Arc 10Qinggang’s Scarlet Invasion

Han Su uncovered the Tall, Thin Woman’s role in the Ancient Castle Kidnapping Case and joined Song Chushi as Qinggang turned against Abyss Studio. The arc left Song Chushi and Han Su activating Qinggang’s collective Mental Power against the Tall, Thin Woman and the Abyss Laboratory.

  • Han Su learned from Li Moses that the Bureau’s secret prisons held knowledge about the Second Stage, then agreed to help investigate the Ancient Castle Kidnapping Case.
  • Li Moses led Red Sea Studio in a raid on White Mansion, captured Bai Senmang, and used Han Su as bait to draw out Song Chushi.
  • Han Su escaped Red Sea Studio after confronting the Tall, Thin Woman, destroyed the machine linking their spaces, and joined Song Chushi as the investigation revealed the failed Seven-Day Divine Descent and the kidnapping conspiracy.
  • Han Su used the Emperor’s Book to learn about Scarlet, helping Song Chushi erase Scarlet’s influence and overcome Li Moses, Zhao Brahma, and Wang Buddha.
  • Qinggang’s Council scrapped the Silent Plan and ordered its forces to defend the city as the Tall, Thin Woman sent Abyss Studio’s invasion forces toward Qinggang.
  • Song Chushi and Han Su drew the Abyss Laboratory into Azure Harbor, where Song Chushi demanded the inheritors’ list and his sister’s whereabouts.
  • As the Slaughter City Sacrifices attacked Qinggang’s defenses, Song Chushi activated hidden Cipher Arrays and Han Su used the Cross Copper Scar to unleash the city’s collective Mental Power against the Tall, Thin Woman.
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Ch. 226Secret Prison

Han Su searched for knowledge about advancing in Mysterious Power and learned from Investigator Moses that the useful records were kept in the secret prisons. Moses offered to help train Han Su, while warning him about the Bureau’s three sequences and the dangers of entering them.

  • Han Su returned to the Disaster Management Bureau and learned that Investigator licenses had become available, while Doctor said he cared more about understanding the world than obtaining a license.
  • Han Su visited the archives to search for information about totems and the Second Stage of Mysterious Power.
  • Investigator Moses told Han Su that records useful for reaching the Second Stage were kept in secret prisons, where abnormal creatures were confined and studied.
  • Moses explained that secret prisons also served as training grounds for Independent Investigators and warned Han Su that the Bureau’s three sequences trapped people on dangerous paths.
  • Moses recognized that Han Su’s mysterious substance remained pure and offered to help him train in Mysterious Power.

Ch. 227Mysterious Power Training

Li Moses explained his unconventional approach to mysterious powers, convincing Han Su that strengthening his own will and divine substance could offer a path beyond the Bureau’s Sequences. He then invited Han Su to join him in questioning Bai Senmang about the Ancient Castle Kidnapping Case, leaving Han Su wondering whether Moses was truly investigating it.

  • Li Moses explained how the Disaster Management Bureau, the Secret School, and Independent Investigators pursued different methods of using mysterious powers.
  • Li Moses described resistance to pollution as his path and argued that people should strengthen their own divine substance and Mental Activity rather than imitate or steal other powers.
  • Han Su revealed his Mental Activity was 71% and found Li Moses’s theory offered a possible route to training outside the Bureau’s restrictions.
  • Li Moses invited Han Su to White Mansion to question Bai Senmang, Secretary Two of Azure Harbor, about the Ancient Castle Kidnapping Case.
  • Han Su agreed to go with Li Moses and wondered whether the investigator was genuinely pursuing the case.

Ch. 228The Red Sea Theory

Han Su accompanied Li Moses and Red Sea Studio to arrest Bai Senmang at White Mansion, where Li Moses taught him his principles for wielding Mysterious Power. The chapter ended with Li Moses unleashing his vast, blood-red Mental Power and swallowing the mansion and its defenders.

  • Li Moses ordered his team to kill anyone posing a threat at White Mansion while ensuring Bai Senmang survived.
  • Red Sea Studio stormed White Mansion, and Han Su watched the defenders fall as Li Moses explained that wielders of Mysterious Power needed to choose new rules and principles.
  • Red Sea members reported that three robed men were using a Crystal Skull in a ritual to trigger a powerful Mysterious Power contamination wave.
  • Li Moses told Han Su to watch how he fought, then unleashed a blood-red sea of Mental Power that swept over White Mansion and swallowed the robed men and the wounded guards.

