Chapter Summaries

Lu Bai lured Xiao Ying and a caregiver into an alley, where he exposed his alliance with a group of Parasitic Organisms and killed Xiao Ying. After Xu Qiang handled the aftermath, Lu Bai decided to return to the hospital, leaving the caregiver in his care and hinting that the authorities might soon reveal the Parasitic Organisms.

• Xiao Ying accused Lu Bai of trying to use the caregiver as a witness, but Lu Bai silenced their argument and waited for a group to arrive.
• A group of Parasitic Organisms led by Peng Dan emerged, and Lu Bai explained that he had kept them as a contingency to take the blame for his crimes.
• Xiao Ying ran when she realized Lu Bai was working with monsters, and Lu Bai killed her with one strike.
• Peng Dan asked whether they should turn the caregiver into one of their kind, and Lu Bai said he would kill the caregiver later because he still wanted to see more of the world.
• Xu Qiang arrived to handle the cleanup, scolded Lu Bai for killing too blatantly, and told him to keep the caregiver from spreading the secret.
• Lu Bai asked whether the authorities planned to announce the Parasitic Organisms, then confirmed he would sleep at the hospital again.

Lu Bai hunted deathmatch participants through the night, then returned to the hospital, where he watched surveillance footage and learned of nearly a hundred home-invasion murders. Xu Qiang ordered him back to the Special Affairs Bureau as the crisis escalated.

• Yao Yi woke from a strange dream and noticed Lu Bai had not returned after taking Xiao Ying away.
• Lu Bai killed He Yan in a barbershop, gained a point, and cleaned the scene before returning to the hospital.
• Lu Bai answered Yao Yi’s questions about Xiao Ying and watched surveillance footage for suspicious activity near the hospital.
• Xu Qiang told Lu Bai that nearly a hundred murders had occurred overnight, mostly during home invasions, and ordered him back to the Bureau.

Lu Bai joined the Jiangyu City Special Affairs Bureau’s investigation into nearly a hundred overnight murders, taking temporary command of Field Team Three as Deputy Team Leader. At the Heping Branch Road crime scene, he told Detective Pu Guangrong that the police could close the case by saying the victims had killed themselves.

• Lu Bai and Tong Shujuan left the hospital to return to the bureau, while Yao Yi remained behind and pressed on his chest after they had gone.
• Xu Qiang assigned Lu Bai as acting leader of Field Team Three and gave him credentials as a Deputy Team Leader.
• Lu Bai arrived with special agents at a villa crime scene on Heping Branch Road, where Pu Guangrong had noticed trampled grass beneath a wall.
• Lu Bai introduced himself to Pu Guangrong and said the Special Affairs Bureau would take over the investigation.
• When Pu Guangrong asked why the bureau kept taking cases from the criminal investigation team, Lu Bai told him to close the case by saying the victims had killed themselves.

Lu Bai investigated the murder of a Deathmatch Showdown participant and received a plea for help from the Parasitic Organisms. At an abandoned fertilizer plant, Peng Dan’s faction was being slaughtered by rival Parasitic Organisms as Lu Bai’s response remained unknown.

• Lu Bai examined the crime scene, learned that a tall man in a black raincoat had entered the villa at 2:17 a.m., and ordered his team to investigate possible matches in the resident database.
• Lu Bai received a text from an unfamiliar number containing an address and the words “Help us,” and recognized the sender as a group of Parasitic Organisms.
• Peng Dan reassured more than a dozen Parasitic Organisms gathered in an abandoned fertilizer plant that she had asked someone for help.
• Rival Parasitic Organisms broke through the warehouse shutter and attacked Peng Dan’s faction, killing several of them within moments.
• A potbellied middle-aged Parasitic Organism entered the warehouse and criticized Peng Dan’s group for undermining unity.

Lu Bai entered an abandoned fertilizer plant and found the Mayor of Jiangyu City’s faction had wiped out Peng Dan’s group. After the Mayor’s forces surrounded Lu Bai, Lu Bai challenged their claim of superior individual strength and vanished.

• Lu Bai found dead Parasitic Organisms at the abandoned plant and followed the clues to a warehouse.
• The Mayor of Jiangyu City told the dying Peng Dan that he planned to seize Overbearing Power and rise to the top of the country’s leadership.
• Lu Bai entered the warehouse, and the Mayor’s subordinate killed Peng Dan before Lu Bai could reach him.
• The Mayor ordered his Parasitic Organisms to surround Lu Bai and argued that their race was superior to humans.
• Lu Bai said their individual strength did not surpass his, then vanished.

