Chapter Summaries

After Chu Han revealed his identity, he sent Yuan Min and his followers to Wolf Fang Base for training, intending to prepare Yuan Min for the Foreign Affairs Department. Chu Han then went to inspect the Wolf Fang Regiment in District One and noticed trouble when a group of refugees approached its core personnel.

• Chu Han revealed that he was the boss Yuan Min had been defending, and Yuan Min immediately pledged his loyalty.
• Chu Han ordered Yuan Min and his followers to go to Wolf Fang Base, train under Gu Liangchen, and then work in the Foreign Affairs Department.
• Yuan Min told his followers they were going to become diplomats and hurried them to pack.
• Chu Han considered Yuan Min's potential as a diplomat and compared his abilities with Ding Siyao's role at Wolf Fang Base.
• Chu Han found the Wolf Fang Regiment's morale troubled and watched from a house as around fifty refugees approached its core personnel.

A group of refugees threatened the Wolf Fang Regiment into giving them crystals in exchange for protecting its food deliveries. When their leader kicked over a crate of provisions and the refugees tried to seize the rest, Chu Han appeared and asked if they wanted to make a deal with him.

• A burly refugee demanded that Xu Xianglong accept the group's proposal, threatening the regiment's food deliveries and boasting that their leader was a Tier 5 Evolver.
• Xu Xianglong and the other squad leaders refused, while the refugees mocked the regiment's limited combat strength.
• Old Gao arrived with the day's supplies, and the burly refugee kicked over a crate, scattering the food.
• The refugees laughed at the Wolf Fang Regiment and moved to take the remaining food as its members prepared to fight.
• Chu Han spoke up, asking the refugees if they wanted to make a deal with him.

Chu Han confronted a Tier 5 refugee leader who demanded half of the crystals from Wolf Fang Regiment’s zombie kills in exchange for protecting its supply convoys. After the leader’s group toppled a crate of food, Chu Han threatened to make them pay with their lives and called on the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team, who revealed themselves among the regiment.

• Chu Han arrived at the confrontation, and the burly leader assumed he could intimidate him because he was a Tier 5 Evolver.
• Chu Han questioned the leader about his all-New-Human group and why they remained in Anluo City, noticing the man’s wariness.
• The burly leader offered to protect Wolf Fang Regiment’s supply convoys in exchange for half the crystals from each zombie kill.
• Chu Han offered the leader a different trade: his life for the crate of food his people had knocked over.
• Chu Han called out the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team, and their fifty members emerged from the regiment to surround the refugees.

Dragon Tooth and Tiger Fang revealed themselves to help Wolf Fang contain the refugees, but their leader—a Tier 5 Evolver—charged Chu Han. Chu Han severed both of the man’s arms and ordered his forces to eliminate the remaining refugees.

• Dragon Tooth and Tiger Fang surrounded the fifty refugees, astonishing them and the Wolf Fang Regiment.
• The burly refugee leader attacked Chu Han, confident that his Tier 5 strength would kill the supposedly Tier 4 commander.
• Chu Han raised his life fluctuations and severed both of the man’s arms with the Asura Battle Axe.
• Chu Han stomped on the burly man’s head to silence him, then ordered his stunned troops to kill the other refugees without leaving survivors.

Chu Han crushed the refugee leader and had the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team kill the remaining refugees. He then decided to put the two teams to work in the Wolf Fang Regiment, but their confusion left him trying to organize them himself.

• Chu Han’s fifty Dragon Tooth and Tiger Fang members killed the remaining refugees while he kept the Tier 5 leader pinned beneath his foot.
• Chu Han ordered the bodies burned and dragged the surviving leader to a distant corner.
• Chu Han gathered the two teams and learned that none of them was a vice-captain or other decision-maker.
• Chu Han told the fifty New Humans to kill zombies in the Wolf Fang Regiment and earn rank.
• Chu Han asked them to line up by level, but they stood motionless, leaving him baffled.

Chu Han identified Ling and Liao Yong as Tier 4 members of Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team, then kept them behind to question a captured Tier 5 Evolver. The chapter ended with Chu Han demanding to know who had sent the man.

• Chu Han asked Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team to introduce their strongest members, and Ling identified himself as a twenty-year-old Tier 4 Evolver.
• Liao Yong introduced himself as a Tier 4 Evolver who could kill people and use a sword, then instantly adopted a formal stance when Chu Han questioned his personality.
• Chu Han dismissed the other members and kept Ling and Liao Yong while the captured Tier 5 Evolver realized the two teams were far stronger and more disciplined than he had known.
• Chu Han asked Ling and Liao Yong to analyze why he had spared the captive, and they realized he wanted to find out why the drifter group consisted entirely of New Humans.
• Chu Han patted the captive's face and demanded to know who had sent him.

