Recaps

Shen Jin confronted a group of former Government officials and troops, refusing to negotiate on their terms and demanding answers while their crossbowmen and superhumans stood ready. After Miao Shubai revealed her power and the officials lowered their weapons, Dou Bei attacked her.

• Shen Jin ordered the nineteen people opposite him to answer his questions, while five hundred crossbowmen aimed at his team.
• Miao Shubai ate a carrot, then unleashed flames that scorched Ms. Cui’s hair and revealed her strength as a tier 2 superhuman.
• Shang Qian recognized the group as former Q City officials, and the second-in-command ordered the crossbowmen to lower their weapons.
• Shen Jin refused to release Ms. Cui and demanded to know whether the group had formerly been Government personnel and troops.
• Dou Bei turned his eyes black and lunged at Miao Shubai.

Meng San fought Dou Bei to push himself to the brink and broke through to Tier 2, turning the exchange into a sparring match that strengthened Shen Jin's side. Shen Jin then demanded that Q City's former officials explain why they had not contacted the Heavenly Net or established an official shelter.

• Miao Shubai blocked Dou Bei with an Air Wall, but he dodged her defenses until Meng San joined the fight.
• Meng San and Dou Bei traded blows while Miao Shubai briefly supported Meng San, until Meng San asked to face Dou Bei alone.
• Meng San exhausted himself in the duel, then reached Tier 2 during his final strike and knocked Dou Bei back.
• Shen Jin congratulated Meng San and teased Dou Bei about serving as his sparring partner; Dou Bei's subordinates argued that he remained stronger in a fight to the death.
• Shen Jin asked the former Q City officials why they had not contacted the Heavenly Net or established an official shelter.

Shen Jin captured Q City’s former officials and forced them to explain why they had abandoned the fight against the zombies. After hearing how repeated disasters had driven the survivors into hiding, Shen Jin reflected on his own former cowardice and reaffirmed his sense of responsibility.

• Shen Jin demanded to know why the armed group had not contacted Heavenly Net or established an official shelter, and the second-in-command refused to explain.
• Shen Jin ordered his 225 superhumans to seize the officials, and Miao Shubai’s Water Space and their armor neutralized the crossbowmen’s volley before Shen Jin’s forces defeated them.
• Li Zhe lifted Ms. Cui to pressure the group, and the second-in-command agreed to recount what had happened to Q City’s Government and troops.
• The second-in-command described the Government’s retreats from the vocational college and seaside forest park, then explained how Dou Bei killed an M1 Zombie so the remaining survivors could reach the pork warehouse.
• Shen Jin compared the officials’ fear to his own former self and changed the Rolex’s credo to, “The more Rolexes you wear, the greater your responsibility.”

Shen Jin brought the former Government personnel and crossbowmen under control, and Dou Bei led his soldiers to join Shen Jin’s forces. The teams began taking stock of the base’s supplies.

• Shen Jin ordered his people to bring the defeated personnel back and recruit the crossbowmen into his teams.
• The bald officer and Ms. Cui proposed sharing leadership and responsibilities with Shen Jin’s forces, but Shen Jin rejected their attempt to bargain.
• Dou Bei broke free, denounced Meng Song, tore off his Major insignia, and urged his soldiers to join the Heavenly Net.
• The crossbowmen agreed to follow Dou Bei, and Shen Jin welcomed them into his forces; the remaining twenty-seven Superhumans also joined.
• Shen Jin sent Li Zhe and Wu Yong to inventory the warehouse, and an hour later they returned to report the amount of chilled pork.

Shen Jin led the group back to Home No. 1 through a tunnel dug by 225 Superhumans, bringing back 7,000 tons of pork and 500 crossbowmen. After everyone celebrated with braised pork rice, Sun Li began settling in and sent an unexpected late-night message to the base’s male Superhumans.

• Shen Jin packed the chilled pork into the Superhumans’ backpacks and led the group toward Home No. 1 through a tunnel dug by the 225 Superhumans.
• Shen Jin reconsidered building railways and planned to use electric buses and shared bicycles in the underground tunnels instead.
• Shen Jin brought Dou Bei, Sun Li, and 500 crossbowmen into Home No. 1, then ordered Tong Zhen to house the crossbowmen separately from Dou Bei.
• A hotel chef served braised pork rice to the base, while Li Moxiao kept eating in the kitchen and Dou Bei and Sun Li ate with the Superhumans.
• Sun Li added Superhumans to the local chat app, then messaged every male Superhuman at midnight asking them to send him pornography.

