Chapter Summaries

Lu Bai entered a Deathmatch Arena disguised as a school and chose Super Regeneration, then defeated Fan Ding when he tried to take Lu Bai’s points. Their interrogation was interrupted by screams and beastlike howls erupting across the school, leaving them unsure what was happening.

• Before the Deathmatch Showdown, Liang Fuzhong told Chen Li that Lu Bai had survived a near-drowning and suffered from Extreme Lack of Aggression Syndrome.
• Lu Bai arrived at a school in the Deathmatch Arena and chose Super Regeneration from the Ability Pool.
• Fan Ding approached Lu Bai, claimed they were classmates, and led him to a secluded corner before demanding his point at swordpoint.
• Lu Bai dodged Fan Ding’s attack, disarmed him, and kicked him down, then questioned him about their class and his own condition.
• Screams and beastlike howls rang out across the school, and Lu Bai asked the bewildered Fan Ding what was happening.

Lu Bai fought off a group of extraordinarily fast Zombies in the Deathmatch Arena, but suffered severe bites and watched Fan Ding and a delinquent youth die. Nearly ten minutes later, Lu Bai had not turned into a Zombie, and his bite wounds began rapidly regenerating.

• Lu Bai inspected the Eight-Sided Han Sword and learned it came from a Silver Ability Pool, then heard a wounded delinquent youth warn that people were biting others.
• Several fast-moving Zombies attacked Lu Bai and Fan Ding, and Lu Bai beheaded the first one with his sword.
• The Zombies knocked Lu Bai down and bit his neck and thigh, while another attacked Fan Ding.
• Lu Bai killed the Zombies, then put down Fan Ding and the convulsing delinquent youth before receiving one point and reaching rank 27 out of 423.
• After nearly ten minutes without turning, Lu Bai noticed that his bite wounds were rapidly regenerating.

After Super Regeneration healed his bite wounds, Lu Bai endured the Zombie Virus and emerged with enhanced strength and hearing. He fought his way up the Teaching Building to escape a growing horde, where a girl opened an office door and silently beckoned him inside.

• Lu Bai discovered that his bite wounds had healed, then collapsed in the restroom as the Zombie Virus spread through his body.
• Lu Bai endured the infection until the pain stopped, realized his senses and strength had improved, and killed two zombies approaching the restroom.
• Lu Bai killed a female zombie on the stairwell, whose scream drew a horde that cut off his escape downstairs.
• Lu Bai fled upstairs, impaled one zombie and slammed two others down, then rushed onto the third floor.
• A girl opened the office door and silently beckoned Lu Bai inside as zombies charged through the corridor.

Lu Bai entered an office full of survivors after Wu Ya rescued him from the zombie-filled hallway, then examined his rapid healing and the deathmatch’s location-tracking system. He left isolation and introduced himself to the group, while Ke Jianghao questioned where he had gotten his sword.

• Lu Bai rushed into the office and locked the security door behind him as zombies pounded outside.
• Ke Jianghao demanded that Lu Bai isolate in a partitioned room, and Lu Bai agreed despite suspecting the group feared he might be a zombie.
• Lu Bai cut his fingertip and confirmed that his wound healed within moments as the survivor count fell to 376.
• A notification announced that combatants’ locations would be revealed every two hours, and Lu Bai studied the radar-like display.
• Wu Ya let Lu Bai out of isolation, and he introduced himself to the group as Ke Jianghao asked where he got his sword.

Lu Bai joined a group of students sheltering in a Teaching Building office during a zombie outbreak, refusing to hand over his Eight-Sided Han Sword despite Ke Jianghao's demand. After radio and press reports confirmed the crisis was spreading and rescue seemed uncertain, Lu Bai urged the group to prepare for supplies and escape.

