Recaps

Covetous Attachment and Sloth noticed that the Suffering Disaster leader and executives trusted the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association, prompting them to reconsider their hostility toward his faction. Meanwhile, Bei Mu used Wealth Reaches the Gods and its luck-enhancing abilities to advance Yi Gui Company’s business offensive, which ended with a string of successful acquisitions and deals.

• Covetous Attachment and Sloth wondered why the Suffering Disaster leader trusted the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association so completely, and they stopped insisting on disrupting Contract Anomalists’ missions.
• The Eagle Kingdom and other factions that had offended the Anomaly Containment Association publicly expressed goodwill toward the Calamity Organization after facing exclusion within the alliance.
• Bei Mu asked about the progress of acquiring assets while Ling Hanyu organized company documents beside Wealth Reaches the Gods.
• Bei Mu reviewed his newly unlocked wealth-related abilities, including Gold Ingot, Croak Croak Great Fortune, and the Golden Ruyi anomaly artifact.
• Ling Hanyu arranged toys and food for Wealth Reaches the Gods, which performed its croak-croak dance and boosted Bei Mu’s luck.
• Yi Gui Company received reports that the targeted shareholders had agreed to sell, an acquisition had succeeded, the plan had gone smoothly, and a contract had been secured on favorable terms.

Bei Mu used Wealth Reaches the Gods to fuel Yi Gui Company's rapid expansion, taking control of businesses and assets across numerous countries. His Character Perfection rose and unlocked Golden Coffin, leaving him with a new way to gain wealth and a warning that the boundary between life and death could blur.

• Shareholders and executives sold stakes or offered concessions as Yi Gui Company acquired companies and expanded its control.
• Countries and forces that had supported the Calamity Organization found their wealthy families under Yi Gui Company's influence, forcing Eagle Nation to withdraw its announcement.
• Bei Mu continued using Wealth Reaches the Gods, while Ling Hanyu warned him that the ability was affecting them both.
• Ling Hanyu felt an urge to steal from Yi Gui Company's accounts but resisted the influence and told Bei Mu to stop.
• Yi Gui Company received reports of further assets and countries falling under its control, and Bei Mu's Character Perfection increased by 11%.
• Bei Mu unlocked Golden Coffin, which promised wealth enough to rival a nation after a day inside, but would blur the boundary between the realms of yin and yang.

Bei Mu used Wealth Reaches the Gods to expand Yi Gui Company's influence across Blue Star, bringing peace and prosperity while his greed for wealth continued to grow. At Headquarters, Ji Wu was asked to help with a field assignment.

• Ling Hanyu urged Bei Mu to rest, warning that his power and greed were affecting people around him, but Bei Mu continued using Wealth Reaches the Gods to control Blue Star's financial and political situation.
• Bei Mu's moves helped Yi Gui Company and the Alliance suppress troublesome countries, halt wars, and establish a productive industrial chain that brought jobs and stability to small countries.
• Bei Mu's Character Perfection reached 77%, unlocking the A-rank special scene Gilded Gold, and he asked Wealth Reaches the Gods to consume his greed and ambition.
• Bei Mu pursued the goal of gathering all the world's wealth, wondering whether having everything would finally satisfy him.
• At Headquarters, Ji Wu reviewed the Supervision Department's funds, and a logistics staffer asked him to help with a field assignment because the staff were overwhelmed.

Ji Wu handled the logistics for Zhuo Rong’s C-rank mission at a building where children and an adult had disappeared in the stairwell. Zhuo Rong discovered a Ghost Domain and followed the children’s voices into it, where he found three children playing on the stairs.

• Ji Wu evacuated the mission area and helped a distraught mother whose child had gone missing before advising Zhuo Rong to proceed carefully.
• Zhuo Rong entered Building One and realized the stairwell stretched endlessly, identifying a Weird’s Ghost Domain tied to a children’s game.
• Zhuo Rong counted and hopped down the stairs until the Weird aura dragged him into the Ghost Domain.
• Zhuo Rong heard children reciting a disturbing rhyme, activated a Time Rewind device, and cautiously approached their voices.
• Zhuo Rong saw three children playing on the stairs.

Zhuo Rong sent the Shadow Puppet Weird to approach the three children, who revealed themselves to be little Weirds through their gruesome nursery-rhyme game. The Shadow Puppet Weird survived having its eye, stomach, and head torn away, leaving the children baffled when its severed head kept moving.

