Recaps

After hearing that Hong Ying was in trouble, Lin Qiye rushed to the girls’ dormitory while Leng Xuan activated the Boundless Void Domain, turning the sky green. Lin Qiye slipped into the dormitory during Li Yifei’s public confession, while Hong Ying fought monsters in a dark corridor.

• Lin Qiye heard that something had happened to Hong Ying and ran toward the girls’ dormitory with Li Yifei following him.
• Leng Xuan activated the Boundless Void Domain outside Second High School, and the sky above the school turned green.
• Lin Qiye asked Li Yifei to distract the crowd so he could enter the sealed girls’ dormitory.
• Li Yifei confessed to Wu Shujie in public, but she said she liked Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye slipped into the girls’ dormitory while the crowd focused on Li Yifei and Wu Shujie.
• Hong Ying fought monsters in a dark corridor, killing one with her flaming spear as the others retreated.

Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan defeated the monsters in the dormitory, but Lin Qiye realized the intelligent Snake-tailed Humanoid had escaped and triggered the infected students to go berserk. As Hong Ying chased the creature, Lin Qiye turned to protect the students and forced them to listen by firing his gun into the air.

• Hong Ying killed four monsters with her spear and flames while Si Xiaonan reported that she had killed another.
• Lin Qiye shot the dorm supervisor after she transformed into a monster, then joined Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan in searching for the Snake Demon’s main body.
• Lin Qiye deduced that the intelligent creature had carefully infected people through the girls’ dormitory, and the group spotted it coiled on a balcony.
• The Snake-tailed Humanoid hissed, causing infected students across the school to go berserk, and Hong Ying leaped after it while Lin Qiye went to protect the students.
• Lin Qiye found students fleeing toward the blocked school gates and fired into the sky to make them stop and listen.

Lin Qiye escorted hundreds of students out of the school while identifying and killing monsters hidden among them. After the Boundless Void Domain malfunctioned and the campus fell under a blood-red sky, he searched the school buildings and found another monster disguised as a girl in a restroom stall.

• Lin Qiye beheaded a monster hidden among the students and ordered the others to leave in an orderly fashion.
• Lin Qiye identified students as they reached the gate, allowing around thirteen or fourteen hundred first-year and third-year students to escape through the Boundless Void Domain.
• Lin Qiye told Leng Xuan to close the passage and went back into the school to rescue more people.
• The sky flickered and turned blood-red after Leng Xuan reported a problem with the Boundless Void Domain.
• Lin Qiye found A Lan and two other girls hiding in a restroom stall, then killed the monster disguised among them.

Lin Qiye rescued students from the first- and third-year buildings and headed for the monster-infested second-year building. There, Li Yifei led a rescue team that killed two monsters, but the trapped Class 8 students challenged whether they could safely reach the fifth floor.

• Lin Qiye escorted two rescued girls and the other survivors to a cleared auditorium, then went alone to search the second-year building.
• Li Yifei organized the students on the fifth floor, barricaded the corridors, and led an axe squad down a rope to rescue Class 8 students on the third floor.
• Li Yifei and the boys distracted and killed the two monsters guarding Class 8’s classroom.
• Li Yifei invited the twenty-eight students from Class 8 to evacuate to the fifth floor.
• A Class 8 student pointed out that monsters blocked the route and the fifth-floor stairwells were sealed, leaving Li Yifei unable to answer how they could all get upstairs.

An Qingyu rejected Li Yifei’s evacuation plan, but six monsters surrounded the classroom and cut off the escape rope. Lin Qiye arrived and killed them, then learned how Li Yifei had organized the students; the chapter ended with An Qingyu introducing himself to Lin Qiye.

• An Qingyu told Li Yifei to hold their position and revealed that he was the city’s top-ranked student.
• Six monsters surrounded the classroom and severed the rope, forcing Li Yifei and the students to barricade the entrance.
• An Qingyu studied how the monsters seemed to coordinate while the students struggled to hold the barricade.
• Lin Qiye arrived, killed all six monsters, and asked Li Yifei to explain the situation.
• Li Yifei described the school’s chaos and how he had detained Han Ruoruo and other suspicious students.
• An Qingyu introduced himself to Lin Qiye, who shook his hand.

Lin Qiye rested with Li Yifei, An Qingyu, and the Axe Squad before heading upstairs to rescue more students. He learned the monsters were offspring of a Nanda Snake Demon whose main body remained at large, while An Qingyu revealed his intense interest in studying them.