• Ke Jianghao demanded Lu Bai's sword, but Lu Bai refused, and a teacher stepped in to stop their argument.
• Lu Bai told the group that everyone he had seen outside had turned into a zombie, then assessed the zombies below the third-floor office window.
• Tian Wang introduced himself, Zheng Xiaoming, and Ke Jiangni, while Ke Jiangni quietly studied Lu Bai and found him strangely composed.
• A radio broadcast warned residents to stay indoors, lock their doors, and evacuate surrounding areas when safe.
• Ke Jianghao opened a press conference that described the outbreak as a highly infectious illness with aggressive patients and possible secondary infection.
• After the students reacted with shock, Lu Bai urged them to prepare for water, food, and evacuation routes.

After the office group debated whether to search for food, their loud voices drew a zombie that began breaking through the security door. Lu Bai killed it before it could bite Ke Jianghao, then urged everyone to stay quiet.

• Ke Jianghao distributed the office’s remaining bottled water, and Lu Bai considered how long the office could serve as a shelter.
• Ke Jianghao argued that they should find food, but the female teacher and Ke Jiangni urged everyone to wait.
• The group’s discussion attracted a zombie, which battered the security door until its frame began to give way.
• Ke Jianghao armed himself with a makeshift wooden spear and opened the door, but the zombie charged and knocked him down.
• Lu Bai pulled Ke Jianghao clear, decapitated the zombie with his sword, and told the female teacher to keep quiet.

Lu Bai led the survivors in the school security office toward escaping after he killed a zombie and saved Ke Jianghao. The group agreed to leave in two hours, and Lu Bai began preparing a rope to get them out of the third-floor office.

• Lu Bai killed the zombie that had attacked Ke Jianghao, shocking the students, and Ke Jianghao thanked him.
• Ke Jianghao warned that more zombies could break through the security door, while Wu Ya and others hesitated to leave the office.
• Lu Bai rejected waiting until night and decided they would leave in two hours to find a place with plenty of supplies.
• Ke Jianghao searched online for information about zombies while Lu Bai tied coats and curtains together into a rope.
• Ke Jiangni thanked Lu Bai for saving her brother, and Zheng Xiaoming volunteered to clean the vomit from the floor.

Lu Bai led the group out of the office by lowering himself down a makeshift rope, then fought through a horde of Zombies to clear their way. After everyone descended, they remained uneasy about his unnervingly calm smile, and Lu Bai said the group should talk somewhere safer.

• Ke Jianghao chose Sisters Supermarket as the group's temporary destination, and Lu Bai prepared a rope made from curtains and school uniform jackets.
• Lu Bai descended first and drew more than a dozen Zombies toward him while the others watched from the office window.
• Lu Bai cut down the Zombies with his Eight-Sided Han Sword, fighting with ease while wearing a serene smile.
• After the battle, Lu Bai realized he had been smiling throughout and called for the others to come down.
• The group gathered around Lu Bai and studied him warily, but he cut off Ke Jianghao's question and said it was not the place to talk.

Lu Bai and the others fled toward a low wall behind the Experimental Building as Zombies pursued them. With several group members over the wall and Ke Jiangni still climbing, Lu Bai turned to hold off the horde while Ke Jianghao joined him.

• Ke Jianghao led the group through vegetation toward a low wall he and his friends had prepared for sneaking out of school.
• Zombies charged after the group, and the female teacher shoved Zheng Xiaoming down as everyone rushed for the wall.
• Lu Bai pulled Zheng Xiaoming up, then killed a Zombie that had fallen from the Experimental Building.
• Tian Wang helped the female teacher and Wu Ya climb over the wall while Ke Jiangni, Zheng Xiaoming, and Ke Jianghao remained on their side.
• Lu Bai offered to hold off the Zombies for thirty seconds, and Ke Jianghao picked up a brick and joined him.
• Lu Bai used Sword Step and thrust at the approaching Zombies.

Lu Bai fought through a horde of Zombies long enough for Ke Jianghao to escape, then joined him and the others outside the school and led them to a supermarket. After the group barricaded themselves inside and found food, Lu Bai focused on his Data Panel.

