Recaps

Su Qiao cooked Gao Jingyu instant noodles with three seasoning packets while explaining that she truly had no memories when she woke up. Gao Jingyu described what happened after they passed out during a lab class, but his brief account left Su Qiao wanting more details.

• Gao Jingyu insisted on spicy noodles, and Su Qiao added three seasoning packets while asking if he had lost his sense of taste.
• Su Qiao explained that she had woken with no memories and met the Su family by chance while wandering.
• Gao Jingyu said they had passed out during a lab class and that he woke to find Su Qiao gone.
• Gao Jingyu said a strange person captured him and tried to harm him, so he killed the person and went to find Su Qiao.
• Su Qiao asked whether that was all, and Gao Jingyu gave no further explanation.

Su Qiao served Gao Jingyu spicy instant noodles, and he pretended they had been lovers to make her feel guilty for leaving him behind. After she refused to indulge his complaints, she promised to develop medicine to restore his body, leaving him surprised that recovery might be possible.

• Su Qiao handed Gao Jingyu a bowl of spicy instant noodles, but he asked whether she had forgotten their past.
• Gao Jingyu falsely claimed they had been lovers and accused Su Qiao of abandoning him to suffer at Yuan's hands.
• Su Qiao offered to avenge Gao Jingyu by whipping Yuan's corpse, but Gao Jingyu instead demanded that she raise him until he was plump.
• Su Qiao suggested that Gao Jingyu eat Mutated Animal meat for energy, but he sulked and refused his noodles.
• Su Qiao told Gao Jingyu to eat in moderation and promised to develop medicine to help restore his body.
• Gao Jingyu asked in surprise whether he could still recover, and Su Qiao assured him that nothing was impossible.

Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu made peace and settled into comfortable days together, while 444 told Su Qiao that Kang Weibao and his father were mistreating Song Hai’s family. The chapter ended with Song Hai bringing Wen Li to live in a small office on the fifth floor.

• Gao Jingyu asked Su Qiao to keep him company, and she warned him against ignoring her or entertaining wild ideas.
• After they finished their noodles, Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu walked along the fifth-floor railing, and he put an arm around her shoulders to steady her.
• 444 told Su Qiao that Kang Weibao had demanded Song Hai send his wife to him and that Kang’s family had tried to drive them out.
• Su Qiao dismissed 444’s appeal to uphold justice, saying she was from the demonic cult and helped others only when she felt like it.
• Gao Jingyu stopped deliberately causing trouble for Su Qiao, and the two began getting along harmoniously.
• Song Hai brought Wen Li to move into a simply renovated office on the fifth floor.

After Kang Minghui cornered Zhang Wenli and tried to force her to submit to him, Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu intervened. Kang Minghui fled, threatening to have his father throw them out.

• Kang Minghui confronted Zhang Wenli and blamed her for rejecting him and choosing Song Hai.
• Kang Minghui grabbed Zhang Wenli by the hair and threatened to withhold food unless she submitted to him.
• Su Qiao came out after 444 urged her and told Kang Minghui to let Zhang Wenli go.
• Gao Jingyu threatened to twist off Kang Minghui's head, and Kang Minghui released Zhang Wenli and fled.

Song Hai and Zhang Wenli decided to flee after Su Qiao warned them to leave and Song Hai realized Kang Weibao would kill him. With Liu Shasha's warning, they rushed toward the back exit, and Song Hai asked why she was helping them.

• Su Qiao thanked Zhang Wenli for helping and urged her to leave as soon as possible before returning to her room with Gao Jingyu.
• Song Hai reunited with Zhang Wenli, apologized for putting her in danger, and decided they had to escape immediately.
• Song Hai explained that Kang Weibao saw him as a betrayer and would not let him go, while Zhang Wenli blamed herself for the danger.
• Liu Shasha arrived and warned Song Hai and Zhang Wenli that Kang Weibao was coming to kill them, then told them to use the back door.
• Song Hai grabbed Zhang Wenli and ran toward the back exit without their belongings, then turned to ask Liu Shasha why she was helping them.

