Yan Bubu being out of commission and Feng Chen finding a lab for them to stay at

them return for Dean Liu and the others, the children’s school life/military training in Linya City, Shen QianQian stalking Chu Ya to see if there were any guides confessing to him as mentioned in a conversation he and his friends had, Wang Chengcai and Lin Duozhi as they grew up too

So although people can no longer become zombies after being vaccinated, they still have a slow acting chronic disease that will kill them slowly once infected. It's called gangere or something. ML father found the right direction for the medicine of this sickness but the thing is, they can also create conscious zombies by the way.

So this is the conflict of the story.

GL have this sickness but most importantly, he wanted to create a zombie army. At first, he doesn't have the whole research result but was kinda part of the research team before being kick out by ML father because of his crazy idea about the zombie army. Among these research, it was proven that the energy of a differentating guide/sentinel can slow down the sickness or make it dormant so Gu Ling use these to have people betray ML's father. (MC was part of an orphanage that house potential sentinels and guides, GL wanted to treat them as meat source to extend his life and the dean somehow realize that the kids taken out of the orphanage since last year cannot be contacted. In fact, they have been harvested and killed by Gu Ling.)

Now here's the thing, the research result was put in two chip, both have half of the information and ML and Gu Ling have one. Since it's only half of each, they can't make a complete vaccine nor a complete conscious zombie. ML and his team studied the part that can make the vaccine while of course, Gu Ling studied the zombie army. But the thing is, Gu Ling research resources are more abundant and his economy can be said to be more stable than ML. He's sitting in the main city of humanity after all and have leverage over the army leaders of the city. So why can't he just established two research and also study the vaccine by the way. Rather than letting an outbreak of the disease and kick people down the abyss and also kidnapping and killing potential sentinels/guides. Aren't those important resources??? ML and his team have hundreds of guide/sentinels and have a whole army of them plus the others in the other army. People are also starting to run to them cause while they don't have a complete vaccine, they can slow it down thru medicine. At some point, it seems idiotic that Gu Ling is so obsessed with conscious zombie army when sentinel/guides are just as powerful although not undying. Plus I know he's using the mu*derous way to slow down the disease as leverage to the other leaders but can't he do same with medicine? Isn't it easier to control the manufacturing of the medicine rather than kidnapping people? And a rare type of people even? In fact, since he can give ML the disease, just give it to the other sentinel/guides as well then control the medicine. I bet they'll be just as obedient as zombies and in this way, ML have no cards to convinced others to change camp.

So yeah, by the end, I just find Gu Ling's ambitious zombie army to be an obsession rather than motive. I know he's crazy but he doesn't have to lack IQ right? After killing ML's father and controlling the other military leader to be the tyrant and sitting in the abundant resources of the main city, I just find it lacking of IQ that all he did was research the zombie army and didn't care to run the city at all and let the people be infected and panic that they were thrown out and had to change camps.

We have our protagonists, Chu Ya (CY) and Shen Qianqian (SQQ). CY is the son of a high ranked official who lives in Yun Dian (Cloud Peak), a city built above the ground after no food could be grown in the soils beneath. SQQ is an orphan from the Angel Welfare Institute in the Abyss, a district on ground that's basically a wasteland and Yun Dian's landfill. Every few months or so, officers from Yun Dian would come down and visit the orphanage, where they would then select one or two orphans to bring up with them. It turns out kids placed in the orphanage were screened and are 90% likely to differentiate into sentinels or guides. The kids who the officers would bring up with them are the ones in the process of differentiation. However, over the past year, no child brought up to Yun Dian could be contacted, which belies the question: What happened to them?

Meanwhile, CY's family was caught up in a conspiracy that could possibly be related to what's going on in the orphanage. CY fell down to the Abyss in the midst of escaping and was rescued by SQQ, much to the dismay of the orphanage staff since CY is now wanted by the opposing political fraction in Yun Dian. sh*t went down and the protagonists, along with most of the orphanage, run away to a safe place, where they can hopefully grow into their power, uncover the mystery behind whatever tf is cooking in Yun Dian, and save the world on the side.

I think in chapter 131? (It's out of 184 chapters when I was reading this and extras begin chapter 173. In comparison, the time skip in Wasteland happened chapter 92/234.)

CY having a parenting moment where he learned if he bought something for one kid, he also had to give the same thing to the other two.

This exchange:

• • YT: Let me go!

• • XR: I told you before that if you appear in front of me again, I will never let you leave.

• • CY: *standing guy emoji*

• • XR: You're like a brother to him, what do you think he thinks of me?

• • CY: Please sir, I'm just a child.

A stuffed bear shaving its "beard" and ending up with a bald mouth.

CY planting flowers for SWW after seeing that he likes them even when every little plot of land they have is valuable.