Chapter Summaries

After the school attack, Ji Jiayi revealed she had been accepted to Beichen University and left, while Xia Chujian’s actions went viral online. The Hot Search about Xia Chujian’s animated footage suddenly disappeared, and Xia Yuanfang suspected the Special Security Bureau was suppressing it before her daughter’s supervisor, Meng Guanghui, contacted her.

• Ji Jiayi declined public credit for the rescue, revealed she had a recommendation to Beichen University, and left school with her bodyguards.
• The school returned students’ devices so they could contact their families, and Xia Yuanfang rushed to the school after seeing news of the attack.
• Xia Yuanfang learned Xia Chujian was safe, then saw footage of her disarming and shooting the attacker spread across the Star Net.
• The school’s security failure faded from public attention as Xia Chujian’s animated footage became a viral Hot Search.
• Xia Yuanfang prepared to request that the Hot Search be removed, but it vanished from social media, and Meng Guanghui sent her a message.

After Xia Chujian reported that the gunman had called himself a Guardian and identified Yu Wangyou as the Judge Organization’s Saintess, Meng Guanghui and Huo Yushen began investigating. Meng found Yu Wangyou was Xia Chujian’s neighbor and went to question her, but her mother angrily challenged the Punishment Department’s motives.

• Xia Chujian replied to messages about the attack, learned the Special Security Bureau had removed her viral GIF, and told Meng Guanghui what the gunman had said about Yu Wangyou.
• Meng Guanghui informed Huo Yushen, who ordered him to verify the claim and discovered that Yu Wangyou lived in the same building as Xia Chujian.
• Huo Yushen reviewed Yu Wangyou’s file and considered traveling to Guiyuan Star after his duties with the Emperor.
• Meng Guanghui arrived at Mulan City No. 1 High School disguised as a Punishment Department officer, but learned Yu Wangyou had gone home.
• Meng Guanghui went to Yu Wangyou’s home, where Mrs. Yu angrily objected to questioning her daughter after the shooting.

Meng Guanghui questioned Yu Wangyou about the shooting and accepted her denials after a lie detector found no abnormalities. Xia Chujian left school safely with Xia Yuanfang, while Yu Wangyou secretly contacted the Special Security Bureau.

• Mrs. Yu told Meng Guanghui that Yu Wangyou was in the Glass Greenhouse, where he questioned her about the Psychopathic Gunman and the Judge Organization.
• Yu Wangyou agreed to a lie detector test, and it showed no abnormalities in her answers.
• After Meng Guanghui and his subordinate left, Yu Wangyou sent an anonymous email to the Special Security Bureau.
• Xia Chujian rushed out of school after the afternoon exams and met Xia Yuanfang, who had waited at the gates for hours.
• Xia Chujian assured Xia Yuanfang that she was unharmed, and Xia Yuanfang hugged her as they traveled home.

After learning that Sixi and Wufu had seen footage of her shooting the gunman, Xia Chujian listened to Liushun’s recording of Yu Wangyou’s family discussing the attack and considered the possibility that Yu Wangyou had been framed. The chapter left Xia Chujian questioning Yu Wangyou’s past while grieving the students killed in the classroom.

• Xia Chujian discovered that Liushun had recorded Sixi and Wufu reacting fearfully to television footage of her shooting the gunman.
• Xia Chujian listened to a recording of Yu Wangyou’s parents and maid discussing the gunman, Yu Wangyou’s distress, and the Punishment Department’s visit.
• Liushun theorized that Yu Wangyou might be connected to the Judge Organization or framed, and Xia Chujian concluded that Yu Wangyou was probably framed.
• Xia Chujian questioned how a severely mentally ill gunman had obtained a submachine gun and ammunition, while Liushun overheated during their discussion.
• Xia Chujian reconsidered her assumptions about Yu Wangyou, reflected on her sudden transfer from Wind Sea City, and mourned the classmates killed in the attack.

After Yu Wangyou visited her, Xia Chujian learned that she had once been the Judge Organization’s Saintess and heard about the abuse she suffered after being kidnapped. Overwhelmed by Yu Wangyou’s pain, Xia Chujian left home in her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha to fly through the night and clear her head.

