Recaps

Skywing A revealed that the poison had not harmed him and used a sudden teleportation trick to bring City Lord No. 2 and the other city lords into the poisoned container room. The city lords were left panicking as they struggled to escape the deadly gas.

• The city lords watched Skywing A on surveillance and celebrated as they mistook his trembling for the poison taking effect.
• Skywing A burst out laughing, revealed he was acting, and taunted the city lords for watching him.
• Skywing A snapped his fingers and vanished from the container room.
• Skywing A appeared behind City Lord No. 2 and transported him into the room with the open poisoned container.
• City Lord No. 2 panicked and tried to escape, while Skywing A brought the other city lords into the room as well.

Skywing A trapped the City Lords in a poison-filled basement, where City No. 2 Lord led three others through an emergency passage. The survivors reached safety from the gas, but City No. 2 Lord revealed that there was no antidote.

• The City Lords awoke in a poison-filled room, and City No. 1 Lord realized that crawling low might help them avoid the gas.
• City No. 2 Lord led City No. 1 Lord, City No. 3 Lord, and City No. 8 Lord through the basement toward a concealed emergency passage while Skywing A followed and taunted them.
• City No. 2 Lord unlocked the emergency passage, and the four City Lords shut themselves inside away from the poison gas.
• City No. 3 Lord asked City No. 2 Lord for an antidote, and City No. 2 Lord said there was none.

Skywing A explained his immunity to the poisoned city lords as they suffered the toxin’s effects, then left them to die. With the city lords dead, the Skywing Alliance rapidly spread across the cities and defeated their former factions.

• City Lord No. 2 and the other city lords began suffering from the poison and ordered their researchers to find an antidote.
• Skywing A explained that Contract Anomalists were immune to conventional physical weapons, including poison.
• Skywing A taunted the suffering city lords, spoke with Nameless Bird about freedom, and left them behind.
• The city lords’ deaths left their forces leaderless while the Skywing Alliance expanded from City No. 3 into other cities.
• The Skywing Alliance gained support from ordinary people, elites, and people in power, then toppled the former city lords’ factions.

Wang Yu saw how the Skywing Alliance and Skywing A had transformed ordinary people’s lives in the Realm of Freedom. Back at Headquarters, Shen Yu unlocked Time Reversal to protect Contract Anomalists as the Anomaly Containment Association prepared to confront the Horror Game.

• Wang Yu attended school and learned that ordinary people could now receive an education under the Skywing Alliance’s new rule.
• Wang Yu learned that Skywing A had inspired the Alliance and that ordinary people’s rights, wages, and living conditions had improved.
• The nine cities’ leaders and Skywing A made a contract with the Anomaly Containment Association for energy supplies until they could solve the high-temperature problem.
• Shen Yu opened a stable spatial gate between the Realm of Freedom and Headquarters, then combined his Boundless fragments and raised his Construction Point balance above ten million.
• Shen Yu spent ten million Construction Points to unlock Time Reversal, leaving only twenty-three thousand.
• Shen Yu visited the Research Department, where Mr. G worked with researchers and Mr. Tan offered occasional guidance.

Shen Yu instructed Mr. G and Mr. Tan to activate a training space for the new Contract Anomalists, and Mr. G revealed that he had located a special space using information from the summoning ritual. As Shen Yu studied how to reach it, Xia Yun and Deng Tao prepared for their first mission and were startled by a mysterious person who appeared beside them.

• Shen Yu visited Headquarters, praised Mr. G and Mr. Tan for their work, and asked them to activate the training space for the newcomers.
• Mr. G told Shen Yu that his experiments had located the special space and gave him its coordinates.
• Shen Yu memorized the coordinates and returned to study the spatial teleportation array while directing spiritual power toward the other Character Cards.
• Xia Yun and Deng Tao met in the hall before their first mission and talked about how they had become Contract Anomalists.
• Xia Yun sensed someone watching them and saw a person sitting on a plush toy beside them, though neither she nor Deng Tao had noticed him arrive.

Mi Lan revealed himself as the A-rank Contract Anomalist assigned to lead Xia Yun and Deng Tao on their first mission. The team learned that a C-rank Weird was causing people to disappear at the Grand Cinema in Red City, and they headed there to investigate.

