Recaps

Shen Jin's team wiped out the zombies on Little Sith Mountain, then mined its high-purity redstone ore. As they prepared to leave for lapis lazuli, Shen Jin remained wary of Kabul's unnerving silence and the unexplained absence of a Zombie Horde.

• Shen Jin's team bombarded the zombies on the mountain, while Li Moxiao killed a Tier 2 Spitter Zombie with one punch and their Nano Armor repelled its insects.
• Kenny and Dave watched the team's equipment and firepower with awe, then helped collect energy crystal cores and burn the zombie corpses.
• After recharging their equipment, Shen Jin used the OD Scanner to locate redstone ore and wondered why the zombies in Kabul had not attacked the Afghan survivors.
• Shen Jin led his team into Little Sith Mountain with Mining Laser Guns, and they extracted all the high-purity redstone ore over three hours.
• Shen Jin counted a haul of 10,010 redstone ore and said the team would leave after collecting lapis lazuli, then head to find iridium.

Shen Jin finished gathering lapis lazuli and other ores in Afghanistan, then set out with his group for Pakistan. He left the Afghan camp behind, where three elderly miners had mysteriously become middle-aged and a young girl named Cath was missing.

• Shen Jin realized that his new jetpacks and mining laser guns would require far more electricity than his current power supply could provide, so he planned to build a nuclear power plant after returning home.
• Shen Jin met Sun Li, who had guarded the Afghan camp with his shadow, and checked that the mining machines were still working.
• Shen Jin followed three local miners to old lapis lazuli pits and a mountain where diamonds had been found, using his scanner to locate ore.
• After three days, Shen Jin dismantled the mining equipment and left with lapis lazuli, graphite, and other ores, including 521 blocks of diamond ore.
• Shen Jin departed for Pakistan, while the Afghan camp returned to normal and its residents noticed that Cath was missing.

Liu Dalao and Su Lele were held captive in a Japanese laboratory where researchers studied them as conscious zombies and subjected other people to brutal experiments. After the researchers fed a dead Superhuman to the pair, Liu Dalao vowed to escape with Su Lele and make their captors pay.

• Researchers in the Divine Assembly's laboratory injected a captured white Superhuman with radioactive material, and he died after five minutes.
• Colonel Tanaka and the elderly researcher discussed how Liu Dalao and Su Lele retained human consciousness, and Tanaka demanded a serum that could create controllable zombies.
• The researcher drew blood from both zombies and considered operating on Liu Dalao's brain to investigate his remaining intelligence.
• Two researchers cut up the dead Superhuman and fed the remains to Su Lele and Liu Dalao.
• Liu Dalao silently reassured Su Lele that they were still human and vowed to find a way to escape and kill their captors.

Sun Li delivered the Eye of Susanoo and iridium crucibles from Heavenly Net Headquarters to Shen Jin’s group, who then traveled toward Pakistan to locate an iridium mine. The group reached the area near Rawal City and prepared to ask a local where the newest mine pit was.

• Yang Tianyao received Sun Li, who handed over four bottles of the Eye of Susanoo and warned that the drug had side effects and should not be used by China's Superhumans.
• Yang Tianyao gave Sun Li five one-kilogram pure iridium crucibles and a list of laboratories and factories that might have more iridium.
• Sun Li returned with the crucibles while Yang Tianyao and the researchers began studying the Eye of Susanoo.
• Shen Jin's group discussed their lack of English skills and chose Rawal City as their destination to find Pakistan's iridium mine.
• Shen Jin explained iridium's rarity and potential use in Quantum Armor as the twelve travelers approached the mine area.

Shen Jin and Li Moxiao searched Rawal City for Pakistani settlements and approached a sealed courtyard after spotting smoke. A Pakistani man who spoke Chinese appeared on the roof and recognized them as Chinese.

