Chapter Summaries

Li Moxiao’s sacrifice briefly stopped the zombies, but the Big-Head Zombie revived, forcing Shang Qian to teleport Shen Jin away after he destroyed it. Later, Liu Dalao awakened as an L-Type Zombie and found Su Lele among the dead, while Sun Can received a mission-completion notification.

• Li Moxiao collapsed after the zombies froze, but an M-Type Zombie killed Su Lele and the horde resumed its attack.
• The Big-Head Zombie revived, and Shang Qian awakened her space ability to teleport herself and Shen Jin out of danger.
• Shen Jin used his last ammunition and grenade to destroy the Big-Head Zombie, scattering the zombies before Shang Qian teleported them away.
• Sun Can found the horde attacking at random, received a mission-completion notification, and ran toward the survivors.
• Liu Dalao awakened with an L-Type Zombie’s body, found Su Lele among the dormant zombies, and roared in grief before crushing another evolved zombie.

After escaping a zombie horde through Shang Qian’s unstable spatial teleportation, Shen Jin woke injured on an unfamiliar beach and built a cabin at the foot of a mountain to shelter them. He resolved to avenge his lost companions and, unable to return to his underground warehouse, planned to start over by gathering resources.

• Shen Jin woke on the beach, realized he and the unconscious Shang Qian had escaped, and checked that she was still alive.
• Shen Jin vowed to return to Q City and avenge Li Moxiao, Yang Ao, Old Fu, and Lele, then dragged Shang Qian toward the mountain.
• Shen Jin enclosed a clearing with wood planks, crafted two beds, and settled Shang Qian onto one of them.
• Shen Jin mined cobblestone, crafted a Furnace, and lit a fire to warm their cabin as night fell.
• Shen Jin worried that Black Insects might have reached his underground warehouse and concluded he would need to gather resources from scratch, starting by punching trees.

While Shang Qian recovered from her incomplete awakening, Shen Jin gathered supplies and built a secure farmhouse courtyard. After she woke, they discussed the vanished settlement and Lu Qiang’s unexplained breakdown, agreeing to be wary of quiet people.

• Shen Jin fed unconscious Shang Qian, enclosed their house, and gathered wood and stone from the mountain.
• Shen Jin crafted stone tools and tungsten steel alloy armor, then spent a week collecting materials, raising pheasants, expanding the house, and digging a tunnel through the mountain.
• Shang Qian woke on the eighth day after their teleportation and saw the farmhouse courtyard Shen Jin had built.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian mourned their vanished companions and recalled how he had once rescued her from Lu Qiang.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian could not explain why Lu Qiang had snapped, and they agreed never to mess with quiet people.

Shen Jin and Shang Qian emerged in D City after teleporting and learned that the journey back to Q City would be difficult. When Zhang Ji and his men tried to trap them and threaten Shang Qian, the pair prepared to fight.

• Shen Jin and Shang Qian left the tunnel and searched a scenic area for survivors, discovering that Shang Qian still could not use her Special Ability.
• Shen Jin killed a zombie and questioned a young survivor, who revealed that they were in Red Water Bay in Lükou District, D City.
• Shen Jin realized that they had teleported across the sea and lowered his sword after receiving the location, but Zhang Ji blocked their departure.
• Zhang Ji and his men surrounded Shen Jin and Shang Qian, leering at Shang Qian and threatening them.
• Sun Can said goodbye to the people he had rescued and vanished in a flash of firelight, leaving them blinded.

Shen Jin and Shang Qian wiped out a gang of criminals who had attacked them, then went to investigate the women held behind the lounge. They discovered a shocking sight, leaving the chapter on a cliffhanger.

• Shang Qian cut off a fat man's hand after he threatened her, and Shen Jin drew his grenade launcher as the gang prepared to attack.
• Shen Jin fired a grenade that killed the leader and injured the other men, who immediately begged him to spare them and offered to follow him.
• Shen Jin killed the young scout who had lured them in, prompting the remaining men to flee.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian pursued and killed every member of the gang, though Shang Qian vomited afterward because it was her first time killing people.
• Shang Qian realized Shen Jin had decided the gang would die as soon as he drew his gun, and the pair went behind the lounge to look for the captive women.

