Chapter Summaries

MacArthur activated the release of Observation Sample No. 17 as Shen Yi’s forces advanced on Area 51. Shen Yi sensed danger and withdrew his troops just before a supposedly dead monster erupted from underground and slaughtered Area 51’s soldiers.

• MacArthur recognized Karen, then ordered Jesse Skitch to prepare for the worst and activated the release of Observation Sample No. 17.
• Murong Xue and the Little White Fox sensed an ominous presence, while Shen Yi noticed signs that something had recently been buried at Area 51.
• Shen Yi ordered the Xia Country forces to retreat, and Fu Yunxi relayed the order before Shen Yi moved everyone five kilometers away.
• The ground trembled, and bizarre branches burst from underground, piercing Area 51’s soldiers as they cried out in terror.

Shen Yi investigated the monster ravaging Area 51 and discovered that its chaotic consciousness was made from several minds forcibly combined. After learning that General MacArthur commanded Area 51, Shen Yi found a faint trace of his presence.

• Murong Xue and Fu Yunxi watched the monster's branches attack, and Karen accidentally destroyed one with an Intelligent Pistol.
• Shen Yi gave Intelligent Pistols to Murong Xue and Fu Yunxi, then went with Fei Mi to investigate the creature inside Area 51.
• Shen Yi determined that the creature was a composite of at least four consciousnesses, with branches, corrosion, and a liquid form among its traits.
• Shen Yi asked Karen about Area 51's commander, and she identified him as Uncle MacArthur.
• Shen Yi enveloped the ruined battlefield with his spiritual power and detected a faint trace of General MacArthur's presence.

Shen Yi and the others confronted Observation Sample No. 17, a rapidly growing creature MacArthur had created in Area 51, and learned how it combined several dangerous traits. The monster continued overrunning the battlefield, leaving Fu Yunxi to question whether Area 51 could still be captured and used as a Shelter.

• MacArthur appeared at Shen Yi's feet, realized Area 51 had fallen into ruin, and urged everyone to run from Observation Sample No. 17.
• Fu Yunxi ordered the artillery fire reduced, but the monster grew larger as it attacked Area 51's soldiers and turned the dead into parasitized creatures.
• Shen Yi identified the monster's traits as branches, corrosion, liquefaction, and parasitism, then took control of MacArthur to read his thoughts.
• Shen Yi learned MacArthur had created the monster through experiments combining Black Fog creatures and a slime-like Black Mist Creature.
• Fu Yunxi realized the monster's corrosive ground could make Area 51 unsuitable for capture as an expanded Shelter.

Shen Yi destroyed the fused monster and annihilated Area 51, while Karen killed MacArthur after Fu Yunxi finished him off. As Shen Yi left with Karen, Fei Mi brought him a strange empty box that seemed connected to the Black Fog.

• Shen Yi concluded that the fused Containment Object No. 17 could not be controlled and that the previous attack would no longer work.
• Shen Yi left Murong Xue and Fu Yunxi to deal with MacArthur, and Karen shot him before Fu Yunxi killed him with two more shots.
• Shen Yi froze the consciousness amalgamation into powder, and the freezing force also killed soldiers across Area 51.
• Shen Yi told his people to clean up the battlefield and took Karen with him, while Fu Yunxi directed the aftermath.
• Fei Mi brought Shen Yi an empty box leaking a familiar gray-black haze, and Shen Yi suspected it had come from the Black Fog.

Shen Yi took in Tiff and Beatrice, triggering the system to unlock Explosively Spicy Fire Chicken Noodles and Gemini Sound System. He ordered Long Aoshuang to eliminate the men in Neon Country and brainwash its women for logistics, then brainwashed Tiff and Beatrice and sent them to Fu Yunxi for work.

• Shen Yi rejected Karen's offer to join him and told Tiff and Beatrice to proceed, while Fei Mi left after he refused her advances.
• The system detected that Shen Yi had taken in a goddess and unlocked Explosively Spicy Fire Chicken Noodles and Gemini Sound System.
• Long Aoshuang reported that Thailand's Shelters had been taken over and that Neon Country's affairs awaited Shen Yi's decision.
• Shen Yi ordered Long Aoshuang to kill all the men in Neon Country and brainwash the women for logistics, promising to pick her up once things stabilized.
• Shen Yi brainwashed Tiff and Beatrice, assigned them as maids, and sent them to Fu Yunxi for work.

