Recaps

Lin Yu bought expensive electronics in Huaqiangbei to feed Shen Bingmiao’s [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin], while telling Good Night that he intended to draw suspicion rather than dispel it. After the coffin’s Authority aura attracted attention, Lin Yu used the [Map] to travel to the Barren Realm, making the aura vanish from Shenzhen.

• Good Night worried as Lin Yu filled two travel bags with costly electronics using Good Night’s savings, and Lin Yu said Hacker had instructed him to buy them.
• Lin Yu told Good Night he planned to deepen the Professor’s suspicions and asked him to keep watch outside a public restroom.
• Lin Yu put the [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] into the bags, and it devoured the electronics until its progress reached 37.95%.
• The coffin released a powerful aura that resonated with an Authority, just as Lin Yu had expected.
• Lin Yu activated the [Map] authority, selected the City That Never Sleeps in the Barren Realm, and confirmed his move.
• Lin Yu vanished from the real world with the coffin, and the Authority aura disappeared from Shenzhen.

Lin Yu activated the [Cyber Ghost's Electronic Coffin] in Huaqiangbei to provoke the hidden forces in Shenzhen and draw out clues before meeting Professor and Secretary. He traveled to his Barren Realm anchor point in the City That Never Sleeps, prepared an identity as John H. Arthur, and set out to investigate Gao Shan’s murder scene.

• Lin Yu chose Huaqiangbei to release an Authority aura, attract Copper Furnace’s attention, and gain the initiative before meeting Professor and Secretary.
• Lin Yu reasoned that the Barren Realm murder of Gao Shan might have left clues because the killer could have been less careful there than at Fu Luo’s murder scene.
• Lin Yu used the [Map] Authority to arrive at his hidden anchor point in a mansion in the City That Never Sleeps.
• Lin Yu examined the resident ID and documents prepared for John H. Arthur, a senior Truth Company executive whose identity and property came from Nightless Sky Yong Lian.
• Lin Yu used the [Mask] to record his transformed appearance on the editable resident ID, then John H. Arthur began moving.

Lin Yu settled into Arthur’s identity and headed to Truth Tower, planning to use his position at Truth Company to reach the Nightless Sky Family. As he reviewed the city’s recent political shifts, he spotted President Paris making a public return to Truth Tower.

• Lin Yu inspected his well-stocked residence, dressed as a City That Never Sleeps noble, and decided to contact the Nightless Sky Family through his supervisor position at Truth Company.
• Lin Yu learned that Arlan Mercury had purged members of the Mercury Family while the Autumn Family gained influence in Divine Power Group.
• Lin Yu read that Saint Orchid Lai had gained the advantage in the succession struggle, while Saint Orchid Kui retained influence within the family.
• Lin Yu inferred that Nightless Sky Huo Le had gained ground after Paris’s injury and the cooperation between Truth Company and the Universal Chamber of Commerce.
• Lin Yu arrived at Truth Tower and saw President Paris return in a luxurious limousine.

Lin Yu approached Paris at Truth Company to propose restarting the dangerous Fear energy project, and Paris invited him to explain it privately. The chapter ended as Paris's interest turned serious after Lin Yu mentioned the project.

• Lin Yu used his B-1-level supervisor credentials to reach Paris and introduced himself as Arthur.
• Paris dismissed his bodyguard's warning and welcomed Lin Yu, despite the security risks caused by his unstable alchemical constructs.
• Lin Yu told Paris he wanted to restart an abandoned, dangerous alchemical project and suggested the destroyed Despair Train had created a need for a new energy project.
• When Lin Yu asked whether Paris knew about the Fear project, Paris pulled back his business card and invited him to his office for a detailed explanation.

Lin Yu demonstrated a Fear-based supply pack to Paris and argued that the dangers surrounding Fear research had been fabricated. The chapter ended with Lin Yu claiming that the past research disasters were deliberately caused by people.

• Paris entertained Lin Yu with a new Alchemy-made orange drink and asked him to explain the Fear-related product.
• Lin Yu presented a beeping box, briefly making Paris believe he was under attack before revealing biscuits and water that had absorbed Paris's Fear.
• Paris recognized the supply pack's potential as portable rations but warned that researching and collecting Fear was illegal and would face scrutiny from the board and council.
• Lin Yu claimed he could prove the product was safe and said his past work had included cataloguing dangerous projects and visiting former Fear research sites.
• Lin Yu told Paris that the danger assessments for Fear were fabricated and that people had deliberately caused the supposed loss-of-control disasters.

