Chapter Summaries

Bai Shan explained why she had turned against Dragon City’s order, then died by her own poisoned blade rather than risk ending up like her mother. After explosions destroyed Leprosy Village’s food and water warehouses, Wild Wolf and the others faced a desperate choice as fire and toxic smoke threatened the village.

• Bai Shan told Wild Wolf that the Super Enterprises had kept the gains from the Northern Front Offensive and that Leprosy Village residents had no reason to trust they would ever share equally.
• Bai Shan revealed she had stabbed herself with a poisoned dagger and died in Wild Wolf’s arms, saying she could accept any ending except dying on a Black Workshop assembly line like her mother.
• Wild Wolf Gang members reported that the Canned Goods Warehouse and Clean Water Warehouse had exploded and caught fire.
• Meng Chao, Aji, Miss Mu Lian, and the Wild Wolf Gang members emerged onto the surface and saw smoke and flames rising over the village.
• Zhang Tie reported that the explosions had destroyed most of the food and water reserves, caused many deaths and injuries, and left villagers panicked as fire and toxic smoke spread.
• Zhang Tie urged Wild Wolf to decide quickly and lead the villagers out before Leprosy Village was consumed by the blaze.

Wild Wolf rejected Meng Chao’s plea to wait for help and prepared to lead Leprosy Village’s residents out, arguing that the village could not survive without food and water. He gave Su Mu Lian a hidden ledger revealing that Leprosy Village’s main source of income was testing serums and cultivation methods, leaving the truth behind its exploitation exposed.

• Wild Wolf ordered Zhang Tie to divide the villagers into groups and ration their weapons and supplies, then told Meng Chao he planned to lead everyone out.
• Meng Chao argued that the explosions and chaos were part of the monsters’ scheme and promised to expose Leprosy Village’s suffering and seek support if they survived.
• Wild Wolf questioned Meng Chao’s faith in Dragon City’s gradual reforms, while Su Mu Lian firmly said she believed Meng Chao.
• Wild Wolf revealed a data chip from the Village Chief and gave it to Su Mu Lian, explaining that it held Leprosy Village’s greatest secret.
• Su Mu Lian opened the ledger and learned that Leprosy Village’s largest source of income was testing Gene Serums, High-Energy Nutrient Solutions, Meditation Techniques, and Sure Kill Skills.

Wild Wolf explained how the Super Enterprises had exploited Leprosy Village as a source of Gene Serum and cultivation tests while leaving its residents to suffer. Convinced no one would save them unless the crisis spread, Wild Wolf planned to lead the villagers out, but Meng Chao offered to negotiate with the Nest City gangs and Tyrant Blade Jin Wanhao.

• Su Mu Lian realized that the special medicines sent to the hospital had been test products with harmful side effects.
• Wild Wolf told Meng Chao that Leprosy Village residents had knowingly become test subjects because the Super Enterprises controlled their food and water, yet received little of the profits their suffering generated.
• Wild Wolf argued that the Super Enterprises would prioritize their Mining Bases and Colonization Strongholds over rescuing Leprosy Village, and he refused to trust promises of help.
• Wild Wolf planned to lead the villagers out and deliberately spread the crisis, believing that a wider disaster might force the Super Enterprises to intervene.
• Meng Chao warned that fleeing could trigger a clash with the Nest City gangs and that Anomalous Beasts might be hiding among the villagers.
• After Wild Wolf said Bai Shan had failed to reach the gangs' leader, Meng Chao offered to negotiate with Tyrant Blade Jin Wanhao himself.

Meng Chao persuaded Wild Wolf to let him seek help from the Nest City gangs, but rumors and gunfire drove Leprosy Village residents into a dangerous confrontation across the Garbage River. The chapter ended with both sides exchanging increasingly dense fire as Wild Wolf questioned the Survival Committee’s order to make the villagers fight to the bitter end.

