Chapter Summaries

Chu Han reunited with Mercer, who revealed he had gone abroad to deliver something for an employer, prompting Chu Han to suspect a Mysterious Family had been contacted. Meanwhile, an ambush squad waiting to kill Chu Han learned he had returned to Wolf Fang Base and abandoned their plan.

• Chu Han welcomed Mercer and learned he had spent the past six months abroad, where he worked as a Hunter and carried out a paid delivery.
• Mercer said he had crossed the border into the far northeast of China early in the apocalypse’s second year to meet someone and deliver something.
• Chu Han deduced that Mercer had likely contacted a Mysterious Family and worried that someone had reached them before Commander Mu, He Feng, and their allies.
• More than a hundred assassins waited on the road for Chu Han after receiving orders from Ye Zibo, but their leader learned Chu Han had already returned to Wolf Fang Base.
• The ambush squad blamed the unreliable information and decided to return.

Chu Han enlisted Mercer to secretly find Shang Jiudi’s older half-brother and bring him to Wolf Fang Base. Elsewhere, Fan Jian recovered Lu Yi’s insignia and turned his request for information into another paid service, while Ye Zibo’s anger revealed his connection to the Bai Family.

• Chu Han gave Mercer clues about Shang Jiudi’s brother and asked him to find the man without revealing Chu Han’s involvement; Mercer agreed to help for free.
• Fan Jian returned Lu Yi’s lieutenant general’s insignia, then told Lu Yi that identifying the thief would require a separate consultation fee.
• Ye Zibo raged over his failed attempts to kill Chu Han and revealed that the Bai Family had threatened to stop valuing him if he did not succeed.
• Zhao Weihao was shocked when Ye Zibo mentioned the Bai Family and asked what it was.

Ye Zibo attacked Zhao Weihao after suspecting his questions, while Chu Han arranged to keep Duan Jiangwei’s construction crews and turn the newly built Wind Flower Snow Moon City into a high-end leisure district. The chapter ended with Chu Han telling Gu Liangchen that he would leave Wolf Fang Base that night, making his next report to their enemies true.

• Ye Zibo struck Zhao Weihao with a glass and ordered him to contact Gu Liangchen, while Zhao Weihao left with hardened feelings toward him.
• Chu Han learned that Wind Flower Snow Moon City had been completed and told his staff he had no intention of returning Duan Jiangwei’s construction crews.
• Chu Han directed the staff to move in the first residents and develop high-end food, drink, entertainment, and leisure businesses, then asked whether Wolf Fang Base had prostitutes.
• Gu Liangchen told Chu Han that the other side had sent another message asking about his movements.
• Chu Han instructed Gu Liangchen to keep delaying them and, in two days, report that he had secretly left Wolf Fang Base; he then revealed that he was actually leaving that night.

Chu Han planned to use his contact with Ye Zibo to uncover the man’s location, then left Wolf Fang Base for Taojin Base to settle an old score. In Taojin Base’s red-light district, he came face to face with Bu Sha.

• Gu Liangchen told Chu Han that Ye Zibo used cautious intermediaries and helicopters to hide his operations.
• Chu Han ordered Gu Liangchen to maintain contact with Ye Zibo, gain his trust, and try to learn his location while staying safe.
• Chu Han secretly left Wolf Fang Base for Taojin Base before his deadline with Fan Jian had arrived.
• Chu Han walked through Taojin Base’s red-light district, where a woman in a crimson dress invited him to her establishment.
• Chu Han recognized the woman as Bu Sha and reacted with a chill.

Chu Han encountered Bu Sha in Taojin Base and recognized a dangerous change in her despite her alluring appearance. She led him to a luxurious brothel room, where he found no one waiting inside.

• Chu Han noticed Bu Sha's killing intent and suspected that she had become a dangerous, calculating person.
• Bu Sha invited Chu Han to accompany her, and he agreed to follow her after covering her shoulders with her cloak.
• The Black Radiance Squad secretly followed Chu Han through the streets of Taojin Base.
• Bu Sha led Chu Han into a luxurious brothel and stopped outside a private room, saying he could do anything he wanted to her.
• Chu Han asked who wanted to see him, then entered the room and found it empty as Bu Sha removed her cloak.

