Chapter Summaries

Shen Jin tested Li Zhe’s new aberrant form ability and gave Yang Ao, Shang Qian, and Li Moxiao Energy Serum to improve their physical abilities. He left the story with his serum proving effective and his plans to recruit forty unusual form ability users underway.

• Shen Jin watched Li Zhe awaken the aberrant form ability, which let him reshape his body and fight with strength comparable to a strength-based ability user.
• Shen Jin told Li Zhe to conceal his new power until after Shen Jin had chosen the people for his plan, then counted his crystals and decided to empower forty people.
• Yang Ao confronted Shen Jin for leaving him behind, then drank Energy Serum and found that it had improved his bodily functions by about ten percent.
• Shen Jin drank Energy Serum himself and found that it increased his physical fitness and energy reserves by about ten percent.
• Shang Qian and Li Moxiao arrived, misunderstood what Shen Jin and Yang Ao were doing, and joined them in drinking the serum.

Shen Jin prepared to expand his Superhuman force, giving Shang Qian the task of selecting forty men to awaken and planning to enhance his four squad leaders. After calculating that Q City still held millions of zombies, he realized his squads needed to increase their killing pace before the twenty-three days ran out.

• Li Moxiao secretly drank extra bottles of Energy Serum for its taste until Shen Jin caught on and refused to give her more.
• Shen Jin told Shang Qian to select forty men for a Tier 1 awakening ceremony, explaining that his new potion could control their lives through an antidote.
• Shen Jin decided to exchange four Special Ability Enhancement Potions for his squad leaders, whose teams were increasingly at risk from evolved zombies.
• Miao Shubai, Meng San, Tong Zhen, and Wu Yong reported their squads' crystal-core hauls and rescued survivors to Shen Jin.
• Shen Jin estimated that Q City still had at least two million zombies and ordered the four squad leaders upstairs, insisting they had to pick up the pace.

Shen Jin expanded the Zombie Slaying Squad and gave its four captains enhancement potions, energy serum, survival supplies, and Energy Bombs. Their abilities and strength surged, leaving them prepared to lead new recruits and fight zombies after the next day's awakening ceremony.

• Shen Jin told Tong Zhen, Meng San, Wu Yong, and Miao Shubai that forty aberrant-form superhumans would join their teams, and explained that monthly serum would keep the recruits' abilities active.
• Shen Jin gave the four captains Special Ability Enhancement Potions, which transformed their abilities: Miao Shubai gained dual-control gravitational fields, Tong Zhen summoned an Earth Elemental, Wu Yong improved his mechanism control, and Meng San reached B-rank with a hardened body.
• Shen Jin gave the captains Energy Serum, increasing each one's special ability energy and physical strength by ten percent, along with compressed food to use in emergencies.
• Shen Jin demonstrated an Energy Bomb by destroying a house, then gave each captain five bombs to use against zombies.
• The four captains put on Jetpacks and prepared for the next day's awakening ceremony, with Meng San confident he could defeat an M1 Zombie.

Shen Jin offered 40 male survivors serum that would make them Superhumans in exchange for unconditional loyalty and monthly dependence on his antidote. None backed out, and the survivors drank the serum after learning their squad assignments and chain of command.

• Li Zhe joined 39 other men in the villa courtyard, where they discussed the promised chance to become Superhumans.
• Shen Jin revealed the serum’s fatal side effect and promised protection, food, warm clothes, and rooms to those who obeyed him.
• Shen Jin gave the men three seconds to withdraw, but none chose to leave.
• Shen Jin assigned the four columns to Superhuman Squads Two through Five and named Shang Qian, Yang Ao, and the squad leaders in the chain of command.
• The 40 survivors drank their bottles of green serum.

Shen Jin oversaw the awakening of forty Unusual Form Special Ability Users and discussed developing a Gene Optimization Serum with Fu Wei. He then gathered Yang Ao, Li Moxiao, and Shang Qian to announce that they would return to D City the next day to find Zhu Dan.

• The newly awakened Special Ability Users endured intense pain as their bodies transformed, then stood up with powerful new abilities.
• Shen Jin ordered the new recruits to follow their captains and considered how their increased strength could speed up clearing Q City of zombies.
• Fu Wei’s assistants told Shen Jin that three biological ingredients were still needed to make Gene Optimization Serum 1.0, and Shen Jin offered to search his supplies for substitutes.
• Fu Wei questioned why Shen Jin wanted an inferior serum, and Shen Jin explained that powerful abilities needed to remain controlled for social stability.
• Shen Jin left Fu Wei an Intermediate Special Ability Awakening Potion and an Energy Serum, then told Yang Ao, Li Moxiao, and Shang Qian they would return to D City the next day for Zhu Dan.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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