Chapter Summaries

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.

Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu discussed instant noodles, then prepared to catch chickens and investigate whether Mutated Animals had crystal cores. Su Qiao learned that Su Yali had revealed crystal-core cultivation to Wang Cheng, and she warned Gao Jingyu about the dangers of consuming impure cores before taking him outside.

• Gao Jingyu sulked over Su Qiao giving his instant noodles to a child, and she promised to make him healthier noodles once they settled somewhere.
• Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu agreed to look for chickens and check whether Mutated Animals had crystal cores.
• Su Qiao learned that Su Yali had told Wang Cheng how to cultivate using crystal cores, helping her earn his trust and join his team.
• Gao Jingyu admitted that Zombie crystal cores smelled delicious but disgusted him because they came from brains, and Su Qiao warned him that they contained toxins and impurities.
• Su Qiao put on a black backpack and left the house with Gao Jingyu after saying they had something to do first.

Su Qiao killed Yuan Manni by turning her pet dog against her, then returned from a chicken-catching trip as Wang Cheng grew closer to Su Yali. After learning Yuan Manni had died, Wang Cheng asked Su Yali to introduce him to Su Qiao.

• Su Qiao watched Yuan Manni die after her own dog attacked her, then left with Gao Jingyu to catch chickens.
• Gao Jingyu asked if Su Qiao was taking revenge for him, and she confirmed it.
• Su Yali told Wang Cheng about her Spatial Ability, and the two grew closer while stocking up on supplies.
• Wang Cheng returned with his team, learned Yuan Manni had died, and investigated the circumstances.
• Wang Cheng asked Su Yali to introduce him to her cousin Su Qiao, surprising Su Yali.

Su Qiao returned to the hall with Gao Jingyu and confronted Su Yali while Wang Cheng asked about her clash with Yuan Manni. The chapter ended with Wang Cheng sizing up Gao Jingyu and doubting the rumors about him.

• Wang Cheng told Su Yali that he had come to ask Su Qiao about her clash with Yuan Manni.
• Su Qiao and Gao Jingyu entered carrying chickens, and Su Qiao challenged Su Yali over her family’s attempts to hand her to Kang Minghui.
• Su Yali apologized on her parents’ behalf, but Su Qiao accused her mother of climbing into Kang Minghui’s bed and condemned her relatives for trying to abandon her.
• Wu Bin approached Su Qiao, then deferred what he wanted to discuss after noticing Wang Cheng and Su Yali.
• Su Qiao told Wang Cheng she had considered trading food for Yuan Manni’s dog before worrying it might have eaten human flesh, and said she had found chickens to roast instead.
• Wang Cheng looked at Gao Jingyu and began to doubt the claim that he was a pretty boy living off women.

Wang Cheng questioned Su Qiao about Yuan Manni’s death, but Wu Bin defended her and asked for her opinion on moving to the Northern Base. Su Qiao warned that Ability Users might face danger there because researchers could study how their powers developed.

• Wang Cheng told Su Qiao that Yuan Manni had been bitten to death by her pet dog and questioned why the Mutated Animal had gone berserk.
• Wu Bin defended Su Qiao, explaining that she and her boyfriend had been away and that people had often been killed by their own pets in the early apocalypse.
• Wu Bin asked Su Qiao what she thought about going to the Northern Base, prompting Su Yali to argue that its security made it the safest choice.
• Su Qiao asked Wang Cheng whether Ability Users entering the Northern Base would be safe from people who wanted to study their powers.
• Su Qiao revealed that she had studied biology and specialized in viruses, explaining why she had raised the possibility of research on Ability Users.

Su Qiao revealed that she had been pretending to have lost her memory and confronted Su Yali about injecting her with a viral agent. She exposed that laboratory surveillance cameras had recorded the incident, leaving Su Yali panicked.

• Su Qiao told Wang Cheng that Professor Yuan Zhihong had died during the apocalypse, upsetting Wang Cheng because his group had come to find him.
• Su Qiao admitted she had lied about losing her memory and mocked Su Yali for believing her.
• Su Qiao accused Su Yali of injecting her with a viral agent while she was unconscious and questioned why Su Yali had changed so much.
• Su Yali denied understanding the accusation, but Su Qiao reminded her that the laboratory's cameras had kept recording during the first two days of the apocalypse.