Lu Bai escaped a warehouse full of Parasitic Organisms and avoided capture until sirens drove them off. At the hospital, he recognized the mayor on television as the leader of the Parasitic Organisms and realized the mayor would likely target him for knowing the truth.

• Lu Bai killed two Parasitic Organisms at the warehouse entrance and fled instead of fighting the crowd.
• A flying Parasitic Organism in a JK uniform pursued Lu Bai, but he killed it when it attacked him.
• Lu Bai held off the remaining Parasitic Organisms until sirens approached, prompting them to retreat.
• At the hospital, Lu Bai told Yao Yi that the mayor was a Parasitic Organism he had encountered.
• Lu Bai concluded that the mayor probably knew he had discovered the mayor's identity and might come after him.

Lu Bai told Xu Qiang that Mayor Shi Huairen was a Parasitic Organism, and the bureau began planning how to investigate while preparing to reveal Parasitic Organisms to the public. Lu Bai then searched for likely Deathmatch Showdown contestants and encountered Shi Fenglian at her noodle shop.

• Lu Bai found a city seminar featuring Mayor Shi Huairen and considered using its Q&A session to expose him.
• Lu Bai and Yao Yi told Xu Qiang that Lu Bai had seen a Parasitic Organism with the mayor, and Xu Qiang ordered them to keep the claim quiet while the bureau planned its next steps.
• Xu Qiang explained that higher-ups had ordered public education about Parasitic Organisms and assigned Yao Yi to Field Team Three under Lu Bai.
• Lu Bai used residents' data to identify likely Deathmatch Showdown contestants and directed Yao Yi to drive to Fat Girl Noodle House.
• Shi Fenglian spotted Lu Bai's green Innocent Smile title above his car and suspected he had come for her, but Lu Bai ordered beef noodles without scallions and sat down.

Lu Bai exposed Shi Fenglian as a Deathmatcher and killed her after she tried to attack him in her noodle shop. Meanwhile, Yao Yi followed a girl into a secluded alley and realized she had lied about her dog, leaving him facing an unknown danger.

• Shi Fenglian served Lu Bai beef noodles, and he revealed that he suspected her Ability Pool involved cooking.
• Shi Fenglian shut the shop door, admitted she wanted to test herself against an elite student, and attacked Lu Bai with a cleaver.
• Lu Bai disarmed Shi Fenglian, stopped her from using the gas, then killed her after lying that he would leave if the bowl contained more than five pieces of beef.
• Lu Bai earned a point, noted that his rank had fallen to ninth, and left the shop after covering his tracks.
• A girl lured Yao Yi through a secluded alley by claiming her dog had fallen into a drain, but he grew wary when they reached an empty courtyard wall and accused her of lying.

Yao Yi was ambushed and badly injured by three high schoolers, then recalled how the monster inside him had first appeared and how they had come to speak. As the attackers moved to kill him, the monster emerged from his chest, and Yao Yi ordered Wang Ting to escape with him.

• A high school girl and two boys attacked Yao Yi, and the boy with the butterfly knife wounded his arm and severed a tendon in his leg.
• As he neared collapse, Yao Yi remembered meeting the monster inside him after it saved him from a Parasitic Organism, and learning that it called itself Wang Ting.
• The attackers dismissed Yao Yi as an unimportant local and decided to kill him rather than question him.
• The knife struck a mass of flesh and bone spikes that burst from Yao Yi's chest, revealing the monster inside him.
• Wang Ting asked if Yao Yi was okay, and Yao Yi staggered upright and told Wang Ting to go.

Lu Bai found Yao Yi badly wounded by Wang Ting and three Deathmatch contestants, then killed the contestants and secured the Deathmatch Arena Node. He called Director Xu to handle the scene and get Yao Yi urgent treatment.

• Lu Bai followed the Node notification to an alley, where Wang Ting was fighting three Deathmatch contestants while Yao Yi lay badly injured.
• The high school girl and two boys attacked Yao Yi, but Wang Ting killed one boy and wounded the others before Lu Bai arrived.
• Yao Yi saw Lu Bai and passed out, while the system confirmed that Lu Bai had acquired the Node and started the double-points reward countdown.
• Lu Bai killed the fleeing boy, finished off the wounded boy, and cut down the high school girl, earning three points.
• Wang Ting agreed to make the bodies look like Parasitic Organisms, and Lu Bai called Director Xu to clean up and treat Yao Yi.

