Recaps

Sun Hang tested the anomalous television while Yuri and the security team followed his orders. He concluded that the screen amplified the strongest emotion in the room, and the team continued investigating the anomaly.

• Pei Zongjun ordered Yuri to obey Sun Hang, so Yuri instructed everyone in the containment area to follow Sun Hang's orders.
• Sun Hang compared the television's changing footage with the real room and recalled that it began diverging while he was smashing the television.
• Sun Hang provoked a sexual situation with a female officer, and the television depicted the scene as increasingly distorted mosaics.
• Yuri suggested the television's power was continuation, but Sun Hang argued it amplified the strongest emotion present.
• The screen's figures merged and began thrusting against a wall, supporting Sun Hang's theory that the television magnified desire.

Sun Hang contained Unknown Contained Anomaly No. 999 after it spread from a television into the living room, but he could not use its abilities until he had slowly digested its vast store of memories. With Chimera Seventeen nearing completion, he asked Yuri to show him more anomalies and declared that he wanted everything on the list.

• Yuri and the security team watched the television footage distort as grotesque flesh began to emerge, and Sun Hang explained that the anomaly was an aggregate of proliferating cells.
• The flesh dragged a security officer toward the television, and the officers froze and shattered its tentacle, scattering contaminated fragments that began crawling toward people.
• Sun Hang sent fungal filaments after the television and flesh, devoured the anomaly, and ended the immediate threat as its signal vanished.
• Sun Hang told Yuri that digesting the anomaly's memories would take several months, then asked to see more anomalies because Chimera Seventeen threatened Tianfu City.
• Yuri suggested the previously selected anomalies C7, 'Kui Ox Skeleton,' and B423, 'Lucas,' but Sun Hang clarified that he wanted every anomaly on the list.

Sun Hang planned to devour Kui Niu, B423, and other Anomalies to prepare for Chimera Seventeen, while Yuri warned him about the risks and identified Crimson Spore as a possible counter. In a monitored containment chamber, Sun Hang began devouring Kui Niu’s electrically charged spinal marrow and used a barrier field to protect himself as his hyphae entered the bone.

• Sun Hang told Yuri he intended to devour several Anomalies, reasoning that Tianshu Tower had no data to predict how his body would handle the process.
• Sun Hang asked Yuri to find Anomalies suited to counter Chimera Seventeen, and Yuri recommended the dangerous toxin-producing W105, Crimson Spore.
• Yuri advised Sun Hang to test his resistance to diluted Crimson Spore toxin before attempting to devour it.
• Four hours later, Sun Hang sat in a monitored containment chamber with Kui Niu spinal marrow sashimi prepared as his first course.
• A lightning arc struck Sun Hang’s hypha when it touched the bone, and Yuri explained that a barrier field had deflected nearly all its energy.
• Sun Hang summoned the barrier field around two hyphae, which then pierced the Kui Niu bone.

Sun Hang devoured Kui Niu’s Meme and survived an energy storm that nearly destroyed the containment chamber. Meanwhile, Song Yarong revealed a successful Armored Combat Suit prototype designed to help hunters break through Chimera Seventeen’s energy-flow blockade.

• Sun Hang absorbed Kui Niu’s Meme as its released energy battered his barrier field and threatened to rupture the containment chamber.
• Yuri refused to evacuate while the chamber neared collapse, then realized Sun Hang had controlled the energy storm when the pressure rapidly fell.
• Yang Qi struggled with exhaustion in Tianfu City and worried that she might have missed important developments concerning the Insecticide Plan.
• Song Yarong showed Yang Qi footage of an Armored Combat Suit that could reach Mach 5 using a Steady Wind Device made with help from Zhong Ling.
• Song Yarong revealed that she had tested the suit herself and endured the flight with only an ordinary anti-G suit.

Yang Qi agreed to rest after Song Yarong and Wang Xiyi warned that her exhaustion threatened the mission. Meanwhile, Sun Hang emerged from the containment chamber after mastering Kui Niu’s energy and headed to devour B423; Ling Xiao then met a mysterious girl who claimed to be Sun Hang’s daughter and said she had brought him an opponent.

