Chapter Summaries

Chu Han assigned Old Gao to lead the Logistics Department after revealing his hidden agricultural credentials, then addressed staffing problems in the base’s construction and surveying work. He asked Jiang Zuo whether he had finished the secret project made with Stinky Vines, and Jiang Zuo confirmed that he had.

• Chu Han named Old Gao head of the Logistics Department and revealed that he had earned a PhD in agriculture and once been denied credit for an award-winning project.
• Su Xing reported that he lacked staff to survey Wolf Fang Base and criticized its defenses, so Chu Han sent him to bring the people aboard the northern river boat back to help.
• Chu Han asked Jiang Zuo if he had completed the project, and Jiang Zuo excitedly asked whether it would make a major contribution.
• The chapter revealed that Jiang Zuo had spent three months researching Stinky Vines with equipment and materials gathered by Wolf Fang Base.

Chu Han discussed base affairs through the night after ordering Jiang Zuo to postpone testing his invention, while the Wolf Fang Regiment guarded the building’s entrance. Their presence sparked a growing confrontation with Wolf Fang Base residents, leaving Gu Liangchen worried that the unrest could harm the regiment and Chu Han’s authority.

• Chu Han postponed examining Jiang Zuo’s untested invention and asked Lu Hongsheng about his work, then spent the night discussing base plans and issuing orders.
• More than two hundred Wolf Fang Regiment members blocked the building’s entrance on Chu Han’s orders, drawing a crowd of curious spectators.
• Lu Bingze called out to Gu Liangchen, and Gu Yiming realized that the Wolf Fang Regiment spokesman was his younger brother.
• A burly fighter and other base residents protested that the Wolf Fang Regiment was obstructing work and disregarding the base’s original residents.
• Gu Liangchen asked Xu Feng how to handle the growing protest, but Xu Feng held firm to Chu Han’s order, leaving Gu Liangchen concerned about the consequences.

Chu Han returned to Wolf Fang Base as survivors protested the Wolf Fang Regiment’s blockade and challenged his authority. He identified the people who had followed Yang Tian on zombie-clearing missions and ordered all five hundred of them to join the Wolf Fang Regiment.

• Survivors at Wolf Fang Base rallied against the Wolf Fang Regiment’s two hundred soldiers for blocking the base’s work, while Xu Feng and Gu Liangchen waited for Chu Han to decide what to do.
• Chu Han emerged from the gate with Shang Jiudi, Yang Tian, Ding Siyao, and others after an all-night meeting, and the gathered crowd questioned his management and the Regiment’s conduct.
• Chu Han challenged the crowd’s complaints and asked everyone who had followed Yang Tian to clear zombies in Anluo City to step forward.
• Five hundred people stepped out, and Chu Han ordered all of them to join the Wolf Fang Regiment and stand on the right.

Chu Han let five hundred protesting New Humans join the Wolf Fang Regiment as reserve soldiers, requiring them to complete ten zombie slaughter training sessions before becoming full members. He introduced the regiment’s elite squads, then revealed that members of the Black Radiance Squad had been standing among the recruits.

• Chu Han accepted the five hundred protesters into the Wolf Fang Regiment as reserve soldiers and announced their training requirement.
• When recruits objected, Yang Tian apologized to Chu Han and declared them unworthy of joining.
• Chu Han summoned the Feather Slayer Squad, whose twenty members marched forward and took positions on the left.
• Chu Han called for the Black Radiance Squad, and more than a dozen recruits stepped out of the crowd to answer.
• Yang Tian, the base officials, and the remaining recruits realized that the Black Radiance Squad members had been living among them.

Chu Han revealed that the Black Radiance Squad and Divine Concealment Squad had been hidden among the five hundred people from Shangjing Survivor Base, alongside the previously revealed Feather Slayer Squad. He then exposed the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team, leaving the remaining recruits with little chance to compete for squad status.

• Chu Han revealed that the Black Radiance Squad had secretly helped Yang Tian improve construction and expand the Anluo City strongholds.
• Chu Han ordered the Black Radiance Squad to join the Feather Slayer Squad on the left side of the field.
• Chu Han called forward the Divine Concealment Squad, and Yang Tian recognized them as the people who had infiltrated the base and helped recruit workers.
• Chu Han ordered the Divine Concealment Squad to take its place beside the other squads as the recruits on the right realized how many of their strongest people belonged to Wolf Fang Regiment.
• Chu Han called out the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team, revealing two more squads among the five hundred recruits.

Chu Han reorganized the Wolf Fang Regiment, putting even the renowned Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team through recruit training while assigning the other units new duties. He announced zombie-slaughter training in Anluo City and ordered three squads to meet him for separate training the next morning.

