Chapter Summaries

Shen Jin strengthened Crazy Dave's Backyard's walls while Yang Ao tested his doubled abilities against Mutated Zombies. After obtaining obsidian, Shen Jin crafted an Enchanting Table, surrounded it with bookshelves made from web novels, and placed his Diamond pickaxe on it.

• Shen Jin built the perimeter walls eight meters high and three meters thick while Yang Ao patrolled for Mutated Zombies.
• Yang Ao killed a Jumping Zombie with one sword strike, and Shen Jin finished it off, collected its blood crystal, and burned the corpse.
• Yang Ao tested his enhanced strength against Zombies, while Shen Jin completed the mission and collected ten World Coins and five obsidian.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao finished the walls, then ate dinner with Shang Qian and Li Moxiao and joked together.
• Shen Jin crafted an Enchanting Table using obsidian, diamonds, and a book, then surrounded it with sixteen bookshelves made from web novels.
• The enchanted book began turning its pages on its own, and Shen Jin placed his Diamond pickaxe on the Enchanting Table.

Shen Jin decided to pursue the system’s mission to recruit thirty survivors while preparing to take Gene Optimization Serum 1.0. He took the serum in Li Moxiao’s room, leaving her confused by his precautions and his talk of gene modification.

• Shen Jin found a new mission requiring him to house thirty survivors in his territory for seven days, with a reward of twenty World Coins and the Daily Missions module.
• Shen Jin spent the next three days gathering supplies, improving the underground rooms for Li Moxiao and Shang Qian, and preparing for possible attacks.
• After observing Yang Ao’s improved abilities and seeing no adverse effects from the serum, Shen Jin decided to take Gene Optimization Serum 1.0 himself.
• Shen Jin brought food into Li Moxiao’s room, locked the door, and warned her not to scream or tell anyone he was there.
• Li Moxiao misunderstood Shen Jin’s preparations, then learned he was taking a serum to modify his genes and stared at him in surprise.

After completing genetic optimization, Shen Jin and Yang Ao tested their enhanced strength and recognized how far their rough fighting skills fell short of a Gene Lock fighter’s. Shen Jin then prepared a temporary enclosure for twenty-six former coworkers and recruited Yang Ao to help bring them over, leaving Yang Ao eager to meet the women among them.

• Shen Jin completed genetic optimization in Li Moxiao’s room, and she sulked because he failed to understand her romantic hints.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao practiced with wooden swords after drinking the final two bottles of serum, but their swords snapped and they admitted their fighting skills were crude.
• Shen Jin compared their abilities with Lu Qiang’s and concluded that a fighter who had opened a Gene Lock could overwhelm them.
• Shen Jin built a temporary enclosure with six small rooms and planned to keep twenty-six people there for seven days to complete a mission.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao rode through the underground passages to fetch Shen Jin’s former coworkers, and Yang Ao eagerly anticipated meeting the women among them.

Wanyu Group’s starving survivors prepared to fight their way downstairs for food, while Shen Jin and Yang Ao cleared the Zombies below. The survivors reached the second floor and found the armored pair waiting for them.

• Director Wang rallied the Wanyu Group survivors to arm themselves and fight downstairs, while Old Liu broke down and tried to block the stairwell.
• Shen Jin agreed to let Yang Ao take the lead and provide backup as they entered the first floor in iron armor.
• Yang Ao and Shen Jin killed the five Zombies on the first floor, then sealed the stairwell and killed more than fifty Zombies coming from the second floor.
• The survivors pulled away the clutter blocking the stairs and encountered the armored Shen Jin and Yang Ao, who greeted them with a remark about the coincidence.

Shen Jin and Yang Ao rescued the survivors from the dormitory and brought them to their walled courtyard, where Yang Ao laid down rules for their new settlement. The survivors settled in under Old Wang’s supervision as Shen Jin and Yang Ao left them behind a locked iron door.

• Yang Ao silenced the survivors, announced that he and Shen Jin were Superhumans, and ordered everyone to follow them to safety.
• Shen Jin insisted they rescue Old Liu as well, and Yang Ao kicked open the locked dorm room and brought him downstairs.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao led the survivors through a tunnel; Old Wang remembered the warehouse’s Mid-Autumn Festival Gift Boxes, but Shen Jin kicked him into the passage before he could finish explaining.
• The group arrived at Shen Jin and Yang Ao’s walled courtyard, where the survivors praised its safety and space.
• Yang Ao announced rules against bullying, required residents to follow management and earn food through work, and gave Old Wang a walkie-talkie.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao left through the iron door and locked it behind them.

