Recaps

Canna Lily used her abilities to make Taren and Buzewall expose their crimes and ordered Bai Zuo to hunt down the people behind the plot against the Anomaly Containment Association. As Bai Zuo departed, she told Ji Wu that she had once opposed pairing Heart Gu with him because human malice could consume everything.

• Canna Lily charmed Taren into revealing his and Buzewall's wrongdoing, then confirmed the submitted information was accurate.
• Canna Lily declared that the Anomaly Containment Association would retaliate against those who had made it an enemy and asked Bai Zuo to deal with them.
• Canna Lily charmed Buzewall into revealing further secrets, and her anger grew as she learned more about his role in the plot.
• Canna Lily ordered Bai Zuo to find the masterminds and punish them, allowing any methods that did not harm innocents.
• After Bai Zuo left, Canna Lily explained to Ji Wu that she had initially opposed pairing Bai Zuo with Heart Gu because human malice could devour everything.

Ji Wu discussed the Heart Gu’s dangers and Bai Zuo’s recent improvement with Canna Lily, who praised Ji Wu before leaving him to manage the aftermath. Ji Wu later checked on Bai Zuo, who had gathered the people conspiring against the Anomaly Containment Association and planned to retaliate.

• Canna Lily explained that the Heart Gu exposed Bai Zuo to the malice it consumed and said the Chairman had recommended it, though the elders had once resented Bai Zuo’s disasters.
• Canna Lily credited Bai Zuo’s improved behavior to the Chairman’s presence and praised Ji Wu’s work for the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Canna Lily left to rest, and Ji Wu handled reports and arrangements before realizing she had persuaded him to work with a few kind words.
• Ji Wu messaged Bai Zuo and received photos showing the captured conspirators and their frightened subordinates gathered before him.
• Bai Zuo said he would retaliate against those who opposed the Anomaly Containment Association, and Ji Wu told him to proceed as he saw fit.

Ji Wu warned Bai Zuo to remember the Chairman’s oversight as he continued containing anomalies. Meanwhile, Xia Kingdom officials watched a coordinated online campaign against Yi Gui Company suddenly fade after several countries publicly accepted responsibility for an anomaly attack on one of its overseas branches.

• Ji Wu reminded Bai Zuo that the Chairman was watching the mission and urged him to restrain his methods, while believing Bai Zuo could still do good by containing anomalies.
• Xia Kingdom officials struggled to suppress online comments targeting Yi Gui Company and suspected that factions harmed by the company’s growth were directing the campaign.
• Technicians noticed a foreign-news uploader’s repost about several countries jointly taking responsibility for the attack on Yi Gui Company rise rapidly on the trending charts.
• The uploader reported that the countries apologized for the employees killed or injured and promised to cover their medical expenses and compensation.
• The online campaign and the groups steering it disappeared, easing the officials’ workload as the uploader’s video rapidly gained views.

After several powers publicly claimed responsibility for the deliberate Weird attack on a Yigui Company branch, Anomaly Containment Association members debated how the organization would respond. Xu Rou, Zhang Lin, and the others listened as the newcomers called for retaliation, and Zhang Lin was asked what he thought.

• A video explained that multiple countries had apologized and suggested their forces had orchestrated the attack on the Yigui branch.
• Technicians verified the official declarations on foreign platforms and realized the attack had been deliberate rather than an accident.
• People feared Yigui Company would retaliate or stop selling special weapons, leaving them more vulnerable to Weird.
• Newcomers at the Anomaly Containment Association argued over whether the Humanity Code barred retaliation against ordinary people and called for the responsible leaders to be killed.
• Xu Rou, Zhang Lin, and the others gathered after Zhang Lin began leading newcomers on missions, and someone asked him how the organization would respond.

Bai Zuo forced powerful factions to hand over those responsible for attacks on Anomaly Containment Association branch offices and secured compensation for the victims. After he returned to Headquarters with the culprits, Shen Yu considered whether Terror Dungeons could appear in remote regions beyond the base station network.

