Chapter Summaries

Bai Yaoyao arranged for Xiao Shiliu and Dada Juan to train with Bai Jin'an, then rushed to the convoy’s rear when an assassin stabbed Bai Qingqing while she protected Old Master Bai. The captured attackers revealed no useful information about the Ji Family, and Bai Yaoyao ordered them killed before the convoy continued.

• Bai Yaoyao told Xiao Shiliu and Dada Juan to discuss their combat skills with Bai Jin'an, and the two agreed to try to beat Monkey within a month.
• Monkey swaggered about after learning of their challenge, while Bai Yaoyao and Fat Brother expected him to suffer for boasting.
• Bai Yaoyao teleported to the rear of the convoy, where she found Bai Qingqing stabbed after shielding Old Master Bai from an attacker.
• Peiqi healed Bai Qingqing, and Bai Jin'an captured the attacker and identified his accomplice.
• Bai Yaoyao questioned the two men about the Ji Family, but they had no useful information, so Old Master Bai struck them and Bai Yaoyao ordered Little Crook to kill them.

Bai Yaoyao and her group returned to Dark Night Base, where residents welcomed them warmly. Before she could speak with Sun Weixing, Glory Base arrived and threatened the base, leaving the defenders to face a new confrontation.

• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu cleared zombies on the journey, and the convoy reached Dark Night Base by the following afternoon.
• Bai Yaoyao noted that their route had skirted the Ningqing Grand Canal and that the mutant beast there remained a serious risk.
• The patrol recognized Sun Weihao and Bai Yaoyao, and Dark Night residents gathered at the gates to celebrate their return.
• Bai Yaoyao saw how closely the residents cared for their base, while the Bai Family realized why she had wanted to return.
• Sun Weixing welcomed Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night, but Glory Base threatened the gates with explosives and demanded surrender.
• Xia Tian led the Bai Family members with little combat ability into the base, while Old Mr. Bai left the family’s combatants behind.

Glory Base attacked Dark Night Base, but Bai Yaoyao’s side swiftly defeated them and subdued their Earth Bears. Though the survivors surrendered, Bai Yaoyao ordered them all killed, leaving the battle’s aftermath drenched in blood.

• Bai Yaoyao assessed Glory Base’s force, including two level-seven ability users and two injured Earth Bears, and authorized Murong Xixi, Bai Jin'an, and Ouyang Ning to fight.
• Murong Xixi killed Glory Base’s leader, Ouyang Ning confronted the other level-seven ability user, and Bai Jin'an persuaded the Earth Bears to stop fighting by promising to help rescue their cubs.
• Dark Night’s fighters crushed Glory Base’s attackers, revealing that its scouts had badly underestimated Dark Night’s strength.
• The surviving Glory Base members surrendered, but Bai Yaoyao ordered her people to kill them all, and they carried out her command.

Bai Yaoyao returned to Dark Night Base and began organizing its next steps, then visited Elder Chen, whose precognition ability had left him dangerously depleted. After Chenxuan and Peiqi treated him, Bai Yaoyao forbade him from making predictions without the group’s preparation, and Elder Chen urged her to establish clearer rules for the growing base.

• Bai Jin'an saved one enemy survivor so Dark Night Base could learn the way to the other base.
• Bai Yaoyao told Sun Weixing to gather the base’s management personnel that evening and asked to see Elder Chen.
• Bai Yaoyao found Elder Chen severely depleted after his last prophecy, and Chenxuan and Peiqi used their healing abilities while he drank Spring Water.
• Elder Chen recovered enough to feel better but said his ability still could not regenerate energy on its own.
• Bai Yaoyao told Elder Chen not to make predictions without everyone present and properly prepared.
• Elder Chen advised Bai Yaoyao to establish rules and maintain authority as the base grew, and she agreed to scold Sun Weixing.

Bai Yaoyao returned to the Dark Night Base, learned that a zombie siege might be coming, and began reorganizing the base’s preparations. She gathered its leaders and residents for a briefing, where Xia Tian volunteered to explain the base’s situation.

• Bai Yaoyao rewarded Elder Chen for predicting the zombie siege and asked A-Dai to record details about his previous prediction.
• Bai Yaoyao learned that Sun Weixing had kept the Little Bai Building available and had arranged nearby homes for the Murong Family, the Bai Family, and the Ouyang siblings.
• Bai Yaoyao instructed Sun Weixing to consult the Bai Family about the laboratory they needed and went to rest before the evening meeting.
• Bai Yaoyao gathered the base’s leaders and residents at the training hotel and warned that the base and their duties might change as they prepared for the coming siege.
• Sun Weihao asked not to manage city defenses again, and Bai Yaoyao promised to assign people to roles suited to them.
• Bai Yaoyao asked for an overview of the base, and Xia Tian volunteered to provide one.

