Recaps

Chen Luo brought Fang Yu and his companions to the villa compound, gave them a nearby house and basic supplies, and recruited them to help gather resources. He left them with a walkie-talkie and ordered them to scout the empty villas while avoiding homes occupied by other survivors.

• Chen Luo noticed that someone had broken into his villa, but decided not to investigate unless it happened again while he was home.
• Chen Luo assigned rooms to Mi Ling, Mi Li, Su Dazhu, and Sister Yu, then took rice and potatoes to Fang Yu and the others.
• Fang Yu, Yang Xuan, Xu Lan, and Li Fei introduced themselves and described their abilities and when they had awakened.
• Chen Luo told the four they were now working under him, gave Fang Yu a walkie-talkie, and sent them food and a gas cylinder.
• After lunch, Chen Luo ordered Fang Yu and the others to scout the compound, search empty villas for supplies, and collect car keys while leaving occupied homes alone.

Chen Luo’s group began searching the villa complex for supplies, but Mu Tiange and her all-female party arrived and tried to recruit Mi Ling. Mi Ling stayed with Chen Luo’s team, while one of Mu Tiange’s women offered the Dharma King a sausage he pitied her for eating.

• Chen Luo split his people into two groups to search the unoccupied villas for supplies.
• Chen Luo recognized Mu Tiange as Mi Ling’s devoted admirer and remembered that Shu Yun was a powerful ice ability user in her group.
• Mu Tiange’s party searched the villas and approached Chen Luo’s group after noticing Mi Ling.
• Mu Tiange introduced herself to Mi Ling and invited her to join the all-female group, but Mi Ling declined because she already had a team.
• A woman offered the Dharma King the remainder of a sausage after eating most of it, and the dog looked at her with pity.

Mu Tiange moved her group into the villa beside Chen Luo’s home and planned to win Mi Ling over by making Chen Luo seem untrustworthy. After the groups scavenged the complex, Mu Tiange brought her prized packet of roast duck to Mi Ling, but the Dharma King appeared at Chen Luo’s closed door.

• Mu Tiange chose to stay in the villa beside Chen Luo’s home so she could get closer to Mi Ling, while Chen Luo considered how to win over Mu Tiange’s group.
• Chen Luo’s group finished scavenging the complex, collected over three hundred jin of rice and premium snacks, and gave the zombie crystals to Fang Yu and his companions.
• Mu Tiange’s group struggled to cook without gas and worried about their limited food and safe water.
• Mu Tiange decided to give Mi Ling a packet of roast duck to gain her favor, despite her group’s protests.
• Mu Tiange arrived at Chen Luo’s home with the roast duck, but the door was shut and the Dharma King came out to meet her.

Mu Tiange tried to win Mi Ling over with roast duck and water, but Chen Luo discarded both and later brought cucumbers to the girls across the way. Mu Tiange planned to create a crisis so Mi Ling would see Chen Luo as cowardly, leaving her scheme about to begin.

• Mu Tiange brought Mi Ling a roast duck, but Chen Luo threw it away, and Dharma King refused to eat it.
• Mu Tiange returned with mineral water, which Mi Ling also discarded, while Chen Luo served his own roast duck and Mi Ling grew jealous watching him dote on Mi Li.
• The next day, Mi Ling told Mu Tiange the roast duck had been good and asked why she had given it to her.
• Mu Tiange brought another roast duck and two bottles of water, and Chen Luo answered by delivering thirty cucumbers to the girls across the way.
• Mu Tiange decided to create a crisis and make Chen Luo appear cowardly so Mi Ling would turn to her.

Chen Luo suspected Mu Tiange was plotting against him and assigned Dharma King to assassinate her, but Mu Tiange left with her group before the dog could act. She led them to a residential complex to collect gas cylinders.

• Mu Tiange offered Chen Luo an equal share of supplies from Great Run Shopping Mall, but he refused and Rice confirmed she was plotting something.
• Mu Tiange abandoned her attempt to lure Chen Luo to the mall and left to seek help from someone else.
• Chen Luo decided Mu Tiange had become a threat and told Dharma King to assassinate her when an opportunity arose.
• Mu Tiange gathered her group and took two buses to a small residential complex to search for bottled gas cylinders they had missed before.
• Shu Yun asked why they had returned to the complex, and Mu Tiange explained they were looking for gas cylinders before heading alone into a building where someone lived.

