Recaps

Shen Jin led a group of Tier 2 Superhumans to the Technology Tower to avenge Zhu Dan and confront the Brood Nest Zombie, but they found the creature already dead. The chapter left them wondering whether Zhu Dan had survived and killed it, despite having sent his treasured Rolex to Shen Jin.

• Shen Jin assembled a team, equipped them with Jetpacks, and flew with them to Red Water Bay Base.
• Zhao Chao and the Zombie Slaying First Squad reported on clearing Lükou District and bringing Zhu Dan’s protected survivors to the base.
• Shen Jin’s group traveled to the Technology Tower to avenge Zhu Dan and found the Brood Nest Zombie’s body scattered across the thirtieth floor.
• A Superhuman searched the zombie’s head and confirmed that someone had already taken its crystal core.
• Yang Ao and Li Moxiao suggested Zhu Dan might have killed the zombie, but Shen Jin questioned the idea because Zhu Dan had sent him his treasured Rolex.

Shen Jin strengthened Red Water Bay Base for an attempt to take Lükou District, then left Zhao Chao in charge and returned to Q City. The chapter ended with Li Moxiao asking to stay longer in D City, while Shen Jin insisted that they had no time to spare.

• Shen Jin failed to reach Xia Anbang and told Zhao Chao to find out what was happening with D City's Government.
• Shen Jin exchanged crystal cores for forty awakening potions, recruited forty new Superhumans, and equipped Zhao Chao, Liu Yang, and Zheng Ying for the push into Lükou District.
• Shen Jin restarted his underwater Mining Machines and built an automated ore-washing setup.
• Shen Jin gave Zhao Chao eleven Jetpacks and left Shang Qian's management plan for the enlarged base.
• Shen Jin left Zhao Chao in charge of Red Water Bay Base and flew back to Q City with his group.
• Li Moxiao said she wanted to stay longer in D City, but Shen Jin replied that time was running short.

Shen Jin and his companions named their expanding Q City base Home No. 1 and assigned its leaders roles for the coming push. Shen Jin decided to focus on completing missions and unlocking stronger equipment before the base’s next phase of expansion.

• Shen Jin, Shang Qian, Yang Ao, and Li Moxiao debated names for the base and agreed on Home No. 1.
• Shang Qian took charge of logistics and management, Yang Ao became responsible for military forces, and Li Moxiao was assigned to guard the base.
• Shen Jin explained that his special ability food could only provide short bursts of power and said he would pursue work to make the world better.
• Shen Jin assessed the growing threat from tier 1 evolved zombies and the limits of their current armor and weapons.
• Shen Jin resolved to study his missions and unlock the Tinkers' Construct mod as Home No. 1 began a twenty-three-day push.

During the zombie apocalypse, teacher He Xiao struggled to keep fifty-five students alive in their sealed school dormitory as their food ran out. She collapsed just as rescuers arrived, and they carried her and the children back to Home No. 1.

• He Xiao rationed the last rice among the students and gave her own portion to Xiao Sheng, who cried for his parents and a burger.
• He Xiao remembered how the principal and other teachers had died securing food and water, leaving her alone to care for the children.
• With the students' final meal at risk, He Xiao collapsed and spilled the bucket of water.
• Rescuers broke into the dormitory, found fifty-five students and the unconscious He Xiao, and ordered their team to take them to Home No. 1.
• He Xiao regained a little awareness as someone fed her eight-treasure porridge.

Shen Jin built ten wind turbines and restored electricity to much of Q City's Train Station district, where survivors eagerly used the power. The grid's demand drained the stored energy, and Shen Jin was left unsure whether restoring electricity had fulfilled his goal of changing the world.

• Shen Jin returned from Ancestor Mountain, then noticed Squad Three had brought back many children and an unconscious woman.
• Shen Jin built ten wind turbine generators northeast of his villa and connected them to energy storage boxes.
• Shen Jin used the stored electricity to restore power to much of Q City's Train Station district, surprising the survivors and trapped power bureau employees.
• Survivors across the district began using electricity, causing the stored power to plunge until Shen Jin connected two more energy storage boxes.
• Shen Jin wondered whether restoring electricity counted as changing the world for the better, but received no mission completion notification.

Sister Rong sent twenty ordinary survivors as bait to lure evolved zombies away from a grain shop, but Tong Zhen and the army arrived and rescued them. Sister Rong and Little Liu were arrested, and Tong Zhen welcomed the Dragon Bay Villas survivors to Home No. 1.

