Recaps

Timothy led the knights to the sea demons’ ritual site and tried to stop their sacrifice, revealing that the Sea God had devoured his family and that he feared for Eve. The ritual was interrupted, but the sea demons and knights began fighting, and the chieftain refused Timothy’s plea to stand down.

• The sea demon elder wrapped Shen Yu’s clone in seaweed and dragged him toward the ritual site while Shen Yu followed Timothy and the Revolutionary Army from a distance.
• Timothy told Eve to remain behind with two knights and warned her to return to the continent if he had not come back by the next day.
• Timothy led the knights to the reef where the chieftain and elders had gathered hundreds of human corpses and begun the ritual song.
• Timothy interrupted the ritual and accused the sea demons of worshipping a man-eating monster, prompting the elders to attack the knights.
• Timothy told the chieftain that the monster had devoured his younger sister, her partner, and their child, and that he would protect Eve from the same fate.
• The chieftain said the curse had still entangled Timothy but refused to stop the ritual.

Timothy fought the Sea Demon Clan chief to stop the ritual, but the chief sacrificed himself and named Timothy the new clan chief. The ritual was interrupted, yet the Weird arrived to claim its sacrifice, and massive tentacles emerged from a crack.

• Timothy battled the chief while the knights struggled against the elders in murky water.
• Timothy defeated the chief but hesitated to kill him, until the chief declared himself responsible and urged Timothy to take over the clan.
• The chief took Timothy’s hand and died, leaving Timothy as the new clan chief and telling him to flee with the remaining clansmen.
• The chief’s blood spread toward the ritual site, and the Weird’s presence grew despite the ritual being interrupted.
• The seawater reversed its flow, and massive tentacles emerged from a crack as the elders warned Timothy not to draw The One’s attention.

Shen Yu confronted a gigantic octopus-like Weird after it emerged from a rift and attacked the sea demons and knights. He protected them with the Ghost Domains of Heart Gu and Qingping Psychiatric Hospital, while the battle against the Weird began.

• The Weird emerged from the rift, seized Shen Yu’s bound clone, and destroyed the reef after Shen Yu dispelled the clone.
• The Weird turned its many eyes toward the knights, who were immobilized by fear and its oppressive aura.
• Shen Yu appeared before the Weird and matched its aura, drawing its attention away from the knights.
• The Weird unleashed its Ghost Domain, spreading lethal black ink through the sea and raising octopus tentacles from dead fish.
• Shen Yu deployed the Ghost Domains of Heart Gu and Qingping Psychiatric Hospital, sheltering the knights and sea demons from the ink.

Shen Yu and Heart Gu fought the giant octopus monster while the knights and Timothy watched from inside the strange building. Heart Gu bound and devoured the monster’s tentacles, then broke free from its vortex and launched another assault.

• The knights recoiled from the moving eyes covering the walls, while Timothy worried whether Shen Yu could defeat the octopus monster.
• Heart Gu charged the octopus, resisted its mental attack, and bit off and devoured one of its tentacles.
• Shen Yu decided to test Heart Gu’s ability to contain a powerful Weird without help from other Weirds, and Heart Gu eagerly accepted the challenge.
• Heart Gu disrupted the octopus’s mind and wrapped its lower body in tough spider silk, then ate more than a dozen tentacles.
• The octopus released venom and summoned an undersea vortex that flipped Heart Gu onto its back, but Heart Gu escaped the pull and ran back toward it.
• Heart Gu interfered with the octopus’s control of the water and sent countless spider duplicates swarming over its body.

Shen Yu contained the Sea Monster Tommy, triggering the clearance of the S-rank Dungeon Legend of the Mermaids and earning rewards. The other survivors returned to Blue Star and were detained for questioning, while Shen Yu remained inside the Dungeon.

• Heart Gu gnawed the octopus monster until Shen Yu stopped it and captured it in a Anomaly Cage.
• Shen Yu gained control over seawater, and the Dungeon declared Legend of the Mermaids cleared after detecting the boss’s disappearance.
• The clearance announcement sparked uproar across Blue Star, while the surviving Conquerors received their rewards and a safe return.
• Fifty-eight survivors emerged in Haierderi, celebrated their survival, and were quickly arrested and interrogated by armed people.
• The survivors could provide no information about who had cleared the Dungeon, and Shen Yu remained inside it.

