The Outbreak: No Cure

Decisive and ruthless, with no dithering. He may be frightened early on, but people grow.

In 2026, an unknown virus erupted on a massive scale in Tianzhu, turning the dead into bloodthirsty zombies. Research revealed that living people also carried the zombie virus and would turn into zombies once they died. Worse still, the zombies could evolve. The United Nations called the first year of the outbreak the Era of the End. It began at the virus's point of origin, followed by the fall of the outbreak zones, then the campaign to hold back the undead along the Huaxia border, and finally its collapse. The protagonist starts out particularly weak and naive, but eventually becomes a cold-blooded madman. He is conscripted and made into a true soldier.