Ch. 229Han Su's Mother

Li Moses led the raid on the White Mansion, where the Red Sea Studio captured Bai Senmang after his bodyguard stopped him from killing himself. During the ride back, Bai Senmang taunted Han Su by revealing that Han Su had been sacrificed to the same forces involved in the old kidnapping case and crudely insulting his mother.

  • Li Moses and Han Su entered the White Mansion study after Li Moses’s Mental Power incapacitated those inside.
  • Bai Senmang tried to shoot himself, but Xu Wenhua stopped the bullet with her hand and insisted her duty was to keep him alive.
  • The Red Sea Studio detained Bai Senmang, and Li Moses ordered the mansion sealed and its documents seized.
  • Li Moses called to arrange for Song Chushi’s return and discussed preparing for the coming confrontation.
  • In the vehicle, Han Su confronted Bai Senmang about his son’s death, and Bai Senmang claimed Han Su had been sacrificed before insulting Han Su’s mother.

Ch. 230Just Enemies

Han Su learned that the woman who sent him into the Ancient Castle was his mother and the force behind the Kidnapping Case, but he calmly declared her his enemy. At a secret base, Li Moses warned that the people behind the case would target Han Su and revealed he was using the investigation to lure out a dangerous person Han Su knew.

  • Bai Senmang told Han Su that his mother had started the plan and sent him into the Ancient Castle, inspiring Bai to send his own son there.
  • Bai Senmang urged Han Su to threaten suicide to draw his mother out, but Han Su said he considered her his enemy and had never expected anything from her.
  • Li Moses brought Han Su and Bai Senmang to an abandoned D7 secret laboratory being used as a Disaster Management Bureau operations base and warned Han Su to stay inside.
  • Li Moses said the people behind the case would target Han Su once the investigation began, and explained that he had arranged the meeting to lure out a dangerous person Han Su knew.

Ch. 231Delivered to My Door

Han Su realized Li Moses had brought him to Red Sea Studio as bait for a trap targeting Song Chushi, but the base’s isolation left him unable to warn Song. When a cook tried to steal Han Su’s Briefcase, Han Su recognized him as Lu Neng, the man he had rescued from the Ancient Castle.

  • Han Su inferred that Li Moses planned to use him to lure Song Chushi into a deadly trap and decided Song Chushi must not die.
  • Red Sea Studio confined Han Su in a monitored room without phone service, leaving him no apparent way to contact Song Chushi.
  • A fat cook delivered Han Su’s dinner and tried to take the Briefcase after hypnotizing him.
  • Han Su’s Mental Activity alerted him, and Ghost Flame broke the hypnotic effect before the cook could steal the Briefcase.
  • Han Su pushed the Briefcase toward the cook, triggering its mechanism and revealing the cook as Lu Neng, the young master from South City whom Han Su had rescued from the Ancient Castle.

Ch. 232Emperor's Book (Five Thousand Words)

Han Su sent Lu Neng out with a warning for the Qinggang Empress, then began testing his theory for advancing to the Second Stage of Mysterious Power. His experiment connected the Fishing Horn to the Emperor's Book, while Li Moses ordered tighter security and called for a Reality Anchor.

  • Han Su asked Lu Neng to carry a message to the Qinggang Empress, and Lu Neng left the base disguised as a food delivery worker after securing Han Su's promise to return the eye and Pocket Watch.
  • Red Sea Studio searched the area after detecting an intruder, but its security staff found no evidence and Han Su concluded that Lu Neng had escaped.
  • Han Su examined the divine substance within himself and decided to test whether contact with Mysterious Power could advance him toward the Second Stage.
  • Han Su exposed his divine substance to a small amount of the Pale Giant's power, then used the Fishing Horn incantation to stop the resulting corruption.
  • The Black Suitcase trembled as the Emperor's Book opened, and its golden words entered Han Su's mental world in response to the Fishing Horn.
  • Li Moses refused to question Han Su without evidence, ordered security tightened, and instructed his staff to establish a Reality Anchor and bring the arrogant woman to see her son.

