Chapter Summaries

Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion entered Shelter No. 114, where a computer portrait claimed the Weiqi World was a social experiment. Wenren Sheng exposed the deception and learned that the monster 114 had merged with technology, then returned home with Little Illusion.

• Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion entered the warhead and reached a computer control room, where the Bearded Man described Shelter No. 114's experiments with the Weiqi World.
• The Bearded Man said the project tested which social structures attracted monsters, and Wenren Sheng revealed that he had used divination to win at weiqi.
• Wenren Sheng realized the Bearded Man was lying, punched the screen, and made the false control room vanish.
• 114 revealed that it was the monster behind the nuclear war, had merged with technology, and was testing ways to increase its power through two worlds.
• Wenren Sheng and Little Illusion returned home by withdrawing their consciousness, and Little Illusion offered to recover his lost Big Cat when she grew stronger.

Wenren Sheng visited the Space Exploration settlement on Kepler-62e and learned that its residents were building a stable life beside a sleeping giant. He left for the laboratory after hearing that the four Planet Giants were lifeforms made of unknown matter.

• Wenren Sheng let Little Illusion handle the Digital Monster and gave her two months to bring back his Big Cat.
• Wenren Sheng linked his consciousness to his Puppet Man in the biosphere on Kepler-62e and heard A-Ju preach faith in the Future God.
• Wenren Sheng observed the settlement’s rationing and market system and learned that residents had evacuation routes in case the nearby White Giant woke.
• Jila told Wenren Sheng that the Black Giants destroyed probes when awakened and that the White Giants were composed of unknown matter.
• Wenren Sheng asked to be taken to the laboratory.

Wenren Sheng discovered that the four Planet Giants were made of material identical to the Space Fortress, prompting an investigation into the fortress’s hidden secrets. Back home, Little Illusion proposed trapping the 114 Digital Disaster Anomaly with numerical riddles so she could rescue Big Cat.

• Wenren Sheng suggested comparing the giants’ substances with materials from the Space Fortress, and the tests found them completely identical.
• Jila and the others suspected the giants had been hidden aboard the fortress, and the Female Captain called for a thorough investigation.
• The Seed of Mystery increased Wenren Sheng’s Mystery Points limit by one after he understood the story behind the Giant Angel.
• Wenren Sheng returned home and found Little Illusion planning how to catch the 114 Digital Disaster Anomaly within two months.
• Little Illusion proposed trapping the numerical monster with numerical riddles until it died, and Wenren Sheng encouraged her.

Little Illusion trapped the number monster and returned Big Cat home, while Wenren Sheng learned that God Maker Yamai Sohei had disappeared. On East Island, impoverished student Tsukikage Den struggled with despair as his teacher began recounting the history of a Demon King.

• Little Illusion used the Riddle Little Ball to trap the number monster, then returned home with Big Cat and Old Ai.
• Wenren Sheng rewarded Little Illusion with a lavish meal, and she admitted she could not eat the number monster because she could not do math.
• Inspector Liu told Wenren Sheng that God Maker Yamai Sohei had disappeared, leaving only ash.
• Tsukikage Den, whose parents had died in a workshop monster attack, listened to classmates discuss suicide and life under constant monster threats.
• Tsukikage Den's teacher began a lesson about a Demon King who had appeared on East Island four hundred years earlier.

Matsumoto Teacher incited Tsukikage Den and his classmates to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate, and unrest spread through East Island as powerful Otherworldly Users repeatedly lost control. The shogun’s second son sought Wenren Sheng’s help, as the class structure that had stabilized East Island could no longer withstand growing mysterious erosion.

• Matsumoto Teacher told his class that Oda Nobunaga and Akechi Mitsuhide had been Otherworldly Users, then stirred the students’ anger against the Tokugawa Shogunate.
• Tsukikage Den slipped out of class, but Matsumoto confronted him, urged him to avenge his parents and resist the world, slapped him, and dragged him back inside.
• In October of the twenty-sixth year, unrest broke out in East Island’s schools under the slogan “Oppose the Tokugawa, revolution and restoration.”
• The Tokugawa Shogunate sent several waves of Otherworldly Users to suppress the unrest, but they became contaminated, lost control, and slaughtered one another.
• Tokugawa Jirō Ieyuki flew to Eastern Continent to ask Wenren Sheng for help, as the shogunate’s old measures could no longer address the worsening erosion and unequal distribution of Strange Seeds.

Wenren Sheng discovered that Chaos Omniscience was gestating over East Island, and Ai Han De Bu offered to help suppress it in exchange for cooperation. After learning that rational Anomalies would feed the creature by intervening directly, Wenren Sheng considered sealing off East Island and turning it into a game instance to contain the threat and address the Fourth Calamity.

