Chapter Summaries

Bai Yaoyao rejected Bai Jin'an’s extreme training plan, then helped Lulu organize poison gas training to strengthen her ability. At the Training Ground, she discovered Doggie had been sabotaging the trainees’ attempts to retrieve fruit, leaving most of them injured and late.

• Bai Yaoyao kicked Bai Jin'an into the air after he teased her about having a plan B, and he crashed face-first when a headache stopped him from using his wind ability.
• Bai Yaoyao found Lulu yelling at ten poison-type Ability Users and explained that they should take turns releasing poison gas to help Lulu reach Level 7.
• Bai Yaoyao returned to the Training Ground after more than forty minutes and found only Lin Yongjian back with a wounded arm and a limp.
• Lin Yongjian told Bai Yaoyao that Doggie kept ambushing the trainees and stealing their fruit, forcing them to retrieve it again.
• Bai Yaoyao waited as other injured trainees returned, then had Sun Weixing send healing Ability Users to treat them; only 160 people had made it back by the one-hour mark.

Bai Yaoyao gave 200 speed ability users Strength Fruits and formed them into the White Colt Brigade, teaching them to use hit-and-run tactics. After Lin Yongjian led their first field exercise, the brigade successfully broke apart a zombie horde, and Bai Yaoyao left further combat training to Stone.

• Bai Yaoyao gave the 200 recruits Strength Fruits, which increased their physical strength, and told them to become a force that could strike into zombie swarms.
• Lin Yongjian became the unit's captain and named it the White Colt Brigade after Bai Yaoyao rejected his suggestion of the Midnight Squad.
• Bai Yaoyao told the brigade to retreat from enemies they could not defeat, return to report, and stay alive while disrupting the battlefield.
• Bai Yaoyao took the brigade outside the base for field training, where they struck zombies and ran, attracting a small horde.
• Lin Yongjian led the brigade in running the horde around until it broke apart, and Bai Yaoyao decided to leave further combat training to Stone.

Bai Yaoyao began training sixty-nine space ability users, including Bai Qingqing, in offensive spatial skills. After several days of basic practice, she took them outside the base to hunt and confront zombies so they could overcome their fear and prepare for future roles.

• Bai Qingqing joined the space ability users after scoring a perfect hundred on Peiqi’s loyalty test and resolved to become stronger like her sister.
• Bai Yaoyao had the trainees practice cutting A4 paper with Spatial Blade, then taught the more capable ones Spatial Cut.
• Bai Yaoyao demonstrated her improved Spatial Blades by reducing the trainees’ wooden sticks to powder, inspiring them to practice harder.
• After two or three days, Bai Yaoyao took all sixty-nine space ability users hunting and spoke with A-Dai, who was taking the White Colt Brigade out to train against zombies.
• When a low-level zombie charged the group, Bai Yaoyao moved it among the trainees with her mental power, recognizing that they needed more exposure to zombies to overcome their fear.

Bai Yaoyao ended Bai Qingqing’s combat training after seeing that she was a liability, then assigned her to teach and care for the base’s children. Bai Qingqing eagerly prepared lessons, unaware that Bai Yaoyao had invented the mission to keep her off the battlefield.

• Bai Yaoyao sent the base residents into groups of three to practice fighting zombies and found that Bai Qingqing struggled to contribute.
• Bai Yaoyao captured a level six zombie with Teleportation and had Little Crook drag it back to the base.
• Bai Yaoyao told Bai Qingqing to stop combat training, then gave her the task of teaching the children to read, write, sing, and dance.
• Bai Qingqing enthusiastically accepted and spent the night preparing lessons and rehearsing songs and dances.
• Bai Jin'an heard Bai Qingqing practicing, learned about her new mission, and encouraged her to take it seriously.

Bai Yaoyao and Bai Jin'an arranged a staged monster attack to push Xiao Shiliu to take more responsibility, recruiting actors and preparing Dark Night Base for the deception. The chapter ended as Bai Yaoyao assigned teams to the supposed crisis and baited Xiao Shiliu into insisting he could handle a mission.