Shen Jin and Shang Qian rescued eight women who had been chained and brutalized, then brought them to a safe room and cared for them. After the women ate and warmed up, the youngest asked if they had truly been saved, and they all began to cry.

• Shen Jin and Shang Qian found eight women chained in a filthy room, and Shen Jin cut their chains and helped Shang Qian lead them to safety.
• Shen Jin buried the fifteen dead captors, scavenged supplies, and found a Desert Eagle with forty-five rounds.
• Shen Jin dismantled the captors’ furniture and sheet-metal building for materials, then built a warm, sheltered room for the women.
• Shang Qian brought the women hot porridge, and some of them gradually began to regain their senses.
• The youngest woman asked whether they had been saved, and all eight women burst into tears.

Shen Jin planned to develop a mountain base into an industrial settlement, but he lacked key materials such as graphite. He laid out a plan for Great Red Water Bay and told Shang Qian that he intended to return to Q City, while preparing to counsel the rescued women.

• Shen Jin built a workshop, used his iron to craft basic industrial tools and an Iron Furnace, then discovered that making an Electric Furnace required Redstone and a Circuit Board.
• Shen Jin asked Shang Qian where to find graphite, but her confused response left him to plan his industrial revival himself.
• Shen Jin reviewed his daily quests and realized their Resource Gift Pack might provide the ores he needed, so he drafted a plan to combine settlement development with quest completion.
• Shen Jin named his plan the Great Red Water Bay Development Plan and told Shang Qian he meant to build a resistance base before returning to Q City.
• Shang Qian agreed to help, and Shen Jin asked her to speak with the rescued women before he gave them psychological counseling after lunch.

Shen Jin laid out a three-phase development plan for Red Water Bay focused on expanding and fortifying territory, mining resources, and training loyal fighters. After eating, he met Miao Shubai and offered her beef jerky as she began telling him what the women had endured.

• Shen Jin planned to enclose the Red Water Bay headland, build defenses, and expand the settlement by finding survivors and killing zombies.
• Shen Jin planned to dig deep mines, including beneath the seabed, and develop a group of loyal fighters to face evolved zombies.
• Shen Jin decided the three phases of the development plan would proceed simultaneously and continued relying on Shang Qian to manage food and logistics.
• Shen Jin visited the eight women after their recovery, spoke with Miao Shubai, and gave her beef jerky.
• Miao Shubai thanked Shen Jin and began describing what the women had experienced.

Miao Shubai told Shen Jin how a gang had enslaved and abused the women of her settlement before he rescued them, and he learned about the powerful settlement at D City Institute of Technology. Shen Jin fortified Red Water Bay and headed out to kill zombies, hoping to complete his remaining quest.

• Miao Shubai recounted how a gang infiltrated Peaceful Homeland, killed its leaders, and imprisoned and abused the women.
• Shen Jin comforted Miao Shubai, completed his psychological counseling quest, and learned that three Superhumans led the largest settlement in Lükou District.
• Shen Jin decided to strengthen his defenses and prepare for a possible confrontation with the Superhumans.
• Shen Jin cleared trees and mined hills across his territory, completed his expansion and fortification quests, and built a high, three-layer cobblestone wall around the entrance.
• Shen Jin learned that the population quest required the newcomers to stay for a full day, then armed himself and left for Fragrant Sea Residential Community to kill zombies.

Shen Jin completed his daily quests and used the resource pack's materials to build a generator, energy storage box, and fluorescent lamps. The lights lifted the spirits of the women in the residential complex, whose growing admiration made Shen Jin uneasy.

• Shen Jin lured the zombies surrounding the residential complex into a six-meter pit and killed ten to complete his daily quest.
• Shen Jin received a resource pack after completing all his daily quests and obtained diamonds, redstone, copper ingots, and rubber.
• Shen Jin crafted a Combustion Generator, an Energy Storage Box, and fluorescent lamps, then wired them to illuminate his room and the women's room.
• Shang Qian praised the lights, while Miao Shubai and the other women admired Shen Jin and began cleaning themselves up to attract his attention.
• Shen Jin sensed that the atmosphere in the women's room had become strange.

