Recaps

After escaping the Strange Food dungeon, Bai Zuo brought Du Jiashi and Xu Rou to Yi Gui Company, where they met Ji Wu. Ji Wu recognized traces of Weird aura on them and realized Bai Zuo had brought them as a surprise for the Chairman.

• Bai Zuo healed Du Jiashi and Xu Rou after they escaped the dungeon, and they confirmed they had received their game rewards.
• Bai Zuo led Du Jiashi and Xu Rou past the police blockade and took them by taxi to Yi Gui Company.
• Du Jiashi and Xu Rou followed Bai Zuo into the company, where employees greeted him and gave him snacks and drinks.
• Bai Zuo brought Du Jiashi and Xu Rou into the office, introducing them to Ji Wu and Xu Zhou as a surprise for the Chairman.
• Ji Wu noticed the pair's injuries and the Weird aura around them, then questioned Bai Zuo about bringing them to the Chairman.

Bai Zuo recruited Du Jiashi and Xu Rou into the Anomaly Containment Association, while Shen Yu considered using Skywing A’s associated characters to promote the organization. After reviewing Skywing A’s connections, Shen Yu was stunned by how many enemies the character had.

• Bai Zuo gave Ji Wu a Anomaly Cage containing an anomaly and revealed that Du Jiashi and Xu Rou wanted to join the Association.
• Ji Wu explained the dangers and duties of Contract Anomalists, and Du Jiashi and Xu Rou signed their applications and employment forms.
• Shen Yu read online discussions about Xia Kingdom clearing two Dungeons and considered how to promote the Anomaly Containment Association without sacrificing its mystique.
• Shen Yu checked Skywing A’s five associated characters and reacted with disbelief at the character’s two enemies, Yun Qing and Wei Tai.

Shen Yu manifested Lan Ruo and sent him abroad to a remote town, hoping his new character settings would stir up trouble and earn Construction Points. Lan Ruo explored the town’s ancient stone structures and encountered a boy who mistook him for an angel.

• Shen Yu edited the settings and memories of related characters, manifested them, and sent Lan Ruo abroad while postponing Xi Jing’s storyline.
• Lan Ruo arrived at a secluded town, where a resident warned him that outsiders were not welcome and told him to leave after looking around.
• Lan Ruo photographed the town’s ancient stone pillars and noticed that one section of their carvings had been deliberately erased.
• A little boy carrying flowers fell when he saw Lan Ruo, then called him an angel; Lan Ruo crouched down and told him he was human.

Lan Ruo discovered a wounded girl chained in a wooden house, with a human face growing from her back, and learned that locals planned to burn her as a monster. The villagers captured Lan Ruo and sentenced him to burn alongside her, while the Weird crisis continued to spread abroad.

• A boy led Lan Ruo to a remote wooden house, where he secretly cared for a chained, wounded blonde girl.
• Lan Ruo entered the house and learned that villagers planned to burn the girl as a witch after a wizard called her a monster.
• A crowd of villagers surrounded the house, captured Lan Ruo, and dragged him to the wizard.
• The wizard ordered Lan Ruo burned with the girl the day after tomorrow, and the villagers agreed.
• Reports of the Weird's growing death toll continued to spread online as people condemned the government.

People across the world searched for the identities of Xia Kingdom’s Dungeon clearers as fear of anomalies grew, but their records had been erased. Evil Mouth claimed that physical weapons could not kill Weird and revealed that the Dungeon clearers were Contract Anomalists who fought Weird using powers gained through contracts.

• Foreigners searched for Bai Zuo, Skywing A, Ji Wu, and other Dungeon clearers, while Xia Kingdom’s higher-ups found that many of their identities and records had been erased.
• Other countries blamed Xia Kingdom for hiding the clearers and demanded that it send them to help clear Dungeons.
• People online described growing fear, anomaly attacks, and failed attempts by authorities to clear Dungeons.
• Evil Mouth claimed that human weapons could not kill anomalies and that only anomalies could kill anomalies.
• Evil Mouth revealed that the Dungeon clearers were Contract Anomalists who had contracted with Weird, contained them in their bodies, and gained the power to fight them.

Evil Mouth and Love Resentment used a smear campaign and Lan Ruo’s kidnapping to bait a Contract Anomalist, while Yi Gui Company discovered the post and traced its author overseas. Bai Zuo acted unusually cheerful after learning the Chairman was coming, but he left Ji Wu wondering what he had remembered.

