Chapter Summaries

Ye Ruan, a rabbit special human, was captured by members of Squad One and nearly mistaken for food before transforming back into a young man. He met the squad’s captain, Gu Cheng, and nervously introduced himself.

• Yu Jingjing caught Ye Ruan in rabbit form, and the team joked about making him into a meal.
• Gu Cheng took Ye Ruan from the net and moved him out of reach of Li Rang, who wanted to eat him.
• Ye Ruan realized Gu Cheng led Squad One and feared the squad’s wolf.
• Li Rang spotted Ye Ruan’s reflection and shouted that there was a zombie, prompting Yu Jingjing to draw her gun.
• Gu Cheng recognized Ye Ruan as a person and introduced himself, and Ye Ruan nervously greeted him.

Ye Ruan introduced himself to Gu Cheng and Yu Jingjing before a zombie horde forced them into a desperate escape. After their vehicle crashed into a level-three mutant zombie, Gu Cheng carried Ye Ruan away as the monster closed in again.

• Ye Ruan told Gu Cheng and Yu Jingjing his name, and Yu Jingjing happily touched his soft ears.
• Gu Cheng heard a zombie horde approaching, so Yu Jingjing drove the Biohazard Vehicle toward Fang and the others.
• A level-three mutant zombie crashed down beside the vehicle, and Ye Ruan yanked Gu Cheng out of its path.
• The Biohazard Vehicle struck a spider-legged monster, throwing Yu Jingjing and Li Rang through the windows while Gu Cheng shielded Ye Ruan.
• Gu Cheng carried Ye Ruan away from the wreck as the level-three zombie approached again.

After falling from a helicopter during a mission, Ye Ruan joined Gu Cheng’s Team One to help evacuate South City’s survivors. Gu Cheng teased the rabbit-eared captain, took his Storage Wristband, and ended by offering carrots as payment for his help.

• Gu Cheng’s team rescued Ye Ruan from the zombies and brought him to their vehicle, where Ye Ruan met the wolf, bear, and leopard members.
• Ye Ruan introduced himself as Team Three’s captain and explained that he had fallen from a helicopter while evacuating a doctor.
• The commander ordered Ye Ruan to stay and help Team One evacuate South City’s survivors, then told Gu Cheng to take good care of him.
• Gu Cheng tied up Ye Ruan, squeezed his tail, and took his Storage Wristband; Ye Ruan bit Gu Cheng’s shoulder in retaliation.
• Gu Cheng untied Ye Ruan and made him an unofficial member of Team One, while Ye Ruan demanded payment and Gu Cheng suggested carrots.

Ye Ruan returned with Gu Cheng’s team to the South City survivor base, where he agreed to stay and help after learning how desperately the survivors needed a way out. He shared his stored food with the team and accepted a strawberry milk candy from Gu Cheng.

• Gu Cheng promised to report Ye Ruan’s contribution so he could be paid, and Ye Ruan hid his rabbit ears and tail before leaving the vehicle.
• Gu Cheng told the hopeful survivors that the team would keep scouting routes, though the zombies were mutating and growing stronger.
• Gu Cheng introduced Ye Ruan to Fang Ci and Lu Jiayi, and Ye Ruan agreed to stay with the team because he had nowhere else to go.
• Ye Ruan shared his combat rations and sandwiches with Gu Cheng, Yu Jingjing, Li Rang, Fang Ci, and Lu Jiayi.
• Gu Cheng gave Ye Ruan a strawberry milk candy, which Ye Ruan happily accepted.

Gu Cheng and Fang Ci turned down two survivors who had been sent to offer them sexual favors, then Gu Cheng kept Ye Ruan company on the roof and asked about his romantic past. Ye Ruan revealed that a former suitor had proposed, been rejected, and later given the same ring to a hostage overseas.

• Tang Yi and Xia Yue told Gu Cheng and Fang Ci that Uncle Zhao had sent them to offer massages or other favors, and both men refused.
• Xia Yue left after making clear she wanted no part in the arrangement, while Tang Yi hurried after her in embarrassment.
• Ye Ruan went outside at night and climbed onto the biohazard vehicle's roof, where Gu Cheng startled him and briefly saw his rabbit ears appear.
• Gu Cheng asked Ye Ruan about a rumor that the captain of Squad Two had proposed to him abroad, and Ye Ruan confirmed it.
• Ye Ruan said he had rejected the proposal, but the man later gave the ring to a hostage overseas.

Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng overheard two men plotting to seduce Gu Cheng and kill the team if they were abandoned, then spent the night together on the vehicle roof. The next morning, Ye Ruan confronted Tang Yi and her companion for cutting in line, and Yu Jingjing mocked Tang Yi over her offer to warm Gu Cheng’s bed.

• Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng hid on the vehicle roof and overheard two men discuss using Tang Yi’s sister to seduce Gu Cheng, then killing the soldiers and taking their vehicle if they were left behind.
• Ye Ruan said the men should be killed, and Gu Cheng reassured him before wrapping him in his jacket.
• Ye Ruan woke with his head on Gu Cheng’s arm, and Yu Jingjing teased them about sleeping together.
• At the scrapyard tap, Tang Yi and her companion shoved Ye Ruan and cut ahead in line, while Ye Ruan recognized the man from the previous night’s conversation.
• Yu Jingjing arrived and mocked Tang Yi by imitating her offer to do anything Gu Cheng wanted.

Ye Ruan stopped Tang Yi from attacking Yu Jingjing, then spent the morning with Gu Cheng's team at the scrapyard. When a monster attacked the gate, Ye Ruan shot it before Gu Cheng pulled him back and scolded him for acting alone.

• Ye Ruan seized Tang Yi's wrist when she tried to hit Yu Jingjing and forced her to apologize and promise not to cut in line.
• Ye Ruan shared cream bread with Yu Jingjing, then joined Gu Cheng's team for breakfast.
• As a storm approached, Ye Ruan heard a noise outside the scrapyard gate and went to investigate with a suppressed gun.
• A monster battered the gate, and Ye Ruan climbed onto it and shot at the creature before Gu Cheng fired and carried him back inside.
• Gu Cheng scolded Ye Ruan for acting without teamwork and discipline, and Ye Ruan protested when Gu Cheng slapped his bottom.

Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng discovered the level-three zombie Ye Ruan had killed, then a zombie horde forced their group to flee the recycling yard in heavy rain. They drove toward a secluded hillside on the outskirts of South City with the horde pursuing them.

• Gu Cheng and the others identified the dead level-three zombie as a mutated spider and warned the survivors about its corrosive mouthparts and venomous legs.
• Gu Cheng told Ye Ruan they would leave South City the morning after next, but an approaching zombie horde forced the group to evacuate immediately.
• Gu Cheng organized the survivors onto the bus and biohazard vehicle, ordering everyone to let the elderly and children board first.
• Fang Ci drove the biohazard vehicle out of the yard with the bus following, and the zombie horde turned to pursue them.
• Gu Cheng directed the vehicles toward a secluded hillside, while Ye Ruan shot a zombie clinging to the bus and then climbed back inside.

Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan fought off the zombie horde with explosives as their vehicles escaped to a secluded hillside outside South City. After they changed out of their rain-soaked clothes, Gu Cheng and Fang Ci grew flustered by Ye Ruan’s appearance.

• Gu Cheng brought Ye Ruan onto the vehicle roof, and the two leaped onto the bus as it raced ahead of the biohazard vehicle.
• Gu Cheng used white phosphorus grenades against the pursuing zombies, then took Ye Ruan’s C4 and threw it toward a level-three zombie while Ye Ruan shot it.
• The vehicles escaped the horde and reached a clearing on a secluded hillside twenty kilometers from central South City.
• Yu Jingjing checked on Gu Cheng and Ye Ruan, while Gu Cheng told everyone to stay inside the bus because of the heavy rain.
• Fang Ci prepared hot soup as Ye Ruan changed into dry clothes, and Gu Cheng and Fang Ci turned away when they saw him undress.

After the survivors made camp for the night, Gu Cheng cuddled up beside Ye Ruan, who developed a fever by dawn. Ye Ruan transformed into a rabbit after taking medicine, and Gu Cheng tucked him inside his clothes to recover.

• Yu Jingjing reported that everyone had escaped safely, and Gu Cheng assigned the young men to set up tents while the elderly, children, and women stayed on the bus.
• Fang Ci served Ye Ruan hot soup and told him he could come to him for help as a teammate.
• Gu Cheng lay beside the sleeping Ye Ruan and pulled him into his arms to keep him close through the cold night.
• At dawn, Gu Cheng noticed Ye Ruan had a high fever, and Fang Ci rushed to find medicine.
• After Gu Cheng and Fang Ci gave Ye Ruan fever medicine, he transformed into a lop-eared rabbit so he could recover faster.
• Gu Cheng tucked the rabbit against his chest inside his clothes and carried him out.

After recovering from his fever, Ye Ruan joined Yu Jingjing and Fang Ci to gather firewood and revealed his extraordinary strength by uprooting a tree. He shared that his mother was Ye Qingman, a legendary former First Team deputy captain, but said she was probably unhappy despite her reputation.

