Recaps

The Key Society's leaders debated whether to pursue a student protected by a Contract Anomalist, while Mo Chen privately regretted joining the group. Shen Yu had overheard their plans, and the Key Society had become his target.

• The Key Society's leaders compared Blue Star's Contract Anomalists to the Weird Tamers of their world and regarded them with envy, disdain, and fear.
• The leaders argued over whether to risk provoking a Contract Anomalist to capture a rare student candidate.
• Mo Chen warned that the student's classmates had been detained and were likely under surveillance, making contact dangerous.
• The Key Society decided to search secretly for the student's records and information.
• Shen Yu listened to the Key Society's discussion and resolved not to let them off easily.

Shen Yu concluded that Key Society had come from a Horror Dungeon and decided to infiltrate it. Mo Chen unexpectedly found Wu Feichen, who said he disliked the Contract Anomalists’ rules, and invited him to join Key Society.

• Shen Yu reasoned that Key Society had crossed over from another world through a Horror Dungeon and wondered whether other living humans existed in Dungeons.
• Shen Yu decided to infiltrate Key Society to learn its true nature.
• Mo Chen, while walking in disguise, encountered Wu Feichen, the missing student he and Key Society had been searching for.
• Wu Feichen revealed that he had left the Contract Anomalists’ organization for a casual walk because he disliked its many rules.
• Mo Chen invited Wu Feichen to join Key Society, emphasizing its freedom, and Wu Feichen asked whether Mo Chen was also a white bird seeking freedom.

Mo Chen recognized Wu Feichen as a dangerous fanatic who believed death offered true freedom, then persuaded him to visit the Key Society and brought him to its hidden base. The Society’s leaders were stunned that Mo Chen had returned with the candidate they had been seeking.

• Mo Chen grew wary as Wu Feichen described ordinary life as unfree and claimed death brought true freedom.
• Wu Feichen waited for Mo Chen’s agreement, but Mo Chen nervously suggested he take his ideas to the Key Society.
• Wu Feichen agreed to go with Mo Chen, who abandoned his suspicion that the man was an undercover agent and hurried him back to the hidden base.
• The Key Society’s leaders, meeting about evading the authorities and finding candidates, learned that Mo Chen had brought back the suitable candidate.
• The leaders were further surprised when they realized Wu Feichen was the student Mo Chen had encountered before, and wondered how Mo Chen had managed it.

Mo Chen brought Wu Feichen to meet the Key Society’s senior members, warning them in advance about Wu Feichen’s difficult personality. The executives tried to recruit Wu Feichen with promises of support, and he asked what they thought of freedom.

• Mo Chen and Wu Feichen toured the Society’s base while Mo Chen sent the senior members information about Wu Feichen.
• Wu Feichen sensed powerful energy near a sealed chamber, but Mo Chen persuaded him to leave without testing its barrier.
• Mo Chen brought Wu Feichen before the senior members, who praised his talent and promised to provide resources and support.
• Wu Feichen asked the senior members what they thought of freedom, and they assured him the Society would not restrict him.

Wu Feichen accepted the Key Society’s generous offer of freedom and settled into the base while secretly investigating its suspicious secret room. He slipped past its barrier and discovered a pool of concentrated Weird energy, then continued searching for clues about its source.

• The Key Society’s higher-ups avoided debating freedom with Wu Feichen and told Mo Chen to accommodate him without imposing restrictions.
• Mo Chen brought Wu Feichen to his room, supplied him with clothes, games, and food, and left him to rest.
• After nightfall, Wu Feichen used wind to avoid Society members and enter the secret room through its barrier.
• Wu Feichen found a pool of dark green water filled with enough Weird energy to rival that inside a Fierce Fiend-level Weird.
• Wu Feichen considered how the pool’s water might help cultivate Weirds and continued exploring the large chamber.

Skywing A uncovered Key Society’s human experiments and the source of its supernatural energy, then returned to his room planning to act. Meanwhile, Wu Feichen’s questions about freedom distressed the society’s members, and Mo Chen took him to see imprisoned supernatural entities.

