Recaps

Fu Qian went to the infirmary to investigate the dream’s youngest child and found Liang Yuntian working there. He discovered that Han Jin, one of the library book’s readers, had visited the infirmary, then asked Liang Yuntian to examine Qiu Chengyi.

• Fu Qian agreed to visit the infirmary because he suspected one of the book’s readers was the youngest child’s vessel.
• Fu Qian found Liang Yuntian on duty at the infirmary, where the other occupants appeared to have been devoured.
• Fu Qian tested Liang Yuntian’s remaining awareness and asked to borrow a medical record book.
• Fu Qian saw Han Jin’s name in the record and connected him to the library card.
• Fu Qian told Liang Yuntian that Qiu Chengyi was unwell and asked him to go examine him.

Fu Qian tricked Liang Yuntian into heading to the dormitory by claiming Qiu Chengyi was there, then evaded Liang’s tracking insect and followed after him. After waiting near the dormitory, Fu Qian concluded Liang had found something and prepared to act.

• Fu Qian told Liang Yuntian that Qiu Chengyi was in the dormitory, using a description of the rat-induced changes to convince him to go there.
• Fu Qian left the infirmary with the medical record and explained to the Advisor that he had guessed which person Liang had eaten.
• Fu Qian discovered and crushed a tracking insect hidden in the medical record, then hid as Liang Yuntian rushed past toward the dormitory.
• Fu Qian waited to see whether Liang returned, then used the map to locate the dormitory and sat in its empty gatehouse.
• After nearly half an hour without Liang returning, Fu Qian decided to move, believing Liang had found something.

Fu Qian followed the rat hole into a vast underground space and found Liang Yuntian trapped in a bubble by a figure who claimed to be the true Young Shark. The figure unleashed a horde of giant rats on Liang Yuntian, and the chapter ended with them burying him beneath a bloody swarm.

• Fu Qian entered the underground garage, found the hole, and jumped into the flooded passage below.
• Fu Qian discovered that the passage opened into a vast space that had persisted after the fog receded.
• Fu Qian saw Liang Yuntian trapped inside a tough bubble while a seated figure taunted him and claimed to be the true Young Shark.
• The figure strengthened Liang Yuntian’s barrier with water and summoned swarms of giant, hairless rats.
• The rats tore into Liang Yuntian and buried him beneath their growing swarm.

Fu Qian confronted Qiu Chengyi in the underground chamber while Liang Yuntian fought off a swarm of rats. Fu Qian realized Qiu Chengyi was also suffering from divine erosion, but Qiu Chengyi silenced the rats and declared that Liang Yuntian was still only a bug compared with a god.

• Fu Qian ignored the Persuader’s warning and entered the chamber, hoping to make use of Liang Yuntian’s fight with Qiu Chengyi.
• Fu Qian told Qiu Chengyi that he had masterminded Liang Yuntian’s arrival and given him the information to hunt Qiu Chengyi.
• Fu Qian noticed Qiu Chengyi’s stiff movements and deduced that Qiu Chengyi’s perception had been distorted by divine erosion, making him believe the pests were his real body.
• Qiu Chengyi snapped his fingers and sent the rats back into the water, revealing Liang Yuntian’s gnawed, skeletal body still attacking the barrier.
• Qiu Chengyi called Liang Yuntian’s persistence futile and declared that a god and a bug were fundamentally different.

Fu Qian used Liu Yi’s Bug Whistle to disrupt Qiu Chengyi’s control of the flooded area and free Liang Yuntian. Liang Yuntian attacked Qiu Chengyi, while Fu Qian refused to retreat and watched the fight.

• Qiu Chengyi targeted Fu Qian first and sent swarms of Two-Legged Rats after him.
• Fu Qian leapt into the pool and sounded the Bug Whistle, summoning a giant underground insect that devoured rats and crushed the bubbles before retreating.
• Fu Qian’s real aim was to use the disruption to free Liang Yuntian, who immediately charged at Qiu Chengyi.
• The Persuader urged Fu Qian to leave, but Fu Qian refused and watched Liang Yuntian battle Qiu Chengyi.
• Qiu Chengyi dodged Liang Yuntian’s bone spears and mocked Fu Qian’s tactics while the fight continued.