• Gu Cheng kept Ye Ruan tucked in his coat while Li Rang worried about the special-person unit’s pressure to have children, and Fang Ci said the First Team could defy that rule.
• Gu Cheng showed Ye Ruan off to the camp’s children, and Ye Ruan later left his pocket after his fever eased.
• Ye Ruan went into the woods with Yu Jingjing to gather firewood, and Fang Ci joined them after checking his lingering low fever.
• Fang Ci offered to help Ye Ruan whenever he needed it, but Ye Ruan missed the significance of his words.
• Ye Ruan uprooted a thick tree with his bare hands, and Yu Jingjing recognized his mother as her idol, Ye Qingman.
• Ye Ruan said his mother was probably unhappy, then returned to camp as Gu Cheng followed him into the Biohazard Vehicle.

Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng grew closer at camp, then joined Team One for lunch, where Gu Cheng learned Ye Ruan was Ye Qingman’s son. Across the camp, Tang Yi seethed with jealousy while Zhao Quan complained that Gu Cheng would not show him respect.

• Gu Cheng comforted Ye Ruan, promised Team One would protect him, and embraced him as Ye Ruan called him big brother.
• Ye Ruan begged to see Gu Cheng’s tail, transformed into a rabbit, and clung to it until Gu Cheng caught him and Yu Jingjing interrupted them.
• Ye Ruan shared food from his storage wristband with the team and explained that his mother, Ye Qingman, had prepared it for him.
• Gu Cheng recognized Ye Qingman as a former deputy captain who had helped him when he joined Team One, and the team teased him about being five years older than Ye Ruan.
• Tang Yi watched Gu Cheng tenderly wipe Ye Ruan’s mouth and grew jealous, while Zhao Quan complained to Tang Cheng that Gu Cheng did not give him enough respect.

Gu Cheng’s group chose a route out of City H and prepared to leave in two days, while Gu Cheng and Fang Ci began to suspect Ye Ruan knew more about Li Tuantuan than he let on. On the roof, Yu Jingjing asked Ye Ruan about his mother’s role in reproduction, and he froze at her question.

• Xia Yue overheard Zhao Quan, Tang Cheng, and Tang Yi plotting to use Gu Cheng’s group for protection and to have Tang Yi pursue Gu Cheng.
• The group discussed possible routes out of City H, and Ye Ruan recommended a highway through Zhelin District; Gu Cheng dismissed Tang Yi’s objections and the team voted to leave in two days by Ye Ruan’s route.
• After Ye Ruan showered, Gu Cheng helped dry his hair, while Yu Jingjing invited him onto the roof to look at the stars.
• Fang Ci told Gu Cheng that Ye Ruan had been unusually attentive to Li Tuantuan, and Gu Cheng wondered whether the child was really General Li’s illegitimate son.
• Yu Jingjing asked Ye Ruan about his mother’s reputed contribution to reproduction, and Ye Ruan went rigid when she suggested his mother had researched special-person reproduction and embryo cultivation.

Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng grew closer while traveling with the survivors, then found a deliberately felled tree blocking their route through South City. After they cleared it and continued on, Ye Ruan told Gu Cheng he would stay in the country, and Gu Cheng offered to help him train.

• Ye Ruan covered Yu Jingjing with her blanket, then shared his sleeping space with Gu Cheng while Fang Ci kept watch alone.
• The survivors set off with 123 people, and Gu Cheng teased Yu Jingjing for wanting to stay near Ye Ruan for snacks.
• Ye Ruan spotted a fallen tree blocking the road and noticed ax marks suggesting someone had deliberately placed it there to stop people.
• Ye Ruan set explosives on the tree, clearing the road so the vehicles could continue toward the mountain resort and nearby village.
• Gu Cheng asked whether Ye Ruan planned to go abroad, and Ye Ruan said he would stay in the country; Gu Cheng offered to help train him, prompting Ye Ruan to ask if he thought she was weak.

Gu Cheng, Ye Ruan, and Fang Ci encountered a little girl who lured them into an ambush, and Gu Cheng was wounded protecting Ye Ruan. The group confronted the girl’s father and his companions, then visited their farmhouse settlement, where Gu Cheng warned Ye Ruan to stay close.

• Fang Ci braked suddenly after spotting a little girl beside the road, and Gu Cheng and Fang Ci hit the windshield while Ye Ruan turned into a rabbit and landed safely.
• Ye Ruan gave the hungry girl chocolate after she claimed her father was on patrol at a farmhouse, but an arrow shot from the roadside grass narrowly missed Ye Ruan and cut Gu Cheng’s arm.
• Gu Cheng and the First Team aimed their weapons at the girl’s father and the people hiding in the grass, while Ye Ruan exposed the girl’s lie and frightened her with a dagger.
• Half an hour later, Ye Ruan treated Gu Cheng’s wound, and Yu Jingjing told them that the man was waiting to apologize and offer compensation.
• At the hillside farmhouse settlement, Gu Cheng warned Ye Ruan that the people there were dangerous and told him to stay close.

Ye Ruan and Gu Cheng joined Ren Bing’s farmstay after surviving the roadblock, while Gu Cheng tried to make peace with Ye Ruan. At the bonfire party, Ye Ruan pulled Gu Cheng down just as a zombie lunged at him.

