Recaps

Shang Qian organized recruitment and assigned Superhuman captains to run key industries as Home No. 1 prepared to restore production and expand beyond its walls. Meanwhile, Shen Jin continued building defenses, while Li Zhe and other Superhumans plotted a power grab and Heavenly Net assessed its expanding position.

• Shang Qian assigned Miao Shubai to the saltworks, Wu Yong to the fertilizer factory, Meng San to the auto repair shop, Tong Zhen to the electricity bureau, and Qi Tong to the clothing factory, while Li Jie recruited administrative workers.
• Ordinary survivors flocked to apply for jobs, and Shang Qian planned a census and the expansion of work across Home No. 1.
• Fan Jia, Li Zhe, and other unusual form special ability users slipped away from patrols and discussed a scheme to seize resources and control the base.
• Shen Jin paused his wall-building to play music on a street performance device, restored his mental energy, and resumed construction.
• A Heavenly Net Human Observation Team leader reported that its forces had opened gaps through zombie encirclements and might establish several large defensive positions within half a year.

Hu Shou received reports on China’s worsening zombie threat and expanding safe zones, then approved sharing the Gene Serum formula with capable local governments. He planned to visit D City to deal with a Tier 3 hybrid and negotiate with Shen Jin, while Yang Tianyao privately hoped his son was still alive.

• The Zombie Horde Observation Team reported 575 nationwide hordes, including a million-strong horde in the capital, and said Crystal Core Implosion Mines had helped bases repel attacks.
• The Zombie Evolution Team reported that the first global zombie time lock had been released, S-Type Zombies were appearing, and a Tier 3 hybrid in D City had overwhelmed Xia Anbang’s people; Hu Shou scheduled a visit to deal with it.
• The Human Observation Team reported that China had eliminated over 100 million zombies in a month and substantially expanded its scattered safe zones; Hu Shou urged the command staff to keep resisting.
• The Heavenly Net Laboratory reported producing 9,000 Gene Serum doses monthly and requested help developing energy compression technology; Hu Shou agreed to seek technology and Extractors from Shen Jin and approved distributing the serum formula to capable local governments.
• Yang Tianyao looked at a photograph of his son and hoped he was still alive to hear his birthday wishes.

Shen Jin agreed to prepare a birthday cake for Yang Ao, but Li Moxiao secretly recruited a girl to bake one so she could eat cake early. The cake's drawing revealed Li Moxiao's jealousy over Xing Lingmin, and Shen Jin left her suggestion to exclude Xing Lingmin unresolved.

• Yang Ao asked Shen Jin to celebrate his upcoming birthday with steak, and Shen Jin proposed making him a cake after the potions were handed out.
• Li Moxiao persuaded Shen Jin to give her cake ingredients, claiming she wanted to practice baking for Yang Ao's birthday.
• While Shen Jin napped, Li Moxiao had another girl bake and decorate a cake, then sent her downstairs with steamed buns to keep the arrangement secret.
• Li Moxiao presented the cake to Shen Jin and claimed she had made it herself, but its drawing showed her, Shen Jin, a green tea leaf, and a purple-haloed figure.
• Li Moxiao asked to exclude the figure represented by the green tea leaf, and Shen Jin comforted her while saying they could not throw it away yet.
• Li Moxiao ate the piece of cake bearing the green tea leaf and declared that if they could not get rid of her, she would eat her.

Shen Jin completed Home No. 1’s defenses and distributed Energy Serum to 60 unusual form Special Ability Users, but Fan Jia and Li Zhe led a group of traitors in an attack on him. The chapter ended as Fan Jia burst into Shen Jin’s room and lunged at him.

• Shen Jin finished the walls enclosing Home No. 1 and left Tier 2 Giant Sausages in the eastern and western gate duty rooms for emergencies.
• Shen Jin addressed the 60 unusual form Special Ability Users, gave them Energy Serum to suppress their powers’ backlash, and offered them a celebratory buffet and a day off.
• Fan Jia and Li Zhe gathered their conspirators after the others went to eat, then went upstairs to attack Shen Jin.
• Fan Jia activated his Tier 2 ability and charged into Shen Jin’s room, aiming his tentacles at Shen Jin as Shen Jin turned toward him.

