Recaps

Anomaly Tamers discovered signs of a sacrifice at a club and raced to stop an Evil Deity believer from summoning a powerful spawn. Luo Ping and Huang Bei withdrew from Ma Lou’s multiplying tentacles rather than risk their lives, while the missing Xie Yu watched nearby and judged their teamwork promising.

• Anomaly Tamers arrested the crazed club members, treated injured bystanders, and recognized markings indicating that a sacrifice had begun.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei fought Ma Lou’s growing mass of tentacles, which multiplied when severed and withered if they left the slime.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei escaped the hall and realized the tentacles blocked their path to Ma Lou, while Xie Yu was nowhere to be seen.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei recalled their instructors’ advice to prioritize survival and wait for support rather than make a reckless attack.
• Xie Yu, hidden nearby, saw the two rookies hold back and considered their strength and teamwork worthy of a C-rank evaluation.

Ma Lou tried to use the attack on the club to draw other Evil Deity believers back and planned to eliminate Luo Ping and Huang Bei. Dark Moon endured the soul-searching ritual’s pain, then killed Ma Lou to protect her family, collapsing afterward.

• Ma Lou messaged the other Evil Deity believers that the club was under attack, hoping to use them as cover while he escaped.
• Ma Lou considered killing Luo Ping and Huang Bei after they saw his face as the sacrificial ritual began.
• Dark Moon returned from the soul-searching ritual, and Ma Lou assumed she had passed and offered to recommend her to the bishop.
• Ma Lou tried to persuade Dark Moon to join forces with him, citing the help he had given her and her family.
• Dark Moon slashed Ma Lou’s throat with a small knife, and he collapsed as the uncontrolled tentacles moved stiffly through the hall.
• Dark Moon collapsed from the pain she had endured during the ritual, having killed Ma Lou because he threatened her family.

Xie Yu found Ma Lou dead and Dark Moon suffering as a sacrifice to an evil god, while Bureau of Special Affairs Anomaly Tamers fought the summoned tentacles at the Peculiar Club. After Luo Ping and Huang Bei greeted Xie Yu as their captain, the group discussed how Evil Deities were powerful anomalies that humanity could not yet defeat.

• Xie Yu entered the Peculiar Club and saw Ma Lou dead and Dark Moon kneeling in agony as an evil god's sacrifice.
• Bureau of Special Affairs personnel arrived, recognized Luo Ping and Huang Bei, and entered the hall to fight the summoned tentacles.
• Huang Hao cut away slime-corroded flesh from his arm and treated the wound while his team eliminated the tentacles.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei greeted Xie Yu as their captain, easing the Bureau personnel's suspicions about him.
• Huang Hao explained that Dark Moon's sacrifice could not be stopped unless every ritual medium was destroyed.
• Luo Ping described Evil Deities as stronger anomalies, and Huang Hao acknowledged that no human Anomaly Tamer could fight one.

As Dark Moon’s body became a vessel for the Evil Deity, Xie Yu tried to save her by flooding her with anomalous energy after she said she wanted to live. The Evil Deity began to descend anyway, and an evil god appeared behind Xie Yu to face it.

• Huang Hao prepared to let Dark Moon die painlessly, but Huang Bei stopped him and Xie Yu asked Dark Moon what she wanted.
• Dark Moon chose to live despite the pain, and Xie Yu poured anomalous energy into her body while Luo Ping and Huang Bei guarded them.
• Runes spread across Dark Moon’s skin as a sinister presence was forced out, and Huang Hao warned that the Evil Deity was about to descend through her.
• An Anomaly Tamer fired at Dark Moon, but the Evil Deity appeared behind her first and drove everyone to their knees with its gaze.
• A phantom evil god appeared behind Xie Yu and stared down the Evil Deity.

Xie Yu stopped the Blinding Spell and removed the Evil Deity’s contamination from Dark Moon, ending the interrupted sacrifice. The encounter unlocked a new Evil God ability, the Mystic Moon Pearl, which could absorb faith and refine it into pills.

• The Anomaly Tamers lost their sight to the Blinding Spell, and Huang Hao struggled to restore order as guards and colleagues panicked.
• Xie Yu dispelled the illusion, and Luo Ping and Huang Bei’s composed defense made Huang Hao realize his team was less prepared than the civilian organization.
• The Evil Deity’s phantom appeared opposite the Evil God, while a frightened Anomaly Tamer accidentally fired at Dark Moon; an invisible force stopped the bullet before it hit her.
• Xie Yu drove the contamination into Dark Moon’s arm, borrowed her knife, and cut out the black poison before forcing the remaining contamination from her body.
• Xie Yu unlocked the Mystic Moon Pearl, an Evil God ability that could suppress feng shui and fortune, absorb faith, and refine it into pills.