• Shen Jin and his group split up to search Rawal City, while Li Moxiao stayed with him.
• Shen Jin and Li Moxiao spotted smoke and descended toward a small, carefully sealed courtyard.
• Shen Jin knocked on the gate and tried speaking English, but the occupant first replied in Arabic.
• A middle-aged Pakistani man appeared on the roof, greeted Shen Jin and Li Moxiao in Chinese, and confirmed they were Chinese.

Shen Jin and Li Moxiao met Abbas and his daughter Lola while searching for an iridium mine near Rawaka, and learned that the nearby Rawal Settlement was controlled by the Taliban Organization. After Abbas described the settlement and offered to help, Li Moxiao and Shen Jin improved his family’s home with fresh water, electricity, and supplies.

• Abbas welcomed Shen Jin and Li Moxiao, explained that he and Lola had survived alone since the crisis, and said he did not know where the iridium mine was.
• Abbas warned Shen Jin that the Taliban Organization controlled Rawal Settlement and offered to gather information about the mine there.
• Li Moxiao befriended Lola, flew away to find her clothes, and returned with a dress before digging a well in the courtyard.
• Shen Jin installed a pump, solar generators, and an energy storage box, restoring running water and electricity to Abbas’s home.
• Li Moxiao gave Abbas bags of clothes for Lola and secretly drank half of Shen Jin’s milk tea.

Shen Jin and his team reached a Taliban-controlled settlement near Rawal to ask about iridium ore. After two guards threatened and insulted them, one of Shen Jin’s female Superhumans killed them, and the group entered the settlement to confront its leaders.

• Shen Jin gave Abbas two awakening potions and supplies before he and Li Moxiao flew to the settlement where their teammates had gathered.
• The team learned that the large livestock farm was likely Rawal’s biggest survivor settlement and that Pakistan’s Taliban controlled it.
• Two armed guards demanded valuables and women from the team, then threatened and sexually insulted them.
• At Shen Jin’s command, the female Superhuman killed Johnny and Seth with her Nano Saber, and Sun Li’s shadow opened the gate.
• Shen Jin led the team into the settlement, where a middle-aged man confronted them and demanded to know who they were.

Shen Jin’s group fought their way through the Rawal Settlement and questioned its leader, Lanpite, who revealed the likely location of an iridium mine. Shen Jin chose to leave rather than risk a fight with Lanpite, and after they departed, Lanpite killed two captured subordinates and returned to abusing the settlement’s people.

• Li Moxiao knocked a second-stage gene lock superhuman through a chicken-farm building, while Shen Jin’s group overwhelmed the settlement’s fighters and captured two of them.
• Lanpite arrived, apologized to Shen Jin, and said Rawal’s government had likely hidden an iridium mine on South Mountain.
• Sun Li flew to the site and confirmed that it contained a mine and mining equipment, so Shen Jin ordered Ding Bowen to release the captives and led the group away.
• After Shen Jin’s group left, Lanpite killed the two captured superhumans and ordered his subordinates to bring him women from the settlement.

Shen Jin and his team mined platinum-iridium ore in Pakistan, then discovered Abbas had been killed and Lola abducted. They traced the attack to Rawal Settlement, where Li Moxiao charged in to rescue Lola and avenge Abbas, but Lanpite used his power to send her crashing down.

• Shen Jin's team installed Mining Machines in the mine, collected 464 pieces of platinum-iridium ore, and set off for home.
• Shen Jin noticed that Abbas's courtyard had been disturbed and found Abbas dead, while Lola was missing.
• Li Moxiao recognized a piece of Lola's dress, and Shen Jin ordered everyone to search for the people who had taken her.
• Shen Jin and Li Moxiao deduced that a powerful Superhuman was responsible and flew to Rawal Settlement, where they saw a Tier 2 Superhuman discussing a captured girl.
• Li Moxiao attacked Rawal Settlement's central building, and the team prepared to fight while Shen Jin concealed himself and sent Shen Tu underground.
• Li Moxiao spotted Lola bound but still clothed, then attacked the captors; Lanpite used his ability to make Li Moxiao plummet.