• Skywing A read Key Society’s records and learned that it had conducted cruel experiments on people to extend tamers’ lifespans and remove the dangers of supernatural entities.
• Skywing A discovered that Key Society’s pool of supernatural energy came from a space opened through transactions that cost one hundred human lives each time, but the records did not reveal how to reach it.
• Skywing A erased evidence of his visit and teleported back to his room, deciding he would no longer hold back.
• Mo Chen woke from a frightening dream and wondered if bringing Wu Feichen back had been a mistake.
• A fellow member told Mo Chen that Wu Feichen had been dragging members into discussions about freedom, so Mo Chen went to find him.
• Mo Chen interrupted Wu Feichen’s discussion and said he would take him to see the supernatural entities locked up at the base.

Wu Feichen revealed overwhelming power when he shattered the barrier holding the Weirds and subdued Mo Chen. He captured Mo Chen and the Key Society higher-ups, leaving them imprisoned together.

• Mo Chen showed Wu Feichen the twelve low-level Weirds held behind a barrier, hoping to entice him with Key Society’s ability to capture and control them.
• Wu Feichen touched the barrier, deflected its attack, shattered it, and restrained the escaped Weirds with an invisible force.
• Mo Chen realized Wu Feichen radiated a powerful Weird’s aura and tried to flee, but Wu Feichen pinned him with crushing wind.
• Mo Chen argued that killing people who wished to live and seek freedom would violate their freedom, persuading Wu Feichen not to kill him.
• Wu Feichen said he still had to capture the Key Society members and took Mo Chen to a prison cell, where the captured higher-ups were already held.

Skywing A wiped out Key Society and had its leaders interrogated for information about summoning an unknown entity. After the stronghold was cleared and the remaining members were killed, Kong Yubo and Chen Guangji discussed the growing danger from anomalies and the limits of the safety buff.

• Skywing A brought Key Society's upper ranks to Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters and had them brutally interrogated while Mo Chen listened from prison.
• Anomaly Containment Association logistics personnel removed the bodies and contaminated traces from Key Society's stronghold.
• Kong Yubo arrived after the cleanup and learned that Contract Anomalists had killed Key Society members at locations across the city.
• Kong Yubo told Chen Guangji that rising anomaly deaths could eventually overwhelm public order despite the safety buff and the Contract Anomalists.

Shen Yu ordered Yi Gui Company to recruit Contract Anomalists and logistics personnel worldwide, using mass-produced Affinity Stones to screen applicants. Only 121 applicants met the requirements on the first day, while countries around the world began recruiting those Yi Gui Company rejected.

• Chen Guangji lamented the investigation team's lack of personnel, and Kong Yubo explained that he had targeted Key Society for its knowledge of cultivating Contract Anomalists.
• Shen Yu ordered Yi Gui Company to begin worldwide recruitment as its Headquarters and facilities were ready.
• Yi Gui Company announced recruitment across Blue Star, prompting a surge of applicants and questions about eligibility.
• Two S-rank researchers deciphered the Affinity Stone Skywing A had obtained from Key Society and enabled its mass production for screening applicants.
• Yi Gui Company screened applicants at branches worldwide and found that only 121 met its requirements on the first day.
• Countries contacted rejected applicants who showed some affinity for anomalous energy and offered them generous benefits.

Yi Gui Company ended its three-day recruitment, prompting public regret and discussion about anomalies and the risks of becoming Contract Anomalists. At headquarters, Zhao Hun successfully contracted the Malignant Curse-class Weird Yan Luo, while Zhang Lin offered to help Du Jiashi find a Weird to strengthen his own contract.

• Yi Gui Company announced that newcomer recruitment had ended after three days, and people online regretted missing their chance while discussing anomaly risks and preparation.
• Zhao Hun returned to headquarters after successfully contracting the Malignant Curse-class Weird Yan Luo.
• Zhang Lin congratulated Zhao Hun, and Du Jiashi regretted choosing Weird Courier when he could have been bolder.
• Yang Yu told Du Jiashi that his Weird could still become powerful if he raised it properly, though mission rules limited his chances to feed it other Weirds.
• Zhang Lin offered to help Du Jiashi find Weirds he could devour, and the group noted that Zhang Lin and Xu Rou had reached C-Class.

Yang Yu, Yin Nu, and Zhao Hun celebrated with their companions as they discussed new partnerships, while Du Jiashi remained an E-rank Contract Anomalist because his Weird Courier lacked offensive abilities. Xu Zhou joined their gathering after a mission, bringing the group together with a respected senior.