• Wei Tai and Yun Qing discussed their plan to lure Contract Anomalists and confirmed that Lan Ruo had been captured as bait.
• Employees at Yi Gui Company found the overseas post accusing the Dungeon-clearing figures of being Contract Anomalists, and Yang Su sent its link to Ji Wu.
• Ji Wu asked Bai Zuo whether he knew Evil Mouth, but Bai Zuo denied recognizing the name and then hacked the posting site to trace the author overseas.
• Ji Wu ordered Skywing A to retrieve the poster, while Bai Zuo claimed he had remembered something but forgot after Ji Wu interrupted him.
• Bai Zuo and Xu Zhou asked for food, and Bai Zuo continued humming cheerfully as Ji Wu noticed his unusual mood since learning the Chairman was coming.

Ji Wu, Xu Zhou, and Bai Zuo used the Information Cocoon to erase the public’s memories of Contract Anomalists and suppress the online discussion. Evil Mouth realized the conspirators had been found and fled with Yun Qing just before Skywing A arrived.

• Ji Wu ordered Bai Zuo to activate the Information Cocoon after they realized removing the trending topics would not be enough.
• Bai Zuo combined the artifact with Mind Control and telepathy, extending its range and the number of people it could affect.
• The Information Cocoon altered people’s memories and perceptions, causing discussion of Contract Anomalists to rapidly disappear.
• Evil Mouth learned that the topics had vanished and warned Yun Qing that their location was likely exposed.
• Evil Mouth and Yun Qing erased their traces and left the hideout before Skywing A smashed his way inside.

Skywing A followed a note to a remote town while searching for his missing friend, unaware that Wei Tai had lured him there and livestreamed his arrival to expose the Contract Anomalists. He found a young girl and then Lan Ruo imprisoned, as townspeople moved to stop him.

• Skywing A found a conspicuous note, tried calling his friend, and flew to the remote town where his friend had gone.
• Shen Yu let Skywing A notice the town’s surveillance cameras as part of a plan to expose the Anomaly Containment Association and gain Construction Points.
• Wei Tai streamed Skywing A’s arrival, hoping to kill him or reveal his identity and the Anomaly Containment Association to the public.
• Skywing A spotted a young girl imprisoned in a wooden house, judged her safe for the moment, and continued searching for his friend.
• Skywing A found Lan Ruo imprisoned in a castle, but a group of townspeople confronted him and called for him to leave.

Skywing rescued Lan Ruo and discovered that an anomaly’s blue hourglass mark had spread to his own hand and resisted removal. He lured the hidden anomaly with Nameless Bird, but it remained concealed.

• Skywing swept aside the people blocking his way, unlocked the Extreme Shadow ability, and broke into a room to rescue Lan Ruo.
• Skywing freed Lan Ruo and discovered an hourglass-shaped mark on his neck.
• Skywing tried to erase the mark with Nameless Bird’s power, but it spread to the back of his own hand and could not be removed.
• Skywing carried Lan Ruo outside town and used Nameless Bird’s S-rank aura to provoke the hidden anomaly.
• The hidden anomaly stayed silent as Skywing showed the blue hourglass mark to the camera.

Skywing rescued Yin Nu from a growing Wandering Soul, but removing it triggered a violent flash that made him vanish. Wei Tai and Yun Qing revealed that their trap had worked and Skywing had entered their cage.

• Skywing learned from Ji Wu that he was being livestreamed, then left some cameras intact to taunt whoever was behind the broadcast.
• Skywing found Yin Nu losing her senses and cut the lump growing on her back away from her body.
• Skywing contained the lump in the Anomaly Cage, and Yin Nu regained her voice and warned him to leave.
• A flash of light shook the town, the Anomaly Cage fell beside Yin Nu, and Skywing disappeared as the golden Inverted Pyramid began to float.
• Wei Tai and Yun Qing celebrated, saying Skywing had entered their cage and could no longer fly.

Inside the Inverted Pyramid, Skywing A was forced to relive his childhood after the Blue Hourglass reversed his age. He rejected the attempt to make him relive his helplessness and escaped the sealed basement, while the livestream revealed his apparent rejuvenation to the world.