• Meng Chao argued that he could reach Tyrant Blade Jin Wanhao and persuade the Nest City gangs to help the Leprosy Village residents, and Su Mu Lian supported giving him a chance.
• Wild Wolf learned that villagers had tried to flee after hearing false rumors that the Village Chief and Su Mu Lian were dead and that the village was doomed.
• Meng Chao identified the rumors as an attempt by the Anomalous Beasts and their lackeys to spread chaos.
• At the Garbage River, armed villagers and Nest City gang fighters exchanged fire while both sides argued over whether the villagers could leave.
• A loudspeaker invoked the Survival Committee’s order for Leprosy Village residents to stay and fight to the bitter end, prompting Wild Wolf to confront Meng Chao about the order.

Meng Chao challenged Wild Wolf’s claim that the Survival Committee had ordered Leprosy Village sealed off, then rescued villagers caught in the crossfire. After A Ji was injured and healed, Meng Chao noticed an eerie X-shaped tattoo on his chest and hid his reaction.

• Meng Chao argued that a supposed order to seal Leprosy Village contradicted the Survival Committee’s lockdown plan and questioned how the gangs had received it despite the communications blackout.
• Gunfire across Garbage River escalated to grenades and poisonous Plague Bullets, trapping elderly villagers, women, and children on the riverbank.
• Meng Chao rushed to rescue the stranded villagers and deflected grenade fragments, while A Ji was thrown by a blast as he tried to help.
• Meng Chao hurled Spiritual Energy-enhanced stones toward the opposite bank, giving Wild Wolf and his gang time to rescue the villagers, and Su Mu Lian treated A Ji.
• Meng Chao noticed an eerie X-shaped tattoo on A Ji’s chest, but concealed his reaction when A Ji said Old Feng had forced him to get it.

Meng Chao tried to negotiate with the gangs blockading Leprosy Village, then persuaded Wild Wolf to let him and Su Mu Lian seek help from Jin Wanhao. Wild Wolf gave them twelve hours to return with definite news while he organized the village’s defenses and firefighting.

• Zhang Tie brought Wild Wolf Gang fighters and heavy equipment to the Garbage River after villagers came under fire.
• Meng Chao called across the river and asked to speak with Jin Wanhao, but the gang fighters refused to lift the blockade or provide aid.
• Meng Chao suspected the blockade and the gangs’ refusal to fight the spreading fire did not reflect Jin Wanhao’s true intentions, so he proposed seeking him in person.
• Su Mu Lian volunteered to accompany Meng Chao, while Wild Wolf stayed behind to direct the village’s defense and relief efforts.
• Wild Wolf ordered Zhang Tie to pull villagers back, fight the fires, and reassure everyone that help would arrive, but gave Meng Chao only twelve hours to return with definite news.
• A Ji volunteered to go with Meng Chao and help Leprosy Village.

Meng Chao prepared to leave Leprosy Village with Su Mu Lian and A Ji to reach the Golden Tooth Gang, while Wild Wolf arranged their supplies and a secret route outside. Before following them, Meng Chao questioned Wild Wolf about tattoos, ending on the distinctive X-eyes mark he was investigating.

• A Ji persuaded Meng Chao to take him along as a guide, and Meng Chao agreed.
• Meng Chao requested materials, serums, weapons, and body armor, while Wild Wolf supplied the equipment and gave Su Mu Lian a ledger chip to keep safe.
• Wild Wolf led Meng Chao, Su Mu Lian, and A Ji to a manhole that opened onto an underground passage beneath the Garbage River.
• A Ji and Su Mu Lian entered the passage first, and Meng Chao stayed behind after they disappeared around a bend.
• Meng Chao asked Wild Wolf whether Feng Three Fingers and his children had distinctive tattoos, then asked whether Wild Wolf Gang members bore X-eyes tattoos.

Meng Chao and his companions escaped through an underground tunnel and discovered the nest-city gangs preparing a heavily armed assault on Leprosy Village. To uncover what the gangs had been told, Meng Chao disguised himself as a gravely wounded man and ambushed a minor gang leader.

• Meng Chao led A Ji and Su Mu Lian through a flooded tunnel and emerged unnoticed in an evacuated building near the Garbage River.
• Meng Chao observed the gangs building defenses and deploying powerful weapons, while A Ji feared they would not listen to an explanation.
• Meng Chao concluded that the aberrant beasts had manipulated the gangs and decided to question one of their fighters.
• Meng Chao made himself look badly wounded and deliberately poisoned himself to imitate his earlier deception of Bai Shan.
• Meng Chao followed a scent to a makeshift latrine, waited for a lone minor leader, and held a blade to his throat.