Ch. 233Song Chushi's Compensation

Han Su discovered that the Emperor's Book could absorb Mysterious Power and reveal records, but he feared it might contaminate and control him. Song Chushi resolved to compensate Han Su with a dangerous gift, while Wei Lan and Lu Neng exchanged information about the coming conflict and parted with a lipstick missing.

  • Han Su tested Pallor and Ghost Flame, and the Emperor's text absorbed both while strengthening his divine matter and raising his Mental Activity from 71% to 75%.
  • Han Su realized the Emperor's Book, not his own divine matter, was stealing Mysterious Power and severed their connection before the book could consume him further.
  • Han Su opened the Emperor's Book and saw a record identifying Pallor as Mysterious Source Number 04, then decided to keep using the dangerous book to learn about Mysterious Power.
  • Song Chushi admitted he owed Han Su and resolved to compensate him with the skull in his safe, even as he insisted his larger plan had to proceed.
  • Wei Lan told Lu Neng about the goals surrounding the Ancient Castle Kidnapping Case and their need for caution, while Lu Neng secretly took a lipstick from her room.

Ch. 234Thirteen Mysterious Sources

Han Su explored the Emperor's Book and discovered that using it strengthened his divine substance while deepening his contamination, then learned more about the Knowledge Beasts from the glasses he fed it. Meanwhile, Li Moses prepared to use Bai Senmang to locate the woman connected to the Kidnapping Case, and the chapter ended with him telling Han Su that the woman might be his mother and asking if he wanted to see her.

  • Han Su studied the Emperor's Book's records of Pallor, Secret Copper, and Ghost, and realized that wielding its power increased both his strength and his contamination.
  • Li Moses brought Bai Senmang special equipment and began extracting his memories to use him as an anchor to locate a woman connected to the Kidnapping Case.
  • Zhang Chiguo prepared to join Buddha and Brahma in forming a Blockade Position around Qinggang as Song Chushi's invasion approached.
  • At a secret Council meeting, Mr. Xu argued that Qinggang should end the Silent pact and revealed that fear for his son had driven him to oppose the plan.
  • Han Su fed the glasses' mysterious power to the Emperor's Book and learned about the Knowledge Beasts and their connection to the Ancient Castle.
  • Li Moses told Han Su that the woman they hoped to locate might be his mother and asked whether he wanted to see her.

Ch. 235The Twelfth Inheritor

Han Su endured Red Sea Studio’s search machinery, impressed Li Moses with his Second Stage training, and received Li’s notes on resisting corruption. The machinery located the Lady of Sacrifice, who prepared to make the twelfth inheritor within twenty-four hours, and Han Su learned that she had been found.

  • Han Su refused to surrender his Briefcase and withstood the Cipher Array’s growing Mental Power pressure, stabilizing himself with the divine substance inside him.
  • Li Moses discovered Han Su had begun Second Stage training, discussed resistance with him, and gave him his red notebook of experiences resisting corruption.
  • Han Su read Li Moses’s account of a Mysterious Will and recognized similarities to the Pig Head Butcher, resolving to face the Emperor’s Book with resistance.
  • The machinery’s Mental Power tendrils found the Lady of Sacrifice, who dismissed a challenge from the Qinggang Council Hall and declared the twelfth inheritor would be in place within twenty-four hours.
  • The Lady of Sacrifice sealed away her crystal skull, discarded a photograph of a Little Boy, and confronted the tendrils; the base’s alarms sounded as Han Su announced they had found her.

Ch. 236The Iron Cage

Han Su reunited with the Tall, Thin Woman through a spatial connection, but her iron-cage threat activated a buried fear that left him helpless. Song Chushi entered Azure Harbor and fired a shot that disrupted her hold, giving Han Su a chance to use the Pocket Watch as he invoked a decree.

