Recaps

Fu Qian accepted a suspiciously lucrative work-from-home warehouse job and was transported to a warehouse storing dangerous items. After a containment breach sent him into the Full Moon Garden as a patient, he repeatedly failed to survive the old man's treatment and had nineteen Sanity Value remaining after his first attempt.

• Fu Qian signed the work badge and was transported to a dim warehouse, where a system identified him as its manager.
• A containment breach revealed the Blood Haze, and Fu Qian entered the Full Moon Garden with the task of surviving for one hour.
• Fu Qian awoke as a patient in severe pain, and an old man began treating him with a suspicious IV drip.
• The treatment killed Fu Qian after one minute, and the system deducted one Sanity Value while giving him no reward.
• Fu Qian tried to escape the old man's treatment but was struck down and died again.
• Fu Qian tried to convince the old man that he felt better, but the old man saw through him and resumed the treatment.

Fu Qian trained himself to endure pain so he could convince the Old Man that he no longer needed treatment. After the Old Man released him and sent him outside to admire the moon, Fu Qian was killed by an unseen attacker and gained Inspiration.

• Fu Qian left the Warehouse and visited a maternity center, where he endured its childbirth-pain machine at level twelve to prepare for the Old Man’s treatment.
• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse and persuaded the Old Man that he felt better, so the Old Man removed the needle from his hand.
• The Old Man told Fu Qian to go outside and look at the moon, then stood up holding a huge scythe as Fu Qian approached the door.
• Fu Qian admired the enormous full moon and felt his pain fade, but an unseen attacker struck him from behind.
• Fu Qian failed containment after five minutes and received one point of Inspiration, leaving his Sanity Value at 16.

Fu Qian repeatedly failed to survive the Full Moon Garden, learning that the Werewolf attacked at the twentieth minute and reacted to the slightest sound. He discovered that imitating the Werewolf’s pose opened the Stone Door, then slipped into a moonlit field of flowers.

• Fu Qian saw the Werewolf in the yard and tried hiding behind a tree, but it spotted him and killed him after twenty minutes.
• Fu Qian tried distracting the Werewolf with a thrown stone, but it attacked him before he could reach the Stone Door.
• Fu Qian noticed the Old Man had told him to look at the moon and imitated the Werewolf’s pose.
• The Stone Door opened, and Fu Qian slipped through into a field of white and yellow flowers under the moonlight.

Fu Qian tried to survive the Full Moon Garden’s mutating moonlight by using advice he found online to kill the Werewolf. After defeating it, he faced the Old Man as the hour drew near and declared that anything with a health bar could be killed.

• Fu Qian’s body mutated under the flowers’ concentrated moonlight, and the Werewolf killed him before he could escape the garden.
• Back in the Warehouse, Fu Qian decided the Werewolf was a more manageable target than the Old Man and searched online for advice on fighting a tiger bare-handed.
• On his eighth visit to the Full Moon Garden, Fu Qian exposed his arms to the moonlight and baited the Werewolf into attacking him.
• Fu Qian slid beneath the Werewolf, shoved his mutated arm into its mouth, and used its growing strands of flesh to tear at its organs until it collapsed.
• The Old Man entered the ruined courtyard, praised Fu Qian’s fighting style, and asked why he had chosen to fight back.
• As the hour drew near, Fu Qian told the Old Man that a true gamer could kill anything with a health bar.

Fu Qian completed his first containment mission, gained new skills and accepted his strange job, then entered a new scene in Old Town to stop an Evil God's Progeny from descending. The chapter ended with an unknown person gripping his throat and stabbing him through the chest.

• Fu Qian replayed his fight with the werewolf, noticed the Old Man had watched before leaving, and received Air Bullet and Internal Organ Critical Hit as rewards.
• Fu Qian returned home, found a 30,000-yuan transfer, and replied to a forum post that a sliding tackle worked against a tiger.
• Fu Qian accepted his new job after reflecting on the excitement of his first shift and returned to the warehouse the next morning.
• Fu Qian selected Air Bullet and Internal Organ Critical Hit before entering Containment Scene 2-133 in Old Town to stop the Evil God's Progeny from descending.
• Fu Qian awoke with someone gripping his throat, answered that he could hear, and was stabbed in the chest as the person apologized.