• Bai Jin'an told Bai Yaoyao that Dada Juan had reached level seven, and they discussed using hypnosis and a staged crisis to help Xiao Shiliu grow.
• Bai Yaoyao tested her hypnosis on Bai Jin'an, making him do squats, then asked Sun Weixing to gather sixty Ability Users to act in the plan.
• Bai Yaoyao briefed the actors, chose Da Yueyue and others to befriend Xiao Shiliu, and arranged props with Bai Jin'an.
• Bai Yaoyao consulted Langlang and Xiao Shiba, then summoned her brothers from Dark Night and claimed monsters surrounded the base.
• Bai Yaoyao assigned teams to eighteen locations and pretended Xiao Shiliu should stay with her, prompting him to insist he could handle the mission.

Bai Yaoyao sent Xiao Shiliu to clear Yong County, then secretly arranged for Dark Night members to test him with staged encounters and zombies. After Xiao Shiliu bonded with his assigned team and defeated a Level 7 zombie, Bai Yaoyao encountered a herd of mutant wild boars and proposed a paid partnership.

• Bai Yaoyao assigned Xiao Shiliu and Xiao Shiba to clear Yong County with sixty people, then revealed her plan to put Xiao Shiliu through a difficult test.
• Dark Night members went ahead to set obstacles, while Xiao Shiliu met his team of actors and grew close to Da Yueyue on the way to Yong County.
• Xiao Shiliu defeated a Level 7 zombie and accepted his teammates' praise, while Da Yueyue reflected on his lost fellow apprentices.
• Bai Yaoyao failed to find more Level 7 zombies, spotted a herd of mutant wild boars, and offered their leader payment to work together.

Bai Yaoyao hired a wild boar herd to stage a nonlethal ambush and set up a difficult zombie fight for Xiao Shiliu’s team. Xiao Shiliu defeated the horde and began to understand the weight of leading others, but a powerful rumbling began as he was left barely able to stand.

• Bai Yaoyao paid the boar leader with diluted Spring Water and told him to ambush humans without killing them.
• Bai Yaoyao led the wild boars to the county town, where they drove zombies toward the entrance and prepared an ambush.
• Da Yueyue and the others gave Xiao Shiliu their rations before his team entered the town to fight more than a hundred zombies.
• Da Yueyue and the other actors pretended to sacrifice themselves, pushing Xiao Shiliu to fight harder and kill the entire zombie horde.
• Xiao Shiliu felt proud of his victory and resolved to bring his team home, but a powerful rumbling shook the ground while he could barely stand.

Bai Yaoyao staged a wild boar attack to push Xiao Shiliu and his team into a desperate fight, where Xiao Shiliu leveled up but exhausted his ability before she rescued him. After Xiao Shiliu passed out, Bai Yaoyao revealed the casualties were mostly actors and paid the boars for their work.

• Bai Yaoyao directed the wild boar herd to attack Xiao Shiliu and his team, prompting the group to flee and then sacrifice themselves to protect their captain.
• Xiao Shiliu unleashed his wind blades, leveled up, and briefly wounded the boar leader before his special ability ran out.
• The boars knocked Xiao Shiliu down, and Xiao Shiba fell while trying to shield him.
• Bai Yaoyao arrived, defeated the boar leader, and took the unconscious Xiao Shiliu and Peiqi into her space.
• Bai Yaoyao thanked the actors, treated the injured, and paid the boars with diluted Spring Water.

After Xiao Shiliu recovered, Bai Yaoyao helped him confront the deaths caused by his weakness. Over the next three months, she transformed Dark Night Base with affordable shops, a contribution points system, and expanded training, leaving the base stronger and better organized.

