Chapter Summaries

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.

Bai Yaoyao’s group hunted mutant rabbits and entered the Zoo’s Turtle and Snake Hall, where they prepared to confront a powerful mutant python. A Golden Snub-nosed Monkey warned them about the danger, but they went ahead and lured the snakes out with Realgar Wine, leaving them face-to-face with a colossal python.

• Bai Yaoyao’s group defeated three Mutant Rabbits and stored their meat.
• Monkey asked Bai Yaoyao to spare the monkeys, and the group passed Monkey Mountain without attacking them.
• A Golden Snub-nosed Monkey warned the group that a dangerous creature was inside the Turtle and Snake Hall, but Bai Yaoyao thanked it and continued.
• Bai Yaoyao sensed a likely level-four Mutant Python and rejected Xiao Shiliu’s suggestion to use a bomb.
• Bai Yaoyao’s group threw jars of Realgar Wine into the hall, and Dada Juan set them on fire as everyone retreated.
• A colossal python emerged and swept its tail through two walls.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night fought the Mutant Python, with Little Crook and a hidden monkey helping turn the battle in their favor. The python died after the monkey struck its vital point, and the exhausted group was left victorious.

• Bai Yaoyao shot out the Mutant Python's eyes while Dark Night retreated and formed a semicircle to attack it.
• Little Crook grew larger and battered the Mutant Python, giving the group an opening to unleash their strongest attacks.
• Bai Yaoyao used Teleportation to evade the python's tail and repeatedly cut at it with the butcher's cleaver, while Chenxuan amplified her ability.
• The Mutant Python lunged at Peiqi, but a little monkey sprang from hiding and hacked at its vital point with Bai Yaoyao's cleaver.
• The Mutant Python crashed to the ground and died, leaving the group relieved and nearly out of energy.

Bai Yaoyao’s group recovered after fighting the Mutant Python, but a powerful little tortoise approached her to ask for Spring Water. Xuan Qi offered to join Bai Yaoyao’s team, just as hurried footsteps interrupted their conversation.

• Little Monkey gave Bai Yaoyao the Mutant Python’s level-four beast core, and she stored the beast and its meat away.
• Bai Yaoyao used Spring Water to restore Little Crook, then prepared to lead the exhausted group back.
• Bai Yaoyao sensed a powerful presence, and a tiny tortoise named Xuan Qi revealed it could speak and offered two level-four beast cores for Spring Water.
• When Bai Yaoyao said she had no Spring Water left, Xuan Qi offered to become her companion and described its defenses and loyalty.
• Xuan Qi told Bai Yaoyao it had willingly lived at the Zoo, and rapid footsteps interrupted as she began introducing herself.

Bai Yaoyao’s group rested safely inside Xuan Qi’s barrier while mutant wolves exhausted themselves attacking it, then emerged to defeat the pack. Bai Yaoyao killed the level four Mutant Wolf King and collected its beast core, and the others finished their fights as the group prepared to move on.

• Xuan Qi enclosed Bai Yaoyao and the group in a barrier, where the mutant wolves’ attacks bounced off harmlessly.
• Bai Yaoyao served food and brought out sofas so everyone could recover while the wolves tired themselves out.
• Bai Yaoyao killed the level four Mutant Wolf King with a teleportation attack and collected its beast core.
• Fat Brother defeated a level three mutant wolf despite taking a wound, which Peiqi healed.
• A-Dai and Lulu killed their opponents, while Stone exhausted a mutant wolf before choking it with a clod of earth.

Bai Yaoyao and her companions left the Zoo with their spoils, and Little Monkey persuaded them to take him along after revealing his strength. Monkey named him Great Sage, and Great Sage realized he had found companions rather than an audience for his performances.

• Bai Yaoyao invited Xuan Qi into her space, where he met Doggie, Little Crook, and Big Meow and agreed not to touch the spring.
• Bai Yaoyao and the others finished gathering their spoils and headed for the Zoo entrance, with Little Monkey following them.
• Little Monkey clung to Bai Yaoyao and performed to convince the group to take him along, then killed a zombie with one punch when it attacked him.
• Monkey and Fat Brother supported bringing Little Monkey along, and Bai Yaoyao agreed on the condition that he fight instead of performing.
• Monkey named Little Monkey Great Sage and warmly welcomed him as a companion during the drive home.

