Vol. 1The Node and the Parasites

Lu Bai survived the Deathmatch Showdowns, acquired the Node, and joined the Special Affairs Bureau to fight Parasitic Organisms. After a siege at the hospital, Changhu escaped, leaving Lu Bai and Xu Qiang to investigate the attacks together.

  • Lu Bai survived the zombie outbreak, hunted rival deathmatchers, and reached the military shelter, where he killed Cui Qing while concealing his role from Zhou Zongming.
  • Lu Bai reunited with the survivors from his school group, helped them escape the zombies, and hunted contestants before and after arriving at the shelter.
  • Lu Bai pursued the vaccine and became entangled in the battle over the Node at the Research Center.
  • After the center collapsed, Lu Bai fought Duan Jianhui, acquired the Node, and faced deathmatchers who prepared to attack him.
  • Lu Bai won the first Deathmatch Showdown, secured experiment data for vaccine research, and returned ranked first with 102 points.
  • Lu Bai entered the second showdown, rescued Yao Yi from a parasitic monster, and fought the transformed elderly people at a scrap recycling shop.
  • Lu Bai joined the Special Affairs Bureau and hunted Parasitic Organisms while suspecting Mayor Shi Huairen of orchestrating attacks against him.
  • Lu Bai and Xiao Xueyin fought attackers during the hospital siege, but Changhu killed Xiao Xueyin and escaped before Lu Bai and Xu Qiang began a joint investigation.
Chapters 1–101 Read from Ch. 1

Arc 1The Shelter Hunt

Lu Bai survived the zombie outbreak, hunted rival deathmatchers, and entered a military shelter to find the survivors from his school group. When a deathmatcher named Cui Qing began killing people inside the shelter, Lu Bai killed him but concealed his role from Zhou Zongming.

  • Lu Bai chose Super Regeneration, survived zombie bites, and discovered that his wounds healed rapidly as the infection strengthened him.
  • Lu Bai joined the survivors in the school office, helped them escape the zombie horde, and led them to Sisters Supermarket.
  • Lu Bai killed Common Face and Brother Niu after they threatened the group, then left to hunt other deathmatchers.
  • Lu Bai survived the Department Store explosion, killed Brother Bo, Peng Qi, and Old Song, and chose Blood Rage from the second-round Ability Pool.
  • Lu Bai killed Tang Peng and Zhou Meina after they tried to draw zombies toward him, then hunted more contestants and headed for a military shelter.
  • Lu Bai reunited with Wu Ya, Ke Jiangni, and Tian Wang at the shelter, where he learned that an unexplained presence had appeared in the supermarket after he left.
  • After six people disappeared from a blood-soaked tent, Lu Bai exposed Cui Qing as the killer and alerted Zhou Zongming, who ordered soldiers to pursue him.
  • Lu Bai overtook Cui Qing and killed him with one punch, then denied responsibility to Zhou Zongming, who asked him to surrender his gun.
Chapters 1–2525 summaries Read

Arc 2The Node at the Research Center

Lu Bai pursued the vaccine and became entangled in the chaos surrounding the Research Center, where rival deathmatcher teams fought over the Node. After surviving the center’s destruction and confronting Duan Jianhui, Lu Bai acquired the Node and faced a new wave of attackers.

  • Agu offered Lu Bai a vaccine in exchange for a top-ten finish, and Lu Bai agreed to help retrieve it from the Research Center.
  • Lu Bai’s attempt to enter the Research Center exposed Agu’s plan, and Agu injected himself with the vaccine, which the System declared a Node.
  • Zombies overwhelmed parts of the shelter, and Lu Bai reunited with Wu Ya, Ke Jiangni, Tian Wang, and Guo Mi before Guo Mi attacked him and Lu Bai killed her.
  • Xiao Xueyin recruited Lu Bai into his team, and they hunted deathmatchers near the Research Center as the Survey Corps drew fighters into a battle there.
  • The Research Center exploded and collapsed, killing many contestants, while Lu Bai chose the Flash Time ability and joined the surviving fighters in confronting the Survey Corps and Ten Blades.
  • Lu Bai fought his way through the Administrative Building, killed the Zhu Brothers, and discovered that the Node overlapped with his location.
  • Lu Bai shot Agu and fought Duan Jianhui, who escaped after Lu Bai cut off his arm, and Lu Bai then acquired the Node and its twenty-four-hour Double Points objective.
  • Deathmatchers attacked Zhou Zongming’s soldiers as Lu Bai killed a man with a biology textbook, and several contestants spotted the Node on him and prepared to attack.
Chapters 26–5025 summaries Read

Arc 3From First Place to Parasites

Lu Bai won the first Deathmatch Showdown, secured vaccine research, and returned to a world where he investigated his past and trained for the next round. In the second arena, he rescued Yao Yi from a parasitic monster and reached Jiangyu County, where he faced more creatures inhabiting elderly people.

  • Lu Bai fought through the Deathmatch Arena factions, killed Fei Xiao and the other attackers, rescued Xiao Xueyin, and escaped the exploding Administrative Building with his companions.
  • Lu Bai killed Duan Jianhui after Yaluo exposed him, survived Yaluo and Fischer's attempt to take the Node, and helped deliver the experiment data that advanced the vaccine research.
  • After the system ended the Deathmatch Showdown, Lu Bai returned ranked first with 102 points and chose to keep Flash Time as his reward.
  • Lu Bai learned about the Underground Cities and the Deathmatch System, trained in multiple fighting styles, and entered the second Deathmatch Showdown.
  • In a hot-air balloon, Lu Bai used Flash Time and Long Fang to defeat Wang Ting's monster form, though a fragment of the parasite remained inside Yao Yi.
  • Lu Bai and Yao Yi reached a scrap recycling shop, where Lu Bai recognized that parasites had taken over Tong Shujuan's parents and fought off the transformed elderly people.
Chapters 51–7525 summaries Read

Arc 4The Hospital Siege

Lu Bai joined the Special Affairs Bureau and hunted Parasitic Organisms while suspecting Mayor Shi Huairen of orchestrating attacks and a campaign against him. After a hospital siege left Yao Yi injured and several attackers dead, Changhu escaped, and Lu Bai and Xu Qiang faced an uneasy joint investigation with the police.

  • Lu Bai joined the Special Affairs Bureau, rescued victims from Parasitic Organisms, and accepted leadership of Field Team Three.
  • Lu Bai found Peng Dan’s faction under attack at an abandoned fertilizer plant, but the Mayor of Jiangyu City’s subordinate killed Peng Dan before Lu Bai could reach her.
  • Lu Bai escaped the Mayor’s gathered Parasitic Organisms and warned Yao Yi and Xu Qiang that Mayor Shi Huairen was likely one of them.
  • Lu Bai killed Shi Fenglian, while Yao Yi was ambushed by Deathmatch contestants and revealed Wang Ting, the monster living inside him.
  • Lu Bai killed Yao Yi’s attackers, then suspected the mayor was behind the online campaign targeting him and recognized Xiao Xueyin in hospital surveillance footage.
  • Lu Bai killed attackers who entered Yao Yi’s room and teamed up with Xiao Xueyin to defeat De Da, Mei Da, Ti Da, Zhi Da, and Lao Da during the hospital siege.
  • Changhu killed Xiao Xueyin, then vanished after Lu Bai identified him as a suspect in the patients’ deaths.
  • Xu Qiang arrived with Special Affairs Bureau operatives to take over the hospital scene, but Pu Guangrong’s team stayed under orders to work jointly with the bureau.
Chapters 76–10125 summaries Read
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