• Lin Qiye recruited Li Yifei and the Axe Squad, along with An Qingyu, to help rescue students upstairs.
• Lin Qiye sent the classroom's students toward the auditorium and rested before tackling the monsters on the fourth floor.
• Hong Ying told Lin Qiye that the fleeing monster had disappeared into the woods, and relayed Wu Xiangnan's identification of it as a Nanda Snake Demon that created controlled offspring by planting snake seeds in living creatures.
• An Qingyu asked why monsters existed without disrupting ordinary life, and Lin Qiye explained that people stood watch over the darkness for humanity.
• An Qingyu revealed his advanced biology studies and desire to dissect the monsters, then Lin Qiye led the group out to save people.

Liu Yuan tried to prove himself by freeing Han Ruoruo, but Lin Qiye returned after clearing the building of monsters. Lin Qiye let the couple leave and wished them happiness.

• Han Ruoruo told Liu Yuan she wanted to break up with Lin Qiye and asked him to get her out of the classroom.
• Liu Yuan argued with Li Qiang and demanded that the students guarding the classroom let them out.
• A crash announced Lin Qiye's arrival, and Li Yifei reported that Lin Qiye had killed all the monsters on the fourth floor.
• Lin Qiye approached Liu Yuan, who declared that Han Ruoruo was now his girlfriend and that he would take her away.
• Lin Qiye stepped aside, let Liu Yuan and Han Ruoruo leave, and wished them happiness.

Lin Qiye searched the campus for the Nanda Snake Demon's main body after sending the surviving students toward the assembly hall. He found Han Ruoruo revealed as a monster with Liu Yuan trapped in her grasp, then shut and locked the music-room door instead of rescuing him.

• Lin Qiye let Liu Yuan leave with Han Ruoruo, then sent the surviving students to the assembly hall while he continued searching for the Nanda Snake Demon's main body.
• An Qingyu shared a suspicion with Lin Qiye and took his pistol, while Lin Qiye left Li Yifei to escort the students.
• Lin Qiye learned the Nanda Snake Demon had gone north and headed to the arts building to search.
• Han Ruoruo revealed a monstrous mouth and trapped Liu Yuan in the music room as he begged for help.
• Lin Qiye entered, apologized for interrupting, and locked the music-room door from the outside.

Lin Qiye confronted Han Ruoruo about why the Nanda Snake Demon had begun creating snake spawn on a large scale, but the demon used their conversation to buy time and attack him. As Lin Qiye faced the demon’s true body in the music room, Hong Ying rushed to help.

• Lin Qiye killed the snake spawn Liu Yuan and urged Han Ruoruo to return to her human appearance so they could talk.
• Lin Qiye questioned why the Nanda Snake Demon had started raising snake spawn throughout the school, and Han Ruoruo challenged him with a plan to plant a snake seed in him.
• The Nanda Snake Demon burst through a wall and attacked Lin Qiye, who called Hong Ying for help.
• Lin Qiye dodged the demon’s claws and blocked its tail with his sword, then judged that its strength and defense might be manageable.

Lin Qiye fought the Nanda Snake Demon outside the arts building until Hong Ying arrived and killed it with a spear. Lin Qiye then noticed something was wrong as he examined the demon’s corpse.

• Lin Qiye drew the Nanda Snake Demon out of the cramped music room and wounded it, but the demon threw him from the second floor.
• Lin Qiye avoided the demon’s attack outside and used his golden divine might to stun it and slash its chest.
• Hong Ying arrived, and the Nanda Snake Demon fled into the arts building as Lin Qiye told her where it was.
• Hong Ying hurled her flaming spear through the building, pinning the Nanda Snake Demon and killing it.
• Hong Ying checked that the demon was dead and invited Lin Qiye to dinner, but Lin Qiye remained by the corpse and said something was wrong.

After Lin Qiye reported that the Nanda Snake Demon's true body had been killed, An Qingyu shot Li Yifei and revealed that he was actually part of the demon. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye exposing a bullet-like mark on Li Yifei's chest as evidence.

