Chapter Summaries

The four squads worked together to eliminate more than two thousand zombies without losing anyone, while the recruits grew into capable fighters. After Chen Shaoye ordered everyone to search for Xiao Qi, they found him alive in hiding, and he revealed that his Enhancer ability let him conceal his presence and scent.

• Xu Xianglong killed the Tier 2 zombie while Lei She and the recruits fought off successive waves under Chen Shaoye's command.
• Squad Seven and Squad Ten joined the formation, and the four squads defeated increasingly large waves of zombies while veterans coached the recruits.
• Xu Feng realized Chu Han's assigned routes had brought the squads together near the city center, where they could support one another and fight the dense horde effectively.
• The combined force killed more than two thousand zombies without casualties, with the New Humans, veterans, and recruits each contributing many kills.
• Chen Shaoye ordered everyone to find Xiao Qi, who emerged from hiding and explained that his Enhancer ability concealed his presence and scent.

Chu Han guided Liu Yuding in creating memorable, non-corporal military punishments and gave him authority to punish all offenders equally. After Chu Han inferred that several squads had won a major battle, Liu Yuding returned with humiliating punishment rules so extreme that Chu Han was horrified.

• Chu Han told Liu Yuding to tailor Level One punishments to offenders’ weaknesses, suggesting that First Squad assist a better-informed squad and that idle squads wash soldiers’ filthy socks.
• Chu Han authorized Liu Yuding to punish every offender, including high-ranking officers, and ordered him to draft a large set of punishments across five severity levels.
• Wang Cai told Chu Han that several recruits’ loyalty had risen, and Chu Han deduced that the squads had fought a major battle and won after a zombie horde was drawn in.
• Liu Yuding brought Chu Han his proposed Level Two punishments, which included soldiers hopping and singing, crawling through the base, and making faces while standing guard.
• Chu Han stared at Liu Yuding in horror after reading the humiliating punishments.

Chu Han approved Liu Yuding’s harsh military punishments while Xu Feng praised the squads’ success against the zombies. As the squads resumed their mission in Ling City, the Fourth Squad encountered Ling Xuan, and Zeng Yao challenged their decision to let him pass.

• Chu Han told Liu Yuding to draft increasingly severe punishments for the military law code, and Liu Yuding eagerly returned to work.
• Xu Feng reported that four squads had wiped out two thousand zombies without casualties, earning Chu Han’s pride and Wang Cai’s admiration.
• The next morning, the sixteen squads set out again in Ling City while Chu Han monitored them from a rooftop with Liu Yuding.
• Ling Xuan encountered Gu Liangchen’s Fourth Squad, and the disciplined soldiers stepped aside to let him pass without speaking.
• After Ling Xuan left, Zeng Yao mocked the Fourth Squad for backing down and questioned whether their battlefield victories were real.

Gu Liangchen struck Zeng Yao for insulting Ding Xue and Chu Xia, then sentenced her to death under the Wolf Fang Regiment’s rules. As he prepared to carry out the sentence, a curved blade knocked his saber away.

• Li Chuan confronted Zeng Yao after she insulted Ding Xue and Chu Xia, and she responded by provoking the veterans further.
• Gu Liangchen slapped Zeng Yao and told the recruits how Ding Xue had killed a First-order Evolver after another team mocked the Wolf Fang Regiment.
• Gu Liangchen explained that the army judged people as brave or cowardly, while Li Chuan revealed Ding Xue and Chu Xia’s connections to Huaxia’s military leadership.
• Zeng Yao begged for mercy, but Gu Liangchen sentenced her to death for mocking Chu Han and humiliating her comrades.
• A curved blade struck Gu Liangchen’s saber from his hand as he prepared to execute Zeng Yao.

Wu Yuqiang attacked Gu Liangchen’s squad, then abducted Zeng Yao after learning they might serve under Chu Han. Half a day later, he threatened Zeng Yao in an insect-filled room and questioned whether the squad belonged to the military.

• Wu Yuqiang struck Gu Liangchen with a curved blade and mocked his squad, while Gu Liangchen recognized him as a Tier 5 Evolver.
• Zeng Yao tried to ingratiate herself with Wu Yuqiang, but he stomped on her and then carried her away at high speed.
• Gu Liangchen and Li Chuan discussed the danger posed by the two powerful Evolvers and decided to hurry to the rendezvous point and report to Officer Chu Han.
• Xu Feng watched from a distance and realized he had encountered the two Tier 5 Evolvers again.
• Half a day later, Wu Yuqiang threw Zeng Yao into a room full of virus-carrying insects and threatened her before asking whether her squad was military.

