Recaps

Bai Zuo reported to Shen Yu about successfully taking over a world, while noticing that the Chairman seemed to know the entire process already. After the report, Bai Zuo asked why Shen Yu looked bored and subdued, leaving Shen Yu to explain the excuse he had given about being away on a mission.

• Bai Zuo asked Fu Zhang to find the Chairman, and Fu Zhang called him on his communicator.
• Shen Yu returned to Headquarters and listened as Bai Zuo gave a detailed account of the takeover.
• Bai Zuo noticed Shen Yu showed no surprise at details that only he could have known.
• Shen Yu gave Bai Zuo a peach-flavored drink, and Bai Zuo finished explaining the rest of his report.
• Bai Zuo asked whether the world had been uninteresting or the mission had gone poorly because Shen Yu seemed subdued.
• Shen Yu recalled that his story about being away in a great world had only been an excuse, and Bai Zuo said the Chairman looked unhappy.

After Bai Zuo asked for a reward, Shen Yu went with him to an amusement park, where Shen Yu noticed Evil Mouth nearby. As Shen Yu passed him, the Weird inside Evil Mouth reacted to something, then fell silent, leaving Evil Mouth unsure what had caused it.

• Shen Yu listened as Bai Zuo recounted his recent task, and Bai Zuo asked to go to an amusement park with him as a reward.
• Shen Yu changed clothes, put on a mask, and went to the crowded amusement park with Bai Zuo.
• At the park, Shen Yu used the system to spot Evil Mouth nearby and realized he had returned from Australia.
• After buying tickets and ice cream, Shen Yu brushed past Evil Mouth, whose Weird stirred with an urgent desire before becoming quiet again.
• Evil Mouth wondered whether the Weird was hungry, though its reaction had been neither backlash nor revival.

Evil Mouth entered the amusement park’s haunted house to investigate the strange presence stirring inside him, while Shen Yu watched Bai Zuo guide the other visitors through the game. The group began exploring the castle, and Bai Zuo reasoned that the mirror-lined corridor would not have a chase sequence because the mirrors could break.

• Evil Mouth skipped ahead in the haunted-house line by psychically making waiting visitors lose patience.
• The staff introduced Lilith’s story and instructed the group to find clues, locate the exit, and escape.
• Shen Yu watched Bai Zuo blend in with the visitors and emerge as their informal leader.
• The visitors discussed their roles and entered a dim corridor lined with mirrors.
• Bai Zuo deduced that the corridor would not have a chase sequence because a pursuit could damage the mirrors.

Bai Zuo defused Chen Ming’s challenge while Shen Yu and Evil Mouth noticed each other’s unusual presence. The group searched Lilith’s toy room and found notes hinting at a mysterious figure in the mirror, but Shanshan froze with a sudden chill as she left the room.

• Bai Zuo explained why he thought there would be no chase sequence in the corridor, and Chen Ming’s criticism drew little support from the group.
• Evil Mouth watched Shen Yu and wondered whether the boy’s presence was stirring the strange thing inside him.
• Bai Zuo reunited with the Chairman and confirmed they had both sensed a strong aura in the haunted house.
• Shanshan and her friends searched Lilith’s toy room, finding a note asking when the man in the mirror would come out to play and other ominous clues on the toys.
• Shanshan felt a chill and stopped just after leaving the toy room.

Shanshan and her two friends explored a haunted house, where lifelike mannequins and a chainsaw-wielding ghost frightened them. In a mirror-lined corridor, Shanshan saw a reflection calling itself her only friend, then began to suspect that the two people beside her were not really her friends.

• Shanshan and her friends found a group of lifelike mannequins and admired their detail, though Shanshan felt uneasy about them.
• Shanshan thought she saw the mannequins move as she led her friends away.
• A ghost carrying a chainsaw chased a couple, and Shanshan and her friends fled into a mirror-lined corridor.
• Shanshan heard a voice ask who her best friend was, and a figure in the mirror called itself Lilith's only friend.
• Shanshan's friends noticed she was shaken, but their hollow expressions made her fear they were not her friends at all.