• Yang Yu and Yin Nu became D-rank Contract Anomalists, while Du Jiashi remained E-rank because his Weird Courier only had storage abilities.
• Zhang Lin took Zhao Hun to the Medical Department after exhaustion left him unable to walk, and Zhao Hun recovered after resting.
• The six companions held a barbecue by an indoor lake, celebrated Zhao Hun becoming a Contract Anomalist, and discussed how their teams might change as they grew stronger.
• Zhang Lin offered to help Du Jiashi find a suitable Weird, while Yang Yu and Zhao Hun agreed to team up and encouraged Zhao Hun to master his abilities.
• Xu Zhou passed the gathering, accepted the newcomers' invitation, and joined them after finishing a mission.

Xu Zhou explained to the newcomers that Contract Anomalists could harm ordinary people during anomalous incidents if they judged it necessary for containment. The chapter ended with the newcomers learning that such decisions were largely left to each Contract Anomalist’s judgment.

• Jiang Tianzong returned from a mission as a B-rank Contract Anomalist after training relentlessly to catch up with Xu Zhou.
• Xu Zhou invited Jiang Tianzong to eat, but Jiang Tianzong said he needed to write an early mission report because he had injured seven ordinary people during the mission.
• Jiang Tianzong explained that he had chopped off the civilians’ hands and feet because they were making noise and getting in his way, then left to write his report.
• Zhang Lin and the others questioned whether Contract Anomalists were allowed to hurt ordinary people, and Xu Zhou explained that during anomalous incidents they could act according to their own judgment about containment.

Xu Zhou explained that the Anomaly Containment Association prioritized containing Weirds and preserving civilization, not protecting every individual. After Headquarters announced that new recruits were arriving, the group received assignments to guide newcomers or work with senior Contract Anomalists and parted ways for their missions.

• Zhang Lin questioned whether Contract Anomalists should abandon ordinary people, but admitted that protecting themselves came first and that he could not demand others make sacrifices.
• Xu Zhou clarified that the Anomaly Containment Association contained Weirds first and safeguarded humanity's civilizational flame rather than individual people; intervention could also bring a world under the Association's ownership.
• Headquarters announced that new recruits would soon arrive and that Contract Anomalists of C-rank or higher would guide them.
• Zhang Lin received a newcomer-guiding mission that would leave him only a week to help Du Jiashi search for Weirds, while Xu Rou and Yin Nu were assigned to work together.
• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu learned they would be guided by A-rank seniors, while Du Jiashi was assigned an S-rank senior.
• The group toasted together, wished one another well, and left to complete their missions or meet their assigned seniors.

Zhao Hun and Yang Yu met the Taoist priest who had guided Zhao Hun before, now assigned to train them. After explaining the drawbacks of defining himself as support, the Taoist priest offered Yang Yu another path to becoming powerful on his own.

• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun went to Training Room 7 after receiving a message to meet their assigned senior Contract Anomalist.
• Zhao Hun recognized the red-robed Taoist priest by the bell at his waist and greeted him with delight.
• The Taoist priest examined Zhao Hun's Malignant Curse-level Weird, then asked Yang Yu about his future-warning ability.
• Yang Yu described his ability as support-oriented, but the Taoist priest warned that powerful Contract Anomalists often worked alone and that Weird could grow hostile toward prolonged company.
• The Taoist priest asked Yang Yu whether he truly wanted to define himself as support and offered him another path to becoming powerful through his own abilities.

Yang Yu and Zhao Hun underwent brutal training and dangerous missions under Daoist, while Du Jiashi began a combat assessment with S-rank Contract Anomalist Wang Qing. After firing his dual pistols without hitting Wang Qing, Du Jiashi drew a longsword from his storage space as Wang Qing moved in to strike.

• Yang Yu accepted Daoist's guidance, and Daoist created training plans for him and Zhao Hun.
• Daoist pushed Yang Yu and Zhao Hun through punishing training and dangerous missions, improving their mastery over Weirds.
• Du Jiashi met his new leader, Captain Wang, who judged him physically weak and ordered him to choose a weapon for assessment.
• Du Jiashi selected dual pistols and fired at Wang Qing, but Wang Qing dodged every shot and closed the distance.
• As Wang Qing's punch approached and his pistols ran empty, Du Jiashi pulled a longsword from his storage space and slashed at Wang Qing's arm.

Du Jiashi trained under Wang Qing and grew stronger through combat practice and missions, while Weird Courier evolved after devouring several low-level Weird entities. As new recruits arrived at Headquarters, Du Jiashi had become a skilled fighter who could protect his teammates.

