Chapter Summaries

Chu Han recognized the legendary spear fighter Xu Feng and learned that the purple-haired woman battling him was Ling Ruo, captain of Huaxia’s Wolf Fang Reserve Team. Ling Ruo formally requested Chu Han’s help against Xu Feng, but he refused, leaving the two enemies facing him.

• Chu Han recognized Xu Feng as the powerful, solitary ranking-seizer known for his spear mastery.
• Chu Han assessed the damage from Xu Feng and the purple-haired woman’s battle and wondered why he had never heard of her.
• The purple-haired woman asked Chu Han to join forces against Xu Feng after seeing his General’s Badge, but Chu Han refused.
• The woman identified herself as Ling Ruo, codename Eleven, and claimed command of Huaxia’s Wolf Fang Reserve Team.
• Chu Han realized Ling Ruo had returned from a mission in Southeast Asia and guessed that she and Xu Feng would have fought to the death without his intervention.

Chu Han tried to stop Ling Ruo and Xu Feng from fighting over a mutated dog, using their shared exhaustion and the danger of their duel to persuade them to listen. He argued that Ling Ruo had been right to kill the dog and made Xu Feng confront how it had changed; Xu Feng was left visibly pained.

• Ling Ruo asked Chu Han to join forces with her against Xu Feng, but Chu Han refused and said fighting and killing were bad.
• Ling Ruo revealed that Xu Feng had hunted her for ten days, and Xu Feng explained that she had killed his beloved dog.
• Ling Ruo said the mutated dog had slaughtered people at a small base, while Chu Han urged Xu Feng to raise another dog, provoking both fighters.
• Chu Han stepped between them and argued that their evenly matched fight could leave one dead and the survivor crippled.
• Chu Han defended Ling Ruo for killing a zombie dog that had harmed people and asked Xu Feng to consider whether his mutated pet might eventually eat him.
• Xu Feng jolted with pain as Chu Han pointed out that the dog had become brutal and had tried to eat him several times.

Chu Han stopped Xu Feng from attacking Ling Ruo by using Wang Cai’s absurd dog bark to distract him, then recruited Xu Feng while Ling Ruo refused to join. He confronted them about the enormous crack and missing soldiers, claiming authority as a general and declaring Xu Feng his subordinate.

• Chu Han told Xu Feng that Ling Ruo had freed his mutated dog, which had already died when it became a zombie.
• Chu Han made Wang Cai bark, then offered to find Xu Feng a dog that sounded like a rabbit, dispelling Xu Feng’s murderous intent toward Ling Ruo.
• Chu Han declared that Xu Feng had agreed to follow him, while Ling Ruo refused to join because she did not want to work with Xu Feng.
• Chu Han asked Xu Feng and Ling Ruo whether they had caused the enormous crack that separated his team and left more than a hundred soldiers missing.
• Chu Han argued that he could question Ling Ruo because he was a general, then told Xu Feng that he could question him because Xu Feng was his subordinate.

Chu Han charged Xu Feng and Jiang Lingruo for the damage caused by their fight, leaving Jiang Lingruo penniless and forcing Xu Feng to work off his debt. After his scattered force regrouped, Chu Han planned to march on foot to Anluo City within three months while training the group along the way.

• Chu Han questioned Xu Feng and Jiang Lingruo about the fissure, then billed each of them fifty thousand Reforging Coins for the damage and disruption.
• Jiang Lingruo paid with her crystals but still owed money, while Xu Feng was detained and made to work for Chu Han.
• Two days later, Liu Yuding and Cheng Xianguo arrived with the main force, and Liu Yuding told Chu Han that Gu Liangchen still refused to explain himself.
• Chu Han dismissed further questioning of Gu Liangchen, and Liu Yuding praised Li Bifeng for taking control during the crisis.
• Chu Han told Liu Yuding that the group would travel on foot and reach Anluo City within three months.
• While waiting for the remaining people to arrive, Chu Han drafted an intensive training plan to strengthen the group without losing anyone.

Xu Feng secretly read Chu Han’s detailed three-month training plan and was horrified by its brutal zombie hunts and live-combat exercises. He found his own personalized punishment at the end, but left the tent torn between fleeing and staying to see the training begin.

• Chen Shaoye avoided Chu Han for three days after glimpsing the training program.
• Xu Feng sneaked into Chu Han’s tent and read the plan, including escalating twenty-four-hour zombie hunts and dangerous competitions between two teams.
• Xu Feng admired the plan’s precise safety limits and realized it could transform the hundred trainees and strengthen their cohesion.
• Xu Feng found his name on the final page, where Chu Han prescribed throwing him into a cesspit for discipline.
• Xu Feng left the tent unsure whether to flee, while Chu Han opened his eyes and put away the plan.