Fan Jia led a rebellion against Shen Jin, but the five captains and Li Zhe exposed the plot and defeated the traitors. After the rebellion was punished, the group celebrated Yang Ao’s birthday while Yang Tianyao listened to the broadcast alone.

• Fan Jia and fourteen Unusual Form Special Ability Users attacked Shen Jin’s room, but found a dummy and were trapped by Miao Shubai’s Air Wall.
• Meng San, Tong Zhen, Wu Yong, Qi Tong, and Miao Shubai ambushed the rebels, while Li Zhe revealed that he had infiltrated Fan Jia’s group for Shen Jin.
• Fan Jia ate a fake special ability carrot, and Li Zhe struck him from behind; the captains restrained Fan Jia as the other rebels surrendered.
• Li Zhe explained that Shen Jin had staged their apparent falling-out to expose the traitors, and Fan Jia admitted his resentment over the serum and his position.
• Li Zhe ordered the fourteen rebels executed, while the two men who had withdrawn from the plot asked for and received another chance.
• The group celebrated Yang Ao’s birthday with cake and a radio broadcast, while Yang Tianyao listened to the birthday song alone in his laboratory.

Li Zhe reported the rebellion to Shen Jin, was promoted to captain of the Second Squad, and helped end Xing Lingmin’s access to the villa. Meanwhile, Shen Jin and Shang Qian set out for D City as Hu Shou also boarded a plane bound there.

• Li Zhe told Shen Jin how the rebellion unfolded, and Shen Jin appointed him captain of the Zombie Slaying Second Squad in Miao Shubai’s place.
• Shen Jin dismissed Xing Lingmin from the villa, and Li Zhe rejected her attempt to get close to him afterward.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian teleported to the seaside, then flew toward Red Water Bay Base in D City to distribute Energy Serum.
• Hu Shou boarded a plane at the high-altitude military base to travel to D City.

Shen Jin returned to Red Water Bay Base and prepared to trade with the D City Government for resources while strengthening his allies. After restarting his undersea mining operation and setting up ore processing, he went to the Training Ground for a ceremony.

• Shen Jin landed at Red Water Bay Base with Shang Qian, collected the purified minerals, and told Zhao Chao he could raise several people to peak tier 1 superhuman.
• Zhao Chao reported that two unusual form special ability users had caused serious incidents, and Shen Jin told him to deal with threats to the base’s stability.
• Shen Jin rode a Minecart to the seabed, collected sixteen Iron Storage Chests, and restarted four Mining Machines with fresh energy units.
• Shen Jin decided to keep the D City mine as a fallback hideout and set up Hoppers, Iron Storage Chests, and Ore Washers to process its minerals.
• Shen Jin headed to the Training Ground for a ceremony.

At Red Water Bay Base, Zhao Chao exposed two Superhumans’ crimes, and Shen Jin ordered their execution. Shen Jin then gave enhancement potions to his core team, and Liu Yang’s ability advanced from Bedrock Giant to Metal Giant.

• Zhao Chao accused Tong Juhua of exploiting and humiliating a woman who later died by suicide, while Tong Juhua denied responsibility and tried to flee.
• Liu Yang used his enhanced strength to capture Tong Juhua, and Zhao Chao confronted Cha Gangmen over parties that had caused one death and four people to become mentally deranged.
• Shen Jin decided the two men should face the consequences, and they were executed in front of the Superhumans at the base.
• Shen Jin gave Energy Serum to eighteen unusual form special ability users and Special Ability Enhancement Potions to Zhao Chao, Liu Yang, and Zheng Ying.
• Zhao Chao’s Laser Eyes grew stronger, while Liu Yang gained the power to draw metal onto his stone armor and threaten opponents’ weapons.
• Shen Jin and Zhao Chao agreed to rename Liu Yang’s advanced ability Metal Giant, then Shen Jin asked Zheng Ying to demonstrate her ability.