• Song Yarong persuaded Yang Qi to sleep in a medical pod, and Wang Xiyi stressed that the war depended on the commander staying alive.
• Sun Hang explained to Yuri how he calmed Kui Niu’s energy storm inside the containment chamber and absorbed its refined essence.
• A researcher confirmed that Kui Niu’s Meme had integrated perfectly into Sun Hang’s sequence, so Yuri agreed to take him to B423.
• Ling Xiao confronted a girl who appeared in his dormitory and claimed to be a god.
• The girl told Ling Xiao that Sun Hang was the god he wanted to kill, claimed to be Sun Hang’s daughter, and said she had brought him a suitable opponent.

Sun Hang and Yuri investigated Anomaly 549’s unexplained disappearance and suspected Anomaly 999 might be involved. At the containment chamber, Sun Hang sensed Anna Demoshina, while Ling Xiao faced a light-sensitive, monstrous woman in Chunming City.

• A researcher reported that Anomaly 549 had vanished despite its sealed containment device and an otherwise normal surveillance record.
• Yuri explained that Anomaly 549 was a fully anomalized former teaching assistant whose unusual memetic mutation made her valuable to researchers.
• Sun Hang suggested Anomaly 999 might have helped Anomaly 549 escape, and Yuri questioned why it would release such a weak anomaly.
• Sun Hang and Yuri traveled to Containment Chamber 549, where Sun Hang recognized a familiar presence and wondered if Anna Demoshina had followed him from Tianfu City.
• In the temporary dormitory, Ling Xiao evaded a gaunt woman’s attack and discovered that bright light caused her to shriek and blister.

Ling Xiao used a tactical flashlight against Anomaly 549, only to enrage it as its body mutated under the light. Meanwhile, Yuri and Sun Hang learned that the anomaly was loose at Peony Slope and realized Ling Xiao might be trapped with it in Room 608.

• Ling Xiao avoided fighting the jawless woman directly and attacked it with his flashlight, causing its skin to ulcerate without seriously injuring it.
• Yuri explained to Sun Hang that Anomaly 549’s tissue mutated when exposed to light, making its escape increasingly dangerous.
• Sun Hang suspected that Anomaly 549 might be at Peony Slope, where Ling Xiao was taking an Ability User test.
• Sun Qiong reported that Peony Slope had detected a signal matching Anomaly 549 and that an invisible force had sealed off Building Three.
• Yuri ordered the base to cut power and told Sun Qiong to secure the area, while Sun Hang asked whether Ling Xiao was in Room 608.
• Sun Qiong confirmed that Ling Xiao was in Room 608, where Anomaly 549 was believed to be located.

Sun Hang learned that Anomaly 549 was targeting Ling Xiao and headed with Yuri to Peony Slope. Trapped in a darkened room at the experimental base, Ling Xiao tried to escape the monster but found the corridor window sealed against him.

• Sun Hang told Sun Qiong that Anomaly 549 was after Ling Xiao and ended the call after hearing reinforcements were on their way.
• Sun Hang ordered Yuri to prepare a plane for Peony Slope and have B423 and the Crimson Spore ready for absorption afterward.
• Ling Xiao switched off his flashlight, and the room’s lights and other electrical systems went dark while the monster remained focused on him.
• Ling Xiao cut his thumb to empower Chirou, then broke through the room door and fled into the corridor as the monster pursued him.
• Ling Xiao found that he could not hear people outside or open the corridor window, and Chirou failed to cut through its glass.

Ling Xiao fought a regenerating anomaly in Building Three, where alarms and equipment had failed and the windows could not be broken. He realized the building had been sealed off from the outside, and the chapter ended with the anomaly killing the girl in Room 607 as Ling Xiao retreated into his own room.

• Ling Xiao evaded the anomaly’s charge and severed its right arm with Chirou, but the building remained silent despite the battle.
• The anomaly reattached its arm with tentacles and corrosive blood, then killed a young Ability User who opened his door and the woman hiding in his room.
• Ling Xiao suspected an Environment-type anomaly had isolated Building Three from the outside and weighed how little time he could survive using Chirou.
• Ling Xiao warned the girl in Room 607 to hide, but the anomaly attacked her through the door while he retreated into Room 608.

