Chapter Summaries

Song Jinbo explained how Jin Wanhao ruled the nest city from seclusion while Su Lun grew into its influential business-minded vice gang leader. Meng Chao suspected Su Lun had arranged the hunt against him and uncovered Su Lun’s close ties to the slain Xiong Ying.

• Song Jinbo described Jin Wanhao’s grievous injuries, his continued hold over the Golden Tooth Gang, and the peaceful balance he maintained with Xiong Wei.
• Song Jinbo explained how Su Lun modernized the nest city’s businesses, united the gangs through shared profits, and earned their affection and trust.
• Meng Chao reasoned that Su Lun could control information and potentially fabricate Jin Wanhao’s orders, then asked who had ordered the hunt against him.
• Song Jinbo admitted Su Lun had claimed Jin Wanhao ordered him and Xiang Wei to capture Meng Chao, and Meng Chao questioned why only Xiong Wei’s young son had arrived as backup.
• Song Jinbo revealed that Su Lun and Xiong Ying were close partners whose online arena business made them a fortune, and that Xiong Ying had treated Su Lun as his strategist.

Meng Chao convinced Song Jinbo that Su Lun might be manipulating the gangs and questioned whether Jin Wanhao was still alive or under Su Lun’s control. They decided to lie low near Su Lun and wait for the enemy’s larger conspiracy to reveal a fatal flaw.

• Meng Chao suggested that Su Lun had used Xiong Ying to target him, and Song Jinbo agreed that Su Lun might be a traitor.
• Song Jinbo admitted that his rivalry with Su Lun could undermine his accusation, so Meng Chao rejected a direct escape or appeal to outside commanders as too dangerous and slow.
• Song Jinbo proposed taking Meng Chao to Jin Wanhao, but Meng Chao questioned whether the ailing Overlord Blade was still alive or had become Su Lun’s puppet.
• Song Jinbo demanded a plan, and Meng Chao said they should wait for the enemy’s larger scheme to expose a fatal flaw.
• Meng Chao urged them to stay close to Su Lun so they could strike as soon as the enemy made a decisive mistake.

Meng Chao reunited with A Ji, who brought stolen supplies and revealed a secret route into the Alloy Arena, where they planned to find Jin Wanhao. The chapter ended as the arena’s three starving Red Crested Velociraptor Kings heard their feeding hatch open.

• Meng Chao left Su Mu Lian and Song Jinbo in the shelter and found A Ji in the passageway.
• A Ji showed Meng Chao two backpacks of stolen supplies and reported that Golden Tooth Nest City was on high alert, with gang leaders gathered at the Alloy Arena.
• A Ji revealed that he knew a secret passage into the Alloy Arena and offered to help Meng Chao reach Jin Wanhao.
• Meng Chao proposed that A Ji operate separately as their secret weapon while they infiltrated the arena.
• At the Alloy Arena, the feeding hatch above three starving Red Crested Velociraptor Kings slowly opened.

Ghost Bear Xiong Wei emerged from a beast cage after killing three Red Crested Velociraptor Kings, then confronted Red Brow Su Lun over the death of his youngest son. Su Lun accepted responsibility but asked Xiong Wei to delay his punishment until after the battle so he could avenge the Young Gang Leader by finding Meng Chao.

• Xiong Wei fell into a beast cage and killed two Red Crested Velociraptor Kings with his bare hands in less than a minute.
• Xiong Wei beat the final Red Crested Velociraptor King for three minutes and three hundred twenty-seven punches before leaving the cage.
• Black Bone Gang members waited in the corridor as Xiong Wei emerged, bloodied and grieving over his youngest son's death.
• Xiong Wei turned his attention to Red Brow Su Lun, who admitted the Young Gang Leader had deployed after overhearing his plan to intercept Meng Chao.
• Su Lun asked Xiong Wei to postpone punishing him until the battle ended, promising to find Meng Chao and avenge the Young Gang Leader.

Xiong Wei blamed Meng Chao for Xiong Ying’s death and pressed Su Lun to unite Nest City’s gangs under a single command to hunt him. When Su Lun hesitated to take him to Jin Wanhao, Xiong Wei suspected that the Golden Tooth Gang leader was already dead.

• Su Lun told Xiong Wei that Meng Chao had killed Xiong Ying and cited witnesses, the wounds, and a Blood Soul Battle Blade containing Red Radiance Jade as evidence.
• Su Lun questioned the source of Meng Chao’s rapid rise, and Xiong Wei vowed to grind him to dust.
• Xiong Wei argued that Nest City’s gangs needed unified command and shared resources to catch Meng Chao and face the monsters.
• Xiong Wei proposed that the Black Bone and Golden Tooth gangs join forces, then demanded that Su Lun take him to Jin Wanhao.
• Su Lun said Jin Wanhao was secluded and would see only him, but Xiong Wei started toward Golden Tooth headquarters anyway.
• In a deserted corner, Xiong Wei stopped Su Lun and asked whether Jin Wanhao was already dead.

