Recaps

Lu Xin suppressed the Red-robed Apostle until it split into powerful Mental Monsters, then cleared a path through them to approach a pale-faced young man. He greeted the stranger warmly, while the Apostle’s final fate remained unresolved.

• Lu Xin reassured Han Bing over the channel and agreed to look forward to the wontons she had made.
• The Red-robed Apostle stopped trying to fuse and divided into many different Mental Monsters that fled in every direction.
• Sister rode a contaminated arm to catch and twist the fleeing monsters, while Mom appeared among them with scissors.
• Lu Xin detected a white phantom among the monsters and used his shadow to protect it while devouring the others.
• Lu Xin reached the pale-faced young man and told him he was glad to meet him.

Lu Xin confronted the dead S-rank ability user’s white apparition and used it to search among the Mental Monsters for a familiar target. He let the target put him to sleep, leaving the real world behind as he prepared to return.

• Lu Xin stopped his shadows from devouring the white apparition and told it he would destroy it publicly as a warning, after asking it to help him.
• Lu Xin used the apparition’s connection to the Mental Monsters to sense hundreds of them and find a familiar, bloated monster with a slit and an eyeball.
• The monster tried to flee through the gaps in Lu Xin’s shadows, but Lu Xin spotted it and smiled at it.
• The monster attacked Lu Xin with its ability, stretching its limbs into tentacles and making him intensely drowsy.
• As the world began to disappear, Lu Xin glanced at his shadow and Mom to signal that they should let him go.

Lu Xin entered a Dreamweaver monster’s dream and opened the last sealed room, where he witnessed a girl being tortured in an operating-room experiment. He returned beneath the Donghai Hotel after destroying the phantom, and the Crimson Moon’s light magnified his shadow as he headed toward the high-rise.

• Lu Xin caught the Dreamweaver-type Mental Monster and entered its dream, while Mom watched from among the other monsters.
• Lu Xin passed through the emptied rooms and opened the first of the three remaining doors.
• Lu Xin saw doctors perform a brutal experiment on a girl who healed rapidly and could control her body.
• Lu Xin erupted in rage and shattered the dream, with the girl’s frightened gaze the last thing he saw.
• Lu Xin returned to the real world holding the damaged white phantom, and his glasses drew away his rage until he calmed down.
• Lu Xin looked up at the unusually vivid Crimson Moon and walked toward the high-rise as his shadow grew larger.

Lu Xin used his shadows to capture and eliminate every Mental Monster fleeing the cordon around Donghai Hotel, saving Qinggang from disaster. After embracing Sister, he told Mom he would uncover what happened in the past and make those responsible pay, and Mom said he was ready to look at the information.

• Mental Monsters surged toward the cordon, and Chen Jing and the others prepared to defend Qinggang despite expecting the barrier to fail.
• Lu Xin spread shadows across the cordoned area, then pulled them inward and dragged every Mental Monster back, eliminating them all.
• Mr. Su, Minister Shen, and Professor Bai reacted with relief and awe after the cordon was cleared.
• Lu Xin hugged Sister, who tried to comfort him as she realized he was suffering.
• Lu Xin told Mom he would investigate the past and make those responsible pay, and Mom said he was ready to look at the information.

Lu Xin returned from the Donghai Hotel after defeating the Red-robed Apostle, while Qinggang’s leaders prepared to confront Old Captain over the Sea Nation’s attack. The chapter left the leaders demanding repayment for more than three thousand deaths.

• After the Mental Monsters vanished, Chen Jing reassured the leaders that Lu Xin should be safe, but Han Bing received no response to her calls.
• Lu Xin emerged from the ruins carrying the Sea Nation envoy’s head and reported that he had dealt with the Red-robed Apostle.
• Lu Xin admitted that his family had helped him defeat the monster and that he had been thanking them instead of answering the channel.
• Chen Jing sent Lu Xin and Kid to rest, and Lu Xin handed the head to a Special Task Force member before climbing into their transport van.
• Minister Shen challenged Professor Bai for withholding information about Lu Xin, and Professor Bai promised to explain what he had learned at the Alliance Research Institute.
• Mr. Su told Old Captain that Qinggang had cleared the attack’s Mental Monsters and demanded that the Sea Nation repay the deaths of more than three thousand people.

