Chapter Summaries

Hu Shou recruited Shen Jin to help fight a Tier 3 zombie Hybrid Variant in D City, offering him abundant materials in exchange. Shen Jin agreed and called for his entire force, surprising the Heavenly Net when he revealed that all forty-nine of his people were Tier 2 Superhumans.

• Hu Shou asked Shen Jin about his combat ability and invited him to support a fight against a Tier 3 zombie Hybrid Variant.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou arrived by helicopter, and Hu Shou introduced them as peak Tier 2 S-Rank Superhumans whose Explosion abilities made them dangerous walking bombs.
• Hu Shou explained that the team would use explosives from a distance to suppress the zombie and drain its energy, while Shen Jin negotiated for steel, iron, and other materials.
• After Xia Anbang and Hu Shou warned that only Tier 2 Superhumans should participate, Shen Jin called Zhao Chao and ordered all his people to come.
• Shen Jin told the stunned group that all forty-nine members of his force had Tier 2 strength.

Shen Jin brought 49 superhumans to D City to help fight a Tier 3 zombie hybrid variant, but the local leaders doubted their strength because they appeared to be Tier 1. He revealed that his Energy Food let them fight at Tier 2 strength, and Hu Shou accepted it as another technological breakthrough.

• Xia Anbang explained how the zombie hybrid variant survived the Crystal Core Implosion Mines, advanced to Tier 3, and forced D City to request urgent help.
• Zhao Chao, Liu Yang, and Zheng Ying led the 49-person squad as it arrived and reported to Shen Jin.
• Dai Xian, Dai Hou, and Hu Shou sensed no Tier 2 superhumans among the newcomers, and Xia Anbang worried Shen Jin planned to sacrifice them with a dangerous stimulant.
• Shen Jin clarified that his people could reach Tier 2 combat strength without side effects by eating his new technological creation, Energy Food.
• Hu Shou praised Shen Jin's technological ingenuity and treated Energy Food as a new research achievement.

Shen Jin demonstrated that his energy food could temporarily transform Xiao Guan’s weak light ability into a powerful combat ability, persuading Xia Anbang to use longer-lasting food against the Hybrid Variant Zombie. The group reached the zombie’s enclosure, where Hu Shou showed astonishing speed and went to observe it.

• Shen Jin gave Xiao Guan a Special Ability Carrot, and her ability surged to Tier 2, blinding the onlookers.
• Xiao Guan demonstrated that she could fire a fast, explosive beam of light and create a dazzling sphere before the carrot’s effect ended.
• Xia Anbang agreed to take the Tier 2 Superhumans into battle after Shen Jin revealed he had food that lasted fifteen minutes.
• The group traveled by military pickup trucks to the enclosure holding the Hybrid Variant Zombie, which was absorbing energy from land mines.
• Hu Shou vanished from the group’s sight and appeared atop a nearby building, leaving Shen Jin impressed by his speed.

Shen Jin brought his 49 allies into the air with jetpacks as D City's Tier 2 Superhumans prepared to fight a Tier 3 zombie. Hu Shou arrived, passed through the Daoist's formation, and opened the battle by severing one of the zombie's enormous eyes.

• Shen Jin filled his group's jetpacks with biogas, and they flew to the rooftop while Xia Anbang returned to safety.
• Gan Mujia and the other Tier 2 Superhumans discussed the zombie's growing rage and Mi Xiaoli's weakening curse as they waited for Hu Shou.
• Hu Shou arrived and passed through Gan Mujia's Golden Light Formation, while Dai Xian and Dai Hou crashed into its barrier.
• Hu Shou identified the zombie as Tier 3, charged at it, and severed one of its enormous eyes.

Shi Lai discovered that Q City had built a vast, fully enclosed settlement and considered bringing it under Heavenly Net, but he then spotted a massive evolved zombie horde returning toward the area. He began trying to contact the settlement to warn its residents to evacuate.