• Lu Bai killed Zombies at the school corner while Ke Jianghao ran for the low wall.
• Lu Bai escaped the horde by vaulting over the wall and met Ke Jianghao and the others outside.
• Lu Bai led the group across the road and along the riverbank toward the supermarket.
• Ke Jianghao weighed down the supermarket's rolling shutter, and the group searched for food.
• Tian Wang asked why the supermarket was empty, while Wu Ya talked about Hu Zihan's family owning it.
• Lu Bai sat by the checkout counter and focused on the Data Panel.

Lu Bai revealed his rapid healing to reassure the students before preparing to leave the store and investigate his questions. Just as he was about to go, two deathmatch participants entered the store, and one of them confronted him for staying with the locals.

• Lu Bai told the others he planned to leave, and he demonstrated his rapid healing by cutting his arm and watching it recover.
• Ke Jianghao stopped trying to dissuade Lu Bai and offered him food before he left.
• A Common Face raised the store shutter, entered with a Brocade-shell pistol, and threatened the group as he counted them.
• A bodybuilder entered with the Common Face and called the students natives, prompting Lu Bai to confront their arrogance.

Lu Bai took Shuangying's Sidearm from Common Face after exposing his plan to use a rigged Russian Roulette game. Common Face and Brother Niu shot him, but Lu Bai survived with a flesh wound, leaving Common Face at his mercy—or so Common Face believed as he pressed a gun to Lu Bai's head.

• Lu Bai questioned Common Face about his group and agreed to hear the rules of a Russian Roulette game.
• Common Face offered Lu Bai the Brocade-shell pistol, whose description revealed that it had infinite ammunition but could sometimes fire no bullet.
• Lu Bai inferred that Brother Niu could manipulate the gun's chance of failing, pulled the trigger without a shot, and kept the pistol.
• Common Face and Brother Niu drew police pistols and fired at Lu Bai while the students hid in fear.
• Lu Bai dodged Common Face's shot but was hit by Brother Niu's; his regeneration and strengthened body made the injury survivable.
• Believing Lu Bai was close to death, Common Face approached and pressed his gun to Lu Bai's head.

Lu Bai survived Common Face and Brother Niu’s ambush, killing both with his sword and earning points. After explaining the deathmatch to the others, he decided to leave the store and hunt the remaining participants.

• Wu Ya shouted at Common Face to stop, but he threatened to kill her as a witness.
• Lu Bai cut off Common Face’s gun hand, then used him as a shield when Brother Niu opened fire.
• Lu Bai threw Common Face at Brother Niu and killed them both with a sword strike, earning two points.
• Ke Jianghao and Wu Ya listened as Lu Bai explained that he came from another world to take part in the deathmatch.
• Lu Bai warned the group that staying with him would put them in danger and decided to leave the store to hunt the other participants.

Lu Bai entered a Department Store to search for survivors, but a group of Deathmatch participants ambushed him with an explosion. The group believed he was dead or crippled and sent Peng Qi and the Butcher downstairs to check.

• Lu Bai entered the Department Store and found a crippled zombie among the scattered merchandise.
• After noticing there were no corpses on the first floor, Lu Bai was caught in a powerful explosion.
• On the rooftop, Old Song, Guo Mi, and Peng Qi discussed whether Lu Bai had survived the blast.
• The Butcher chose to go downstairs with Peng Qi to check on Lu Bai.

Lu Bai survived the explosion and used a story to stall Peng Qi and Brother Bo before killing them both. He realized another accomplice, Guo Mi, was still at large.

• Peng Qi and Brother Bo found Lu Bai badly burned but alive in the wrecked shopping area.
• Lu Bai distracted Peng Qi with a tale about Washington and Clinton while Brother Bo grew impatient.
• Brother Bo attacked Lu Bai with his bone cleaver, but Lu Bai recovered, evaded the blow, and picked up his Eight-Sided Han Sword.
• Lu Bai killed Brother Bo with a swift sword strike, then threw the sword to kill the fleeing Peng Qi and gained two points.
• Lu Bai pulled his sword from Peng Qi and looked toward the ceiling, suspecting that Guo Mi was another accomplice.