Shen Yu returned to the World of the Sea, where Timothy reunited with Eve and later found a shop bearing the symbol he associated with the god who defeated the Sea God. Timothy learned that the shop sold mobile phones and saw Li Qi appear on one during a video call.

• Shen Yu returned to the World of the Sea and met Timothy in Eve's kingdom.
• Timothy and Eve discussed his return to the sea, and Timothy promised to find a way for them to stay together.
• Timothy led the sea sirens in reconnecting and trading with humans, while helping young sea sirens explore the human world safely.
• Timothy spotted the symbol linked to the god who defeated the Sea God on a shopfront and hurried inside.
• Li Qi demonstrated a mobile phone to Timothy and showed him a video call, making Li Qi appear on the screen.

Timothy bought two phones from Li Qi and gave one to Eve, who learned that the shop’s pattern was connected to a god and decided to speak with her father. As Li Qi prepared to seek noble customers, armed knights escorted a luxurious carriage to the shop.

• Li Qi taught Timothy how video calls and phones worked, and Timothy paid for two phones with a piece of gold.
• Timothy gave Eve a phone, explained its functions, and told her where he had bought it.
• Eve recognized the shop’s pattern as one she had seen on a god and said she would have a proper talk with Father.
• Li Qi considered promoting the phones to nobles because ordinary townspeople could not afford them.
• A group of armed knights escorted a luxurious carriage to the front of Li Qi’s shop.

King Tolis visited Li Qi’s shop with Eve, believing it was connected to His Highness The One, and learned that a company representative would meet him later. At the appointed time, kings from across the world and Timothy were transported to a conference room for the mysterious Anomaly Containment Association gathering, where they waited for the doors to open.

• King Tolis visited Li Qi’s shop with Eve and greeted him as a divine envoy.
• Li Qi took a call from his team leader and told Tolis that a company representative would arrive that afternoon to discuss matters with him.
• Tolis and Eve left the shop, while Li Qi reflected on meeting a king for the first time.
• Kings from across the world, including Timothy, received invitations to an Anomaly Containment Association gathering and were transported to a conference room when the appointed time came.
• Tolis spoke with Timothy about whether the gathering was connected to His Highness The One, and the kings waited anxiously until the doors opened.

Bei Mu summoned the kings and offered them a chance to join the Anomaly Containment Association as subsidiary companies, explaining its work containing monsters that preyed on humans. Timothy and King Tolis agreed to join, while the other kings read about the threat and asked to see the strange entities, prompting Bei Mu to show them videos.

• Bei Mu entered with Ling Hanyu, Heavenly Dragon, and armed men, then told the gathered kings he wanted to discuss a business deal.
• Bei Mu proposed that their nations join the Anomaly Containment Association as subsidiary companies and had Ling Hanyu distribute documents explaining the organization.
• Timothy recognized the Association as an organization that contained monsters and declared that the sea sirens would join.
• King Tolis also pledged the Aberono Kingdom, while the other kings questioned the proposal and read the documents.
• A king asked to see the strange entities, and Bei Mu signaled Ling Hanyu to play videos on the table's virtual screen.

The kings watched an archived recording of Zhang Lin and three newcomers traveling to investigate a remote pond after a fishing addict reported strange sounds there. The team reached the pond and prepared to investigate, leaving the kings watching as the mission began.

• Ling Hanyu verified her identity and opened the authorized Pond Water Weird Containment Footage for the kings.
• The recording showed Zhang Lin and the newcomers Qi Ping, Jiang Li, and Sister Lei receiving details about a fishing addict who heard strange sounds at a pond.
• The team’s vehicle stopped where weeds blocked the road, and the four Contract Anomalists continued on foot.
• Jiang Li and Qi Ping joked about how anglers found remote fishing spots as the team followed a narrow path to the pond.
• Zhang Lin reminded the newcomers to stay alert and tossed something onto the ground before ordering them to investigate.