Xie Yu forced the Evil Deity's phantom to vanish, then helped the Anomaly Tamers investigate the deadly sacrifice at the club. As the Bureau of Special Affairs faced public outrage over the Tonghao Bridge collapse, Zhong Xing decided to reveal the truth and blame the Evil Deity believers they had captured.

• The Evil Deity's phantom vanished after giving Xie Yu and the phantom behind him a lingering look, and Xie Yu told Huang Hao that the being was merely an evil anomaly.
• Dark Moon wondered why she had become a vessel for divine descent, but concealed her suspicion that the wooden doll she had given Xie Yu might be involved.
• Huang Hao and the others searched the club and found that more than a hundred ordinary members had died in the ritual, with Dark Moon the only survivor.
• Deputy Director Zhong Xing ordered a nationwide investigation of companies, entertainment clubs, and bars after learning that most of the sacrificed members had been coerced.
• Reports about the Tonghao Bridge collapse spread online, and Zhong Xing told Li Jin to make the incident public, using the captured Evil Deity believers to explain the deaths.

Dark Moon asked Xie Yu to help her gain power so she could protect her family, and he revealed that he and his team belonged to the Anomaly Containment Association. She joined the Association and Amber Squad, though Xie Yu said she would have to wait for their spatial rift to stabilize before contracting a Weird.

• Dark Moon asked Xie Yu if he and his teammates were independent Anomaly Tamers, then pleaded to join them so she could protect her family.
• Xie Yu introduced himself as an A-rank Contract Anomalist from the Anomaly Containment Association and explained how Contract Anomalists differed from Anomaly Tamers.
• Dark Moon chose to join the Anomaly Containment Association and Xie Yu's Amber Squad, and Xie Yu said she would have to wait for the spatial rift to stabilize before contracting a Weird.
• Dark Moon prepared a meal for Luo Ping and Huang Bei, and Xie Yu introduced her as their new junior.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei reassured Dark Moon that her compatibility with Weirds was high and that she might contract a powerful one.

Xie Yu welcomed the Evil Deity’s strengthened curse as he considered why this world had become a half-Dungeon despite its relatively low Weird energy. He concluded that a world was truly lost when its core was contaminated and its origin claimed by the Weird side.

• Xie Yu examined the strengthened cursed mark on his wrist and looked forward to the danger it might bring, raising his Character Perfection by 2%.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei discussed Xie Yu’s frightening presence beneath his usual gentle, dependable manner, while Dark Moon listened.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei offered to clean up after Dark Moon cooked for them.
• Xie Yu compared this world’s weak Weird energy and Special Affairs Bureau with Blue Star’s containment efforts and wondered why the world had fallen into a half-Dungeon.
• Xie Yu recalled Shen Yu’s explanation that Weird energy reflected a world’s erosion and that contamination of its core meant the Weird side had claimed its origin.

Shen Yu discovered that this world’s origin had been eroded halfway and might fall within a year, while he secured his Dungeons against intrusion. A sudden downpour followed a violent incident, but online discussion of that attack and the Tonghao Bridge disaster spread new suspicions about hidden anomalies.

• Shen Yu surveyed the world and found that its origin had been eroded by half, leaving it only a year to produce someone capable of controlling its rules.
• Shen Yu worried that something might use the Dungeon teleportation devices to reach his Headquarters, so he installed barriers and purged traces of contamination.
• Shen Yu considered Luo Ping and Huang Bei’s arrival a possible stroke of fortune for the endangered world because their Chairman’s attention might turn toward it.
• A sudden storm drenched the area where Xie Yu watched from a window, washing away blood from the recent attack but not the people’s fear.
• Witnesses discussed online how attackers had assaulted passersby, while a person posted footage claiming a black shadow appeared beneath Tonghao Bridge before it broke apart.

As reports of monsters, disappearances, and other strange incidents spread, the authorities publicly revealed the Bureau of Special Affairs and acknowledged the existence of anomalies. At the Peculiar Club, Luo Ping and Huang Bei continued containing anomalies while waiting for Xie Yu to check the rift and hoping to return home.

