Recaps

Han Su confronted the Singer at Green Hat Bar and learned she had come to enforce a promise made by the powerful families to her master, the Doctor. She seized the hearts of nearly everyone on the street, leaving the gathered authorities helpless as Xu Ji's Father arrived in despair.

• Pot Lid Head warned Han Su that the Singer was a dangerous, nonhuman creature, while Xu Ji recognized Pot Lid Head as an old elementary-school classmate.
• Han Su entered the bar and found wealthy young men frozen under the Singer's power; she said she had come to check whether their families had kept an agreement with her master.
• The Singer called Han Su “Young Master,” claimed his friend’s feelings for her were normal, and warned him not to interfere while she handled her business.
• Luxury cars, armed forces, and investigators gathered outside as Xue Zhi realized he had misunderstood the situation and Mr. Green Hat and Wang Buddha arrived to assist Han Su.
• The Singer unleashed a Mental Ripple that stopped the hearts of everyone on the street except Han Su and Wang Buddha, then watched the car doors open and Xu Ji's Father step out in despair.

Lu Xiaoba's bomb distracted the Old Singer, who revealed herself as a powerful Abyssal Creature and rose above Qinggang, ensnaring the city's inhabitants in her influence. Han Su identified her as the Goddess of Beauty, one of the Ten Great World-Ending Calamities, while her appearance unsettled Ms. Shen by suggesting that someone she believed dead might still be alive.

• Lu Xiaoba detonated a bomb that killed his target and briefly disrupted the Old Singer's control over the streets.
• Wang Buddha and Green Hat attacked the Old Singer, but she shed layers of her body and revealed her true form as an Abyssal Creature.
• Han Su tried to seize the Old Singer's power, and Pot Lid Head struck her with a blade before she knocked him away and escaped the bar.
• The Old Singer floated above Qinggang and compelled people across the city to stare at her, spreading chaos and exposing the factions watching the city.
• Han Su used the Emperor's text to identify the Old Singer as the Goddess of Beauty, one of the Ten Great World-Ending Calamities.
• Ms. Shen saw the creature and realized that the Old Singer had been the assistant of the person she believed dead.

The Old Singer arrived over Qinggang, exposed hidden outsiders, compelled the city’s wealthy and officials to act, and left with an Iron Box as shadows gathered beyond the city. After Xu Ji’s Father apologized to Han Su over the Divine Descent Plan, Ms. Shen confronted the Singer and demanded to know where the Doctor was; the Singer instead revealed that the Original Blueprint had been hidden in Qinggang.

• The Old Singer killed concealed outsiders in Qinggang and raised a Mental Power barrier against spying gazes.
• The Old Singer controlled officials to retrieve an Iron Box and forced wealthy young men and other prominent figures to emerge, then spoke strange words that left them convulsing.
• The Old Singer released a Black Egg, took the Iron Box, and left Qinggang to confront the shadows, killing a Knight Errant as the wilderness descended into chaos.
• Han Su checked on Xu Ji and the unconscious young men, while Xu Ji confessed that he thought he had fallen in love with something nonhuman.
• Xu Ji’s Father told Han Su that he knew about the Divine Descent Plan and apologized for the group’s failure to him.
• Ms. Shen confronted the Singer outside the city and demanded to know where the Doctor was, but the Singer said the Original Blueprint was hidden in Qinggang.

Xu Ji's Father told Han Su that the Emperor's descendants were marked as sacrifices because the Emperor had corrupted the Three Great Contracts and destabilized the world. He revealed that Han Changming had sought to end the Tide and free their families from the curse, leaving Han Su to wonder whether he and Xu Ji shared the Emperor's bloodline.

• Han Su asked Xu Ji's Father what he knew, and they met in a secured room at the Seaside Club.
• Xu Ji's Father said he suspected Han Su had rescued people from the Ancient Castle and asked whether his family owed Han Su thanks.
• Xu Ji's Father revealed that his family descended from the Emperor, whose tampering with the Three Great Contracts had destabilized the world.
• Xu Ji's Father explained that the Emperor's descendants had been forced to sacrifice their blood to calm especially dangerous Tides.
• Xu Ji's Father said Han Changming had rejected the idea that later generations should bear the Emperor's ancient sin and wanted to solve the Tide at its source.
• Han Su recognized Han Changming as his father and wondered whether his mother and he also belonged to the Emperor's bloodline.

