Recaps

After the group’s potion tests, Ding Hongguang reported that Mutated Humans had abducted Jiang Keyun. Su Qiao discovered that Ding Hongguang was secretly controlled by a gu worm, while the others prepared to rescue Jiang Keyun.

• Gao Cheng tested the group with a potion, and everyone appeared to be unharmed.
• Ding Hongguang arrived injured and said a Mutated Human had taken Jiang Keyun; the group searched for them but returned empty-handed.
• Su Qiao had 444 scan Ding Hongguang and learned that a gu worm in his brain let the Mutated Humans control him.
• Su Qiao decided to keep Ding Hongguang under observation to uncover the person behind the attacks.
• Professor Jiang worried that the Mutated Humans were abducting human women to reproduce, and Ding Hongguang urged the group to leave at once and rescue Jiang Keyun.

Professor Jiang led the group out from the Northwest Base to rescue Su Suya and Jiang Keyun and reach the Ancient Tomb before the Mutated Humans. He revealed that legends tied two books to longevity, the Ability Activation Medicinal Solution formula, and a Mental Ability cultivation method, while Su Qiao recalled the Northwest Base’s former glory beside Han.

• Professor Jiang asked Su Qiao about the red-circled location, and she said there was an eighty percent chance it was their destination.
• The group packed and left the Northwest Base to rescue Su Suya and Jiang Keyun and prevent the Mutated Humans from reaching the Ancient Tomb first.
• Professor Jiang revealed that rumors said two books contained the secrets of longevity, the Ability Activation Medicinal Solution, and Mental Ability cultivation.
• Professor Jiang explained that the dean had hidden the secrets in the books to protect them from spies and other countries.
• Su Qiao remembered Han’s role in managing the once-glorious Northwest Base as Han held her hand and walked beside her.

Professor Jiang described the legendary deeds of a woman named Su Qiao, leaving Su Qiao puzzled because she did not remember the events he recounted. Ding Hongguang dismissed the idea that she could be that woman and blamed her for needing protection.

• Professor Jiang told the group that the famous figures of the past had protected H Xia and that one of them had nearly destroyed an island nation alone.
• Su Qiao questioned whether Professor Jiang's stories matched her memories and wondered if this was a parallel world.
• Liu Yue asked what Su Qiao was muttering, and Su Qiao said the stories sounded exaggerated.
• Liuzi joked that Su Qiao might be the legendary woman because they shared a name, prompting the others to laugh.
• Ding Hongguang scorned the suggestion and accused Su Qiao of relying on the group to protect her.
• Su Qiao wondered whether Ding Hongguang was being arrogant because someone was backing him.

Su Qiao suspected Ding Hongguang had been targeting her and might have been involved in people being taken by the Mutated Humans. After Han blasted Ding away, Su Qiao stopped him from escalating the fight and warned the group that Ding seemed to be the only one who had not drunk the potion.

• Ding Hongguang accused Su Qiao of relying on Han and insisted she owed the group for protecting her.
• Su Qiao questioned whether Ding had pushed her into a cave and pointed out his suspicious presence when her sister and Jiang Keyun were abducted.
• Ding Hongguang raised his hand to attack Su Qiao, but Han blasted him away with an invisible force.
• Professor Jiang and Gao Cheng urged Su Qiao and Ding Hongguang to stop fighting because the group was already small.
• Su Qiao held Han back and warned everyone to pay attention because Ding Hongguang seemed to be the only one who had not drunk the potion.

Su Qiao confronted Ding Hongguang and tried to keep Han from acting recklessly while probing his returning memories. Han remembered sleeping in the Underground Cave with the little brown bear Fluffy, but his other memories remained confused.

• Su Qiao exposed Ding Hongguang’s attempt to leave, then warned Han not to kill him because she had a plan.
• Han complained that Su Qiao no longer spent time with him and said he had lost Fluffy.
• Su Qiao realized Han remembered the little brown bear and questioned him about the coffin and the Underground Cave.
• Han said he had slept in the comfortable place with Fluffy, who had come from the space.
• Su Qiao suspected Han had awakened and gone outside before, but Li Hanzheng could not make sense of his jumbled memories.