Shen Jin rescued injured newcomers at Home No. 1 with Senzu Beans, then developed lightweight bone armor to protect the settlement’s growing ranks of Pseudo-Superhumans. He finished a full armor set and planned to sell sets for 100 bones.

• Shen Jin checked the west gate’s newcomer records and ordered guards to observe new arrivals for three hours to prevent infected people from entering unnoticed.
• When an M1 Zombie chased eleven Pseudo-Superhumans to the gate, Shen Jin gave one fighter Giant Sausage to help the guards battle it.
• Shen Jin gave seven badly injured survivors Senzu Beans; six recovered, while one died before the medicine could save him.
• Shen Jin chose bones as an abundant, lightweight armor material and crafted Bone Leggings whose High-Calcium Enhancement added 10 armor points after absorbing a bone.
• Shen Jin made a full bone armor set for 50 bones and decided to sell each set for 100 bones.

Ye Fan led Heavenly Net superhumans in a jungle battle, where their enhanced strength let them kill five Tier 1 Zombies despite their weapons breaking and their bodies having lost the potential to advance. The chapter ended with Sun Can complaining about his own broken weapons in Q City.

• Ye Fan's thirty fighters split into teams and attacked three L1 Zombies, two T1 Zombies, and the ordinary evolved zombies nearby.
• Ye Fan and his teammates weakened a T1 Zombie's black energy shield while the other teams engaged the remaining zombies.
• The superhumans killed all five Tier 1 Zombies, then discussed how Heavenly Net's drug had tripled their strength but barred them from advancing to Tier 2.
• Ye Fan said he had taken the drug to avenge his friend, who had been eaten by a T1 Zombie, and vowed to shoulder the fight for six months.
• The fighters found their refined steel weapons damaged by the battle, while Sun Can in Q City also complained that his broken broadsword and his skeleton soldiers' makeshift weapons were inadequate.

Sun Can discovered Pang Guang’s powerful energy bow and set off with him for Home No. 1 to find its maker and request similar weapons. Meanwhile, Liu Jiannan considered Hu Shou’s proposal to coat weapons with energy and hoped to find an Artifact-Refining Special Ability User.

• Sun Can received a quest to travel to B City and destroy a mutant-breeding nest, then decided he needed to prepare better weapons for his Ghosts and Skeleton Warriors.
• Pang Guang killed an attacking P-Type Spitter Zombie with his glowing Shortbow, and Sun Can captured him with Ghosts and Skeletons to ask about the weapon.
• Sun Can tested Pang Guang’s bow and fired three energy-coated arrows through four walls, then asked Pang Guang to take him to the bow’s maker.
• Two Ghosts carried Sun Can and Pang Guang toward Home No. 1 while the Skeletons ran after them.
• At Heavenly Net Headquarters, Liu Jiannan reviewed complaints about outdated weapons and considered Hu Shou’s proposal to use Energy Crystal Cores to strengthen them.
• Liu Jiannan decided to ask the country over the radio whether an Artifact-Refining Special Ability User could help solve the equipment problem.

Sun Can visited Home No. 1 and inspected Shen Jin’s newly developed weapons and armor, deciding to outfit his skeleton warriors with them. He met Shen Jin at the research institute and asked about buying swords, leaving their trade about to begin.

• Pang Guang arrived at Home No. 1 with Sun Can’s undead summons, and Liu Jin confirmed their identities so the guards let them enter on foot.
• Sun Can examined the weapon racks and armor stands, impressed by the equipment’s traits and resolving to buy bows, arrows, armor, and possibly daggers for his skeleton warriors.
• Pang Guang told Sun Can that Shen Jin was selling melee weapons in exchange for supplies.
• Shen Jin smelted pig iron to make stronger weapons for his superhuman teams and planned to sell their retired steel gear.
• Sun Can met Shen Jin at the Tinkers’ Construct Research Institute and asked whether he sold swords.

Shen Jin negotiated with Sun Can for weapons and armor in exchange for materials, then grew suspicious that Sun Can had a system of his own. Sun Can left to retrieve his stored supplies, while Shen Jin considered why he had denied having a system.

• Sun Can asked Shen Jin to make equipment for his Skeleton summons and offered lavawood and blaze powder, which Shen Jin eagerly accepted.
• Sun Can requested durable weapons and armor for his summons, plus a powerful set for himself before leaving Q City for B City.
• Shen Jin gave Sun Can a Tinker's Construct Knapsack and Traveler's Belt so he could carry his materials, and Sun Can left to collect them.
• After Sun Can departed, Shen Jin examined a pair of Traveler's Gloves and concluded Sun Can had a system, wondering why he had lied about it.

