Chapter Summaries

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.

Chen Luo organized the survivors into teams to hunt Zombies while he took Mi Ling, Mi Li, and Su Dazhu to gather Crystals. The teams returned with injuries and one death, and everyone absorbed level-one Crystals that night.

• Chen Luo divided the survivors into teams of four, assigned twelve people to guard the base, and sent the others out to collect Crystals.
• Chen Luo took Mi Ling, Mi Li, and Su Dazhu to fight Zombies, where Mi Ling discovered she could make her fireball explode among a group of enemies.
• After Mi Ling and Mi Li ran out of mana, Chen Luo and Dharma King helped kill more than two hundred Zombies before returning to the villa compound.
• Chen Luo found that Wang Ling had treated the injured, but a level-one elemental ability user from Chen Guang's group had died from a spell to the head.
• Chen Luo made two teams that had failed their assignments skip dinner, then collected the Crystals the survivors could not absorb as everyone advanced by absorbing level-one Crystals.

Chen Luo's group rescued Zhang Jingjing and her father, Zhang Dongcheng, after Mi Li recognized her best friend among survivors being harassed. The group returned to the villa complex, where Chen Luo allowed Zhang Jingjing to join under the base's rules but refused to let her stay in his villa, and she later wondered where Mi Li was having lunch.

• Chen Luo and his group kept training and killing zombies as more of them gained spell-casting abilities, while survivor groups began heading toward remote areas.
• Chen Luo spotted a group harassing Zhang Jingjing and her father, Zhang Dongcheng, and Mi Li recognized Zhang Jingjing as her best friend.
• Chen Luo unleashed the Dharma King, and Su Dazhu and Mi Ling killed the entire group before Mi Li reunited with Zhang Jingjing.
• Chen Luo invited Zhang Jingjing and Zhang Dongcheng to follow the group, then told Mi Li to arrange for Zhang Jingjing to stay with Shu Yun rather than in his villa.
• Zhang Jingjing asked to sleep with Mi Li, but Chen Luo refused to let anyone into the villa without his permission.
• At lunch, Zhang Jingjing enjoyed the food and asked where Mi Li was and what she was eating.

Chen Luo assessed Zhang Jingjing’s place in the group and ordered the villa’s remaining residents to leave or prove their usefulness. With zombie hunting nearby nearly finished, he prepared the base for incoming survivors, and several vehicles arrived at the entrance.

• Chen Luo told Mi Li to keep the group’s affairs from Zhang Jingjing and watch whether she could contribute.
• Chen Luo sent Fang Yu and several men to order the remaining villa residents to leave or kill zombies if they stayed.
• Shu Yun reported that the nearby zombies had been cleared, and Chen Guang asked to let his men reach level two before hunting again.
• Chen Luo agreed to have them guard the base, told Chen Guang to watch the entrance with Zhang Dongcheng, and warned Shu Yun not to favor Zhang Jingjing.
• Several vehicles drove toward the villa complex as Chen Guang’s group watched from the air-conditioned bus.

Chen Luo faced two groups of survivors seeking shelter and supplies at the villa district, offering food and water in exchange for zombie crystals. The second group threatened him after he refused to give them supplies, leaving a confrontation imminent.

• Chen Guang turned away the first group of survivors, then called Chen Luo when a convoy of more than ten vehicles arrived.
• Chen Luo gathered his people at the entrance, and Shu Yun placed Zhang Jingjing at the front because of her strength ability.
• Sun Dawei demanded supplies for his hungry group and bragged that he was a Level Two Ability User.
• Chen Luo offered to trade water and rice for zombie crystals, revealing the crystals’ value to Sun Dawei’s followers.
• Sun Dawei mocked Chen Luo’s fighters, while a middle-aged survivor threatened to fight unless Chen Luo handed over supplies.

Chen Luo rejected Sun Dawei’s demand for supplies and killed him with an enhanced Space Sphere, then ordered his people to attack. Sun Dawei’s group scattered, leaving Chen Luo’s side victorious while Zhang Jingjing and Zhang Dongcheng realized the fight had been easy.

• Zhang Jingjing urged Chen Luo to give Sun Dawei’s group food, and Chen Luo slapped her for speaking out of turn.
• Zhang Dongcheng defended his daughter, while Zhang Jingjing accused Mi Li of excluding her and pretending to care.
• The leader of a second convoy denied wanting to threaten Chen Luo and left with his people.
• Chen Luo killed Sun Dawei with an enhanced Space Sphere, then ordered his people to attack the remaining enemies.
• Mi Li buffed the Physical-Type Ability Users, and Su Dazhu led Chen Luo’s group as Sun Dawei’s people fled after several were killed.
• Zhang Jingjing and Zhang Dongcheng watched the fight end with only a minor injury to Su Dazhu and realized Chen Luo’s side had easily won.