Chapter Summaries

The narrator and Bubble waited at an abandoned stone quarry to disrupt a trade between Olympus and a European organization, following Lin Xue’s intelligence. The two groups met, but Medusa was absent, and the chapter left the narrator watching the motorcycles vanish behind the Olympus members.

• The narrator complained to Lin Xue about the delayed targets while waiting with sleeping Bubble in Seven Trillion.
• Bubble sleep-talked about Shana, Gilgamesh, and the narrator as Child's Father, while the narrator recalled why the others had stayed behind.
• Lin Xue warned the narrator that the targets were approaching and urged him to leave survivors and capture them when possible.
• A black off-road vehicle arrived carrying a sinister-looking Black man and three White men, followed by three modified motorcycles ridden by three Asian men.
• The narrator recognized that Medusa was absent and patted Bubble to signal that their operation was beginning.
• The three black motorcycles gradually vanished into thin air behind the three Olympus members.

The narrator and Bubble spied on a secret transaction between Olympus and a foreign group, then intervened when the deal was interrupted by their arrival. After Olympus's espers trapped the narrator in flames and stone walls, he remained unharmed and dismissed the attack as not very hot.

• The narrator asked Lin Xue whether humans had developed true optical invisibility and learned Olympus possessed technology beyond humanity's known experiments.
• The narrator and Bubble watched a Black man negotiate with an arrogant Olympus representative, who claimed Medusa was too important to attend.
• The narrator and Bubble appeared beside the transaction, prompting the Black man to delay it and the Olympus representative to order his subordinates to attack.
• A fire-wielding esper attacked the narrator, but a second esper raised stone walls and spikes that forced him to dodge.
• The fire esper and the stone esper combined their abilities to surround the narrator with flames and walls, but he announced that it did not seem hot.

The narrator defeated three Olympus members, discovering that their leader wielded a powerful matter-splitting ability tied to a mysterious blessing. After Bubble dealt with the group’s lackeys, the narrator prepared to take the unconscious leader back for questioning while one enemy remained at large.

• The narrator quickly incapacitated the earth-powered man and the fire Esper, destroying both of their Esper talents with psychic pressure.
• The Olympus leader revealed his Matter Division ability, which could split anything in his line of sight, and the narrator resolved to capture him alive.
• The narrator used Void Infusion to seize and destabilize the leader’s energy, then incapacitated him and destroyed his Esper talent.
• Bubble defeated two lackeys, but reported that a fast black man had escaped past the guards.
• The narrator asked Bubble to make a Life Support Pod for the bloodied leader and bring him back.

Lin Xue’s team captured two surviving criminals and learned that the smuggling organization Babel Tower had been involved in the incident. The investigation yielded little about the traded object because the narrator’s attack had left the Olympus members mentally incapacitated and destroyed the object in the metal cylinder.

• The injured Black man fled toward Highway 77, found a doodled slip of paper, and triggered Older Sister’s anger by insulting it.
• An NPC reported a string of disasters near the highway, and the team later learned that the Black man had survived with catastrophic injuries.
• Esper Team members captured the crippled Olympus member and the battered Black man and extracted information from them.
• Lin Xue explained that Babel Tower had changed from an exploration organization into a powerful smuggling ring.
• Lin Xue blamed the narrator for turning the three Olympus members into idiots and destroying the contents of the metal cylinder.

Olympus's masked leaders discussed setbacks in China before viewing footage of a winged girl flying through space, whom they believed was a messenger from the gods. They inferred that she had gone to the Moon and decided to change their plans and suspend their transaction with Babel Tower.

• Poseidon reported that operations in China had suffered setbacks, including the loss of a Servant God-level member to a young man and a little girl.
• Poseidon said a Babel Tower envoy had been badly injured by a bizarre mechanical monster, prompting debate over China's hidden capabilities.
• Artemis's phone rang during the meeting, briefly disrupting the masked leaders' solemn discussion.
• A holographic projection showed a silver-haired, winged girl flying past Earth, and Poseidon called her a god's messenger.
• The leaders inferred that the girl was headed to the Moon, and Zeus ordered them to suspend their transaction with Babel Tower and act immediately.