Shen Jin and Yang Ao brought twenty-four survivors into their compound and left them to settle in, while the group wondered who their hosts were and whether they would receive food. The chapter ended with Yang Ao sneaking toward the women’s dormitory after overhearing Li Jie’s remark about food.

• Yang Ao asked Shen Jin whether he had acted convincingly, and Shen Jin told him to keep the survivors under control.
• Zhao Mingkai and the others discovered that the hole they had climbed through was sealed and speculated that their hosts were Superhumans.
• The twenty-four survivors divided into male and female accommodations, and the women found new beds and warm wool quilts in their room.
• The women grew hungry and uncertain about whether they would be given food the next day.
• Yang Ao packed leftovers, sneaked toward the women’s dormitory, and asked whether Li Jie’s remark was true.

Yang Ao brought hot food to the women and offered it in exchange for massage work and a bath, prompting Li Jie and Su Lele to leave with him while Qi Tong stayed behind. Shen Jin noticed Yang Ao was missing and planned to bring Kind Auntie over the next day.

• Yang Ao visited the women with hot food and said they could earn it by doing work, including massage.
• Yang Ao offered a bath to anyone who volunteered, and Qi Tong warned the women to be cautious about going inside.
• Li Jie volunteered to massage Yang Ao, and Su Lele followed after hesitating.
• Zhao Hong stayed behind, and Qi Tong remained in the room with her.
• Shen Jin checked the mission progress, considered bringing Kind Auntie over the next day, and wondered where Yang Ao had gone.

Yang Ao sent Su Lele to massage Shen Jin, and she and Shen Jin recognized each other from a campus recruitment event before the apocalypse. The chapter ended with Su Lele offering to knead Shen Jin’s shoulders.

• Shen Jin let Yang Ao leave after warning him not to stay up too late, while Yang Ao decided to arrange something nice for him.
• Yang Ao brought food to Li Jie and Su Lele, who ate their first satisfying meal in a week.
• Yang Ao told Su Lele to bathe, bring hot water to Shen Jin’s room, and introduce herself as the technician he had ordered.
• Shen Jin opened the door to Su Lele, learned Yang Ao had sent her for a massage, and recognized her as a former campus recruit.
• Su Lele thanked Shen Jin for saving her and offered to massage his shoulders, and he agreed.

Shen Jin and Yang Ao searched an apartment building for Kind Auntie but instead found a middle-aged couple who agreed to leave with them. As they headed back underground, an unknown woman moved across the building’s rooftop.

• Shen Jin gave Su Lele clothes to change into, let her massage his feet, and woke up alone the next morning with confused thoughts about what had happened.
• Shen Jin scolded Yang Ao for acting on his own, then told him to join a rescue mission after breakfast.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao reached the apartment building marked “Kind Auntie” and found the first-floor home clean and undisturbed but empty.
• The two searched all twenty-six floors, killing Zombies, and found a middle-aged couple who had survived on flour and steamed buns.
• Shen Jin persuaded the couple to leave by threatening to open the building entrance and attract Zombies, then led them toward the underground passage.
• An unknown curvaceous figure flashed across the rooftop as Shen Jin, Yang Ao, and the couple departed.

After bringing the middle-aged couple to his settlement, Shen Jin organized the survivors into work teams to keep them fed and prepare the settlement for winter. Meanwhile, Su Lele concealed her private meeting with Shen Jin from her suspicious boyfriend, Liu Dalao.

• Shen Jin saw that the settlement had thirty-one residents and needed seven days of residence time to unlock the advanced Industrial Mod.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao offered food to survivors who agreed to work, and six people refused.
• Old Wang became greenhouse team leader and selected nine men to build a greenhouse, while Zhao Hong led the women in making cotton clothes and quilts.
• Yang Ao assigned the remaining six survivors to patrol the walls and gave them walkie-talkies; the workers then cooked and ate porridge and steamed buns.
• Liu Dalao questioned Su Lele about looking cleaner, and she claimed she had washed with water provided to the survivors.

Shen Jin spent his day off gaming with Li Moxiao while Shang Qian went to visit her rescued coworkers. A government broadcast revealed the spread and evolution of zombies and outlined superhuman abilities, while Hu Shou feared humanity would not evolve in time to survive.

