Recaps

Zhou Tian took heart from a logistics worker’s praise and set out to clear the remaining streets. At the Anomaly Containment Association branch, the team discussed the danger posed by Evil Deity followers, and Wu offered to locate those still hiding in Huaxia Nation.

• A logistics worker told Zhou Tian that his missions had saved many families, and Zhou Tian enthusiastically prepared to clear the remaining twenty streets.
• Tian Zhao warned that rain contaminated objects across ten cities, while Wang Qing said Headquarters would send robots to help the Research Department.
• Qin Yu asked whether Wu had intervened during the earlier crisis, and Wu smiled without answering.
• The team discussed the threat of powerful Evil Deities and agreed that eliminating their followers could prevent them from descending into the world.
• Daoist tried to divine their prospects with coins but admitted he did not know the result, and Wu interpreted the hexagram as favorable.
• Wu said he would locate every remaining Evil Deity believer in Huaxia Nation, then left to find a quiet room for divination.

Qin Yu and Tian Zhao discussed the limits of Wu’s divination while the two injured newcomers recovered, and an Evil Deity cult plotted to summon their god despite doubts about the cost of serving it. Shen Yu arrived unseen in the city as Fu Zeyu walked home, shaken by the storm and the danger his family had faced.

• Tian Zhao explained that divining powerful targets could consume energy, fail, or cause backlash, and Qin Yu said abilities all had limits.
• Qin Yu learned that the two newcomers had suffered minor injuries while evacuating and were recovering in medical pods.
• Evil Deity believers blamed the Anomaly Containment Association and argued over whether to summon their god, while their leader silenced a doubter and insisted their god would prevail.
• The believers’ increasing madness and the cost of their power were revealed: their consciousnesses became assimilated with the Weird until they lost their humanity.
• Shen Yu arrived on a street unseen by passersby and cameras, while Fu Zeyu walked home remembering how the flood had nearly taken his family.

After the Water Abyss Incident, Fu Zeyu decided to seek power to protect his family, and Uncle Ge recommended that he try to become a Contract Anomalist through the Anomaly Containment Association before resorting to becoming an Anomaly Tamer. Shen Yu secretly followed him and discovered that Fu Zeyu’s fate was bound to the world so tightly that his death might destroy it; Fu Zeyu reached Forest City but was refused entry.

• Fu Zeyu resolved to gain power after realizing that staying out of trouble could not protect him or his family from disasters.
• Uncle Ge recommended that Fu Zeyu travel to Forest City and seek the Contract Anomalist path through the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Shen Yu followed Fu Zeyu unseen and observed that his fate was connected to the world with unusual intensity.
• Fu Zeyu took a car toward Forest City, but officials stopped the vehicle because outsiders could not enter without authorization.
• Fu Zeyu got out before reaching Forest City and asked Uncle Ge how he could enter.

Fu Zeyu traveled to Forest City, passed the Anomaly Containment Association’s selection trials, and became a Contract Anomalist. As he began training, Evil Deity worshippers noticed his rise, while Shen Yu saw Fu Zeyu’s fate grow increasingly bound to the world.

• Fu Zeyu arrived at the Anomaly Containment Association’s Forest City office and applied for the Contract Anomalist selection.
• Fu Zeyu learned about Contract Anomalists while waiting, as Shen Yu secretly watched him and studied his karmic threads.
• Fu Zeyu overcame the misty forest and a mind-manipulating Weird during the selection trials.
• Fu Zeyu passed the trials and received his Contract Anomalist badge, while Shen Yu saw his connection to the world deepen.
• Fu Zeyu began training with his contracted Weird as Evil Deity worshippers took notice of him.

Fu Zeyu followed Zhao Yuyang into a strange subway station that trapped everyone inside and displayed a headless corpse. As Shen Yu continued deeper into the station, Zhao Yuyang’s friends remained stranded by an open train with no signal or way out.

• Zhao Yuyang mistook a friend’s apparition at the station entrance for the real person and rushed inside, prompting Fu Zeyu to follow him.
• Official logistics staff sealed off the entrance and warned people away from the suspected Ghost Domain.
• Fu Zeyu found Zhao Yuyang terrified beneath a headless corpse, pulled him to his feet, and led him farther down the stairs.
• Shen Yu continued ahead, believing that Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang would inevitably be drawn into the incident.
• Zhao Yuyang’s friends remained trapped without phone service while the subway train’s doors stayed open and its warning light flashed.

Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang reunited with Zhao’s friends on the platform, then led them onto the waiting subway train with Shen Yu aboard. As the train departed, Fu Zeyu explained that they were likely trapped in a Ghost Domain and described the known grades of anomalies and Anomaly Tamers.

• Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang reached the platform, where Zhao’s friends recognized him and learned that he had brought no rescue.
• Fu Zeyu spotted Shen Yu inside the subway car and urged everyone to board, and Zhao Yuyang persuaded his friends to follow.
• The subway doors closed and the train began moving, while Fu Zeyu sat near Shen Yu and admitted that he was still afraid.
• Zhao Yuyang asked Fu Zeyu to explain their situation, and Fu Zeyu said they had likely entered a Ghost Domain.
• Fu Zeyu explained that anomalies and Anomaly Tamers were classified into six grades, from E-rank to S-rank.

Fu Zeyu explained how Ghost Domains trapped people as the subway filled with ghosts. When a ghost girl asked to eat Shen Yu, he sent a white spider to attack her.

• Fu Zeyu explained that Ghost Domains could trap people unless they broke the domain's rules or destroyed its anomaly.
• Fu Zeyu told the frightened passengers to stay put as the subway continued onward.
• Ghostly passengers appeared throughout the car, and Zhao Yuyang stopped a friend from screaming.
• A hollow-eyed little girl sat beside Fu Zeyu, then leaned toward Shen Yu and asked to eat him.
• Shen Yu summoned a white spider, which leaped onto the girl and gnawed a hole in her forehead.

Shen Yu’s strange allure drew every Weird in the train car toward him, while he released white spiders that crawled over the passengers without harming them. Fu Zeyu realized Shen Yu was a Contract Anomalist and saw an opportunity to join the Anomaly Containment Association.

• A Resentful Effigy shed its human-skin disguise and tried to devour Fu Zeyu, but Shen Yu’s presence drew its attention.
• Uncle Ge suspected the Weirds were attracted to Shen Yu because his body radiated an irresistible allure to them.
• Nearly a hundred Weirds in the train car turned toward Shen Yu, frightening the passengers and putting Fu Zeyu on alert.
• White spiders poured from Shen Yu and crawled over the passengers, while Fu Zeyu ordered everyone to stay still.
• Uncle Ge recognized that Shen Yu could control Weirds and told Fu Zeyu that he was a Contract Anomalist.
• Fu Zeyu realized Shen Yu could help him pursue his goal of joining the Anomaly Containment Association.

Shen Yu took control of the Subway Weird with his Spiders and forced it to keep moving. As the train entered an area filled with the aura of Yellow Spring Hell, the passengers grew cold and Shen Yu summoned fireballs to warm them.

• Shen Yu sent Spiders to infest the Weirds aboard the train, and they protected the passengers as the Subway Weird's interior twisted around them.
• Shen Yu used his S-rank aura to subdue the Subway Weird and ordered it to continue toward its destination.
• Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang realized they had no choice but to stay aboard, while the passengers looked to Shen Yu with gratitude and awe.
• Uncle Ge sensed the aura of Yellow Spring Hell and warned Fu Zeyu that the train was approaching the underworld.
• The air grew colder as the train traveled through darkness, so Shen Yu summoned fireballs to warm the passengers.

Shen Yu and the others reached a dark, bone-strewn place where a Skeleton Weird revealed that it had devoured the souls brought by the Resentful Effigies. The Weird identified the place as hell, the final destination of all souls.

• Shen Yu led the group off the metro into a dark, damp place littered with bones, where a skin-covered Weird welcomed the Resentful Effigies and the humans as new arrivals.
• The Weird approached the group, but Shen Yu’s fireball burned its body away until only its skeleton remained.
• Shen Yu sent a white spider into the Skeleton Weird’s skull, and the spider’s presence in its spiritual world forced it to obey.
• The Skeleton Weird confessed that it had grown powerful by devouring the souls brought by its little darlings, angering Fu Zeyu and the others.
• Shen Yu asked where they were, and the Skeleton Weird said they had reached hell, the final destination of all souls.