Bai Yaoyao assessed Dark Night Base’s weaknesses and announced her plan to transform it into a key to ending the apocalypse. She assigned Ouyang Ning to manage the base’s ability users and asked Ouyang Ling about her background.

• Xia Tian reported Dark Night Base’s population, ability-user numbers, and centralized squad system to Bai Yaoyao.
• Bai Yaoyao declared that the base would become a key to ending the apocalypse and urged everyone to rely on unity and training.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered a month of wilderness training for the ability users and appointed Ouyang Ning to coordinate and manage them.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Ouyang Ling about her health, then asked her to explain her background.

Bai Yaoyao finalized Dark Night Base’s leadership and construction plans, then prepared a nighttime operation to retaliate against the group they had encountered. She also promised the two Earth Bears that she would rescue their children in exchange for their protection of the base for two years.

• Ouyang Ling introduced her military record, accepted command of Dark Night Base’s armed forces, and asked for a deputy, but Bai Yaoyao said she trusted her.
• Bai Yaoyao assigned Bai Jin'an to plan defenses and a research laboratory, while Sun Weixing and Zhao Kun promised to provide support and build the laboratory quickly.
• Bai Yaoyao told the Black Night Squad to focus on special training and announced a nighttime strike against the group that had attacked them.
• Bai Yaoyao invited Xia Tian and fifty others to join the operation, then went to check on the two Earth Bears.
• Bai Yaoyao promised the Earth Bears she would rescue their children, and they agreed to protect Dark Night Base for two years in return.

Bai Yaoyao learned about Glory Base’s oppressive leadership and infiltrated it with A-Dai to investigate. They discovered Chen Guangrong being paraded through the streets by chanting residents, while a woman tried to keep them from attracting his attention.

• Bai Yaoyao gave Spring Water to the two Earth Bears, then left them with the main force and took Baitian’s prisoner ahead with Dark Night and the Black Night Squad.
• Peiqi explained that Glory Base, led by level-six Ability User Chen Guangrong, recruited survivors by force and had attacked Dark Night Base after underestimating it.
• Peiqi killed their prisoner as the group neared Glory Base, and Bai Yaoyao’s team slipped through its lax entrance in small groups.
• Bai Yaoyao and A-Dai blended into a crowd gathered along a red carpet, where a woman warned them to keep their heads down around the Base Chief’s people.
• Chen Guangrong appeared on a sedan chair with two young women as residents chanted praise, and Bai Yaoyao probed his ability with her mental power.

Bai Yaoyao and her allies killed Glory Base’s tyrannical chief, Chen Guangrong, and his trusted followers, then invited the survivors to join Dark Night Base. As they began touring the base to gather supplies, Bai Yaoyao found that others had already started looting its warehouse.

• Bai Yaoyao used Level Seven Mental Pressure on Chen Guangrong after he tried to claim her as the recipient of his blessing, and Lulu killed him with a bolt of venomous lightning.
• The people of Glory Base cheered Chen Guangrong’s death and insisted that heaven had struck him down.
• Dark Night and the Black Night Squad killed Chen Guangrong’s trusted followers, while Sun Weihao and Xia Tian invited the survivors to join Dark Night Base and leave the next morning.
• Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night on a tour of Glory Base, heading for its supply warehouse in the university laboratory building.
• Bai Yaoyao arrived to find that former Glory Base staff had already reached the warehouse and were grabbing supplies.

Bai Yaoyao took control of the Glory Base’s supplies and rescued three Earth Bear cubs, then began preparing its residents to move to the Dark Night Base. After she distributed breakfast and learned the results of the head count, the chapter left her reunited with the cubs’ grateful parents.

• Bai Yaoyao warned looters to stop taking the laboratory’s spoils, and Dark Night killed those who ignored her.
• Bai Yaoyao collected the base’s food, valuables, equipment, and library books, finding little food but intact laboratories and books.
• Bai Yaoyao found three Earth Bear cubs imprisoned in boxes and revived them with Spring Water and mutant beast meat.
• Bai Yaoyao gave bread and pure milk to every Glory Base resident, prompting more hesitant people to choose the Dark Night Base.
• Xia Tian told Bai Yaoyao that just over three thousand mostly low-level ability users remained and that many had left for the Official Base.
• Bai Yaoyao reunited the three cubs with their two Earth Bear parents, who bowed to thank her.

Bai Yaoyao secured Big Bear and Second Bear as guardians of the Dark Night Base, then organized the Glory Base survivors for the journey back. The group traveled safely under the protection of Mutant Beasts and Plants and stopped in a town for the night, with two days of travel still ahead.