A week after opening his Counseling Room, Shen Jin helped the settlement’s women recover while building up their daily water and food supplies. Zheng Ying began falling for him, and the chapter ended with Shen Jin eating the crab Miao Shubai had given him.

• Shen Jin counseled Zheng Ying and gave her winter shoes, prompting her to reflect on how he had rescued and cared for her.
• Shen Jin completed his daily counseling quest and received one World Coin.
• Shen Jin described the Fishing Terrace, where ten Solar Stills purified seawater into enough distilled water for the settlement.
• The women gathered seafood along the shore, while Miao Shubai gave Shen Jin a glass display with shells, starfish, and a big crab.
• Shen Jin steamed Miao Shubai’s crab and ate it with three large bowls of rice.

Shen Jin expanded and fortified the Red Water Bay base, established an observation zone and outer settlement for survivors, and began screening people to complete his population quest. Liu Yang passed the interview and entered the outer zone, while the next candidate arrived.

• Shen Jin enclosed roughly 577 acres at Red Water Bay, built defenses and hidden underground exits, and found twenty-four sheep in a cave.
• Shen Jin organized survivors through an observation zone and a walled outer zone, using interviews to decide who could enter.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian interviewed Liu Yang, who said he could do heavy work, and approved him for the outer zone.
• Shen Jin's daily quest progress reached 1/5, and a young woman entered for the next interview.

Shen Jin completed his population quest, earned a new task to form and equip a ten-person armed squad, and received a full set of diamond gear from a Mystery Gift Pack. He mined beneath the seabed for resources, found seafood instead of ore, and ended up discovering a metal deposit.

• Shen Jin welcomed Shen Mengmeng and four other recruits into the outer zone, completing the population quest and receiving 65 World Coins in total.
• Shen Jin received the Private Armed Squad quest, which required him to equip ten loyal members with iron gear.
• Shen Jin opened a Resource Pack containing emeralds, coal, and string, then opened a Mystery Gift Pack containing a full set of diamond armor and tools.
• Shen Jin descended 300 meters into his mine and dug beneath the seabed, gathering clay, a lobster, and a crab.
• Shen Jin planned a seafood barbecue with Shang Qian, then found a metal deposit while continuing to mine.

Shen Jin mined a rich undersea deposit of iron ore and brought his haul back to the workshop, where he set up Pulverizers to process it. He invited Shang Qian to join him outside, leaving her embarrassed until she learned he meant an outdoor lobster barbecue.

• Shen Jin dug up 106 blocks of metal deposit and found 290 blocks of iron ore at a depth of 400 meters below sea level.
• Shen Jin carried his haul back to the workshop and crafted two Pulverizers, connecting them to power and setting up Hoppers and Chests to collect their output.
• Shen Jin and Shang Qian prepared for dinner at the fishing platform after Shang Qian organized meals for the base residents.
• Shen Jin invited Shang Qian upstairs to do something out in the open, and she misunderstood his intentions.
• Shen Jin revealed two enormous lobsters roasting over a Furnace, explaining that he had meant an outdoor barbecue.

Shen Jin used seabed resources to replenish his iron supply, crafted five Solar Generators to address the base’s growing power needs, and went to recruit his first self-defense unit. The chapter ended as Shen Mengmeng asked the outer-zone residents when the superhumans would arrive, hoping to find food.

• Shang Qian and Shen Jin feasted on seafood they had gathered from the seabed.
• Shen Jin collected 1,745 pieces of crushed iron ore, found that smelting a metal deposit produced useless scrap, and loaded more ore into Furnaces.
• Shen Jin crafted five Solar Generators and connected them to the Energy Storage Box to provide a steady supply of power.
• Shen Jin went to the outer zone, where Liu Yang and other residents prepared to search for food with Zhao Chao.
• Shen Mengmeng, having run out of food and unwilling to fight zombies, asked when the superhumans would come.

Shen Jin recruited survivors to form a fighting force, appointing Zhao Chao to select and train ten candidates for the Red Water Bay Self-Defense Force. He promised them full meals and hinted that they could all gain superhuman powers.