Meng Chao captured Poison Scorpion Gang member Dong Sibao and used him to test the gangs’ intentions while seeking a way to report an anomalous beast’s plot to Jin Wanhao. After Dong left, Meng Chao found a tracking chip in the medical kit and prepared a trapped room before moving to a distant vantage point with A Ji and Su Mu Lian.

• Meng Chao forced Dong Sibao to return with him, then learned Dong knew Meng and that the gangs had been ordered to cooperate with the Hunter Squad.
• Meng Chao told Dong that an intelligent anomalous beast in Leprosy Village threatened the entire Golden Tooth Nest City and asked him to summon a senior gang leader.
• Dong Sibao left Meng Chao a medical kit and went to the Poison Scorpion Gang headquarters to report the news.
• A Ji and Su Mu Lian emerged, and Meng Chao discovered a tracking chip hidden in the medical kit.
• Meng Chao rigged the room with tripwires, Smoke Bombs, and flashbangs, then moved with A Ji and Su Mu Lian to a nearby high vantage point to watch who came.

Meng Chao realized the nest city gangs had sent a force to kill him, then spotted the injured Poison Scorpion Gang fighter “Rattlesnake” Xiang Wei commanding the operation. As the force opened fire on his former hiding place, Meng Chao launched his counterattack while A Ji and Su Mu Lian prepared to escape underground.

• Meng Chao explained to A Ji that the gangs’ response would reveal how deeply alien beasts had infiltrated them, and that he intended to use their commander to reach “Tyrant Blade” Jin Wanhao.
• Meng Chao saw that the supposed doctors were armed fighters, while other squads, snipers, and heavy weapons surrounded the building to kill him.
• Meng Chao recognized the commander as “Rattlesnake” Xiang Wei, a Poison Scorpion Gang powerhouse injured in the explosion at the God Transformation Capsule Refinery.
• Meng Chao ordered A Ji to take Su Mu Lian to the Underground Tunnel after the first explosion, then sprang into action.
• The attackers opened fire on the building and stormed the ruins, where Meng Chao had planted Smoke Bombs, grenades, and explosive monster materials.

Meng Chao ambushed the attackers surrounding him, captured their strategist, and escaped underground with A Ji and Su Mu Lian. With pursuers closing in and no clear route out, he made A Ji choose a tunnel at random.

• Meng Chao used smoke, explosives, and stealth to disorient the attackers and break their gas masks and weapons.
• Meng Chao distracted Rattlesnake Xiang Wei with an Ammunition Box, then knocked out the strategist with a Fear Bomb and a strike to the skull.
• Meng Chao carried the unconscious strategist through a manhole to meet A Ji and Su Mu Lian underground.
• Meng Chao urged A Ji to find an escape route, but A Ji admitted he did not know the underground paths well.
• With the pursuers nearing, A Ji chose a tunnel at random while Meng Chao trusted his luck to lead them out.

Meng Chao and Su Mu Lian interrogated Song Jinbo in an abandoned underground shelter after escaping their pursuers. Song Jinbo revealed that the Golden Tooth Gang had issued a kill order because Rattlesnake Xiang Wei claimed Meng Chao had murdered Bullet Xue Rui, leaving Meng Chao shocked by the accusation.

• Meng Chao, Su Mu Lian, and A Ji escaped the gang pursuers and found a hidden shelter in the tunnels.
• Su Mu Lian healed the unconscious strategist enough for Meng Chao to interrogate him, and he identified himself as Song Jinbo, a Glory Entertainment manager.
• Song Jinbo said Tyrant Blade Jin Wanhao had personally ordered Meng Chao's death, and claimed Meng Chao had killed Bullet Xue Rui.
• Song Jinbo reported that Rattlesnake Xiang Wei had seen Meng Chao stab Xue Rui through the heart while Xue Rui tried to rescue him from the rubble.
• Meng Chao was stunned and demanded to know what grounds there were for accusing him of killing Xue Rui.

