Chapter Summaries

Su Ze discovered an apocalypse simulator that warned the world would end in seven days, then ran his first simulation and died after contracting an unknown virus. The simulator offered him three rewards, including an unknown virus antibody, leaving him eager to strengthen himself before the real apocalypse arrived.

• While working at a convenience store, Su Ze saw a countdown showing that the apocalypse would begin in seven days and decided to start a simulation.
• Su Ze chose the Sharpshooter talent and simulated the arrival of a blood moon, endless night, freezing temperatures, and citywide chaos.
• On the third day of the simulation, Su Ze slept with a married woman, developed blood-red eyes, and lost consciousness.
• Su Ze remained delirious for several days before dying, and the simulator offered him a boxer talent, apocalypse gossip, or an unknown virus antibody as rewards.
• Su Ze realized simulation rewards could help him prepare for the apocalypse and became eager to obtain powerful ones.

Su Ze ran two more apocalypse simulations, learning about the Blood Moon, Red-Eyed Patients, and a mysterious Contamination Zone, but both attempts ended in his death. As he started a third simulation, he finally drew a Gold talent, though its description had not yet appeared.

• Su Ze chose Near Max-Level Toxin Resistance and died after developing a fever and blood-red eyes following an encounter with the young married woman downstairs.
• Su Ze ignored the first simulation’s rewards and began another simulation with the Succubus talent.
• Su Ze shot the blood-eyed woman, then fought off Red-Eyed Patients before his own eyes turned red and he died outside his residence.
• Su Ze noted the warnings about Red-Eyed Patients and the Contamination Zone, and concluded that he should avoid young married women.
• Su Ze began a third simulation and drew the Gold talent Fallen Gift.

Su Ze chose the Gold Talent Fallen Gift and survived 26 days in an apocalypse simulation, using its Healing Energy to treat illness and endure nightmares before dying while fighting a terrifying Hound. He claimed Fallen Gift as his reward and learned that the simulation had recorded a method for becoming Awakened.

• Su Ze chose Fallen Gift (Gold) and killed the young married woman who propositioned him on Day 3 of the simulation.
• Su Ze killed the Red-Eyed Patients in his residential complex, then left for a Safe Zone after repeated nightmares drained his Healing Energy.
• Su Ze returned to his former residential complex to seek the Pollution Source and a way to become Awakened.
• Su Ze found the Pollution Source, but a Hound pursued him into a strange space and killed him after he exhausted all seven layers of Healing Energy.
• Su Ze chose Fallen Gift (Gold) as his simulation reward instead of the paper describing how to become Awakened or Scarecrow (Green).

After learning that the apocalypse was less than seven days away, Su Ze tested his healing talent, considered preparing his finances and supplies, and waited for his Simulator cooldown to end. He began another Doomsday Simulation and was offered three talents to choose from.

• Su Ze received his simulation rewards, including a Gold Talent and replenished Healing Energy, and reflected on clues about the coming apocalypse.
• Su Ze tested Fallen Gift by cutting his palm and watched the wound heal, confirming that the talent and impending apocalypse were real.
• Su Ze attended an early class, then went to the hospital to replenish Healing Energy and consider whether to liquidate his assets.
• Su Ze worked a shift at his convenience store and waited for the Simulator cooldown to finish.
• Su Ze began a new Doomsday Simulation and received the choices Brute, Danger Sense, and Pea Shooter.

Su Ze chose the Danger Sense talent and simulated his first twenty-six days after the apocalypse, surviving longer by avoiding threats but dying to Hounds in his sleep. He left the simulation frustrated that Contamination Zones had not awakened him and unsure why they worked differently for others.

• Su Ze selected Danger Sense and simulated staying at school as the apocalypse began.
• He learned that the first Awakened at school had entered a Contamination Zone and gained an extraordinary body after returning, but Danger Sense kept him from trying the same method.
• Su Ze followed an Awakened out of school, escaped mutated animals, then returned to his stocked Safe House and destroyed a Pollution Source.
• After leaving the residential complex, Su Ze returned to school and died in his sleep when Hounds attacked, despite using all his Healing Energy.
• Su Ze reviewed the rewards without choosing one and wondered why entering Contamination Zones had not awakened him.