• Shen Jin let Shang Qian visit her coworkers and told her to contact Yang Ao if anything happened.
• Shen Jin and Li Moxiao played Overcooked as the noon government broadcast began.
• The broadcast reported that about eighteen percent of China's population remained alive, described L-type and M-type zombies, and announced revised rules for superhumans.
• The broadcast explained how awakened abilities and gene locks could increase a person's strength.
• Hu Shou criticized the government’s response and told Old Yang to take the Blood Crystal Gene Fusion Serum to Laboratory 7.

Shang Qian proposed stricter work rules for the settlement and was put in charge of enforcing them. After Yang Ao injured Ma Sanxiong for threatening her, Shang Qian disciplined shirkers, rewarded team leaders, and brought her former colleagues into line.

• Shang Qian told Shen Jin and Yang Ao that the settlement needed clear work targets, rewards, punishments, and authority for team leaders.
• Shen Jin assigned Yang Ao to announce that Shang Qian would lead the settlement, and she observed workers slacking off during the day.
• Yang Ao announced Shang Qian's appointment, and she withheld dinner from people who had shirked their duties.
• Ma Sanxiong tried to shove Shang Qian, so Yang Ao cut off his middle finger with his Iron Sword.
• Shang Qian rewarded the responsible team leaders with pickled mustard greens and read out the settlement rules, while Zhao Hong watched her injured husband kneel and groan.

Zhao Hong struggled with Ma Sanxiong’s hunger and abuse, then asked to join Yang Ao’s night work so she could bring food back. At the villa, Shen Jin hinted that he wanted another massage, and Yang Ao went to the women’s dormitory, where Zhao Hong joined Li Jie and Su Lele.

• Zhao Hong gave Ma Sanxiong her saved bun and pickles, but he insulted and threatened her when she could not provide more food.
• The women comforted Zhao Hong after she returned in tears, and she asked whether working that night would let her bring food back.
• Shen Jin noticed Director Hu Shou sounded increasingly serious after the radio broadcast, while Li Moxiao ate a homemade Cornetto made from frozen eight-treasure porridge.
• Shen Jin told Yang Ao that his body ached and hinted that he wanted another massage.
• Yang Ao went to the women’s dormitory, and Zhao Hong followed Li Jie and Su Lele to ask if she could work with them for food.

Yang Ao brought Zhao Hong and Su Lele out to trade for food, while Shen Jin and Yang Ao responded to a patrol report about two jumping M-Type Zombies. After Yang Ao killed them, Shen Jin spotted a huge cloud of dust rising in the east.

• Yang Ao agreed to take Zhao Hong and Su Lele through the iron gate, while Li Jie begged to go with him and Ma Sanxiong watched Zhao Hong with anger.
• Su Lele visited Shen Jin for a massage, then answered the walkie-talkie when her boyfriend Liu Dalao reported two M-Type Zombies jumping near the west wall.
• Shen Jin and Yang Ao went to the wall and tried to shoot the zombies with a bow, but Yang Ao missed every shot.
• Shen Jin ordered Yang Ao to attack the zombies below, and Yang Ao killed both with his sword before retrieving the arrows.
• Shen Jin saw a huge cloud of dust rising in the east and wondered if a sandstorm was coming.

Shen Jin’s settlement organized its new residents while Zhao Hong endured Ma Sanxiong’s anger over the food she brought him. After six days, Shen Jin told Yang Ao that he planned to send everyone away the next day, leaving Yang Ao wondering why Shen Jin had brought them in and made him manage them.

• Shen Jin and Yang Ao inspected the perimeter, and Shen Jin rewarded Liu Dalao for reporting danger on patrol.
• Zhao Hong returned to the dormitory with Su Lele, then took food to Ma Sanxiong, who slapped and insulted her before eating it in tears.
• Zhao Mingkai silently judged Ma Sanxiong for relying on Zhao Hong rather than working or facing danger himself.
• Over six days, Shang Qian organized the settlement, Old Wang’s vegetables grew, Zhao Hong’s sewing team made quilts and padded jackets, and Liu Dalao patrolled at night.
• Shen Jin told Yang Ao he planned to send the residents away the next day because their presence attracted more zombies.
• Yang Ao asked Shen Jin why he had brought the residents in and why he had made Yang Ao manage them.

Fu Wei presented Shen Jin with a plan for a compact laboratory that could mass-produce Gene Optimization Serum 1.0, and Shen Jin agreed to prepare a laboratory space while considering the consequences of wider serum production. That night, Shen Jin dismantled equipment from Fu Wei’s old laboratory and gathered materials, preparing to build the new lab.