Zhang Lin and the three newcomers investigated strange aquatic plants beneath the pond and found two human skulls among the bones. When the plants surged toward them as Zhang Lin carried the skulls, they backed off after he put the skulls down.

• Qi Ping threw bait into the pond and spotted strange black aquatic plants beneath the murky water.
• Zhang Lin and the newcomers put on oxygen gear and descended into the unexpectedly deep pond.
• The newcomers' lights revealed aquatic plants reaching toward them, while the kings watching the footage felt inexplicable fear.
• Zhang Lin found aquatic plants rooted among animal bones and two sets of human remains, then recovered two skulls.
• The aquatic plants surged toward the group while Zhang Lin held the skulls, but settled when he put them down.

Zhang Lin’s team confronted the crying Weird in the pond, and Sister Lei fought it underwater after it nearly dragged Qi Ping in. Watching the battle, Timothy became determined to become a Contract Anomalist and see that different world.

• Zhang Lin brought two skulls ashore and ordered the logistics staff to investigate their identities.
• After nightfall, Sister Lei joined Zhang Lin, Qi Ping, and Jiang Li at the pond, where they heard an infant-like cry approaching.
• Jiang Li and the others threw grenades into the pond, silencing the crying and blasting away many aquatic weeds.
• Aquatic weeds seized Qi Ping and dragged him toward the pond, but Sister Lei cut them apart underwater while Jiang Li pulled him to safety.
• Sister Lei activated her Blood Pattern ability and fought the agile, weed-controlling Weird underwater.
• Timothy watched Sister Lei’s strength and decided he wanted to become a Contract Anomalist.

Sister Lei fought the Water Weird underwater while Qi Ping used his ability to attack it through its heart. The attack’s heartbeat contaminated the kings through the recording, leaving them terrified of aberrations and uncertain about joining the Anomaly Containment Association.

• Sister Lei struggled against the Water Weird and its aquatic weeds as Jiang Li and Qi Ping hesitated to intervene.
• Zhang Lin encouraged Qi Ping, who sensed the Weird he had contracted and struck at the Water Weird from within its heart.
• The Water Weird’s growing heartbeat affected the kings watching the footage, causing their hearts to race and their bodies to falter.
• Ling Hanyu muted the recording, and the kings recovered after nearly collapsing from the heartbeat’s effects.
• Ling Hanyu explained that seeing or hearing aberrations could transmit contamination, and the frightened kings began doubting whether they should join the Anomaly Containment Association.
• The Water Weird’s movements stopped as though its heart had been clenched.

Sister Lei, Jiang Li, and the others fought a Water Weird and learned that capturing part of its body did not count as containing the complete Weird. The Water Weird crawled onto shore, where the three newcomers subdued it, while Ling Hanyu stopped watching the restricted footage.

• Sister Lei cut herself free from the water weeds, cleaved the Water Weird in two, and hauled part of it ashore, disrupting Qi Ping's control of Weird Heart.
• Jiang Li immobilized the Water Weird's body with a fragrant yellow mist, but it abandoned the portion on shore and began regrowing itself.
• Zhang Lin explained that a severed body or clone did not count as successful containment because a Weird could abandon it and remain at large.
• Jiang Li asked whether a clever Weird could use part of its body as bait to escape, and Zhang Lin said handling such a tactic was a problem for experienced Contract Anomalists.
• The Water Weird crawled onto shore, and the three newcomers worked together to subdue it.
• Ling Hanyu paused the video and exited before the restricted footage played.

The kings agreed to join the Anomaly Containment Association, and the Sea Demon Clan and Human Alliance built a company that improved life in their world. At Headquarters, Timothy told his instructor about the masked man who had saved him, and learned that he had seen the Association’s Chairman.

• The kings unanimously joined the Anomaly Containment Association as affiliated units.
• The Sea Demon Clan and Human Alliance established Sea Realm Company, whose fishing and trade brought growing prosperity to local civilians.
• Timothy trained at Headquarters with other young Sea Demons, who were being prepared for underwater missions.
• When his instructor asked why he seemed distracted, Timothy described the masked man who had inspired him to join the Association.
• The instructor identified the man as the Chairman, who founded the Association and created the profession of Contract Anomalist.

