Recaps

Sun Hang investigated the anomaly resembling Ye Jiu, then joined the effort to understand and contain Chimera Seventeen as it grew more dangerous. The first attack failed, and a temporal shadow exposed Miki Fukada before swallowing the hidden camp.

• Sun Hang and Ye Xuan found Ye Jiu unconscious inside Slaughter's case after Sun Hang destroyed a humanoid anomaly wearing his likeness, then restrained Ye Jiu and removed the armor.
• Ye Jiu recounted his battlefield experience in Slaughter, and Sun Hang arranged to keep him under strict supervision in an Everfrost Coffin as investigators examined the armor and suspected moles inside the institute.
• Wang Zheng and Old Xu discovered that faces on Chimera Seventeen watched their observation equipment, and Yang Baishuang sacrificed herself to let them escape as the faces overran the depot.
• Old Xu realized he had been revived in a body assembled from corpses and wreckage, while Sun Hang joined Liu Li and Crystal Princess to investigate the silent bunkers and encountered a headless anomaly using Yang Baishuang's Silver Fang.
• Sun Hang tested the reality of Anna's illusion, then learned that Chimera Seventeen's cocoon could explode with the force of 4.5 million tons of TNT and that the final operation was three days away.
• Sun Hang took Miki Fukada and Zhong Ling to observe Chimera Seventeen, identified the faces on its cocoon as Tiger's Wraith, and joined the preparations for the Barnacle Cleanup Operation.
• The first feint attack melted only four outer layers of grudge wraiths, while Chimera Seventeen detonated all seventy-two nuclear missiles in the next wave.
• A temporal shadow approached the observers as a Demon Eye watched them, so Sun Hang helped his group retreat before the shadow swallowed their hidden camp, and he warned Yang Qi that Miki Fukada had been exposed.

Sun Hang and the hunters entered Chimera Seventeen’s Small World, where Sun Hang learned the truth about Anna and helped end Eternal Night. After discovering Pei Zongjun’s death and inheriting control of the Mainframe, Sun Hang prepared to seek Sphinx’s other brain half in Egypt.

• Sun Hang crossed the Temporal Anomaly’s valley, escaped in a self-driving vehicle, and reported that it had left him untouched.
• The military attacked Chimera Seventeen’s cocoon, but its defenses destroyed aircraft and forced the hunters to find a way through its magma shell.
• Sun Hang, Miki Fukada, and Wang Xiyi entered the cocoon, where Chimera Seventeen trapped Sun Hang in a Small World and Anna revealed how it worked.
• Sun Hang found Chimera Seventeen’s former home on Nameless Island and learned that she and Anna had been separated from a human embryo, and that ending Chimera Seventeen would cost him part of his soul.
• Chimera Seventeen’s beam dispersed Eternal Night and restored daylight across Shu Province, after which Wang Xiyi found Sun Hang alive.
• Sun Hang confronted Pei Zongjun in the Primal Underground Palace and learned that Pei had become the Mainframe, that Sphinx’s brain granted precognition, and that the Nameless Island project’s records had been blocked.
• Sun Hang witnessed memories of his past while viewing Pei’s prophecy, then poured life force into the failing Mainframe and received its highest authority after Pei’s consciousness perished.
• Sun Hang told Candle Dragon that he planned to find Sphinx’s other brain half in Egypt, and Candle Dragon offered to accompany him.

Sun Hang discovered Lin Lun’s research into negative emotions and the Well of Desire, then brought Xue Yue with him to Baikal City. At the frontline camp, he began investigating the spreading anomalizations among its exhausted staff.

• Candle Dragon briefed Sun Hang on the Sand-Sinking Giant Worms and distant fallen regions, and Sun Hang requested a reusable spacecraft from the Mainframe.
• Sun Hang tracked a black-mist anomaly through Chunming City and found Xue Yue, a revived corpse who survived by absorbing negative emotions, then promised to protect her and secure her identity.
• After an apparent crane accident nearly killed Xue Yue, Sun Hang followed the trail of Modified Containers to Liu Su District and uncovered their connection to Lin Lun’s operations.
• Sun Hang defeated Hidden Dragon Hall’s ambush and confronted Lin Lun, who revealed his research into negative emotions and showed him the Well of Desire’s flesh-and-blood tree.
• Lin Lun explained how he had found and transplanted the tree, created the Faceless Ones, and made Xue Yue one of his research results, and Sun Hang sent him to work under Tianshu Tower’s supervision.
• Sun Hang took Xue Yue to Baikal City, where Wang Xiyi, Zhong Ling, and Yan Yu'an joined his expedition and briefed him on the dangers in Baikal’s Remains.
• At the frontline camp, Sun Hang visited the psychological counseling room and found a psychologist showing signs of anomalization, and Xue Yue absorbed the staff’s negative emotions, and Sun Hang arranged follow-up care.

Sun Hang and his team entered Baikal’s Remains to investigate the obsession behind its Anomaly Soldiers, then cleansed the Heroes of the Fatherland Cemetery’s negative shadows and stopped the city’s distortions. Back in Tianfu City, Sun Hang learned of Yang Lian’s anomalous pregnancy and set out for Dragon City to recruit hunters, where he encountered an infected chameleon-headed hunter.

• Sun Hang saw a soldier mutate after describing his dead mother in Baikal’s Remains, then used Dragon Flame to burn away the soldier and the spreading black fuzz.
• Sun Hang led Wang Xiyi, Zhong Ling, Yan Yu'an, and the Fisherman into Baikal’s Remains, where they encountered Black Latte, an anomalous tank, and more than thirteen hundred Anomaly Soldiers.
• Sun Hang and Yan Yu'an concluded that the Anomaly Soldiers embodied the veterans’ lingering obsession, so Sun Hang asked Liu Li to calculate a route to the Veterans’ Sanatorium.
• Yan Yu'an guided the group through the shifting city, but the streets changed and trapped them underground, where Sun Hang suspected Yamaguchi Masayuki’s designs were steering them away from their destination.
• Sun Hang and the others reached the Heroes of the Fatherland Cemetery, where he devoured the black shadows combining the victims’ negative emotions with the heroes’ obsessions.
• After Sun Hang cleansed the monument, the Anomaly Soldiers saluted and vanished, while Baikal’s moving buildings and anti-surveillance membrane stopped.
• Sun Hang returned to Tianfu City and learned from Yang Qi that Yang Lian carried an anomalous embryo whose Meme closely matched Chimera Seventeen’s, then told Wang Xiyi he planned to seek technology in Egypt.
• Sun Hang traveled with Candle Dragon and Xue Yue to Dragon City to recruit hunters, where he noticed a chameleon-headed hunter with a worsening infection and went to investigate.