Chapter Summaries

Pan Changxian brought Tier 4 Evolver Zhang Dong to confront Chu Han, who was arguing with an adjutant over a supply voucher for one thousand braised eggs. Zhang Dong launched a deadly attack on Chu Han, and the chapter ended with two crashes and the room falling silent.

• Pan Changxian raged at the silent soldiers, then enlisted Zhang Dong to help him confront Chu Han.
• Chu Han questioned Pan Changxian's adjutant about why he could not fulfill the supply voucher for one thousand fresh braised eggs.
• Zhang Dong kicked down the door and entered with his Tang Saber drawn, while Chen Shaoye grabbed a box of lunch and retreated to a corner.
• Pan Changxian pointed out Chu Han, and Zhang Dong immediately slashed at his neck with a powerful killing move.
• Pan Changxian shouted for Zhang Dong to stop, but two crashes sounded and the room went silent.

Chu Han fought Zhang Dong after Zhang Dong attacked him, revealing overwhelming strength and kicking him through four walls. As Zhang Dong crawled back to ask who Chu Han was, the room’s officials remained terrified, while Chen Shaoye casually ate and realized Chu Han’s axe was missing.

• Chu Han kicked Zhang Dong into a wall, shocking Pan Changxian and the officials who witnessed the attack.
• Zhang Dong unleashed his full life energy and charged Chu Han with his Tang Saber, but the energy surge made Pan Changxian spit blood.
• Chu Han revealed his own life energy and kicked Zhang Dong through four walls, badly injuring him.
• Zhang Dong crawled back through the holes to ask who had defeated him, while Pan Changxian questioned Chu Han’s strength.
• Chen Shaoye ate casually during the stunned silence, then froze when he realized Chu Han’s Asura Battle Axe was missing.

Chu Han confronted Pan Changxian after the supply list was destroyed and demanded the supplies he was owed. He left Pan Changxian with a rewritten list and a one-hour deadline to provide everything or pay in crystals.

• Chu Han picked up scraps of the destroyed supply list while Pan Changxian accused him of wrecking the logistics department and threatened to confiscate his supplies.
• Chu Han slapped Pan Changxian twice, blamed him for starting the fight and destroying the list, and demanded that the supplies be prepared within an hour.
• Pan Changxian ordered his adjutant to prepare the supplies, but the adjutant said the list was destroyed and some items were unavailable.
• Chu Han offered to accept crystals for unavailable items, rewrote the list, and demanded that Pan Changxian provide every item.

Chu Han confronted Pan Changxian over his supply list, forcing the logistics chief to provide the requested goods or exchange them for crystals. Chu Han realized Commander Mu and the other old fox had deliberately used the list to let him put pressure on the logistics department.

• Pan Changxian questioned Chu Han’s unusual supply list, but his adjutant confirmed that the thousand marinated eggs had been on the original list.
• Chu Han admitted he had added a hundred sets of family supplies and claimed he had become sworn brothers with a hundred people.
• Pan Changxian sent a civil official to verify Chu Han’s claim at the inner city gate, where Cheng Xianguo’s group was waiting.
• When the adjutant said the logistics department lacked enough tents, Pan Changxian ordered him to exchange the shortages for crystals and fulfill the rest of Chu Han’s request.
• Chu Han recognized the strange list as a coded message from Commander Mu and the other old fox, encouraging him to pressure Pan Changxian’s logistics department.

Chu Han extorted Pan Changxian after Zhang Dong destroyed the supplies list and attacked him, then accepted a bag of crystals as compensation. Zhang Dong recognized Chu Han as his idol, and the Reforging System revealed that his loyalty had reached 60%.

• Chu Han realized the ruined supplies list gave him an opportunity to demand supplies and crystals from Pan Changxian.
• Zhang Dong crawled through the smashed walls and insisted on learning Chu Han's identity despite his injuries.
• Pan Changxian's adjutant delivered crystals and supplies to Chu Han, including one hundred Tier 4 crystals.
• Zhang Dong grabbed Chu Han's leg, and the Reforging System reported that Zhang Dong's loyalty had reached 60%, recovering 10% of Points.
• Zhang Dong recognized Chu Han as his idol and apologized for attacking him, leaving Pan Changxian shocked.

