Chapter Summaries

Lin An waited for a new System mission, then accepted a dangerous task to kill a Tier 1 Mutant alone. He fired his rifle in an alley and drew a massive horde of zombies toward the squad as a Bone Chain Mutant charged at them.

• Han Youzhen warned Lin An about the dangers in the alley and told him to stay close to her.
• Lin An explained to Zhang Tie that he was waiting for the System to refresh a mission so he could raise his evaluation safely.
• The System offered Lin An three Tier 0 missions, and he accepted the danger-grade mission to kill a Tier 1 Mutant alone.
• Lin An fired his rifle, alerting zombies hidden in the alley and the nearby plaza.
• Han Youzhen urged the squad to break through and run back to the warehouse as a Bone Chain Mutant charged toward them.

Lin An used Mental Shock to kill the Mutant Butcher and saved the surrounded Survivors, then received a Spiritual Energy Submachine Gun as a mission reward. He gave the weapon to Han Youzhen and waited for the next advancement mission while the Zombie horde kept charging.

• The Mutant Butcher attacked as Han Youzhen and the Survivors tried to flee the Zombie horde, while Lin An remained calm.
• Lin An stopped the Butcher’s bone chain in midair and sent it back, crushing the Mutant Butcher and nearby Zombies with Mental Shock.
• Han Youzhen, Piao Zhengyan, and the other Survivors stared in shock at Lin An’s power, while Zhang Tie dismissed the threat.
• The System announced that Lin An had completed the Tier 0 Danger Grade mission and rewarded him with a Spiritual Energy Submachine Gun.
• Lin An tossed the weapon to Han Youzhen and waited for the next mission as she opened fire on the approaching Zombies.

As Han Youzhen’s squad was overwhelmed by zombies, Lin An accepted a dangerous mission and unleashed a Mental Storm that wiped out the horde and nearby Mutants. He walked away with Zhang Tie, leaving the stunned survivors to decide whether to follow.

• Han Youzhen’s squad struggled to hold back the zombie horde as Piao Zhengyan hid, regretting his earlier disrespect toward Lin An.
• Lin An accepted the highest-difficulty Advanced Mission, which required him to kill 1,000 zombies alone within twenty-four hours without technology-side weapons.
• Zombies broke through the squad’s defenses, and Han Youzhen rushed to save a companion as the others cried out for help.
• Lin An unleashed two Mental Storms that swept across nearly one thousand meters, destroying the zombies and Mutants in the area.
• Han Youzhen collapsed with a headache while the survivors stared at the devastation, and Lin An gave a leather jacket to the girl he had saved.
• Zhang Tie told the survivors they could follow Lin An but would not be responsible for them, and several hurried after the two men.

At the LT Hotel, Lin An rested with his team before a mission to resist a Peak Second Order Mutant, reflecting on his growing strength and the danger still ahead. He warned Zhang Tie that the apocalypse was only beginning and that Third Order Mutants and supernatural events could not be underestimated.

• Lin An and his team arrived at the LT Hotel after changing course and finding two Mercedes-Benz SUVs.
• Lin An explained that his mission was to hold off a Peak Second Order Mutant for six hours and that completing it would raise his System rating.
• Zhang Tie and Bear Dunce noticed Lin An seemed gentler, and Lin An connected the change to his conversation with his second self in the Secret Realm.
• Zhang Tie suggested revealing their strength to the military and working together to eliminate the Zombies.
• Lin An cautioned Zhang Tie that they had not truly faced a Third Order being and that Third Order Mutants possessed terrifying abilities.

Lin An warned Zhang Tie and Bear Dunce that the apocalypse’s growing Mutants, global disasters, and mutated wildlife posed threats far beyond their current strength. He restored power to the hotel and waited for a Second Order Mutant, planning to take Twin Star Base the next day as Dragon An Base’s people arrived.

• Lin An explained that his Mental Storms consumed too much energy to rely on against the vast numbers of Mutants.
• Bear Dunce argued that their growing strength could let them overcome the threats, but Lin An warned him about higher-order Mutants and escalating disasters.
• Lin An described the dangers posed by mutated animals, insects, and ocean life, leaving Bear Dunce and Zhang Tie shaken.
• Lin An said the capital’s situation was more complicated than expected and urged the others to stay alert while they developed steadily.
• Lin An gave Zhang Tie the Energy Core to restore the hotel’s power, and Bear Dunce apologized before returning to his room.
• Lin An watched the countdown to the Second Order Mutant and planned to take Twin Star Base the next day, around when Dragon An Base’s people would arrive.

