Recaps

The Special Purity Department approved Lu Xin to take Kid along while investigating Lu Weiwei’s Wish Event. The interrogation results confirmed that Lu Weiwei had caused Xiao Yuan’s nightmares but was not an ability user.

• Professor Chen judged Lu Xin trustworthy, and the officials agreed to let him work with Kid while considering both of their well-being.
• Professor Chen and Professor Bai approved Lu Xin and Kid investigating the Dreamweaver-related case together, and Mr. Su lifted the first-level alert and authorized a task force.
• Mr. Su revealed that a Sea Nation expert team led by its first Old Captain would arrive the next day with research on S-class ability users, and ordered Qinggang to welcome them while staying prepared to restrain them.
• Lu Xin received approval to accompany Kid and investigate Lu Weiwei’s Wish Event, then opened the interrogation summary.
• The interrogation results said Lu Weiwei had caused Xiao Yuan’s nightmares but was not an ability user.

Lu Xin learned that Lu Weiwei’s wish had drawn on another person’s ability and caused Xiao Yuan’s nightmares, while the woman who introduced her to wish-making had died. Chen Jing merged Lu Xin’s investigation with his mission accompanying Kid, then gave him the results needed to begin tracing the Wish Event.

• Lu Xin read Lu Weiwei’s interrogation and learned she had wished for Xiao Yuan to go mad or die, though another person had used her mental power to affect him.
• Lu Xin learned that Lu Weiwei had made the wish after Yu Chen, a housewife, told her about a supposedly powerful god, and found a report that Yu Chen had died by suicide.
• Chen Jing told Lu Xin that Kid would join his reactivated special operations squad and explained the precautions for taking her on missions.
• Chen Jing told Lu Xin that the Special Purity Department had investigated Yu Chen’s connections and sent him the results so the Wish Event investigation could begin.

Lu Xin reviewed Yu Chen’s records and chose to investigate a stress-relief course she had attended, planning to observe the next class rather than summon its participants for questioning. The next morning, he set out with Kid under the careful supervision of her service team.

• Lu Xin found Yu Chen’s attendance at a Stress Relief and Guidance Course worth investigating, and Chen Jing explained how the courses were designed to help the public resist mental pollution.
• Lu Xin decided to observe the course the following morning, and Chen Jing arranged a vehicle to collect him at eight-thirty.
• Lu Xin washed up while Kid stayed in the safe house, then watched television with her as the service team prepared their breakfast and helped her dress.
• Chen Jing explained Kid’s protective clothing, alarm hair clip, and contact lenses, which helped limit the effects of her mental power on others.
• Lu Xin and Kid left in a specially modified van with a protected driver and the rest of Kid’s service team on standby.

Lu Xin visited the seventeenth-floor counseling classroom with Kid and discovered two people with abnormal mental states. Chen Jing ordered the building sealed and the Special Task Force dispatched while Lu Xin kept watch.

• Lu Xin brought Kid along after Chen Jing explained how to keep people safe around her.
• Lu Xin and Kid rode to the seventeenth floor, where Fatty Liu recognized Lu Xin from an earlier job and showed him the counseling business.
• Lu Xin looked into the classroom and spotted two people with abnormal mental states.
• Lu Xin alerted Chen Jing, who ordered the Special Task Force to the building and the City Defense Department to seal it off.

Lu Xin uncovered a growing number of people bearing Mental Monsters while inspecting psychological counseling centers, prompting Chen Jing to order an urgent citywide search. On a busy Main City road, he spotted so many abnormalities that he wondered whether he had entered the Ghost Domain.

• Lu Xin identified two people with visible abnormalities at the first counseling center, and armed personnel captured them without resistance.
• Chen Jing ordered Lu Xin to inspect other counseling centers after he reported seeing abnormalities directly on the suspects.
• Lu Xin and Kid joined the response teams, finding three affected people in the second classroom and four in the third.
• During questioning, Fatty Liu said the counseling center taught stress-relief lessons and sometimes encouraged students to gather and curse people.
• Lu Xin spotted numerous people with abnormalities across a busy road, and Chen Jing ordered the teams to arrest them all.