• Li Yifei returned to the auditorium and told An Qingyu that he had searched the school and heard a building collapse near the arts building.
• Li Yifei told An Qingyu that the Night Watchmen might erase the survivors' memories and said he hoped to join their organization.
• Lin Qiye entered the auditorium and announced that they had killed the Nanda Snake Demon's true body, prompting the students and Axe Squad to celebrate.
• An Qingyu fired three shots into the back of Li Yifei's head, but Li Yifei's wounds healed.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei that he was part of the Nanda Snake Demon and revealed a faint mark on his chest.

Lin Qiye and An Qingyu exposed Li Yifei as an accomplice of the Nanda Snake Demon by piecing together inconsistencies in his story and the snake demons’ behavior. Li Yifei revealed his strange vertical pupils and wondered how he had run into two people clever enough to uncover him.

• Lin Qiye tried to probe Li Yifei’s mind, but Li Yifei woke with strange vertical pupils and asked how Lin Qiye had seen through his disguise.
• Lin Qiye pointed out that Li Yifei’s medical leave slip suggested he had prepared to join the Night Watchmen before claiming he discovered the snake demon by chance.
• Lin Qiye explained that the human skin on the dormitory balcony had been placed to lure the Night Watchmen into the building, where Li Yifei appeared to guide events.
• An Qingyu described how the snake demon offspring spared their classroom, attacked in carefully limited numbers, and cut Li Yifei’s rope despite having no way to see it.
• Lin Qiye and An Qingyu noted that Li Yifei had disappeared during each snake demon encounter, confirming their suspicions.
• Li Yifei mocked his misfortune at encountering two freaks like Lin Qiye and An Qingyu.

Lin Qiye explained how the Nanda Snake Demon had used Li Yifei as a second personality to infiltrate the Night Watchmen, then revealed its true form and attacked. With night boosting his strength, Lin Qiye defeated and beheaded the demon, leaving Li Yifei’s fate uncertain.

• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei that the Nanda Snake Demon had created his personality as camouflage and planned to fake its death so Li Yifei could join the Night Watchmen.
• Li Yifei transformed into the Nanda Snake Demon, trapping more than a hundred students in the auditorium as An Qingyu watched from safety.
• Lin Qiye drew his saber and blocked the demon’s attack, explaining that night had increased his strength and speed.
• Lin Qiye overwhelmed the Nanda Snake Demon with a series of saber strikes and pursued it as it tried to escape along the walls.
• Lin Qiye beheaded the Nanda Snake Demon and murmured to Li Yifei that they would meet again at the hospital.

Lin Qiye and the Night Watchmen wrapped up the school mission after defeating the snake demon, while An Qingyu quietly made a decision about the demon’s corpse. The team collected Lin Qiye outside the school, and Leng Xuan took a photograph of them before leaving.

• Lin Qiye emerged from the auditorium with the Black Box, and Hong Ying explained that specialists would erase the students’ memories and handle the deaths and damage.
• Lin Qiye asked Hong Ying to recruit An Qingyu into the Night Watchmen, but she warned that the dangerous job required more than intelligence.
• After Lin Qiye and the others left, An Qingyu studied the Nanda Snake Demon’s corpse and seemed to make up his mind.
• Chen Muye and Wu Xiangnan waited outside the school with Wen Qimo, then welcomed Lin Qiye, Hong Ying, and Si Xiaonan back from the mission.
• Lin Qiye told Chen Muye that the mission had felt easier than he expected, while Hong Ying and Wu Xiangnan bickered.
• Leng Xuan photographed the group from a distant rooftop, stored the picture in a box, and walked away with his sniper rifle.

An Qingyu hid the Nanda Snake Demon's missing head in a sewer and awakened an ability that let him understand the workings of bodies and mechanisms. Meanwhile, Li Yifei regained his memories in Lin Qiye's prison, where the Nanda Snake Demon took control of him and recognized Lin Qiye as its captor.

• Chen Muye learned that the Nanda Snake Demon's head was missing and ordered Dream Whisper used across the campus to find whoever had taken it.
• An Qingyu failed to escape through the school's barrier, hid in a sewer, and resisted Dream Whisper as a strange force awakened within him.
• An Qingyu gained an uncanny understanding of his body and began dissecting the Nanda Snake Demon's head to study it.
• Li Yifei woke in a prison cell, remembered the Nanda Snake Demon's killings, and collapsed in anguish.
• The Nanda Snake Demon took control of Li Yifei, failed to break the prison cell's barrier, and recognized Lin Qiye when he arrived.