• Chu Han ordered the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team to join the Wolf Fang Regiment recruits and train together until graduation, while exempting Ding Siyao for other arrangements.
• Chu Han told the recruits that only those who passed his training could join the regiment on the battlefield, and several people withdrew.
• Chu Han ordered the Shooting Squad, led by Chen Shaoye, to resume training the next day.
• Chu Han ordered the remaining veterans and recruits, including the Decoy Team, to reorganize into teams led overall by Gu Liangchen and enter Anluo City for zombie-slaughter training in two days.
• Chu Han told Liu Yuding to explain the rules and reorganize the recruits, then ordered Killing Feather, Black Radiance, and Divine Concealment to meet him at the base entrance at five the next morning.

Chu Han watched Jiang Zuo test a zombie attractant and realized the research had succeeded, giving Wolf Fang Base a way to draw zombies away and clear Anluo City. He ordered mass production while keeping the complete formula secret.

• Chu Han, Shang Jiudi, and Yang Tian entered Jiang Zuo’s laboratory to inspect the research results.
• Jiang Zuo combined a drop of liquid with the solid brown sphere, producing smoke and a stench that Chu Han recognized as a powerful zombie attractant.
• Chu Han declared the research successful and ordered the solid component made into A-marked bullets and the liquid component bottled as B.
• Chu Han explained that B could be placed at a chosen location and an A bullet fired remotely to attract zombies without risking unnecessary casualties.
• Chu Han assigned Jiang Zuo to organize the research materials and Shang Jiudi to divide production work, insisting that A and B be made by separate groups and that only the four of them know the full formula.

Chu Han gave Jiang Zuo plans for rank-advancement and enhancer Awakening Potions, then returned to Wolf Fang Base to face a backlog of documents. When Ding Siyao announced a visit from Duan Family Base, Chu Han accepted its gift and sent Ding Siyao to thank Duan Jiangwei in person.

• Chu Han gave Jiang Zuo research notes for developing rank-advancement and enhancer Awakening Potions from zombie crystals.
• Chu Han went to the administrative office, where Shang Jiudi handed him a large stack of documents awaiting his review and signature.
• Ding Siyao reported that a visitor from Duan Family Base had arrived with supplies delivered by ten helicopters and wanted to meet Chu Han.
• Chu Han accepted the gift and ordered Ding Siyao to accompany the visitor to Duan Family Base to thank Duan Jiangwei, leaving Ding Siyao stunned.

Chu Han handled base affairs, used the third Reforging Fragment to improve his mother's condition, and prepared to lead three squads out from Wolf Fang Base. He left excited by the Divine Concealment Squad's potential to cause trouble for enemy bases.

• Chu Han sent Ding Siyao to Duan Jiangwei with a letter and avoided meeting the Duan Family Base envoy after receiving its gifts and supplies.
• Chu Han spent the day reviewing and revising Wolf Fang Base documents, impressing Shang Jiudi with his decisions.
• Chu Han used the third Reforging Fragment on Yuan Xiye, strengthening her breathing and heartbeat, though she remained unconscious.
• The Wolf Fang Regiment received a warm welcome at the base, while the reserve soldiers avoided Liu Yuding after his punishments.
• At dawn, Chu Han gathered the Feather Slayer Squad, Black Radiance Squad, and Divine Concealment Squad, then kicked the approaching Divine Concealment Squad members to the ground as he considered their potential.

Chu Han explained that the Feather Slayer, Black Radiance, and Divine Concealment Squads were trained to fight human enemies and began teaching them reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance. Meanwhile, Duan Jiangwei nervously questioned Ding Siyao about whether Chu Han had liked Duan Family Base’s congratulatory gift, but Ding Siyao did not know how to answer.

• Chu Han led the three squads into the wilderness and asked what distinguished them from ordinary Wolf Fang units.
• After Xiao Kun identified their targets as the difference, Chu Han explained that the squads were primarily trained to deal with human enemies.
• Chu Han began the squads’ first training session in reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance.
• Duan Jiangwei and Duan Family Base’s leaders received Ding Siyao under close watch after spending the night debating Chu Han’s intentions.
• Duan Jiangwei asked whether Chu Han had been satisfied with the congratulatory gift, leaving Ding Siyao unsure how to respond.

Duan Jiangwei overanalyzed Chu Han’s request to borrow construction crews, while Chu Han began a three-day wilderness tracking exercise for the Wolf Fang Regiment’s Third Combat Team. The training spread across the area around Anluo City and Jianyi Base, whose residents did not know what was coming.