Qiu Chengyi battled Liang Yuntian and Fu Qian, who exposed the centipede-like pest inside Qiu Chengyi as the source of his false belief that he was the Divine Son. The pest proved too tough for Fu Qian to crush, and Liang Yuntian devoured it as Qiu Chengyi held it out.

• Qiu Chengyi broke Liang Yuntian's limbs and spines, but Liang Yuntian's head lunged and tore Qiu Chengyi's neck.
• Fu Qian feinted with the bone whistle, then thrust his hand into Qiu Chengyi's neck while Qiu Chengyi was distracted.
• Qiu Chengyi caught Fu Qian in his claws, but Fu Qian pulled a black-and-yellow centipede-like pest from Qiu Chengyi's body and revealed that it was not the Divine Son.
• Fu Qian failed to crush the pest, and Qiu Chengyi demanded that he return it.
• Fu Qian offered the pest to Qiu Chengyi's left hand, and Liang Yuntian's head devoured it.

Fu Qian completed the mission by letting Liang Yuntian devour the centipede, collapsing the nightmare and returning to the Warehouse. After going home, Fu Qian was pulled back to the Warehouse, where a shadow separated from his body and he greeted the Negotiator again.

• Liang Yuntian bit the centipede in half, transformed into a centipede with a human head, and attacked Qiu Chengyi, completing the containment mission.
• The Negotiator told Fu Qian the nightmare was breaking apart, then disappeared as the scene crumbled around Fu Qian.
• Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse, received his mission evaluation and rewards, reviewed the event recap, and chose to go home.
• Fu Qian made breakfast at home, but his mark activated and sent him back to the Warehouse as his chopsticks turned to ash.
• A living shadow emerged from Fu Qian and separated from his body, and Fu Qian greeted the Negotiator.

Fu Qian exposed the Salesman’s plan to parasitize his consciousness and completed the containment mission. As the Salesman disintegrated, Fu Qian explained how he had drawn him out and began describing the method he had used.

• Fu Qian revealed that the Salesman had used sensory dislocation and the pest form to trick him into accepting the Salesman’s will.
• Fu Qian explained that the Salesman’s second plan relied on parasitizing him during the nightmare, while making his motives seem harmless.
• Fu Qian realized that the Salesman was the true target of the Bug of Erosion containment mission and that the mission’s instructions had been distorted to help him escape.
• The mission notification confirmed that containment of No. 1-077 was successful, and the Salesman began disintegrating.
• The Salesman asked how Fu Qian had detected his hidden presence, and Fu Qian said he had tried a method he had heard about before.

Fu Qian outwitted the Lobbyist’s parasite and watched the Lobbyist vanish into the Warehouse. He collected two mission rewards, then returned home and found the voices in his mind had come back.

• Fu Qian explained how he had concealed his plan from the Lobbyist and lured him back into the Warehouse.
• The Lobbyist crumbled away, warned Fu Qian that he would return one day, and disappeared into the Warehouse.
• Fu Qian realized the mission had not ended because the usual completion prompt was missing, and two rewards appeared.
• Fu Qian received the Sweet Dream Head Cage, which could block observation or reveal truth, and the Bug Whistle, which summoned Nightmare Worms.
• Fu Qian left both items in the Warehouse and returned home, where the voices in his mind surged back.

Fu Qian tested how his demigod abilities could answer the mental calls that bothered him, using them to intimidate Xu Meng. He then noticed that Tan Ying and her bracelet seemed unusually changed, and sent her a thought to update first and revise later.

