Chapter Summaries

Mi Ling returned home expecting to share Chen Luo’s celebratory meal, but he excluded her unless she agreed to join his group. After feeling betrayed by Mi Li and Rice, she showered and resolved to wait until Chen Luo’s food ran out so they would return to her.

• Chen Luo told Mi Ling she could not eat with him unless she called him big brother and joined his group, while Mi Li, Su Dazhu, Ma Yu, the Dharma King, and Rice declared their loyalty to him.
• Mi Ling refused Chen Luo’s offer and grew angry as she watched everyone eat and smelled the Sichuan dishes.
• Mi Ling returned to her room, found men’s underwear on her bed, and decided to move into Mi Li’s room after gathering her belongings.
• Mi Li warned Mi Ling not to let water enter her mouth while showering, and Mi Ling privately planned to wait until Chen Luo’s food supplies ran out.

Mi Ling rejected Chen Luo’s food and set out with Mi Li to find supplies in their residential complex, determined to prove she could manage without him. With Rice and Dharma King accompanying them, Mi Ling began searching the building and discovered a zombie behind an apartment door.

• Chen Luo offered grapes to the household, and Mi Ling emerged after showering and packed to move into Mi Li’s room.
• Mi Ling confronted Mi Li about backing Chen Luo, but Mi Li defended him as the best choice to lead their group.
• After learning Chen Luo was older than Mi Ling, Mi Ling decided to find her own food and left to search the complex with Mi Li.
• Chen Luo sent Rice and Dharma King along to warn and protect the sisters, while Mi Ling gave Mi Li protective gear and carried stun batons.
• Mi Ling started knocking on apartments from the ninth floor, and a zombie roared and slammed against the door of one unit.

Mi Ling returned from scavenging with supplies and challenged Chen Luo’s leadership after he apologized for humiliating her at lunch. Chen Luo proposed a fight in three days, but Mi Ling took his claim that she could not beat his Dharma King as an insult.

• Mi Ling used her flame ability to break into an apartment, killed a zombie, and gathered food and water with Mi Li.
• Mi Ling brought the supplies home and announced that she would make braised beef noodles, while Chen Luo reconsidered how he had treated her at lunch.
• Chen Luo apologized to Mi Ling but said he would not share supplies with her until she acknowledged him as team leader.
• Chen Luo proposed that he and Mi Ling fight in three days, promising to follow her orders if he lost.
• Chen Luo said Mi Ling could not even beat his Dharma King, and Mi Ling angrily demanded to know if he was calling her weaker than a dog.

Mi Ling turned away Zhang Qin and lectured Mi Li about not giving food to strangers, while Rice sensed malice from the visitor. Zhang Qin gathered five armed men to attack the sisters, and Chen Luo sent Su Dazhu downstairs to deal with them.

• Chen Luo compared Mi Ling's strength with Dharma King's and challenged her to fight him in three days.
• Zhang Qin asked Mi Ling for food, but Mi Ling refused and explained to Mi Li why they should not give food to people indiscriminately.
• Rice told Chen Luo that she sensed malice from Zhang Qin.
• Zhang Qin met five armed men who planned to assault Mi Ling and Mi Li, and told them to torment the sisters.
• Su Dazhu spotted the men outside, and Chen Luo ordered him to deal with them downstairs without letting them die in the stairwell.

Su Dazhu and the Dharma King ambushed and killed six attackers, then Chen Luo made Mi Li retrieve their crystals to help her get used to violence. The group discovered a nature crystal, and the chapter ended with Mi Ling comparing her sparse beef noodles to Chen Luo's lavish meal while Mi Li could not eat.

• Mi Li buffed Su Dazhu with Strength Amplification and Defense Amplification before he and the Dharma King went out to confront Zhang Qin and five others.
• Su Dazhu and the Dharma King killed all six attackers in under five seconds, and Chen Luo sent Mi Li to extract their crystals.
• Mi Li vomited while digging out the crystals, but she completed the task and handed them to Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo found a nature crystal among the crystals and explained that nature ability users would eventually be needed to grow crops.
• Mi Ling cooked instant noodles with two eggs while Ma Yu prepared beef noodles for Chen Luo, whose meal left Mi Ling's noodles unappealing.
• Chen Luo asked that Mi Li be served first, but Mi Li said she could not eat.

