Recaps

Wang Qing exposed the Weird Tree’s use of human-looking Tree Spirits as bait and attacked it with overwhelming flames. As the Weird Tree unleashed its remaining powers, Wang Qing pushed through its defenses and reached its body.

• The logistics staff member reviewed the footage and concluded that Wang Qing had killed the person while fully conscious, leaving the elders to question him after the mission.
• Wang Qing identified the rescued people’s open hatred as proof that they were controlled by the Weird Tree, then burned them and its Tree Spirits to ashes.
• The Weird Tree attacked Wang Qing with its stems, but he surrounded himself with fire and charged toward it, resisting its attempt to parasitize him.
• Wang Qing and the fire dragon badly damaged the Weird Tree, which then summoned mutated plants from roots and seeds buried underground.
• Wang Qing fought through the newly sprouted plants, reached the Weird Tree, and began leaping across its stems.

Wang Qing defeated and contained the Weird Tree, while Shen Yu observed the Green Leaf Shelter rankings and learned that Bai Zuo had risen to SSS-rank. Bai Zuo asked Shen Yu to control his Character Card and face the Weird Gods with him, and Shen Yu agreed.

• Wang Qing burned the Weird Tree into submission, contained it in a Anomaly Cage, and earned a new Flame Burst ability.
• Shen Yu checked the Green Leaf Shelter Power Rankings and noted several unfamiliar players, while choosing not to contract an anomaly himself.
• Bai Zuo called Shen Yu and revealed that he had advanced from S-rank to SSS-rank after discovering the Heart Gu could fight Weirds.
• Shen Yu used Bai Zuo's Character Card and recalled agreeing to let Bai Zuo confront the highly corrupt Weird Gods.
• Bai Zuo flew beyond the sky toward the waiting Weird Gods, appearing tiny beside them.

Bai Zuo returned from a world overrun by weird entities after advancing Heart Gu to SS-rank and learning how to control low-level entities through psychic force and weird energy. He came back alone to the Anomaly Containment Association and asked the Research Department for hundreds of thousands of Anomaly Cages so he could retrieve the entities he had left behind.

• Bai Zuo used his control over the world's weird entities to help Heart Gu advance from S-rank to SS-rank, and Shen Yu entered his mindscape to review his progress.
• Shen Yu assured Bai Zuo that the elders would not stop him from returning, and Bai Zuo decided to go back to the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Bai Zuo returned without the weird entities and asked the Research Department for several hundred thousand Anomaly Cages.
• Mr. G explained that the Association could produce at most one hundred thousand Anomaly Cages that day because Weird Crystals were limited.

After Bai Zuo brought a world’s anomalies to Headquarters, Shen Yu upgraded Headquarters and settled a debate over Bai Zuo’s promotion by letting his achievements offset his remaining disciplinary record. Recalling a danger hinted at by his recovered memories, Shen Yu used Wu’s Precognition ability with a crystal ball to look into the future.

• Bai Zuo transported the anomalies he had controlled to Headquarters and imprisoned them, earning Shen Yu over a hundred million Construction Points.
• Shen Yu upgraded Headquarters to Level 5, though its highest technology icon remained unlit.
• The elders debated whether Bai Zuo should be promoted to SSS rank, with Yuan Wu arguing that his past violations and temperament warranted a delay.
• Shen Yu ordered Bai Zuo’s merits to offset his faults, and the elders accepted his promotion to SSS rank.
• Shen Yu took out Wu’s Character Card and activated Precognition with a crystal ball to see future timelines.

Shen Yu used precognition for the first time and saw a future where the Anomaly Containment Association’s Headquarters on Blue Star was besieged by Weird entities and Weird Gods. The vision ended with Bai Zuo controlling one Weird God but losing control himself.

• Shen Yu’s precognition caused a powerful Weird energy eruption at Headquarters, and the elders reassured everyone that it was only a Contract Anomalist using an ability.
• Shen Yu poured his mental power into the crystal ball and saw Weird entities pouring through black vortices to attack Blue Star and the Association’s Headquarters.
• Shen Yu realized the vision showed the consequences of choosing to build Headquarters on Blue Star, leaving the Contract Anomalists with nowhere to retreat.
• Mi Lan and Fu Zhang tried to hold off the Weird Gods but warned that Blue Star could not withstand their power.
• Bai Zuo went out to control the Weird Gods, managed to control one, and then lost control under their corruption.

