Recaps

Lu Xin fought the Super Level 1 Mental Monster at the wild lake while Sister controlled his movements. As Chen Jing and Han Bing analyzed the threat, they considered whether Cui Wang’s corpse or Lu Xin’s own method could resolve the incident.

• Lu Xin dodged the monster’s humanoid shadows and tore one apart while Sister controlled the fight.
• The monster’s vines and humanlike figures attacked Lu Xin as onlookers watched him fight barehanded.
• Han Bing identified the shadows as fused mental bodies of people who had pursued Qin Ran for revenge.
• Chen Jing ordered the team to continue analyzing and concluded that Cui Wang might be key to resolving the pollution incident.
• Han Bing wondered whether Lu Xin’s method could resolve the incident directly.

Lu Xin and Sister drove the Mental Monster back into the lakebed, allowing the team to excavate its Pollution Source. The corpse they uncovered was Qin Ran, raising the question of who had been accompanying the team on shore.

• Lu Xin tore apart the Human-shaped Fruit Tree’s human-shaped vines while Sister bit into the vines themselves.
• The Mental Monster withdrew into the puddle, and Sister said it had chickened out.
• Chen Jing ordered the investigation team to excavate the Pollution Source while Lu Xin stood guard.
• The team dug up an intact corpse in camouflage, and Lu Xin helped pull it from the lakebed.
• Lu Xin identified the corpse as Qin Ran and wondered who the Qin Ran on shore was.

Lu Xin confronted Qin Ran with the discovery that Qin Ran’s corpse had been buried as the Pollution Source, and Qin Ran fled after questioning his identity. After soldiers shot him, his body changed into Cui Wang, leaving the team with a new mystery.

• Lu Xin asked Qin Ran who he was after revealing that the corpse excavated from the lakebed looked exactly like him.
• Sister said the shadows from the strange tree resembled Qin Ran in different shapes and sizes.
• Qin Ran panicked, ran to the corpse, called the discovery fake, and charged toward the city wall.
• Chen Jing ordered the team to capture Qin Ran alive, but soldiers on the wall shot him before he could escape.
• Lu Xin and the team saw Qin Ran’s corpse shrivel and transform into another person, whom Corporal Han Bing identified as Cui Wang.

After the lake’s Pollution Source 041 was contained and declared cleared, Chen Jing reviewed the operation with Lu Xin and questioned how he had defeated such a powerful source without finding its logic chain or core key. The chapter left Lu Xin facing Chen Jing’s suspicion that he had a hidden ability.

• The support team sealed Qin Ran’s and Cui Wang’s bodies in separate glass coffins and examined the lake while Cheng Hui and his teammates underwent assessments.
• Chen Jing told Lu Xin the cleanup mission was complete and proposed that the fish’s cries about Qin Ran could provide a clue to the incident’s logic.
• Chen Jing took Lu Xin to the Satellite City Guard Department, where he waited in a conference room and Sister ate the chocolate and candy.
• Chen Jing ordered the coffins sent to the Special Research Institute, Sifang Company’s staff detained, and records about Qin Ran and Cui Wang collected.
• A tissue test confirmed that the remains from Cui Wang’s dumping site matched Qin Ran, and Chen Jing reported that no residual mental power remained in the lake.
• Chen Jing explained that the team had found neither the logic chain nor the core key, then asked Lu Xin whether he had a hidden ability that let him defeat Pollution Source 041.

Chen Jing questioned Lu Xin about how he had handled the pollution incidents and explained mental levels, Pollution Sources, and their logic chains and core keys. Lu Xin said his sister had resolved the threats and explained that he charged in because he could see the three investigation team members had not been polluted.

• Chen Jing explained mental levels and the difference between Pollution Sources and Mental Monsters.
• Chen Jing questioned why Lu Xin had faced the No. 036 and No. 041 pollution incidents directly instead of finding their logic chains and core keys.
• Lu Xin said his sister had resolved the Pollution Sources, and that she was above Chen Jing's head, though Chen Jing could not see her.
• Chen Jing asked why Lu Xin had disobeyed her order to retreat and charged toward the Pollution Source.
• Lu Xin said he acted because the three investigation team members had not been polluted, and explained that he had seen it directly.

After Lu Xin explained that he could see Mental Monsters, Chen Jing questioned him about his abilities and promised to arrange his payment. Back at the Guard Department, Chen Jing and her colleagues discussed his unusual perception and estimated that his mental level might exceed three hundred.