• Shen Jin arrived in diamond armor as Zhao Chao prepared to lead a group out for supplies.
• Shen Jin offered daily full meals to anyone willing to join his guard, drawing the survivors forward to volunteer.
• Shen Jin asked Zhao Chao, a retired military instructor, to choose ten people with combat potential and train them.
• Zhao Chao selected ten candidates, including Liu Yang and Zhu Xin, and agreed to serve as their instructor.
• Shen Jin named the group the first members of the Red Water Bay Self-Defense Force and told them he could give them superhuman powers.

Shen Jin recruited Zhao Chao and the others into the Red Water Bay Self-Defense Force, promising food, equipment, training, and a chance to become superhuman as they fought zombies. He assigned Shen Mengmeng to support work, then invited everyone to eat their first feast at the base.

• Shen Jin told Zhao Chao to bring Shen Mengmeng inside, while Zhao Chao later misunderstood his motives as a plan to protect the recruits' fighting spirit.
• Shen Jin welcomed the recruits to a training area and served them rice and seafood until they were full.
• Shen Jin demanded unconditional obedience and promised loyal recruits armor, weapons, food, survival lessons, and a chance to become superhuman.
• Shen Jin declared that the force would fight zombies and reclaim their homes, inspiring Zhao Chao and the others to join.
• Shen Jin assigned Shen Mengmeng to support work, and everyone cheered before beginning the meal.

Shen Jin equipped Zhao Chao’s self-defense force and promised to prepare a training ground, while a new quest tasked him with collecting zombie crystal cores. A Heaven and Earth Net Bureau broadcast revealed that crystal cores could greatly improve the odds of surviving the first gene-lock backlash.

• Shen Jin impressed Zhao Chao by producing tools, iron armor, and swords, then agreed to prepare a flat training ground by the next day.
• Zhao Chao decided to withhold weapons until the recruits had trained, and Shen Jin told everyone to try on their new armor.
• Shen Jin completed the private armed squad quest and received 40 World Coins, then got a new quest to collect 100 evolved-zombie crystal cores.
• The Heaven and Earth Net Bureau announced that consuming a crystal core could raise the chance of surviving the first gene-lock backlash to 90 percent and help restore energy afterward.

After learning about superhuman evolution and the need for technology to extract energy from zombie crystals, Shen Jin upgraded his industrial technology to Basic Industry III and built new equipment. He left to forage for seafood while his new ore-processing setup ran.

• Shen Jin heard that gene-lock users and ability users followed separate evolutionary paths, and he considered giving the government an Extractor and retrieving the Gene Optimization Serum from Q City.
• Shen Jin spent 100 World Coins to unlock Basic Industry III, gaining machines and tools including ore washers, pumps, generators, and energy storage equipment.
• Shen Jin crafted two ore washers and four pumps, installed them by the sea, and connected them to power and collection chests.
• Shen Jin replaced the workshop's energy storage box with a CESU unit and crafted a mining drill, chainsaw, electric wrench, energy storage backpack, and solar helmet.
• Shen Jin tested his new tools and set off to forage for seafood at his seabed mine.

Shen Jin finished building a Training Ground overnight, then prepared to take the Self-Defense Force out to fight evolved zombies so he could earn more World Coins and Zombie Crystal Cores. Shang Qian and Shen Mengmeng both tried to seduce him, and Shen Mengmeng ended the chapter with a provocative joke that left him stunned.

• Shen Jin’s recruits found the Training Ground transformed overnight, and Zhao Chao began organizing their training.
• Shen Jin returned exhausted to his workshop, while Shang Qian and Shen Mengmeng each waited for him and worried about his attention.
• Shen Jin saw that he had only 10 World Coins and decided to take Shang Qian and the recruits out to kill evolved zombies the next day.
• Shang Qian began her planned seduction, but Shen Mengmeng interrupted and drew Shen Jin to her room.
• Shen Mengmeng asked whether Shen Jin thought she was missing a cart, then explained it was the kind an old man liked to push, leaving him shocked.