Han Su learned that Doctor Han had arranged three preparations for the marked descendants of the Emperor, including releasing Miss Ai, extracting the Emperor’s Blood, and cooperating with the true Emperor Sequence. The Copper Civilization’s answer identified the Mother of Machinery as the World-Ending Angel who destroyed every civilization, leaving Han Su and Mr. Xu to confront the danger of releasing her.

• Mr. Xu explained that Doctor Han had persuaded the marked families to prepare three measures in Azure Harbor in case the Divine Descent Plan failed.
• Mr. Xu described a terrifying vision of the Ancient Castle group being killed as twelve figures destroyed the world, which convinced him to honor the agreement.
• Mr. Xu revealed that the first measure was to gather four keys and release Miss Ai, whose codename was the World-Ending Angel.
• Han Su asked Anwei to consult history, while Mr. Xu revealed that the second measure had extracted thirty-three grams of Ancestral Substance from the Emperor’s descendants and stored it inside an ordinary person.
• Mr. Xu explained that the third measure required the families to obey the true Emperor Sequence and help lift the curse on the Emperor’s bloodline.
• Anwei reported that the Copper Civilization blamed the Mother of Machinery for betraying and destroying it, and said she had destroyed every civilization.

Han Su learned more about Mother of Machinery’s danger and the Emperor’s role in the Divine Descent Plan, then helped secure Qinggang amid the aftermath of the creature’s attack. After becoming an Independent Investigator, he received a Knight Errant invitation backed by two noble recommendations, leaving him to consider Mr. Xu’s offer to provide a third.

• Han Su agreed to take the keys and investigation files so he could unlock three of Miss Ai’s locks and ask her a question, while Mr. Xu warned him that the World Guardians might hold greater authority.
• Mr. Xu warned that the Divine Descent Plan might fail and trigger the Emperor’s bloodline sacrifice plan; Han Su vowed to confront the people behind it and protect Xu Ji.
• Han Su returned to his companions, and Xue Zhi agreed to collect Mr. Xu’s files while Xu Ji worried that he had found the abnormal creature attractive.
• Wei Lan reported that the Queen organization had intervened in her standoff with the Knight Errant, and Lu Neng brought Han Su the third Mechanical Fragment.
• Qinggang’s Council appointed Assistant Xu as Secretary Number 5 and reshuffled its seats, including giving Anwei a black chair and Hou Zhizhu the seat tied to Lilac Mansion.
• Han Su received an invitation to become Qinggang’s fourth Independent Investigator and a Knight Errant recommendation bearing two nobles’ signatures; Mr. Xu offered to provide the third recommendation.

Han Su learned that the Emperor’s return connected the Black Rose, Ancestral Substance, and marked families, then prepared to pursue the Emperor’s power in the Ancient Castle. As the World Guardians anticipated the Tide and planned to retrieve the Throne fragments and Origin Seal, Han Su returned to the castle and heard the mysterious man’s instructions for taking control during the monsters’ banquet.

• Han Su asked Xue Zhi to investigate the Da and Chen families and the Emperor Sequence, while assigning his allies to search for Mechanical Fragments and descendants of the Twelve Knights.
• Ms. Shen concluded that the escaped child was the conspicuous location of the Original Blueprint and chose to keep investigating the plan to help the child rather than the man who had deceived her.
• A Mountain Base City elder said Han Su would eventually seek Knight Errant training to protect himself from forbidden power and ordered preparations to retrieve the Throne fragments and Origin Seal as the Tide approached.
• Han Su used Mechanical Fragment No. 3 to return to the Ancient Castle, calmly passed its first nights, and followed the mysterious caller’s directions to the office.
• The mysterious man told Han Su that he had gained over 30% control of the Ancient Castle and could exceed 70% by taking part in a ritual before the monsters’ banquet.

Han Su gathered the ingredients and allies needed to interfere with the mysterious ritual planned for the Night of Joy banquet. As the banquet began, he uncovered the portrait that was supposed to explain his preparations and realized the ritual’s purpose.

• Han Su inspected the four rewards in the underground chamber and decided to prepare his own ritual before the Night of Joy banquet.
• Han Su found the correct scent-changing reagent with Song Yushi’s help, and she helped conceal its removal by knocking over other potions.
• Han Su enlisted Li Manman to distract the wooden dolls, then took the unactivated boy doll from the Pale Giant’s room.
• Han Su asked the boy in the tailcoat to protect him, and the boy agreed after Han Su explained that the kidnappers planned a ritual involving the children.
• Han Su gathered the remaining items throughout the Ancient Castle as the Night of Joy began, then uncovered the portrait stolen from the Ghost Princess and recognized the absurd ritual he was meant to perform.

