Recaps

Lu Xin drove Kid through the wilderness, drawing the armed forces surrounding Happy Town away as her uncontrolled influence spread across a widening area. The Technological Church’s priest learned that Qinggang had disrupted his second plan and decided to investigate their bold response rather than abandon the operation.

• Lu Xin drove Kid past successive armed camps, and her growing influence drew their personnel into a relentless chase.
• Mom explained that Kid’s powerful trait was spreading without her deliberately using her ability, and Lu Xin realized she had been suppressing it rather than failing to control it.
• Lu Xin decided to let Kid enjoy herself and planned to draw the armed forces into the wilderness before she cut off her influence.
• The priest and a man on his channel discussed Great Knight Shenze and the Rose Knight’s likely fates after their mission failed.
• The priest said Qinggang had lured his recruited believers into the wilderness and disrupted the second plan, then chose to learn what had given Qinggang confidence.

Lu Xin used Kid’s influence to draw most of Happy Town’s armed forces into the wilderness, but the clashing mental forces drove the pursuers toward collapse. As Lu Xin continued fleeing, several powerful Mental Monsters emerged among the crowd.

• Lu Xin asked Kid how she felt, and she said she was happy, so he continued the plan to scatter the pursuers across the wilderness.
• As Lu Xin drove away from Happy Town, he considered the risk that the Technological Church’s influence and Kid’s power might interact unpredictably.
• A pursuer became exhausted and emotionally tormented as he chased Lu Xin’s vehicle, and others across the wilderness began suffering the same strain.
• One pursuer’s rationality collapsed, and he felt himself merging with the surrounding crowd as his desire and distress gave way to relief.
• Lu Xin saw enormous, many-eyed Mental Monsters crawling over the pursuers, and Mom explained that they were formed from twisted desire and sought to protect people by swallowing them.

Lu Xin learned that the Technological Church’s influence had allowed abyssal Mental Monsters to emerge, and he drove toward a mountain pass to contain them while protecting Kid. Meanwhile, Chen Jing’s team followed the shaman’s warning to intercept a priest carrying a silver briefcase, who sensed someone tailing him and continued on with a shotgun.

• Mom explained that the Technological Church’s Pollution and Kid’s influence had stirred people’s greed, letting abyssal Mental Monsters crawl into reality.
• Lu Xin reassured Kid, refused to hand her over to the monsters, and drove toward a narrow mountain pass to keep them from escaping.
• Chen Jing and her team found the shaman’s message identifying a priest with a silver briefcase as a possible cause of the settlements’ madness, then chose a route to intercept him.
• The priest sensed the abyssal monsters’ arrival and walked toward Happy Town, noticing that someone was following him.
• The priest drew a double-barreled shotgun and invited his unseen pursuer to keep following.

Lu Xin and Kid lured the Mental Monsters into a mountain passage and prepared to trap them. Meanwhile, the Priest reached the bridge to Happy Town, where Qinggang’s team confronted him and demanded he come in for questioning.

• Lu Xin told Kid to withdraw her influence as their modified car raced through the mountain passage.
• The Mental Monsters swarmed the abandoned car, then saw Lu Xin and Kid waiting above them as a dark presence approached.
• The Priest walked toward Happy Town while sensing unseen footsteps following him.
• At the bridge, the Priest met a young computer user, a short-haired armed woman, and a schoolgirl waiting for him.
• The short-haired woman identified the Priest as a suspected Technological Church missionary and demanded he return with them for an investigation.
• The Priest offered to grant wishes in exchange for their support, but the woman refused and called him a criminal.

The priest used his wish ability to repel Qinggang’s ambush and counterattack, leaving Chen Jing and the others struggling to restrain him. The chapter ended with the drunkard identifying his power as one that fulfilled and twisted wishes, while the priest’s force field deflected their attacks.

• The priest sensed the shaman following him, granted her wish to follow, then collected its price by shooting her as Chen Jing and the others launched their ambush.
• The priest denied the attackers’ wishes, causing their bullets to miss and the drunkard’s illusion to fail, then fired at the apparent figures on the bridge and realized they were illusions.
• Gecko, Chen Jing, the drunkard, and the shaman attacked again, while the shaman’s curses distracted the priest and slowed him from opening his case.
• The priest fulfilled and twisted a wish, redirecting Gecko’s bullet into the shaman and exposing Chen Jing when the drunkard’s concealment shifted to the elementary school student.
• The priest aimed a submachine gun at Chen Jing, but Gecko struck his silver briefcase with a special bullet, letting the drunkard pull Chen Jing to safety.
• The priest rejected all their wishes and deflected their shots as the drunkard realized his ability fulfilled and twisted wishes.