Lu Xin warned Chen Jing that many people in Main City had mutated, while Qinggang received a Sea Nation delegation under heavy security. The delegation proposed closer cooperation, but an urgent call to Mr. Su interrupted their meeting and left him directing his secretary to contact Minister Shen.

• Lu Xin saw monsters and mutations hidden throughout Main City's crowded streets and warned Chen Jing that arresting everyone would require more personnel.
• Mr. Su and Professor Bai welcomed Old Man Ye and the six other members of the Sea Nation delegation at Qinggang's east gate.
• Minister Shen learned that the red-cloaked researcher Shen Ming was the delegation's only detected ability user and ordered preparations to stop the visitors if necessary.
• At Donghai Hotel, Old Man Ye proposed cooperation between the Sea Nation, Qinggang, and the wider Alliance on ability-user research.
• After receiving a phone call during the meeting, Mr. Su told his secretary to contact Minister Shen.

Chen Jing's mass arrests of people Lu Xin identified as abnormal triggered a crisis because testing found no evidence of contamination, leaving the authorities unable to justify the detentions. As the arrests stalled, Lu Xin accepted that others might doubt him but insisted that deciding whether to believe him belonged to his leaders.

• Minister Shen learned that Chen Jing had ordered nearly a hundred arrests and sealed several locations over suspected contamination, but officials could not prove the detainees were abnormal.
• Chen Jing's subordinates reported that testing and interrogation had revealed no abnormalities in those arrested, though some admitted contact with the Wish Event.
• Chen Jing questioned Lu Xin about his certainty, explaining that the arrests faced mounting pressure and that the tests had found nothing.
• Lu Xin said he understood why Chen Jing might suspect him, but maintained that identifying abnormalities was his job and deciding whether to believe him was the leaders' job.

Lu Xin’s warning about a spreading wish-and-curse ritual prompted Chen Jing and Minister Shen to treat the situation as a major pollution event and launch an emergency response. Chen Jing ordered Lu Xin to find every mutated individual, and citywide reinforcements arrived as the hunt began.

• Chen Jing questioned a young man Lu Xin had identified as suspicious, and he revealed that a curse game had supposedly caused his neighbor to break her leg.
• Minister Shen rejected his secretary’s call to dismiss Lu Xin as unreliable and ordered mass arrests, isolation, a Level 1 city alert, and the High Wall Overclocked Electro-Ion Cannon aimed at the Main City.
• Chen Jing reported that suspected mutated individuals had taken part in a wish- or curse-related ritual spread through the city and needed immediate isolation and communication restrictions.
• Kid held Lu Xin’s hand to show that she believed him, and Chen Jing arrived to order him to find all the mutated individuals.
• Helicopters, military vehicles, and City Defense Department support arrived as the Level 1 emergency response began.

The Sea Nation's first Old Captain argued that the Alliance must unite to face the growing threat of Mental Mutants and warned that ability users could become uncontrollable. He revealed that he had brought an S-rank ability user to the meeting, turning everyone's attention to the young man in a red cloak.

• Mr. Su dismissed an urgent phone call as a minor dispute and resumed receiving the Sea Nation's expert team.
• The first Old Captain urged closer cooperation between the Sea Nation and the Alliance, criticizing the divisions among cities and factions.
• The Old Captain described his past leadership and admitted that ability users, especially S-rank ones, frightened him.
• Professor Bai argued that society should understand, accept, and guide ability users, but the Old Captain warned against trying to control them.
• Mr. Su asked whether the Sea Nation had brought an S-rank ability user, and the Old Captain pointed to the young man in the red cloak.

The Sea Nation’s Old Captain revealed that it had prepared Qinggang’s chaos as leverage and demanded to take over the city, declaring war when Mr. Su refused. Meanwhile, Lu Xin helped Qinggang search for mutated Ability Users, but many remained hidden as the city prepared for further incidents.