Mu Tiange recruited Jiang Feng to lure Zombies to Chen Luo’s villa so she could expose him and rescue Mi Ling. Jiang Feng reached the villa with more than thirty Zombies, but found his friend Su Dazhu and Chen Luo inside and hesitated to lead them in.

• Mu Tiange persuaded Jiang Feng to lure thirty or forty Zombies to Chen Luo’s villa in exchange for letting him join her group.
• Mu Tiange left with the others after they loaded twenty gas cylinders onto two buses, and Jiang Feng set out to carry out the plan.
• Jiang Feng used his Wind ability and parkour skills to gather more than thirty Zombies near Chen Luo’s villa.
• Jiang Feng opened the villa’s yard gate and spotted Su Dazhu, Chen Luo, and Dharma King inside, so he hesitated to lead the Zombies into the yard.

Chen Luo discovered that Mu Tiange had sent Jiang Feng to lure zombies to his villa, then watched her group face a powerful mutant zombie at the residential complex entrance. As the zombie charged Mu Tiange, she shoved another woman into its path, and Chen Luo arrived to witness it.

• Jiang Feng admitted that Mu Tiange had asked him to lure zombies toward Chen Luo's villa, saying she would arrive at the crucial moment.
• A level 4 or 5 mutant zombie roared near the residential complex entrance as Mu Tiange's two buses approached.
• Mu Tiange ordered the buses to ram the zombies, but a fire-wielding mutant shattered a bus window and set fire to the gas canisters inside.
• Mu Tiange's group fled the buses, and the mutant killed two young women before charging at Mu Tiange.
• Mu Tiange attacked the mutant with a floating fruit knife, then shoved a woman beside her into its path as it closed in.
• Chen Luo arrived and remarked that Mu Tiange had brought the danger on herself.

Chen Luo killed the mutant zombie and Shu Yun survived after bravely trying to stop it with a burning gas cylinder. With Mu Tiange and three other women dead, Chen Luo asked Shu Yun what she planned to do next.

• Mu Tiange shoved a woman in front of herself to escape the zombie, and Chen Luo slapped her into its reach.
• Shu Yun charged the zombie with a burning gas cylinder, but Chen Luo used Void Walk and Void Sword to cut off its head before she could be killed.
• Shu Yun threw the gas cylinder away, and it exploded; Dharma King then struck the wounded Mu Tiange to make sure she was dead.
• Chen Luo retrieved the red crystal, helped Shu Yun up, and sent Fang Yu and the others to bury the dead.
• Chen Luo asked Shu Yun what her plans were, and she looked toward him.

After Mu Tiange's death, Shu Yun brought the surviving women to Chen Luo, who accepted them after laying out strict rules and promising to protect them. The group settled in under Shu Yun's leadership, and Jiang Feng asked Chen Luo to take him in as well.

• Shu Yun asked the women what they planned to do now that Mu Tiange was dead, and they urged her to lead them.
• Shu Yun recommended Chen Luo, explaining that he was powerful and had fifty tonnes of rice, and the women agreed to join him.
• Chen Luo told the women they had to obey orders, fight alongside the group, and ensure any future partners joined their community; they accepted his conditions.
• Chen Luo appointed Shu Yun to lead the women and gave everyone Lao Gandie Chili Sauce to celebrate their arrival.
• Jiang Feng asked Chen Luo to let him join the group, and Chen Luo considered accepting him because he was capable and trustworthy.

Chen Luo organized Shu Yun’s group by ability and awakening date, then took them to a clothing market to practice fighting zombies and working together. After the group cleared most of the market, they collected clothes, while Chen Luo quietly stored some black stockings.

• Chen Luo reviewed the survivors’ abilities and awakening dates, noting Wang Ling’s rare Light ability and Shu Yun’s strong potential.
• Chen Luo left Fang Yu and Xu Lan behind to guard the home and led the others in three vehicles to a nearby Clothing Wholesale Market.
• Chen Luo arranged the group into a Tank-Mage-Healer Formation and had Jiang Feng lure zombies away while the others fought.
• The group cleared zombies while Chen Luo and Dharma King watched, and Chen Luo observed that the girls’ spells were often inaccurate and slow.
• The survivors began loading selected clothes onto the heavy truck, and Chen Luo secretly put black stockings into his storage space.

