Ice Age: What Is It Like to Be Human?

Five years after the end of the world, 90% of the world's human beings have been reduced to zombie rations. I, Chen Yan, with two PhDs in virology, took the remaining humans to hide in the Kunlun Ark and became the recognized savior. I personally formulated the rules of survival, developed virus inhibitors, and vowed to eliminate all zombies and rebuild human civilization—until that day, I dissected a "mimetic zombie." It carries human children's toys in its pockets, its cerebral cortex activity is comparable to that of an ordinary person, and it can even use tools to set traps! What's even more terrifying is that zombies are evolving rapidly: they shed their deformed shells, grow into humans, and establish a social system that is more perfect than humans—without corruption or infighting, but replicating the darkest class injustices of mankind! I began to wonder: Maybe those zombies that I regard as "monsters" are more "human" than humans? When the evolved zombie aristocrat wears a suit and negotiates with me in fluent Chinese; when the human being I rescued turns around and becomes a slave to the zombies; when my wife, who has been missing for five years, appears in front of me as a diplomat of the Zombie Federation... My savior identity was completely shattered. Looking at the "humans" and "zombies" that looked exactly the same in front of me, my hand holding the heavy weapon began to tremble: Who is the real monster? And this apocalypse is just another farce in the reincarnation of civilization... (Two doctor protagonists + zombies' spiritual evolution + suspense of the identity of human corpses, the whole process is high-energy and non-scripted, the darkness of human nature is more terrifying than zombies!)