• Zhuo Rong let the Shadow Puppet Weird copy his appearance and sent it upstairs to investigate the children.
• The little girl asked the Shadow Puppet Weird to pick up her fallen eyeballs, and it did so.
• As the children sang, they tore out the Shadow Puppet Weird's eye and rotted a chunk of its stomach, while it acted out a pained wail.
• The children sang about losing their heads, and the Shadow Puppet Weird's head was pulled from its neck.
• The children's laughter stopped when the Shadow Puppet Weird's severed head blinked at them and its headless body remained standing.

Zhuo Rong used the Shadow Puppet Weird to defeat three little Weirds, then became trapped in an endless, dark stairwell. With the Shadow Puppet Weird's help, he learned to control its strings and began exploring how to release a Ghost Domain.

• The Shadow Puppet Weird lost its head, and Zhuo Rong briefly experienced the world from its body’s low viewpoint before finding the head on the stairs.
• The Shadow Puppet Weird chased down and swallowed the three little Weirds while Zhuo Rong picked up its head and ordered it to deal with them.
• Zhuo Rong and the Shadow Puppet Weird descended through an endless stairwell that grew darker, with no exit in sight.
• Zhuo Rong realized the Shadow Puppet Weird knew how to release a Ghost Domain, but their contract’s compatibility meant it could not do so independently.
• The Shadow Puppet Weird showed Zhuo Rong how to control it with strings, and he made it move beneath a beam of light.

Zhuo Rong escaped a dangerous stairwell Ghost Domain by realizing its anomalies were meant to stop him from climbing upward. Afterward, Ji Wu explained that time had passed differently inside the Ghost Domain, leaving Zhuo Rong unaware that only twenty minutes had elapsed outside.

• Zhuo Rong endured repeated deadly anomalies in the stairwell and worried that his dwindling water and food would leave him trapped.
• Zhuo Rong figured out that he should retreat whenever he encountered an anomaly and continue upward when the floor was normal.
• Zhuo Rong followed the pattern until he reached the exit and emerged on the first floor, where Ji Wu was waiting.
• Zhuo Rong told Ji Wu that containment had failed and explained how long he had been trapped and how little water he had brought.
• Ji Wu explained that the stairwell was likely a building-type anomaly and that Ghost Domains could distort time, then told Zhuo Rong only twenty minutes had passed outside.

Ji Wu reprimanded Zhuo Rong for entering a time-and-space Weird without adequate preparation, then explained that the Black Wolf Squad would contain it by demolishing the building from outside. The demolition team prepared to blow up the building, with Yi Gui Company set to reimburse necessary losses.

• Ji Wu warned Zhuo Rong to prepare properly, carry enough food and water, and work with other Contract Anomalists until he reached B-rank.
• Ji Wu told Zhuo Rong to stay and help after Headquarters dispatched a security team to handle the building-form Weird from outside.
• Captain Moji and the Black Wolf Squad arrived, assessed the dangers inside the building, and decided not to enter it.
• Demolition specialist Luo Ni inspected the building and quickly placed explosives at demolition points.
• Zhuo Rong asked how the property damage would be covered, and Ji Wu said Yi Gui Company would reimburse necessary losses.

Luo Ni and the Black Wolf Squad demolished the building to expose the Staircase Weird, then helped Zhuo Rong weaken and contain it. The chapter ends with the squad cleaning up the scene after Zhuo Rong captured the Weird.

• Luo Ni detonated the building while Zhuo Rong waited nearby to deal with the Staircase Weird.
• The blast exposed the unmoved staircase, and the Black Wolf Squad attacked it with guns and grenades.
• After the Staircase Weird deployed its Ghost Domain, Moji halted the squad’s attack and left the fight to Zhuo Rong.
• Zhuo Rong sent the Shadow Puppet Weird to batter the Staircase Weird into a weakened state and captured it with the Anomaly Cage.
• The Black Wolf Squad cleared away the shell casings and other evidence.

Ji Wu and Zhuo Rong helped the Logistics Department clean up the aftermath of a Weird incident, and Ji Wu explained his gentle approach to supervising Contract Anomalists. When they encountered a grieving mother clutching an object marked with a familiar symbol, Ji Wu was struck by memories of the cold world where he had grown up.

• Ji Wu contacted Headquarters to send Logistics Department staff to process the contaminated debris, while Zhuo Rong offered to help with the cleanup.
• Ji Wu and Zhuo Rong discussed logistics work, and Ji Wu explained that patient guidance helped supervisors earn Contract Anomalists’ trust.
• After the cleanup, the grieving mother insisted her dead child would return if she became pregnant again.
• Ji Wu noticed a symbol on the object in the mother’s arms and remembered the people who had judged his talent and discussed raising him until he was ten.

