Chapter Summaries

Shen Jin and Shang Qian arrived at Ancestor Mountain and met Zhao Laoda’s Northern Faction, where the second-in-command tried to recruit them by warning of retaliation from the Southern Faction. Zhao Laoda accidentally exposed their real plan to enlist the two Special Ability Users in the Northern Faction’s struggle.

• Shen Jin entered with an underling and recognized Zhao Laoda as the man whose group had once fallen into his villa traps.
• Shen Jin told Zhao Laoda that he and Shang Qian were Special Ability Users and had killed a member of the Southern Faction.
• The second-in-command warned that the dead man was the Southern Faction boss’s nephew and claimed the faction would soon come after them.
• The second-in-command and third-in-command tried to persuade Shen Jin and Shang Qian that only the Northern Faction could protect them.
• Zhao Laoda revealed that the Northern Faction wanted their help against the Southern Faction’s newly gained Superhumans, prompting his companions to regard him as an idiot.

Shen Jin agreed to oppose the Southern Faction after hearing about its brutal abuses, but Yagami’s group arrived at North Mountain and provoked a confrontation. As Zhao Laoda and his allies prepared to fight six Southern Faction Superhumans, Shen Jin remained confident in his strength.

• Shen Jin told Zhao Laoda and the others he had intended to fight the Southern Faction, and explained that he and Shang Qian were support Special Ability Users.
• Yagami’s men stormed into North Mountain, injured a Northern Faction member, and attacked ordinary people while declaring that the strong could do as they pleased.
• Yagami’s Sixth insulted the hotheaded young leader by boasting that Southern Faction members had abused his mother, prompting Shang Qian and Shen Jin to condemn him.
• Zhao Laoda refused to surrender Shen Jin and Shang Qian, while the Southern Faction gathered six Special Ability Users and threatened the Northern Faction.
• The second-in-command tried to persuade two newly awakened Superhumans to oppose those who had forced them to eat Energy Crystal Cores, but they sided with the Southern Faction.
• Zhao Laoda urged Shen Jin to use his abilities and attack by surprise, but Shen Jin questioned whether he needed a sneak attack at all.

Shen Jin gave Zhao Laoda and the other Northern Faction chiefs food that temporarily boosted their strength, turning the fight against the Southern Faction into a rout. Zhao Laoda killed Yagami, and the three chiefs continued slaughtering their opponents.

• Zhao Laoda rejected the Southern Faction's demand to leave Ancestor Mountain and opened his gene lock as both sides prepared to fight.
• Shen Jin handed Zhao Laoda and the third chief Giant Sausages and gave the second chief a Carrot.
• Zhao Laoda and the hotheaded young man gained immense strength and learned they could maintain it for six minutes.
• The second chief used his earth ability to raise the ground beneath the six opponents, and Zhao Laoda killed Yagami with a single strike.
• The hotheaded young man pierced the sixth chief, while the second chief disrupted the remaining fighters and a fire user impaled himself on a stone spike.

Shen Jin helped Zhao Laoda’s Northern Faction defeat the Southern Faction, then revived a dying messenger with a Senzu Bean. Zhao Laoda recognized Shen Jin as “that light,” Gaia, after learning he knew the friend who had been smashed down from the roof.

• Sixth begged for mercy and offered his mother to the third boss, who killed him, while Zhao Laoda and the middle-aged man killed the other two kneeling Superhumans.
• Zhao Laoda reached the dying messenger, who asked him to place Yagami’s head on Xiao Min’s grave as an offering.
• Shen Jin gave the messenger a Senzu Bean, and the man recovered enough to stand and walk.
• Zhao Laoda angrily challenged Shen Jin for dismissing the messenger’s final moments, then stared in shock when the messenger stood up.
• The middle-aged man suspected Shen Jin’s candy was a support ability, and Shen Jin said he knew the messenger’s friend before Zhao Laoda recognized him as Gaia.

Shen Jin and Shang Qian toured Ancestor Mountain with Zhao Laoda and saw the Southern Faction’s brutal exploitation of survivors. Shen Jin ordered the Southern Faction cleared out, and Shang Qian asked Zhao Laoda when the factions had split.

• Zhao Laoda recognized Shen Jin as the man who had embarrassed him with talk of Russian Roulette, and Shen Jin teased him before asking for a tour of Ancestor Mountain.
• Zhao Laoda arranged for the Southern Faction’s people to be taken in and guided Shen Jin and Shang Qian around the settlement.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian toured the Northern Faction, where Shen Jin saw overcrowded shelters and Shang Qian teleported him away from a shaking bamboo hut.
• In the Southern Faction’s territory, Shen Jin witnessed abuse, exploitation, and people being forced into brutal roles, while Zhao Laoda explained how victims became perpetrators.
• Shen Jin killed several offenders, gave Compressed Biscuits to women being exploited, and ordered the Southern Faction cleared out, with people who still had a conscience brought back.
• Zhao Laoda condemned Yagami for corrupting Ancestor Mountain, and Shang Qian asked when the Northern and Southern Factions had split.