Su Qiao tried to keep Han from attacking her teammates while he demanded that she leave with him and focus on him. They continued after the group, with Su Qiao planning to question Han further that night and asking him to spare some Mutated Humans as guides.

• Han complained that Su Qiao paid more attention to her teammates than to him and urged her to leave with him.
• Han threatened to kill Su Qiao's teammates, but she told him they were still useful and warned him not to act rashly.
• Su Qiao said she would decide when the teammates could die, and Han agreed not to kill them if she promised to like only him.
• Han remembered that Su Qiao had named him in the Underground Cave and began to ask whether she had gone there to find him.
• Gao Cheng called for Su Qiao and Han to catch up, and Su Qiao hurried them forward while asking Han to leave some Mutated Humans alive to lead the way.

Su Qiao and the Ability Team were ambushed by a large horde of Mutated Humans, and Han slaughtered the attackers after Su Qiao ordered him to fight. The surviving Mutated Humans fled, and Su Qiao marked them with medicinal powder before releasing the Blue Butterflies to track them.

• Uncle Qi warned Gao Cheng that Mutated Humans were approaching from three directions, so Gao Cheng ordered Liuzi and Xiao Wu to take Professor Jiang ahead while the others held the horde back.
• Su Qiao found the Mutated Humans repeatedly charging at her and, furious, told Han to kill them all.
• Han carried Su Qiao to a nearby cliff and gave her Dried Beef and chicken feet while he fought the Mutated Humans below.
• Han killed the Mutated Humans attacking the cliff and rescued the injured Uncle Qi from a pit, while the few survivors fled.
• Su Qiao and Han caught up with the fleeing Mutated Humans, and Su Qiao sprinkled them with medicinal powder before releasing the two Blue Butterflies to follow them.

Su Qiao and Han tracked the Mutated Humans to a cave and returned to find Uncle Qi injured and shaken by the brutal battle. As Gao Cheng’s team regrouped, Su Qiao told him the attackers had come for her and warned that an infiltrator was among them.

• Su Qiao and Han followed the tracked butterflies toward the cave where the Mutated Humans had gone, then headed back without pursuing them.
• Su Qiao helped Uncle Qi out of the pit, and the three started back toward Captain Gao’s group.
• Gao Cheng returned with his subordinates and had Xiao Wu carry Uncle Qi while the team hurried back to guard Professor Jiang and Liu Yue.
• Gao Cheng asked Su Qiao whether the Mutated Humans had targeted her and Han, and Su Qiao said they had come for her.
• Su Qiao told Gao Cheng there was an infiltrator among them and said he should already suspect who it was.

Su Qiao and Gao Cheng suspected that Mutated Humans had learned about the Ancient Tomb and tried to kill her, though Su Qiao sensed that the reason was more complicated. The group reached their cave refuge and planned to resume the journey the next day.

• Gao Cheng agreed to watch Ding Hongguang while Su Qiao dismissed the loss of the remaining potions as part of a plan to kill two birds with one stone.
• Su Qiao wondered who wanted her dead, and 444 suggested Ding Hongguang or the leader of the Mutated Humans might be responsible.
• Su Qiao told 444 that she sensed a major surprise ahead and trusted her Blue Butterfly to help uncover the truth.
• Su Qiao and the others returned to the cave where Professor Jiang and Liu Yue were sheltering, and the exhausted group decided to rest overnight.
• Professor Jiang checked the map with Su Qiao, who confirmed the route to the Ancient Tomb lay within the marked mountain range.
• Gao Cheng warned the team that the Mutated Humans would keep pursuing them and wondered whether Su Qiao, rather than Professor Jiang, had been their target.

