Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng entered the Black Forest to find Ankaela, but the squirrel told him the hunter was waiting at the first cottage and had a message for him. The hunter revealed that Yu Sheng’s actions had weakened Ankaela’s control, then told Yu Sheng to put on the hunter’s outfit.

• Yu Sheng reunited with the squirrel, who warned him that Ankaela was still wandering the forest.
• The squirrel said the hunter had appeared without Wolf Grandma and asked her to bring the person who had touched the umbilical cord and bullet to the first cottage.
• Yu Sheng realized that his blood-transfusion rituals for the children had interfered with Ankaela’s connection to the outside and given the hunter a chance to act freely.
• Yu Sheng followed the squirrel to the cottage, where he found the hunter surrounded by red capes.
• The hunter responded to Yu Sheng and told him to put on the hunter’s outfit.

Yu Sheng put on the Hunter’s outfit to hide from Ankaela and reveal the Black Forest’s hidden path, learning that the Deep Dive Team had fused into the Hunter. He found the rift leading beyond the forest, but a horde of wolves attacked him as he approached it.

• The Hunter told Yu Sheng that the Deep Dive Team had fused together and that wearing the Hunter’s outfit would let him see the forest’s true path.
• As Ankaela searched the Black Forest, Yu Sheng put on the Hunter’s outfit and experienced fragments of the Deep Dive Team’s memories and its fall into the fairy tale.
• Hidden from Ankaela, Yu Sheng discovered that the forest flickered and that he could pass through its walls.
• Yu Sheng saw a rift in the Black Forest that led beyond the stage, though the squirrel could not see it.
• When Yu Sheng moved toward the rift, countless wolves appeared and tore him to pieces.

After realizing Ankaela was awakening faster and searching the Fairy Tale subsets, Yu Sheng hurried to the valley to prepare for another dangerous night. A call from Baili Qing revealed the old fairy-tale book Ankaela had received, and Yu Sheng began examining its scans.

• Yu Sheng woke from his vision of becoming the hunter and warned Eileen and Huli that Ankaela's activity was intensifying.
• Yu Sheng went to the valley, confirmed the children were safe, and told Little Red Riding Hood to increase patrols and monitoring for the coming night.
• Baili Qing told Yu Sheng that investigators had found a book from the same batch and edition as the one Zhao Lele had given Ankaela.
• Yu Sheng examined the scans, which showed the cover of The Squirrel Knight Reads You Stories and a contents page listing Little Red Riding Hood first.
• Yu Sheng scrolled through the simplified story scans and saw garbled text and recurring blank spaces.

Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood connected the Sunshine Foundation’s donated books to Ankaela’s awakening and rushed to protect the orphanage children. As Ankaela’s noise spread and the children fell asleep, Yu Sheng found no sign of an invasion in the valley, then received a call saying the orphanage had stood up.

• Baili Qing told Yu Sheng that a misprinted copy of Squirrel Knight had been donated to an orphanage and that a Sunshine Foundation organization had recently bought another copy from the same edition.
• Little Red Riding Hood realized the Sunshine Foundation had recently donated books to the orphanage, and Snow White confirmed the books were still piled in the Reading Room.
• Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood linked the donation to Ankaela’s awakening, but a sudden surge of noise interrupted Yu Sheng as he prepared to inspect the books.
• Yu Sheng ordered the children and camp staff to take shelter and use sanity blockers while Eileen spread a protective web over the camp.
• Yu Sheng searched the valley for Ankaela but found no sign of its presence as the children fell asleep and its noise intensified.
• Li Lin called Yu Sheng and urgently said that the orphanage had stood up.

Yu Sheng learned that the orphanage was becoming the Dark Angel’s vessel and entered its transforming grounds with Huli and Eileen. Guided by a heated spiral-tipped bullet along a story-like path, he reached the Reading Room.

• Li Lin reported that the orphanage buildings were growing and that the mutation was spilling beyond their walls.
• Yu Sheng decided to leave the sleeping children behind and summoned Huli and Eileen to investigate the orphanage.
• Yu Sheng, Huli, and Eileen passed through the gate into the orphanage, where the buildings and grounds had been overtaken by black matter and shadows.
• Yu Sheng saw a hidden path marked by glowing traces, and the spiral-tipped bullet in his clothes began to heat up.
• Yu Sheng followed the path through the transformed orphanage while Eileen shielded the group with black threads.
• Yu Sheng reached a sign for the Reading Room and recognized its importance to the children’s stories.

