Arc 9Chapters 201–225

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Chapters 201–225 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 201Class was in session

Bai Yaoyao discovered that Tiger Cub had awakened a mutant fire-type ability, then brought her group to teach combat training at Dark Night Base. She began organizing lessons for the packed crowd of ability users and ordinary people.

  • Bai Yaoyao ended the previous day's training and returned to her space, where Tiger Cub accidentally scorched her hair with newly awakened purple flames.
  • Bai Yaoyao praised Tiger Cub for awakening a mutant fire-type ability, and the Beasts celebrated their new fighter.
  • Bai Yaoyao and her companions left for the Base Grand Hotel with Tiger Cub as a dark, stormy sky hung over the base.
  • Sun Weixing welcomed Bai Yaoyao and explained how the hundreds of attendees were arranged across the hotel's floors.
  • Bai Yaoyao assigned Zhi Yi and his disciples to teach basic fighting techniques and training methods on the third through sixth floors.
  • Bai Yaoyao took the stage, quieted the crowd, and began addressing them as Dark Night.

Ch. 202Training

Bai Yaoyao turned a planned one-day class into ten days of combat and ability training at Dark Night Base. She assigned the recruits to groups and tailored exercises to their abilities, beginning with the unusual ability users under her guidance.

  • Bai Yaoyao announced that recruits would stay at the base for ten days, face dangerous training, and earn rewards for passing and performing well.
  • Bai Yaoyao divided the recruits by ability type, while Sun Weixing arranged for food to be prepared before everyone stayed inside.
  • Bai Yaoyao told Wang Haoting to practice using his sound ability to inspire allies or disorient enemies through music.
  • Bai Yaoyao identified Yuan Xiaoli's perfect memory as a mental enhancement ability and sent her to practice hand-to-hand combat with Xiaomi's group.
  • Bai Yaoyao assigned exercises to the unusual ability users, telling psychic users to count everyone on the floor and space users to practice cutting newspapers with Spatial Blades.
  • Bai Yaoyao told the girl with both space and psychic abilities to do both exercises at once.

Ch. 203Teaching methods

Bai Yaoyao toured the groups training under her friends and saw how Stone, Peiqi, and Keke’s group used brutal methods, while Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples taught gently. She encouraged a contest between Zhi Rui and his senior brothers, and the day ended with Zhi Rui’s trainees improving quickly through A-Dai and Peiqi’s harsh training.

  • Bai Yaoyao watched Stone teach strength ability users by beating them down and making them practice his moves.
  • Bai Yaoyao saw Peiqi train healing ability users by stabbing them until they learned to heal efficiently.
  • Bai Yaoyao found Keke, Little Crook, Little Red, and Little Earthy Yellow’s trainees wrapped up and hanging in the air, then visited Zhi Yi’s more orderly teaching group.
  • Bai Yaoyao proposed that Zhi Rui and his senior brothers each train five people and compete, and Zhi Yi agreed.
  • Zhi Rui trained his five people under A-Dai’s brutal guidance and Peiqi’s healing, while the other disciples continued teaching late into the night.
  • The ability users avoided asking Dark Night for help after learning that its members taught by beating lessons into them.

Ch. 204The acid rain arrived

Acid rain struck the city, blistering and poisoning everyone it touched, while Bai Yaoyao’s training kept her group safely inside. As Sun Weixing rushed to respond with three light Ability Users, Bai Yaoyao noticed Xia Tian’s abilities and asked if she could handle bloodier training.

  • Bai Yaoyao sent A-Dai to ambush Sun Weixing during the night as extra training, while she and the others rested.
  • At dawn, Sun Weixing learned that the rain caused blisters, festering sores, and breathing problems in those it touched.
  • Bai Yaoyao let Sun Weixing leave and sent him with the base’s three light Ability Users to help purify the affected people.
  • Xia Tian reported that 421 people had been on the first floor, noted that four had left, and presented neatly cut newspaper strips.
  • Bai Yaoyao praised Xia Tian’s work, learned her name, and asked if she could handle the blood involved in the next training stage; Xia Tian agreed.