Shen Jin discovered that Sun Can had gathered rare materials, including slimeballs, and learned that Sun Can could transform green slime into orange magma slime. The chapter ended with Shen Jin realizing Sun Can was the source of the magma slime.

• Shen Jin crafted Lavawood and Blaze Powder into Firewood, a material that let weapons release flames.
• Sun Can offered Shen Jin large quantities of Lavawood and Blaze Powder, along with several strange materials he had collected.
• Shen Jin recognized three colorful balls from a Hybrid Variant Zombie as large slimeballs and checked their crafting properties.
• Sun Can used his flames to transform a large green slimeball into an orange Magma Slimeball.
• Shen Jin watched Sun Can’s flames fade and exclaimed that Sun Can was his magma.

Shen Jin used Sun Can’s slime materials to forge him a powerful Lava Slime-Pig Iron Shortbow and a quiver of magma slime arrows. After Sun Can tested the bow’s fiery strength, he asked Shen Jin to make more sets for his skeleton monsters, leaving Shen Jin to calculate how much magma slime he could spare.

• Shen Jin persuaded Sun Can to hand over his large slimeballs and burn twenty green ones into magma slimeballs.
• Shen Jin crafted Sun Can a Lava Slime-Pig Iron Shortbow and sixty magma slime arrows, combining magma slime’s fire traits with pig iron’s self-repairing ability.
• Sun Can tested the bow on a spider, then coated it with his lava-like special ability and shot through a meter-thick cobblestone wall.
• Sun Can asked Shen Jin for ten more bows and twenty-one quivers of arrows while he went to retrieve the test arrow.
• Shen Jin calculated that eleven equipment sets would use 308 magma slime balls, leaving 972 from Sun Can’s supply, but realized Sun Can might request other gear too.

Shen Jin crafted flame-infused weapons and armor for Sun Can’s skeletons, giving them equipment suited to their small frames and fire-based combat. With their gear complete, Sun Jin envisioned Sun Can leading a squad of flame skeletons.

• Sun Can asked Shen Jin for compact weapons for his skeletons, and Shen Jin offered them one-handed hatchets instead of daggers.
• Shen Jin crafted a steel hatchet with a firewood binding that let it shoot concentrated flames, and Sun Can tested and praised it.
• Shen Jin made Sun Can ten more flame hatchets for the skeletons.
• Shen Jin crafted a full set of armor with shared damage and flame effects, completing the skeletons’ bows, arrows, hatchets, and armor.
• Shen Jin told Sun Can he might someday have a squad of flame skeletons.

Shen Jin tested Sun Can’s skeleton with the crimson armor and learned that Sun Can was a dual-type Fire and summoning ability user. Shen Jin concluded that Sun Can might not know other people possessed systems, then asked what weapon Sun Can wanted to make.

• Lu Daizhen reported that she could not read Sun Can’s thoughts or probe his strength, and Shen Jin wondered why she also could not see through the Daoist.
• Sun Can brought a stronger skeleton summoned from a Tier 1 L-Type Zombie and revealed that he had both Fire and summoning abilities.
• Shen Jin inferred that Sun Can had been concealing his unusual powers because he believed he might be the only system owner.
• Sun Can fitted the skeleton with crimson armor, a bow, arrows, and a hand axe stowed inside its rib cage; the armor amplified his flames when he attacked it.
• Shen Jin praised the equipment and asked Sun Can what weapon he wanted to make.

Shen Jin forged Sun Can a powerful greatsword and equipped him for his journey, then upgraded his own gear with knight slime armor. After Sun Can departed, Shen Jin realized he had forgotten to ask for more materials and forged a frying pan for both combat and cooking.

• Shen Jin crafted Sun Can a magma slime greatsword with cobalt bindings, and Sun Can tested its power with his fire ability.
• Shen Jin finished Sun Can’s armor with a purple knight slime helmet, gave him Tinkers’ Construct gear and mining tools, and sent him off.
• Shen Jin upgraded his own armor with knight slime and stored the remaining rare materials.
• Shen Jin noticed Sun Can had taken the promised lavawood and blaze powder with him, but Pang Guang failed to catch up to him.
• Shen Jin used firewood and pig iron to craft a frying pan that could serve as a weapon and a cooking tool.

Shen Jin and his companions heard the Heavenly Net request help from a Superhuman skilled at making melee weapons for fighting evolved zombies. Yang Ao proposed turning Shen Jin’s weapon-making ability into a deal with the Heavenly Net, and Shen Jin agreed to seek materials in exchange.