Lu Xin settled Kid into a temporary safe house after the cleanup and confronted the strange ambitions of his glasses. His shadow urged him to abandon rules and claim what he wanted, but Lu Xin rejected it, then asked Chen Jing to let him return to Satellite City for personal business.

• Lu Xin and Kid arrived at a safe house overlooking Donghai Hotel, where the service team brought Kid her Lego toys and arranged food.
• Lu Xin opened the Lego boxes for Kid, then examined his glasses and warned them against trying to take control during the cleanup mission.
• Lu Xin's shadow mocked his attachment to rules and tempted him with the promise of getting everything he wanted, including Kid.
• Lu Xin told his shadow that rules were the ritual of being human and that what should not be done must not be done.
• Chen Jing told Lu Xin that the citywide cleanup was nearly complete, and Lu Xin asked to return to Satellite City immediately for personal business.

After the Sea Nation attack, Lu Xin asked to return home, and Chen Jing and the researchers discussed how his Second Stage might affect him and Kid. When Kid showed she wanted to go out with him, Lu Xin decided to take her shopping despite the risks.

• Chen Jing discussed Lu Xin's request and possible Second Stage changes with Professor Bai, Professor Chen Liqing, and Mr. Su, and Professor Bai urged everyone to remain genuine in their attitudes toward Ability Users.
• Chen Jing approved Lu Xin's leave and offered to arrange a helicopter, but Lu Xin said he wanted to explore Main City and buy gifts instead.
• Kid joined Lu Xin at the window and showed that she wanted to go shopping with him.
• Chen Jing warned that Kid could not safely mix with ordinary people and that masks were too painful for her, though she could cover her face with an umbrella.
• Kid wrapped a bath towel around her head, and Lu Xin laughed and decided to take her out; Chen Jing agreed to arrange it.

Lu Xin took the Kid out for a quiet meal and bought gifts before leaving Qinggang for Satellite City No. 2. As his train departed, Han Bing delivered the wontons she had promised, while the Kid realized he was gone and mourned his absence.

• Lu Xin and the Kid ate fried noodles at a street stall, where Chen Jing explained that Qinggang would soon recover from the mutant attack.
• Lu Xin bought a lucky-cat piggy bank and balloon for the Kid, along with gifts for Mom, his father, and his Sister.
• Lu Xin left the Kid at the hotel and boarded a train for Satellite City No. 2, believing he should not take advantage of Han Bing's professional concern.
• Han Bing sent Lu Xin a bowl of homemade wontons and waved goodbye from the platform as his train departed.
• The Kid assembled a man's face from blocks, then fell quiet when she realized Lu Xin was no longer there.

Lu Xin returned to his family in Satellite City No. 2, brought them gifts, and finally opened the file about Document 003. The report revealed that Laboratory No. 3 had vanished from a moving train, along with its staff, experimental subjects, and records.

• Lu Xin returned to Moon Platform and discovered that his family had taken in the skinless dog he brought back from Main City.
• Lu Xin gave Mom a handbag, Dad a raincoat, and Sister a squeaky plastic chicken before sharing a meal with them.
• Lu Xin took the key Mom had given him and opened the television cabinet drawer to retrieve the file bag.
• Lu Xin read an Eclipse Research Institute report stating that a carriage containing Laboratory No. 3 had disappeared from a moving train in October of the seventeenth year after the Crimson Moon.
• The report identified Wang Jingyun, two assistants, and nineteen unknown experimental subjects as being aboard the missing carriage, and offered a major reward for clues.

Professor Bai revealed that the Crimson Moon Orphanage might be connected to the escaped laboratory, whose director was Wang Jingyun, and that the mental entity Tyrant had been inside it. After recognizing the Old Director in a photograph and finding evidence that Chen Xun might still be alive, Lu Xin struggled with his memories before his family and puppy helped steady him.

