Chapter Summaries

Lu Xin discovered that Gun Kai was not polluted but was tormenting her own body, which she believed belonged to someone else. After Old Zhou and Little Zhou explained her condition, Lu Xin realized that Gun Kai’s head and body had become enemies who took pleasure in hurting each other.

• Lu Xin refused Gun Kai’s advances, and Gun Kai angrily dismissed him after pointing a gun at him.
• Lu Xin told Old Zhou and Little Zhou that Gun Kai showed no signs of pollution, while Little Zhou began explaining her unusual condition.
• Sister interrupted to say that Gun Kai was interesting, and Lu Xin saw Gun Kai speaking to her own body and burning it with her pipe.
• Old Zhou asked Lu Xin to help Gun Kai, explaining that she often tormented herself at night.
• Lu Xin concluded that Gun Kai’s head and body hated each other and took pleasure in each other’s pain.

Lu Xin agreed to investigate the truck driver after Old Zhou and Little Zhou offered him payment, then called Han Bing for professional guidance. Han Bing identified possible causes and gave Lu Xin signs to watch for as he prepared to continue the examination.

• Lu Xin told Old Zhou and Little Zhou that he could confirm their driver had a problem but could not identify it, and suggested taking her to Qinggang.
• Old Zhou and Little Zhou offered Lu Xin their scavenged goods in exchange for treating the driver, and Lu Xin agreed to accept half if he succeeded while still receiving travel supplies if he failed.
• Lu Xin called Han Bing and described the driver’s condition along with the strange events he had encountered on his journey.
• Han Bing’s office analyzed the case, and she told Lu Xin that an Influence-type ability or Pollution Source could cause hidden, intermittent effects.
• Han Bing advised Lu Xin to watch for divided consciousness, poor physical coordination, abnormal mental-radiation fluctuations, and mental fatigue.
• After the call, the information office downgraded the temporary liaison task, and Lu Xin returned to the tent in high spirits.

Lu Xin traveled with Gao Ting's convoy toward Central City while observing the convoy leader's unusual mental state. After a day of watching her act normally, he recorded his observations and prepared for another night.

• The convoy departed with Gao Ting leading and assigning its drivers to positions.
• Little Zhou and Old Zhou praised Gao Ting's leadership and recalled that she had killed three members of a knightly group who tried to seize their cargo.
• Lu Xin wrote down Gao Ting's suspected symptoms and decided to observe her during the journey while continuing toward Central City.
• The convoy reached its campsite, where Gao Ting organized patrols, stopped a fight, and hunted and ate a rabbit as Lu Xin watched.
• Lu Xin recorded that Gao Ting had acted normally during the day and arranged for Sister to keep observing her that night.

Lu Xin traveled with Old Zhou’s convoy as it rerouted around a collapsed bridge and prepared to pass through the supposedly haunted White Tower Town. After the front, Gao Ting, behaved normally overnight and scouts reported the town was safe, the convoy set out toward it.

• Old Zhou learned that a mudslide had collapsed the bridge on Red Dao Ridge, forcing the convoy to consider a detour through White Tower Town to meet its delivery deadline.
• Little Zhou asked to borrow Lu Xin’s motorcycle to join the scouting party, but Old Zhou stopped him.
• After Old Chen announced that Gao Ting would not choose anyone that night, Little Zhou asked Lu Xin if he had cured her, and Lu Xin urged them to keep observing.
• Gao Ting’s scouting party returned with a green flag and reported that White Tower Town was passable.
• The convoy followed guides onto a side road toward White Tower Town.

Lu Xin and the convoy entered an abandoned city, where a scout warned them that a madman was ahead. After Lu Xin shot the monster dead, he left the truck to find out how many more were nearby.

• Old Zhou told Lu Xin and Little Zhou about the danger of madmen in abandoned cities and joked that one could be sold to a circus for a hundred yuan.
• A scout raced toward the convoy, warning everyone to retreat because a madman was ahead.
• The trucks stopped in the narrow city streets, where their size and spacing left them unable to turn around or escape quickly.
• A gray, unnaturally fast humanoid monster tackled the scout and began biting him.
• Lu Xin shot the monster through the head, then told Old Zhou to stay in the truck while he went to check for more madmen.