Shang Qian reasoned that the collapse of hope and authority had fueled atrocities while Heavenly Net’s announcement helped drive the rise of Superhumans. After helping Zhao Laoda’s settlement, Shen Jin gave Ancestor Mountain survivors a gift by building them stone houses.

• Zhao Laoda recalled how Yagami formed a faction after Heavenly Net announced that the Government’s rescue efforts had failed.
• Shang Qian recorded the events and argued that lost hope and the rise of Superhumans were connected to the growing chaos.
• Shang Qian concluded that Heavenly Net wanted settlements led by Superhumans to fight zombies, and Shen Jin recognized the increase in Superhumans after Hu Shou’s speech.
• Shen Jin told Zhao Laoda he would give Ancestor Mountain a gift, then flew to the hilltop and returned with a plan to build homes.
• Shen Jin used his Jetpack and stone blocks to build houses for the survivors, who gathered to watch and celebrate.

Shen Jin returned from Ancestor Mountain with a huge load of cobblestone and learned that evolved zombies, including tier 1 L-type giants, were appearing in the wild. After welcoming more than fifty survivors to his villa, he heard someone recognize him.

• Shen Jin left Ancestor Mountain with sixteen Iron Storage Chests full of cobblestone, while Zhao Laoda's underling reported that the mountain's peaks were sinking and the two flyers were gone.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian flew back to the villa, spotted more evolved zombies in the wild, and Shang Qian recorded the alarming change.
• The returning superhumans brought more than fifty survivors to Shen Jin's villa, where Li Jie and others speculated about its owner and whether Yang Ao had returned.
• Shen Jin built ten more stone houses for the survivors, then heard someone exclaim, "Shen Jin!? What are you doing here?"

Shen Jin reunited with old coworkers at his settlement, but they mistook him for an ordinary refugee and refused to believe he owned the villa. Shang Qian arrived in Diamond Armor as Shen Jin’s claim went unrecognized.

• Shen Jin encountered Old Wang, Zhao Mingkai, Qi Tong, and Li Jie, who assumed he had come to the settlement seeking shelter.
• The four coworkers offered Shen Jin advice, shabby women’s coats, and bedding, believing he had been abandoned by a Superhuman.
• Shen Jin pointed out that the villa belonged to him, but the others assumed he was joking and made themselves at home.
• Shen Jin declared that he was the settlement’s boss, but his coworkers laughed and continued treating him as a refugee.
• Shang Qian entered wearing Diamond Armor and said she had been looking for Shen Jin.

Shang Qian reunited with Shen Jin, who revealed that he led the base, and the survivors organized a memorial for Li Moxiao, Yang Ao, and Fu Wei, whom they believed had died. The three returned during the service, but Li Moxiao found Shen Jin getting close to Miao Shubai and confronted him at the villa.

• Shang Qian confirmed that Shen Jin owned the villa, prompting his former colleagues to recognize his authority and apologize for doubting him.
• Shen Jin learned that Old Wang and the others had survived by hiding in a cellar, then brought them to the graves of Li Moxiao, Yang Ao, Fu Wei, and Su Lele.
• Old Wang arranged a memorial service, and Shen Jin praised the supposed sacrifices of Li Moxiao, Yang Ao, and Fu Wei in his eulogy.
• Li Moxiao, Yang Ao, and Fu Wei reached the base during the service and discovered that Shen Jin believed them dead.
• Li Moxiao and her companions were mistaken for impostors and confronted by the base's Superhumans, while Shen Jin went toward the villa with Miao Shubai.
• Li Moxiao reached Tier 2, leapt to the villa entrance, and demanded to know whether Shen Jin's love had disappeared as she saw him with Miao Shubai.

Shen Jin was overjoyed when Li Moxiao, whom he had believed lost, returned to the villa, and the two reunited through teasing and a steak dinner. Li Moxiao settled back in with Shen Jin, while the chapter ended with them joking and tussling in the kitchen.

