Chapter Summaries

Lin An destroyed Coreel’s air defenses and forced its remaining army to surrender, then rejected their surrender and annihilated the city with a Cloudburst Bomb.

• Lin An used telekinesis and the Eye of Judgment to destroy Coreel’s air-defense positions and ammunition depots.
• A surviving commander and the remaining soldiers surrendered after witnessing the devastation, and the other factions watched in shock.
• Leaders and representatives from the other factions wondered whether Lin An would spare Coreel and what they should do next.
• Lin An declared that surrender was invalid and that he had already given Coreel a chance.
• Lin An detonated a Cloudburst Bomb in Coreel’s central district, annihilating the city.

Lin An destroyed Coreel's Inner City with a Cloudburst Bomb after its forces surrendered, then moved to address the factions whose communications his soldiers had seized. The chapter ended with Lin An preparing to broadcast a speech that would change the Amoeba World.

• Lin An detonated a Cloudburst Bomb that destroyed Coreel's Inner City, killing its leaders and many ordinary people who had been enslaved there.
• Gao Tian, Bear Dunce, and Zhang Tie discussed the deaths and recalled Lin An's justification for using violence to prevent greater losses.
• Lin An approached the assembled factions as Bolaka soldiers took control of their communications positions, and their leaders feared what he would do next.
• Kosman reported that the communications positions were under control, and Lin An ordered the plan to proceed despite his depleted Mental Strength.
• Lin An stepped onto a platform as the factions' channels were linked for a live broadcast.

A slave owner beat a starving former Supply Search Team member after discovering he had hidden food, while the man’s wife and a gruel vendor tried to help him. As the slave owner prepared to pour boiling gruel on the family, soldiers interrupted the street and ordered everyone to watch a screen showing a man before a vast kneeling army.

• A laundress worked to support her family while her injured husband, sold into slavery, begged for food from a gruel vendor.
• The slave owner discovered the man had hidden leftovers and beat him after the vendor deliberately dropped gruel for him to eat.
• The man’s wife rushed out with their baby and pleaded with the slave owner to stop.
• The slave owner threatened the family and lifted the boiling pot to pour gruel on the woman.
• Soldiers brought out a large screen and ordered the crowd to watch as an image appeared of a man standing before a vast kneeling army.

Lin An broadcast orders for every Safe Zone to abolish class divisions, free slaves, distribute supplies, and unite under his command. Kaines ordered Kanbula to obey, and the city began executing nobles and Slave Owners, freeing slaves, and feeding survivors.

• Kaines mobilized Kanbula's soldiers to set up screens and speakers for Lin An's broadcast.
• Lin An ordered all Safe Zones to purge nobles and Slave Owners, abolish the class system, distribute food, free slaves, and unite in Bolaka.
• Kaines ordered Kanbula to distribute food and execute Slave Owners, gang leaders, and nobles.
• Soldiers carried out the executions and freed chained slaves as food was distributed throughout Kanbula.
• A starving boy received a steamed bun and heard that he should thank Lin An.

Lin An oversaw the consolidation of most factions in the Amoeba Instance Dungeon and reviewed a prototype device intended for the coming fight against the Zombies. He dismissed the remaining small holdouts and stayed focused on preparing every survivor for the High Tower mission before the twenty-day deadline.

• Kosman reported that most factions had submitted, while thirty-three Safe Zones remained outside Lin An’s control, including six that had already been conquered by neighboring factions.
• Lin An ordered the minor holdouts ignored and inspected a prototype chip-like device, asking whether it could be mass-produced for everyone within a week.
• Kosman questioned whether Lin An truly intended to use the device, but he and the other officials knelt and pledged unconditional obedience when Lin An challenged them.
• Lin An reflected that fourteen Instance Dungeon days had passed and resolved to command all survivors toward victory within the twenty-day alert period.
• Zhang Tie entered the Command Center and asked to see the new device, which he had heard was a secret weapon against the Zombies.

Lin An explained that his secret weapon was a self-destruct chip designed to kill anyone infected with the Zombie Virus before they could turn. The chapter ended with Mo Ling supporting his decision and saying that she only wanted him to live.

• Lin An showed Zhang Tie a chip and explained that Zombie contagion was the greatest danger facing their forces.
• Lin An clarified that the chip could not cure the virus; it monitored the wearer and triggered a small explosive.
• Zhang Tie realized Lin An planned to equip the survivors with chips that would kill them if they were infected.
• Lin An silently acknowledged the cost of tying humanity to the explosives and the risk of leaving the world no way back.
• Outside the Command Center, Mo Ling told Lin An that if they died, the others would die too, and that she only wanted him to live.

