Chapter Summaries

Zhang Tie and Gao Tian slaughtered the Bolaka soldiers after their gunfire failed to harm Zhang Tie, while Du Landi and the inspector who had targeted the delegation met brutal ends. Zhang Tie continued searching the palace square for the people who had been inspected as the Eden delegation watched Bolaka’s forces collapse.

• Zhang Tie transformed into an alloy bear, charged through the soldiers, and crushed Du Landi after he surrendered.
• Zhang Tie blocked bullets and threw them at Suicide Soldiers while Gao Tian fired arrows, driving the remaining soldiers to flee.
• Zhang Tie ordered the crowd to reveal the missing inspected people and offered a reward for finding them.
• Eden Silk pointed out the inspector hiding among the court ladies, and the inspector blamed the Lion Envoy before Zhang Tie killed him.
• The Eden delegation watched the slaughter as Bolaka’s forces fell into chaos.

Lin An captured the real Bolaka and forced the city’s nobles to kneel, revealing that the feared ruler had been a cowardly dwarf hiding behind a puppet. He ordered Zhang Tie to secure a plan for taking control of Bolaka while he headed to the underground base with Bolaka and Gao Tian.

• Lemming watched the nobles kneel before Lin An and felt certain he had chosen the winning side.
• Mark regretted not befriending Lin An earlier and hoped his cautious silence would spare him.
• Bear Dunce returned from killing resistance fighters and asked about the short man beneath Lin An’s feet.
• Gao Tian confirmed that the dwarf was the real Bolaka, who had used an armored stand-in to maintain his heroic image.
• Lin An ordered Zhang Tie to obtain a plan for controlling Bolaka within an hour, told Lemming to fetch Anna, and sent Bolaka toward the underground base with Telekinetic Control.

Lin An interrogated Bolaka the Great about the Zombies and learned that rumors linked their origin to the High Tower in Bordeaux Capital. Bolaka explained that Zombies continually reappeared and that attempts to investigate the Tower had failed, leaving him to suggest Lin An might be able to reach it.

• Lin An threatened Bolaka and questioned him about the Zombies, the Black Tower, and why Zombies stayed in cities.
• Bolaka said the disaster began with Zombies appearing across the world and shared a rumor that they might have originated from the High Tower in Bordeaux Capital.
• Bolaka explained that a six-month campaign had failed to eliminate the Zombies because new tides kept appearing, prompting speculation that the High Tower was creating them.
• Bolaka said radiation prevented easy access to the High Tower by air while vast Zombie numbers blocked the ground; a Troy Aviation Brigade had returned only photographs after an unsuccessful investigation.
• Bolaka suggested that Lin An and his companions might be strong enough to enter the High Tower and uncover its secrets.

Lin An considered the endless Zombie Tide and the mystery of the High Tower but found no answers, then continued questioning Bolaka. Meanwhile, Lemming and Kosman summoned Mo Ling and Princess Anna to the palace in the name of Emperor Lin An, leaving them stunned by Kosman’s submission and the title.

• Lin An wondered whether the regenerating zombies and High Tower held clues to the Doomsday Crisis, but he could not reach a conclusion and continued questioning Bolaka.
• Lemming led recruited soldiers and Kosman to the Bolaka Royal Hotel, where Kosman speculated that serving Lin An could benefit him as Lin An expanded his power.
• Kosman knelt by the door and introduced himself to Mo Ling as Xiao Man, then announced that Emperor Lin An had requested her and Princess Anna at the palace.
• Mo Ling looked at Kosman in confusion, while Princess Anna reacted with shock and wondered who Lin An was and why he was emperor.

Kosman escorted Mo Ling, Anna, and Lin Ruolan to Lin An after Bolaka fell under his control. When Gao Tian presented plans for governing the Safe Zone, Lin An rejected them and declared that he would kill everyone rather than rule them.

• Kosman arranged for Mo Ling, Anna, Lin Ruolan, and two Little Lolis to be escorted to Lin An, hoping to earn his favor.
• Mo Ling complained that Lin An had taken too long to seize Bolaka, while Anna and Lin Ruolan struggled to understand the sudden change in power.
• Gao Tian presented Lin An with proposals for controlling Bolaka and deploying its forces, including keeping its existing officials in place.
• Lin An reminded Gao Tian of his claim that the world was rotten, then said he had no need to rule its people and would kill them all.