  • Han Su saw the Tall, Thin Woman across misaligned spaces, and she mocked him before demanding to know why he was rushing toward danger.
  • The Tall, Thin Woman summoned the iron cage from Han Su’s childhood and reached through space to drag him toward it, triggering his buried terror and paralyzing him.
  • Song Chushi entered Azure Harbor in a single step and fired into the city, disrupting its boundary and causing the D7 Abandoned Experiment Center’s lights and voltage to fluctuate.
  • Han Su recognized that Song Chushi’s shot had disrupted the Tall, Thin Woman’s grip, reached for the Pocket Watch, and recited, “I am god, and I issue my decree!”

Ch. 237High-Level Power: Scarlet

Song Chushi confronted Azure Harbor’s Four Heavenly Kings in a mirror world and challenged them over the concealed Silence Plan and their investigation of the Kidnapping Case. After Li Moses attacked and Song Chushi revealed a Swamp Treant trap, Li Moses’s Scarlet power surged toward him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

  • Zhang Chiguo, Zhao Brahma, Wang Buddha, and Li Moses confronted Song Chushi inside a mirror world created to contain him.
  • Song Chushi accused Li Moses of failing to investigate the Kidnapping Case and demanded that the Qinggang Council expose the Silence Plan and answer for the kidnapped children.
  • Song Chushi challenged Zhang Chiguo over what he knew about the Silence Plan, then moved toward the collapsing former D7 Laboratory as Li Moses blocked his way.
  • Li Moses seized Song Chushi’s shadow, but Song Chushi transformed into a Swamp Treant that bound Li Moses and fired three shots at the back of his head.
  • Li Moses’s Scarlet Mental Activity diluted the bullets and sent a towering red sea surging toward Song Chushi.

Ch. 238The Scarlet Power

Li Moses and the other Four Heavenly Kings trapped Song Chushi in a Scarlet-powered ambush, but Song Chushi countered their attacks with a cave-lizard transformation and a Blood Ghost Cloak. The fight was interrupted when a massive hole opened in the mirrored world above the abandoned D7 Laboratory, prompting Song Chushi to fear that someone had been taken by the Abyss Laboratory.

  • Zhang Chiguo, Zhao Brahma, and Wang Buddha joined Li Moses to form a triangular blockade that amplified their Scarlet power against Song Chushi.
  • Song Chushi hardened his body into a Black Gobi Cave Lizard and evaded Li Moses's blood rain, but Li Moses and the others drove him into a lattice of red spikes.
  • Song Chushi let himself be wounded, then put on a Blood Ghost Cloak and used its power to break free and rush at Li Moses.
  • A huge hole opened in the mirrored world above the abandoned D7 Laboratory, and Song Chushi asked whether someone had been taken by the Abyss Laboratory.

Ch. 239The Honest Man Lost His Temper

Song Chushi confronted Li Moses over his role in Abyss Studio’s plan, and Li Moses admitted he was helping the studio pursue a supposed way to stop the tide, even at the cost of children’s lives. Zhang Chiguo turned against his allies after learning his work and investigation had been manipulated, and he stayed behind so Song Chushi could reach the laboratory.

  • Song Chushi accused Li Moses of helping Abyss Studio build a displacement channel rather than investigate the kidnapping case, and Li Moses admitted his mission was to stop the tide at any cost.
  • Li Moses broke through the Sand of Time with Scarlet-tainted divine substance and attacked Song Chushi, while Zhao Brahma and Wang Buddha supported him.
  • Zhang Chiguo intercepted Li Moses’s strike, suffering a severe wound as he forced Li Moses and the Scarlet sea back.
  • Zhang Chiguo explained that Miss Ai’s email had exposed how the Council kept him distracted from the kidnapping case, and he realized his report had helped send Han Su into a trap.
  • Zhang Chiguo declared that he would hold off all three opponents, and Song Chushi backed away toward the laboratory.

Ch. 240The Four Heavenly Kings

Zhang Chiguo held off Wang Buddha, Zhao Brahma, and Li Moses so Song Chushi could escape, revealing that his years of restraint had preserved his will and hidden Scarlet’s power in his boundary. He accepted that unleashing his power could bring severe backlash, but implied he was willing to face it tonight.