Lin Yu tried to persuade President Paris to help restart the abandoned Fear project, arguing that its dangers had been deliberately exaggerated and that it could create matter resembling life. Paris agreed to consider the plan but demanded proof, and Lin Yu offered to demonstrate the technology using his experimental records.

• Lin Yu told Paris that human intervention and political interests had caused the accidents used to stigmatize Fear energy and shut down its research.
• Paris warned that restarting the project could provoke the powerful faction that had suppressed it, and said he lacked the authority to oppose the nobles alone.
• Lin Yu argued that Paris had the Nightless Sky Family behind him and that Fear could secure him lasting control within Truth Company.
• Paris asked Lin Yu to show evidence worthy of the risk, and Lin Yu presented disguised experimental records describing Fear energy’s ability to create matter with signs of biological activity.
• Lin Yu offered to recreate the phenomenon so Paris could observe it firsthand.

Lin Yu won Paris’s support for his proposal to exploit Fear, and Paris agreed to introduce him to the future master of the City That Never Sleeps. Lin Yu prepared for that meeting while learning that her mood had recently been poor and that Paris’s backing was stronger than he had assumed.

• Paris trusted Lin Yu’s account of the Fear Polymer and promised to support the project and report it to a director he trusted.
• Paris told Lin Yu that his backer would hear the proposal soon and warned him to prepare more convincing evidence and avoid reckless tricks.
• Lin Yu admitted that he had deliberately startled Paris to secure the best result, and Paris cautioned him that the woman disliked surprises and had been in a bad mood.
• Paris gave Lin Yu melon-flavored chewing gum from a box given to him by the largest shareholder of Truth Company, whom he identified as the current master of the City That Never Sleeps.
• Paris assured Lin Yu that his position and backing were exceptionally reliable, and Lin Yu promised not to disappoint him.

Lin Yu went to Demon Pig Bar to secure an alternative plan for restarting the "Fear" project, since he could not rely solely on Nightless Sky Huo Le. He asked to meet the bar’s true owner, Fairy Queen, and waited for her decision.

• Lin Yu decided to prepare a second plan in case Nightless Sky Huo Le chose not to restart the "Fear" project.
• Lin Yu went to Demon Pig Bar in the outer city and asked its security guard to arrange a meeting with the person truly in charge.
• Lin Yu showed his Truth Company B-1 business card, establishing his status and prompting the guard to treat him respectfully.
• Lin Yu clarified that he wanted to meet Fairy Queen, the bar’s owner and funder, rather than its manager or agents.
• Lin Yu dismissed the guard’s warning and insisted that Fairy Queen decide whether to meet him.

Lin Yu waited at the Demon Pig Bar for the Fairy Queen, only to discover that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had come in person and recognized him beneath his false identities. She explained how she had deduced who he was and revealed that she had helped create his fake identity.

• Lin Yu waited for Nightless Sky Fire Apricot, and the bar manager eventually led him upstairs to meet her.
• Lin Yu found a decoy corpse in the private room and inferred that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had run short of her preferred collectibles.
• Gray raccoons pushed Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s true body out of a ventilation duct to meet Lin Yu.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot recognized Lin Yu as John H. Arthur and explained how his new company identity and return to the outer city had given him away.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot revealed that she had helped create Lin Yu’s fake identity as homework from her mother.

Lin Yu met Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to discuss restarting research into Fear and asked her to join the project. He ended by asking her to investigate the real Sherlock’s recent movements in the City That Never Sleeps.

• Lin Yu learned that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot had handmade and aged the forged identity documents and alchemical creations for his Arthur identity.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot complained that her alchemy work had consumed her free time and that her family’s political marriage plans had only been postponed.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Lin Yu to take her to another world, but they agreed that escaping her current life might not mean gaining freedom.
• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Fire Apricot that he had proposed restarting research and exploration into Fear and invited her to participate.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot questioned Lin Yu about his plans, then agreed to help after he asked her to investigate the real Sherlock’s whereabouts and movements in the City That Never Sleeps.

Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Fire Apricot that Sherlock had been murdered and explained that he was investigating the killer. Nightless Sky Fire Apricot joined his revenge effort, convinced her status and help would protect them.