Chen Luo absorbed the Rat King's crystal and broke through to Level Four, gaining the ability to use Void Walk. After testing it, he startled the Dharma King by suddenly appearing in the living room.

• Chen Luo estimated that he could reach Level Four by absorbing the Rat King's and Devourer's crystals alongside crystals from Level One survivors.
• Mi Ling discovered that Chen Luo's fridge stayed full because he was a Space ability user, then challenged him to fight the next day.
• Chen Luo absorbed crystals from Level One survivors and the Devourer before using the Rat King's crystal to complete his breakthrough to Level Four.
• Chen Luo's body strengthened, his ability power changed in quality, and he gained access to Void Walk.
• Chen Luo used Void Walk to appear in the living room, frightening the Dharma King, who had been guarding his door.

Chen Luo challenged Mi Ling to a duel with a humiliating wager and defeated her in seconds by appearing behind her. After breakfast, he gathered everyone in the living room to discuss what they should do next.

• Mi Ling accused Chen Luo of having the Dharma King wake her during the night, then agreed to a duel after Chen Luo offered a wager.
• Chen Luo and Mi Ling agreed that the loser would let the winner kick them, and Mi Li became the referee.
• Mi Li started the rooftop match, and Chen Luo vanished from Mi Ling’s sight before appearing behind her and winning.
• Mi Ling accepted that she had lost, then ate breakfast with Chen Luo and the others.
• Chen Luo called everyone to the living room to discuss their next steps.

Chen Luo explained that the group needed to form a larger survivor settlement rather than join someone else, so they could face stronger zombies and protect one another. Mi Ling agreed, and the group began considering a move toward the outskirts as other survivors fled the city center.

• Chen Luo asked Mi Ling what she would do next, and she admitted that she had no plan beyond getting stronger.
• Chen Luo recalled their encounters with powerful zombies and argued that survivors would need to band together to find supplies and survive.
• Chen Luo said he would not join another group and warned that Mi Ling and Mi Li could face unwanted attention in a settlement; Mi Ling vowed to castrate anyone who targeted them.
• Chen Luo proposed forming their own larger group and recruiting selectively, since survivors would likely flee the dangerous city center for the outskirts.
• Mi Ling agreed that Chen Luo's reasoning made sense, while Chen Luo privately wondered whether she would honor their earlier bet.

Chen Luo and Mi Ling settled their bet in private, then celebrated Mi Ling officially joining the team with a feast. After lunch, Chen Luo told Mi Ling and Mi Li that they would leave the apartment complex the next day because it would soon draw too many survivors.

• Chen Luo took Mi Ling into the bedroom to settle their bet, but he slapped her instead of kicking her, and Mi Ling pinched him in anger.
• Chen Luo promised to celebrate Mi Ling joining the team with lunch, and Mi Ling thanked him for protecting Mi Li.
• Chen Luo served a feast of dishes that Mi Ling and he both liked, and Mi Ling enjoyed the meal.
• Chen Luo told Mi Ling and Mi Li to pack their belongings that afternoon and leave the apartment complex the next day.

Chen Luo moved his group to a villa community and rescued Fang Yu and his three comrades from zombies. Impressed by their loyalty and abilities, he recruited them, and they agreed to join his force.

• Dharma King reached Level Three after absorbing crystals, and Chen Luo prepared to move Mi Ling and Mi Li to a villa community.
• Chen Luo's group drove toward the villa community, killing zombies on the way and letting Mi Ling and the others practice.
• Fang Yu called for help as he and three comrades struggled against pursuing zombies, and Chen Luo sent Dharma King to defeat them.
• Mi Li healed Fang Yu's poisoned comrades, and Chen Luo offered to recruit the four men into his group.
• Fang Yu and his comrades accepted Chen Luo's offer and climbed into the truck's cargo compartment.

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.