Chapter Summaries

Shen Jin’s forces launched their planned Ultimate Fusion Technique to trap Murata in a sealed alloy cage while the other battles across the battlefield continued. Murata remained inside under coordinated pressure, and Shen Jin’s allies gained momentum against the Divine Assembly’s forces.

• Murata disabled Shen Jin’s Nano Saber and nearly overwhelmed him, but Shen Jin blocked a strike with a Manyullyn Battle Sign while Shang Qian failed to reach him.
• Shen Jin ordered the captains to execute the Ultimate Fusion Technique, and Miao Shubai restrained Murata’s thrown blade long enough for Sun Can to withdraw.
• Wu Yong, Miao Shubai, Li Zhe, Tong Zhen, and their teams combined their abilities and advanced materials to force Murata into a block cage.
• Liu Jin’s city defense squad suppressed Murata’s Special Ability as the Mechanism Technique teams sealed the cage around him.
• The Daoist kept the long-haired Tier 3 Superhuman from reaching Murata, while Li Moxiao battered Raven and Shang Qian stopped a messenger from calling reinforcements.
• Liu Dalao released 50,000 zombies against the Divine Assembly’s purple-clad troops as his side gained ground elsewhere.

Shen Jin and Home No. 1 battered Murata with a coordinated assault inside Wu Yong’s reinforced alloy box, then unleashed their strongest attacks after Mi Xiaoli weakened him with a curse. Shen Jin’s final sword strike pierced the box, but Murata disappeared, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Shen Jin ordered the team to attack Murata inside the alloy box, and their combined beams, tentacles, explosives, and mechanisms gradually wore him down.
• Shen Jin fused the Metal Elementals of 450 superhumans into Shen Gold, who clashed with Murata before Liu Yang and the others joined the fight.
• Shen Jin and the team shattered Murata’s protective barrier, while Mi Xiaoli’s curse weakened him and the group’s suppressive abilities further restricted his power.
• Sun Li, Miao Shubai, and Shen Jin’s tentacles restrained Murata, and Qi Tong’s Little Sun struck him with a powerful beam.
• Shen Jin plunged down with a golden sword attack, piercing the alloy box, but Murata vanished when the tentacles released him.

Shen Jin and his allies defeated the Divine Assembly’s strongest fighters, though Murata vanished and the organization’s members realized their hooded leader’s identity had been erased from their memories. The Scarlet Curtain fell, the remaining captives were defeated, and Shen Jin’s forces took the Divine Assembly headquarters.

• Shen Jin’s team defeated Murata with their fusion skill, but his body and demonic sword vanished, leaving only his damaged hood; Shen Jin ordered the exhausted fighters to return to Home No. 1.
• Li Moxiao revealed that she had crushed her opponent in a deep pit, while Shang Qian led reinforcements against the remaining Divine Assembly fighters.
• Liu Dalao and the Daoist killed the gravity-controlling superhuman, and Liu Dalao secretly collected his corpse and other bodies.
• The seven Divine Assembly survivors inside the Scarlet Curtain remembered that Ibe had once led them and discovered that they could not recall their later leader’s name or appearance.
• The Scarlet Curtain fell, Shen Jin’s forces defeated the remaining captives, and Li Moxiao showed Shen Jin the captive Light Yagami as they seized the Divine Assembly headquarters.

Shen Jin freed Japan from the Divine Assembly, formed a friendly understanding with Kojima Hisao, and returned home to unlock new system upgrades. As he prepared for the next challenges, Liu Shicai emerged from seclusion at Heavenly Net Headquarters with only thirty days until the zombies unlocked the next-tier Time Lock.

• Shen Jin and his forces defeated the Divine Assembly, and Kojima Hisao’s Opposition Faction and Japanese civilians thanked them for ending the Assembly’s oppression.
• Shen Jin agreed that Japan and Home No. 1 would remain friends, then destroyed the XP Laboratory and freed the Superhumans imprisoned underground.
• Shen Jin slept for three days, woke beside Li Moxiao, and later learned that Sun Can’s Special Ability had advanced to Advanced Tier 3.
• Shen Jin unlocked the third page of the Crystal Core Shop and obtained the Alloy Materials and Advanced Solar Panels expansion mods.
• Liu Shicai emerged from seclusion at Heavenly Net Headquarters and revealed that thirty days remained until the zombies unlocked the next-tier Time Lock.

