Chapter Summaries

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.

Meng San's team wiped out the Divine Assembly's fifth search team and returned toward base, while Shen Jin and the Daoist launched surprise attacks on the first and second teams. The chapter ended as both battles began.

• Meng San's team killed the thirty Divine Assembly Superhumans in the water with flaming bolts and underwater crossbow shots.
• Meng San's fighters destroyed the ship's exhaust ports, while Miao Shubai captured the Water-based captain in an Air Cage and Meng San killed him.
• Meng San's team wiped out the fifth search team, treated their wounded, and headed back to base.
• Shen Jin used Miao Shubai's Air Force Field Fruit to conceal his group as they approached the first search team's ship.
• The Daoist hid his group's sounds and energy fluctuations behind a white-smoke barrier, and both groups opened fire on the Divine Assembly's first and second search teams.

Shen Jin and Li Moxiao ambushed a Divine Assembly search ship, defeated Kato Yin and his forces, and captured the vessel before killing the prisoners. The chapter ended as Shen Jin received a call and Lu Daizhen faced another Tier 3 Superhuman’s Truth and Lies ability.

• Shen Jin and the Daoist launched surprise attacks on separate Divine Assembly ships, while Kato Yin’s metal control failed against Shen Jin’s nonmetal armor and weapons.
• Shen Jin summoned a Metal Elemental greatsword and killed roughly 100 charging Superhumans with one slash, then joined Li Moxiao in attacking Kato Yin’s remaining forces.
• Shen Jin and Li Moxiao broke through the ship’s energy shield and overwhelmed Kato Yin, with Shen Jin killing him after accelerating to twice the speed of sound.
• Shen Jin’s team subdued the surviving Divine Assembly members, killed them after they surrendered, and prepared to sail the ship back to Home No. 1.
• Shen Jin received a satellite phone call as Lu Daizhen ate his carrot while facing an opponent using the Truth and Lies ability.

Liu Dalao and Su Lele escaped the Divine Assembly’s laboratory by boat, but Aketa and two Tier 3 Superhumans caught up with them. Sun Li’s team arrived in time to attack the pursuers, leaving a fight between the two groups underway.

• Liu Dalao killed a guard while fleeing with Su Lele, then boarded a speedboat driven by a man determined to get them to China.
• Tanaka discovered that the two Intelligent Zombies had escaped, and Xing Lingmin killed the young researcher who had helped them.
• Aketa and two other Tier 3 Superhumans tracked Liu Dalao by boat, forcing him to transform and fight back.
• Aketa’s group attacked Liu Dalao, while two members held back and analyzed his weaknesses.
• Sun Li’s team blasted the energy-powered boat apart and called their boss, identifying the Divine Assembly pursuers and a Tier 3 Energy Crystal Core.
• Sun Li’s team prepared to use a fusion skill against the surviving Superhumans.

Liu Dalao was rescued from the Divine Assembly by Sun Li’s group, whose fused Metal Elementals battled three Tier 3 enemies while he tried to help. The fight remained unresolved as Shen Jin arrived, only for the enormous Liu Dalao to capsize his boat and sink into the sea.

• Sun Li’s group flew away from the Divine Assembly’s three attackers, then returned with three fused Metal Elementals that engaged them while Liu Dalao was beaten back.
• Sun Li ordered the Metal Elementals to wear down the Divine Assembly’s fighters, and their battle left the speedboat in danger as Liu Dalao’s driver tried to escape.
• Liu Dalao paddled back to help, and Sun Li recognized that the talking zombie could be valuable for research.
• Liu Dalao grew to twenty meters tall, roared, and capsized his boat, sinking into the sea as Shen Jin announced that he had arrived.

Shen Jin rescued Liu Dalao and another intelligent zombie after killing three Tier 3 Divine Assembly superhumans. He escaped with his group as Divine Assembly reinforcements arrived and learned that all their search teams had lost contact.

• Shen Jin arrived in Quantum Armor and joined the fight, crippling the husky-shaped superhuman with a punch and killing him with a Metal Elemental Greatsword.
• Shen Jin pursued two fleeing superhumans underwater while Liu Dalao held one of them back, and Shen Jin killed the Gene Lock expert with missiles, a binding ability, and a punch.
• Shen Jin and Liu Dalao joined forces against the last Tier 3 superhuman and killed him with the greatsword before reinforcements could arrive.
• Shen Jin gave Liu Dalao an [Electric Jetpack], and Liu Dalao carried a blue-furred intelligent zombie from the speedboat as the group withdrew.
• Shen Jin met Li Moxiao and the others on the way back and warned them that the Divine Assembly's powerful leader had arrived.
• President Murata examined the battlefield and ordered the search teams to stay out of Chinese territory, then learned that all the teams had lost contact.