• A survivor's video and testimony about a monster attack convinced many people that strange phenomena were real.
• The Bureau of Special Affairs released suppressed reports about disappearances, monster attacks, and Evil Deity believers, and the authorities publicly announced the bureau's existence.
• Escaped Evil Deity believers discussed fleeing the country, then received an order from their Lord to throw the city into chaos and eliminate a target.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei went out to contain anomalies, while Dark Moon watched and learned from their work.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei wondered whether Xie Yu was checking the rift and hoped the passage would soon let them return home.

Xie Yu caught a sniper’s bullet and killed the assassin with it, then explained how Weird energy could defend against physical attacks. Huang Bei and Luo Ping struggled to form a protective layer over their bodies, while Luo Ping wondered how long Xie Yu could maintain one.

• Huang Bei saw a sniper’s laser sight on Xie Yu and warned him as the assassin fired.
• Xie Yu caught the bullet and flicked it back, killing the sniper.
• Huang Bei told Luo Ping and Dark Moon that someone had tried to shoot Xie Yu, and Xie Yu explained how Weird energy could block ordinary attacks.
• Huang Bei and Luo Ping tried to cover their bodies with Weird energy but exhausted themselves after managing to protect only an arm.
• Luo Ping asked Xie Yu how long he could maintain the protective state.

Xie Yu and his companions learned that Evil Deity believers had threatened to destroy the city unless the Bureau of Special Affairs handed them over. Huang Bei and Luo Ping agreed to help hunt the cultists, while Xie Yu planned to watch over them.

• Xie Yu explained that maintaining his controlled state consumed little anomalous energy but still required mental strength.
• Dark Moon received a call from the Bureau of Special Affairs, which reported a threat to reduce the city to ashes unless Xie Yu and his companions were handed over.
• Li Jin and Zhong Xing searched surveillance footage and sought help because the bureau could not identify or interrogate the Evil Deity believers.
• Xie Yu asked Huang Bei and Luo Ping whether they would cooperate with the bureau and noted the cultists could provide experience for the newcomers.
• Huang Bei agreed to help and planned to send the bureau their price list, while Luo Ping vowed to crush the cultists' hopes.
• Xie Yu said he would watch over Huang Bei and Luo Ping as the Bureau of Special Affairs thanked them.

Dark Moon armed herself with special weapons and set out to find her family, while Xie Yu kept his distance to test whether the Evil Deity cultists could track him. As five cultists were killed across the city, Zhong Xing realized their deaths seemed suspicious and began mapping their locations.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei gave Dark Moon special weapons and explained how to use them, and she set out to find her family.
• Xie Yu stayed about a thousand meters from Luo Ping and Huang Bei and watched the mark on his wrist as he tested whether the cultists could track him.
• Zhong Xing received reports that Anomaly Tamer teams had killed five Evil Deity cultists across the city.
• Zhong Xing and Li Jin grew uneasy because the cultists had been found too easily, leaving only two of the seven fugitives at large.
• Zhong Xing ordered the locations of the dead cultists and marked their coordinates on a city map.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei destroyed a dead Evil Deity cultist’s body and learned that the cultists’ deaths had formed a conceptual circle whose center might be the site of their remaining ritual. They feared what the ritual could unleash and worried that Xie Yu might have to face it without support, then ended up bickering and fighting.

• Zhong Xing identified the center of the circle formed by the dead cultists and dispatched people there, warning Luo Ping and the others.
• Huang Bei sensed an unusual aura on a cultist’s corpse, so he and Luo Ping burned it with Research Department powder to prevent contamination.
• Huang Bei received a report that the cultists’ deaths had formed a circle and that the remaining two were likely at its center.
• Huang Bei and Luo Ping discussed the danger of a possible Evil Deity descent and the lack of backup, with Huang Bei worrying Xie Yu might have to face it alone.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei argued over Huang Bei’s pessimism and started trading punches and kicks.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei tried to break a mysterious barrier trapping hundreds of civilians, but Dead Sacrifice’s axe could not damage it. Xu Bin volunteered to use the Weird inside him to break the barrier, and the captain ordered him to carry out the mission.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei arrived as Anomaly Tamers struggled to clear the terrified crowd away from the barrier.
• Huang Bei summoned Dead Sacrifice, whose appearance drove the civilians to the far side, then used its axe to strike the barrier without effect.
• Chen Qingcheng said he was willing to risk the Weird reviving inside him to save the trapped people, and his captain argued that he should not sacrifice himself while injured.
• Xu Bin stepped forward and offered to break the barrier, saying the Weird inside him was nearly impossible to suppress.
• The captain ordered Xu Bin to break the barrier, and Xu Bin walked toward it with his hands in his pockets.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei learned that Xu Bin was burning his life to keep the Weird inside him from reviving and threatening the Bureau of Special Affairs’ battle against the Evil Deity’s followers. The revelation left Luo Ping shaken by a world where Anomaly Tamers’ sacrifices were final and the dead could not return.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei saw Xu Bin’s energy, flesh, blood, and life begin to burn as he tried to break through the barrier.
• Luo Ping grabbed Chen Qingcheng and asked why the Anomaly Tamers were not stopping Xu Bin, but Chen Qingcheng said Xu Bin had chosen to sacrifice himself.
• The Anomaly Tamer captain explained that a dying Anomaly Tamer could burn their life to weaken the Weird inside them and briefly unleash tremendous power.
• The captain said the Bureau of Special Affairs relied on these sacrifices while its forces fought the Evil Deity’s followers.
• Luo Ping realized that unlike in the Anomaly Containment Association, people in this world had no rewind or resurrection, and he cursed in shock.