Shen Yu explored hell after containing a Weird and considered whether humans could gain strength by devouring Weirds, though he rejected feeding them human souls. He crossed the Yellow Spring with Fu Zeyu, while Zhao Yuyang and the others stayed behind, and Uncle Ge wondered whether Fu Zeyu might be a god.

• Shen Yu reflected that human souls and emotions strengthened Weirds, but warned that Weird contamination could turn people into monsters.
• Uncle Ge said hell had strengthened his soul, and Fu Zeyu asked about his knowledge of repairing souls and bodies, but Uncle Ge avoided answering.
• Shen Yu reached the Yellow Spring and boarded a ferrymanless wooden boat; Zhao Yuyang and his friends stopped when the river's resentment chilled them.
• Fu Zeyu crossed the river with Shen Yu, nearly falling into the water before Shen Yu pulled him back.
• Uncle Ge admired Fu Zeyu's kindness and briefly wondered if he was a god, while the others watched the boat depart and said they were afraid to leave home.

After surviving an encounter with anomalies, Zhao Yuyang decided to pursue becoming an Anomaly Tamer or Contract Anomalist despite his friends' reluctance. Meanwhile, Shen Yu examined the laws of reincarnation in hell, left a coordinate there, and returned with Fu Zeyu and the others to the surface.

• Zhao Yuyang told his friends he wanted to become an Anomaly Tamer or Contract Anomalist because ordinary people were powerless against anomalies.
• Zhao Yuyang's friends admitted they did not want to risk their lives fighting anomalies, but they supported his decision once they saw his determination.
• Shen Yu studied the manifested laws of reincarnation while Fu Zeyu and Uncle Ge observed the cycle from afar.
• Shen Yu left a coordinate in hell and returned with Fu Zeyu, explaining that it was time to go back.
• Shen Yu, Fu Zeyu, and the group crossed back by boat, rode the subway, and emerged into the sunlight.

After Shen Yu sent Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang out of hell, they sought to join the Anomaly Containment Association, while the Bureau of Special Affairs treated the survivors of the subway Weird. They reached the Forest City branch, where Huang Bei learned they had forgotten the name of the Contract Anomalist who recommended them.

• Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang told Shen Yu they wanted to join the Anomaly Containment Association, and Shen Yu directed them to the logistics staff before returning to hell to study reincarnation.
• Bureau of Special Affairs Anomaly Tamers examined the subway survivors, gave them medicine to ease their pollution, and recorded Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang's request to join the Association.
• Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang were sent to the Forest City branch after admitting they had forgotten their benefactor's name.
• Luo Ping and Huang Bei returned injured from a mission against a powerful Weird, and Luo Ping was taken for treatment.
• Huang Bei questioned Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang about their recommendation, and they admitted they did not know the Contract Anomalist's name.

Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang joined the Anomaly Containment Association after their mysterious recommender’s mental suggestion made them forget his appearance. Wang Qing and Ao Qu recognized the person as The One, while Huang Bei showed the newcomers around and helped register them.

• Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang recalled that their hooded recommender wore a black robe and summoned white Spiders, but found they could not remember his appearance or voice.
• Fu Zeyu and Uncle Ge realized that the recommender had used powerful mental suggestion to erase memories connected to him, and Huang Bei found no detectable Weird ability.
• Huang Bei reported the newcomers’ account to Wang Qing, and Ao Qu and Wang Qing concluded that the recommender was The One.
• Huang Bei took Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang on a tour of the Anomaly Containment Association and gave them employment forms and contracts to complete.
• Qin Yu asked about the newcomers’ trial mission and offered extra training, but Huang Bei declined.
• Huang Bei checked Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang’s completed forms and sent them to the logistics staff for registration.

Huang Bei advised Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang on the Anomaly Containment Association’s rules and the need to protect themselves before trying to save others. After they introduced themselves, he helped them get Smart Brains and prepared to introduce them to Luo Ping.

• Huang Bei told Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang to prioritize their own safety during anomaly containment and accept that they could not save everyone.
• Uncle Ge reflected on why he had avoided joining the Bureau of Special Affairs and decided to tell the others about himself.
• Huang Bei warned the newcomers about the mental strain Contract Anomalists faced and urged them to stay steadfast.
• Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang introduced themselves to Huang Bei, who offered them his contact details and said he would introduce them to Luo Ping.
• Huang Bei obtained two Smart Brains from the logistics staff and taught Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang how to use them.