Lin An explained to Gao Tian why he planned to purge the city’s nobles and Slave Owners and mobilize its people against the Zombies. He ordered mass executions, confiscations, and military rule, leaving Gao Tian and Kosman stunned by the scale of his plan.

• Lin An used Step to carry Gao Tian above the city and showed him the stark conditions inside and outside its walls.
• Gao Tian argued that they needed to recruit the existing leaders to build a fighting force, but Lin An said the nobles and Slave Owners would hinder the campaign against the Zombies.
• Lin An proposed executing the Slave Owners and purging the nobles, seizing their supplies, and arming the oppressed population to advance toward the High Tower.
• Lin An descended with Gao Tian as Mo Ling and Kosman arrived, and Kosman recognized Lin An as a powerful figure to rely on.
• Back at the palace, Lin An ordered the execution of all nobles and Slave Owners, the purging of military leaders, the confiscation and distribution of supplies, and military rule throughout the city.
• Kosman froze when he heard Lin An’s orders.

Lin An ordered Bolaka’s former nobles and officials arrested as he questioned Anna about the mysterious High Tower and its connection to the zombies. He defended his plan to send people into battle to Gao Tian, then left the hall under the stars, resolved to break through the world’s rotten order.

• Zhang Tie led soldiers out to arrest Bolaka’s former nobles and officials despite their pleas and threats.
• Lin An questioned Anna, who described Troy’s last photograph of the High Tower and said zombies sometimes appeared near it.
• Lin An concluded that the High Tower was likely connected to the world’s abnormalities and decided to investigate it after unifying the factions.
• Gao Tian challenged Lin An’s plan to send people into battle, warning that it could kill many and doom the world.
• Lin An told Gao Tian that fighting the zombies offered the people a chance to escape their oppressive lives, then walked out of the hall and looked up at the stars.

Gao Tian began a purge in Bolaka’s Outer City after Huo Man’s head was thrown down from the city wall. Soldiers marched out to execute the gang members as nearly a thousand bound nobles and officials were brought to the wall.

• Outer City survivors endured hunger and watched gang members collect their food under Huo Man’s protection.
• The Nose Ring Man attacked a blind repairman’s family, broke the man’s glasses, and claimed his daughter for Huo Man.
• A head rolled from the city wall, and Gao Tian shot the Nose Ring Man with an arrow.
• Gao Tian ordered the execution of all gang members as soldiers escorted bound nobles and officials onto the city wall and marched through the open gates.

Lin An began a public trial of Bolaka’s captured nobles, officials, slave owners, and gang leaders after the city’s military seized control. He left the judgment of the accused to Bolaka’s survivors, beginning with slave group leader Luns.

• Kosman reported that the army had captured the gangs and Outer City slave owners, killing 177 people and injuring or disabling 491 during the arrests.
• The captured gang leaders and nobles were bound on the city wall, where survivors recognized officials and recalled the abuses they had suffered.
• Gao Tian told Lin An that the accused and recording equipment were ready for trial.
• Lin An introduced himself to the crowd and identified Luns as the leader of the Blood Skull slave group, who had controlled half of Bolaka’s slave trade.
• Lin An ordered the soldiers to lower Luns over the wall and announced that the survivors would judge the accused according to their charges.

Lin An let the survivors judge the nobles and oversaw the execution of more than six hundred of them. After the final noble was hanged, Lin An stepped from the wall and revealed that he could float in midair, leaving the city stunned.

• A survivor accused Luns of abducting and killing his daughter, and others described the torture and abuse they had suffered at Luns's hands.
• Lin An declared Luns guilty of 191 crimes and sentenced him to death, and the soldiers hanged him as the crowd cheered.
• The survivors continued identifying nobles, and 683 were executed over nearly four hours as the crowd's anger and excitement grew.
• A man recognized Lin An as the benefactor who had given him dried meat, while a woman recognized Gao Tian among the people on the wall.
• After the last noble was hanged, Lin An leaped from the wall and floated in midair, astonishing the city.