At the LT Hotel, Li Enzhu prepared to seduce Lin An, believing his strength could secure her a better future. Han Youzhen confronted her over relying on a powerful man, leaving the girls divided as Li Enzhu calmly asked whether Han thought she was shameless.

• Han Youzhen watched Li Enzhu and the other girls enjoy the hotel's restored electricity, hot water, and comforts after escaping the academy.
• Li Enzhu and her companions speculated that Lin An was a powerful Second Order Awakener, perhaps the strongest in their War Zone.
• Li Enzhu dressed up and told Xiu Yan she planned to approach Lin An that night before he entered the Double Star Safe Zone.
• Xiu Yan warned Li Enzhu that Lin An seemed difficult to win over, but Li Enzhu insisted she would regret not trying.
• Han Youzhen confronted Li Enzhu, warning that relying on a powerful man could end in exploitation and sacrifice.
• Li Enzhu asked Han Youzhen whether she thought she was shameless.

Li Enzhu confronted Han Youzhen over her insistence that the group survive on their own, arguing that their losses and her own vulnerability made relying on Lin An their best hope. She left to meet him, determined to use her appearance to gain his mercy, while Han Youzhen was left questioning her own position and staring at the Spiritual Energy Submachine Gun.

• Han Youzhen urged Li Enzhu to rely on herself and warned her about trusting Lin An, but another companion also failed to persuade Li Enzhu.
• Li Enzhu accused Han Youzhen of being unable to protect the survivors and recalled that many of the twenty people who fled the academy had died.
• Li Enzhu revealed her resentment toward Han Youzhen and described her poverty, difficult work, and fear of dying in the apocalypse.
• Li Enzhu said she planned to rely on Lin An because her dignity could not keep her alive, then fixed her appearance before leaving to see him.
• Han Youzhen remained behind, looked at the Spiritual Energy Submachine Gun she had planned to return to Lin An, and wondered whether it represented the mercy Li Enzhu sought.

Lin An rejected Li Enzhu’s attempt to join him, but she warned him that Twin Star Base was conducting human experiments. As the mission countdown ended, a Mutant arrived at the hotel in the elevator, and Lin An pulled Li Enzhu to safety.

• Li Enzhu knocked on Lin An’s door with a map of Busan and tried to persuade him to let her follow him.
• Lin An told Li Enzhu to return to her room and said she could travel with him to Twin Star Base, but she refused to give up.
• Li Enzhu warned Lin An that ordinary people would suffer at Twin Star Base and that her friend there had reported human experiments.
• Han Youzhen came into the corridor with Lin An’s Spiritual Energy Weapon and saw Li Enzhu kneeling by him.
• As the mission countdown reached zero, the elevator arrived on the eighth floor, and Lin An pulled Li Enzhu inside while drawing his dark-red longsword.
• A twisted, ragged young man appeared in the elevator, and Lin An recognized him as Piao Zhengyan.

Lin An fought a Second-Order Mutant disguised as Piao Zhengyan, whose grotesque form repeatedly regenerated after being cut apart. He kept shredding the creature with his sword and Mental Strength, determined to destroy it completely.

• Lin An detected a strange presence in the elevator but found that his Mental Strength could not sense Piao Zhengyan.
• Piao Zhengyan emerged from the elevator, transformed into a monster, and crawled out of his own mouth in repeated forms before attacking Lin An.
• Lin An cut down the creature, which regenerated and accused Li Enzhu of betrayal, frightening her.
• Lin An slashed the creature again and blasted it into minced flesh with Mental Strength, while Zhang Tie rushed out to check on him.
• Lin An kept shredding the scattered flesh until it began turning to ash.

Lin An discovered that the monster he had killed was not its true body and was trapped in an illusion created by a psychic Mutant. He repeatedly used the Mechanical Compass and lethal attacks to break the illusion, which continued to adapt by showing people and scenes from his memories.

• Lin An realized that destroying the monster’s apparent body had not ended the fight, and Piao Zhengyan reappeared before the scene shifted into an illusion.
• The illusion showed Li Enzhu pleading and offering herself to Lin An, but he killed her and activated Insight with the Mechanical Compass.
• The illusion replaced Li Enzhu with Han Youzhen, and Lin An killed her as well, causing the room to shake and blur.
• The Mutant presented Wen Ya and then Mo Ling in scenes drawn from Lin An’s memories, but he continued attacking the illusions.
• The illusion shifted to Capital Square, where a general introduced Lin An as the capital’s highest authority, and Lin An destroyed the scene with Mental Storm.

