Recaps

Sun Hang and his companions investigated a command-room hijacking led by Ye Xuan and pressed the base officers to let him negotiate. The standoff continued as an officer went to seek approval, leaving Sun Hang waiting to see whether they would accept his offer.

• An officer showed Sun Hang and the others surveillance footage of the hijackers holding the base commander hostage behind barricades.
• Yang Lian identified the leader as Ye Xuan, daughter of Councilman Ye Shaochun, and the officer reported that Shaochun had been detained and his plane was returning under escort.
• Sun Hang asked to enter the command room and speak with Ye Xuan, but an officer refused while awaiting a decision from the Federation Council.
• Sun Hang argued that Ye Xuan had not killed the hostage or tried to escape and warned the officers that the Council's likely responses could cost the commander his position.
• The officer went to call for instructions, while Sun Hang told Yang Lian that their identities made them suitable scapegoats.

Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi negotiated with Ye Xuan at Longquanyi Air Force Base, where Ye Xuan was holding the commander hostage. They agreed to wait for the next Spacetime Anomaly on May nineteenth, while the missing people from the South City Public Cemetery incident and the Council Representative were brought to an enclosed camp.

• Wang Xiyi forced open the command room door and let a bullet ricochet off her metallic scales.
• Ye Xuan recognized Sun Hang and asked him when the next Spacetime Anomaly would occur.
• Sun Hang told Ye Xuan that he expected it three days later, on May nineteenth, during the day.
• Ye Xuan agreed to have the missing people from the South City Public Cemetery incident brought to the base, and Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi ended the five-minute negotiation.
• The Tianfu City Management Committee transported the missing people to Longquanyi Air Force Base, and Sun Hang ordered them and the Council Representative confined to an enclosed camp for three days.

Sun Hang prepared the air base for a possible Spacetime Anomaly, arranging an evacuation and beacon deployment while waiting for the predicted event. As May 19 began, the air grew stagnant, and the base braced for what might happen before dawn.

• Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi discussed the Council Representative’s daughter, Sun Hang’s missing memories, and why he had become a hunter.
• Sun Hang discovered that two people were missing from the expected headcount and ordered the military to retrieve Ding Yuanjiang’s feverish children from their home.
• The children’s grandparents accompanied them to the base, bringing the total headcount to 188 instead of the expected 186.
• Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi waited for the predicted event, and Sun Hang said he prepared for the worst-case possibility.
• At midnight on May 19, the air over the base grew stagnant, and Sun Hang noted that five hours remained until dawn.

Sun Hang and the others prepared for an anomaly expected to affect the 188 missing people, whose perceived time lagged ten hours behind the real world. A photograph revealed a clock in Sun Hang’s blurred memory might hold important information, so Wang Xiyi requested an anomalous object to help recover it.

• Sun Hang warned the missing people to remain together, and the senior colonel arranged to maintain order in the barracks as their perceived night began.
• Sun Hang recalled seeing high-rise buildings during the second resonance and asked the research institute to photograph the distant business district.
• Yang Lian and Sun Hang identified the Financial Center Building’s clock showing 5:08 in the new photograph.
• Sun Hang said he remembered a clock in the resonance but could not recall what it showed, while Wang Xiyi suggested that an unseen force was obscuring the memory.
• Wang Xiyi called the director and requested authorization to deploy the contained anomalous object 'Ji 1992' to the air force base.

Sun Hang used the Crystal Ball to recover details from his second resonance and tried to break through the barrier sealing his memories from before the attack. The chapter ended as he pressed harder against that barrier, hoping to recover what he had lost.

• Wang Xiyi explained that the Crystal Ball enhanced memory but could cause vivid recollections, dreams, and Hyperthymesia, and Yang Lian described its former owner's fate.
• Researchers from the Tianfu City Anomaly Research Institute brought the Crystal Ball to the air force base and warned Sun Hang not to touch it for more than 120 seconds.
• Sun Hang placed his palm on the Crystal Ball and recovered the time shown on the Financial Center Building clock: 3:15 on May 19, Year 4719 of the Lunar Calendar.
• Sun Hang used the Crystal Ball to trace his memories back before waking in the hospital and sensed a membrane sealing the memories from before his attack.
• Sun Hang pushed harder against the membrane, trying to recover his lost memories.

Sun Hang broke through a barrier in his memories and encountered three monkey statues, then returned to reality as the Christmas Crystal Ball shattered. He confirmed that the abnormal event would occur at 3:15 p.m. and ate with Wang Xiyi as the base prepared for it.