Liu Shicai emerged from seclusion with revolutionary energy-science research and reunited with Yang Tianyao at Heavenly Net’s laboratory. Shen Jin tested the [Advanced Solar Panels] mod’s [Molecular Transformer], ramped up iridium production, and examined new solar equipment and alloy gear.

• Liu Shicai reunited with Yang Tianyao and explained that the Wallfacers had agreed to emerge from seclusion if they achieved revolutionary results.
• Liu Shicai told Yang Tianyao that he had come out to advance China’s energy science, rather than to reveal discoveries about the zombie virus, firearms, or the Time Lock.
• Shen Jin crafted a [Molecular Transformer] and confirmed that it converted an [Iron Ingot] into an [Iridium Ingot] using far less electricity than the [Replicator] setup.
• Shen Jin installed four [Molecular Transformers] on the roof, shut down the [Replicator] setup, and began producing [Iridium Ingots] while keeping the [UU Matter Generator] running at reduced power.
• Shen Jin reviewed the new solar generators and solar helmets, then learned that [Tinkers' Construct Alloy] could combine material traits to make stronger equipment with multiple modifiers.

Shen Jin developed powerful alloy armor and weapons, then opened the new page of the Crystal Core Shop to inspect its ability upgrades and items. He decided to exchange for a potion for himself, but the chapter ended before he chose one.

• Shen Jin spent World Coins on slime blocks and had Sun Can fire the green slime blocks into magma slime blocks.
• Shen Jin crafted and reinforced a multicolored alloy chestplate with Enderference and other defensive traits.
• Shen Jin tested the chestplate by striking Pang Guang, who confirmed it absorbed most of the impact and protected him from injury.
• Shen Jin produced a powerful magma slime-Manyullyn Cleaver and decided Tinkers' Construct weapons suited him better than his Nano Saber.
• Shen Jin opened the new Crystal Core Shop page, reviewed its potions and Ability Orbs, and set out to exchange for a potion for himself.

Shen Jin used an Advanced Special Ability Enhancement Potion and advanced to advanced Tier 3, greatly improving the Special Ability Food he could make for Home No. 1. He then gave Shang Qian a Tier 3 Special Ability Advancement Potion, and her space ability evolved into stable portals for crossing between locations.

• Shen Jin exchanged a Tier 3 Energy Crystal Core, ten Tier 2 Energy Crystal Cores, and ten Lapotron Crystals for an Advanced Special Ability Enhancement Potion, then drank it and advanced to advanced Tier 3.
• Shen Jin tested his Metal Elemental Fruit and found that it now contained more energy and mental power, allowing it to give his team members a stronger boost; he planned to make enough Special Ability Food to equip the troops.
• Shen Jin exchanged for a Tier 3 Special Ability Advancement Potion and brought it to Shang Qian, who drank it and underwent a Tier 3 breakthrough.
• Shang Qian demonstrated that she could open stable spatial portals, and she and Yang Ao tested traveling through one.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian used a portal to return to her office, where Shen Jin shut the door and flirted with her.

Shen Jin tested new advancement potions on Li Zhe and his deputy, transforming them into powerful Eight-Armed Asura and Rubber Man users. He also discovered reusable energy orbs that summoned zombie projections, and planned to trade for enough cores to equip Home No. 1’s Superhumans.

• Shen Jin offered Li Zhe a choice of advancement potions, and Li Zhe chose the [Eight-Armed Asura Potion].
• Li Zhe transformed into an eight-armed fighter whose arms retained his tentacles’ reach and strength.
• Shen Jin gave Li Zhe’s deputy captain a [Rubber Man Advancement Potion], which made his body elastic and able to stretch over a hundred meters.
• Shen Jin tested the [Strength Orb] and [Regeneration Orb], learning that each summoned a powerful zombie projection but that he could connect to only one orb at a time.
• Shen Jin decided to trade with the Heavenly Net for enough energy crystal cores to equip Home No. 1’s core Superhumans with summoning orbs.