• Old Captain told Mr. Su and Professor Bai that the Sea Nation wanted to cooperate with Qinggang because it faced a degeneration that made people less human.
• Old Captain said the Sea Nation would take over everything in Qinggang, and Mr. Su called the demand a declaration of war.
• Lu Xin flew over the eastern district with Kid and learned that more than a thousand suspected Ability Users had been detained, though many remained at large.
• Chen Jing asked Lu Xin to help identify the hidden Ability Users and prepare targeted measures against the threats they posed.
• Mr. Su asked Old Captain whether the Sea Nation had arranged the city’s chaos in advance, and Old Captain admitted it had prepared to strike first to avoid being killed.

Minister Shen ordered a response to the Sea Nation team after learning they had brought an S-rank ability user to Donghai Hotel. Mr. Su ordered their arrest, and Watchdog subdued the team while the red-cloaked young man was fitted with an ability inhibitor and helmet.

• Minister Shen reviewed the available forces and ordered Mr. Su and Professor Bai to leave, Watchdog and the other ability users to act, and the super-frequency ion cannon to aim at Donghai Hotel.
• Mr. Su refused to leave and told Old Man Ye that Qinggang would resist any threat, then ordered the Special Task Force to arrest the Sea Nation team.
• A Sea Nation team member reached for a gun, but Watchdog’s fear ability overwhelmed him and forced him and the other four members to their knees.
• Old Man Ye resisted Watchdog’s ability, and Mr. Su asked Watchdog to stop forcing him to kneel.
• Two people approached the motionless red-cloaked young man, toppled his chair, fastened an ability inhibitor around his neck, and covered his head with a protective helmet.

The Sea Nation’s Old Captain revealed that its red-cloaked S-rank ability user wanted to die and had been brought to Qinggang to become a weapon in the coming war. When the Crimson Moon rose, the young man activated his ability despite the inhibitor, and a gigantic shadow appeared beside Donghai Hotel as mutants across the city turned toward it.

• Mr. Su and Professor Bai learned from the Old Captain that the red-cloaked young man had an unknown, terrifying ability and wished to die so his soul could return to his True Hometown.
• The Old Captain said he had brought the young man to Qinggang to witness his own masterpiece and see what a true god looked like.
• As the Crimson Moon appeared, the young man asked to be freed, and the armed personnel evacuated Mr. Su, Professor Bai, and the Old Captain from the meeting room.
• Watchdog and six other ability users tried to restrain the young man, but he activated his ability while the inhibitor shocked him, separating a smiling shadow from his falling body.
• Lu Xin and other ability users sensed a disturbance as a shadow taller than Donghai Hotel rose beside it, while the detained mutants turned toward the building.

A red-hooded Mental Monster emerged beside Donghai Hotel and grew stronger as Qinggang’s officials scrambled to contain it and uncover the Sea Nation’s plan. Its influence drove mutants across the city toward the hotel, leaving Qinggang under a Level 1 alert.

• Lu Xin saw the enormous red-cloaked Mental Monster beside Donghai Hotel as detectors around the quarantine zone sounded alarms, and Chen Jing ordered stronger containment and emergency reports.
• Mr. Su ordered Old Captain interrogated while Professor Bai said the crisis was an expected test of their preparations.
• Minister Shen prepared ion cannons, but Professor Bai identified the monster as the growing mental body of a dead Sea Nation S-rank ability user and warned that destroying it could trigger unknown consequences.
• Professor Bai recommended interrogating Old Captain, waiting for investigation results, and considering the Unconventional Emergency Defense Plan, while Minister Shen still ordered twenty ion cannons prepared.
• The monster’s mental waves changed the quarantined mutants and hidden mutants throughout the city, driving them toward Donghai Hotel as armed soldiers opened fire and the mutants fused together.
• Qinggang sounded its Level 1 citywide alert as the chaos spread.