Chen Luo led Shu Yun and the others on a supply run, then rewarded them for their discipline after they returned safely. That night, Mi Li asked Chen Luo to be her boyfriend, and he coaxed her into taking the relationship further before throwing Rice out of the room.

• Mi Ling spotted Chen Luo with suspicious clothing and wondered who it was for.
• Chen Luo let Shu Yun and the others take two bottles of water each from the supermarket, and the group collected edible pastries from a nearby bakery.
• After the group returned safely, Chen Luo gave them walkie-talkies, phones, and power banks as a reward for their discipline.
• Mi Li told Chen Luo she understood how lucky she was to have him and asked to be his girlfriend.
• Chen Luo coaxed Mi Li into embracing him, then tossed Rice out after noticing it watching them.

Chen Luo celebrated his new relationship with Mi Li by treating his group to a feast after organizing spell training. The braised pork attracted a battered sedan carrying a haggard-looking brother and sister, leaving their arrival as the chapter’s cliffhanger.

• Chen Luo made Rice sleep outside, and Mi Ling guessed that Chen Luo and Mi Li had spent the night together before returning to her room.
• The next morning, Chen Luo agreed to give Rice twenty dried fish and brought breakfast to a bashful Mi Li.
• Chen Luo gathered the group for spell practice, assigning Mi Ling to train Jiang Feng in dodging attacks.
• Chen Luo had Ma Yu and Jiang Ling prepare braised pork with potatoes, then served the meal and Coke to the group in the yard.
• The smell of the feast drew a battered sedan, and a haggard-looking brother and sister stepped out.

Li Ming and Li Hui traded food for water at Chen Luo’s villa and asked to join his group for protection. Chen Luo sent them to kill ten zombies and bring back their crystals as a test of their ability and reliability.

• Li Ming and Li Hui arrived at Chen Luo’s villa complex seeking water, and Chen Luo traded them two bottles for instant noodles and ham sausages.
• After Li Ming gave his sister water, he asked Chen Luo to let them join the group for protection.
• Chen Luo required the siblings to kill ten zombies without using a vehicle or outside help and bring back the crystals as proof.
• Li Ming accepted the test, took a fire axe, and set off with Li Hui toward the complex exit.
• Chen Luo watched them leave and considered recruiting survivors who could follow orders and kill zombies.

Li Ming and Li Hui exceeded Chen Luo’s zombie-killing task, while Wang Guofu spotted the group eating meat and came to demand some. When they refused to sell him any, he drew a handgun and threatened them.

• Li Hui slowed zombies with her Darkness Element curse technique, and Li Ming killed them with his Fire Axe as they worked to exceed Chen Luo’s task.
• Wang Guofu spotted Chen Luo’s group and their braised pork through his telescope, then took money, gold bars, and a handgun before approaching them.
• Fang Yu refused to give Wang Guofu meat or sell it to him, despite his offers of money and gold.
• Shu Yun offered Wang Guofu instant noodles in exchange for something, or suggested he kill zombies and trade their crystals.
• Wang Guofu drew his handgun and ordered the group to squat, furious that they fed meat to a dog but refused to give him any.

Chen Luo’s group dealt with Wang Guofu’s armed threat, welcomed Li Ming and Li Hui, and settled into their new routines. That night, Chen Luo stayed with Mi Li and suggested she try healing herself.

• Fang Yu and the others shielded Chen Luo when Wang Guofu threatened the group with a gun and demanded braised pork from Mi Li.
• Dharma King pretended to submit to Wang Guofu, then blasted him with lightning and carried the gun back to Chen Luo.
• Li Ming gave Chen Luo twenty crystals, passed the recruitment test with Li Hui, and joined the group; Chen Luo noticed Li Hui had a promising darkness-element talent.
• Fang Yu explained the group’s rules to the siblings, and Chen Luo arranged for Li Ming and Li Hui to live separately with the men and women, respectively.
• Li Hui enjoyed the group’s welcome during an evening movie, while Chen Luo left his room to cuddle with Mi Li after Rice refused to leave.
• Chen Luo suggested Mi Li try a healing spell on herself as they settled down for the night.