Chu Han used a zombie bug to terrify a captured Tier 5 Evolver into confessing who had arranged the attack. The man revealed that the leader of Taojin Base had sent him and the fake refugees to cause trouble for Chu Han, though he claimed to know nothing more.

• Chu Han revealed that he had suspected the fifty refugees were not genuine refugees because they were all New Humans.
• Chu Han picked up a zombie bug and asked the Tier 5 Evolver whether he would rather eat its head or abdomen first.
• Ling and Liao Yong recoiled in horror as Chu Han sliced the zombie bug in half.
• The Tier 5 Evolver confessed that the leader of Taojin Base had sent him to cause trouble for Chu Han and that the refugees belonged to the same leader.

Chu Han killed the Tier 5 Evolver after learning that Taojin Base, led by Tao Jin, planned to resist Wolf Fang Base's rise in Anluo City. He left Ling and Liao Yong afraid of him, intending their fear to spread through the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team and make them obey his orders.

• Chu Han stabbed the burly Tier 5 Evolver to death without asking his name after extracting information about Taojin Base.
• Chu Han recalled Taojin Base's lawless brutality and concluded that Tao Jin had targeted him because Wolf Fang Base threatened Taojin's power in Anluo City.
• Liao Yong vomited at the sight of the zombie bug, while Ling analyzed Chu Han's psychological tactics and became afraid of him.
• Chu Han decided to use the fear Ling and Liao Yong felt to make the Dragon Tooth Squad and Tiger Fang Team more likely to follow his orders.
• Chu Han ordered Ling and Liao Yong to handle the corpse, then returned to the Wolf Fang Regiment.

Chu Han began a new round of devil training for the Wolf Fang Regiment, assigning Ling and Liao Yong to lead two teams on a three-day urban supply challenge. The recruits set out under orders to retrieve furniture without supplies, feed themselves, and avoid casualties, with punishment awaiting the losing side.

• Chu Han ordered Old Gao to stop delivering food to the training grounds for three days, alarming the logistics team and exciting the recruits.
• After nightfall, Chu Han assembled seventy squads and had the first thirty demonstrate their disciplined reorganization.
• Chu Han called Ling and Liao Yong forward and appointed them captains of opposing teams.
• Chu Han ordered each captain to select fifteen squads and retrieve one piece of furniture per person from the southern furniture market within three days, while finding their own food and suffering no deaths.
• Chu Han declared that the first team back would win and that the losing one hundred and fifty soldiers would be punished.

Chu Han sent three hundred soldiers to retrieve furniture while ordering the remaining four hundred to capture Area One’s most dangerous zombie stronghold before dawn. The four hundred completed the mission without casualties, and Chu Han reflected on how much the Wolf Fang Regiment’s recruits had changed.

• Chu Han split the troops, sending Ling and Liao Yong to lead three hundred soldiers into Anluo City to retrieve furniture and assigning the other four hundred to capture the final stronghold before dawn.
• The recruits were frightened by the order, but the veterans assured Chu Han they would complete the mission and hurried everyone out.
• Teams Thirty-One through Seventy fought through more than ten thousand zombies and captured the stronghold in a single night without losing anyone.
• The next morning, the recruits sat stunned among the corpses while veterans prepared to burn them, and Chu Han arrived after sleeping.
• Chu Han remembered the Wolf Fang Regiment’s first zombie battle and recognized how the recruits’ transformation into soldiers echoed the veterans’ progress.

Chu Han prepared the Wolf Fang Regiment to clear District One of its zombies, using a carefully planned lure-and-shooting operation centered on the tennis courts. The recruits learned they would have to forage for food, while the shooting squad prepared to draw in the first wave of zombies the next day.

• Chu Han let the recruits eat their allotted food, then ordered them to find supplies and feed themselves for the next three days.
• Chu Han occupied District One’s final stronghold and planned a thorough cleanup of its zombies, insects, and rats.
• Chen Shaoye arrived with the shooting squad and 300 zombie lures, and Chu Han chose the tennis courts as the first area to clear.
• Chu Han assigned the 50 snipers positions and lure models in three rings, with Chen Shaoye controlling the central lure and coordinating the incoming waves.
• Chu Han warned the shooting squad to fire at the first zombie in each fifteen-minute interval and noted that Chen Shaoye’s chosen shooting spot had to support his weight, which exceeded 200 pounds.