As Qinggang City’s isolation zone filled with mutants and growing Mental Monsters, Lu Xin reported their behavior while the Information Analysis Team debated their source. Professor Bai proposed that the Sea Nation’s dead S-rank ability user had used wishes and curses as bait to draw monsters from a collective mental realm, setting up an attack that could turn Qinggang City into a Ghost Domain; Mr. Su began verifying the theory and preparing recommendations.

• Lu Xin reported that weak Mental Monsters on the mutants combined and grew stronger when their hosts died, while the mutants charged toward the monster beside the hotel.
• Chen Jing ordered personnel to avoid killing the mutants and use anesthetic rounds or special bullets instead.
• The Information Analysis Team examined True Hometown and debated whether its Mental Monsters were created or summoned from a collective subconscious realm.
• Professor Bai rejected the summoning theory and suggested that wishes and curses had lured the monsters to Qinggang City before the S-rank ability user’s death triggered their appearance.
• Professor Bai warned that the coordinated attack could turn Qinggang City into a Ghost Domain and let the dead ability user’s mental level rise without limit.
• Mr. Su took over the screen and began verifying Professor Bai’s theory so he could recommend how to clear the monsters.

As Qinggang descended into chaos under the influence of a growing Crimson Moon and a red-cloaked Mental Monster, Chen Jing announced that the cleanup operation had begun. Lu Xin prepared to act, and Chen Jing assigned him to request Kid’s assistance.

• Lu Xin fought off monsters at the quarantine perimeter but felt unable to contain the growing crowds and mutants.
• The Crimson Moon appeared to fill out as citizens saw the red-cloaked Mental Monster and reacted with terror.
• Lu Xin and Kid stared at the Mental Monster, sharing his dislike and unease toward it.
• Chen Jing relayed the Information Analysis Team’s recommendations and ordered personnel to prepare for the cleanup mission.
• Han Bing joined Lu Xin’s channel, reassured him about their missed meeting, and lifted his spirits.
• Chen Jing ordered Lu Xin to request Kid’s assistance.

Lu Xin relayed Chen Jing’s request for Kid to control the quarantine zones’ aberrant people and destroy the forming Mental Monsters. Kid stopped the breakout and obliterated the approaching monsters, leaving the Sea Nation’s attack still underway.

• Chen Jing explained that the Sea Nation’s awakened aberrant people could spread pollution and that their Mental Monsters threatened Qinggang if they reached the Red-robed Apostle.
• Lu Xin asked Kid to restrain the people in the quarantine zone and destroy the Mental Monsters forming around them, and Kid agreed.
• Kid floated above the quarantine zone and used her mental power to halt the people and monsters inside.
• A fluctuation from the Red-robed Apostle stirred the Mental Monsters, which detached from their hosts and surged toward Kid.
• Kid gathered the incoming mental power and opened her umbrella, blasting the Mental Monsters apart.

Lu Xin and Kid cleared the Mental Monsters inside the isolation zone, but the Red-robed Apostle remained a growing threat to Qinggang. Professor Bai identified its ability to devour psychic power and requested activation of an Unconventional Emergency Defense Plan, leaving Mr. Su to question whether Lu Xin was ready.

• Kid opened and closed her umbrella, using borrowed psychic power to destroy the Mental Monsters in the isolation zone while Lu Xin confirmed that none remained.
• Chen Jing ordered the isolation zone secured and its survivors tested, then warned Lu Xin that the crisis was not over because Mental Monsters remained scattered around the city and the Red-robed Apostle still loomed over Qinggang.
• Chen Jing asked whether Lu Xin could eliminate the Red-robed Apostle, and he replied that it would be difficult because the monster was too dangerous.
• Professor Bai told Minister Shen and Mr. Su that the Red-robed Apostle had a psychic level approaching thirty thousand and devoured Mental Monsters and the psychic power of people who saw or approached it.
• Professor Bai warned that attacking the Red-robed Apostle could strengthen it, and Mr. Su noted that its psychic drain could drive residents and soldiers into mass suicide.
• After the Information Analysis Team confirmed Professor Bai's theory, he requested activation of the Unconventional Emergency Defense Plan, and Mr. Su asked whether Lu Xin was ready.