Shen Jin, Li Moxiao, and Shen Tu fought Lanpite, whose blood-control ability overwhelmed Li Moxiao and threatened the civilians at Rawal Settlement. Shen Jin’s hidden ally arrived and killed Lanpite, leaving the battle abruptly ended.

• Lanpite used his blood-control ability to make Li Moxiao lose control of her body, but Shen Jin and Shen Tu intervened and attacked him.
• Shen Jin restrained Lanpite while Shen Tu struck him, and they discovered Lanpite could not control Shen Tu’s earth-elemental body.
• Lanpite broke free, controlled Li Moxiao, and killed at least two hundred civilians in a chicken shed to replenish his strength.
• Lanpite ordered his followers to attack Li Moxiao, while Shen Jin used a Mining Laser Gun to keep them back and exposed his position.
• Lanpite took control of Shen Jin as well, but Shen Jin’s ally flew in on a golden sword and shattered Lanpite’s head.

Shen Jin and his team rescued Lola from the Taliban-run farm in Pakistan, killed Lanpite and the other abusive Superhumans, and helped the residents survive a zombie attack before flying home. Back at Home No. 1, they celebrated their return as Lola joined Li Moxiao, whom Shen Jin renamed Shen Jianguo.

• Sun Li’s fused shadow killed Lanpite, and Li Moxiao freed Lola from the farm’s office building.
• Shen Jin let the Pakistani residents judge the captured Superhumans, then killed forty and spared five who had secretly helped their people.
• Shen Jin and his team destroyed the approaching zombie horde, reinforced the farm entrance, and left the residents to defend themselves.
• Shen Jin’s group flew back to Home No. 1, where Shang Qian welcomed them with a feast and Lola settled in with Li Moxiao as Shen Jianguo.
• Shang Qian asked Shen Jin about his trip, and the two shared an intimate moment after the others dispersed.

Yang Tianyao’s researchers discovered that Shen Jin’s Energy Serum had repaired Ye Fan’s genetic damage and enabled his advancement to Tier 2. In Japan, Xing Lingmin agreed to help Liu Dalao escape the Divine Assembly, while Shen Jin decided to stay cautious and began upgrading his industry technology.

• Ye Fan remembered that Shen Jin had given him Energy Serum, and Yang Tianyao concluded that the serum had repaired his genetic damage.
• Shangxiu Lingmin brought thirteen prisoners to Professor Tanaka’s laboratory, then secretly contacted the dormant Liu Dalao, who communicated with her through consciousness.
• Liu Dalao revealed that he could command zombies and asked Xing Lingmin to help him escape; she agreed on the condition that he join her team when they returned to China.
• Shen Jin sold Energy Serum to Heavenly Net, received a message from Japan, and told Xing Lingmin to destroy the opportunity if her escape attempt failed.
• Shen Jin reflected on the dangers of fighting powerful Superhumans, ordered Li Moxiao to copy the Scripture of Prudence, and upgraded Advanced industry II to Advanced industry III.

Shen Jin unlocked Advanced Industry III and tested its futuristic machines, including a Magnetizer and a Teleporter. After learning that D City had secured enough nuclear fuel for only one large power plant to run for thirty years, he worried that his growing energy needs would outstrip the supply.

• Shen Jin spent 15,000 World Coins to unlock Advanced Industry III, then decided to save his World Line for the next stage of the Crystal Core Shop.
• Shen Jin started processing platinum-iridium ore and lapis lazuli, discovering that the ore yielded iridium shards as well as platinum ingots.
• Shen Jin crafted and tested a Magnetizer, which sent him rapidly up a line of iron bars and inspired him to plan overhead transport routes.
• Shen Jin built two Teleporters and tested them by sending a stone between his villa’s front and back yards, then Yang Ao volunteered only after Shen Jin shoved him onto one.
• Shen Jin estimated that long-distance teleportation would consume enormous amounts of electricity and asked Yang Ao about D City’s nuclear fuel.
• Yang Ao reported that D City had provided fuel rods sufficient to run one large nuclear power plant for thirty years, and Shen Jin worried that this was not enough.