Su Ze began another apocalypse simulation with the purple Complete retreat talent, hoping to gather more reliable intelligence. After learning how two people had become Awakened, his simulated self left the school to investigate nearby Contamination Zones and Safe Zones instead of immediately copying their path.

• Su Ze considered why attempts to become Awakened had failed and concluded that more simulations were needed to uncover the truth.
• Su Ze chose the Complete retreat talent and began a new simulation.
• His simulated self stayed at the school, joined its security team, and learned that two Awakened people had experienced nightmares, though it was unclear whether both had contacted a Pollution Source.
• On Day 15, his simulated self left the school and returned to his residence near it.
• His simulated self planned to investigate the nearby Contamination Zones and Safe Zones before pursuing the path to becoming Awakened.

Su Ze’s simulation revealed that Contamination Zones had strict boundaries, that their threats were deadly, and that becoming Awakened required an incantation. He rejected a purple reward in hopes of refreshing for a gold one, then started another simulation and received three useless-looking talents.

• Su Ze reviewed his simulated investigation of nearby Contamination Zones and recorded their locations on a map.
• His simulated self discovered that an incantation was required to become Awakened, then died while trying to obtain that power.
• Su Ze inferred that Awakened had gained higher status at school and suspected they had withheld the incantation from him.
• Su Ze declined the Complete retreat, customized Contamination Zone map, and Wind Whisperer rewards to wait for a possible gold talent.
• After the cooldown passed, Su Ze began another simulation and was offered Qing Dynasty Zombie, Cook, and Hibernation Master.

Su Ze repeatedly simulated attempts to become Awakened, learning more about Contamination Zones while failing to awaken. He chose the Gold talent Father God's Listening and discovered that different Contamination Zones required different incantations, but the simulation left him waiting for further answers.

• Su Ze repeatedly failed to become Awakened despite finding incantations such as Starry Sky and Inspiration, and he shifted his focus to gathering information.
• Su Ze learned about Safe Zones, the changing dangers of Contamination Zones, and how destroying a Pollution Source only caused another to appear.
• Su Ze chose the Gold talent Father God's Listening for a new simulation.
• Su Ze stayed in his dormitory after the apocalypse began, then secretly went to Half-Mountain Community and learned that its residents had been dragged into the Mirror World.
• On Day 7 and Day 8, Father God's Listening let Su Ze hear that different Contamination Zones required different incantations, including Imagination.
• On Day 9, Su Ze waited all day but heard no voice containing information he wanted.

Su Ze’s simulation ended when a deadly Great Fog killed him, but he gained the gold talent Father God's Listening as a reward. After the Simulator entered cooldown, he resolved to prepare a Safe House and find two women.

• Su Ze’s simulated self repeatedly failed to Awaken, survived escalating conflicts at school, and died after encountering an indescribable horror in the Great Fog.
• The Simulator evaluated his death as bad luck and offered three rewards, including the gold talent Father God's Listening.
• Su Ze selected Father God's Listening and the Simulator entered a twenty-hour cooldown.
• After realizing he had neglected his plan to find two women, Su Ze decided to make it a priority the next day.

Su Ze considered how to prepare Safe Houses and choose companions before the apocalypse, then selected possible locations to inspect. The chapter ended with Wang Zixin telling him their class had arranged a mixer and picnic, prompting Su Ze to wonder whether he might meet a suitable girl.

• Su Ze dismissed messages from women he had known and thought about choosing kind-hearted companions to serve as Safe House accessories.
• Su Ze used Father God's Listening to hear Wang Zixin's gaming thoughts and sampled the thoughts of other classmates.
• Su Ze weighed Safe House locations in Safe Zones and Contamination Zones, deciding to rent several houses for storing supplies.
• Su Ze finished class and returned to the dormitory, where Wang Zixin told him about a class mixer and picnic.
• Su Ze wondered whether the event might introduce him to a girl he had not met before.

Su Ze prepared a Safe House and supplies for Apocalypse's Arrival while waiting for his Simulator's cooldown. At the convenience store, he protected a high school girl from a man following her, then left her sitting safely behind the counter.