• Fu Qian used the Sweet Dream Head Cage to block the calls, but removed it because he could not wear it forever.
• Fu Qian answered Xu Meng’s call and gained a gaze that let him observe Xu Meng’s emotions and condition.
• Fu Qian mentally shouted at Xu Meng, frightening him and breaking their connection.
• Fu Qian answered Tan Ying’s call and noticed her heightened vitality and the spiritual glow of her bracelet.
• Fu Qian wondered whether his power had affected Tan Ying and sent her the thought, “Update first, revise later.”

Fu Qian met Tan Ying at a mall to inspect her bracelet and warned her that it would bring her harm. After winning a bet by causing a solar eclipse, he bought the bracelet from her, leaving Tan Ying astonished that he had paid for it.

• Fu Qian waited at a mall and met Tan Ying, who had followed a suggestion to come there.
• Fu Qian examined Tan Ying's bracelet, sensed its unusual power, and warned her it clashed with her fate.
• Fu Qian bet that a solar eclipse would occur within five minutes, wagering that Tan Ying would sell him the bracelet if he won.
• Fu Qian used the Blasphemous Embrace to create an eclipse, then returned to find Tan Ying stunned.
• Tan Ying named a price of 180,000, and Fu Qian paid it, surprising her with the purchase.

Fu Qian entered the Warehouse's containment scene for Black Sheep, a bracelet he had taken from Tan Ying, and arrived in the quiet town of Bailuoke. After Sheriff Harry confirmed Fu Qian was not a transcendent, the assignment changed to investigating the death of demigod Herom.

• Fu Qian reflected on the bracelet's possible effects on Tan Ying and waited for the Loss of Color Curse to end.
• Fu Qian activated the bracelet's mark, entered the Warehouse, and learned that its code name was Black Sheep, 3-0111.
• Fu Qian selected his skills and equipment, then entered the containment scene and arrived by bus in Bailuoke.
• Sheriff Harry checked Fu Qian's ID and explained that Bailuoke was a transcendent-free residential zone.
• Fu Qian entered the town, and his task updated to confirming the cause of demigod Herom's death.

Fu Qian arrived in a town hostile to supernatural beings and investigated the death of demigod Herom. At a cemetery, he encountered Veil, who said she had come to find her younger sister.

• Fu Qian learned that demigod Herom had died in the town and noticed the locals treated hostility toward supernatural beings as normal.
• Fu Qian visited the bookstore, where Manager Bernard told him people often died in town and pointed him toward the cemetery and hospital.
• Fu Qian found a burial underway and sensed a supernatural being among the mourners, whom he recognized as Veil.
• Veil caught up with Fu Qian after the burial, and he asked why she was in town.
• Veil told Fu Qian she had come to find her younger sister.

Fu Qian accepted Veil’s offer to stay at her apartment in Bailuoke and learned why she had secretly returned to watch over her younger sister, Lita. He asked Veil about the demigod Herom, and she described him as powerful but rumored to be cold and cruel.

• Veil invited Fu Qian to stay at her temporary apartment, and he accepted.
• Veil explained that Bailuoke was her childhood hometown and that she had returned to keep an eye on Lita, who had disappeared after Veil removed the abnormality from her injured hand.
• Veil told Fu Qian that supernatural visitors had to conceal their identities to enter Bailuoke, a rule approved by the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian asked Veil about Herom, and she said he was a powerful, long-standing demigod with a cruel reputation.

Fu Qian learned that Herom was a powerful, elusive demigod who had been active for decades, then insisted on visiting Veil’s injured sister, Lita, despite Veil’s worries. The next morning, Veil agreed to accompany him to the hospital, where Fu Qian hoped to investigate Herom’s death as an ordinary case.

• Veil told Fu Qian that Herom was a long-active demigod who avoided organizations and was being watched by the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian asked where Lita was staying and insisted on visiting her, while Veil warned that Lita might report them to the Night Watchers.
• Veil spent the night anxious about Fu Qian’s plan, then agreed to go with him to the hospital the next morning.
• Fu Qian explained to himself that he wanted to investigate Herom’s death through ordinary means and thought Lita might lead him to something unusual.