Chu Han secured supplies, crystals, and helicopters from Pan Changxian by claiming his companions were his family, then reunited with them at the inner city gate. He left Shangjing with Cheng Xianguo, Chen Shaoye, Liu Yuding, and the others.

• Zhang Dong declared loyalty to Chu Han after Chu Han defeated him, while a civil official found Cheng Xianguo and the others waiting at the inner city gate.
• The civil official insulted Chu Han and his companions, so Cheng Xianguo, Yuezi, and the group beat him up.
• Chu Han demanded a hundred sets of general-standard family supplies and recited names from his loyalty list to Pan Changxian.
• After learning the people who beat the civil official were Chu Han's companions, Pan Changxian agreed to provide the supplies and arrange helicopters.
• Chu Han reached the gate with supplies and crystals, watched Jiang Zuo and others depart by helicopter, and led his group out of Shangjing.

After leaving Shangjing Survivor Base, Chu Han left its officials furious over the damage and humiliation he had caused. Commander Mu and Luo Ming praised his actions but worried about his ambition, while Ye Zibo confronted Xie Wei over her failure to gather information from Chen Shaoye.

• Cheng Xianguo and his group loudly backed Chu Han as they followed him out of the Inner City, while Pan Changxian hurried back inside after he left.
• News spread that Chu Han had slapped the head of the Logistics Department and that his family had beaten a clerk, enraging Shangjing’s officials.
• Luo Xiaoxiao kept dismantling a sniper rifle in front of Commander Mu and Luo Ming’s office and said she would find Chu Han and marry him when she turned sixteen.
• Commander Mu and Luo Ming reviewed Chu Han’s actions, praised his success against the Logistics Department, and discussed the risks of supporting him.
• Ye Zibo questioned Xie Wei about her work spying on Chen Shaoye, and she claimed Chen had ignored her attempts to seduce him.

Ye Zibo punished Xie Wei and Pan Changxian for their failures, then hid with them when someone knocked at the door. Duan Jiangwei delivered a fabricated message from Chu Han and left, intending to make Shangjing's turmoil worse.

• Ye Zibo kicked Xie Wei and berated her and Pan Changxian for failing to keep Chu Han from leaving and for their other mistakes.
• Ye Zibo slapped Pan Changxian, who lowered his head and began striking himself, while Zhao Weihao questioned Ye Zibo's intentions.
• When someone knocked, Ye Zibo sent Xie Wei to answer and hid upstairs with Pan Changxian and Zhao Weihao.
• Duan Jiangwei arrived, asked whether Young Master Chen had left, and pretended to pass along a message telling Xie Wei to prepare food for Chu Han's return.
• After Xie Wei shut the door, Duan Jiangwei reflected that he had come to inspect her injuries and hoped his visit would add to Shangjing's chaos.

Ye Zibo’s group realized Duan Jiangwei’s visit might have exposed their plot and hastily changed plans. Meanwhile, Gai Nan revealed that Chu Han was left-handed and carried a finely crafted dark-gold trench knife, leaving Duan Jiangwei startled by how he had concealed it.

• Ye Zibo and Zhao Weihao suspected Duan Jiangwei and Chu Han were connected, concluded their plan might be exposed, and ordered the group to change it.
• Duan Jiangwei asked Gai Nan about Chu Han as they headed to the helicopter.
• Gai Nan recalled that Chu Han had defeated him with a left-handed counterattack during their first fight.
• Gai Nan described Chu Han’s dark-gold, dagger-style trench knife, which he had carried beneath his clothes on his right forearm.
• Duan Jiangwei reacted sharply to the knife’s concealed position and pressed Gai Nan for more details.

Duan Jiangwei learned that Chu Han was left-handed and considered how to use the secret, while Chu Han’s convoy continued north amid growing tension between its two groups. The chapter left off as Liu Yi insulted Cheng Xianguo’s people and the women traveling with them, provoking a furious confrontation.

• Duan Jiangwei told Gai Nan to keep Chu Han’s left-handedness secret and privately considered trading the information or using it to cancel his favors.
• Zhang Dong tried to crawl out of the infirmary to find Chu Han, but the nurse had him carried back to bed.
• Two days after leaving Shangjing Survivor Base, Chu Han’s convoy stopped on a frozen road, where resentment over supplies fueled frequent arguments between Cheng Xianguo’s group and Li Bifeng’s soldiers.
• Liu Yuding noticed Chu Han using a dagger with his left hand, and Chu Han denied being left-handed.
• Liu Yi argued with Yuezi over food, then insulted Cheng Xianguo’s group and the women in the convoy.