Ch. 205Ten days

Bai Yaoyao arranged training for Xia Tian and noticed Song Yuxi, a formidable fighter from her previous life, struggling as a level-three ability user. As the endless rain flooded the base, Sun Weixing stayed busy with work and sent his younger brother to train with Dark Night instead.

  • Bai Yaoyao had Big Meow demonstrate how to attack, then left Xia Tian to train with the cat, who scratched her as she failed to use Teleportation to dodge.
  • Bai Yaoyao watched Monkey teach water ability users to freeze water into ice and recognized Song Yuxi, then asked Monkey to give her extra training.
  • Sun Weixing returned to report to Bai Yaoyao, but she told him to make his own decisions, and he admitted he was level four yet still could not beat a level-three opponent.
  • As the rain continued, flooding the base's low-lying houses, Sun Weixing returned to work and sent Sun Weihao to take his place in training.
  • Sun Weihao trained with Stone, improving his combat skills and ability to take a beating.

Ch. 206The end

After ten days of punishing training, Bai Yaoyao told the trainees they had all passed but offered no closing speech, leaving them uncertain about Dark Night’s place in the base. Sun Weixing and Sun Weihao reassured them that Dark Night had given up valuable training time to help everyone.

  • Bai Yaoyao demonstrated team combat with Dark Night, then punished A-Dai and Monkey after their sparring damaged the training grounds.
  • During the ten-day training, A-Dai and Big Meow harassed trainees at night, and Bai Yaoyao rewarded Big Meow while refusing to let healers treat one trainee’s wounds.
  • Zhi Rui’s team defeated Zhi Yi’s team in the final competition, and Zhi Rui’s triumphant laughter soon turned into sobbing.
  • Bai Yaoyao announced that everyone had passed and would receive a can of cola, then dismissed most of the trainees without a closing address.
  • Sun Weixing took the stage to reassure the trainees that Bai Yaoyao cared about them, and Sun Weihao shouted that Dark Night had trained them for the base.

Ch. 207Twelve People

Bai Yaoyao selected twelve promising ability users and suggested they form a squad, while allowing Sun Weixing to use Dark Night’s reputation to rally the base. Most accepted the idea, and Bai Yaoyao rewarded the chosen fighters with food before leaving them to organize their team.

  • Sun Weixing led the base in praising Dark Night, and Bai Yaoyao let him continue using her reputation to inspire the fighters.
  • Bai Yaoyao named Xia Tian, Song Yuxi, Sun Weihao, and the other selected candidates for the twelve-person group.
  • Bai Yaoyao suggested that the twelve form a squad suited to their similar abilities, and most agreed while one man chose to stay loyal to his existing team.
  • Bai Yaoyao put Sun Weihao in charge of organizing the squad and rejected the proposed name Deep Night because another team already used it.
  • Bai Yaoyao offered the twelve any food they wanted, and Song Yuxi asked for roast duck while Song Yuze chose self-heating hot pot and rice.

Ch. 208Their teaching careers were over

Bai Yaoyao distributed supplies, then ended Dark Night’s teaching duties so everyone could focus on cultivation while acid rain kept the base confined indoors. As the rain continued, the group settled into life in the building and began nightly competitions.

  • Sun Weihao asked for spicy rabbit heads, and Bai Yaoyao gave him some while Little Rabbit glared at him.
  • Xia Tian asked Bai Yaoyao for fever and anti-inflammatory medicine, then left with the supplies.
  • Bai Yaoyao told Dark Night to stop teaching and move to a higher floor to avoid flooding.
  • A-Dai visited Zhi Rui and learned that his senior brother planned to continue teaching at the base the next day.
  • After half a month of relentless acid rain, Dark Night kept cultivating and Bai Yaoyao organized nightly one-on-one matches with massages for the winners.