After Yao Yi was injured while protecting Tong Shujuan, Lu Bai treated him and waited at the hospital as he recovered. Tong Shujuan found Lu Bai’s personal history being used to attack him online, and Lu Bai suspected the mayor was behind the campaign.

• Lu Bai treated Yao Yi’s wounds while Wang Ting finished modifying the victims’ heads and said attaching herself to Lu Bai could improve her survival chances.
• At Jiangyu City First People's Hospital, Xu Qiang and Tong Shujuan heard that Yao Yi had no life-threatening injuries, and Xu Qiang warned Lu Bai to be more careful.
• Tong Shujuan told Lu Bai that the Parasitic Organisms and the Special Affairs Bureau were attracting attention online.
• Tong Shujuan found Lu Bai’s personal information and old school scandals posted online, alongside official media criticism implying that he was an undesirable element in the Bureau.
• Lu Bai suspected the mayor was directing the online campaign against him.

Lu Bai suspected the mayor was using public opinion against him and decided to wait for the Parasitic Organism’s next move while Yao Yi recovered in the hospital. After spotting a familiar contestant on the surveillance footage, Lu Bai realized Duan Jianhui was watching his ward, while Duan Jianhui was unexpectedly confronted by Xiao Xueyin.

• Lu Bai stopped Tong Shujuan from contacting her colleagues and said he would deal with the Parasitic Organism behind the public backlash.
• A doctor told Lu Bai that Yao Yi was out of danger, and Yao Yi was transferred from the ICU to a regular ward.
• Wang Ting emerged from Yao Yi’s collar and pointed out that Yao Yi’s heart rate rose when Tong Shujuan was mentioned.
• Lu Bai checked the hospital surveillance footage and recognized a familiar figure.
• Duan Jianhui watched Lu Bai’s ward from an apartment across the street and vowed to reclaim what he had lost.
• Xiao Xueyin entered Duan Jianhui’s apartment, and Duan Jianhui recoiled at his pale appearance.

Xiao Xueyin tracked down Duan Jianhui and killed him, while Lu Bai monitored the hospital for death fighters. After the corridor lights dimmed, a hospital room door opened, leaving Lu Bai waiting for whatever was coming.

• Xiao Xueyin found Duan Jianhui in a building overlooking the Node and attacked him.
• Duan Jianhui equipped his Observe in secret title, but Xiao Xueyin overpowered him and snapped his neck.
• Lu Bai identified Xiao Xueyin in surveillance footage and continued checking hospital cameras while Yao Yi and Wang Ting watched videos.
• Yao Yi went to sleep, and Lu Bai watched the corridor while waiting through the night.
• The corridor lights dimmed, and a hospital room door quietly opened.

Lu Bai and Xu Qiang advanced their plan to pressure officials into proving they were human, while Lu Bai waited in the hospital for attackers. After killing two masked intruders, he let Wang Ting alter their bodies and learned she wanted to parasitize him instead of Yao Yi.

• Xu Qiang told Lu Bai that the online rumors had originated from the Mayor's Office and planned to hold a press conference the next morning.
• Lu Bai and Xu Qiang agreed to use public suspicion and willing officials' screenings to pressure the mayor into responding.
• Two masked men entered Lu Bai's hospital room, and Lu Bai used [Flash Time] and Long Fang to kill them.
• Lu Bai dragged the bodies beneath Yao Yi's bed and asked Wang Ting to alter them, expecting more attackers to come.
• Wang Ting asked if she could parasitize Lu Bai, saying he was better because he had killed more humans than they had.

Lu Bai waited in Yao Yi’s ward as Wang Ting modified the bodies of deathmatchers who came after him, while violence spread through the Inpatient Department. Xiao Xueyin arrived and proposed an alliance with Lu Bai, who agreed and sent him to hide in Ward 6020.

• Lu Bai told Wang Ting not to assume the Parasitic Organisms were human, then went to sit beside Yao Yi.
• Figures in Ward 6020 discussed waiting until three or four in the morning to attack, while Changhu vowed to hunt down Smiling Face after clearing the building.
• Xiao Xueyin entered the Inpatient Department, knocked out a nurse in the elevator, and headed to the fifth floor.
• At two-thirty, three more bodies brought the pile in Yao Yi’s ward to five, and Lu Bai wondered why so few deathmatchers had come after him.
• Xiao Xueyin asked Lu Bai to work with him, and Lu Bai agreed, directing him to hide in Ward 6020.