Shen Jin expanded his plans to secure electricity, diamonds, and coal for advanced industrial equipment, then assembled machines capable of replicating matter. The chapter ended as his UU Matter Generator completed its first synthesis, though Shen Jin had not yet tested how much power it consumed.

• Shen Jin crafted and tested an Advanced Mining Machine, which used a Teleporter to excavate blocks quickly while consuming little energy for shallow sand.
• Shen Jin asked Kong Long for diamond supplies, and Kong Long identified industrial diamond micropowder workshops in Expansion City County, Central Plains Province.
• Shen Jin sent Sun Li and a team to collect industrial diamonds, providing them with Electric Jetpacks and Energy Crystals for the trip.
• Shen Jin recalled Li Zhe from the fighting in Gourd City and sent him to mine coal in S Province for future synthetic diamond production.
• Shen Jin assembled a Scanner, Pattern Storage, Replicator, and UU Matter Generator on a high-rise rooftop, then started the generator to test its electricity use.
• The UU Matter Generator completed its first batch of UU-Matter as Shen Jin watched its progress bar fill.

Shen Jin tested the new industrial machines, discovered that replicating iridium required enormous amounts of electricity, and expanded Home No. 1’s wind power to supply the Replicator. With a stronger power supply, he expected to make progress toward the Quantum Suit, though its iridium requirements remained daunting.

• Shen Jin scanned an iridium ingot and learned that replicating one required 120 ml of UU-Matter and 300,000 kilowatt-hours; using scrap reduced the overall electricity cost to 9.3 million kilowatt-hours per ingot.
• Shen Jin examined the iridium storage box, drill, Painter, and reinforced stone, and decided to save his iridium for more important equipment.
• Shen Jin calculated that a complete Quantum Suit required 120 iridium ingots and used four iridium crucibles to obtain eight ingots, but still lacked enough materials.
• Shen Jin chose to expand wind power rather than build a nuclear plant, then called Liu Jin to bring workers to help construct the turbine bases.
• Shen Jin installed 100 Wind Turbine Generators and expanded the charging station’s storage capacity to 80 million kilowatt-hours.
• Shen Jin connected the Replicator setup to the new power supply and calculated that the turbines could produce about 7.5 iridium ingots per day.

Shen Jin received a shipment of iridium from the Heavenly Net and gained the materials needed to craft a Quantum Suit. The tense meeting with the shipment’s Tier 3 leader turned into a feast, and Shen Jin was left eager to make his suit.

• Shen Jin noted that zombie evolution was scheduled for June 30 and considered how advanced armor could help his people fight evolved zombies.
• Heavenly Net personnel arrived with supplies, and Shen Jin exchanged Energy Serum and awakening potions for their research and Professor Kong Long.
• Shen Jin grew wary of the unfamiliar Tier 3 leader, Senior Colonel Yang, and ordered Liu Jin and the city defense soldiers to prepare for trouble.
• Senior Colonel Yang revealed that he had brought several tonnes of iridium from a state-owned factory, and Shen Jin invited him and the soldiers to eat and drink.
• Shen Jin crafted the iridium into 52 ingots and concluded that he could now make a Quantum Suit.

Shen Jin completed and equipped a gene-bound Quantum Suit, then decided to recruit a squad of high-level Special Ability Users. As he prepared to draw in the net against the Divine Assembly, Xing Lingmin continued her infiltration while Liu Dalao secretly gained strength inside its laboratory.

• Shen Jin crafted all four pieces of the Quantum Suit, which merged into a single, gene-bound armor that could hide in his chest and rapidly reform to protect him.
• Shen Jin tested the suit's defenses and mobility, then decided to use [Advanced Special Ability Awakening Potions] to build a stronger squad at No. 1 Academy.
• Shen Jin recalled that he had sent Xing Lingmin undercover after the Divine Assembly abducted Superhumans for experiments, and he judged that it was nearly time to draw in the net.
• Shen Jin leapt toward No. 1 Academy using his Quantum Boots while the guards returned to their game of gomoku.
• At the Divine Assembly's XP Biological Laboratory, a young researcher secretly fed Liu Dalao Tier 1 Energy Crystal Cores, and Liu Dalao absorbed them without revealing his strength.
• Xing Lingmin watched the researcher leave with a sneer and spinning red crescents in her eyes, while Xiao Min told Colonel Tanaka she was going to the restroom.

