Chapter Summaries

Zhou Chong reunited with Tengu in Nest City and learned that the gangs had traced the forbidden-drug operation to three suspected areas. With the search narrowed, Zhou Chong and the Hunters prepared to locate the hidden workshop and their targets.

• Zhou Chong and Tengu greeted each other as old friends and confirmed their shared connections in Nest City.
• Tengu explained that the gangs were sweeping Golden Tooth Nest City after outsiders used forbidden drugs to commit robberies and threaten the black-market trade.
• Tengu said groundwater tests had revealed suspected God Transformation Capsule ingredients in three areas, but the exact workshop remained unknown.
• Zhou Chong accepted the narrowed search area and ordered the Hunters to calibrate their systems, survey the surroundings, and locate the two known targets.
• Meng Chao and the Hunters scanned Nest City's crowded slums through the warehouse walls.

Meng Chao and Zhou Chong’s hunters tracked two injured bandits through the nest city to a hidden shelter, where they met a contact called Brother Dao. The hunters listened as Brother Dao tested the bandits’ story, leaving them poised to learn what he would find in a scan.

• Meng Chao monitored his teammates’ views as Zhou Chong led the hunters after two bandits whose implanted chips revealed their locations.
• Mo Lan and Xue Rui entered a crowd outside a Monster Arena to check whether the bandits exchanged anything with someone, but the pair passed through without reacting.
• The bandits entered a concealed shelter beneath a labyrinthine residential building, and the hunters tracked them using their implanted chips.
• The bandits told Brother Dao they had brought the stolen Nightmare Beast nerve balls, Hell Beast spinal nerve, and refined crystals, then insisted they had not betrayed their accomplices.
• Brother Dao used a lie detector to test their account, then ordered the bandits to stand still so he could scan them for concealed items.

Meng Chao and the veteran hunters tracked Chen Hao, known as Brother Dao, to a nest-city hideout and learned that Vortex planned to target the gangs there. They watched nine disguised figures flee with bulging packs, leaving the hunters uncertain which one carried the stolen monster materials.

• Chen Hao let the two criminals into his room, where they asked to meet the boss and praised Vortex’s plan to attack Golden Tooth Nest City.
• Brother Dao told the criminals to recover because a major operation might happen soon, and the hunters concluded Vortex intended to target the nest-city gangs.
• Zhou Chong ordered Mo Lan and Xue Rui to follow Chen Hao as he carried the stolen goods to the boss.
• Mo Lan and Xue Rui tracked Chen Hao to a third-floor room, while Zhou Chong advised the hunters to wait and observe.
• Nine disguised figures fled from the room on roller shoes, each carrying a bulging pack, and vanished in different directions.

Meng Chao and Zhou Chong secretly tracked Brother Dao while the veteran hunters followed nine Rollerblade Couriers, hoping to identify the criminal mastermind. A new Zombie Virus triggered Rat Tides across Dragon City, and Meng Chao witnessed a shocking mutation through the hunters’ shared perspectives.

• Meng Chao reasoned that only one of the nine Rollerblade Couriers might carry real stolen goods, so Zhou Chong sent the veteran hunters to tail all nine while he and Meng Chao watched Brother Dao.
• Meng Chao and Zhou Chong followed Brother Dao to a basement room, where they detected twenty-seven armed bandits, including several wounded men boosted by drugs.
• The hunters learned that three residential districts were under attack by Rat Tides whose dead rats revived as scarlet-tentacled undead, spreading a suspected new Zombie Virus.
• Nie Chenglong warned that the attacks were drawing forces away from the nest city as a diversion, and Meng Chao witnessed a shocking mutation through the veteran hunters’ perspectives.

The Rollerblade Couriers used Smoke Bombs to mislead the veteran hunters, but Meng Chao realized they were decoys meant to test whether the real delivery had been exposed. When one hunter revealed himself, Meng Chao and Zhou Chong launched an assault on the bandits’ hideout, where the drugged attackers fought recklessly and threatened to bring down the building.