Xiao Xueyin discovered an ambush in Ward 6020, and Lu Bai joined him to fight the attackers. After Lu Bai killed Ti Da, the gang’s bald leader emerged from the ward.

• Xiao Xueyin smelled blood in Ward 6020, clapped to alert Lu Bai, and was attacked by De Da, Mei Da, and Ti Da.
• Lu Bai came out of Ward 6019 as Zhi Da revealed himself and the attackers moved to seize the “Node.”
• Lu Bai used Long Fang to hold off De Da, while Xiao Xueyin fought Mei Da.
• Lu Bai activated [Flash Time] and killed Ti Da before he could help Mei Da.
• A bald man stepped out of Ward 6020, and De Da and Zhi Da addressed him as Lao Da.

Lu Bai killed De Da, Zhi Da, and Lao Da while Xiao Xueyin defeated Mei Da, ending the fight with the five deathmatchers. As the police were likely on their way, Lu Bai returned to Room 6019 and Xiao Xueyin headed for the elevator, where Changhu appeared on the fifth floor.

• Xiao Xueyin kicked Mei Da through a hospital room door and followed him inside while Lu Bai blocked the others from helping.
• Lu Bai used [Flash Time] to stab De Da, then killed Zhi Da with a thrown knife and Lao Da by slamming him down and cutting his neck.
• Xiao Xueyin came out of the room with Mei Da's short knife, having defeated him, and Lu Bai asked whether anyone had been hurt.
• Lu Bai returned to Room 6019 as Xiao Xueyin left to avoid the police and took the elevator down.
• The elevator stopped on the fifth floor, where Changhu greeted Xiao Xueyin and asked why it was so lively upstairs.

Changhu killed Xiao Xueyin in the hospital after revealing his Parasitic Organism, while Lu Bai blamed the mayor for the attacks and called Xu Qiang for help. Police arrived to investigate the growing pile of bodies, but witnesses gave conflicting accounts of the killings.

• Changhu overpowered Xiao Xueyin, questioned him about Smiling Face, and killed him with a bone blade formed by his Parasitic Organism.
• Lu Bai told Xu Qiang that Parasitic Organisms had attacked the hospital and suggested the mayor was behind it, then warned that the police had already arrived.
• Yao Yi woke beside the corpses, panicked, and asked Lu Bai what had happened; Lu Bai told him the dead were Parasitic Organisms.
• Police officers found an unconscious nurse, several dead victims, and the two missing security guards, then reached the sixth floor and discovered Lao Da and Zhi Da's bodies.
• Pu Guangrong learned that witnesses described different versions of the violence, though several said there had been multiple killers and two survivors.

After killing several parasitic organisms, Lu Bai faced police scrutiny over the hospital deaths and asserted the Special Affairs Bureau’s authority over the case. As he left the scene, Changhu stopped him in the corridor.

• Pu Guangrong found two more victims in Room 6020 and ordered officers to cordon off the area.
• Lu Bai revealed that he had killed several parasitic organisms and shown their corpses in Room 6019.
• Pu Guangrong questioned Lu Bai’s account because witnesses described a fight between two men, but Lu Bai challenged the reliability of their testimony.
• Lu Bai claimed the case belonged to the Special Affairs Bureau and told the police to focus on controlling the situation.
• Changhu greeted Lu Bai in the corridor and joked that he did not have a Smiling Face sitting on his head.

Lu Bai confronted Changhu, a Deathfighter suspected of killing two hospital patients, but Changhu escaped by jumping from the sixth floor. The police and Special Affairs Bureau began sharing the case, and Xu Qiang wondered what the mayor hoped to achieve.

• Changhu told Lu Bai that he had earned two titles and threatened to watch for a chance to catch him alone.
• Lu Bai identified Changhu as a suspect in the patients’ deaths and alerted the officers, prompting Changhu to lock himself in the room.
• Pu Guangrong and the officers broke into the room and found the two old men dead, but Changhu had vanished after apparently jumping from the sixth floor.
• Xu Qiang arrived with Special Affairs Bureau operatives and asked the police to hand over the scene, but Pu Guangrong’s team stayed because of orders to work jointly with the bureau.
• At breakfast, Lu Bai teased Xu Qiang about the new policy, and Xu Qiang asked what the mayor was trying to accomplish.