• Wang Qing sparred with Du Jiashi, praised his tactical thinking, and sent him a personalized training schedule.
• Du Jiashi, Yang Yu, and Zhao Hun trained together, and a week of practice greatly improved their strength and endurance.
• Du Jiashi and Zhang Lin found low-level Weird entities for Weird Courier to devour, allowing it to evolve into Green Face and expand its storage space.
• Selected newcomers passed their training and tests and went to Headquarters to form contracts with Weird entities.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun discussed their progress and found that Du Jiashi had surpassed them in martial arts and combat instincts.

Zhao Hun and Yang Yu investigated the disappearance of a family of three from their apartment, accompanied by a Taoist priest. They found the family’s home undisturbed and detected no Weird aura, leaving the cause of the disappearance unknown.

• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun accepted a mission to investigate Zhang Chengan, Qian Qiuyun, and Zhang Bin, who had vanished from their home two days earlier.
• The logistics staff briefed them that the family had not been seen leaving since the ninth, and the investigation team had found neither them nor the Weird responsible.
• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu entered the evacuated apartment building and climbed the stairs to the family’s unit, 501.
• Zhao Hun opened the damaged door and turned on the lights, revealing a neat, warm-looking living room.
• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu searched the living room but found no Weird aura, while the Taoist priest watched from the doorway.

Zhao Hun and Yang Yu searched the missing family’s home and traced the disappearance to a Weird hiding in Zhang Bin’s wardrobe. Yang Yu saw a glimpse of a fleshy eye appearing in the wardrobe crack, and the two escaped the room before the Daoist priest asked what they had found.

• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu noticed the family’s untouched meal and realized the household had vanished before they sat down to eat.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun recalled that Zhang Bin’s bedroom door had been closed and went to search his room more carefully.
• Yang Yu reconstructed Zhang Bin’s final moments and suspected the wardrobe beside the bed was connected to his disappearance.
• Zhao Hun reached to close the wardrobe, but Yang Yu warned him just as a powerful Weird aura seeped through the crack.
• Yang Yu saw a future fragment in which a huge fleshy eye appeared in the wardrobe gap and he vanished after meeting its gaze.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun backed out without looking at the wardrobe, then told the Daoist priest about the Weird they had sensed and seen.

The Daoist priest used his bizarre exorcism routine to provoke the eye in the wardrobe, then stabbed it with his peachwood sword and transported himself, Zhao Hun, and Yang Yu to an unfamiliar place. He explained that containing a trigger-type anomaly required activating its rule, despite the danger of making eye contact.

• The Daoist priest sealed the room with talismans and entered with a peachwood sword while Zhao Hun and Yang Yu watched his ritual.
• Zhao Hun copied the Lingguan Seal and learned that using it on a person could provoke a fight.
• The Daoist priest appeared to switch the lights off and on, while Yang Yu and Zhao Hun realized a girl had been operating the switch.
• The Daoist priest confronted the eye in the wardrobe and thrust his peachwood sword through its center.
• The Daoist priest, Zhao Hun, and Yang Yu vanished from the room and reappeared in an unfamiliar place.
• The Daoist priest told Yang Yu that they had to trigger the eye's rule to contain the anomaly itself.

Yang Yu and Zhao Hun encountered a child Weird carrying Zhang Chengan’s severed head in a haunted residence and fought it before a teleporting White-Dressed Ghost appeared. As the ghost attacked the Daoist priest, his Resentful Woman intervened and trapped it in her Ghost Domain, leaving the two ghosts locked in combat.

• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun explored the eerie wooden residence with the Daoist priest as a child’s voice counted outside.
• Zhao Hun opened the door, saw a little Weird carrying Zhang Chengan’s head, and attacked it with his Weird energy and blade.
• The wounded little Weird wailed for help, and a White-Dressed Ghost appeared in the corridor and attacked Yang Yu.
• Yang Yu realized the ghost was targeting the Daoist priest and tried to warn him, but the Resentful Woman appeared and seized the White-Dressed Ghost.
• The Resentful Woman clawed the White-Dressed Ghost, then trapped it in her Ghost Domain after it stabbed through her body.

The Resentful Woman defeated the white-dressed ghost while Zhao Hun and Yang Yu faced an anomaly that stole eyes through gaps. The Taoist priest led them to a master bedroom and left a crack in the door, hinting that he had a plan to catch the Ghost Domain’s true owner.