Shen Jin counted the Divine Assembly’s spoils, considered using a Tier 3 Soul Ball to control zombies, and tested several Crystal Core Shop items. He returned to Home No. 1 proud of its thriving community, then looked toward the cages holding the Divine Assembly prisoners, whose fate remained undecided.

• Shen Jin counted the Divine Assembly’s spoils and found five Tier 3, 280 Tier 2, and 3,017 Tier 1 Energy Crystal Cores, along with tens of thousands of ordinary cores.
• Shen Jin crafted a Tier 3 Soul Ball and tested it in T City, but its Z3 phantom only prevented nearby zombies from attacking him instead of controlling them.
• Shen Jin bought a Special Effects Mystery Box and received a golden shield visual effect, then spent another 1,000 World Coins on a beneficial-effect potion and a debuff potion.
• Shen Jin decided to postpone unlocking another industrial expansion mod until he had improved the base’s power supply and admired Home No. 1’s growing prosperity.
• Shen Jin looked south toward the alloy cages holding the Divine Assembly prisoners, still unsure what to do with them.

Shen Jin decided to use captured Divine Assembly Superhumans as coerced zombie-fighting troops, killed the thirteen Tier 3 prisoners for their energy cores, and set Jinzhou City as Home No. 1’s next target. After ordering an assault within a month, he reconciled with Liu Yue and promised to take her on future missions.

• Shen Jin inspected the imprisoned Divine Assembly survivors and discussed their possible use with Liu Jin and Yang Ao.
• Yang Ao proposed forcing lower-tier prisoners to serve as barrier troops under threat of execution, while Shen Jin decided to kill the uncontrollable Tier 3 captives.
• Shen Jin killed all thirteen Tier 3 Superhumans and collected their Energy Crystal Cores.
• Shen Jin announced that Home No. 1 would capture Jinzhou City within a month and assigned teams to supervise the Divine Assembly prisoners in battle.
• Liu Yue confronted Shen Jin for leaving her behind, and he promised to take her along next time before carrying her back to her home.

Liu Shicai and Yang Tianyao verified that Superhumans could cultivate using the meridian diagram from Ancient Ruins No. 30, while Hu Shou returned close to tier 4. Three days later, Shen Jin’s group reached Jinzhou City and found a vast zombie horde blocking their advance.

• Liu Shicai drew the Ruins No. 30 meridian diagram on a tier 2 strength-based Superhuman, who activated its thirty-six points and absorbed energy factors released by an Energy Atomizer.
• Liu Shicai and Yang Tianyao discussed ancient Superhumans, the coming zombie evolution, and Shen Jin, whom Yang Tianyao said Heavenly Net was ordered to cooperate with and protect.
• A staff member announced Hu Shou’s return, and Liu Shicai and Yang Tianyao learned that Hu Shou was close to tier 4 but planned to enter seclusion before advancing.
• Liu Shicai told Hu Shou that his findings about Ruins No. 30 might help him advance to tier 4 faster.
• Three days later, Shen Jin’s group reached the outskirts of Jinzhou City through a forty-kilometer tunnel route, where Yang Ao spotted a zombie horde of roughly five or six hundred thousand.

Xiang Shi’s unit was overwhelmed by a horde of 600,000 zombies, so he ordered half his remaining fighters to retreat while he and fifty-eight others stayed behind to cover them. Just as the survivors were being overrun, a group from Home No. 1 arrived and carried them to safety.

• Xiang Shi led his unit away from the city with the zombie horde in pursuit, losing eighty fighters before they reached a small factory.
• Xiang Shi divided the sixty remaining fighters into two groups, sending Xiao Lü and fifty-nine others to retreat while he stayed with fifty-eight teammates.
• Xiang Shi and the others fought the attacking zombies, and Old Liu kept battling after an M2 Zombie wounded him fatally.
• Home No. 1 superhumans blasted through the factory roof, drove back the zombies with Laser Cannons, and rescued Xiang Shi’s group.
• Xiang Shi asked which unit had rescued them, and one of the newcomers answered, “Home No. 1.”

Home No. 1’s superhumans rescued Xiang Shi’s unit and began wiping out a 600,000-zombie horde from the air. As Old Liu neared death from the zombie virus, Yang Ao gave him a Senzu Bean, and 3,000 more superhumans emerged to join the battle.