• Li Moxiao teased Shen Jin about gaming, then accepted three Cornettos and ate them while the group gathered for the evening broadcast.
• The Heavenly Net announced that it needed a Special Ability User who could make weapons strong enough to fight Tier 1 and Tier 2 evolved zombies, offering research products and serums for help or useful leads.
• Fu Wei returned to his laboratory and Li Moxiao went back to her room after the broadcast, while Shen Jin and Shang Qian discussed the announcement.
• Yang Ao suggested that Shen Jin negotiate with the Heavenly Net for materials because others could not perform the final steps of his weapon-making process.
• Shen Jin agreed that dealing with the Heavenly Net could help him obtain materials he had been unable to find himself.

Shen Jin gathered requests for supplies from his companions and contacted the Heavenly Net Equipment Section with an offer. The Heavenly Net sent Ye Fan and Lightning Squad Six to Home No. 1 to test new weapons, where Ye Fan introduced himself to Shen Jin.

• Shen Jin asked Fu Wei, Li Moxiao, Shang Qian, and Yang Ao what supplies they wanted from the Heavenly Net.
• Fu Wei requested materials to increase Gene Optimization Serum 1.0 production, while Li Moxiao asked for a long list of snacks.
• Shen Jin compiled his own request for crafting materials and called the Heavenly Net Equipment Section with an offer.
• Liu Jiannan arranged for an experienced team of peak Tier 1 superhumans to test new weapons in Q City.
• The H Province branch assigned Lightning Squad Six, led by Ye Fan, whose partner had died and whose A-rank ability was Lightning Body.
• Ye Fan arrived at Home No. 1 with thirty superhumans and told Shen Jin he had come to test swords; Shen Jin jokingly replied that he was Qin Shi Huang and asked Ye Fan to send money.

Shen Jin demonstrated his Tinkers' Construct weapons to Ye Fan and Heavenly Net’s soldiers, impressing them with their power and self-repairing traits. Heavenly Net agreed to supply the materials Shen Jin needed, and Ye Fan gave him a Tier 2 strength Energy Crystal Core before leaving; Shen Jin then called Ye Fan back, thinking he might be able to help him.

• Shen Jin showed Ye Fan and the other soldiers a Steel Cleaver, and Ye Fan split a cobblestone wall and a large iron block with it.
• Ye Fan tested the cleaver with zombie blood and his Lightning Body ability, while the soldiers tried Shen Jin’s other weapons and praised their strength.
• Ye Fan reported the weapons and Shen Jin’s material requirements to Liu Jiannan, who promised Heavenly Net’s help sourcing supplies.
• Ye Fan gave Shen Jin a Tier 2 strength Energy Crystal Core he no longer needed, then prepared to leave with the other soldiers.
• Shen Jin called out to Ye Fan, thinking he might be able to help him.

Shen Jin gave Ye Fan an Energy Serum, but learned that Heavenly Net’s Energy Amplification Potion had already boosted its soldiers while blocking their advancement. At Red Water Bay Base, residents honored a buried hero, and Zhu Dan recognized the name on the headstone before rushing to confront Old Zhao.

• Shen Jin offered Ye Fan an Energy Serum, and Ye Fan drank it despite doubting it could help him advance.
• Ye Fan explained that Heavenly Net’s Energy Amplification Potion had raised its users to Tier 1 Peak while preventing them from advancing further.
• Engineer Mao finished plans for a bridge between D City and Q City, and Zhao Chao gave him construction equipment.
• On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Red Water Bay residents burned offerings and honored a hero buried beneath a headstone.
• Zhu Dan read the headstone inscription, recognized his own name, and flew to the Training Ground to angrily call for Old Zhao.

Shen Jin expanded Home No. 1’s supply plans and prepared an undersea mine while the base readied a currency launch and a large-scale evacuation route. Liu Yue'er arrived at the west gate claiming to be a Tier 1 Superhuman, and Liu Jin suspected her Conversion ability made her much stronger than she let on.

• Shen Jin arranged for Heavenly Net to deliver materials for Fu Wei’s serum, planned an underground tunnel to Ancestor Mountain, and prepared equipment and workers for an undersea mine.
• Shang Qian neared completion of Home No. 1’s currency plan as Shen Jin awaited enough World Coins to unlock Intermediate Industry II.
• Liu Yue'er arrived at Home No. 1 seeking electricity, and Old Niu offered her instant noodles and shelter before Liu Jin identified her as a Superhuman.
• Liu Jin arranged for Liu Yue'er to live in the Red Light Livable Residential Complex and noted that her Conversion ability seemed stronger than a Tier 1 ability.
• A pink oval device fell from Liu Yue'er's pants as she walked away, prompting speculation among the onlookers, which Liu Jin ordered them to stop.