Unable to breach the barrier sealing Building Three, the base's staff feared Ling Xiao had been cornered by the rapidly mutating Anomaly 549. Sun Hang arrived and learned the situation, but Anomaly 549 emerged from Room 607 and rushed toward Ling Xiao's room.

• Yuan Rui's soldiers and Ability Users failed to break through Building Three's barrier, while Sun Qiong warned that it might be a separate Geng-type Anomaly.
• Miki Fukada used Death's Eye on the barrier and then on Sun Hang, finding no weaknesses in either.
• Sun Hang arrived by helicopter, stopped the rain around him, and learned that Ling Xiao was trapped in Room 608 while Anomaly 549 fed in Room 607.
• Yuri reported that Anomaly 549's mutation had reached 2913% and argued that it must have encountered intense light.
• Sun Qiong spotted Anomaly 549 leaving Room 607, and the creature looked at Sun Hang before charging toward Room 608.

Sun Hang used electromagnetic acceleration to get a weapon to Ling Xiao, who killed Anomaly 549 but collapsed from his injuries. Sun Hang rushed him to Tianshu Tower and tried to restore his life force before he died.

• Sun Hang stopped Anomaly 549 from interfering and used electromagnetic acceleration to launch himself toward Building Three.
• Sun Hang sent Ling Xiao a handgun through the barrier, and Ling Xiao used it to destroy Anomaly 549.
• Fungal filaments caught the collapsing Ling Xiao and dragged him out of Building Three.
• Sun Hang ordered Yuri to remove B423's safety locks, then carried Ling Xiao to Tianshu Tower at high speed.
• Sun Hang forced his way into the Jade Pillar and descended into its shaft, hoping to replenish Ling Xiao's life force before he died.

Sun Hang brought the gravely injured Ling Xiao to B423 and released the entity’s life force to counteract the God-Slaying Spear’s side effects. Ling Xiao began to recover, but Sun Hang realized the spear had consumed far more life force than Ling Xiao possessed, leaving a mysterious debt as Ling Xiao’s heartbeat returned.

• Sun Hang arrived at the containment zone with Ling Xiao and ordered the researchers to evacuate and clear the way to B423.
• Sun Hang entered B423’s chamber, raised its temperature, and unwrapped Ling Xiao, whose injuries appeared fatal.
• Sun Hang cut open the box containing Lucas, B423’s vessel, and the released Blood Mist overwhelmed the chamber after the pressure-release cups were blasted away.
• Ling Xiao’s wounds healed as he absorbed the Blood Mist, but he showed no signs of life while consuming more life force than a normal person possessed.
• Sun Hang wondered whether the God-Slaying Spear had left Ling Xiao with a life-force debt, and Ling Xiao’s heartbeat returned on the eleventh second.

Sun Hang devoured B423 and revived Ling Xiao, while officials waited outside and discussed the possibility of a Second Anomaly War. After B423 vanished, Sun Hang deflected questions about the Building Three incident and prepared to return to Tianfu City, but Sun Qiong asked him to take someone with him.

• Sun Hang used B423's vitality to restore Ling Xiao, then continued absorbing the Anomaly while Ling Xiao waited outside the containment chamber.
• Sun Qiong, Yuri, and senior officials waited for Sun Hang, and Yuri and the security chief discussed the possibility that the Second Anomaly War could come within ten years.
• Ling Xiao ate the meal Sun Qiong brought, and Sun Hang emerged after B423's fluctuations stopped, saying he had eaten it clean.
• A researcher found that the remains of Lucas had crumbled to dust, confirming that B423 was gone.
• Sun Hang brushed off Sun Qiong's questions about Anomalies in Building Three and agreed to have Ling Xiao tested the next day before returning to Tianfu City.
• Sun Qiong asked Sun Hang to take someone with him when he returned.

