A virus swept across the globe, turning three billion people into zombies simultaneously. Civilization collapsed, order was destroyed, and the apocalypse began. On its fourth day, Chu Chen was locked in among a horde of zombies while trying to save three strangers. He was bitten and brought to the brink of mutation.
The apocalypse is brutal, and people are hard to read. There are survivors who betray and turn against their own, teammates who fight side by side only to meet tragic ends, and gentle, steadfast companions who never abandon one another. Chu Chen sheds his naivety amid blood and fire. With the Z-type origin virus as his trump card and protecting his younger sister as his driving purpose, he grows stronger amid the zombies' evolutionary frenzy, uncovering the secrets of high-level zombies and the schemes of mysterious forces. Just as his consciousness is about to sink and he is on the verge of becoming a mindless walking corpse, the [Apocalypse Limit Evolution System] unexpectedly binds to him. The Z-type antidote transforms his body: he retains human reason and memories, yet awakens the power at the source of the zombies, becoming a special existence at the top of the zombie food chain.
When human survivor bases are plunged into crisis and high-level zombies control the order of the apocalypse, Chu Chen carves out a path to survival in a world that devours people. He is both humanity's protector and a misfit among the zombies. From now on, he will rewrite the rules of the apocalypse.