Lin Qiye made the Nanda Snake Demon prove its usefulness and hired it as the hospital’s first orderly, requiring Li Yifei to control their shared body unless necessary. He introduced Li Yifei to the hospital and Nyx, who mistook him for her grandson.

• Lin Qiye learned that the Nanda Snake Demon needed 60 loyalty to become an orderly and demanded it show its value.
• The Nanda Snake Demon offered its disguise, infiltration, planning, and future combat abilities, while Lin Qiye required Li Yifei to control their body unless necessary.
• The Nanda Snake Demon signed Lin Qiye’s one-sided employment contract and became Orderly 001 as its body returned to human form.
• Lin Qiye showed Li Yifei the hospital wards, activity area, and pharmacy, and explained how to care for Nyx.
• Lin Qiye introduced Li Yifei to Nyx, who joyfully called him her grandson.

Lin Qiye prepared to leave Cangnan City for new recruit training in Shangjing City after a month of training with Team 136. Just as he entered the train station, Chen Muye learned the training would actually be held in Cangnan City and ordered everyone to stop him.

• Lin Qiye watched Li Yifei reunite with Nyx, whose Treatment Progress rose to 23%.
• Lin Qiye continued training with Team 136, improving his abilities and barely managing to hit targets from thirty meters away.
• Chen Muye told Lin Qiye that recruit training would begin soon in Shangjing City and instructed him to leave the next day.
• Hong Ying and Si Xiaonan took Lin Qiye shopping for supplies, and he returned to his room carrying many bags.
• Lin Qiye said goodbye to Team 136 and entered the train station with two suitcases.
• Chen Muye received word that recruit training would be held in Cangnan City and shouted for everyone to stop Lin Qiye before he entered the station.

Night Watchmen recruits were reassigned from Shangjing to Cangnan, prompting several people to prepare for the journey. Lin Qiye’s team regretted buying winter gear for the trip, and Chen Muye asked him to see if they could return it.

• Yuan Gang learned that recruit training had moved from Shangjing to Cangnan and prepared his team to leave, while Shao Pingge stayed behind to run the unit.
• A wealthy young man in Guangshen decided to fly to Cangnan and meet new people, and his butler arranged the trip.
• Cao Yuan received a letter summoning him to Cangnan, and his master encouraged him to go and seek the benefactor described in a cryptic verse.
• In the van, Wen Qimo tried to reassure Lin Qiye about the wasted train tickets, while Wu Xiangnan and Hong Ying pointed out the training was closed and Cangnan was not cold enough for their winter gear.
• Chen Muye asked Lin Qiye to check whether the team could return the winter supplies they had bought.

Yuan Gang reviewed the unusually difficult recruit roster for the Night Watchmen’s training camp and called for Mask Squad to help manage the recruits. Lin Qiye arrived at the camp ahead of everyone else and stood at its gates, beginning his year of training.

• Yuan Gang arrived at the Training Camp and received the recruit roster, which included a Baili Family heir, a God's Agent of Archangel Michael, and several other formidable recruits.
• Yuan Gang insisted that all recruits would be treated equally and ordered the instructors to contact Mask Squad for support.
• A checkpoint soldier spotted Lin Qiye approaching with two suitcases and sent an officer to meet him.
• Lin Qiye showed the officer his identification, rode through the checkpoints, and arrived at the Training Camp as its first recruit.

Lin Qiye arrived early at the Training Camp, where Instructor Hong showed him around and helped him choose a dorm room. The next morning, Lin Qiye found a chubby young recruit defending their shared room from his fawning attendant and eagerly waiting to meet him.

• Instructor Hong welcomed Lin Qiye, toured him around the Training Camp, and explained that training would begin in three days.
• Lin Qiye chose a sunny dorm room, settled in, and spent his free time visiting the Psychiatric Hospital in his mind.
• Lin Qiye returned from the supply station and found a chubby boy and his entourage outside his dorm room.
• The boy kicked his attendant for trying to throw out Lin Qiye's belongings and declared that Lin Qiye was his roommate.
• The boy ordered his men to bring out welcome gifts while he waited to meet Lin Qiye.

Lin Qiye met his new roommate, Baili Pangpang, who showered him with luxury watches and behaved in increasingly bizarre ways. Their antics surprised the instructors who had expected two dangerous recruits to share the dormitory.