Xu Bin sacrificed himself to break the barrier, freeing the trapped people before Chen Qingcheng killed the frail Weird revived from his body. Xie Yu considered turning Anomaly Tamers into Contract Anomalists, while Shen Yu inferred that the remnant left by dead Anomaly Tamers was a material that could suppress Weird abilities.

• Xu Bin threw himself against the barrier as flames, weakening it until Huang Bei shattered it with Dead Sacrifice.
• The Weird revived from Xu Bin’s body, but Chen Qingcheng killed it, and the Anomaly Tamers collected a remnant left where Xu Bin had fallen.
• The freed captives left under the Anomaly Tamers’ and guards’ guidance, while Luo Ping, Huang Bei, and the others prepared to go deeper toward their unknown enemy.
• Xie Yu reflected on how Anomaly Tamers came to exist and considered having them contract with the Weird inside them to prevent further sacrifices.
• Shen Yu watched the passage from an accessory shop and inferred that the remnant left by dead Anomaly Tamers was a material that could suppress Weird abilities.

Shen Yu entered the world as a ritual unleashed massive pollution, while Xie Yu ordered the rescued civilians isolated and Luo Ping and Huang Bei advanced toward the ritual’s center. There, two Evil Deity cultists began their offering and called for the Dimensional Gate to open.

• Shen Yu arrived in the world, suppressed his power to roughly SSS-class, and sensed that the ritual was already underway.
• Xie Yu told Luo Ping to have the rescued civilians isolated nearby, and the Bureau of Special Affairs moved them into tents.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei put on gas masks and pushed through thorn-filled streets and swamp, using their anomalies to clear paths and kill black worms.
• A fire-controlling anomaly burned away thorns and dried the swamp while its Anomaly Tamer kept it under control.
• Two Evil Deity cultists stood in an inverted pentagram, and one offered his own eye as they invoked the Dimensional Gate.

A mysterious Dimensional Gate opened in the sky, pouring Weird energy into the world and accelerating its erosion, while Shen Yu marked its projection to locate its true body later. Facing a worsening threat and too few Anomaly Tamers, the Bureau of Special Affairs activated a plan to create more, with Zhong Xing and Li Jin volunteering as the first test subjects.

• A crack sounded across the world as the Dimensional Gate opened slightly, causing Weird energy and attacks to surge.
• Shen Yu recognized the gate as a projection, marked it, and planned to deduce the location of its true body.
• Li Jin and Zhong Xing discussed humanity’s dwindling chances against the Evil Deity and its followers.
• Li Jin and Zhong Xing activated a plan to create Anomaly Tamers by exposing volunteers to strange entities.
• Zhong Xing volunteered as the first test subject, and Li Jin joined him.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei destroyed the eyeball offerings in the Peculiar Club’s ritual circle, triggering a backlash that attacked their eyes. Huang Bei transferred his injury to Dead Sacrifice, but Luo Ping was left half-blind and began considering digging out his own eyes.

• Luo Ping and Huang Bei defeated the remaining Evil Deity believers and found two eyeballs in the glowing ritual circle.
• After Xie Yu ordered them to destroy the offerings, the Undead Hound and Dead Sacrifice smashed the eyeballs.
• The ritual circle flared, pulling Luo Ping toward it and causing something to burrow into both men’s eyes.
• Huang Bei transferred the eye damage to Dead Sacrifice, whose eyes burst, and used medicine to calm Luo Ping.
• Huang Bei saw a face gnawing inside Luo Ping’s eye, and Luo Ping suggested digging it out.