Bai Yaoyao returned to the Safe Zone with the Dark Night Squad, a Mutant Python, and Great Sage, then prepared for their mission to the Strategic Material Reserve Depot. Lin Yiran arrived as the sole survivor of her squad and asked Meng Qilin to introduce her to Dark Night, but Bai Yaoyao dismissed her and left with her team.

• Meng Qilin welcomed the returning Dark Night Squad, and Bai Yaoyao hired Chef Li to cook their Mutant Beast meat.
• Bai Yaoyao revealed an enormous Mutant Python, and Great Sage helped cut it up after Chef Li's cleaver broke.
• Meng Qilin asked if Dark Night could leave for the Strategic Material Reserve Depot the next morning, and Bai Yaoyao confirmed they were ready.
• Lin Yiran returned alone, explaining that a poisonous zombie had killed her squad and that she had awakened an air-purifying ability and advanced her fire ability.
• Lin Yiran asked Meng Qilin to recommend her to Dark Night, but Bai Yaoyao asked if she was okay and left with her team.

Bai Yaoyao broke through to level four in her Spatial Ability and discovered that her space and Spring Water had improved. The next morning, she joined the others at Master Li’s place, where Great Sage had become an expert at preparing the meat.

• Bai Yaoyao let Xuan Qi drink the remaining Spring Water, then gave level-four beast cores to Doggie, Big Meow, and Great Sage.
• Bai Yaoyao absorbed Crystal Cores, broke through her Spatial Ability bottleneck, and learned to use Spatial Cut.
• Bai Yaoyao found that her upgraded space had more cultivable land and a larger Spring Water pool, then began harvesting honeysuckle.
• Bai Yaoyao fed Spring Water to Big Meow as it stabilized at level four and had a friendly sparring session with Doggie before leaving her space.
• Lulu declined Spring Water for herself and suggested Bai Yaoyao give it to Peiqi instead.
• Bai Yaoyao and the others visited Master Li and found Great Sage skillfully grilling meat alongside the exhausted Master Li and his apprentices.

Bai Yaoyao welcomed Great Sage into her space after he proved he could roast meat better than Chef Li, then met the Official Ability User Team before their journey. She revealed her three abilities and levels, astonishing Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan.

• Bai Yaoyao rewarded Chef Li with supplies for cooking and teaching Great Sage, then gave him more food after learning Great Sage had mastered roasting meat on his own.
• Bai Yaoyao explained her space to Great Sage, brought him inside, and gave him a level-four beast core to absorb.
• Meng Qilin introduced Bai Yaoyao to Xie Shannan, leader of the Official Ability User Team, and she recognized him and Cui Ying from her past.
• Xie Shannan suggested that the teams share their abilities and strength levels before the journey.
• Bai Yaoyao revealed that she had a level-four space ability and level-three strength and psychic abilities, leaving Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan stunned.

Bai Yaoyao’s Dark Night team joined Xie Shannan’s official team on a mission, and she kept her teammates at the front to collect zombie crystal cores. By the end of the day, Xie Shannan thought he understood her hardships and offered help, while Bai Yaoyao was baffled by what he meant.

• Bai Yaoyao and her teammates introduced their high-level abilities, while Xie Shannan described his less powerful official team.
• Bai Yaoyao led Dark Night in military vehicles to clear zombies as Xie Shannan’s team followed behind.
• Bai Yaoyao accepted the official team’s meals and set up tables for both groups to eat together, serving roasted python meat.
• Bai Yaoyao insisted Dark Night keep clearing the road, and her team collected far more crystal cores than Xie Shannan’s team.
• Xie Shannan told Bai Yaoyao he understood her struggles and offered help, leaving her confused as she cracked sunflower seeds.

Bai Yaoyao killed a level-four zombie and planned how to use its Crystal Core to strengthen Dark Night. After the group stopped for the night, she assigned the Spring Water and Crystal Core to Lulu and Peiqi and arranged for Big Meow and Little Crook to stand watch.

• Xie Shannan invited Bai Yaoyao to join the authorities, but she refused because Dark Night valued its freedom.
• Bai Yaoyao killed a level-four strength-type zombie with Spatial Cut and Mental Control, then took its Crystal Core.
• Xie Shannan began fighting zombies to improve his combat instincts and gave the Crystal Cores he collected to Dark Night.
• Bai Yaoyao thanked Xie Shannan for his Crystal Cores with roasted Mutant Python meat, and he volunteered his people for the night's watch.
• Bai Yaoyao assigned one cup of Spring Water each to Lulu and Peiqi, gave Lulu the level-four Crystal Core, and arranged for Big Meow and Little Crook to stand watch.