Fu Qian visited Lita in the hospital with Veil and found that her missing right hand and aura showed no signs of a new mutation. After leaving the sisters to talk, he sensed something in the hospital that made his demigod aura silently disappear.

• Veil led Fu Qian to Lita's hospital room, where Lita shrieked at the sight of him and threatened to call someone to remove them.
• Veil explained that Fu Qian had come to visit, and Lita eventually withdrew her hand from the call button.
• Fu Qian saw that Lita's right hand was missing and found no sign that she had undergone a new mutation.
• Fu Qian released his demigod aura, causing Veil to shield Lita, but Lita told the nurse that nothing was wrong.
• Fu Qian left the sisters alone and sensed that his aura had silently dissipated at a spot somewhere in the hospital.

Fu Qian investigated an anomaly in a hospital ward by impersonating a doctor and examining Sir Gusman, but found no sign of anything unusual. He returned to Veil and learned that Lita had promised not to report them.

• Fu Qian used Law Remnants to get past a security guard and reached the luxury ward.
• Fu Qian incapacitated Dr. Dre, took his white coat, and disguised himself as him using the name on the medical record, Gusman.
• Fu Qian spoke with Sir Gusman, who said he had recovered and offered Fu Qian his business card.
• Fu Qian briefly released demigod spiritual energy around Gusman but found no anomaly and left the ward.
• Veil told Fu Qian that Lita had promised not to report them, then recognized Sir Gusman as a respected local figure.

Fu Qian visited Bernard’s bookstore, where Bernard warned him not to wander around Bailuoke at night, then went to Sir Gusman’s estate to keep watch. Under the crescent moon, Gusman’s presence vanished and an unsensed void appeared in his place.

• Veil asked Fu Qian where he was going, and he said he planned to read at Bernard’s bookstore.
• Fu Qian found Bernard’s bookstore open, but Bernard chased away the customers and told Fu Qian the store was closed.
• Fu Qian thanked Bernard for advising him to visit the hospital and said he had met Sir Gusman, then admitted his attempt to get himself killed had failed.
• Fu Qian stayed to read while Bernard drank and fell asleep, then Bernard warned him not to wander around Bailuoke at night.
• Fu Qian went to Sir Gusman’s estate and watched him rest throughout the afternoon.
• At night, Sir Gusman’s presence vanished, and an unsensed void appeared where he had been.

Fu Qian followed Gusman to a late-night banquet and discovered that the elderly guests behaved like actors, unaware of his presence or disruptions. He noticed a woman on the balcony speaking to someone who seemed to be absent.

• Fu Qian tracked Gusman from the hospital to an upper-class residence where a small banquet was underway.
• Fu Qian disguised himself as Old Man Lu Ming and entered the banquet, but none of the guests noticed him.
• Fu Qian emptied a wineglass before Dean Collins picked it up; Collins drank from it without reacting and continued his conversation with Gusman.
• Fu Qian concluded that the guests were performing in an abnormal, coordinated state and spotted a woman on the balcony talking to someone he could not see.

Fu Qian tested how the banquet guests’ strange performance affected people and discovered that it could weaken supernatural beings and make them vulnerable to ordinary attacks. He suspected this explained Herom’s death, but still had no clue where Herom’s body was.

• Fu Qian approached Madam Grace while she spoke to the invisible Knight, then forced a wineglass into her hand.
• Madam Grace screamed and broke free, prompting the guests to notice Fu Qian and resume their performance with him cast as an assassin.
• Dean Collins accused Fu Qian of trying to poison the guests and shot him with a crossbow.
• Fu Qian deliberately let the bolt pierce his palm and found that his wound healed unusually slowly.
• Fu Qian suspected the guests’ strange protection had enabled ordinary people to kill Herom, then asked where Herom’s body was, but Collins ignored him and continued his scripted accusation.

