Including a mad scientist, cute but mysterious twins, a ragtag group of overpowered people, MCs that are overly special, hidden operations and escaped experimental subjects.

Yes, sounds like a hotpot of horror movies from the 90s and has the same quality.

is supposed to have all these anti-ability user scientists who are conducting human experiments, causing a rift and then rebellion from the ability users. An actual plotline. But hey, author changed their mind about following that thread cuz MC's team left and went elsewhere. Oh well, guess we just handwave that the entire base got destroyed by mutant fish.

is praised to be much more managed and has equality between ability havers and non-ability people, but literally ability people are treated as powerless mercenary outsiders and only MC's group got any kind of recognition and even conversation with the higher ups.

In the beginning of the apocalypse, it made sense that social structure hasn't collapsed and useless people could still take advantage of nepotism to live well. However how the hell are they still uncontrollable and abusing military power and wasting weapons to coerce and steal from the civilians and ability users in the base after the entire base was literally carpet bombed and destroyed by mutant birds?

You mean to tell me that people wouldn't rebel when they're already desperate and then other humans dressed in military gear also try to harm them?

And the "good" management just allows that? Why??? It's not even the actual leader's personal family or favoritism. It's literally some secretary errand boy he threatened to fire multiple times. But doesn't. And nothing changed even after the threat.

But that means the entire military who was patrolling and maintaining order day-to-day in the existing base disappears??? Wtf are normie humans with guns going to do walking around with the earth ability construction crew? And if the military are so few in numbers, it goes back to my point of why aren't there more rebels?

They talk mad sh*t about needing to raise the 2 kids in their team to have morals, but hey if the 2 kids mu*ders 2 women in cold blood a few chapters later, it's fine. No lecture, no talk, just let them do it. If we see a woman getting gangr*ped in the streets, whatever, that's just the cycle of life. She's a loser for getting caught. Even mu*der? Easy to do and no moral quandries whatsoever (unless it's the nepobabies cuz they still gotta be patriotic and keep peace between them so they can keep using the base as a tradestop).

conveniently, just when they lost their truck, they obtained a tree pet who could change sizes, grow super large or super tiny and store a ton of stuff in its trunk, and the "normal" stuff in its tree trunk don't come tumbling out, the get resized with the tree.

they learn the tree pet has healing powers

the tree could filter water and let them drink it

discover two 6 year old kids who could control plants and animals as the adults in their OG team (who were also conveniently bad people) immediately died within like 3 paragraphs of meeting them, and then the 2 kids only wanted to follow the MC/ML. And apparently the 6 year olds were super good at keeping secrets and knowing exactly what to say at the right time.

the plant-growing kid could literally make 60 gallons of oil from ONE oil fruit

MC's mom touched a dangerous electricity sac and got the electricity ability when every single other person in the entire country exploded or died from doing the same thing

the 6 year old kids mu*der 2 women who were written by the author as "oppressed/forced" to serve another team. And the ML literally just "smirked" as he looked at their dead bodies.

The only reason those women had been tied up and suffocated were because the kids wanted to show off and called them "thieves" for taking a small bag of quote "sanitary napkins and clothing" from THEIR OWN RV.

And then the MC/ML, (apparently guilt-free now?) because everyone on the team were killed by them. Also, by the way, the scene of those women dying, literally did not need to be written. The author could have let them run away to die by themselves in the wilderness without the MC/ML or 6-year old kids stopping them and they WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE RV ANYWAY?

instead, there was this whole unnecessary scene of 6 year old child using their abilities to "catch" grown people, treating them like livestock, then shrugging when they died. It was cruel, cold, and chilling.

every person or team they met on the road wanted to rob them. As they got closer to the city, the only "reason" they didn't get robbed was because the "city" would punish teams that robbed people.

During winter, out of desperation, some people started breaking into stores and looting things. In one paragraph, the author wrote that the winter was harsh and people were starving, which caused desperate. Next paragraph, nah, people didn't need to rob, all those robbers were malicious fakers who could eat if they wanted to or "worked hard."

Why did the author do a 180? Cause they wrote the main characters using their abilities to frighten the masses. And then the author had to backtrack quickly and somehow "whitewash" the main characters by talking about how all those people just "deserved" it.

Following chapter, MC gets ability to sense other people's emotions. Now author wrote themself a blanket clause to just villainize all poor people without thinking about the root cause: why were all the spoils/duck meat/insulation/cotton/good stuff only given to ONE district? Author literally name dropped district A as the beneficiary of anything good. And then follows up by calling literally everyone else poor, malicious, lazy, and unwilling to work hard to get to district A.

A cold heart author create a cold heart character. There is nothing wrong with donating a little food to people who really need it, for example ordinary people who work diligently are earning a living but don't have enough food, they can just hand out food. Can't MC read emotions? Can't you tell who is really starving and who is a liar? So what a purpose of that ability if just solely use for themselves only.

built a ten story underground secret experimental facility in 6 months - particularly as it was the second location about a week after the first one blew up. Outside of manpower - no one noticed what must have been an enormous undertaking? With little to no electricity?

First of all was the treatment of Xu Song by his own mother. I really hated that she could just poke his forehead, hit him, and even sometimes humiliate him in front of everyone without a second thought. I know the novel depicted her as someone who had a very strong personality but I still didn't like those parts, especially the fact that even the ML will simply watch on the sideline without saying anything most of the time.

Also, the MC barely receives any respect from the twins even though he was one of the people who practically saved them. I know they were children but I just feel pity for him every time everyone regards Yue Zheng like some hero/leader while he was just some foolish son/mom.

I also don't like that the author barely gave any good characterization to other women. There is practically no woman in this story who was strong enough to fight mutant animals or plants, except maybe Mother Xu who preferred cooking and sewing in the background. It just puts women several degrees lower even though the author knew that most of the readers of these kinds of BL novels are women.

One more thing is the fact that there are several paragraphs about foods (sometimes even more than actual fights and actions itself) while only very few sentences about the actual relationship between MC and ML. It was a bit better in the beginning but it became too much in the middle parts. I feel like more than half of the novel is simply about some meat drying on the roof or in the freezer. I know this is not centered on romance but the food was more greatly described in detail than the progress between the characters which makes it a little bland.