Recaps

Sun Hongchang's family fled a pursuing horde of zombies, and Sun Haobo stayed behind to give them time to escape. Instead of attacking him, two approaching groups of zombies tore apart the ones chasing him and then stood still, leaving Sun Haobo to flee in another direction.

• As the zombies caught up, Sun Hongchang prepared to stay behind, but Sun Haobo pushed him onward and ran toward the horde himself.
• Sun Hongchang's wife pointed out two larger groups of zombies approaching from either side, so he took his daughter and continued running with her.
• Sun Haobo shouted to draw the pursuing zombies toward himself, expecting to be killed.
• The two groups of zombies blocked the pursuers and tore them apart, then stood still.
• Sun Haobo fled in another direction instead of running after his family.

Sun Hongchang’s family met a group inviting survivors to join a settlement in a nearby town, while Sun Haobo caught up with them after encountering zombies that fought among themselves. Chu Xi began explaining that the strange zombies were connected to the evolution of zombies.

• Five young survivors blocked Sun Hongchang’s family and invited them to join the settlement in the town ahead.
• Sun Hongchang hesitated because the town was near the fallen Bright Settlement and might be threatened by its enormous zombie horde.
• Chu Xi revealed that she and her companions had also escaped from Bright Settlement.
• Sun Haobo reunited with his family and described seeing strange zombies fight each other without attacking him.
• Chu Xi asked whether Sun Haobo knew about evolution and explained that original zombies were stronger, larger, and intelligent.

Sun Hongchang and the others learned that zombies could evolve, but also heard that humans could evolve and that the settlement’s leader controlled zombies. With their old settlement destroyed, they were asked to join the new one.

• Sun Hongchang and the others explained that they had escaped their breached settlement after its leader warned civilians to evacuate.
• The group learned that Type II zombies might evolve into stronger, faster, intelligent beings with supernatural abilities.
• Sun Hongchang and the others feared that evolving zombies put humanity in even greater danger.
• The speaker explained that some humans had developed antibodies and could evolve by surviving the virus’s changes.
• The speaker said their leader was an evolved person who controlled the strange, nonattacking zombies and offered the group safety if they joined the settlement.
• Sun Hongchang and the others were asked whether they would join the newly established settlement.

Wang Bujian’s group recruited Sun Hongchang’s family and gave them vegetables to gather from the fields. After meeting Wang Bujian, the family settled in and prepared a meal.

• Sun Haobo, Sun Hongchang, and Kong Li explained their farming, labor, water-treatment, and mending experience, and Wei Dong and Wen Kai welcomed the family.
• The group took the family to the fields, where Sun Haobo gathered vegetables and edible wild plants for them.
• Han Po and the others brought the family to Wang Bujian, who said the town’s zombies obeyed him and that only zombies with marks on their foreheads would not attack people.
• Sun Hongchang and Kong Li washed the vegetables and cooked dishes with canned meat and hand-rolled noodles.

Wang Bujian fed the survivors and organized the town’s defenses, putting Sun Haobo in charge of directing zombies to build a wall. The work continued through the night, and Han Po’s group woke after three in the morning as the zombies kept working.

• Liu Xiangqin brought Wang Bujian noodles and wild vegetable dishes at the cleaned-up villa where he was staying.
• After eating, Wang Bujian sent zombies to clear the surrounding fields and capture wandering zombies to protect the town and future farmers.
• Wang Bujian asked the survivors whether anyone knew how to build a city wall, and Sun Haobo agreed to direct the work with help from Sun Hongchang’s bricklaying experience.
• Sun Haobo led several thousand zombies in building the wall, using cement from a local store while Wang Bujian sent zombies to search for more supplies.
• The work continued until dawn, when Sun Haobo went to sleep from exhaustion and the zombies kept mixing cement and digging pits; Han Po’s group woke sometime after three in the morning.

Wang Bujian sent five people to recruit survivors and learned that refugees had reached the nearby town. At Aurora Settlement, leader Wan Wu heard that a settlement nearby had fallen to a horde of millions and sent a team to check whether the zombies were moving toward them.

• Wang Bujian sent five former search-team members to recruit as many survivors as possible.
• Wang Bujian controlled a zombie to tell Han Po and the others that living people were in the town ahead.
• Han Po and the others headed toward the town, where refugees from a fallen settlement had found shelter at Aurora Settlement.
• Aurora Settlement leader Wan Wu learned that a zombie horde of millions had overrun the large settlement nearby.
• Wan Wu dispatched a team to investigate the horde's movements.

