In 2045, the Z-7 virus reaped 90% of humanity in just 72 hours, its scythe falling like the Grim Reaper's, and plunged the world into a dark abyss overrun by zombies. Three years later, the spring zombie horde arrived as expected. Survivors struggled to stay alive amid the roars of mutated monsters, unaware that an even greater crisis was brewing.
Lin Ye, an ordinary game-boosting service provider, was on the brink of death while fighting zombies to save his younger sister when he unexpectedly activated the “Apocalypse Evolution System.” Like a mysterious cog in the machinery of fate, the System gave him the power to absorb zombie genes and strengthen himself, unlock overpowered abilities involving fire, lightning, and space, and even tame zombies to build his own army. More astonishingly, as the System's level rose, the mysterious legacy of an ancient cultivation civilization gradually came to light.
On his path to survival, Lin Ye met Su Li, a military researcher who possessed antibodies to the virus; Blood Pupil, a first-generation member of the zombie clan with control over blood-based abilities; and an eccentric old hermit cultivator. They came together for their own reasons, but while investigating the truth behind the virus, they uncovered a military conspiracy: the apocalyptic disaster was the result of a carefully planned genetic experiment gone out of control.
When the global zombie hordes converged into an “Apocalypse Vortex” and the ancient Zombie Ancestor was about to awaken, humanity, the zombie clan, and cultivators were forced to join forces. But as Lin Ye battled the ultimate boss, he discovered that the greatest threat came from the very System that had given him his power. At the end of time and space, how will he rewrite an apocalypse destined to destroy the world, with nothing but a mortal's body?
Gene absorption and cultivation secrets collide
