Recaps

Lu Bai confronted a young man who controlled blood after the man attacked Captain of Team Six, Feng Yixuan, and Li Shan. The young man panicked at the sight of Lu Bai, then regained his confidence after Lu Bai scattered his blood and declared that Lu Bai was only a deathmatcher, not a Heavenly Venerate.

• Feng Yixuan used Lion's Roar to scatter the young man's blood, but he sent the suspended droplets back at her and her companions.
• Captain of Team Six shielded himself from the blood with his glowing ability, then told Feng Yixuan to escape with Li Shan.
• The young man blocked Feng Yixuan's escape and struck her legs with blood droplets as he raged against crooked cultivators.
• Lu Bai appeared behind the young man, startling him into scattering and reforming his body in fear.
• Lu Bai walked through the blood and blew away the young man's massive attack with [Wind Riding].
• The young man laughed wildly and said Lu Bai was only a deathmatcher, not a Heavenly Venerate.

Lu Bai restrained the young man who threatened him and had him arrested, while the Deathmatch System’s self-check remained unexplained. At the City Council building, Pu Xueli learned that officials had set an urgent schedule to relocate more than a hundred million people to the surface within a week.

• Lu Bai suspected the young man was tied to the Deathmatch System’s self-check after recognizing him from an earlier murder case.
• The young man attacked Lu Bai with a torrent of blood, but Lu Bai blew it aside and immobilized him with a golden haze and a “Freeze” character.
• Lu Bai ordered the Team Six captain to arrest the young man, and reinforcements arrived before Lu Bai returned to the City Council building with the prisoner.
• Pu Xueli challenged a councilor over the plan to begin mass relocation the next day and move more than a hundred million people to the surface within a week.
• The councilor told Pu Xueli that the City Councilors had approved the deadline together, though he had voted against it.

As Livability City prepared to relocate its residents to the surface, Lu Bai and his companions returned to the City Council building after escorting a young man to the holding cells. The first groups had already begun traveling through the Evacuation Elevator, and Lu Bai questioned whether it could carry more than a hundred million people.

• Pu Xueli criticized the bespectacled councilor’s defense of majority rule, and the councilor suggested Pu Xueli apply to the Coordination Committee.
• Armored vehicles announced the relocation across Livability City as residents crowded shops to stock up on supplies.
• Li Shan drove Lu Bai, Feng Yixuan, and the young man to the City Council building, where Li Shan and Feng Yixuan took the young man to the holding cells.
• Lu Bai and Feng Yixuan watched workers prepare the Evacuation Elevator, while the group discussed the coming relocation and the young man’s unexplained escape.
• Lu Bai, Li Shan, and Feng Yixuan went to the cafeteria, where Lu Bai asked whether the Evacuation Elevator could transport more than a hundred million people.

Lu Bai and the others learned that a thousand elevators hidden inside the military exclusion zone’s towering building could evacuate the Underground City’s population in seven days. While they rested after their mission, a secretary summoned Lu Bai over Speaker Xiao Zhengyan’s son, Xiao Xueyin, and drove him away from the Council building.

• Li Shan and Feng Yixuan wondered how the Underground City’s population could reach the surface, and Pu Xueli explained that the enormous building contained 4,404 floors and a thousand elevators.
• Pu Xueli said the elevators could transport more than a hundred million people in at least seven days, and he criticized the City Council for treating citizens as numbers.
• Feng Yixuan and Li Shan relaxed with wine while Lu Bai rested, and they noted that the evacuation had been moved up.
• A secretary asked Lu Bai to meet Speaker Xiao Zhengyan, then persuaded him by revealing that the matter concerned Xiao Zhengyan’s son, Xiao Xueyin.
• The secretary drove Lu Bai to find Xiao Zhengyan, who had left the Council building and had not returned.

Lu Bai learned that Mona Warriors had taken Xiao Xueyin and asked Speaker Xiao Zhengyan to investigate how they entered the shelter. Meanwhile, residents of Shelter No. 9 returned to the surface and saw the real night sky for the first time.