The Priest used his Wish ability to evade Qinggang’s attacks, but a child’s pranks exposed a weakness in his wish rejection. The Priest was shot and left wounded on the riverbed.

• The Priest explained how he could fulfill, reject, and distort nearby wishes, then fired toward the hidden Qinggang ability users.
• The child appeared behind the Priest, kicked him, and threw dirt into his eyes while Chen Jing and the others attacked around him.
• The Priest’s ability bent the attacks away, but the child grabbed the silver case and let go, causing the Priest to fall.
• The short-haired woman gave the child a miniature submachine gun and told him to shoot the Priest.
• The child fired only to draw a border around the Priest as a prank, but the Priest rejected that wish and the bullets struck his legs, lower abdomen, and palm.

Chen Jing and the Drunkard’s team defeated the Technological Church priest and secured his silver case, while Lu Xin and his family cleared the Mental Monsters from the mountain road. The Second Plan was destroyed, and Mom urged them to uncover the Technological Church’s true objective.

• Troublemaker Kid’s electric bullet stopped the priest from opening the silver case, and Chen Jing and the Drunkard disabled and captured him with help from Gecko.
• Chen Jing calmed the frightened Troublemaker Kid, while the Drunkard checked the wounded Medium, who asked whether her makeup had run.
• Chen Jing and the Drunkard suspected the priest had used a parasitic item to amplify his ability and believed the silver case held the core of the Second Plan.
• Lu Xin and his family finished destroying the Mental Monsters on the mountain road, then Mom wondered why the Technological Church had released them.
• Mom said the Second Plan had been destroyed and pointed toward the obscured town as the place to learn the Technological Church’s true objective.

Lu Xin cleared the road after completing his mission with Kid, then joined Chen Jing’s team and learned they had captured a Technological Church priest and recovered a contaminating silver case. The case remained unopened, but Drunkard sensed that it contained a terrifying mental entity resembling a pile of living hearts.

• Lu Xin cleared the boulders with a crowbar, fired a signal flare, and drove toward Chen Jing’s team after seeing their reply flare.
• Lu Xin found Chen Jing, Gecko, Drunkard, Troublemaker Kid, and the injured Witch at a temporary camp, where they had captured a shackled Technological Church priest and recovered a silver briefcase.
• Lu Xin told Chen Jing that he and Kid had encountered seven or eight powerful Mental Monsters and scattered the armed forces in the wilderness.
• Chen Jing explained that the captured priest was the Wish Priest behind the second plan and that the briefcase was the source of the contamination affecting the armed forces.
• Drunkard said she sensed a terrifying mental entity inside the unopened case and described it as a pile of beating, living hearts.

Chen Jing assigned the team’s missions, sending Lu Xin and Kid into Happy Town while arranging support outside. To solve the communication problem caused by the town’s intense mental radiation, Lu Xin summoned seven Infiltrators, who agreed to carry messages.

• The Drunkard recommended sending the box back to Qinggang for proper study, and Chen Jing laid out the dangers and tasks that had to be handled.
• Lu Xin volunteered to investigate Happy Town, and Chen Jing assigned the Wish Priest and Drunkard to escort the box while she, Gecko, and Troublemaker Kid handled the outskirts and incoming troops.
• Chen Jing decided that Kid would accompany Lu Xin into Happy Town, accepting responsibility for sending both of them into the dangerous zone.
• Chen Jing identified reliable communication as essential because Happy Town’s mental radiation might disrupt signals, and Lu Xin proposed finding help.
• Lu Xin summoned seven Infiltrators and asked them to relay messages between the investigators and the team outside; they offered their help, and Chen Jing ordered the mission to begin.

Lu Xin and Kid entered Happy Town’s intense mental-radiation zone and found themselves in a strange place labeled the Museum of Calamities, where Lu Xin’s family members and the Glasses Dog appeared beside them. After confirming that messages could still be exchanged with Chen Jing’s team, Lu Xin explored the museum and followed a corridor toward Happy Town.