Shen Yu confirmed that the passage he created between Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters and the World of the Sea remained stable, and planned to use the method to preserve access to Dungeons. Meanwhile, Mi Lan grew bored at Headquarters until Xiao Shan found an emergency mission involving missing teenagers in E City.

• Timothy learned that he could choose a Weird to contract once the Association announced its next contract period, while Headquarters prepared facilities for the newly arrived sea demons.
• Shen Yu checked the stability of his passage to the World of the Sea and instructed employees to send him the locations of Dungeons so he could establish passages before they closed.
• Shen Yu checked his Character Card and found Mi Lan's A-Rank Special Scene, the Wandering Star Zone, still waiting for him.
• Mi Lan sat bored in the lobby with her teddy bear, and Xiao Shan offered to find her an interesting mission.
• Xiao Shan found a pinned emergency request from E City about several missing teenagers, whose disappearances were suspected to involve an anomaly.

Mi Lan investigated the disappearances of children linked to a mysterious amusement park and went to Tianyuan Residential Complex, where she sensed faint traces of an eerie presence. As streamer Sheng Yang showed viewers the park from his balcony, they spotted a child chopping at a tree.

• Xiao Shan told Mi Lan that missing children had mentioned an amusement park for bad children, and Mi Lan volunteered to investigate it.
• Xiao Shan drove Mi Lan to Tianyuan Residential Complex, where several children had disappeared.
• Mi Lan walked through the complex’s park and sensed faint traces of an eerie presence.
• Sheng Yang began a livestream tour of his apartment and pointed his camera toward the park below.
• Sheng Yang and his viewers spotted a child holding something and chopping at a tree.

Mi Lan cut down an eerie tree in the park, then vanished in a mist of blood while the property management staff and Sheng Yang watched. Sheng Yang returned home believing Mi Lan was a Contract Anomalist, only to hear an unexpected voice from his sofa.

• Mi Lan chopped down the tree tainted with eerie energy while Sheng Yang livestreamed and called property management.
• Property management arrived and confronted Mi Lan, who ignored them and watched the eerie energy grow denser around the fallen tree.
• Mi Lan realized his daytime safety buff prevented the Weird from harming him, cut his finger, and used his blood to disappear.
• The property management staff fled, and Sheng Yang ran home, frightened by what he thought was an anomalous incident.
• Sheng Yang's viewers suggested Mi Lan was a Contract Anomalist, and Sheng Yang calmed down before someone on his sofa asked for cola.

Mi Lan waited at Sheng Yang’s home for nightfall while Xiao Shan arrived to manage the fallout from Sheng Yang’s accidentally public livestream. Elsewhere, Void met people recruiting him to help their lord bring the Mother of Birth’s faith to the world, and he asked what he would gain.

• Mi Lan admitted to Sheng Yang that he was a Contract Anomalist and had come to investigate an anomalous incident after nightfall.
• Xiao Shan arrived, apologized to Sheng Yang, and asked him to keep information about Contract Anomalists confidential.
• Sheng Yang realized his livestream had reached millions of viewers and quickly ended it, while Mi Lan said the exposure was not a major concern.
• Xiao Shan warned that information could reach the Anomaly Tamers as Mi Lan continued eating Sheng Yang’s snacks.
• Void encountered a group seeking his cooperation and questioned what their lord could offer him for helping the Mother of Birth take the world.

Shen Yu’s Calamity Organization drew potential allies toward the Anomaly Containment Association while suspicious foreigners infiltrated E City. Mi Lan entered an anomaly hidden in a park tree and arrived in a fairy-tale world called Eden, where bread grew on trees.

• Shen Yu placed a chess piece deep in enemy territory as he explained how the Calamity Organization would attract and expose those seeking to oppose the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Xiao Shan reported that suspicious foreigners had gone missing near E City, and Mi Lan eagerly welcomed the chance to hunt them.
• Mi Lan spent the afternoon playing games at Sheng Yang’s home, then went to the sealed-off park after his safety buff expired.
• A fairy-tale door appeared on the anomalous tree, and Mi Lan let its powerful suction pull him into the world beyond.
• Mi Lan arrived in Eden, where bread grew on trees and the grass smelled sweetly of candy.