Xiong Wei learned that Jin Wanhao had been comatose for three months and was effectively dead, leaving Su Lun vulnerable to a power struggle in the Golden Tooth Gang. He pressed Su Lun to reveal whether he planned to flee Nest City or fight to become gang leader.

• Xiong Wei confronted Su Lun about Jin Wanhao's suspicious absence and demanded to know whether he was dead.
• Su Lun admitted Jin Wanhao was comatose after multiple organ failure and explained that machinery was barely maintaining his bodily functions.
• Su Lun revealed that Jin Wanhao had trusted no one else, named no heir, and that only he knew the truth about the old leader's condition.
• Xiong Wei explained that Jin Wanhao's death would leave Su Lun exposed to rivals such as Song Jinbo, who could drive him from power or threaten his life.
• Xiong Wei asked whether Su Lun would abandon his position and leave Nest City or fight for the Golden Tooth Gang leadership.

Xiong Wei persuaded Su Lun to cooperate with the Black Bone Gang, promising support for the Golden Tooth Gang in exchange for helping unify Nest City’s forces and avenge Xiong Ying. He nominated Su Lun as Temporary Supreme Commander, leaving Su Lun to weigh a leadership role that Xiong Wei expected to guide from behind.

• Xiong Wei argued that Su Lun could manage the Golden Tooth Gang but needed the Black Bone Gang’s backing to lead it after Jin Wanhao’s fall.
• Xiong Wei demanded revenge for Xiong Ying and proposed uniting Nest City’s gangs to kill Meng Chao, fight the monsters, and survive the crisis.
• Su Lun warned that cooperation could make him and the Golden Tooth Gang subordinate to Xiong Wei, but Xiong Wei threatened that refusing would leave them vulnerable to collapse.
• Su Lun accepted Xiong Wei’s proposal to approach the Poison Scorpion Gang and seek authority to coordinate Nest City’s forces.
• Xiong Wei nominated Su Lun, rather than himself, as Temporary Supreme Commander, claiming the other gangs would accept Su Lun more readily.

Su Lun accepted Xiong Wei’s offer to become Temporary Supreme Commander as the gangs gathered to hunt Meng Chao. Their plans were interrupted when Lü Siya crash-landed an Armored Airship into the Alloy Arena, arriving as unexpected support for Nest City.

• Su Lun followed Xiong Wei out and agreed to help him lead the gangs, while Xiong Wei insisted on killing Meng Chao himself.
• Xiong Wei and Su Lun gathered hundreds of gang fighters at the Alloy Arena and prepared to make their alliance public.
• A damaged Armored Airship lost control in Nest City’s polluted air and crashed onto the arena platform.
• Lü Siya emerged from the wreckage, and Xiong Wei and Su Lun recognized the powerful Lü family superhuman.

Lü Siya arrived in Nest City with elite reinforcements, communications equipment, supplies, and incendiary bombs, while Xiong Wei and Su Lun questioned her motives. After learning the gangs had chosen Su Lun as Temporary Supreme Commander, Xiong Wei yielded the position to Lü Siya as she began assessing the crisis and Meng Chao’s defection.

• Su Lun warned Xiong Wei that Lü Siya was an ambitious and dangerous figure known as the “Queen Bee,” and Xiong Wei said he already knew how ruthless she was.
• Lü Siya introduced herself as the newly appointed deputy leader and liaison officer of the Nest City Crisis Emergency Response Group, then presented her appointment papers.
• Lü Siya brought in high-power communicators, crystals, Gene Serum, ammunition, elite troops, and special incendiary bombs intended for total purification if the crisis became irrecoverable.
• Lü Siya explained that outside forces could not send major support during the Battle of Annihilation and asked who controlled Nest City and why Jin Wanhao had not appeared.
• Su Lun summarized the gangs’ situation and said they had agreed to consolidate resources and select a Temporary Supreme Commander, while Xiong Wei announced that Lü Siya should take the position instead of Su Lun.

Lü Siya offered to support Xiong Wei and Su Lun’s plans for Nest City in exchange for their help killing Meng Chao. She explained that his alleged betrayal threatened her reputation and interests, and insisted his death could still salvage her position.

• Lü Siya promised Qingtian Corporation’s support for Xiong Wei and Su Lun if they helped her kill Meng Chao.
• After the Armored Airship’s engine exploded, Lü Siya said she would put justice above her past friendship with Meng Chao.
• Lü Siya listed the opportunities and resources she had provided Meng Chao, claiming she had helped build his fame and success.
• Lü Siya admitted she had used their partnership for publicity and influence, but said Meng Chao’s alleged defection had left her at risk of ruin.
• Lü Siya told Xiong Wei that killing Meng Chao might still salvage her reputation and fortune.

