The old world has burned to ashes. I am the spark. I will burn away the darkness and rebuild the world.
On July 1, 2025, the Great Purge began. Zombies swept across the globe, and human civilization collapsed overnight.
Zhang Yi, an ordinary man who struggled to survive for seven years in the apocalypse before being betrayed and killed, is reborn on the day before the disaster begins. This time, he trusts no one. He stockpiles supplies, seizes a granary, and survives alone.
But fate does not give him the chance to go it alone.
When the first group of survivors kneels before him, when the System announces that “the spark of civilization has been activated,” and when he is forced to raise his weapon again and again to protect others, Zhang Yi realizes that he is being pushed into a role he never imagined: not a hero, not a leader, but a god.
Some die for him; others go mad for him. Words he never spoke are revered as scripture, and an identity he never wanted is etched into everyone's bones.
“The old world has burned to ashes. I am the spark. Blood is my fuel, and death is my glory.”
When his fanatics shout this slogan as they charge into the zombie horde, when everyone in the entire base kneels and cries, “The spark will never die,” Zhang Yi finally understands:
In the apocalypse, the most terrifying thing is not zombies or hunger, but how desperately people hunger for hope.
And he is the one they have chosen.