• Skywing A's Endless Storm cracked the Inverted Pyramid, but a Pale Gold Screen formed around it.
• The Blue Hourglass's power turned Skywing A into a frail six-year-old, and Shen Yu immersed himself in playing him.
• Livestream viewers saw Skywing A's younger appearance, prompting wealthy viewers to seek the Contract Anomalists and the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Skywing A remembered the neglect and abuse he suffered as a child because of his albinism.
• Skywing A declared that he would not be a performer or a helpless child again, then used a mirror shard to pry open the basement lock and stepped into the sunlight.

Skywing A relived his childhood through the Ghost Artifact Upside-Down Life and repeatedly struggled to escape the village where his family had imprisoned him. Outside the village, he heard a traveler asking about the white-haired child, while Wei Tai and Yun Qing hoped the artifact might reveal The One.

• The Inverted Pyramid announced the A-grade Ghost Artifact Upside-Down Life, and Shen Yu's purchase and its ability to simulate a trapped person's life were explained.
• Skywing A repeatedly tried to escape his village, was caught and locked up again, then set a fire to get away.
• Wei Tai suspected Skywing A had recognized the artifact's trap, while Yun Qing wondered how he knew what it could do.
• Skywing A reached a town and overheard townspeople describe a white-haired child imprisoned in a nearby village.
• A hooded traveler asked about local legends, heard about the child, and left without a word.

Skywing A’s memories revealed how the chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association recruited him after he escaped his confinement. As the virtual world began to collapse, Skywing A woke and the Inverted Pyramid shone with golden light.

• A mysterious outsider questioned villagers, found an anomaly, and contained it while Skywing A secretly followed him.
• The chairman confronted Skywing A in an alley and asked whether he yearned for freedom.
• Skywing A said he wanted to join the Anomaly Containment Association, and the chairman warned him that anomaly containment brought death and suffering.
• Skywing A knelt before the chairman, chose his name, and accepted a mirror from him.
• Wei Tai and Yun Qing saw the chairman’s red eyes on the livestream and reacted with fear as the virtual world began to collapse.
• Skywing A woke, and the Inverted Pyramid shone with golden light.

Skywing escaped the Anomaly Artifact with the Chairman’s help and freed Yin Nu from the cabin. After the villagers returned under the Anomaly’s influence and tried to burn them, Skywing realized they were beyond saving and prepared to act against them.

• The Chairman’s phantom helped Skywing break free of the Inverted Pyramid and escape the Anomaly Artifact.
• Skywing used a gust of wind to snap Yin Nu’s chains, then carried her and the boy through the air to the edge of town.
• Lan Ruo welcomed them, gave Yin Nu his coat, and confirmed Skywing had freed them.
• Wu rallied the Anomaly-influenced townspeople to burn Yin Nu and the cabin, insisting she had caused their troubles.
• Skywing extinguished the villagers’ torches with a whirlwind, detected a foul stench, and abandoned his plan to hand them over to the authorities.

Skywing A exposed the parasitic Weirds hiding inside the townspeople and used Nameless Bird to destroy the anomaly’s Ghost Domain. As Nameless Bird’s Ghost Domain overwhelmed the town, the anomaly was forced to reveal itself.

• Skywing A’s wind blades tore through the townspeople, revealing that each had been parasitized by a fully formed Weird.
• The livestream viewers realized the townspeople were monsters and began apologizing for condemning Skywing A.
• Skywing A learned that the parasitic Weirds had controlled the townspeople and could have deceived even skilled Contract Anomalists.
• Skywing A gained the perfected Call of the Wind ability and struggled to filter the flood of voices it carried.
• Nameless Bird unfurled its Ghost Domain, forcing the hidden anomaly to reveal its own domain.
• Nameless Bird’s Ghost Domain shattered the anomaly’s domain almost immediately.

Skywing A defeated and contained the Ghost Doll, ending the livestream that had exposed Contract Anomalists to the public. Viewers began questioning the trap and the Chairman’s power, while Yi Gui Company employees realized they had seen the name Skywing A in their records.