• Su Ze inspected his dorm, searched for an apartment to use as a Safe House, and arranged long-lasting food and other supplies.
• Su Ze agreed to cover the manager's shift and heard the manager think that Apocalypse's Arrival was great.
• A high school girl entered the store to avoid a middle-aged man who had followed her, and Su Ze learned from her thoughts that her parents had recently died.
• Su Ze confronted the man outside and drove him away, then invited the girl to wait in the store or let him walk her home.
• The girl thanked Su Ze and sat behind the counter, and he explained that he had called her his girlfriend to discourage the man.

Su Ze escorted Chen Keqing home, then began a new Doomsday Simulation focused on discovering how he could become an Awakened. The simulation followed his life with Chen Keqing in Jinxiu Residential Area as the apocalypse unfolded and the neighborhood began organizing around its Awakened.

• Su Ze learned Chen Keqing's name and walked her back to her residential area, where she accidentally collided with a streetlamp before fleeing in embarrassment.
• Su Ze returned to the convenience store as the Simulator's cooldown ended and chose the Clothes-Busting Warrior talent for his next simulation.
• On the first day of the apocalypse, Su Ze contacted Chen Keqing and brought her to his residence in Jinxiu Residential Area, where she felt safe with him.
• Su Ze and Chen Keqing stayed together through the first days of the apocalypse, eventually having sex and continuing their relationship as conditions worsened.
• After supplies ran short and barter replaced currency, Awakened residents were chosen as leaders, and Su Ze ignored someone knocking at his door.

Su Ze’s simulation showed that his Safe House had become a dangerous place, forcing him to fight Awakened and eventually return to the school. After Chen Keqing died and Su Ze later died in a nightmare, he learned how Awakened trials worked and recorded that destroying a Pollution Source was likely fatal.

• Su Ze fought off people and Awakened who tried to seize his supplies, then massacred the Safe Zone’s Awakened and returned to the school with Chen Keqing.
• Su Ze learned all the incantations and shared what he knew about Contamination Zones with Chen Keqing.
• Su Ze took Chen Keqing to a Contamination Zone to pursue awakening, and later discovered that she had died after suffering a nightmare alone.
• Su Ze distributed his stored supplies to people who had cared for him, then destroyed the Pollution Source in Half-Mountain Community.
• Su Ze spent the night in a Contamination Zone, used all his Healing Energy in a nightmare, and died; afterward, he noted that destroying a Pollution Source was likely suicidal.

Su Ze chose the Lightning Superman Talent and began a new simulation in Aobo Community’s Safe House with Chen Keqing. By Day 18, he had killed an Awakened who insulted Chen Keqing and gained preliminary control of the Safe Zone through a puppet leader.

• Chen Keqing messaged Su Ze to thank him and chatted about retaking the college entrance exam after getting disappointing results.
• Su Ze started a simulation with the Lightning Superman Talent and chose the Safe House in Aobo Community, with Chen Keqing accompanying him.
• Su Ze and Chen Keqing weathered the early apocalypse together, and he later used his Talent to treat her injured ankle.
• As Awakened numbers grew, Su Ze noticed some wanted to destroy the Safe Zone’s order and killed one who disrespected Chen Keqing.
• After the fight made him famous, residents nominated Su Ze as leader, but he declined and installed a puppet leader to gain control.

Su Ze’s simulation showed him rising to prominence in the Safe Zone, eliminating threats, and building a life with Chen Keqing, who eventually became Awakened. He later entered the Contamination Zone, encountered a bizarre creature in a strange room, and died, leaving him to consider the possibility of terrifying Contained Objects.

• Su Ze helped the Safe Zone’s leader gather information and eliminate dangerous Awakened, while Father God's Listening revealed that people who destroyed Pollution Sources had died.
• Chen Keqing and Su Ze grew closer, and she eventually insisted on joining him in the Contamination Zone, where they killed a target together.
• Su Ze helped Chen Keqing come into contact with a Pollution Source, and she became Awakened after surviving her first nightmare.
• Su Ze led people into the Contamination Zone to investigate and became trapped in a strange room with a bizarre creature.
• Su Ze exhausted his Healing Energy and died, prompting him to wonder whether the creature was a Contained Object.