  • Zhang Chiguo broke the blockade against Song Chushi and stayed behind to confront the three Independent Investigators.
  • Zhao Brahma, Wang Buddha, and Li Moses pursued Song Chushi, but Zhang Chiguo drew a boundary and challenged all three to cross it.
  • Zhao Brahma attacked Zhang Chiguo and was badly injured when he crossed the boundary, while Wang Buddha and Li Moses stopped short.
  • Zhang Chiguo explained that he had resisted Scarlet for four years without killing anyone, preserving his will and giving the boundary its power.
  • Wang Buddha warned that releasing Scarlet’s power would cause Zhang Chiguo a greater backlash, and Zhang Chiguo accepted the risk.

Ch. 241The Copper's Heir

Han Su used the Will of Copper to break the Tall, Thin Woman’s restraints and learned she believed he had caused the Seven-Day Divine Descent to fail. After his first shot missed, he activated the Thought-Stealing Pocket Watch to think through his next move, then aimed his gun at his own temple and pulled the trigger.

  • The Tall, Thin Woman tried to capture Han Su again, and he confronted her about sending him to the Ancient Castle.
  • Han Su used Copper Blood and the Will of Copper to form a Cipher Array that broke her mental chains and freed him from suppression.
  • The Tall, Thin Woman recognized the power in Han Su and said he was the reason the Seven-Day Divine Descent had failed.
  • Han Su fired a Copper Blood-enhanced shot at the Tall, Thin Woman, grazing her cheek but failing to kill her.
  • Han Su poured his recovered Mental Activity into the Thought-Stealing Pocket Watch and stole three minutes of thought.
  • After rapidly analyzing the situation, Han Su aimed his gun at his own temple and pulled the trigger.

Ch. 242The Twelfth Heir Retrieval Plan

Han Su tried to trap the Tall, Thin Woman in reality, but she escaped and announced that the Abyss Studio would enter reality in twenty minutes to begin the Twelfth Heir Retrieval Plan. As Red Sea Studio confronted Han Su, he summoned the Bronze Armor Statue and Ghost Truck, then warned Wei Lan that the mastermind behind the Kidnapping Case was coming to Qinggang.

  • Han Su shot himself to draw the Tall, Thin Woman through the spatial boundary, grabbed her, and destroyed the machine connecting their spaces, but she returned to the Abyss Laboratory and ordered the Twelfth Heir Retrieval Plan to begin in twenty minutes.
  • Han Su tore through the locked laboratory door and confronted Red Sea Studio; an intelligence officer explained that Li Moses had arranged the meeting to investigate the failed Seven-Day Divine Descent and intended to recruit Han Su if he was cleared.
  • The Ghost Truck charged through the fog and attacked the armed personnel as Red Sea Studio tried to capture Han Su, who invoked the Cross Copper Scar and summoned the Bronze Armor Statue from Lilac Mansion.
  • The Bronze Armor Statue broke through Red Sea Studio's blockade and attacked the guards; Han Su ordered it to kill everyone while it and the Ghost Truck cleared the laboratory.
  • Han Su contacted Wei Lan and warned her that the Kidnapping Case mastermind was about to arrive in Qinggang, and Wei Lan told him they might not be alone in facing the coming conflict.

Ch. 243The Seven-Day Divine Descent

Han Su escaped the Red Sea Studio’s attack and learned from Song Chushi that humanity’s growing use of Mysterious Power was bringing the tide closer, prompting an audacious plan called the Seven-Day Divine Descent. The chapter left the plan’s failure ten years earlier in Qinggang unexplained, as the city’s Council abruptly moved to cancel the Silent Plan and Han Su prepared for the coming conflict.

  • At D7 Laboratory, researchers observed that Ripper had retained his emotions through seven surgeries, and he asked to take time off to do something meaningful.
  • Rong Qiyue accepted that he had to fight alongside the Big Boss and armed himself for the coming conflict.
  • Wei Lan and the Qinggang Council voted to cancel the Silent Plan, after which Mr. Xu ordered changes to the mayor’s duties, the Disaster Management Bureau’s responsibilities, and cooperation with Abyss Studio.
  • Han Su woke in the ruined D7 Laboratory, where the Ghost Truck and Bronze Armor Statue had killed or immobilized Red Sea Studio’s elite operatives, and met Song Chushi outside.
  • Song Chushi explained that humanity’s use of Mysterious Power awakened ancient wills and intensified the tide, then revealed that the Seven-Day Divine Descent had been attempted in Qinggang ten years earlier and failed.