• Sun Hang entered a white space and found three monkey statues covering their eyes, ears, and mouth.
• Sun Hang pried at the statue covering its eyes, and its light destroyed the vision and apparently destroyed him before he returned to reality.
• The Christmas Crystal Ball cracked apart, and researchers reported that Ji 1992's memetic frequency had disappeared.
• Sun Hang told the senior colonel that the Financial Center Building showed 3:15 p.m. as the time of the coming abnormal change.
• The base expanded its blockade zone and distributed meals, while Sun Hang shared his cilantro dishes with Wang Xiyi.

Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi discussed how the Federation created infected children to produce Anomaly Hunters and how Wang Xiyi had survived the experiments. Wang Xiyi asked Sun Hang to eat her when her remaining lifespan ran out, while the two agreed that the people marked by the Spacetime Anomaly might need to be abandoned to prevent greater harm.

• Wang Xiyi told Sun Hang that she had been infected with the Black Dragon meme in a Federation experiment and was the only survivor among fifty children.
• Wang Xiyi guessed that Sun Hang had been infected with Taotie because his presence made her instincts sense a dangerous predator.
• Wang Xiyi asked Sun Hang to eat her when the time came, and Sun Hang answered with jokes about how she should be cooked.
• Sun Hang said he planned to gather the marked people but did not intend to save them, since they had become Sunk Cost and the Spacetime Anomaly could cause greater harm.
• Wang Xiyi warned Sun Hang that a Hunter should not openly express that view, and Sun Hang compared the impossible choice to a runaway tram and a toilet plunger.

Sun Hang waited with the military for the anomaly to occur, realizing that its predicted time had to be adjusted by ten hours. When it began, people in the barracks started vanishing, while reports revealed a wider outbreak of anomalies across Shu Province.

• At 3:15 p.m. on May 19, nothing happened, so Sun Hang concluded that the predicted time reflected the missing people's perspective and that the anomaly would occur at 1:15 a.m. on May 20.
• While they waited, Yang Lian told Sun Hang she had studied Anomaly Studies to follow her sister and said she would find a way to save her.
• At 1:15 a.m., a person fled the barracks and vanished as his body turned transparent, and other people rushed out behind him.
• Sun Hang watched Drone Four's footage and saw that the anomaly was spreading to two elderly people who had not originally been marked.
• Song Yarong reported a massive outbreak of anomalies at the southern cemetery, including anomalies previously recorded as destroyed, and the General Anomaly Investigation Bureau reported that Yi San - Eternal Night had reappeared across Shu Province.

Sun Hang, Wang Xiyi, Ye Xuan, and the other hunters headed for South City Cemetery as anomalies emerged and overwhelmed Tianfu City's weakened forces. Ye Xuan outlined a plan to hold the anomalies at South City Bridge until the military detonated explosives, while reinforcements assembled.

• Sun Hang and Yang Lian assessed the disappearing people at the temporary camp and learned that the Investigation Bureau had lost most of its personnel and field capability.
• Sun Hang identified South City Cemetery as the anomalies' spawn point and arranged a helicopter to take the available fighters there.
• Ye Xuan joined the mission with four Anomaly Hunters from her team and said she could fight without special protection.
• Sun Hang, Wang Xiyi, Ye Xuan, Yang Lian, and the others boarded a military helicopter bound for South City Bridge.
• Ye Xuan said the hunters had to hold the anomalies at the bridge until the Fifth Armored Brigade's explosives detonated, while city and regional forces coordinated reinforcements.

Sun Hang and Ye Xuan discussed the threat Eternal Night posed to Shu Province, including the Federation’s plans if it continued. Their helicopter then spotted an anomaly in Tianfu City, and Yang Lian identified it as Pregnant Girl, a previously eliminated anomaly whose history began with her murder and burial alive.

• Sun Hang asked Ye Xuan about Eternal Night, and she explained its past duration, the danger of B6 Moon on full-moon nights, and the possible evacuation or abandonment of Shu Province.
• Sun Hang questioned whether the Federation would abandon even its capital if Eternal Night appeared there, and Ye Xuan said it would.
• A shrill wail came from the urban district, and Wang Xiyi ordered the helicopter to hover as the group spotted a bloated humanoid anomaly on an Office Building.
• Yang Lian identified the anomaly as C634 Girl, also known as Pregnant Girl, who had supposedly been eliminated sixty-five years earlier.
• Yang Lian recounted how Pregnant Girl was imprisoned by her boyfriend, buried alive after difficult labor, and later killed his family and blood relatives, leaving twenty-one dead.
• Sun Hang asked how Anomaly Hunters had eventually eliminated Pregnant Girl.