Ch. 209Brother, Do Me a Favor

Bai Yaoyao named Tiger Cub Big King and used harsh punishment to suppress trouble at Dark Night Base as acid rain forced everyone upstairs. A month later, Sun Weixing borrowed supplies from Bai Yaoyao and learned he could trade crystal cores for what the base needed, leaving him eager for zombies to attack before Dark Night departed.

  • Bai Yaoyao named Tiger Cub Big King, and Monkey's teasing nearly started a fight before he praised the name.
  • As acid rain flooded the hotel’s first floor, the base moved upstairs and Sun Weixing struggled with dwindling food and trouble among residents.
  • After Bai Yaoyao learned that residents were stealing food and bullying others, she had A-Dai and Xiaomi throw the offenders into the acid rain as a warning.
  • Zhi Yi and his fellow disciples spent a month training the base’s residents and gradually learned to refuse unreasonable demands.
  • Sun Weixing borrowed food from Bai Yaoyao, who offered to trade supplies for crystal cores, prompting him to hope zombies would attack while Dark Night was still there.

Ch. 210Clear skies, the rain stopped

Bai Yaoyao and the beasts comforted Big King as he grieved for his mother, while the easing rain gave Dark Night a chance to begin dealing with the floods. Sun Weixing’s team went out in protective suits, and the chapter left Bai Yaoyao’s group waiting for the water to recede before they could venture out.

  • Big Meow found Big King crying at night and woke Bai Yaoyao, who held him while the beasts gathered to comfort him.
  • Bai Yaoyao told Big King that everyone was his family and that he could share his unhappiness with them.
  • Chenxuan noticed the rain easing, but Bai Yaoyao warned Monkey and the others that deep floodwater would keep them inside for at least another week.
  • Bai Yaoyao gave Sun Weixing fifty protective suits so his team could safely go outside and start clearing the floodwater.
  • Lulu took the lonely lightning-using Labrador under her wing and named him Big Lala, while Bai Yaoyao and Lulu made up over their equally silly naming habits.

Ch. 211The Cuties Had Arrived

After flooding damaged Dark Night Base, Bai Yaoyao and the others rushed out to fight a new zombie horde and search for its leader. Sun Weixing mobilized the base too, while Sun Weihao led the Black Night Squad into battle.

  • Bai Yaoyao suggested using earth and water ability users to clear the landslide and flood damage, and Sun Weixing organized the work.
  • Bai Yaoyao sensed the approaching zombies and charged out of the base with Dark Night; Zhi Yi's group followed to repay the base for supporting them.
  • Xia Tian alerted Sun Weixing to the attack, and Sun Weixing prepared the base while Sun Weihao assembled the Black Night Squad.
  • Bai Yaoyao, Lulu, Dark Night, and Zhi Yi's group fought the zombies in coordinated formations, and Bai Yaoyao and Big Meow pushed deeper to find the zombie leader.
  • Sun Weihao led the Black Night Squad out to join the fight after learning Dark Night and Zhi Yi's group had already engaged the horde.

Ch. 212The Child Zombie

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought back a zombie siege, killing a child zombie leader whose reflection ability would have made him one of the strongest zombies in the future. Their successful defense rallied the base’s fighters, and Big King proved himself in his first battle.

  • Sun Weihao led his squad out to find Dark Night, and Xia Tian followed after them.
  • Bai Yaoyao attacked the child zombie leader, recognized his damage-reflection skill, and called everyone to help surround him.
  • Dark Night and the arriving fighters killed the child zombie leader, and Bai Yaoyao explained that he would have become one of the ten strongest zombies.
  • Sun Weihao and the base’s other ability users joined the battle after Dark Night had already driven the swarm back, inspiring pride among the fighters.
  • Bai Yaoyao’s group focused on higher-level zombies while Xia Tian watched her fight, and Big King used his mutated flames effectively in his first battle.

Ch. 213The Timid Rabbit

A Level Six Speed Ability Zombie attacked Big King, and the timid rabbit sacrificed itself to save the young tiger. As Dark Night fought the zombie, Big King’s claws unexpectedly pierced its defenses, giving the team an opening.