• Xia Yun and Deng Tao introduced their contracted Weirds while waiting for the mission leader, and Mi Lan silently ate snacks.
• Mi Lan revealed that he was an A-rank Contract Anomalist and told the newcomers to follow him.
• Mi Lan accepted the mission documents, tossed them to Xia Yun, and chose not to drive because city speed limits made it no fun.
• A logistics staff member drove the team to the teleportation device, and they traveled to the mission city.
• Xia Yun and Deng Tao read that more than fifty people had disappeared at the Red City Grand Cinema, with over a hundred more at risk that night.

Xia Yun, Deng Tao, and Mi Lan arrived at the theater to contain an anomaly targeting people who had booked tickets. The movie began with a frightened woman who seemed to have replaced the advertised lead, Lin Xiayuan, leaving the audience confused.

• Xia Yun learned that thirty people with advance tickets were expected at the theater, while a couple who had canceled their tickets and fled could not be confirmed safe.
• Deng Tao, Xia Yun, and Mi Lan arrived at the cleared theater and entered using their tickets.
• Mi Lan detoured to the ticket counter, filled a bucket with popcorn without paying, and told Xia Yun and Deng Tao that logistics would handle the cost.
• The three took their seats as the romantic comedy began, and Deng Tao and Xia Yun sensed an eerie aura from the screen.
• The movie showed a terrified woman trapped in a locked place, and audience members questioned why Lin Xiayuan had been replaced.

Xia Yun, Deng Tao, and Mi Lan watched Liu Ye become trapped in a house with a body in the bathtub and a strange message on the phone. When Mi Lan announced it was time to get to work, the shadows in the cinema grabbed the audience, and Xia Yun found herself transported into the house.

• Liu Ye discovered a body in the overflowing bathtub and fled into the living room, where she remained trapped.
• Xia Yun noticed shadowy figures filling the cinema's empty seats, and Mi Lan told her not to talk and to keep watching.
• Liu Ye ignored the ringing phone until it stopped, then heard a message addressed to Madam Qin from a neighbor offering help.
• The shadows grew excited at the message as Mi Lan finished his popcorn and said it was time to get to work.
• The shadows grabbed Mi Lan and the audience, and Xia Yun reappeared in the living room of a house.

Mi Lan, Deng Tao, and Xia Yun tried to keep a crowd of moviegoers safe after they were pulled into a horror film. A strange phone call delivered a misdirected package message, and the front door opened, leaving the group unsure whether to venture outside.

• The audience members were dragged into the film's living room, where they found Liu Ye and realized she had become the movie's female lead.
• Deng Tao and Xia Yun shut off the overflowing bathroom water and warned the others away from the blood-filled bathtub, which Xia Yun sensed was dangerous.
• Deng Tao and Xia Yun stopped three burly men from entering the bathroom and took control of the panicking crowd.
• Mi Lan answered a strange call from someone asking for Madam Qin and claiming to have a package for her; the eerie energy from the call was devoured by the Blood Demon inside him.
• Someone noticed the front door had opened, and several people gathered at the entrance, debating whether to go into the hallway.

Xia Yun misread Deng Tao’s signal and beat up the people who were trying to make Mi Lan scout the dark corridor, while Deng Tao confirmed to Liu Ye that he was a Contract Anomalist. Mi Lan remained outside, and Liu Ye asked Deng Tao about the person in the bathroom.

• Mi Lan headed toward the dark corridor despite the ordinary people’s warnings, while others encouraged him to go so he could test whether it was safe.
• Xia Yun misinterpreted Deng Tao’s look and knocked down several people who had tried to stop Mi Lan from leaving.
• Mi Lan chuckled and stepped through the doorway, while Deng Tao let Xia Yun’s beating continue until the people begged for mercy.
• Liu Ye privately asked Deng Tao whether he and Xia Yun were Contract Anomalists, and Deng Tao confirmed it with a nod.
• After Mi Lan had been gone for several minutes, Deng Tao watched the silent corridor as Liu Ye asked about the person in the bathroom.

After Xia Yun sensed danger in the bathroom, Deng Tao and she prepared to confront the corpse-like aberration that emerged from it. Deng Tao trapped it with Weird Smoke, and Xia Yun unleashed Black Thorn as his control began to strain.