Shen Jin strengthened Zheng Ying, Liu Yang, and Zhao Chao with serums before negotiating with Hu Shou for materials and equipment. He secured a deal for a hundred Extractors and ten Compressors, then realized he might have accepted too little.

• Zheng Ying showed that her icy mist had grown colder and that her body could become cold jade, while Liu Yang, Zhao Chao, and Zheng Ying reached the peak of Tier 1 after taking Energy Serum.
• Shen Jin decided to negotiate with the Government for more materials and answered Xia Anbang's call requesting a hundred Extractors.
• Shen Jin rejected Xia Anbang's offer of modest materials and demanded three thousand tons of assorted materials, prompting Hu Shou to join the call.
• Hu Shou asked whether Shen Jin could make Compressors, and Shen Jin offered a hundred Extractors and one Compressor for the materials before agreeing to provide ten Compressors.
• After Hu Shou ended the call and said he would meet Shen Jin at the D City Government, Shen Jin worried that he had given away the Compressors too cheaply.

Shen Jin met Hu Shou at the D City Grain Reserve Bureau base to exchange materials for Extractors and Compressors while Hu Shou questioned the limits of his technology ability. After the exchange, Shen Jin left without revealing whether his system could reactivate modern weapons.

• Hu Shou and Xia Anbang waited at the base and discussed the threat of a Tier 3 zombie and the possibility of commissioning machines from Shen Jin.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian arrived, and Shen Jin exchanged greetings with Hu Shou before asking for the promised materials.
• Hu Shou asked what Shen Jin could manufacture and whether he could reactivate missiles or nuclear bombs, and Shen Jin denied having such technology.
• Hu Shou explained that modern weapons no longer worked and that only the twelve Wallfacers were still investigating why.
• Shen Jin collected the materials, left the Extractors and Compressors in the warehouse, and prepared to depart.

Hu Shou recruited Shen Jin to help fight a Tier 3 zombie Hybrid Variant in D City, offering him abundant materials in exchange. Shen Jin agreed and called for his entire force, surprising the Heavenly Net when he revealed that all forty-nine of his people were Tier 2 Superhumans.

• Hu Shou asked Shen Jin about his combat ability and invited him to support a fight against a Tier 3 zombie Hybrid Variant.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou arrived by helicopter, and Hu Shou introduced them as peak Tier 2 S-Rank Superhumans whose Explosion abilities made them dangerous walking bombs.
• Hu Shou explained that the team would use explosives from a distance to suppress the zombie and drain its energy, while Shen Jin negotiated for steel, iron, and other materials.
• After Xia Anbang and Hu Shou warned that only Tier 2 Superhumans should participate, Shen Jin called Zhao Chao and ordered all his people to come.
• Shen Jin told the stunned group that all forty-nine members of his force had Tier 2 strength.

Shen Jin brought 49 superhumans to D City to help fight a Tier 3 zombie hybrid variant, but the local leaders doubted their strength because they appeared to be Tier 1. He revealed that his Energy Food let them fight at Tier 2 strength, and Hu Shou accepted it as another technological breakthrough.

• Xia Anbang explained how the zombie hybrid variant survived the Crystal Core Implosion Mines, advanced to Tier 3, and forced D City to request urgent help.
• Zhao Chao, Liu Yang, and Zheng Ying led the 49-person squad as it arrived and reported to Shen Jin.
• Dai Xian, Dai Hou, and Hu Shou sensed no Tier 2 superhumans among the newcomers, and Xia Anbang worried Shen Jin planned to sacrifice them with a dangerous stimulant.
• Shen Jin clarified that his people could reach Tier 2 combat strength without side effects by eating his new technological creation, Energy Food.
• Hu Shou praised Shen Jin's technological ingenuity and treated Energy Food as a new research achievement.

Shen Jin demonstrated that his energy food could temporarily transform Xiao Guan’s weak light ability into a powerful combat ability, persuading Xia Anbang to use longer-lasting food against the Hybrid Variant Zombie. The group reached the zombie’s enclosure, where Hu Shou showed astonishing speed and went to observe it.

