Year One of the apocalypse, June 30.
Today was the day zombies worldwide would unlock the next tier of their time locks.
Everyone from Home No. 1 had returned to the base and been assigned to defend the walls of its four districts.
The zombies would evolve today, but... whether they would become Tier 1 evolved zombies, whether other, higher-tier zombies would evolve again, and what they would evolve into were all unknown.
Humanity only knew that they would grow stronger today and that certain abilities in their genes would awaken. The assumption was that, as before, all zombies would advance to Tier 1, but nobody could be completely certain.
And so,
Global alert levels had been raised to their highest today.
In major biological laboratories around the world,
Countless scientists held their breath, concentrating on the changes in the captured zombies.
At all times, they desperately wanted to fully understand the zombie virus, something that made so little sense.
In a biological laboratory in China,
Yang Tianyao and Liu Shicai stood together, discussing the next direction the zombie virus would evolve in.
Two others stood behind them: the second and third Wallfacers, who had only emerged from seclusion in the past few days. They had come specifically to observe the unlocking of the zombies' time locks this time, because the two had discovered something in their research that might very well find its answer in this round of changes.
Noon.
Shen Jin sat on the wall of Jinzhou City, watching the handful of ordinary evolved zombies wandering below as they pounded the wall built from [Compressed Cobblestone].
Their fists had been beaten into bloody pulp, yet the wall remained solid.
It was never something they could shake.
Ordinary evolved zombies, regardless of which aspect had been enhanced, were only