Chapter Summaries

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.

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.