Fu Zeyu brought Uncle Ge’s Anomaly Artifact to the Anomaly Containment Association’s Research Department to ask whether the senior Anomaly Tamer could get a new body. Xi’oli transferred Uncle Ge’s spirit into a body in a nutrient tank, where Uncle Ge awakened but swallowed nutrient fluid.

• Fu Zeyu told Zhao Yuyang and Huang Bei that Uncle Ge’s soul lived in his Anomaly Artifact and wanted to join the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Huang Bei warned Fu Zeyu about trusting unknown Anomaly Artifacts and took him to the Research Department.
• Xi’oli enthusiastically accepted the artifact for research, and Uncle Ge agreed to let him try giving him a body.
• Xi’oli had Uncle Ge attach his spirit to a body in a nutrient tank, and the body’s fingers twitched and its eyes opened.
• Uncle Ge tried to speak, swallowed nutrient fluid, and Xi’oli opened the tank.

Uncle Ge entered a spare body, but he could not control his legs, so Xi'oli arranged to grow him a body using his preserved tissue. After the group left the Research Department, Huang Bei took them to eat in the Association cafeteria.

• Xi'oli drained the nutrient pod, and Uncle Ge awoke in a healthy spare body but could not control his legs.
• Xi'oli explained that bodily rejection or the soul's difficulty adapting could be responsible, and said they could grow Uncle Ge a body based on his DNA.
• Fu Zeyu brought Uncle Ge's frozen blood and tissue, and Xi'oli began arrangements to cultivate a replacement body while lending him a mechanical wheelchair.
• Huang Bei reassured the group about the Research Department's researchers and led them to the cafeteria, where he ordered a meal for Luo Ping to be delivered to the medical room.
• The group ate the cafeteria's ranch steak and other food, while Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang ate until they were full.

After Uncle Ge returned to life, he learned about the Anomaly Containment Association and joined Huang Bei at the Research Department to investigate a strange discovery about his soul and body. An alarm then sent the group to Aberrant World No. 3, where a dangerous monster emerged and the battle began.

• Uncle Ge explored his new room in a mechanical wheelchair, and Huang Bei brought him documents about the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Xi'oli told Huang Bei and Uncle Ge that his analysis had revealed an unexplained fluctuation between Uncle Ge's soul and body that might relate to adaptation between bodies.
• A staff member reported abnormal energy at the entrance to Aberrant World No. 3, and Uncle Ge insisted on accompanying Huang Bei's group.
• Huang Bei and the Contract Anomalists formed a defensive formation as a steel-tentacled monster emerged from the distorted space.
• Fu Zeyu and Zhao Yuyang directed their anomalous creatures to help restrain the monster.

Fu Zeyu and the others learned that the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association was the mysterious person they had encountered, and discussed the Chairman’s extraordinary anomaly. Uncle Ge realized how powerful the Association was and how badly the world’s struggle against Weird and Evil Deity worshippers had tilted.

• Fu Zeyu, Zhao Yuyang, and Uncle Ge reacted with shock after learning that the person they had encountered was the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Qin Yu prompted the group to guess what anomaly the Chairman had contracted, and Fu Zeyu guessed it could imitate other anomalies and use their abilities.
• Luo Ping explained the Association’s ranks for Contract Anomalists and anomalies, including Calamity and Doomfate above Fierce Fiend.
• Qin Yu told Uncle Ge that Evil Deities were powerful anomalies, and Uncle Ge understood that the Association regarded them as threats it could contain.
• Uncle Ge reflected that Evil Deity worshippers had gained the advantage over the Bureau of Special Affairs because they could sacrifice ordinary people while Anomaly Tamers risked awakening the Weird inside themselves.

Qin Yu revealed that the Chairman’s Weird could analyze other Weirds, copy their abilities, and combine them into new powers. She and the others rushed to confront the Evil Deity’s followers, who summoned a Calamity Class Evil Deity spawn, and the battle began with their attacks failing to hurt it.