Liu Shasha helped Song Hai and Zhang Wenli escape, but Kang Minghui and his bodyguards caught up with them. As Kang Weibao’s people accused Song Hai of stealing food, Su Qiao learned that Gao Jingyu had taken most of the storeroom’s instant noodles and crispy noodles, and discovered he had access to a spatial ability user.

• Liu Shasha explained that her husband had died saving her and warned Song Hai and Zhang Wenli to flee from Kang Weibao and his son.
• Song Hai and Zhang Wenli headed for the rear stairwell but encountered Kang Minghui with two bodyguards.
• 444 told Su Qiao that Kang Weibao’s people had caught Song Hai and accused him of hiding stolen food.
• Su Qiao learned that Gao Jingyu had taken forty or fifty cases of instant noodles and crispy noodles from the storeroom and used a younger subordinate with a spatial ability to store them.
• Su Qiao took Gao Jingyu’s crispy noodles, but he snatched them back and argued that she had only forbidden him from eating too many instant noodles.

Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu went downstairs to investigate the accusation that Song Hai had stolen supplies. In the lobby, Kang Weibao pressured the restrained Song Hai to confess, while Liu Shasha questioned the evidence.

• Gao Jingyu claimed his noodles were a snack he had found, and Su Qiao decided to go see what had happened to Song Hai.
• Gao Jingyu followed Su Qiao downstairs after agreeing to obey her and avoid acting recklessly.
• Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu found more than a hundred people gathered in the lobby, where two men were holding Song Hai down beside his disheveled wife, Zhang Wenli.
• Kang Weibao accused Song Hai of stealing from the storeroom and said witnesses had seen him sneaking near it, but Song Hai denied taking anything.
• Liu Shasha questioned whether Song Hai could have stolen the supplies, then nervously told Kang Weibao she had only gone to the restroom.
• Kang Weibao and the other men demanded that Song Hai hand over the stolen goods, threatening to kill him if he refused.

Kang Weibao accused Song Hai of stealing food and turned the camp against him, then ordered his son Kang Minghui to execute him. The chapter ended with the crowd calling for Song Hai’s death while Zhang Wenli’s protests went unheard.

• Zhang Wenli accused Kang Weibao of framing Song Hai because he had refused to hand her over, but Kang Weibao and Kang Minghui denied it.
• Kang Weibao ordered his men to pull Zhang Wenli away, while Song Hai struggled to stop them.
• Kang Weibao handed Kang Minghui a knife and ordered him to cut off Song Hai’s head, leaving Kang Minghui stunned and afraid.
• Kang Weibao blamed the missing food on Song Hai and warned the camp that food rations would be cut and searchers might die, stirring the crowd against him.
• The crowd shouted for Song Hai to be killed as Zhang Wenli pleaded that they had never taken the food, and Kang Weibao threw the knife at Kang Minghui’s feet.

Kang Minghui tried to kill Song Hai under Kang Weibao’s orders, but Su Qiao secretly redirected his knife and killed Kang Weibao instead. Kang Minghui fled, and Gao Jingyu quietly used Mental Power to ensure he would not escape to harm more girls.

• Kang Weibao ordered Kang Minghui to kill Song Hai, and Kang Minghui attacked with a small iron knife.
• Su Qiao used Mental Power to redirect the knife, slicing Kang Weibao’s throat and killing him.
• Kang Minghui apologized to his father, then abandoned him and fled through the crowd.
• Gao Jingyu quietly spread his Mental Power as Kang Minghui ran, and Su Qiao approved of his action.

Su Qiao helped Song Hai and his wife escape while disrupting the Ability Users who chased them. After Kang Weibao died by his son’s hand, Wu Bin moved to take charge and proposed making ordinary people gather food.

• Su Qiao sent Song Hai a mental message, told him to flee through the east gate with his wife, and promised to hold the others back.
• Su Qiao used her Mental Power to make the Ability Users chasing Song Hai trip and attack one another, while Gao Jingyu recognized her interference.
• Kang Weibao died, leaving the building’s residents panicked and his subordinates vying for control.
• Wu Bin stepped forward, called Kang Weibao’s death an accident, and proposed counting the food supply and making ordinary people gather food.