• The nine Rollerblade Couriers released Smoke Bombs in crowded places, narrow alleys, and buildings to scatter the hunters and obscure their escape.
• Meng Chao warned Zhou Chong that the couriers were likely carrying decoy supplies while a tenth courier delivered the real goods only if no tails were detected.
• Zhou Chong ordered the hunters to stop following the couriers, but Hong Li had already charged into an alley and exposed himself to a waiting courier.
• Meng Chao and Zhou Chong realized Brother Dao knew they were being tracked, so Zhou Chong smashed through the floor and they attacked the bandits below.
• Meng Chao killed two bandits and fought off a drugged attacker who burned himself alive, while other bandits prepared Crystals Bombs that could collapse the building.
• Meng Chao used discarded Harvesting Blades to sever three bomb-wielding bandits’ tendons, making them drop their Crystals Bombs.

Meng Chao and Zhou Chong captured Chen Hao after crushing his bandit crew, but Dragon City faced simultaneous Beast Tide threats and outbreaks of Zombie Virus and Blood Pattern Flower Spores. With forces stretched thin, Meng Chao began interrogating Chen Hao to uncover the God Transformation Capsule conspiracy before the Nest City descended into chaos.

• Meng Chao and Zhou Chong defeated the bandits, and Meng Chao captured Chen Hao while confiscating his hidden weapons, communicator, and God Transformation Capsules.
• Nie Chenglong reported Zombie Virus and Blood Pattern Flower Spore outbreaks, along with signs of Beast Tides around Dragon City and its expanding outer settlements.
• The hunters learned that Dragon City's aggressive expansion had spread its defenses thin as monsters gathered in the mist around Forward Bases and New Development Zones.
• Meng Chao and Zhou Chong concluded that the outer Beast Tide, the outbreaks inside Dragon City, and the God Transformation Capsule Incident were connected and that the Nest City had to be stabilized quickly.
• When Zhou Chong moved to interrogate Chen Hao, Meng Chao stopped him and began extracting information by crushing Chen Hao's ankle.

Meng Chao tortured Chen Hao for information about the mysterious boss, who had recruited him to aid wanted criminals, distribute God Transformation Capsules, and move stolen materials and people through the nest city. After Meng Chao made Chen Hao message the boss, the reply named Leprosy Village, a place Meng Chao had never heard of.

• Meng Chao broke Chen Hao’s bones while questioning him, and Chen Hao revealed that he had only communicated with the boss by email.
• Chen Hao explained how he had helped the boss recruit wanted criminals and Lost Ones, distribute God Transformation Capsules, and arrange deliveries through Rollerblade Couriers.
• Chen Hao said the latest stolen materials and robbers had not yet been sent out, and that the boss would provide a delivery address once Chen Hao confirmed it was safe.
• Meng Chao returned Chen Hao’s communicator and ordered him to tell the boss that the final batch was secure and ask where to send it.
• The boss replied with the words “Leprosy Village,” leaving Meng Chao wondering whether such a place existed in the nest city.

Meng Chao and Zhou Chong learned that their target and a suspected God Transformation Capsule production facility might be hidden in Leprosy Village, a hostile settlement deep in the nest city. As they sought reinforcements to investigate, a massive Beast Tide launched a campaign-level assault on Dragon City.

• Chen Hao described Leprosy Village, its residents, black market, and agreement with Golden Tooth Nest City, then marked its location on the map for Meng Chao.
• Meng Chao and Zhou Chong connected Leprosy Village to the suspected God Transformation Capsule components found in nearby sewers and concluded the target might be hiding there.
• Zhou Chong reported the likely target location to the command center and requested reinforcements for an operation into Leprosy Village.
• Nie Chenglong warned that a Beast Tide had appeared across more than a dozen fronts around Dragon City and that reinforcements would not arrive before the team might have to fight.

Monster Civilization launched coordinated attacks on Dragon City’s strategic resource bases and residential districts while Diamond Nine-Headed Dragon descended from the void. Watching the assaults from Golden Tooth Nest City, Meng Chao warned Director Nie that the nest city was likely the real target and that some outer offensives might be a diversion.