Lin An used the Death God Mask to break the Mutant's Illusion Realm and kill it after seeing An Xia suffer in the illusion. The System cleared him of wrongdoing, raised his rating to Second Order Limit++, and urged him to complete the Trial Tower mission.

• Lin An saw an illusion of An Xia and An JingTian trapped as Huang Gang broke into their home, and his anger disrupted his escape from the Illusion Realm.
• Lin An activated Focus and the Death God Mask's Fear effect, shattering the Illusion Realm and forcing the Mutant to scream before it exploded.
• The System declared the mission complete, awarded Lin An an Illusion Shard, and flagged an equipment error.
• Lin An accepted the possibility of punishment, while Bear Dunce showed his resolve to enter another Punishment Sub-World Instance alongside him.
• The System confirmed the Death God Mask had been obtained normally, raised Lin An's strength rating to Second Order Limit++, and told him to complete the Trial Tower mission.
• Lin An realized the Apocalypse System believed he had drawn the Death God Mask through his own ability.

Lin An discovered that the Mutant had dropped an unusual Illusion Shard and learned that Twin Star Base was rumored to experiment on Survivors by mechanically modifying their bodies. As they traveled to the base, he considered whether the technology had existed before the apocalypse and whether other countries possessed it too.

• Lin An searched the ruined hotel for more shards after realizing the Illusion Shard had replaced the Mutant's other drops, then left for Twin Star Base with his team.
• Lin An told Bear Dunce that the Mutant had parasitized a human host and used Mental Strength to enter people's brains and create illusions.
• Lin An asked Li Enzhu about the human experiments rumored to take place at Twin Star Base, and she said modified Survivors became stronger but lost their ability to think.
• Lin An connected the rumors to Double Star Group's military-industrial power and recalled similar stories about the Capital Military Region, wondering how widespread the technology was before the apocalypse.

Lin An and his companions entered Twin Star Base, where he weighed taking its Safety Token or Spiritual Energy Node before deciding to gather supplies and investigate its human Modification Technology. At the city entrance, they witnessed harsh inspections that stripped Survivors of their dignity, while their display of Tier 2 strength let them bypass the line.

• Lin An scanned Twin Star Base and found a large, well-defended population resisting a Zombie Tide.
• Lin An decided not to take the Safety Token or Spiritual Energy Node and planned to gather supplies and examine the base’s Modification Technology.
• Zhang Tie drove the group through sentry checks into the Outer City, where Survivors queued for entry.
• A sentry officer rejected and dragged away a confused woman who failed to follow inspection orders, while her companions did nothing to help.
• Zhang Tie watched the degrading searches with anger, but Lin An’s order to reveal Tier 2 strength let their vehicle bypass the first checkpoint.

Lin An entered the Double Star Safe Zone and learned about its mechanically modified soldiers, but his attention shifted when soldiers chased a one-legged boy fleeing a Slave Camp. The boy's cries for help darkened Lin An and Bear Dunce's expressions as the chapter ended.

• Li Enzhu watched enviously as the group's vehicle bypassed the inspection queue and entered the city with special treatment.
• An Attendant Officer invited Lin An to a welcome banquet hosted by Jin Yicheng, but Lin An declined and asked about the patrolling soldiers.
• The Attendant Officer explained that the Mechanical Soldiers were modified to reach Tier 0 strength and could fight a First Order Mutant as a squad.
• Lin An prepared to approach the Mechanical Soldiers, then noticed soldiers chasing a one-legged boy who was crawling and shouting for help.
• The Attendant Officer identified the boy as an escapee from the Slave Camp, and Bear Dunce crushed the steering wheel in anger.

Lin An and Zhang Tie rescued Li Tian, a young Hua Country Awakener who had escaped from a laboratory where Hua Country people were being imprisoned and mutilated. After learning about the captives, Lin An decided to attack Twin Star Base’s Spiritual Energy Core while Zhang Tie went to investigate the detention camp, just as three Second-Order Awakeners arrived to confront them.

• Zhang Tie rescued Li Tian from the soldiers pursuing him, while Lin An used a Mental Strength link to learn what had happened.
• Li Tian told them that Twin Star Base had been arresting Hua Country people and that someone in a laboratory had cut off his leg.
• As soldiers and modified humans surrounded them, Zhang Tie asked Lin An whether to fight or investigate the laboratory.
• Lin An ordered Zhang Tie to find out what happened at the detention camp and said he would head straight for the Spiritual Energy Core to take down the base.
• Lin An learned that Wen Ya and the others were nine hours away with newly advanced Second-Order Awakeners, then unleashed his Coercive Pressure as three Second-Order Awakeners from Twin Star Base arrived.