Song Jinbo confronted Meng Chao with testimony and physical evidence linking him to attacks on hunters in Leprosy Village, convincing the gangs that he had betrayed Dragon City. Meng Chao suspected the demon god Vortex had engineered the accusations, but he could not explain how the evidence had been prepared or why he had joined the mission.

• Song Jinbo told Meng Chao that Rattlesnake Xiang Wei accused him of killing Bullet Xue Rui and that Man-Eating Shark Zhou Chong had seen him whispering with Blood Butcher Gao Yang after the explosion.
• Song Jinbo said Snake Eyes Mo Lan had survived Meng Chao's alleged attacks and identified him by his tactical style, while tests found his fingerprints, blood, and hair on her.
• Meng Chao suggested that someone disguised as him had committed the attacks, but Song Jinbo argued that the detailed disguise and biological evidence could not have been prepared in the short time available.
• Song Jinbo explained that Zhou Chong and Mo Lan had no reason to frame Meng Chao and questioned why he had joined a dangerous mission that offered him no benefit.
• Meng Chao said he had entered the nest city out of selfless concern for Dragon City's future.

Meng Chao tried to convince Song Jinbo that he had been framed and urged him to help evacuate Leprosy Village, but Song refused to believe him. With only ten hours before a possible clash, Meng Chao argued that the aberrant beast’s disrupted plan had created a chance for him to prove his innocence and earn the nest city’s trust.

• Meng Chao pointed out the suspicious coincidences in the witnesses’ accusations and asked Song Jinbo to take him to Jin Wanhao and open an evacuation route for Leprosy Village.
• Song Jinbo refused to cooperate, insisting he would rather die than serve the monsters, so Meng Chao put him back to sleep with anesthetic.
• After A Ji and Su Mu Lian said they believed him, Meng Chao suggested that an impostor had used his biological samples to frame him.
• Su Mu Lian warned that they had only ten hours to prove Meng Chao’s innocence before Wild Wolf led Leprosy Village residents out and risked a deadly conflict.
• Meng Chao concluded that surviving the attacks and gaining Wild Wolf’s trust had disrupted the aberrant beast’s plan, giving him a chance to expose the framing and win over Jin Wanhao.

Meng Chao realized the monster had staged the attack by Rattlesnake Xiang Wei’s men to provoke the gangs and plunge the nest city into chaos. He led Su Mu Lian and A Ji toward the ambush to save the gang members and expose the impostor, waking Song Jinbo as they approached.

• Meng Chao explained that the monster had deliberately sent Xiang Wei’s weakened team after him, hoping to provoke a gang crackdown and leave the nest city vulnerable.
• Meng Chao warned that the monster could still impersonate him and might ambush Xiang Wei’s team to frame him, but identified capturing the impostor or finding who ordered the attack as ways to uncover the plot.
• Meng Chao took the unconscious Song Jinbo and asked Su Mu Lian and A Ji to accompany him toward the distant gunfire, intending to help the victims and prove his innocence.
• A Ji persuaded Meng Chao to let him come by offering to search for evidence, and Su Mu Lian agreed to treat injured gang members despite her dislike of them.
• As the group hurried toward the battle, Meng Chao asked Su Mu Lian to help the injured, and she promised to treat anyone in need.
• Meng Chao flicked irritating monster bone powder into Song Jinbo’s nostrils, waking the Golden Tooth Gang strategist.

Meng Chao entered the smoke-filled Slaughter Maze and uncovered Demon God Vortex’s disguised attackers by spotting their triangular lights. He killed one and fought back, but arrived too late to save Rattlesnake Xiang Wei, who was beheaded by someone wearing Meng Chao’s face.

• Meng Chao left Song Jinbo alive and warned him that Dragon City faced a catastrophe, then went with Su Mu Lian into the Slaughter Maze.
• Meng Chao discovered that Demon God Vortex’s subordinates had disguised themselves as gang members and marked their armor with three tiny triangular lights.
• Meng Chao killed one attacker and confirmed the man was a former Death Squad member, then attacked the other marked infiltrators.
• Meng Chao heard Rattlesnake Xiang Wei scream and found him impaled by someone who looked exactly like Meng Chao.
• The impostor severed Rattlesnake Xiang Wei’s head before Meng Chao could reach them.