Su Yali proposed that every household send someone to gather food, and Wu Bin agreed to make Gao Jingyu go alone. The hall erupted in argument as people debated who would face the zombies.

• Su Yali suggested that every household send at least one person to gather food, while people who lived alone objected.
• Lin Keke asked Wu Bin if she had to go, and he told her she could stay in the camp to work; she tried to kiss him, but he pushed her away.
• Su Yali told Wu Bin that Gao Jingyu had joined her cousin’s household and asked how they should divide the work.
• Wu Bin said Gao Jingyu would have to gather food on his own, and Su Yali approved.
• Lin Keke told Xie Xiaoyu that Su Yali looked down on Wu Bin and would not be easy for him to handle.
• The hall erupted into arguments as people discussed who should gather food and feared going out among the zombies.

Su Qiao rejected Wu Bin’s attempt to make her and Gao Jingyu join the group’s food arrangements, and predicted that Wu Bin would not hold on to his leadership position. As Su Qiao went upstairs, Su Yali wondered why her cousin seemed to be growing stranger.

• Su Qiao told Wu Bin that she and Gao Jingyu would continue providing their own food.
• Su Qiao challenged Wu Bin’s claim that the survivors formed a united collective and said he was not capable of leading them.
• Su Qiao promised to help Wu Bin kill zombies and gather food in three days if he was still the leader then.
• Gao Jingyu warned Wu Bin to stay away from Su Qiao, and Su Qiao left with him.
• Wu Bin decided to wait and see, while Su Yali touched her jade pendant and wondered what was happening to Su Qiao.

After Kang Weibao's death, Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu lived comfortably while the mall struggled with dwindling food. Su Qiao rescued Liu Shasha from one of Kang Weibao's former subordinates and gave her a knife to defend herself.

• After Kang Weibao died, the mall calmed down, though scarce food and zombies made life harder for the survivors.
• Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu continued living comfortably and sometimes watched Su Yongjun and his wife argue.
• One of Kang Weibao's former subordinates cornered Liu Shasha and tried to force himself on her.
• Su Qiao intervened, broke the man's hand, and drove him away.
• Su Qiao handed Liu Shasha her firewood knife and told her to kill anyone who threatened her.

Su Qiao continued gathering firewood while Gao Jingyu hid his power from her and complained that he was hungry. After killing a man who tried to take his noodles, Gao Jingyu sent an Invisible Zombie to dispose of the body and used his Mental Power to locate the man who had cursed Su Qiao.

• Liu Shasha took Su Qiao's saber, while Gao Jingyu followed Su Qiao carrying firewood and asked her for instant noodles.
• Su Qiao cooked instant noodles for Gao Jingyu, who refused the other food she had found.
• A burly male Ability User confronted Gao Jingyu over his noodles, and Gao Jingyu killed him by twisting his neck.
• Gao Jingyu summoned an Invisible Zombie to carry away the corpse, then used his Mental Power to search the fourth floor.
• The man whose arm Su Qiao had broken returned to his room and turned around after sensing someone behind him.

Gao Jingyu killed a man who threatened to take his instant noodles, then returned to Su Qiao, who sensed what he had done. Su Qiao let him eat his remaining noodles and planned to search the city for medicine and blood-testing equipment the next day.

• Gao Jingyu recognized that the man was afraid of him and killed him, leaving his mangled corpse in an alley.
• Su Qiao smelled blood when Gao Jingyu returned and asked where he had gone.
• Gao Jingyu told Su Qiao that the man had tried to steal his instant noodles and threaten him, and said he had arranged for the body to be dealt with.
• Su Qiao questioned Gao Jingyu about his hygiene and stomach discomfort, then warned him to finish only the one packet of noodles.
• Su Qiao planned to visit a traditional Chinese medicine shop and a hospital with Gao Jingyu the next day.

Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu spent the night together before preparing to enter the city. In the morning, armed people surrounded the building and demanded that the residents open the door, leaving the guards and Ability Users alarmed while Su Yali watched with contempt.