Lin An destroyed Bolaka’s old symbols of power, abolished its laws and noble titles, and promised equal treatment under a new system. He opened the granaries and sent food raining over the city, while its survivors hailed him as a deity and shouted his name.

• Lin An used his Mental Strength to smash the golden Bolaka sign and announced that the regulations and noble titles were abolished.
• The people of Bolaka and the soldiers on its walls knelt and praised Lin An, while Anna watched in tears.
• Lin An ordered the granaries opened, and soldiers released tens of thousands of sacks of grain that fell across the city.
• Starving survivors gathered and ate the food as Lin An’s name spread through the crowd until nearly a million people were shouting it.
• Cameramen joined the crowd’s cries, while several middle-aged men recorded that a deity named Lin An had descended on Bolaka.

After displaying a supernatural feat in Bolaka, Lin An ordered the Safe Zones to surrender within three days, planning to destroy a defiant faction publicly to terrify the rest. He left the conference room determined to carry out the intimidation alone.

• Kosman and Anna reacted to Lin An's display with awe, while Gao Tian recognized how strongly it had influenced the people of Bolaka.
• Lin An ordered the recording of the display sent to the leaders of the major Safe Zones, along with a demand for unconditional surrender within three days.
• Gao Tian questioned whether a video would be enough to make the Safe Zones submit, and Lin An said he wanted them to resist so he could make an example of the most stubborn faction.
• Lin An rejected Kosman's offer of military support and declared that he would handle the operation alone.

Lin An realized that his emotional abilities were not responding to the people of the Amoeba Instance Dungeon and asked Huang Shao Hua about the nature of life in Sub-World Instances. He concluded that the humans in this world might not be human at all, or might already be dead.

• Lin An worried that his Celestial Human Form and Death God Crystal had absorbed neither positive emotions nor Resentment Energy from the people of Bolaka.
• Lin An awakened Huang Shao Hua and asked how life forms in a Sub-World Instance differed in essence from those in the real world.
• Huang Shao Hua explained that flesh-and-blood life forms usually had no essential difference, though their bodies or appearances might vary.
• Lin An showed Huang Shao Hua the Death God Crystal and said it had absorbed nothing from the people he had killed.
• Lin An concluded that the humans in this world were probably not human, or might already be dead.

Lin An and Huang Shao Hua investigated why Lin An could not absorb emotions in the Amoeba Worm Punishment Sub-World Instance, while Mo Ling ruled out ghosts and Necro-spirits. Huang Shao Hua suspected the System had sealed Lin An’s ability, but Lin An remained troubled by a clue he could not identify.

• Lin An concluded that the people in the Sub-World Instance might not be human because neither he nor the Death God Crystal could absorb their emotions.
• Mo Ling said the people were flesh and blood and that he sensed no ghosts or Necro-spirits.
• Huang Shao Hua suggested the System had locked Lin An’s emotion-absorbing ability to keep the Punishment Sub-World Instance from becoming too easy.
• Huang Shao Hua described how the System weakened technological weapons in Zombie Kingdom after Players tried to bring nuclear bombs into the instance.
• Lin An considered Huang Shao Hua’s theory but wondered how it explained the Third Order Peak who had once died, and sensed he had overlooked something.

Kanbula's senior officers debated whether footage of Lin An's supernatural powers and Bolaka's mass celebration was genuine. The researchers privately judged it more than ninety percent likely to be real, leaving Commander Kaines and his officers facing Bolaka's demand to surrender.

• Researchers told Commander Kaines and the officers that Bolaka and Troy had sent footage of Lin An displaying several seemingly supernatural abilities.
• The researchers estimated the footage had a greater than sixty percent chance of being genuine, while General Bolun accused them of fabrication and collusion with Bolaka.
• Kaines stopped Bolun and asked whether the apparent miracles could have been staged with wires and explosives.
• The researchers showed footage of nearly a million Bolaka residents celebrating Lin An, arguing that their genuine reactions were difficult to fake.
• The researchers privately concluded that the footage was more than ninety percent authentic as the officers listened to the crowd's cheers.

