Recaps

Andemen learned from Rob that Bei Mu’s market talent had driven Green Leaf Shield Company’s losses, then ordered the company to stop cooperating with Yi Gui Company. Ji Wu was startled when Manager Ruan and a group of Yi Gui Company employees arrived at his branch, where they began reviewing its records and arrangements.

• Rob confessed that he had fired Bei Mu, whose business talent later benefited a rival company.
• Andemen concluded that Rob’s actions had cost Green Leaf Shield Company a valuable talent and had him taken away.
• Andemen told his subordinates to end cooperation with Yi Gui Company and prepare for a fight to the death.
• After staying at the company for several days, Ji Wu returned to the branch and found more than thirty Yi Gui Company employees there.
• Manager Ruan asked Manager Ma to provide the branch’s revenue records, employee contracts, salary information, and future arrangements.

Ji Wu learned that Yi Gui Company had acquired Green Leaf Company's branch on Blue Star, while Bei Mu continued using Wealth Reaches the Gods to steer events. As Green Leaf Shield Company struggled to contain its losses, War Soul Mining Group defected to Yi Gui Company, leaving Green Leaf and Humanity Protection Company to face the crisis together.

• Ji Wu called Song Shi after discovering Yi Gui Company had acquired Green Leaf Company's branch and its game-pod and sales rights.
• Song Shi questioned Bei Mu about how he had acquired the branch and whether he could keep using his ability safely, while Ling Hanyu explained Bei Mu's unique power.
• Bei Mu continued guiding fortune with Wealth Reaches the Gods, and his Character Perfection increased by 6%.
• Andemen and Green Leaf Shield Company's directors struggled to stop Yi Gui Company's acquisitions from eroding their branches and Blue Star market.
• Humanity Protection Company and War Soul Mining Group sent representatives to discuss helping Green Leaf Shield Company resist Yi Gui Company.
• Andemen and Humanity Protection Company's representative realized War Soul Mining Group had quietly switched sides and defected to Yi Gui Company.

Humanity Protection Company ended its alliance with Green Leaf Shield Company after learning of Yi Gui Company's ideals, and Green Leaf Shield eventually surrendered. At a banquet celebrating the merger, Andemen saw Bei Mu's carefree charm firsthand and became deeply impressed by him.

• Humanity Protection's representative ended the agreement with Andemen and praised Yi Gui Company's commitment to protecting humanity.
• Green Leaf Shield Company could no longer withstand Yi Gui Company's offensive and admitted defeat.
• Bei Mu arrived at Green Leaf Shield Company headquarters, demanded changes to its regulations, and ordered that it stop abandoning infants.
• The four companies held a banquet to ease tensions among their newly united employees.
• Andemen found Bei Mu charming several elite women, approached him with a raised glass, and accepted his defeat.
• Bei Mu's Character Perfection increased by 17%.

After completing the Gilded Gold scene, Song Shi oversaw Yi Gui Company’s expansion while Green Leaf Company rapidly grew and other countries mistakenly believed Yi Gui was unable to respond. Yi Gui’s representatives pressed alliance members to fulfill their aid obligations, and the countries agreed to pay.

• The God of Wealth Path unlocked, Wealth Reaches the Gods advanced, and the Character Card gained independent consciousness as the Gilded Gold scene ended with a Time Hourglass Fragment reward.
• Andemen conceded, and the three companies were merged into Yi Gui Company.
• Green Leaf Company’s products and holographic games became popular, prompting customers to demand more affordable gaming helmets as the company expanded rapidly.
• Other countries offered Yi Gui Company financial aid in exchange for shares, while its manager concealed the acquisition and dismissed their offers.
• Song Shi criticized countries that were avoiding their alliance contributions and ordered Yi Gui Company representatives to confront them.
• The countries promised to provide aid after Yi Gui Company’s representatives asked whether they objected to the Anomaly Containment Association’s decisions.

Shen Yu watched Bei Mu’s completed memories, which revealed how he joined the Anomaly Containment Association and overcame his past, then used the Hourglass of Time to reverse time. He wondered whether collecting the divine artifacts of space and time would reveal the secrets behind the Character Cards and the system.