• Bai Yaoyao and her companions returned to their spatial dimension, where Xiao Shiliu woke and blamed himself for the deaths; Bai Yaoyao told him that weakness meant death in the apocalypse, and he said he understood.
• Over three months, Bai Yaoyao reopened the Dark Night Store and established practical shops run by Qian Ming and Qian Dou, Cheng Xiaomeng and her father, Wang Fugui and Wang Yuanbao, and Zhang Yabing and his brothers.
• Bai Yaoyao introduced a contribution points system under Chen Jing, letting base members earn valuable supplies and fruits for special contributions.
• Bai Yaoyao sent Xue Yang to train with Ouyang Ning, and Ouyang Ling later took him on for military leadership training.
• Dark Night members selected people for intensive training, and the base's ability users grew stronger, with most leveling up and a few advancing two levels.

Dark Night strengthened its defenses and prepared for the coming zombie siege as Bai Zongyu’s team developed a simplified Body Evolution Serum. Bai Yaoyao then began learning to make Spatial Containers, but her first attempt destroyed a piece of jade.

• Dark Night trained its fighters, improved its defenses, and organized base residents to prepare for the zombie siege.
• Bai Jin'an’s training helped Xiao Shiliu improve until his sparring results against Monkey and Dada Juan were mixed.
• Bai Zongyu told Bai Yaoyao that the Research Team had developed a Simplified Body Evolution Serum and could produce about two thousand doses before needing more materials.
• Bai Yaoyao rewarded the twelve researchers with tea and store points after they requested Body Evolution Serum for their work.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Taoist Feng Qing to teach her to make a Spatial Container, and he explained how to compress space and embed it in jade.
• Bai Yaoyao tried to put a half-cubic-meter space into a Peace Buckle, but it exploded, and Taoist Feng Qing hurried away.

Bai Yaoyao successfully compressed space into four pieces of jade, creating ugly but functional Spatial Artifacts for the base. With the predicted zombie siege seven days away, she ordered the base to stop sending people outside and prepare defenses, including planting explosives northeast of the city.

• Bai Yaoyao tried fusing space into several pieces of jade, then asked Sun Weixing to find jade appraisers after the first attempts failed.
• Bai Yaoyao used high-quality imperial green jade to create Spatial Jade that held one cubic meter but could not store living things or preserve freshness.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Taoist Feng Qing a piece of Spatial Jade, then showed the four pieces she had made to Dark Night, Sun Weixing, A-Dai, and the others.
• A-Dai, Xiaomi, Fat Brother, and Lulu claimed the four pieces, while Monkey joked that he would wait for a prettier one and drew A-Dai's ridicule.
• Bai Yaoyao learned that the predicted zombie siege was seven days away and ordered the base to stop sending people outside starting the next day.
• Sun Weixing said the zombies were predicted to come from the northeast, and the firearms team planned to plant landmines and bombs there as the base completed its preparations.

Bai Yaoyao and her companions defeated a Level Eight Darkness Ability Zombie before she discovered an enormous horde approaching Dark Night Base. She returned to find the defenders assembled and the White Colt Brigade moving into position as the siege began.

• Bai Yaoyao sensed danger outside the base, evaded the Darkness Ability Zombie by entering her space, and prepared lamps to fight it in the dark.
• Bai Yaoyao summoned Wolf Mom, Doggie, Big Meow, Little Crook, Little Flower, and Xuan Qi, then led them in a coordinated attack that killed the Level Eight zombie and recovered its Crystal Core.
• Bai Yaoyao burned the zombie's corpse to prevent it from reviving, then found a vast horde surrounding the area and wondered why so many zombies had gathered at Dark Night Base.
• Bai Yaoyao returned to find Dark Night's defenders and about a thousand Ability Users assembled behind the front line.
• Bai Yaoyao ordered the White Colt Brigade to flank the horde, and Lin Yongjian led all two hundred members into the night using their Speed abilities.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night Base prepared for a massive zombie assault, then joined the battle alongside Ouyang Ning’s brigades, the beasts, and the Taoist disciples. As the fighting continued, Bai Yaoyao spotted another zombie infant and sent Little Zombie and Little Second Zombie to bring it back.