Han Po and the survivors from the fallen large settlement reached Aurora Settlement and warned Wan Wu that a powerful Original Zombie had led a massive horde in the attack. The chapter ended with Wan Wu realizing that the Original Zombie explained why the large settlement had fallen so quickly.

• Aurora Settlement's people hesitated to leave their home and crops, but feared the nearby horde of several million zombies.
• Han Po and the others arrived in a small town and recalled that its leader was Wan Wu.
• Wan Wu welcomed Han Po and asked whether the large settlement had really fallen and where Tian Hao was.
• Han Po explained that an Original Zombie had personally led the zombies in an attack on the settlement.
• Wan Wu realized the Original Zombie had made the settlement's rapid defeat possible.

Wan Wu invited Han Po and his companions to join Aurora Settlement after explaining how an Original Zombie had led the attack that destroyed their settlement. The five declined because they had already pledged themselves to Wang Bujian and feared his retaliation.

• Wan Wu realized that an intelligent Original Zombie had commanded the zombie tide that breached the settlement, making its defeat unavoidable.
• Wan Wu lamented humanity’s dwindling population, loss of technology, and lack of weapons against the evolving zombies.
• Wan Wu invited Han Po and the other four survivors to stay at Aurora Settlement, offering them a chance to rise through its ranks.
• Han Po refused, saying they did not want Wang Bujian to misunderstand their decision.
• Wei Dong claimed that the group had pledged themselves to a wise and mighty leader, leaving the others incredulous.

Wan Wu asked Han Po how his leader compared to Tian Hao, and Han Po said they were beyond comparison. The group left Wang Bujian’s abilities and leadership unjudged overall, but recognized that his power to protect survivors set him apart.

• Wan Wu asked whether Han Po’s group had come to cooperate and trade supplies, and Han Po explained that they were searching for survivors under their leader’s orders.
• Wan Wu asked how Han Po’s leader compared with Tian Hao, whom he admired for building and managing a large settlement.
• Han Po and the others recalled that Tian Hao and Wang Bujian had different leadership styles and that Wang Bujian’s settlement was still in its early stages.
• Han Po said Wang Bujian’s special ability to guarantee survivors’ safety was something Tian Hao could not match.
• Han Po answered that the two leaders were beyond comparison.

Wan Wu learned that Wang Bujian was an awakened human evolver and the first of his kind, a revelation that challenged what he believed about humanity’s fate. He remained skeptical but pressed Han Po and the others to confirm that their claim was true.

• Han Po and the others praised Tian Hao’s leadership, then said their new leader, Wang Bujian, had an ability that could make people submit.
• Wan Wu explained that he preferred his independent life and did not intend to join their faction.
• Han Po said Wang Bujian was the first awakened human evolver, offering hope that humans could evolve too.
• Wan Wu reacted with shock and asked whether they were telling the truth.
• Han Po, Wei Dong, and Wen Kai insisted they had seen Wang Bujian’s evolution with their own eyes.

Shen Yu recalled the strange voice announcing a horror game that everyone else seemed to have forgotten. At school, he noticed Song Xiaojie’s discomfort after the math representative made a remark about her, and Song Xiaojie then approached his seat.

• Shen Yu remembered that more than a month had passed since he heard the announcement about the horror game, and that nobody else recalled it.
• The math representative collected Shen Yu’s homework and noticed Song Xiaojie watching her before Song lowered her head.
• The math representative muttered that Song Xiaojie was creepy and mentioned that someone had come looking for her, then quickly left.
• Shen Yu recalled that he had once found Song Xiaojie crying and helped her, though they had not spoken since.
• Song Xiaojie came to Shen Yu’s seat and stood beside him.

Shen Yu left school, rode the bus home, and sensed a tiny creature watching him from a leafy tree. The chapter ended with him returning home without discovering what was in the tree.

• Song Xiaojie thanked Shen Yu and hurried away, and the math class representative warned him to keep his distance from her family troubles and enemies.
• Shen Yu acknowledged the warning, then packed up and left school for home.
• On the bus, Shen Yu watched the driver and considered how the safety barrier could prevent passengers from helping in an emergency.
• After getting off in his small city, Shen Yu passed beneath a leafy tree and felt a hidden creature watching him.
• Shen Yu left the creature undisturbed and returned home.

Shen Yu returned home and joined his parents for dinner, while his extraordinary memory continued to consume so much energy that he remained dangerously thin. The chapter ended as a doctor questioned Shen Yu after he woke from a childhood fainting spell.