Wu Yuqiang questioned Zeng Yao about Chu Han’s unit in Ling City, and she revealed its size, leadership, and mission in exchange for supplies. The chapter left Wu Yuqiang believing Chu Han’s force was small as Zeng Yao claimed they had been sent to search for a Super Zombie.

• Wu Yuqiang slapped Zeng Yao and demanded to know whether Chu Han’s unit consisted of soldiers.
• Zeng Yao confirmed that Chu Han was with the unit, and Wu Yuqiang pressed her for details about its strength and purpose.
• Zeng Yao described the unit as having about 160 people, said its hundred soldiers had killed a thousand zombies, and named Liu Yuding as a major general.
• Wu Yuqiang gave Zeng Yao food and water and promised her crystals for answering his questions.
• Zeng Yao said Chu Han had ordered the unit to search Ling City for a Super Zombie for three days, and she complained that the mission endangered them.

Wu Yuqiang learned that Chu Han had split his 160-person force into smaller teams and, underestimating him, decided to kill him and his army for the bounty. Jiang Lingxuan announced that he would withdraw from the fight over the Super Zombie, then left while remaining wary of Chu Han.

• Zeng Yao told Wu Yuqiang that Chu Han had divided the 160 refugees into sixteen teams, and Wu Yuqiang snapped her neck before zombie bugs devoured her corpse.
• Wu Yuqiang dismissed Chu Han as a fool and considered how much his price would rise if he killed a general and wiped out his army.
• Jiang Lingxuan revealed that he had been listening outside for five minutes and criticized Wu Yuqiang's poor vigilance.
• Jiang Lingxuan said he no longer wanted the Super Zombie and would leave the fight, while privately respecting Chu Han's combat reputation.
• Wu Yuqiang declared that he would kill Chu Han and his army for the bounty and the value of Chu Han's black giant axe, and Jiang Lingxuan departed.

After battling zombies, Gu Liangchen's Fourth Squad encountered a guarded father and daughter and left them alone. The father and the silent girl continued through the city, with the girl choosing a deep alley.

• The exhausted Fourth Squad rested after fighting zombies, and Gu Liangchen said his injured arm prevented him from fighting intensely.
• The squad met a wary middle-aged father shielding his young daughter, and Li Chuan led the soldiers away to avoid alarming them.
• The Fourth Squad speculated that the girl and her father had suffered harm and that they feared seeking shelter in a base.
• Gu Liangchen wondered whether someone had been following the squad, then dismissed the thought.
• The father asked his daughter where they should go, and she pointed toward a deep alley.

Chu Han used Xu Feng to confront Jiang Lingxuan and probe his connection to Jiang Lingruo, but Jiang Lingxuan refused to cooperate and left. Chu Han then revealed that he would seek Jiang Lingtian, the Divine Thief, by force to obtain something crucial.

• Xu Feng confronted Jiang Lingxuan on the avenue while Chu Han watched.
• Chu Han mentioned Jiang Lingruo, and Jiang Lingxuan reacted with concern before claiming that he and his sister were enemies.
• Chu Han pretended that Xu Feng wanted revenge on Jiang Lingxuan for Jiang Lingruo killing his pet dog, then invited Jiang Lingxuan to join him.
• Jiang Lingxuan sheathed his Tang Saber, refused Chu Han’s offer, and left without a fight.
• Xu Feng asked why Chu Han had let Jiang Lingxuan go, and Chu Han explained that he planned to find Jiang Lingtian, the Divine Thief, by force.

The Wolf Fang Regiment’s squads reunited at a supermarket and mistook a formation of more than a thousand zombie corpses outside for the First Squad’s work. After learning that unknown strangers had killed the zombies and contacted squads during the training, the group suspected the strangers were demonstrating their strength and declaring war.

• Thirteen squads gathered at the supermarket, where the First Squad’s Li Bifeng claimed to have killed over a thousand zombies during the past three days.
• Lu Wencheng praised the orderly zombie corpses outside as a welcoming display, and the squads celebrated the First Squad’s supposed achievement.
• The Fourth Squad arrived, and Li Chuan learned that Li Bifeng had not killed the zombies arranged outside the supermarket.
• Lu Wencheng urged the squads to investigate, and members revealed that their squads had encountered groups of strangers during training.
• Gu Liangchen reported that the Fourth Squad had met four strangers, and Li Chuan concluded that the zombie display was a hostile declaration of war.

