Recaps

Jiang Mian concealed her Calamity nature while feeding her power through Bureau work and preparing to stage an awakening. When Li Hao cornered her, she killed him with a wind storm and passed as a newly awakened [Eye of the Storm], leaving Li Tian wary of retaliating.

• Jiang Mian hid her [Doom] ability from He Yi and Shen Ming, then returned to school and refused Li Hao’s offer to support her in exchange for becoming his girlfriend.
• Jiang Mian chose [Ignite], began delivery work, and killed a [Skin Painter] with fire, while Ye Chenyang investigated the Calamity’s death.
• After Li Hao harassed her and was detained, Jiang Mian took a porter job at the Special Affairs Bureau and secretly absorbed power from Aberrant remains.
• Jiang Mian reached Second-tier, upgraded [Ignite] to [Fierce Flame], chose [Gale], and moved to a new apartment near the North City and West City boundary.
• Li Hao tracked Jiang Mian down and dragged her to a warehouse, where she used [Gale] to kill him and staged the scene as a failed awakening that left her unconscious.
• Ye Chenyang and the others accepted Jiang Mian’s storm as a natural awakening, and Jiang Mian woke in the hospital with her Calamity Core still undiscovered.
• Jiang Mian realized her counterfeit suppressor had stopped working, while Li Tian identified Li Hao’s remains and learned an Elemental Burst had killed him.

Jiang Mian joined City Defense, trained with Ye Chenyang, and fought Calamities alongside Team Five while secretly managing her Aberrant condition. As a crackdown disrupted the inhibitor trade, she bought five doses from Du Biao and warned him that someone had targeted him.

• Jiang Mian bought a Suppressor and the address of a private hospital from A Gui, then discovered Liu Mu waiting in her apartment to kill her.
• Jiang Mian revealed her [Fierce Flame], burned Liu Mu to ashes, and decided to join City Defense so she could grow stronger.
• Ye Chenyang trained Jiang Mian in wind control and firearms as she arranged to join City Defense without revealing her secrets.
• Jiang Mian joined Team Five, chose the rifle nicknamed the “Cannon,” and used her Wind Field to destroy training dummies.
• Jiang Mian and Team Five fought off a Sprinter horde at Outpost 14, where she suspected a Heart Eater had directed the attack.
• Jiang Mian encountered Li Tian at the outpost and recognized him as Li Hao’s father, while Li Huan warned him not to target her.
• Jiang Mian learned that the Joint Sweep Operation had disrupted the inhibitor market and bargained with Du Biao to buy five doses.
• Jiang Mian bought five Type Three Inhibitors from Du Biao and warned him that someone had targeted him.

Jiang Mian escaped the Security Bureau, gathered strength by killing Aberrants, and eliminated Chen Gong and Li Tian. After joining the Mutual Aid Society undercover, she learned it planned to drug Awakeners during a City Defense mission the next day, and suspected the Society had obtained leaked route information.

• Jiang Mian escaped the South District Public Security Bureau with Du Biao, who told her about the Mutual Aid Society and a West City pharmaceutical company.
• Jiang Mian burned Aberrants in West City to fill her core, upgraded her abilities, and chose Tide as her Third-tier skill.
• Jiang Mian killed Chen Gong after taking his valuables, then killed Li Tian and burned down the warehouse.
• Jiang Mian returned home, studied her Mutant Remains, and received Qin Wu’s order to report for a City Defense escort mission.
• Ye Chenyang gave Jiang Mian a Radiance crystal bracelet, while Shen Yuan later visited her and warned her about dangerous Calamities.
• Jiang Mian used Du Biao’s contact method to enter the Mutual Aid Society, claimed to be a Second-tier [Mist Concealment] Aberrant, and secretly kept its Suppressor.
• Number Four told Jiang Mian that the Society planned to dose Awakeners during the next day’s escort mission, and Jiang Mian suspected someone had leaked the underground route.

Jiang Mian uncovered the danger behind the blood-red Suppressor, killed the Mutual Aid Society’s Number One and Number Two, and destroyed the hospital’s supply while battling Calamities. She contained the growing Spiritual Erosion in her dream and prepared to enter the Training Program, while Ye Chenyang and Xiao Song watched her closely.

• Jiang Mian burned away a strange red substance and a tentacled creature that appeared in her blood-red dream.
• During the supply convoy mission, Jiang Mian exposed Ah Hua as a Mimic and let it clash with Numbers Four and Eight amid a Mist Tide.
• Jiang Mian killed the Mimic, Number Eight, and Number Four, then returned to East City with Team Five and accepted Xiao Song’s Training Program invitation.
• Jiang Mian discovered that the Mimic’s core could power her clones and that burning the dream creature’s Corruption-afflicted Chaos power restored her psychic strength.
• At the Mutual Aid Society, Jiang Mian saw Number One’s monstrous transformation, killed Number One and Number Two, and found Number One’s diary warning about the Suppressor and a red wasteland.
• Jiang Mian raided the underground pharmacy and destroyed its Suppressors as Calamity Transformation spread through the hospital, while Ye Chenyang identified the red liquid as [Formless] of [Chaos].
• Jiang Mian fought a giant tree in her dream, recognized the creature’s plea as a disguise, and learned she could control the space holding the Spiritual Erosion.
• Ye Chenyang visited Jiang Mian, recharged and upgraded her bracelet, while Xiao Song watched them from above.