Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Qiye and Molly discussed their abilities and sought to gather the recruits with ultra-high-risk Forbidden Zones. Moon Ghost ambushed them outside the warehouse, and Molly struck him with her vibrating Tachi, though he regenerated the arm she severed.

• Molly destroyed the warehouse door and chose a Tachi while Lin Qiye took a standard-issue straight saber.
• Lin Qiye revealed he was the Seraph's Agent, prompting Molly to disclose her Myriad Phenomena Vibration Forbidden Zone.
• Baili Pangpang introduced himself to Molly, who rejected him, and Lin Qiye advised him to hide during the fight.
• Molly waited with Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang to recruit the cocky recruit they believed had an ultra-high-risk Forbidden Zone.
• Moon Ghost emerged from the void and attacked Molly, but Lin Qiye intercepted his short sword.
• Molly slashed Moon Ghost with her Tachi, severing his arm, and he regenerated it with hazy moonlight.

Lin Qiye and the recruits exposed Moon Ghost and overwhelmed him until the other members of Mask arrived, surrounding the group. Lin Qiye organized a charge toward Rose, but her enormous hammer came crashing down on the recruits.

• Molly’s Tachi struck Moon Ghost, but Lin Qiye realized Moon Ghost had turned part of his body into moonlight to evade the blade.
• Lin Qiye led the recruits in attacking Moon Ghost, forcing him to reveal himself and then trapping him in a group assault.
• Balance arrived and used Force Field Conversion and Double Gravity to lift debris above the recruits and slow their movements.
• Vortex, Rose, and King Mask appeared from the other directions, surrounding the recruits alongside Balance.
• Lin Qiye told the recruits to charge toward Rose when Balance attacked, and Molly shattered the falling debris with a shockwave from her Tachi.
• Rose enlarged her hammer to the size of an apartment building and brought it down toward the charging recruits.

Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, and Molly escaped the Mask Squad by luring Vortex into an explosive-filled warehouse and detonating it. They then predicted that the Mask Squad would attack the dormitory building, where recruits were likely waiting in ambush.

• Lin Qiye led Baili Pangpang and Molly south while the Mask Squad surrounded the other recruits.
• Lin Qiye trapped Vortex in the warehouse with a timed bomb and a cart of explosive charges, triggering a massive blast.
• Vortex survived by opening his Devouring Vortex, and King Mask praised Lin Qiye as the three recruits escaped.
• Lin Qiye explained why they had abandoned the larger group and predicted the Mask Squad would attack the dormitory building next.
• Baili Pangpang and Molly called Lin Qiye a freak after hearing his reasoning.

Mask Squad headed for the dormitory building, where Moon Ghost ambushed Shen Qingzhu’s recruits and fought him. Shen Qingzhu trapped Moon Ghost in a crushing cage, but Moon Ghost escaped as Shen Qingzhu launched an explosive attack.

• Balance persuaded King Mask’s squad to attack the dormitory building before going to the cafeteria.
• In the underground base, Yuan Gang drew the instructors’ attention to Cao Yuan and showed them his file.
• Cao Yuan refused to join Shen Qingzhu’s tactical discussion, while Shen Qingzhu planned an ambush for Mask Squad.
• Moon Ghost appeared behind the recruits, knocked out two, and fought Shen Qingzhu after Shen Qingzhu trapped the others in a vacuum.
• Moon Ghost escaped Shen Qingzhu’s air cage and attacked; Shen Qingzhu retreated, threw recruits into the corridor, and spat an explosive gum bubble at him.

The Mask Squad overwhelmed recruits in a dormitory, prompting Lin Qiye to lead his group toward the fighting and rescue whoever they could. Moon Ghost fought Shen Qingzhu until Rose and the others intervened, but Shen and his allies then revealed an ambush that trapped the Mask Squad.

• Balance and Rose destroyed a team of recruits in a dormitory, and the Mask Squad hurried toward Moon Ghost's battle.
• Lin Qiye decided to circle behind the Mask Squad and coordinate with the other high-risk recruit if possible, or rescue survivors and retreat.
• Shen Qingzhu used compressed air and sparks to fight Moon Ghost, but Rose struck him down with her hammer.
• King Mask, Balance, Vortex, and Rose approached Shen Qingzhu and searched for the remaining high-risk recruit.
• More than twenty recruits surrounded the Mask Squad with weapons and abilities as others sealed off its escape routes.
• Shen Qingzhu rose from the ruins and declared the Mask Squad checkmated.