• Lin Yu reasoned that Nightless Sky Fire Apricot might know about Sherlock's movements in the City That Never Sleeps and asked what she had learned.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot said she had paid some attention to Sherlock, then learned from Lin Yu that he had been murdered.
• Lin Yu said he intended to avenge Sherlock and believed the killers were connected to the people he was already investigating.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot insisted on joining Lin Yu's revenge plan because Sherlock was connected to her friends and family.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot argued that her standing as the Nightless Sky Family's second young lady would make the investigation safer for both of them.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot traveled through the ducts to the underground river to investigate where Sherlock last appeared in City That Never Sleeps. They jumped into the river and were caught by a mysterious pure-white corpse, which Nightless Sky Fire Apricot said had always lived there and might have come from another world.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot deduced why the murderer had not struck in City That Never Sleeps, and Lin Yu praised her reasoning.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot told Lin Yu that Sherlock had left the city through the Turbine Gang’s smuggling route and offered to take him to the place where he was last seen.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Lin Yu followed raccoons through ventilation ducts toward the underground river.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot explained that the underground river supplied City That Never Sleeps and could carry them outside the city.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot grabbed Lin Yu and jumped into the river, where a gigantic pure-white female corpse caught them.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot reached the Turbine Gang’s base, where she tried to prove she was the Fairy Queen without provoking the gang. She drew their attention by snapping her neck and announcing herself, and the gang members stopped work to summon their boss.

• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot rode a pale corpse through the water to a pipe beneath the Turbine Gang’s headquarters.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot warned Lin Yu that red light and shrill, hurried sounds could drive the gang berserk, then changed her dress and hair to black with alchemy.
• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot climbed into a factory where the gang secretly produced alchemical power components for outer-city residents.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot climbed onto a table, declared herself the Fairy Queen, and snapped her neck to make the gang members take notice.
• The Turbine Gang members stopped working and sent someone to inform their boss that the Fairy Queen’s messenger had arrived.

Lin Yu questioned the Turbine Gang leader about how Sherlock and Gao Shan had been smuggled out of City That Never Sleeps. The leader described their route through Checkpoint D-7 and suggested Sherlock was carrying an alchemical item to a Great Wilderness tribe, but Lin Yu left wondering whether the pair had encountered a murderer before they departed.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot brought Lin Yu to the Turbine Gang leader and ordered him to tell Lin Yu everything he knew about Sherlock.
• The Gang Leader explained that Sherlock and a serious-looking man, whom Lin Yu recognized as Gao Shan, had arrived seeking a way out of the city.
• The Gang Leader said Sherlock had mentioned delivering an alchemical item to a Great Wilderness tribe, a crime that explained why he needed to be smuggled out.
• The Gang Leader described how he hid Sherlock and Gao Shan in empty alchemical-material crates on a freight truck passing through the faulty inspection gate at Checkpoint D-7.
• Lin Yu concluded that Sherlock and Gao Shan were likely completing an Instance mission, then asked whether Sherlock had mentioned a third person traveling with them.

Lin Yu questioned the Turbine Gang's leader and learned that someone had unnaturally altered his memories about Sherlock’s visit. When the leader tried to retrieve surveillance footage, he died from a trap planted in his soul, and alarms began blaring through the factory.

• The Turbine Gang's leader realized that his certainty about Sherlock bringing only two people came from tampered memories, confirming Lin Yu's suspicion that the culprit could alter cognition without touching the brain.
• The leader offered to use his prosthetic eye to reactivate the factory's surveillance cameras and show Lin Yu footage from the day Sherlock came.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot agreed to view the footage, but the leader began stammering mechanically as violent Mental Power fluctuations surged from him.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot sensed that the leader's vitality and soul were rapidly disappearing and warned Lin Yu that the culprit had tampered with his soul.
• The Turbine Gang's leader died, and alarms sounded throughout the factory as Nightless Sky Fire Apricot warned that his death could throw the gang's territory into chaos.

After the Turbine Gang Leader died, the gang members lost control in a rage-fueled outbreak, forcing Lin Yu and the Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to fight their way through the factory. When the Special Operations Team’s Weeping Scepter arrived, the Nightless Sky Fire Apricot hurried Lin Yu underground to escape before her Mother learned of the incident.

