Vol. 3Chimera and the Fallen Zone

Sun Hang stabilized Wang Xiyi, investigated the Phoenix Factory’s underground palace, and survived Maoyun Town’s curse before joining the operation to collect a sample from Chimera Seventeen. He returned to Observation Post Seven with the sample after drawing Chimera Seventeen’s attacks so the others could withdraw.

  • Sun Hang absorbed Wang Xiyi’s mutating meme and stabilized her powers, while she moved into his villa and they discovered their blue flames could combine into a white spark.
  • Sun Hang’s group investigated tunnels beneath the Tianshu Tower training site, where Wang Xiyi said the Anomaly Meme fragments were not from Chimera Seventeen.
  • Sun Hang explored the Phoenix Factory’s underground palace, recruited Ling Xiao, and helped Jiang Yu survive an operation replacing her cancerous organs with Tai Sui tissue.
  • Anna consumed most of Chen Hongjuan’s Anomaly Memes, and the group saw ribbons of light falling toward Baikal City as communications failed.
  • Sun Hang was trapped in Maoyun Town, where he uncovered its curse, cannibalism, and ritual food while learning that Li Junwen had survived there for months.
  • Wang Xiyi’s rescue team entered the fallen zone and tracked Sun Hang with his infected nameplate as Ye Jiu defeated a Metal Giant Snake.
  • Sun Hang uncovered a link between Lu Hongming and Anna Dimoshina, then joined the operation to collect a Meme sample from Chimera Seventeen.
  • Sun Hang recovered the sample after the collector was ruined and drew Chimera Seventeen’s attacks so the others could withdraw.
Chapters 203–303 Read from Ch. 203

Arc 9The Black Dragon’s Fall

Sun Hang investigated the Lizhou City disaster and the Chimera’s trail before risking his life to absorb Wang Xiyi’s mutating meme. Wang Xiyi survived with her powers stabilized, and the group turned its attention to underground tunnels discovered at the Tianshu Tower training site.

  • Sun Hang and Candle Dragon investigated the vanished fireball at Panlong Airport, while Sun Hang dreamed of Anna and learned that the phenomenon was identified as Helios.
  • Sun Hang traced the airport liaison officer’s death to the missing Qiang villages and found an anomalous corpse connected to a blood-filled courtyard, where Anna’s lingering consciousness warned him about a stolen twin and revenge.
  • Sun Hang concluded that Chimera Seventeen was feeding and would seek revenge, then returned to Tianfu City and prepared to absorb Wang Xiyi’s infection.
  • As Wang Xiyi transformed and Dragon Flame engulfed the test enclosure, Sun Hang drank her blood, while Yang Qi stopped the nuclear contingency and Pei Zongjun revoked its authorization.
  • Sun Hang stabilized Wang Xiyi’s meme and woke her from the melted coffin, leaving her with horns and a tail, and researchers found her meme intensity had risen sharply and its stability had improved.
  • Wang Xiyi moved into Sun Hang’s villa with Yang Lian and Ye Xuan, where she and Sun Hang discovered they could combine their blue flames into a white spark.
  • After workers uncovered underground tunnels and Anomaly Meme fragments beneath the Tianshu Tower training site, Sun Hang’s group inspected them, but Wang Xiyi said the fragments were not from Chimera Seventeen.
Chapters 203–22725 summaries Read

Arc 10The Underground Palace

Sun Hang investigated the Phoenix Factory’s underground palace, recruited Ling Xiao, and helped Jiang Yu survive an experimental operation while Anna’s influence emerged. Chen Hongjuan’s Anomaly weakened and died, and the story left Sun Hang facing a growing phenomenon over Baikal City.

  • Yang Qi’s team found anomalous tunnels, chained skeletons, and armor that linked the underground site to the Phoenix Factory.
  • Sun Hang and the team discovered an infected woman and a Bone Throne, where Sun Hang recovered a Crystalline Body and awakened terracotta soldiers.
  • Ye Jiu revealed Shang Dalin’s crimes and the Phoenix Factory’s underground palace, while Sun Hang pushed forward a plan to recruit and train young field agents.
  • Sun Hang recruited Ling Xiao after learning that Anna Demoshina had consumed his emotions, then Chen Hongjuan transformed and attacked during their recruitment drive.
  • Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi sparred, and Sun Hang wondered whether happiness could protect people from the shadows’ erosion.
  • Sun Hang helped Yang Qi’s team replace Jiang Yu’s cancerous organs with Tai Sui tissue, then saw Anna outside the operating room.
  • Sun Hang found that Anna had consumed most of Chen Hongjuan’s Anomaly Memes, and Chen Hongjuan’s body later dissolved as her Meme died out.
  • Minister Sergei and visiting Federation leaders saw ribbons of light falling toward Baikal City, where a communications jam disrupted contact with the local institute.
Chapters 228–25325 summaries Read