• Gao Jingyu tried to share Su Qiao’s blanket, then brought her a warm sleeping robe and cuddled up with her for the night.
• The next morning, Su Qiao insisted that she and Gao Jingyu go into the city despite his wish to stay in bed.
• Gao Jingyu agreed not to act recklessly when Su Qiao told him people outside were making noise.
• A large group of disheveled people pounded on the building’s glass door and threatened to shoot if it stayed shut.
• The guards summoned the Ability Users and skilled fighters, and the residents grew frightened after seeing a gun pointed at the door.
• Su Yali silently mocked the frightened residents for acting like cowards.

Wu Bin and Su Yali let Wang Cheng’s group into the shopping mall after checking them, and Wang Cheng warned that zombies were migrating north and had attacked their overnight shelter. The survivors wondered whether the zombies were moving together deliberately, but Wu Bin’s suspicion remained unfinished.

• Wu Bin decided to open the door despite the danger, and his group admitted Wang Cheng and the people traveling with him.
• Su Yali recognized Wang Cheng as humanity’s future strongest fighter and spoke with him as he entered the mall.
• Wu Bin arranged to check the newcomers for wounds and had the entrance blocked again after they came inside.
• Wang Cheng said zombies had migrated north and surrounded and attacked the inn where his group had stayed.
• Wu Bin questioned how mindless zombies could migrate in the same direction and began to consider another possibility.

As zombies began migrating north, the survivors in the mall feared their shelter was no longer safe. Wang Cheng told them about the established bases and said the nearest major one, the Northern Base, was five or six hundred li away; Wu Bin began questioning him about it.

• Su Yali suspected Gao Jingyu might have become a Zombie Emperor, while Wu Bin worried that the mall would face more zombies.
• A survivor suggested fleeing to the grasslands, but Su Yali warned that food would be scarce and Mutated Animals and zombie animals posed a danger.
• Wang Cheng revealed that the country had established four major bases and several smaller ones, and the burly man beside him mocked the survivors for not listening to the radio.
• Wang Cheng estimated that the nearest major base, the Northern Base, was five or six hundred li away, alarming the crowd.
• Su Yali insisted that they had to leave, and Wu Bin asked Wang Cheng whether he had come from the Northern Base.

Wang Cheng’s team from the Northern Base arrived at the mall, where they discussed increasingly dangerous mutated zombies and the need to reach the base. Wu Bin connected Wang Cheng’s arrival to Su Qiao’s earlier warning and began questioning what she had known.

• Wang Cheng confirmed that his armed team had come from the Northern Base, and his men reported that the mall was safe to rest in.
• Wu Bin asked Wang Cheng about the zombies growing stronger, and Su Yali revealed that she had encountered a zombie with a Fire Ability and told Kang Weibao about it.
• Wang Cheng warned Wu Bin that zombies could have abilities and might be developing intelligence, prompting Wu Bin to say they should hurry to the Northern Base.
• Wu Bin recalled Su Qiao’s prediction about someone who could suppress Kang Weibao’s subordinates and wondered whether she had meant Wang Cheng.
• Wu Bin noticed Su Yali acting unusually close to Wang Cheng and asked him what Su Qiao had said.

Su Qiao set out to see Wang Cheng, but Gao Jingyu pretended to have a stomachache and persuaded her to stay with him. The chapter ended with 444 getting angry at Su Qiao’s teasing and shutting itself down.

• 444 told Su Qiao that Wang Cheng had arrived, and she decided to go see him.
• Gao Jingyu clutched his stomach and claimed he was in pain, so Su Qiao gave him medicine.
• Gao Jingyu asked Su Qiao to stay with him, and she agreed to lie back down beside him.
• Su Qiao lost interest in going out, and she teased 444 for feeling sorry for Wang Cheng and asked if it was in heat.
• 444 insisted it was a proper man, then shut itself down in anger.

Su Qiao took Gao Jingyu to the city to gather medicinal herbs and study his deteriorating condition, then made medicine to slow it down. After Xiao Si warned her that Wang Cheng and Su Yali might leave, she returned with Gao Jingyu to the mall, where Gao Jingyu complained that she had brought them back to the noisy humans.

