Song Ke - The main character is an orphaned girl from an impoverished area, uneducated and basically lives alone her entire life. She stutters and b/c of that she lacks social skills. But as apocalypse arrives, she awakens new abilities and becomes super OP. There are times when it feels she has too big of a plot armor, but it feels earned. She doesn't just win because the plot demands her to, but because she works hard for it. You will see her journey from this apathetic clueless stutterer to a truly strong female lead with great compassion. An admirable heroine that is on the same level as those from famous mangas.

Zhuang Qingyan - The male lead is a cripple that MC picked up early in the story. It's a bit of a gender reversal as he's just clinging to her golden thigh and manipulates others around him. I find him really funny at times and more gentle than he would admit as he calls himself a psychopath.

Lu Xiaoyu - A master hacker. I live for his friendship with Zhuang Qingyan - they are so funny together. They love to bicker and call each other names - but you know they cherish this friendship a lot because despite spending just a year in school together and didn't even consider each other "friends" back then, ML led the team to rescue him from prison and he also recognized ML immediately even after decades passed.

V587 - a team of ability users consisted of a kid with ice power, a healer, an assassin, an idol, and the 3 people above. The process of gathering members were a bit slow, but you will come to love each and every member of the team.

Those are the main characters. But there are actually so many more. At the heart of it, this is an adventure where the MC and her team go on a journey to accomplish tasks and learn a bit more about themselves.

The story moves from arc to arc. And each arc feels like a whole universe on its own.

For example, the first arc took place at the school the MC used to attend but she was severely bullied that she decided to drop off. So when they met again, there was a lot of petty school drama going on with mean girls and bullies and hypocrite teachers. It's very well-developed and you can see that, if this is that kind of school-life story, it could be an entire novel on its own.

Similarly, when we encounter MC's senior brothers and sisters from her martial arts sect, each of them leaves really strong impression. They were fighting against tyrants and building a whole new city on their own. The MC also has a childhood sweetheart whom everyone thought they would end up together and honestly, I wouldn't mind reading an alternate universe where MC just became a mistress of this ancient sect and marries her senior brother lol. Her senior brother could be a male lead on his own.

There are a bit of loose ends. At least 2 mini plots that I'm not sure if I missed it being mentioned somehow because there are really a lot of characters. But it's negligible, not important to the story.

The ML is Zhang Qingyan, the "researcher" whom Song Ke meets in the Hua City arc.

1. Song Ke, our MC and leader of the team. She may not be the smartest amongst the seven, but she is certainly the heart of the team and the glue which binds them together. Hailing from District F177, she begins her journey in the days after the apocalypse. She is an S-rank offensive type ability user, which allows her to create weapons out of different objects.
2. Zhang Qingyan, the second person Song Ke recruits, who first appears in Hua City. The brain to Song Ke's brawn, he is the chief strategist of the team; his skills lie in his intelligence and ability to read and manipulate people, hiding his thoughts behind a smile. He is also disabled, his crippled leg forcing him to be confined to a wheelchair for most of the story (at least up to chapter 110). An ordinary person, or so he claims.
3. Xu Xing, the third person Song Ke recruits. A precocious ten year-old boy hailing from District F177, he is an B-rank ice-type ability user. He likes to act like a good child in front of Song Ke, but in reality he's more of a rambunctious kid with a slight ruthless streak.
4. Lin Youyou and Su Cha, the fourth and fifth people Song Ke recruits. Lin Youyou is a popular idol in Ferrera City, where she first appears. Contrary to her idol image, she has a temperamental personality. She is an A-rank support type ability user.
5. Su Cha, who hails from the rainforest district. He is Lin Youyou's loyal bodyguard, and an A-rank offensive type ability user.
6. Fang Zhixu, the sixth person Song Ke recruits. Formerly a renowned doctor, he first appears in Tongwan City. He is an A-rank healer type ability user. He also likes to sleep a lot.
7. Lu Xiaoyu, the seventh member of the team and disgraced member of the prestigious Lu family. He first appears in District F180, Sin City, and was previously the head warden of the city's Death Prison. He is an A-rank hacker type ability user.

having self-regeneration as her second ability

you'd think in the beginning that MC is the usual ditzy but weirdly strong MC, and indeed she is. but after you found out about her backstory and her true origin, I think you'd think it'd make sense of why she sometimes behaved like a newborn human with how naive she is *wink wink*. I do think the 'transformation' MC went through after 'dying' is kind of... off-putting though. this is personally because I don't like the amnesia trope so much. but at least it didn't last for a long while.

quite an interesting character. his psychopathy is confirmed in the novel and he received treatment to withhold his violent tendencies as well. his romance with Song Ke IMO is so-so, the usual 'villain-like heartless guy finally meets his medicine person who can calm him down' kind of trope. but his backstory in turn is very rich and well-written so I can forgive the lack of fresh romance.

i love how the author gave highlight to each member! so even if they didn't have much scenes in the latter part, they still 'exists' and you can discern the good relationship between teammates just by a few sentences in passing. their early acquaintances are not always off to a good start, but that's how friendship normally is, you can find a comrade even in someone who you didn't think would keep company of you. and it's beautiful.

The story ending with a bit insight of the future wherein the humans finally started taking territories in the outer space. So yeah, the story gives a strong vibe as if this is the prologue before interstellar era. Which is also a unique taste and also tied all plot related devices in a good rope. Like how radiation cause the apocalypse but also started humans evolution. Humans now having not only awakeners but also some resistance to radiation. All of this are much needed for interstellar era.

the alliance was born in a nuclear war and that the land was contaminated plus the solar strom, so yeah, maybe the alliance isn't very solid in the first place and each area operated like an independent bases and the upper class is hoarding the resources.

The last major battle was really jarring with the POV switching back and forth, and new characters and S-ranks popping out one after the other. It seems like every plot point was resolved in the span of 15 chapters just to get to the end and everything over with. As another reviewer mentions, the Awakener Competition and the destruction of Utopia was completely glossed over which was weird because it feels like it could've spanned hundreds of chapter of more content.

It just seems like the author was rushing to get this story over with for some reason, which sucks because I was really enjoying it.