Chapter Summaries

Wang Meng decided to gamble on rescuing Lin An and offered the Armored Unit’s Razor Series missiles, while Lin An struggled to evade the fused Thousand-Eyed Zombie. As Gao Yan relayed the warning, Chu An calmly watched Lin An, waiting for him to uncover the monster’s secrets.

• Wang Meng weighed whether to send the Armored Unit against the Thousand-Eyed Zombie, then chose to help Lin An and offered to launch Razor Series missiles.
• Wang Meng told Gao Yan to warn Lin An to evacuate others and watch out for the missiles’ collateral damage.
• Gao Yan messaged Lin An while the Awakened at Dragon An Base watched him flee the monster and lamented the mission’s unexpected difficulty.
• Gao Tian asked Chu An how the fused monster had appeared, and Chu An silently watched Lin An while gripping his twin guns.
• A flash of white streaked through the darkness as Chu An waited for Lin An to figure out the monster’s secrets.

Lin An fought the Thousand-Eyed Zombie and realized the Spider Manufacturer had secretly infiltrated his base and orchestrated the attack. As he weighed using his trump cards, Gao Tian proposed attacking with the Spiritual Energy Tower, while Wangjiang offered a missile strike that Lin An rejected.

• Lin An identified the Thousand-Eyed Zombie as a creature created and controlled by the Spider Manufacturer, which had hidden inside the base and manipulated the Zombie Tide.
• Lin An spotted the Spider Manufacturer inside the Thousand-Eyed Zombie and considered using either a Third Order soul or Causality Reversal to kill it.
• Gao Tian proposed restoring Wen Ya's Mental Strength at the Spiritual Energy Tower and using its fire-based Lava Ray against the monster.
• Lin An agreed to hold off the Thousand-Eyed Zombie while Gao Tian took Wen Ya and other awakened people to operate the Defense Tower.
• Fan Bing told Lin An that Wangjiang Military Region offered to launch a Razor Tactical Missile if his people evacuated, but Lin An refused and threatened to kill Wang Meng if he fired it.
• Wang Meng prepared to launch the missile, convinced that the risky offer was a decisive act of support for Lin An.

Lin An kept the Thousand-Eyed Zombie occupied while Dragon An Base charged its Defense Tower and prepared an attack. After the Lava Ray badly injured the monster and revealed its weakness to fire, Lin An ordered the base to keep firing and burn it to death.

• Gao Yan told Wang Meng that Lin An and Chu An had ordered the Wangjiang Military Region to stay back and watch, and Wang Meng grudgingly accepted their instructions.
• Gao Tian and Wen Ya rushed to charge the Defense Tower and Energy Core with the battlefield’s Mutant corpses while Senior Colonel Chu ordered the base to attack and use the Undying Asura to replenish spiritual energy.
• Lin An slashed the Thousand-Eyed Zombie’s ankle, then drew its attention away from the Defense Tower.
• Gao Tian’s team fired a Lava Ray at the monster’s largest back eye, burning it and stopping its eyes from immobilizing Lin An.
• Lin An noticed burned white threads in the monster’s blood, concluded that it was vulnerable to fire, and ordered the Defense Tower to burn it to death.

Lin An fought the Thousand-Eyed Zombie with help from the Spiritual Energy Defense Tower, while Wang Meng and Huang Yan realized mutant corpses could replenish spiritual energy and ordered the information sealed. Just as Lin An launched a decisive attack, a mysterious Third Order Mutant appeared and turned his Lava Ray back on him, leaving him gravely wounded as he fell from the sky.

• A soldier activated the Spiritual Energy Defense Tower again, while a tiny spider crawled out of an Awakener's eye unnoticed.
• Wang Meng and Huang Yan deduced that mutant corpses could replenish spiritual energy and ordered everyone to keep information about Lin An and Dragon An Base secret.
• Lin An attacked the Thousand-Eyed Zombie with his sword and used Wither to immobilize it before striking with his Lava Ray.
• The Lava Ray suddenly redirected toward Lin An, and a chilling white shadow appeared as he attempted to activate Causality Reversal.
• The ray pierced Lin An's chest, and he fell from the sky as Wen Ya, Gao Tian, and Wang Meng watched in horror.
• Wang Meng recognized the white shadow as a Third Order Mutant and realized a new enemy had appeared.

Lin An faced death beneath the Thousand-Eyed Zombie while his newly emerged sister An Xia, now a Third Order monster, appeared not to recognize him. As Lin An’s sealed second self urged him to take over, Chu An fired an Antidote Serum bullet at An Xia.