• Liu Ye told Deng Tao that she had broken up with her ex-boyfriend because he cheated on her and felt no grief over his death.
• Xia Yun warned Deng Tao that something was wrong with the bathroom, so he directed the others away and guarded the hall.
• The corpse inside the bathroom pounded on the door until the glass shattered, sending the ordinary people fleeing into nearby rooms.
• Deng Tao summoned Weird Smoke from his smoking pipe and used it to trap the blood-covered aberration in an illusion.
• Deng Tao warned that he could control Weird Smoke for only a few more minutes, and Xia Yun unleashed Black Thorn from her arm.

Xia Yun and Deng Tao contained the Weird, then waited with the trapped residents for Mi Lan to return. A television turned on and a new entity dragged two people inside and killed them, leaving everyone fleeing in terror.

• Xia Yun restrained the Weird with Black Thorn while Deng Tao weakened it with gunfire, and Xia Yun successfully captured it in a Anomaly Cage.
• Residents emerged and begged Xia Yun and Deng Tao to lead them out, but they told everyone to stay put until the Weird was contained and Mi Lan returned.
• The television switched on as unseen audience members complained about the events, and Xia Yun realized the shadows from the theater might be influencing the story.
• A long-haired entity appeared on the television, and Deng Tao and Xia Yun warned everyone to stay away.
• The entity pulled two nearby residents into the television, bound them with its hair, and tore them apart as the others screamed and fled.

After a Television Weird killed two people to satisfy vicious viewers, Xia Yun and Deng Tao helped the survivors organize a show to keep the audience entertained and prevent another attack. Their first scene began as a staged confrontation, where a righteous man stepped in to fight off a group of bullies.

• The viewers celebrated the deaths of two ordinary people, and Xia Yun realized the group had to keep them entertained to prevent the director from changing the plot.
• Deng Tao and Xia Yun discussed how to create conflict without killing anyone, while Liu Ye urged the survivors to cooperate.
• The survivors volunteered their limited performance experience, and Liu Ye prepared a short, everyday-style wish-fulfillment scene.
• Several burly men cornered a girl and demanded her WeChat, prompting the viewers to eagerly anticipate a fight.
• A righteous-looking man confronted the bullies, declared himself the Judge of Righteousness, and dodged their attacks as he fought back.

Liu Ye and the others performed a skit to entertain the strange audience in the Ghost Domain, but Mi Lan decided to make it more exciting by summoning an army of Blood Demons. He sent the monsters after the spectators and invited them to join the game.

• Liu Ye and the others performed a clichéd fight scene, which the spectators praised despite its flaws.
• Mi Lan returned with a corpse corrupted by Weird energy and learned that the group was performing for an audience.
• Mi Lan summoned a Blood Demon from the corpse, and the monster attacked the man playing the male lead.
• The spectators cheered for the sudden horror, so Mi Lan used the blood in the bathroom to summon countless more Blood Demons.
• Mi Lan ordered the Blood Demons to involve everyone and grinned at the spectators, telling them to come play.

Mi Lan unleashed her perfected Blood Parasite ability, broke through the Camera Ghost’s movie-theater Ghost Domain, and turned its audience against it. The Camera Ghost finally appeared and activated its Ghost Domain, setting the stage for a direct fight.

• Mi Lan gained 11% Character Perfection and unlocked the Blood Parasite (Perfect) ability, while Xia Yun and Deng Tao watched in awe.
• Mi Lan commanded her Blood Demons to break through the Ghost Domain and revealed the movie theater and its shadowy audience.
• Mi Lan’s Blood Demons dragged the audience into the screen and repeatedly dismembered the regenerating black shadows.
• The Camera Ghost shook the room and appeared after Mi Lan called it the Director.
• The Camera Ghost activated its Ghost Domain and began creating weird creatures from its own energy.

Mi Lan, Xia Yun, and Deng Tao fought Photography Ghost and its summoned creatures, with Mi Lan’s Blood Demon abilities protecting the civilians and suppressing the enemy. Just as they restrained Photography Ghost, it summoned a thin entity whose drowsiness put Deng Tao and Xia Yun to sleep.