• Xiao Zhengyan told Lu Bai that three Mona Warriors had taken Xiao Xueyin and showed him security footage of them carrying a model of Lu Bai.
• Lu Bai identified the captors as human Mona Warriors, said Xiao Xueyin did not appear to be in immediate danger, and asked Xiao Zhengyan to investigate their entry into the shelter.
• Zheng Yongliang emerged from the shelter and was moved to tears by the full moon and stars.
• Other residents gathered outside to look at the night sky until staff directed them away from the shelter exit.

Zheng Yongliang left Forward Base with a group heading for a nearby settlement, but the short man leading them lured them into a robbery. As Big Tattoo Arm and his gang seized their food, a mysterious man in white appeared and spoke of a great Lord.

• Zheng Yongliang followed the short man’s advice and joined a group traveling to an abandoned sports center settlement.
• The short man became hostile when Zheng Yongliang tried to turn back, and Big Cat and three other burly men emerged from the darkness.
• Big Tattoo Arm stabbed the bespectacled salesman and demanded that everyone surrender their food.
• The group handed over their supplies, and a man in white appeared, lamenting humanity’s depravity and the need for a great Lord.

A White Robe Mona Warrior captured Big Tattoo Arm, Zheng Yongliang, and the other residents, then recruited them to help the Mona people oppose the city council. The residents agreed to return to Forward Base and turn against the council.

• The White Robe Mona Warrior revealed himself as a Mona Warrior and ensnared everyone with plant tendrils.
• Big Tattoo Arm recognized the warrior’s power, offered his cooperation, and agreed to follow his orders.
• The White Robe Mona Warrior asked the residents to side with the Mona people and recruit others at Forward Base.
• He told the residents the council had sent them away because the Heavy Element Reactor was destroyed and resources were scarce.
• The residents agreed to obey, and the White Robe Mona Warrior ordered them to return to Forward Base and make the council bigwigs feel their wrath.

As the Forward Base tightened its brutal control over the returning population, White Robe Mona Warrior ordered Big Tattoo Arm to lead ten thousand people in an assault on the base. Big Tattoo Arm suspected he was being sent to die, while Zheng Yongliang remained reluctant to serve the Mona people.

• The Forward Base used lethal force to suppress disturbances, and more than a thousand people were shot as many residents chose to leave rather than live under armed surveillance.
• Big Tattoo Arm confronted Zheng Yongliang for failing to recruit anyone and threatened to report him to White Robe Mona Warrior.
• White Robe Mona Warrior mocked Big Tattoo Arm as someone who was never meant to be human, then ordered him to capture the Forward Base.
• White Robe Mona Warrior gave Big Tattoo Arm leaflets to distribute and promised that the Lord would provide help, but Big Tattoo Arm doubted the promise and feared the mission was a suicide operation.

Big Tattoo Arm covertly led Mona Warrior recruits into the Forward Base to stir up unrest, but their first attempt faltered when soldiers killed the initial protestors. As the White Robe Mona Warrior urged the recruits onward, Big Tattoo Arm suddenly lost control of his body and climbed onto a cargo container.

• The White Robe Mona Warrior promised Big Tattoo Arm a place at his side if he survived the mission, then ordered him to declare their existence.
• Lu Bai, Li Shan, and Feng Yixuan waited at the Forward Base and discussed exploring nearby after finding the surface dull.
• Big Tattoo Arm split the recruits into small groups so they could enter the Forward Base without drawing attention, then coordinated a simultaneous disturbance.
• Soldiers shot and killed the first recruits who handed out leaflets and shouted against the city council, causing the scattered civilians to lose their nerve.
• The White Robe Mona Warrior argued that the recruits only needed a push, while Big Tattoo Arm suddenly lost control of his body and climbed onto a cargo container.

Big Tattoo Arm turned a speech against the White Robe Mona Warriors into a mass uprising, naming the protesters the Rebel Army. The riot spread into the residential area, where Lu Bai, Li Shan, and Feng Yixuan watched as swarms of drones began attacking the crowd.