• After dinner, Xia Chujian found the hairs she had taken from Ji Jiayi and sealed them in an evidence bag in her Gun Box.
• Yu Wangyou arrived at Xia Chujian’s home with swollen eyes and asked her to keep her company in the Rooftop Garden.
• Yu Wangyou told Xia Chujian that she had been kidnapped on her way to the Library, forced to serve as the Judge Organization’s Saintess, and had done whatever her captor demanded in hopes of surviving and returning home.
• Yu Wangyou said she believed a Noble Lady had helped the man find her, but she had no proof; Xia Chujian guessed the woman might be connected to the Fan Clan.
• After returning home at midnight, Xia Chujian put on the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha and flew out her bedroom window into the night.

Xia Chujian discovered that a gas leak had rendered the Yu Family unconscious and threatened the building with an explosion, so she evacuated with Xia Yuanfang, Liushun, Wufu, Sixi, and the Big Black Dog. The explosion struck while they were still descending in the elevator, leaving Xia Chujian braced to shield everyone as the blast came down.

• Xia Chujian flew invisibly around Mulan City, checked Ping Qiong’s apartment and her land, and stopped several crimes before returning home at three in the morning.
• Liushun warned Xia Chujian that the Big Black Dog was ramming the Yu Family’s door, and the dog opened it before urgently trying to push her away from the apartment.
• Xia Chujian’s helmet detected dangerous Teflon Alkane and rising methane, and she found Yu Wangyou, Mr. Yu, Mrs. Yu, and the maid dead or motionless inside the apartment.
• Xia Chujian found Xia Yuanfang unconscious, then gathered her aunt, Wufu, Sixi, and the deeds while Liushun carried Xia Yuanfang out; the Big Black Dog joined them in the elevator.
• An explosion erupted as the elevator descended, and Xia Chujian and Liushun crouched together to shield Xia Yuanfang, Sixi, and Wufu.

Xia Chujian and the others survived an explosion and the collapse of an eleven-story building by sheltering inside a crushed elevator. After rescuers freed them, she confronted a streamer who accused her of causing the fire, while the Mulan City Punishment Department began investigating the disaster and searching the rubble for survivors.

• The explosion wrecked the elevator and brought down the building, but Xia Chujian’s mecha and Liushun helped protect her, Xia Yuanfang, Sixi, and Wufu.
• Xia Chujian sent a distress signal and knocked on the elevator walls until rescuers found them, extinguished the fire, and cut open the crushed car.
• Xia Chujian wrapped the unconscious Xia Yuanfang, Sixi, and Wufu in a blanket and boarded an ambulance with Liushun.
• A male streamer accused Xia Chujian of starting the fire, so she slapped him, smashed his livestream equipment, and threatened to sue him and his platform.
• The Mulan City Punishment Department escorted the streamer away, opened an investigation into the explosion, and used a biological detector to search the rubble for signs of life.

Yu Wangyou’s scheduled post revealed her abduction and abuse by the Judge Organization, blamed her fear for the deaths of more than three hundred classmates, and ended with her suicide. A press conference confirmed that she had died from poison before the explosion that destroyed Building E, while investigators attributed the disaster to a natural gas leak and reporters questioned why one family had escaped.

• Punishment Department personnel excavated the ruins and recovered the victims as the rescue operation concluded at daybreak.
• Yu Wangyou’s scheduled Star Blog post described her abduction by the Judge Organization, her abuse by the Guardian, and her fear of reporting what had happened.
• Yu Wangyou apologized to the victims’ families, thanked her brave classmate, said she had provided authorities with information about the Judge Organization, and declared that she would take her own life.
• Star Net users linked Yu Wangyou’s post to the Building E explosion, prompting the Mulan City Government to arrange a press conference.
• The Fire Investigation Team confirmed that 504 residents of Building E had died, including Yu Wangyou, whose cause of death was poison ingestion two hours before the explosion.
• The Fire Investigation Team attributed the building’s collapse to a top-floor natural gas leak and explosion, while reporters asked why one family had escaped.