Shen Yi asked Lin Zhiwei to investigate whether a consciousness composite could be controlled, and she agreed to try reproducing Area 51’s method. Meanwhile, Fu Yunxi dealt with the aftermath of the battle and remained upset after Long Aoshuang scolded her for needing Shen Yi’s help.

• Shen Yi showed Lin Zhiwei what had happened at Area 51 and asked whether she could control a composite made from Black Fog monsters.
• Lin Zhiwei said her earlier cellular-level fusion experiment had failed, but she offered to try using Area 51’s electric-field suppression method and a containment vessel.
• Shen Yi promised to supply Lin Zhiwei’s experiment with resources, then pulled her close and kissed her.
• Murong Xue tried to comfort Fu Yunxi as they surveyed the cleanup at Area 51.
• Fu Yunxi complained that Long Aoshuang had called her useless for letting Shen Yi intervene, while Murong Xue reminded her that the battle’s outcome had been good.

Murong Xue asked to travel to France to investigate its Shelter organizations, and Shen Yi accompanied her to Normandy and Paris. They found France devastated and a dangerous mutated vine capturing survivors near the Eiffel Tower, where Murong Xue chose to remain and explore alone.

• Murong Xue asked Shen Yi to let her go to France, and he agreed to take her there without an escort.
• Shen Yi and Murong Xue arrived in Normandy and found the region nearly deserted, with Black Fog monsters roaming among ruined buildings.
• Shen Yi brought Murong Xue to Paris, where they found a huge mutated vine wrapped around the Eiffel Tower and holding people in its flowers.
• Shen Yi froze the vine's toxic pollen and warned Murong Xue about the danger, then asked whether she could manage on her own.
• Murong Xue said she could stay, and Shen Yi left her in Paris to investigate while he returned through a vortex.

Lin Zhiwei tested a rapidly growing mutated beast embryo and gave Shen Yi a strange stone recovered from Area 51. Fei Mi revealed that the stone had once held a fading consciousness, and Shen Yi concluded it and the wooden box were pieces of one object that Area 51 had dismantled, killing it.

• Lin Zhiwei showed Shen Yi an embryo made from mutated wildcat tissue and mutated leopard tissue, warning that its consciousness still needed observation.
• Lin Zhiwei gave Shen Yi a purplish-black stone from Area 51 that Fu Yunxi had found sealed in a sturdy container.
• Fei Mi said the stone's aura reminded her of the monster from Area 51, and Shen Yi dismissed the resemblance as ordinary Black Fog aura.
• After Lin Zhiwei left with the stone to study it, Fei Mi told Shen Yi that the stone's consciousness had been close to dissipating and was probably dead.
• Shen Yi realized the stone and the wooden box were parts of one object that Area 51 had forcibly separated, weakening its aura and killing its consciousness.

Karen asked Shen Yi to let her stay by his side, and he reassured her that she and her father would retain their place under his rule. In France, Murong Xue sensed someone watching her, while two hidden observers identified the Little White Fox as the same kind of creature as Pāpā.

• Karen asked Shen Yi whether she could stay by his side forever, and he reassured her that he valued loyalty and accepted her as a decorative vase.
• Karen told Shen Yi that she had spoken with Fu Yunxi and her father, and Shen Yi confirmed that her father could continue governing his state.
• Karen told Shen Yi that Emily had contacted Fu Yunxi, and Shen Yi said he already knew.
• In France, Murong Xue searched near the Eiffel Tower and sensed a brief unnatural fluctuation, but found no signs of life nearby.
• After Murong Xue withdrew her spiritual power, a woman named Jessie and another figure appeared beside the Black Fog and identified the Little White Fox as the same kind of being as Pāpā.
• The creature at Jessie's feet bit the other woman's calf after she called it a monster from the Black Fog.

Murong Xue pursued the hidden observers but failed to catch them, then met Sti Kajali, the controller of the local Shelter. She asked Sti Kajali to explain the region’s situation.

