Chapter Summaries

Wang Yu used his Shadow Clone to explore a hidden vent leading toward the factory while the Players watched and debated how to get its medicine. As despair spread among them over the cost of attacking, the factory gates slowly opened.

• Wang Yu sent his Shadow Clone into a vent and followed it toward the factory on the Wild Rat King.
• Players gathered near the factory and began livestreaming Wang Yu’s approach.
• Players in the livestream discussed whether they could obtain the medicine by sacrificing themselves to exhaust the factory’s firepower.
• The Players despaired because none of them wanted to risk their lives, and the factory gates slowly opened.

Wang Yu used his Shadow Clone to infiltrate the Underground Apocalypse Fortress beneath the factory and seized control of a manager to learn its layout. The clone reached the Control Room, where the fortress leaders debated how to respond to the Players outside, including Wang Yu.

• Wang Yu’s Shadow Clone traveled through the factory’s ventilation system and discovered a vast underground area monitored by security cameras.
• Unable to search the fortress efficiently, the Shadow Clone summoned a Big Cat in a manager’s office, and the Big Cat used Mental Control to take over the middle-aged man and read his memories.
• The middle-aged man’s memories gave Wang Yu an overview of the fortress, so he directed the man toward its core area.
• Using the manager’s access and passing facial recognition checks, the controlled man entered the Control Room.
• The fortress leaders argued over whether to attack the Players outside, while surveillance screens showed Wang Yu approaching the factory on the Wild Rat King.

Wang Yu used Big Cat to take control of Wu Heng and the two officials who could check his authority, gaining control of the Underground Apocalypse Fortress. After learning more about Doctor Cao and the fortress’s safeguards, the leaders announced that Wang Yu was an ally and would be welcomed into the factory.

• Wu Heng left the Control Room with his third uncle to discuss an urgent logistics problem in private.
• Wang Yu’s Shadow Clone lured Wu Heng into his office, where Big Cat used Mental Control to take over his mind.
• Big Cat read Wu Heng’s memories and learned that Doctor Cao had died after entrusting him with the Apocalypse Fortress and the mission to protect its medicine factory.
• Wu Heng summoned the two people who could check his authority, and Big Cat took control of them and read their memories.
• With all three leaders under his control, Wang Yu gained complete command of the Apocalypse Fortress.
• The three leaders returned to the Control Room and announced that the person outside riding a Big Rat was their ally, whom they would welcome into the factory.

Wang Yu entered the underground fortress beneath the factory and learned how its TB10 vaccine and TB100 Serum worked. After inspecting the serum supplies and the facility’s production capacity, he took a test to find out whether he could evolve by using TB100.

• Wang Yu rode the Wild Rat King into the factory, then met Wu Heng and the fortress’s senior staff underground.
• Wu Heng showed Wang Yu the sterile workshop, where they discussed TB10 production, the fortress’s three automated production lines, and the vaccine supply.
• Wang Yu inspected the warehouse and learned that TB100 Serum could be made by adjusting the production parameters.
• Wu Heng showed Wang Yu the stored TB100 control samples and led him to a machine that screened people for compatibility with the serum.
• The machine drew and analyzed Wang Yu’s blood to test whether he could evolve through TB100.

After learning he could not use the TB100 Serum, Wang Yu vaccinated his people and animals and prepared to defend the serum-producing factory from an approaching Nuclear Strike. He decided the Underground Fortress could shelter the Have Rice Society, but Wu Heng then reported an urgent development.

• Wang Yu learned his genes were incompatible with the TB100 Serum and traded more than two thousand vaccine doses to Jun Tianbao, telling him to recruit Players and send them to kill Zombies for crystals.
• Jun Tianbao recruited Players, and he and more than two thousand survivors received the vaccine; after someone survived a Zombie bite without turning, Wang Yu vaccinated himself, the Wild Rat Kings, the Big Dogs, and the Big Cats.
• Wang Yu decided to protect the factory so it could keep producing serum and planned for Big Cat to control Wu Heng and the other two while guarding the base.
• Wu Heng explained that the Underground Fortress's Strategic Missiles could intercept Space Weapons and that the base could shelter tens of thousands even if the city suffered a Nuclear Strike.
• Wang Yu chose to stay at the factory and shelter the Have Rice Society, then Wu Heng said something had happened and rushed him to the Control Room.

Wu Heng learned that the Tianzhou organization planned to launch a nuclear strike on Dawn City and demanded that the Underground Fortress not intercept it. He bluffed that the fortress had over a hundred interceptor missiles, then went with Wang Yu to the Weapons Depot, where they found only twenty-seven.

