Chapter Summaries

Over two years, Bai Yaoyao’s harsh training and battles nearly wiped out the zombies, while Shi Nian built the Dark Night Base into a self-sufficient home. When Shi Nian became eligible to travel to the next world, Bai Yaoyao discovered she still owed almost 100,000 energy points and could not go home, but Shi Nian promised to get enough by the next day.

• Li Pengliang and the others renamed the Great Emperor Base the Dark Night Affiliated Base and relocated its people near the Dark Night Restaurant.
• Bai Yaoyao put her teams through two years of brutal battles against zombies, mutant beasts, and mutant plants, until almost no zombies remained.
• Shi Nian developed the Dark Night Restaurant into a self-sufficient base while managing its operations and creating new supplies and technology.
• Bai Yaoyao used Mindspace Shift to search the continent and confirmed that every zombie had been killed.
• Shi Nian told Bai Yaoyao that Daodao had cleared him to enter the next world, and Bai Yaoyao found she still owed nearly 100,000 energy points.
• Shi Nian promised Bai Yaoyao he would gather enough energy points to get her home by the next day.

Bai Yaoyao and Shi Nian raised enough energy points to clear her debt, and the Dark Night Restaurant held its final day of business. After Bai Yaoyao unlocked the System Shop and bought supplies to take home, Shi Nian offered to spend his own points on anything else she needed, hinting that he planned to join her in her world.

• Shi Nian proposed pooling people’s Crystal Cores and promoting the Dark Night Restaurant to raise the energy points needed to clear Bai Yaoyao’s debt.
• Bai Yaoyao woke to find her debt paid and savings left over, while Shi Nian sold the restaurant’s remaining goods on its announced final day.
• Shi Nian suggested Bai Yaoyao browse the System Shop, and Qian Duoduo explained that it unlocked after earning ten thousand energy points.
• Bai Yaoyao unlocked the shop and bought a laser gun with research materials, crop seeds, a combat RV, masks for Lulu, Cure-All Pills for Grandfather, Talking Candy for Doggie, and body potions.
• When Bai Yaoyao ran out of points, Shi Nian offered to redeem more items and said he might join her in her original world, but Bai Yaoyao treated the offer as a matter of Dark Night’s hospitality.

Bai Yaoyao said goodbye to her companions in the Apocalypse world and prepared to return to her own time, though she could not bring back the people, beasts, or plants she had hoped to take. She left Shi Nian with a promise to meet again after his missions, then traveled back to find her friends waiting for her to wake.

• Bai Yaoyao learned that Li Pengliang and the Deep Night Squad could not return with her, and Chen Jian recorded a message for Doggie before giving her a bag of gifts to take back.
• Bai Yaoyao released the mutant beasts and plants from her space, said goodbye to them, and realized she had little left tying her to that world.
• Shi Nian gave Bai Yaoyao food and recipes, but explained that his current Level 7 ability could not restore her to her proper age until he completed missions in ten worlds.
• Bai Yaoyao accepted that she would remain a child for several more years and told Shi Nian to find her as soon as he finished his missions.
• Back in her own time, Monkey refused to date because he was waiting for Bai Yaoyao to wake, while his friends worried that a new zombie threat was approaching.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Qian Duoduo to return her, and she felt dizzy as she traveled back to her original world.

After the final battle, the dead Ability Users revived, but Bai Yaoyao and Shi Nian remained unconscious while Dark Night's members kept vigil. Bai Yaoyao had awakened in the chaos of travel between parallel worlds, where Qian Duoduo told her the journey would take at least three months.

• A survivor told the other bases that Captain Bai, Dark Night, and the leaders had died after defeating the zombies and the Zombie Emperor.
• Chen Yixuan called to report that he and the others who had died in battle had revived, and they gathered around Dark Night's members.
• Bai Yaoyao and Shi Nian remained in comas, so Old Master Bai built Bai Yaoyao an energy-restoring bedroom while Shi Nian was locked in the Energy-Isolation Underground Laboratory.
• Dark Night's members and the Bai family cared for Bai Yaoyao for more than a year, and A-Dai read her classical texts aloud.
• Bai Yaoyao awakened while traveling between parallel worlds and learned from Qian Duoduo that the journey would take at least three months.