• Jessie fed Pāpā and praised the three-eyed black cat after Xikai warned that Murong Xue might have noticed them.
• Pāpā sensed danger and hid Jessie and Xikai in Black Fog as a huge root burst from the ground nearby.
• Murong Xue rushed toward the disturbance, while Jessie and Xikai fled toward their Shelter and argued about their absent boss.
• Murong Xue found the root’s hole but could not catch the people who had been watching her.
• Sti Kajali introduced herself as the Shelter’s actual controller, and Murong Xue asked her to explain the region’s situation.

Murong Xue confronted Sti over the Paris Shelter and made clear that Shen Yi’s forces wanted absolute obedience, not cooperation. After she killed Xikai for attacking her, Sti swallowed her anger and tried to negotiate terms that would make the Shelter useful to Lord Shen.

• Sti explained that the Emperor Vine had repeatedly defeated efforts to clear it and that its roots spread across an area at least thirty-five kilometers wide.
• Murong Xue questioned Sti about the Shelter’s structure and learned that it housed a little over six thousand people.
• Murong Xue demanded that the Shelter’s useful personnel be limited to women and people absolutely loyal to Lord Shen.
• Sti suggested cooperation, but Murong Xue said she had never sought an agreement and wanted absolute obedience.
• Xikai charged at Murong Xue, who froze him solid and shattered him with a flick of her finger.
• Sti recognized that she could not defeat Murong Xue and offered to discuss how the Paris Shelter could contribute to Lord Shen.

Murong Xue forced Sti and the Paris Shelter to submit to Lord Shen, then agreed to deal with the Emperor Vine. The chapter left her facing the mutated vine near the Eiffel Tower as it began to move.

• Sti offered to help Murong Xue unite France’s Shelters and revealed she had a mutated fruit, but Murong Xue dismissed her offer.
• Murong Xue used a mental ability to frighten Sti and Kaci, prompting Sti to pledge the Paris Shelter’s loyalty to her and Lord Shen.
• Murong Xue summoned Pāpā, and the Little White Fox accepted the black cat, which submitted and stayed beside it.
• Murong Xue ordered Sti to contact every Shelter leader in France within three days and prepare a comfortable place for her.
• At Jessie and Sti’s request, Murong Xue agreed to deal with the Emperor Vine and turned toward the damaged Eiffel Tower as the vine began to move.

Murong Xue battled the poisonous Emperor Vine while Lin Zhiwei advised her to search for its glowing core. After escaping the vines to question Sti and Jessie, Murong Xue learned nothing about a bead, leaving the vine's weakness undiscovered.

• The Emperor Vine attacked Murong Xue, Sti, and Jessie, but Murong Xue moved them nearly two kilometers away and froze its roots.
• Murong Xue struggled to contain the relentless vines and contacted Lin Zhiwei for advice on fighting mutated plants.
• Lin Zhiwei told Murong Xue to look for a fist-sized, glowing core, while Sti and Jessie chose to watch rather than help.
• Murong Xue escaped the vines' attacks and asked Sti and Jessie whether they had seen a bead during their earlier attempts to eliminate the vine.
• Sti was astonished by Murong Xue's ability to evade the attacks, but she could not identify any bead.

Murong Xue discovered that Sti had deceived her and planned to use the mutant vine to take her ability. Shen Yi arrived just as the fight escalated, killed Sti and her allies, and gave Murong Xue a liquid meant to destroy the vine.

• Murong Xue threatened Sti, but Sti's pinned clone dissolved as the real Sti appeared and revealed her plan to feed Murong Xue's ice ability to the mutant vine.
• Sti summoned more than a dozen ability users, who mocked Murong Xue and underestimated her strength.
• Murong Xue unleashed her full power, freezing the gathered men and half of Sti before the mutant vine attacked her with corrosive smoke and whipping tendrils.
• Shen Yi appeared, burned Sti and the other ability users to ashes, and gave Murong Xue a bottle of pale-blue liquid from Lin Zhiwei for dealing with the vine.
• Jessie approached Shen Yi and Murong Xue in shock, while Murong Xue complained that she had not wanted him to come.

Shen Yi arrived in Paris and saved Murong Xue from the Paris Shelter’s ambush, then burned the mutated vine that the Shelter had been using. He left Murong Xue to deal with the Shelter while he settled in with the Little White Fox and Pāpā.