• Shen Yu saw Bei Mu’s memories of his harsh life in the wasteland, his expulsion from Green Leaf Company, and Shen Yu rescuing him and bringing him to the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Bei Mu worked in the Sales Department, then accepted Shen Yu’s offer to become a Contract Anomalist and contracted Wealth Reaches the Gods.
• After Bei Mu acquired Green Leaf Shield Company, his memories completed and his consciousness emerged from his body.
• Shen Yu used the Hourglass of Time fragment to reverse a clock at Headquarters by ten minutes, consuming one-tenth of his Weird energy.
• Shen Yu considered whether assembling the space and time divine artifacts would reveal the secrets behind the Character Cards and system, as Bei Mu addressed him at the main control console.

At the Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters banquet, Bei Mu celebrated a personal burden being lifted and enjoyed the lively gathering. Zhang Lin’s companions congratulated him on reaching A-rank and encouraged him to start a team, leaving him resolved to take more missions first.

• Bei Mu told Shen Yu he felt as if they had not seen each other in a long time, then persuaded him to approve a Headquarters banquet.
• At the banquet, Bei Mu asked Zhang Yueling to dance, but she pulled him to his feet and left to join her friends for drinks.
• Ling Hanyu spoke with Bei Mu, who said he felt as if he had slept a long time and lost something important, though he thought it had probably been a dream.
• Zhang Lin’s former teammates and fellow newcomers congratulated him on becoming an A-rank Contract Anomalist and urged him to start a team.
• Zhang Lin agreed to remember them when he formed a team and decided to take more missions to strengthen himself first.

At a banquet, Bei Mu announced that Contract Anomalists would have to reach max level in Green Leaf Shelter as part of their year-end assessment, explaining that the game had been upgraded into a realistic Weird-containment training tool. Du Jiashi, Zhao Hun, Zhang Lin, Yang Yu, Xu Rou, and Yin Nu collected game pods and logged in together, where Zhang Lin began learning to survive in the wilderness.

• Zhao Hun and Yang Yu discussed Green Leaf Shelter's bugs and said the Research Department was helping Green Leaf Company correct the Weirds in the game.
• Bei Mu announced that Contract Anomalists and employees, especially field personnel, had to create accounts and reach max level for their year-end assessment.
• Zhang Lin explained that the revised game could train players to handle Weirds safely, help ordinary players learn about them, and recruit top-ranked players.
• Du Jiashi and the others decided to try the game, collected game pods from the Logistics Department, and logged in together.
• Zhang Lin survived in the wilderness for several hours, died a few times, and learned how to avoid danger unless he encountered wandering War Soul Mercenaries.

Zhang Lin survived the wilderness until his character reached adulthood, while Du Jiashi met a team of players fleeing a ground bee swarm. Du Jiashi drove the bees off with smoke and learned that the team was running low on food and water.

• Zhang Lin survived the wilderness until his character came of age and entered the main storyline.
• Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun discovered that their starting maps were close and agreed to meet.
• Du Jiashi encountered Hopeless, Moonlit Gentleman, Dawn, and Good Person Tutu fleeing a swarm of ground bees.
• Du Jiashi lit weeds and dry grass with flint, using smoke to stop the bees from pursuing the group.
• Hopeless warned that the team was short on food and water, and Moonlit Gentleman invited Du Jiashi to play with them.

Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun joined Moonlit Gentleman’s party in a survival game and discovered that Moonlit Gentleman’s lifelong bad luck repeatedly put the group in danger. After surviving several close calls, Zhao Hun wondered whether Moonlit Gentleman’s misfortune counted as a special talent.

• Du Jiashi joined Moonlit Gentleman’s party and brought Zhao Hun, whose game name was Third Watch, to meet the others.
• Zhao Hun arrived dragging a wild dog’s corpse, and the party was impressed by his strength and sensed his intimidating presence.
• Moonlit Gentleman suffered repeated mishaps while gathering supplies, so Dawn told him to stay in camp.
• Moonlit Gentleman described a lifetime of bad luck, and Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun investigated before deciding he probably was not affected by anything Weird.
• Moonlit Gentleman encountered War Soul Group mercenaries twice, and Zhao Hun’s sharp hearing helped the party avoid being shot.
• Moonlit Gentleman warned that teammates had to expect danger around him, and Zhao Hun wondered whether his bad luck was a special talent.

After the group cleared the Wilderness, they chose jobs in the main storyline's city and went their separate ways. Moonlit Gentleman and Invincible Bro were immediately hired by the domestic cleaning company, where Invincible Bro discovered the job included generous benefits and streaming support.

