chenxing’s hidden laboratory to search for records that might reveal where his parents were. He learned the door password from passing researchers and hid inside, where he connected the facility to the future scientist Cao Chunhui and his assistant Hu Menghan.

• Chu Han and Ding Siyao separated in the corridor, with Chu Han heading for the laboratory and Ding Siyao continuing to search for Yuan Xiye.
• Chu Han avoided black-robed patrols and found the concealed passage to the laboratory’s locked mechanical door.
• Chu Han overheard two researchers discussing Hu Menghan, Cao Chunhui, and the institute’s restrictions, then used their words to enter the laboratory.
• Chu Han hid in a cabinet as the researchers investigated the open door and recalled that Cao Chunhui would propose the Furnace Theory before Hu Menghan killed him and stole credit for it.
• Chu Han recognized 150704 as the laboratory password and wondered whether Hu Menghan’s younger brother was Hu Menghao.

Chu Han used Wang Cai’s help to open a hidden laboratory door and discovered rooms where people were being subjected to lethal experiments. At the end of the corridor, he found his mother Yuan Xiye alive inside the final room, marked with three blue lines.

• Chu Han hid in a cabinet while two researchers entered a concealed, password-protected laboratory, then waited until they left.
• Wang Cai revealed that he had observed the password and unlocked the door for Chu Han.
• Ding Siyao overheard researchers discuss Yuan Xiye’s dangerous condition and raced toward the laboratory to find her.
• Chu Han entered a corridor of glass rooms containing bound people, many of whom were dead from human experiments.
• Chu Han reached the final room and recognized the name Yuan Xiye as his mother’s.

Chu Han opened the last laboratory door and found his mother, Yuan Xiye, gravely weakened by experiments using zombie and mutant blood. As she shared fragments about his father, Mensa, and Dragon Fang, Chu Han realized why his parents had been targeted, while Ding Siyao discovered Yuan Xiye was his mission target.

• Chu Han opened the door marked with Yuan Xiye's name and entered the final human-experiment room.
• Ding Siyao cracked the laboratory's first coded door and followed Chu Han into the corridor.
• Chu Han found Yuan Xiye tied to a chair with tubes pumping black and scarlet liquids into her spine, and she greeted him as her son.
• Ding Siyao arrived, recognized Yuan Xiye as the woman Tiger Fang Team had sent him to protect, and overheard her mention Chu Han's father, Mensa, and Dragon Fang.
• Yuan Xiye told Chu Han fragments of what she knew, and he realized his parents were members of Mensa and understood why his mother had been captured.

Chu Han learned that his parents were Mensa members and that a research institute had been experimenting on his mother with alien and zombie blood. After pulling the tubes from her back, he carried her through Chenxing to meet Li Yi and Wei An, leaving them stunned by her condition and the blood trail behind them.

• Chu Han realized the Dragon Tooth Squad had taken his father because of his Mensa membership, while the Tiger Fang Team had targeted his mother.
• Chu Han discovered that the Anluo City research branch had been testing mixed alien and zombie blood on high-IQ Mensa members, including his mother.
• Chu Han pulled the IV tubes from his mother's spine and carried her away as her breathing weakened.
• Li Yi and Wei An heard Chu Han approaching and jumped down from the ventilation shaft to meet him.
• Li Yi and Wei An recognized Yuan Xiye on Chu Han's back and saw the strange blood running from her wounds.

Chu Han rescued his tortured mother, Yuan Xiye, from Chenxing and fled with Ding Siyao, Li Yi, and Wei An as the facility’s forces pursued them. With a storm approaching and Yuan Xiye coughing blood, Chu Han stopped to shield her from the rain before confronting their pursuers.

• Chu Han, Ding Siyao, Li Yi, and Wei An discovered Yuan Xiye’s severe injuries and hurried out of Chenxing.
• Chenxing’s personnel sounded an alarm and pursued them, but hesitated to shoot because Yuan Xiye was a valuable experimental subject who had endured three days of torture.
• Chu Han carried Yuan Xiye away from the facility while zombies and more than a hundred Abomination Humans followed without attacking her.
• As Yuan Xiye coughed blood and a storm approached, Chu Han stopped at the end of a street and set her on a raised platform.
• Chu Han tore down a shop’s rain awning, held it out to Li Yi and Wei An, and told them, “Don't let my mom get rained on.”

After Chu Han's mother was brought close to death, Chu Han turned on the researchers, Abomination Humans, and zombies surrounding them. He slaughtered the researchers in the darkness and began cutting down the rest as the rain poured, leaving the battle raging.