• The Turbine Gang Leader’s death triggered alarms, and the gang members began losing control as their anger consumed them.
• A crazed Turbine Gang member burst into the office, and the Nightless Sky Fire Apricot blocked the doorway with a sofa while explaining that the gang could no longer be saved.
• Lin Yu and the Nightless Sky Fire Apricot fought off the gang members, and Lin Yu judged that the attackers were manageable despite their numbers.
• The Special Operations Team’s Weeping Scepter sounded overhead, causing the enraged gang members to collapse and stirring negative emotions in Lin Yu.
• The Nightless Sky Fire Apricot told Lin Yu she feared her Mother would use the outbreak to force her into more work, then urged him to flee underground with her.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot were trapped inside the Turbine Gang factory after the Truth Company activated the Weeping Scepter. Lin Yu chose to pose as a Truth Company supervisor who had been ambushed, while promising Nightless Sky Fire Apricot a dubious chance to escape.

• The Weeping Scepter's negative emotions marked everyone nearby, and its corrosion damaged the factory walls as Truth Company Special Operations Team members surrounded the site.
• Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot realized they could not leave through the underground passage without drawing suspicion.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot asked Lin Yu to disable the Weeping Scepter without exposing her, but Lin Yu said he did not want to fight the Truth Company and become a fugitive.
• Lin Yu kicked open the weakened wall, raised his hands, and showed the Special Operations Team a document identifying him as Truth Company B-1-level supervisor John H. Arthur.
• Lin Yu requested protection and an escort, then told Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to flee while he distracted the team, prompting her to complain that it was no surefire plan.

Lent Bury coordinated with Security Bureau Inspector Pilkin at the site of the Turbine Gang disaster, presenting the mass deaths as a production accident and arranging to share the evidence. Lin Yu thanked Lent for covering up the truth, and saw the crisis as a chance to raise John H. Arthur’s standing.

• Lent Bury reduced the Weeping Scepter’s output to protect the arriving Security Bureau agents and greeted Inspector Pilkin.
• Lent told Pilkin that the Turbine Gang’s illegal production workshop had suffered a production accident that killed nearly everyone.
• Pilkin accepted Lent’s explanation and proceeded with the Security Bureau’s inspection of the factory.
• Lent returned to Lin Yu and said he had handled the Security Bureau personnel for him.
• Lin Yu thanked Lent for helping cover up the incident and recognized that the disaster could become an opportunity to improve John H. Arthur’s status.

Lin Yu told Leader Rent that he had deliberately caused the Emotion Loss of Control incident at the Turbine Gang’s headquarters to eliminate its leader and protect his research project. Rent agreed to help cover up the incident, while Lin Yu said he had already taken care of the loose ends.

• Leader Rent asked Lin Yu why an Emotion Loss of Control incident had happened at the Turbine Gang’s headquarters.
• Lin Yu revealed that the Great Wilderness girl in his suitcase was a living experimental specimen for a project tied to President Paris.
• Lin Yu admitted that he had caused the incident after the Turbine Gang’s leader threatened him and tried to raise the delivery price.
• Lin Yu explained that he had chosen the Turbine Gang’s headquarters because its production of Anger Power components could help conceal the evidence.
• Leader Rent was unsettled by Lin Yu’s casual confession but promised to help clean up the loose ends.
• Lin Yu told Rent that he had already handled everything cleanly.

Lin Yu brought Nightless Sky Fire Apricot out of the Turbine Gang disguised as cargo and hid her in his office at Truth Tower. After discussing the City That Never Sleeps’ propaganda about the Great Wilderness, he refused her eager request to join his investigation outside the city.

• Lin Yu returned to Truth Tower with Nightless Sky Fire Apricot hidden in his luggage and brought her into his private office.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot woke up, removed her disguise, and wondered how Lin Yu had persuaded Leader Rent to let them leave.
• Lin Yu explained that Rent’s stern reputation concealed the compromises needed to keep his position.
• Lin Yu described how the City That Never Sleeps exaggerated the Great Wilderness’s savagery to direct public resentment toward an outside enemy.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot admitted she had secretly visited the Great Wilderness and asked to accompany Lin Yu on his investigation, but he refused.

