Recaps

Bai Yaoyao’s team practiced fighting zombies, explained crystal cores to a group of students, and swept H University. They stayed overnight in a lecture hall and counted their haul before planning to clear University Town the next day.

• Bai Yaoyao’s coordinated attack went awry when Doggie charged ahead and distracted the water-type zombie, which Xiaomi killed.
• Bai Yaoyao explained crystal cores to Brother Liang and refused to recruit his group, who named themselves the Deep Night Squad in admiration of the Dark Night Squad.
• Bai Yaoyao led the Dark Night Squad in clearing most zombie concentrations across H University and decided they would stay overnight rather than travel back.
• Bai Yaoyao chose a ground-floor lecture hall for the night and stored its desks and chairs before bringing out a table for dinner.
• Bai Yaoyao counted the team’s haul of 427 level-zero, 21 level-one, five level-two, and one level-three crystal cores.

Bai Yaoyao distributed Crystal Cores and led her team through several days of clearing University Town, strengthening their abilities along the way. At the last school, they discovered Wang Jianbin and his armed group surrounding a bloodstained auditorium, and Bai Yaoyao stepped forward to confront them.

• Bai Yaoyao assigned Crystal Cores to her teammates, promised to share information before going out alone again, and brought out beds for everyone to use.
• Bai Yaoyao led the team in clearing University Town, and Xiaomi continued fighting zombies with knives despite the danger.
• At H City University of Political Science, Law, and Finance, Bai Yaoyao's team chased a fleeing construction worker toward an auditorium that smelled strongly of blood.
• Bai Yaoyao's team found corpses inside the auditorium and faced an armed group led by Wang Jianbin, whom Peiqi identified as a murderer wanted for killing seventeen children.
• Bai Yaoyao decided Wang Jianbin had to die and stepped forward despite the four assault rifles aimed at her group.

Bai Yaoyao and the Dark Night Squad killed Wang Jianbin and discovered the torture and murder he had carried out to collect crystal cores. They left the surviving students to fend for themselves, though their actions helped H City’s university students achieve the country’s highest survival rate.

• Wang Jianbin offered Bai Yaoyao crystal cores to spare him, but she accepted the cores and attacked him with her companions.
• A-Dai blinded Wang Jianbin with a Black Mist Bomb, and Bai Yaoyao killed him by stabbing his eye and slitting his throat.
• A lackey revealed that the crystal cores and a zombie were backstage, where Bai Yaoyao found bound victims who had been bitten and tortured for their cores.
• The surviving students thanked the Dark Night Squad, but Bai Yaoyao rebuked them for failing to fight back and left with the crystal cores.
• Bai Yaoyao’s early efforts to clear zombies among H City’s university students helped them attain the country’s highest student survival rate.

Meng Qilin led the official rescue teams into H City, while Bai Yaoyao and her companions rested and trained through the extreme heat. When Meng reached University Town, he found the zombies had already been cleared by the Dark Night Squad and learned about their work from Li Pengliang.

• Meng Qilin assigned rescue groups to key locations in H City and led his team toward University Town.
• Bai Yaoyao decided her team would stay home to train during the heat wave, and she and her companions had reached Level Three with several abilities.
• Doggie woke Bai Yaoyao at noon, and she prepared a hot pot with Xiaomi that brought the rest of the team downstairs.
• Bai Yaoyao's team heard fighting outside and saw an official rescue team eliminate several zombies.
• Meng Qilin found University Town nearly free of zombies and asked Li Pengliang about the area and the Dark Night Squad.
• Li Pengliang told Meng Qilin that the Dark Night Squad had cleared most of the zombies, left some for students to practice on, and taught them that Crystal Cores could strengthen their abilities.

Meng Qilin met Bai Yaoyao and the Dark Night Squad while searching for Professor Lin Zhengying, then invited them to the authorities’ Safe Zone. Bai Yaoyao declined for now but agreed they could leave H City with the main group after the rescue operations.

• After hearing about the Dark Night Squad from Li Pengliang and his follower, Meng Qilin sent people to gather evacuees and drove with ten Special Operations Team members to find Professor Lin Zhengying.
• At a quiet villa district, Meng Qilin heard barking and called out to the Dark Night Squad; Bai Yaoyao invited him inside.
• Meng Qilin thanked Bai Yaoyao for helping H University’s students and offered to report their efforts so they could receive rewards, while Bai Yaoyao said they had cleared zombies for crystal cores.
• Meng Qilin invited the Dark Night Squad to the Safe Zone, but Bai Yaoyao declined because they had supplies and planned to stay where they were.
• Meng Qilin said the rescue teams would likely leave H City together once operations ended, and Bai Yaoyao agreed they could join them then.
• Bai Yaoyao had Monkey give Meng Qilin and his team chilled mineral water before they left.