Shen Jin surveyed Home No. 1, where a large population of Pseudo-Superhumans helped the Zombie Slaying Squads clear Gourd City while ordinary residents supported the base through production. His tour ended with Liu Yue'er teasing him and offering to pamper him.

• Shen Jin interviewed 100 people from No. 1 Academy with Lu Daizhen, found that all passed, and raised the teachers' daily pay by two yuan.
• Shen Jin learned that more than 40,000 Pseudo-Superhumans were helping the five Zombie Slaying Squads clear zombies in Gourd City through an underground passage from Home No. 1.
• Shen Jin reflected that ordinary residents also helped Home No. 1 by farming and working, while he hoped talented Pseudo-Superhumans would become Superhumans before the next Time Lock in 69 days.
• Shen Jin interviewed young women working as escorts and gaming companions, asking about abuse, deception, and customers who refused to pay.
• Liu Yue'er arrived with a basket of cucumbers and eggplants, teased Shen Jin about the women, and invited him to lie back so she could pamper him.

At Heavenly Net Headquarters, Yang Tianyao and Kong Long discussed Ye Fan’s breakthrough past the serum’s side effect and speculated that Shen Jin’s abilities were responsible for his extraordinary technology. Their conversation ended as the [Energy Serum] arrived from Home No. 1.

• The pilots and Superhuman squad returned to Heavenly Net Headquarters with Shen Jin’s equipment and over a hundred bottles of serum.
• Yang Tianyao told Kong Long that Ye Fan’s unique ability to advance after taking the Special Ability Amplification Serum suggested he had encountered something extraordinary.
• Yang Tianyao explained that Heavenly Net could dismantle Shen Jin’s [Extractors] but could only build copies that lit up without functioning.
• Yang Tianyao concluded that Shen Jin’s machines relied on a force beyond mechanics and suggested the [Compressor] contained spatial power.
• A staff member announced that the [Energy Serum] from Home No. 1 had arrived.

Yang Tianyao’s researchers studied Shen Jin’s Energy Serum while Kong Long drank a separate advancement potion and reached advanced Tier 1. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Net learned that China’s progress against scattered zombies was about to be overwhelmed by a nationwide outbreak of migrating zombie hordes.

• Xiao Li carefully smelled the Energy Serum, and Yang Tianyao’s team continued investigating whether it could explain Ye Fan’s advancement.
• Yang Wei delivered Shen Jin’s Basic Special Ability Advancement Potion to Kong Long, who drank it and advanced to advanced Tier 1 with a newly changed golden-shield ability.
• Yang Wei reported to the Heavenly Net command room as officials reviewed the nationwide zombie situation and noted that hundreds of millions of zombies remained.
• The Zombie Observation Team leader warned Yang Wei that growing zombie hordes were gathering across China and would soon erase the advantage humans had gained by clearing scattered zombies.
• Shi Lai predicted that within a month, the Heavenly Net would face zombie hordes instead of individual evolved zombies, despite lacking area-effect weapons.

Shen Jin tested Liu Yue'er’s Conversion ability and discovered that she could absorb electricity and unleash devastating attacks. After he removed her mask with Miao Shubai’s Air Force Field, he recognized her true identity, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Shen Jin brought Liu Yue'er to the rooftop, where she absorbed electricity from the UU Matter Generator and demonstrated a ranged energy attack.
• Liu Yue'er absorbed power through two cables, formed a vast energy sphere, and blasted a deep crater into a park below.
• Shen Jin considered recruiting Liu Yue'er as a mobile artillery platform while she mistook his remarks for sexual advances.
• Shen Jin asked Liu Yue'er to remove her mask, but she refused and said she only wanted casual encounters.
• Shen Jin used Miao Shubai’s Air Force Field to pull off Liu Yue'er's mask, and she panicked and ran away.
• Shen Jin recognized Liu Yue'er as someone he already knew.