Lü Siya persuaded Xiong Wei and Su Lun to kill Meng Chao while concealing his alleged treachery and portraying him as a heroic martyr. She offered the two gang leaders Qingtian Corporation's support in exchange for their cooperation and ended by claiming she wanted Meng Chao to make a dignified departure.

• Lü Siya proposed fabricating a heroic death for Meng Chao so his reputation and the Lü family's investments would survive.
• Lü Siya explained that witnesses to Meng Chao's killings could be silenced and that controlling Nest City would let them shape the truth.
• Xiong Wei resisted covering up Meng Chao's crimes, but Lü Siya argued that his reputation protected her family's business and offered to help capture him.
• Lü Siya promised support from Qingtian Corporation to Xiong Wei and Su Lun if they helped her, while praising their ability to maintain order in Nest City.
• Su Lun and Xiong Wei agreed to Lü Siya's plan and shook her hand, and Lü Siya claimed she still wanted Meng Chao to have a dignified departure.

Lü Siya predicted that Meng Chao would target the Alloy Arena, while Meng Chao and A Ji approached it in disguise as explosions and rumors spread through the nest city. The chapter left the nest city’s residents increasingly close to panic as Meng Chao prepared to find a way into the arena.

• Lü Siya urged Xiong Wei and Su Lun to add the underground of the Alloy Arena to their search and defense plan, arguing that Meng Chao would strike the gangs’ command center.
• Explosions hit public facilities around the nest city, and Lü Siya told Su Lun they were a diversion because Meng Chao would have killed him if the attack were real.
• Meng Chao and A Ji, disguised as vagrants, approached the Alloy Arena while Su Mu Lian and Song Jinbo stayed behind to discuss the Leprosy Village residents’ situation and seek support.
• Rumors about monsters, the God Transformation Capsule, and Leprosy Village spread among nest city residents, fueling fears that the gangs and Survival Committee would abandon them.
• Meng Chao worried that attacks on public facilities and manipulation by figures such as Su Lun could shatter residents’ trust and drive the nest city into chaos.

Meng Chao realized the Leprosy Village fire was poisoning Nest City and weakening residents’ immunity, while deep-rooted resentment between Nest City and Leprosy Village made cooperation to stop the disaster unlikely. As the danger and social tensions mounted, A Ji squeezed through the homeless crowd toward Meng Chao.

• Meng Chao heard homeless people spreading increasingly wild rumors that the Other Beasts had corrupted him.
• Meng Chao noticed the fire’s polluted smoke was making Nest City residents cough and show signs of illness, threatening to weaken their immunity against viruses and spores.
• Meng Chao recognized that Nest City residents and Leprosy Village residents distrusted and resented one another over poverty, dangerous work, and lost jobs.
• Meng Chao reconsidered the previous-life Nest City fire as the eruption of deep social contradictions, not merely an isolated accident or conspiracy.
• A Ji squeezed through the homeless people toward Meng Chao.

Meng Chao and A Ji learned that fires and toxic smoke were spreading across the Slums while Red Brow Su Lun commanded its defenses alongside Ghost Bear Xiong Wei. Suspecting the Alloy Arena was the alien beast’s next target, Meng Chao headed there through a secret passage to confront Su Lun and uncover his plot.

• A Ji reported that explosions had started fires around the Slums, and Meng Chao deduced that the alien beast was using toxic smoke as a prelude to a larger attack.
• A Ji revealed that Red Brow Su Lun had become temporary Commander-in-chief, with Ghost Bear Xiong Wei as his deputy, and warned that Xiong Wei still blamed Meng Chao for his son’s death.
• A Ji told Meng Chao that an Armored Airship had crash-landed and exploded at the Alloy Arena, suggesting powerful reinforcements had arrived from the outskirts.
• After gang fighters were sent to battle the fires and manage residents, Meng Chao reasoned that the weakened Alloy Arena was both an opportunity and a likely target for the alien beast.
• Meng Chao and A Ji slipped away from the homeless crowd and followed a secret passage toward the Alloy Arena.

Meng Chao and A Ji used A Ji’s hidden marks to infiltrate the maintenance passages beneath the Alloy Arena. After A Ji injured his ankle in the access shaft, Meng Chao left him behind and climbed toward a monster sewage pipe that led into the arena.

