Recaps

Lu Xin joined Chen Jing’s Action Team and investigated the strange attacks on Qin Ran, which led them to a polluted lake. The team uncovered a Super Level 1 Mental Monster, and Lu Xin stayed behind as a monstrous tree emerged from the mud.

• Lu Xin confronted a mental monster at the Corner Cafe, then Chen Jing recruited him to the Action Team after explaining his Spider-type abilities and the danger of mental pollution.
• Lu Xin began his new job and patrolled with Sister, but after his old company tried to fire him, Chen Jing assigned him to investigate deaths connected to Qin Ran’s Sifang Transportation Company.
• Qin Ran told Lu Xin that people claiming to be his past victims had attacked him, and showed him the bodies of four attackers in an underground warehouse.
• Lu Xin brought Qin Ran and an investigation team to the sites connected to the killings, but they found no mental residue and began searching for where the attackers had crossed paths.
• At an abandoned construction site, Sister sensed something in a rainwater lake, and Chen Jing ordered the team to drain it rather than let Lu Xin dive in.
• On the exposed lakebed, fish accused Qin Ran of killing them, then a red tide seized three soldiers and turned their guns on the guards.
• Lu Xin charged into the gunfire and tore the shadows off the possessed soldiers, but stayed behind when Sister rushed toward the central puddle.
• A twisted tree with coiling vines and human-shaped fruit burst from the mud and pounced at Lu Xin.

Lu Xin joined the Guard Department’s effort to understand his abilities after the Human-shaped Fruit Tree incident, then began a cleanup mission with Gecko. The factory operation left him confronting a dead girl who had become a secondary Pollution Source.

• Lu Xin fought the Human-shaped Fruit Tree’s vines, and the team excavated Qin Ran’s corpse from the lake before the living Qin Ran transformed into Cui Wang after being shot.
• Chen Jing questioned Lu Xin about his ability to defeat Pollution Sources, and Lu Xin said his sister had resolved them while he could see Mental Monsters directly.
• Professor Bai and Chen Jing persuaded Minister Shen to recruit and guide Lu Xin, despite concerns about his power and risk of losing control.
• Lu Xin visited Teacher Lu at Crimson Moon Elementary School, gave her money, and later met Gecko, who had been sent to examine him.
• During tests at Qingzhuo Building, Sister helped Lu Xin perform unexpectedly well, and the researchers estimated his mental magnitude could exceed four hundred.
• Chen Jing gave Lu Xin the provisional codename Lone Soldier and assigned him to support Gecko on a cleanup mission against Special Pollution Source No. 039.
• At Yuanxiong Textile Factory, Gecko tranquilized director Zheng Yuanxiong, but Lu Xin and Gecko discovered that the workers remained contaminated and a dead girl was acting as a secondary Pollution Source.
• When the workers attacked, Lu Xin refused to retreat or let Sister handle the girl, blocked the workers with a rack, and confronted her directly.

Lu Xin cleared new pollution incidents while investigating the Headless Knight and taking a private commission to examine Mr. Xu’s daughter. The Head Tentacles emerged from her, and Lu Xin and Sister began fighting them.

• Mom frightened the imagined girl in the factory by cutting off her stuffed toy’s head, ending the contamination and stopping the workers’ convulsions.
• Lu Xin completed his report, signed up for Colonel Chen’s special-pollution course, and began training with Han Bing while continuing his work at the company.
• After visiting the orphanage, Lu Xin pursued the bearded Headless Knight, who escaped into the wasteland after Sister shot his head off.
• Chen Jing identified the Knight as a Mental Modification Human likely controlled by a Puppet-type ability user, then arranged precautions and an accelerated investigation into the former Crimson Moon Orphanage.
• Lu Xin cleared Special Pollution Source No. 072 in Wang Chu’s apartment, where fear had grown from the dead tenant’s terror of dying alone.
• Manager Liu brought Lu Xin to Mr. Xu’s villa, where Lu Xin agreed to examine Mr. Xu’s daughter, Xiao Xiao, for a hundred thousand if she was cured.
• Lu Xin saw a face moving beneath Xiao Xiao’s skin, and black-scaled tentacles with human heads erupted from her back and attacked him.
• Sister fought the Head Tentacles as they distorted the living room, then bit a toothed serpent formed from them and pulled it away from Xiao Xiao.

Lu Xin pursued the Crimson Moon painting after Mr. Xu’s Pollution Source was exposed, but Qin Ran stole it and triggered widespread outbreaks across Qinggang. As Lu Xin and his allies contained the spreading incidents, he descended into a silent crowd beneath the southern wall to investigate an unexplained influence.

• Sister pulled a snake-like creature from Xu Xiao Xiao, and Lu Xin discovered that a painting had contaminated her and remained a Pollution Source.
• Lu Xin refused Mr. Xu’s attempts to end the commission, and after Xu Xiao Xiao threatened him with a gun, Sister dismantled it and Lu Xin subdued the family’s guards.
• Chen Jing exposed Mr. Xu’s smuggling and the painting’s influence, then sent soldiers to retrieve the painting and investigate the network.
• A woman’s violent outbreak disrupted the convoy, and Qin Ran attacked Lu Xin and Chen Jing before stealing the sealed painting.
• Mom shielded Lu Xin from the Gatling guns, while Chen Jing killed the attackers and learned that severe pollution outbreaks had erupted across the districts.
• Lu Xin responded to the Red Rose outbreaks, removing a flower at Wanzhong Mall and trying to stop contaminated people from harming themselves as Kid redirected one crowd and the Drunkard contained another.
• Lu Xin reached the southern wall and found thousands of silent, crying civilians, after learning that their behavior had no known cause, he entered the crowd to investigate and approached an old man whose eyes shifted toward him.