Pale Dawn: a History of Zombie Civilization

(If you don't understand multi-perspective narration, you can start from Volume 2) In 2035, the "silicon-based life forms" brought back by the Mars exploration rover fused with human nerve cells, triggering a global zombie virus outbreak. Viruses feed on emotional energy and drive zombies to complete three evolutions: from "original zombies" that retain their habits during life, to "virus civilization" that forms the collective consciousness "Mother" of the quantum network, and finally evolve into a new species pursuing "emotional symbiosis." After the human defense line completely collapsed, the survivors retreated to the space city "New Eden", and the ground became the "Empire of Bones" dominated by zombies. Former special forces medic Lu Chen went deep into the zombie lair "Bone Nest City" and tried to use the "memory virus" to awaken the zombies' human memories, but found that the Mother was building a "civilization museum" using fragments of human emotions. At the same time, the "empathic zombie" that retains complete human memory is pale and is selected by Mother as an "emotional container", and its uterus becomes the core of cultivating "cross-species symbionts". The core AI of the Mechanical Holy See, Zero, accidentally awakened the "protective desire" through her memory in the process of capturing Bai Wan, triggering the ultimate questioning of "emotional value" by mechanical civilization. This is a doomsday epic about "destruction and rebirth", and it is also a hymn dedicated to "symbiosis of different civilizations" - when humans become the "old code" of the earth, perhaps letting go of species arrogance is the only key to the continuation of civilization.