Yang Lian explained how Bing Liu San Si and its spirit Anomaly Infant could be destroyed, while the anomaly pursued a blood-related target inside the Office Building. As it entered the building, Sun Hang offered to handle it himself.

• Yang Lian explained that Xin 225 could become physical by possessing a human embryo, and that the pair had been destroyed accidentally when it possessed an unsuspecting pregnant police officer’s embryo.
• Bing Liu San Si began crawling down the Office Building after sensing a blood-related target, and Ye Xuan warned that it would become unstoppable once it had chosen someone.
• Wang Xiyi considered serving as bait, but Yang Lian said there was no time to prepare, while the anomaly reached the twenty-ninth floor and alarmed the office workers inside.
• Ye Xuan warned the office workers not to look at Bing Liu San Si, which then passed through the glass curtain wall and entered the building.
• Sun Hang went to the helicopter’s cabin door and offered to take on the anomaly, confident that Taotie could devour the spirit entity.

Sun Hang entered the Office Building to confront the suspected Bing Liu San Si, but discovered that the building itself was an anomalous environment filled with lifelike silicone dolls. Trapped in darkness, he realized the anomaly had lured him in, and a cup of coffee appeared beside him after he challenged it.

• Sun Hang swung from the helicopter to the Office Building, smashed through its glass wall, and found the suspected Bing Liu San Si attacking a female office worker.
• Sun Hang shot the anomaly in the head, but it regenerated and continued attacking the corpse.
• Sun Hang sensed other anomalies and discovered the floor had become silent, with the world outside the building replaced by fathomless darkness.
• Sun Hang examined a corpse and found it was a lifelike silicone doll, then concluded that the Office Building itself was a Geng-type environment anomaly.
• Sun Hang sat down and accused the building of luring him inside; a steaming cup of coffee appeared on the desk beside him.

Sun Hang killed the entity called "Bing Liu San Si" by forcing it to drink anomalous coffee and recovered an antique key from its remains. After testing the Office Building's exits and trying to provoke it into responding, he wondered why the building and its entities had not attacked him.

• Sun Hang poured the coffee down "Bing Liu San Si"'s throat, causing it to melt into a pool of gel.
• Sun Hang found an antique brass key in the gel, cleaned it, and pocketed it.
• Sun Hang tested the dark space outside by throwing a flashlight-equipped phone through the broken curtain wall and ruled out escaping that way.
• Sun Hang found the office computers had no internet and called out to the Office Building, but it did not respond.
• Sun Hang searched for a way to start a fire, then questioned why the Office Building had not attacked him.

Sun Hang suspected the aberration was trapping him because it could not defeat him directly, so he embraced the Beatdown Style and decided to demolish the Office Building. He forged a sixty-ton sledgehammer from the building’s metal and brought it crashing down, leaving the building’s fate uncertain.

• Sun Hang recalled the Beatdown Style approach to rule-based horrors and decided it suited his situation.
• Sun Hang resolved to tear down the Office Building rather than let its aberration stall him.
• Sun Hang sensed the building resisting his control, but overpowered its will with his psychic power.
• Sun Hang pulled metal from the twenty-ninth floor and the building’s framework into a giant sledgehammer.
• Sun Hang raised the hammer and smashed it down, shouting, “Eighty!”

Sun Hang discovered that every floor in the anomalous office building was a copy of the twenty-ninth floor and that smashing through them could not bring him closer to an exit. He tried to communicate with the anomaly, then learned it would only let him travel between floors by taking the stairs.

• Sun Hang smashed through the building’s floors with a giant hammer, only to find each level replicated the twenty-ninth floor, then compressed the hammer into a short blade.
• Sun Hang checked the floor number and realized that even after descending through many levels, he remained on the twenty-ninth floor.
• Sun Hang sent a drone through the breach into the darkness, but it lost its signal almost immediately.
• Sun Hang typed questions to the anomaly on a computer, received no answers, and insulted it.
• Sun Hang repeatedly tried to take the elevator, but it returned to the fifth floor; the elevator screen then displayed “Yes” when Sun Hang guessed he had to use the stairs.

Sun Hang entered the Office Building’s anomalous stairwell and discovered that each step reversed time, but the building’s trap ended when an unknown power intervened. He emerged on the rooftop amid a burning building and signs that cursed things had reached Tianfu City’s downtown district.