Lin Yu was summoned to meet Nightless Sky Huo Le at Truth Tower, where he planned to strengthen her trust while weighing whether to reveal secrets about Sherlock and Fu Luo. He arrived at the ninety-ninth floor and greeted Huo Le as she waited with Paris and other executives.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot exchanged communicator details with Lin Yu, then escaped Truth Tower through a window and the sewers.
• Lin Yu waited in his office until Leader Rent arrived with a Security Department action team to escort him to President Paris's urgent meeting.
• Lin Yu reasoned that Huo Le's interest in his Arthur identity had grown and considered how to gain her trust, while deciding not to reveal Fu Luo's death before meeting Nightless Sky Yong Lian.
• Lin Yu noticed the escort took him up in a private elevator, suggesting Huo Le had come to Truth Tower in person.
• Lin Yu entered the boardroom on the ninety-ninth floor, where Huo Le sat with Paris and six senior executives standing behind her, and exchanged greetings with her.

Lin Yu tried to persuade Nightless Sky Huo Le to restart the banned Fear Project by presenting Fear as a potentially tamable, mobile energy source. Huo Le heard his pitch but had not yet revealed whether she would support it.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le arrived at Truth Tower expecting to assess supervisor John H. Arthur, whom she suspected was either an incompetent fool or a con artist.
• Huo Le gave Lin Yu ten minutes to prove his claims about restarting the Fear Project.
• Lin Yu showed Huo Le the Fear Supply Pack, but she said she already knew what it could do.
• Lin Yu argued that Fear’s tendency to become active could be an advantage if researchers shifted from extracting it to breeding and taming it.
• Lin Yu claimed that taming Fear could transform Truth Company into a dominant super-corporation in the City That Never Sleeps.

Lin Yu presented Nightless Sky Huo Le with evidence from the Fear Project’s former site, claiming her mother had led a program that harvested fear from beings in other worlds. He left Huo Le stunned by the revelation and said the hidden research base gave him confidence to restart the project.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le called Lin Yu a madman but gave him five minutes to persuade her about the living manifestation of Fear.
• Despite warnings from an A-Class supervisor and Paris, Huo Le agreed to experience the material recorded in Lin Yu’s Ancient Notebook.
• Lin Yu showed Huo Le a reconstructed scene of the Ghost Ship studio, which he said had been part of the Fear Project.
• Lin Yu explained that Ghost Ship was designed to collect fear from beings beyond the City That Never Sleeps and claimed Nightless Sky Yong Lian had led the project.
• Huo Le questioned how Lin Yu had uncovered the secret, and he said her mother had nearly erased the research base and that its existence inspired him to restart the Fear Project.

Lin Yu tried to persuade Nightless Sky Huo Le to back a dangerous project involving the buried history of Fear, arguing that it could benefit Huo Le and help him rise to lead the Nightless Sky Family. The chapter ended with Lin Yu asking whether Huo Le’s mother wanted him to become a leader like her and whether she was satisfied with her own record.

• Nightless Sky Huo Le warned Lin Yu that reviving the sealed Fear project could provoke his mother to silence or kill him.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had deliberately approached Huo Le as a more valuable investor than President Paris and framed the risk as low for Huo Le but high for himself.
• Lin Yu argued that he understood Huo Le’s mother by studying her actions and the history of the Nightless Sky Family, the City That Never Sleeps, and Truth Company.
• Nightless Sky Huo Le described his mother as controlling and ruthless, and said she would likely kill Lin Yu to restore events to her expectations.
• Lin Yu asked whether Huo Le wanted to become head of the family like his mother, then questioned whether she wanted that for him and whether she was satisfied with her own leadership.

Lin Yu persuaded Nightless Sky Huo Le to restart the Fear Project by arguing it could prove her readiness to inherit the Nightless Sky Family and strengthen Truth Company. Huo Le considered his proposal to trade with other worlds for Fear, and Lin Yu suggested they win her mother’s approval together.

• Lin Yu told Nightless Sky Huo Le that her mother hoped she would challenge her and act decisively as a potential family head.
• Lin Yu argued that restarting the Fear Project offered little risk to Huo Le and could bring major gains to Truth Company and the Nightless Sky Family.
• Huo Le questioned why her mother had sealed and erased the project, and asked how Lin Yu could be sure it would succeed.
• Lin Yu claimed her mother had explored using Otherworlder souls to produce controllable Fear and proposed trading directly with other worlds for it.
• Huo Le said the plan seemed worth trying but admitted she could not keep it from her mother.
• Lin Yu proposed telling Nightless Sky Huo Shu about the plan from the start and convincing her together.