Lu Xin fought a madman at close range, measured its mental radiation, and considered how to protect the convoy from the growing horde. Gao Ting arrived with armed riders, rescued some drivers, and rallied the survivors into a defensive formation as the attack continued.

• Lu Xin counted more than twenty madmen attacking the convoy and subdued one that leaped at him, then observed its strength and measured its mental radiation at around thirty-four.
• Lu Xin killed the madman with a concrete brick to avoid wasting ammunition, while more madmen overwhelmed the trucks and dragged drivers from their cabs.
• Gao Ting and her riders charged in firing at the madmen, driving some back and rescuing several people from the cabs.
• Gao Ting ordered the drivers to abandon the trucks, gather with their guns, and use their trained formation to defend themselves.
• Gao Ting continued directing the convoy’s defense as Lu Xin watched her and noted her commanding presence.

After a first attack by madmen, Gao Ting organized the surviving convoy members and led them toward an escape route, but eerie laughter revealed that more than a hundred madmen had surrounded them. The chapter ended with the group barricading itself inside an abandoned supermarket as the crowd outside continued to grow.

• Gao Ting rallied the drivers, and they shot down or drove off the first madmen while nearly twenty convoy members died in the attack.
• Lu Xin joined the survivors as they unloaded motorcycles and gathered into a group of nearly forty people.
• Gao Ting prepared to lead the group out, but sinister laughter drew their attention to a madman watching from a rooftop.
• More madmen appeared across rooftops, windows, and alleys, surrounding the convoy and laughing as the group panicked.
• Gao Ting ordered everyone to retreat into an abandoned supermarket, where they blocked the entrance with shelves.
• Lu Xin estimated that more than a hundred madmen had gathered outside, and their numbers were still increasing.

Lu Xin heard faint violin music influencing the madmen surrounding the supermarket and told the drivers he would find the violinist responsible. Sister said the music annoyed her and Mom, leaving Lu Xin determined to confront its source.

• Sister told Lu Xin she felt something was really annoying, and he heard faint violin music connected to the madmen.
• Sister said Mom had been irritated by the music as well.
• Gao Ting suspected someone had trapped the convoy and considered escaping east through nearby buildings.
• Lu Xin warned the drivers that the madmen were being influenced by the violin and that an escape attempt could fail.
• Lu Xin decided to find the violinist and ask him to make the madmen leave.

Lu Xin convinced Gao Ting that noise affected the lunatics, and she accepted his suggestion to investigate the violin music’s source. She prepared to let the convoy restrain her, leaving the drivers alarmed and unsure what she intended.

• Lu Xin suggested that the convoy follow him into the city to find the violin music, but Sun Gouzi accused him of being a spy and argued with Old Zhou and Little Zhou.
• Gao Ting fired her gun to stop the argument and pointed out that the convoy’s predicament did not require an infiltrator, then asked Lu Xin whether he was sure about the music.
• Lu Xin admitted he could not prove the connection, so Gao Ting triggered a motorcycle alarm and confirmed that its noise agitated the lunatics outside.
• Gao Ting apologized to Lu Xin and asked where the sound had come from; after he pointed northwest, she said charging there together was too risky.
• Gao Ting ordered her followers to tie her up with tire rubber and tape, alarming the drivers as they realized what she planned.

Sister Gao and Lu Xin rode out to draw the frenzied lunatics away from the convoy, using loud music to provoke them. As the horde pursued them, Sister protected Lu Xin by making every attacker who came near collapse.

• Sister Gao ordered the drivers to wait for a chance to escape and spread news of the lunatics, then left with Lu Xin to lure them away.
• Lu Xin caught up with Sister Gao, and she admitted she was unsure whether his information about the violin was reliable.
• Sister Gao activated an alarm and blasted music through a loudspeaker, provoking the lunatics into chasing their motorcycles.
• Sister Gao dodged and shot at attackers as the two rode through the town, while Lu Xin realized she meant to draw the horde away from the convoy.
• Lu Xin asked Sister to help, and she leaped around him, causing every lunatic who approached him to fall and writhe on the ground.

Lu Xin and Gao Ting traced the violin music to a gigantic brain-shaped monster playing a violin, with Mom standing beside it. As the monster’s influence caused Gao Ting and Lu Xin to lose control of their bodies, Lu Xin managed to stay upright, but the confrontation remained unresolved.

