Chapter Summaries

After the 81st Meme Incident killed 451 people, Luo Feng blamed Lin An and accused General Nie Ping of betrayal, but Xia Hua defended Nie Ping and said the victims had brought the disaster on themselves. In the Underground City, Nie Ping and Li Hao argued over Lin An and the senior officials’ plan as they faced a Bronze Gate behind which Demon Beasts roared.

• Luo Feng and the Huang and Wang families mourned their dead and blamed Lin An for the devastation caused by the 81st Meme Incident.
• Wang Hai accused Nie Ping and the Neutral Faction of attacking senior officials, but Xia Hua rejected the accusation and defended the decision to end the Meme by killing its original participants.
• Luo Feng apologized to Xia Hua for his accusations, then called for an emergency meeting and demanded that Lin An be killed.
• In the Underground City, Li Hao questioned Nie Ping’s support for Lin An and warned that Lin An could not overcome the apocalypse.
• Nie Ping criticized the senior officials’ plan to cooperate with Demon Beasts as he and Li Hao looked toward the Bronze Gate, guarded by more than four million members of the Awakener Legion.

Nie Ping learned why Li Hao supported the capital’s plan to ally with Demon Beasts and why he opposed Lin An. Li Hao insisted the capital had to stall for time against the Zombie hordes, then warned that Lin An was a dangerous monster who would cooperate even with Zombies to survive.

• Nie Ping questioned how the capital had hidden the Bronze Gate, and Li Hao explained that the Space Channel had emerged shortly before the Doomsday and that the capital knew little about it.
• Li Hao said the capital had chosen to ally with Demon Beasts because the isolated defense line could not withstand the Zombies alone, and the two enemy forces kept each other in check.
• Li Hao argued that opening the gate could threaten the Mutants and buy time, even at the cost of the soldiers’ lives, while Nie Ping asked whether this was why Li Hao opposed Lin An’s ideals.
• Li Hao called Lin An an enemy, arguing that the capital needed unity and that individual strength could not replace cooperation between technology and Awakened fighters.
• Li Hao accused Lin An of pursuing survival above all else, warned that he could slaughter a city or ally with Zombies, and flew back toward the Steel Wall after telling Nie Ping to choose his side carefully.

Nie Ping struggled to understand the conflict between Lin An and the capital, while the capital ordered a purge of Dragon An Base and authorized a tactical nuclear strike. At Dragon An Base, Chu An waited for the capital to announce Lin An’s treason so he could make its leaders retract their words.

• Nie Ping recalled Lin An’s murderous response in Death Test No. 9327 and realized the capital feared his recovering his memories and seeking revenge.
• Nie Ping suspected Chu An had left the capital to escape its corrupt factional struggles and restart hope through the Kindling Project.
• Luo Feng celebrated an emergency order directing military zones to purge Dragon An Base, use a tactical nuclear strike if necessary, and label Lin An a traitor.
• The capital’s forces prepared to spread the treason announcement as Dragon An Base members promoted their base to survivors.
• Chu An told Lin An he wanted to wait for the capital’s announcement because he enjoyed making people take back their words.

After Lin An’s victory, survivors in Auto Repair City tried to leave Feng Yi’s gathering place and seek refuge at Dragon An Base. Feng Yi arrived to persuade them to stay, but the crowd remained hostile and determined to go.

• Feng Yi refused to stop his subordinates from leaving for Dragon Security and went to negotiate with the departing survivors.
• Survivors gathered at Auto Repair City’s walls and demanded to be let out, citing Lin An and Dragon An Base as their hope for safety.
• Scarface threatened the crowd, but a middle-aged man defied him and demanded that the gates be opened for the sake of his daughter.
• The awakeners hesitated to attack, fearing Lin An’s retaliation after he had defeated nine factions.
• Feng Yi arrived, forced a smile, and claimed he had saved the survivors’ lives, but they glared at him with anger and mistrust.

