第9章:Upstairs Breath Jiang Yi recognizes the hulking ascended zombie from the canteen massacre — the corpse whose dropped corpse-core he stole. Trapped in the guard room, he flees upstairs as zombies pound the windows and stairwells, barely holding on when a sudden female zombie ambushes him on the fourth floor. Just as he thinks to finish it, the dormitory door nearby is violently breached, forcing him to run to the fifth floor, heart pounding and hope thinning.

第8章:Red Light Between Brows Jiang Yi, fattened and hopeful after feeding from his system, sneaks through the zombie-infested campus to reach Chen Jiazi's dorm. A bloodied girl falls outside the dorm gate, drawing a horde of zombies — and then an enormous, red-glowing ascended zombie smashes in and rips out the girl's heart. Terrified, Jiang Yi hides and realizes the danger is far worse than before.

第7章:The Backpack That Wasn't There Jiang Yi, still haunted by losing Chen Jiazi's family pendant, tries to pack her things at the campus cafeteria. Reaching into an old backpack, he discovers a glowing inventory UI with bottled 'Tianquan Water' and 'Yuzhi Meat' — items that materialize when he pulls them out. After drinking and eating, he feels immediate relief and a small recovery, steels himself, and heads out into the evening resolved to keep searching for the missing pendant.

第6章:Counting Light — The Cost of Levels Jiang Yi verifies that killing zombies grants experience and levels him up, but discovers the experience requirement doubles each level. After severing several zombie heads and leveling twice, he collapses exhausted and desperate, driven by hunger to ransack Chen Jiazi's dorm for food. He finds a small cache in Li Yuling's locker but fails to locate Chen Jiazi's promised jade pendant, leaving him uneasy.

第5章:The Irreversible Choice Jiang Yi irrevocably confirms a bizarre stat allocation favoring speed and defense. A left-handed black blade—the 'Skull-Cutter'—manifests and bonds to his wrist as the horde finally rips the dead body from the door. Empowered but not leveled further, Jiang Yi cuts through the first wave of zombies and steels himself for what's next.

第4章:System Ignition — The Custom Path Jiang Yi catches his breath after blocking the door with a dead zombie, but a sudden white light condenses from the corpse and shoots into his chest. A holographic combat system appears, showing he leveled up to 1 and grants five free attribute points; Jiang Yi chooses the 'Custom' path and reallocates five attribute percentages. He confirms the irreversible choice, feels the system settle into his body, and steels himself as the horde keeps pounding on the battered door.

第3章:Black Tang Blade — The Cost of Manifestation Jiang Yi endures a new, insidious pain as the black soul-weapon solidifies, draining his attributes and leaving him near-paralyzed. A rotting horde smashes through the door; with trembling strength he draws the black Tang blade and severs a reaching arm, then drives the blade into a zombie's eye to survive a face-to-face assault. Drained but alive, he scrambles away as a faint, unstable surge of strength and clarity briefly returns.

第2章:Birth of a Soul-Weapon Jiang Yi endures excruciating internal mutation after ingesting a corpse core to escape inevitable zombification. As agony peaks he awakens a holographic status screen and chooses to consume his attributes to manifest a unique soul-weapon. A black, living weapon coalesces — powerful but costly — just as the horde outside reaches a breaking point.

第1章:The Core: Swallowing the Nightmare In a besieged school cafeteria, survivors discover that rare 'corpse cores' can boost abilities but usually kill ordinary people. Jiang Yi secretly finds one such core, tormented by betrayal and pain, and impulsively swallows it to gain the strength to exact revenge. The core ignites a brutal internal transformation that rips his flesh apart and triggers panic among survivors — hope and horror collide as Jiang Yi's fate hangs between power and monstrosity.

第0章:Acid Rain / Last Lock of the Girls' Dorm Jiang Yi is barricaded inside a girls' dorm as beautiful but feral zombies batter the wooden door, furious after being betrayed by a companion. The narrative flashes back ten days to an unprecedented acid downpour that selectively sickened those hit by it, an apparent global epidemic, and the slow reveal of something far worse than ordinary flu. The present collapses with the past: betrayal, blood, and the world unraveling — the door creaks, and the fate beyond it is uncertain.