Fu Qian repeatedly entered the Old Town containment scene and was killed by Su Gao, a porcelain-bodied Night Watcher tasked with eliminating everyone in the contaminated area. After discovering that he could injure her and earning the Cat School skill, he prepared to try again with greater agility.

• Fu Qian reentered the scene, learned that the porcelain-faced woman was named Su Gao, and let her kill him after she said the Night Watchers had to eliminate everyone in the area.
• Fu Qian entered again, called Su Gao by name, and asked her to cooperate while questioning her about the situation outside.
• Fu Qian shot Su Gao with an Air Bullet, cracking her porcelain face, but she killed him again.
• Fu Qian received the Cat School special evaluation reward and tested the skill, finding that it improved his agility and control.

Fu Qian emerged from the Warehouse into a contaminated district and persuaded the Night Watchers that he was a cursed supernatural investigator with little fighting ability. He warned that a powerful evil presence was descending and joined the team’s effort to stop it.

• Fu Qian followed Su Gao outside and saw that the district was deserted beneath strange patterns covering the sky.
• Su Gao explained that her team had evacuated the people they could and was purging civilians who had begun mutating from the contamination; Fu Qian approved of their actions.
• Fu Qian claimed he was contaminated and had come to investigate, then told Su Gao and the arriving Captain that he had suppressed the curse at the cost of most of his fighting ability.
• Fu Qian demonstrated an Air Bullet, convincing the Night Watchers he was supernatural, and introduced himself as Fu Qian.
• Fu Qian warned the Night Watchers that a powerful evil presence was descending, and the Captain explained that his team had responded to reports of mass casualties and evacuated the district.

Fu Qian and the Captain’s team fought their way through the shadowed district, where corrupted people had become Maggot People, and found a hall packed with them. As the team argued over whether to retreat, Fu Qian discovered that a passage in the black notebook appeared blank to everyone else.

• Fu Qian joined the Captain’s group as they headed toward the center of the shadows, with Su Gao assigned to watch him.
• A warped creature attacked Fu Qian, and Su Gao and Fu Qian killed it before more Maggot People swarmed the group.
• The five fought through the street and found nearly a hundred Maggot People gathered in a vast hall.
• The Old Man urged the team to report the incident and withdraw, while the Captain insisted they could not leave without an explanation.
• The Old Man revealed a black notebook he had found during the purge, and the Captain let Fu Qian examine it.
• Fu Qian pointed out a passage he could read as a jumble, and the Captain asked him to copy it because the passage appeared blank to the others.

Fu Qian copied and deciphered the notebook’s hidden text, then used it to lead the group toward an underground vault where an evil entity might descend. The group entered the vault and found a horrifying scene awaiting them.

• Fu Qian realized his Insight let him see hidden writing in the notebook, copied it, and began deciphering it with Su Gao’s guesses as guidance.
• When Buzz Cut Man threatened him, Fu Qian blasted out his Left Eye, then attacked the Captain and was killed by the Captain’s electric weapon, causing containment to fail.
• Fu Qian memorized the notebook’s text, deciphered a passage about an entity descending underground, and re-entered the containment scene.
• Fu Qian convinced the group to search for a deep space, and Su Gao identified a secure underground vault and led them through the Maggot People to its stairwell.
• The group descended through the dark passage and entered the vault, where they encountered a horrifying scene.

Fu Qian witnessed the team’s failed attempt to contain the transformed noblewoman, then used what he learned to restart the mission and change the group’s approach. The chapter ended with him sitting across from the woman and greeting her.

• The Captain’s team attacked the noblewoman, but she transformed and killed Buzz Cut Man and the Old Man before striking down the Captain.
• Fu Qian’s attacks failed, and the Evil God’s Progeny descended as containment failed; Su Gao’s attack was the last thing he saw before returning to the storeroom.
• Fu Qian analyzed the team’s failed strategy and chose to spend one Sanity Value to attempt containment again.
• Fu Qian stopped the Captain from ordering an attack and warned him not to disturb the noblewoman, revealing that he knew about the thing the Captain carried.
• Fu Qian sat across from the noblewoman and greeted her.

