Chapter Summaries

Shen Youzhi avoided Lu Zong after he confessed his feelings, but an enormous zombie horde threatened the base before she could resolve their relationship. Lu Zong revealed a secret escape passage and told her to lead people out to safety.

• Lu Zong confessed that he was jealous and interested in Shen Youzhi, then asked why she had stayed; Shen Youzhi hit him and ran away.
• Shen Youzhi tried to avoid joining Lu Zong’s mission team and later accepted a different mission with Da Qiang and Lao Chen.
• Shen Youzhi focused on the mission to escape thoughts of Lu Zong, while the system teased her about avoiding his confession until she blocked it.
• A horde of more than three hundred thousand zombies, including at least a hundred evolved ones, advanced on the base.
• Lu Zong took Shen Youzhi aside and told her to use a secret mountain passage to lead people out and save as many as she could.

Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong stayed to defend their base against a horde of three hundred thousand zombies, surviving a brutal battle that killed many of their companions. As reconstruction began, Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong mourned the dead and shared a can of braised pork Xiaomei had hidden.

• Shen Youzhi refused Lu Zong’s request to flee and joined the base’s defenders against the approaching zombie horde.
• During the battle, Lao Chen killed an evolved zombie with his sniper rifle, then died from his wounds after telling Shen Youzhi to be good to Lu Zong.
• Xiaomei and Da Qiang died protecting others, and many more people fell before the zombie horde retreated at dawn.
• Shen Youzhi found Lu Zong among the survivors, embraced him, and told him that Lao Chen, Xiaomei, and Da Qiang were dead.
• Three days later, Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong began rebuilding the base and buried their companions; Lu Zong gave Shen Youzhi a can of braised pork that Xiaomei had hidden.

After the Zombie Horde, Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong mourned their fallen friends and accepted the future together through a pair of handmade rings. As the base rebuilt, Shen Youzhi proposed a memorial for the dead, and she and Lu Zong ended the day returning to the dorm together.

• Shen Youzhi and Lu Zong remembered Lao Chen, Xiaomei, Da Qiang, and the others while sharing the food Xiaomei had hidden.
• Lu Zong gave Shen Youzhi a pair of rings he had engraved during her absence, and she put one on and told him she had been grateful to find him alive after the battle.
• The next morning, Shen Youzhi awkwardly accepted Lu Zong's congee and confirmed that the rings' letters stood for their names.
• A new girl thanked Shen Youzhi and the base for taking her in and protecting everyone during the Zombie Horde.
• Shen Youzhi asked Lu Zong to turn the hillside graves into a memorial and bring new arrivals there to remember the lives spent defending the base.
• As the base continued its recovery, Lu Zong took the exhausted Shen Youzhi back to the dorm, and the two joked and playfully tussled on the way.