As Liu Yi incited the newcomers against Cheng Xianguo’s group, he and the crowd subjected Ding Xue and Chu Xia to obscene abuse. Chu Han stayed inside the jeep while Chen Shaoye’s fury revealed his feelings for Ding Xue, and Liu Yi moved to take her by force.

• Liu Yi accused Cheng Xianguo’s group of hoarding supplies and treating Ding Xue and Chu Xia as camp prostitutes, while Chu Han watched from the jeep without intervening.
• Chen Shaoye and Liu Yuding grew furious at Liu Yi’s insults, and Chu Han surprised them by asking Chen Shaoye whether he liked Ding Xue.
• Chen Shaoye blushed and could not answer, while the crowd joined Liu Yi in cursing Ding Xue and Chu Xia.
• Cheng Xianguo defended the women, and Li Bifeng objected to the crowd’s abuse despite his own dissatisfaction with Chu Han.
• Liu Yi shoved Li Bifeng aside, approached Ding Xue, and declared that he would take her.

Chen Shaoye revealed his deadly sniper skills while defending Ding Xue from the crowd, and Chu Han’s remark pushed him to declare that she was his wife. The chapter ended with Chen Shaoye threatening anyone who dared to harm her.

• Chen Shaoye killed Liu Yi and fired until his magazine was empty, leaving the onlookers stunned by his marksmanship.
• Fan Wencheng challenged Chen Shaoye and insulted Ding Xue, so Chen Shaoye shot him dead without aiming.
• Cheng Xianguo and the others were moved by Chen Shaoye’s defense of Ding Xue, while Chen Shaoye struggled to call her his wife.
• Chu Han addressed Ding Xue as his sister-in-law, prompting Chen Shaoye to declare that she was his wife and threaten anyone who bullied her.

Chen Shaoye protected Ding Xue by declaring her his wife and killing the men who had insulted her, revealing his terrifying marksmanship to the assembled survivors. While Liu Yuding stood guard, Chu Han prepared the Asura Battle Axe and watched the crowd, intending to test how they would respond to a crisis.

• Chen Shaoye declared Ding Xue his wife and threatened the crowd after killing the men who had attacked and insulted her.
• Ding Xue and the others realized Chen Shaoye had killed with extraordinary precision, including Tier 3 Evolver Fan Wencheng.
• Chu Han drew the curtain and ordered Liu Yuding to guard the jeep while he prepared to assemble a weapon.
• Chu Han opened a box that held food, took the Asura Battle Axe from Dimensional Space, and watched the crowd as he considered testing their courage during a crisis.

Chen Shaoye demanded that everyone who had insulted Ding Xue step forward and apologize, alarming the crowd into thinking he planned to kill them. He insisted on the apologies despite warnings about the consequences, but a muttered accusation challenged his claim that Ding Xue was his wife.

• Chen Shaoye ordered the crowd to line up and identify everyone who had insulted Ding Xue, while Li Bifeng questioned his intentions.
• Li Bifeng and other Evolvers accused Chen Shaoye of going too far, and Ding Xue and Cheng Xianguo warned him about the consequences of killing people assigned by Shangjing Base.
• Chen Shaoye clarified that he wanted the offenders to apologize to Ding Xue, not be killed, and called her his wife.
• Li Bifeng urged the offenders to apologize, and several stepped forward as Chen Shaoye demanded that more join them.
• Someone in the crowd muttered that Chen Shaoye and Ding Xue were not really husband and wife and that he had invented the claim as an excuse.

Chu Han watched as Chen Shaoye silenced accusations about Ding Xue, but a Tier 4 zombie and a massive horde suddenly attacked the group. The soldiers and survivors fell into panic, while Chu Han judged their lack of unity from inside the jeep.

• Chu Han and Wang Cai discussed how few members of the group might become loyal to Chu Han's team.
• The crowd challenged Chen Shaoye's claim that Ding Xue was his wife, but Chen Shaoye defended their private relationship and urged everyone to focus on fighting zombies and building the base.
• A hidden attacker killed a soldier, and the group initially mistook the sudden chaos for a zombie attack.
• A silent Tier 4 zombie appeared and killed two people as Li Bifeng recognized the danger.
• A vast zombie horde charged from the intersection, and the group panicked and scattered.
• Chu Han shut the jeep's curtain and condemned the group as cowards.