Luo Ping and Huang Bei tried to stop the ritual by damaging its eyeball sacrifices, but a giant hand forced the sky-door wider and unleashed more weird energy. Xie Yu summoned the Evil God he had contracted, leaving the watching Anomaly Tamers convinced they were facing an Evil Deity.

• Luo Ping used weird energy to protect his brain from the thing burrowing in his eye, while Huang Bei stood ready to help him remove it if necessary.
• The damaged eyeball sacrifices halted the door briefly, but a pair of gigantic hands appeared and pried it open further.
• The door's groaning spread across the world, causing pain and chaos as Bureau of Special Affairs Anomaly Tamers rushed toward the area.
• Xie Yu released his suppression of the contracted Evil God as the giant hand kept forcing the door open.
• Chen Qingcheng and the other Anomaly Tamers felt the Evil God's overwhelming aura and recognized it as an Evil Deity.

Xie Yu revealed to Chen Qingcheng and the other Anomaly Tamers that the Evil God was a Weird he kept suppressed, not an ally he had chosen to serve. As the Evil God flew toward the door in the sky, Xie Yu unlocked a new ability and an SSS-rank scenario.

• Chen Qingcheng lowered his gun and asked Xie Yu to explain why the Evil God was with him.
• The Evil God leaped toward the door in the sky while Xie Yu secretly stayed on guard.
• Xie Yu unlocked Three-Faced Hell (Perfect) and the SSS-rank scenario Forsake Immortality.
• Xie Yu told Chen Qingcheng and the others that he kept the coexisting Weird suppressed by maintaining steady, mild emotions.
• Chen Qingcheng and the other Anomaly Tamers sensed the turmoil beneath Xie Yu's calm smile and realized their own madness was comparatively free.

Xie Yu considered whether to suppress the emotions he shared with the Evil God, while Chen Qingcheng and Zhu Cenhuai warned that suppressing emotions could lead to madness. As the Evil God attacked the gate, the city was evacuated, and Xie Yu's smile grew increasingly unsettling.

• Chen Qingcheng struggled to explain why Anomaly Tamers should not blindly suppress their emotions, and Zhu Cenhuai described research showing that constant suppression could drive an Anomaly Tamer mad.
• Xie Yu accepted the advice to release emotions in moderation, leaving Chen Qingcheng and Zhu Cenhuai uneasy about what he might do.
• The Evil God grew to the gate's height and struck it, while the giant hand inside clawed back at It.
• Xie Yu asked for the city's residents to be evacuated, and Chen Qingcheng reported that the Bureau of Special Affairs had already coordinated evacuations with the military.
• Xie Yu sensed the Evil God's rage, malice, and excitement through their contract, and Chen Qingcheng watched his gentle smile turn into a frenzied one.

Zhu Cenhuai and Chen Qingcheng encouraged Xie Yu to release his suppressed emotions, unaware that Contract Anomalists faced a different danger from Anomaly Tamers. As Evil God and the Weird behind the gate struggled over the doorway, Xie Yu told Evil God to use the A Li Sword, and Evil God severed the giant hand blocking the way.

• Zhu Cenhuai and Chen Qingcheng reassured each other that Anomaly Tamers should be free to express their emotions, not knowing how their advice affected Xie Yu as a Contract Anomalist.
• The gate stopped releasing increasing amounts of Weird energy as Evil God and the Weird behind it fought over the doorway.
• Xie Yu told Evil God to stop wrestling with the giant hand and cut it off with the A Li Sword.
• Evil God slashed through the giant hand, severing its arm and making the Weird vanish behind the door.

After the door vanished, the Evil God’s severed giant hand fell to the ground and continued attacking the Anomaly Tamers. Chen Qingcheng nearly lost control under the pressure, but Zhu Cenhuai helped restore his resolve as the group looked to Xie Yu’s strength for hope.

• The door shattered and disappeared, and the Evil God’s severed hand crashed down near the Anomaly Tamers.
• Huang Bei tried to contain the hand with a Anomaly Cage, but it failed; the hand then sprang up and sent Huang Bei and Luo Ping flying.
• The Anomaly Tamers attacked the moving hand, but their abilities barely scratched it, leaving Chen Qingcheng despairing about humanity’s chances against Evil Deities.
• Zhu Cenhuai steadied Chen Qingcheng and reminded him that Xie Yu had severed the Evil God’s arm, proving it was not invincible.
• Chen Qingcheng regained control of the Weird inside him and renewed his faith that humanity could survive as stronger Anomaly Tamers emerged.