• Lu Xin and Gao Ting reached an intersection and found a huge, blood-red brain playing a violin above the street.
• Lu Xin realized that Gao Ting could see the monster too and spotted Mom listening beside it.
• Gao Ting charged toward the monster and fired, but the bullets warped away before reaching it.
• Gao Ting fell from her motorcycle and began showing signs of contamination as Lu Xin also struggled to control his body.
• Lu Xin resisted falling by releasing the throttle and bracing himself with one foot.

Lu Xin resisted the brain monster’s control as Gao Ting, still contaminated, tried to attack it with two grenades. He stopped her from sacrificing herself and threw the grenades at the monster, then saw that Mom, Sister, and the hairless puppy had gathered to protect him.

• Lu Xin realized the brain monster was invading his mind and controlling his body while Sister fought off nearby madmen.
• Gao Ting’s body followed her earlier orders despite her brain being controlled, and she rode a motorcycle toward the brain monster with two armed grenades.
• Lu Xin regained control, boosted his motorcycle, and leaped toward Gao Ting as she neared the monster.
• Lu Xin grabbed Gao Ting’s hands, knocked the grenades away, and kicked them toward the brain monster before colliding with her.
• The grenades exploded near the monster, and Mom distorted the air to shield Lu Xin from the blast while Sister and the hairless puppy watched warily.
• Mom asked Lu Xin whether the monster had affected him for about five seconds.

Lu Xin confronted the human-made brain monster, whose influence made it difficult for him to trust Father’s help. As the monster summoned hordes of madmen and two fused creatures, Lu Xin unleashed his family’s powers and mechanical support, leaving Gao Ting terrified of him.

• Lu Xin learned from Mom that the brain monster had been created by humans, and he agreed to destroy it and the people watching.
• The brain monster summoned waves of madmen and two fused monsters to protect itself.
• Lu Xin held Sister’s hand and expanded his shadow while Father’s anger showed in the darkened shadows.
• Lu Xin twisted through the attacking madmen, and the Mechanical Dog shot the towering monster apart with its rotary gun.
• Lu Xin’s shadow dismantled the centipede-like monster as he leaped toward the brain monster and drew his gun; Gao Ting stared at him in terror.

Lu Xin battled the brain monster, Subject Three of God's Brain, while its psychic shock kept him from reaching it. Mom helped him identify the monster's weakness, and the chapter ended with Lu Xin and his family turning their attention to the frightened hairless puppy.

• Lu Xin fired special bullets at the brain monster, but its distorted air deflected them, and Mom silenced its violin with her scissors.
• The brain monster repelled Lu Xin with psychic shock, so he sent Father’s shadow to corrode its defenses.
• Researchers in a secret underground laboratory recognized the monster as Subject Three of God's Brain and increased its energy input to eliminate Lu Xin.
• The brain monster intensified its psychic shock, pushing Father's shadow back, while Lu Xin refused to unleash more of Father's power.
• Mom told Lu Xin to identify the monster's contamination logic, and he realized its violin transmitted emotions because it was incomplete.
• Lu Xin, Mom, Sister, and Father all turned toward a hairless puppy, which tucked its tail between its legs.

Lu Xin and his family defeated God's Brain, disrupting the abandoned city and rescuing the convoy from the crazed people. As the laboratory staff watched the monster fall, Mom's elegant footsteps entered the facility and slaughtered them.

• Lu Xin used the hairless puppy to disrupt the brain monster, causing its violin music to turn chaotic and the crazed people across the abandoned city to lose control.
• Old Zhou and the veteran drivers decided to send some vehicles to spread the news and lead the others to rescue Lu Xin and the front vehicle.
• Mom severed the brain monster's blood vessels, Sister battered it, and Lu Xin's shadow tore it apart.
• The underground laboratory staff watched Subject Three of "God's Brain" collapse, and Lu Xin's look toward the surveillance camera froze every image.
• Mom's unseen footsteps reached the laboratory, cut off the white-bearded man's hand, and sent the fleeing staff into a deadly panic.

Lu Xin helped Gao Ting’s convoy survive an attack by a brain-shaped monster and the madmen it controlled, then joined the survivors as they recovered their trucks and mourned their dead. After Gao Ting offered him compensation and the haul’s profits, Lu Xin prepared to ask her about the mutation he had noticed in her body.