• Shen Jin recognized Li Moxiao, pulled away from Miao Shubai, and embraced her; Miao Shubai identified Li Moxiao and left them alone.
• Shang Qian took Yang Ao and Fu Wei inside to talk, while Shen Jin and Li Moxiao caught up after their reunion.
• Li Moxiao accused Shen Jin of replacing her, and Shen Jin explained that Miao Shubai was his subordinate.
• Shen Jin offered to cook steak, and Li Moxiao complained about her hunger and the two months he had been gone.
• Shen Jin and Li Moxiao went into the villa, shared steak and ice cream, and ended up joking and playing in the kitchen.

Shen Jin connected Sun Can’s two rescues to the strange references to New World and the system, and suspected Sun Can was another system owner. He kept his own system secret and decided to wait for a rescue mission to confirm his theory, while Shang Qian drew a teasing conclusion about Sun Can’s motives.

• Shen Jin learned from Yang Ao, Old Fu, and Li Moxiao that Sun Can had rescued them from the Zombie Horde and stayed until they recovered.
• Shen Jin noticed that both of Sun Can’s rescues had happened when he was in danger, and remembered Sun Can saying he might have been destined to save him.
• Shen Jin recalled Sun Can’s questions about the game New World and linked them to the system, World Coins, World Line, and Sun Can’s fire ability.
• Shen Jin concluded that Sun Can might have a system that had sent him rescue missions, but he kept his own system secret from the others.
• Shen Jin decided to wait for his system to issue a mission to rescue someone, while Shang Qian joked that Sun Can had been protecting him because he was not gay.

Shen Jin and his companions heard a Heavenly Net broadcast warning that all zombies would finish evolving within a month, then discussed how to prepare. After trying the broadcast’s special-ability training method, Shen Jin discovered that Li Moxiao could eat Energy Crystal Cores without suffering side effects and promised Old Fu something good.

• Shen Jin kept his theory about the system to himself and listened with his companions to the ten o’clock Heavenly Net broadcast.
• The announcer reported that 40% of zombies had evolved, that all would evolve within a month, and described Brood Nest Zombies and their powerful X Zombie offspring.
• Liu Mang explained how Superhumans could train with Energy Crystal Cores, while the broadcast listed shelters but gave no location for Q City.
• Shen Jin decided to lead the Zombie Slaying Squad on a killing spree across Q City before the zombies finished evolving.
• Shen Jin and his companions tried sensing energy inside crystal cores, but Li Moxiao simply ate hers like candy, prompting Shen Jin to promise Old Fu something good.

Shen Jin rallied his forty Superhumans to seize the month before the zombies completed their first evolution and expand their territory in Q City. He invited Zhao Mingkai and three other former coworkers to take red serum, leaving their chance to awaken unresolved.

• Shen Jin told the Superhumans that the Heavenly Net expected all zombies to finish their first evolution in a month, and urged them to use the time to claim territory and build a base in Q City.
• Zhao Mingkai compared his ordinary life with Shen Jin’s success and concluded that he would never catch up or unlock his gene lock.
• Shen Jin decided to give his former coworkers a chance to join his Superhuman ranks and called Zhao Mingkai to gather Old Wang and the others.
• Shen Jin explained the two types of zombie evolution: Green Moss Zombies ate people and meat, while Mutated Zombies hunted other zombies at night.
• Shen Jin gave four former coworkers red serum, and they swallowed it, wondering if it could awaken them.

Shen Jin gave four former colleagues awakening potions, and they became Superhumans under his command. He later tested whether someone who had unlocked a Gene Lock could awaken a special ability, but Yang Ao’s failed awakening confirmed the two systems were incompatible.

• Shen Jin gave Zhao Mingkai, Li Jie, Old Wang, and Qi Tong Advanced Gene Serum, and all four awakened special abilities.
• Zhao Mingkai and two others gained strength-based abilities, while Qi Tong awakened Concentrated Energy Beam.
• Shen Jin assigned Qi Tong as captain of the Guard Squad, disappointing Zhao Mingkai, who accepted that he was not the apocalypse’s protagonist.
• Shen Jin delayed giving Fu Wei an awakening potion and tested an Intermediate Special Ability Awakening Potion on Yang Ao.
• Yang Ao experienced no special-ability awakening, leading Shen Jin to conclude that people who had unlocked their Gene Lock could not awaken special abilities.

After clearing the area around the villa and finishing his base walls, Shen Jin unlocked the second page of the Crystal Core Shop, while Li Moxiao suddenly advanced to Tier 2 after eating Energy Crystal Cores. The new shop page revealed potions and an Energy Bomb, leaving Shen Jin curious about its unusual awakening potion.