• Sister Rong ordered the survivors to gather seafood, then took twenty people to use as bait at a grain and cooking oil shop.
• Sister Rong and Little Liu let the evolved zombies chase the twenty survivors while they looted food from the shop.
• The twenty bait survivors returned alive with the help of Tong Zhen and twenty armored soldiers, then exposed Sister Rong and Little Liu.
• Little Liu blamed Sister Rong and surrendered, while Tong Zhen's forces restrained and arrested both of them.
• Tong Zhen welcomed the Dragon Bay Villas survivors to Home No. 1.

Shen Jin expanded his base and Fu Wei's laboratory while searching for a way to make more Superhumans. The chapter ended with Shen Jin preparing to distribute the Gene Optimization Serum 1.0.

• After Tong Zhen reported the return of his team with supplies, Shen Jin ordered him to verify a survivor's account and execute the woman if it proved true.
• Fu Wei told Shen Jin that his team had successfully made Gene Optimization Serum 1.0, and Shen Jin recruited ten assistants to increase production.
• Shen Jin fed a Senzu Bean to a starving child's son and gave the mother food, while Li Moxiao watched from hiding.
• After a week without a system reward for restoring electricity, Shen Jin built more wind turbines and compressors and stored large quantities of cobblestone and logs.
• Miao Shubai's squad brought equipment and thirty survivors from Q City Second People's Hospital, allowing Shen Jin to expand Fu Wei's laboratory and establish a hospital at Home No. 1.
• Shen Jin asked Fu Wei how many bottles of Gene Optimization Serum 1.0 he had made because he planned to begin distributing them.

Shen Jin launched a program selling Gene Optimization Serum 1.0 to survivors at Home No. 1, giving 307 people the strength to fight Evolved Zombies. As the first recipients headed out with Stone Swords, Shen Jin waited to learn whether his plan to make pseudo-Superhumans counted as changing the world for the better.

• Fu Wei handed Shen Jin 307 bottles of Gene Optimization Serum 1.0, while continuing research into crystal cores and the serum.
• Shang Qian posted rules requiring scavengers to surrender 20% of their supplies, banning theft and fighting, and setting the serum price at ten Energy Crystal Cores with credit available.
• A young man took the serum on credit and demonstrated its effects, prompting dozens of survivors to line up for their own doses.
• Zhao Mingkai and the others recorded the recipients' details, warned them to repay their debts and not flee, and distributed serum to all 307 people.
• Shen Jin supplied Stone Swords to the newly strengthened survivors, who went out to explore and scavenge; he planned to keep selling serum and asked the system whether this would fulfill his mission.

Yang Wei ran Harmony Garden Residential Complex as a comfortable settlement and tried to court Xing Lingmin, who used his food and protection while keeping him at a distance. When Wu Yong and Li Zhe arrived with Zombie-Slaying Squad 5 to invite the residents to Home No. 1, Xing Lingmin recognized Li Zhe and left with him, while Yang Wei stayed behind.

• Yang Wei enjoyed his authority in Harmony Garden Residential Complex and tried to persuade Xing Lingmin to become his partner, but she accepted his food while asking to remain only friends.
• Xing Lingmin learned that twenty armored superhumans had arrived in a strange vehicle and hurried to Yang Wei for protection.
• Wu Yong and Li Zhe announced that Zombie-Slaying Squad 5 had come from Home No. 1 and invited the settlement to join them, but most residents chose to stay.
• Li Zhe recognized his former classmate Xing Lingmin, who threw herself into his arms and asked him to take her away.
• Wu Yong and Li Zhe left with Xing Lingmin and a handful of residents, leaving Yang Wei behind as he regretted losing her.

Shen Jin waited for the system to explain his stalled [World Line] mission, then used a remembered exchange to reason that the system was guiding him to fight the zombie catastrophe. He concluded that he might be humanity’s savior, but the realization left him overwhelmed as he watched night fall.

• Wu Yong returned to the base, and Zhao Mingkai opened the hidden gate while Shen Jin remained on the wall waiting for the system.
• Shen Jin lamented that his effort to make survivors pseudo-superhuman had not completed the mission, then remembered the system telling him to get lost when he asked for a keyboard.
• Shen Jin reasoned that an Earth-savvy entity had given him the system and that the zombie outbreak, disabled weapons, and his missions might be connected.
• Shen Jin linked the system’s first three missions to investigating the zombies and helping humanity, concluding that the system had pushed him toward changing the world for the better.
• Shen Jin decided that his role might be to save humanity, then lay on wool carpets and watched the sunset, feeling crushed by the truth he had uncovered.