• Moonlit Gentleman, Zhao Hun, Moonlit Gentleman, Hopeless, Du Jiashi, Good Person Tutu, and Dawn compared job options and decided to split up after choosing their jobs.
• Moonlit Gentleman arrived at the domestic cleaning company and was hired on the spot, then found his Luck stat was still 0.5.
• Invincible Bro installed his gaming pod and learned he could stream gameplay in either first-person or third-person view.
• Invincible Bro resumed streaming and told his viewers he had chosen the janitor job paying a hundred thousand a month.
• The company manager hired Invincible Bro without an application, gave him an assignment, and offered to issue him a Smart Brain.

Invincible Bro brought the newly arrived player Moonlit Gentleman to clean a murder scene, where the shocked newcomer struggled through the grisly work. They began clearing trash and scrubbing blood from the apartment, with the corpse still part of the cleanup.

• Invincible Bro drove Moonlit Gentleman to the work site and explained that he would learn about the job when they arrived.
• Invincible Bro unlocked an apartment and warned Moonlit Gentleman to prepare before entering.
• Moonlit Gentleman recoiled at the blood-soaked murder scene, vomited from the stench, and lowered his smell sensitivity before putting on a mask.
• Invincible Bro told Moonlit Gentleman to sort the trash, move the corpse, and clean the blood because that was what the client had hired them to do.
• Moonlit Gentleman swept up shattered objects, moved the corpse out of his way, and scrubbed the blood while Invincible Bro cleaned beside him.

Moonlit Gentleman and Invincible Bro cleaned a crime scene until Moonlit Gentleman rushed toward a noise and was killed by a Wraith-level Weird. He respawned and met up with Dawn, then found out Invincible Bro had also died and respawned nearby.

• Moonlit Gentleman complained that their cleaning work was dull, while Invincible Bro said he had heard rumors of strange occurrences at work.
• After a crash came from another room, Moonlit Gentleman charged in with a mop and was killed by a Wraith-level Weird.
• Moonlit Gentleman respawned and told his party about the encounter, while Courier shared that he had also narrowly survived a Weird.
• Dawn offered to pick Moonlit Gentleman up, and they drove back to the apartment building where the Weird had appeared.
• Moonlit Gentleman found Invincible Bro waiting outside, and Invincible Bro explained that he had died too and respawned at the entrance.

Moonlit Gentleman recruited Invincible Bro into the team as they gathered outside a room containing a Wraith-class Weird. They recalled its golden eye and discussed how Weirds were classified, preparing to learn more about the danger inside.

• Moonlit Gentleman invited Invincible Bro to join the team, and Invincible Bro accepted after his viewers encouraged him.
• Moonlit Gentleman introduced Invincible Bro to the growing team, while Zhao Hun and Du Jiashi arrived at the scene.
• The group discussed how authorities concealed Weirds’ images and descriptions after a widely viewed anomaly image caused mass deaths.
• Invincible Bro described seeing darkness and a golden eye before the Weird killed him.
• Moonlit Gentleman and the others identified the creature as a Wraith-class Weird and discussed the safer Wandering Soul-class.

Moonlit Gentleman, Invincible Bro, and Dawn repeatedly failed to harm a Vengeful Spirit-level Weird, while players learned that becoming supernatural was the only way to fight Weirds. Moonlit Gentleman discovered that he had been contaminated, and dying and reviving did not remove it.

• Moonlit Gentleman, Invincible Bro, and Dawn charged the Weird several times, died, and concluded that its eye might be tied to its attacks, but their weapons could not hurt it.
• Players complained that the game offered no way to fight Weirds, and customer service explained that players needed guidance from an organization to become supernatural beings.
• Invincible Bro noticed rust-like grime spreading over Moonlit Gentleman's arm, and Dawn identified it as contamination from a supernatural entity.
• Moonlit Gentleman saw a system warning that his contamination would turn him into a monster at 100%, while Dawn suggested he die and revive to clear it.
• Dawn cut Moonlit Gentleman's throat, but after he revived the grime remained and his contamination level had risen to 13%.

Shen Yu tested Green Leaf Shelter’s realism after sensing Moonlit Gentleman’s contamination, then entered an apartment to confront the nearby Weird entity. The players mistook him for a special NPC as he began investigating whether containment worked like it did in reality.