• Shen Jin and the Superhumans cleared the zombies within ten kilometers of the villa, and Shen Jin finished enclosing the base with fifty-meter walls.
• Shen Jin gathered 100 World Coins and unlocked the second page of the Crystal Core Shop.
• Li Moxiao's body suddenly expanded after she ate Energy Crystal Cores, but she returned to normal after Shen Jin gave her a Senzu Bean.
• Li Moxiao told Shen Jin she had recovered her Tier 2 Superhuman strength, and he hurried away from her teasing.
• Shen Jin inspected the new shop page and found potions for awakening and advancing abilities, an Energy Serum, and an Energy Bomb.

Shen Jin advanced to Tier 2 and discovered that his new Geoduck food gave Yang Ao temporary water and ice powers, while his Giant Sausage granted immense strength. When Meng San's squad was overwhelmed by an M1 Zombie at Old World Mall, Shen Jin, Yang Ao, and Shang Qian teleported in to help.

• Shen Jin used a Special Ability Advancement Potion to reach Tier 2 and produced a Geoduck that gave Yang Ao water and ice abilities for ten minutes.
• Shen Jin tested Senzu Beans and Giant Sausages on Yang Ao, who healed quickly and gained immense strength after eating the sausage.
• A squad at Old World Mall called Shen Jin for backup after an M1 Zombie and Evolved Zombies injured two members.
• The M1 Zombie attacked Xiao Min, and Xiao Wu knocked her out of its path while declaring his love for her.
• Shang Qian teleported Shen Jin and Yang Ao to the mall, where Shen Jin's fist met the charging M1 Zombie.

Shen Jin’s squad defeated the M1 Zombie, but two wounded members were expected to die from their injuries. After Shen Jin gave them Tier 2 Senzu Beans, they recovered and began bickering over snacks and cola, leaving Yang Ao to mistake them for dying men.

• Yang Ao fought the M1 Zombie while Xiao Wu and Xiao Min reunited and thanked Shen Jin for saving them.
• Shen Jin gave Giant Sausages to the squad fighting outside, then went to see two members who had been badly wounded by the M1 Zombie.
• The wounded men shared their last wishes: one smoked Chunghwa cigarettes, while the other ate chips and drank cola.
• Shen Jin fed each man a Tier 2 Senzu Bean, and their injuries healed as they argued over the snacks and began wrestling.
• Yang Ao returned with a level 1 energy crystal core, saw the two men standing, and angrily accused them of being heartless before asking where the dying men had gone.

After Shen Jin's Tier 2 Senzu Beans healed two infected squad members, he considered whether they could cure the zombie virus and began preparing a stronger emergency food supply for his squads. The chapter left him testing compressed geoduck as a potential long-lasting reserve of Tier 2 combat strength.

• Shen Jin realized his Tier 2 Senzu Beans healed wounds rapidly, and Shang Qian suggested they might cure the zombie virus.
• Shen Jin gave two infected men chips and Mirinda while they waited to see whether the beans had saved them.
• After half an hour, the two men’s wounds had healed and they showed no signs of infection, prompting their squad to celebrate their survival.
• Shen Jin returned with Shang Qian and decided each squad needed food that could temporarily provide Tier 2 combat strength against evolving zombies.
• Shen Jin compressed nine geoducks into one special item and planned to give one portion of compressed food to each squad as a reserve.

Shen Jin tested an Energy Bomb and considered using Mutated Special Ability Awakening Potions to quickly build up his forces before the zombies evolved. At the survivors’ area, he recognized his battered former class president, Li Zhe.

• Shen Jin tested an Energy Bomb in a village and saw it destroy a house and blast a wide area.
• Shen Jin weighed the cost and risks of using Mutated Special Ability Awakening Potions to create more Superhumans before the zombies’ evolution in twenty-three days.
• Shen Jin flew to the survivors’ area and spotted Li Zhe among the crowd.
• Li Zhe recalled that other survivors had stolen his food and beaten him after he objected.
• Shen Jin landed near Li Zhe, recognized his former class president, and greeted him.

Shen Jin reunited with his former dormmate Li Zhe, who had been injured and was struggling to survive in the settlement. Li Zhe agreed to accept a power-awakening potion despite its lethal side effect, leaving him bound to Shen Jin for the antidote.

• Li Zhe recognized Shen Jin and, realizing he was a powerful Superhuman, flattered him to gain his favor.
• Shen Jin asked Li Zhe about his life since the apocalypse, and Li Zhe described his escape, exaggerated his fight with zombies, and complained about being bullied.
• Shen Jin asked whether Li Zhe craved power and offered him a potion with a side effect that would kill him if he went a month without Shen Jin's antidote.
• Li Zhe weighed the loss of his freedom against his need to survive and agreed to drink the potion.
• Shen Jin exchanged 20 Mutant Energy Crystal Cores for a Mutated Special Ability Awakening Potion, and Li Zhe drank it.