• Baili Pangpang introduced himself to Lin Qiye and offered him boxes of luxury watches as a welcome gift.
• Lin Qiye refused the watches, so Baili Pangpang put them away and sprawled across his bed without properly unpacking.
• Baili Pangpang secretly tried to hide the watches under Lin Qiye's bed while Lin Qiye pretended to sleep.
• When Lin Qiye caught him, Baili Pangpang claimed Lin Qiye's feet smelled nice and offered his own foot for Lin Qiye to smell.
• Yuan Gang and Hong Hao watched the recruits from another building, and Yuan Gang laughed after explaining that personality mattered more than background.

As new recruits filled the Training Camp, Lin Qiye watched Baili Pangpang try to win everyone over by handing out luxury watches, drawing the instructors’ ire. That afternoon, Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang arrived at the training grounds as Chief Instructor Yuan Gang surveyed the unruly recruits before training began.

• Lin Qiye woke to find Baili Pangpang already out of their dorm room and saw him handing luxury watches to recruits while insisting he came from an ordinary family.
• Lin Qiye noticed several recruits watching Baili Pangpang with indifference, contempt, or interest, including a calm young man and a disdainful girl.
• Instructor Hong dispersed the crowd, warned the recruits to follow discipline, and ordered everyone to assemble at the training grounds at two o’clock.
• Baili Pangpang returned to Lin Qiye with his remaining watches and explained that he gave gifts to build relationships, while Lin Qiye dismissed his reasoning.
• Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang reached the training grounds, where Chief Instructor Yuan Gang watched the disorderly recruits from the martial arts platform.

Yuan Gang challenged the recruits’ confidence and called them unprepared to face powerful Mysteries, prompting about half to object while Lin Qiye agreed. He summoned the Mask Squad to demonstrate their strength, and the squad landed dramatically before the recruits, ending with Vortex collapsing to his knees.

• Yuan Gang called the recruits trash and said their abilities would not save them against powerful Mysteries, leading many to raise their hands in disagreement.
• Baili Pangpang asked Lin Qiye what he thought, and Lin Qiye agreed with Yuan Gang because he had faced formidable Mysteries; Baili Pangpang followed his lead.
• Yuan Gang called for help, and seven Mask Squad members fell from the sky without parachutes as Vortex screamed in fear.
• Balance removed the squad’s gravity so they landed safely, and King Mask began introducing the Mask Squad to the recruits.
• Vortex’s legs went limp, and he dropped to his knees before the recruits.

Yuan Gang challenged the 239 recruits to remove a Mask Squad member’s mask by nine that night, with the squad members suppressing their strength to the Lamp realm. King Mask chose five fighters to face them, and the battle began with Balance striking a recruit who asked when it would start.

• Vortex knelt, then greeted the recruits with an early New Year’s wish, while Lin Qiye sensed King Mask’s divine aura and recognized him as another God’s Agent.
• Yuan Gang offered the recruits a chance to skip a year of intensive training if they removed a Mask Squad member’s mask before nine, but said they would have to obey all training demands if they failed.
• After the recruits objected to the difference in strength, Yuan Gang said Mask Squad would suppress its members to the Lamp realm, and the recruits eagerly accepted the challenge.
• King Mask declared that only five members were needed, and Lin Qiye explained to Baili Pangpang that the squad was avoiding exposing any weak links while the recruits lacked coordination.
• Yuan Gang left the arena, and King Mask sent two squad members away, leaving himself, Vortex, Rose, Balance, and Moon Ghost to face the recruits.
• When a recruit asked when the fight would begin, Balance struck him with an invisible force, and King Mask announced that the battle had already started.

Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang escaped the Mask Squad’s opening attack and raced to the warehouse, where they found the doors locked. Molly arrived and began shaking the warehouse with her power.

• Lin Qiye pulled Baili Pangpang away from the recruits’ charge, and Vortex absorbed their attacks before hurling them back and eliminating over ninety recruits.
• King Mask sent Moon Ghost to block the warehouse entrance while the Mask Squad prepared to surround the fleeing recruits.
• Yuan Gang told the instructors that the recruits who could contend with Mask had escaped, though he believed they could not win with one particular person involved.
• Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang reached the warehouse, discovered its doors were shut, and realized they lacked an easy way to open them.
• Molly introduced herself, pressed her hands against the warehouse doors, and made the building shake violently.