• Professor Bai told Qinggang’s leaders that Wang Jingyun’s signature linked the Crimson Moon Orphanage to the escaped laboratory and revealed that Tyrant had been inside it.
• Lu Xin skimmed the laboratory investigation files and recognized Wang Jingyun in a photograph as the Old Director from his childhood.
• Lu Xin read new intelligence suggesting Chen Xun was alive, had continued corresponding with a director, and had been conducting experiments related to Tyrant in Qinggang Satellite City No. 2.
• Lu Xin became distressed by the possibility that Chen Xun and the Old Director were still alive, causing his home and family to react to his unstable emotions.
• The hairless puppy tugged at Lu Xin’s trouser leg, and the cool sensation from his glasses helped him regain his composure as he told himself he should be happy someone from the orphanage had survived.

Professor Bai explained why he had concealed Single Soldier’s origins and warned Qinggang that the Eclipse Research Institute might know more about Mental Mutation than it shared. The meeting ended with Qinggang agreeing to pursue the Heavenly Kingdom Plan, while Professor Bai remained uncertain whether God would appear.

• Professor Bai told Minister Shen that he had hidden his suspicions about Single Soldier to keep the Research Institute from learning the truth and to stabilize him with Qinggang’s help.
• Professor Bai described clues suggesting the Research Institute had studied Mental Mutation before the Crimson Moon incident and had withheld useful findings.
• Professor Bai said Single Soldier might be connected to the Institute’s experiment to tame thirteen special mental entities, but urged Qinggang not to choose between him and the Institute.
• Professor Bai argued that Qinggang should continue pursuing the reconstruction of civilized order and said the Heavenly Kingdom Plan was another way to protect the city.
• Mr. Su and the other gentlemen agreed to the plan, and Professor Bai said he could not know whether God would appear but would welcome a conversation if They did.

Lu Xin visited Crimson Moon Orphanage to ask Teacher Lu about Director Wang and the events he could barely remember. Teacher Lu said Director Wang had been both the best and most terrifying person in the world, then recoiled in fear when Lu Xin tried to comfort her, leaving him to realize she was afraid of him.

• Lu Xin went to Crimson Moon Orphanage and reflected on the gaps and fragments in his memories of the orphanage and the year after he left.
• Lu Xin waited for class to end, chatted with the children, and helped Teacher Lu cook lunch for the orphans.
• While eating with Teacher Lu, Lu Xin recalled Director Wang's kindness and asked whether he had truly been a good person.
• Teacher Lu said Director Wang had been the best person in the world, but also the most terrifying, and began to describe how he changed when he put on a white coat.
• Teacher Lu flinched when Lu Xin reached for her hand, apologized, and admitted she could not stop being afraid; Lu Xin realized she feared him, not Director Wang.

After Teacher Lu’s fear left Lu Xin troubled, he decided to visit the surviving members of his old orphanage in Central City and ask what had happened. He called Chen Jing to request leave, and she told him to submit a report and a formal application to leave Qinggang.

• Lu Xin left Teacher Lu’s office after trying to reassure her, then heard the old security guard tell him she was not afraid of him.
• Lu Xin talked with Sister at the plaza about his unanswered questions and decided to visit the surviving orphanage members, possibly including the Old Director.
• Sister said the family had been waiting for Lu Xin to make that decision, while Mom and his shadow showed their approval.
• Lu Xin called Chen Jing to request extra leave so he could go to Central City.
• Chen Jing said the leave could be approved after Lu Xin submitted his mission report and an application detailing his trip, supplies, and security needs.

Lu Xin prepared for his trip to Central City, finalized his mission report, and asked Han Bing to buy a villa for Crimson Moon Orphanage with his money. Han Bing arranged a document-delivery mission for his journey and reminded him to contact Qinggang’s trusted liaison office if he encountered trouble.

• Lu Xin crossed out companions and excess supplies, chose his motorcycle, and submitted his report and application to leave the city.
• Han Bing told Lu Xin that his Sea Nation mission received S-Class ratings and a four-million Alliance currency reward, which would take up to a week to arrive.
• Lu Xin asked Han Bing to buy a villa near Mount Qingyan and give it to Crimson Moon Orphanage, along with any remaining money for its expenses.
• Han Bing told Lu Xin that Chen Jing had arranged a document-delivery mission to Central City so he could travel on Qinggang’s business without taking leave.
• Han Bing advised Lu Xin to follow Central City’s laws and contact Qinggang’s liaison office if he ran into problems.