As the orphanage’s reality merged with Ankaela’s nightmare, Yu Sheng found fragments of the old fairy-tale book hidden inside ordinary donated books. The Squirrel Knight recognized the book’s edition and revealed that the lost original had held stories written by the orphanage’s children.

• Baili Qing confirmed the danger inside the orphanage was worsening and ordered preparations for Dome Shatter if the angel descended or no stop order arrived within twenty-four hours.
• Yu Sheng found newly donated children’s books in the transformed Reading Room and had Eileen search them for hidden clues.
• Eileen pulled yellowed pages from the books, revealing that cultists had concealed fragments of The Squirrel Knight Reads You Stories inside them.
• The Squirrel Knight appeared from the book cover, and Yu Sheng explained that the recovered copy came from the same edition as her lost book.
• The Squirrel Knight said the original book had been filled with stories written by the orphanage’s children and cried over losing their shared treasure.

Yu Sheng and his companions fought through the Black Forest’s defenses as the Fairy Tales stage replaced reality, pushing toward the rift at its center. Little Red Riding Hood arrived and unleashed her own wolf pack, turning the forest into a battle between wolves.

• Yu Sheng recognized that the subset was closing and that he had gained the Hunter identity as the Black Forest replaced reality.
• The Black Forest summoned a huge pack of wolves to stop Yu Sheng and his companions from reaching the rift.
• Huli attacked the wolves with foxfire while Yu Sheng advanced and Eileen launched Fox Carrot Missiles.
• Little Red Riding Hood arrived with a pack of wolves and summoned every wolf she had seen, fought, or killed to attack the Black Forest’s pack.
• Huli transformed into a giant Nine-tailed Demon Fox and tore through the wolves, surprising Little Red Riding Hood.

Yu Sheng and his allies fought through the Black Forest toward the fissure, but Ankaela appeared and transformed the forest into a living nightmare. Unable to defeat Ankaela within its own dream, Yu Sheng used Eileen’s threads to connect the fairy-tale subsets, and the chapter ended as bombs and fire began raining into the forest.

• Huli and Little Red Riding Hood’s wolf pack cleared a path through the Black Forest as Yu Sheng’s group advanced toward the fissure.
• Ankaela’s shadow appeared above the fissure, extinguished the foxfire, revived slain wolves, and caused the forest itself to twist into hostile living creatures.
• Little Red Riding Hood asked Yu Sheng what the shadow was, and he identified it as Ankaela or part of it.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen to connect the subsets so he could destroy the fairy-tale system’s structure rather than try to defeat Ankaela directly.
• Yu Sheng used Eileen’s black threads to connect doors between the subsets, and fire and aerial bombs began falling into the Black Forest.

Yu Sheng tore apart the stories surrounding the Black Forest, distracting Ankaela and opening a crack that led behind the stage. He entered with Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel, and they arrived in a metallic corridor labeled “Ankaela—Maintenance Tunnel.”

• Snow White summoned seven Thunder Titans as characters and armies from different fairy tales poured into the Black Forest and fought amid the chaos.
• Dorothy rallied her forces, while the King sent newly summoned heroes to attack the vicious Queen.
• Yu Sheng revealed that he had torn up the stories while Ankaela watched the forest, leaving the entity in pain and unable to stop him.
• Yu Sheng told Little Red Riding Hood to keep causing trouble, then headed toward the crack with Huli and Eileen.
• The squirrel chose to join them, and Yu Sheng led the group through the crack into a metallic corridor marked “Ankaela—Maintenance Tunnel.”

Yu Sheng and his companions explored the artificial Maintenance Tunnel inside Ankaela, where visions and sounds from other times overlapped with their surroundings. As they followed traces of the Deep Dive Team, the Hunter’s Bullet grew scorching and an unfamiliar final report began.

• Yu Sheng led Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel deeper into Ankaela’s Maintenance Tunnel, guided by his instincts and the Hunter’s Bullet.
• The group saw the corridor transform into corrupted wreckage and heard invisible people running past them.
• Yu Sheng followed the sounds to a damaged blast door and recognized them as traces left by the Deep Dive Team from seventy years earlier.
• Beyond the door, Yu Sheng and his companions entered a control center that briefly appeared as a monstrous, corrupted hall.
• The Hunter’s Bullet became unbearably hot, and Yu Sheng heard an unfamiliar voice begin the Deep Dive Team’s final report for Operation Codename “Adulthood.”

Yu Sheng heard the Deep Dive Team’s final warning that Ankaela was gestating a dangerous new life, then met the Hunter who had been trapped in the Black Forest. He headed toward the umbilical cord room to connect with Ankaela as a baby’s cry sounded beyond the door.