Feng Yi used the Capital War Zone’s announcement branding Dragon An Base as rebels to frighten survivors away from joining it, while Lin Zhan’s military leaders prepared a nuclear strike against Lin An. The chapter ended with Lin Zhan revealing that the Capital intended to use Dragon An’s destruction and the resulting deaths to consolidate public support.

• Feng Yi threatened survivors bound for Dragon An Base with the dangers of the journey, but they insisted Lin An’s base would protect them.
• The Capital War Zone broadcast a nationwide order calling Dragon An Base a rebel force, forbidding anyone from joining it, and threatening a nuclear strike within twenty-four hours.
• Feng Yi’s subordinates surrounded the shocked survivors as he mocked their hopes of reaching Dragon An Base.
• In the Capital Military Region’s war room, Luo Feng praised the campaign that had silenced support for Lin An, and Lin Zhan ordered a saturation nuclear strike.
• Lin Zhan explained that destroying Dragon An would deter dissent and that the deaths caused by Lin An’s possible revenge would turn more people against him and toward the Capital.

Lin An and Chu An countered the capital’s threat against Dragon An Base by sending officials links to the Meme Doll and War Zone Broadcast Authority, showing they could target powerful figures directly. The capital’s leaders and other factions panicked, and Li Hao ordered a scapegoat named for the earlier message as he accepted defeat for now.

• At a meeting, Luo Feng pressured Gao Wang and the Neutral Faction until Xia Hua displayed two item links sent by Lin An: the Meme Doll and War Zone Broadcast Authority.
• Lin Zhan smashed the conference table, while Luo Feng and other officials panicked at the threat; Wang Guixian also received a death message as his family broadcast in Declaration Square.
• At Dragon An Base, Chu An explained that his counterattack aimed to force the capital to retract its order, reassure the Neutral Faction, and warn the Military Faction.
• Survivors across the Huan Jiang Three Provinces froze as factions spread conflicting messages about Dragon An Base and the capital’s threat.
• In the Underground City, Li Hao recognized Lin An’s trump card, admitted that his side had lost this round, and ordered the person responsible for the earlier message to be made a scapegoat.

Wang Guixian was arrested as the Capital Military Region reversed its accusations against Lin An and granted Dragon An Base authority over the Huan Jiang Three Provinces. The reversal exposed Luo Feng’s crimes, and the chapter ended with Wang Meng realizing that his military region had become Lin An’s subordinate.

• Soldiers arrested Wang Guixian at Declaration Square, and he accused Luo Feng of framing him and misusing military supplies.
• Wang Guixian revealed Luo Feng’s alleged corruption and role in the 81st Meme Incident, so Luo Feng shot him to silence him.
• Xia Hua’s Enforcement Team arrested Luo Feng for murder and other suspected crimes.
• Feng Yi threatened a middle-aged man and his daughter at Linjiang Auto Repair City, but a subordinate interrupted him with news from the Chat Channel.
• The Capital Military Region withdrew its accusations against Lin An, granted Dragon An Base command authority over the Huan Jiang Three Provinces, and announced Wang Guixian’s execution.
• Wang Meng read the announcement and realized that his military region had become Lin An’s subordinate.

Acting Commander Zhou Tianming ordered the Huanjiang Military Region to accept Dragon Security’s command after the capital granted Lin An authority over the Huan Jiang Three Provinces. Lin An explained that the commendation was a political trap, and revealed that the Huanjiang Military Region was already facing a dangerous Supernatural Event.

• Legion Commander Zhao Jun stormed into the Command Room and demanded to know why the capital had placed the Huanjiang Military Region under Lin An.
• Acting Commander Zhou Tianming recalled the Old Chief’s order to accept Dragon Security’s command and cooperate with it fully.
• Zhou Tianming told the officers that a soldier’s duty was to obey orders, while the room’s personnel felt abandoned by the capital.
• Lin An asked Senior Colonel Chu An how he had persuaded the capital, and Chu An revealed he had sent over ten copies of Broadcast Authority forged by Li Xingwen.
• Lin An told Gao Tian that authority over the three provinces was a hot potato, noting that the Lin Jiang Military Region had vanished and that the Huanjiang Military Region faced an extremely difficult Supernatural Event.