• Bai Yaoyao left Spring Water and roasted sweet potatoes for the base, prepared medical tents with Peiqi, and gave Ouyang Ling command of the special ability brigades.
• The zombie vanguard reached the base, where planted bombs and Ouyang Ling’s four Pangu vehicles devastated the horde while a sound special ability user’s Red War Drum rallied the fighters.
• Bai Yaoyao suspected the Ji Family had made an agreement with the zombies, then led Dark Night into battle with the beasts, including the mutant wolf legion.
• Bai Yaoyao watched the Wolf Brothers, Ouyang Ning’s troops, and Zhi Yi’s disciples fight effectively, and Taoist Feng Qing noticed the disciples’ attacks resembled Old Dragon Head’s style.
• Bai Yaoyao heard a zombie infant crying in the horde and sent Little Zombie and Little Second Zombie to retrieve it; she fed it cake before the two little zombies led it away.

Dark Night Base endured a devastating siege until the children’s singing renewed the fighters’ resolve, but five level-eight zombies appeared just as the battle ended. Bai Yaoyao ordered a retreat, sheltered the remaining mutant wolves in her space, and prepared to face the new threat with Xuan Qi, who began leveling up.

• Bai Yaoyao and the exhausted defenders fought through mounting casualties as the battle raged from before dawn into the night.
• The children, including Bai Qingqing, sang from the base wall and gave the fighters hope for one final charge.
• Bai Yaoyao held back to recover while monitoring the battlefield and waiting for the Zombie King to appear.
• After A-Dai killed the last figure on the battlefield, Bai Yaoyao sensed five powerful level-eight zombies and ordered everyone to retreat.
• Xuan Qi warned that his barrier could only hold the five zombies for half an hour, then began leveling up as Bai Yaoyao brought the remaining mutant wolves into her space.

Bai Yaoyao confronted five level eight Zombies led by a spatial Zombie King, who demanded that she join the Zombie Emperor and return the Zombie Infant. As the Zombies attacked, Taoist Feng Qing trapped them in an Illusionary Realm, giving Dark Night Base a chance to survive.

• Bai Yaoyao sent her exhausted Mutant Beasts and plants back into her space and told her allies she would stall the five incoming level eight Zombies.
• The spatial Zombie King offered Bai Yaoyao power if she joined the Zombie Emperor, and she learned that the Emperor could travel to the past and see the future.
• A zombie demanded that Bai Yaoyao return the Zombie Infant, and the five Zombies charged after she refused.
• Taoist Feng Qing revealed that his Illusionary Realm had trapped the Zombies, and Bai Yaoyao gave him Spring Water so he could reinforce it with more Illusions.
• Taoist Feng Qing explained that the Zombies would remain trapped unless they found the way out or reached level nine, then scolded Zhi Rui for swearing.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night Base survived the attack by five level-five zombies after Taoist Feng Qing trapped them in an illusion. Bai Yaoyao reached level eight and approved a plan to poison and burn the zombies, but she returned to find the base’s ability users severely wounded.

• Taoist Feng Qing calmed down after Bai Yaoyao offered him Monkey Wine, and the group stayed to recover while the five zombies remained trapped in his illusion.
• Bai Yaoyao absorbed the level-eight Crystal Core and advanced her spatial ability, gaining stronger attacks and continuous teleportation.
• Monkey proposed surrounding the zombies with an earth wall, poisoning them, and setting the enclosure on fire, and Bai Yaoyao approved the plan.
• Fat Brother and Stone began building the wall while Bai Yaoyao and Chenxuan returned to Dark Night Base to check on it.
• Bai Yaoyao found the base littered with severely wounded ability users, and someone called out to her as Base Chief.