The Red-robed Apostle spread a psychic contamination across Main City, drawing people into staring at it and draining their psychic power. With the monster rapidly growing stronger, Professor Bai arrived and proposed that Lu Xin undergo his long-awaited second-stage enhancement so he could take on the S-rank cleanup mission.

• The Red-robed Apostle's psychic waves spread through Main City, causing people who looked at it to grow drowsy and lose psychic power.
• Chen Jing warned the cleanup teams and the public not to look at the monster, while Lu Xin remained troubled by his urge to fight it and his fear of destroying everything.
• Professor Bai arrived with two other officials and asked Lu Xin whether he could eliminate the monster if he held nothing back.
• Professor Bai explained that the monster had reached a psychic level of thirty thousand and could exceed sixty thousand within ten minutes, then asked Lu Xin to accept the S-rank cleanup mission.
• Professor Bai revealed that Lu Xin's second-stage enhancement had been approved and prepared, and proposed carrying it out immediately; Lu Xin was startled by the timing.

Professor Bai explained that Lu Xin’s second-stage strengthening would use a special pair of glasses made from the power in The Crimson Moon's Gaze to help stabilize his emotions. Lu Xin accepted the plan and Qinggang’s trust, then asked whether his mission compensation would be enough to buy a house as the red-cloaked Mental Monster continued attacking the city.

• Professor Bai asked Lu Xin about his emotional control, whether his ability felt alien to him, and his desire for peace of mind, and Lu Xin agreed that all three applied.
• Professor Bai presented Qinggang’s contract, and Lu Xin signed it after reading its terms.
• Professor Bai explained that The Crimson Moon's Gaze contained the abnormal mental power called Gaze, and revealed a specially modified pair of glasses intended to help Lu Xin maintain emotional balance.
• As the Mental Monster sent out a stronger shock wave and Professor Bai warned that only two minutes remained, Lu Xin questioned whether Qinggang trusted him despite his possible insanity.
• Minister Shen gave Lu Xin a gun and special bullets, saying Qinggang’s city had always been protected by lunatics, and Lu Xin asked whether his mission compensation would cover a house.

Lu Xin accepted the S-rank mission to clean up the Sea Nation ability user's mental entity and residual influence, equipped the special glasses, and advanced toward the red-cloaked Mental Monster. As his family joined him and the glasses revealed nearby mental radiation, the others realized Professor Bai's assumptions about Lu Xin's family had been wrong.

• Lu Xin accepted the mission, put on the glasses, and discovered that they displayed targets and mental radiation while also serving as a receiver.
• Lu Xin told Kid to wait in the vehicle, then headed toward the towering red-cloaked Mental Monster and shot down a contaminated old man on the way.
• Sister joined Lu Xin and increased his speed, while Mom praised his glasses and urged him to repair his relationship with the rest of the family.
• As Lu Xin approached Donghai Hotel, Minister Shen and the others saw Sister and Mom beside him and confronted Professor Bai for claiming his family would disappear.

Lu Xin and Sister attacked the enormous Red-robed Apostle, but it resisted Sister’s pollution and threw her back. Lu Xin consulted Han Bing and learned that powerful Mental Monsters could repair themselves, while Mom noticed the earpiece was transmitting their conversation to the others.

• Lu Xin reached the Donghai Hotel and saw Mental Monsters crawl beneath the Red-robed Apostle’s robe, strengthening it.
• Lu Xin lent Sister his power, and she rushed forward and began polluting the Red-robed Apostle’s body.
• The Red-robed Apostle expelled Sister with a burst of mental power, and its body returned to its original state.
• Lu Xin rode the hotel elevator to the roof and asked Han Bing to relay the experts’ analysis of the monster’s resistance to pollution.
• Han Bing relayed Professor Chen’s explanation that powerful Mental Monsters could repair themselves and expel pollution.
• Mom pointed out that Lu Xin’s earpiece was broadcasting his conversation, and Lu Xin insisted that his family was real.