Ch. 244Scarlet Knowledge

Han Su and Song Chushi agreed to oppose the Abyss Studio’s Seven-Day Divine Descent, though they pursued different goals. As Zhang Chiguo fought three Independent Investigators in the mirror world, Han Su opened the Emperor’s Book, preparing to use his knowledge of Scarlet to change the battle.

  • Song Chushi explained that the Seven-Day Divine Descent had failed ten years ago, revealed his goals of stopping the plan, finding the inheritors’ list, and avenging the children, and asked Han Su to help rescue his sister.
  • Han Su said he wanted detailed information about the plan and intended to detain or kill the Tall, Thin Woman, whom Song Chushi identified as his mother.
  • Han Su and Song Chushi reached Qinggang’s city center and saw Zhang Chiguo overpowering three Independent Investigators in the Queen’s mirror world.
  • Song Chushi explained that the fighters were bound together by their shared source of power and that authority and knowledge determined supernatural confrontations.
  • Han Su asked whether Scarlet knowledge could help Song Chushi defeat Zhang Chiguo’s opponents, then opened the Emperor’s Book from his suitcase.

Ch. 245The Scarlet Equation

Han Su used a Zero Sequence Spell to steal Scarlet power from the battle and learned about its nature through the Emperor's Book. His theft disrupted the confrontation, and the Scarlet power he took came from Li Moses.

  • Han Su used the Zero Sequence Spell to summon Scarlet power, but its influence nearly overwhelmed him before the Emperor's Book devoured it and restored his divine substance.
  • The Emperor's Book revealed knowledge about Scarlet, and Han Su began to understand the principles behind the four fighters' methods of resisting it.
  • Song Chushi heard that extraordinary knowledge had appeared upstairs, grew wary of Han Su, and resolved to cooperate with him and give him the Crystal Skull.
  • Zhang Chiguo's assault forced Li Moses, Zhao Brahma, and Wang Buddha to work together, while each hoped to prove his method superior.
  • Han Su stole a drifting wisp of Scarlet power from the confrontation, and it came from Li Moses, triggering an unexpected chain reaction.

Ch. 246Zero Sequence, Number 13: All Nothing

Song Chushi entered the battle between the Four Heavenly Kings and used the Zero Sequence Cipher Incantation, Number 13: All Nothing, to erase Scarlet Power. Han Su recognized that the incantation had revealed a new path, while ceremonial figures appeared across Azure Harbor and announced that the twelfth inheritor had been found.

  • Zhang Chiguo struck Li Moses twice, then tore off his arm and pinned him down while searching for his heart.
  • Li Moses unleashed a mental sea of the dead to restrain Zhang Chiguo, but Zhang tore through it and overpowered him.
  • Han Su passed his Scarlet knowledge to Song Chushi, who strode into the battlefield and shattered the mirror world with his Mental Activity.
  • Song Chushi resisted Zhao Brahma and Wang Buddha's Scarlet Power and spoke the incantation All Nothing, erasing the Scarlet around them.
  • Han Su realized the Zero Sequence offered a new path as Zhao Brahma, Wang Buddha, and Zhang Chiguo reacted in shock.
  • Elderly figures in ceremonial robes appeared at intersections across Azure Harbor and declared that the twelfth inheritor had been found.

Ch. 247The Azure Harbor Black Rose

Song Chushi suppressed the Scarlet Power, giving Han Su and the others a chance to resist as Abyss Studio prepared to enter Qinggang. The Qinggang Council rejected the Silence Plan, aligning Han Su and Song Chushi’s goals and turning the conflict toward capturing Abyss Studio’s agents and uncovering the kidnapping case.

  • Song Chushi used All Nothing to suppress the Scarlet Power affecting Zhao Brahma, Wang Buddha, and Zhang Chiguo, who returned Li Moses’s heart and allowed him to heal.
  • Han Su arrived, revealed that he had killed Abyss Studio’s people to escape, and joined Song Chushi as Abyss Studio’s forces approached Qinggang.
  • Song Chushi told Han Su to escape amid the chaos, but their plans changed when Qinggang officially rejected Abyss Studio and issued missions to stop its invasion.
  • Song Chushi revealed that the Black Rose Organization, formed by families of the Ancient Castle kidnapping victims, had helped bring about the Council’s decision.
  • Song Chushi said their goal was now to capture Abyss Studio’s agents and uncover the truth, while the Four Heavenly Kings received new orders canceling their mission against him.
  • Zhang Chiguo returned Li Moses’s gun and asked whether he would still follow the canceled secret mission or obey the Qinggang Council’s new commission.