Lin An and Chu An explained that the Capital had used the offer of command over three provinces to bind Dragon Security with responsibility and weaken it from within. Lin An chose to accept the challenge and ordered the base to seize the military region, leaving his people prepared to expand their territory.

• Lin An told Gao Tian and An JingTian that taking over the Huanjiang Military Region would also saddle Dragon Security with responsibility for its dangerous Supernatural Event.
• Chu An explained that the Capital's offer was an open conspiracy designed to make Dragon Security absorb military personnel and crises until it could be controlled from within.
• Wen Ya suggested refusing the offer, but Lin An and Chu An insisted that refusing would only let the Capital undermine them in secret.
• Lin An ordered everyone to set out and take over the Wangjiang Military Region, declaring the Huanjiang Three Provinces their territory.
• Huang Zheng watched Lin An and remarked that the apocalypse had allowed him to rise in a single step, while Huang HaiTao responded in silence.

Lin An took control of the Wangjiang Military Region and ordered its people and equipment moved to Dragon An Base. When Wang Meng proposed keeping a separate Safe Zone, Lin An crushed the dissent and demanded unconditional obedience.

• Wang Meng and the Wangjiang Military Region personnel became Lin An's subordinates after Dragon An Base secretly replaced the command structure.
• Lin An ordered everyone to relocate to Dragon An Base and sent Gao Tian and Mo Ling to seize the Air Force Base.
• Wang Meng suggested that the military region keep the Safety Token and establish its own Safe Zone, and Huang Yan said Lin An no longer needed the token.
• Lin An seized Huang Yan with Telekinesis, broke through the Command Room, and announced that the Wangjiang Military Region would obey Dragon An Base or die.
• Lin An hurled Huang Yan into bound personnel and killed surviving rebels with Mental Strength, leaving the crowd terrified.

After taking control of the Wangjiang Military Region, Lin An learned that the Savior System had issued a new mission requiring him to accept a special mission and raise his unequipped attributes to 40. He concluded that he needed to enter a Secret Realm soon and considered the Gate of Desire and Back Yin Mountain as possible destinations.

• Lin An crushed resistance in the Wangjiang Military Region, seized control of its Tactical Nuclear Bombs, and sent its people toward Dragon An Base.
• Lin An told Chu An and Zhang Tie that the Savior System had issued him a mission called Transcendence, with a one-week deadline to accept a special mission and a requirement to reach 40 attribute points.
• Lin An and Chu An reasoned that the Savior System had intercepted a punishment mission and was urging him to leave the real world before another one arrived.
• Lin An explained that he would need to enter a Secret Realm and identified the Gate of Desire and Back Yin Mountain as possible candidates.
• Lin An showed the Eye of Fear and discussed Back Yin Mountain, where he had encountered the Moon Wolf, as Zhang Tie recalled the strange creature and its connection to Liang Shaoguang.

Lin An questioned Huang Shao Hua about the Moon Wolf fang and learned how Secret Realms and instances were classified, including the dangers of an Ancient fantasy-type realm. He then asked about the limits of Second Order strength and what fundamentally separated it from Third Order, but the chapter ended before Huang Shao Hua answered.

• Lin An dismissed Zhang Tie’s offer to investigate, trusting Mo Ling and An Xia to handle a First Order Mutant outside the convoy.
• Lin An woke Huang Shao Hua with his Mental Strength and asked what he knew about Wolf Fang and the Back Yin Mountain Secret Realm.
• Huang Shao Hua explained that worlds were categorized as ancient, modern, future, or fantasy, while their disasters were classified as natural disasters, doomsday, calamity, or cataclysm.
• Huang Shao Hua guessed that the Back Yin Mountain Secret Realm was an Ancient fantasy-type realm that could contain Zombies, supernatural creatures, Fierce Ghosts, and natural disasters.
• Lin An asked Huang Shao Hua why Second Order Peak stats reached forty points and what distinguished Third Order from Second Order.