Mi Lan explored the food-filled Eden and encountered children chasing Wang Xiang. When the children threatened him, Mi Lan used his Blood Parasite ability to infect them and ordered them to take him to Eden.

• Mi Lan sampled the ice-cream mushrooms in an Eden where the grass, trees, rivers, and other surroundings were made of food.
• A group of children chased Wang Xiang, who fell near Mi Lan and warned him to run before the others caught up.
• The children confronted Mi Lan, and he asked them to play hide-and-seek before biting his tongue and spilling blood.
• Mi Lan’s blood formed bloodseeds that parasitized the children, causing them intense pain as he told them to take him to Eden.

Mi Lan learned that children in Eden had to hurt one another to remain there, then confronted their cruel ruler, Chen Gang. After Mi Lan unleashed blood-formed monsters across the city, Eden offered him the chance to become its king.

• Mi Lan forced the children who had captured him to explain Eden and its rule that children had to do bad things by hurting others to stay forever.
• Wang Xiang returned, saw Mi Lan being taken to Eden, and decided to seek help from his three-person resistance group.
• Mi Lan arrived in Eden, where Chen Gang ruled the children from a candy throne and ordered his subordinates to bring the newcomer forward.
• Mi Lan cut a child with a plastic cake knife, and a monster emerged from the blood and bit off Chen Gang's arm.
• Blood-formed monsters spread through Eden, and the gentle voice offered Mi Lan a reward that would let him remain and rule as Eden's king.

Mi Lan ate Eden’s forbidden apple, and the Blood Demon devoured its anomalous aura while using the surge of energy to transform his body toward S-rank. He saved a branch from the tree and searched Eden for the hidden Weird, but could not find it and heard the voice urging him to stay forever.

• Eden tempted Mi Lan to eat its apple, and he knowingly swallowed the entire fruit.
• The Blood Demon attacked and consumed the apple’s anomalous aura, triggering a painful transformation in Mi Lan that brought him close to the threshold of S-rank.
• Mi Lan removed a branch from the tree for the Research Department before the rest of the tree withered into ash.
• Mi Lan searched Eden for the Weird but found no trace of it and went to sleep in a room.
• As Mi Lan closed his eyes, the gentle voice returned and told him that eating the fruit meant he could remain in Eden forever.

Mi Lan left Eden and encountered Wang Xiang, who feared she had joined Chen Gang’s group and was trying to capture him. After the Blood Demon consumed strange energy drawn to Wang Xiang’s fear, Mi Lan spotted its source and set off to pursue it.

• Mi Lan woke and left Eden while Wang Xiang waited outside, debating whether to rescue the newcomer being tortured inside.
• Wang Xiang saw Mi Lan emerge unharmed and suspected she had joined Chen Gang, so he backed away and threatened her.
• Mi Lan summoned a dog-shaped monster, which dragged Wang Xiang into Eden; the sight of the mutilated corpses frightened him unconscious.
• Strange energy gathered around Wang Xiang’s fear and tried to feed on Mi Lan’s malice, but the Blood Demon resisted and swallowed it.
• Mi Lan saw the energy’s mark and declared that she had finally caught her target as the Blood Monster followed with Wang Xiang and the blood around them began to wriggle.

Mi Lan contained Eve after using blood monsters to destroy her statue, causing Eden's Ghost Domain to collapse. Wang Xiang and two companions survived the fall by awakening as bloodkin, though they could not control their wings.

• Eve tempted Mi Lan to continue committing evil, but he unleashed blood monsters to attack her statue.
• Mi Lan resisted the transformation into a bloodkin by suppressing the Weird energy inside him.
• The blood monsters tore apart Eve's statue, and Mi Lan contained Eve in the Anomaly Cage, obtaining Eden.
• Eden's Ghost Domain collapsed, and the children's bodies fell from the sky as Mi Lan withdrew most of his monsters.
• Wang Xiang and his two companions discovered they had grown wings and become bloodkin, but Wang Xiang could not control his flight.