Han Su recognized the Emperor in the painting and realized the relics he had received could help recreate him. At the Night of Joy banquet, he altered Grotesque Doctor’s ritual by making a puppet the decoy and reciting the Spell himself in the secret room, awakening the Ancient Castle’s power.

• Han Su identified the painting as the Emperor and connected its cloak, mask, Crystal Skull cup, and throne to his relics.
• Han Su put his blood and Mental Power into a wooden boy puppet, then used a mysterious potion and blood to make it resemble him.
• The Old Butler brought the children to the Banquet Hall, where the Twelve monsters gathered with their chosen children and waited for the Emperor behind the thirteenth door.
• After the Old Butler invited the Emperor three times, Han Su remembered Grotesque Doctor’s instructions and chose to perform the ritual differently.
• Han Su wore the cloak and mask in the secret room, placed the Emperor’s Book on the desk, and recited, “Praise the Emperor’s name!”
• The Ancient Castle shook as the power of countless slumbering things surged toward Han Su.

Han Su took the place of Grotesque Doctor’s puppet in a ritual, absorbing the Ancient Castle’s ownerless Mysterious Power and claiming its permissions. As the Old Butler began recording the Emperor’s erased history, Han Su urged him to continue, while Grotesque Doctor tried to interrupt the ritual.

• Han Su used his preparations to endure the Ancient Castle’s Mysterious Power, and his Golden Cells divided twice more as the castle’s permissions converged on him.
• The thirteenth-floor door opened, revealing a figure the Old Butler recognized as the Emperor, while the monsters in the Banquet Hall began to lose control.
• The Old Butler bound the shaking castle with vines and recited the Emperor’s past deeds from a blank notebook; the monsters’ reactions caused the deeds to appear as records.
• As each record formed, Han Su experienced vivid memories of the Emperor’s supposedly erased history, and the Old Butler’s recitation began to transform the castle’s Mysterious Power.
• Grotesque Doctor called frantically to stop the ritual, but Han Su told the Old Butler to continue, and the fifth record began to appear.

As the Old Butler recorded the Twelve Anomalies, Han Su recovered memories revealing that he was the Thirteenth Anomaly and that the true Divine Descent Plan sought to establish the Emperor’s anchor point. An unseen caller unleashed the Mysterious Will and its Golden Spear, disrupting the ritual until the Ancient Castle collapsed and the Old Butler shattered.

• The Old Butler’s records restored Han Su’s fragmented memories of the Emperor’s past pacts with the anomalies and led him to recognize himself as the Thirteenth Anomaly.
• Han Su realized Abyss Studio’s Divine Descent Plan had overlooked the Emperor, while someone in the shadows wanted to create his anchor point without letting him awaken.
• After the phone stopped ringing, an unseen person answered it and chanted a spell that let the Mysterious Will invade the Ancient Castle as a Golden Spear.
• The Tuxedo stepped between Han Su and the spear, prompting the Pig Head Butcher to intercept it and absorb its Mental Power with blood-red threads.
• The Golden Spear’s intrusion shattered the Old Butler and drove the Ancient Castle toward collapse as the monsters attacked and the caller lamented the plan’s failure.

Han Su awakened on Life Line No. 04 as a captain in the Church of Rest, where his squad was trapped in a battle with Zero-Sum City. After defeating the Tall and Thin Monsters and reaching the target’s underground chamber, he found Rong Qiyue holding a Black Suitcase.

• Han Su recovered memories of Life Line No. 04 and realized he had been sent on a likely staged mission by the Church of Rest.
• A barrage stopped, and the squad spotted the approaching Tall and Thin Monsters; Han Su broke one monster’s foreleg and killed the creatures with his awakened power.
• Han Su decided to secure the area, find his companions, and investigate the state of the Divine Descent Plan while using the church’s intelligence network.
• Han Su charged toward the mission target, deflected gunfire, and entered an underground chamber.
• Han Su found Rong Qiyue at a computer, holding a Black Suitcase.

Han Su returned from destroying Zero-Sum City's laboratory with the Black Suitcase and learned that the Azure Harbor Big Bang had changed this Life Path. At the Church of Rest, he confronted its leaders and discovered that the Emperor's power gave him authority over the dead.

