Recaps

Zhang Yi gathered Nan Shao and Li Muran around his efforts to protect Zhang Ruiyang and survive, while the group scavenged supplies and rescued Meat Tower Chen. The arc left Zhang Yi, Nan Shao, and Li Muran escaping a zombie-filled hospital with medicine to treat Chen.

• Zhang Yi returned to Zhang Ruiyang, then traveled with Nan Shao to Wangyang Town, where they shared scarce food and water with the boy and began working together.
• Zhang Yi and Nan Shao joined a scavenging expedition to Small Shop Street, escaped a zombie horde, and spent the night at a factory after missing the return ride.
• Nan Shao absorbed a Corpse Crystal and grew a small cabbage sprout, while Zhang Yi and Nan Shao returned to find Zhang Ruiyang sick from the heat.
• Li Muran joined Zhang Yi and Nan Shao, and Zhang Yi decided to bring Zhang Ruiyang along on future trips.
• Nan Shao found Meat Tower Chen badly wounded at a rubbish heap, and Zhang Yi rescued him and learned that Zheng Kun had shot him over Bai Mei.
• Zhang Yi, Nan Shao, and Li Muran traveled to the county town to find treatment for Chen, then entered the old-town hospital to gather medicine.
• As zombies gathered at the hospital doors, Li Muran packed medicine and urged Zhang Yi and Nan Shao to leave.

Zhang Yi, Nan Shao, and their companions established a home, discovered a hidden mountain stockpile, and grew stronger while hunting zombies. After Nan Shao and Zhang Yi killed Zheng Kun and framed Bai Mei, the group returned to hunting and divided a large haul of Corpse Crystals.

• Zhang Yi, Nan Shao, and Li Muran escaped the hospital, sold surplus medicine, and rented a ground-floor apartment in Wangyang Town.
• Zhang Yi and Nan Shao moved the group into the apartment, where Li Muran treated Meat Tower Chen’s wounds and the others gathered supplies for his operation.
• Zhang Yi and Nan Shao explored a cave, found its former owner’s diary and stockpile, buried him, and concealed the supplies for their own use.
• Nan Shao discovered that he alone could channel his ability through the black stone, but intense cultivation left him covered in bloody sweat.
• After learning Zheng Kun planned to kill them, Zhang Yi and Nan Shao secretly killed him and staged the scene to make it appear Bai Mei had killed him before committing suicide.
• Zhang Yi told the group that Wang Yuanwei had taken control of the Vanguard Team, while he and Nan Shao trained through the night and Li Muran and Meat Tower Chen cultivated Corpse Crystals.
• Zhang Yi, Nan Shao, and Li Muran cleared a residential complex of zombies and brought home nearly two hundred Corpse Crystals.
• Zhang Yi divided the 189 Corpse Crystals after setting aside expenses, gave Meat Tower Chen ten for training, and Nan Shao took over Zhang Yi’s painful massage.