• Skywing A battered the Ghost Doll and sealed it in a Anomaly Cage, then vanished with Lan Ruo and Yin Nu as the livestream ended.
• Viewers debated the livestream, and a hidden Xia Kingdom user urged them to recognize that Contract Anomalists were protecting the world and might have been targeted by a trap.
• Viewers realized they could not remember the Chairman’s face, only his red eyes, and avoided discussing what that suggested about his strength.
• At Yi Gui Company, Deng Xiaorui and her coworkers recognized the name Skywing A from a previous dungeon, and Deng said she had seen it in the employee records.
• Deng Xiaorui rummaged through a drawer and pulled out a stack of documents.

After the employees discovered that Skywing A belonged to Yi Gui Company’s Execution Department, they realized the company was a branch of the Anomaly Containment Association. Shen Yu spent Construction Points to build the Association’s headquarters in the Source World and teleported there.

• Deng Xiaorui and the other employees found Skywing A’s file and concluded that Yi Gui Company was a subsidiary of the Anomaly Containment Association.
• The employees stopped resenting the Execution Department and kept the secret because of their contracts, while Shen Yu read their thoughts.
• Shen Yu received Construction Points for containing Weirds and publicizing the Association, bringing his total to 228,860.
• Shen Yu spent 100,000 Construction Points to establish the headquarters in the Source World’s White Disk Plains.
• After the Headquarters Building finished construction, Shen Yu viewed its details and used its teleportation button to travel there.

Shen Yu activated the Anomaly Containment Facility at the Anomaly Containment Association headquarters and permanently contained seven anomalies, gaining their abilities and anomaly crystals. He unlocked essential technologies for the Association, but the advanced spacetime tech remained far beyond his budget.

• Shen Yu activated the Anomaly Containment Facility and sent Skywing A to bring the Anomaly Cages to headquarters.
• Shen Yu imprisoned seven anomalies in the facility, including the Twin Infants together, and gained their abilities and seven anomaly crystals.
• Shen Yu learned that the anomaly crystals could serve as clean energy and opened the Research Department’s tech tree to find ways to use them.
• Shen Yu unlocked Anomaly Cage production technology, then spent Construction Points on special ammunition, firearms, a Light Blade, and a medical pod.
• Shen Yu found that even the cheapest spacetime technologies cost one million Construction Points, so he left that category and unlocked several daily-life and entertainment technologies.

Shen Yu unlocked biological prosthetic technology, expanded production and staffing at the Anomaly Containment Association, and drew an SSS-grade Character Card. He summoned Fu Zhang, whose Contracted Anomaly was the world-destroying Thunder God Sovereign.

• Shen Yu unlocked biological prosthetic generation and installation, then had the researcher produce robots and prosthetics using materials gathered nearby.
• Shen Yu ordered trucks to deliver the products to the Yi Gui Company building and used Bai Zuo's Mind Control to prevent people from noticing them.
• Shen Yu spent thirty thousand Construction Points on Character Card draws and received several employees, two other Character Cards, and an SSS-grade Character Card for Fu Zhang.
• Shen Yu read Fu Zhang's details, learning that he was one of the Three Great Executors and had contracted the Thunder God Sovereign, a conceptual anomaly that commanded lightning.
• Shen Yu used Fu Zhang's card, and violent white-violet lightning filled the hall.

Shen Yu strengthened Fu Zhang’s lightning control, monitored the Anomaly Containment Association’s headquarters, and assigned its lone researcher more work while searching for anomalous incidents. The next day, Ji Wu’s employees at Yi Gui Company prepared an elaborate welcome for the expected headquarters visitors.

• Shen Yu used Fu Zhang to patrol the headquarters, where employees praised Fu Zhang’s imposing presence and warned a newcomer about his explosive temper.
• Shen Yu returned to the hospital before the nurse’s rounds, took his medicine, and used the system to check the headquarters.
• Shen Yu saw that the lone researcher had too much work and arranged for him to produce more cargo trucks, then searched online for anomalous incidents.
• Ji Wu told Yi Gui Company employees that headquarters representatives would visit that afternoon, prompting Ge Yi to organize a formal reception.
• Ji Wu agreed to Ge Yi’s plan, and the employees decorated the entrance with a banner, flower baskets, and a red carpet while they waited for the visitors.

Yi Gui Company prepared to receive staff and supplies from Headquarters, but the Chairman was delayed and Captain Xie Yu came in his place. Ji Wu discovered special bullets in the shipment and took several magazines for his gun.