After a month of training, Chu Han reviewed his team’s progress and prepared to recruit survivors from a nearby village. He silenced his trained soldiers’ response to the survivors’ insults, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Chu Han reviewed the training schedule with Liu Yuding, who reported that thirty team members had become Evolvers and sixty-eight were New Humans.
• Chu Han announced that the next zombie-slaughter sessions would take the team into cities and asked about the two hundred displaced survivors in the village.
• Despite Liu Yuding’s warning that the survivors would be difficult to control, Chu Han ordered him to gather all two hundred people.
• The displaced survivors crowded the village clearing, demanded food, and leered at Ding Xue and Chu Xia while Chu Han’s hundred soldiers stood in formation.
• When Liu Yuding called for quiet, the survivors ignored him and insulted Chu Han; Chu Han restrained his soldiers’ anger, and the survivors became bolder.

Chu Han intimidated the refugees who resented his group taking over their village, then challenged them to stop acting helpless and prove their worth. Li Chuan described his combat record, leaving the refugees stunned as Chu Han’s group prepared to show that ordinary people could fight zombies.

• Chu Han demolished the village’s last intact house with a punch, silencing the crowd.
• Chu Han told the refugees that his army had earned the right to take the village and warned them not to expect his resources or provoke him.
• When refugees protested that ordinary people could not fight zombies like New Humans, Chu Han said half his soldiers were ordinary people.
• Chu Han asked Li Chuan to confirm his status, and Li Chuan identified himself as an ordinary-person sergeant.
• Li Chuan listed the battles he had fought alongside Chu Han and the zombies he had killed, astonishing the refugees.

After Chu Han shamed the Refugees for giving up on their own survival, many chased after his army, hoping to enlist. Liu Yuding began registering those who endured the journey, as the army prepared to enter a city for live-combat training.

• Li Chuan reported his battlefield record, and Chu Han used his achievements to confront the Refugees with their own cowardice and inaction.
• Chu Han ordered his army to march on without taking the Refugees in, explaining to Liu Yuding that he wanted people willing to choose their own fate.
• More than half the Refugees chased after the army, and Chu Han told Liu Yuding to accept those who could endure.
• After a day of travel and zombie fights, only about a hundred Refugees remained, including five New Humans.
• Liu Yuding warned the remaining Refugees that enlistment meant strict discipline and dangerous live-combat training, then registered those who agreed.

Chu Han began survival training by dividing two hundred soldiers and refugees into twenty teams and announcing they would enter Ling City, a city with five hundred thousand zombies. He ordered them to survive there for three days and search for the Super Zombie, leaving the recruits frightened as Xiao Qi tried to ask a question.

• Chu Han ordered Liu Yuding to mix the original soldiers with the refugees and divide all two hundred people into twenty teams.
• Chu Han told the teams that Ling City held five hundred thousand zombies and explained that one in every five hundred thousand zombies could produce a Super Zombie with the potential to become a Zombie King.
• Chu Han ordered the teams to survive in Ling City for three days, search for traces of its Super Zombie, and assemble at the city's center afterward.
• Xiao Qi nervously raised his hand to ask a question, and Liu Yuding reminded him to state his name and rank and salute.
• Xiao Qi introduced himself without a rank and gave a clumsy salute, prompting laughter, while Xu Xianglong demonstrated a proper salute and asked to show Xiao Qi how to do it.

Chu Han punished the Wolf Fang soldiers for mocking the refugees, then explained that survival training in Ling City would be real combat and only survivors could join the regular army. He sent sixteen squads into the city and revealed that the exercise would test human nature as well as survival, including how recruits reacted to betrayal.

• Chu Han ordered the hundred soldiers to do push-ups for mocking their comrades, and Liu Yuding led them in obeying the punishment.
• Chu Han told Xiao Qi that recruits would enter Ling City with empty packs, search for clues about a Super Zombie, and earn a place in the army only by surviving.
• Chu Han warned that anyone who withdrew or acted with ulterior motives would be blacklisted, and Liu Yuding recorded the names of those who left.
• Chu Han reorganized the remaining 160 people into sixteen squads and sent them into Ling City in batches.
• Liu Yuding and Xu Feng questioned Chu Han's decision to include inexperienced refugees, and Chu Han said the training would test their responses to betrayal as well as their survival skills.

Chu Han explained his plans to train and recruit refugees while Liu Yuding and Xu Feng questioned him. At Wolf Fang Base, He Feng brought Shang Jiudi news and documents, then revealed he was acting on his own rather than for Shangjing Base.