Ji Wu traced a grieving mother’s metal sphere to Green Leaf Shield Company, while Ling Hanyu discovered the company had launched a highly realistic holographic game that raised fears about Weirds exploiting brain-connected technology. Bei Mu reacted coldly to the news, leaving Ling Hanyu concerned about his emotions.

• Ji Wu questioned a mother cradling a metal sphere, and she insisted Green Leaf Company had given her her child’s embryo to nurture.
• Ji Wu found surveillance footage showing a person in Green Leaf Shield Company’s uniform meeting the mother before the incident.
• Ling Hanyu investigated a sudden shift in Yi Gui Company’s website comments and discovered Green Leaf Shield Company’s new game, Green Leaf Shelter.
• Ling Hanyu ordered her subordinates to investigate Green Leaf Shield Company because Weirds might exploit a game connected directly to the brain.
• Bei Mu approached Ling Hanyu, stared at the game announcement, and reacted with an icy expression that unsettled her.

Bei Mu reacted strangely to Green Leaf Company’s full-dive virtual reality game, while Song Shi learned the company appeared to be targeting Yi Gui Company and the Anomaly Containment Association. The chapter ended with Ling Hanyu reporting Bei Mu’s unusual reaction and leaving the reason for it unresolved.

• Wealth Reaches the Gods splashed Bei Mu with water, and Ling Hanyu noticed his strange emotions had eased.
• Ling Hanyu asked Bei Mu about Green Leaf Company, but he stayed silent as he stroked the golden toad.
• Ling Hanyu summoned Song Shi, who recognized Wealth Reaches the Gods and warned that he would keep a closer watch on Bei Mu.
• Song Shi explained that Bei Mu’s partnership with Wealth Reaches the Gods had amplified his money-making power and his cruel, inhuman behavior, earning him punishment from the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Ling Hanyu told Song Shi that Green Leaf Company had launched a full-dive virtual reality game called Containment Facility and that Bei Mu had reacted oddly when he saw it.

Song Shi investigated Green Leaf Company after noticing Bei Mu's hostility toward it, while Ji Wu pursued the same company for personal reasons tied to his home world. Ji Wu recognized Green Leaf's logo from a powerful corporation in his world, leaving open whether the company had crossed between worlds.

• Song Shi warned Ling Hanyu that Bei Mu could compete with Green Leaf Company but must not use methods that violated the Humanity Code.
• Heavenly Dragon told Song Shi he had volunteered to protect Bei Mu for life because Bei Mu had saved him.
• Song Shi saw Bei Mu using his ability and worried that his influence through money, combined with his special status in the Association, could make him dangerous if he lost control.
• Song Shi began investigating Green Leaf Company and ran into Ji Wu, who was looking into the same matter.
• Ji Wu explained that his home world had three major companies, including Green Leaf Shield Company, which protected only talented elites.
• Ji Wu said he could not be certain the two companies were the same, but their logos were identical.

Ji Wu and Song Shi traced a suspicious contact to Green Leaf Company and infiltrated it by posing as job applicants. Ji Wu learned the company was a public-facing outlet for gaming pod sales, but its warehouse and shipping operations remained hidden.

• Ji Wu and Song Shi followed surveillance footage to Green Leaf Company and entered its shabby office under the pretense of applying for jobs.
• Xiao Jing greeted them, while Manager Ma interviewed them and hired Ji Wu on the spot.
• Song Shi left after questioning the salary, and Ji Wu accepted a sales job paying six thousand a month.
• Ji Wu learned Green Leaf Company was connected to the real company and handled gaming pod transportation and sales, while concealing the shipping location.
• Ji Wu accessed the official customer service account and examined gaming pod preorder data and product images, considering how the Research Department could inspect one.

Green Leaf Shelter drew intense speculation as pre-orders surged, and the game released on the 16th with both a costly holographic pod version and a cheaper-to-access PC version. Streamer Wu Gaojun preordered a game pod and began preparing to try the PC version, leaving the game itself unplayed for now.

• Ji Wu checked and recorded Green Leaf Shelter’s growing pre-order numbers, then sent the data to Manager Ma.
• Players debated the game’s realism, safety, price, and whether Green Leaf Company could be trusted.
• Green Leaf Shelter released on the 16th for 1,999, and players discovered it could also be played on computers with different graphics and gameplay.
• Wu Gaojun preordered a game pod and told his viewers he would try the PC version while waiting for it to arrive.
• Wu Gaojun found that the game’s installation files exceeded 20 GB and started a round of Fight the Landlord while they installed.