• The Resentful Woman overpowered the white-dressed ghost, while Zhao Hun struck down the little ghost that ambushed him.
• A mysterious eye appeared through a door crack and took Yang Yu’s eye when he looked at it.
• Zhao Hun destroyed the door, and Yang Yu warned him that making eye contact with the eye triggered the attack.
• The Taoist priest and Zhao Hun contained the two ghosts, but the Ghost Domain remained, suggesting the eye was its owner.
• The Taoist priest rang his bell, led Zhao Hun and Yang Yu to the master bedroom, and told them to leave the door partly open.
• The Taoist priest asked what the anomaly resembled, and Zhao Hun guessed it was a peeping tom.

Yang Yu, Zhao Hun, and the Taoist priest lured a voyeuristic eye Weird out with a flashlight and Yang Yu as bait. After Yang Yu’s ability took a heavy toll on him, the Taoist priest stepped in to fight the Weird.

• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun deduced that the eye Weird feared bright light, and Zhao Hun prepared a powerful flashlight.
• The Taoist priest agreed that Yang Yu should act as bait, and Yang Yu reluctantly put on a little dress to draw the Weird out.
• An eye appeared in a door crack, and Yang Yu shone the flashlight at it while predicting its movements with his ability.
• The Weird burst into blood when the Taoist priest attacked, but Yang Yu’s ability left him in severe pain and disoriented.
• The Taoist priest stopped Yang Yu from using his ability again and charged at the Weird with his peachwood sword.

After defeating the Weird in the apartment’s Ghost Domain, the Daoist priest received an emergency mission in Anzhao City, where an anomalous infection was spreading rapidly. The group entered the overwhelmed quarantine zone and headed toward a sealed room to investigate.

• The Daoist priest defeated the Weird, ended the Ghost Domain, and awakened the Nether Eye ability, while Zhao Hun and Yang Yu found that the missing family had died.
• A logistics staff member gave the Daoist priest an Association emergency mission about a fast-spreading contamination in Anzhao City, where tentacles and invisible eggs were infecting people.
• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu learned that the infection had affected tens of thousands, spread through airborne eggs, and resisted the Investigation Team’s attempts to destroy it.
• The Daoist priest, Zhao Hun, and Yang Yu traveled with logistics staff to the sealed-off city and entered its expanding quarantine zone without wearing protective suits.
• Medical personnel reported that the quarantine zone was nearly full and some patients had died, then led the group toward a tightly sealed room.

Yang Yu, Zhao Hun, and the Daoist investigated corpses infected by anomalous eggs and discovered a contaminating anomaly that could spread across Anzhao City. After its tentacles fused into a powerful creature with a mental attack, the Daoist shielded Yang Yu and Zhao Hun, while Shen Yu’s consciousness remained beneath the Daoist’s shell.

• The Daoist and the others examined the isolated corpses and confirmed that anomalous tentacles had turned the bodies into breeding grounds.
• Yang Yu and Zhao Hun realized the anomaly could have infected people beyond the isolation zone, potentially putting all of Anzhao City at risk.
• The tentacles attacked, then devoured and fused with one another to evolve from wandering soul level to vengeful spirit level.
• Yang Yu, Zhao Hun, and the Daoist fought the tentacles, but the severed pieces flowed together as the anomaly fused into a single towering creature.
• Yang Yu warned the others just before the Daoist pushed him and Zhao Hun away and enclosed them in a Ghost Domain.
• The fused anomaly opened numerous eyes and unleashed a mental attack, which the Daoist endured at close range while Shen Yu’s consciousness remained beneath the shell.

The Taoist priest used his Nether Eye to stop the tentacles’ mental attack, unlock Resentment, and contain the Green Face-level offspring. As the team purged parasites from hundreds of people, the investigation traced the contamination to the Bolo Kingdom, where it had killed over one hundred thousand people.

• The Taoist priest revealed his golden eye, melted the tentacles with its light, unlocked Resentment, and contained them as a Green Face-level Weird.
• The Taoist priest, Zhao Hun, and Yang Yu helped purge parasitic tentacles from contaminated people while the investigation team searched for the source.
• The investigation team found that the first victims had returned from abroad on flights from the Bolo Kingdom, but initially found no source in Anzhao City.
• The investigation team learned that the Bolo Kingdom was the source of the contamination and that its death toll had exceeded one hundred thousand.
• The Bolo Kingdom refused outside investigators at first, then disclosed the severity of the outbreak as people fled the country for refuge.