• Ding Siyao told Duan Jiangwei he only knew he was delivering a letter and expressing thanks.
• Duan Jiangwei read Chu Han’s request for a batch of construction crews and consulted Duan Family Base’s executives, who suspected a hidden scheme.
• Ding Siyao choked as the executives spun elaborate theories about Chu Han’s simple request.
• Chu Han led Black Light and Divine Concealment against the Feather Slayer Squad in a three-day exercise where one side hid and the other tracked.
• Chu Han made the squads forage for food and imposed severe punishments on the losing team.

Gu Liangchen led the Wolf Fang Regiment into live-combat training while wrestling with his loyalty to Chu Han, and he assigned Lu Wencheng to a future squad. After three days of training, Chu Han reviewed the squads’ first exercise and began calling out their mistakes.

• Gu Liangchen led the Wolf Fang Regiment toward Anluo City to clear marked zombie locations and train its reserve troops, while worrying that Chu Han had given him enough authority to betray the regiment.
• Gu Liangchen told Lu Wencheng to hand over his squad captaincy after training, intending to select him for one of the understaffed squads Chu Han planned to form.
• Chu Han finished the first three-day training session, impressed by how quickly Black Glow and Divine Concealment learned to hide their tracks.
• Feather Slayer lost the exercise and had to obtain food from Jianyi Base, leaving its members carrying backpacks of jerky for the review.
• Chu Han began reviewing the exercise and teased Li Bifeng for charging ahead without checking whether his teammates followed.
• Chu Han rebuked Lu Bingze for slaughtering a deer after it refused to submit to his attempts to communicate with it.

Chu Han turned Lu Bingze’s idea of recruiting deer into a scheme to win over a herd’s leader, then assigned the squads their next training exercises. Back at Wolf Fang Base, he ignored Duan Jiangwei’s lengthy letter and decided to make Ding Siyao Wolf Fang’s dedicated diplomat to Duan Family Base.

• Chu Han advised Lu Bingze to have others beat a herd’s stag nearly to death so Lu Bingze could save it and gain the herd’s loyalty.
• Chu Han assigned Feather Slayer to practice concealment and Black Mang and Divine Shadow to practice tracking for the next three days.
• Ding Siyao reported that he had brought back two hundred construction workers from Duan Family Base and handed Chu Han a letter from Duan Jiangwei.
• Chu Han tossed the unopened letter aside and told Ding Siyao to find out whether Su Xing had returned with the reserve unit.
• Chu Han ordered Wang Cai to burn the letter and explained that he wanted Ding Siyao to serve as Wolf Fang Base’s diplomat to Duan Family Base.

Chu Han assigned Su Xing and Wang Shixiong’s survey team to plan a military-style Wolf Fang Base and prioritize key locations, while insisting survivors could live in Anluo City. Meanwhile, Gu Liangchen led the Wolf Fang Regiment home after its recruits killed over ten thousand zombies without losing anyone, and the residents’ welcome left the returning soldiers and Gu Liangchen deeply affected.

• Chu Han introduced Su Xing as Wolf Fang Base’s construction engineer and Wang Shixiong’s group as experienced geological surveyors, then assigned them to survey priority areas and plan the base.
• Su Xing and the others questioned Chu Han’s plan to build a military-style base and house ordinary survivors in Anluo City, but Chu Han told them to proceed.
• Gu Liangchen returned to Wolf Fang Base with the Wolf Fang Regiment after the recruits completed their zombie training without casualties, and residents crowded the gate to welcome them.
• Gu Yiming tried to reach Gu Liangchen but was shoved aside by residents who revered the Wolf Fang Regiment.
• The fifty Dragon Fang and Tiger Fang members reflected on their first large-scale team battle, while the Wolf Fang veterans considered the two-day slaughter of thirty thousand zombies only a beginning.

Gu Liangchen reunited with his older brother Gu Yiming, who revealed that their parents had died and left Gu Liangchen visibly shaken. Gu Liangchen rushed to tell Chu Han, while Chu Han noticed that Gu Liangchen’s loyalty had suddenly reached its maximum.

• Unable to reach Gu Liangchen through the crowd, Gu Yiming shouted his childhood nickname, “Coward,” and Gu Liangchen rushed over and dragged him to the Wolf Fang Regiment quarters.
• Gu Yiming explained that he had called out to get Gu Liangchen’s attention, and Gu Liangchen asked why he was in Anluo City.
• Gu Yiming began telling Gu Liangchen how their parents had died, leaving Gu Liangchen trembling with shock.
• Lu Wencheng and the Wolf Fang veterans arrived to tease Gu Yiming about Gu Liangchen’s childhood nickname, and Gu Yiming ingratiated himself with Lu Wencheng.
• Gu Liangchen hurried to Chu Han’s meeting and announced that he had something to tell him; Chu Han noticed Gu Liangchen’s loyalty had suddenly maxed out.