Lu Xin prepared to leave for Central City and tried to resign from his company, but Director Liu arranged an unpaid leave instead. After collecting his travel document and supplies, Lu Xin headed home, stopping to leave his settled salary at the orphanage.

• Lu Xin returned to his company and asked Director Liu to let him resign because he would be away for an uncertain length of time.
• Director Liu misunderstood the situation, then convinced Lu Xin to take unpaid leave and keep his position and commission.
• After Lu Xin left, Director Liu told Secretary Xiao Wang to contact Vice President Xiao before processing the leave.
• Lu Xin returned to the Guard Department, reviewed the military map and Central City news, and received his document and travel supplies for the next day's trip.
• Lu Xin skipped dinner at the Guard Department and went to the orphanage, where he left his salary envelope by the entrance to the third floor.

Lu Xin traveled alone from Qinggang toward Central City, stopping at a remote gathering point to replenish supplies and spend the night. After Sister revealed someone hiding in a house, dozens of strange figures emerged from the darkness to watch him.

• Lu Xin used Han Bing’s Gaze glasses to follow a planned route from Qinggang to Central City, while Professor Bai and Mr. Su discussed the Sea Nation’s willingness to join Qinggang and the curse affecting its people.
• Lu Xin rode through the wilderness, cooked instant noodles, and searched for a safe gathering point where he could rest and replenish water.
• Lu Xin chose a green-marked settlement and reached its dark village just before nightfall.
• Lu Xin called out for shelter, and Sister appeared nearby with her Squeaky Chicken and a hairless puppy, revealing someone inside a house.
• Dozens of hunched figures emerged from the darkness and silently watched Lu Xin.

Lu Xin entered a strange village seeking lodging and dinner, then found an eerie old woman and a deformed child in the dark house assigned to him. The child stole and ate Lu Xin’s canned beef, while Lu Xin stayed calm and learned there was water behind the door.

• Lu Xin politely asked the village elder for lodging and dinner, and the elder led him to Old Mrs. Meng’s house.
• Lu Xin entered the dark, moldy room and used Han Bing’s multifunctional flashlight to illuminate it.
• Lu Xin saw Old Mrs. Meng holding a deformed child who stared at him.
• The child leaped from the bed, snatched Lu Xin’s opened can of beef, and ate most of it before sharing the last bite with Old Mrs. Meng.
• Lu Xin reassured the old woman that he had more food, asked for water, and she pointed behind the door.

Lu Xin shared noodles with an old woman and her deformed grandson in a remote gathering point, despite the old woman warning him to leave. After hearing about her dead sons and her hope that the child would recover, Lu Xin told her that he would not get better.

• Lu Xin filtered the old woman’s water, cooked noodles and canned beef, and stopped her grandson from grabbing the food with his hands.
• Lu Xin served bowls to the old woman and her grandson, while Sister watched from the rafters and accepted candy from him.
• The old woman warned Lu Xin that he would not be able to leave later, and explained that the other residents were preparing to eat and had blocked the roads.
• Lu Xin asked why the old woman and her grandson were hungry, then remarked that the residents might be avoiding the child because something was wrong with him.
• The old woman described the deaths of her four sons and said she hoped her grandson would recover and avenge the family.
• Lu Xin told the old woman that her grandson would not get better and said he was a professional.

Lu Xin questioned the old woman about her grandson’s mental pollution and learned that a woman’s arrival had preceded the village’s deaths, hunger, and strange behavior. As armed villagers crept toward the house, the old woman said the woman was hungry again.

• Lu Xin diagnosed the old woman’s grandson with severe mental pollution and asked when his condition began.
• The old woman said the village’s problems started about two months earlier, after her son brought a woman into the village.
• She blamed the woman for the deaths of her four sons, her grandson’s troubles, and the village’s food shortage.
• Sister heard someone approaching and alerted Lu Xin with the Squeaky Chicken.
• Armed villagers crept toward the house, and the old woman said the woman was hungry again.

Lu Xin tried to calmly negotiate with the villagers, but they attacked him, and he shot several of them in self-defense. As the survivors rushed toward a mysterious woman appearing on the road, Sister watched with curiosity.