• Chu Han wiped away a tear from his dying mother's eye, then turned toward the enemies and unleashed his killing intent.
• Chu Han advanced down the dark street toward the researchers, Abomination Humans, and zombies while Li Yi and Wei An held the canopy over his mother.
• Chu Han mysteriously produced the Asura Battle Axe and killed more than a dozen researchers in the darkness, terrifying the crowd.
• As thunder and lightning revealed the scene, Chu Han stood among the severed heads with his axe in hand.
• Chu Han swung the Asura Battle Axe at the surrounding zombies, Abomination Humans, and researchers as the torrential rain began.

Chu Han used the darkness and torrential rain to slaughter the researchers, variants, and zombies around him, while the chaos kept his enemies from locating him. Meanwhile, Jiang Tianqing raced toward Chenxing and stopped after spotting something shocking ahead.

• The researchers ordered the variants to direct the zombies toward Chu Han, but Chu Han charged into the horde and began cutting them down with his Asura Battle Axe.
• Chu Han killed the researcher who ordered Yuan Xiye to be taken back, then attacked more targets as the rain weakened the zombies’ ability to track him.
• Chu Han used his third-tier Precision Talent to fight unseen, causing humans, variants, and zombies to attack and kill one another in the darkness.
• Jiang Tianqing ran toward Chenxing through the rain, worried that Chu Han had already rushed inside, and stopped after seeing a shocking scene ahead.

Jiang Tianqing and the others discovered that the five-thousand-strong zombie horde, the mutants, and the fake military force had all been killed, but they could not find Chu Han. Major General An Ze arrived by helicopter, was horrified by the corpses, and encountered Ding Siyao.

• Jiang Tianqing cautiously approached the street and saw hundreds of dead zombies piled ahead while the battle continued in the darkness.
• After the rain stopped, Ding Siyao, Li Yi, and Wei An waited anxiously for news of Chu Han as the zombie sounds fell silent.
• Helicopters arrived and illuminated the street, revealing that all five thousand zombies, the mutants, and the researchers were dead.
• An Ze ordered his helicopters to land despite a warning from the radio, then panicked when he saw the mass of corpses.
• An Ze spotted Ding Siyao and demanded to know what he was doing there.

After Chu Han returned from slaughtering the remaining researchers at Chenxing, he found his mother and collapsed to his knees beside her, overwhelmed by guilt over what had happened. An Ze moved to attack him, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Ding Siyao dismissed An Ze's demands and searched the corpse-covered street for Chu Han.
• An Ze tried to intimidate Li Yi and Wei An, but they ignored him as they searched for Chu Han.
• Chu Han appeared battered and bloodied, told An Ze to get out of his way, and knocked him aside as he walked past.
• Chu Han knelt beside his mother while Wei An wiped the blood and filth from him.
• An Ze approached Chu Han, threatening him as Chu Han remained beside his mother.

Chu Han stopped An Ze from approaching his mother and threatened anyone who came closer, while Ding Siyao disarmed An Ze and revealed Chu Han’s identity. The soldiers recognized Chu Han as a famous powerhouse, and the chapter ended with Shang Jiudi arriving by helicopter.

• Chu Han drove his Asura Battle Axe into the ground beside An Ze’s boot, terrifying him and warning that anyone who approached would die.
• An Ze drew his pistol at Chu Han, but Ding Siyao pressed a sniper rifle to An Ze’s temple and threatened to shoot him.
• Ding Siyao identified Chu Han, and the soldiers reacted with astonishment at meeting the famous Tier 3 Evolver.
• A military helicopter from Beijing landed nearby as Chu Han continued to focus on his mother.
• Shang Jiudi stepped out of the helicopter, surprising the soldiers and drawing An Ze’s admiration.

Shang Jiudi arrived and rebuked An Ze for accusing Chu Han, revealing that Chu Han had once beheaded a major general in front of Wen Qisheng. She then knelt beside Chu Han before his injured mother, Yuan Xiye, and declared that she was kneeling before her mother-in-law.

• An Ze tried to win Shang Jiudi's favor and urged her to punish Chu Han for defying his orders.
• Shang Jiudi asked who An Ze thought he was and warned that Chu Han had beheaded a major general in front of Wen Qisheng.
• Shang Jiudi walked over to Chu Han, who was kneeling before Yuan Xiye, and knelt beside him.
• Shang Jiudi explained to the stunned soldiers that Yuan Xiye was her mother-in-law.