• Chu Han told Liu Yuding that the refugees' trial would be both survival training and a selection process, and he planned to incorporate survivors into the regular army.
• Chu Han reassured Liu Yuding that Gu Liangchen would not betray them, then kicked Xu Feng for failing to call him Commander.
• He Feng arrived at Shang Jiudi's office with Ding Siyao and offered her two pieces of news and two sets of documents.
• Shang Jiudi refused the documents, but He Feng told her that Chu Han and his army had disappeared.
• Shang Jiudi dismissed the news because Chu Han still ranked first on the Tier 3 Battle Power Ranking, and He Feng said the documents intended for Chu Han could go to her.
• Shang Jiudi told He Feng she had severed ties with Shangjing, and He Feng replied that he represented only himself, leaving her stunned.

He Feng asked Shang Jiudi to cooperate with him and the Tiger Fang Team, offering documents that exposed turmoil among Shangjing Base’s leaders and an encrypted letter hidden in its archives. Shang Jiudi began decrypting the letter, while Ding Siyao realized Shangjing Base faced a serious, unexplained crisis.

• He Feng told Shang Jiudi that Chu Han had disappeared and that Jiang Lingruo had returned to Shangjing before leaving again.
• He Feng gave Shang Jiudi records of a real-name vote to strip Chu Han of his general rank, which had been derailed when Chu Han topped the Tier Three Battle Power Ranking.
• He Feng showed Shang Jiudi an original Encrypted Letter he had taken from Shangjing Base’s confidential archives and explained that someone had kept it from receiving attention.
• Shang Jiudi recognized the letter’s signature as unfamiliar and began decrypting the message.
• Ding Siyao listened to their discussion and feared that Shangjing Base’s upper ranks were in chaos over a grave threat.

He Feng told Shang Jiudi and Ding Siyao that an intercepted Encrypted Letter concerned the Rothschild Family’s plans to come to China, and the three debated how to handle the dangerous information. He Feng revealed that Chu Han and his three hundred troops had disappeared, leaving Shang Jiudi to consider preparations without him.

• Shang Jiudi translated the Encrypted Letter and discovered that it concerned the Rothschild Family coming to China.
• He Feng explained that the letter had been intercepted and argued that returning it or giving it to Shangjing’s leaders could trigger chaos.
• Ding Siyao urged He Feng and Shang Jiudi to return the letter, but Shang Jiudi agreed with He Feng that they could not.
• Shang Jiudi asked why He Feng had not brought the matter to Chu Han, and He Feng said Chu Han and his three hundred troops had vanished.
• He Feng said he feared Chu Han would tear up the letter and described his suspicion that Chu Han could anticipate future upheavals.

He Feng, Shang Jiudi, and Ding Siyao discussed the Rothschild Family’s arrival and concluded that China’s Bai Family might be the reason the Rothschilds were wary. He Feng then explained Chu Han’s oath to serve China and told Ding Siyao to remain hidden at Wolf Fang Base as He Feng began secretly moving Tiger Fang Team members there.

• He Feng told Shang Jiudi and Ding Siyao that he had come to show goodwill and pointed out that the Rothschild Family’s careful etiquette suggested it feared something in China.
• Shang Jiudi realized that the Rothschilds might be wary of the Bai Family, and He Feng said Shangjing’s position gave them a natural advantage.
• He Feng reminded Ding Siyao that Chu Han’s oath was to remain loyal to and serve China, not any individual leader.
• He Feng told Ding Siyao to keep hiding at Wolf Fang Base because Shangjing believed he was dead.
• He Feng revealed that he would send Tiger Fang Team members on missions, mark them dead, and have Ding Siyao receive them at Wolf Fang Base.

He Feng connected Chu Han’s actions, the Dragon Tooth Squad’s report, and Yuan Xiye to the mysterious organization Mensa, while Chu Han’s squads entered zombie-infested Ling City to search for a Super Zombie. The chapter ended with Li Bifeng’s squad charging toward the city center without searching, as Chen Shaoye and Xu Xianglong complained about finding no food.

• He Feng told Ding Siyao that Fan had seen Chu Han address a crowd whose members had mostly changed faces, and revealed that he had kept the Dragon Tooth Squad’s discovery quiet.
• He Feng asked about Yuan Xiye and Mensa, then concluded that Chu Han might have been the person who stole records from the records room.
• Sixteen squads entered Ling City separately and advanced toward the city center while veterans trained their new recruits.
• Li Bifeng’s squad killed zombies at a rapid pace, forgot to search for the Super Zombie, and decided to rule out their route instead.
• Chen Shaoye and Xu Xianglong searched a filthy steakhouse and complained that it had no food.