• Zhang Lin and the others discussed the Anomaly Containment Association's response and guessed that Bai Zuo was handling the aftermath.
• Bai Zuo ignored the leaders' excuses, took the culprits, and ordered them to arrange compensation through Yi Gui Company.
• The leaders feared Bai Zuo and the Anomaly Containment Association, while some factions privately considered suppressing, assimilating, or eliminating Contract Anomalists.
• Bai Zuo brought the culprits and others involved back to Headquarters, where they were imprisoned for the upper ranks and elders to judge.
• Shen Yu studied the base station map and wondered whether Terror Dungeons could appear in unmonitored polar or deep-sea regions.

Shen Yu left Headquarters to take a break and visited Haierderi, where Yi Gui Company employees were working to improve the poor colony’s economy and living conditions. The chapter ended with Shen Yu listening to their conversation about the work and hardships of local residents.

• Shen Yu decided to go out for fun and teleported from Headquarters to a remote anchor station on Blue Star.
• Bai Zuo returned from his mission, submitted it, left Ji Wu to write the report, and searched Headquarters for Shen Yu but could not find him.
• Shen Yu arrived in Haierderi, a small colonized port nation, and entered a Yi Gui Company branch office.
• Haierderi branch employees discussed selling goods and high-yield seeds to help residents, while lamenting the poverty and taxes imposed on their country.
• Shen Yu passed the employees and listened to them describe their work and hopes for their families.

Shen Yu left the branch office and visited a harbor market, where he bought deep-sea shellfish from a local stall owner. He found a glowing purple pearl inside one shell, drawing the attention of nearby merchants who tried to buy the rest.

• Shen Yu left the branch office and walked unnoticed through Haierderi’s impoverished streets.
• Shen Yu reached the harbor, where foreign merchants bought up a seafood stall at a very low price.
• Shen Yu bought six large shellfish from a stall owner for one thousand sea coins each.
• Shen Yu opened a shell with his bare hands and found a lustrous purple pearl inside.
• Nearby merchants gathered and declared that they would buy all the remaining shellfish.

Shen Yu opened the remaining shells, revealing several valuable pearls, including a rare black pearl that drew fierce bids from the merchants. The bidding stopped when a nobleman arrived and claimed the black pearl, while a merchant warned Shen Yu that the nobleman's powerful family made refusal dangerous.

• A merchant bought the stall owner's remaining shells for fifty thousand sea baht each, then joined the crowd bidding for Shen Yu's purple pearl.
• Shen Yu opened another shell and found a large white pearl with a faint pink blush, prompting merchants to bid for it.
• Shen Yu opened the last four shells, finding pearls in three of them, including a black pearl that sparked bids as high as five hundred thousand.
• A blond nobleman arrived with his entourage and declared that he would take the black pearl.
• A merchant warned Shen Yu that the nobleman's family had connections in both the legal and criminal worlds and advised him to accept whatever price was offered.

Shen Yu refused to sell his pearls and wandered along Haierderi’s coast, collecting shells and deciding to treat the Anomaly Containment Association to seafood. The Logistics Department set out to procure uncontaminated seafood for the organization.

• Shen Yu refused a nobleman’s offer to buy his pearls, and the nobleman recognized the emblem on Shen Yu’s clothing and hurriedly left.
• Shen Yu evaded the people following him and stored his pearls, considering how to make the heavy black pearl into an earring.
• Shen Yu explored the coastline, collected shells and seafood, and ordered the Logistics Department to buy seafood for the Association.
• The Logistics Department arranged boats and sent a team to catch uncontaminated seafood for the Anomaly Containment Association.

Shen Yu met Siren after she washed ashore, but he recognized her as a dangerous sea creature and stabbed her before she could lure him in. Siren revealed her monstrous form, pulled out the knife, and threatened to take him back to her nest.