Lu Bai killed Old Song on the Department Store rooftop as Guo Mi escaped, triggering the opening of the second-round Ability Pool. He chose Blood Rage to pair with Super Regeneration while other contestants learned about the new abilities.

• Lu Bai found Guo Mi and Old Song on the rooftop, and Guo Mi used Floating Like an Immortal to leap over the railing and escape.
• Lu Bai finished off Old Song, gained a point, and received notice that the second-round Ability Pool had opened after the elimination rate reached sixty percent.
• Three suited men playing cards learned that one of them had lost first place and wondered whether another contestant was preying on the weak.
• A contestant with Three-Surname Slave celebrated finding Unemployed Youth in the second-round Ability Pool.
• Lu Bai reviewed Great Fireball Technique, Blood Rage, and Sign-in System, then selected Blood Rage.
• Lu Bai's status panel showed Super Regeneration and Blood Rage as his abilities.

Lu Bai ignored Tang Peng and Zhou Meina’s desperate plea for food, then spent a restless night in the department store. The next morning, Tang Peng attacked him from the hotel window, and Lu Bai activated [Blood Rage] as zombies closed in.

• At night, Lu Bai noticed Tang Peng and Zhou Meina signaling from a hotel window and waved back, but he quieted their shouts to avoid attracting zombies.
• Tang Peng and Zhou Meina argued after Lu Bai left them without food, then closed the window and fell silent.
• Lu Bai slept in the department store’s bedding section, woke the next morning, and set out with his Eight-Sided Han Sword.
• Tang Peng hurled a television and other heavy objects from the hotel window at Lu Bai, drawing nearby zombies toward him.
• Lu Bai activated [Blood Rage] as Tang Peng taunted him from the window.

Lu Bai killed the couple who had tried to leave him for the zombies, then hunted other Deathmatch Showdown contestants and considered the contest’s ranking system. He suspected he had a large lead in points but wondered why his Ability Pool was higher-level than the others’.

• Tang Peng and Zhou Meina watched as Lu Bai killed a zombie, climbed to their fifth-floor room, and confronted them.
• Tang Peng begged for mercy, and Lu Bai offered the couple chocolate before shooting them for having tried to ambush and kill him.
• Lu Bai left the Department Store and earned a point by killing a deathmatch contestant.
• Lu Bai hunted several more contestants, defeating them easily after activating [Blood Rage].
• Lu Bai reasoned that the Deathmatch Showdown encouraged contestants to kill for ranking rewards and wondered why his Ability Pool was higher-level than the others’.

Lu Bai followed a gathering of deathmatchers to a remote military base that was sheltering thousands of survivors. He joined the civilians waiting to be screened for infection, realizing the guarded base could be a safe zone but that finding deathmatchers there would be difficult.

• Lu Bai followed location information showing more than thirty deathmatchers gathering in the mountains.
• Lu Bai reached a mountaintop and spotted a fortified military base receiving survivors from the city.
• Lu Bai recalled a radio announcement directing residents to suburban shelters and reasoned that the military could combat Zombies effectively.
• Lu Bai concluded that the crowded base would make it hard to locate or openly attack deathmatchers.
• A soldier ordered Lu Bai to join the infection-inspection line, and Lu Bai blended in with the waiting civilians.

Lu Bai entered the military shelter under the identity of Ke Jianghao and learned that Ke Jiangni was in District 21. He reunited with Wu Ya, who told him that an unseen presence had appeared in the supermarket after he left.

• Lu Bai was taken from observation to the administrative hall and answered questions while posing as Ke Jianghao.
• A staff member told Lu Bai that Ke Jiangni was staying in Tent 13, District 21.
• Lu Bai slipped into District 21 and found Wu Ya, who said Ke Jiangni and Tian Wang had gone to get food.
• Wu Ya told Lu Bai that an extra presence seemed to have appeared in the supermarket on the second night after he left, though Ke Jianghao searched and found no one.