• Huang Bei asked what level of Weird the Chairman had contracted, and Qin Yu explained its ability to analyze, copy, and fuse other Weirds’ powers.
• A rumble warned Qin Yu and the others that the Evil Deity’s followers had made another move, so they gathered their equipment and headed toward the sound.
• Qin Yu and the group found black-robed followers chanting around a magic array in the ruins.
• A gigantic Calamity Class Evil Deity spawn emerged from the array, and Qin Yu warned the others that it was more than an ordinary spawn.
• Qin Yu ordered everyone to attack, but the monster shattered Luo Ping’s blades and shrugged off Zhao Yuyang’s attempt to disrupt it.

Wu and Bo entered a Black Market shop where Evil Deity follower Kedelike tried to capture Wu for his ability to foresee the future. Bo attacked Kedelike and broke through the shop wall, but Kedelike insisted the sealing formation still trapped them.

• Wu left the Bureau of Special Affairs branch after seeing himself in the Black Market in a vision of the future.
• Bo entered the shop with his spear ready, and Kedelike introduced himself as a disciple of God who had prepared to seize control of the Black Market and capture Wu.
• Bo and Wu heard Little Six crying in agony and saw him impaled as part of Kedelike’s sacrificial ritual.
• Kedelike tried to persuade Wu to join him, claiming he could keep Wu safe, while a sealing formation isolated the shop and blocked outside help.
• Bo attacked Kedelike, who merged into the wall, then struck the wall with his spear and blasted a huge hole through it.
• Kedelike claimed the formation still prevented them from escaping and demanded that Wu submit in exchange for letting Bo go.

Bo and Wu defeated Kedelike, rescued Little Six, and brought him to the branch for treatment. After Little Six recovered and revealed how Kedelike had targeted him, he joined the branch to help with its work.

• Bo broke Kedelike's sealing formation and attacked him while Wu warped the space around him.
• Bo and Wu defeated Kedelike and stabilized Little Six's injuries before taking him to the branch.
• Little Six woke under the medical team's care and explained that Kedelike had targeted him because he had met Wu.
• Little Six offered to repay Bo and Wu, and Wu invited him to stay at the branch.
• Little Six joined the branch and used his knowledge of the Black Market to provide important intelligence.

Kedelike lost control of many mutated monsters as Bo protected Wu, while the Bureau of Special Affairs responded to the underground Black Market disaster. An evil deity's retainer descended from a sky fissure, leaving the Anomaly Tamers struggling to contain it as residents were evacuated.

• Kedelike watched several mutated monsters regain their sanity and break free of his control, then ordered the remaining monsters to attack Wu.
• Bo used his spear to keep the monsters away from Wu, and Wu's Character Perfection rose to 75%.
• Anomaly Tamers from the Bureau of Special Affairs arrived and pushed monsters back into the collapsed underground Black Market while evacuating nearby residents.
• A fissure opened in the sky, and the evil deity's retainer descended as the Anomaly Tamers waited for reinforcements and worried they could not fight it from the ground.
• Guards issued emergency evacuation notices and went door to door to get residents out of their homes.

Wu and Bo confronted a winged Evil Deity's spawn after it descended into the pit, while guards evacuated the panicking crowd. The envoy demanded that Wu submit or die, and Wu declared that he would not let himself be trapped in a dead end.

• A bystander shouted that a monster was overhead, triggering panic as guards guided the crowd and separated children from their parents.
• The Evil Deity's spawn emerged from a rift and descended into the pit, where Kedelike welcomed it as his lord envoy.
• The spawn recognized Wu as an apostle of fate and demanded that he submit or die.
• Bo readied his spear as Wu compared the white-winged envoy to a free bird and said diviners never allowed themselves to fall into a dead end.

Wu’s invisible force destroyed Kedelike’s Ghost Domain, while Skywing A continued to overwhelm the Evil Deity’s spawn. The transformed people joined the fight against the monsters, growing stronger and beginning to cooperate.

• Kedelike’s Ghost Domain was pierced and torn apart, leaving him exposed to the raging torrents.
• Kedelike recognized Wu as someone from the Anomaly Containment Association and wondered whether Contract Anomalists served the gods.
• Skywing A kept the Evil Deity’s spawn suppressed, preventing it from fighting back or escaping.
• The transformed people attacked the nearby monsters, biting and tearing at them.
• The people gained combat experience as they fought and began working together to kill their prey.