• Gu Cheng apologized to Ye Ruan and tried to kiss him, but Ye Ruan pushed him away and refused his offer to stay in his pocket as a bunny.
• Ren Bing explained that he ran the farmstay and had blocked the road for food; Gu Cheng privately warned his group to stay alert and kill the residents if necessary.
• Ye Ruan woke in the car, gave Yu Jingjing a bomb to keep, and joined the bonfire party.
• Ye Ruan saw women gathered around Gu Cheng, declared that they were both single, and sat beside him with Yu Jingjing.
• Ye Ruan yanked Gu Cheng to the ground as a zombie lunged at him.

Ye Ruan was burned while protecting Yu Jingjing from a mutated zombie, and Gu Cheng tended to him before revealing the abuse Ren Bing’s group had inflicted on women at the compound. Gu Cheng arranged for the captives to be disarmed and the women to receive food and a chance to confront them.

• Ye Ruan pulled the mutated female zombie away from Yu Jingjing, and Gu Cheng killed it before it could bite him, though hot soup badly burned Ye Ruan.
• Gu Cheng treated Ye Ruan’s burns in the Biohazard Vehicle, apologized for believing Lu Jiayi’s suggestion that Ye Ruan might get jealous, and made a pinky promise to forgive him in the future.
• Fang Ci reported that Ren Bing’s men had confined women and girls and forced them to sell themselves for food, killing men who refused to work for them.
• Gu Cheng ordered Yu Jingjing to take food and daggers to the women and have Ren Bing’s gang’s arms dislocated so they could not resist.
• Yu Jingjing brought clean clothes to the abused women and girls, and Ye Ruan was horrified by their condition.

Gu Cheng comforted Ye Ruan after his burns, then beat Ren Bing when he learned a starving girl had died from abuse and neglect. Ye Ruan shot Ren Bing dead, and the survivors later buried the dead before Yu Jingjing sought comfort from him.

• Gu Cheng took Ye Ruan back to the Biohazard Vehicle to rest, then learned that the starving little girl was dying and could not be saved.
• Gu Cheng attacked Ren Bing, but Fang Ci and Lu Jiayi intervened before Ye Ruan shot Ren Bing dead in front of the survivors.
• Ye Ruan warned the crowd to blame him directly for the killing, and he and Gu Cheng returned hand in hand to the vehicle.
• Gu Cheng comforted Ye Ruan, then went outside while Yu Jingjing mourned the little girl who had died.
• The survivors buried the dead the next morning, and Ye Ruan hugged Yu Jingjing as she grieved before she teased him about being taller on the vehicle steps.

Ye Ruan and the others stayed another day to help the women, while Gu Cheng arranged for Yu Jingjing to comfort them and kept watch over the suspicious Tang Cheng and Tang Yi. The pair ended up shivering on the vehicle roof overnight, but Fang Ci warned that they could not simply be killed while survivors trusted the team and orders still applied.

• Ye Ruan suggested that the women might have given up hope after being forced into their situation, and Xia Yue offered to counsel them.
• Xia Yue asked to borrow Ye Ruan as a therapy animal, so Gu Cheng offered Yu Jingjing instead, and she spent the afternoon comforting the women.
• Yu Jingjing complained about being petted all afternoon, while Gu Cheng told Ye Ruan they would leave the morning after the next day and stayed up to keep watch.
• Gu Cheng sent Tang Cheng and Tang Yi to stand watch on the roof, and Lu Jiayi brought them binoculars after they accepted the assignment.
• Tang Cheng and Tang Yi shivered on the roof until two in the morning while Gu Cheng, Lu Jiayi, and Fang Ci laughed by the fire below.
• Lu Jiayi suggested killing Tang Cheng and Tang Yi, but Fang Ci said the team had to follow orders and wait for the right moment to act.

After Tang Yi claimed she saw a ghost during her night watch, Ye Ruan learned that Ren Fei'er had disappeared and grew uneasy about the girl. A red signal flare suddenly rose over the courtyard.

• Gu Cheng and Fang Ci discussed Gu Cheng leading the First Team while Tang Yi cried on the bus roof and Tang Cheng spotted a still figure near the road.
• Tang Yi screamed that she had seen a ghost, and Gu Cheng calmed Ye Ruan before returning outside.
• Ye Ruan woke at noon and learned Ren Bing's surviving followers were subdued, while Ren Fei'er was missing and Fang Ci's group had gone to scout the route.
• Gu Cheng told Ye Ruan that Tang Yi had seen a long-haired female ghost with glowing eyes and a hand in its mouth.
• Li Tuantuan told Ye Ruan she had seen Ren Fei'er heading down the path that morning, deepening his concern about the girl.
• A red signal flare shot into the sky.