• Lu Xin told Chen Jing that he could see Mental Monsters and distinguish whether people caught by them had been restrained or polluted.
• Chen Jing asked Lu Xin about his investigation and fight, then sketched the Human-shaped Fruit Tree from his description.
• Lu Xin asked about his payment, and Chen Jing said it would soon be deposited into his account.
• After sending Lu Xin home, Chen Jing returned to the conference room and reviewed the implications of his abilities with her colleagues.
• A man in a white coat estimated that Lu Xin's mental level might be three hundred or higher.

Chen Jing argued against keeping Lu Xin under strict surveillance or refusing to guide him, but Professor Bai revealed that Lu Xin’s risk of losing control might exceed 80 percent. He linked Lu Xin to a mysterious explosion at the Crimson Moon Orphanage ten years earlier, suggesting Lu Xin had caused a devastating Telekinesis incident as a child.

• Minister Shen argued that Lu Xin’s unstable condition and high risk of losing control made him too dangerous to recruit or guide.
• Chen Jing argued that refusing to guide Lu Xin could itself provoke a loss of control, and that he had just prevented a disaster without casualties.
• Corporal Han Bing announced a signal from Professor Bai, who confirmed Lu Xin’s risk of losing control was high and his mental magnitude might be greater than they had assumed.
• Professor Bai presented a report about the Crimson Moon Orphanage explosion ten years earlier, in which Lu Xin and Zeng Xiaolu were the only survivors.
• Professor Bai said the orphanage’s destruction was likely caused by a loss-of-control Telekinesis incident, leaving the meeting stunned by the possibility of Lu Xin’s power.

Professor Bai argued that the unusually powerful Mental Mutant should be recruited and guided rather than rejected, while Minister Shen insisted on strict safeguards. The meeting ended with plans for further testing in the Satellite City, prompted by Professor Bai’s unease about No. 041.

• Minister Shen called for comprehensive monitoring of the young man, but Professor Bai supported recruiting and guiding him because he had worked to control himself.
• Professor Bai warned that other High Wall Cities and organizations had discovered S-class Mental Mutants and might use them militarily, making it dangerous to fall behind.
• Minister Shen agreed to recruitment but demanded stronger supervision and barred the young man from entering the Main City until his mental stability was confirmed.
• Professor Bai told Chen Jing that the young man’s long-standing disorder and high Mental Mutation level could demonstrate self-control, and said guiding him was their responsibility.
• Professor Bai arranged for staff to test and evaluate the young man in the Satellite City as soon as possible because No. 041 special pollution source troubled him.

Lu Xin returned to routine office work after the Sifang Transportation Company incident, while his coworkers grew wary of him. Han Bing called to explain how Special Pollution Source - 041 had been contained and began describing how the incident started.

• Lu Xin’s Director nervously asked about his gunfight at Sifang Transportation Company, and Lu Xin said he had visited the Guard Department and returned after drinking coffee.
• Lu Xin resumed managing the glass-fiber filter cloth order, recruiting Sister Sun and Brother Zhang to help.
• Lu Cheng quit the project after a gun fell from Lu Xin’s bag and he became frightened by Lu Xin’s strange glances.
• Han Bing told Lu Xin that Qin Ran and Cui Wang’s corpses had been sealed at the Qinggang City Special Pollution Source Containment Center and that the investigation team had shown no signs of contamination.
• Lu Xin asked Han Bing whether the pollution source had been destroyed and then asked how the incident had begun.

Han Bing explained the research department’s uncertain hypotheses about Special Pollution Source—041 and Qin Ran’s connection to Cui Wang. Lu Xin learned he would receive a reward and undergo an assessment before possible formal recruitment, then returned to the office pleased about the money and prospect of a full-time position.

• Han Bing told Lu Xin that DNA evidence linked the bodies and samples associated with Qin Ran and Cui Wang, while witness testimony suggested Qin Ran’s appetite had grown unusually large.
• Han Bing outlined the hypothesis that Cui Wang had been deeply polluted into believing he was Qin Ran, while Special Pollution Source—041 could capture, devour, and assimilate mental entities.
• Han Bing gave possible explanations for why the polluted entities had sought revenge and why Qin Ran’s behavior might have differed from the source’s, including that he could have been a juvenile form.
• Han Bing said the investigation was ongoing and that Lu Xin would be notified of further findings from other cases.
• Han Bing told Lu Xin his thirty-thousand-yuan reward and an extra six thousand yuan had been transferred, and that Colonel Chen Jing had arranged an assessment before formal recruitment.
• Lu Xin celebrated the thirty-six-thousand-yuan reward and his chance to become a full-time employee, then returned to the office.