• Yu Sheng heard a recording explaining that Ankaela had become a thinking ark and that its unborn child could kill countless people in the Crossroads.
• The Hunter appeared and explained that Ankaela had trapped the team in the Black Forest, and that the group photo had briefly awakened them from their roles.
• Yu Sheng told the Hunter that he and his companions had come as reinforcements, and the Hunter directed him to the umbilical cord room.
• The Hunter warned Yu Sheng that connecting with Ankaela was extremely dangerous, but Yu Sheng chose to proceed, with Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel following him.
• Yu Sheng opened the door to a dim corridor as a baby’s cry sounded from beyond the dark-red lights.

Yu Sheng discovered the damaged umbilical cord in Ankaela and fell through the collapsing platform, touching the break and receiving Ankaela’s memories of the Creators’ arks fleeing a cosmic catastrophe. He saw the dead Angel’s Fetus and learned that it was Ankaela’s child, leaving the cause of its death and the voice’s identity unresolved.

• Yu Sheng, Huli, Eileen, and the squirrel entered Ankaela’s umbilical-cord compartment and found its connection bundle severed.
• Yu Sheng experienced a vision of the broken cord as wounded flesh and glimpsed a strange hand reaching from below.
• Yu Sheng touched the cord, and the circular platform collapsed, sending him and the squirrel falling into the darkness.
• Yu Sheng touched the break again and heard Ankaela recount how thousands of arks fled their homeworld, only to be destroyed or lost as a rift consumed the universe.
• Yu Sheng saw the surviving Ankaela transformed into an incomprehensible, thinking entity and then saw its grotesque Angel’s Fetus lying dead on a birthing bed.

Yu Sheng discovered that the Angel's Fetus was dead but still growing, then read it stories in the hope that its unborn listener could hear him. The fetus crumbled, Ankaela declared her task finished, and Yu Sheng fell back through the passage to an unknown place.

• Yu Sheng recognized the Angel's Fetus as lifeless, and Ankaela asked whether her child was all right before realizing it was dead.
• Yu Sheng entered the fetus's darkness, found the book "The Squirrel Knight Reads You Stories," and read its stories to an unseen listener.
• Little Red Riding Hood and King noticed that the dark tower and defeated enemies had stopped returning as Ankaela's shadow withdrew into the rift.
• Yu Sheng finished reading, heard what might have been a baby's laugh, and returned to the mist as the Angel's Fetus disintegrated.
• Ankaela sighed that her task was over, and Yu Sheng fell through a passage before waking to a large reddish-brown tail beside his face.

Yu Sheng discovered Ankaela was shutting down and tried to save the Black Forest fairy tale by merging it with the valley. Outside, Huli and Eileen stopped the Special Operations Bureau from launching its countermeasure as a glowing object rose above the orphanage.

• Yu Sheng recognized the buried Ecosphere as Ankaela’s dead attempt to recreate its home world, then heard a warning that Ankaela was shutting down.
• Yu Sheng ordered Eileen and Huli to evacuate and alert the authorities, but decided to send the squirrel and hunter back to the Black Forest and merge the fairy tale with the valley.
• As Ankaela’s collapse shook the area, Eileen and Huli left through Yu Sheng’s door to warn the people outside.
• At the orphanage, Li Lin saw the barriers fail and a glowing object rise as Baili Qing prepared to execute “Dome Shatter.”
• Eileen and Huli emerged through a door and told Baili Qing to stop the operation, and Li Lin was ordered to stay on alert and observe the apparent angelic descent.

As the angel’s remains scattered and the fairy-tale wasteland collapsed, Yu Sheng switched himself into a dead state and began rebuilding the stories around the valley. Little Red Riding Hood and the others witnessed the first sign of the transformed valley when Long Hair’s tower began to emerge.

• Baili Qing ordered recovery teams to collect the angel’s falling fragments while Huli carried Eileen home at a run.
• Yu Sheng sat amid the ruined Black Forest, caught a piece of the shattered sky, and received an acorn from the squirrel.
• As the rift and wasteland collapsed, Yu Sheng turned himself into drifting ashes and spread them through the fairy-tale realm.
• A new story described the valley as a hub connecting countless fairy-tale places through hidden doors.
• Little Red Riding Hood heard the valley rumble, and she and the others saw Long Hair’s tower growing in the distance.

After the valley’s upheaval ended, Yu Sheng returned to the children and confirmed that everything was over. He reunited with the Fairy Tale Organization and prepared to explain the Otherworld’s changes and discuss their future arrangements.