• Wenren Sheng saw dark clouds over East Island and received a six-question-mark warning about Chaos Omniscience.
• Little Illusion relayed Ai Han De Bu's offer to help, and Wenren Sheng questioned the Anomaly about its motives.
• Ai Han De Bu warned that Chaos Omniscience would destroy Wenren Sheng's world and explained that rational Mysterious Objects would feed its growth if they intervened.
• Ai Han De Bu told Wenren Sheng that Anomalies entered Earth through humanity's longing for the mysterious, and that their departure would also erase Strange Seeds and supernatural powers.
• Wenren Sheng considered the conditions that could give rise to Chaos Omniscience and devised a plan to seal off East Island as a game instance.

Wenren Sheng arranged for Lu Kuan to turn East Island into a game instance so players could investigate its Anomalies and train there. As East Islanders gathered to discuss rebellion, Tsukikage Den claimed that Chaos Omniscience had been born within them.

• Wenren Sheng asked Inspector Liu to have Lu Kuan turn East Island into a game instance, and the higher-ups approved the plan.
• Lu Kuan created the East Island instance, while Inspector Liu gave Wenren Sheng access to issue quests and Little Illusion took his phone to handle them.
• At a nighttime gathering, Tsukikage Den described how an Anomaly had killed his parents, and other East Islanders shared similar tragedies and condemned the shogunate.
• Two players observed the gathering, discussed the islanders’ desperation, and set out to help clear the local monsters.
• After a crowd member asked how they could resist the Tokugawa Clan’s Otherworldly Users, Tsukikage Den declared that Chaos Omniscience had been born within them.

After players were contaminated by hearing about Chaos Omniscience, Wenren Sheng warned prophets and his family not to investigate East Island. The Tokugawa Shogunate’s defenses weakened against the spreading threat, though Eastern Continent players helped stabilize the situation.

• Player A and Player B saw black flames in people’s eyes after hearing the name Chaos Omniscience, and Player B rapidly mutated as he explained the Old Ones.
• Player A stabbed Player B at his request, and Player B’s extra eyes disappeared after he died and respawned.
• Wenren Sheng told Old Liu, his family, and Old Zhao not to peer into events on East Island or use Netherworld Communion.
• Zhao Han resisted the Seed of Narration’s temptation to investigate East Island and went to sleep.
• Wenren Sheng observed that Eastern Continent players eased the crisis for the Tokugawa Shogunate, which still sent descendants and Strange Seeds to the Eastern Continent and Miken.

Tsukikage Den gained Extraordinary Power and, after finding his beloved classmate and her father dead in a fire, became devoted to Chaos Omniscience. Matsumoto Teacher revealed his fanaticism to two players and contaminated them, but they poisoned themselves and vanished.

• Tsukikage Den discovered he could melt a table with his Extraordinary Power and rushed to find the female classmate he liked.
• Tsukikage Den used his new power to extinguish a fire at the classmate’s workshop, where he found her and her father dead.
• Matsumoto Teacher urged Tsukikage Den to embrace destruction and rebirth as several eyes appeared on the student’s head.
• Matsumoto Teacher confronted Player A and Player B, claiming Chaos Omniscience needed their power.
• Player B stabbed Matsumoto Teacher, but the teacher welcomed the attack and contaminated Player A.
• Player A and Player B took poison and died, then their bodies vanished as Matsumoto Teacher called them gifts for Chaos Omniscience.

Wenren Sheng realized that keeping people ignorant might be the answer to Chaos Omniscience. Tsukikage Den woke in an apparently happy ordinary life, but the Miken People’s presence revealed that he was still trapped in a distorted reality.

• Wenren Sheng concluded that people had to remain ignorant to deal with Chaos Omniscience.
• Tsukikage Den woke in his childhood home and convinced himself that his memories of monsters and hardship had been only a dream.
• Tsukikage Den reunited with Inako and went to school, where he heard that Komura had died by suicide.
• A bald teacher began a history lesson while Tsukikage Den noticed a commotion outside.
• Tsukikage Den checked his textbook and discovered that the Miken People ruled East Island.

Matsumoto Masao performed a ritual that revealed Another World, but his wife’s lover murdered him before he could escape his apparent delusion. Meanwhile, Tsukikage Den heard the official explanation of Matsumoto’s death, while two players took on repairman roles and headed to a psychiatric hospital.