• Yang Ao told Shen Jin that Fu Wei wanted to speak with him, and Shen Jin found Fu Wei working in the greenhouse.
• Fu Wei showed Shen Jin and Yang Ao his “Thumb Laboratory” plan and explained that it could mass-produce Gene Optimization Serum 1.0 if they obtained the needed prescription drugs and equipment.
• Shen Jin hesitated over the consequences of giving the serum to many people, but agreed to study Fu Wei’s plan and prepare a laboratory space.
• Fu Wei assured Shen Jin that he cared only about using his research to help humanity survive the zombie disaster.
• That evening, Shen Jin dismantled damaged equipment at the abandoned laboratory with [Wrenches] and gathered building materials and supplies.

Shen Jin built Fu Wei a laboratory, then upgraded the industrial mod after completing a settlement mission. The chapter ended with two L-Type Zombies and dozens of ordinary zombies attacking the settlement wall.

• Shen Jin built a laboratory from alloy blocks and equipped it with an Iron Furnace, a computer, and Fu Wei's recovered equipment.
• Fu Wei examined a Zombie Blood Crystal and asked Shen Jin to find a microscope at the nearby library.
• Shen Jin completed the miniature settlement mission and received 20 World Coins, then unlocked a new mission to earn 20 heartfelt expressions of gratitude.
• Shen Jin spent 30 World Coins to upgrade Basic Industry I to Basic Industry II and unlocked several industrial machines.
• Two L-Type Zombies led dozens of ordinary zombies in attacking the settlement wall, leaving Shen Jin and Yang Ao wondering how to stop them.

Shen Jin and Yang Ao led the settlement’s people in killing the zombies attacking their wall, using a mass volley of arrows before Yang Ao slew the remaining L-Type Zombies with his enhanced sword. After ordering the survivors to collect the arrows and burn the bodies, Shen Jin caught Zhao Mingkai daydreaming and sent him to help.

• Shen Jin and Yang Ao shot at the zombies below, then Shen Jin brought ten bows and arrows and recruited the settlement’s young men to join them.
• Shang Qian threatened Xiao Ming with losing his meal if he refused to shoot, and Xiao Ming promptly hit an L-Type Zombie in the eye.
• The archers rained arrows on the ordinary zombies until only two L-Type Zombies remained, and Yang Ao killed both with his Energy-Enhanced Iron Sword.
• Shen Jin ordered the group to recover their arrows and burn the zombie corpses, while Zhao Mingkai imagined becoming superhuman and getting revenge on Li Jie.
• Shen Jin smacked Zhao Mingkai and told him to stop daydreaming and burn the zombies.

After Shen Jin’s group helped ten settlers kill and burn a horde of zombies, the settlers celebrated their first victory while Shen Jin studied the system’s new daily quests and industrial machines. He resolved to pursue the quests for their rewards and considered the new tools needed to advance toward a Quantum Suit.

• The ten settlers stabbed the fallen zombies in the head, piled up their bodies, and Zhao Mingkai burned them with gasoline.
• Yang Ao gave Shen Jin the two blood crystals from the Evolved Zombies, then called the settlers inside and closed the gate.
• Shen Jin examined the five daily quests and complained that they pushed him to expand his territory, recruit people, counsel settlers, fortify defenses, and kill zombies himself.
• Shen Jin decided the World Coins and Resource Packs were worth pursuing because they could help him unlock upgrades and build a Quantum Suit.
• Shen Jin opened the Basic Industry II interface and reviewed the macerator, extractor, and compressor and their uses for processing materials.

Shen Jin tested several industrial machines and brought an Extractor to Fu Wei’s laboratory. After the machine successfully extracted tin from a can, Fu Wei eagerly claimed it for his research and proposed using it to extract energy from Blood Crystals.

• Shen Jin crafted and tested a Pulverizer, Extractor, Compressor, and other electrical devices, discovering practical uses beyond their game recipes.
• Shen Jin compressed Cobblestone into a harder, denser High-Density Stone Block and worried about the machines’ heavy electricity consumption.
• Shen Jin installed an Extractor and a charged Energy Storage Box in Fu Wei’s laboratory.
• Fu Wei doubted the Extractor could perform real scientific work, then tested it by selecting tin from an empty can.
• The Extractor produced a pure Tin Block, astonishing Fu Wei, who asked Shen Jin to leave the machine in his laboratory.
• Fu Wei suggested using the Extractor to draw energy from Blood Crystals.