• A Beast Tide overwhelmed the defenses at Dragon City’s tungsten mine, threatening the base that supplied materials for Armor-Piercing Bullets.
• Rat and snake swarms broke through defenses at the Electric Radiance Stone mine, while an insect swarm ravaged the Spirit Plant fields west of Dragon City.
• Diamond Nine-Headed Dragon descended from the void above the Raging Wave Mountains as crimson clouds formed a vortex.
• Meng Chao and the veteran hunters watched the attacks from Golden Tooth Nest City and learned that zombies and undead creatures had appeared in three residential communities.
• Zhou Chong questioned how so many monsters and Doomsday Beasts could attack together, and Meng Chao explained that Monster Civilization could coordinate tactics.
• Meng Chao urged Director Nie to treat Golden Tooth Nest City as Monster Civilization’s primary target and warned that some attacks on the outskirts might be a diversion.

Meng Chao considered why Dragon City could not easily reinforce threatened fronts and believed its aggressive expansion was necessary to win the Monster War before a larger conflict engulfed the Otherworld. As Dragon City's defenses remained stretched thin, Zhou Chong and the veteran hunters accepted a mission to find the mastermind behind the conspiracy in Golden Tooth Nest City.

• Meng Chao and Nie Chenglong recognized that the Monster Civilization could use feints and hidden main forces to pin Dragon City's high-end combatants to separate fronts.
• Meng Chao recalled that Dragon City's retreat after a defeat in his previous life had allowed the Monster Civilization to grow stronger, and he resolved to help Dragon City end the war early and prepare for the Another World War.
• Meng Chao committed himself to completing his mission and stopping the Demon God "Vortex" from carrying out its conspiracy in the nest city.
• Zhou Chong and the veteran hunters agreed to find the mastermind, recognizing that Dragon City's strategic resource sites needed its peak combatants.
• Nie Chenglong told the hunters that the mission was now a real war rather than an arrest operation and accepted responsibility for their actions.

Nie Chenglong upgraded the operation in Golden Tooth Nest City into a warlike mission to locate and destroy the God Transformation Capsule factory. As Meng Chao and Zhou Chong positioned themselves near Leprosy Village, gang forces prepared to attack, and Meng Chao accepted the need to act decisively despite the danger to innocent residents.

• Nie Chenglong authorized Zhou Chong's Hunter Squad to use any means necessary and said the Investigation Bureau would seal off Golden Tooth Nest City if the mission failed.
• Meng Chao planted a tracking chip in the raw-material backpack and had a courier deliver it to Leprosy Village while gang members took custody of Chen Hao.
• The command center upgraded the mission to control, lockdown, and elimination, identifying the God Transformation Capsule factory as the priority target.
• Meng Chao and Zhou Chong took positions overlooking Leprosy Village as nest-city gangs surrounded it with heavy weapons.
• Zhou Chong warned Meng Chao that delay could doom both Leprosy Village and Dragon City, and Meng Chao resolved to proceed without hesitation.

Meng Chao and the hunters traced the God Transformation Capsule Refinery to Leprosy Village using a tracking chip and biochemical mice. As they prepared to raid, Meng Chao questioned why the cautious mastermind had used the conspicuous Chen Hao as a go-between, suspecting Chen Hao was deliberate bait.

• Meng Chao surveyed Leprosy Village and observed its polluted, maze-like buildings, black market, and mutated descendants of Zombie Virus infectees.
• Zhou Chong reported that thirteen Heaven Realm experts from Golden Tooth Nest City had joined the Hunter Squad, bringing their total to thirty-three as they surrounded the village.
• Chen Hao received the mastermind's locker number and password, and a Rollerblade Courier placed a package containing a tracking chip inside the locker.
• A child retrieved the package while biochemical mice traced sewage into Leprosy Village and detected increasing concentrations of God Transformation Capsule refining materials.
• Meng Chao questioned why the mastermind had chosen the conspicuous Chen Hao as a liaison and suggested he might have been deliberately exposed as bait.