Shen Yu used foresight to examine a possible battle against the Weird Gods, but the vision ended when his crystal ball cracked as he neared an unseen threat. He chose the SS-grade Character Card Absolute Boundary and activated its Otherworld Summoning ability at Headquarters, where it unleashed a powerful wave of eerie energy.

• Shen Yu watched a possible future in which Bai Zuo lost control and his Weird God attacked the other Weird Gods while Fu Zhang, Mi Lan, and others fought them.
• Shen Yu's crystal ball cracked when he tried to see what stronger enemy might be present, and he concluded the vision had been interrupted to keep that entity from noticing him.
• Shen Yu considered drawing cards and chose the SS-grade Absolute Boundary Character Card, whose contracted Weird entity had the ability Otherworld Summoning.
• At the Contract Anomalists' lounge, Absolute Boundary ignored a logistics staff member's warning and activated Otherworld Summoning in the main hall.
• Absolute Boundary's eerie energy surged outward, forcing the Contract Anomalists to retreat under its immense pressure.

Shen Yu used Absolute Boundary to summon a humanoid calling himself the God of Games, while the ritual exposed Absolute Boundary’s classified ability to Contract Anomalists at Headquarters. The God of Games was bound by the contract but chose to stay after sensing the world’s unusual power.

• Absolute Boundary began a summoning ritual in the lounge, frightening nearby Contract Anomalists and prompting the logistics staff member to alert the elders.
• Fu Zhang arrived as Contract Anomalists gathered, and the elders accepted that Absolute Boundary’s secret ability might be revealed.
• Shen Yu focused on Absolute Boundary and Fu Zhang as a humanoid figure emerged from the summoning array.
• The summoned man called himself the God of Games and promised protection and immortality to those who pledged loyalty.
• The God of Games tried to punish Absolute Boundary for falling asleep, but the contract prevented him from harming his summoner.
• The God of Games sensed unusual power in the world and reluctantly decided to stay.

Shen Yu and the God of Games worked together to remake the Green Leaf Shelter virtual reality game, using Weird abilities to create punishing new Dungeons. After discovering that mysterious rules prevented the God of Games from speaking his true name, Shen Yu accepted an invitation to visit his world.

• The God of Games explored the internet with Shen Yu and criticized the game’s pain settings and design.
• The God of Games captured Weirds, studied their abilities, and used them as inspiration for deadly new Dungeons.
• The God of Games asked to meet the Anomaly Containment Association’s Chairman, and Shen Yu revealed himself and introduced himself by his real name.
• The God of Games found that mysterious rules prevented him from speaking his true name, so Shen Yu agreed to call him the God of Games.
• Shen Yu and the God of Games remade Green Leaf Shelter into a hardcore game, and Shen Yu decided to visit the God of Games’s world using the teleportation device.

The God of Games helped Shen Yu upgrade Green Leaf Shelter and explained that Blue Star’s rapid decline could be stopped by making the world ascend. He advised Shen Yu to seize the weak, newly born Heavenly Dao’s authority, and Shen Yu began trying to do so.

• Green Leaf Shelter’s players discussed the update, their in-game exploits, and ways to earn money by grinding.
• The God of Games modified Green Leaf Shelter and used his authority to give the game new powers.
• The God of Games inspected Blue Star’s dungeons and Weird entities, then warned Shen Yu that their invasion was outpacing the world’s growth.
• The God of Games said Blue Star could ascend if Shen Yu seized the Heavenly Dao’s authority while its consciousness was still weak.
• Shen Yu used the God of Games’ guidance and his divine-level strength to attempt to seize authority from the newly born Heavenly Dao.

Shen Yu looked for ways to raise Blue Star’s Weird energy enough for the world to advance, while Xu Zhou noticed that the suddenly famous singer Yuki’s voice was affecting listeners unnaturally. He sent her livestream to Norden, a siren, to investigate the singing.

• Shen Yu checked Blue Star’s advancement requirements and rejected releasing S-rank Dungeons to raise its Weird energy.
• A drunk man in Cosmic Nation chased a figure he mistook for Yuki into an alley.
• Xu Zhou heard Contract Anomalists discussing Yuki and found himself urgently drawn to her singing, but recognized the feeling as unnatural.
• Xu Zhou got Yuki’s livestream room ID and sent it to Norden, asking him to assess her voice.
• Norden entered Yuki’s livestream room, intrigued by its claim that she was the world’s number one diva.