After the Heavenly Net defeated a zombie horde at its plateau headquarters, Hu Shou reviewed worsening national conditions and learned that Q City’s survivors were rapidly clearing zombies and expanding a safe zone despite losing contact with their Government. The chapter left Hu Shou hopeful that independent heroes could help defend China, while the Heavenly Net continued monitoring the countrywide crisis.

• The Heavenly Net burned the zombie corpses after stopping a horde at its plateau base, and Old Zhao urged Hu Shou to pursue a breakthrough as zombie attacks worsened nationwide.
• Hu Shou examined the national map and saw that green territories remained scattered while zombie hordes increased and evolved more rapidly.
• The Zombie Horde Analysis Team reported that hordes were targeting large human settlements, while the Human Observation Team described high casualties and worsening outbreaks in areas lacking Government support.
• The Human Observation Team leader reported that Q City’s zombie population had sharply declined and its gathering survivors were expanding a safe zone despite losing contact with the local Government.
• Hu Shou praised the people building the Q City safe zone, and the observation team leader resolved to watch whether it could continue growing.

As the Home No. 1 residents relaxed after dinner, Yang Ao teased a newcomer in the gentlemen's chat group before going to find Shen Jin on the wall. Shen Jin was taking time alone and asked Yang Ao what kind of person he thought he was.

• Shang Qian was called away to settle a dispute and write management regulations, while Li Moxiao played Civilization and Old Fu returned to the laboratory.
• Yang Ao browsed the base chat groups and found the gentlemen's group sharing explicit pictures and asking a member to share a video file.
• Yang Ao threatened to remember a newcomer who insulted him, leaving the newcomer afraid he might be dragged outside and beaten.
• Yang Ao decided to save the file to watch with Li Jie later, then went to find Shen Jin on the wall.
• Shen Jin said he wanted some quiet time alone and asked Yang Ao what kind of person he thought he was.

Shen Jin talked with Yang Ao about their futures and humanity’s fight against zombies, resolving his doubts about his role as a leader. He decided to keep advancing steadily and revealed that he planned a major move targeting the zombies’ weakness at night.

• Yang Ao teased Shen Jin about his doubts, then shared a drink with him and discussed their friendship and hopes for the future.
• Yang Ao said he would fight zombies throughout his life but would also protect himself and pass on his genes.
• Shen Jin realized that everyone fighting zombies was playing the role of a savior, and that he did not need to bear the burden alone.
• Shen Jin declared that he and Yang Ao would keep advancing until every zombie was killed.
• Shen Jin announced he would make a big move the next day, hinting that nighttime was the zombies’ fatal weakness.

Shen Jin tested Qi Tong’s light-based Special Ability and assigned her to lead a team on nighttime zombie-cleanup missions across the Train Station District. Qi Tong accepted the mission, with Zhao Mingkai as her vice captain.

• Shen Jin brought Yang Ao to the villa and called Qi Tong and Zhao Mingkai to his workshop.
• Qi Tong demonstrated her light whip, sword, bow, shield, clothing, beam, and powerful Curtain of Light.
• Shen Jin saw that Qi Tong’s ability could support both combat and nighttime visibility, then told her to lead a night zombie-cleanup team.
• Qi Tong accepted the assignment to protect the team, create light in dark environments, and target deformed zombies.
• Shen Jin assigned Zhao Mingkai as Qi Tong’s vice captain and planned for Li Jie to take over his work distributing Stone Swords.

Shen Jin organized a new night-fighting squad and visited the survivor housing to look for ideas about improving ordinary people's lives. There, he found Li Zhe courting Xing Lingmin, whose attention shifted to Shen Jin as soon as she learned he was the base's leader.

• Shen Jin used crystal cores to awaken twenty unusual form special ability users for Qi Tong's Dark Night Angel Squad and arranged for electricians to repair streetlights.
• Li Zhe brought a lavish lunch to Xing Lingmin, drove off former roommates who tried to claim his food, and shared his meal with her.
• Xing Lingmin considered accepting Li Zhe as a provider and was about to agree to become his girlfriend.
• Shen Jin entered Xing Lingmin's room, and Xing Lingmin recognized him as the base leader and turned her attention toward him.
• Xing Lingmin told Shen Jin that she saw Li Zhe only as a big brother, leaving Li Zhe's smile frozen.

Shen Jin invited Xing Lingmin and Li Zhe to his villa, where Xing Lingmin openly flirted with him. Li Moxiao confronted Xing Lingmin and attacked her, leaving Shen Jin to intervene as Xing Lingmin clung to him for help.