Shanshan realized the people posing as her friends were mannequins and fled, while a real monster pursued two girls trapped inside the mirrors. The remaining visitors pieced together Lilith’s story and searched for clues as the monster continued hunting them.

• Shanshan recognized the cold, stiff touch of the people posing as her friends and ran away after signaling for staff beneath a camera.
• The mannequins chased Shanshan, while the control room reported the other visitors’ locations to the chainsaw-wielding staff member.
• The staff member passed through the mirror corridor without noticing two girls trapped inside it, where a real monster in his likeness pursued them.
• The visitors worked out that Lilith’s wish had brought a monster through the mirror, and that they needed to find her to escape the castle.
• Chen Ming noted that only eighteen players remained after a couple was eliminated, while the group struggled to match an eleven-digit clue to a three-digit lock.

Bai Zuo solved the treasure chest code, and the players used its key to head toward Lilith's room. Meanwhile, haunted-house staff discovered an unaccounted-for visitor in Room 6 and found Shanshan badly frightened, so they decided to take her out.

• Chen Ming picked on Bai Zuo, who revealed that the treasure chest password was 318 and proved it by opening the chest.
• The players found a key inside and headed toward Lilith's room, while Bai Zuo followed without speaking to the Chairman.
• A control-room staff member noticed an extra visitor on the monitors and told the staff member playing a ghost to check the hiding cabinet in Room 6.
• The staff member found Shanshan hiding in the cabinet, and she clung to him in terror, insisting there were monsters.
• The control room saw how frightened Shanshan was and ordered the staff member to take her out.

Shanshan escaped the haunted house and went to the control room to find her friends, where she and General Manager Liang discovered eighteen visitors on the surveillance feed instead of the expected group. Among them, Shanshan saw someone who looked exactly like herself as the players continued their storyline with Lilith.

• A staff member carried Shanshan out of the haunted house, and the staff outside gave her hot water and a blanket.
• Shanshan insisted on seeing her friends, so a staff member escorted her to the control room.
• The players found Lilith in her room, persuaded her to leave the castle, and agreed to follow her to a secret passage.
• General Manager Liang counted eighteen visitors on the surveillance monitors and feared an extra person had entered the haunted house.
• Shanshan pointed out a visitor who looked exactly like her and told General Manager Liang she did not have a twin sister.

Shanshan reported that her two friends had become strange, cold beings, prompting the police to evacuate the amusement park. Meanwhile, Shen Yu and Evil Mouth were trapped in a room that would only let them leave if they proved they were friends, and they passed by exchanging answers in Morse code.

• Shanshan told President Liang that her friends had seemed lifeless and unnatural, and President Liang called the police.
• Police arrived, closed the amusement park, and safely evacuated the visitors after the anomalous incident was reported.
• Shen Yu watched Evil Mouth struggle to resist the anomaly inside him, which made him crave eating Shen Yu.
• Shen Yu and Evil Mouth found a rule asking whether they were friends and requiring them to answer questions about each other's preferences.
• Evil Mouth and Shen Yu secretly exchanged information in Morse code, answered correctly, and the rules declared them a pair of good friends.

Evil Mouth and Shen Yu entered a castle within the Ghost Domain and found a birthday banquet being held for Lilith. As they observed the celebration, Lilith revealed that she did not trust the noble girls who attended.

• Evil Mouth explained the Ghost Domain to Shen Yu and stepped through a mirror into a medieval castle.
• Evil Mouth realized the earlier room may have been only the surface of the Ghost Domain and entered the castle with Shen Yu.
• The castle filled with guards and servants preparing a birthday banquet for Miss Lilith.
• The old duke welcomed the nobles and celebrated Lilith’s birthday while she watched from a high platform with her maid Mary.
• Lilith declined Mary’s suggestion to mingle, recalling that the noble girls had only spoken to her out of respect for the old duke.

Evil Mouth and Shen Yu learned about Lilith’s sheltered life at the banquet, and Evil Mouth suspected friendship was key to the Weird. After Evil Mouth startled Lilith by taking her mirror, Shen Yu’s arrival calmed her, and she asked the outsiders what the world beyond the castle was like.

