Recaps

Sun Hang followed Copper Finger’s mysterious delivery to Yumen, where he uncovered a treasure map tied to a deadly expedition and joined the rush toward Nanhua Town. The expedition survived the Death Sandstorm and reached Sunfall Ridge, where an ambush escalated into a battle with Sea Buckthorn Rose and a transformed mercenary.

• Sun Hang revived a hunter shot by a sniper, then took Copper Finger’s unexplained delivery job and retrieved a sealed box containing a strange map fragment.
• Sun Hang, Candle Dragon, Xue Yue, and Yang Qiaoxi traveled to Yumen, where Nagano Souya identified the fragment as part of the treasure map left by his father, Nameless.
• Xue Yue arranged the map fragments by instinct, revealing that the treasure lay near Nanhua Town, and Nagano Souya agreed to publicize the expedition while Tianshu Tower observed.
• More than six hundred hunters and mercenaries departed Yumen in three convoys, led by Nagano Souya in the White Tiger mech, while Yang Qiaoxi joined Sun Hang’s group.
• Sun Hang’s convoy evaded Death Sandstorm No. 5198, and Nagano Souya used White Tiger to rescue two mercenaries before the group crossed the dangerous lava pools at Sunfall Ridge.
• Glasses arranged a fifteen-million-yuan bounty on Candle Dragon to provoke a clash, and Sun Hang uncovered the plot as the convoy split at Sunfall Ridge.
• Fifteen opened fire on Sun Hang’s group, Candle Dragon and Yang Qiaoxi fought back, and Sun Hang pursued the attackers’ mastermind while disguised as a fungal puppet.
• Sun Hang poisoned Old Snake and escaped the armored van as his body released lethal spores, while Third Sister transformed into an ape-like beast after a rocket attack and began killing hunters and mercenaries.

Sun Hang led a group of hunters to Nanhua Town, where the Desire Anomaly manifested their deepest wishes before he erased it and a giant fungal creature emerged. He set a five-billion bounty to recruit hunters for the threat, while Nagano Souya’s convoy faced the deadly ant territory and Cheng Ming joined a team heading toward the uninhabited zone.

• Sun Hang defeated the transformed Huntress, exposed Bone Splitter’s role in the attack, and recruited surrendered hunters for an Egypt expedition.
• Sun Hang’s convoy crossed Giant Hill, where blood awakened the buried giants, then followed Yang Qiaoxi toward Nanhua Town with an ascetic monk who warned them away from the treasure.
• Sun Hang followed the monk into the abandoned mine, where he encountered an infected hunter whose memories revealed that the anomaly drew people in by manifesting what they desired.
• Sun Hang discovered that Desire had resurrected Blade Whip and created visions for Candle Dragon and Xue Yue, then erased the anomaly with the Three Monkeys and escaped the collapsing cavern.
• A massive fungal creature emerged from the sinkhole, but Sun Hang stopped the Mainframe from launching missiles and instead announced a five-billion bounty to recruit hunters.
• Nagano Souya led a convoy through the flesh-eating ants’ territory with White Tiger, but the ants devastated the vehicles and the accountant died when the trailer was released.
• Sun Hang tested the fungal anomaly’s spores, which fused an infected gerbil and scorpion into one mass, while Nagano Souya salvaged supplies and continued toward Nanhua Town.
• Cheng Ming joined Yu Duo, He Dawei, and Shen Rui on the way to the uninhabited zone, hoping his share of the bounty could help pay for his mother’s lung treatment.

Cheng Ming survived the Blood Feast train incident, joined the hunt near Nanhua Town, and revealed a dangerous new ability during Bai Shi Group’s failed robot test. As the hunter groups prepared to enter the sinkhole, Sun Hang uncovered the real Bai Lingqiu’s identity and learned that a picture book had infected her and let her summon something into the world.

• He Dawei became captain aboard the infected train, but Cheng Ming and the other Hunters were overwhelmed by tumor-born compulsion until a mysterious girl stopped Cheng Ming and offered him a deal.
• The Mainframe identified the outbreak as Blood Feast, and Sun Hang arranged Cheng Ming’s mother’s transplant while secretly testing whether Cheng Ming would still join the operation.
• Sun Hang gathered hunters near the Nanhua Town sinkhole, where Chen Jing’s forces faced spore-producing puppets and Jin Hongyi transformed before Sun Hang subdued him with an inhibitor.
• Cheng Ming joined Bai Shi Group’s hunt and, during a test against the G09 robot, manifested red spikes that dissolved its Anomaly tissue after the machine went out of control.
• Tao Ge tested Cheng Ming’s Meme sample, encountered a strange face on his computer, and was later found dead, while Bai Shi Group concealed the cause of G09’s failure.
• Cheng Ming’s convoy escaped a Death Sandstorm, and he experienced a nightmare in which a distorted Kuaiji erased his memories of his mother before he woke and continued toward Nanhua Town.
• The Hunter Group reached the sinkhole, where Sun Hang discovered that Miss Shadow was the real Bai Lingqiu and the apparent Bai Lingqiu was her surgically altered stand-in.
• Bai Lingqiu showed Sun Hang Xiazhou Records of Strange Tales and explained that the book had infected her and that she had once summoned something from its pages into the real world.

Sun Hang recruited hunters for the Egypt operation, led the assault on the fungus Anomaly, and investigated the Ghost Train that carried him to Egypt. The arc left the expedition preparing to pursue the Sphinx and its remaining half-brain, while the narrator returned to the hospital for further tests.

• Bai Lingqiu explained the risks and limits of her picture-book summons, and Sun Hang offered to cure her Anomaly Meme infection if she joined the Egypt operation.
• Chen Jing sent Cheng Ming and twenty-seven hunters into the sinkhole to attack the fungus Anomaly, where the mysterious girl helped Cheng Ming lead the assault.
• The Anomaly possessed a hunter and attacked the squad, but the mysterious girl killed it after it took the form of Sun Hang.
• Cheng Ming concealed the mysterious girl's role in the victory, and Sun Hang recruited him for the Sphinx hunt in Egypt.
• Sun Hang investigated a Ghost Train at Xiaozhuang Station, used a Cairo Metro card to summon it, and rode it to the Egyptian desert.
• Sun Hang encountered Sand-Sinking Giant Worms in Egypt and saw a sail-bearing figure tracking one before returning by Ghost Train to Xiazhou.
• Tianshu Tower's officials discussed the Egyptian expedition and learned that Pei Zongjun sought the Sphinx's remaining half-brain to improve the Mainframe's ability to interpret predictions.
• The narrator's fever worsened during the day, and the narrator returned to the hospital for another hospitalization and further tests.