• Big Tattoo Arm blocked a soldier’s bullet with a wooden shield and urged the crowd to fight back against the authorities.
• People joined the chant, with returning Forward Base residents helping organize their calls into a unified demand to fight back.
• Big Tattoo Arm called the uprising the Rebel Army, prompting a surge of violence that overwhelmed soldiers and spread across the base.
• Lu Bai, Li Shan, and Feng Yixuan emerged from a prefab house as the riot reached the residential area, and Feng Yixuan climbed onto the roof to survey the chaos.
• Drones converged on the riot and fired into the densely packed crowd, filling the air with blood mist.

Lu Bai investigated the mastermind behind the uprising and found Mona Warriors outside the Forward Base, where one planned to challenge Mephisto despite the Lord’s orders and the risk of losing his abilities. As the White Robe Mona Warrior warned him about Mephisto, Lu Bai listened in and reacted with amazement at his comrade’s loyalty.

• Drones attacked the uprising, killing and wounding people and driving the crowd to flee.
• Lu Bai concluded that the revolt had been orchestrated and suspected the Mona Warriors, then vanished to search outside the Forward Base.
• The White Robe Mona Warrior explained that the massacre would deepen class divisions and eventually lead humanity to destroy itself.
• A Mona Warrior said he wanted to fight Mephisto, and the White Robe Mona Warrior reminded him that the Lord had forbidden them to act alone.
• The Mona Warrior declared he would gladly give everything to the Lord, and Lu Bai overheard and marveled at his loyalty.

Lu Bai defeated two Mona Warriors and used mind control to learn that the Mona people had ordered a wider attack on Shelter No. 9. He returned to find the Forward Base rebellion quelled, though the conflict had left widespread casualties and unrest that could flare up again.

• The two Mona Warriors attacked Lu Bai with vines and a metallic transformation, but he nullified their abilities with a snap.
• After the warriors killed themselves to protect their Lord's secrets, Lu Bai revived and restrained them, then used mind control to question them.
• Lu Bai learned that the Mona people had mobilized warriors worldwide to damage Shelter No. 9, with at least a dozen targeting the Forward Base.
• Lu Bai searched for more Mona Warriors but found none and returned to the Forward Base.
• Lu Bai found that the rebellion had been quelled, but tens of thousands may have died and the seeds of another uprising remained.

As unrest spread at Forward Base on the first night of the Ground Return Plan, the Coordination Committee tightened security while more residents camped outside or traveled onward. Feng Yixuan went to find food with Lu Bai, while Li Shan was asked to scout an area using his Wind Riding ability.

• Public clashes repeatedly broke out at Forward Base, and armed forces soldiers began shooting protesters, worsening hostility between residents and authorities.
• The Coordination Committee increased patrols, drones, and troops near the shelter entrance as tensions continued to rise.
• Forward Base imposed movement restrictions overnight, prompting more residents to camp outside; nearly twenty million people had already returned to the surface.
• Feng Yixuan visited Lu Bai and invited him to eat while they waited for Li Shan to finish his assignment.
• A Security Department director told Li Shan he had been chosen to scout an area because his Wind Riding ability was suited to staying concealed.

Li Shan confirmed that the Forward Base wanted him to secretly investigate the north slope. There, the settlers founded the Rebel Army in Big Tattoo Arm’s name, but their celebration quickly turned into a struggle over power before a young leader called them to focus on rescuing people still under the City Council’s control.

• Li Shan confirmed that he would investigate the north slope without alerting its inhabitants.
• The settlers gathered around bonfires and raised a crude flag bearing the words “Rebel Army.”
• Zheng Yongliang watched the flag being raised and then withdrew from the crowd.
• A bright-eyed young man invoked Mr. Mu, the name the rebels had given Big Tattoo Arm, and called on the crowd to carry on his legacy.
• The rebels argued over their aims and who should lead, until the young man fired his gun into the air to quiet them.
• The young man urged the Rebel Army to unite and prioritize rescuing citizens still under the City Council’s control.

Zheng Yongliang watched the Rebel Army rally while Li Shan tried to observe the settlement and return to the Forward Base. After his cover was exposed, the rebels surrounded him.

• A clear-eyed young man calmed the Rebel Army and urged its members to infiltrate the Forward Base and spread resistance.
• Zheng Yongliang suspected a hidden mastermind was manipulating the rebels but stayed silent to protect himself.
• Li Shan watched the Rebel Army and worried that its revolt against the City Council would cause many deaths.
• A young couple heard Li Shan hiding on the slope, and his ghillie suit drew the man's suspicion.
• Li Shan discovered his motorcycle was missing and was surrounded by torch-bearing rebels.
• The man who had confronted Li Shan emerged from the crowd and said he had known something was fishy about him.