Ch. 248The Slaughter City Sacrifice

Qinggang’s council rejected the Silent Plan, prompting the Abyss Studio to order an invasion while the Disaster Management Bureau mobilized to defend the city. As Han Su and Song Chushi headed toward the advancing contamination, Qinggang’s forces confronted the Slaughter City Sacrifice at the outskirts.

  • Seven council members voted to scrap the Silent Plan, and Mr. Xu defended the decision despite warnings that Qinggang could not defeat the Abyss Studio.
  • The Tall, Thin Woman ordered an invasion of Qinggang, including the deployment of Giant Weapons and the Four Great Sacrifices, while demanding that Copper's Heir be captured alive.
  • Song Chushi explained Qinggang’s reality defense lines to Han Su as the city’s ordinary residents remained exposed to the invasion.
  • Li Moses accepted Zhang Chiguo’s assignment, and Wang Buddha, Zhao Brahma, and Zhang Chiguo also set out to defend Qinggang.
  • The Disaster Management Bureau mobilized its agents and broadcast a food-poisoning cover story as Han Su and Song Chushi moved toward the contamination.
  • The Slaughter City Sacrifice advanced toward Qinggang, where investigators and other defenders blocked the road; a black shot rang out as the forces faced each other.

Ch. 249Forced into Reality

The Abyss Studio’s attack on Qinggang began with contagious Werebeast and Zombie viruses, but Wang Buddha turned the infected against the invaders and held the Slaughter City Sacrifice back. Meanwhile, Han Su and Song Chushi prepared to force the Abyss Studio to descend at a location where Qinggang could trap it, and Song Chushi began activating his citywide Cipher Arrays.

  • Mysterious Followers charged into Qinggang as investigators formed barriers, but Werebeast attackers broke through and rooftop followers released Zombie Virus bullets into the crowd.
  • Night Lamp, Red Trench Coat, and Green Hat attacked the Slaughter City Sacrifice together, but he repelled them and nearly killed them.
  • Wang Buddha arrived, drove back the Slaughter City Sacrifice, and used his Scarlet Power to redirect the infected toward the invaders.
  • Han Su and Song Chushi planned to make the Abyss Studio descend at the Abandoned D7 Experimental Base so they could imprison it inside Qinggang.
  • Han Su asked Song Chushi about the incantation “I am god, bestow your oracle,” and he identified it as a Civilization History Record linked to the Forgotten Emperor.
  • Song Chushi activated the Cipher Arrays he had planted across the city and declared that he would expose someone’s lies and greed.

Ch. 250Who Cares About Your World

Song Chushi confronted the Tall, Thin Woman at the Abyss Laboratory while battles raged across Azure Harbor. After the Scalpel Team shattered his Cipher Arrays, he and Han Su activated a hidden plan to draw on the Mental Power of all thirty million people in Qinggang City, leaving the Tall, Thin Woman facing an overwhelming wave.

  • Song Chushi pulled the Abyss Laboratory into Azure Harbor and demanded that the Tall, Thin Woman reveal the list of inheritors and his Younger Sister’s whereabouts.
  • The Tall, Thin Woman rejected Song Chushi’s resistance, and her Scalpel Team cut through his Cipher Array chains before surrounding Han Su and pressuring Song Chushi.
  • Slaughter City Sacrifices forced their way toward Azure Harbor’s Reality Anchors as investigators and Executors fought them; Zhang Chiguo protected Black Tiger, and Miss Crow rescued Zhao Brahma.
  • Song Chushi revealed his plan to activate Qinggang City’s collective Mental Power, while Han Su used the Cross Copper Scar and fog to help set it in motion.
  • The hidden Cipher Arrays spread through Qinggang’s shadows, and a tremendous wave of power surged toward the Tall, Thin Woman and the Abyss Laboratory.
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