• Su Qiao discussed Su Yali and Wang Cheng's growing attraction with 444 and decided to let events unfold while collecting supplies for Su Yali's space.
• Su Qiao took Gao Jingyu into the city, gathered Chinese medicinal herbs, and found a generator at the hospital.
• After examining Gao Jingyu for three days, Su Qiao developed medicine to temporarily slow his body's deterioration.
• Xiao Si reminded Su Qiao that Wang Cheng, Su Yali, and the others might leave, so she returned with Gao Jingyu to the mall.
• Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu fought their way through zombies to the mall and Su Qiao gave the guards packets of ham.
• Gao Jingyu complained that Su Qiao had returned to the mall instead of staying alone with him.

Su Qiao told Gao Jingyu they would find somewhere to live in seclusion once she finished her remaining tasks. Their conversation was interrupted when a frightened girl encountered Yuan Manni’s Mutated Animal, Xiao Bao, leaving Li Meiying apologizing to avoid offending Yuan Manni.

• Su Qiao said she had things to settle before she and Gao Jingyu could live in seclusion, and Gao Jingyu made her promise not to change her mind.
• Li Xiaoni ran into the main hall screaming that there was a dog, and Li Meiying pulled her close.
• Xiao Bao raced out barking, followed by Yuan Manni, who picked him up and accused Li Xiaoni of stepping on his leg.
• Li Meiying warned Yuan Manni that Xiao Bao was a dangerous Mutated Animal, but Yuan Manni insisted he was obedient and capable.
• Li Meiying recognized Yuan Manni as someone protected by Captain Wang and quickly apologized, while telling Li Xiaoni to stay quiet.

Yuan Manni demanded that Li Meiying’s daughter apologize to her puppy, Xiao Bao, after the girl accidentally stepped on it. Li Meiying forced Li Xiaoni to apologize, but Yuan Manni left the encounter still insulting the family.

• Yuan Manni accused Li Xiaoni of injuring Xiao Bao and demanded an apology, claiming her ability let her command the dog to bite people.
• Li Meiying tried to explain that mutated animals could be dangerous, but Yuan Manni cut her off and insisted that Li Xiaoni apologize respectfully.
• Li Meiying scolded and hit Li Xiaoni, forcing her to apologize to Xiao Bao through tears.
• Yuan Manni rejected Li Xiaoni’s first apology as insufficient, so Li Meiying made her bow and apologize again.
• Yuan Manni accepted the apology but ordered Li Xiaoni’s family not to call her Xiaoni again.

Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu confronted Yuan Manni over her mutated dog, Xiao Bao, before deciding not to eat it after learning it had bitten and eaten a person. They left Yuan Manni with the dog and planned to catch chickens or ducks instead.

• Su Qiao realized Yuan Manni was Professor Yuan Zhihong’s daughter, whom Wang Cheng and the others had been sent to find.
• Su Qiao said she wanted to roast Yuan Manni’s dog, and Gao Jingyu moved toward it.
• The frightened dog broke free and ran around the lobby as people scattered and Yuan Manni chased after it.
• Su Qiao asked whether the dog had bitten anyone, and Yuan Manni proudly said that it had.
• Su Qiao lost her appetite for the dog and asked Gao Jingyu to catch chickens or ducks for a meal.

Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu returned to their room after confronting Yuan Manni, who threatened to wait for Wang Cheng’s return. Li Xiaoni came to thank Su Qiao, and Gao Jingyu ended up giving her more food than she had brought.

• Su Qiao dismissed Yuan Manni’s threat and left with Gao Jingyu.
• Li Xiaoni brought Su Qiao biscuits and ham sausages on her mother’s behalf to thank her for helping them.
• Su Qiao refused the food and went to fetch instant noodles, crackers, and chocolate for Li Xiaoni.
• Gao Jingyu complained when Su Qiao took his food, then gave it to Li Xiaoni and hurried her away.
• Li Xiaoni returned to her mother with the food, and Su Qiao scolded Gao Jingyu for being fierce to a child.