Meng Chao defeated an impersonator who revealed himself as the demon god Vortex, but Vortex left him with a dangerous warning about the man he had killed. The chapter ended with Meng Chao realizing the dead man was the Black Bone Gang Leader’s beloved youngest son, putting him at risk of retaliation.

• Meng Chao fought an identical impersonator while trying to keep Xiang Wei’s death from being blamed on him.
• Meng Chao broke the fake’s battle blade and pinned him to a wall with the Blood Soul Battle Blade as the lair gangs’ forces approached.
• The wounded impersonator praised Meng Chao and revealed that he was the demon god Vortex.
• Vortex warned Meng Chao that the man he had killed was the Black Bone Gang Leader’s youngest son, not a wanted criminal or former Death Squad member.
• Meng Chao realized the Black Bone Gang Leader could seek revenge for his son’s death.

Meng Chao exposed the Demon God “Whirlpool” as a shapeshifting creature wearing the Black Bone Gang Young Gang Leader’s body as a disguise, then wounded it with grenades as it escaped into a maintenance pipe. He confirmed the creature could be physically injured and discovered its broken blade had contained a Red Radiance Jade imitation.

• Meng Chao watched the wax-like disguise melt away, revealing the Black Bone Gang Young Gang Leader and his gang tattoo.
• Meng Chao realized “Whirlpool” had used the Young Gang Leader’s body as a painted-skin disguise and made Meng Chao kill him.
• Meng Chao struck “Whirlpool” with grenades, setting off an explosion that wounded it and drove it into a maintenance pipe.
• Meng Chao abandoned the pursuit, searched the blast site, and found burned protein traces that confirmed “Whirlpool” was vulnerable to physical attacks.
• Meng Chao examined the demon’s broken battle blade and found its embedded Red Radiance Jade had shattered into powder.

Meng Chao withdrew from the battlefield after killing Xiong Ying, whose death and the evidence left behind threatened to make him look guilty of multiple murders. He regrouped with Su Mu Lian and Song Jinbo, explained Vortex’s plot, and learned that key witnesses were at Nest City Clinic as the group prepared to counter the conspiracy.

• Meng Chao found Vortex’s shoddy chain blade and compared his fatal wounds on Xiong Ying and Xiang Wei, then fled before the gangs arrived, taking Su Mu Lian with him.
• Meng Chao and Su Mu Lian met Song Jinbo, who realized the reports placed Meng Chao in two places at once and agreed to escape with them.
• Su Mu Lian asked about A Ji, but Meng Chao left the child behind, saying he might return with a surprise.
• At their shelter, Meng Chao healed himself and told Song Jinbo about Vortex; Song Jinbo confirmed Xiong Ying was Xiong Wei’s favored youngest son and warned that the killing would provoke the Black Bone Gang.
• Meng Chao outlined ways to counter Vortex and asked about key witnesses; Song Jinbo said Zhou Chong, Mo Lan, and other survivors were being treated at Nest City Clinic.

Meng Chao questioned Song Jinbo about the lockdown and the order to kill him, suspecting the outside authorities had not actually issued it. Song Jinbo explained Jin Wanhao’s absence from the crisis by describing the old gang leader’s accumulated injuries and the gangs’ role in maintaining order in the nest city.

• Song Jinbo told Meng Chao that injured survivors had to stay in the locked-down nest city, while communications with the outside world were largely cut off.
• Song Jinbo said Zhou Chong, Mo Lan, and Xiang Wei had reported Meng Chao’s supposed betrayal, and that the outside world had allegedly ordered him killed.
• Meng Chao doubted that Nie Chenglong would issue a kill order without investigating, and pressed Song Jinbo about who had actually conveyed it.
• Song Jinbo said Vice Gang Leader Su Lun had passed on Jin Wanhao’s kill order, rather than Jin Wanhao speaking to the gang members himself.
• Song Jinbo explained that Jin Wanhao was an aging, badly injured veteran who relied on Su Lun to act in his place, and that the gangs still punished criminals who disrupted order in the nest city.