Lin An and his companions attacked Twin Star Base after learning a boy was being held at its laboratory. Their assault overwhelmed the base’s defenses, and Jin Yicheng ordered his forces to stop Lin An as destruction spread through the Inner City.

• Lin An killed three charging Second-Order Awakeners with a burst of Mental Strength, then broke through the soldiers’ ranks as they opened fire.
• Bear Dunce transformed into a Silver Giant Bear and charged toward the laboratory, while Zhang Tie carried the boy and leaped through the encircling troops.
• The base’s soldiers tried to seize the Survivors left in the vehicles, and Han Youzhen reacted as other Survivors denied involvement and offered information.
• Jin Yicheng received reports of the attack, including three dead Second-Order Awakeners, and watched Lin An and his companions tear through the base’s defenses.
• Jin Yicheng ordered his Awakeners to retreat along the line and stop Lin An, while he struggled to understand how Lin An had killed the three Awakeners.

Lin An advanced through Twin Star Base's concentrated gunfire and rocket barrage without suffering a scratch, while the defenders panicked at his apparent invulnerability. He stopped to shield his eyes from the bullets as his system recorded damage and recovery data.

• Lin An walked through the fire of more than four hundred machine guns as bullets flattened against his body.
• Twin Star Base descended into chaos as troops scrambled to stop Lin An and fleeing Survivors were caught in stray fire.
• The temporary commander fired more than thirty rockets at Lin An, but the explosions failed to halt his advance.
• The Awakened Squad kept firing from a distance and tried to convince the soldiers that Lin An would eventually run out of energy.
• Lin An raised an arm to shield his eyes and read system data showing minor damage and an HP recovery rate of four per second.

Lin An tested his defenses against Twin Star Base’s conventional weapons and found that bullets and explosions barely harmed him. After the soldiers ran out of ammunition, seven Apache Armed Helicopters arrived and the base ordered a saturation strike.

• Lin An used his combat data system to assess incoming attacks and found that ordinary gunfire and explosive flames caused little damage.
• He considered testing his resistance against a nuclear bomb but could not use several powerful abilities, including Demon Form and the Causality Sequence.
• Lin An crushed a rocket-propelled grenade barehanded, then rushed to an armored car and asked the soldiers why they had stopped firing.
• A soldier told Lin An that the unit had exhausted its ammunition, and Lin An prepared to leave without killing more people.
• Seven Apache Armed Helicopters arrived as Twin Star Base’s forces withdrew and regrouped, and commanders ordered the helicopters and Awakened to launch a saturation strike.

Lin An retaliated against an aerial unit that attacked him with overwhelming firepower, crushing its Awakeners and stopping a hail of bullets in midair. He redirected the bullets toward the Apache helicopter, leaving its pilot facing the attack she had unleashed.

• The Apache helicopter’s cannon and missiles devastated the soldiers around Lin An, while its Awakened Squad attacked him.
• Lin An used Telekinesis to hurl Armored Cars at the Awakened Squad, crushing many and detonating the incoming missiles.
• Lin An flew toward the helicopters, raised a Mental Barrier, and halted tens of thousands of cannon rounds in midair.
• Lin An redirected the suspended bullets toward the Apache helicopter, and its pilot realized the Metal Torrent was coming for her.

At Twin Star Base’s War Readiness Center, Jin Yicheng learned that Lin An had devastated the Safe Zone’s defenses and that his strongest subordinate, Li Enshuo, had gone silent. Panicked and unable to identify or stop the attackers, Jin Yicheng ordered a retreat to protect himself and sought reinforcements from the Busan Safe Zone, the military, and the US Garrison.

• Jin Yicheng watched most of Twin Star Base’s surveillance feeds fail as Lin An advanced through the Safe Zone.
• A communications soldier reported that the Apache Squad had been wiped out, the weapons depot was under attack, and Li Enshuo had lost contact.
• Jin Yicheng killed the soldier in a rage after realizing Li Enshuo was likely dead.
• A high-ranking Mental Awakener urged Jin Yicheng to identify the enemy and rely on Awakeners rather than bombard the base.
• Jin Yicheng ordered troops and heavy weapons recalled, demanded air-force status, and called for all Awakeners to gather.
• Jin Yicheng asked the Busan Safe Zone, the military, and the US Garrison for reinforcements at any price.