• The Tianzhou organization contacted Wu Heng and threatened to strike Dawn City with nuclear missiles unless the fortress shut down its radar and refrained from intercepting them.
• Wu Heng condemned the organization for causing the apocalypse and claimed the fortress had over a hundred Hypersonic Missiles to deter the attack.
• The Tianzhou representative gave Wu Heng ten minutes to prove his claim before launching the strike.
• Wu Heng told the Control Room staff that the missile stockpile was classified, then left with Wang Yu for the Weapons Depot.
• Wu Heng and Wang Yu found twenty-seven High-Speed Missiles stored beneath the fortress's three Launch Silos.

Wang Yu multiplied the Underground Fortress’s high-speed missiles and helped Wu Heng prove their authenticity to the Virtual Person. After learning that the factions planned to nuke Dawn City to eliminate unidentified Advanced Ability Users, Wu Heng negotiated a two-day plan to lure them away from the city.

• Wang Yu shut down the missile depot’s power, checked for surveillance, and used the Dice to increase the high-speed missiles to four rows.
• Wang Yu moved the missiles into a hidden refuge with help from ten Wild Rat Kings, and Wu Heng recorded proof of the stockpile.
• Wu Heng sent the video to the Virtual Person, who confirmed the missiles were real but said the factions still intended to strike Dawn City.
• The Virtual Person explained that the factions considered the unidentified people surrounding the factory a threat and wanted them eliminated with nuclear weapons.
• Wu Heng proposed luring the people out of Dawn City so the factions could attack them elsewhere, and the Virtual Person gave him two days to do it.

Wang Yu used his control of the Underground Fortress and the TB10 Vaccine to prepare a trap for the masterminds behind the Zombie crisis. He sent Players to Changzhou Island to search for vaccine materials while directing Chi Luo to stage a weak-looking Zombie-clearing operation, leaving the Players outside the factory to set out for the island.

• Wang Yu chose Changzhou Island near Dawn City as the place to lure the people behind the Zombie crisis.
• Wang Yu told Jun Tianbao to lead the Players to Changzhou Island, offering three doses of TB10 Vaccine to each participant and 100 crystals to whoever found the vaccine materials.
• Jun Tianbao announced the mission, and the Players rushed to sign up after seeing the rewards.
• Wang Yu ordered Chi Luo to lead thirty-odd Players and more than two thousand others in a conspicuous but deliberately weak-looking Zombie-clearing operation, while also assigning tasks to Lin Dong, Zhong Xiaopei, and Shang General.
• Eight drones scattered flyers across the city advertising the Changzhou Island mission and its vaccine reward.
• The Players left to meet Jun Tianbao, while Lin Moxi and the Girl Zombie waited outside the factory for Wang Yu.

Wang Yu told the Girl Zombie that he came from another world where the Survival Game had brought Players into hers, and offered her a chance to leave and evolve further. He said the only price was signing a contract and obeying him, leaving her to consider the offer.

• Wang Yu revealed that he had taken over the factory, confirmed that its medicine could prevent the Zombie Virus, and said the people behind the outbreak would not launch a Nuclear Strike for now.
• Wang Yu gave Lin Moxi access to the factory’s facilities and Artificial Intelligence, and told her to learn the Underground Fortress and gradually take charge of it with Wu Heng.
• The Girl Zombie asked whether Wang Yu was arranging his funeral, and he brought her to a private room to talk.
• Wang Yu told the Girl Zombie he came from another world and explained that her world was a Survival Game entered by Players.
• Wang Yu offered the Girl Zombie a chance to leave the world and evolve further, saying she would only need to sign a contract and listen to him.

Wang Yu persuaded the Girl Zombie to accept a contract by promising her the Black Stone and a chance to travel through Survival Games, then made her his Extraordinary Item. He gave her nine High-Level Crystals and ordered her to become a Zombie King and find the escaped Advanced Zombie controlling Mental Power.

• The Girl Zombie hesitated over losing her freedom but agreed to Wang Yu's contract after he offered her the Black Stone and the chance to enter other worlds.
• Wang Yu used a contract to bind the Girl Zombie, gaining the ability to command her and take her life.
• Wang Yu gave the Girl Zombie the Black Stone and told her to grow stronger without surpassing ten times his Attributes.
• Wang Yu asked the Girl Zombie to find the escaped Advanced Zombie skilled at controlling Mental Power and bring him its crystal.
• Wang Yu gave the Girl Zombie nine High-Level Crystals and told her to evolve into a Zombie King quickly.

Wang Yu watched as Jun Tianbao led more than ten thousand Players to Changzhou Island, while the Virtual Person accused Wu Heng of leaving suspicious people in Dawn City. Wu Heng refused to clear out the remaining stragglers unless the Virtual Person offered payment, and Wang Yu waited to see whether their bait would work.