Lin An drove the survivors toward the High Tower’s Zombie Tide by forcing them into a desperate march, despite dwindling food and water. As the campaign neared the core region, he ordered harsher propaganda and continued installing Self-Destruct Chips, while the new Soul’s Serenity religion took hold.

• Kosman reported that food would last at most seventeen days, water fourteen days, and more than sixty percent of soldiers had received Self-Destruct Chips.
• Lin An judged that the humans would reach the core region in three days and that the battle would be decided within a week.
• Lin An ordered the survivors to be told they would die unless they destroyed the Zombie Tide, and directed that part of the rear base be burned to discourage retreat.
• Lin An ordered intensified brainwashing and propaganda featuring fanatics as examples.
• Eden Religion propaganda portrayed Self-Destruct Chips as a path to heaven, and the new religion Soul's Serenity was born.

Lin An returned from scouting the High Tower and reported that at least 700 million Zombies surrounded it, making a direct assault impossible. He proposed Contingency Plan No. 4, which would use 30 million humans as bait while the team tried to uncover the High Tower’s secrets.

• Lin An and Mo Ling escaped a damaged fighter jet and landed among the procession, where the Soul's Peace Sect praised Lin An as a divine envoy.
• Lin An told Zhang Tie and Gao Tian that he had inspected the High Tower and found the Zombie Tide far larger than expected.
• Lin An reported that at least 700 million Zombies formed a towering mass around the High Tower, obscuring nearly all of it.
• Lin An explained that neither a direct assault nor Mo Ling's ability to draw Zombies away could clear a path to the High Tower.
• Lin An announced that the team would use Contingency Plan No. 4, sending 30 million people into the Zombie Tide as bait while they investigated the High Tower.

Lin An and the others debated whether their campaign against the Zombies could truly resolve the Doomsday Crisis, and Lin explained that humanity would collapse even without their interference. Gao Tian then questioned how powerful Awakeners had died, speculating that the Third Order Peak might have perished inside the High Tower while investigating the Amoeba Worm.

• Gao Tian worried that leading humans against the Zombie Tide might be a Dead End, but Lin An said their mission required resolving the Doomsday Crisis rather than explicitly protecting every survivor.
• Zhang Tie and Bear Dunce argued that humanity was already doomed by internal conflict and that fighting the Zombies was still their best chance.
• Lin An explained that war, Safe Zone mergers, and failing technology would eventually destroy civilization, and he suspected the High Tower held clues about the Amoeba Worm.
• Gao Tian observed that First-Order Awakeners could not have united humanity by force and asked how the Third Order Peak had died.
• Gao Tian speculated that the Amoeba Worm might create Zombies and that the Third Order Peak had died after entering the High Tower to investigate it.

Gao Tian theorized that the Amoeba Worm inside the High Tower absorbed the emotions of the humans they brought, growing stronger with their numbers and preventing Lin An from using his ability. With the group one day from the High Tower and no time to pursue a slower strategy, Lin An realized their mission might have no way back.

• Gao Tian connected the High Tower’s interference, the Third Order Peak Awakener’s death, and Lin An’s failed ability to argue that the mission could be a trap.
• Gao Tian proposed that the Amoeba Worm absorbed human emotions and grew stronger according to the number of people brought near the High Tower.
• Lin An and Gao Tian explained the theory to Bear Dunce, who realized their growing human force might be powering up the enemy.
• Gao Tian suggested rebuilding civilization and using small, measured counterattacks to liberate the world without feeding the Amoeba Worm too many emotions.
• Lin An recalled Chu An’s words about a new system arising after the old empire’s collapse, but recognized that he lacked time to follow Gao Tian’s approach.
• Gao Tian struggled to breathe as the group, already committed and one day from the High Tower, faced the fact that they had no way back.

As Gao Tian’s deduction suggested that a powerful enemy might already have reached the High Tower and strengthened the Amoeba Worm, Lin An rallied the group by proposing ways to limit the Zombies and deny the creature human emotions. The chapter left them considering the Bait Plan as a desperate fallback, even if it meant killing most of humanity.