Norden recognized that Yuki’s singing carried a powerful mental attack, and Xu Zhou alerted the Anomaly Containment Association. The Association began responding while Ji Wu continued supervising Bai Zuo, whose SSS-rank promotion was nearly assured despite the elders’ lingering distrust.

• Yuki ended her song as fans flooded her livestream with gifts and begged for another performance.
• Yuki announced she would sing one final song before preparing for her concert and began singing again.
• Norden sensed a powerful mental attack in Yuki’s singing and warned Xu Zhou that she might have gained anomalous power.
• Xu Zhou informed the Logistics Department, which quickly notified a Supervisor.
• Bai Zuo returned with SSS-rank strength, had his punishment erased, and remained under Ji Wu’s supervision for another month.
• Ji Wu struggled through the mountain of reports generated by Bai Zuo’s accomplishments.

Ji Wu assigned Bai Zuo, Xu Zhou, and Norden to investigate Yuki, whose popularity appeared to have affected Cosmic Nation’s younger generation. The group arrived in Cosmic Nation and found the country covered in Yuki’s posters, but they had not yet determined how her influence worked.

• Ji Wu learned that Yuki’s popularity had affected tens of millions of people and agreed to notify Bai Zuo about the mission.
• Xu Zhou and Norden received orders to join the mission, and they met Ji Wu and Bai Zuo before traveling to Cosmic Nation.
• Bai Zuo, Xu Zhou, Norden, and Ji Wu met local Yi Gui Company employees, who warned that approaching Yuki could provoke a public uproar.
• The group saw Yuki’s posters and fanatical young fans throughout Cosmic Nation, and Xu Zhou asked Norden whether the influence of a song could persist in people’s minds.

Xu Zhou and the others learned that Yuki's singing had enchanted much of Cosmic Nation, driving fans to violence and influencing the authorities. As they set out to find Yuki and ask her to release the people under her spell, a fan mistook them for supporters.

• Xu Zhou and the others saw Yuki's fans chanting in the street while police officers discussed the song's strange effect on them.
• A branch employee warned Xu Zhou that Yuki's fans had beaten a man to death for criticizing her, then been released after Yuki intervened.
• Norden questioned why the fans faced no punishment, and Ji Wu explained that hurting people was against the law.
• Ji Wu proposed finding Yuki and asking her to withdraw her ability so the enchanted people could wake up.
• A bloodshot-eyed man approached the group, and Ji Wu claimed they were discussing Yuki's next concert; the man smiled and called her beautiful and kind.

Xu Zhou and the others investigated the growing unrest surrounding Yuki in Cosmic Nation, where fans had learned about efforts to restrict her and one had attempted to assassinate a leader. Xu Zhou brought an affected fan back to the company to examine the Weird energy in his brain and left the group to trace the influence to Yuki.

• A furious fan raged about Yuki and the criminals targeting her, and Xu Zhou knocked him unconscious.
• Xu Zhou took the fan to the company, assuring a branch employee that the man's residual anomalous energy meant using his ability would not violate the Humanity Code.
• Ji Wu found news that Yuki's fans were protesting after information about the Anomaly Containment Association's intervention and restrictions on Yuki had leaked, and a fan had shot a leader.
• Xu Zhou said the leak suggested Cosmic Nation had been infiltrated and explained that he had brought the fan back to study the Weird energy affecting him, not to question him.
• Xu Zhou asked Norden to help determine whether they could disperse the residual Weird energy in the fan's brain.

Xu Zhou, Norden, and Bai Zuo tried to remove a fan’s mark but discovered that Yuki’s power was too strong, so they went to her agency to stop her before her next concert. They found Yuki rehearsing, where she complained about people in her way as an assistant promised they would disappear after the concert.

• Norden used his siren song to try to remove the mark from the fan, but the attempt injured the man and failed.
• Xu Zhou told Ji Wu to guard the fan while he, Norden, and Bai Zuo went to find Yuki before her next concert.
• Ji Wu agreed to stay behind, while Bai Zuo’s elders’ assessment of his conduct remained tied to his SSS-rank promotion.
• Xu Zhou and Norden discussed how Yuki’s songs affected listeners and infiltrated her agency with Bai Zuo.
• They found Yuki rehearsing with her assistants, and one assistant assured her that everyone standing in her way would disappear after the concert.