Chu Han misread Bu Sha’s visit as an assassination attempt and repeatedly failed to understand her romantic hints. Bu Sha was left frustrated by his obliviousness as their conversation ended on an awkward note.

• Chu Han entered the room, ordered Wang Cai to search for poison and hidden people, and assumed Bu Sha might have come to kill him.
• Bu Sha removed her cloak and began to undo her dress, but Chu Han told her to cover up because it was cold.
• Chu Han questioned Bu Sha about her rise to prominence and her past six months, while she tried to make him recognize her feelings.
• Bu Sha asked whether she looked good in red and why Chu Han had once recommended red dresses, but he said they were practical for killing people.
• Bu Sha gave up on the conversation after Chu Han’s response ruined the romantic moment.

Bu Sha admitted that she had been hired to kill Chu Han, but revealed that she had abandoned the attempt after judging him too strong. As the Black Radiance Squad sensed someone approaching, a formidable stranger arrived with a weapon and declared that he had come to kill; Chu Han invited him in for a drink.

• Bu Sha confessed that someone had hired her to kill Chu Han, and said she gave up because she could not defeat him.
• Chu Han realized that Bu Sha had already attacked him with her mind, but his heightened mental strength had let him resist.
• Xiao Kun alerted the Black Radiance Squad to an approaching presence, and Chu Han and Bu Sha took defensive positions.
• A stranger entered the room after telling a woman in the corridor that he had come to kill.
• Chu Han offered the stranger a drink, disrupting the momentum he had gathered for a fight.

Chu Han used taunts and feigned indifference to unsettle Bu Sha and Dian Huang, who had both come to kill him. When Dian Huang drew a powerful Yin Yang Valley longsword and Chu Han blocked it with his trench spike, a sudden fire broke out through the building.

• Dian Huang entered at Chu Han's invitation, and Bu Sha identified him as a Tier 5 Evolver ranked second on the Tier 5 Battle Power Ranking.
• Chu Han suggested that Bu Sha and Dian Huang decide who would kill him first, then pretended to leave.
• Dian Huang shattered the table to stop Chu Han, who signaled to his allies and attacked with his trench spike.
• Dian Huang drew a longsword bearing Yin Yang Valley markings, but Chu Han's trench spike blocked it.
• People outside began shouting that the building was on fire as the temperature suddenly rose.

Chu Han escaped Dian Huang and Bu Sha by using a fire as a diversion, then regrouped with the Black Radiance Squad and explained its role as Wolf Fang's assassination unit. Meanwhile, Ye Zibo mobilized forces to ambush Chu Han near Anluo City after hearing he had left Wolf Fang Base, while the waiting teams struggled with their miserable conditions.

• Dian Huang realized the fire was a trick, but Chu Han had already escaped through the window.
• Chu Han changed clothes, met the Black Radiance Squad, and sent its members to disperse into the shadows.
• Chu Han noted that his trench spike was close to breaking and judged that he could not yet defeat Dian Huang.
• Chu Han told Wang Cai that he had trained Black Radiance as an assassination squad hidden within the Wolf Fang Regiment.
• Gu Liangchen announced that Chu Han had left Wolf Fang Base, and Jiang Tianqing monitored the news in confusion.
• Ye Zibo mobilized forces to ambush Chu Han near Anluo City, where the wilderness teams endured harsh conditions and low morale.

Bu Sha’s appearance caused a frenzy in Taojin Base, while Taojin rushed to the red-light district after Fan Jian arrived to complete his task. Chu Han entered the only deserted brothel on the crowded street and became curious about its unusually charming women and lack of customers.

• Word of Bu Sha’s beauty spread through Taojin Base, drawing crowds to the red-light district and sending brothel prices soaring.
• Fan Jian appeared at Taojin’s residence to report that he had completed his task, but Taojin left at once to find Bu Sha.
• Chu Han pushed through the crowd and entered a deserted brothel, puzzling the Black Radiance Squad members following him.
• A woman in a pale yellow gown offered to help Chu Han choose a girl and explained that drinks cost extra.
• Chu Han studied the women and the shabby furnishings, then wondered why a brothel with such beautiful, polished women had no customers.

Chu Han tried to recruit the sharp-tongued woman running a struggling establishment in Taojin Base, offering her a far larger venue and protection in exchange for helping him earn money. She rejected him, revealing that the establishment already had an owner.