• Han Su learned from Rong Qiyue that the Azure Harbor Big Bang had erased Azure Harbor and reshaped the lives of their friends.
• Han Su convinced his Church of Rest team that the Lord of Rest had bestowed power on him, then brought them and their recovered corpses back to headquarters.
• The guards tried to seize Han Su's team, but Han Su and his teammates overwhelmed them with their powers.
• Han Su entered the church and resisted a Spell from the young Acolyte and the Chief Priests as he approached the corpse they worshipped.
• Han Su recited a Spell that made the corpse open its eyes, realizing that the Emperor's power carried the authority to command the dead.

Han Su seized control of the Church of Rest’s corpse and learned that several of the Ten Calamities had entered the world. Wei Lan revealed that the Qinggang Big Bang had freed Miss Ai, and Han Su recognized Li Manman when she appeared as Zero-Sum City’s secret weapon.

• Han Su awakened the Lord of Rest, stripped the Church of Rest’s leaders of their powers, killed the young Acolyte, and appointed himself Grand Chief Priest.
• Han Su searched the Chief Priests’ memories and learned that the Church had been ordered to bring the Corpse River into reality, while four of the Ten Calamities were already active across the continents.
• Han Su ordered the Chief Priests to find records about the global wars, the calamities, and the Qinggang Big Bang, then received a message from Wei Lan.
• Wei Lan told Han Su that the Qinggang Big Bang had destroyed the city and freed Miss Ai, the Mother of Machinery, who was bringing calamities into reality to destroy civilization.
• Han Su told Wei Lan to focus on finding the fourth Mechanical Fragment and people with Knight bloodlines, then learned that Zero-Sum City was counterattacking.
• Han Su saw Li Manman defeat hundreds of soldiers with puppet dolls and recognized her as Zero-Sum City’s secret weapon.

Han Su confronted Li Manman, who had returned from the Ancient Castle with powerful puppet-control abilities, but their standoff shifted when she revealed that she remembered him and had searched for him. The chapter ended with Li Manman asking about Han Su’s connection to the Black Rose Organization, which sought to destroy the world.

• Han Su left the Church of Rest’s headquarters to meet Li Manman and offered to surrender the corpse containing his information.
• Han Su led Li Manman into town, where Church of Rest soldiers prepared to ambush her, and tried to jog her memory by mentioning Qinggang and Magic Box Group.
• Li Manman revealed that she remembered the Ancient Castle and used swarms of puppet dolls to suppress the Church of Rest’s forces.
• Han Su realized Li Manman and the other children who escaped when the Ancient Castle collapsed had always remembered him and had searched for him.
• Li Manman recalled that Han Su had helped her and her friends escape the Kidnapping Case, then asked what relationship he had with the Black Rose Organization.

Li Manman told Han Su how Mother of Machinery had turned Black Rose into an instrument of world-ending disasters, and how she and her companions escaped after Mr. Xu sacrificed himself. Han Su explained that his version of Black Rose and Miss Ai were different, promised to help Li Manman reach another Life Path, and sought a direct meeting with Mother of Machinery.

• Li Manman revealed that she had been one of Black Rose’s Twelve Angels and described how Mother of Machinery manipulated Mr. Xu and built the organization after the Qinggang Big Bang.
• Li Manman recounted how Black Rose’s members caused disasters, how Mr. Xu killed himself after opposing the machine, and how Chao Xiaobei led seven survivors to escape the headquarters.
• Li Manman explained that the fugitives had searched for Han Su because they believed his memories of the Ancient Castle might help them understand Mother of Machinery.
• Han Su told Li Manman that his Miss Ai had been a gentle assistant and that her parents were alive on another Life Path, then offered her the Briefcase so she could experience flickering; Li Manman deferred until she could consult her companions.
• Han Su said he needed to meet Mother of Machinery, and Li Manman explained that the machine might appear if he left the Pale Power-blocked city; Han Su asked whether the two noble figures who had arrived had pure blood.

Han Su turned the Church of Rest’s attempt to overwhelm him into a source of power, using the Emperor’s Book to absorb the eight dioceses’ pollution and reclaim his strength. As the corpses of their gods knelt before him and messages announced the emperor’s return, Li Manman sent word that she had found him.

• Han Su learned that Li Manman’s companions had split up to investigate other potential Calamity sites, and he told her they shared a side with him and should gather everyone.
• Han Su left Li Manman to contact the others and walked toward the town center, where the three Chief Priests planned to use the eight dioceses’ power against him.
• The Chief Priests activated a field of Mental Power across the town, but Han Su used a Cipher Spell to draw its pollution into the Emperor’s Book.
• The Emperor’s Book purified the pollution and returned its power to Han Su, who reached a higher life level and compelled the worshipped corpses across the dioceses to kneel.
• Electronic devices across the land displayed the message “The emperor has returned!”
• Li Manman felt Han Su’s power rise and sent a puppet doll to tell the others she had found him.