Su Qiao and Han prepared to hunt and spent the quiet night in a small cave, where Han watched her meditate instead of sleeping. The chapter ended with Su Qiao asking what he was doing.

• Su Qiao and Han left to gather firewood and fruit, and Gao Cheng warned them not to go far.
• Gao Cheng asked Han to protect Su Qiao, and Han declared that she was his responsibility.
• Su Qiao teased Han about regaining his memories, but Han said he only needed to remember her.
• Su Qiao meditated in their small cave while Han watched her, and she asked why he was still awake.

Su Qiao tried to sleep, but Han climbed on top of her and said they should have a baby so she would not leave. After she persuaded him to stop, Han promised to carry her wherever she went, though he refused to carry anyone else.

• Han admired Su Qiao’s eyelashes and admitted he was bored.
• Han climbed on top of Su Qiao and said they should have a baby so she would not run away.
• Su Qiao stopped Han from undressing her and told him she did not want a baby.
• Han agreed not to have a baby and pulled Su Qiao into his arms.
• Su Qiao pointed out that carrying only her would not help the group, but Han said he would carry only her.

Su Qiao and the group reached the mountain range where Blue Butterfly’s unstable signal appeared, confirming that the Mutated Humans had come to the area too. The terrain had changed greatly over the past thousand years, and they still did not know which mountain held the Ancient Tomb.

• Han said he was afraid he would be difficult to wake, and Su Qiao assured him she could wake him before he pretended to fall asleep rather than answer why he had once chased her.
• Several days later, Su Qiao and the group reached the area where Blue Butterfly’s signal appeared and disappeared intermittently.
• Professor Jiang compared the changed terrain with his maps while Gao Cheng warned him to stay back from the cliff.
• Su Qiao explained that the mountain range had once been a Feng Shui Treasure Land but had become a Yin Gathering Place after earthquakes and other changes.
• Su Qiao confirmed that the Ancient Tomb was somewhere in the mountain range, though she could not identify the exact mountain, and the group grew excited that they had reached the right place.

Su Qiao and Professor Jiang’s group searched five mountains for an Ancient Tomb without success. At the last mountain, Su Qiao said the tomb was inside the barren Stone Mountain, which was the Formation Eye of a natural Yin Gathering Place and an Ominous Land.

• Su Qiao led Han to the mountains and asked whether they seemed familiar, but Han could not remember anything.
• Su Qiao and the others spent several days searching five mountains without finding anything unusual.
• The group reached the last mountain on their map, a tall, barren Stone Mountain, and questioned whether an Ancient Tomb could be there.
• Professor Jiang asked Su Qiao if the tomb was on the mountain, and she said it should be inside it, though Feng Shui marked the mountain as an Ominous Land.

Su Qiao identified the strange mountain as a place that gathered yin energy, but Ding Hongguang challenged her and blamed her for the team’s troubles. The chapter ended with the group divided as Ding admitted he was targeting Su Qiao because Keyun had been captured by Mutated Humans.

• Su Qiao recognized the mountain as a place that gathered yin energy and warned that it gave her a bad feeling.
• Ding Hongguang questioned Su Qiao’s certainty, and she accused him of not wanting the group to find the Ancient Tomb.
• Ding Hongguang attacked Su Qiao with a fireball, but she dodged it and kicked him down.
• Gao Cheng rebuked Ding Hongguang and said he was judging the dispute on its merits.
• Ding Hongguang admitted he was targeting Su Qiao and blamed her for Keyun’s capture by the Mutated Humans.

Ding Hongguang blamed Su Qiao for Jiang Keyun’s capture, but the expedition team rejected his accusations and continued toward the caves where the Mutated Humans might be hiding. As they prepared to enter, Su Qiao distributed insect repellent to protect the group from the bugs inside.