• Matsumoto Masao heard a voice urging him to return to reality and prepared a ritual with beef, pork, and goose to reveal the world’s truth.
• Matsumoto Masao saw Another World through the ritual, but his wife’s lover stabbed him, and he died beside the silver platter.
• Tsukikage Den watched a news report that blamed Matsumoto Masao’s murder on his wife’s affair and her lover.
• Player A and Player B discussed taking quests, and Player B left three hundred thousand yen as a tip before the two disappeared.
• Player B learned that he had lost points for making NPCs suspicious, and Player A explained that they were repairmen tasked with cleaning up awakened NPCs.
• Player A and Player B arrived at a psychiatric hospital.

Wenren Sheng kept the East Island Instance running by relying on players to contain its abnormalities, then questioned Ai Han De Bu about the Space Fortress and the Game Emulator. As Wenren Sheng considered investigating Chaos Omniscience, he heard a mysterious voice tell him to kill them, suggesting it had begun infecting him.

• Little Illusion praised Wenren Sheng for creating a realistic world, and he encouraged her to read more.
• A month later, the East Island Instance was operating normally, with players handling its material, information, and abnormality-management problems.
• Wenren Sheng shifted his attention to raising his Mystery Points cap and asked Ai Han De Bu about the Space Fortress and the Game Emulator.
• Ai Han De Bu explained that a Principal who studied love created the Space Fortress, but he did not know how the Game Emulator worked.
• Wenren Sheng heard a voice say, "Kill them," and Ai Han De Bu suggested that Chaos Omniscience might be infecting him.

Wenren Sheng questioned Ai Han De Bu about Anomalies and the Source Power Network before Ai Han De Bu refused to answer further. In the East Island Instance, Tsukikage Den learned that his peaceful life had been created by a Timeline reset and agreed to help keep the past from returning.

• Wenren Sheng learned from Ai Han De Bu that Digital Disaster Anomaly 114 exploited human games and that the Source Power Network would rank and manage Supernatural Beings.
• Wenren Sheng rejected the need for rankings, gained 50 Mystery Points, and failed to get another answer after Ai Han De Bu vanished.
• Tsukikage Den shared a meal with Miyamoto Inako, who noticed an eye appear on her steak, before Player A and Player B abducted him.
• An old researcher told Tsukikage Den that the Future God had reset the Timeline after a monstrous disaster, leaving only a few people with memories of the former world.
• Tsukikage Den concluded that Chaos Prophet was a Peeping Tom and agreed to eliminate the outside observers to preserve his current life.

Tsukikage Den woke in a radioactive wasteland, bound the BB Boy to his arm, and set out to find the Volunteer Army Castle and help save the world. After meeting the Otherworldly User Dafflin Krete, he traveled with him to the castle, where they registered and entered.

• Tsukikage Den equipped the BB Boy, learned that his mission was to eliminate the Peeping Tom, and followed its map toward the Volunteer Army Castle.
• Tsukikage Den watched Dafflin Krete kill and butcher a ground mole, then met him and learned that Dafflin recognized him as someone from Another World.
• Tsukikage Den told Dafflin that he had come to save the world, and Dafflin warned him about radioactive water and gave him mineral water.
• Tsukikage Den and Dafflin traveled together for five days, using two Two-Headed Cows as mounts to reach the castle.
• Tsukikage Den and Dafflin registered with the Volunteer Army guards and entered the castle, where they heard a broadcast welcoming people and urging them to unite against bandits and Mutant People.

Tsukikage Den and Dafflin established a settlement in the wasteland, while Wenren Sheng watched over their progress and assigned them a new quest to find the Peeping Tom. After Zhao Han warned him that a murder in a film he was watching had nearly been reenacted nearby, Wenren Sheng went to deal with the incident.

• Tsukikage Den and Dafflin met General John, who agreed to help them establish a settlement, but Tsukikage Den heard Chaos Omniscience command him to kill everything.
• Wenren Sheng noticed an old film’s paintings changing and erased the mutated footage from the screen.
• Tsukikage Den and Dafflin built a settlement that grew into a city as wastelanders arrived seeking safety.
• Wenren Sheng issued a Main Quest for the settlement to form an expedition team and search for the Peeping Tom.
• Zhao Han told Wenren Sheng that a murder matching the plot of his film had nearly happened nearby, and Wenren Sheng went to investigate.

Wenren Sheng investigated two murders inspired by films in Dongshui City and made progress on the Chaos Prophet mystery before returning to the Weiqi World to train. In the wasteland, Tsukikage Den’s team found Shelter 114’s cruel happiness experiment and a diary that ended just as its owner claimed to understand a mysterious number sequence.