• Chu Han challenged the woman’s exorbitant price for a cup of water and learned she was offering expensive, suggestive services.
• Chu Han praised the woman’s skill at extorting customers and offered to recruit her to work for him.
• Chu Han argued that the establishment was poor and lacked a powerful backer, making it a good opportunity for him to take it over.
• The woman turned hostile and told Chu Han to leave, saying the establishment already had an owner.

Chu Han confronted Lin Yu at the failing shop and discovered Taojin’s men were driving away its customers to pressure the owner into submitting. The owner’s identity remained unknown, though Lin Yu revealed that the owner was a woman.

• Chu Han ordered Xiao Kun and the Black Radiance Squad to knock out three men who had been watching the shop.
• Chu Han questioned Lin Yu, who identified herself and said the men worked for Taojin.
• Lin Yu explained that Taojin’s men killed ordinary customers, crippled New Humans, and isolated High-Order New Humans to keep everyone away from the shop.
• Lin Yu said Taojin was trying to force the shop’s owner to submit after she refused his offer to bring her under his control.
• Chu Han mistakenly guessed that Taojin was gay, and Lin Yu told him their owner was a woman.

Chu Han learned that Lin Yu and the other women served Jiang Lingruo, who was away working as a hunter while her debt grew under a daily-increasing condition. He offered the women better territory and a chance to earn money by opening a brothel, and dismissed their concern about Taojin.

• Chu Han questioned Lin Yu about why she remained loyal to a boss who had left the women in poverty, and Lin Yu explained that Jiang Lingruo had saved their lives and was deeply in debt.
• Lin Yu told Chu Han that Jiang Lingruo had gone looking for work as a hunter, while Taojin's pressure kept the women from earning enough to survive or repay the debt.
• Lin Yu revealed that the debt had grown from a few thousand Reforging Coins to tens of thousands, and named Jiang Lingruo as her boss.
• Chu Han realized that he was the person Jiang Lingruo owed money to, while Lin Yu praised Jiang Lingruo's skill at slaughtering and dismembering apocalyptic beasts.
• Chu Han interpreted Jiang Lingruo's butchering skills as evidence that she could dispose of human bodies, frightening Wang Cai.
• Chu Han offered the women better living conditions and territory if they opened a brothel for him, and brushed off Lin Yu's concern about Taojin.

Chu Han recruited Lin Yu to organize Taojin Base’s courtesans into a large, tiered entertainment business, promising to supply resources and move them to a new location. He left to find startup money at Tao Jin’s residence, intending to rob it or take money from Fan Jian.

• Chu Han ordered Lin Yu to recruit top courtesans with his money and unite the women of Taojin Base under a ranked, chain-store business.
• Lin Yu agreed to lead the effort but asked how they would leave Taojin Base without alerting Tao Jin’s spies, and Chu Han said his people would arrange everything.
• Chu Han left after the Black Radiance Squad dragged away Tao Jin’s unconscious men and killed them.
• Wang Cai questioned how Chu Han would finance the plan, and Chu Han pointed out Tao Jin’s lavish residence as his target for obtaining money.
• Chu Han planned to search or demolish Tao Jin’s residence and take money from Fan Jian if necessary.

Chu Han infiltrated Tao Jin’s mansion with Fan Jian’s help, while Dian Huang and Bu Sha dealt with the chaos at a brothel. The chapter left Bu Sha suspecting Chu Han had stayed in Taojin Base and questioning who had killed the people around them.

• Chu Han entered Tao Jin’s mansion unseen and laughed at Jiang Lingruo’s choice to take a hunter mission instead of robbing Tao Jin’s treasure vault.
• Fan Jian appeared, realized Chu Han had lured him into leading the way, and handed over the Reforging Coins Chu Han demanded.
• Chu Han asked Fan Jian to find Tao Jin’s hidden valuables, and Fan Jian led him toward a place Tao Jin forbade others to enter.
• Tao Jin arrived at one of his brothels and found it soaked in blood, then angrily demanded to know who had caused the massacre.
• Dian Huang told Bu Sha they could pursue Chu Han before he reached Wolf Fang Base, but he left when she refused to say whether she would follow.
• Bu Sha doubted Chu Han had left Taojin Base and realized that she and Dian Huang had not killed all the people lying dead in the streets.