• Photography Ghost awakened numerous weird creatures, forcing Xia Yun and Deng Tao to fight while Mi Lan sent undead monsters against them.
• Blood dripping from the ceiling corroded civilians, but Mi Lan took control of it and formed a Blood Curtain that protected everyone.
• Mi Lan’s undead army overwhelmed the summoned creatures, and his Ghost Domain suppressed Photography Ghost.
• Deng Tao restrained Photography Ghost with Weird Smoke while Xia Yun pinned it with Black Thorn, allowing the undead to tear into it.
• Photography Ghost summoned a thin entity that made the civilians fall asleep; Deng Tao soon succumbed, and Xia Yun began yawning as she tried to wake him.

Xia Yun and the others were overcome by the Dream Ghost’s sleep-inducing Ghost Domain, but Mi Lan resisted it and captured the anomaly. After the survivors woke, Mi Lan continued overpowering the Photography Ghost and explained that Senior Bai Zuo’s Heart Gu had prepared him to withstand such abilities.

• The Dream Ghost’s Ghost Domain made Xia Yun and the others fall asleep, freeing the Photography Ghost from Weird Smoke and Black Thorn’s control.
• Mi Lan resisted the hypnosis, sent the Blood Demon to tear apart the Dream Ghost, and contained it in the Anomaly Cage.
• With the Ghost Domain gone, Xia Yun woke and shook Deng Tao awake from his frightening dream.
• Xia Yun learned that Deng Tao had become a Contract Anomalist to earn money for a sick family member and told him he could apply to Headquarters for medical treatment.
• The undead monsters resumed tearing into the weakened Photography Ghost as Mi Lan explained that the Dream Ghost’s drowsiness was far weaker than Senior Bai Zuo’s Heart Gu.

Mi Lan revealed that he had used a Blood Curtain inside his brain to resist Dream Ghost's hypnosis, but the ability left him emotionally unstable and he went berserk. Xia Yun and Deng Tao escaped the spreading Ghost Domain and warned Headquarters, while dozens of people remained trapped inside.

• Mi Lan explained that he had formed a Blood Curtain over his brain to resist Dream Ghost's control and announced that he wanted to make a bigger playground.
• Mi Lan's blood spread across the floor as he controlled the undead and civilians, and Xia Yun recognized that he had lost control.
• Xia Yun pulled Deng Tao through a gap in the twisted space and escaped as Blood Demon's Ghost Domain overwhelmed Photography Ghost's domain.
• Xia Yun warned the logistics staff that A-Class Contract Anomalist Mi Lan had gone berserk, prompting them to notify Headquarters and evacuate the area.
• Xia Yun reported that three of the thirty-two civilians had died and the survivors were trapped inside Mi Lan's Ghost Domain.
• The logistics staff suggested that Mi Lan had suffered backlash after forcibly using an ability he had not mastered.

After Mi Lan’s loss of control, Xia Yun and Deng Tao learned how Headquarters handled Contract Anomalists and the ordinary people caught in anomalous incidents. They returned to Headquarters exhausted, while Mi Lan faced punishment for the Ghost Domain contained inside the cinema.

• The logistics staffer explained that Mi Lan’s Weird had affected his brain and that Headquarters had expected him to lose control, though not during his first mission leading newcomers.
• Deng Tao and Xia Yun reflected on the danger posed by Contract Anomalists themselves and wondered how Weirds might affect their own minds.
• The logistics staffer told Deng Tao that Headquarters suppressed rogue Contract Anomalists and judged their culpability by the casualties and damage they caused.
• The logistics staffer explained that Contract Anomalists were not required to save everyone and that containing Weirds took priority over rescuing ordinary people.
• Xia Yun asked whether Mi Lan’s Ghost Domain inside the cinema was also unrelated to them, and the logistics staffer said Mi Lan would receive a relatively mild punishment because it had not spread beyond the cinema.
• The logistics staffer drove Xia Yun and Deng Tao back to Headquarters, where they exchanged weary glances after saying goodbye.

After completing their first mission, Xia Yun and Deng Tao filed a report about Mi Lan’s rampage and learned that he was expected to recover soon. While browsing the internal network, they read a warning that even low-level Weirds could be deadly to Contract Anomalists.