• Meng San rescued Xiang Shi and led Home No. 1’s superhumans into battle against the zombies attacking Jinzhou City.
• Old Liu told Xiang Shi’s unit that Home No. 1 had taken control of Gourd City and urged them to consider its role in reclaiming Jinzhou City.
• Home No. 1’s fighters cleared the flying zombies and bombarded the 600,000-strong horde, while Xiang Shi’s unit watched from safety.
• Old Liu revealed that the zombie virus was overcoming him and asked his comrades to place his gravestone near their unit after Jinzhou City was reclaimed.
• Yang Ao gave Old Liu a Senzu Bean and said he would not die, leaving Xiang Shi and the others bewildered.
• Three thousand superhumans in bone Tinkers’ Construct armor emerged from underground and charged the remaining zombies.

Shen Jin ordered Long Taojia and Jia Taolong to build 1,000 coastal Wind Turbines to expand Home No. 1’s electricity supply and support his plan to manufacture advanced solar generators. While investigating the materials those generators required, he discovered that China’s nearest uranium mine was inside Jinzhou City.

• Shen Jin explained that Home No. 1 needed far more electricity to power its equipment and charge its growing supply of Quantum Armor.
• Shen Jin ordered Long Taojia and Jia Taolong to build up to 1,000 Wind Turbines along the 150-kilometer coastline and connect them to a separate power storage station.
• Shen Jin planned to use the new turbines’ output to produce advanced solar generators while reserving nuclear power for Iridium Ingots and equipment charging.
• Shen Jin checked Kong Long’s report on uranium deposits and discovered that the nearest uranium mine was in Jinzhou City.

Shen Jin visited Jinzhou City after learning that a uranium mine lay near the battlefield, and Home No. 1’s forces prepared to clear the city’s zombie hordes. He met the Jinzhou City Heavenly Net Branch Bureau after rescuing Xiang Shi’s team, and its leader welcomed him.

• Shen Jin ordered the uranium mine cleared for automated mining and flew to Jinzhou City to inspect the battle and the Japanese prisoners.
• Home No. 1’s Superhumans reported wiping out a horde of six hundred thousand zombies, and Shen Jin approved their plan to clear another nearby horde before moving on.
• Shen Jin assigned the remaining street-clearing work to civilian Superhumans and Pseudo-Superhumans, while Meng San reported that the death squads had improved after he punished those who retreated.
• Yang Ao pointed out the rescued Jinzhou City Heavenly Net Branch Bureau members, and Shen Jin flew with Xiang Shi and his team to their base.
• Xiang Shi’s comrades celebrated the return of all fifty-nine members of his team, and the Jinzhou City branch leader welcomed Shen Jin.

Shen Jin met with Ma Xiangnan at the Jinzhou City Heavenly Net Branch Bureau, where he tested the base’s leaders and learned about their resources and policies. After agreeing to accept three tons of nuts and offering to clear the remaining zombies, Shen Jin concluded that Jinzhou would be difficult to acquire by ordinary means but hinted he had a way to subdue it without fighting.

• Ma Xiangnan welcomed Shen Jin and thanked him for helping Xiang Shi and his men, then explained how Jinzhou City had secured food stores, power plants, and factories early in the outbreak.
• Yang Ao and the captains confronted Ma Xiangnan over the absence of Tier 3 Superhumans, but Ma Xiangnan explained that Jinzhou had none and ordered his soldiers to lower their weapons.
• At a meeting, Ma Xiangnan offered Shen Jin twenty-one tons of food as thanks, and Shen Jin instead accepted three tons of nuts after Yang Ao challenged the value of the gift.
• Shen Jin asked how Jinzhou treated ordinary residents and learned that they could leave the base but were discouraged from scavenging because the base provided food, work, and electricity.
• Shen Jin promised that Home No. 1 would clear Jinzhou City's remaining zombies, then left with Yang Ao and said Ma Xiangnan was too sincere and calculating to handle like the leaders of Q City and Gourd City.
• Shen Jin suggested that Jinzhou's easy early survival had limited its Superhumans' growth and said he might be able to subdue the base without fighting.