• Gao Tian found the Defense Tower overrun by Red Spiders and realized the Spider Manufacturer had returned with a Third Order Mutant.
• Wang Meng and Huang Yan watched helplessly as the Thousand-Eyed Zombie prepared to crush the gravely wounded Lin An.
• Lin An recognized An Xia, but she remained unmoved, and he believed she had forgotten him.
• Lin An’s fear and despair awakened a second consciousness that urged him to break the Memory Seal and take control.
• At the battlefield’s edge, Chu An shot an Antidote Serum bullet toward An Xia’s heart.

After time resumed, Second Lin An took control of Lin An’s body and brutally dismantled the Thousand-Eyed Zombie without using psychic energy. The military observers watched in fear as he overwhelmed the monster with precise attacks and taunts.

• The bullet carrying the Antidote Serum struck An Xia, while Lin An abruptly raised his head as time resumed.
• Second Lin An used Blood Annihilation to cut apart the Spider Manufacturer’s giant foot and charge up its body.
• Second Lin An evaded the Thousand-Eyed Zombie’s attacks and dissected it, mocking Lin An for failing to combine his abilities effectively.
• Second Lin An controlled dozens of Alloy Longswords to shred the monster until it was reduced to a mangled stick.
• Wang Meng and the Wangjiang Military Region observers watched Lin An slaughter the monster without psychic energy and grew fearful of him.

Lin An defeated and killed Spider Manufacturer while the military district watched, unable to intervene. With the White Shadow Mutant still motionless and An Xia in danger, he believed he could save her and make the original Lin An reappear when Reason Collapse came.

• Huang Yan explained that Lin An had refined his use of psionic energy and predicted the monster’s attacks, while the others wondered whether he could face the motionless Third Order White Shadow Mutant.
• Wang Meng recalled Dragon An Base’s instruction to watch and accepted that the military district could not affect a battle at this level.
• Spider Manufacturer pleaded for mercy as Lin An pulled it from Thousand-Eyed Zombie, but he crushed it and stomped every escaping spider.
• Lin An looked toward An Xia, confident he could save her and end the original Lin An’s final obsession.
• The other Lin An vowed to live in Lin An’s place, despite their having originally been one.

Second Lin An tried to deceive An Xia and force her to abandon her fixation on the original Lin An, but she had regained her rationality and recognized him as an impostor. Chu An stopped him from using Causality Reversal, forcing Second Lin An to retreat and let the original Lin An return.

• Second Lin An approached An Xia with Antidote Serum and tried to awaken her rationality while hiding his intent to inject her.
• An Xia revealed that she had regained her rationality, identified Second Lin An as an impostor, and attacked him, leaving him badly injured.
• Second Lin An threatened that killing him would kill Lin An too, but An Xia continued attacking him to avenge Lin An.
• As An Xia’s next strike threatened to kill him, Second Lin An prepared to use Causality Reversal and the Third Order soul.
• Chu An warned Second Lin An that Causality Reversal would restore the original Lin An and seal him away, then revealed that he had anticipated the trap.
• Second Lin An recognized that Chu An had set him up, stopped resisting, and withdrew while warning Chu An that he would remember him.

After the City Defense War, Lin An confronted Chu An about the hidden plans that had shaped the battle. Chu An revealed that he could read and modify memories, then prepared to explain the rest of his actions.

• At Wangjiang Military Region, Wang Meng and Huang Yan feared Lin An had died, while some awakened fighters were relieved by the broadcast ending.
• Wang Meng ordered the events kept confidential, defended Lin An's worth as a fighter, and warned that the Third Order Mutant remained a threat.
• At Dragon An Base, Lin An recovered from his injuries, and Chu An sat with him while the others cleared the battlefield and An Xia slept after receiving the serum.
• Lin An questioned Chu An about An Xia's serum, the Spider Manufacturer, the unexpected events, and why Second Lin An had not known about Chu An.
• Chu An said his ability let him read and modify memories, explained that modifying them required conditions and a high price, and began writing as he promised to answer Lin An's questions.

Chu An explained how she had managed the threats surrounding Lin An and why she had arranged for him to release the Second Lin An, while Lin An confronted the fragments of his violent past. The last Zombie was brought to him, with the Savior Mission nearly complete and Cain's Blade flashing on his panel.

• Chu An told Lin An that she knew his history from the Dragon An Plan and explained that he had been suppressing the powerful Second Lin An sealed in his memories.
• Lin An admitted that his memories showed him becoming a powerful, increasingly inhuman killer, and Chu An said he needed to release that power rather than keep suppressing it.
• Chu An explained that she had told Lin An to guard the Core Fortress so he could respond to the unexpected Spider Manufacturer and the second Mo Ling.
• Chu An revealed that she had tracked An Xia before Lin An entered the Amoeba Instance Dungeon and secretly prepared an Antidote Serum device to restore her consciousness.
• Chu An described how she had planned to use An Xia to make the Second Lin An retreat into the Memory Seal, then adapted her plan after the Spider Manufacturer's trap led Lin An to release him against the Thousand-Eyed Zombie.
• Gao Tian brought Lin An the last Zombie as the crowd watched, while the Savior Mission progress reached 99.99% and Cain's Blade began flashing.