Fu Qian distracted the elegant woman so Captain could attack her with the Lightning Railgun, but the Evil God's Progeny survived by possessing the Old Man. Fu Qian re-entered the containment scene, destroyed the weapon to injure everyone, then picked up the notebook and was targeted for possession.

• Fu Qian flirted with the elegant woman while Captain charged the Lightning Railgun and the others guarded him.
• Captain blasted the elegant woman into ash, but the Evil God's Progeny emerged from her abdomen and possessed the Old Man, who killed Captain.
• Fu Qian realized the notebook could be enabling the Evil God's Progeny to possess people and entered the containment scene again.
• After Captain fired the Lightning Railgun, Fu Qian shot it with five Air Bullets, causing it to explode and injure everyone in the hall.
• Fu Qian grabbed the glowing notebook and felt the Evil God's Progeny trying to possess him, then reached beneath his ribs toward a cut.

Fu Qian completed the containment mission, earned a God Slayer evaluation, and used his special reward to become a Thug with a powerful new body. Back home, he discovered that his transformed body and abilities had carried over from the Warehouse, then celebrated his newfound freedom over fast food.

• Fu Qian struck the Evil God's Progeny through his wound with Internal Organ Critical Hit, and the containment-success notification appeared.
• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse and received a God Slayer evaluation, Sanity Value and Inspiration, and the special reward Thug.
• Fu Qian used Thug despite its irreversible effects and felt his body transform with increased strength.
• Fu Qian returned home and found his body had grown muscular, then used an Air Bullet to puncture a bottle of mineral water.
• Fu Qian went to McDonald's, reflected on his transformed life, and answered a ringing phone.

Fu Qian met his friend Qin Mingze, who was shocked by Fu Qian’s transformed physique, then began a new Warehouse containment mission centered on protecting Wen Li as she advanced to Sixth Order Transcendent. He arrived at the Wen Family estate as a hired bodyguard and learned that enemies had already attempted to assassinate the family.

• Qin Mingze called Fu Qian and met him at McDonald’s, where he was startled by Fu Qian’s muscular new appearance.
• Qin Mingze offered to introduce Fu Qian to wealthy women, then left food boxes outside Fu Qian’s home.
• Fu Qian entered the Warehouse and received a containment mission requiring Wen Li to advance successfully to Sixth Order Transcendent.
• Fu Qian brought Air Bullet, Internal Organ Critical Hit, and Cat School into the scene, where he appeared at the Wen Family estate as a bodyguard.
• A fellow bodyguard told Fu Qian that the Wen Family had endured two assassination attempts and that Wen Li was a secret Mental System Transcendent nearing advancement.

Fu Qian and Schwarzenegger Gu escorted the group to the villa, where Young Master Ye arrived with three Transcendents and challenged Fu Qian to demonstrate his skills. The chapter ended as the young woman Ye brought forward revealed razor blades and prepared to fight.

• A butler welcomed Schwarzenegger Gu and his bodyguards at the villa, then hurried to greet Young Master Ye as he arrived with three companions.
• Schwarzenegger Gu warned Fu Qian that the four newcomers were Transcendents and told him not to risk his life against them.
• Young Master Ye overheard Gu's warning and questioned Fu Qian's reliability as a bodyguard.
• When Ye demanded a demonstration, Fu Qian agreed to show what he could do.
• Ye proposed a spar with the young woman who had arrived with him, and she revealed two razor blades between her fingers.

Fu Qian defeated Little Wolf Girl but was abruptly pulled back to the Warehouse when Wen Li died and the mission failed. After replaying the event, he learned Wen Li was physically vulnerable and caused a distraction to search the mansion before she died again.

• Fu Qian dodged Little Wolf Girl's attacks, grabbed her wrist, and kicked her into a car.
• The system announced that Wen Li had died and containment had failed, penalizing Fu Qian for idling on the job.
• Fu Qian replayed the event and asked Captain Gu why Wen Li needed protection despite being a powerful Transcendent.
• Captain Gu explained that Wen Li's Mental System ability left her physically weak before she reached Intermediate Tier, making her a target for assassins.
• Fu Qian knocked down a stone pillar as Young Master Ye arrived, then slipped into the villa amid the resulting chaos.