Kaines and the Kanbula Military District debated whether to surrender to Bolaka after seeing a video of a powerful sword-carrying man. Kaines chose to delay disarmament, prepare for an attack, and watch how other factions responded while the wasteland waited for the man to appear.

• Kaines's generals argued over whether to surrender unconditionally after watching the video, while a bearded officer insisted their troops and weapons could defeat the man.
• Kaines stopped the argument and weighed the threat posed by the man's speed and Void Telekinesis against the danger of surrendering their authority.
• Kaines ordered the Foreign Affairs Department to tell Bolaka that internal conflicts prevented immediate disarmament, while avoiding provocation and waiting to see what other factions did.
• The Kanbula Military District entered its highest state of alert and deployed soldiers to guard against attacks and infiltration.
• Other cautious Safe Zones adopted similar measures, while private armed forces insulted Bolaka and factions across the wasteland sent out scouts and reconnaissance drones to watch for the man's arrival.

Lin An heard that nearly all 446 Safe Zones had rejected Bolaka’s demand to disarm, while Coreel had insulted him and declared war. He chose Coreel as the first target and announced that he would destroy its armed forces the next day unless its people overthrew their ruler and surrendered.

• Zhang Tie and Gao Tian reported that dozens of factions had mocked Bolaka’s footage, and Coreel had declared war while threatening Lin An.
• Kosman reported that only the weak Eden Religion had agreed to join Bolaka, while Mark’s home Safe Zone had rejected him and issued a kill order.
• Lin An reviewed the factions’ reactions and decided that force was the only way to make them submit.
• Lin An designated Coreel as Bolaka’s first cleansing target and said he would wipe out its armed forces the next day unless its people surrendered.

Kaines and other factions scrambled to observe Bolaka’s announced attack on Coreel, which would be carried out by Lin An alone. Coreel’s ruler Jin Han Cheng dismissed the threat and ordered his forces to capture Lin An and massacre Bolaka.

• Kaines learned that Bolaka had declared war on Coreel and planned to send only the man from the recording.
• Kaines ordered more aerial reconnaissance so he could witness the attack, while factions worldwide sent scouts toward Coreel.
• Jin Han Cheng heard that Bolaka’s attacker would arrive in one hour and mocked the idea that one person could threaten Coreel.
• Jin Han Cheng ordered his soldiers to capture Lin An and bring him to the palace, then planned to attack Bolaka with other Safe Zones.
• Jin Han Cheng ordered a Three Day Massacre after Coreel took Bolaka and announced that the battle would be broadcast live.

As factions gathered to witness Bolaka’s promised attack on Coreel, Lin An leaped from a transport plane without a parachute and began falling toward the city. The chapter left him descending through the air, with more than 1,000 tons of High Explosive and a Cloudburst Bomb stored in his ring.

• Reconnaissance forces around Coreel mocked Bolaka’s declaration of war and speculated that Troy had joined forces with them.
• A transport plane marked Troy-Bolaka approached Coreel, while the city’s soldiers prepared to capture its passengers alive for their emperor.
• At 12:59 p.m., Lin An jumped from the plane without a parachute as factions livestreamed the event.
• Lin An fell through the air as his system detected 1,198,761 ordinary life forms and divided the locked area.
• The chapter revealed that Lin An carried more than 1,000 tons of High Explosive and a Cloudburst Bomb in his ring.

Lin An revealed his Celestial Human Form above the Coreel Safe Zone and began bombarding its defenses after Jin Han Cheng fled in fear. The chapter ended with Lin An launching a massive telekinetic strike against the positions below.

• Lin An stopped in midair and revealed his Celestial Human Form, stunning the people watching.
• Jin Han Cheng recognized the danger and fled the castle rooftop, while his Servant Official and the soldiers panicked.
• Jin Han Cheng ordered the air defenses to open fire, and more than three hundred antiaircraft guns attacked Lin An.
• Lin An used Sword Prison to block the bullets with thirty-six Alloy Longswords and advanced through the barrage.
• As the commanders ordered rockets and missiles launched, Lin An used Telekinesis to hurl more than a thousand tons of High Explosive toward the positions below.