Li Shan used his second ability, Empress Lu's Human Pig, to escape the Rebel Army, leaving more than twenty people mutilated. Their injuries enraged the crowd and pushed them toward attacking the City Association, while the Sports Student and his companion watched with satisfaction.

• The Sports Student and the surrounding Rebel Army demanded that Li Shan explain why he was there.
• Li Shan activated Empress Lu's Human Pig, trapping more than twenty people in a ten-meter execution ground.
• Ghostly blue blades mutilated everyone inside the domain, which vanished after the punishments were complete.
• Li Shan fled as the Rebel Army stood stunned and did not dare stop him.
• A young Rebel Army leader found the victims, and the crowd swore revenge against the City Association.
• The Sports Student and the woman beside him hid their amusement as she said things were about to get interesting.

The Rebel Army marched toward the Forward Base while Mona Warriors Sports Student and the woman slipped away, having engineered Li Shan’s exposure. The Coordination Committee ordered the rebels annihilated and prepared to meet them outside the base, while Lu Bai and Feng Yixuan noticed the troop assembly and went to investigate.

• Sports Student and the woman left the Rebel Army, revealing that Mona Warriors had deliberately exposed Li Shan and engineered his use of [Empress Lu's Human Pig].
• The Security Department reported the approaching Rebel Army, and the Coordination Committee ordered its annihilation.
• The operations command dispatched troops and drones to destroy the Rebel Army beyond the Forward Base, treating the battle as a prewar exercise.
• Feng Yixuan noticed armed forces gathering outside the Third Cafeteria and asked Lu Bai to investigate.
• Lu Bai agreed to go with Feng Yixuan, suspecting the incident involved Mona Warriors.

The Rebel Army advanced on Forward Base, but the City Council’s modern forces devastated its assault team. The Mona people then intervened from orbit, and Lu Bai recognized their arrival.

• The young man sent his friend and the assault team ahead to scout while the Rebel Army fired on the drones, bringing dozens down.
• The City Council detected the rebel scouts and ordered the 213th and 214th Field Battalions to fire, while the 217th Field Battalion moved to flank the rebels.
• The assault team suffered heavy casualties under overwhelming gunfire and artillery, and the young man’s friend lost the will to fight.
• A deep-red beam struck the mechanized infantry regiment’s position, erasing its fortifications and leaving a vast crater.
• Lu Bai looked toward the sky and identified the arriving force as the Mona people.

After the Mona people destroyed a forward position with a devastating beam, the attack unsettled the military and triggered widespread panic and riots around Forward Base. Lu Bai launched himself into the night sky to find out whether the Mona people were still there, leaving Feng Yixuan behind.

• The military received drone footage showing that the Mona people's beam had obliterated a crater more than three kilometers wide and cut off contact with frontline troops.
• A white-haired commander reprimanded the officers for losing their nerve, while the chief of staff learned that the attack was a high-thermal-energy containment beam and asked how they could strike the Mona warship.
• The Mona people's arrival overwhelmed the Coordination Committee, and rumors, disputes, and riots spread as crowds rushed toward Forward Base for food and water.
• Feng Yixuan asked Lu Bai whether he had seen the Mona people, and he said he would find out.
• Lu Bai shot into the sky, while the gust he left behind blew Feng Yixuan off the cafeteria roof.

Lu Bai reached low orbit, identified the Mona warship’s enormous plates as a heat-dissipation system, and destroyed the ship himself. After reading the minds of its two Mona Warriors, he learned that the vessel had been left on Earth four hundred years earlier.

• Lu Bai flew into low orbit and saw the Mona interstellar warship more than two thousand kilometers away.
• Lu Bai guessed that the warship’s four huge plates dissipated waste heat, and the Combat Command Room concluded that humanity’s technological gap was under a hundred years.
• Lu Bai charged into the warship and split it in two with his Steel Body.
• Lu Bai searched the wreckage, found two Mona Warriors in the cockpit, and read their minds.
• Lu Bai learned that the warship was equipment the Mona people had left behind when they first came to Earth four hundred years earlier.