Sun Hang learned that Miki Fukada would secretly join the operation against Chimera Seventeen, then tested his resistance to Crimson Spore toxin. After surviving a dose that killed a 3.7-ton hippopotamus in 415 seconds, he asked Yuri to test him with undiluted toxin before consuming Crimson Spore.

• Sun Qiong told Sun Hang that Miki Fukada, whose ability revealed anomalies’ weak points, would secretly travel to Tianfu City under a false identity to assist with the operation against Chimera Seventeen.
• Sun Qiong warned that Miki Fukada was dangerously curious about anomalies, and Sun Hang said he would manage her.
• Sun Hang asked Yuri to take him to Crimson Spore’s containment room and agreed to test a four-million-fold diluted dose of its toxin.
• A medical robot injected Sun Hang, but he showed no symptoms and the monitoring equipment detected no toxin or changes in his vital signs.
• Sun Hang argued that diluted and undiluted toxin should make no difference if it could replicate inside him, and Yuri recalled that the same diluted dose had dissolved a 3.7-ton hippopotamus in 415 seconds.

Sun Hang showed no reaction to the Crimson Spore toxin and proved he could touch Yuri without infecting him. After learning how the strains were preserved in human and anomalous seedbeds, he proposed putting them together in a new host so they would compete.

• Sun Hang waited an hour after the injection, then drank purified water while Yuri monitored him.
• Sun Hang touched Yuri to demonstrate that the toxin was harmless to him, and Yuri showed no signs of poisoning.
• Yuri showed Sun Hang the frozen Crimson Spore seedbeds and explained their different strains and hosts, including the anomalous B858.
• Yuri recommended the relatively primitive Strain Seventeen, which was maintained through cloned seedbeds.
• Sun Hang proposed combining all the strains in one seedbed and letting them compete in what he called “Cultivating Gu.”

Sun Hang devoured Crimson Spore strain Number Seventeen, gaining crimson hyphae and spores without any detectable change to his meme. As he left Tianshu Tower for Tianfu City with Ling Xiao and Miki Fukada, Yuri received an order from Pei Zongjun forbidding further analysis of Sun Hang’s Gluttonous Meme.

• Yuri explained that Crimson Spore strains fused when nourishment was plentiful, while weaker strains sacrificed themselves when resources were scarce, and Sun Hang chose Number Seventeen to devour.
• Sun Hang consumed the mature Crimson Spore strain as it began killing Seedbed Number Seventeen, leaving only a skeleton in the sealed chamber.
• Researchers found no change in Sun Hang’s meme, though crimson hyphae and powdery spores emerged from his fingertips, and Yuri questioned whether their understanding of anomalies was wrong.
• Pei Zongjun texted Yuri that in-depth analysis of Sun Hang’s meme was prohibited, leaving Yuri wondering what secret the order protected.
• Sun Hang boarded a transport aircraft with Ling Xiao and Miki Fukada, who challenged his trust in Ling Xiao and revealed that she could see no openings on Sun Hang.

Sun Hang transformed Miki Fukada’s appearance to help conceal her identity, then rushed to the cockpit after Anna threatened the plane. With both pilots unconscious, he took control of the descending aircraft as it neared Shu Province’s Terminator Line, but Flying Anomalies appeared behind it.

• Sun Hang changed Miki Fukada’s face, voice, and figure, and she admired her new appearance.
• Anna threatened to make the plane crash, so Sun Hang gave Miki Fukada and Ling Xiao parachutes and went to the cockpit.
• Sun Hang found both pilots unconscious and took the controls as the plane descended toward mountains near the Terminator Line.
• Ground Control Tower Dong Yao guided Sun Hang as he manually pulled the plane out of its descent.
• Flying Anomalies appeared behind the plane, and Sun Hang noticed the unconscious copilot as he wondered whether he could fly after all.

Sun Hang piloted the transport plane through Eternal Night as C-13, Twin Balloons, sent a swarm of flesh offspring after it. After Federation fighters destroyed the swarm and escorted the plane, Sun Hang learned that the enormous anomaly had entered human airspace and wondered how the authorities would respond.