• Shi Lai studied Q City's 130-kilometer safe zone and realized its high stone walls and natural barriers had made it one of the country's safest large settlements.
• Shi Lai decided to propose that Heavenly Net bring the settlement into its organization as a pilot for restoring control in regions cut off from their governments.
• Shi Lai noticed that zombie horde B12 had turned back toward Zhongruan County, near Q City's settlement.
• Shi Lai and the Zombie Horde Observation Team leader compared settlement populations but could not explain why the 200,000 evolved zombies had returned.
• Shi Lai abandoned plans to recruit the settlement and went to Heavenly Net's hotline office to find Q City survivors he could warn to evacuate.

Liu Dalao and Su Lele rescued two brothers from evolved zombies in the Xia Jiba Grain and Oil Shop, then struggled to keep Su Lele from giving in to her hunger for human flesh. After feeding her energy from zombie cores, Liu Dalao gained the information called “Strength” and resolved to confront those who had abandoned Su Lele.

• Five evolved zombies cornered three brothers inside the Xia Jiba Grain and Oil Shop, and a T-type zombie killed their youngest brother.
• The second brother unlocked his gene lock while fighting the T-type zombie, but suffered its backlash until his eldest brother fed him an Energy Crystal Core.
• Liu Dalao and Su Lele entered the shop, killed the evolved zombies, and saved the surviving brothers.
• The eldest brother led his second brother away after realizing that Su Lele was craving their youngest brother’s corpse.
• Liu Dalao buried the corpse, took Su Lele into the sewers, and fed her energy from crushed cores by passing it to her through a kiss.
• Liu Dalao gained the information called “Strength” and vowed to seek justice for Su Lele by confronting those who had abandoned her.

Shen Jin and the others joined Hu Shou and the Heavenly Net team in battling an enormous hybrid variant zombie. After Hu Shou activated his First-Stage Gene Lock and the formation opened, fifty of Shen Jin’s Tier 2 superhumans unleashed their abilities and charged into the fight.

• The hybrid variant zombie rose after Hu Shou severed one of its eyeballs, and the Daoist trapped it in the Five Elements Formation.
• The zombie’s sonic blast disoriented the airborne fighters, but Hu Shou activated his First-Stage Gene Lock and cut apart the flesh stalks attacking him.
• Iron Man asked the Daoist to open the formation, allowing the assembled fighters to attack the zombie.
• Shen Jin assigned his team roles and distributed Tier 2 special ability food, while Shang Qian prepared to relocate and protect the fighters.
• Fifty of Shen Jin’s superhumans unleashed their powers and joined Iron Fist, Iron Man, and the others in attacking the zombie.
• Lu Daizhen, Mi Xiaoli, Iron Fist, Iron Man, and Bao Gechuan reacted to Shen Jin’s team, while the Daoist realized where the powerful newcomers might have come from.

Liu Yang, Iron Fist, Bao Gechuan, a Daoist, Hu Shou, and Iron Man attacked the Hybrid Variant Zombie from different angles, damaging its body but facing fierce counterattacks. Shen Jin mistook Iron Man for a dead friend, until Zhu Dan revealed himself and protested that Shen Jin had already taken his watch.

• Liu Yang and Iron Fist battered the Hybrid Variant Zombie's foot, then dodged the flesh bombs it spat at them.
• Bao Gechuan and the Daoist used the Giant Eagle to reach the zombie's back, blasted open a hole, and entered its body to fight the writhing leg tentacles.
• The Hybrid Variant Zombie trapped Hu Shou with giant hands and fleshy columns, but he enlarged himself and cut them apart with his Tang saber.
• Iron Man attacked the zombie's eyes and tongue, but its crystal eye covering, tongue, and huge hand forced him to dodge and counterattack.
• Shen Jin said Iron Man reminded him of his dead friend Zhu Dan, and Iron Man revealed his face and complained that Shen Jin had taken his watch and was declaring him dead.