Huang Shao Hua and Senior Colonel Chu explained that Tier 3 fighters unlocked the Gene Lock, letting them unleash strength beyond their ordinary limits. Lin An learned that high attributes alone did not provide the same power and asked whether the Gene Lock could be unlocked at a lower tier.

• Lin An asked Huang Shao Hua what unlocking the Gene Lock meant and why matching a Tier 3 fighter’s attributes did not let him fight one equally.
• Huang Shao Hua explained that people instinctively hold back to protect their bodies, while the Gene Lock let Tier 3 fighters unleash their full strength and more.
• Senior Colonel Chu described military research linking extreme situations to surges of strength, and warned that survivors could suffer genetic collapse and shortened lifespans.
• Bear Dunce recalled jumping a wall while fleeing as a child and joked that he had unlocked the Gene Lock then.
• Huang Shao Hua explained that Tier 3 fighters could make every attack stronger than their base attributes allowed, and said a weak body could not withstand unlocking the Gene Lock early.
• Huang Shao Hua compared the Gene Lock to Awakening and said that reaching around 29.9 attribute points greatly reduced the risk of bodily collapse.

Lin An learned that high basic attributes before unlocking the Third-Order Gene Lock could reduce the risk of bodily collapse and might be essential to reaching the Fourth Order, so he redirected the auction plan toward attribute-boosting items. Chu An explained that her bait-and-switch scheme would exploit foreign agents operating inside the China War Zone, while the chapter left Lin An reflecting on humanity’s conflicts amid the apocalypse.

• Huang Shao Hua explained that awakeners who unlocked the Gene Lock with low unequipped attributes risked bodily collapse, and Lin An connected this to the possible requirements for advancing to the Fourth Order.
• Lin An told Chu An to prioritize Spiritual Energy Fruits and attribute-boosting items at the auction, and Chu An said she would try to obtain as many as possible.
• Chu An outlined a plan to spread false information that a divine artifact had been stolen from Lin An and use his public pursuit of the thief as bait.
• Lin An questioned how the plan would lure foreign forces, and Chu An said foreign agents inside China could carry the information across war-zone boundaries.
• Gao Tian asked whether foreign agents were still active during the apocalypse, and Chu An said some countries saw the chaos as an opportunity to invade and subvert others.
• Lin An remembered that civil wars and even a nuclear war had occurred in his previous life, and he reflected that humanity itself remained its own enemy.

News that an Epic weapon once used by Lin An was being auctioned in the Trade Channel reached the Great Korean War Zone, where President Li Enzhi saw it as a chance to retake the Air Force Base. She ordered officials to keep the information secret and obtain the equipment at any cost.

• A seller listed Lin An's Epic equipment, Annihilation, in the Trade Channel, and its powerful attributes and skills sparked widespread excitement and speculation.
• Piao Yuan Dao sent the auction information to Cheongwadae, prompting Korean officials and an infiltrating combat squad to relay the news home.
• At Cheongwadae, Li Enzhi asked a Second-Order Awakener whether Annihilation could help reclaim the Air Force Base, and he confirmed that its skills suited the mission.
• Li Enzhi ordered officials to conceal the information from the stationed troops and obtain the equipment at any cost.

Li Enzhi faced the collapse of the Great Korean War Zone and considered its few options for survival. His officials learned that Lin An’s stolen Epic weapon was being auctioned, and they recognized it could help them reclaim an Air Force Base occupied by Mutants.

• Li Enzhi reflected on the devastation in Korea, the threats from North Korea and American troops, and the possibility of retreating or migrating to the China War Zone.
• A subordinate told Li Enzhi that the unassigned high-ranking officials had gathered in the conference room.
• The Chief of Staff questioned whether reports that Lin An’s equipment was for sale were reliable, and Li Enzhi’s secretary explained that Lin An had issued a kill order against the seller.
• The Chief of Staff recognized that the weapon’s Mental Strength attacks could destroy monsters without damaging the fighter jets, fuel, or missiles at the occupied Air Force Base.