Chen Shaoye recognized that Chu Han had killed the zombies outside the supermarket, and the assembled squads compared reports of strangers they had met in Ling City. They discovered that fourteen squads had encountered the same wary father and daughter, who then arrived with the Sixth Squad.

• Chen Shaoye told the squads the neatly arranged zombie corpses were Chu Han’s handiwork, not a declaration of war.
• Chu Xia led the squads in sharing reports of strangers they had encountered on the way to the supermarket.
• The squads realized that all fourteen squads except the First had met the same father and daughter, along with reports of powerful Evolvers and other strangers.
• The Sixth Squad arrived with the father and daughter, and one of its women introduced them as Leng Lie and his daughter.

Chu Han and his officers watched Leng Lie and his mute daughter join the soldiers, while Chu Han concluded that their repeated encounters with the squads had been deliberate. He descended with Liu Yuding to inspect the squads and began asking them to report their task completion.

• Chu Xia asked the girl her name, and Leng Lie explained that his daughter was mute because she had screamed until her vocal cords were damaged.
• The Sixth Squad asked to let Leng Lie and his daughter stay near the stove until Chu Han returned, and most of the group agreed.
• Gu Liangchen watched the girl while Xu Feng told Chu Han that Leng Lie and his daughter had encountered fifteen squads in succession; Chu Han said the pattern was deliberate.
• Liu Yuding reviewed military regulations and eagerly listed violations, while Chu Han told Xu Feng to stay behind and brought Liu Yuding downstairs.
• Chu Han inspected the assembled soldiers, counted one hundred and fifty people, and ordered the First Squad to report its task completion.

After the squads returned from their three-day mission, Chu Han revealed Liu Yuding as the Wolf Fang Regiment’s new director of the Military Law Department and began checking whether they had searched for Super Zombies. The reports uncovered two promising analysts, Chu Xia and Gu Liangchen, while First Squad waited to learn whether reaching the destination first could excuse its failure.

• Chu Han confirmed that the mission required the squads to search Ling City for traces of Super Zombies, and Liu Yuding punished Li Chuan for interrupting and refusing an order.
• Liu Yuding introduced himself as the newly appointed director of the Military Law Department, and Chu Han announced that the squads’ mission reports would determine whether they completed the remaining half of the mission.
• Li Bifeng reported that First Squad found no Super Zombie traces, while Chen Shaoye said Second Squad also found none but had helped Third Squad.
• Chu Xia submitted Third Squad’s clues, and Gu Liangchen handed in Fourth Squad’s detailed analysis report, which impressed Chu Han.
• After the sixteenth squad reported, Li Bifeng asked Chu Han whether First Squad’s early arrival could offset its failure to find clues.

Chu Han finished reviewing the squads’ survival-training results, then condemned them for failing to recognize the danger posed by the Super Zombie. He abruptly ordered Gu Liangchen to arrest Leng Lie, leaving the group stunned as Leng Lie’s daughter remained motionless.

• Chu Han ranked Fourth Squad first and Third Squad second, assigned the failed squads punishments, and left further discipline to Liu Yuding.
• Chu Han rebuked the squads for their poor mission results and revealed that only two people had discovered the anomaly, while Xu Feng had secretly watched over them for three days.
• Chu Han released his Tier 4 life force pressure and warned that the Super Zombie could have killed them all if Xu Feng had not followed them.
• Chu Han called Gu Liangchen forward and ordered him to arrest Leng Lie.
• Gu Liangchen pinned Leng Lie to the ground, while Leng Lie’s daughter stayed seated by the stove without reacting.

Chu Han exposed the little girl as a Super Zombie after the group doubted him and attacked her. The chapter ended with her revealing her monstrous face and retreating as Chu Han unleashed his full strength.

• A Squad Six recruit accused Chu Han of abusing his authority, while Chu Han condemned the group for bringing a Super Zombie into their midst.
• Leng Lie insisted that his daughter was human and accused Chu Han of wanting to harm her.
• Chu Han struck the hooded girl with the Asura Battle Axe, but the axe rang against her head without injuring her.
• The girl turned and revealed her pupil-less white eyes, proving to the group that she was a Super Zombie.
• Chu Han unleashed his Tier 4 strength, and the girl retreated with hostility, opening her mouth to reveal sharp teeth and unleashing a piercing cry.