• Zhang Tie tried to reassure Lin An that the Third Order Peak expert might have died by charging into the Zombie Tide alone.
• Gao Tian argued that a Third Order Peak expert could not have subdued the forces and assembled an army much faster than Lin An’s group.
• Lin An steadied himself and said they should continue until they confirmed Gao Tian’s theory.
• Lin An proposed reducing the Zombie population and dismissing the army before the High Tower could overwhelm them.
• Lin An suggested detonating the chips early to kill humans and prevent the Amoeba Worm from absorbing their emotions.
• Gao Tian realized the Bait Plan might be their only fallback, despite the potential sacrifice of most of humanity.

Humanity's forces carried out the Skinning Plan, slowly thinning the zombie horde around High Tower while food supplies dwindled. During Gao Tian's morale inspection, a larger wave of zombies charged the defensive line, and he ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle.

• Gao Tian and Kosman led 17 million people in a layered campaign to lure out and eliminate the zombies surrounding High Tower.
• Luo Bing and Uncle Wang held the defensive line as Luo Bing reported that he had killed 27 zombies without wasting a bullet.
• Soul's Peace Sect priests led the daily noon service, and Gao Tian encouraged the soldiers as they endured the food shortage.
• A much larger group of zombies charged the line, and Gao Tian drew his bow and ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle.

Gao Tian and Lin An faced dwindling supplies, ineffective weapons, and a zombie horde that kept replenishing itself, forcing Lin An to abandon the Skinning Plan. The chapter ended with Lin An ordering a total offensive for the next morning, using Blood Bait to draw the zombies in before the forces charged the High Tower and detonated thirty million Self-Destruct Chips.

• Gao Tian used psionically empowered arrows to tear through an attacking group of zombies while the soldiers opened fire.
• Luo Bing noticed that the zombies killed by Gao Tian dissolved unusually quickly, and Uncle Wang explained that divine envoys purified their souls.
• Gao Tian told Lin An that food was running low, the burning experiment had failed, and the zombies were replenishing as quickly as the army killed them.
• Gao Tian reported that the Skinning Plan could not work without first restoring civilization and building a complete technological system.
• Lin An ordered the forces to launch a Total Offensive the next morning and prepare the Blood Bait.
• Gao Tian realized the plan would draw the zombies toward the defensive positions before the army charged the High Tower and detonated thirty million Self-Destruct Chips.

As Lin An prepared for the coming offensive against the Zombie Tide and the possible Amoeba Worm, Zhang Tie tried to reassure him by recalling the dangers their squad had overcome. Zhang Tie then admitted that he felt weak and unable to contribute as much as the others, leaving Lin An silently comforting him as he began to explain what he really wanted to say.

• Lin An surveyed the position and considered the Blood Bait plan and his trump cards for facing the possible Amoeba Worm in the High Tower.
• Zhang Tie urged Lin An not to worry and recalled how he had survived past monsters with the squad.
• Zhang Tie praised Lin An for overcoming dangers such as the Red-Clothed Girl, the Stitcher, the Meme Doll, the giant spider, the Ghost Infant, and the Undying Asura.
• Zhang Tie confessed that he felt inferior to Gao Tian, Senior Colonel Chu, An JingTian, Wen Ya, and Mo Ling because he could not help the squad much.
• Lin An silently patted Zhang Tie’s shoulder, and Zhang Tie began to explain what he had wanted to say.

A massive Zombie Tide launched a surprise attack at night, with the Zombies moving faster and their virus killing soldiers far more quickly than before. Lin An realized the Zombies had been secretly drawn from the Corpse Mountain around the High Tower and took to the air to respond.

• Zhang Tie reassured Lin An that his supposedly tough fate meant he could not die, easing Lin An's mood.
• Gunfire erupted at the forward positions as soldiers discovered at least a hundred thousand attacking Zombies and called for reinforcements.
• Luo Bing warned Squad Leader Wang that the Zombies were running, and the attackers quickly overwhelmed the positions and caused casualties.
• Self-Destruct Chips detonated within seconds of soldiers being infected, revealing that the Zombie Virus had become dramatically more potent.
• Lin An ordered illumination flares and reserve troops forward, then saw millions of Zombies attacking and gaps in the Corpse Mountain around the High Tower.
• Lin An activated Sky Walking, Celestial Human Form, and Eye of Judgment.