• Evil Mouth learned from the nobles that the old duke had adopted Lilith after her parents were killed by bandits and treated her as his heir, while keeping her inside the castle.
• Evil Mouth connected Lilith’s longing for a friend to the rules of the room and suspected friendship could break the deadlock.
• Evil Mouth approached Lilith on the raised platform, took her mirror, and found nothing unusual about it.
• Lilith asked Evil Mouth who he was, and he frightened her by claiming to be a man-eating evil ghost.
• Shen Yu climbed the stairs, and Lilith became less afraid before asking whether he and Evil Mouth came from outside the castle.
• Lilith asked Evil Mouth to describe the outside world, and he mocked her for thinking she could survive there.

Shen Yu and Evil Mouth followed a strange aura to the mirror in Lilith’s toy room, where Evil Mouth urged her to ask for a friend. Lilith’s reflection answered and reached through the mirror, leaving Lilith terrified as Evil Mouth prepared to confront it.

• Lilith said she wanted to leave the castle and city and find a true close friend, while Evil Mouth bluntly described the filthy streets outside.
• A strange aura appeared when Lilith spoke about wanting a friend, and Evil Mouth traced it to a mirror in her toy room.
• Evil Mouth told Lilith to ask the mirror for a friend, and she reluctantly repeated her wish while looking at her reflection.
• The mirror’s surface rippled, and Lilith’s reflection smiled sinisterly, agreed she should have a friend, and reached through the mirror.
• Lilith recoiled from the hand, and Evil Mouth flexed his fingers as he faced the figure emerging from the mirror.

Evil Mouth used his Weird ability against the Mirror Weird after it reached for Shen Yu, and the Weird pulled everyone into a mirror. Shen Yu awoke in a white-jade castle dressed as a prince, where a princess approached him.

• Evil Mouth grabbed the Mirror Weird's claw, but Shen Yu's touch drew the Weird's attention away from him.
• Evil Mouth pulled Shen Yu behind him when the Mirror Weird reached out again, while Lilith screamed.
• Evil Mouth used his Weird ability to attack the Mirror Weird, which retaliated by sucking everyone into the mirror.
• Shen Yu awoke in a white-jade castle dressed as a prince and turned to see a girl in a princess gown curtsy to him.

Shen Yu let the Mirror Weird control him during a dance while he tried to learn its intentions. Evil Mouth interrupted, but the Mirror Weird trapped him in a fight against reflections that drove him toward losing control, leaving him on the brink of possession.

• The Mirror Weird invited Shen Yu to dance, then bound and controlled him with transparent threads when he refused.
• As Shen Yu danced with it, the Mirror Weird’s face gradually changed to resemble his own while it tried to discover his preferences.
• Evil Mouth cut through the threads with the Demon Scythe, prompting the Mirror Weird’s disguised guests to reveal themselves and attack him.
• The Mirror Weird summoned five mirrors whose reflections attacked Evil Mouth and intensified his emotions after one reflection’s scythe grazed him.
• Evil Mouth lost himself to murderous rage as the Weird inside him neared awakening, while the Mirror Weird waited to devour it and keep Shen Yu with it forever.

Shen Yu helped Evil Mouth defeat Mirror Weird, but the creature escaped as its Ghost Domain collapsed. As Evil Mouth weakened, he recognized Shen Yu as the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association and realized the man was no ordinary person.

• Evil Mouth wounded Mirror Weird and shattered its mirror images, but collapsed before he could finish it off.
• Shen Yu embraced Mirror Weird, then drove the Demon Scythe deeper into its body and sliced it open.
• Mirror Weird's Ghost Domain collapsed, but Mirror Weird escaped before it could be killed.
• Evil Mouth asked Shen Yu to call for help, but Shen Yu placed a hand on his forehead and suppressed the Weird inside him.
• Evil Mouth recognized Shen Yu as the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association before losing consciousness.

Shen Yu altered Evil Mouth’s memories before he passed out, while the Anomaly Investigation Team entered the haunted house and rescued tourists trapped inside plaster mannequins and a barricaded room. Chen Ming rushed toward the investigators, who pushed him back cautiously as they checked whether the survivors were ordinary people or Weird.