After Olympus and Babel Tower went quiet following the failed transaction, A Jun and his companions settled into an idle routine while the Esper Team investigated the organizations’ hidden activity. Qian Qian then recruited A Jun into Boundless Love’s latest commission despite his objections.

• A Jun observed that Babel Tower had vanished from China and Olympus had withdrawn from public activity, leaving the Esper Team to investigate their unexplained retreat.
• Little Pao Pao learned vehicle production from her mother, Viska extracted memories and fought Pandora, and Ding Dang’s divine experiments kept creating trouble around Shadow City.
• Lilina smuggled Ding Dang’s strange creations out of the temple, while Anweina and Alaya helped sort Boundless Love’s commissions in Older Sister and Qian Qian’s studio.
• Qian Qian described Boundless Love’s hopes of helping people in desperate circumstances and told A Jun about an interesting commission.
• A Jun refused to join the commission, but Qian Qian declared that he would participate and headed out with Older Sister.

The narrator and the Boundless Love studio investigated a seemingly fanciful campus supernatural commission after evidence confirmed real anomalies near an old high school. They met the bespectacled student who had submitted it, and Qian Qian told him they had come to solve his problem.

• Qian Qian showed the narrator a campus supernatural commission, and his sister explained that repeated submissions and collected evidence supported its authenticity.
• The narrator and his companions traveled to the remote, run-down school where abnormal energy readings and strange phenomena had been reported.
• Pandora found the area’s energy readings normal, while the narrator warned Viska not to use her powers recklessly.
• After the dismissal bell, the group identified the skinny, bespectacled student who had sent the commission.
• Qian Qian showed the student his form and told him the studio had come to solve his problem.

A Jun and the members of Boundless Love questioned Liu Fan about his missing girlfriend, Ling Jie, and the recent paranormal reports around the school’s Experiment Building and dormitory area. After learning that Ling Jie had investigated the Waste Yard because her sister had vanished in similar circumstances, they left when Teacher Zheng interrupted, planning to speak with Liu Fan again.

• A Jun asked Liu Fan about Ling Jie’s disappearance and learned that she was his girlfriend.
• Liu Fan described old school legends and recent reports of strange lights, washing sounds in an empty dorm room, and activity around the construction waste.
• Liu Fan said Ling Jie had been secretly investigating the Waste Yard, where people claimed a dead girl’s spirit remained pinned by steel rebars.
• Liu Fan revealed that Ling Jie’s older sister had disappeared years earlier under similarly abnormal circumstances.
• Teacher Zheng arrived, and A Jun ended the conversation, telling Liu Fan they would talk again in a couple of days.

The narrator, Lilina, and Anweina entered the abandoned campus at night to investigate the Experiment Building. Anweina spotted someone searching through garbage in the Waste Yard, and the narrator and Lilina went to investigate.

• The narrator and Lilina approached the campus wall, and Lilina revealed that she had once attended the school.
• Anweina took crow form and helped the narrator and Lilina get inside the campus, though they repeatedly got lost on the way to the Experiment Building.
• Lilina and the narrator checked the Experiment Building and found no lights or apparent activity inside.
• The narrator used Anweina's crow vision to spot a figure searching through garbage in the Waste Yard.
• The narrator ordered Anweina to remain invisible and hurried with Lilina toward the Waste Yard.

Chen, Lilina, and Liu Fan investigated the quiet Waste Yard, where they encountered Teacher Zheng on patrol. Lilina sensed something was wrong with the teacher, and Chen suspected she was trying to hurry them away as they followed her.

• Chen found Liu Fan searching the Waste Yard for clues about his missing girlfriend, Ling Jie.
• Liu Fan said the hauntings had stopped since Ling Jie disappeared, though he had felt a sudden cold gust shortly before Chen arrived.
• Anweina warned that someone was approaching, and the group hid as a flashlight-bearing Teacher Zheng came toward them.
• Liu Fan accidentally knocked over steel bars, exposing the group to Teacher Zheng, who scolded him for being out late and ordered him to write a self-criticism.
• Lilina told Chen that Teacher Zheng seemed suspicious, and Chen agreed to leave while watching her closely.
• Teacher Zheng interrupted Liu Fan when he tried to object and told the group to follow her.