Jin Junxi helped Yuki escape the company before Xu Zhou and Norden arrived to investigate her. While searching for her, Xu Zhou and Norden encountered Bai Zuo’s Heart Gu, which understood Norden’s insult and knocked him down.

• Jin Junxi learned that Contract Anomalists were coming and led Yuki away through a secret passage, while her assistants left false signs that she was still in the company.
• Xu Zhou and Norden searched the company but found no sign of Yuki, despite detecting lingering Weird energy.
• Xu Zhou and Norden waited outside the women’s restroom, but neither dared to search it, and they concluded Yuki was probably elsewhere.
• Xu Zhou recognized Bai Zuo’s Heart Gu as it crawled past and called out to it.
• Norden compared the Heart Gu to a tasty white orchid crab, and the Heart Gu leapt up and struck him in the forehead.

Heart Gu took control of the company’s employees while Xu Zhou and Norden discussed whether Bai Zuo could wrest control of Yuki’s affected fans from her. They found the secret passage Yuki had used, but she and Jin Junxi had already escaped, and Xu Zhou reported the news to Bai Zuo.

• Heart Gu told Xu Zhou that Bai Zuo had sent it to find the secret passage and control the company’s employees to uncover Yuki’s whereabouts.
• Heart Gu took control of people throughout the company, and Xu Zhou explained to Norden that Bai Zuo might seize control of Yuki’s affected fans but risked damaging their brains.
• Heart Gu led Xu Zhou and Norden to the secret passage, where they found traces of weird energy and realized Yuki had escaped.
• Xu Zhou and Norden chased after Yuki and Jin Junxi but found they had vanished, then returned to Bai Zuo.
• Xu Zhou told Bai Zuo that the singer had escaped while Bai Zuo sat at the boss’s desk holding a USB drive.

Jin Junxi moved Yuki’s concert forward to that afternoon to avoid interference from Xu Zhou and Norden. Before they could locate her, a song promoting the Song Tide reached people across Cosmic Nation through their electronic devices, drawing them toward Yuki.

• Xu Zhou and Norden concluded that Yuki’s unexplained power and evasive behavior made her a threat, though they did not know her goal or the price she would pay.
• Jin Junxi took Yuki to a safe house and promised that the concert would make her Cosmic Nation’s most famous idol.
• Fearing the Contract Anomalists would find Yuki, Jin Junxi decided to hold the concert that afternoon, and Yuki agreed.
• Xu Zhou and Norden learned the concert had been moved up and worried that confronting Yuki at the crowded venue would endanger spectators or cause her to flee.
• People across Cosmic Nation received a song promoting the arrival of the Song Tide, became captivated by it, and identified Yuki as its singer.

Xu Zhou and Norden entered Yuki’s concert venue, but the crowd’s mixed auras made it impossible for them to track her. Jin Junxi prepared Yuki to take the stage, believing that once her performance began, the Contract Anomalists would be too late to stop his plan.

• Fans rushed to find tickets for Yuki’s sold-out concert as Xu Zhou and Norden arrived at the venue.
• Guards let Xu Zhou and Norden inside after their employee IDs clouded the guards’ perceptions, and the guards soon forgot they had seen them.
• Xu Zhou and Norden searched the venue but could not distinguish Yuki’s aura from the crowd’s overlapping auras.
• Jin Junxi questioned the guards about Contract Anomalists, then remained uneasy because he believed they had already arrived in the country.
• Jin Junxi told Yuki it was time to go onstage, and she prepared to begin her first official concert.

Yuki began her concert performance while Xu Zhou and Norden tried to stop her, but her song unleashed a burst of strange energy that knocked Norden away. Xu Zhou broke free of the security guards and moved toward the stage as Yuki’s power surged.

• Xu Zhou and Norden rushed toward the stage, but Jin Junxi’s security guards blocked the passage.
• Norden used a Ghost Hand to fly over the guards and land near Yuki, while Xu Zhou remained trapped.
• As Norden charged toward her, Yuki began singing and released a massive burst of strange energy that blasted him into a wall.
• Xu Zhou saw Norden fall, freed himself by injuring several guards, and warned the others not to stand in his way.