• Ding Hongguang accused Su Qiao of not caring about Jiang Keyun and claimed she might secretly want her sister dead, while Professor Jiang, Gao Cheng, Liuzi, and Liu Yue defended her.
• The group climbed the mountain and found six cave entrances in a cliff face marked by signs of artificial excavation.
• Su Qiao could not use 444 to scan the area because the magnetic field was too chaotic, and the man beside her warned that the caves contained many bugs.
• Su Qiao stopped the group and handed out packets of insect repellent for protection against mutated venomous snakes and poisonous insects, while Ding Hongguang dismissed her precaution.

Su Qiao and the others entered the cliff caves, where Professor Jiang found signs that the passages had been excavated and footprints that might belong to Su Suya and Jiang Keyun. He concluded that the Ancient Tomb was inside the caves.

• Su Qiao handed out Medicine Packets before Han carried her and flew to a cave entrance.
• The group gathered at the entrance and cautiously advanced into the dark, foul-smelling cave.
• Professor Jiang examined the walls and noted marks suggesting the passage had been excavated.
• Uncle Qi found small footprints, and Liu Muyu thought they might belong to Su Suya and Jiang Keyun.
• Professor Jiang said the footprints proved they had found the right place and that the Ancient Tomb was inside.

Ding Hongguang rushed into the cave, prompting the others to follow, but Su Qiao warned that Mutated Humans were closing in from all directions. In the ensuing attack, the group was scattered, and Su Qiao and Han were driven deeper into the twisting caves by swarms of insects.

• Ding Hongguang charged into a dark passage, and Captain Gao ordered the group to bring him back together.
• Su Qiao released two Blue Butterflies and followed the group with Han as they searched the connected caves.
• Gao Cheng sensed danger ahead, and Su Qiao warned that Mutated Humans were approaching from every direction.
• The group tried to retreat, but attacks and swarms of insects scattered them through the caves.
• Su Qiao and Han fought their way along another route, going deeper into the caves while the insects pursued them.

Su Qiao and Han explored an Ancient Tomb passage where Han recognized the route from which his Stone Coffin had been carried. Han recalled that Su Qiao was his wife and remembered parts of their shared life, and Su Qiao prepared to try transferring more memories directly into his mind.

• Han stopped at a large Stone Path and recognized it as the place where his Stone Coffin had been carried away.
• Su Qiao asked whether Han had regained his memories, and he explained that the passage where he had slept had collapsed.
• Han remembered that Su Qiao was the Bronze Statue and dean, that he was the Base Leader, and that they were husband and wife who had gathered food and herbs together.
• Su Qiao offered Han more of her blood, but he refused because he knew it harmed her.
• Su Qiao found a Stone Chamber, scattered insect-repelling powder, and sat with Han in a corner to prepare to transfer memories directly.

Su Qiao considered whether other powerful Ability Users had survived and concluded that the person plotting against her might be connected to her enemies. She had 444 restore Han’s memories, then told him that the kiss she gave him was called a kiss.

• Su Qiao dismissed the idea that other High-level Ability Users had survived, suspecting that her enemies’ descendants were scheming against her.
• Su Qiao reasoned that the Male Lead might have reincarnated and recognized her, but decided to discuss it later.
• Su Qiao told Han to sit still while she restored his memories, and he obeyed.
• Su Qiao kissed Han so 444 could pour his memories into him without attracting Mutated Humans and bugs.
• Su Qiao watched Han for signs of discomfort, then told him that what she had done was called a kiss.

Han woke after recovering his memories, but fell asleep again with a headache before Su Qiao could learn what he remembered. Elsewhere, Jiang Keyun discovered that Ding Hongguang had sided with the Mutated Humans who were holding her captive.

• Han told Su Qiao that his memories were in his head, then asked her to kiss him before collapsing asleep with a headache.
• Su Qiao worried that the Mutated Humans and bugs might catch up with them while Han slept.
• Ding Hongguang entered the stone house where Jiang Keyun was being held and excitedly grasped her hands.
• A Mutated Human warned Ding Hongguang to persuade Jiang Keyun and said she had been spared because of him.
• Jiang Keyun realized Ding Hongguang was a traitor and lunged at him in fury.