• Sun Hang used Bing Liu San Si’s vintage key to unlock the stairwell after finding the elevator shaft filled with deadly darkness.
• As Sun Hang descended the decayed stairs, his phone showed time rewinding, and he realized the stairwell would lead to a point sixty-five years in the past.
• The stairwell behind Sun Hang vanished into darkness, and three newel posts became carvings of monkeys covering their eyes, ears, and mouths.
• The stairs rapidly aged and collapsed, sending Sun Hang falling before he reappeared on the Office Building’s rooftop.
• Sun Hang saw the building burning, the city’s evacuation alarm sounding, and his helicopter wrecked below, then suspected cursed things had entered downtown Tianfu City.

After finding the helicopter wreckage, Sun Hang reported the casualties and received orders to hunt Anomalies in Tianfu City instead of heading south. He then confronted a stranger wearing a set of Artifact Class Anomalies and launched an attack, believing the wearer was being controlled.

• Sun Hang found the pilot and two male passengers dead in the wreckage, while Ye Xuan, Yang Lian, and Wang Xiyi were missing.
• Sun Hang contacted Longquan Post Base, confirmed the flight data recorder was intact, and learned that communications were down and parts of Tianfu City might be abandoned.
• Longquan Post Base told Sun Hang that Federal reinforcements had arrived and reassigned him to hunt Anomalies within the city.
• Sun Hang sensed a dangerous figure in Bright Light Armor and concluded that its armor, Ogre Mask, Tang Heng Saber, and Wolf Tooth Mace-Spear were a set of Artifact Class Anomalies controlling an ordinary person.
• Sun Hang launched himself toward the armored figure with mycelium and transformed his short blade into a giant Zhanmadao.

Sun Hang fought an armored stranger wielding powerful Anomaly Equipment, then learned the man was Ye Jiu, a hunter sent to reinforce Tianfu City and searching for his missing sister, Ye Xuan. Sun Hang refused to return Ye Jiu’s sword until he could verify his identity, leaving the two at odds.

• Sun Hang tried to devour the Wolf Tooth Mace-Spear with his Liquid Metal, but its flames destroyed his Zhanmadao and forced him to retreat.
• Sun Hang fired missiles from the helicopter wreckage and attacked through the smoke with metal shards, but the armored opponent survived and charged him.
• Sun Hang stopped the attacker with the opponent’s frost-cold Tang Heng Saber, which Ye Jiu identified as Frost Cutter, and learned the armored man was human.
• Ye Jiu introduced himself as a twenty-two-year-old member of Chunming City’s Anomaly Hunting Squad, sent to reinforce Tianfu City and searching for his missing younger sister, Ye Xuan.
• Sun Hang said Ye Xuan was likely with Night Fiend, but Ye Jiu warned that Night Fiend’s unstable condition made her dangerous.
• Ye Jiu offered to search the area and help fight the Anomalies if Sun Hang returned Frost Cutter, but Sun Hang refused without proof of Ye Jiu’s identity.

Sun Hang questioned Ye Jiu about Anomaly Equipment, its risks, and how Ye Jiu controlled the bloodlust of his Slaughter gear. Their discussion ended when a powerful anomaly rose from underground, stirring Sun Hang's overwhelming hunger.

• Sun Hang made Ye Jiu remove his helmet and mask, then asked him to explain Anomaly Equipment and Qualified Users.
• Ye Jiu explained synchronization rates, the risks of anomalies backlashing, and how his Slaughter armor could drive its users into murderous madness.
• Ye Jiu said he controlled the armor's bloodlust by playing violent video games, and Sun Hang found the method persuasive.
• A powerful anomalous aura surged from underground, and Ye Jiu warned Sun Hang that an anomaly was approaching.
• Sun Hang leaped onto the Golden Arches sign and watched the road, overcome by a craving for the anomaly's enticing food.

Sun Hang and Ye Jiu confronted a vast shadow anomaly that aged and destroyed everything it covered, and Sun Hang identified it as the culprit behind the Spacetime Anomaly. As Ye Jiu prepared to attack, Sun Hang learned that anomalies had appeared across Tianfu City and that the Anomaly Research Institute had not yet been attacked.

• A shadow anomaly spread from beneath a manhole and rapidly aged buildings, objects, and the Black pilot’s body.
• Ye Jiu found that Sun Hang’s bullet had no effect, and Sun Hang said the anomaly was behind the Spacetime Anomaly.
• Sun Hang gave Ye Jiu the Tang Heng Saber and urged him to use his strongest attack while Sun Hang moved to a safer building.
• Ye Jiu gave Sun Hang a headset connected to the military communications channel, where Sun Hang learned that anomalies were appearing across Tianfu City and hunters were stretched thin.
• Sun Hang asked whether the Anomaly Research Institute had been attacked, and military communications reported that it remained safe, with the nearest anomaly seven kilometers away.