Lu Xin struggled to resist buying a chicken drumstick before visiting Teacher Lu at Crimson Moon Elementary School. After she caught him trying to leave, he explained that his new job was legitimate and promised not to do anything bad, then pushed her back into the school.

• Lu Xin bought a chicken drumstick to eat with his vegetable noodles, then took a bus to Crimson Moon Elementary School.
• Lu Xin left money and flowers in the school mailbox and tried to slip away before Teacher Lu could see him.
• Teacher Lu pretended her wheelchair had crashed to make Lu Xin turn back, then confronted him about avoiding her.
• Teacher Lu asked whether Lu Xin had done something bad to earn so much money, and he said he had a legitimate, well-paying part-time job.
• Teacher Lu accepted Lu Xin's reassurance and asked him to push her back inside the school.

Lu Xin gave Teacher Lu money to support Crimson Moon Elementary School, but she worried about his safety and urged him to take care of himself. After leaving, he wondered about the orphanage’s past, then returned home to find Father and Sister arguing in the hallway.

• Lu Xin gave Teacher Lu a large amount of money, and she accepted some while telling him to keep the rest and eat better.
• Teacher Lu avoided Lu Xin’s questions about the events at Crimson Moon Orphanage and invited him over for dumplings.
• Lu Xin left the school still wondering what had happened at the orphanage and reflected on how earning money let him help rebuild it.
• Lu Xin bought groceries at a street market and returned to his apartment building after dark.
• Lu Xin found Father shouting at Sister, who crawled across the hallway ceiling and taunted him.

Lu Xin tried to bring peace to his family with a quiet dinner, then exercised outside after the meal. His workout was interrupted when Gecko arrived to test him, and Lu Xin led him away from the apartment before his family could attack.

• Lu Xin returned with groceries and liquor, and his request for a quiet meal stopped Father from continuing his tantrum.
• Mom prepared dinner after learning Lu Xin had visited the orphanage, and the family ate in rare silence while exchanging strange glances.
• After dinner, Lu Xin went downstairs to exercise because he wanted to improve his fitness for his Pollution Source cleanup work.
• A dagger flew at Lu Xin, but Sister caught it before it could hurt him.
• Gecko introduced himself as a Spider-type sent by Colonel Chen and admitted he had attacked Lu Xin to test his reactions.
• Lu Xin warned Gecko that he was the dangerous one and led him away from the building.

Lu Xin learned that the Six Monsters of Qinggang had come to Satellite City No. 2 to examine him before he officially joined the organization. He arrived at Qingzhuo Building with Gecko and met Chen Jing, who explained that passing the examination would earn him a codename and access to guidance.

• Lu Xin asked Gecko why Colonel Chen had sent him and learned that the Six Monsters of Qinggang had come to examine him.
• Lu Xin told Gecko that his sister wanted to tear off Gecko’s neck, unsettling Gecko, and learned that people considered Lu Xin dangerous.
• Gecko received the examination location and time, then raced Lu Xin toward Qingzhuo Building by climbing across rooftops while Lu Xin took the subway.
• Lu Xin and Gecko reached the heavily guarded building and went with Chen Jing to the nineteenth floor.
• Chen Jing told Lu Xin that the examination was routine and that passing would give him a codename and the opportunity to receive guidance.

Chen Jing brought Lu Xin to meet the six experts who would examine him and create a guidance plan for his abilities. As they began explaining Mental Mutation and its branches, Lu Xin asked what guidance meant, while Gecko complained that researchers expected too much of him.

• Chen Jing led Lu Xin into an office and introduced the researchers and security personnel waiting there.
• The old man surnamed Chen introduced himself as the director of Qinggang City's Special Pollution Research Center and said the six experts would lead Lu Xin's examination and guidance plan.
• Chen Jing explained that Gecko had volunteered to attend as a reference because his abilities were similar to Lu Xin's.
• The experts took Lu Xin to the examination site and explained that they would measure his mental level to guide his abilities and reduce the risk of losing control.
• Chen Jing described several branches of Mental Mutation and said ability users needed formal guidance, while Gecko complained that researchers wrongly assumed he could perform abilities such as turning into liquid.
• The old man surnamed Chen told Lu Xin that researchers understood abilities better than mutants who had merely undergone mental mutation.