• Shen Yu meddled with Evil Mouth’s memories, and Evil Mouth collapsed unconscious before he could confront him.
• Investigators found tourists sealed inside plaster mannequins and called emergency personnel to transport them for help.
• The investigators heard screams behind a barricaded door and broke in to rescue the tourists hiding inside.
• The survivors revealed that fake companions had chased them, and Chen Ming had endangered a wounded girl to escape.
• Chen Ming rushed toward the Anomaly Investigation Team, but an investigator shoved him back while remaining wary of possible Weird disguised as civilians.

The Investigation Team uncovered the deadly consequences of the haunted house’s Ghost Domain after Bai Zuo contained the Mirror Weird. Captain Kong Yubo ordered a nationwide review of missing and dead people, deciding they could no longer rely on the safety buff.

• Investigators treated an injured tourist and searched the haunted house before evacuating it on orders from above.
• Bai Zuo found the Mirror Weird, beat it for interrupting his time with the Chairman, and contained it in a Anomaly Cage.
• Shen Yu learned the haunted house’s abnormalities had begun on January 28 and that visitors had been marked by the Ghost Domain.
• The Investigation Team found that twenty-three missing tourists had suffocated inside mannequins, while more than a hundred people had died directly or indirectly because of the haunted house’s Weird.
• Kong Yubo ordered Investigation Team branches nationwide to check for other missing and dead people linked to similar anomalies.

Kong Yubo prepared the investigation team for a final attempt to clear a B-class Dungeon before the safety buff expired, while Shen Yu and Bai Zuo went to watch an idol perform. Shen Yu checked his arts-related employees’ records and found that Yi Gui Company had given them strong support and established entertainment companies for them.

• Kong Yubo said the investigation team had one day left under the safety buff and planned to request help from Contract Anomalists if their next attempt failed.
• Kong Yubo ordered the team to assemble at the Dungeon entrance at one o'clock, and Chen Guangji requested and received permission to join the operation.
• Bai Zuo found Shen Yu outside the sealed amusement park and asked to watch a performance on a nearby street.
• Shen Yu and Bai Zuo watched an idol sing on a commercial street, and Shen Yu wondered how his arts-related employees were doing.
• Shen Yu checked the employee list and found that Yi Gui Company’s department managers had arranged suitable opportunities and subsidiary entertainment companies for the employees.

Bai Zuo watched Shen Yu leave after a street performance, then confronted a disguised S-rank Contract Anomalist performing magic. The magician revealed himself as Skywing A, who asked how Bai Zuo had recognized him.

• Bai Zuo watched Shen Yu during an idol's performance and reflected on his admiration for Chairman.
• After the show, Bai Zuo told Shen Yu to return to Headquarters because he had something to do.
• Shen Yu left, and Bai Zuo found a street magician performing tricks for a crowd.
• Bai Zuo mocked the magician for performing on the street and offered to make him a servant.
• The magician revealed himself as Skywing A and asked how Bai Zuo saw through his disguise.
• Bai Zuo said he recognized Skywing A by his bird stench, and Skywing A called it the power of prejudice.

Shen Yu used Skywing A to disguise himself as his injured classmate and approach his classmates, who had joined the mystery-seeking Key Society. He pretended to be interested as Mo Chen invited him to join, leaving Shen Yu poised to investigate the society from within.

• Bai Zuo left Skywing A after dismissing his claim that he was there on a mission.
• Shen Yu, acting as Skywing A, used a magical face disguise to look like himself and changed into clothes suited to the role.
• Shen Yu encountered Wu Ming, Ding Wen, Xiang Xin, Jiang Xu, and Cui Zicheng, who were discussing a recent anomalous incident and his absence from class.
• Wu Ming brought Shen Yu into the group and explained that they had joined the Key Society, introduced by its member Mo Chen.
• The classmates described the society's weekly activities and monthly payments of five hundred yuan, and Mo Chen invited Shen Yu to join.

Shen Yu joined Key Society after the Affinity Stone reacted brilliantly to the tiny trace of power he released. Mo Chen welcomed him with a Society card promising five thousand per month, while Cui Zicheng concealed his jealousy over Shen Yu’s exceptional talent.