The Great Korean War Zone scrambled to gather resources for Lin An's auction, while Lin An prepared forged Epic Equipment tailored to six forces. The auction was about to begin, with the Korean government set to be the first buyer and an unwitting accomplice in drawing in the others.

• The Secretary-General and Chief of Staff interpreted the chance to join the auction as a stroke of luck for the Great Korean Race.
• Li Enzhi and his officials counted their limited auction offerings and considered risking Awakened lives to transport more resources for the equipment they wanted.
• Gao Tian celebrated the more than one hundred White Equipment pieces submitted as entry fees, while Lin An explained that the Great Korean War Zone would help attract other bidders.
• Lin An revealed that he had prepared six forged Epic Equipment pieces for two China War Zone forces and four foreign war zones.
• Chu An customized the equipment descriptions to match each force's needs, including the Great Korean War Zone's fight against Mutants at the Air Force Base.

The auction for Lin An’s equipment became a contest between the China War Zone factions and the Great Korean War Zone as the Capital Military Region tried to suppress bidding. Lin An secretly encouraged Korean participants to raise their offers, and Li Enzhi received instructions to add whatever resources she could.

• The auction opened, and China War Zone factions drove the price up to eleven Spiritual Energy Fruits and Blue Equipment.
• Li Enzhi ordered Korean infiltrators to bid twelve Spiritual Energy Fruits, while Lin Zhan investigated the anonymous rival and urged other Chinese factions to stop raising the price.
• The Capital Military Region’s pressure slowed the bidding, though some faction leaders resented being prevented from offering more.
• Wen Ya told Lin An that the Capital Military Region was suppressing rival bidders, so Lin An ordered his people to raise the price and encouraged Korean participants to pay with any resources they had.
• The auction price surged to sixteen Spiritual Energy Fruits and substantial equipment, prompting Lin Zhan to suspect the new bidders were decoys and refuse to match their offer.
• Li Enzhi received a mysterious message telling her to add more money and use whatever resources she had.

Li Enzhi’s government negotiated with Lin An over a trade, repeatedly offering weapons and food as Lin demanded more. Lin left the chapter pressing them to keep adding supplies, while Li Enzhi and his generals faced another demand.

• Li Enzhi’s officials offered THAAD systems and tanks, but Lin An replied, “More money.”
• Li Enzhi’s government added combat equipment and missiles, yet Lin demanded more again.
• The Defense Minister urged Li Enzhi to keep negotiating as part of a fallback plan to seize an air force base and enter the China War Zone.
• Li Enzhi offered food, and Lin demanded one million ration packs, rice, meat, and peach-flavored canned fruit; Li agreed to provide less food and required Lin to collect it.
• At Dragon An Base, Bear Dunce celebrated the proposed trade, but Lin An told him to keep demanding supplies.
• Li Enzhi and the senior generals received Lin’s latest message: “Add more money.”

Li Enzhi reluctantly approved a costly trade with Lin An’s group, while Lin An exchanged a forged toy handgun for valuable supplies and equipment. After receiving Ralph Milai’s Scalpel, Lin An recalled the Great Korean War Zone’s legendary Bagua Mirror and began modifying the handgun’s description to target it.

• Li Enzhi ordered her forces to raise their offer and include Blue Equipment, while a military Awakened proposed tracking the mysterious seller and hunting him down.
• Wen Ya told Lin An that the capital had tried to recruit the supposed thief and warned that they believed Lin An might use a catastrophic item against him.
• Lin An agreed to trade a toy handgun for fourteen Spiritual Energy Fruits, two pieces of Blue Equipment, one Blue Special Item, weapons and equipment, and a thousand tons of food.
• Lin An examined Ralph Milai’s Scalpel and recalled that the Great Korean War Zone had once obtained a Bagua Mirror through a dangerous disguise trick.
• Lin An began modifying the forged Spiritual Energy Handgun’s description and sent it to the Great Korean War Zone.