• Shen Yu came home, and Shen Dahai told him dinner was ready and asked him to call Shu Yu.
• Shu Yu saved her work, left her room, and worried that Shen Yu was too thin.
• Shen Yu explained that his Hyperthymesia constantly recorded information and required more calories than he could replace.
• Shen Dahai and Shu Yu recalled how Shen Yu had fainted as a child despite eating regular, nutritious meals.
• After Shen Yu woke with a glucose IV, the doctor questioned him.

Shen Yu’s parents and doctor discovered that he had remembered events from birth and could not forget anything he saw. The doctor warned them to watch for symptoms associated with Hyperthymesia, but his diagnosis remained unfinished.

• The doctor and Shen Yu’s parents were astonished when Shen Yu recalled being born.
• Shen Dahai remembered that Shen Yu had cried to alert his family when a kidnapper tried to take him as a newborn.
• Shu Yu realized Shen Yu had long remembered things she herself had forgotten and asked why he had never told her.
• Shen Yu explained that he had assumed everyone was born with memories and awareness.
• The doctor learned that Shen Yu never forgot what he saw and that his brain constantly processed information.
• The doctor said Shen Yu’s symptoms resembled Hyperthymesia and warned his parents to watch for insomnia, irritability, and anxiety.

Shen Yu recalled his parents learning that he had three rare abilities and choosing to raise him in an ordinary, peaceful city. At seventeen, he heard a faint bird chirp during a sudden storm, but found no bird in the tree and returned home for a nap before attending class.

• A doctor warned Shen Dahai and Shu Yu to raise Shen Yu carefully because he had three exceptional abilities, including an extremely rare one.
• Shen Dahai and Shu Yu left their jobs in the big city, settled in a small city, and raised Shen Yu there until he was seventeen.
• After lunch, Shen Yu went for a walk and heard a faint chirp from a tree as a storm began.
• Shen Yu climbed into the tree and glimpsed what looked like a white bird, but it vanished when the wind stopped.
• Shen Yu returned home, napped, and went to class that afternoon.

Shen Yu found a heart-marked letter on his desk and learned that his classmate Wang Huan wanted it back. After Shen Yu beat Wang Huan and his companions in an alley, they apologized with unusually clear eyes.

• Lin Ling told Shen Yu that someone had left a heart-marked letter on his desk, and he put it in his backpack after teasing the boys who tried to read it.
• A faint red Marriage Thread appeared where Shen Yu had touched the letter and began spreading along his veins.
• After school, Wang Huan and several others blocked Shen Yu at an alley entrance and demanded the letter.
• Shen Yu dodged their attack, led them into the alley, and beat them.
• Wang Huan and the others apologized as their eyes became clearer and their expressions turned innocent.

Shen Yu defeated Wang Huan and his friends, then decided not to pursue who had left the letter. At home, he investigated the classroom surveillance footage and discovered that the recording briefly went black just before six, after which a white object appeared on his desk.

• Shen Yu questioned Wang Huan and his friends about the letter, and they said they did not know who had left it.
• Shen Yu warned Wang Huan and the others not to cause more trouble and chose to ignore the letter’s sender.
• Shen Yu borrowed Shu Yu’s computer and searched for information before erasing his online traces and disconnecting from the network.
• Shen Yu reviewed the classroom surveillance footage and saw it go black briefly just before six.
• Shen Yu found that a white object appeared on his desk when the surveillance image returned.

Shen Yu investigated the mysterious letter that appeared during a three-second surveillance blackout and considered who might have delivered it. He suspected the letter was connected to Song Xiaojie, whose troubles at school and at home he could not solve simply by protecting her himself.

• Shen Yu confirmed that the original surveillance footage had gone black for three seconds when the letter appeared, without being altered or replaced.
• Shen Yu reasoned that no one could have entered the classroom, placed the neatly arranged letter, and left during the brief blackout.
• Shen Yu drew on his detailed profiles of all thirty-four classmates as he searched for someone connected to the letter.
• Shen Yu focused on Song Xiaojie, who was largely ignored by her classmates despite being repeatedly targeted at school and outside it.
• Shen Yu recalled that he had once intervened for Song Xiaojie, but concluded that her family problems and surroundings still left her vulnerable.
• Shen Yu suspected the letter was related to Song Xiaojie, though not merely because he had helped her before.

Shen Yu examined Song Xiaojie's bold love letter and wondered what had pushed her to write it. After copying files from his mother's computer and covering his tracks, he left home to look into the matter.

• Shen Yu recognized Song Xiaojie's handwriting on the love letter and decided he needed to contact her.
• Shen Yu reflected on how he noticed both the malice and goodness in people, and joked that his authority came from his fists.
• Shen Yu copied files onto a USB drive, sent a message with a program, and erased traces of his activity on the computer.
• Shen Yu told Shen Dahai and Shu Yu that he was heading out, and his parents let him go.