• Shen Yu arrived near the apartment and observed that Moonlit Gentleman was heavily contaminated by a realistically simulated Weird aura.
• Shen Yu considered giving the Anomaly Tamers a future by merging them into the Anomaly Containment Association, and decided to address their hidden dangers.
• Invincible Bro noticed Shen Yu approaching and challenged him, while Dawn recognized the symbol on his Mask as belonging to Green Leaf Company.
• Shen Yu told Moonlit Gentleman that containing the Weird entity would remove the contamination, then stepped into the apartment.
• The players speculated that Shen Yu was a special NPC who could introduce them to supernatural classes, while Shen Yu spotted the Weird entity inside.

Shen Yu encountered a Weird Eye in the game and briefly saw a strange image before hiding as Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun arrived. Du Jiashi suppressed the Weird Eye and made it his own, while the others began to suspect that he and Zhao Hun were hiding something.

• Shen Yu resisted the Weird Eye's gaze, saw a flash of a contract, kicked it away, and concealed himself when he sensed Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun approaching.
• Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun discussed trying to become Anomaly Tamers in the game, then used rock-paper-scissors to decide who would take the Weird Eye.
• Du Jiashi suppressed the Weird Eye inside his body and learned that its ability was hypnosis.
• Du Jiashi revealed that he had succeeded, prompting Moonlit Gentleman, Invincible Bro, and Dawn to question what had happened.
• Du Jiashi avoided revealing that he was a Contract Anomalist and claimed the Weird had suddenly pounced on him.

Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun explained their encounter with the anomaly, and Du Jiashi confirmed that he had gained the Anomaly Tamer identity. After Dawn left for work, Moonlit Gentleman and Invincible Bro finished cleaning up and prepared to deliver the corpse to their company.

• Du Jiashi claimed that an anomaly had tried to take over his body, and Zhao Hun said they had tested what they knew about Anomaly Tamers in the game.
• Du Jiashi dispelled Moonlit Gentleman's contamination, prompting Invincible Bro and the livestream viewers to suspect that Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun were Anomaly Tamers in real life.
• Du Jiashi checked his panel, found that he had become an Anomaly Tamer, and agreed to teach Moonlit Gentleman how to do the same.
• Dawn received a work call, said the company needed him, and left the group.
• Moonlit Gentleman told the team that the anomaly had been dealt with and said the Courier had suppressed it and become an Anomaly Tamer.
• Invincible Bro and Moonlit Gentleman finished cleaning the room, then wrapped the corpse and took it downstairs to deliver to their company.

Shen Yu approved the anomaly simulation and taught Mr. Tan and Mr. G about mental power and willpower. A resurfaced memory of signing a contract led him to the Anomaly Containment Facility, where he reflected on its mysteries and spoke to Song Xiaojie.

• Shen Yu recognized Du Jiashi and Zhao Hun in the game after they sensed his hidden aura.
• Shen Yu praised the Research Department and Green Leaf Shield Company's anomaly simulation, then corrected data and explained how willpower and consciousness affected anomaly suppression.
• Shen Yu wondered about a memory of signing a contract and considered how the Anomaly Containment Facility let him gain anomalies' abilities and form contracts.
• Shen Yu visited the Anomaly Containment Facility and felt the anomalies' gazes and the building's powerful, familiar energy.
• Shen Yu greeted Song Xiaojie and recalled that she had rejected every Contract Anomalist who tried to choose her, since contracts required both sides to agree.

Shen Yu wondered whether an unfamiliar memory was a precognition of a future contract. In Western Europe, a suspected Fierce Fiend-class Weird threatened the country, and the Anomaly Containment Association found that only Wang Qing was available among its S-rank Contract Anomalists.

• Shen Yu reviewed his memories and considered whether the scene of a contract forged with his blood, knowledge, faith, and soul came from his future.
• Western Europe's president ordered a distress signal sent to the Anomaly Containment Association as the country faced a threat it could not withstand.
• The Anomaly Containment Association's Logistics Department received word of a suspected Fierce Fiend-class Weird in Western Europe and sought an S-rank Contract Anomalist.
• The team leader failed to reach Skywing A, learned that Wu was in a Dungeon, and found that Wang Qing was the only available S-rank Contract Anomalist.

Wang Qing traveled to Western Europe to contain a rapidly spreading plant contamination that had already caused hundreds of thousands of victims. After civilians were evacuated, he unleashed his flames to burn the mutated plants and monsters, while Western European leaders watched the Anomaly Containment Association’s overwhelming power on-screen.