Jiang Keyun learned that Ding Hongguang had betrayed humanity and helped Mutated Humans, while he tried to force her to obey by threatening her uncle, Professor Jiang. The chapter ended with Ding claiming Professor Jiang’s group had entered the labyrinth and was probably nearly dead.

• Ding Hongguang appeared before Jiang Keyun and tried to calm her, but she rejected him after realizing he had sided with the Mutated Humans.
• Ding Hongguang slapped Jiang Keyun and claimed he had betrayed the humans only to survive and protect her.
• Jiang Keyun accused Ding Hongguang of causing the Exploration Team’s deaths and betraying Ability Team 8.
• Ding Hongguang threatened Jiang Keyun by saying Professor Jiang was in danger, then claimed her uncle’s group had entered the labyrinth and was probably almost dead.

Ding Hongguang revealed to Jiang Keyun that a parasite in her brain was controlling him and that the same thing had happened to her. He tried to persuade her to serve The King with him, while she worried about her family on Planet Mercury.

• Ding Hongguang threatened Jiang Keyun by warning that Professor Jiang could be harmed if she refused to cooperate.
• Ding Hongguang told Jiang Keyun that a parasite had been planted in his brain and said the eggs in hers should have hatched too.
• Jiang Keyun realized the parasite explained how the Mutated Human had controlled her in recent days.
• Ding Hongguang revealed that people working with The King had infiltrated humanity and remained able to control him after he returned to Planet Mercury.
• Jiang Keyun feared for her family on Planet Mercury, and Ding Hongguang claimed he had prevented them from forcibly implanting a control chip in her.

Ding Hongguang tried to force Jiang Keyun to submit by threatening her and her family, while Su Qiao carried a sleeping man through the tunnels to escape. Su Qiao reached the entrance but had to retreat deeper into the maze when a horde of Mutated Humans blocked the way.

• Ding Hongguang warned Jiang Keyun that refusing to obey The King would expose her and her family to danger, but she refused to betray humanity.
• Ding Hongguang tried to embrace Jiang Keyun and make her give herself to him, while her weakened body left her unable to fight back.
• Su Qiao asked 444 how much longer the man would sleep, then carried him on her back through the tunnels.
• Su Qiao and 444 navigated the maze toward the entrance using her Mental Power and 444's help with directions.
• A horde of Mutated Humans blocked the entrance, forcing Su Qiao to carry the sleeping man deeper into the tunnels.

Su Qiao carried Li Hanzheng into the Ancient Tomb and reached its enormous, partially collapsed main tomb. Inside the Underground Palace, she found a modern white Siheyuan that stood out from the ancient ruins.

• Su Qiao recognized dragon carvings along the passage and concluded that the Ancient Tomb lay ahead.
• Su Qiao examined the damaged entrance, sprinkled medicinal powder on herself and Li Hanzheng, and cautiously entered the tomb.
• Su Qiao passed through the ruined chambers as bugs and giant centipedes fled from her.
• Su Qiao reached the main tomb’s stone door, deciphered its mechanism, and entered the vast Underground Palace.
• Su Qiao discovered a white house resembling a modern Siheyuan inside the Underground Palace.

Su Qiao carried Li Hanzheng into the modern courtyard he had built inside an ancient tomb and wondered whether her original body was buried there. She left her bones undisturbed and refused 444’s suggestion to take the treasures.

• Su Qiao discovered that the strange blueprints from her USB drive were plans for Li Hanzheng’s courtyard inside the underground palace.
• Su Qiao cleaned the central hall with a Dust Removal Art and placed Li Hanzheng on a sofa.
• 444 found a huge Stone Coffin partly buried beneath rubble and wondered whether Su Qiao’s original body was inside it.
• Su Qiao inspected the modern-style room and ignored 444’s urging to take the treasures in its display cabinet.
• Su Qiao touched the exposed corner of the Stone Coffin but decided not to dig it open to look for her bones.