• Xu Zhou asked Bai Zuo about the Chairman and the visitors from Headquarters, while Bai Zuo teased him about Skywing A.
• Ji Wu received word that Headquarters had arrived, and the employees went downstairs to meet them.
• Ji Wu found several freight trucks marked with the Anomaly Containment Association emblem and learned that Headquarters had sent staff to fill roles at Yi Gui Company.
• A supervisor told Ji Wu that the Chairman could not come and that Captain Xie Yu had gone to find a warehouse for the shipment.
• Ji Wu inspected a truck, found boxes of special bullets, and took several magazines to reload his gun.

Ji Wu introduced Xu Zhou to Xie Yu and his new recruit, Jiang Tianzong, after Bai Zuo left the welcoming ceremony. At the warehouse, Jiang Tianzong grew resentful when he learned Xu Zhou had reached C-Class quickly and received better opportunities.

• Bai Zuo unleashed his malice when he learned the Chairman was absent, but Xie Yu arrived and calmed the group before Bai Zuo left.
• Xie Yu introduced Xu Zhou to his new recruit, Jiang Tianzong, and took them with Ji Wu to the rented warehouse.
• Ji Wu and Xie Yu supervised the workers unloading goods while Xu Zhou and Jiang Tianzong awkwardly got acquainted.
• Jiang Tianzong learned Xu Zhou had joined less than a month earlier and was already C-Class, while he was an E-Class recruit after a week.
• Jiang Tianzong accused Xu Zhou of benefiting from The One and complained that his missions, salary, and reimbursement limit brought him only five hundred thousand.

After Zhao Hun overheard Xie Yu and Ji Wu discussing the Anomaly Containment Association’s preparations and the deadly Gate crisis, he fled into a maze-like alley and became trapped with no phone signal. The chapter ended with Zhao Hun panicking and charging blindly through the darkness.

• Xu Zhou failed to continue his conversation with Jiang Tianzong, and Ji Wu reassured him that his personality was fine.
• Ji Wu learned that the Anomaly Containment Association had stockpiled weapons for its operations on Blue Star and that three Contract Anomalists had died when a Gate went berserk.
• Xie Yu explained that the Anomaly Containment Association was short on Contract Anomalists and that the Chairman and other powerful members were away suppressing the Gate.
• Zhao Hun overheard the conversation, fled the warehouse area, and became excited at the thought of joining the Contract Anomalists.
• Zhao Hun wandered into a secluded maze of alleys, failed to find an exit, and discovered that his phone had no signal.
• Zhao Hun broke down, shouted for help, and charged forward in terror.

Zhao Hun fled into an eerie manor and was forced into a wedding chamber, where he encountered a bride ghost and a strange Taoist priest. The priest summoned a modern, talisman-covered female ghost to fight the bride, leaving Zhao Hun stunned as the two ghosts clashed.

• Zhao Hun ran into the manor to escape the jingling bells behind him and was carried to a wedding chamber as its supposed groom.
• Zhao Hun failed to escape the locked room and saw a veiled bride sitting on the wedding bed.
• A Taoist priest entered and caught Zhao Hun, then confronted the bride after she appeared on his back.
• The priest refused the bride's advances and rang his bell to summon a modern female ghost covered in talismans.
• The summoned ghost attacked the bride while Zhao Hun watched in shock.

Zhao Hun watched a blind Daoist and the Resentful Woman fight the Wedding Dress Ghost, whose intelligence and power exceeded expectations. After the Wedding Dress Ghost tried to stab the Daoist with red silk, the Resentful Woman tore out its heart and interrupted the attack.

• Zhao Hun questioned the blind Daoist about Weird, but the Daoist said Zhao Hun had not seen through what they were.
• The Daoist joined the Resentful Woman in battle and helped suppress the Wedding Dress Ghost.
• The Wedding Dress Ghost unleashed red silk throughout its residence, bound the Resentful Woman, and wounded the Daoist.
• The Resentful Woman unfolded its Ghost Domain, broke free, and consumed most of the Wedding Dress Ghost's power.
• As the Daoist prepared to capture the Wedding Dress Ghost, it stabbed his abdomen with red silk and declared it would die with him.
• The Resentful Woman tore out the Wedding Dress Ghost's heart, interrupting its attack, while the Daoist pulled the red silk from his wound.