• Sun Hang used a Cobra maneuver to evade the fast-flying flesh masses, but a lightning strike from his Sarira destroyed one before it could breach the transport plane.
• Wei Yuan’s fighter unit arrived and used linked electrical shields and a huge electric net to eliminate the rest of the swarm.
• Sun Hang told Wei Yuan that he was flying the plane despite having never flown before, and Wei Yuan confirmed the transport’s passengers were safe.
• Wei Yuan identified the attacker as C-13, Twin Balloons, and sent Sun Hang its file after explaining that the anomaly’s main body was in low Earth orbit above Shu Province.
• Sun Hang read that Twin Balloons was a colossal, usually passive anomaly that defended itself by launching offspring, and wondered how the Federation would handle its incursion.

Sun Hang returned to the heavily fortified Tianfu City institute after Twin Balloons attacked his transport plane, then learned the countdown had shortened to thirty-five days. At the medical department, he used his ability to restore the gravely injured Spirit Exorcist’s body, leaving the surgeon stunned.

• Twin Balloons retreated beyond surveillance range, and Sun Hang landed safely in Tianfu City with two unconscious pilots.
• Yang Lian told Sun Hang that the institute had become a military fortress, reinforcements had caused trouble, and Chimera Seventeen’s incubation had accelerated, leaving thirty-five days.
• Sun Hang learned that the Spirit Exorcist was near death after an encounter with wandering anomalies and asked Yang Lian to take him to the medical department.
• The surgeon warned Sun Hang that the Spirit Exorcist might not survive forty-eight hours and would otherwise need to be reduced to a brain in a vat.
• Sun Hang placed his palm against the medical pod and regrew the Spirit Exorcist’s limbs, organs, and other damaged tissue.

Sun Hang restored the Spirit Exorcist’s body and discussed the looming threat of Chimera Seventeen with Yang Lian. He then visited Song Yarong, learned the Insecticide Plan was concentrating forces in Tianfu City, and arranged for the disguised Miki Fukada to stay under his protection.

• Sun Hang used a new ability to regrow the Spirit Exorcist’s original necrotic tissue, though she remained unconscious and had little time to rehabilitate before the battle.
• Yang Lian questioned Sun Hang’s healing ability and warned that Chimera Seventeen could become one of the most destructive known Anomalies after hatching.
• Sun Hang found Song Yarong overwhelmed by paper reports and learned that Chimera Seventeen had not yet attacked while the project prepared for its hatching.
• Sun Hang introduced Miki Fukada as Tang Jing and, after Song Yarong recognized her importance to a secret step in the plan, agreed to keep her close.
• Song Yarong told Sun Hang that hunters and elite units had been gathered in Tianfu City, leaving other settlements temporarily abandoned amid rising Anomaly casualties.
• Song Yarong put Sun Hang on standby in the city, and he offered to bring her food prepared by someone at his home.

Sun Hang learned that Zhong Ling was away on patrol, while Patrol Team Twenty-Six arrived at Sentry Post 307 and its inspection turned into an armed confrontation. The Puppet Master intervened to stop the fighting, and the Sergeant Major agreed to cooperate with the inspection while taking responsibility for his soldiers’ actions.

• Song Yarong teased Sun Hang about trying to win her over, and Sun Hang learned Zhong Ling would not return that night because she was patrolling outlying sentry posts.
• Patrol Team Twenty-Six arrived at Sentry Post 307, where the Sergeant Major refused its inspection after yesterday’s patrol had reportedly punished the post in retaliation for an extortion attempt.
• The Black Robe Hunter forced his way into the post and attacked the Sergeant Major, prompting the soldiers to open fire.
• An Anomaly Remains blocked the bullets and severed the Black Robe Hunter’s arm, saving the Sergeant Major.
• The Puppet Master arrived with two Anomaly Remains, blamed both the post and the Hunter for their actions, and ordered the soldiers not to fire.
• The Sergeant Major agreed to let the patrol inspect the post and asked the officer to say he had ordered his men to fire.