Chu Han fought a Tier 5 Super Zombie that had been mistaken for a little girl, using his combat instincts to sever both its arms and gain the upper hand. Outside, Wu Yuqiang heard the battle and crept toward the supermarket, hoping to profit from the conflict.

• The Super Zombie tore down a wall to launch itself at Chu Han, while the terrified supermarket occupants realized the danger they had brought inside.
• Wu Yuqiang, who had been watching the supermarket, heard explosions and approached, hoping the Super Zombie and Chu Han's side would weaken each other.
• Chen Shaoye called for a gun, and Liu Yuding brought out the team's collection of sniper rifles.
• Chu Han met the charging Super Zombie with the Asura Battle Axe, then kicked it and used a feint to sever both its arms.
• The Super Zombie retreated, bleeding and screaming, as Chu Han pressed his advantage.

Chu Han fought the fifth-tier super zombie, while Leng Lie insisted it was his daughter and pleaded for it to be spared. The chapter ended with Chu Han questioning whether Leng Lie had actually been controlled by the zombie.

• Chu Han exchanged three blows with the super zombie and severed both of its arms before Chen Shaoye could fire.
• Leng Lie begged Chu Han to spare the zombie, claiming it was his daughter and that he had tamed it.
• The super zombie obeyed Leng Lie’s command to stay still, prompting the onlookers to plead for Chu Han to let them go.
• Chu Han released Leng Lie and asked him to name the zombie, state its age, and give its birthday.
• Leng Lie could not answer, and Chu Han asked whether the zombie was controlling him instead.

Chu Han exposed the Super Zombie’s control over Leng Lie and watched it devour him before pursuing the creature. Xu Feng killed the wounded zombie with his Golden Spear, leaving Chu Han furious over the Points he had lost.

• Chu Han explained that Super Zombies could manipulate human thoughts and that zombies could not retain their human memories, throwing Leng Lie into confusion.
• The Super Zombie attacked and ate Leng Lie, regenerating its severed arms as it fed.
• After the group abandoned its hopes of humans and zombies coexisting, Chu Han charged the Super Zombie as it tried to retreat.
• Chu Han wounded the Super Zombie’s neck but could not break its skull with his Asura Battle Axe.
• Xu Feng pierced the Super Zombie’s skull with his Golden Spear, and Chu Han angrily told him to repay the four thousand dollars he had cost him.

Chu Han easily defeated Wu Yuqiang, then forced him to reveal that Dr. Cao’s research institute had sent him after the Super Zombie and that Yin City had offered the highest price for Chu Han’s head. Wu Yuqiang began to explain what he knew about the alien species.

• Wu Yuqiang charged at Chu Han, who kicked him away and ordered Xu Feng to break his limbs.
• Xu Feng shattered Wu Yuqiang’s arms and legs, leaving him terrified and helpless before Chu Han.
• Chu Han threatened Wu Yuqiang with a zombie rat, forcing him to confess that he had captured Zeng Yao and learned about Fourth Squad from her.
• Wu Yuqiang revealed that Dr. Cao’s research institute had issued the mission to obtain the Super Zombie.
• Wu Yuqiang said Yin City had offered the highest reward for Chu Han’s head, and Chu Han thought of Mu Ye.
• Chu Han asked Wu Yuqiang what he knew about the alien species.

After executing Wu Yuqiang, Chu Han punished the fourth and sixth squads by stripping them of their ranks for their failures during the mission. When recruits challenged his leadership and the army’s training, he invited them to keep speaking, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Wu Yuqiang revealed that an escaped mutant was spreading word of Chu Han’s location, and Chu Han ordered Xu Feng to kill him.
• Chu Han gathered the 150 soldiers and stripped the sixth squad of all ranks for its responsibility in the Super Zombie incident.
• Chu Han stripped the fourth squad of all ranks for failing to eliminate the traitor and attracting a Tier 5 Evolver.
• Several recruits complained that Chu Han was biased, punished them unfairly, and made training too dangerous.
• Chu Han coldly invited the recruits to voice more objections, and they continued criticizing the army’s training and promotion rules.