After the explosion destroyed Xia Chujian’s apartment building, a fire investigation press conference identified the Yu Family’s aging gas pipes and incense sparks as the cause, while Yu Wangyou’s scheduled Star Blog post revealed her story and drew widespread attention. Xia Chujian waited at the hospital for Xia Yuanfang and Wufu to recover, reassured her loved ones, and told her teammates she had built a new home, though she still had to search the ruins for anything she had lost.

• The Fire Investigation Team explained that a gas leak in the Yu Family’s kitchen had ignited from incense sparks, killing Yu Wangyou’s parents and the maid as well as injuring other residents.
• Xia Chujian asked Shen Junyi to help Xia Yuanfang and Wufu enter Medical Cabins after doctors determined they were unconscious from inhaling dust.
• Xia Chujian read Yu Wangyou’s scheduled Star Blog post, which detailed her story and propelled the case into Star Net’s top Hot Searches.
• Xia Chujian reassured Aunt Chen, Zhu Yingying, and San Zong that she and the other survivors were safe, then told the Dark Night Hunter Team that Xia Yuanfang and Wufu were receiving treatment.
• Xia Chujian told her teammates she had built a ten-hectare home near the Exotic Beast Forest and planned to use it as a team base.
• Xia Chujian said she had only salvaged her Gun Box and still needed to search the ruins of her home for anything that might have survived.

After the fire destroyed her building, Xia Chujian confirmed her family was safe and arranged care for her Aunt and Wufu while friends offered money, ammunition, housing, and furniture. She planned to move into her newly built house outside the city, but Meng Guanghui questioned whether the explosion had really been caused by a natural gas leak.

• Xia Chujian arranged for Ping Qiong, Song Mingqian, and Ye Shijie to take shifts watching over her Aunt and Wufu at the hospital.
• Su Buyan sent Xia Chujian one hundred thousand Beichen Coin, and she accepted it after he returned most of it as a housewarming gift.
• Huo Yushen offered to arrange ammunition, and Xia Chujian sent him a list of weapons she wanted.
• Quan Yuxun transferred an apartment to Xia Chujian, but she declined because her family had a newly renovated house outside the city.
• Guo Sheng offered furniture, Bai Li Xin promised additional custom furniture and a finished secret chamber, and Zong Ruoan offered help with accommodations.
• Meng Guanghui asked whether Xia Chujian's family was injured and questioned whether the explosion had been caused by a natural gas leak.

After learning that officials blamed a gas leak for the explosion that destroyed her apartment building, Xia Chujian returned to the ruins to search for her belongings. With Liushun’s help, she recovered several intact clothes and protective items, while the cause of the disaster remained uncertain.

• Xia Chujian questioned Meng Guanghui about the explosion, and he said the official investigation attributed it to an aging gas pipeline despite evidence that it resembled a controlled demolition.
• Meng Guanghui arranged for guns and ammunition to be delivered to Xia Chujian’s new home, and she declined temporary staff housing.
• Xia Chujian left Ping Qiong and Song Mingqian at the hospital, then returned to her destroyed building with Liushun and Sixi.
• A sanitation supervisor challenged Xia Chujian’s right to search the ruins, but she pointed out that some residents had survived and their homes had not simply ceased to belong to them.
• Liushun located the former home by connecting to household appliances, and Xia Chujian dug through the debris to recover an intact bureau uniform, protective vest, woolen garments, fur coat, and face mask.

After recovering supplies from the burned home, Xia Chujian arranged new clothes and bedding for her family and brought everyone to see their new home outside Mulan City. Her teammates were astonished when they recognized the land as the plot they had once found for San Zong.

• Xia Chujian recovered a backpack, a special plastic Pistol, ammunition, and two crates of Advanced Nutrient Solution from the ruins, then ordered clothes and bedding for her family and a doghouse for Sixi.
• Song Mingqian told Xia Chujian that Xia Yuanfang and Wufu had left the Medical Cabin and moved to a larger ward, and he offered to help if she had nowhere to live.
• Xia Chujian reunited with Xia Yuanfang and Wufu at the hospital, and Shen Junyi agreed to let her finish her vacation before discussing her schooling.
• Xia Chujian invited Song Mingqian, Ping Qiong, and Shen Junyi to visit her new home, while she warned San Zong and Zhu Yingying to hide before the group arrived.
• Ye Shijie and Shen Junyi brought their flying vehicles to the enclosed land north of Mulan City, where Song Mingqian, Ping Qiong, and Ye Shijie recognized the plot as the one they had found for San Zong.

Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang settled into their newly furnished home after friends and colleagues helped them move in. The chapter left Xia Yuanfang asleep in her new bedroom while Xia Chujian prepared the house and put Shen Junyi’s expensive bedding to use for her aunt.

• Xia Chujian showed Ye Shijie, Ping Qiong, and Song Mingqian the land deed, and Ye Shijie left them supplies before the team departed for Mulan City.
• Xia Yuanfang told Shen Junyi that she had opened a Workshop for Reproductive Assistance in Mulan City, and he offered to keep watch on matters there.
• Guo Sheng and Bai Li Xin showed Xia Chujian the renovated home and its furniture, which had originally been ordered by the Fan Clan.
• Xia Yuanfang became exhausted and fell asleep, so Xia Chujian carried her to the master bedroom.
• Aunt Chen, Zhu Yingying, and San Zong brought in deliveries from Xia Chujian, Ye Shijie, and Shen Junyi.
• Xia Chujian used Shen Junyi’s designer bedding for Xia Yuanfang and kept her own less expensive bedding for herself.

After the survivors settled into their new home, Xia Chujian slept for twenty-one hours to recover from the previous day’s ordeal. She woke still grieving the people lost in Mulan City, but found comfort with Wufu, Sixi, and her friends before checking the messages that had arrived.

• Xia Chujian unpacked her belongings, showered, and prepared a meal for everyone in the new house.
• Exhausted, Xia Chujian went to sleep, and Wufu joined her while Aunt Chen and San Zong cared for him and Sixi.
• Housekeeping Robot Liushun cleaned the kitchen and mapped the new house as its home and workplace.
• Xia Yuanfang woke before Xia Chujian and took Wufu to wash up and eat while Xia Chujian continued sleeping.
• Xia Chujian woke the next afternoon, felt grief for the people killed in her old building, and was comforted by Wufu and Zhu Yingying.
• Xia Chujian drank her aunt’s soup, heard Zhu Yingying mourn their dead classmates, and checked messages from her squadmates, Meng Guanghui, and Huo Yushen.

Xia Chujian told Huo Yushen that she had detected Teflon Alkane in her building before the explosion and fire, suggesting the disaster was a deliberate mass murder. Huo Yushen questioned the motive, leaving them without an answer.

• Xia Chujian contacted Huo Yushen by encrypted video call and asked whether investigators had found anything unusual about the explosion or the victims' autopsies.
• Xia Chujian revealed that her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha had detected excessive Teflon Alkane in the hallway when she returned home after three in the morning.
• Huo Yushen explained that Teflon Alkane could incapacitate or kill people, was costly, and left no residue after entering the bloodstream.
• Xia Chujian estimated that filling the eleven-story building with enough Teflon Alkane would have cost at least 52.8 million Beichen Coins.
• Xia Chujian suspected the gas had rendered the residents unconscious before the fire, and she and Huo Yushen concluded that the disaster had been murder.
• Huo Yushen asked what motive could explain killing so many people.

Xia Chujian and Huo Yushen investigated the planned school shooting and apartment explosion, while Huo revealed that Yu Wangyou’s claims about the Judge Organization were likely a deception. He also connected Xia’s earlier rescue mission to the organization’s human sacrifice ceremony and revealed that one abducted victim had survived.

• Xia Chujian argued that Teflon Alkane and the apartment collapse pointed to a planned attack, and Huo Yushen confirmed that the school shooting and explosion were not coincidences.
• Huo Yushen told Xia Chujian that three school police officers and a Punishment Department operator had committed suicide, cutting off leads to the suspected inside-outside operation.
• Huo Yushen arranged an additional annual quota of Advanced Nutrient Solution for Xia Chujian’s aunt and Wufu, who might have suffered damage from Teflon Alkane.
• Huo Yushen explained that Yu Wangyou had passed a lie detector while denying ties to the Judge Organization, and concluded that she had deceived Xia Chujian and was probably not its Saintess.
• Huo Yushen revealed that the Judge Organization had planned to use the twenty-four young people abducted last November as sacrifices, but one victim survived after Xia Chujian’s squad intervened.