After the siege, Bai Yaoyao organized food, Spring Water, and support for the wounded and exhausted survivors. She discovered that an elderly woman had died beside her son, and the sight left Bai Yaoyao overwhelmed by the losses.

• Peiqi continued healing the wounded while Chenxuan boosted her ability, and Sun Weixing reported that five Level 8 zombies remained trapped outside.
• Bai Yaoyao asked the survivors to rest before recruiting earth and poison ability users to reinforce the walls and contain the zombies.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Sun Weixing roasted sweet potatoes, Chestnut Fruit, and diluted Spring Water to distribute among the injured, then checked on the people who had manned the wall.
• Bai Yaoyao tried to comfort an elderly woman mourning her dead son, but the woman soon died with the cup of Spring Water untouched beside her.
• Bai Yaoyao recognized the bodies of a couple and remembered the father of the first baby born in Dark Night Base, then looked across the dead and recalled those who had called her Base Chief.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night recognized that the Base was a place worth protecting and resolved to grow stronger after witnessing the battlefield’s losses. After burning the battlefield and weakening five Level Eight zombies, they killed four and questioned the surviving Zombie King, learning that the Ji Family had agreed to cooperate with the zombies and was at sea.

• Bai Yaoyao recalled her master's convictions and urged Dark Night to see the Base as peace they needed to protect.
• Dark Night mourned the dead Ability Users, then resumed fortifying the Base and poisoning the earthen enclosure holding five Level Eight zombies.
• Little Crook led the recovery of Crystal Cores, and Big King and the fire Ability Users burned the battlefield for seven days and nights.
• When Dark Night attacked the weakened zombies inside the enclosure, four died before emerging, while the Level Eight Zombie King escaped using Teleportation.
• Bai Yaoyao questioned the Zombie King as Peiqi sensed his thoughts, learning that the Ji Family had agreed to cooperate with the zombies and that they were at sea.

Bai Yaoyao and her allies killed the five level eight zombies and discussed their next plans, including a trip to M City for Dada Juan’s weapon and a lead on Li Ziheng. The chapter ended with Sun Weixing reporting Dark Night Base’s siege casualties and Bai Jin'an comparing them favorably with losses at other bases.

• Bai Yaoyao destroyed the weakened Spatial Zombie King, took its crystal core, and joined the others in burning all five zombie corpses.
• Bai Yaoyao told Sun Weixing to gather the management staff at the White Building so they could review casualties and rewards.
• Dada Juan asked Bai Yaoyao to help him retrieve his Cloud-Rising Spear from M City, and she agreed to visit the M City Official Base as well.
• Bai Yaoyao recalled that Li Ziheng had smuggled a level eight Blue-Dot Zombie into the City M Base and decided to look for him during the trip.
• Sun Weixing reported that the siege had killed 373 ability user combat team members, seventeen White Colt Brigade members, and 435 ordinary people, while Bai Jin'an said Dark Night Base’s losses were far below those at the Main Base.

Bai Yaoyao rewarded the battle survivors and prepared to leave the base with her team to hunt for Crystal Cores and raise their levels. After Ouyang Ning drank her Spring Water, he recovered from old injuries and awakened a water ability, while Elder Chen began foreseeing whether danger threatened the base.

• Bai Yaoyao promised everyone who fought in the battle a 300-Point Dark Night Store Shopping Card, and Sun Weixing persuaded her to exclude special-offer goods.
• Bai Yaoyao said she planned to take the team out and congratulated Ouyang Ning on reaching Level 7, then gave him Spring Water that healed his injuries and awakened his water ability.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Level Eight Crystal Cores to Lulu, A-Dai, Stone, and Fat Brother, took them into her space to level up, and planned to upgrade her mind ability with the remaining core.
• Bai Yaoyao and Sun Weixing found Elder Chen working with the Bamboo Weaving Team and asked him to foresee whether anything bad would happen at the base.
• Elder Chen held Bai Yaoyao's Small Jade Piece and used his ability for about half an hour before slowly opening his eyes.