• Lu Xin and Kid left the modified vehicle at the edge of Happy Town after its systems failed, then crossed into the radiation zone.
• Lu Xin found himself in a gloomy ancient hall marked “Museum of Calamities,” accompanied by Mom, Dad, Sister, and the Glasses Dog.
• Lu Xin used the Infiltrator to send a report and received a reply signed C1 warning him to be careful.
• Lu Xin and his companions passed through a hall filled with unsettling sculptures and branched corridors.
• Lu Xin chose a corridor that should lead closer to Happy Town and continued inside with growing confidence.

Lu Xin explored the Museum of Calamities and found countless bottles containing vivid scenes of people’s lives. He concluded that the museum was a cognitive illusion and began tearing at its wall, provoking the bottle-dwellers as the chapter ended.

• Lu Xin inspected several bottles and found tiny, lifelike scenes of people living ordinary and intimate moments.
• Lu Xin reasoned that the museum could not have been built there and identified a distortion of cognition as the likely cause.
• Lu Xin decided to use facts and logic to expose the museum’s false appearance, while Mom warned him that he would eventually see the world’s true form.
• Lu Xin grabbed the wall and dug his fingers into it, causing people throughout the bottles to notice him, shout, and pound on the glass.

Lu Xin broke free of the Calamity Doctor's Hall illusion and found himself in a wilderness where people lived out blissful, fabricated lives woven from spiritual radiation. He realized his family had vanished, leaving him alone as he remembered Mom asking whether he was sure he wanted to see through the illusion.

• Lu Xin tore open the wall, shattered the corridor illusion, and emerged in a wilderness with Kid beside him.
• He saw crowds of frozen, hostile people resume their movements as peaceful sleepwalkers, including people he had previously seen inside bottles.
• Lu Xin recognized that dense spiritual radiation had constructed an illusory town and trapped the people's spirits in counterfeit lives.
• He turned around and discovered Mom, Father, and Sister were gone, then remembered Mom asking whether he was sure he wanted to see through the illusion.

Lu Xin investigated the sleepwalking residents around Happy Town while struggling with the loneliness of no longer seeing his family. After disturbing the mental radiation, he heard the Queen of Happy Town calling for help.

• Lu Xin calmed himself with Kid’s support and continued investigating, reasoning that his family’s disappearance might be temporary and tied to seeing the truth.
• Lu Xin observed the sleepwalking residents and reported that they were likely the missing residents of Water Bay City, living in happy illusions created by the mental radiation.
• Lu Xin received a message from outside telling him to stay calm and reminding him that life was resilient, which eased his panic.
• Lu Xin realized he had been circling the residents and remained trapped inside the Museum of Calamities, so he deliberately walked through one resident to disrupt the mental radiation.
• Lu Xin and Kid heard a faint plea for help, and Lu Xin recognized the voice as the Queen of Happy Town.

Lu Xin confronted Qin Ran in the Museum of Calamities and rejected his claim that trapping Water Bay City’s suffering residents in idealized bottle worlds healed them. With the Queen still calling for help, Lu Xin ordered Kid to break the museum.

• Lu Xin followed the Queen’s cries through the bottle-world wilderness, disturbing the sleepwalkers and breaking one of their bottles.
• Qin Ran appeared and explained that the Technological Church had placed unhappy people from Water Bay City in bottles to give them lives they wanted.
• Lu Xin rejected Qin Ran’s justification, connecting his mission to the dead colleagues who had sacrificed themselves to protect others.
• Lu Xin accused Qin Ran of using beautiful dreams to preserve people’s despair and said he intended to stop him.
• Qin Ran warned Lu Xin about the cost of breaking a first-order parasitic object, but Lu Xin told Kid to break the museum.

Kid shattered the false world with a mental shockwave, awakening the Museum of Calamities sculptures. Lu Xin protected her from their attacks, and Kid became furious when he was wounded.

• Kid opened her parasol and sent a mental shockwave through the false world, collapsing it and drawing out the sculptures from the Museum of Calamities.
• A sculpture pulled a sword from its chest and attacked Kid, but Lu Xin blocked the blade with his own mental shockwave.
• Kid destroyed the sword-wielding sculpture with a dark-red spear, prompting the other sculptures to attack Lu Xin and Kid with their weapons.
• Lu Xin used his distorted force field to redirect the weapons into himself, shielding Kid as they pierced his body.
• Lu Xin tore the weapons from himself, and Kid touched his bloody wound, wept, and let her anger surge.

Lu Xin and the Kid fought through the Museum of Calamities, and the Kid unleashed overwhelming mental power to destroy its sculptures and destabilize the museum. As the world began collapsing, Qin Ran killed himself and transformed into a blood-red tree that lifted the suffering people into the air.