• Shen Yu saw through Mo Chen’s intentions but agreed to join Key Society and went to a restaurant with him and the other students.
• Mo Chen presented Shen Yu with an Affinity Stone, which he said tested whether someone was suited to join the Society.
• Shen Yu sensed the force inside the stone and released a tiny trace of power, making the stone shine brightly and heat the room.
• Mo Chen delighted in Shen Yu’s result, while Cui Zicheng grew jealous and concealed his murderous intent.
• Mo Chen welcomed Shen Yu into Key Society and offered him a Society card that paid five thousand per month.

Shen Yu left the recruitment event after Mo Chen discovered his exceptional talent, while Cui Zicheng decided to kill him before the Key Society could recruit him. Cui Zicheng followed Shen Yu into a secluded alley and attacked, only to discover that the person he had been pursuing was not Shen Yu.

• Shen Yu impressed Mo Chen with his talent, and Mo Chen arranged to bring him to Key Society Headquarters the next day.
• Cui Zicheng feared Shen Yu would eclipse him in the Key Society and resolved to stop him before he joined.
• After the event ended, Cui Zicheng followed Shen Yu through the commercial street and into a secluded alley.
• Cui Zicheng tried to strike Shen Yu with a brick, but an invisible barrier stopped the blow.
• The figure turned around with red eyes, and Cui Zicheng dropped the brick and realized he was not facing Shen Yu.

Skywing A revealed himself to Cui Zicheng after terrifying him, and Cui Zicheng tried to use his status as a Contract Anomalist to secure protection and a place in their ranks. Skywing A stabbed Cui Zicheng, leaving him protesting that Contract Anomalists were forbidden from attacking ordinary people.

• Skywing A transformed into a feathered, inhuman form and frightened Cui Zicheng, who begged for his life.
• Skywing A shed the grotesque feathers, and Cui Zicheng recognized him as the famous S-class Contract Anomalist.
• Cui Zicheng praised Skywing A and hoped to join the Contract Anomalists, while privately resenting the humiliation.
• After Skywing A scoffed at him, Cui Zicheng heard a fledgling's cry and felt pain in his abdomen.
• Cui Zicheng confronted Skywing A, insisting that he was an ordinary person and warning that the Contract Anomalist organization would not protect him for breaking its rules.

Cui Zicheng begged Skywing A for mercy after attacking him, but Skywing A killed him and the Logistics Department concealed the scene and recovered the body. At Headquarters, staff recognized that a Contract Anomalist had killed an ordinary person and speculated about who was responsible, but warned each other not to accuse the lords without evidence.

• Cui Zicheng explained that he had mistaken Skywing A for his intended target and begged him to let the attack go.
• Skywing A left, then used an invisible blade to sever Cui Zicheng's arm and killed him when he continued pleading.
• Skywing A reported the incident to Headquarters, and logistics staff cordoned off the alley, documented the evidence, cleaned the scene, and transported the body away.
• At Headquarters, logistics staff confirmed the corpse had not mutated and concluded that a Contract Anomalist had killed an ordinary person.
• The staff speculated about which Contract Anomalist was responsible, then cautioned each other not to discuss the lords without evidence.

After Skywing A killed an ordinary person on Blue Star, the Supervision Department investigated and found that Nameless Bird had inflicted the fatal wounds. Unable to determine whether Skywing A acted in self-defense, Ji Wu and Song Shi referred the case to the Court of Judgment.

• Skywing A's Character Perfection rose to 73%, unlocking Wind's Instant (Perfect) and the Realm of Freedom special scenario.
• The Supervision Department dispatched Ji Wu and Song Shi to investigate Skywing A's killing of an ordinary person.
• Ji Wu and Song Shi examined the corpse and confirmed that Nameless Bird had caused its severe wounds, likely killing the victim through blood loss.
• Ji Wu and Song Shi found Skywing A's claim of self-defense questionable but could not determine his guilt, so they reported the case to the Court of Judgment.
• The chapter explained that the Court of Judgment, Holy Sanction, and the Blade of Verdict judged, pursued, and punished Contract Anomalists, respectively.