Sun Hang and Ye Jiu attacked the anomalous shadow in Jinjiang CBD, but Ye Jiu’s ultimate move only fed it and enlarged its reach. Sun Hang discovered the shadow came from a huge anomaly floating in the sky, which threatened to cover all of Tianfu City.

• Sun Hang judged that Ye Jiu’s strongest attack could only probe the shadow and warned him to use it before the anomaly counterattacked.
• Ye Jiu unleashed Frost Cutter and the Wolf Tooth Mace-Spear in a massive blast that destroyed the surrounding street.
• Sun Hang saw that the shadow remained unharmed and had expanded after absorbing energy from Ye Jiu’s attack.
• Sun Hang looked into the sky and found an enormous, slowly expanding sphere casting the dangerous shadow over the city.
• A voice over Sun Hang’s earpiece reported detecting an unknown giant anomaly above Jinjiang CBD, and Sun Hang warned that its shadow might swallow Tianfu City.

Sun Hang and Ye Jiu discovered that missiles striking the spherical anomaly in the sky were transferred into its shadow, which seemed immune to physical attacks. Ye Jiu proposed surrounding the anomaly with lights from every angle to eliminate its shadow, and the Disaster Response Committee began coordinating the equipment.

• Sun Hang learned that Ye Jiu could not fight again yet and ordered Falcon Squad to attack the spherical anomaly with missiles.
• The missiles vanished upon hitting the sphere, while researchers detected their energy underground in the anomaly's shadow.
• Sun Hang and Ye Jiu concluded that the missiles had been transferred into the shadow and that physical attacks could not harm it.
• Sun Hang proposed using a Shadowless Lamp arrangement to remove the anomaly's shadow.
• Ye Jiu asked the Disaster Response Committee to gather aircraft, vehicles, cranes, and searchlights across Shu Province to surround the anomaly with light.

Sun Hang discovered that the spherical anomaly’s deadly shadow retreated from him, while Ye Jiu learned that Sun Hang’s hunter file was classified and suspected he had been infected by Taotie. As a Shadowless Light Array assembled overhead, Sun Hang waited for the plan to begin.

• Sun Hang flung Ye Jiu to safety, then stepped into the spreading shadow and watched it retreat around his feet.
• Ye Jiu contacted his brother and learned Sun Hang’s file had been sent directly to Tianshu Tower, with Taotie suspected as the anomaly that infected him.
• Sun Hang walked deeper into the shadow as it continued to withdraw from him and gather behind him.
• Military helicopters and thousands of requisitioned drones formed a triangular light array around the spherical anomaly.
• Sun Hang waited in the street for the Shadowless Light Array to light up.

Sun Hang discovered that the aerial sphere was the shadow of the ground anomaly and used redirected lights to make the shadows tangible. Just as he began absorbing them, the Three Monkeys appeared and erased the shadows, leaving him with a new mystery.

• The Shadowless Light Array failed to affect the sphere or the ground shadows, so Sun Hang asked the Command Center to redirect its lights toward the ground.
• Sun Hang realized the sphere was a shadow and the ground anomaly was its conscious source.
• The redirected lights made the sphere disappear and turned the ground shadows tangible, allowing Sun Hang to bind them with fungal threads.
• Sun Hang began absorbing the shadows, but three monkey statues appeared and one shrieked, causing the shadows to evaporate and stripping away what he had consumed.
• Ye Jiu asked how Sun Hang had destroyed the anomaly, while Sun Hang cursed the vanished monkeys.

Sun Hang eliminated the anomaly controlling the Spacetime Anomaly, and the missing people returned to normal spacetime. The Evernight remained over Tianfu City, leaving the hunters to regroup and prepare for a continuing crisis as Sun Hang asked about a statue anomaly shaped like three monkeys.

• Ye Jiu questioned whether Sun Hang was really himself, and Sun Hang reassured him before explaining how he finished off the weakened anomaly.
• Song Yarong arrived and told Sun Hang and Ye Jiu that everyone lost to the Spacetime Anomaly had returned, including Yang Qi and 0401.
• Song Yarong explained that most of the city's anomalies had vanished or been eliminated, but the Evernight remained and might force the evacuation of Tianfu City or Shu Province.
• Sun Hang warned that the lack of dawn could cause panic and learned that the hunters would return to the Institute before joining patrols to hunt remaining anomalies.
• Sun Hang asked Song Yarong whether she knew of any statue-type anomalies shaped like three monkeys.