Shen Jin secured a uranium mine and began developing advanced solar power equipment, calculating the cost and output of each generator tier. He concluded that Quantum Generators offered the best long-term return, but struggled to choose between investing in them and using the electricity to equip his forces with Quantum Armor.

• Shen Jin sent Yang Ao and the others back to the Gourd District, then visited Meng San's cleared uranium mine.
• Shen Jin installed three Advanced Mining Machines, ordered Meng San to guard them, and took the first 640 blocks of Uranium Ore to Home No. 1.
• Shen Jin established a mountain workshop, began processing uranium and producing Sunnarium Parts, and made an Advanced Solar Panel and a Hybrid Solar Generator.
• Shen Jin calculated that an Ultimate Hybrid Solar Panel would take 156 days to repay its energy cost and planned to use one to upgrade his Quantum Helmet.
• Shen Jin calculated that a Quantum Generator would repay its enormous cost in 111 days, but questioned whether to invest in generators or reserve electricity for Quantum Armor for his forces.

Shen Jin decided to prioritize expanding power generation over mass-producing Quantum Armor, reasoning that Home No. 1’s forces could handle near-term threats while more electricity would support stronger equipment later. He planned to make vast numbers of cheap solar and hydroelectric generators, especially along the coastline, and was stunned by their potential output.

• Shen Jin met a factory worker who studied zombie-fighting techniques after work so he could become a pseudo-superhuman and join a scavenging team.
• Shen Jin gave the worker a Basic Special Ability Awakening Potion, then used his time-management plan to reconsider his own production strategy.
• Shen Jin concluded that Home No. 1 should make a small reserve of Quantum Armor and devote most available electricity to Quantum Solar Generators.
• Shen Jin proposed mass-producing basic Solar Generators and asked Jia Taolong’s power bureau and construction team to handle installation and the grid.
• Shen Jin calculated that as many as four hundred thousand Hydroelectric Generators could fit along the coast and produce ninety-six million kilowatt-hours daily, then ordered the project started.

Shen Jin arranged automated production of hundreds of thousands of generators and discussed reopening a cinema with Shang Qian, deciding to send Sun Li to retrieve films from ZY Film Studio in B City. Meanwhile, Ma Xiangnan worried about Home No. 1’s intentions in Jinzhou, and Xiang Shi asked Old Liu to explain what had happened in Gourd City.

• Shen Jin set up Batch Crafting Tables to produce 100,000 Solar Generators and 400,000 Hydroelectric Generators, and planned further power expansion and storage.
• Shen Jin learned from Shang Qian that reopening a proper cinema required movie hard drives and keys from ZY Film Studio, then agreed to send Sun Li and a team to retrieve them from Louhuai District in B City.
• Shang Qian asked Shen Jin to take her to the cinema if it reopened, and the two went to her bedroom together.
• Shen Jin asked Shang Qian to recruit loyal construction workers and have Lu Daizhen test them.
• Ma Xiangnan and his advisers debated why Home No. 1 had come to Jinzhou and recalled the takeover of Gourd City; Ma hoped Shen Jin would not turn against them.
• Xiang Shi asked Old Liu what he meant by warning him not to take sides and what had happened in Gourd City, and Old Liu began to explain.

Shen Jin prepared Home No. 1 to exploit Jinzhou City’s resources after its Superhumans defeated a 700,000-strong zombie horde. The chapter ended with bounty notices drawing tens of thousands of Superhumans and Pseudo-Superhumans toward the city to hunt zombies and gather supplies.

• Shen Jin replied to Liu Yue, asked Shang Qian to expand the construction crew and install 500,000 generators, then went to Liu Yue’s room.
• Yang Ao and Home No. 1’s Superhumans easily attacked the 700,000-strong horde while Ma Xiangnan and Jinzhou City Heavenly Net officials watched.
• After a full hour of fighting, the horde broke and its Z2 zombie fled; Yang Ao sent the death squads in pursuit and hinted that Home No. 1 would take Jinzhou City.
• Home No. 1 issued bounties for clearing Jinzhou City and began selling two potions that could raise a basic tier 1 Superhuman to tier 1 peak.
• On the following day, tens of thousands of Superhumans and Pseudo-Superhumans emerged near Jinzhou City carrying sacks to collect rewards and supplies.