  • The Level Six Speed Ability Zombie lunged for Big King, and the rabbit threw itself into the zombie’s mouth to protect it.
  • Bai Yaoyao rescued the bloodied rabbit with Position Swap, sent it into her space with Great Sage, and joined Dark Night in attacking the zombie.
  • Dark Night fought the fast zombie while Zhi Yi and the others held back the surrounding zombies; Bai Yaoyao took Fat Brother’s place and prepared to strike with an Iron Hammer.
  • Big King charged the zombie in grief and fury, and its golden-lit claws gouged out the zombie’s eyes.
  • Bai Yaoyao shouted for everyone to attack the wounded zombie, and Dark Night followed up on the opening.

Ch. 214Death

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night killed the level six zombies, but Little Rabbit remained gravely wounded despite their efforts to treat it. On the way back, Bai Yaoyao recognized that Ji Huiming had a special-type ability and had him brought along, then shut Xia Tian and the others out of her quarters.

  • Big King distracted the level six zombie, giving Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night an opening to trap and kill it, and Bai Yaoyao took its Crystal Core.
  • Bai Yaoyao found Little Rabbit unconscious and badly injured, while Peiqi and Xiaomi tried to treat it outside her space.
  • The zombie horde retreated after the level six zombies died, and Monkey told Bai Yaoyao that Zhi Yi and the others were approaching.
  • Ji Huiming tried to grab Bai Yaoyao and insulted Xia Tian, so Bai Yaoyao kicked him away before Xia Tian confronted him.
  • Bai Yaoyao recognized Ji Huiming as a special-type ability user and ordered Little Crook to bring him back.
  • Bai Yaoyao returned to her quarters and had Xiao Shiliu and Dada Juan prevent Xia Tian, Sun Weixing, and the others from entering.

Ch. 215Ji Huiming

Bai Yaoyao captured Ji Huiming and used his healing blood to treat Little Rabbit, whose injuries healed as it began awakening a special ability. Little Rabbit remained unconscious but stable, and the next morning Bai Yaoyao discovered Dada Juan and Xiao Shiliu had stood guard outside all night.

  • Xia Tian begged Dada Juan to speak to the base leader, but Dada Juan warned her away and she retreated to the base entrance.
  • Bai Yaoyao cut Ji Huiming and collected his blood, while Lulu, Peiqi, and the others realized he had the recovery ability needed to help Little Rabbit.
  • Peiqi used Ji Huiming's blood and the Small Jade Piece to treat Little Rabbit for four hours, and its wounds healed as it began awakening a special ability.
  • Bai Yaoyao left Ji Huiming alive after arranging basic treatment, then let everyone rest while Dada Juan and Xiao Shiliu continued standing guard outside.
  • Bai Yaoyao checked Little Rabbit the next morning and found its vital signs stronger, then brought Dada Juan and Xiao Shiliu inside and told them Little Rabbit was fine.

Ch. 216The Reason

Bai Yaoyao questioned Ji Huiming about his unusual ability, then learned from Xia Tian that a strange fruit had given him a prolonged fever and awakened his power. She decided to investigate the manor where the fruit had been found and considered how to keep Ji Huiming from becoming a future threat.

  • Bai Yaoyao confronted Ji Huiming about his ability, but he denied being an Ability User before Lulu knocked him unconscious again.
  • Sun Weixing brought two veterinarians, who examined Little Rabbit and found it healthy, with its wounds scabbed over and its bones unbroken.
  • Xia Tian explained that Ji Huiming claimed to have a taste-enhancing ability and had eaten a strange fruit that gave him a fever; his son ate one too and later died.
  • Xia Tian said the fruit had been found at Ji Huiming's family's manor, about sixty or seventy kilometers from the base.
  • Bai Yaoyao planned to visit the manor and considered how to deal with Ji Huiming so he would not cause trouble later.

Ch. 217Leveled up

Bai Yaoyao pushed Xia Tian to take revenge on Ji Huiming, then prepared to explore a manor Xia Tian had mentioned. After absorbing a level six crystal core, Bai Yaoyao’s spatial ability advanced, shaking her space and jolting the sleeping Little Rabbit awake.