Chu Han rallied the Wolf Fang Regiment for a plan he said would change history and led its members to the tennis courts. There, they prepared for a zombie assault, and Chen Shaoye fired the first shot as a huge horde approached.

• Chu Han woke the Wolf Fang Regiment by falsely announcing an enemy attack, then told the assembled troops to wash up.
• Chu Han declared April 20th the beginning of change for the Wolf Fang Regiment, Wolf Fang Base, and Anluo City, and promised the regiment would restore city living.
• The forty squads and the shooting squad moved into position at the tennis courts, where Chen Shaoye climbed onto a raised platform.
• A pattern of distant gunfire drew a massive zombie horde toward the tennis courts, and Chu Han told the troops to prepare for ten thousand zombies.
• Chen Shaoye fired his first shot as the approaching zombies came into view.

Chu Han’s plan used zombie lures and Chen Shaoye’s shooting to draw ten thousand zombies into tennis courts, where the Wolf Fang Regiment killed them in under three hours. Though the regiment celebrated the flawless victory, Chu Han remained dissatisfied as he headed toward the final stronghold in Zone One.

• Chen Shaoye shot the Type B semi-finished zombie lures with Type A bullets, releasing their scent and drawing the first wave of zombies toward the tennis courts.
• The Wolf Fang Regiment fought the humanoid zombies while hammer-wielding members crushed the zombie insects and rodents beneath their feet.
• Fifteen minutes later, Chen Shaoye and the shooting squads lured in the second wave, which the regiment cleared faster after adapting to the battle plan.
• The four hundred Wolf Fang Regiment members killed ten thousand zombies in under three hours, with the New Humans handling high-level threats and the hammer-wielders focusing on insects and rodents.
• Chu Han ordered the corpses burned, the unused lures collected, and the regiment to rest before searching for food, then headed toward the final stronghold in Zone One, still dissatisfied with the mission’s outcome.

Chu Han reviewed the zombie trial and devised a new plan to speed up the soldiers’ work, while Jiang Tianqing reported Gu Liangchen’s suspicious contacts and a shortage of supplies at Wolf Fang Base. Chu Han gave orders involving the Black Radiance Squad, Qin Yuan, and a misleading message for Ye Zibo’s people, leaving Jiang Tianqing, Gu Liangchen, and the squad baffled.

• Chu Han concluded that insect and rodent zombies had slowed the Wolf Fang Regiment’s trial, despite the soldiers killing the humanoid zombies without casualties.
• Jiang Tianqing told Chu Han that Gu Liangchen had secretly contacted outsiders and repeatedly asked where Chu Han was.
• Jiang Tianqing reported that Qin Yuan’s troops and ten thousand survivors had arrived at Wolf Fang Base, where food and housing were scarce.
• Chu Han ordered the Black Radiance Squad to learn basic construction, then kidnap Qin Yuan and bring him to the outpost.
• Chu Han gave Jiang Tianqing a letter for Gu Liangchen instructing him to tell Ye Zibo’s people that Chu Han had already left Wolf Fang Base.
• Gu Liangchen and the Black Radiance Squad received Chu Han’s orders and were left confused by them.

Chu Han organized the Wolf Fang Regiment’s supply gathering and furniture-moving work as practical training while touring District One and improving conditions at its strongholds. Ling and Liao Yong realized that Chu Han was deliberately cultivating loyal leaders and talents throughout the regiment.

• Chu Han told Old Gao that the strongholds no longer needed food deliveries and asked the Logistics Department to provide zombie lure instead.
• Ling and Liao Yong returned with three hundred men and furniture from southern Anluo City, and Chu Han rewarded the winning team while assigning Liao Yong’s team a punishment.
• Chu Han sent the remaining four hundred men on another furniture-moving trip, again under Ling and Liao Yong’s leadership.
• Ling and Liao Yong recognized that Chu Han’s training and delegation were developing loyal talent who could eventually fill important positions.

Qin Yuan waited outside Shang Jiudi’s office, reflecting on Wolf Fang Base’s strict investigations and disciplined leadership as he sought an audience. Ding Xue revealed how Chu Han had trained her for the battlefield before she chose to serve the base from the rear, leaving Liao Wentao and Liu Xiang reconsidering their judgment of his treatment of talent.