• Shen Jin gave Xiao Guan a Special Ability Carrot, and her ability surged to Tier 2, blinding the onlookers.
• Xiao Guan demonstrated that she could fire a fast, explosive beam of light and create a dazzling sphere before the carrot’s effect ended.
• Xia Anbang agreed to take the Tier 2 Superhumans into battle after Shen Jin revealed he had food that lasted fifteen minutes.
• The group traveled by military pickup trucks to the enclosure holding the Hybrid Variant Zombie, which was absorbing energy from land mines.
• Hu Shou vanished from the group’s sight and appeared atop a nearby building, leaving Shen Jin impressed by his speed.

Shen Jin brought his 49 allies into the air with jetpacks as D City's Tier 2 Superhumans prepared to fight a Tier 3 zombie. Hu Shou arrived, passed through the Daoist's formation, and opened the battle by severing one of the zombie's enormous eyes.

• Shen Jin filled his group's jetpacks with biogas, and they flew to the rooftop while Xia Anbang returned to safety.
• Gan Mujia and the other Tier 2 Superhumans discussed the zombie's growing rage and Mi Xiaoli's weakening curse as they waited for Hu Shou.
• Hu Shou arrived and passed through Gan Mujia's Golden Light Formation, while Dai Xian and Dai Hou crashed into its barrier.
• Hu Shou identified the zombie as Tier 3, charged at it, and severed one of its enormous eyes.

Shi Lai discovered that Q City had built a vast, fully enclosed settlement and considered bringing it under Heavenly Net, but he then spotted a massive evolved zombie horde returning toward the area. He began trying to contact the settlement to warn its residents to evacuate.

• Shi Lai studied Q City's 130-kilometer safe zone and realized its high stone walls and natural barriers had made it one of the country's safest large settlements.
• Shi Lai decided to propose that Heavenly Net bring the settlement into its organization as a pilot for restoring control in regions cut off from their governments.
• Shi Lai noticed that zombie horde B12 had turned back toward Zhongruan County, near Q City's settlement.
• Shi Lai and the Zombie Horde Observation Team leader compared settlement populations but could not explain why the 200,000 evolved zombies had returned.
• Shi Lai abandoned plans to recruit the settlement and went to Heavenly Net's hotline office to find Q City survivors he could warn to evacuate.

Liu Dalao and Su Lele rescued two brothers from evolved zombies in the Xia Jiba Grain and Oil Shop, then struggled to keep Su Lele from giving in to her hunger for human flesh. After feeding her energy from zombie cores, Liu Dalao gained the information called “Strength” and resolved to confront those who had abandoned Su Lele.

• Five evolved zombies cornered three brothers inside the Xia Jiba Grain and Oil Shop, and a T-type zombie killed their youngest brother.
• The second brother unlocked his gene lock while fighting the T-type zombie, but suffered its backlash until his eldest brother fed him an Energy Crystal Core.
• Liu Dalao and Su Lele entered the shop, killed the evolved zombies, and saved the surviving brothers.
• The eldest brother led his second brother away after realizing that Su Lele was craving their youngest brother’s corpse.
• Liu Dalao buried the corpse, took Su Lele into the sewers, and fed her energy from crushed cores by passing it to her through a kiss.
• Liu Dalao gained the information called “Strength” and vowed to seek justice for Su Lele by confronting those who had abandoned her.

Shen Jin and the others joined Hu Shou and the Heavenly Net team in battling an enormous hybrid variant zombie. After Hu Shou activated his First-Stage Gene Lock and the formation opened, fifty of Shen Jin’s Tier 2 superhumans unleashed their abilities and charged into the fight.

• The hybrid variant zombie rose after Hu Shou severed one of its eyeballs, and the Daoist trapped it in the Five Elements Formation.
• The zombie’s sonic blast disoriented the airborne fighters, but Hu Shou activated his First-Stage Gene Lock and cut apart the flesh stalks attacking him.
• Iron Man asked the Daoist to open the formation, allowing the assembled fighters to attack the zombie.
• Shen Jin assigned his team roles and distributed Tier 2 special ability food, while Shang Qian prepared to relocate and protect the fighters.
• Fifty of Shen Jin’s superhumans unleashed their powers and joined Iron Fist, Iron Man, and the others in attacking the zombie.
• Lu Daizhen, Mi Xiaoli, Iron Fist, Iron Man, and Bao Gechuan reacted to Shen Jin’s team, while the Daoist realized where the powerful newcomers might have come from.