Bu Sha realized that the massacre in Taojin Base had been staged to frame her and Dian Huang, and concluded that Chu Han was behind it. Taojin ordered the corpses removed, unaware that Chu Han had infiltrated his base and the Black Radiance Squad was disguised among his men.

• Taojin arrived to find his subordinates dead across three streets, and a hidden assassin killed a wounded man who tried to report to him.
• A blood-covered man told Taojin that a woman in red and an ordinary-looking man had attacked, while Bu Sha watched from a rooftop and recognized the scene as a deliberate trap.
• Taojin ordered the corpses carried away and burned, accepting the report that the attackers had left and worrying that their deaths would attract zombies.
• Bu Sha realized the corpse carriers and the man who reported to Taojin were impostors, and identified Chu Han as the mastermind framing her and Dian Huang.
• Xiao Kun, disguised as one of Taojin's subordinates, agreed with Taojin as the Black Radiance Squad's plan proceeded and Chu Han remained infiltrated inside the base.

Chu Han and Fan Jian discovered the abused, silenced girls Tao Jin had kept in a sealed room, including Tao Jin’s niece Dong Rui, who asked Chu Han to let her kill her uncle. Chu Han promised to bring Tao Jin before her, then joined King Hunter in attacking the guards.

• Fan Jian led Chu Han to a locked room in Tao Jin’s home, and Chu Han broke the lock.
• Chu Han and Fan Jian found more than a dozen emaciated girls whose tongues had been cut out, and Chu Han recognized the severed tongues nearby.
• Dong Rui revealed that Tao Jin was her biological uncle and asked to kill him; Chu Han covered her with his coat and promised to bring Tao Jin to her.
• Chu Han called King Hunter to join him in slaughtering the guards, and the two rushed into the attack.

Chu Han and Fan Jian slaughtered Taojin Base’s New Humans and exposed the abuse of children hidden in their homes. Seeing the children’s fear and hatred, Chu Han urged them to take revenge and taught them to answer cruelty with violence.

• Chu Han and Fan Jian massacred the New Humans in Taojin Base’s central area, uncovering children and young women imprisoned and abused in their residences.
• At dawn, Chu Han watched the rescued children emerge and wondered how much damage the abuse had done to them and to the world they would inherit.
• Fan Jian considered killing the children to end their suffering, but Chu Han interrupted him and asked the children whether they wanted revenge.
• Chu Han put a blade in a trembling boy’s hands and turned over one of the surviving abusers, asking the boy whether he hated him.
• Chu Han told the children to kill those who had harmed them and repay their cruelty many times over.

Chu Han let the rescued children vent their rage by killing the surviving members of Taojin Base, then declared they would join the Wolf Fang Regiment as reserve troops. The Black Radiance Squad arrived to find Chu Han had already eliminated its targets, and he sent Fan Jian to capture Tao Jin.

• Chu Han urged the children to take revenge on the wounded people, and they attacked them with weapons while Fan Jian protested.
• Chu Han told Fan Jian that the children would be allowed to vent their emotions this once and would later join the Wolf Fang Regiment as reserve troops.
• The Black Radiance Squad prepared to assassinate Taojin Base's New Humans while its members kept Tao Jin occupied in the red-light district.
• The Black Radiance Squad entered the base and found its targets dead and the rescued girls emerging into the sunlight with Chu Han.
• Chu Han told Xiao Kun that he had taken over the mission, then ordered Fan Jian to capture Tao Jin.

Chu Han arranged for the rescued children to return to Wolf Fang Base and ordered the establishment of a school, then let Dong Rui take revenge on Tao Jin without killing him. He sent Dong Rui to join the Feather Slayer Squad as a reserve member.

• Chu Han ordered Xiao Kun to send the rescued children to Wolf Fang Base and help establish a school for them.
• Chu Han gave Xiao Kun Reforging Coins for Lin Yu and instructed the squad to loot the site and burn the bodies.
• Fan Jian brought the unconscious Tao Jin back, and Dong Rui and the other girls attacked him.
• Chu Han stopped Dong Rui from killing Tao Jin and told her to destroy what he valued most.
• Dong Rui stabbed Tao Jin twice in the groin, and Chu Han ordered the squad to gag and remove him.
• Chu Han assigned Dong Rui to the Feather Slayer Squad as a reserve member.