• Wang Yu gave the Girl Zombie nine High-Level Crystals, and she began evolving toward becoming a Zombie King.
• The Girl Zombie joined Wang Yu for lunch and explained that she could eat because she was still half human.
• Jun Tianbao led more than ten thousand vaccinated Players across the Cross-Sea Bridge toward Changzhou Island as they fought Zombies along the way.
• The Virtual Person showed Wu Heng footage of more than two thousand people still hunting Zombies in Dawn City, including suspicious fighters with supernatural abilities.
• Wu Heng refused the Virtual Person's demand to clear out the remaining people and ended the call after the Virtual Person offered Dawn City's Zombie Crystals as payment.
• Wang Yu watched from concealment and waited to see whether the Virtual Person would take the bait.

As a nuclear missile approached Changzhou Island, Wu Heng refused to intercept it while Wang Yu’s vaccine offer kept the Players searching. The Players finally received a warning that a nuclear strike was imminent and realized Wang Yu had trapped them, sending them fleeing in every direction.

• Jun Tianbao led more than ten thousand Players across the Cross-Sea Bridge to Changzhou Island, while Chi Luo led survivors in a battle against Zombies.
• Wu Heng ordered the missile silos opened but repeatedly refused to intercept the incoming missile, which was targeting Changzhou Island.
• Wang Yu listed three doses of the TB10 Vaccine per Player, but required them to wait seven days before claiming it.
• Jun Tianbao told the Players that Wang Yu must have his reasons, and they resumed searching the island for vaccine materials.
• The Survival Game warned the Players that a nuclear strike would hit Changzhou Island in one minute, and they realized Wang Yu had trapped them and fled.

Players fled Changzhou Island or sought shelter as Wang Yu’s nuclear strike countdown reached zero. After the island was engulfed in a mushroom cloud, Wang Yu told Lin Moxi that the players were fine, leaving her stunned.

• Players, including Ye Feifan, fled Changzhou Island while the Galaxy Team dug a pit and tried to protect its captain, Steve Maidun.
• Jun Tianbao realized that his mission from Wang Yu had led the players toward their deaths and hoped the Survival Game would end soon.
• A nuclear bomb struck Changzhou Island, and the Control Room watched the mushroom cloud rise as Wu Heng ordered his people to monitor radiation and focus on survival.
• Lin Moxi confronted Wang Yu over the deaths, but Wang Yu said the players were fine and left.

Wang Yu used Dice to multiply his crystals and gave them to the Girl Zombie so she could evolve into a Zombie King before the coming battle. He and Lin Moxi discussed how the nuclear strike might have been meant to draw out the hidden masterminds, and Wang Yu expected them to target Chi Luo’s group.

• Wang Yu rolled a four with Dice and increased his 1,513 crystals to five bags containing more than 7,500 crystals.
• Wang Yu gave the crystals to the Girl Zombie, who said she believed the Black Stone had been deliberately made and began eating the crystals to speed her breakthrough.
• The Girl Zombie agreed to focus on becoming a Zombie King so she could help Wang Yu defeat the hidden masterminds and end the biohazard.
• Lin Moxi brought Wang Yu breakfast, and he told her to watch the area around Chi Luo’s group from the Control Room.
• Wang Yu reasoned that the nuclear strike had reduced the masterminds’ fear of the players and that they would likely target Chi Luo and the others to discover who they were.

Wang Yu and Lin Moxi waited for the masterminds to target Chi Luo’s group, then learned that the masterminds had sent aircraft to Dawn City. Wang Yu’s plan was to keep the fight going and lure in stronger opponents, and the chapter ended as A Big Cat countered three incoming missiles with Netherflame.

• Lin Moxi and Wang Yu went to the Control Room after Wu Heng received a message from the Virtual Person, who asked them to capture suspicious people and offered information about Doctor Cao in exchange.
• Wu Heng refused the offer, saying he only wanted to fulfill Doctor Cao’s dying wish and protect the factory.
• After waiting a day for the masterminds’ targets to appear, Wang Yu and Lin Moxi saw numerous aircraft arrive over Dawn City the next day.
• The Virtual Person warned Wu Heng not to interfere, and Wu Heng replied that they would not interfere as long as no nuclear weapons were used.
• The aircraft launched three missiles at Chi Luo’s group, and Wang Yu warned them while telling them to stick to the plan.
• Wang Yu sent A Big Cat into the sky to intercept the missiles with Netherflame, intending to prolong the fight and lure more enemies into the trap.

Chi Luo and Wang Yu’s forces fought the invading troops while Big Cat investigated the attackers through Mental Control. By capturing the paratrooper Commander, Big Cat learned that the armored Strong Men were mass-produced Biohumans and discovered where the enemy unit had come from, leaving Wang Yu with a lead toward the masterminds’ base.