Liu Yang, Iron Fist, Bao Gechuan, a Daoist, Hu Shou, and Iron Man attacked the Hybrid Variant Zombie from different angles, damaging its body but facing fierce counterattacks. Shen Jin mistook Iron Man for a dead friend, until Zhu Dan revealed himself and protested that Shen Jin had already taken his watch.

• Liu Yang and Iron Fist battered the Hybrid Variant Zombie's foot, then dodged the flesh bombs it spat at them.
• Bao Gechuan and the Daoist used the Giant Eagle to reach the zombie's back, blasted open a hole, and entered its body to fight the writhing leg tentacles.
• The Hybrid Variant Zombie trapped Hu Shou with giant hands and fleshy columns, but he enlarged himself and cut them apart with his Tang saber.
• Iron Man attacked the zombie's eyes and tongue, but its crystal eye covering, tongue, and huge hand forced him to dodge and counterattack.
• Shen Jin said Iron Man reminded him of his dead friend Zhu Dan, and Iron Man revealed his face and complained that Shen Jin had taken his watch and was declaring him dead.

Shen Jin and Zhu Dan joined the assault on the Hybrid Variant Zombie, while Zhao Chao, Zheng Ying, and the other superhumans attacked its enormous body from all sides. Their coordinated attacks appeared to be working, but the zombie was absorbing their power.

• Shen Jin recognized Zhu Dan, who explained that he survived inside the Brood Nest Zombie and reached tier 2.
• Shen Jin and Zhu Dan attacked the Hybrid Variant Zombie’s face, and Zhu Dan used enhanced armor and weapons to crack its eye protection and sever its tongue.
• Zhu Dan swallowed a Tier 2 Senzu Bean and a Tier 2 Carrot, then unleashed Energy Hammers, Energy Foot Clamps, and homing missiles against the zombie.
• Eighteen unusual form users used Energy Iron Swords to attack the zombie from every direction while Zhao Chao, Zheng Ying, and twenty-eight superhumans struck it with water and ice abilities.
• The attacks slowed and damaged the Hybrid Variant Zombie, but the group noticed that it was continually absorbing their power.

Shen Jin and the other Superhumans combined their powers to kill the Hybrid Variant Zombie, but Lu Daizhen sensed anger inside its corpse just as a red-haired hand burst out. The battle ended with the zombie still alive and Liu Yang narrowly escaping its grasp.

• Shen Jin compressed the Water-Air Bullet created by twenty-eight Water-based Special Ability Users while Hu Shou, Zhao Chao, and Zheng Ying opened and froze a wound on the Hybrid Variant Zombie's head.
• Shang Qian teleported Shen Jin out of the zombie's attacks, and Shen Jin launched the Water-Air Bullet into the exposed wound, bursting the zombie's head and bringing its body down.
• Shen Jin asked Hu Shou for the zombie's Tier 3 Energy Crystal Core, and Hu Shou agreed to inspect it before Liu Yang retrieved it.
• Iron Fist offered to support Liu Yang if he returned to the Government, and Liu Yang stopped on his way to the corpse.
• Lu Daizhen warned everyone that the zombie was still alive, and a red-haired hand burst out of its body as Liu Yang narrowly avoided being grabbed.

Shen Jin and the others tried to stop a red-haired zombie from absorbing the Hybrid Variant Zombie’s energy, but it emerged with powerful abilities copied from its attackers. The battle escalated as Hu Shou was injured, and the Dai brothers unleashed their foul-smelling “justice from above” against it.

• Hu Shou, Dai Xian, Dai Hou, and Shen Jin severed the black threads connecting the red-haired zombie to the Hybrid Variant Zombie’s corpse, cutting off its energy supply.
• The red-haired zombie opened its blood-red eyes, fired powerful lasers, and used Frost Arrows and explosive red hair to repel the attackers.
• Hu Shou charged the zombie but was blasted back when its hair exploded, breaching his internal energy defense.
• Zhu Dan launched homing missiles, but the red-haired zombie destroyed them with laser cannons grown from its back.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou dropped two enormous, foul-smelling lumps of matter toward the red-haired zombie, which sensed a grave threat.