Fu Qian escaped the banquet after the guests identified him as an assassin, then visited Old Knight to investigate the man’s connection to Herom’s death. He discovered Knight had supernatural traces and shifted between lucidity and an obsessive role, while the gun in his hand might be the weapon from Fu Qian’s mission.

• Fu Qian leaped from the balcony and escaped as Collins vowed the guests would track him down.
• Fu Qian changed back to his original appearance and went by taxi to Old Knight’s estate.
• Fu Qian entered Knight’s dark room and found the old man aiming a brass revolver at him.
• Fu Qian noticed frost spreading around Knight and observed him switching between a coherent state and a scripted role.
• Fu Qian smelled gunpowder near Knight’s revolver and wondered if it was the gun that slays demigods.

Fu Qian discovered that Herom’s remains had fused with Knight and received a mission to eliminate the demigod’s lingering traces. He left Knight alive to investigate the corruption and returned to Veil’s home, where he ate the meal she had prepared.

• Fu Qian noticed supernatural frost around Knight and saw the old man’s liquor freeze before Knight flew into a rage and accused him of killing Sean.
• When Knight slipped into his other state, Fu Qian removed his hat and found a distorted human face clinging to his scalp; a mission update told him to eliminate Herom’s remaining traces.
• Fu Qian concluded that Herom’s remains had fused with Knight and decided not to kill him, fearing it could unleash worse corruption and attract the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian let Knight’s hat fall back into place and quietly left, planning to investigate the corruption and the actors’ reactions to the assassin.
• Near midnight, Fu Qian returned to Veil’s home, realized he had not eaten all day, and began eating the food she had left out.

Fu Qian met Veil’s aunt Grace, who appeared completely different from the hollow woman he had seen at the banquet. He tested whether Grace remembered her other state by mentioning Knight, but her answer left the connection between her two states uncertain.

• Fu Qian reassured Veil that he was fine despite the wound in his hand, and she worried about how dangerous he might be.
• The next morning, Fu Qian found that his wound had healed and welcomed Grace and Daisy into the house.
• Grace teased Veil about her sleepless night, while Veil explained that she had visited Lita and that Lita did not mind her staying.
• Veil introduced Fu Qian to Grace, and he said Knight had mentioned Grace encouraging him to drink.
• Fu Qian said he had considered visiting Knight, and Grace told him Knight had spent the previous night drinking with them and would not have been home.

Fu Qian investigated how Bailuoke’s residents became part of the strange script, then returned to Bernard’s bookstore to learn what the bookseller knew. Sheriff Harry arrived just as Bernard asked whether Fu Qian had wandered around the previous night.

• Fu Qian confirmed that Grace’s memories of Knight followed the script and learned that Gusman had only recently begun attending parties, after leaving the hospital.
• Grace invited Fu Qian and Veil to lunch, and Fu Qian accepted before Veil could respond.
• Fu Qian left Grace’s home to check whether anything prevented him from leaving and returned to Bernard’s bookstore.
• Bernard reluctantly served Fu Qian coffee, and Fu Qian considered his warnings about the town’s elite and wandering at night.
• Sheriff Harry approached the bookstore, and Bernard urgently asked Fu Qian whether he had wandered around the previous night.

Fu Qian was taken to the police station so Dean Collins could identify him as a suspect in the attempted poisoning, but Collins cleared him. After following Fu Qian outside, Collins shot him and revealed that he had recognized Fu Qian’s disguise, only for Fu Qian to appear unharmed beside him.

• Sheriff Harry showed Fu Qian and Bernard a portrait of Lu Ming and ordered Fu Qian to accompany him to the police station for identification.
• Dean Collins examined Fu Qian at the station and said he was not the man in the portrait.
• Collins followed Fu Qian outside, apologized, and offered to recommend places in Bailuoke.
• Collins shot Fu Qian and explained that the fake portrait and his behavior were meant to make Fu Qian lower his guard.
• Fu Qian appeared beside Collins unharmed, and Collins claimed he had known Fu Qian was only pretending to be dead.