Chen Luo led the survivors to Yulin Residential Complex to test their combat skills and gather supplies, clearing zombies and moving cars to reach the area. The group found food and water in an untouched supermarket, while Mi Ling secretly collected ultra-thin condoms and blushed when Shu Yun noticed.

• Chen Luo assigned Fang Yu and Xu Lan to guard the base, then took the others toward Yulin Residential Complex in a heavy truck and a bus.
• When vehicles blocked the street, Jiang Feng lured away some zombies while the group fought the rest and moved cars aside.
• Chen Luo watched from the bus as Rice revealed it had overheard an intimate moment the previous night, prompting him to consider keeping the cat occupied with a phone.
• Near Yulin Residential Complex, Chen Luo ordered everyone to fight on foot and split into teams to search the restaurants and nearby shops for supplies.
• The survivors found an untouched supermarket stocked with food and more than twenty jugs of purified water, while Mi Ling searched near the checkout for ultra-thin condoms.
• Shu Yun noticed Mi Ling stuffing the condoms into a bag, and Mi Ling blushed.

Chen Luo and his group loaded supplies from shops near Yulin Residential Complex while residents demanded that the goods be handed over. After the residents confronted them and an older man dared Chen Luo to hit him, Chen Luo slapped him to the ground.

• Shu Yun guessed why Mi Ling was searching for certain supplies, and Mi Ling blamed Chen Luo for the misunderstanding.
• Chen Luo's group loaded food and other supplies onto trucks while nearby residents watched from their apartments and called down requests for deliveries.
• A resident rallied more than seventy people to stop the group from taking supplies, and they advanced with makeshift weapons.
• Chen Luo's group confronted the residents, who claimed the shops' goods and tried to seize the trucks and supplies.
• Old Li taunted Chen Luo to hit him, so Chen Luo slapped him several meters away, and a resident remarked that Old Li had a history of faking compensation claims.

Chen Luo drove off a group of survivors trying to steal supplies, then met Chen Guang, an old acquaintance who asked for help killing a lightning-wielding zombie dog in the residential complex. Chen Luo agreed to help and headed inside with Dharma King, leaving his group to keep collecting supplies.

• Chen Luo killed two ringleaders who attacked his group, and Dharma King helped scatter the survivors trying to steal their supplies.
• Chen Guang arrived with a smaller, battle-tested group, explained that they had separated from the looters, and introduced himself to Chen Luo.
• Chen Guang asked Chen Luo to help kill a fast, intelligent zombie Husky that had killed one of his companions and agreed to pay him rice and water.
• After Rice confirmed Chen Guang's group meant no harm, Chen Luo accepted the request and told his people to keep loading supplies.
• Chen Luo went toward the residential complex with Dharma King, telling the surprised Chen Guang that he had a dog too.

Chen Luo brought Chen Guang’s group to hunt a level-two zombie dog and sent Dharma King to track it down. Dharma King overcame the zombie dog with a new lightning skill, leaving it convulsing against a wall.

• Chen Guang noticed Chen Luo’s healthy appearance, cat, dog, and group of girls, and inferred that Chen Luo was strong and living well.
• Chen Guang led Chen Luo to the garden where the zombie dog usually appeared, and Chen Luo sent Dharma King to search for it.
• Dharma King tracked the zombie dog to apartment 802, where Chen Luo tore off the damaged security door.
• Dharma King dodged the zombie dog’s lightning attack, then struck it with Thunderous Tail Sweep and electrocuted it until it could not get back up.

Chen Luo defeated the lightning-affinity zombie dog, taught Chen Guang’s group how to use zombie crystals, and received more supplies than promised. He rejected an equal alliance and insisted that Chen Guang’s group would have to follow his lead if they joined forces.

• Rice defeated the zombie dog in less than ten seconds, and Chen Luo extracted its crystal.
• Chen Luo explained how to use crystals to grow stronger, and Chen Guang’s group thanked him with extra supplies.
• Chen Luo ordered his people to search every apartment in the residential complex for supplies.
• Chen Guang asked Chen Luo to join forces, but Chen Luo warned him about evolving zombies and desperate survivors.
• Chen Luo said he could defeat Chen Guang’s group alone and agreed to join forces only if they listened to him.