After Lu Bai destroyed a Mona starship, military commanders and Mona Warriors reacted with shock and reassessed their plans. Lu Bai remained in orbit, wondering when the Mona fleet would arrive and estimating that humanity had time to prepare between attacks.

• The Forward Base command staff identified Lu Bai as the man who had destroyed the starship and marveled at his strength.
• The Sports Student and the woman saw the wreckage through a telescope and decided to gather Mona Warriors to find a way to wear Lu Bai down without confronting him directly.
• Mona Warriors across the Forward Base began contacting nearby comrades to coordinate against Lu Bai before the Lord descended.
• Lu Bai considered the starship’s age and the Mona fleet’s absence, and concluded humanity would likely have time to plan between waves of attacks.

Forward Base descended into widespread rebellion after the City Council failed to suppress the riots. As the Rebel Army seized weapons and advanced into the base, its clear-eyed young leader believed victory was within reach.

• Crowds and Rebel Army fighters overwhelmed scattered soldiers across Forward Base while smoke and fires hindered the drones.
• Rebel Army fighters killed a sixteen-person armed squad and took its weapons, helping the uprising grow.
• Armed rebels attacked the Coordination Committee's office, while the Committee members remained in the shelter and Pu Xueli stayed at the Combat Command Center.
• The regrouped Rebel Army led by the clear-eyed young man crossed the crater and reached Forward Base's undefended rear.
• The fighters overwhelmed the guards at a warehouse armory, and the young man declared that they had the winning hand.

Commander Zhang’s Rebel Army captured the weapons depot and prepared to attack the Coordination Committee. Meanwhile, the office’s security platoon evacuated staff under fire, but rioters pinned them down before they could escape.

• Commander Zhang’s men seized the weapons depot, where Brother Wang identified unfamiliar equipment and sent it to the commander.
• Commander Zhang gave his troops ten minutes to arm themselves before ordering them to fight their way into the Coordination Committee.
• Rioters kept attacking the Coordination Committee office, while staff learned that the security platoon was running low on ammunition and needed to break out.
• The security platoon used grenades and smoke to lead more than thirty soldiers and staff carrying important documents out of the office.
• Rioters opened fire on the group and pinned them down, while the security platoon commander focused on holding their position and escaping.

Feng Yixuan rescued a guard platoon while searching for Li Shan, as Xiao Zhengyan refused the City Council’s Ground Return Plan and ordered City Direct Military to suppress the rebellion. The chapter ended with a secretary reporting that the person with the Blood Pool ability had vanished.

• Feng Yixuan used her Lion's Roar Skill to smash a path through the rioters and reached the battered guard platoon, asking for Li Shan.
• Feng Yixuan kicked a staff member who challenged her and demanded that he answer her questions.
• A councilor told Xiao Zhengyan that the City Council would proceed with the Ground Return Plan despite reports that the surface riot was out of control.
• Xiao Zhengyan rejected the plan and said he would send City Direct Military to suppress the rebellion.
• A secretary rushed into Xiao Zhengyan’s office and reported that the thug with the Blood Pool ability had disappeared.

Xiao Zhengyan investigated the sudden disappearance of a criminal while delaying a council document, then contacted the City Direct Military. Meanwhile, the Rebel Army advanced on the Forward Base command center, where Brother Wang used an electromagnetic pulse device to bring down the drone swarm, prompting the staff to consider deploying the Exoskeleton Legion.

• Xiao Zhengyan watched surveillance footage showing a criminal vanish from the City Council Building’s guarded security room and ordered a connection to the City Direct Military’s Third and Fourth Squadrons.
• Commander Zhang led the Rebel Army toward the Forward Base command center as organized defenders fell back or waited for orders.
• The Combat Command Center sent more than ten thousand drones to attack the Rebel Army.
• Brother Wang activated an electromagnetic pulse device, disabling the drones and sending them crashing into the Rebel Army.
• A staff officer suggested deploying the Exoskeleton Legion, but someone replied that they would handle the situation themselves.