Fu Qian rushed into the Wen villa and stopped Wen Li from drinking poisoned soup, but an attack by a stone-covered monster killed her anyway. The monster escaped into the lake after the bodyguards failed to stop it.

• Fu Qian forced his way into the villa and blasted the soup bowl from Wen Li’s hands, preventing her from drinking the poison.
• Fu Qian identified himself to Wen Xiuxian and accused the maid Fang Ting of trying to kill Wen Li; the soup tested positive for poison.
• Fang Ting suddenly broke free and attacked Wen Li, but Mr. Ji punched her away and killed her.
• Mr. Ji suspected Fang Ting had been hypnotized, but a stone pillar smashed through the wall and killed Wen Li.
• The stone-covered monster resisted the bodyguards’ attacks, then escaped into the lake.

Fu Qian repeated the assassination attempt to protect Wen Li, defeated the Stone Giant, and exposed a hidden accomplice who escaped into the lake. Wen Li vouched for Fu Qian after Young Master Ye accused him of conspiring with the attackers.

• Fu Qian reentered the villa, disrupted the attempted poisoning, and let Wen Xiuxian’s men restrain Fang Ting while he waited for the attackers.
• Fu Qian kicked Wen Li away from the Stone Giant’s pillar and blocked the middle-aged man surnamed Ji’s punch, taking a small amount of damage.
• Fu Qian pulled the pillar from the villa wall and hurled it back at the Stone Giant, smashing his leg before striking him down with another pillar.
• A hidden accomplice among the bodyguards stunned the men surrounding the fallen Stone Giant, then carried him into the lake.
• Fu Qian told Wen Xiuxian that Captain Gu had sent him, and Young Master Ye accused him of staging the attack after Fu Qian let the surviving attacker escape.
• Wen Li spoke up and said she believed Fu Qian.

Fu Qian protected Wen Li during an attack, slapped Young Master Ye, and advised Wen Xiuxian to secure his daughter in a safe room. After Wen Li asked to speak with Fu Qian alone, she thanked him for striking Young Master Ye, whom she had long wanted to slap.

• Wen Li thanked Fu Qian for saving her and asked him to continue protecting her.
• Fu Qian slapped Young Master Ye, then exchanged blows with Old Brother Ji before Wen Xiuxian calmed the confrontation and sent Ye away.
• Wen Xiuxian invited Fu Qian and Captain Gu to discuss the attack, and Fu Qian suggested the attackers were a coordinated professional team.
• Fu Qian warned that a disguised infiltrator could threaten Wen Li and recommended keeping her in the estate's safe room with only him allowed inside.
• Wen Li asked to speak privately with Fu Qian and thanked him for slapping Young Master Ye.

Fu Qian learned about Wen Li’s Mirror ability and the trouble surrounding her family’s arranged marriage and security. After discovering Ye Yang’s follower spying on them, he knocked her from the mansion wall, leaving the Wen and Ye families to confront the fatal incident.

• Wen Li told Fu Qian that her Mirror ability let her sense others’ emotions and, increasingly, influence them, while explaining that the Wen Family’s Transcendent bodyguard had been arrested by the Night Watchers.
• Wen Li asked Fu Qian to help protect her and keep their conversation from the Ye Family, and Fu Qian agreed.
• Fu Qian noticed the Little Wolf Girl eavesdropping from outside, kicked Wen Li and her bench aside, and shouted that an assassin had infiltrated the mansion.
• Fu Qian hurled a metal paperweight through the wall, striking the Little Wolf Girl and sending her tumbling from the fourth floor to her death.
• Fu Qian called the dead spy an assassin, while Wen Xiuxian thanked him and Young Master Ye’s group reacted to the body.

After Fu Qian protected the Wen Family, Wen Li asked him to improve their security, but he judged their defenses too weak to fix. Tan Mingxue, a Night Watcher team leader, arrived demanding to speak with Fu Qian and accused him of killing someone.