Shen Jin and Zhu Dan joined the assault on the Hybrid Variant Zombie, while Zhao Chao, Zheng Ying, and the other superhumans attacked its enormous body from all sides. Their coordinated attacks appeared to be working, but the zombie was absorbing their power.

• Shen Jin recognized Zhu Dan, who explained that he survived inside the Brood Nest Zombie and reached tier 2.
• Shen Jin and Zhu Dan attacked the Hybrid Variant Zombie’s face, and Zhu Dan used enhanced armor and weapons to crack its eye protection and sever its tongue.
• Zhu Dan swallowed a Tier 2 Senzu Bean and a Tier 2 Carrot, then unleashed Energy Hammers, Energy Foot Clamps, and homing missiles against the zombie.
• Eighteen unusual form users used Energy Iron Swords to attack the zombie from every direction while Zhao Chao, Zheng Ying, and twenty-eight superhumans struck it with water and ice abilities.
• The attacks slowed and damaged the Hybrid Variant Zombie, but the group noticed that it was continually absorbing their power.

Shen Jin and the other Superhumans combined their powers to kill the Hybrid Variant Zombie, but Lu Daizhen sensed anger inside its corpse just as a red-haired hand burst out. The battle ended with the zombie still alive and Liu Yang narrowly escaping its grasp.

• Shen Jin compressed the Water-Air Bullet created by twenty-eight Water-based Special Ability Users while Hu Shou, Zhao Chao, and Zheng Ying opened and froze a wound on the Hybrid Variant Zombie's head.
• Shang Qian teleported Shen Jin out of the zombie's attacks, and Shen Jin launched the Water-Air Bullet into the exposed wound, bursting the zombie's head and bringing its body down.
• Shen Jin asked Hu Shou for the zombie's Tier 3 Energy Crystal Core, and Hu Shou agreed to inspect it before Liu Yang retrieved it.
• Iron Fist offered to support Liu Yang if he returned to the Government, and Liu Yang stopped on his way to the corpse.
• Lu Daizhen warned everyone that the zombie was still alive, and a red-haired hand burst out of its body as Liu Yang narrowly avoided being grabbed.

Shen Jin and the others tried to stop a red-haired zombie from absorbing the Hybrid Variant Zombie’s energy, but it emerged with powerful abilities copied from its attackers. The battle escalated as Hu Shou was injured, and the Dai brothers unleashed their foul-smelling “justice from above” against it.

• Hu Shou, Dai Xian, Dai Hou, and Shen Jin severed the black threads connecting the red-haired zombie to the Hybrid Variant Zombie’s corpse, cutting off its energy supply.
• The red-haired zombie opened its blood-red eyes, fired powerful lasers, and used Frost Arrows and explosive red hair to repel the attackers.
• Hu Shou charged the zombie but was blasted back when its hair exploded, breaching his internal energy defense.
• Zhu Dan launched homing missiles, but the red-haired zombie destroyed them with laser cannons grown from its back.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou dropped two enormous, foul-smelling lumps of matter toward the red-haired zombie, which sensed a grave threat.

Shen Jin’s group battered the red-haired zombie with the Dai brothers’ explosive bodily waste and a barrage of ice-and-fire attacks, but Lu Daizhen sensed that the zombie felt joy despite its severe injuries. The battle continued as the fighters tried to destroy the Energy Crystal Core in its head.

• Dai Xian and Dai Hou blasted the red-haired zombie with two enormous explosive lumps, badly damaging its head but coating it in foul-smelling debris.
• Two patrolmen outside the iron plates found yellow particles on their cured sausage and realized they were shit.
• Lu Daizhen sensed joy inside the wounded zombie and warned everyone not to celebrate.
• Zhao Chao and Zheng Ying combined ice and fire attacks while the other water-type Superhumans struck the zombie’s exposed wound.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou fired explosive yellow and toxic piss at the zombie, shouting their attack slogans.