Lin An realized that killing the zombies made the rest of the Zombie Tide stronger, so he halted attacks and ordered the forces to lure the horde toward the High Tower. As the defensive line collapsed, artillery bombarded the Corpse Mountain while aircraft and oil tankers sprayed Blood Bait across the battlefield.

• Lin An saw the Zombie Tide strengthen whenever zombies were killed and ordered Gao Tian and the others to stop attacking.
• Zhang Tie retreated as the strengthened zombies broke through the stretched defensive line and inflicted heavy casualties.
• Lin An ordered the artillery and missile units to blast the Corpse Mountain, sent the Air Force to deploy Plan Number Four, and flew toward the High Tower with Gao Tian, Zhang Tie, and Mo Ling.
• Kosman watched Lin An leave with his team while the defensive line was swallowed by the Zombie Tide.
• Artillery battered the Corpse Mountain as aircraft and oil tankers sprayed Blood Bait between it and the thirty million humans.

Lin An realized that killing zombies caused the entire horde to strengthen, making the 700 million zombies potentially an overwhelming threat. With their weapons spent and 30 million human lives already sacrificed, he led the squad in a desperate charge toward the High Tower, hoping to find a way to break the deadlock.

• Lin An concluded that zombies grew stronger whenever humans killed them, and warned that the 700 million could soon become First- or Second-Order Mutants.
• Gao Tian blamed himself for misleading the group, but Lin An reassured him that attacking would have been unavoidable and that his proposed strategy was still the correct solution without a time limit.
• The Air Force Unit dropped its Airburst Bombs on the Corpse Mountain, blasting open a breach near the High Tower.
• With their weapons and ammunition exhausted, Lin An accelerated the fighter jet through the breach and ordered his squad to unleash everything as they charged into the High Tower.

Lin An and his team survived the million-Zombie assault and teleported into the High Tower, where they rested and examined its strange interior. With Mo Ling unconscious and the Tier 2 Zombies surrounding the entrance, Lin An led the group toward the second floor to search for a way forward.

• Lin An and his team fought through the Zombie horde and entered the High Tower by touching its outer wall, which teleported them inside.
• Black Bear, Bear Dunce, and Zhang Tie recovered from the battle while Lin An realized the Zombies outside had grown to Tier 2 and the team could not safely leave.
• Lin An found Mo Ling unconscious after she exhausted her Mental Strength trying to control the Zombies, and the group replenished their strength with food.
• Gao Tian pointed out the High Tower's unusual mix of medieval and high-tech features and wondered whether Amoeba Worms were inside.
• Lin An warned the others to stay alert, then carried Mo Ling as the group searched the first floor and prepared to ascend to the second.

Lin An and Gao Tian discovered a notebook in the High Tower’s vast seventh-floor laboratory that chronicled researchers’ experiments with an Amoeba Worm and a mentor’s pursuit of eternal life. The notebook ended with repeated claims of immortality, leaving Lin An shaken by the experiment’s horrifying secret.

• Lin An investigated the High Tower’s laboratories and storage rooms, finding labels for specimens such as Adult Black Dragon Marrow and World Will Research.
• Gao Tian called Lin An to the seventh floor, where a vast hidden laboratory held shattered vessels, cages, and a Black Gold notebook titled Gate of Eternal Life.
• Lin An read how a researcher’s mentor used a Dimensional Maze and successive Amoeba Worms to pursue eternal life as people vanished from the Black Tower.
• The notebook described the mentor’s execution and the next researcher taking his place, only to find a wrinkled piece of meat and continue the same experiments.
• Lin An reached the notebook’s final page, which declared, “I have achieved immortality!!!”

Lin An and Gao Tian explained that Professor Kuniel had devised a cycle of apparent immortality by having each student consume their predecessor and inherit their memories. The group realized the notes might persuade anyone who read them to continue the cycle, though whether it truly preserved the same person remained uncertain.

• Gao Tian told Zhang Tie that Professor Kuniel had spent seven hundred years developing an immortality method based on Amoeba Worms transferring memories through consumption.
• Lin An explained how each student inherited a predecessor’s memories and body, then passed the method to another student, making every successor repeat the professor’s life’s work.
• Zhang Tie questioned whether inheriting memories meant the original person had actually survived.
• Lin An compared the process to an identical copy surviving after another version of a person was killed, while admitting that the explanation was paradoxical.
• Gao Tian suspected that the notes convinced each successor they had truly survived, and Lin An warned that reading them could make anyone choose to continue the cycle.