• Shen Yu watched as a woman tangled in seaweed washed ashore and woke up on the beach.
• The woman introduced herself as Siren, claimed she had lost her memories, and asked Shen Yu, who called himself Gongta, for help.
• Shen Yu helped Siren to her feet but did not take her home, and he stabbed her when she moved in close.
• Siren transformed into a sea creature and asked how Shen Yu had guessed what she was; he said her seafood smell had given her away.
• Siren pulled out the knife and said she wanted to take Shen Yu back to her nest before her body began to distort.

Shen Yu subdued a deep-sea Siren and learned through her memories that her sea demon race ruled a vast ocean in another world. Back at Headquarters, he ordered a ship built so he could go to sea, but Mr. G pointed out that they had nowhere to launch it.

• The Siren tried to capture Shen Yu, but he dodged her attacks before trapping her consciousness in darkness with the Weird Satan’s ability.
• A white spider burrowed into the weakened Siren’s brain, and Shen Yu used the Heart Gu to search her memories.
• Shen Yu learned that the sea demons were a powerful race that ruled an immense ocean and hunted intelligent beings for food.
• Shen Yu returned to Headquarters and ordered the Research Department to build a ship so he could go out to sea.
• Mr. G operated the machines to build the ship, then noted that they had nowhere to launch it.

Shen Yu inspected Yi Gui Company’s expanded factory as Mr. G demonstrated how its production lines could be adapted to manufacture ships. Mr. G reflected on the Weird that destroyed his civilization and declared that humanity had gained an advantage by turning them into energy, while continuing to develop ways to fight them.

• Shen Yu entered the factory with Mr. G and saw more than a hundred production lines making goods for Yi Gui Company.
• Mr. G explained how the factory produced and distributed its products, and Shen Yu praised his work.
• Mr. G modified a freight-truck production line to make ships and demonstrated its machinery using robots and Weird-supplied energy.
• Shen Yu and Mr. G discussed how Weird could evolve by devouring others and how Shen Yu’s suppression helped Contract Anomalists control them.
• Mr. G recalled that Weird had destroyed his advanced home civilization and that Shen Yu had saved him, prompting him to join the Anomaly Containment Association and pursue a weapon to kill Weird.

Mr. G built Shen Yu a heavily armed, spacious ship and outfitted it with hundreds of robots, expecting the Chairman might be away on a long mission. After Shen Yu stored the completed vessel, Mr. Tan recalled that Bai Zuo had been looking for him.

• Mr. G built Shen Yu a sturdy ship equipped for fishing and combat, including weapons designed to harm Weirds.
• Mr. G expanded the ship’s interior, furnished its rooms, and equipped it with utilities and a signal transmitter.
• Shen Yu approved the ship and left several hundred specialized robots aboard to operate, maintain, and clean it.
• Shen Yu stored the ship in his system inventory and said goodbye to Mr. G, who returned to work.
• Mr. G told Mr. Tan that Shen Yu might be going on a long journey, and Mr. Tan remembered that Bai Zuo had asked him to notify him if the Chairman appeared.

Mr. G experimented with Weird Crystals while trying to develop a powerful healing reagent, but his mixture exploded. Mr. Tan realized the crystals could inspire a different approach and rushed off to gather materials, returning with several familiar-looking items.

• Mr. Tan learned that the Chairman had already departed on a cruise ship and decided not to contact him.
• Mr. G’s reagent exploded, and he explained that he wanted to use the regenerative properties of Weird to create a treatment for severe injuries.
• Mr. Tan warned that Weird remained poorly understood and that their contamination made using their bodies in medicine dangerous.
• Mr. G admitted he had added high-purity energy crystals scraped from low-level Weirds, and he agreed to pause the experiment.
• Mr. Tan connected self-healing, potions, and crystals, then ran out and returned carrying several familiar-looking items.

Mr. Tan and Mr. G realized Weird crystals might restore the energy Contract Anomalists had spent, but they needed the Chairman’s approval before testing the idea. Meanwhile, Shen Yu sailed along Haierderi’s coast, found a massive whirlpool, and let the giant ship be pulled into its center.