The red-haired zombie absorbed the attacks aimed at it, healed, and grew stronger, leaving Shen Jin and the others overwhelmed. As the group considered retreating, Hu Shou finally opened his eyes and vanished with his saber as the zombie turned to face him.

• Shen Jin and the others attacked the red-haired zombie, but discovered its head had no crystal core and that it could absorb their abilities to recover and strengthen itself.
• The red-haired zombie formed rock armor, restored its body, and used its stolen abilities to knock the Ice-based Special Ability Users from the sky and bombard the group.
• Zhao Chao urged Shen Jin to retreat, while the Daoist struggled to hold the zombie in the Five Elements Formation and Bao Gechuan called for the Giant Eagle.
• Shang Qian prepared to take Shen Jin, Zhao Chao, and Zhu Dan to safety, but everyone watched Hu Shou for a chance to turn the battle around.
• A fierce wind blew toward the red-haired zombie; Hu Shou opened his eyes, and he and his saber vanished as the zombie turned toward him.

Hu Shou killed the Hybrid Variant Zombie with a series of lightning-fast slashes, ending the battle and leaving everyone in awe. Though he maintained a calm public image, the Dai brothers supported him as he struggled to stand after the attack.

• Hu Shou vanished and reappeared around the red-haired zombie, delivering four slashes and removing its crystal core.
• The Hybrid Variant Zombie broke apart and died, and Shen Jin realized Hu Shou had crossed over a thousand meters in an instant.
• Lu Daizhen confirmed the zombie was dead, and the gathered Superhumans praised Hu Shou’s strength and composure.
• Dai Xian and Dai Hou helped Hu Shou stand, discovered he was exhausted, and departed with him for D City Base.
• After the Dai brothers accidentally revealed Hu Shou’s weakness, Iron Fist and Liu Yang helped preserve his image before everyone prepared to leave.

Fu Wei completed Gene Optimization Serum 2.0, which could unlock a gene lock without a life-or-death ordeal, and planned to seek volunteers for clinical trials. At Home No. 1, Lu Rending suffered a series of humiliating misunderstandings at the clothing store, while Old Wang received a call from the Heavenly Net about a new settlement near Q City's old Train Station as two masked figures entered the base.

• Fu Wei created Gene Optimization Serum 2.0 and rejected human testing without informed, willing volunteers, deciding to report the serum to Shen Jin when he returned.
• Qi Tong and Zhao Mingkai maintained order while distributing Gene Optimization Serum 1.0, and Lu Rending missed her place in the day's queue.
• Lu Rending traded clothes for Clothing Purchase Cards, but shop assistants repeatedly mistook her for a man, and Little Li mistook her for Wang Baoqiang.
• Little Li's wife went to Old Wang for help opening a can of luncheon meat, while Little Li misunderstood what she was doing and walked away smugly.
• Shi Lai called Old Wang from the Heavenly Net General Headquarters to ask about a large settlement near Q City's old Train Station.
• Two masked figures dressed in black knocked at Home No. 1's gates and were let inside.

After Hu Shou took the Tier 3 Energy Crystal Core, Shen Jin considered asking the Heavenly Net for help changing the world and decided to recruit Lu Daizhen for her Mind Reading ability. Lu Daizhen refused to leave the Daoist, but he unexpectedly told her she could go with Shen Jin.

• Shen Jin left the Tier 3 Hybrid Variant's Energy Crystal Core to Hu Shou and thought about cooperating with the Heavenly Net to help complete his World Line quest.
• Shang Qian suggested recruiting Lu Daizhen, and Shen Jin explained the loyalty-focused methods he and Shang Qian and Yang Ao had chosen for selecting future Superhumans.
• Shen Jin and his companions approached Lu Daizhen and Mi Xiaoli after the Daoist's Golden Light Formation dispersed.
• Lu Daizhen sensed that Shen Jin's promises of safety, supplies, status, and ability enhancement were sincere, but refused to leave the Daoist.
• The Daoist told Lu Daizhen that she could go with Mr. Shen.