• Qin Yuan told Liao Wentao and Liu Xiang that Wolf Fang Base’s thorough background investigations and its staff’s loyalty to Chu Han impressed him.
• Ding Xue let Qin Yuan enter Shang Jiudi’s office alone and stopped Liao Wentao and Liu Xiang from following.
• Liao Wentao and Liu Xiang mistook Ding Xue’s military bearing for proof that she had served in the old military.
• Ding Xue explained that she had joined the Wolf Fang Regiment during the Apocalypse Era, trained for three months, fought in the Battle of the Wilderness, and later became Wolf Fang Base’s stenographer.
• Liu Xiang and Liao Wentao called Ding Xue’s civilian role a waste of her talent, but Ding Xue said she was better suited to supporting soldiers and survivors from the rear.

Chu Han used Black Radiance Squad to bring Qin Yuan to an abandoned neighborhood in Anluo City and began preparing a trap for a major zombie hunt. Qin Yuan woke during construction and finally realized that the man confronting him was Chu Han.

• Shang Jiudi told Qin Yuan she was not a major general and ordered Xiao Kun to take him away.
• Xiao Kun carried Qin Yuan as Black Radiance Squad raced across rooftops to Chu Han's location.
• Chu Han learned that the logistics department had delivered enough zombie lures for a mission to kill ten thousand zombies and ordered the Wolf Fang Regiment to gather supplies.
• Chu Han gave Black Radiance Squad a blueprint for a temporary maze-like structure in the narrow lanes between old single-story houses.
• Qin Yuan woke to find Black Radiance Squad building walls, and Chu Han revealed himself when Qin Yuan recognized him.

Chu Han arranged for Qin Yuan and his soldiers from Jianyi Base to join Wolf Fang Base by asking Qin Yuan to compile the old military personnel’s skills and records. He then invited Qin Yuan to watch Wolf Fang Regiment’s live combat training, which began as Chu Han launched a zombie species extermination battle.

• Qin Yuan told Chu Han that about a thousand soldiers had fled an uprising at Jianyi Base and asked Wolf Fang Base to give them important duties.
• Chu Han told Qin Yuan to compile the soldiers’ strengths and weaknesses into personnel files, then invited him to observe training the next day.
• The Black Radiance Squad finished building a wall, and Chu Han led Qin Yuan, the Wolf Fang Regiment, and the shooting squad to a cluster of houses for the planned battle.
• Chu Han positioned the shooting squad and Wolf Fang Regiment members on the rooftops and described the exercise as a live version of a tower defense game.
• Chu Han ordered the zombie species encirclement and extermination battle to begin, and the shooting squad fired the first shots.

Chu Han demonstrated how Wolf Fang Base could use artificial zombie bait and the narrow lanes of a prepared site to kill a massive horde with little risk. After the first wave and the smaller insect- and rodent-type zombies were destroyed, he ordered everyone to prepare for the next round.

• Chu Han explained that the gunshots were not meant to lure zombies with sound, and the firing squad shot water bags to release artificial zombie bait.
• The bait drew a horde of zombies into narrow lanes, where the Wolf Fang Regiment killed them from rooftops using their height advantage.
• More than a thousand zombies were wiped out, leaving Qin Yuan astonished by Chu Han's tactics.
• Insect- and rodent-type zombies swarmed through openings in the walls, and Chu Han ordered the soldiers to pour gasoline into chimneys and burn them.
• Chen Shaoye increased the bait with a gunshot, drawing the smaller zombies into the flames, and Chu Han ordered the firing squad to begin the next round.

Chu Han’s Wolf Fang Regiment used zombie lures to clear Anluo City’s Area One without casualties, then expanded and continued its advance. After returning to Wolf Fang Base and assigning Qin Yuan’s soldiers, Chu Han learned that Mercer had finally appeared within the reconnaissance department’s range.

• Chu Han’s zombie-lure tactic helped the Wolf Fang Regiment eliminate more than ten thousand zombies and surrounding insect and rodent zombies without casualties, while Qin Yuan watched in astonishment.
• Chu Han ordered the corpses burned and the crystals collected, prompting Qin Yuan to realize why the regiment had laughed at his suggestion to rely only on fire.
• Over the next two days, the Wolf Fang Regiment cleared another area, Qin Yuan’s loyalty rose above eighty percent, and he left for Wolf Fang Base; the Black Radiance Squad also departed after teaching wall construction.
• After ten days, Chu Han returned to Wolf Fang Base, where Qin Yuan submitted files for a thousand soldiers; Chu Han assigned eight hundred veterans to the Wolf Fang Regiment and two hundred soldiers to base security.
• Chu Han put Qin Yuan in charge of the eight hundred newcomers, and the expanded fifteen-hundred-member Wolf Fang Regiment advanced through Anluo City as veterans trained recruits.
• Two days later, Mercer appeared within the reconnaissance department’s field of view at Wolf Fang Base.