Arc 11Lost in Maoyun Town

Sun Hang entered a fallen zone where Maoyun Town’s strange currency, food, and rituals trapped its residents in a curse. Wang Xiyi’s rescue team followed Sun Hang’s anomalous nameplate into the mountains, while Sun Hang learned that Li Junwen had once survived the town.

  • Sun Hang learned that Yi 77 had destroyed Baikal City, and he accelerated the Talent Training Base’s construction while preparing for Chunming City to become humanity’s last hope.
  • Sun Hang reforged Ling Xiao’s pistol into the God-Slaying Spear and a terracotta sword into Chirou, then learned that Jiang Yu had awakened and demonstrated her exceptional archery.
  • Sun Hang investigated Xu Dasheng’s infected wife, but an illusion transported him to an isolated wilderness without his powers or wristband, where he resolved to survive and return to civilization.
  • Sun Hang followed an old woman’s strange food and banknote to Maoyun Town, where the starving townspeople fought over Erkuai and the shopkeeper revealed that people would starve until food became sufficient.
  • Wang Xiyi recruited Yang Qi and Ye Jiu to enter the fallen zone, and Li Junwen warned them that hunger would be their greatest enemy before Sun Hang paid the shopkeeper to kill everyone on the street.
  • Sun Hang uncovered the shopkeeper’s grotesque altar and learned that the surviving girls were food raised by the Town Chief, while Wang Xiyi’s convoy prepared to retrieve him.
  • Sun Hang encountered the Zhou family’s monstrous courtyard and learned from the girls that Maoyun Town had been a quarantine settlement abandoned sixty years earlier.
  • Wang Xiyi’s team entered the fallen zone, where a Metal Giant Snake attacked them, and Ye Jiu destroyed its hidden weak point before they used Sun Hang’s infected nameplate to track his direction.
  • Sun Hang learned that the town’s curse kept residents from dying, that the Town Chief’s human-flesh food became edible only during the Grand Sacrifice Ceremony, and that the two girls were reserve food.
  • Sun Hang discovered Li Junwen had stayed in Maoyun Town for months without receiving its first blessing, then left with an endless hunger but the ability to keep food down.
Chapters 254–27825 summaries Read

Arc 12The Chimera Seventeen Operation

Sun Hang uncovered more clues about his past before joining the effort to collect a Meme sample from Chimera Seventeen. After the operation’s defenses and strange visions nearly overwhelmed the hunters, Sun Hang secured the sample and returned to Observation Post Seven.

  • Sun Hang discovered that Maoyun Town’s supposed blessings concealed cannibalism, then recovered an aromatherapy bottle linking Lu Hongming to a letter from Anna Dimoshina.
  • Sun Hang killed Lu Hongming after learning of the plot against him, then joined the emergency response to Chimera Seventeen and its Insecticide Plan.
  • Sun Hang, Wang Xiyi, and Zhong Ling investigated the area around Chimera Seventeen, where parasitized agents and a scorpion formed from rain attacked them.
  • Sun Hang drained the rain scorpion and absorbed the meme virus harming Wang Xiyi, briefly unlocking a memory of himself fleeing with a woman.
  • Ye Jiu was caught in a vision of Chang’an and fought alongside the Black Armored Cavalry, while Sun Hang broke free of a distortion and found Zhong Ling and Wang Xiyi.
  • Sun Hang exposed and killed a Fourth Squad hunter carrying a Manta Ray anomaly, then captured the anomaly and raced toward Chimera Seventeen.
  • Sun Hang assembled the sample collector and fought a blood-red spirit with help from Spirit Exorcist, while the device drilled into Chimera Seventeen’s cocoon.
  • Sun Hang used Spirit Exorcist’s shotgun to destroy thousands of tiger ghosts, recovered the sample after the collector was ruined, and drew Chimera Seventeen’s attacks so the others could withdraw.
Chapters 279–30325 summaries Read
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