Shen Jin recruited Lu Daizhen and Mi Xiaoli, traded Awakening Potions for crystal cores with Hu Shou and Xia Anbang, then learned that a 200,000-strong zombie horde was approaching Q City. He led his team back toward Home No. 1, determined not to flee.

• The Daoist sent Lu Daizhen with Shen Jin, and Mi Xiaoli joined after describing his curse ability.
• Shen Jin asked Hu Shou about major projects, declined to join the Heavenly Net laboratory for now, and traded Awakening Potions for ten Tier 1 and one Tier 2 Energy Crystal Core.
• Xia Anbang exchanged 32 Tier 1 Energy Crystal Cores for 160 Awakening Potions to expand his base's superhuman force.
• Old Wang warned Shen Jin that a 200,000-strong zombie horde was southwest of Zhongruan County and expected to reach Q City in three to five days.
• Shen Jin left Zhao Chao and ten superhumans in D City, then flew back toward Q City with the rest of his team.

Liu Dalao entered Home No. 1 intending to avenge Su Lele, but the settlement’s thriving community and friendly residents weakened his resolve. After Yang Ao arranged a place for them to stay, Liu Dalao went alone to confront Shen Jin, while Shen Jin returned to the base and noticed two people in black leaving.

• Liu Dalao and Su Lele entered Home No. 1, where he saw its busy factories, services, and cheerful residents and decided he could not bring himself to destroy the settlement.
• He Xiao and Xiao Sheng showed Liu Dalao around, and Liu Huayuan invited him to play mahjong; Liu Dalao spent three hours playing before remembering his plan for revenge.
• Yang Ao mistook Liu Dalao for a newcomer seeking him out and arranged lodging and water for him through Old Wang.
• Liu Dalao left Su Lele at their room and went to the villa to find Shen Jin, but he noticed a gravestone in the backyard before climbing the wall.
• Shen Jin returned from D City and spotted two people in black leaving through Home No. 1’s main gate.

Shen Jin prepared Home No. 1 for a 200,000-strong evolved zombie horde, insisting that they destroy it before it reached the settlement. As he secured support and planned a fallback, Sun Can was told to cut off the horde’s head.

• Shen Jin and the settlement leaders agreed to fight the zombie horde on the road, while Lu Daizhen worried about the odds and Zhu Dan joined Shen Jin in their resolve.
• Shen Jin asked the Heavenly Net for detailed satellite images and persuaded Shi Lai to provide remote support for the battle.
• Hu Shou urged Shen Jin to survive, while Xia Anbang arranged an airdrop of a thousand Crystal Core Implosion Mines and demanded that the survivors evacuate if the defenses failed.
• The Daoist offered to help, and Shen Jin told Zhao Laoda to prepare the Ancestor Mountain Base for a possible fallback into the mountains.
• Shen Jin vowed to stop the horde at Haishan Pass and carefully plan for its possible attacks.
• At Salt Mountain University, Sun Can emerged with Skeletons and Ghosts after fighting a tentacled zombie, then learned he was expected to cut off the head of the 200,000-strong horde.

Shen Jin led the Superhumans through eight defensive lines and wiped out the 200,000-zombie horde at Haishan Pass. After the battle, he finally caught Sun Can again.

• Shen Jin scouted the horde, discovered its Z Zombie commander and flying Y1 Zombies, then helped Zhu Dan and the others kill all 109 of the aerial zombies.
• Yang Ao led 200 Superhumans to defend the first stronghold, then escaped by jetpack before TNT destroyed the wall and killed thousands of zombies.
• Shen Jin's forces repeated their explosive defenses and nighttime Energy Bomb raids, steadily reducing the horde as it advanced through the defensive lines.
• At Haishan Pass, Shen Jin and the Superhumans defeated the remaining zombies, while Sun Can repeatedly killed the Z Zombie's resurrection bodies before cutting off its head.
• After the horde was wiped out, Shen Jin told Heavenly Net he could teach them his methods and went to confront Sun Can.