• Lu Xin recovered from the punitive sculpture’s cognitive attack, while the Kid grew furious and charged ahead.
• The Kid smashed the museum’s sculptures with her parasol and fired countless mental bullets, tearing apart the museum’s mental-radiation structure.
• Qin Ran watched Lu Xin and the Kid’s power with alarm as the museum began to buckle and collapse.
• Qin Ran pressed a gun beneath his jaw, shot himself, and grew into a blood-red tree.
• Qin Ran’s tree-like vines lifted the people around him into the air, gathering them in dense clusters like fruit.

Lu Xin and Kid confronted Qin Ran’s rapidly growing Flesh Monster Tree as it attacked them with vines that spread the pain and despair of its victims. Lu Xin let the contamination overwhelm him, then chose to smile at the monster as he endured it.

• Lu Xin spotted Qin Ran’s Flesh Monster Tree absorbing people and transforming them into blood-red figures that cried that Kid had harmed them.
• Lu Xin called Kid to his side, confirmed Queen was calling for help, and advanced toward her through the damaged Museum of Calamities.
• Qin Ran sent dozens of vine-borne figures toward Kid, so Lu Xin shielded her and used his Twisted Force Field to hold them back.
• The figures’ faces grew across Lu Xin’s body and flooded him with their hosts’ despair, grief, and other suffering.
• Lu Xin stopped repelling the figures, drew their pain into himself, and smiled at the Flesh Monster Tree.

Qin Ran’s attempt to overwhelm Lu Xin with pain from the Museum of Calamities failed when Lu Xin absorbed the suffering without breaking. After Kid saw Lu Xin endure the attacks and hugged him, she unleashed her hatred on Qin Ran, making the surrounding world turn against him.

• Qin Ran sent the Museum of Calamities’ pain and misfortune into Lu Xin, but Lu Xin showed no distress and smiled.
• Kid sensed Lu Xin taking the attacks meant for her, hugged him, and cried as he felt renewed vitality.
• Lu Xin pulled the retreating humanoid fruits back with his force field and told Kid it was time to work.
• Kid opened her parasol, flew toward Qin Ran’s Flesh Monster Tree, and declared that she would beat him to death.
• Kid’s hatred made the surrounding mental forces attack Qin Ran, tearing apart the Flesh Monster Tree and its vines.

Lu Xin and Kid defeated Qin Ran’s Flesh Monster Tree, then crossed the collapsing psychic world to find Queen trapped beneath a dome and being drained by a gigantic cross-shaped man. Queen begged Lu Xin to save her, leaving him to face the Technological Church’s brutal experiment.

• Qin Ran used the Flesh Monster Tree to attack Lu Xin, but Kid’s ability turned its vines against it while Lu Xin endured the transmitted pain.
• Qin Ran abandoned the tree and escaped as its vines and humanoid fruits scattered; Lu Xin stopped Kid from pursuing him.
• Kid’s power surged as the false world collapsed, clearing a path for Lu Xin and Kid through the subdued Sleepwalkers.
• Lu Xin followed Queen’s faint cries to the mountains behind Happy Town and found her trapped inside a huge dome of light.
• Lu Xin saw Queen nailed to a gigantic cross-shaped man whose vessels and nerves drained her, and Queen pleaded with him to save her.

Lu Xin tried to intervene as the Archbishop of Calamity merged with Queen of Happy Town, but attacking the cocoon worsened Queen’s suffering and the foreigner began controlling the town’s mental radiation. Elsewhere, Qin Ran’s copies killed one another as they tried to reach a motorhome, where an old man explained that the monster had once been severely polluted.

• Lu Xin sent an Infiltrator to report the scene and investigate the Technological Church’s purpose, then tested the cocoon with Kid’s mental attack and discovered it hurt Queen.
• The blue-eyed man awakened and used the face emerging from his chest to scream, rousing the sleepwalkers and driving Happy Town’s mental radiation toward Lu Xin and Kid.
• Kid held back the sleepwalkers and the advancing radiation, while Lu Xin realized the Archbishop of Calamity could control the mental force surrounding Happy Town.
• Qin Ran reached the motorhome, but successive versions of himself shot or stabbed one another before one finally entered.
• Inside the motorhome, the surviving Qin Ran asked what kind of monster was pursuing them, and the old man said it had once been severely polluted.