• Big Cat destroyed incoming missiles as Chi Luo’s more than two thousand people scattered into prepared hiding places, then bombers reduced the area to ruins and released poison gas.
• Chi Luo’s Ability Users opened fire on the paratroopers from underground, but hundreds of bulletproof Strong Men charged in, prompting Chi Luo to order a retreat and draw the attackers into the city.
• Big Cat used Mental Control on two Strong Men but found that their confused memories yielded no useful information.
• Under Wang Yu’s direction, Chi Luo lured the paratrooper Commander into the subway, where Big Cat captured him and read his memories.
• Big Cat learned from the Commander that the Strong Men were Biohumans bred as weapons and that the enemy had tens of thousands of them.
• Big Cat passed on the unit’s origin to Wang Yu, who gained a lead toward the masterminds’ base; the armed force’s leader directed the battle from an Air Command Machine in the sky.

Wang Yu’s side dragged the fight against the Biohumans into a stalemate while Lü Hongting ordered reinforcements and landed at the Happy Water Bear factory. Wu Heng first resisted Lü Hongting’s demands, then invited him to dinner, leaving his intentions unclear.

• Wang Yu used Big Cat to control the paratroopers’ commander and direct the battle, while Wang San secretly killed Biohumans to prevent heavy losses on Chi Luo’s side.
• Lü Hongting grew frustrated with the stalled battle and ordered more Biohumans to be brought in.
• Lü Hongting told Wu Heng he would land at the Happy Water Bear factory and demanded the factory’s protection, threatening Wu Heng if he refused.
• Lü Hongting landed at the factory with several planes while transport planes continued bringing Biohumans into the city.
• Wu Heng contacted Lü Hongting again, apologized for his earlier behavior, and invited him to share wine and food.

Wang Yu failed to lure Lü Hongting into the Underground Fortress, but Ye Feifan contacted him from captivity and offered to reveal the nuclear attackers’ location. The Locator Device could not transmit through the signal-blocked area, so Wang Yu agreed to send Ye explosives and Smoke Bombs to help him break out or find a signal.

• Lü Hongting rejected Wu Heng’s invitation to the Underground Fortress and demanded that Wu Heng help eliminate the people outside.
• Ye Feifan told Wang Yu that the nuclear attackers had captured him and that he wanted a Locator Device to pinpoint their hideout.
• Wang Yu traded Ye Feifan a military-grade Locator Device, but Ye could not transmit its signal because the area was blocked.
• Ye Feifan revealed that he still had strength to fight and asked Wang Yu to send grenades, bombs, and Smoke Bombs.
• Wang Yu agreed to get Ye Feifan the explosives so he could disrupt the hideout and try to send a signal.

Wang Yu used A Big Cat to seize control of Lü Hongting and extract his memories, learning that the Tianzhou organization had engineered the Biohazard Apocalypse to harvest crystals from Zombies. He discovered the masterminds’ major stronghold and learned that Doctor Cao might still be alive, leaving the conflicting reports about Doctor Cao’s fate unresolved.

• Wang Yu traded demolition bombs and other weapons from the Underground Fortress’s armory to Ye Feifan, then hurried to the factory to capture Lü Hongting.
• Wang Yu sent an invisible A Big Cat into the Air Command Machine, where A Big Cat used its Mental Power to take control of Lü Hongting and retrieve his memories.
• Wang Yu learned from Lü Hongting’s memories that Tianzhou’s upper-class members had caused the apocalypse to cultivate Zombies and harvest their crystals once enough had formed.
• Wang Yu discovered that the masterminds had prepared Biohumans to fight Zombies and collect crystals, and he learned the location of one of their major strongholds.
• Wang Yu found that Lü Hongting’s memories identified Doctor Cao as an important Tianzhou member but gave no sign that he was dead, contradicting other accounts.

Wang Yu learned that Ye Feifan had been captured by the people behind the scenes and feared they would extract information about his plans. He asked the Girl Zombie how soon she could become a Zombie King, learned she needed many more crystals, and set out to find them.

• Wang Yu received Ye Feifan's warning about a powerful Biohuman, but Ye Feifan stopped replying, leading Wang Yu to suspect he had been captured again.
• Wang Yu worried that Ye Feifan could reveal the Players, the plan involving Changzhou Island, and the Happy Water Bear factory.
• Wang Yu asked the Girl Zombie how long it would take her to become a Zombie King, and she said she needed more crystals to cross the breakthrough threshold.
• The Girl Zombie told Wang Yu she had used the crystals he gave her and saved a few High-Level Crystals for her breakthrough.
• Wang Yu promised to get the Girl Zombie one last batch of crystals and left to find them.