Chu Xia tried to keep the chaotic Third Squad focused on its city survival mission, reasoning that Chu Han’s seemingly simple assignment must conceal a more important objective. She concluded that tracking the Super Zombie was their highest priority, while the squad still had two days to search.

• Chen Shaoye and Xu Xianglong led the Second Squad out to find pasta, while the new recruits were astonished by how casually the squad treated its mission.
• Lu Wencheng tested computers in an electronics store, and Lei She explained that most electronic devices had been ruined by the apocalypse.
• Lu Wencheng teased Lei She with a branded mouse, and the two men broke into a fight as the rest of the squad watched in alarm.
• Chu Xia stopped the fight and gathered the squad to analyze their clues, insisting that Chu Han would not have given them an unusually simple mission without a reason.
• Chu Xia recalled the squad’s bizarre sheep-washing training and argued that tracking the Super Zombie was the top priority of their current survival training.

Chu Xia’s group realized that finding the Super Zombie was the real goal of their training, then encountered Wu Yuqiang, who demanded Chu Xia’s clues. Ling Xuan’s arrival gave them a chance to escape, but Xiao Qi was left behind, so the group headed for the food street to seek help from Chen Shaoye’s team.

• Chu Xia showed the group her notes on unusual clues, and they concluded that the Super Zombie was the real focus of the mission.
• Wu Yuqiang kicked down the shop door and demanded their information, while one refugee betrayed the group by pointing out that Chu Xia held it.
• Ling Xuan arrived and challenged Wu Yuqiang, allowing Chu Xia and the others to flee; Lei She killed the traitor as they escaped.
• The group realized Xiao Qi had not caught up, and Chu Xia ordered them toward the food street to find Chen Shaoye’s second team.

Chu Han heard Xu Feng’s report about a traitor and two powerful strangers who had clashed with the Third Squad, including one who resembled Jiang Lingruo. As Xu Feng went back to investigate, Liu Yuding began drafting Wolf Fang’s military regulations, setting him on the path to becoming its feared Military Law Chief.

• Xu Feng reported that most squads were not seriously searching for the Super Zombie and that the Third Squad had encountered a traitor, whom Lei She killed.
• Xu Feng explained that two strangers had attacked and fought each other, allowing the Third Squad to escape; Chu Xia and seven others went to the food street, while Xiao Qi hid.
• Xu Feng said one stranger resembled Jiang Lingruo and was a Tier 5 Evolver, so Chu Han ordered him to return and identify the man.
• Chu Han considered the Jiang brothers and Jiang Lingruo’s growing strength while Liu Yuding introduced himself and asked why Chu Han had been excited.
• Chu Han ordered Liu Yuding to devise an original punishment and continue drafting Wolf Fang Regiment Military Law Regulations.

Chu Han and Wang Cai discussed Bai Yun'er and the Reforging Fragments while a zombie horde gathered after Ling Xuan and Wu Yuqiang's fight. As Chen Shaoye's squad arrived to search for Xiao Qi, they prepared to attack the horde and rescue their comrades.

• Chu Han questioned Wang Cai about Bai Yun'er and learned that Wang Cai had recovered only ten percent of his memories and expected more after the fifth Reforging Fragment.
• Ling Xuan and Wu Yuqiang ended their evenly matched fight when its noise drew a zombie horde, then both left to pursue the special zombie crystal.
• Xiao Qi stayed hidden among collapsed walls as zombies passed without detecting him, while the horde devoured the dead traitor.
• Xu Feng spotted Xiao Qi from a rooftop but hesitated to intervene because Chu Han's training plan forbade him from helping unless a team member faced imminent death.
• Chu Xia, Lu Wencheng, Xu Xianglong, and Chen Shaoye's group arrived, and Chen Shaoye ordered some members to contact nearby squads before rallying the rest to fight.

Chen Shaoye led veterans and recruits in fighting a vast zombie horde by luring zombies over in manageable waves, using each encounter to train the newcomers. The recruits gained confidence and a sense of belonging as the second wave, including a Tier 2 zombie, approached.

• Chen Shaoye ordered Lei She to lure exactly twenty zombies toward the group while the others took their positions.
• Lei She brought the first twenty zombies back, and Chen Shaoye told the squad to kill them within a minute before sending Lei She to fetch thirty more.
• Veterans demonstrated how to kill the zombies and let the recruits handle many of the Tier 1 enemies, helping them overcome their fear and learn to fight.
• The recruits began to understand how Chu Han's method of fighting zombies in small batches had built up Wolf Fang Regiment's impressive kill counts.
• Chen Shaoye prepared everyone for the second wave, which included a Tier 2 zombie charging behind Lei She.