• Zheng Fan saw Xia Yun and Deng Tao covered in blood, wished them luck, and headed to train.
• Logistics staff asked Xia Yun and Deng Tao to submit a report about Mi Lan’s rampage within an hour, and they completed it just before the deadline.
• A logistics staff member told Xia Yun and Deng Tao that Bai Zuo had suppressed Mi Lan’s rampage, rescued the civilians, and expected Mi Lan to return to leading missions after a few days.
• Xia Yun and Deng Tao washed up, ate in the cafeteria, and browsed the internal network for news about the incident.
• An experienced Contract Anomalist explained that Weird rankings reflected their energy rather than how lethal their abilities were and warned newcomers never to underestimate low-level Weirds.

Mi Lan’s rampage warned the new recruits about losing control, while Shen Yu saw that Bai Zuo had learned to restrain his malice. Shen Yu then entered an unstable world in search of more alternate spaces and found it so fragile that his power nearly made it collapse.

• The recruits took Mi Lan’s rampage as a warning to control themselves, and Mi Lan unlocked the Blood Riot ability.
• Bai Zuo confronted Mi Lan in the confinement room, resisted Mi Lan’s invitation to unleash his malice, and left him in darkness.
• After Bai Zuo left, Shen Yu revealed that he had guided Mi Lan’s actions and praised Bai Zuo’s progress at self-restraint.
• Shen Yu decided to seek more alternate spaces himself, then searched the Source World and forced his way through an unstable rift.
• Shen Yu entered a fragile world whose laws trembled under his power, so he withdrew his strength to keep it from collapsing.

Shen Yu entered a fragile world and discovered that someone was repeatedly stopping time, weakening the world each time. He tracked the source to Lin Tan, a student who used his system’s time stop and reversal to overcome bullying and save a classmate, but had grown bored and overconfident.

• Shen Yu sensed that the world could barely withstand special powers, then observed a one-minute time stop that further weakened it.
• Shen Yu decided to find the person stopping time and stole a fugitive’s wallet and jewelry to obtain money and identification.
• Shen Yu used an internet cafe to gather information and traced unusual events to a university student named Lin Tan.
• Lin Tan had used time stop to defeat bullies and time reversal to save a bullied girl who had attempted suicide.
• Lin Tan stopped time to find the answer to a question from his teacher and dismissed a note asking him to share a meal.

After a mysterious masked man warned Lin Tan not to use his time abilities, Lin Tan discovered that both Time Rewind and Time Stop had stopped working. Shen Yu explained that a Weird inside Lin Tan had been devouring the world’s origin and warned him that the world was about to be destroyed.

• Lin Tan ignored the arts committee member’s invitation and noticed a masked man watching him across the street.
• The man warned Lin Tan not to use his ability, and Lin Tan later found that Time Rewind and his system no longer responded in the casino.
• Lin Tan rushed back to the intersection and tried to use Time Stop, but the masked man appeared and told him his powers were gone.
• Shen Yu identified a Weird inside Lin Tan as a time-controlling Doomfate Class entity that had consumed much of the world’s origin in one month.
• Shen Yu told Lin Tan that his world was about to be destroyed.

Shen Yu explained that Lin Tan’s system had consumed the world’s origin, leaving the world fragile and close to destruction. After showing Lin Tan the world’s condition with soap bubbles, Shen Yu offered to help him take revenge and gave his name.

• Lin Tan realized the system might have caused the world’s impending end, and Shen Yu challenged him to consider why the system had chosen him and how often he had abused its power.
• Lin Tan asked whether the world could still be saved, and Shen Yu told him to buy a bottle of bubble solution.
• Shen Yu blew bubbles as Lin Tan watched them pop and understood that the world had become just as fragile.
• Shen Yu said the world’s origin was nearly gone and offered to help Lin Tan take revenge.
• Lin Tan thanked him and asked his name, and Shen Yu introduced himself as the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association.

Shen Yu removed the parasite from Lin Tan and showed him the colossal Weird that had destroyed his world. Lin Tan died in the spatial currents, and Shen Yu prepared to fight the creature.

• Lin Tan asked Shen Yu to pull the thing that had destroyed his world out of his body, and Shen Yu agreed.
• Shen Yu extracted the parasite and brought Lin Tan into the Void, where they saw the fragments of Lin Tan’s shattered world and the enormous Weird.
• Lin Tan asked Shen Yu to stop protecting him, and Shen Yu withdrew his power, leaving Lin Tan to be torn apart by the spatial currents.
• Shen Yu turned to face the Weird, which attacked him, and a gigantic white Spider appeared behind him and made the Weird’s movements stiffen.