• Lu Xin told the villagers he would leave in the morning and offered to help resolve their contamination, but they attacked him with weapons.
• Lu Xin dodged the thrown objects and shot four villagers, then killed the village chief’s two sons when they threatened him.
• Lu Xin asked the surviving villagers to discuss the contamination, but they became excited and rushed toward a woman they called theirs.
• Sister climbed onto Lu Xin’s shoulder as a strange, limping woman approached beneath the Crimson Moon.

Lu Xin watched a woman’s dance draw the villagers into a destructive frenzy, while an old woman with a trailing spine struggled to hold her grandson back. The child became the center of the conflict between the two forces, and Lu Xin still did not know how to break their logic chain.

• A woman danced beneath the Crimson Moon, and the villagers imitated her increasingly difficult movements until their bones began to crack.
• Lu Xin hesitated to intervene because the dancer seemed like an ability user, and he could not identify the logic chain linking her to the crowd.
• The old woman’s grandson rushed into the crowd and matched the dancer’s movements, causing the eye at his temple to grow and blink frantically.
• The old woman burst through a window with a spine instead of a lower body and used it to bind the dancers, easing some of their movements.
• The woman’s dance drew the villagers back in, while the old woman wrapped her spine around them and embraced her grandson at the center of the struggle.

Lu Xin watched a dancer’s performance reveal how a song-and-dance troupe had been slaughtered and how the dancer and an old woman became rivals over the village. He left after applauding, while the dancer’s dance froze the villagers in place and she bowed toward her only appreciative audience.

• The dancer’s movements showed Lu Xin how a knight order killed her troupe, broke her legs, scarred her, and kept her as a trophy.
• Lu Xin understood that the dancer used her performances to make the villagers fight and kill one another, while the old woman tried to protect her younger grandson and preserve her family’s power.
• The child’s dance revealed that he had once coveted the dancer and had helped the village discover the troupe.
• Lu Xin chose not to interrupt the performance, gathered his things, and applauded before riding away.
• The dancer’s dance synchronized with the younger grandson and the villagers, leaving them frozen in their poses as the old woman’s resistance failed.
• The dancer watched Lu Xin leave, then bowed in farewell as her own body began to break down.

Lu Xin became lost in the wilderness and realized a ghost wall was making him circle the same area, so he decided to find the entity causing it. Elsewhere, a middle-aged man and a young man also struggled to escape the looping road in their truck.

• Lu Xin discovered that his motorcycle route kept looping and that his compass needle spun wildly.
• Lu Xin tried spitting three times behind him, but he returned to the same rock and concluded that an entity was disrupting his thoughts and perceptions.
• A middle-aged man and a young man drove in circles in a truck, wearing underwear on their heads and arguing over folk remedies.
• The two men found their marked tree again and worried that their fuel would run out before they escaped.

An uncle and nephew became trapped in a strange wasteland where every road led back to the same crooked-neck tree. A polite motorcyclist passed them twice from a direction with no road, then turned back and asked why they had met again.

• The uncle and nephew repeatedly followed their map but remained trapped in the wasteland, circling back to the crooked-neck tree.
• They heard an approaching motorcycle, switched off the truck's headlights, and drew their guns.
• A clean-clothed young man rode past, greeted them, and continued on without giving them a chance to ask for directions.
• The uncle traced the motorcyclist's route on the map and realized he had come from a place with no road.
• The same motorcyclist passed them again, greeted them, then stopped, turned around, and asked, "Didn't we just meet?"

Old Ghost celebrated receiving a Hundred Alliances and two Silver Alliances, thanked his supporters, and announced that he was preparing a cross-dressing arrangement. He ended by promising to release the next chapter early and asking readers to vote after the monthly ranking surged into the top three.

• Old Ghost recalled that he had never expected to receive a Hundred Alliances and said he was excited by the milestone.
• Old Ghost said he had started browsing women's clothing on Taobao and that the cross-dressing arrangements were underway.
• Old Ghost thanked his Alliance Leaders, including the contributors to Wuwei Piaobo's crowdfunded Silver Alliance.
• Old Ghost said he would revise the next chapter and release it early.
• Old Ghost celebrated reaching the monthly ranking's top three and asked readers for votes.