• Bai Yaoyao named Big Bear and Second Bear the Dark Night Base’s guardian beasts and took them and their cubs into her space.
• Xia Tian organized the survivors, and Bai Yaoyao gave five portions of Self-Heating Rice to each person who planned to leave for an Authorities-run base.
• A vocal survivor urged people to leave, but several thousand reconsidered and returned after Sun Weihao called them back; Xia Tian said late registrants would face stricter assessments.
• Bai Yaoyao led the group toward the Dark Night Base with Mutant Beasts and Plants guarding them, while the creatures swiftly killed approaching Zombies and collected Crystal Cores.
• That evening, the group stopped in a town, where Xia Tian assigned rooms and Bai Yaoyao gave everyone Instant Noodles and hot water.

Bai Yaoyao confronted men who demanded that children give up their food, then forced them to face a zombie. A boy stood up to the zombie and impressed Bai Yaoyao with his courage, leaving her intrigued by his potential.

• Several men at Dark Night Base complained that children received the same food as adults and demanded their shares.
• Bai Yaoyao challenged the men to prove their usefulness by fighting a zombie, but they cowered when A-Dai brought one into the room.
• A boy who had been targeted threw a rock at the zombie and said people should unite against zombies so they could return to school.
• Bai Yaoyao gave the boy a Tang Dao, and he tried to strike the zombie when it lunged at the men.
• Bai Yaoyao killed the zombie with a Spatial Blade before it could reach the boy, who then removed its Crystal Core and handed it and the Tang Dao to her.

Bai Yaoyao discovered that Duan Yuwen had awakened the rare ability to control corpses, but chose not to make his path easy. Afterward, she decided to make Dark Night memorize classical Chinese passages, while Chenxuan asked for The Art of War.

• Duan Yuwen revealed that he could briefly control the corpse of a man killed by zombies, and Bai Yaoyao recognized him as a future powerhouse from her previous life.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Duan Yuwen a crystal core and Tang Dao, then left without openly praising his ability.
• Bai Yaoyao told Dark Night that Duan Yuwen’s corpse-controlling ability could make him a one-man army in later battles, but said he should grow through hardship rather than receive immediate support.
• Bai Yaoyao handed the younger members books of required classical Chinese passages and ordered them to memorize one passage each week.
• Chenxuan said he already knew the passages and asked Bai Yaoyao for The Art of War, while Monkey challenged him to spar.

Bai Yaoyao’s group rushed back toward Dark Night Base after she suspected a Zombie King had redirected the zombies there. They reached the area before the main force arrived and prepared to land and confront the threat.

• Bai Yaoyao assigned Xuan Qi to keep watch, then brought Little Earthy Yellow into her space and encouraged it to produce more fruit.
• Bai Yaoyao slept through the night, and Xuan Qi told her that the zombies had surrounded the group without attacking before withdrawing.
• Xia Tian organized breakfast and prepared the group to move out, while A-Dai asked whether Zhi Rui and the others would return that day.
• Bai Yaoyao noticed the road was empty and ordered A-Dai, Xiaomi, Big Meow, Big Gold, and Big Sea to rush ahead with her because a Zombie King might be leading zombies toward Dark Night Base.
• Monkey flew Bai Yaoyao and the others toward the base in the Helicopter, and Bai Yaoyao detected a dense mass of energy signatures nearby.
• Bai Yaoyao realized the main zombie force had not yet reached Dark Night Base and ordered the group to land.

Bai Yaoyao confronted the Lipstick Queen, a Zombie King with spatial abilities, and used lipstick as a distraction to defeat her. After collecting the Queen’s Crystal Core, Bai Yaoyao burned the corpse and hurried to rejoin Monkey and the others.

• Bai Yaoyao identified the Lipstick Queen as a spatial-ability Zombie King and told her companions to leave while she fought alone.
• Bai Yaoyao pretended to consider joining the Lipstick Queen and distracted her by offering lipsticks.
• Bai Yaoyao used a new energy bomb and spatial attacks to injure the Lipstick Queen, then exploited her fixation on lipstick to land further blows.
• Bai Yaoyao tricked the Lipstick Queen with a radish disguised as lipstick and severed her head.
• Bai Yaoyao took the Lipstick Queen’s Crystal Core, burned her corpse, and hurried ahead to find Monkey and the others.

After killing the Zombie King, Bai Yaoyao saw the zombie horde retreat in an organized way and hurried back to Dark Night Base with the group. On the way, she discovered three hidden Blue-Dot Zombies and suspected the Ji Family had arranged the attack on Dark Night Base to plant infiltrators among the newcomers.