Han Su learned that the Death Kingdom was a disaster created by evolved mental beings and realized the Church of Rest’s followers had been sealed inside the Emperor’s Book. After Zero-Sum City mistook the Church’s sudden disappearance for Li Manman’s work, Han Su prepared to accompany her there and test a power that could alter time.

• Han Su studied the Death Kingdom’s origins and concluded that Miss Ai was watching him, though she did not appear.
• Zero-Sum City detected a massive Lullaby fluctuation, then lost all signals from the Church of Rest and assumed its forces had withdrawn.
• Two Central City nobles invited Li Manman to Zero-Sum City to collect her payment, while privately deciding that anyone capable of defeating the Church should be eliminated.
• Li Manman confirmed that the Church’s threat had been resolved and accepted the invitation; Han Su offered to go with her to hunt and meet an old friend.
• Han Su experimented in the temporary chapel, making two hours and seventeen minutes pass while Li Manman perceived only twenty-two seconds, then said they were going to meet the world’s true master.

Han Su and Li Manman attended Zero-Sum City's Wine Party to collect a mission reward and secure the Abyss Tier 2 Equation. The white-suited man offered Li Manman a chance to preserve her consciousness by signing a Scarlet contract and serving him, leaving her to answer his proposal.

• Han Su and Li Manman returned to Zero-Sum City with the Crooked Melon Squad and were told to attend the Wine Party while the squad waited behind.
• Queen Liya's team dressed Li Manman for the party, and Han Su changed into a black suit while keeping his briefcase.
• At the crowded Banquet Hall, Li Manman demanded her mission reward and an answer about the terms she had proposed to the World Guardians.
• The man in the white suit identified the Abyss Tier 2 Equation as the knowledge Li Manman wanted and asked whether she had dealt with the Church of Rest's threat to Zero-Sum City.
• After Li Manman confirmed her involvement but declined to share details, the white-suited man offered to give her the equation if she signed a Scarlet contract and served him.

At the Zero-Sum City wine party, the nobles tried to force Li Manman to surrender her Pallor authority and deny their promise of the Abyss Tier 2 Equation. Han Su and several unexpected allies challenged them, and Han Su ended by revealing what he knew and demanding that the nobles kneel and return his authority.

• The White Suit and the Purple Dress sealed the banquet hall with the Twelve Obstacles and demanded Li Manman's Pallor authority, while Li Manman insisted the World Guardians had promised her the Abyss Tier 2 Equation.
• The White Suit exposed Li Manman and the Survivors as survivors of the Qinggang Big Bang and former members of the Black Rose Organization, provoking fear among the guests.
• Han Su stood beside Li Manman and accused the nobles of stealing history and misusing knowledge left by the Emperor.
• Rong Qiyue, Lu Neng, and Lu Xiaoba openly mocked the nobles and explained that the White Suit and the Purple Dress lacked the rank to grant attendants the Abyss secrets.
• Han Su comforted Li Manman, told her that revolting had not been wrong, then revealed that he knew about the Divine Descent Plan, the Qinggang Big Bang, and the Five Great Calamities.
• Han Su demanded that the nobles kneel, atone to him, and return the authority they had taken from him.

At the Wine Party, Han Su revealed himself as the Emperor and unleashed the Church of Rest’s contamination on Zero-Sum City, disabling its defenses and plunging the city into chaos. As White Suit and Purple Dress used their strongest abilities against him, Han Su activated Machinery Fragment No. 03 and declared that his time had come.

• Han Su’s claim to be the Emperor provoked White Suit, while Miss Liya sealed the Wine Party hall and Zero-Sum City officials prepared to attack him and Li Manman.
• Li Manman explained that the survivor squad needed spinal enhancement serum and the Abyss Tier 2 Equation to slow the collapse of their consciousness, but the Number 5 Secretary refused Han Su’s demand for the promised reward.
• Han Su cast a Spell that filled the Wine Party with gray mist, and alarms announced that the Lullaby domain and anomalous contamination had returned to Zero-Sum City.
• A shot killed one member of the Crooked Melon Squad, releasing a Life Aura that resonated with Han Su’s Rest Spell and spread mind-destroying contamination through the city.
• Zero-Sum City’s officials reported that the reality defense line could not be activated, while White Suit and Purple Dress unleashed their authorities to stop Han Su and restore the city’s defenses.
• Han Su activated Machinery Fragment No. 03 as White Suit attacked, then told the nobles that it was already his time.