• Dorothy reported that her drone had seen Little Red Riding Hood’s transformed Black Forest and Rapunzel’s tower, while Little Red Riding Hood warned her not to approach changing areas.
• Rapunzel hurtled down a golden-hair slide to greet Yu Sheng, but he dodged, sending her flying into a mound of dirt.
• Yu Sheng told the gathered children and the King that it was all over, and the group gradually began celebrating.
• The King appointed Yu Sheng Minister of Belly Scratching Before the Throne, then bickered with Little Red Riding Hood about whether she smelled like a dog or a wolf.
• Yu Sheng announced a grand celebration and said he needed to discuss changes to the Fairy Tale Otherworld and the Fairy Tale Organization’s future.
• Little Red Riding Hood gathered the parents for a meeting in the orphanage’s castle, where Yu Sheng noticed the round table had a large rotating serving tray.

Yu Sheng explained how Fairy Tale had merged with the valley, making its stages safe and accessible while leaving its inhabitants’ abilities intact. He urged Fairy Tale to plan for its future, and the chapter ended with its members affectionately—and chaotically—calling him family.

• Yu Sheng learned that the house lacked a stairway to the second floor, then revealed one behind the hall.
• Yu Sheng explained that Fairy Tale had become a harmless wilderness-type Otherworld attached to the valley, with its stages accessible as real places.
• Little Red Riding Hood confirmed that the group’s abilities and companions remained, and Yu Sheng suggested they might still train future members.
• Yu Sheng urged Fairy Tale to consider its long-term future, including the orphanage, new members, and succession.
• Little Red Riding Hood called Yu Sheng Fairy Tale’s parent, and the group stood to greet him with a jumble of affectionate nicknames.

Yu Sheng and Little Red Riding Hood discussed the Fairy Tale Organization’s future, while the displaced children began imagining a permanent home and new lives. The chapter ended with Yu Sheng returning to No. 66 Wutong Road and facing Huli’s moving, colorful fox stew.

• Little Red Riding Hood told Yu Sheng she looked forward to training future recruits for the Fairy Tale Organization and helping them lead ordinary working lives.
• Rapunzel collected the sleeping Little Red Riding Hood and asked Yu Sheng whether the group would remain at the camp after their orphanage was destroyed.
• Rapunzel explained that Snow White and the King were discussing renovations, a small town called Fairy Tale Town, and a Titan altar; Yu Sheng approved the altar as long as it stayed away from his vegetable garden.
• Yu Sheng returned to No. 66 Wutong Road, where Huli greeted him and led him to the breakfast she had prepared.
• Huli presented Yu Sheng with a bubbling, colorful fox stew and said she hoped to make it taste like her mother’s cooking after a few more attempts.

Yu Sheng ate Huli’s spiritually infused stew and recovered his strength, while her two chicks appeared to be growing stronger as well. Outside the city, Song Cheng’s team recovered fragments of the fallen Dark Angel, then learned Team Three had found an empty impact crater.

• Yu Sheng struggled to eat Huli’s moving stew until she performed a ritual that made it settle down.
• Yu Sheng found the stew delicious and restorative, and he watched White Cut and Salt Baked eat their own portions.
• Song Cheng led Special Operations Bureau agents to a remote crater and identified a semitransparent crystal as a fragment of the Dark Angel.
• Song Cheng heard that another team found a fragment near a settlement and ordered his agents to withdraw quickly because temporal turbulence was forecast.
• Team Three reported finding an impact crater with no wreckage, leaving Song Cheng stunned.

Yu Sheng went to the Special Operations Bureau’s Nth Floor to meet Baili Qing and encountered her younger sister, Baili Xue, while waiting. After discussing the fall of a Dark Angel, Baili Qing arrived and warned Yu Sheng that Baili Xue’s inhuman state made her dangerous despite her friendliness.

• Yu Sheng left Eileen and Huli at home and opened a door to the Special Operations Bureau’s Nth Floor to meet Baili Qing.
• While Yu Sheng waited, Baili Xue appeared and introduced herself, explaining that she had been born human but had not used her name in many years.
• Baili Xue asked Yu Sheng about the Dark Angel he had killed, and Yu Sheng said it had chosen death and he had only stayed with it at the end.
• Baili Xue warned Yu Sheng that news of the Dark Angel’s fall would spread, but Yu Sheng said he did not mind and hoped it might reveal useful information.
• Baili Qing arrived and said Baili Xue had slipped away during her meeting, then warned Yu Sheng not to stare at her sister’s eyes because her inhuman state could be dangerous.