• Wang Qing arrived in Western Europe and found that mutated plants were giving off dense Weird energy and producing corrosive red sap.
• Logistics staff told Wang Qing that hundreds of thousands of people had been parasitized and asked him to stop the plant contamination and destroy the mutated monsters.
• Wang Qing ordered the evacuation, and the Logistics Staff coordinated with Western European officials to move uncontaminated civilians and isolate the infected.
• After the city and isolation zones were marked on a map, Wang Qing ignited the contaminated garbage and began clearing the city with enormous flames.
• Western European leaders watched Wang Qing burn the plants and monsters, recognizing the Anomaly Containment Association’s power as their country faced becoming its vassal.

Wang Qing burned away contaminated plants and mutated humans across Western European cities, demonstrating the Anomaly Containment Association’s power to its officials. Shen Yu unlocked two perfected abilities, including resurrection through fire, and left a fire seed secured at Headquarters.

• Wang Qing cleared the contaminated area, burning away mutated plants and humans that could not be restored.
• Wang Qing gathered the flames into a fire dragon and used it to destroy contamination across several cities while Western Europe's officials watched.
• Shen Yu unlocked Flame Prison and Rebirth Through Fire after Wang Qing's actions increased his Character Perfection.
• Shen Yu created a fire seed and placed it deep inside Headquarters' Anomaly Containment Facility as a safeguard against death.
• Wang Qing withdrew the flames after finishing the cleanup, and the logistics staff greeted him with reverent respect.

Wang Qing stayed near the contamination’s center to watch for the Weird that he planned to confront after nightfall, while Western Europe’s officials nervously offered him accommodations and assistance. As the officials discussed joining the Anomaly Containment Association with its logistics staff, they learned the Association would help rebuild their economy and damaged cities, revealing its substantial resources.

• Wang Qing ate and told the logistics staff to send Contract Anomalists to disperse contamination before he searched for the Weird after nightfall.
• Western Europe’s president offered Wang Qing a five-star suite, but Wang Qing refused because he wanted to keep watch near the contamination’s center.
• A logistics staff member explained Wang Qing’s choice, and the president and officials apologized for misunderstanding him before evacuating the area.
• The logistics staff discussed membership terms with Western Europe’s officials and offered economic support, manufacturing help, and assistance restoring damaged greenery.
• Western Europe’s president and officials recognized the Anomaly Containment Association’s powerful resources and treated its representatives with greater respect.

As Western Europe struggled with a Fierce Malice-level contamination, Wang Qing tracked its source into the heart of the affected zone. He drew the enormous Weird Tree out of the ground and faced its attack with his flames.

• The safety buff disappeared at night, and Weirds resumed hunting as reports spread about widespread contamination in Western Europe.
• Wang Qing sensed a strange creature and followed it to the heart of the contamination zone.
• Wang Qing stomped the ground and flooded the buried lair with flames, forcing the source of the contamination to emerge.
• The Fierce Evil-level Weird Tree recognized Wang Qing as a powerful target and attacked him with its colossal roots.
• Wang Qing dodged the strike, landed on the roots, and burst into flames.

Wang Qing fought the eerie tree, using his fire ability to burn its roots and defeat its summoned treants. The battle shifted when the logistics personnel spotted living creatures, possibly humans, trapped inside tumors on the tree’s roots, and the tree began using them to make Wang Qing hesitate.

• The eerie tree summoned muscular treants from cracks in the ground while Wang Qing took to the air and attacked with fire.
• Wang Qing’s fire dragon countered the tree’s roots, parasitism, and other attacks, while he fought the treants.
• The eerie tree targeted Wang Qing with its roots, and he noticed a tumor containing something that appeared to be alive.
• The logistics personnel saw more tumors on the tree’s roots and realized creatures, possibly humans, were trapped inside them.
• The fire dragon’s attacks weakened as it avoided the tumors, and the eerie tree used the tumor-covered roots to threaten Wang Qing.

Wang Qing continued attacking the Weird Tree, killing some of the hostages trapped inside its burls and ignoring their accusations. When flames engulfed another injured man, Western European officials feared Wang Qing had lost control, but the logistics staff said it had not reached that point yet.

• Wang Qing punched through a burl, and the injured man trapped inside blamed him before dying from his wounds.
• Wang Qing destroyed more burls as surviving hostages accused him of killing them, while the logistics staff worried their cries could affect him.
• Wang Qing struck around the burls to avoid harming the hostages inside, but flames suddenly engulfed a man who reached for him.
• The president and Western European officials stood up in alarm and asked whether Wang Qing had lost control and how they could stop him.
• The logistics staff watched Wang Qing and said he had not yet reached the point of losing control.