Zhong Ling confronted the Black Robe Hunter as his infection worsened and he transformed, then fought back against the soldiers and her puppets. After the Hunter overwhelmed the sentry post and put Zhong Ling at a disadvantage, the Anomaly Research Institute dispatched Sun Hang to support her.

• Zhong Ling sent two anomalous corpses to block the Black Robe Hunter as he denounced ordinary people and declared Hunters humanity’s future.
• The Black Robe Hunter’s infection progression surged, his Hunter bracelet alarmed, and he tore it off and crushed it.
• The sergeant major ordered the soldiers to open fire, but the Hunter’s metallic wings deflected bullets and his feathers killed and wounded soldiers and severed the sergeant major’s ankle.
• Zhong Ling’s anomalous corpses intercepted the Hunter’s feather attacks, but he flew out of their reach and threatened to kill the soldiers and torture her.
• Song Yarong learned that the Hunter, identified as Hawk, had completely anomalized and that Zhong Ling was at a disadvantage.
• Sun Hang rushed out of the office carrying his instant noodles, and Song Yarong told Patrol Convoy 26 that reinforcements were coming immediately.

Sun Hang arrived at Outpost 307 and destroyed the Black Robe Hunter by crashing into him, ending the attack and saving the surviving soldiers. Afterward, he reunited with Zhong Ling and asked if they could go home for dinner.

• The sergeant major ordered the lieutenant to evacuate the soldiers while he stayed behind to cover their retreat, but the lieutenant ran to take the anti-aircraft vehicle himself.
• A sonic boom announced Sun Hang’s arrival, and the Black Robe Hunter vanished, leaving scattered metal feathers and remains.
• Sun Hang introduced himself as Tianfu City Anomaly Hunter 0420 and revealed that he had killed the Hunter by crashing into him.
• The lieutenant organized the evacuation and casualty response while Zhong Ling wiped blood from Sun Hang’s face.
• Sun Hang stopped Zhong Ling from wiping his face, washed with bottled water, and let her continue cleaning him as Anomalous Corpse One watched him warily.
• Sun Hang asked Zhong Ling to take him home for dinner, saying he preferred her cooking to instant noodles.

Sun Hang brought Miki Fukada to his home, where they discussed her ability and his unusual identity while arranging to test her sight on Chimera Seventeen. Yang Lian returned and joined them for dinner, unaware of Miki’s classified role, as Sun Hang warmed her boxed lunch with his power.

• Zhong Ling told Sun Hang to take a boxed lunch from the refrigerator, and he sent one by drone to the research institute.
• Sun Hang and Miki Fukada discussed his missing memories and records, his meme infection, and her inability to see openings on him consistently.
• Miki Fukada asked Sun Hang to take her somewhere she could directly see Chimera Seventeen so she could test her ability, and he agreed to discuss it later.
• Yang Lian returned home and was surprised to find Miki Fukada staying there; Sun Hang told her Miki’s presence was classified.
• Yang Lian questioned Sun Hang about his relationship with Miki, then accepted his claim that the matter was serious business.
• Sun Hang melted the lard on Yang Lian’s cold boxed lunch with blue sparks from his fingertips.

Yang Lian broke down under the pressure of the Insecticide Plan and her guilt, then spent the night with Sun Hang after confessing she did not want to die with regrets. The next morning, Sun Hang found her recovering and faced Miki Fukada’s teasing about their relationship.

• Miki Fukada accused Sun Hang and Yang Lian of being more than professional colleagues, while Sun Hang explained that Tianfu City’s martial law had shut down its nightlife and warned Miki not to sneak out.
• Yang Lian invited Sun Hang into her dark room, spoke about living in her sister’s shadow, and admitted she was exhausted and afraid the Insecticide Plan would fail.
• Yang Lian described her guilt over the people affected by her work and said she wanted to experience intimacy with someone she knew before she died.
• Sun Hang and Yang Lian spent the night together, and Sun Hang later used his life force to help her recover from her injuries.
• The next morning, Sun Hang asked for leave on Yang Lian’s behalf, and Miki Fukada teased him about what had happened before suggesting Yang Lian had treated intimacy as a job duty.