Meng Chao and Zhou Chong suspected Leprosy Village was a trap but pressed on with their Hunter Squad as the Monster Civilization launched a major attack on Dragon City. The squad’s remotely controlled Biochemical Mice found a toxic sewage pipe beneath the God Transformation Capsule Refinery, confirming its location.

• Meng Chao warned Zhou Chong that Leprosy Village’s unnatural calm and its failure to inspect the tracking chip pointed to a trap, but Zhou Chong insisted their thirty-three Heaven Realm experts should proceed.
• The command center reported fierce fighting across Dragon City’s outskirts as the Crimson Dragon Army and other forces used artillery and defensive lines to resist the Beast Tide.
• Nie Chenglong told Zhou Chong that the main forces would focus on the exterior battle, and Zhou Chong promised the Hunter Squad would prevent God Transformation Capsules from leaving the nest city.
• Meng Chao’s Biochemical Mice explored Leprosy Village and found fluorescent green wastewater and nearby remains with burn wounds.
• A remotely controlled Biochemical Mouse drank the wastewater, mutated violently, and caught fire, confirming that the God Transformation Capsule Refinery stood above the sewage pipe.

Meng Chao and the hunters used biochemical mice to locate an illegal God Transformation Capsule factory and discovered Blood Butcher Gao Yang working there. As the mice followed Gao Yang, they identified Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun and learned that Ghost Eagle Song Yu was also among the criminals gathered at the factory.

• The biochemical mice crawled through the sewage pipes and found the factory refining glowing God Transformation Capsules.
• Meng Chao recognized the equipment as gene-serum refining machinery and saw Blood Butcher Gao Yang inside the factory.
• The hunters recalled how Gao Yang had killed members of a Transcendent battle team and evaded the manhunts sent after him.
• Zhou Chong ordered the biochemical mice to follow Gao Yang as he left the refining room.
• The mice found Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun guarding the outer room and identified him from the wanted-criminal database.
• The chapter introduced Ghost Eagle Song Yu as a demon among the criminals gathered there.

Meng Chao and the hunters discovered that three wanted criminals were hiding in Leprosy Village and stockpiling more than ten thousand God Transformation Capsules. As Gao Yang, Wan Zhuiyun, and Song Yu prepared to flee with the capsules, the hunters launched a concealed attack.

• The hunters learned that Ghost Eagle Song Yu had secretly returned to Dragon City and was hiding in Leprosy Village with Blood Butcher Gao Yang and Tsunami Wan Zhuiyun.
• A Biochemical Mouse’s camera revealed nearly a hundred racks containing over ten thousand God Transformation Capsules in a storage cabinet.
• Gao Yang, Wan Zhuiyun, and Song Yu packed the capsules into metal cylinders, prompting Zhou Chong to order an immediate interception.
• Meng Chao urged Zhou Chong to keep a reserve force, then volunteered to join the attack rather than stay in the rear.
• Zhou Chong divided the hunters and nest-city gang fighters into three waves, and they slipped into Leprosy Village under cover of its haze.

Meng Chao and the hunters stormed the God Transformation Capsule Refinery after discovering its sentries and the villains’ escape attempt. Meng Chao intercepted “Blood Butcher” Gao Yang’s group and began fighting “Ghost Eagle” Song Yu in midair.

• Zhou Chong directed the hunters toward the refinery while Biochemical Mice mapped the building and uncovered armed guards.
• Meng Chao caught a bandaged sentry hiding in rooftop trash and found a modified crossbow, surveillance gear, and a God Transformation Capsule.
• The hunters abandoned stealth and raced toward the refinery after the sentry was captured.
• A Biochemical Mouse spotted “Blood Butcher” Gao Yang and two companions moving several thousand capsules toward an exit, so Meng Chao rushed ahead to intercept them.
• Gao Yang and “Tsunami” Wan Zhuiyun attacked Meng Chao as the trio emerged, while “Ghost Eagle” Song Yu unfurled his bladed wings and launched a barrage of feathers.
• Meng Chao crossed through the feather barrage and swung his Demon Subduing Pestle at Song Yu’s face.