Lu Xin took part in tests to assess and improve his abilities, and Sister’s presence transformed his handling of a gun. After Lu Xin dismantled the firearm and refused to dodge bullets, the researchers prepared to test him another way.

• Lu Xin agreed to undergo tests after Chen Jing explained how Mental Mutants trained their abilities.
• Chen Jing demonstrated basic firearm handling, but Lu Xin’s first shot hit the neighboring target.
• Sister appeared and guided Lu Xin’s hand, allowing him to fire accurately before dismantling the gun because she found taking it apart more fun.
• A bald professor arranged a bullet-dodging test with three armed soldiers, but Lu Xin warned that he might not be the only one in danger.

Lu Xin underwent a battery of ability tests, revealing impressive physical control and perception but little willingness or ability to cooperate with some demonstrations. The professors tentatively rated his ability C-class, while the psychologist reported that he was remarkably normal.

• Chen Jing explained that the professors skipped Lu Xin's bullet-dodging test because his abilities had already been observed.
• Lu Xin completed tests of speed, perception, movement imitation, and micro-space infiltration, with Sister helping him achieve several surprising results.
• Lu Xin refused a professor's proposed knife test and failed to demonstrate telekinesis when Sister declined to fetch an apple.
• Chen Jing offered Lu Xin further tests, and he completed the final assessment through a conversation with a psychologist.
• The professors discussed Lu Xin's C-class ability and potential, while the psychologist reported that he was almost excessively normal.

Psychologists and researchers discussed Lu Xin’s unusually normal personality, his family members, and his possible mental abilities. They estimated his mental level at over four hundred, while Chen Jing warned that if he caused the Crimson Moon Orphanage explosion, the destruction could have been far worse than they imagined.

• The psychologist reported that Lu Xin had answered her questions openly and seemed optimistic, cheerful, positive, and kind despite growing up after the Crimson Moon incident.
• The psychologist attributed Lu Xin’s outlook to the former Crimson Moon Orphanage director, who had protected and educated the orphans through the chaotic years.
• A bald professor said Lu Xin truly believed his family members existed and suggested his Sister might lend him one ability while the other family members could lend him two more.
• A researcher explained that Lu Xin had moved his tightly secured wig without being noticed and estimated that Lu Xin’s mental level was at least over four hundred.
• Chen Jing warned that if Lu Xin was connected to the Crimson Moon Orphanage explosion, the resulting destruction might have scattered his entire body across the ground.

Chen Jing and the professors reviewed Lu Xin’s examination, weighing his extraordinary mental ability and unexplained family members before deciding to guide him. The professors supported assigning him more missions for research, leaving Chen Jing uneasy about their enthusiasm.

• The professors estimated that Lu Xin’s mental magnitude might exceed four hundred or even five hundred and praised his ability while noting his refusal to use firearms.
• The Crimson Moon mysticism researcher reported that her instruments detected no separate mental entity beside Lu Xin, though she wondered whether more sensitive testing might reveal one.
• The psychologist said Lu Xin had shown no recognition of the Dream Maker’s photograph, and Professor Chen concluded that Lu Xin had great potential, sound values, and some degree of danger.
• The professors voted overwhelmingly to guide Lu Xin, with the Occult Expert recommending that he receive more missions to provide research data.
• Professor Chen explained that confronting and understanding strange phenomena was better than avoiding them, and Chen Jing recognized the professors’ eagerness to study Lu Xin.

Lu Xin met Gecko and learned about his ability and embarrassing stories before Chen Jing assigned them a cleanup mission. They prepared to investigate a C-class contamination incident, with Gecko leading and Lu Xin learning the process.

• Lu Xin listened as Gecko described discovering his ability by hiding inside a tiny shoe cabinet to evade the Guard Department.
• Gecko gossiped about Chen Jing, and Sister revealed that Chen Jing wore pink underwear.
• Chen Jing told Lu Xin that Gecko would help him learn his abilities by taking him on cleanup missions.
• Chen Jing assigned Gecko to lead a C-class cleanup mission and Lu Xin to support him, and gave Lu Xin the provisional codename Lone Soldier.
• Chen Jing warned Gecko not to gossip about her, then told Lu Xin she was wearing black; Sister said she was lying.