Lu Xin tried to find a way to save the Queen as the old man advised Qin Ran and the others to destabilize the mental-radiation field. The resulting backlash overwhelmed Kid with surging mental power, leaving her in danger of shattering.

• Qin Ran told the old man and the Technological Church priest that he had failed to stop Lu Xin and Kid, while the old man explained that Lu Xin was a Zero Ability User and Kid had mental domination.
• The old man told Qin Ran and the priest to open the field, and the priest pressed a red button despite his hesitation.
• Lu Xin considered how to free the Queen from the Archbishop of Calamity without harming her, then noticed silver cylinders rising from the ground and shutting off their red lights.
• The cylinders' shutdown destabilized the mental-radiation field, and the Archbishop of Calamity began draining the Queen through blood vessels.
• The released mental power surged toward Kid, whose body cracked like porcelain as she struggled under the backlash.

Lu Ran realized Kid was close to losing control under the burden of the chaotic mental power around her, while Qinggang struggled to uncover the Technological Church’s Gospel Plan. Professor Bai warned that making Kid release the power would advance the Queen’s parasitic ritual and unleash Mental Monsters, then asked to speak directly with Chen Jing.

• Lu Ran shielded Kid with his distorted force field and sent an Infiltrator to Qinggang for help as he recognized her danger of losing control.
• Chen Jing organized Lu Ran’s reports on the Technological Church’s plans and urgently forwarded them to Qinggang headquarters.
• Professor Chen and the researchers inferred that the Flower of Death, the Sin of Greed, and the Mental Fortress were connected parts of the Gospel Plan.
• After learning Kid was about to lose control, Professor Chen ordered Qinggang to tell her to release a full-power mental shockwave and abandon the mission.
• Professor Bai arrived and warned that Kid’s shockwave would help the Technological Church parasitize the Queen and could create countless Mental Monsters in the wilderness.
• Professor Bai asked to be connected to Chen Jing so he could speak to her directly.

Lu Xin learned that saving Kid required her to release the mental radiation the Technological Church planned to exploit, risking a disaster across the region. Chen Jing told him Qinggang’s team was ready to handle the consequences and urged him to protect Kid first.

• As Lu Xin held Kid inside the S-rank restricted zone, her suffering worsened and she neared collapse.
• In the RV, Qin Ran and the Technological Priest questioned the scale of the mental power and the identity of the man delaying the process, while the old man said some things required time.
• An Infiltrator delivered Chen Jing’s recorded briefing, explaining that the Technological Church planned to use Kid to unleash mental radiation, draw out abyssal monsters, and take control of them.
• Chen Jing explained that Kid could be saved only by releasing the mental power, but doing so could turn the area around Happy Town into a haven for Mental Monsters and threaten Qinggang.
• Chen Jing told Lu Xin that Qinggang’s support team and researchers were ready, and urged him to have Kid release a mental shock toward the west so they could deal with the consequences.

Lu Xin helped Kid understand that she needed to send her psychic power away, and she unleashed it in a massive wave toward the west. The surge raced toward Qinggang as Chen Jing, Gecko, and Troublemaker Kid fled, leaving the city's ability to withstand it uncertain.

• Chen Jing told Lu Xin that Qinggang had chosen to release Kid's psychic power and bear the pressure this would place on the outside world.
• Lu Xin told Kid to send her psychic power outward, then patiently explained how to make it leave her.
• Kid gathered her strength and released the surrounding psychic power toward the west, unleashing a vast wave that tore across the wasteland.
• At Happy Town, the old man told Qin Ran that the Gospel Plan's spread depended on whether Qinggang could withstand the wave.
• Chen Jing, Gecko, and Troublemaker Kid fled in vehicles as the towering dark-red psychic torrent surged after them.

Chen Jing and Gecko raced to the thirty-kilometer line as the mental turbulence from Happy Town crushed the wilderness and spawned Mental Monsters. Minister Shen and the Qinggang troops stopped its advance with a massive electric net, though the turbulence still pressed against their defenses.

• Chen Jing and Gecko fled west with Troublemaker Kid as the dark crimson mental turbulence engulfed the abandoned camp behind them.
• The turbulence swallowed armed personnel who had been lured away, crushing some and transforming others into Mental Monsters.
• Chen Jing and Gecko reached the designated thirty-kilometer position as the spreading turbulence nearly caught them.
• Minister Shen arrived with Qinggang troops and ordered the plasma bombs detonated beneath the line of lime powder.
• The explosions formed a vast electric net that blocked the mental turbulence.