  • Bai Yaoyao urged Xia Tian to stop submitting to Ji Huiming, and Xia Tian decided to take him away and settle their past.
  • Xia Tian dragged Ji Huiming out of the base and eventually stabbed him in the heart, while A-Dai secretly followed to make sure she acted.
  • A-Dai reported Ji Huiming’s death, and Peiqi revealed she had drained most of his blood while repeatedly healing him.
  • Bai Yaoyao entered her space with Little Rabbit and absorbed a level six crystal core, advancing her spatial ability and unlocking new skills.
  • Bai Yaoyao’s space shook after her breakthrough, and Big King carried the sleeping Little Rabbit away from the commotion.

Ch. 218Changes

After Bai Yaoyao’s space expanded and destroyed its cabin, she brought A-Dai inside, then found Great Sage had built a replacement house. Little Rabbit woke fully healed, and when Bai Yaoyao promised it could stay safe and never fight again, it shook its head.

  • Bai Yaoyao discovered that the space’s Spring Water had only slightly improved and its expanded farmland had replaced the Little Wooden Cabin.
  • Bai Yaoyao brought A-Dai into the space, but the effort drained her special ability energy and she needed Spring Water and Great Sage’s help to recover.
  • Bai Yaoyao and A-Dai tried unsuccessfully to build a new house, so Great Sage studied building books and constructed a brick house overnight.
  • Bai Yaoyao found Little Rabbit awake with its wounds healed and offered it a life of rest, carrots, and no more fighting.
  • Little Rabbit shook its head when Bai Yaoyao promised it would never have to go outside and fight again.

Ch. 219Exchange

Little Rabbit discovered its new healing ability and chose to leave Bai Yaoyao’s space to protect Big King. Bai Yaoyao set out for the Ji Family Manor after arranging supplies for Zhi Yi’s group and trading food, weapons, and other goods with Sun Weixing’s base.

  • Little Rabbit tested its healing ability by biting its paw, then chose to leave the space and protect Big King.
  • Bai Yaoyao learned that she had to hold someone to transfer them into or out of the space, and the group praised Little Rabbit.
  • Bai Yaoyao gave Zhi Yi’s group Level-Two Crystal Cores, while A-Dai privately gave Zhi Rui a Level Three Crystal Core.
  • Bai Yaoyao prepared to head to the Ji Family Manor and offered Sun Weixing a trade for his base’s crystal cores.
  • Bai Yaoyao exchanged rice, wheat, bombs, firearms, clothing, and other supplies with Sun Weixing, and told him to collect more crystal cores for future trades.

Ch. 220Toying with a Level Five Zombie

Bai Yaoyao rewarded Dark Night’s fighters and turned a level five zombie encounter into a training session until the zombie killed itself. Near the manor Xia Tian had mentioned, the group sensed a dangerous poison-type zombie and prepared to turn back, but Little Rabbit volunteered to lead them onward.

  • Bai Yaoyao gave fruit to the fighters and ordered shares for the fallen to go to their families or deserving survivors.
  • Bai Yaoyao made Dark Night battle a level five enhancement-type zombie one at a time while she watched and criticized their technique; the zombie eventually smashed its own head and lost its crystal core.
  • Dark Night found few strong zombies over the next several days, and Little Rabbit joined Big King and Big Lala in fighting the weaker ones.
  • Bai Yaoyao and Lulu sensed intense poison ahead near the manor Xia Tian had described, and the group suspected a level six zombie was inside.
  • Bai Yaoyao refused to risk Little Rabbit and suggested turning back, but Little Rabbit hopped forward to volunteer to help the group.

Ch. 221Bad luck

Bai Yaoyao used Little Rabbit to lure a Level Six Zombie out of a Manor and led Dark Night in a coordinated attack. The zombie was critically wounded, but it grabbed Little Rabbit and detonated itself.

