Chapter Summaries

Shen Jin invited Xing Lingmin and Li Zhe to his villa, where Xing Lingmin openly flirted with him. Li Moxiao confronted Xing Lingmin and attacked her, leaving Shen Jin to intervene as Xing Lingmin clung to him for help.

• Shen Jin took Xing Lingmin and Li Zhe to his villa and served them steak and wine.
• Xing Lingmin flirted with Shen Jin in front of Li Zhe, who left to kill zombies.
• Li Moxiao confronted Xing Lingmin and demanded to know her identity and purpose.
• Xing Lingmin mocked Li Moxiao's chest, prompting Li Moxiao to grab her and carry her outside.
• Li Moxiao slammed Xing Lingmin onto the cracked paving and dug a pit while threatening to bury her.
• Shen Jin arrived, and Xing Lingmin clung to his leg, crying that Li Moxiao was bullying her.

Li Moxiao confronted Xing Lingmin, but Shen Jin defended Xing Lingmin and sent her away, leaving Li Moxiao furious and contemplative. Meanwhile, Li Zhe grew resentful after seeing Xing Lingmin with Shen Jin, and Old Fatty and Old Seven led him to meet a group of ten Unusual Form Special Ability Users.

• Li Moxiao accused Xing Lingmin of deliberately approaching Shen Jin, but Shen Jin shielded Xing Lingmin and told her to return for dinner that night.
• Li Moxiao kicked over gravestones in anger, then stopped at Su Lele's grave and wondered whether Shen Jin had always cherished college life.
• Old Fatty and Old Seven encouraged Li Zhe's resentment toward Shen Jin, and Li Zhe nearly got bitten by an M-Type Evolved Zombie while distracted.
• Li Zhe saw Xing Lingmin head upstairs to Shen Jin at dinner, then agreed to go with Old Fatty and Old Seven to meet new brothers.
• Li Zhe arrived at an abandoned village house, where ten Unusual Form Special Ability Users were waiting inside.

Shen Jin secured the southern coastline around Home No. 1 by sealing six bridges, then learned that a Brood Nest Zombie might have appeared at Willow Village Residential Complex. He rushed there with Shang Qian and Li Moxiao as Miao Shubai’s squad struggled against growing numbers of little zombies.

• Tong Zhen’s squad cleared thirteen kilometers of coastline, allowing Shen Jin to build thirty-meter watchtowers that sealed six bridges into the city and Haishan Pass District.
• Shen Jin surveyed the newly secured coast and decided to keep Home No. 1’s ordinary survivors inside until the defensive perimeter was complete.
• Miao Shubai called Shen Jin from Willow Village Residential Complex, reporting many little zombies and a suspected Brood Nest Zombie.
• Shen Jin gathered Shang Qian and Li Moxiao, then flew with them toward the complex while Yang Ao was away and Mo Xiao had been playing games.
• Miao Shubai’s team fought off the little zombies as they poured out of the complex, and a huge moving sound interrupted the battle just as the squad prepared to use Energy Crystal Cores.

Shen Jin led Home No. 1’s Superhumans into Willow Village Residential Complex to kill the Brood Nest Zombie before it could produce more little zombies. After the group crushed the first wave of defenders, Shen Jin, Li Moxiao, and Shang Qian teleported to Building Six’s roof to confront it.

• Wu Yong, Meng San, Pang Guang, Tong Zhen, and Qi Tong helped defeat the little zombies and sever the Brood Nest Zombie’s first tentacle.
• Shen Jin arrived with Shang Qian and Li Moxiao, identified the enemy as a zombie breeder, and organized the Superhumans to attack.
• Shen Jin gave Tier 2 special ability food to the main fighters, empowering them as ten tentacles and hordes of little zombies poured out.
• Qi Tong, Meng San, Yang Ao, Miao Shubai, and Wu Yong destroyed the tentacles and broke up the horde while the Superhumans advanced.
• Shang Qian teleported Shen Jin and Li Moxiao to Building Six’s roof, where Shen Jin prepared to test his peak Tier 2 combat power against the Brood Nest Zombie.

Shen Jin, Li Moxiao, and their team fought the Brood Nest Zombie at Willow Village Residential Complex, rescuing its human captives while uncovering its vulnerable abdomen. They destroyed the zombie, and Shen Jin dedicated his final strike to Zhu Dan.

• Shen Jin and Li Moxiao attacked the Brood Nest Zombie while Shang Qian brought the captains to rescue the people trapped in its tentacles.
• Yang Ao and the captains severed tentacles and freed captives, while Shen Jin gave a wounded man a Senzu Bean that healed him.
• The Brood Nest Zombie fed a woman to its abdominal mouth, prompting Yang Ao to break free of its mucus membrane and shred the mouth with his [Diamond Sword].
• The damage to its abdomen weakened the Brood Nest Zombie, allowing Li Moxiao to smash its head while Shen Jin froze it with his Ice Swords.
• Shen Jin fired his Ultra Spiral Beam, annihilated the Brood Nest Zombie's head, and said the strike was for Zhu Dan.