Lu Xin joined Gecko on an operation to investigate C-Class Special Pollution Source No. 039, while Gecko tried to teach him that flirting with their Information Analysis Team contact was part of the job. They reached a factory in the northern city, where Lu Xin spotted something inside that made him tense as Sister called it fun.

• Gecko admitted he feared a woman who had once threatened to make him strip and dance in public, then told Lu Xin he would teach him on an operation.
• Gecko and Lu Xin connected to the operation channel, where Information Analysis Team contact Tie Cui briefed them on Special Pollution Source No. 039 and rebuffed Gecko's flirtation.
• Gecko and Lu Xin arrived in a dim industrial area and climbed toward a vantage point near the factory, with Lu Xin holding Sister's hand after promising her ten pieces of black candy.
• From a rusty water tower, Lu Xin looked through the factory windows and tensed at what he saw inside while Sister giggled that it was fun.

Lu Xin and Gecko investigated a factory where Zheng Yuanxiong’s Mental Mutant ability drove workers to labor without rest or awareness. Tie Cui explained that the factory was close to losing control, and Headquarters ordered a direct cleanup.

• Lu Xin saw workers at Yuanxiong Textile Factory injuring themselves and continuing to work mechanically through the night.
• Gecko pointed out factory director Zheng Yuanxiong, whose frantic shouts pushed the workers into an even more feverish rhythm.
• Lu Xin and Gecko confirmed that Zheng Yuanxiong was the Pollution Source, though Lu Xin could see only an ordinary man.
• Tie Cui reported that the factory’s workers had been infected for days and attacked anyone who tried to stop them.
• Tie Cui said Headquarters had ordered Lu Xin’s team to conduct a direct cleanup before the contamination spread to nearby factories.

Lu Xin and Gecko carried out a plan to incapacitate factory manager Zheng Yuanxiong without triggering the Mental Plague. After Gecko shot him with a tranquilizer rifle, Gecko prepared to descend with Lu Xin and continue the cleanup.

• Gecko explained that the workers were lightly contaminated and could be saved if the Pollution Source was cut off without killing Zheng Yuanxiong.
• Linda recommended using a high-powered tranquilizer rifle, while Tie Cui arranged an explosion to distract Zheng Yuanxiong and disrupt his Telekinesis.
• As Linda counted down thirty seconds, Gecko assembled his rifle and aimed at the factory from a water tower.
• The explosion drew Zheng Yuanxiong's attention, and Gecko shot him in the back of the collar with a tranquilizer round.
• After Zheng Yuanxiong collapsed, Gecko packed away his rifle, picked up a glass helmet-like object, and told Lu Xin to come with him before leaning back off the water tower.

Lu Xin and Gecko restrained the unconscious Zheng Yuanxiong, but a little girl appeared in the factory and triggered a hostile reaction from the workers. Linda revealed that the girl was Zheng Yuanxiong’s daughter, who had died in an accident, and Gecko identified her as a secondary Pollution Source.

• Gecko and Lu Xin entered the factory, where the workers continued working mechanically despite Zheng Yuanxiong being unconscious.
• Gecko secured Zheng Yuanxiong with a helmet, handcuffs, and shackles while Lu Xin stood guard.
• Lu Xin noticed a little girl in a red dress beneath a desk, and Gecko reported her to Linda.
• The girl asked why Lu Xin and Gecko were not working, and the workers stopped and turned toward them with hostile expressions.
• Linda identified the girl as Zheng Yuanxiong’s daughter, who had died after being caught in a machine while he was neglecting her, and Gecko called her a secondary Pollution Source.

Lu Xin and Gecko confronted a secondary Pollution Source that took the form of Zheng Yuanxiong’s daughter and incited the factory workers to attack them. As Gecko struggled to reach him, Lu Xin approached the girl, unwilling to let Sister harm her because she looked real and pitiful.

• Tie Cui explained that the little girl was likely a secondary Pollution Source created by Zheng Yuanxiong, while the factory workers began attacking Lu Xin and Gecko.
• Gecko and Tie Cui urged Lu Xin to retreat and wait for reinforcements, but Lu Xin chose to act because the workers might otherwise be killed during the perimeter lockdown.
• Tie Cui revealed to Gecko that Lu Xin could harm mental entities but was forbidden from facing situations that might cause him psychological trauma or make him lose control.
• Lu Xin refused Sister’s offer to deal with the girl, blocked the workers with a collapsed rack, and confronted the girl directly.