• Mr. Tan proposed that Weird crystals could replenish the Weird energy Contract Anomalists had consumed, and Mr. G agreed the idea was worth investigating.
• Mr. Tan and Mr. G realized they needed a suitable test subject and decided to wait for the Chairman’s return rather than seek approval from Fu Zhang.
• Shen Yu set out to sea aboard a giant ship powered by Weird crystals and followed an S-shaped route along Haierderi’s coastline.
• Shen Yu detected spatial fluctuations and spotted a huge whirlpool ahead.
• Shen Yu watched as the whirlpool dragged the giant ship downward, while the vessel built by Mr. G endured the immense force.

Shen Yu entered the World of the Sea and learned from Siren about the sea demons’ history, their relationships with humans, and their worship of the Sea God. Siren explained that her people believed the Sea God had punished them for mating with humans, but she did not know whether the god who appeared was truly the Sea God.

• Shen Yu arrived in the World of the Sea after the ship passed through the vortex and asked Siren about the ocean world.
• Siren told Shen Yu that sea demons sometimes lured humans beneath the sea, became their partners, and died alongside them after a few decades.
• Siren explained that sea demons lived far longer than humans and that the clan chief believed the Sea God punished the race for its relationships with humans.
• Shen Yu questioned whether the being who killed humans and human-born sea demons was really the Sea God.
• Siren described the legends of the Sea God and said that no siren knew what the Sea God looked like.

Marty retrieved a Breathing Pearl from a deep-sea trench so Shen Yu could breathe underwater. She returned to the ship, where Shen Yu learned that she could not turn her fish tail into human legs again for three days.

• Shen Yu asked Marty to find an item that would let humans breathe underwater, and she dove into the sea.
• Timothy confronted Marty and warned her not to hide humans or anger the Sea God.
• Marty found a glowing mollusk in a deep trench and pried a Breathing Pearl from its shell.
• Marty returned to Shen Yu's ship with her fish tail still transformed and explained that she could not regain human legs for three days.

Marty brought Shen Yu a breathing pearl from a deep-sea ravine, and he swallowed it so he could breathe underwater. After Marty bound and blindfolded him to pose as a sacrifice, she carried him into the sea, where he tested the pearl and found it worked.

• Marty gave Shen Yu a breathing pearl and explained that it could let him breathe underwater for a year.
• Marty told Shen Yu that she had claimed the pearl was for the sacrifice and that she had encountered Timothy near the ravine.
• Shen Yu agreed to travel to the seafloor disguised as a sacrifice and let Marty tie him up and blindfold him.
• Marty carried Shen Yu over the deck railing and plunged into the sea.
• Shen Yu breathed underwater without using any Weird abilities and marveled at the pearl's effectiveness.

Marty returned to the sea demon settlement with Shen Yu, a living human, and faced the clan chief and elders, who feared she had fallen in love with him. She denied it and explained that she had brought him as a potentially more pleasing sacrifice for the Sea God.

• Marty swam for two hours to reach the sea demon gathering place while carrying Shen Yu.
• Young sea demons crowded around Marty to inspect Shen Yu and talked about wanting to visit the land.
• The sea demons told Marty that the clan chief and elders were angry and wanted to see her immediately.
• Marty brought Shen Yu to the elders' cave, where they demanded an explanation and proposed sacrificing him to the Sea God.
• Marty said she thought a living sacrifice might please the Sea God, and firmly denied being in love with Shen Yu.

Shen Yu investigated the Sea Demon Clan’s dwindling births and suspected the Dungeon entrance lay on land. After reaching the coastal country of Emoba, he saw a boy named Ox get caught by his mother for going near the seaside.

• The clan chief and elder decided to hold a living-sacrifice ritual the next day, while Shen Yu learned the Sea Demon Clan had few newborns.
• Shen Yu escaped his ropes, created a clone to take his place, and secretly surveyed the sea demons’ settlement.
• Shen Yu teleported back to his ship and ordered a robot to steer it toward land.
• Shen Yu reached the country of Emoba and entered a tense coastal city where he saw Ox run toward the outskirts.
• Ox’s mother caught him and beat him for disobeying her warning not to go near the seaside.