After graduating from high school, Shen Jin arranged to meet his online female friend for their first intimate encounter, while Liu Yue planned a similar meeting with her online friend. They both arrived at the same hotel room and discovered that each had been the other’s online confidant, leaving them stunned.

• Shen Jin reflected on how online friendships helped him recover from his isolation and how Liu Yue’s strict class-monitoring had helped him get into university.
• Shen Jin invited Liu Yue to lunch to thank her, then prepared to meet his online friend while Liu Yue searched online for advice about her own hotel date.
• Shen Jin and his online friend agreed to skip dinner and meet at the Wanyu Grand Hotel, where Shen Jin unexpectedly encountered Liu Yue in the lobby.
• Shen Jin and Liu Yue each invented an excuse for being at the hotel, then went their separate ways before returning to room 808.
• Shen Jin and Liu Yue entered the same room and recognized each other as their online friends, Xiaolongnü and Yin Zhiping.

Shen Jin remembered his disastrous high-school encounter with Liu Yue and planned to pursue her, but postponed the chase to focus on stopping the Divine Assembly’s hunting squads. After receiving their routes and spotting new zombie hordes gathering around H Province, he summoned his forces and prepared to launch a coordinated operation.

• Shen Jin recognized Liu Yue as his former online friend and classmate, recalling how police interrupted their attempted date seven years earlier.
• Shen Jin received Xing Lingmin’s report on the Divine Assembly’s hunting squads, obtained their routes, and agreed that she would use the coming chaos to free the Intelligent Zombie.
• Shen Jin noticed large zombie hordes forming in cities around H Province and called his captains, Li Zhe, the Red Water Bay squad, and the Daoist to prepare.
• Yang Ao returned with two hundred tonnes of nuclear fuel rods, while Sun Li brought back nearly a thousand tonnes of industrial diamond powder.
• Li Zhe and the other captains assembled at Shen Jin’s villa, and the Daoist arrived as the plan to close the net began.

Shen Jin coordinated a surprise attack on all ten Divine Assembly search squads while Xing Lingmin helped Liu Dalao and Su Lele escape the XP Biological Laboratory. The operation began as the teams found their targets, and Liu Dalao and Su Lele fled toward a boat as the laboratory raised an alarm.

• Shen Jin assigned teams to the ten Divine Assembly search squads, equipped them with jetpacks and weapons, and sent them out before dawn.
• Xing Lingmin used her ability to prevent guards and staff from noticing that Liu Dalao and Su Lele had been freed from their containers.
• Liu Dalao and Su Lele disguised themselves as guards and escaped through the laboratory’s garbage exit, killing a professor who tried to stop them.
• The laboratory sounded an alarm, and Divine Assembly personnel began searching for the fugitives while Xing Lingmin hoped they would reach China safely.
• Shen Jin received confirmation that all ten teams had located their targets and ordered them to attack together.

Shen Jin’s ten teams launched a coordinated attack on the Divine Assembly’s search-and-capture teams. Sun Li’s team destroyed its target and headed to help Shen Jin, while Meng San’s team began a sustained assault on another ship.

• Sun Li’s team surrounded Search-and-capture Team Ten, and Liu Yue charged her Lapotron Crystal while the team fired on the ship’s energy shield.
• Liu Yue unleashed a massive energy beam that wrecked the ship, and Sun Li’s team finished off the remaining Superhumans before pursuing five who fled into the sea.
• Sun Li sent his team toward Korea’s coast to help Shen Jin face Search-and-capture Team One.
• The other nine teams attacked their assigned targets, but Meng San’s group faced a ship whose defenders blocked its first attacks and tried to drag the attackers into the sea.
• Meng San’s team used Electric Jetpacks to evade the defenders, then maintained a staggered bombardment while crossbowmen prepared to shoot the Superhumans in the water.