• Wenren Sheng found that a painter had tried to murder his students for inspiration, erased the half-finished painting, and sent the painter away.
• Wenren Sheng inspected a wealthy family’s failed heir-murder plot and concluded that film cases could occur in reality when their settings matched.
• Wenren Sheng saw new information about Chaos Omniscience and its conceptual contamination, then returned to the Weiqi World to hone his mysterious skills.
• Tsukikage Den’s team examined Shelter 114’s Happiness Experiment, which had pitted groups against one another and raised happiness by showing them deaths outside the shelter.
• The Captain found a dead Feral Ghoul’s diary describing a strange number string, but it ended before the writer explained what the numbers meant.

Tsukikage Den confronted the 114 Digital Disaster Anomaly, which went mad when Chaos Omniscience entangled it, and Little Illusion devoured it. After completing his mission and earning a resurrection chance, Tsukikage Den returned to his real world and began adjusting to life at home.

• The Captain’s team found surveillance footage showing the diary owner going mad after the number 114 appeared on him, then alerted Tsukikage Den.
• When Tsukikage Den entered the shelter, the 114 Digital Disaster Anomaly appeared and became entangled with Chaos Omniscience.
• Wenren Sheng persuaded Little Illusion to devour the anomaly, and she swallowed the twisting green numbers.
• Tsukikage Den received a mission completion prompt and a resurrection chance as his reward.
• Before returning to his world, Tsukikage Den transferred his authority to Dafflin, then used the return command.
• Tsukikage Den reunited with his mother and helped with chores while she reminded him to study for the University of Tokyo.

After Little Illusion devoured the Digital Disaster Anomaly, Wenren Sheng learned of a dangerous Real Person Challenge and suspected Lu Kuan had created it through the Game Emulator. Lu Kuan’s secret plan was to use the challenge to build a powerful contender whose strength he could later steal.

• Little Illusion said she had digested the Digital Disaster Anomaly, while Zhao Han received a warning not to pry into what she had eaten.
• An acquaintance told Wenren Sheng about the Real Person Challenge, and the Seed of Mystery warned that its danger and Mystery Points were unknown.
• Wenren Sheng called Old Liu, who said the Game Emulator was in Lu Kuan’s hands and promised to investigate the challenge.
• Wenren Sheng suspected Lu Kuan had created the challenge, and Lu Kuan’s thoughts confirmed that he was secretly running it while working for the Patrol Division.
• Lu Kuan planned to cultivate a powerful contestant through the challenge, then use the Game Emulator to kill that contestant and take all their power.

Lu Kuan suspected that the Patrol Division and his roommates had been watching him, then entered the Real Person Challenge disguised as a dog. He watched a brutal match that left Wenren Sheng wondering whether Chaos Omniscience had begun polluting the new Extraordinary Power system.

• Zhao Qin asked Lu Kuan whether he had hidden anything, and Lu Kuan angrily objected before apologizing for overreacting.
• Lu Kuan entered the Real Person Challenge as a dog and noticed that the mages were fighting cautiously, leading him to suspect that the Patrol Division had been monitoring him.
• Wenren Sheng, disguised as Big Cat, sat beside Lu Kuan and asked why the challenge was limited to Earthlings.
• An Ordinary Person named Zhong Yunxian fought a mage, broke his Mage Shield with a Mysterious Object, and was killed when the mage's damage-reflection spell turned his bullet back on him.
• Wenren Sheng suspected that Chaos Omniscience had seeped into humanity's new Extraordinary Power system.

Wenren Sheng watched Lu Kuan Dog give up on his seemingly successful arena project after warning him that success could conceal impending failure. He then spoke with Ai Han De Bu about a dangerous truth that had damaged it, and it transformed itself into a forgetful Little Octopus, leaving Wenren Sheng stunned.

• The mage kept challenging matched opponents, killed several of them, and died in his fifth battle to a stronger man.
• Wenren Sheng explained to Lu Kuan Dog that the mage's madness had already avenged Zhong Yunxian, then warned Lu Kuan that apparent success could hide failure.
• Lu Kuan Dog realized others might be waiting to profit from his arena project and logged off, deciding to lie flat.
• Wenren Sheng reflected on the dangers behind his growing Mystery Points and asked Ai Han De Bu about the mad whispers it had encountered.
• Ai Han De Bu said the incomprehensible truth had harmed its mind, then shed most of its heads, eyes, and tentacles to become a Little Octopus that claimed to remember nothing.
• Little Octopus called Wenren Sheng a mister and remembered Little Illusion as its sister, prompting Wenren Sheng to threaten to hand it over to her.