Shen Yu entered the Legend of the Mermaids Dungeon and learned that 31 of its 100 conquerors had died. He followed a group of children to a banyan tree, where they ate ripe fruit and wondered whether the sea held monsters.

• Ox's mother beat and scolded him for going near the shore, and Ox's companions discussed their curiosity about the sea.
• Shen Yu entered the Legend of the Mermaids Dungeon and read its warnings, rules, and clear conditions.
• Shen Yu considered the Dungeon's deaths, the spread of Dungeons, and his plan to investigate the Horror Game's origin.
• Shen Yu followed the children to a banyan tree and ate its ripe fruit while they talked about the sea.
• The children wondered whether there were monsters in the sea and asked if they should question the elderly people beneath the tree.

Ox heard Granny’s legend about mermaids and learned from Shen Yu that mermaids were real and connected to a wave of disappearances. Shen Yu recruited Ox to help investigate, leaving the boy alarmed by the danger near his village.

• Ox asked Granny why the children were forbidden from going near the shore, and she told them a legend about the Sea God and mermaids.
• An old man warned the children that mermaids were man-eating monsters, and Granny agreed that they should stay away from the shore.
• Ox cared for his sick grandfather, who made him promise not to go near the sea and to seek work in the main city when he grew up.
• Shen Yu approached Ox and offered him a healing potion to help with a task; Ox cautiously agreed to follow him.
• Shen Yu told Ox that mermaids were real and claimed that more than fifty people had disappeared, prompting Ox to fear that mermaids had taken them.

Shen Yu prepared a temporary teleportation relay and checked that his clone remained in the cave as the sea demons prepared to sacrifice the captured human. Marty returned to her decorated cave and considered secretly bringing her Master there, while Timothy visited and concluded that she had found the Breathing Pearl only to make the sacrifice more palatable to the Sea God.

• Shen Yu set up a spatial teleportation device near the main city and confirmed that his clone was safe in the cave.
• The chieftain worried that the Sea God’s influence was causing the sea demon race to weaken and dwindle.
• Marty returned to her cave, wished she could shelter her Master, and chose not to act without Shen Yu’s instructions.
• Timothy confronted Marty about bringing the human to the seabed, and Marty said he was a sacrifice for the Sea God.
• Timothy interpreted Marty’s casual response as proof that she had not fallen in love with the human and had sought the Breathing Pearl to improve the sacrifice’s taste.

Timothy discovered that Marty’s captive was not her partner and told Eve and the knights that a powerful creature was consuming sea demons and prompting them to lure humans into sacrifices. Eve and the knights chose to stay and help Timothy confront it, despite the danger.

• Timothy left Marty after sarcastically questioning her, and Marty went to sleep before the next day’s ceremony.
• Timothy returned to the knights and told them Marty’s captive was not her partner.
• Eve urged Timothy to abandon the sea and return with her, but he explained that the creature was killing sea demons and that their numbers were dwindling.
• Timothy warned Eve that the Sea Demon Clan planned to hold a ritual the next day that might involve a living sacrifice.
• Eve and the knights learned that people used in previous sacrifices had been killed by sea demons, then chose to remain and help Timothy confront the creature.

Timothy explained to Eve and the royal knights that the being they called the Sea God was an overwhelming threat, and they resolved to sabotage the ritual that fed it. Shen Yu marked them so he could help later, but planned to let the ritual proceed to draw the Weird out; the next morning, the clan chief and elders prepared to begin despite having too few sacrifices.

• Timothy demonstrated his strength to the knights, then explained that the supposed Sea God was powerful enough to make sea demons and humans seem insignificant.
• Eve and Timothy agreed to sabotage the ritual and persuade the sea demons to stop sacrificing humans.
• Shen Yu realized the Sea God was actually a Weird, marked the group with spatial marks, and decided to let the ritual proceed to lure it out.
• The next morning, the clan chief and elders returned to the cave, noted that the ritual materials were nearly ready, and ordered the sacrifices brought over despite their shortage.