• Shen Jin took Xing Lingmin and Li Zhe to his villa and served them steak and wine.
• Xing Lingmin flirted with Shen Jin in front of Li Zhe, who left to kill zombies.
• Li Moxiao confronted Xing Lingmin and demanded to know her identity and purpose.
• Xing Lingmin mocked Li Moxiao's chest, prompting Li Moxiao to grab her and carry her outside.
• Li Moxiao slammed Xing Lingmin onto the cracked paving and dug a pit while threatening to bury her.
• Shen Jin arrived, and Xing Lingmin clung to his leg, crying that Li Moxiao was bullying her.

Li Moxiao confronted Xing Lingmin, but Shen Jin defended Xing Lingmin and sent her away, leaving Li Moxiao furious and contemplative. Meanwhile, Li Zhe grew resentful after seeing Xing Lingmin with Shen Jin, and Old Fatty and Old Seven led him to meet a group of ten Unusual Form Special Ability Users.

• Li Moxiao accused Xing Lingmin of deliberately approaching Shen Jin, but Shen Jin shielded Xing Lingmin and told her to return for dinner that night.
• Li Moxiao kicked over gravestones in anger, then stopped at Su Lele's grave and wondered whether Shen Jin had always cherished college life.
• Old Fatty and Old Seven encouraged Li Zhe's resentment toward Shen Jin, and Li Zhe nearly got bitten by an M-Type Evolved Zombie while distracted.
• Li Zhe saw Xing Lingmin head upstairs to Shen Jin at dinner, then agreed to go with Old Fatty and Old Seven to meet new brothers.
• Li Zhe arrived at an abandoned village house, where ten Unusual Form Special Ability Users were waiting inside.

Shen Jin secured the southern coastline around Home No. 1 by sealing six bridges, then learned that a Brood Nest Zombie might have appeared at Willow Village Residential Complex. He rushed there with Shang Qian and Li Moxiao as Miao Shubai’s squad struggled against growing numbers of little zombies.

• Tong Zhen’s squad cleared thirteen kilometers of coastline, allowing Shen Jin to build thirty-meter watchtowers that sealed six bridges into the city and Haishan Pass District.
• Shen Jin surveyed the newly secured coast and decided to keep Home No. 1’s ordinary survivors inside until the defensive perimeter was complete.
• Miao Shubai called Shen Jin from Willow Village Residential Complex, reporting many little zombies and a suspected Brood Nest Zombie.
• Shen Jin gathered Shang Qian and Li Moxiao, then flew with them toward the complex while Yang Ao was away and Mo Xiao had been playing games.
• Miao Shubai’s team fought off the little zombies as they poured out of the complex, and a huge moving sound interrupted the battle just as the squad prepared to use Energy Crystal Cores.

Shen Jin led Home No. 1’s Superhumans into Willow Village Residential Complex to kill the Brood Nest Zombie before it could produce more little zombies. After the group crushed the first wave of defenders, Shen Jin, Li Moxiao, and Shang Qian teleported to Building Six’s roof to confront it.

• Wu Yong, Meng San, Pang Guang, Tong Zhen, and Qi Tong helped defeat the little zombies and sever the Brood Nest Zombie’s first tentacle.
• Shen Jin arrived with Shang Qian and Li Moxiao, identified the enemy as a zombie breeder, and organized the Superhumans to attack.
• Shen Jin gave Tier 2 special ability food to the main fighters, empowering them as ten tentacles and hordes of little zombies poured out.
• Qi Tong, Meng San, Yang Ao, Miao Shubai, and Wu Yong destroyed the tentacles and broke up the horde while the Superhumans advanced.
• Shang Qian teleported Shen Jin and Li Moxiao to Building Six’s roof, where Shen Jin prepared to test his peak Tier 2 combat power against the Brood Nest Zombie.

Shen Jin, Li Moxiao, and their team fought the Brood Nest Zombie at Willow Village Residential Complex, rescuing its human captives while uncovering its vulnerable abdomen. They destroyed the zombie, and Shen Jin dedicated his final strike to Zhu Dan.

• Shen Jin and Li Moxiao attacked the Brood Nest Zombie while Shang Qian brought the captains to rescue the people trapped in its tentacles.
• Yang Ao and the captains severed tentacles and freed captives, while Shen Jin gave a wounded man a Senzu Bean that healed him.
• The Brood Nest Zombie fed a woman to its abdominal mouth, prompting Yang Ao to break free of its mucus membrane and shred the mouth with his [Diamond Sword].
• The damage to its abdomen weakened the Brood Nest Zombie, allowing Li Moxiao to smash its head while Shen Jin froze it with his Ice Swords.
• Shen Jin fired his Ultra Spiral Beam, annihilated the Brood Nest Zombie's head, and said the strike was for Zhu Dan.