At Yuki’s concert, her singing unleashed an expanding Song Tide that mutated the audience and trapped Xu Zhou and Norden in crushing Weird energy. Jin Junxi revealed his betrayal and released a transparent worm into the tide, while Xu Zhou and Norden struggled to survive inside a Ghost Domain.

• Xu Zhou drove back the security guards and checked on the injured Norden as Yuki’s power surged to at least S-rank.
• Yuki’s song enthralled the audience, spreading Song nests and transforming fans into monsters whose singing strengthened the Song Tide.
• Jin Junxi revealed that he had used Yuki, then smashed a golden conch and released a transparent worm into the tide.
• The worm merged with the Song Tide, making the Weird energy visible and triggering the audience’s simultaneous transformation into monsters.
• Xu Zhou summoned Ghost Hand to shield himself and Norden from the tide, and Norden added his Weird power by releasing a blood lotus.

Xu Zhou and Norden tried to stop Yuki’s contaminating song as the Song Tide spread, but they retreated when their Ghost Domain began to fail. Jin Junxi watched Yuki transform and declared that the new world was about to arrive.

• Blood Lotus absorbed energy from the Song Tide and fed it to Xu Zhou, while the tide and Yuki’s song amplified each other and turned the audience into monsters.
• Ji Wu told Xu Zhou that a strange audio clip had reached everyone in the Cosmic Nation and that networks were under attack; Xu Zhou said Bai Zuo was missing.
• As the tide damaged Xu Zhou’s Ghost Domain and Norden’s Blood Lotus weakened, Xu Zhou and Norden decided to flee without using the malfunctioning Time Rewind device.
• Xu Zhou opened a path through the tide with Ghost Hand, and he and Norden escaped the concert venue.
• Jin Junxi watched them leave as Yuki grew several meters taller and changed into a white gown, then proclaimed that the new world was about to arrive.

Bai Zuo interrupted Jin Junxi’s scheme and confronted the mutated Yuki, whose song summoned a tide to protect Jin Junxi. Yuki’s song then entranced people across Cosmic Nation as a strange energy seized the nation’s network, leaving Ji Wu horrified.

• Bai Zuo kicked Jin Junxi down and discovered that Yuki had mutated into a powerful Song Tide priestess.
• Yuki heard Jin Junxi call for help, briefly struggled, and sent a tide surging toward Bai Zuo to rescue him.
• The tide carried Jin Junxi to Yuki, who continued singing and called for Song Tide to rise.
• People across Cosmic Nation who heard the ringtone stopped and became entranced by Yuki’s song.
• Ji Wu watched in horror as strange energy spread across the nation and took control of its network, blocking transmissions outside.

Shen Yu joined the God of Games on Blue Star to stop Song Tide’s power from spreading beyond Cosmic Nation. As the tide submerged the nation and Bai Zuo faced the god-level Weird, Ji Wu and other survivors watched from safety while the God of Games contained the threat to the network.

• Shen Yu defeated the God of Games by one piece in chess, then agreed to return for another round after dealing with trouble on Blue Star.
• The God of Games took over the global network and prevented Song Tide’s power from spreading beyond Cosmic Nation.
• Bai Zuo stood atop Heart Gu as Song Tide flooded Cosmic Nation and submerged most people below the third floor.
• Ji Wu evacuated Yigui Branch’s employees to another country before the tide erupted, then called Xu Zhou to check on him.
• Xu Zhou and Norden watched the tide from a high-rise while Ji Wu learned that Bai Zuo was fighting the Weird at the concert venue and wondered whether he needed to request reinforcements.

Xu Zhou and Norden waited for a helicopter while the giant Spider attacked the Song Tide Priest and stopped its song. Jin Junxi’s attempts to reach Yuki failed, and Luomosi dragged him beneath the floodwaters as Bai Zuo watched.

• Xu Zhou sent Ji Wu their location, and Ji Wu arranged for security personnel to lend them a helicopter.
• The giant white Spider and its smaller spiders attacked the Song Tide Priest, interrupting its song and halting the tide’s advance.
• Jin Junxi called to Yuki, but the fully transformed Song Tide Priest no longer recognized him or responded.
• Luomosi seized Jin Junxi’s legs and dragged him into the floodwaters despite his protests that he was a loyal believer.
• Jin Junxi cried to Yuki for help, but she did not act, while Bai Zuo watched from atop the Heart Gu.