• Lu Xin reassured the returning riders that he was safe, though he lamented the scratches on his motorcycle, while Gao Ting ordered the convoy to clear the remaining madmen and recover the trucks.
• Lu Xin saw the casualties and the surviving madmen across the city, and questioned Old Zhou about killing them instead of capturing them for the bounty.
• The convoy recovered its trucks and made camp, where Lu Xin recorded his expenses and reflected on the value of the lives and emotions he had witnessed.
• Gao Ting thanked Lu Xin for saving the convoy and offered compensation along with the profits from their haul.
• Lu Xin told Gao Ting he wanted to ask her something and prepared to question her about the mutation he had noticed in her body.

Lu Xin learned why Gao Ting had been destroying her own body: a Central City supervisor had coerced her into sex to accept the convoy’s goods, and she retaliated by making herself feel ruined. Lu Xin told her that she was not dirty but sick, and that Old Zhou and Little Zhou had sent him to help cure her.

• Lu Xin asked Gao Ting why she had once charged a giant brain monster with bombs, and she admitted she had intended to die and destroy her body.
• Gao Ting explained that she had loved her late husband and did not want another man, though she believed she could manage the convoy on her own.
• Gao Ting told Lu Xin that a Central City supervisor had coerced her after blocking the convoy’s delivery, then repeatedly demanded sex whenever she brought goods.
• Gao Ting said she had ruined her body with scars to spite the supervisor and keep him from treating it as his possession.
• Lu Xin wrote that the investigation results were confirmed, then told Gao Ting that her body was not dirty and that Old Zhou and Little Zhou had asked him to cure her.

Lu Xin learned that Gao Ting’s contamination came from within and promised to report the man who had wronged her. Mom gave Lu Xin a secret document about the Third Stage, then left to investigate while he prepared to pursue the people behind the brain-shaped monster.

• Lu Xin told Gao Ting that she had contaminated herself, but she said she had chosen her situation willingly and asked him not to interfere.
• Lu Xin insisted that Gao Ting had not chosen willingly and said he would report the man who had wronged her; Gao Ting thanked him and returned to the camp.
• Lu Xin considered how to cover the expenses of his private commission and the mechanical dog’s ammunition before Mom invited him for a walk.
• Mom showed Lu Xin a bloodstained document labeled “God's Body Cultivation Plan—Third Stage Launch Item III” and suggested the brain-shaped monster had created the lunatics.
• Lu Xin said he would investigate the people responsible, while Mom left to consult old friends and told him to take care of Father and Sister and control his temper.

Lu Xin learned that the Glasses Dog was known as Gaze or Chaos, then reported the White Tower Town incident and the Third Stage God's Body construction plan to Han Bing. The Emergency Information Processing Office ordered him to take the convoy to Central City, while officials began arranging a response and reinforcements.

• Lu Xin asked Mom about the thirteen spiritual entities, the painting, Father, and her, but she only suggested investigating the convoy.
• Lu Xin called Han Bing and reported the brain-shaped monster, the controlled lunatics, and a document about a Third Stage God's Body construction plan.
• Han Bing alerted the Emergency Information Liaison Office, which issued an emergency bulletin about a suspected Forbidden Experiment laboratory in White Tower Town.
• Han Bing told Lu Xin to get the convoy to Central City immediately, warning that the force behind the experiment might try to destroy evidence or silence witnesses.
• Lu Xin told Gao Ting to organize the convoy and set out at once for Central City.
• Minister Shen, Mr. Su, and Professor Bai discussed the discovery and decided to send the convoy toward Central City while arranging reinforcements.

After Lu Xin and the convoy left White Tower Town, armed soldiers found the experimental base slaughtered and its classified information missing. A secret conference ordered Hell Squad to pursue the convoy, which reached Central City as Lu Xin wondered whether entering the city would keep him safe.

• Gao Ting led the convoy toward Central City while Lu Xin and Old Zhou guarded the rear.
• A suited man and armed soldiers inspected White Tower Town and discovered that the laboratory had no survivors and its core secrets were gone.
• The suited man reported that the suspected material had headed toward Central City, and the conference ordered Ying, Mizang, and Xinmo of Hell Squad to pursue it.
• After a day and night on the road, the convoy reached Central City and hurried to enter City Seven before the suspension bridge was raised.
• Lu Xin took over driving when Old Zhou grew exhausted, then wondered whether the city would protect him from the people behind the laboratory.