Bai Yaoyao’s group prepared to leave their villa and move to a safer area as the weather shifted from extreme heat to torrential rain. Before departing, they helped revive Professor Lin Zhengying, looted nearby villas, and convinced the tree Qingling to travel with Keke.

• Bai Yaoyao’s team healed the unconscious Professor Lin Zhengying with Peiqi’s healing ability and Chenxuan’s amplification, and Meng Qilin left after thanking them with crystal cores.
• The group trained through several days of extreme heat until their abilities improved, then decided to leave because the coming rain and stronger zombies and mutants made staying near Phoenix Cry Mountain dangerous.
• Bai Yaoyao packed the villa’s furnishings and looted the other abandoned villas, collecting supplies, antiques, and gold bars.
• Keke said goodbye to the large tree, and after Bai Yaoyao offered it Spring Water, the tree agreed to leave with Keke and was named Qingling.

Bai Yaoyao’s group fought through a city overrun by mutant ants, then faced a powerful winged ant that resisted their attacks. The chapter ended as Bai Yaoyao ordered everyone to attack it together.

• Bai Yaoyao led the group toward the city while Doggie slept through what she suspected was a level-up.
• Bai Yaoyao warned the group that zombies had grown stronger and explained how light abilities or a future drug could cure zombie infection.
• Bai Yaoyao sensed an underground ant swarm, stored the vehicles, and led everyone in a retreat.
• Bai Yaoyao, A-Dai, and Xiaomi poured oil across the road, while Dada Juan, Xiao Shiliu, and Chenxuan set up a wall of fire that stopped the swarm.
• After the group escaped, Bai Yaoyao sensed a dangerous mutant ant and watched it withstand their attacks.
• Bai Yaoyao called on the whole team to attack the mutant ant together.

Bai Yaoyao and her team defeated a level-two Mutant Ant with Doggie’s help, then rested at a hotel occupied by ordinary survivors. After recovering, they left behind instant noodles as payment and continued on their way.

• Little Crook and Keke restrained the Mutant Ant while Bai Yaoyao used Mental Piercing and the team attacked it.
• Doggie emerged from Bai Yaoyao’s storage space and tore off the Mutant Ant’s legs as the team targeted its wounds.
• Bai Yaoyao and her companions killed the Mutant Ant, stored its corpse and severed legs, and checked that no one was injured.
• Bai Yaoyao’s team rested for two hours at a nearby hotel, where Doggie stood guard and ate a basin of bones.
• Bai Yaoyao left the hotel survivors a case of instant noodles before departing with her team.

Bai Yaoyao led the Dark Night Squad through the city and reached the Safe Zone, where Meng Qilin asked them to help with rescue missions. She agreed on the condition that her squad would only fight zombies, leaving survivor care and supplies to Meng Qilin's people.

• Bai Yaoyao sensed danger in a looted mall and quickly led the squad back outside, narrowly avoiding a level-four zombie releasing poison gas in the basement.
• Bai Yaoyao and the squad drove north toward the Safe Zone, fighting zombies along the way and arriving late at night.
• A soldier recognized the Dark Night Squad and brought them to Meng Qilin, who was eager to meet them after failing to find them earlier.
• Meng Qilin asked Bai Yaoyao's squad to help rescue survivors in exchange for supplies or Crystal Cores.
• Bai Yaoyao agreed to clear zombies but said Meng Qilin's people would have to handle the rescued survivors and distribute supplies.

Bai Yaoyao negotiated a rescue partnership with Meng Qilin, securing Crystal Cores and trading level-zero cores for two rare level-three ones. The Dark Night Squad then set up camp and enjoyed a comfortable dinner and night’s rest in the Safe Zone.

• Bai Yaoyao confirmed that Meng Qilin would support the squad if rescued people caused trouble, and she agreed to take Crystal Cores as payment for missions.
• Meng Qilin offered the squad 200 level-one and 20 Level-Two Crystal Cores per mission, and Bai Yaoyao arranged for the squad to keep cores from zombies they killed.
• Bai Yaoyao traded 2,000 level-zero Crystal Cores for two level-three Crystal Cores and gave Meng Qilin a bed.
• Bai Yaoyao, Fat Brother, and Stone joined the others to pitch six tents and share a meal of self-heating rice, fried chicken, and beer.
• Meng Qilin saw the squad’s comfortable campsite while on patrol and thanked the hungry young soldiers standing guard.