After leaving the gate, the narrator and Lilina investigated Teacher Zheng, who led Liu Fan into the forbidden Waste Yard and revealed herself as Medusa. Anweina attacked Medusa with a ghostly power, leaving her vulnerable to a spectral girl as the narrator rushed to the scene.

• The narrator stopped Lilina from biting him and asked what she thought of Teacher Zheng while Anweina tracked the teacher and Liu Fan.
• Anweina spotted Teacher Zheng leading Liu Fan through the Waste Yard, where the pair stopped and strange energy fluctuations began.
• Teacher Zheng revealed that she was Medusa and prepared to kill Liu Fan because he had become a destabilizing factor.
• Anweina attacked Medusa, and a spectral girl emerged from Medusa's abdomen and began crawling up her body.
• The ghost girl whispered that she would have fun with Medusa before the narrator arrived, while the narrator and Lilina rushed toward the Waste Yard.

I confronted Medusa after Anweina subdued her, but Medusa escaped using a spatial device before I could question her. I concluded that Olympus had kept her at the school to investigate its mysterious energy source.

• Anweina subdued Medusa and reported that her psychic powers and body showed signs of artificial enhancement.
• Liu Fan identified the captured woman as Medusa, and I introduced him to Anweina while Lilina warned him to keep the encounter secret.
• Medusa triggered a burst of freezing energy and escaped, leaving behind traces of a spatial device that Bubble detected.
• I asked Lilina to search the school and reasoned that Medusa had stayed there because Olympus was investigating the school's mysterious energy source.

After Medusa escaped, Lilina discovered a vast hollow more than two hundred meters beneath the school, and Anweina explored the abandoned research base hidden there. The search uncovered no useful clues until Anweina spotted someone ahead.

• Lilina sensed that Medusa had escaped beyond her search range and found a hollow space more than two hundred meters underground.
• Lilina questioned Liu Fan about hidden entrances beneath the school, but he knew of none.
• Anweina phased underground and shared her vision of an abandoned research base with the others.
• Lilina identified the base as an old foreign facility, and she and the narrator suspected Medusa had been searching for it.
• Anweina explored the collapsed corridors and mostly emptied rooms, then called out after spotting someone ahead.

The group rescued Ling Jie, whom Lilina recognized as her missing younger sister, from an underground research base. After reaching the surface, Ling Jie reunited with Liu Fan, and Lilina learned that the couple used “trash” as affectionate teasing.

• Anweina found an unconscious girl underground and used Holy Light to revive her temporarily.
• Lilina recognized the girl as her missing younger sister and pleaded with the narrator to save her.
• The narrator summoned Asidda-Asidora, who used their spatial powers to bring Anweina and the girl to the surface.
• Ling Jie woke after breathing fresh air, and Liu Fan rushed to embrace her.
• Ling Jie called Liu Fan “trash” but said he was reliable, revealing their affectionate way of speaking to each other.

After rescuing Xiao Ling from the underground Research Base, the group learned how she had stumbled into it while fleeing a pursuer connected to Olympus. Anweina discovered a Shilin Military Emblem in the base, suggesting a much larger secret and leaving the narrator alarmed by the implications.

• Xiao Ling recovered after eating Qian Qian's congee, reunited with Liu Fan, and asked whether the group were gods.
• Xiao Ling explained that a sudden sense of danger had driven her from the Waste Yard into a newly exposed passage, where she became lost and trapped for four days.
• The narrator connected Xiao Ling's pursuer to the attacker who had targeted Liu Fan and sent Anweina to explore the collapsed portion of the Research Base.
• Anweina found a strange device bearing a Shilin Military Emblem in a room resembling a Shilin weapon exhibition hall.
• The narrator recognized the emblem and realized the discovery linked the base to a dangerous mystery.

After discovering that Olympus had advanced knowledge of Shilin Technology, the narrator recruited Lin Xue to help plan a response and persuaded the Empire to act against the organization. The chapter leaves Olympus’s destruction pending as the Esper Team prepares to coordinate with the Empire, while Xiao Ling and Liu Fan stay under protection and Lilina grows unusually restless.