Shen Jin’s group battered the red-haired zombie with the Dai brothers’ explosive bodily waste and a barrage of ice-and-fire attacks, but Lu Daizhen sensed that the zombie felt joy despite its severe injuries. The battle continued as the fighters tried to destroy the Energy Crystal Core in its head.

• Dai Xian and Dai Hou blasted the red-haired zombie with two enormous explosive lumps, badly damaging its head but coating it in foul-smelling debris.
• Two patrolmen outside the iron plates found yellow particles on their cured sausage and realized they were shit.
• Lu Daizhen sensed joy inside the wounded zombie and warned everyone not to celebrate.
• Zhao Chao and Zheng Ying combined ice and fire attacks while the other water-type Superhumans struck the zombie’s exposed wound.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou fired explosive yellow and toxic piss at the zombie, shouting their attack slogans.

The red-haired zombie absorbed the attacks aimed at it, healed, and grew stronger, leaving Shen Jin and the others overwhelmed. As the group considered retreating, Hu Shou finally opened his eyes and vanished with his saber as the zombie turned to face him.

• Shen Jin and the others attacked the red-haired zombie, but discovered its head had no crystal core and that it could absorb their abilities to recover and strengthen itself.
• The red-haired zombie formed rock armor, restored its body, and used its stolen abilities to knock the Ice-based Special Ability Users from the sky and bombard the group.
• Zhao Chao urged Shen Jin to retreat, while the Daoist struggled to hold the zombie in the Five Elements Formation and Bao Gechuan called for the Giant Eagle.
• Shang Qian prepared to take Shen Jin, Zhao Chao, and Zhu Dan to safety, but everyone watched Hu Shou for a chance to turn the battle around.
• A fierce wind blew toward the red-haired zombie; Hu Shou opened his eyes, and he and his saber vanished as the zombie turned toward him.

Hu Shou killed the Hybrid Variant Zombie with a series of lightning-fast slashes, ending the battle and leaving everyone in awe. Though he maintained a calm public image, the Dai brothers supported him as he struggled to stand after the attack.

• Hu Shou vanished and reappeared around the red-haired zombie, delivering four slashes and removing its crystal core.
• The Hybrid Variant Zombie broke apart and died, and Shen Jin realized Hu Shou had crossed over a thousand meters in an instant.
• Lu Daizhen confirmed the zombie was dead, and the gathered Superhumans praised Hu Shou’s strength and composure.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou helped Hu Shou stand, discovered he was exhausted, and departed with him for D City Base.
• After the Dai brothers accidentally revealed Hu Shou’s weakness, Iron Fist and Liu Yang helped preserve his image before everyone prepared to leave.

Fu Wei completed Gene Optimization Serum 2.0, which could unlock a gene lock without a life-or-death ordeal, and planned to seek volunteers for clinical trials. At Home No. 1, Lu Rending suffered a series of humiliating misunderstandings at the clothing store, while Old Wang received a call from the Heavenly Net about a new settlement near Q City's old Train Station as two masked figures entered the base.

• Fu Wei created Gene Optimization Serum 2.0 and rejected human testing without informed, willing volunteers, deciding to report the serum to Shen Jin when he returned.
• Qi Tong and Zhao Mingkai maintained order while distributing Gene Optimization Serum 1.0, and Lu Rending missed her place in the day's queue.
• Lu Rending traded clothes for Clothing Purchase Cards, but shop assistants repeatedly mistook her for a man, and Little Li mistook her for Wang Baoqiang.
• Little Li's wife went to Old Wang for help opening a can of luncheon meat, while Little Li misunderstood what she was doing and walked away smugly.
• Shi Lai called Old Wang from the Heavenly Net General Headquarters to ask about a large settlement near Q City's old Train Station.
• Two masked figures dressed in black knocked at Home No. 1's gates and were let inside.