After drinking the mutated spring water in her space, Bai Yaoyao woke to find that it had cleansed her body, healed old injuries, and improved her cultivation. She planned to save some spring water for Xiaomi as she and Lulu prepared for the day’s mission.

• Bai Yaoyao entered her space and drank spring water that Little Crook offered her, then went to sleep instead of cultivating.
• Bai Yaoyao woke covered in black secretions and discovered that the spring water had healed her old injuries and left her skin clearer and fairer.
• Bai Yaoyao found that Little Crook and Doggie had drunk the whole pool and were covered in foul black liquid, so she scrubbed Doggie clean.
• Bai Yaoyao resumed cultivating and found her abilities worked more smoothly, especially her mental ability; Little Crook had also grown and straightened.
• Bai Yaoyao told Little Crook to save the next day’s spring water for Xiaomi, then explained the water’s effects to Lulu, who agreed that Xiaomi should get it first.
• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu accepted breakfast delivered by Meng Qilin’s people, though Bai Yaoyao still wanted something hot before their mission.

Meng Qilin and the Dark Night Squad shared a lavish hot breakfast, then joined the Safe Zone’s assembled ability-user squads. A Level Two girl challenged Meng Qilin over the unequal food rations, leaving the gathering in dispute.

• Bai Yaoyao invited Meng Qilin and two soldiers to eat, and explained that part of her spatial ability preserved food’s freshness.
• Meng Qilin and the soldiers ate eagerly while Bai Yaoyao, Monkey, and Fat Brother kept them company.
• At the Safe Zone entrance, Li Pengliang and other H University students greeted Bai Yaoyao and gave her dog food for Doggie.
• A girl asked Meng Qilin whether her squad had killed the most Zombies and recovered the most supplies, and he confirmed both.
• The girl accused Meng Qilin of favoring Bai Yaoyao’s group with better food, and her squad joined her protest.

Bai Yaoyao’s squad faced accusations from Lin Yiran while Meng Qilin assigned teams to clear residential compounds. When Lin Yiran continued challenging their assignment, Bai Yaoyao used her power to seize her and force an apology, leaving Lin Yiran and Brother Wu helpless.

• Li Pengliang defended the Dark Night Squad after Lin Yiran criticized them, and Meng Qilin explained that Bai Yaoyao had invited him to breakfast.
• Bai Yaoyao punished A-Dai for secretly discarding the chive filling from his bun, and A-Dai glared at Lin Yiran.
• Meng Qilin assigned the Dark Night Squad eight residential compounds near Zhenglin Avenue and gave other squads their own routes.
• Lin Yiran questioned whether the Dark Night Squad had enough members for its assignment, and Bai Yaoyao teleported beside her and grabbed her throat.
• Bai Yaoyao lit a cigarette with Lin Yiran’s flame while Brother Wu was restrained in vines, and Lin Yiran apologized in fear.

Bai Yaoyao led the Dark Night Squad to Zhenglin Avenue to rescue survivors, where the team quickly eliminated the zombies around an upscale residential complex. They began clearing the buildings and directing survivors to gather downstairs.

• Bai Yaoyao confirmed the rescue plans with Meng Qilin, and he ordered all teams to move out.
• Bai Yaoyao scanned the residential complex and found a level-three metal-type zombie, which the Dark Night Squad killed before Little Crook retrieved its core.
• Bai Yaoyao assigned teams to clear the six buildings and asked the soldiers to coordinate with survivors at the entrance.
• Bai Yaoyao and Xiaomi entered Building One, where Xiaomi killed three zombies while Bai Yaoyao checked the neighboring apartment.
• Bai Yaoyao found a woman holding a baby and told her to pack and wait for the call to come downstairs.

Bai Yaoyao and Xiaomi cleared their building, then went to help the others as they worked through the neighboring buildings. A level-three invisible zombie ambushed them, but Bai Yaoyao exposed it with green paint and turned the fight over to her companions while she and the soldiers watched.

• Bai Yaoyao cleared the eleventh and tenth floors, killed zombies, gathered supplies, and told survivors to wait for the rescue announcement.
• Bai Yaoyao left a grieving young man behind when he said he did not want to live, then finished clearing the building with Xiaomi.
• Bai Yaoyao and Xiaomi found they were the first team back and headed to Building Two, where Xiaomi went to help Lulu and Peiqi fight four level-two zombies.
• Bai Yaoyao found Fat Brother and Monkey nearly finished with Building Three, then saved Monkey from a level-three invisible zombie by dodging its attack and coating it in green paint.
• Bai Yaoyao set up a camera and snacks as her companions and the soldiers watched the fight against the now-visible zombie.