Chu Han confronted Gu Liangchen about being a spy for Ye Zibo and the Gao Family, but kept him as commander of the reserve troops. He ordered Gu Liangchen to continue feeding Ye Zibo information under Chu Han’s direction, turning him into a spy within a spy.

• Chu Han assigned the G55 and Wrangler second-tier restricted access and asked Su Xing to modify a motorcycle for speed.
• Chu Han reassured Gu Liangchen that He Shang was still alive, then spoke with Gu Liangchen privately.
• Gu Liangchen apologized and confessed, but Chu Han revealed he had long known Gu Liangchen was a spy and had Liu Yuding watch him.
• Gu Liangchen identified Ye Zibo of the Gao Family as the person behind him and said Ye Zibo planned to eliminate Chu Han or infiltrate his trusted circle.
• Chu Han told Gu Liangchen to act as though nothing had happened and pass along information to Ye Zibo according to Chu Han’s instructions.

Chu Han recruited Gu Liangchen to feed Ye Zibo misleading reports and planned two intelligence departments for the Wolf Fang Regiment. He told Shang Jiudi he would leave the next day, and she left to arrange a meal instead of spending the evening with him.

• Chu Han instructed Gu Liangchen to report fabricated and carefully selected information to Ye Zibo while remaining undercover.
• Chu Han approved Lu Wencheng as a possible intelligence recruit and outlined plans for a covert network in major bases and a militarized squad called Divine Concealment.
• Shang Jiudi brought Chu Han more documents and asked whether he wanted the good news or bad news first.
• Chu Han guessed that zombie lure compounds A and B had entered production, then told Shang Jiudi he had finished his paperwork and would leave the next day.
• Shang Jiudi, reluctant about his departure, refused to spend the evening with him and left to have a late-night meal prepared.

Chu Han traveled from Wolf Fang Base to the secluded valley where Fan Jian had been living for half a year, intending to establish the Hunter Alliance there. After explaining the hunters’ line of work and learning that Fan Jian had reached Rank Six, Chu Han recognized how exceptional his friend was.

• Shang Jiudi saw Chu Han off while Su Xing presented him with a fast, deafeningly loud motorcycle.
• Chu Han rode to the remote mountain valley, hid the motorcycle, and climbed toward the place he had chosen as the future Hunter Alliance headquarters.
• Chu Han reunited with Fan Jian, whose ragged appearance showed how long he had lived alone in the valley.
• Fan Jian led Chu Han into the valley and explained that he had explored its caves and surroundings during his six months there.
• Chu Han told Fan Jian about hunters who took on paid jobs targeting all kinds of prey, and Fan Jian showed interest while demanding to know Chu Han’s real purpose.
• Fan Jian revealed that he had advanced to Rank Six, a rare achievement among New Humans in China.

Chu Han outlined a neutral Hunter Alliance that would organize jobs, rank Hunters, guarantee agreements, and eventually expand into team-building and banking. He told Fan Jian that the Alliance’s first step was to make him famous by placing him on the Battle Power Ranking’s overall list.

• Chu Han proposed a voluntary Hunter Alliance that would connect employers and Hunters, guarantee contracts, and collect commissions.
• Fan Jian helped develop the plan with Hunter ranks, trustworthiness ratings, teams for difficult jobs, neutrality, and an alliance bank.
• Fan Jian questioned how the Alliance could earn credibility, and Chu Han said he already had a plan and asked Fan Jian to leave the mountains.
• Chu Han explained that sixth-rank New Humans were rare and urged Fan Jian to make himself famous through the Battle Power Ranking.
• When Fan Jian said he would be the first to reach the sixth-rank ranking, Chu Han clarified that he meant the overall Battle Power Ranking.

Chu Han explained the Battle Power Ranking’s team challenges, material rewards, and anonymity options, then urged Fan Jian to build a reputation through a hundred carefully planned missions. Fan Jian began to see Chu Han’s strategy for making him famous among hunters, and Chu Han left him with the next step implied.

• Chu Han told Fan Jian that Tier Five New Humans could challenge the Battle Power Ranking and that its challenges included virtual team battles with material rewards.
• Chu Han explained that challengers could hide their real names by choosing a code name on their first entry, and persuaded Fan Jian to conceal his identity as the Hunter Alliance’s founder.
• Chu Han gave Fan Jian a prepared list of one hundred missions, starting at Jianyi Base, and instructed him to complete them with a perfect record while raising his prices as the missions grew harder.
• Fan Jian questioned how Chu Han knew the missions and their solutions, but Chu Han refused to explain and told him to become known to hunters across China.
• Fan Jian guessed that Chu Han wanted hunters and mission employers to seek him out once his reputation spread.