• Bai Yaoyao learned that a howl had prompted the zombie horde to retreat, then took the group back toward Dark Night Base as quickly as possible.
• Peiqi warned Bai Yaoyao that Blue-Dot Zombies had infiltrated the group, and Bai Yaoyao found three of them with her mental power.
• Bai Yaoyao told Peiqi to screen both the newcomers and current residents for Ji Family infiltrators, suspecting the Ji Family had manipulated Glory Base into attacking Dark Night Base.
• Bai Yaoyao arranged buses for the elderly, children, and others who could not keep walking, while Fat Brother and Stone led earth ability users in repairing the road.
• Near the base, Bai Yaoyao staged a stern reprimand of Peiqi so the group would believe she was being punished, leaving Peiqi behind as the group continued.

After returning to Dark Night Base, Bai Yaoyao organized the newcomers, reunited with Zhi Yi and his group, and checked on the base’s work. She left the chapter preparing to supply the Laboratory with equipment and materials while planning to learn how to make a Spatial Container.

• Bai Yaoyao had Peiqi screen incoming residents, and Peiqi found more than thirty suspected Ji Family plants among just over seven thousand people.
• Bai Yaoyao reunited with A-Dai, Zhi Rui, Taoist Feng Qing, and Zhi Yi’s group, then learned that the group’s abilities had lagged because they relied too much on secluded cultivation.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Taoist Feng Qing to teach her how to make a Spatial Container, but he got drunk during their meal before she could ask him anything.
• Bai Yaoyao inspected Ouyang Ling and Ouyang Ning’s formation drills and left after seeing that they had the armed personnel under control.
• Bai Yaoyao brought laboratory benches and equipment from Glory Base to Bai Zongyu and Bai Jin'an, then asked what other supplies they needed.

Peiqi’s screening ability leveled up, letting her sense goodwill and hostility across a wide area, while she and Bai Yaoyao staged a public argument to mislead potential spies. Peiqi’s new ability revealed that Li Hai Feng remained neutral toward Bai Yaoyao despite his long association with the Black Night Squad, so they planned to test him.

• Bai Yaoyao gave Peiqi supplies and ordered Sun Weixing to gather two hundred high-level speed Ability Users for the next morning.
• While screening the remaining recruits, Peiqi leveled up and learned to sense people’s goodwill, neutrality, or hostility across a wide area.
• Peiqi used her new ability to finish screening five thousand people, admitting red and white recruits while having hostile black-marked recruits captured.
• Bai Yaoyao and Peiqi pretended to quarrel in public, prompting a suspicious man to spread gossip about their falling-out.
• Peiqi told Bai Yaoyao that Li Hai Feng appeared neutral toward her, and they agreed to find a chance to test him.

Bai Yaoyao rooted out the Ji Family’s spies in the Dark Night Base and warned its residents to report anyone trying to betray them. The Ji Family stopped trying to infiltrate the base and focused on its experiments, while keeping Li Hai Feng under control through his captured family.

• Bai Yaoyao and Peiqi interrogated suspected infiltrators, and Bai Yaoyao killed the prisoners and three hidden Blue-Dot Zombies before burning their bodies.
• Peiqi screened the Dark Night Base’s residents and found seven more Ji Family spies.
• Bai Yaoyao showed the residents the Ji Family’s monsters, warned them to protect the base, and killed the seven spies with Spatial Detonation.
• Sun Weixing urged the residents to report anyone who tried to recruit them against the base, and they agreed.
• The Ji Family abandoned efforts to infiltrate the Dark Night Base and chose to prioritize its experiments, keeping Li Hai Feng as a pawn because they held his family captive.
• The Ji Family revealed that Li Hai Feng’s family had been turned into Spider-Men and discussed transforming him to reunite them.

Bai Yaoyao began selecting recruits for Dark Night’s first combat team and checked on Xiao Shiliu and Dada Juan’s training. Bai Jin'an urged her to send Xiao Shiliu on a dangerous mission so he could face real bloodshed, leaving Bai Yaoyao torn between the practical need and Dark Night’s usual methods.

• Bai Yaoyao sent Doggie to guard two hundred earthy-yellow Fruits on a hill behind Dark Night Base.
• Bai Yaoyao set three hundred-plus Speed Ability Users racing to retrieve the Fruits, with the first two hundred to return qualifying for the team.
• Bai Yaoyao found Dada Juan overpowering Xiao Shiliu after Bai Jin'an had taught Dada Juan to fight at close range with flames covering his body.
• Bai Jin'an told Bai Yaoyao that Xiao Shiliu needed to lead a team into real danger and might need to see other people’s blood to improve.
• Bai Yaoyao fell silent, recognizing the logic of Bai Jin'an’s advice but hesitating because it conflicted with Dark Night’s training methods.