Bai Yaoyao led her squad through a rescue mission and sent Doggie, newly at level three, to test a powerful white mutant cat guarding a villa complex. After Doggie crashed into the ground, Bai Yaoyao fought the cat, only for Doggie to pin it down and lick its fur.

• Bai Yaoyao cleared the buildings with her squad, left A-Dai and Stone to guard Wang Chengcheng's soldiers, and took the others to the villa complex across the street.
• Bai Yaoyao spotted a powerful white mutant cat guarding the complex and sent her newly awakened level-three Doggie to test its strength.
• Doggie became distracted by the cat's beauty and crashed into the ground, while the cat prepared to fight Bai Yaoyao and her team.
• Bai Yaoyao attacked the cat with mental power and teleportation as her teammates stood ready to support her.
• Doggie suddenly pounced on the cat and pinned it down, then began licking its fur.

Bai Yaoyao negotiated with White Cat and convinced it to leave the villa complex with her after burying its owner. White Cat gave Bai Yaoyao hundreds of crystal cores, and she named the cat Big Meow.

• White Cat chased Doggie after he hit it, while Bai Yaoyao and the Dark Night members began clearing the villa complex of zombies and gathering survivors.
• White Cat blocked the final villa’s entrance, and Bai Yaoyao agreed to leave the building and take the other survivors without disturbing it.
• Doggie resisted leaving without White Cat, so Bai Yaoyao offered the cat food, protection, and a place with her group.
• White Cat let Bai Yaoyao enter the villa, where she found its dead owner and arranged for the girl to be buried.
• White Cat led Bai Yaoyao to hundreds of crystal cores, then Bai Yaoyao named the cat Big Meow.

Bai Yaoyao used Little Crook to silence troublesome survivors while Team Leader Wang organized the evacuees and Dark Night Squad cleared two residential compounds. After the teams regrouped, Bai Yaoyao accepted food from Wang Chengcheng and shared a meal with her companions.

• Bai Yaoyao ordered Little Crook to throw two complaining villa residents into a trash bin, and the survivors fell silent.
• Little Crook hoisted the loudest complainers at the first residential compound while Team Leader Wang threatened to deny food and transport to anyone who kept causing trouble.
• Bai Yaoyao left the evacuees with Team Leader Wang and led Dark Night Squad to clear the next two compounds, where Big Meow competed with Xiaomi to kill zombies.
• Team Leader Wang arrived with the evacuees after Dark Night Squad finished clearing the compounds, and Wang Chengcheng brought Bai Yaoyao food prepared at Captain Meng's request.
• Bai Yaoyao shared Shaanxi Trio food with her teammates and gave Big Meow three fish.

Bai Yaoyao helped survivors, cleared four more residential compounds with the Dark Night Squad, and secretly took jewelry from a store. As the group prepared to leave, a woman tried to approach Stone, but he rejected her and left her embarrassed.

• Bai Yaoyao secretly delivered formula to a woman whose baby refused to drink You Suan Ru.
• Bai Yaoyao brought Doggie, Little Crook, and Big Meow to help clear four residential compounds, then emptied a jewelry store’s storeroom.
• Bai Yaoyao brought out two more vehicles to transport the survivors while keeping the size of her space concealed.
• Peiqi and Lulu bet on which driver a woman would approach, and she went straight to Stone.
• Stone ignored the woman’s offerings, raised an earthen wall when she pursued him, and left her to rejoin the packed truck after Team Leader Wang called her back.

After returning to the Safe Zone, Bai Yaoyao’s Dark Night Squad received payment for their rescue mission and accepted a longer trip to H City’s Strategic Material Reserve Depot. Bai Yaoyao negotiated an increased reward, and the team prepared to leave the day after tomorrow.

• Doggie and Big Meow cleared zombies on the return journey while Little Crook collected crystal cores, and the Dark Night Squad returned safely to the Safe Zone.
• Meng Qilin thanked Bai Yaoyao and handed her the crystal cores earned from the day’s mission.
• Meng Qilin asked the Dark Night Squad to accompany the official ability user team to H City’s Strategic Material Reserve Depot and offered twelve level-three and fifty level-two crystal cores.
• Bai Yaoyao pretended to deliberate over dinner with Fat Brother, then agreed to the mission in exchange for five additional level-three crystal cores; Meng Qilin approved and set departure for the day after tomorrow.
• Bai Yaoyao counted and divided the team’s crystal cores, and Meng Qilin sent over mutant tiger meat.