Xia Chujian and Huo Yushen discussed Yu Wangyou’s suspicious knowledge of the Judge Organization and whether her death resembled the abduction case from the previous year. The chapter left them wondering whether Ji Jiayi had been the Judge Organization’s intended Saintess.

• Huo Yushen explained that Yu Wangyou had supplied verified, highly classified information about the Judge Organization despite her apparent lack of access to it.
• Xia Chujian noted that the Yu Family’s deaths and the treatment of bystanders reminded her of the person who had rescued an abducted girl, but Huo Yushen said DNA testing ruled out Yu Wangyou as that girl.
• Huo Yushen revealed that the man who pursued Xia Chujian at South 404 District Nothing Lane was a Judge Organization member seeking the girl whose face Xia had worn as bait.
• Huo Yushen warned Xia Chujian not to question Quan Yuxun about the Face Mask or reveal that she recognized it.
• Xia Chujian suggested the Judge Organization might have targeted Ji Jiayi, since a gunman at their school had hesitated to shoot her, and Huo Yushen considered whether she could have been the chosen Saintess.

Huo Yushen collected Ji Jiayi’s hair from Xia Chujian and offered to help protect her property with an Air Defense Identification System, which she accepted after learning the cost could be kept low with her master’s help. She then contacted Su Buyan about repairing Liushun, and he promised to visit Guiyuan Star after finishing a pledged job within five days.

• Huo Yushen confirmed that the gunman was a mentally ill, low-level Judge Organization member and asked Xia Chujian to obtain Ji Jiayi’s hair for testing.
• Xia Chujian revealed that she had collected more than ten strands, and Huo Yushen hurried to her home to take half for separate safekeeping.
• Huo Yushen declined to install an Air Defense Identification System without her agreement, then noticed San Zong through his flying vehicle’s imaging radar and asked whether the Humanoid Slave was registered.
• Xia Chujian sent Huo Yushen a topographical map, and he offered to sponsor the software while advising her to ask Su Buyan to assemble the system from discarded Military equipment.
• Xia Chujian called Su Buyan about Liushun’s dented head, and Su Buyan said he would repair it during a visit to Guiyuan Star after completing his job within five days.

After Huo Yushen learned that Ji Jiayi was not his sister, he warned Xia Chujian to be wary of her, leaving Xia Chujian anxious and eager to keep busy during her week off. Unable to train or find a suitable mission, Xia Chujian went with Xia Yuanfang to her new Workshop in Plaza Garden, where they arrived at its entrance.

• Huo Yushen's parentage test showed that Ji Jiayi was not his younger sister, so he warned Xia Chujian that her identity might resemble Yu Wangyou's.
• Xia Chujian asked Meng Guanghui to take her to fighter-jet training and asked her squad about missions, but neither option worked out.
• Xia Yuanfang let Xia Chujian skip test papers for a day and accompany her to the Workshop, so Xia Chujian brought Sixi and Wufu along.
• Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang flew to Plaza Garden, where Xia Chujian was dismayed by the empty square and lack of visitors.
• Xia Yuanfang reassured Xia Chujian that the property was not overpriced, and they arrived at the entrance to her Workshop, named Life is in the Distance Studio.

Xia Chujian showed Ning Sa to her aunt Xia Yuanfang’s newly opened reproductive-assistance Studio after meeting the heavily pregnant woman in the empty Plaza Garden. Ning Sa said she had already tried many specialists because something was wrong with the child in her belly, and the chapter ended as Xia Chujian brought her inside.

• Xia Yuanfang showed Xia Chujian the furnished Studio and explained that she had equipped it with basic medical devices and a treatment room.
• Xia Yuanfang told Xia Chujian to take Sixi and Wufu downstairs while she stayed at the Studio.
• Xia Chujian walked with Sixi and Wufu through the empty Plaza Garden, where she saw that the traces of an earlier battle had been cleaned away.
• Xia Chujian encountered the heavily pregnant Ning Sa, who was searching for Life is in the Distance Studio after seeing its advertisement.
• Ning Sa explained that she was not seeking a midwife but help with a problem affecting her unborn child, and Xia Chujian escorted her to the Studio.