Lin An killed the last zombie by imitating Second Lin An’s efficient Divine Thorn technique, triggering a global announcement that Dragon An Base had become the first official Safe Zone. As new System functions and rewards were revealed, Lin An discovered that the Savior System had hidden an orange-grade weapon, Cain’s Blade, inside his blue great axe.

• Lin An used a low-cost Divine Thorn to kill the bound zombie and briefly examined the damaged brain through his Mental Strength.
• The System announced that Lin An had completed the Safe Zone Mission, promoted Dragon An Base to an official Safe Zone, and granted rewards and new functions to Players.
• Players around the world reacted to the announcement and wondered who Lin An was, while China received a three-month reduction in mission difficulty.
• A pillar of light delivered the blue Splitter Great Axe into Lin An’s Sea of Consciousness, where he sensed a powerful weapon concealed inside it.
• The Savior System announced that Lin An had completed the Savior Mission and received Cain’s Blade, which appeared to have been hidden inside the great axe.

Lin An and Chu An realized that the Savior System had exploited loopholes to steal valuable rewards from the Apocalypse System, including Cain's Blade and possibly the Doomsday Base Vehicle. Lin An drew Cain's Blade from the Splitting Giant Axe and received confirmation that it was Epic Equipment.

• Lin An noticed the City Defense Mission had awarded more and better rewards than he remembered and suspected the Savior System had taken them from the Apocalypse System.
• Chu An agreed and theorized that the Savior System had tricked the Apocalypse System by making two City Defense Missions count as two high-difficulty missions.
• Lin An reasoned that the Savior System had converted the missions' rewards into valuable equipment, Reputation, and Titles while disguising Cain's Blade inside the Splitting Giant Axe.
• Chu An suggested that the Savior System might also have stolen the Doomsday Base Vehicle and deprived the Player who should have received the original reward.
• Lin An pulled the hidden longsword from the Splitting Giant Axe, and the System identified it as Epic Equipment: Cain's Blade.

Lin An examined Cain's Blade, whose immense power came with a dangerous influence, and debated whether to use it or nurture it as a trump card. Chu An urged him to wield it while they dealt with nearby hostile forces, and the chapter ended with plans to begin the killings in three days.

• Lin An inspected Cain's Blade and learned it boosted his attributes, restored Vitality, and could grow stronger through sacrificing people close to him.
• Lin An felt the blade eroding his thoughts and hesitated between using it as his main weapon and nurturing it in the Soul-Suppressing Sword Sheath.
• Chu An advised Lin An to use Cain's Blade to intimidate nearby forces before nurturing it after they had been dealt with.
• Lin An checked the Chat Channel and asked when they would act against the hostile forces.
• Chu An said the Death List would be ready in three days and identified two major forces, four small forces, and six Awakened targets for them to eliminate.

Lin An outlined Dragon An Base’s plans to annex the Wangjiang Military Region, strengthen combat training, and reorganize the Safe Zone as its population grew beyond the Land of Rules’ capacity. He ended by announcing that the Million Legion Plan would begin the next day, starting with advancing the base’s current members into Awakeners.

• Lin An declared that Dragon An Base would expand outward and seek to annex the Wangjiang Military Region to build its army and prepare for future threats.
• Lin An criticized the base’s lack of field combat and advancement, and An JingTian acknowledged that he had held the members back from hunting Mutants.
• Lin An said the Land of Rules could support only three hundred thousand people, while annexation and recruitment could bring the base’s population to two million.
• Gao Tian proposed dividing the base into an Inner City and an Outer City, and Lin An confirmed the plan and added a Credit Points system for Inner City residency permits.
• Huang HaiTao worried that the new policies would affect millions and considered warning his uncle to prepare.
• Lin An announced that the Million Legion Plan would begin the next day by advancing the current Dragon An Base members into Awakeners.

Lin An and Chu An revealed a plan to exploit the System’s attribute bonus, Awakening Potion, and Spiritual Energy Tower to rapidly create an Awakener legion. Lin An intended to build up to nearly ten million Awakeners before the Cataclysm so they could fight their enemies.

• Lin An told the core members that he and Chu An planned to turn Dragon An Base’s growing population into combat power by exploiting a System reward.
• Chu An revealed that the Intermediate Awakening Potion reduced awakening mortality by 60% and that the Spiritual Energy Tower made awakening practically risk-free.
• Chu An explained that members could reach nine attributes, leave the base to raise one attribute slightly, then rejoin and receive a System bonus that pushed them past the ten-point awakening threshold.
• The meeting’s attendees realized the method could quickly produce millions of Awakeners, limited mainly by the base’s capacity and potion materials.
• Lin An concluded that the Savior System’s rewards were meant to help him build a powerful force, and he planned to create nearly ten million Awakeners before the Cataclysm.