After Dark Night enjoyed Meng Qilin’s fried meat, Bai Yaoyao reconciled with A-Dai and gave Xiaomi Spring Water to improve his constitution. She brought Big Meow and Doggie into her space, organized her supplies and Crystal Cores, and set up a place for Big Meow to sleep.

• Dark Night and the beasts devoured Meng Qilin’s fried meat, and Bai Yaoyao agreed they would hunt more after the next mission.
• A-Dai recalled how Bai Yaoyao had cared for him as a child and worried she would never forgive him for wasting food; Bai Yaoyao gave him fries and told him to reflect on his mistake.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Xiaomi Spring Water and explained its effects, then prepared a hot bath for him.
• Bai Yaoyao explained her space to Big Meow and took him and Doggie inside.
• Bai Yaoyao sorted her supplies and Crystal Cores, then arranged a resting area for Big Meow.

Xiaomi gained a light ability after drinking Bai Yaoyao’s Spring Water, and Bai Yaoyao explained its cleansing and protective potential. The teams received missions, and the Aiyi Alliance insisted on entering the dangerous Wanda Plaza despite Bai Yaoyao’s warning.

• Bai Yaoyao woke to find Xiaomi had gained a light ability, and she explained that it could eventually cleanse negative effects and zombie poison.
• Monkey revealed that Xiaomi’s Spring Water purification had produced foul-smelling black liquid overnight, leaving him awake all night.
• Bai Yaoyao agreed to take the Dark Night Squad to Central City Hospital to collect medicine before heading toward the Zoo.
• Bai Yaoyao warned Meng Qilin that Wanda Plaza seemed dangerous, so he reassigned the Aiyi Alliance to two residential compounds instead.
• Lin Yiran and the Aiyi Alliance’s leader objected, and Meng Qilin allowed them to go to Wanda Plaza without government personnel accompanying them.

Bai Yaoyao and the Dark Night Squad went on a mission with Cui Ying and Zhang Jiahui, killed a level-four zombie, and reached Central City Hospital to search for medicine. They remained together as they advanced through the zombie-filled hospital grounds.

• Bai Yaoyao met spatial ability users Cui Ying and Zhang Jiahui, then learned from Cui Ying that the City D base was under construction and the authorities had regained control.
• Bai Yaoyao sensed a level-four zombie and led the squad to confront it, while the zombie fled from them.
• Big Meow caught the zombie, and Bai Yaoyao and the others combined their attacks to sever its head; A-Dai retrieved its crystal core.
• Bai Yaoyao decided to use the level-four crystal core and her stored cores to try to raise her spatial ability to level four.
• Bai Yaoyao followed Cui Ying's directions to Central City Hospital, where the squad encountered many zombies and advanced together in a protective formation.

Bai Yaoyao’s team returned from a pharmacy mission with medicine and negotiated military vehicles as their reward. Before heading out to hunt for meat, Bai Yaoyao secretly helped a woman and her baby in exchange for a few Crystal Cores.

• Cui Ying led the Dark Night Squad to the pharmacy, where Bai Yaoyao helped store the medicine that would not fit in their limited spaces.
• Bai Yaoyao returned the supplies to the Safe Zone, and Meng Qilin gave her the mission’s Crystal Cores and offered medicine as their share.
• Bai Yaoyao declined the medicine and asked Meng Qilin for two military off-road vehicles, which he agreed to provide.
• After lunch, Bai Yaoyao took one of a woman’s Crystal Cores, then left baby formula, bodysuits, and diapers for the woman and her child.
• Monkey and Xiaomi teased Bai Yaoyao about helping the woman, and Bai Yaoyao hurried the team along toward their meat hunt.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night entered H City Zoo to hunt mutant beasts for meat that could restore ability users’ energy. They reached Rabbit Park and faced three level-two giant rabbits, while Bai Yaoyao also considered searching for a dangerous mutant python she suspected had escaped from the zoo.

• Bai Yaoyao’s group left the vehicles and caught a mutant rabbit, which she stored in her space in case they found another to breed with.
• Bai Yaoyao led the group cautiously into the ruined zoo, where they killed a few low-level zombies and saw signs that wild beasts had attacked people.
• After reading a damaged signpost, Bai Yaoyao chose the path toward Rabbit Park and recalled Meng Qilin’s story of a powerful mutant python near the highway to City D.
• At Rabbit Park, most rabbits fled into their burrows, but three level-two giant rabbits charged the group as Bai Yaoyao told Big Meow and Doggie to stay out of the fight.