Wu Gaojun began playing Green Leaf Shelter and created a character with low Luck and an E-rank talent. The character’s randomized backstory revealed that he had been abandoned at birth, raised by the Humanity Protection Company, and left in the wilderness at age ten.

• Wu Gaojun lost his beans in a card game, then switched to Green Leaf Shelter after fans urged him to check the download.
• Wu Gaojun created a male character named Brother Wu Fears No Death and discovered that the game fixed his stats, including two points in Luck and an E-rank talent.
• Wu Gaojun randomized his character’s identity and watched the opening reveal that the character had been abandoned for having poor talent.
• The Humanity Protection Company collected the abandoned infants, raised them with machines, and taught them as they grew older.
• When the children turned ten, some were taken away by the companies while others were left behind in the wilderness.

Wu Ge and Ji Wu tested Green Leaf Company's survival game, while Shen Yu recognized its connection to the Gilded Gold special scene and decided to let the company develop. The game drew attention for its realistic graphics and full-dive gameplay as Shen Yu continued expanding his workforce.

• Wu Ge began playing Green Leaf Shelter, but wild dogs killed his character moments after he left the temporary housing.
• Streamers died in many ways while playing, and their frustrated reactions attracted viewers.
• Ji Wu used his survival skills to avoid beasts, gather food, and set traps as he suspected Green Leaf Company was connected to Green Leaf Shield Company.
• Ji Wu vowed to protect the Anomaly Containment Association, which had become his home.
• Shen Yu recognized Green Leaf Shield Company as part of the Gilded Gold special scene and chose to let it grow before intervening.
• Shen Yu spent five million Construction Points to draw ten thousand employees and assigned them to various positions.

Shen Yu tried Green Leaf Shield Company's talent-scanning game, discovered its SSS talent made the game effortless and dull, and shut it off. At Yi Gui Company Headquarters, Ling Hanyu noted that the company’s sales had fallen as attention focused on Green Leaf Company.

• Shen Yu downloaded Green Leaf Shield Company's game and saw an offer inviting him to join the company as an executive after triggering an SSS talent.
• Shen Yu sent the contract to Yi Gui Company's Sales Department for review and let the game's software scan him, but it could not determine his luck value.
• Shen Yu entered the game with maxed-out attributes and an SSS talent, quickly rising to an executive role at Green Leaf Shield Company.
• Shen Yu found the game boring because its weapons could not harm anomalies and its security forces dealt with threats before he could act, so he shut it off.
• At Yi Gui Company Headquarters, Song Shi stayed in Bei Mu's office while Ling Hanyu observed calls for Yi Gui Company to release game pods and holographic games and worried about falling sales.

Bei Mu dismissed Ling Hanyu’s concerns that Green Leaf Company would undermine Yi Gui Company and damage Blue Star’s economy, insisting his decisions were never wrong. Song Shi warned him to stay in control, then tried Green Leaf Shelter and struggled through its wilderness opening.

• Ling Hanyu warned Bei Mu that Green Leaf Company’s advanced technology and upcoming Smart Brain products could take Yi Gui Company’s market share.
• Bei Mu argued that Green Leaf Company could help expand the market and that its efforts deserved praise, with Wealth Reaches the Gods appearing to agree.
• Song Shi condemned Green Leaf Company’s announcement and explained that its aggressive plans could disrupt Yi Gui Company’s careful expansion and harm Blue Star’s economy.
• Bei Mu confidently told Ling Hanyu not to worry, while Song Shi cautioned him not to lose control and was briefly affected by Bei Mu’s ability.
• Song Shi played Green Leaf Shelter, lost dozens of lives before escaping the wilderness, and complained that the difficult opening gave the character too few stats and resources.

Song Shi quit after his character died from illness, while streamers struggled to survive Green Leaf Shelter’s punishing wilderness stage. Invincible Bro explained survival strategies and carefully hunted a wild dog, leaving his character better prepared to endure.

• Song Shi shut down the game after his character died from a cold, fever, and infection shortly after building a shelter.
• Brother Wu’s character reached age seventeen but was shot by War Soul Mining Group mercenaries, and Brother Wu’s livestream was banned for swearing.
• Cat Troupe complained that scarce resources and dangerous animals made surviving the wilderness difficult.
• Invincible Bro explained how character stats, hidden conditions, and Survival Points affected long-term survival.
• Invincible Bro killed and butchered a wild dog, then covered the bloodstains to keep predators from tracking the scent to his shelter.