• Fu Qian spent the night in the Wen Family mansion after earning their fear and respect, while Wen Li arranged a place for him to stay.
• Fu Qian ate breakfast with Wen Li, who asked him to improve the family’s security, and he said their defenses had too many weaknesses to make improvement worthwhile.
• A maid announced that a special guest wanted to see Fu Qian, and Tan Mingxue entered the dining room.
• Wen Li identified Tan Mingxue as the leader of the city’s second Night Watcher team and objected when Tan asked Fu Qian to leave with her.
• Tan Mingxue denied targeting the Wen Family and challenged Fu Qian over killing someone on the property.

Fu Qian cooperated when Tan Mingxue took him to Night Watchers headquarters to question him about the Transcendent who died during the attack on Wen Li. After Qi Xue cleared him to leave, Fu Qian asked how many people at headquarters could fight as well as Qi Xue and Tan Mingxue.

• Tan Mingxue accused Fu Qian of killing a Transcendent and insisted he come with her, while Wen Li defended him.
• Fu Qian chose to cooperate and followed Tan Mingxue to Night Watchers headquarters, where he noticed Mr. Ji but not Young Master Ye.
• Tan Mingxue questioned Fu Qian about his unregistered status, strength, and role as a bodyguard, but he brushed off her questions.
• Qi Xue took over the questioning, accepted Fu Qian's explanations, and let him go.
• Fu Qian asked Qi Xue and Tan Mingxue how many people at headquarters were as good at fighting as they were.

Fu Qian learned that the Night Watchers had shifted their attention on Wen Li to “Observe and Wait” because of her unusual psychic abilities, then returned to the Wen Family mansion and asked when she might advance. Wen Xiuxian came home early after things went badly, and Fu Qian noticed Wen Li’s expression change before kicking her flying again.

• Fu Qian questioned Qi Xue and learned that the Night Watchers had few high-level members and that Wen Li’s file had been changed to “Observe and Wait.”
• Qi Xue explained that the Night Watchers had once planned to guide Wen Li because her rare psychic ability showed promise, but now they had been told not to interfere.
• Fu Qian returned to the Wen Family mansion, reassured Wen Li, and asked when she expected to advance to the Sixth Order.
• Wen Li said she felt close to a breakthrough but could not predict when it would happen.
• Wen Xiuxian returned early after things went badly, and Fu Qian noticed Wen Li frown at him before kicking her flying.

Fu Qian protected Wen Li from a disguised assassin, but Wen Li’s mental collapse caused the containment mission to fail. He restarted the scenario in Shura Mode and returned to the Wen Family mansion.

• Fu Qian shielded Wen Li from Wen Xiuxian’s explosive death and tracked the disguised assassin outside.
• Fu Qian killed the assassin, completed one-third of his Thug assimilation, and rapidly healed from his injuries.
• Wen Li found her father’s damaged watch and suffered a mental collapse, causing containment to fail.
• Fu Qian reviewed the failed mission and decided to try again in Shura Mode.
• Fu Qian reappeared at the Wen Family mansion as Captain Gu told him to stop looking around.

Fu Qian rescued Wen Li and forced her into the Wen Family safe room while fighting off Young Master Ye and Mr. Ji. He left her with one day to break through to the sixth rank before he would throw her outside.

• Fu Qian smashed a stone pillar with one punch and ordered Wen Xiuxian to take him to the safe room.
• Fu Qian kicked Wen Li into the safe room and sealed the door, ignoring Young Master Ye’s objections.
• Mr. Ji intercepted Fu Qian and was sent flying, while Fu Qian slapped Young Master Ye and forced him back.
• Mr. Ji told Young Master Ye to summon the Night Watchers as the safe room door closed.
• Fu Qian told Wen Li she had one day to reach the sixth rank or he would throw her outside.

Fu Qian forced Wen Li to cultivate in a secure room while he watched over her, but a Night Watcher soon attacked him. He recognized Team Leader Tan and prepared to fight as Wen Li's training stalled.

• Fu Qian threatened Wen Li into spending the next 24 hours advancing her cultivation, and she reluctantly began meditating.
• Fu Qian detected nearly invisible strands targeting him, broke them, and pulled Tan Mingxue from the ventilation duct.
• Fu Qian taunted Tan Mingxue about her shortened hair and refused to answer her questions or surrender.
• Tan Mingxue turned her hair into razor-sharp filaments and filled the room with them as Fu Qian prepared to fight and urged Wen Li to focus.