Squad Up: Gamer's Guide for the Apocalypse

An unlikely group of kids and adults become friends after meeting online while playing a newly released video game. They all later meet in person while attending an event hosted by the video game creator, who plans to release the last update for the game with the final boss at the event. Only the creator never made it to the event, and chaos ensues.

Peter Li Zhang, the twin brother of an official government scientist, created the game using real creatures his brother was studying. After a mistake leads to the release of the creatures, killing off a majority of the surrounding population, those who remain seek out shelter and weapons for protection.

Amid the apocalyptic outbreak at the secret military base, the unlikely group of gamers come together to defend themselves against the malicious creatures from the game. All while that is happening, they also run a survival podcast to help other survivors, giving tips they learned from playing the game.

They knew it was bound to be a blood bath especially since the final boss's weakness was never revealed or added to the game due to the creatures killing the creator in the lab before he had the chance. On top of that, the creatures have begun to reproduce, multiplying their numbers and eventually crossbreeding with other creatures, building an indestructible army.

They had two options: survive by playing smart or die trying.

May the best gamer survive to tell the tale.

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