Shen Jin’s group killed the Brood Nest Zombie and rescued the captives, but one woman died after her injuries made a Senzu Bean useless. After treating the surviving men, Shen Jin asked whether they were willing to follow him.

• Wu Yong’s stone beds supported the Brood Nest Zombie’s corpse while Tong Zhen’s Earth Elemental crushed the zombie babies, and the group finished killing the monster.
• Yang Ao rescued a woman from the Brood Nest Zombie, but she died after telling him to kill every last zombie; Yang Ao asked Shen Jin to help him do so.
• Shen Jin used Senzu Beans to stabilize the injured men and told the captains to record the captives’ final wishes.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian freed and treated the sixty-five injured men, who asked what ordinary people could do to survive.
• Shen Jin told the men he was their fellow countryman and asked whether they were willing to follow him.

After strengthening his ability with a Tier 2 Energy Crystal Core, Shen Jin learned to control and ration his tier 2 special ability foods more efficiently. He welcomed the rescued 65 men into his group, appointed Yang Ao as their captain, and gave them awakening potions.

• Shen Jin exchanged the Brood Nest Zombie's Tier 2 Energy Crystal Core for an Intermediate Special Ability Enhancement Potion and gained greater energy reserves and control.
• Shen Jin calculated a daily production plan of 45 Senzu Beans and 28 combat foods with different durations.
• After the 65 rescued men recovered, Shen Jin addressed them in the villa courtyard and asked whether they wanted to fight zombies and follow him.
• Shen Jin appointed Yang Ao captain of the 65 men, and they pledged their loyalty to Shen Jin.
• Shen Jin gave each of the 65 men a Basic Special Ability Awakening Potion.

On the Heavenly Net’s predicted final day of the zombies’ first evolution, Shen Jin questioned whether every zombie would evolve on schedule and recorded a nursing home’s zombies to check. After expanding Home No. 1’s planned territory and building its walls, he returned to retrieve the recording and discovered something shocking.

• Shen Jin and Yang Ao discussed why the Heavenly Net predicted that all zombies would complete their first evolution that day, despite some remaining ordinary.
• Shen Jin recorded the zombies at a nursing home, expecting to review the footage that night, while Yang Ao went to inspect the planned wall sites.
• Shen Jin assessed the squads’ recent gains and expanded Home No. 1’s planned territory by several square kilometers.
• Shen Jin began building the expanded perimeter wall, then stopped when thunder and darkening skies signaled rain.
• Shen Jin returned to the nursing home for his recording and saw something that shocked him.

Shen Jin and Yang Ao discovered that a sudden thunderclap had triggered ordinary zombies across the country to evolve, and the Heavenly Net explained that the zombie virus contained timed genetic locks. The broadcast warned that a second lock would expire in 180 days, likely turning zombies worldwide into Tier 1 Evolved Zombies, leaving Shen Jin and the survivors to face an approaching escalation.

• Shen Jin tested the newly evolved zombies and found that they were as strong as zombies that had evolved normally, while the courtyard held only L-Type and M-Type Zombies.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao watched the nursing-home footage and saw a thunderclap make every zombie look up before rapidly evolving and resuming its wandering.
• Yang Ao reached the Heavenly Net hotline, whose operator told him to listen to the ten o'clock broadcast for an explanation.
• Qi Tong rejected Zhao Mingkai's advances in messages while residents across Home No. 1 gathered to hear the news broadcast.
• The Heavenly Net announced that the zombie virus contained genetic time locks, that the first had triggered that day, and that the second was expected to activate in 180 days, likely producing Tier 1 Evolved Zombies worldwide.
• Shen Jin heard the warning and fell into thought as the survivors considered the next threat.

After Heavenly Net’s broadcast warned that all zombies would evolve within six months, Shen Jin worried about Home No. 1’s ability to survive and returned to work on the wall. Meanwhile, Shang Qian began recruiting survivors for public enterprises and other jobs, launching the base’s effort to resume production.

• The survivors of Home No. 1 worried that they could not withstand the Tier 1 evolved zombies expected in six months, while Shen Jin considered the danger of an evolved horde.
• Shen Jin saw Shang Qian, Old Wang, and Li Jie posting recruitment notices, then watched Shang Qian teleport them to the interview site.
• Shang Qian set up six interview tables and moved ahead with her plan to establish several publicly run enterprises.
• Survivors gathered at the Matchbox Residential Community noticeboard to read recruitment ads for factories, maintenance, repairs, and temporary road-clearing work.
• A former government employee suggested that the notices meant work and production were resuming, while other survivors joked about applying to be leaders.

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.