A sudden horde of more than four thousand zombies exposed the Shangjing Base fighters’ panic, while Cheng Xianguo organized his group to fight and retreat. Chu Han stayed inside to test their limits as Li Bifeng led a charge into the horde, and Ding Xue questioned Chen Shaoye for guarding her without shooting.

• Cheng Xianguo organized his group around the vehicles, assigning weaker fighters to shelter and directing Evolvers and shooters to slow the zombies while they retreated.
• The Shangjing Base fighters panicked, fought over vehicles, and blamed Chu Han for not coming out to fight, while Liu Yuding refused to let them into his vehicle.
• Chu Han watched from inside and chose to see how far Cheng Xianguo’s group could manage without his help.
• Li Bifeng led more than twenty people into the zombie horde, attacking the zombies with fierce enthusiasm.
• Chen Shaoye carried Ding Xue into a vehicle and stood guard without firing, prompting Ding Xue to ask why he had not shot.

A zombie horde trapped the convoy as Shangjing Base’s people sabotaged Cheng Xianguo’s vehicles and descended into infighting. Chen Shaoye rallied a small group of elite soldiers to fight, while Ding Xue joined the battle with a gun.

• Chen Shaoye dodged Ding Xue’s question by saying he liked meat buns as the zombie horde rushed into the road.
• Cheng Xianguo tried to organize Shangjing Base’s people, but they shot out his group’s tires and fought over the remaining vehicles.
• Cheng Xianguo ordered his people to abandon the jeeps and fight from behind them as the zombies closed in.
• A group of elite soldiers joined Cheng Xianguo’s team, and Chen Shaoye ordered the Evolvers to fight while the soldiers handed their guns to ordinary fighters.
• Ding Xue took Xu Xianglong’s gun, climbed into a vehicle’s rear compartment, and fired at the horde.

As a massive zombie horde closed in, Chu Han took command and ordered the soldiers to organize into combat groups. He demanded that the Shangjing elites obey his orders or die.

• Chen Shaoye shot a Tier 3 zombie with a sniper rifle, and Chu Han told him the crystal’s value would be deducted from his salary.
• The second wave of zombies overwhelmed the defenders, with Tier 2 and Tier 3 zombies attacking the largest concentration of people.
• Cheng Xianguo asked Chu Han what to do, and Chu Han ordered the fighters to form five-person groups with designated roles.
• Cheng Xianguo’s veterans quickly organized, while the twenty Shangjing elites gathered to await separate assignments.
• Chu Han ordered the elites to join the groups and warned them to obey or die.

Chu Han forced the elite Evolvers to join ordinary soldiers, then used a bloodied corpse to draw a thousand zombies into a loose encirclement. He left the hundred soldiers to advance in squads and fight the horde, turning the dangerous battle into extreme training.

• Liu Yuding slapped a defiant soldier, ordered the Evolvers to join squads, and accepted Chu Han’s punishment of three months’ pay.
• Chen Shaoye took up an ordinary sniper rifle and watched from a jeep with Ding Xue.
• Chu Han ordered the hundred soldiers to form a circle around the approaching zombies, while he used a corpse’s blood to lure the horde toward the center.
• Liu Yuding realized Chu Han had built a wall from zombie body parts to keep the horde at bay while training the troops.
• Chu Han ordered the soldiers to close in by squads and kill the surrounded zombies.

Chu Han’s squads advanced in coordinated waves, killing zombies with striking efficiency and bringing down a Tier 2 zombie through teamwork. Xu Xianglong watched in disbelief, then finally joined the fight as the encirclement closed in.

• Xu Xianglong watched his squad’s four members work together to kill five Tier 1 zombies without anyone getting hurt.
• Chu Han noticed the first wave had ended and ordered the group to keep advancing, tightening the encirclement for a second attack.
• Two squads coordinated their gunfire and melee attacks to kill a Tier 2 zombie, with Yuezi delivering the final blow.
• Yuezi ordered his squad to collect the crystal and return to its position, while Xu Xianglong remained stunned by how easily the group had won.
• Li Chuan criticized Xu Xianglong for slacking off, and Xu Xianglong drew his broadsword and joined the battle.