Chen Luo saved Zhang Liang from a fireball-wielding zombie with Mi Li’s healing magic, convincing Chen Guang’s group that Chen Luo was capable of leading them. Chen Guang and the others agreed to follow Chen Luo, and the group began moving supplies to the villa complex.

• A zombie surprised Zhang Liang with a fireball, critically wounding him before fleeing from his companions.
• Chen Guang asked Chen Luo for help, and Mi Li healed Zhang Liang enough for him to stand.
• Chen Guang’s group discussed Chen Luo’s offer and agreed to follow his orders after seeing his strength and Mi Li’s healing ability.
• Chen Guang told Chen Luo that his group was willing to join, and Chen Luo welcomed them under the conditions that they follow orders and fight zombies.
• Chen Luo had Chen Guang’s group gather supplies while he returned to the villa complex with his original group, where several more vehicles had appeared.

Liu Wei's group threatened Chen Luo's people at the villa complex, but Chen Luo ambushed Liu Wei before he could attack. Chen Luo then ordered his group to kill the remaining intruders.

• Liu Wei's group searched villas for supplies and Xiao Wei beat a young resident to death.
• Fang Yu and Xu Lan confronted Liu Wei's group to keep them away from the stored supplies.
• Chen Luo returned with his companions and found Liu Wei's group facing off against Fang Yu and Xu Lan.
• Xiao Wei demanded half the supplies, but Liu Wei apologized and led his people away.
• Liu Wei planned to ambush Chen Luo's group, but Chen Luo struck him with a Space Sphere and killed him.
• Chen Luo ordered his companions to kill Liu Wei's remaining followers, and they quickly wiped out the group.

Chen Luo’s group cleared out Chen Guang’s residential complex and celebrated their haul with a sausage dinner. Afterward, Mi Ling awkwardly gave Chen Luo condoms and warned him to wait before pursuing Mi Li, while Chen Luo tried to offer her crystals to help her advance.

• Chen Luo’s group loaded supplies from Chen Guang’s residential complex, and Chen Luo frightened the survivors who demanded protection with two Space Spheres.
• Chen Luo secretly left five hundred jin of sausages in an apartment, and the girls discovered them and celebrated the find.
• Chen Luo’s group made five trips to collect supplies, then Ma Yu cooked sausages for dinner and managed their storage.
• Mi Ling gave Chen Luo condoms and told him to wait a couple of years before pursuing Mi Li, then hurried away in embarrassment.
• Chen Luo tried to offer Mi Ling high-level crystals to help her advance, but she did not hear him, so he went to Mi Li, who told him to stay away for the next couple of days.

Chen Luo used a Level Five Fire crystal to help trusted followers and Rice advance, then learned Rice could sense an approaching disaster. As zombies neared their transition to Level One, Chen Luo ordered his group to leave some alive, clear the surrounding area, and keep night watch.

• Chen Luo used the Level Five Fire crystal to advance Mi Li, Su Dazhu, and Mi Ling to Level Three, and gave Shu Yun the Rat King's crystal to cultivate her as a trusted follower.
• Chen Luo let Rice absorb the remaining Level Five crystal, and Rice reached Level Three without an apparent change in strength.
• Rice warned Chen Luo that something bad would happen the day after tomorrow, and Chen Luo suspected Rice could foresee the zombies' evolution to Level One.
• Chen Luo ordered everyone to clear zombies farther away while leaving nearby ones alive so they could advance and provide crystals.
• Chen Luo ordered the residents of each villa to take turns keeping watch, expecting Level One zombies to appear overnight.

After a spellcasting Zombie threatened the group, Chen Luo set stricter training goals and taught everyone to dodge spells by predicting their trajectories. Mi Ling then outsmarted his prediction and hit him with a fireball.

• Shu Yun told Chen Luo that a spellcasting Zombie had attacked overnight, but the group had killed it by concentrating their fire.
• Chen Luo ordered everyone to kill at least five spellcasting Zombies each day and explained how to handle them safely.
• Chen Luo described Zombie abilities and behavior, warned against fighting large groups, and recommended teams of two Warriors and two mages.
• Chen Luo demonstrated dodging Mi Ling and Shu Yun’s spells by reading their hand movements and anticipating their trajectories.
• Mi Ling predicted Chen Luo’s evasive move and hit him with a fireball.