Invincible Bro survived the wilderness and became the first streamer to enter the main storyline, arriving in Ang City. He set a respawn point and accepted a cleaner job offering a monthly salary of 100,000.

• Invincible Bro explained how he had survived the wilderness and praised Green Leaf Company's realistic game design.
• Invincible Bro discussed the dangers posed by War Soul Group and dug a hiding place to avoid its roaming mercenaries.
• A passing caravan took Invincible Bro out of the wilderness, making him the first streamer to enter the main storyline.
• Invincible Bro arrived in Ang City, unlocked the respawn point and other systems, and set his respawn point at the city gate.
• Invincible Bro accepted a cleaner job with a monthly salary of 100,000.

Ji Wu explored the game, recognized its resemblance to Green Leaf Shield Company, and logged out in disgust. Meanwhile, Bei Mu prepared to profit from an expected business conflict as Green Leaf Shield Company planned to use the game's popularity to pressure Yi Gui Company.

• Invincible Bro entered the main storyline and reported to Some-Such Cleaning Company while Ji Wu watched him and examined the game.
• Ji Wu reflected on how he had overcome the limits imposed by Green Leaf Shield Company, then logged out because the game reminded him too much of the company.
• Bei Mu teased Wealth Reaches the Gods with its squishy ball, signed documents, and told Ling Hanyu he was waiting for someone to make a move so he could take advantage.
• Andemen told his staff to use the game's popularity to promote Green Leaf Shield Company's products and suppress Yi Gui Company.
• Andemen learned that the person with the SSS-grade talent in the game could not be identified, despite searches across Blue Star.

Andemen ordered Green Leaf Shield Company to investigate the talented player and prepared to drive Yi Gui Company out of Blue Star’s markets so it could acquire the company and access the planet’s resources. As Green Leaf’s products launched and gained promotion, the three companies’ resource crisis and fragile alliance framed the growing competition on Blue Star.

• Andemen told his subordinate to keep investigating the talented player, including whether he owned a gaming pod, and to send him one if he did not.
• Andemen directed Green Leaf Shield Company’s production and planned to flood Blue Star’s markets, bankrupt Yi Gui Company, and acquire it cheaply.
• Green Leaf Shield Company’s resource shortage and Battle Soul Group’s clashes with Humanity Protection Company threatened the balance among the three companies.
• The three companies had signed a non-aggression contract after discovering resource-rich Blue Star, agreeing that Green Leaf would provide money, Humanity resources, and War Soul manpower.
• Green Leaf Shield Company launched and heavily promoted products that outclassed Yi Gui Company’s products, including the Smart Brain.

Green Leaf Company’s advanced products and Main Brain alarmed Blue Star’s powers, while the company began challenging Yi Gui Company’s market. Andemen found Green Leaf’s apparent success undermined by acquisitions and cooperation that favored Yi Gui Company, as Bei Mu urged Song Shi and Ling Hanyu to wait and watch.

• Researchers told Xia Kingdom leaders that Green Leaf Company’s Main Brain surpassed Blue Star technology and could silently access anything connected to the internet.
• Blue Star’s factions stayed quiet as they watched Green Leaf Company challenge Yi Gui Company, wary of the Anomaly Containment Association and its past retaliation.
• Bei Mu and Wealth Reaches the Gods beat Song Shi and Ling Hanyu at Aeroplane Chess, while Song Shi asked them to reveal their plan against Green Leaf Company.
• Bei Mu told Song Shi and Ling Hanyu not to worry and to keep watching as Green Leaf Company began squeezing Yi Gui Company’s market.
• Andemen grew furious when reports showed that Green Leaf Company’s target industries were being acquired by Yi Gui Company or cooperating with it.

Andemen investigated why Green Leaf Company’s profits were flowing to Yi Gui Company and discovered that Manager Rob’s past success might have come from a talented employee he had betrayed. Andemen gave Rob one more chance to prove his ability by ordering him to acquire the troubled companies.

• Green Leaf Company’s subsidiaries were acquired by Yi Gui Company as Andemen investigated falling profits and suspected his subordinates had been bought off.
• Manager Rob realized that the tactics behind his department’s failures resembled those of the employee whose business talent he had stolen credit for and driven into the wasteland.
• Andemen summoned Rob and questioned why his once-exceptional performance had been followed by years of mediocrity.
• Andemen ordered Rob to acquire the companies using his former methods and gave him one more chance to demonstrate his ability.