  • Bai Yaoyao sent Little Rabbit into the Manor to draw out the Level Six Zombie while Big King stayed behind.
  • Little Rabbit lured the zombie toward Dark Night, and Bai Yaoyao bombed it before planting more bombs inside the Manor gate.
  • Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night attacked the zombie, with Bai Yaoyao crippling one arm and severely injuring its head.
  • Little Rabbit approached to land a few attacks, but the zombie grabbed it and detonated itself.

Ch. 222Little Crook's opponent

After Little Rabbit survived a zombie’s self-destruction, Bai Yaoyao’s group recovered and returned to the Manor, where a hidden mutant plant attacked them. Little Crook freed the trapped group and challenged the plant alone, gaining the upper hand.

  • Big King rescued Little Rabbit from the poison gas, and Peiqi discovered it was recovering quickly on its own.
  • Bai Yaoyao found the zombie’s crystal core, then led everyone away to recover before returning to explore the Manor.
  • Monkey kicked a roof tile into an artificial rock formation, triggering vines that caused the ground to collapse.
  • The mutant plant trapped Big Sea, but Little Crook freed it and helped bring the others to safety.
  • Little Crook asked Bai Yaoyao to let it face the mutant plant alone, and she agreed as it began outmaneuvering its opponent.

Ch. 223Disappointment

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night defeated a mutant vajra vine, and Little Crook absorbed its nutrients and began leveling up. In the Manor’s backyard, a mutant duck ate all the Fruit before Bai Yaoyao could stop him; Peiqi sensed his insincerity, so Bai Yaoyao sent Big King to attack him.

  • Little Crook fought the mutant vajra vine and absorbed nutrients from its main body, growing stronger before Bai Yaoyao put him in her space to level up.
  • Bai Yaoyao collected the scattered vajra vines and then sensed another mutant beast in the Manor’s backyard.
  • Bai Yaoyao found a mutant duck eating the Fruit, but he swallowed the remaining fruit before she could stop him.
  • The mutant duck pretended to play dead and then begged for mercy as Bai Yaoyao and the others considered what to do with him.
  • Peiqi sensed coldness in the mutant duck’s thoughts and warned Bai Yaoyao that he was insincere.
  • Bai Yaoyao ordered Big King to beat up the mutant duck, and Big King eagerly pounced.

Ch. 224Big Lala

Bai Yaoyao used the Mutant Duck to train Big King and Big Lala, stopping Lulu from interfering when Big Lala was injured. After Bai Yaoyao killed the duck, Lulu reassured Big Lala that the group would not abandon him, and he broke down crying.

  • Big King fought the Mutant Duck, learned from the battle, and was ordered by Bai Yaoyao to fall back while Peiqi healed the duck.
  • Bai Yaoyao sent Big Lala to fight and warned that nobody would heal him if he was hurt, leaving him to battle the stronger Mutant Duck.
  • The Mutant Duck wounded Big Lala, and Lulu tried to attack it before Bai Yaoyao used Position Swap to move her away.
  • Big Lala fought desperately until the Mutant Duck pinned him, and Bai Yaoyao killed it with a Spatial Blade.
  • Lulu called Peiqi to heal Big Lala, then hugged him and promised the group would work hard and grow stronger together, making him burst into tears.

Ch. 225Investigation

Bai Yaoyao and her group searched a manor, found a hidden underground laboratory, and discovered evidence of human experimentation that began before the apocalypse. The laboratory’s secrets remained unclear as they encountered a grotesquely preserved woman inside a culture vessel.

  • Bai Yaoyao finished searching the manor and turned back when she realized they had not found its storeroom.
  • Bai Yaoyao spotted a possible trigger, but it failed; Doggie and Big Lala found the hidden entrance, and Fat Brother broke through the floor to reveal stairs.
  • Bai Yaoyao checked the underground laboratory for danger, and the group descended with flashlights.
  • Bai Yaoyao and the others found hospital-like rooms, rotting corpses, and a missing archive, while Monkey found evidence of experiments predating the apocalypse.
  • Bai Yaoyao’s group entered a large laboratory and found a blue, twisted woman’s corpse inside an intact culture vessel.
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