• Meng Chao distracted the construction-site guards with a rat, and he and A Ji entered a maintenance passage marked with A Ji’s scratches.
• They followed the marks through the maze of pipes and opened a sealed cover plate beneath a vertical shaft.
• Meng Chao climbed the shaft, but A Ji fell and sprained his left ankle.
• Meng Chao gave A Ji first aid supplies and food, then climbed on alone after A Ji explained that the shaft led toward a monster restroom and sewage pipe.
• Meng Chao followed the pungent odor upward toward the Alloy Arena.

Meng Chao infiltrated the Alloy Arena and climbed toward the open-air arena, where Nest City’s gangs had gathered. He spotted Lü Siya among the reinforcements, but his distinctive aura drew her attention as he hid nearby.

• Meng Chao escaped the monster cages, disguised himself in a guard’s uniform, and navigated the arena while its defenses were disorganized.
• Meng Chao climbed the lifting platform’s cables and peered into the open-air arena, where gangs assembled under Red Brow Su Lun’s speech.
• Meng Chao recognized Lü Siya beside Su Lun and hoped to speak with her, while noting that Ghost Bear Xiong Wei stood nearby.
• Meng Chao’s excitement made him release a distinctive aura, and Lü Siya looked toward the gap where he was hiding.

Meng Chao tried to signal Lü Siya, but she led Xiong Wei and armed warriors into the tunnels to pursue the trail he had planted. Seeing a chance to reach Su Lun while the arena was less guarded, Meng Chao disguised himself in a gang member’s Powered Armor and followed him toward the command room.

• Meng Chao used Red Radiance Jade powder to mark a rat and sent it through a ventilation duct as a signal for Lü Siya.
• Lü Siya told Su Lun and Xiong Wei about the signal, then joined Xiong Wei in leading armored warriors after the rat.
• Meng Chao suspected Lü Siya had deliberately drawn Xiong Wei and his forces away, and decided to seize the opportunity to reach Su Lun.
• Meng Chao knocked out a lone Golden Tooth Gang member, took his Powered Armor, and disguised himself as the man.
• Meng Chao followed Su Lun toward a passage beneath the VIP seating while only two guards accompanied him.

Meng Chao ambushed Su Lun in a VIP box and tried to force him to reveal his hidden power, but Lü Siya and Xiong Wei arrived with a large force and accused Meng Chao of killing Xiong Ying. Xiong Wei attacked him with overwhelming strength, leaving Meng Chao badly injured and trapped.

• Meng Chao knocked out Su Lun’s guards, stormed the VIP box, and held Su Lun and three staff officers at gunpoint.
• Meng Chao accused Su Lun of framing him and threatened to kill him unless he revealed his hidden power.
• Su Lun pointed out that Meng Chao’s ambush had been anticipated, and Lü Siya and Xiong Wei entered with nearly a hundred armored warriors and guns sealing the exits.
• Lü Siya confronted Meng Chao over Xiong Ying’s death, and Meng Chao admitted that his Blood Soul Battle Blade had caused the wound.
• Xiong Wei attacked Meng Chao with his powered gauntlets, crushing his guns and damaging his armor as Meng Chao realized Xiong Wei’s strength rivaled Luo Wu’s.

Meng Chao fought Lü Siya and Xiong Wei, then escaped through the Alloy Arena’s underground levels while avoiding their gang pursuers. As he waited in the darkness, a monstrous howl and gunfire erupted nearby.

• Meng Chao tried to seize Su Lun, but Lü Siya blocked him with stone spikes and Rock Serpents while Xiong Wei attacked.
• Meng Chao escaped the private room by breaking through the floor, and Lü Siya blasted the lower level as he dodged her fire.
• Xiong Wei, Lü Siya, and their followers pursued Meng Chao through the underground levels, while he used decoys and hiding places to scatter them.
• Meng Chao avoided killing the gang members because he could not tell which ones were monster lackeys, and waited in the darkness for someone to arrive.
• A monstrous howl and gunfire rang out from deeper underground, followed by panicked shouts of “Mon-monsters!”

Meng Chao discovered that Su Lun had unleashed God Transformation Capsule-enhanced Biochemical Beasts beneath the Alloy Arena, turning them into a deadly threat. As a Black Mountain Bull Demon overwhelmed three gang warriors, a blade scraped across the ground behind them.

• Meng Chao followed the gunfire and roars through the Alloy Arena and found a White Bone Lion-Tiger Beast fighting gang warriors.
• Meng Chao recognized that God Transformation Capsules had transformed the Biochemical Beast and realized Su Lun had sabotaged the arena's restraints to release the monsters.
• Three gang warriors killed the White Bone Lion-Tiger Beast while keeping clear of its poisonous, corrosive fluids.
• A God Transformation Capsule-enhanced Black Mountain Bull Demon emerged and shrugged off the warriors' gunfire.
• The Black Mountain Bull Demon charged the helpless warriors as a blade scraped across the ground behind them.