Meng Chao used Song Yu as a shield and bait to turn the three fiends against one another, then fought Gao Yang head-on until a sniper and the hunters forced them to retreat. After matching Gao Yang in combat, Meng Chao realized he had surpassed his past self, while the fiends withdrew into the target building.

• Meng Chao clung to Song Yu in midair, using him to block Gao Yang and Wan Zhuiyun's attacks before yanking him into Wan Zhuiyun with a chain.
• Meng Chao exchanged more than a hundred blows with Gao Yang, damaging their weapons while holding his ground against the notorious fiend.
• Gao Yang prepared to attack again as Meng Chao realized he had surpassed the level he reached in his previous life.
• Xue Rui's sniper shot grazed Gao Yang's skull, and Meng Chao's Mind Attack helped keep the fiends distracted.
• Xue Rui switched to a heavy weapon as the hunters closed in, forcing Gao Yang, Song Yu, and Wan Zhuiyun to retreat into the target building.

Meng Chao and the hunters stormed the God Transformation Capsule Refinery, avoiding a destructive assault that could trap the targets underground and kill Leprosy Village residents. After cutting through the building’s defenses and exposing the criminals abandoned as cannon fodder, Meng Chao reached a booby-trapped spiral stairway and prepared to clear its iron grilles.

• Zhou Chong rejected flattening the refinery, warning that its sturdy structure, underground passages, limited Spiritual Energy, and innocent residents made a direct bombardment too risky.
• The hunters charged the refinery, and Xue Rui and the other gunmen silenced its firing positions with precise shots through the narrow slits.
• Meng Chao entered through the criminals’ escape opening and killed two Steel Needle King Pythons with a swift strike.
• Meng Chao sped down a corridor, disabled dozens of ambushers with Harvesting Blades, and recognized them as weakened robbers discarded by Vortex.
• Meng Chao reached the spiral staircase, spotted the iron grilles and likely explosives blocking the ascent, and fired Harvesting Blades at the grilles.

Meng Chao fought his way up the stairwell and faced several mutants empowered by Zombie Virus mutations and God Transformation Capsules. He defeated Flame Great Meat Mountain by knocking him down the stairwell, while Ghost Eagle Song Yu and the crocodile mutant remained in the fight.

• Meng Chao used exploding Anti-Monster Grenades and close-quarters attacks to break through the ambushers on the stairs and reach the fifth floor.
• A scaled crocodile-like mutant attacked Meng Chao, while Flame Great Meat Mountain trapped him in a burning bear hug.
• Meng Chao escaped the mutants’ combined attack by breaking through the stairs, causing Flame Great Meat Mountain to fall to the level below.
• Ghost Eagle Song Yu transformed into a monstrous birdlike form and joined the crocodile mutant and Flame Great Meat Mountain in attacking Meng Chao.
• Meng Chao dropped through the stairs, reached Flame Great Meat Mountain during his fireball cooldown, and used Ripple Force to unbalance him and send him falling to the bottom of the stairwell.

Meng Chao defeated Ghost Eagle Song Yu and the other aberrants at the refinery, then noticed that spilled God Transformation Capsule fluid smelled of Candle Firefly Grass. He traced the unexpected scent to the broken capsules, leaving him with a new mystery about their ingredients.

• Meng Chao killed the crocodile-man and used his chain blade to drag Song Yu down, electrocute him, and beat him into submission.
• Flame Great Meat Mountain caught fire from within and burned Song Yu, who escaped but was left badly injured and unable to resist.
• Meng Chao checked the battle and learned that the Senior Harvesters were advancing toward the refinery while its pharmacists fled underground.
• Meng Chao detected the scent of Candle Firefly Grass in the corridor and traced it to medicinal fluid spilled from broken God Transformation Capsules.