Shen Jin’s group killed the Brood Nest Zombie and rescued the captives, but one woman died after her injuries made a Senzu Bean useless. After treating the surviving men, Shen Jin asked whether they were willing to follow him.

• Wu Yong’s stone beds supported the Brood Nest Zombie’s corpse while Tong Zhen’s Earth Elemental crushed the zombie babies, and the group finished killing the monster.
• Yang Ao rescued a woman from the Brood Nest Zombie, but she died after telling him to kill every last zombie; Yang Ao asked Shen Jin to help him do so.
• Shen Jin used Senzu Beans to stabilize the injured men and told the captains to record the captives’ final wishes.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian freed and treated the sixty-five injured men, who asked what ordinary people could do to survive.
• Shen Jin told the men he was their fellow countryman and asked whether they were willing to follow him.

After strengthening his ability with a Tier 2 Energy Crystal Core, Shen Jin learned to control and ration his tier 2 special ability foods more efficiently. He welcomed the rescued 65 men into his group, appointed Yang Ao as their captain, and gave them awakening potions.

• Shen Jin exchanged the Brood Nest Zombie's Tier 2 Energy Crystal Core for an Intermediate Special Ability Enhancement Potion and gained greater energy reserves and control.
• Shen Jin calculated a daily production plan of 45 Senzu Beans and 28 combat foods with different durations.
• After the 65 rescued men recovered, Shen Jin addressed them in the villa courtyard and asked whether they wanted to fight zombies and follow him.
• Shen Jin appointed Yang Ao captain of the 65 men, and they pledged their loyalty to Shen Jin.
• Shen Jin gave each of the 65 men a Basic Special Ability Awakening Potion.

On the Heavenly Net’s predicted final day of the zombies’ first evolution, Shen Jin questioned whether every zombie would evolve on schedule and recorded a nursing home’s zombies to check. After expanding Home No. 1’s planned territory and building its walls, he returned to retrieve the recording and discovered something shocking.

• Shen Jin and Yang Ao discussed why the Heavenly Net predicted that all zombies would complete their first evolution that day, despite some remaining ordinary.
• Shen Jin recorded the zombies at a nursing home, expecting to review the footage that night, while Yang Ao went to inspect the planned wall sites.
• Shen Jin assessed the squads’ recent gains and expanded Home No. 1’s planned territory by several square kilometers.
• Shen Jin began building the expanded perimeter wall, then stopped when thunder and darkening skies signaled rain.
• Shen Jin returned to the nursing home for his recording and saw something that shocked him.

Shen Jin and Yang Ao discovered that a sudden thunderclap had triggered ordinary zombies across the country to evolve, and the Heavenly Net explained that the zombie virus contained timed genetic locks. The broadcast warned that a second lock would expire in 180 days, likely turning zombies worldwide into Tier 1 Evolved Zombies, leaving Shen Jin and the survivors to face an approaching escalation.

• Shen Jin tested the newly evolved zombies and found that they were as strong as zombies that had evolved normally, while the courtyard held only L-Type and M-Type Zombies.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao watched the nursing-home footage and saw a thunderclap make every zombie look up before rapidly evolving and resuming its wandering.
• Yang Ao reached the Heavenly Net hotline, whose operator told him to listen to the ten o'clock broadcast for an explanation.
• Qi Tong rejected Zhao Mingkai's advances in messages while residents across Home No. 1 gathered to hear the news broadcast.
• The Heavenly Net announced that the zombie virus contained genetic time locks, that the first had triggered that day, and that the second was expected to activate in 180 days, likely producing Tier 1 Evolved Zombies worldwide.
• Shen Jin heard the warning and fell into thought as the survivors considered the next threat.

After Heavenly Net’s broadcast warned that all zombies would evolve within six months, Shen Jin worried about Home No. 1’s ability to survive and returned to work on the wall. Meanwhile, Shang Qian began recruiting survivors for public enterprises and other jobs, launching the base’s effort to resume production.

• The survivors of Home No. 1 worried that they could not withstand the Tier 1 evolved zombies expected in six months, while Shen Jin considered the danger of an evolved horde.
• Shen Jin saw Shang Qian, Old Wang, and Li Jie posting recruitment notices, then watched Shang Qian teleport them to the interview site.
• Shang Qian set up six interview tables and moved ahead with her plan to establish several publicly run enterprises.
• Survivors gathered at the Matchbox Residential Community noticeboard to read recruitment ads for factories, maintenance, repairs, and temporary road-clearing work.
• A former government employee suggested that the notices meant work and production were resuming, while other survivors joked about applying to be leaders.