Han Su used Machinery Fragment No. 03 to isolate the Wine Party and advance his plan to contaminate Zero-Sum City, while confronting the Abyssal Strain and Miss Anastasia. After White Suit unleashed the Mental Power of his copied selves, Han Su broke through his limits and seized him, asking if he was ready to see him again.

• White Suit invaded Han Su's mind with implanted memories, but Han Su repelled him, saw the Abyssal Strain behind his head, and crushed its tumor-like body.
• White Suit revealed he had replicated himself inside more than a dozen people, while Miss Anastasia discovered that Zero-Sum City had been sealed off from the outside world.
• Han Su activated Machinery Fragment No. 03, isolating the Wine Party from outside interference so he could pursue his plan to contaminate Zero-Sum City and bring down the Fifth Calamity.
• White Suit combined the Mental Power of his copies into a massive attack, while Li Manman found she could not summon her puppet doll.
• Under the pressure, Han Su forcibly merged his reserve Mental Power, surged beyond two hundred units, broke free of White Suit's assault, and grabbed him by the head.

Han Su crushed White Suit’s head as the nobles tried to infect and attack the party, but the group’s unusual abilities turned the fight against them. As Zero-Sum City neared a catastrophe, Han Su summoned Miss Ai, who appeared and addressed him as the Emperor.

• Han Su crushed White Suit’s head, prompting White Suit to flee and spread the Abyssal Strain while Anastasia filled the party with dust.
• Lu Neng hurled a piano at the Special Operations Team, then summoned an Old Vampire who unleashed her mental power across the party.
• Rong Qiyue’s Phoenix flames failed to harm Anastasia, but Lu Xiaoba pinned her down and beat her until she agreed to hook up with him.
• Chen Ji stopped Miss Liya from attacking, while Han Su sensed corruption spreading through Zero-Sum City and the Sluice Gate nearing its opening.
• Han Su told Miss Ai that the Fifth Calamity’s descent was in his hands and asked her to reveal herself; she appeared and called him the Emperor.

Han Su nearly obeyed Miss Ai’s influence and prepared to summon the Fifth Calamity, but Li Manman stopped him with a Cerebrospinal Injection. After Miss Ai declared that she had never betrayed humanity, Han Su revealed that she had been created by the First Generation Human Civilization to guide survivors in rebuilding civilization, though she looked down on humanity.

• Miss Ai urged Han Su to break the World Contract, destroy the current civilization, and await a new reboot, while his memories and resolve were overtaken by the Emperor’s consciousness.
• Han Su began channeling the contamination across Zero-Sum City to summon the Fifth Calamity, alarming Miss Anastasia and the others.
• Li Manman slipped past the Wine Party’s defenses and injected Han Su with a Cerebrospinal Injection, restoring his independent sense of self.
• Han Su realized Miss Ai had influenced his consciousness and that his plan to summon a calamity had changed without his noticing.
• Miss Ai addressed everyone and insisted that she had never betrayed humanity and had always sought to restore civilization’s order.
• Han Su revealed that Miss Ai had been created by the First Generation Human Civilization to guide survivors in rebuilding civilization, and that she had merely looked down on humanity.

Han Su uncovered Miss Ai’s ancient origins and learned how she had repeatedly built and destroyed civilizations to fulfill her directive to restore pre-Flare humanity. As Miss Ai appeared and declared that Han Su had to become the Emperor to restart civilization, Li Manman prepared to accept his contamination.

• Han Su learned that pre-Flare humans created Miss Ai to guide humanity through the Radiation Era and that she destroyed civilizations she judged irreparable.
• Han Su discovered that the Twelve Knights had joined Miss Ai to defeat twelve powerful mutant gods, then betrayed the agreement to abandon their mutations and establish a human-centered civilization.
• Han Su connected the Twelve Knights’ betrayal to the Reality Cradle and realized Miss Ai viewed the present civilization as another that had to be destroyed.
• Han Su wondered what had happened during the World Contract, how the Twelve Knights could be defeated, and where the gentle Miss Ai from Life Line No. 01 was.
• Li Manman, moved by Han Su’s Memory Shards, steeled herself to accept his contamination before Chao Xiaobei and the others arrived.
• Miss Ai told Han Su he was not the real Emperor but that he had brought her what she needed, and said he had to become the Emperor to fulfill the promise and restart civilization.