Su Ze chose the Gold talent Demon Contract and helped Chen Keqing become an Awakened before the pair left the Safe Zone for Half-Mountain Community. He found a mysterious dimensional treasure called Avalon, but the contract’s price killed him, and Chen Keqing died with him.

• Su Ze selected Demon Contract, which limited his life to 60 days in exchange for guiding him to a treasure.
• Su Ze helped Chen Keqing pass her Nightmare Trial and become an Awakened, then the pair killed Awakened who threatened them.
• Su Ze and Chen Keqing left the Safe Zone and settled in Half-Mountain Community, where they avoided a Mirror World threat.
• Su Ze followed a sense of destiny to find a treasure beneath a bridge and learned through Father God's Listening that it was a fragment of draft paper he named Avalon.
• Su Ze shaped Avalon into a dimensional space, but the Demon Contract's price struck him down, and Chen Keqing died by suicide after hearing him die.

After the simulation ended, Su Ze chose Avalon and discovered that it let him create a bounded inner world with customizable structures and rules. He began studying the simulation’s clues about Gods and turned to planning his apocalypse Safe House before the disaster arrived.

• Su Ze reconsidered his feelings about Chen Keqing and abandoned his plan to put a sack over her head.
• Su Ze chose Avalon as his simulation reward, despite the possible risk that talents gained as rewards might carry the same sixty-day lifespan limit.
• Su Ze explored Avalon and learned that its roughly one-hundred-meter space could be shaped through imagination, though it could not contain anything self-aware or be changed after construction.
• Su Ze realized Avalon’s rules could provide unlimited energy or make a tree grow bread, but contradictions or mistakes in its design could cause problems.
• Su Ze studied the simulation’s reference to Gods creating the world and decided to focus on the approaching apocalypse.
• The next day, Su Ze searched online for reference materials to design his Safe House.

Su Ze continued designing Avalon and arranged to meet Chen Keqing so he could ask what kind of room she liked. After learning that a gorgeous senior might attend his class’s mixer, he joined the class monitor to prepare for it and drove his Panamera to meet the other class.

• Su Ze browsed luxury homes for ideas as he planned Avalon’s interior, knowing he could revise it until he confirmed its completion.
• Su Ze and Chen Keqing arranged to meet that evening so he could receive her promised gift, and he considered making her a room in Avalon.
• The class monitor visited Su Ze’s dorm to confirm that he and his roommates would attend the mixer, then invited him to help prepare for it.
• Wang Zixin told Su Ze that a gorgeous senior might attend the mixer, making Su Ze curious about finding another suitable person for Avalon.
• Su Ze accompanied the class monitor to meet the other class and drove his Panamera to save everyone the cost of a cab.

Su Ze met Chen Keqing after school, treated her to hotpot, and had her fill out a questionnaire while listening to her thoughts. Chen Keqing relaxed enough to eat with him, leaving their relationship ambiguous as she focused on the meal.

• Su Ze arrived at Third High School and met Chen Keqing, who had brought him a homemade cake.
• Su Ze took Chen Keqing to a nearby hotpot restaurant, where he had reserved a table and started cooking the food.
• Su Ze gave Chen Keqing a questionnaire to fill out and learned about her hobbies and self-evaluation by listening to her thoughts.
• Chen Keqing accepted Su Ze's offer of dinner and began eating hotpot while wondering whether he liked her.
• As the restaurant warmed her up, Chen Keqing removed her school uniform layers and revealed a white woolen blouse.

Su Ze and Chen Keqing shared an awkward hotpot meal that grew more comfortable as they talked, and he reminded her to return to school with her classmates. Afterward, Su Ze prepared questions about the apocalypse and began a new simulation, choosing the Flame User talent to improve his chances of surviving longer.

• Su Ze asked Chen Keqing whether she had ever dated, and she explained that her family had forbidden her from dating before college.
• Chen Keqing struggled to keep their conversation going, so Su Ze suggested several topics, including suggestive stories about Su University’s back mountain.
• Su Ze reminded Chen Keqing to go home with her classmates, and she left wondering whether he liked her.
• Su Ze returned home and wrote down questions about Avalon, Contained Objects, Awakened people, and the six incantations for his next simulation.
• When the Simulator’s cooldown ended, Su Ze chose the green Flame User talent and started the simulation.