• Shen Yi set Murong Xue down and found Jessie alive but stunned after the ambush.
• Murong Xue explained that the Shelter’s leader, Sti, had pretended to cooperate and could create clones, while Jessie and the other ability users knew little of her plans.
• Shen Yi snapped his fingers and set the mutated vine and its underground roots ablaze, leaving Murong Xue to handle the Paris Shelter.
• Shen Yi summoned Karen and three maids with a meal, then Murong Xue left the Little White Fox and Pāpā in his care.
• Shen Yi fed Pāpā fresh steak and asked the Little White Fox whether it had been sleeping too much lately.

Murong Xue interrogated the Paris Shelter survivors about their people and resources, using brutal torture when they resisted. She learned that the Shelter had over six thousand people and that its leader, Sti, might use clones, though no one knew where her real body was.

• Shen Yi noticed that the Little White Fox had been sleeping longer and considered whether it was storing energy.
• Murong Xue demanded that the survivors submit to Lord Shen, then killed one who mocked her and tortured another for information.
• The survivors revealed that the Paris Shelter had over six thousand people, including more than two hundred ability users, and that its leader had over a dozen powerful subordinates.
• Murong Xue asked about Sti's clones, and the survivors said many people had seen the leader in different places but could not identify her real body.

Murong Xue set out for the Paris Shelter to take control of it, while Sti secretly negotiated with a figure in the Black Fog to ambush her. Sti agreed to sacrifice forty percent of the Shelter’s survivors and demanded that Murong Xue be captured alive, as Murong Xue arrived at the Shelter’s ruins.

• Murong Xue dismissed Shen Yi’s offer to accompany her and made the Paris Shelter ability users lead her to their Shelter.
• The figures in the Black Fog discussed Shen Yi’s power and concluded they had no chance of defeating him in an ambush.
• Sti learned that Murong Xue had been hiding her true strength and asked about the chances of capturing her and Shen Yi.
• Sti agreed to sacrifice forty percent of the Shelter’s survivors in exchange for an ambush, and demanded that Murong Xue be captured alive.
• The ability users brought Murong Xue to a dense stretch of ruins and identified it as the Shelter.

Murong Xue confronted Sti at the Paris Shelter, but Sti summoned a terrifying ally who overwhelmed Murong Xue with her presence. The mysterious figure revealed she was not human and fixed her gaze on Murong Xue.

• Murong Xue found Sti beneath the ruins and froze the ability users who had lured her there.
• Sti refused to surrender the fruits of her labor and offered the mysterious ally forty percent in exchange for taking Murong Xue alive.
• Sti summoned a being with a blood-soaked aura, whose power made Murong Xue's full-strength abilities ineffective.
• The being emerged from the Gray Mist, eyed Murong Xue hungrily, and declared that she was not human.

Shen Yi arrived as the Night Elf Wen Ke'er suppressed Murong Xue and discovered that Wen Ke'er existed only as a soul. Wen Ke'er released Murong Xue when Shen Yi demanded it, then invited him to ask for anything else.

• Wen Ke'er taunted Murong Xue and suppressed her abilities, while Sti demanded that Wen Ke'er keep her alive.
• Wen Ke'er asked Murong Xue to reveal how she had gained and improved her ability, then sealed her in place.
• Shen Yi arrived with Karen and the other women as Sti offered more sacrifices in exchange for his death.
• Shen Yi's system identified Wen Ke'er as a Night Elf whose body had been destroyed, and Shen Yi recognized her identity.
• Shen Yi told Wen Ke'er to release Murong Xue, and Wen Ke'er dispersed the aura restraining her.

Shen Yi freed Wen Ke'er from her contract with Sti after Wen Ke'er turned to him for help. He then asked Wen Ke'er to repay him, leaving her teasingly asking what he wanted.

• Wen Ke'er released Murong Xue and begged Shen Yi to help her escape Sti's contract, offering to marry him in return.
• Sti accused Wen Ke'er of betraying their agreement after sacrificing forty percent of Shelter's survivors to help her recover.
• Shen Yi erased Sti's former consciousness and made her absolutely loyal to him.
• At Shen Yi's command, Sti terminated her contract with Wen Ke'er.
• Shen Yi told Wen Ke'er he had done what she wanted and asked whether she was ready to do what he wanted.