Shen Yu paid Crow to investigate a woman and bought a computer and phone to continue examining information about Song Xiaojie. After uncovering her family’s financial troubles, he found a hidden livestream featuring a lively girl in a cat-ear outfit.

• Shen Yu met Crow, collected cash and a black card, and asked him to investigate a woman’s recent contacts despite the possible danger.
• Crow agreed to investigate and said he would bring Shen Yu news in a few days.
• Shen Yu bought a desktop computer and phone, then retrieved several unregistered SIM cards from his room.
• Shen Yu reviewed information about Song Xiaojie and learned that her father owed a large debt and their apartment had been auctioned, while her grandparents still had an old house.
• Shen Yu used proxies and zombie computers to access a hidden livestream room where a girl in a black-and-purple outfit was singing.

Shen Yu watched Song Xiaojie’s livestream and realized her behavior had changed, prompting him to investigate what had happened to her. While searching online for clues about the mysterious Horror Game, he found a post from a neighboring city describing a day that felt as though it had repeated.

• Song Xiaojie thanked her livestream audience and promised to repay their support, but Shen Yu recognized that something was wrong with her.
• Shen Yu left the livestream and considered the unexplained Horror Game and the missing memories associated with it.
• Shen Yu searched online posts for unusual activity and found one from a neighboring city that described a man’s day seeming to repeat.
• Commenters on the post suggested the man might be experiencing déjà vu.

A Tieba poster claimed he was reliving the same day, but every attempt to change events made things worse. After his daughter was hospitalized and might never wake up, readers noticed his posts appeared to be dated before they were written, though they suspected he was entertaining them.

• The OP posted that his workday repeated exactly, from his daughter falling to his lost wallet, and asked if he was trapped in the day.
• Tieba users mocked the OP and accused him of making up a time-loop story.
• The OP said he woke late, took a taxi, and his daughter twisted her ankle while getting off the school bus.
• The OP reported that his daughter later fell down the stairs, hit her head, and was hospitalized with little chance of waking up.
• Tieba users noticed the dates on the OP’s posts seemed to precede their actual posting times, then wondered if a hacker or a prankster was behind them.

Shen Yu investigated reports about a mysterious game and learned that another person had heard the same voice. Crow also told him that Song Xiaojie's father had died of acute alcohol poisoning, which appeared to be an accidental death.

• Shen Yu sifted through online posts about supernatural events and found a recent account of someone trapped in a repeating day.
• Shen Yu confirmed that the post's data had been altered by an inexplicable force and suspected its mention of a game was connected to the voice he had heard.
• Shen Yu contacted Crow to investigate the voice and the changes in Song Xiaojie.
• Crow told Shen Yu that someone else had heard the voice, and that Song Xiaojie's father had died the day before from what appeared to be accidental alcohol poisoning.
• Shen Yu acknowledged Crow's message, and Crow asked whether he should continue investigating.

After realizing that the love letter’s changing words were connected to the other strange events around him, Shen Yu decided he had been targeted by an inexplicable threat. He left home to search for a way to survive, while his parents agreed to cover for his absence.

• Shen Yu told Crow to prepare information, extra food and water, and weapons, and Crow agreed.
• Shen Yu found that the contents of the love letter had changed and concluded that an anomaly had targeted him.
• Shen Yu told Shu Yu and Shen Dahai he needed to leave for a few days, and they agreed to request leave from school as long as he stayed safe.
• Shen Yu packed necessities, changed out of his school uniform, and left wearing a mask and cap.
• Shu Yu admired Shen Yu’s outfit as he entered the elevator, while Shen Dahai recalled once wanting to become a mercenary.

Shen Dahai settled into a stable life as a general manager, while Shen Yu traveled to find Xiao Jie. At Xiao Jie’s old neighborhood, Shen Yu learned that several residents had not been seen for days, and the woman who mentioned them quickly forgot her friend Mei Ling.

• Shen Dahai had become a general manager earning 300,000 yuan a year and valued the stable home he shared with his wife and child.
• Shu Yu said becoming a mercenary was dangerous but cool, and Shen Yu’s family trusted his extraordinary ability to learn.
• Shen Yu used audio clues to locate the address of the person who had posted online and traveled to an old residential building.
• Shen Yu asked a woman carrying groceries about Xiao Jie, and she said she had not seen him recently.
• The woman noted that other residents had also disappeared from sight, then quickly forgot Mei Ling and went home to cook.