Bai Yaoyao regained consciousness after more than two years and explained to Dark Night how a system had sent her to a parallel apocalypse world to run a hotel and repay a debt. After reuniting with her friends and family, she sought quiet in the leader’s office and asked about other countries dumping zombies into their territorial waters.

• Bai Yaoyao woke up, startled Dark Night with her energetic return, and reunited tearfully with her friends and pets.
• Bai Yaoyao told Dark Night about the system, her debt, and running a hotel in a parallel apocalypse world to pay it off.
• Bai Yaoyao showed that she still had her Level 10 ability by knocking Monkey down and pushing Long Zhan back during their attempts to spar.
• Long Zhan and Old Master Bai arrived, and Bai Yaoyao comforted her tearful grandfather as word of her return spread.
• Bai Yaoyao escaped the visiting well-wishers by going to the leader’s office and asked whether other countries were dumping zombies into their territorial waters.

Bai Yaoyao prepared to leave Huaguo with Dark Night and gave the leader new technology, fast-growing seeds, and potions to study. After returning to her space, she tried a System Shop pill meant to let Doggie speak, but Doggie could only bark, leaving Bai Yaoyao demanding a refund and compensation from Qian Duoduo.

• Bai Yaoyao urged the leader to let Dark Night investigate the counterfeit goods and joked about settling old debts with the neighboring country.
• Bai Yaoyao gave the leader a solar-powered laser gun and research notes, fifteen-day rice and wheat seeds, and Red and Blue Potions.
• Bai Yaoyao rallied Dark Night to leave, while Keke and Xiaomi teased Monkey about marriage before beating him up.
• Bai Yaoyao returned the beasts to her space and gave Doggie Chen Jian's video and gifts, then fed Doggie a pill meant to grant speech.
• Doggie could only say a few sounds and bark, so Bai Yaoyao accused Qian Duoduo of selling counterfeit goods and demanded a refund and compensation.

Bai Yaoyao received extra compensation after Doggie’s speech problem was confirmed, then left Dark Night Base with her comrades to investigate neighboring countries. The chapter described how Dark Night Base remained stable and devoted to her during her two-year absence, and ended with the base thriving as a popular destination after her awakening.

• The central intelligence confirmed Doggie might genuinely be unable to speak and gave Bai Yaoyao a hundredfold compensation, after which she challenged Doggie to spar and he fled with Chen Jian’s recording and her gifts.
• Long Zhan stayed behind as Dark Night’s twelve members and all the Beasts and Plants set out to fight Zombies and scout neighboring countries.
• Sun Weixing reassured Dark Night Base’s residents that Bai Yaoyao had left to protect them, while Bai Jin'an knew she had hurried away for another reason.
• Bai Jin'an announced that Dark Night Base would accept no new members, and residents refused offers from new city officials to leave.
• After Bai Yaoyao awakened, Dark Night Base celebrated, drew streams of visitors, and became a popular tourist destination.

Bai Yaoyao and the Dark Night group traveled across a recovering Huaguo toward S Province, planning to cross the sea to H Country. After releasing Big Whale into the Yellow Sea, Bai Yaoyao asked whether the Beasts should stay with them or seek new lives, and Stone said each beast should decide for itself.

• Tomato and the Wang family’s communications and payment services helped Dark Night Base become a viral sensation, so Bai Jin'an and Sun Weixing barred outsiders from entering or leaving the base.
• Xiao Shiliu mistook a video of Da Yueyue performing comedy for proof that he had come back to life, and the group kept him from learning the truth.
• Fat Brother told Bai Yaoyao that ordinary ability users’ powers were declining, while Dada Juan and A-Dai said their strength had improved through sparring.
• Bai Yaoyao took the group to meet Zhao Chuying in S Province, but fled after Zhao Chuying gushed over how adorable she was.
• Bai Yaoyao released Big Whale into the Yellow Sea, then asked the group whether the Beasts should stay with them or live freely; Stone said each beast should choose for itself.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night returned by sea to a zombie-infested coastline and quickly wiped out a huge horde. The group collected enough crystal cores to buy a weapon-enhancing potion, whose effect on Dada Juan’s Cloud-Rising Spear remained uncertain.