• The narrator summoned Lin Xue and told her that Olympus had researched Shilin Technology and likely possessed Shilin Ruins.
• Lin Xue explained that Olympus’s Espers were powerful and that the Esper Team was considering joining forces with overseas teams.
• The narrator persuaded Sandora and the other Empire leaders that Olympus threatened human society and its supply of entertainment and snacks.
• The narrator and Lin Xue agreed that the Esper Team would investigate Olympus while the Empire forces in Shadow City destroyed its discovered forces.
• Lin Xue said she needed to discuss the plan with her grandfather, and the narrator left her to handle the political coordination.
• Xiao Ling continued recovering under protection with Liu Fan, while Lilina stopped going out after they moved in.

The narrator’s group searched a Shilin research base beneath K City and suspected its ancient equipment had caused the school’s paranormal incidents. Lilina overcame her fear of reuniting with Xiao Ling, while a photo revealed Pandora had been almost entirely cropped out.

• The narrator’s group emptied the underground research base of its Shilin equipment and sent Lost Shadows to search farther beneath K City.
• The narrator suspected damaged Shilin devices had caused the paranormal incidents and endangered Xiao Ling.
• Lilina worried that her family would see her resurrection as monstrous, and the narrator reminded her that Xiao Ling had already seen angels.
• Lilina decided to acknowledge her family after the narrator explained how she had been resurrected, but he urged her to wait until everyone was present.
• Lilina spotted Pandora’s tiny head at the edge of a photo from the Amusement Park.

Chen Jun lounged at home while Little Pao Pao went missing during an outing with Older Sister. When Bubble learned that Little Pao Pao had found Medusa and was secretly following her, Chen Jun panicked while Sandora reassured him that the child could protect herself.

• Chen Jun relaxed at home as Lilina searched his phone and the others spent the morning at their various activities.
• Older Sister called Chen Jun after Little Pao Pao disappeared while they were shopping, and Chen Jun assumed she had simply gotten lost again.
• When Little Pao Pao still had not returned by lunchtime, Chen Jun contacted her telepathically and heard her excited but unintelligible reply.
• Bubble interpreted Little Pao Pao's message and told Chen Jun that she had found Medusa and was following her to surprise her family.
• Sandora explained that Little Pao Pao understood what she was doing and could summon two hundred mainframe guard soldiers if she encountered danger.

Little Pao Pao pursued Medusa through South City District, while Chen and the others worried she might unleash destructive weapons and sent Vega to watch over her. Medusa confronted the tiny pursuer, mistook her for a child from a mysterious organization, and was left baffled when Little Pao Pao introduced herself with an incomprehensible cry.

• Chen learned that Little Pao Pao was in South City District and sent Vega to keep her from causing devastation.
• Pandora reported that Sikaro could not help because urban management officers were chasing him for selling pirated Light Discs.
• Medusa hid in South City District to evade the forces tracking her while searching for ancient ruins beneath K City.
• Medusa sensed an unseen pursuer following her for an hour, but could not detect any Esper energy or the familiar watching eye.
• Medusa called for the pursuer to reveal herself, and Little Pao Pao appeared through a transparent ripple.
• Little Pao Pao put away her lollipop and announced herself with the words “Gua ya ya ya,” leaving Medusa confused.

Little Pao Pao battled Medusa in the Lawless Zone, smashing through her ice attacks with her shield and strange weapons while Medusa struggled to contain her. Medusa’s reinforcements arrived just as Little Pao Pao launched another attack, and the fight continued.

• Little Pao Pao charged at Medusa, crashed through a wall, and emerged unharmed behind her Energy Shield.
• Medusa froze Little Pao Pao inside an iceberg, but the trapped girl cracked the ice with her hands.
• Little Pao Pao produced a cannon and blasted through the ice, forcing Medusa to flee as explosions drove people from the district.
• Medusa repeatedly froze Little Pao Pao, who used a riot shield and a rocket engine in a series of unsuccessful attacks.
• More than ten motorcycles brought Medusa’s reinforcements, and a subordinate joined her as Little Pao Pao fired again.