Dead City Protocol: THE EMPIRE OF UNDEAD.

Dead City Protocol: The Empire of Undead. By: Deepspacelore. In the year 3046, Luna City exists beneath SKYHAVEN — a floating city of the military elite, suspended above the surface by advanced gravity technology. **Nana Wang** (20) is a newly licensed hunter who eliminates mutated creatures in the forest zones surrounding Luna City. She is cheerful, chaotic, and completely devoted to her adopted older brother **Caleb Xia** (25), a SKYHAVEN Flight Colonel who has quietly loved her as more than a sister for years — a feeling he will carry to his grave without ever saying. When Nana is assigned a new partner — **Xavier Shen** (23), a cold, precise S-Class solo hunter with silver hair and a blade he uses like an extension of thought — neither of them expects what follows. Across bubble tea dates, claw machine victories, forest missions, and long evenings talking about nothing important, something grows between them. Nana names the feeling on a rooftop during the end of the world, while holding a pink bunny he caught for her instead of his cousin. The end of the world arrives because of two brothers who loved their mother too much to let her go. Scientists Adrian and Ryan Zhao create a serum to resurrect their recently deceased mother. It works — but wrong. The serum suppresses reason, amplifies aggression, eliminates pain response, and spreads through bite. Within days, Luna City falls. The infected move like water: patient, endless, hungry. The hospital mortuary door doesn't hold. The streets don't hold. The evacuation plaza doesn't hold. Nana and Xavier survive together — six days of rope made from curtains, floors descended one by one, bus rooftops surrounded by the horde, one earphone shared in the dark so she doesn't have to hear the screaming. Caleb descends from SKYHAVEN alone, fights through the city, and finds what he believes is her body in the street — three hours of carrying that before her voice comes through the radio. They reunite. They reach SKYHAVEN. Then SKYHAVEN falls. The gravity technology fails when the operators below die in the outbreak. The floating city crashes. Xavier is separated — waking badly injured on a rooftop, alone, surrounded by the dead. Caleb gets Nana out. They survive in the mountains with a small group while the city below finishes becoming what it is. Xavier survives differently. He learns to walk among the walkers — hood pulled low, raincoat smeared with their scent, two de-armed walkers on chains behind him, dual swords in his hands. His only goal: find her. He discovers his family in the Azure District. His cousin Lily, seven years old, is in a parked car with her white bunny. He stands there for a long time. He does what needs doing. He carries this alone, the way he carries everything. Nana is separated from Caleb in a night raid. She survives alone — sleeping in car trunks, in trees, riding a stolen motorcycle with a crossbow. She doesn't stop moving. She never stops moving. Eventually, she sees him. A man walking calmly among the walkers. Two chained walkers following him with backpacks. Dual swords. Silver hair under a hood. She has a question she never got to ask. A story about the end of the world, the people who survive it, and the difference between the love that holds you together and the love that keeps you going.