Shen Jin completed a deep-sea mine, pushed Fu Wei to increase serum production, and unlocked Intermediate Industry II after earning enough World Coins. Meanwhile, Liu Dalao fed a strange Energy Crystal Core to himself and kissed Su Lele, hoping the core might help her.

• Shen Jin led twenty workers through a passage to a mine three thousand meters below the sea, then rewarded them with Gene Optimization Serum 1.0.
• Shen Jin ordered Fu Wei to raise Gene Optimization Serum 1.0 production to a thousand bottles per day before pursuing new research.
• Shang Qian caught Shen Jin admiring another woman's figure, sent him flying two thousand meters into the air, and later kissed and teased him after he landed safely.
• Shen Jin received a World Coin for a subordinate's kill and spent a thousand coins to upgrade Intermediate Industry I to Intermediate Industry II.
• In Z City, Liu Dalao and Su Lele encountered a gigantic Hybrid Variant Zombie, and Liu Dalao fought it for half an hour before absorbing its unusual Energy Crystal Core and kissing Su Lele.

Shen Jin crafted and tested several machines unlocked by Intermediate Industry II, upgrading the settlement’s power and storage while exploring new building materials. He tested Industrial TNT and finished another machine that he thought Shang Qian would find interesting.

• Shen Jin crafted an MFE Energy Storage Unit and connected it to the wind generators, then planned to build twenty more turbines along the coast.
• Shen Jin made a Steel Storage Box with sixty-three slots and crafted an Electrolyzer, while rejecting the Blast Furnace and Recycler as unnecessary.
• Shen Jin assembled Construction Foam tools and sprayed a pickaxe-shaped structure, finding the foam smooth, insulating, and suitable for building exteriors.
• Shen Jin crafted Industrial TNT and detonated it at the old fortress, where his purple armor shielded him from the blast and flying debris.
• A woman in the inner city sensed the powerful energy fluctuations and searched for a charging adapter for her small machines.
• Shen Jin finished crafting one final machine and thought Shang Qian would be interested in it.

Shang Qian warned her finance team to follow the plan for Home No. 1’s new currency issuance, but Shen Jin interrupted with a Trade-O-Mat that could exchange coins for goods. The machine’s enormous storage capacity impressed the team, leaving them to reconsider how it could support the currency system.

• Shang Qian threatened consequences for anyone who undermined the currency plan and reminded the team that good work could earn them Gene Optimization Serum or a chance to become Superhumans.
• Shen Jin arrived with a Trade-O-Mat and demonstrated how it exchanged a newly minted coin for a fountain pen.
• The finance team questioned the machine’s usefulness, storage capacity, and ability to recognize currency.
• Shen Jin showed that the Trade-O-Mat could store goods in expanded internal space and dispense them in bulk, producing sixty-four bags of rice from one coin.

Shen Jin and Shang Qian finalized Home Coins and prepared a currency plan to revive Home No. 1’s industries. Afterward, Liu Jin reported that a powerful, possibly Tier 2 Superhuman woman had arrived alone, prompting Shen Jin to seek her out.

• Shang Qian had Shen Jin leave ten Trade-O-Mats to support the currency system, and they settled on the name Home Coins with 1-, 5-, and 10-yuan denominations.
• Shen Jin made the coin designs and praised the twenty people preparing a plan to use currency to rebuild Home No. 1’s industries.
• Liu Jin told Shen Jin that a woman had arrived and that his probing ability suggested she was a Superhuman, possibly Tier 2.
• Liu Jin added that a pink oval object with a cord had fallen from the woman’s pants, and Shen Jin became even more interested in meeting her.

Shen Jin confronted Liu Yue'er, a Tier 2 Superhuman who had secretly come to Home No. 1 to recharge her ability. After discovering her hidden collection of intimate toys, he recognized her as someone he called “Auntie,” leaving their relationship unclear.

• Shen Jin visited Liu Yue'er and challenged her claim that she was an ordinary Superhuman.
• Shen Jin threatened to have Liu Yue'er expelled, then warned he would bring armed guards when she refused to explain her Special Ability.
• Liu Yue'er revealed that her Conversion ability absorbed outside energy and that she had come to charge herself using the settlement's electricity.
• Shen Jin left after canceling the guards, then kicked Liu Yue'er's door open when he realized her explanation did not account for the chargers.
• Shen Jin found Liu Yue'er holding intimate toys and recognized her, asking, “You're... Auntie?”