• The group joked together on Big Whale’s back, and Bai Yaoyao suggested hiring a tutor after natural disasters persisted despite the apocalypse ending.
• Near the coastline, Bai Yaoyao sensed that the area held only frenzied zombies, mostly at levels seven and eight, and released the aquatic mutant beasts to hunt them.
• Bai Yaoyao teleported everyone ashore and released Dark Night’s legion, which killed more than ten thousand zombies in under half an hour and collected their crystal cores.
• Bai Yaoyao told Dada Juan they had earned enough to buy a golden weapon-enhancing potion, then applied it to the Cloud-Rising Spear.
• Qian Duoduo insisted that the potion was genuine, but Doggie barked and howled until Qian Duoduo fell silent.

Dark Night discovered that H Country had been diverting zombies toward Huaguo and continued killing the zombies to earn energy points. They reached a large settlement where someone called out to them in Chinese, claiming to be from S Province.

• Dada Juan tested the Cloud-Rising Spear and praised Qian Duoduo’s potion for greatly strengthening it.
• Dark Night was attacked by a group of Ability Users, killed thirty-five of them, and questioned the sole survivor, who revealed H Country’s plan to direct zombies toward Huaguo.
• Peiqi exposed the survivor as a liar, and Dog Brother killed him after Bai Yaoyao gave the order.
• Bai Yaoyao decided Dark Night would kill the zombies first and demand payment afterward, and the group headed toward the densest concentrations of energy points.
• Dark Night reached a large settlement and heard a man call out in Chinese, saying he was from S Province.

Bai Yaoyao’s Dark Night team agreed to bring the Chinese Alliance and other Huaguo survivors home after clearing zombies across H Country. When they returned to the crowded gathering point, the survivors wept with relief at the promise of going home.

• Monkey introduced Bai Yaoyao as Dark Night’s leader, and she told the Chinese Alliance members they could return to Huaguo with her team if they paid or wrote IOUs.
• Bai Yaoyao asked the Huaguo leader whether to bring the survivors home, and he ordered her to bring every last one while offering any payment she wanted.
• Dark Night fought zombies across H Country, sparing friendly Chinese-speaking people and killing hostile attackers, until nearly all the zombies were gone after three days.
• Bai Yaoyao told other Huaguo survivor groups to reach the Chinese Alliance’s gathering point within three days if they wanted to return home.
• Dark Night arrived to find the factory grounds packed with Huaguo citizens and people from other countries seeking passage, and the Huaguo survivors cried with joy at the chance to go home.

Bai Yaoyao defeated the H Country forces blocking the coastline and prepared to bring the stranded Huaguo people home. When three ships could carry only part of the crowd, she brought out Big Whale to transport everyone.

• Bai Yaoyao agreed to bring the stranded people home after consulting the leader, then confronted the H Country group demanding Dark Night's crystal cores.
• Pan Guo threatened to kill the Huaguo civilians if Bai Yaoyao refused, so she ordered Dark Night and the Beasts to attack and reflected the enemy's cannon barrage back at them.
• Dark Night and the Beasts killed nearly a thousand opponents, and Chen Yixuan arrived as the survivors celebrated the sight of Huaguo's ships.
• Chen Yixuan explained that the three ships could carry only nine thousand of the roughly twenty thousand people, and promised to stay until everyone could return.
• Bai Yaoyao said she had transportation and summoned Big Whale, who introduced himself as the Dark Night Beasts Legion's marine squad leader.