Lu Xin and Mom severed Qinggang’s connection to the Red-robed Apostle, stopping its growth but causing the Mental Monsters it had attracted to scatter through the city. The authorities launched a blockade and sent ability users to clear the monsters.

• Lu Xin realized the Red-robed Apostle consisted of countless strands connecting it to people across Qinggang, and Mom cut the strand linking it to him.
• Mom appeared in many places around the monster and used her scissors to sever the connections, leaving people unable to see the Red-robed Apostle and interrupting its increase in mental magnitude.
• Professor Bai warned that the Red-robed Apostle was not destroyed and that the Mental Monsters it had attracted would spread after their connection was cut.
• Mental detectors sounded as the remaining monsters scattered toward the city’s population, and an observer reported that most were heading west.
• Minister Shen ordered the Special Task Forces to establish a three-thousand-meter blockade around Donghai Hotel and sent ability users to clear the monsters.

Lu Xin opened his shadow’s power to resist the Red Apostle and destroyed the enormous Mental Monster at the Donghai Hotel. Professor Bai identified the power as “Tyrant,” while the chapter left the consequences of the battle unresolved.

• After the Moms blocked the Red Apostle’s threads from reaching the city, the monster’s stronger wave struck Lu Xin with overwhelming emptiness and drove him to open the door in his heart.
• Lu Xin confronted his shadow, told it he believed it was in pain, and asked it to act like family; the shadow rose to protect him when the Red Apostle reached for him.
• Lu Xin and his shadow cut off the Red Apostle’s arm, and Sister seized it and swung it into the monster.
• The Red Apostle struck the rooftop, but Lu Xin remained standing and used his expanding shadow to chop off its other arm, legs, and head.
• As the Red Apostle collapsed, Mr. Su and Minister Shen watched in alarm, and Professor Bai called Lu Xin’s power “Tyrant.”

Lu Xin and his family repeatedly dismembered the Red-robed Apostle as Qinggang ability users fought Mental Monsters across the city. The cleanup proceeded smoothly, and Mr. Su prepared to confront the Sea Nation’s Old Captain while Kid quietly watched Lu Xin.

• Lu Xin used his shadow and Father’s power to keep severing the Red-robed Apostle as it tried to repair itself, while Sister tore at its body and Mom watched.
• Watchdog advised ability users to clear twisted mental power or eliminate the affected people and monsters together, then swallowed a blood monkey-like creature.
• A man in a plaza killed those who approached him with a spreading force field, while a girl in combat gear altered soldiers’ perceptions so they could fight monsters without seeing their true forms.
• Gecko cleared monsters with plasma rounds, then Tie Cui told him to assist Lu Xin at the Donghai Hotel; Gecko claimed he was resting because that was how he had cooperated with the Solo Soldier before.
• Chen Jing reported that Qinggang was containing the city’s weaker Mental Monsters, while Professor Bai said Kid’s calm showed that Lu Xin was not in danger.
• Mr. Su decided to contact the Sea Nation’s Old Captain and question him about Qinggang.

Dr. Jia told the Old Captain that Qinggang had contained most of the mutations and weakened the Red-robed Apostle, while revealing that the city secretly had two S-Rankers. The Old Captain warned that Shen Ming still had an unused ability that could doom Qinggang, and Dr. Jia ordered the combat units to prepare.

• The Old Captain insisted that Shen Ming would become a god by absorbing Mental Monsters and that Qinggang could not stop him.
• Dr. Jia explained that Qinggang had captured most Mutants before they transformed and that its ability users had suppressed the Red-robed Apostle.
• Dr. Jia showed the Old Captain that the Apostle had disappeared from view and revealed that Qinggang secretly had two S-Rankers.
• The Old Captain warned that Shen Ming could still destroy Qinggang by releasing more Mental Monsters with his remaining ability.
• Dr. Jia alerted the combat units to the suspected ability and ordered ability users to search the Old Captain's deeper memories.