Lin An assigned Wen Ya to lead Dragon An Base’s external trade and explained how the newly opened Trade Channel worked. When Wen Ya questioned how they could afford the Skill Books and Spiritual Energy Fruits Lin An wanted, Gao Tian objected to selling weapons and Awakening Potions, then suggested robbing other factions instead.

• Lin An put Wen Ya in charge of establishing an External Affairs Department and preparing a list of supplies the base needed.
• Lin An explained that the Trade Channel allowed Awakened ones to buy, sell, and auction items, with the System handling delivery in exchange for Spiritual Energy.
• Lin An planned to trade unsuitable equipment for useful gear and seek Spiritual Energy Fruits, Skill Books, and missing Soul-Devouring Hand fragments.
• Wen Ya warned that Dragon An Base lacked the supplies to buy what Lin An wanted without selling weapons or Awakening Potions.
• Gao Tian objected to selling those vital supplies and suggested that they rob other factions instead.

Lin An revealed that the Contaminated Spiritual Energy Handgun could be used to attract valuable offers, though its apparent god-killing power was only an illusion. He put Wen Ya in charge of arranging a large, anonymous auction after Dragon An Base merged with the Wangjiang Military Region, using the sale to make the China War Zone aware of them.

• Lin An explained that he would not sell military supplies or Awakening Potions except at a high price, then produced the Contaminated Spiritual Energy Handgun as another way to trade for resources.
• Gao Tian, Mo Ling, Huang HaiTao, and Liang Shaoguang recognized the handgun and were stunned when its altered attributes made it appear capable of instantly killing Fourth Order targets.
• Mo Ling changed the handgun’s attributes to weak ones as a prank, and Lin An restored them and explained that the weapon’s godslaying description granted no real power.
• Lin An asked how much people would pay for the seemingly powerful weapon, and Huang HaiTao and the others said they would offer nearly everything they owned.
• Lin An handed the handgun to Wen Ya and told her to arrange a major auction after the merger with the Wangjiang Military Region, conceal their identity, and use Awakened Ones with trading or copying abilities to sell more than one.

Lin An confronted Chu An about An Xia’s condition and the Detonation Device, and Chu An explained that the Antidote Serum had restored her reason without removing her Mutant nature. An Xia woke and clung to Lin An, who promised not to leave her while realizing her Third Order strength could break his bones.

• Lin An accused Chu An of lying about An Xia and questioned how the Detonation Device had been attached to her.
• Chu An said he had swapped the device with An Xia’s cherished pendant by altering her memories, and denied altering Lin An’s memories.
• Chu An explained that An Xia’s thoughts had fused with the Zombie Virus, so the Antidote Serum restored her reason but left her with Mutant traits and the risk of losing control.
• An Xia burst into the conference room, clung to Lin An, and sobbed that she feared he had abandoned her.
• Lin An promised An Xia he would not leave her again while her grip made his bones creak.

Lin An won a Death Seed in the System draw and realized it could provide the power needed to resurrect Zhang Tie. The chapter ended with Yamamoto Ichiro claiming a mission reward in the island nation, only to receive a bottle of Coke instead.

• Lin An remembered his unclaimed System rewards and started the special draw, expecting the stingy System to give him something worthless.
• After An Xia urged the pointer onward, Lin An won the black Death Seed, which absorbed nearby dead humans’ vitality and Mental Strength and purified it.
• Lin An realized the Death Seed could supply the energy to resurrect Zhang Tie and asked Chu An whether ten Gathering Places would provide enough power.
• At the Sakura Nuclear Power Plant, Yamamoto Ichiro and his squad claimed their Death Grade mission reward after sacrificing many people to kill a nuclear-powered Special Mutant.
• Yamamoto Ichiro claimed the reward expecting the Death Seed, but the System gave him a bottle of Coke.

Yamamoto-kun and Ron discovered that their promised System rewards were empty or replaced, leaving them hunted and disgraced. In China, Lin Zhan’s military command discussed Lin An’s City Defense Mission reward and regretted not completing the mission first.

• Yamamoto-kun’s team identified the supposed Death Seed as Coca-Cola, and the System confirmed it was only a can of Coca-Cola.
• Ron fled Awakeners and military forces pursuing him after he could produce only an empty box for the reward he had earned by becoming the first Second-Order Awakener.
• Lin Zhan told the Capital Military Region command that Lin An had triggered the Global Announcement by completing Dragon An Base’s Safe Zone mission and starting its City Defense Mission.
• A major general complained that ordinary System missions yielded meager rewards, while Lin Zhan regretted that the Capital War Zone had not completed the City Defense Mission first.
• Lin Zhan considered Lin An’s generous rewards, including Blue Equipment and an attribute increase, and sensed that something was not right.