After bringing the survivors back to Huaguo, Bai Yaoyao asked the leader to give Dark Night flexible jobs and set out to travel the world with her comrades. The group spent the following year sightseeing, livestreaming, fighting zombies, and bringing Huaguo survivors home.

• Bai Yaoyao and several mutant sharks transported the remaining survivors back to Huaguo, where Chen Yixuan handled the arrangements.
• Bai Yaoyao asked the leader for twelve jobs with good benefits and flexible schedules so Dark Night could travel.
• Bai Yaoyao let some of the animals and plants from her space leave, while the Beasts Legion's core members stayed with her.
• Bai Yaoyao took Dark Night on a trip around the world in an Interstellar Aircraft, and the group livestreamed scenery and zombie battles.
• Taoist Feng Qing befriended Great Sage, taught him Taoist skills, and took him as his final disciple; Great Sage became Zhi Yi and the others' junior brother.
• Dark Night and the Taoist Squad traveled, fought zombies, and brought Huaguo survivors home, making people in other countries envy Huaguo.

After the apocalypse ended, Huaguo mourned the fallen heroes, accepted Shi Nian’s return, and watched Dark Night finish clearing zombies around the world. Bai Yaoyao and her comrades settled into a peaceful retirement on Dark Night Island, while Qian Duoduo fretted over Bai Yaoyao’s unspent energy points.

• Huaguo watched footage of the final battle and honored the sacrifices of Taoist Feng Qing, Xia Tian, Ouyang Ning, Bai Qingqing, Long Zhan, and Dark Night.
• Huaguo’s research institute confirmed that Shi Nian was not a zombie, and Bai Yaoyao’s video declaring the Time Zombie Emperor dead calmed the public’s arguments.
• The leader dismissed an official who proposed restraining Dark Night, and Bai Yaoyao dumped him in zombie-infested North America.
• Dark Night cleared powerful Level 10 Zombie Emperors from North America while livestreaming their adventures around the world.
• Dark Night built villas on Dark Night Island, and Xiao Shiliu uploaded Bai Yaoyao’s apocalypse footage to the Tomato Short Video Platform.
• Bai Yaoyao enjoyed her comfortable life with Lulu and her friends, while Qian Duoduo grew frantic over her remaining energy points.

Bai Yaoyao spent energy points on supplies and let her companions choose items from the System Shop. After Qian Duoduo left to look for new stock, Bai Qingqing called to say she had accepted Xie Shannan’s proposal, and Bai Yaoyao offered to bring Dark Night to the wedding.

• Bai Yaoyao bought pills, premium soil, and premium water, then invited Master and her companions to pick items from the System Shop.
• Long Zhan chose premium soil and water, while Monkey picked a mech and combat vehicle and Fat Brother asked for a Weight-Loss Pill.
• Bai Yaoyao asked Qian Duoduo to find new items she would like, and Qian Duoduo took two days off to search the System Shop.
• Bai Qingqing told Bai Yaoyao she had accepted Xie Shannan’s proposal, and Bai Yaoyao promised to bring everyone to block the door at the wedding.

After the Apocalypse, Xiaomi and Keke got engaged and married with Dark Night’s companions and Beasts in attendance. Bai Yaoyao returned to Dark Night Island after reconciling with her family, where she joyfully welcomed Shi Nian back; the author then reflected on the novel and thanked readers.

• Bai Yaoyao reassured Xiaomi that she would not separate him and Keke from Dark Night, and encouraged him to propose.
• Xiaomi proposed to Keke with roses and an awkward declaration, and Keke accepted and asked him to put the ring on her.
• Dark Night held Xiaomi and Keke’s wedding the next day, but the ceremony turned into a sprawling fight before the newlyweds joined the beach barbecue.
• Bai Yaoyao attended Xie Shannan and Bai Qingqing’s wedding, spoke with Old Master Bai, Bai Zongyu, and Lin Wan'er, and returned to Dark Night Island.
• Shi Nian arrived on the island, and Bai Yaoyao greeted him excitedly before calling him late.