Recaps

Disaster endured the Knocking Weird’s relentless pounding without fear, then opened the door and subdued it with his overwhelming power. The livestream viewers were stunned by the newcomer’s strength.

• The livestream viewers watched Disaster appear and speculated about how long he would survive.
• The Knocking Weird pounded on the door for ten minutes, but Disaster remained unharmed and expressionless.
• Disaster walked to the door and opened it, revealing the Knocking Weird outside.
• Disaster overwhelmed the Knocking Weird with weird energy and grabbed it by the throat, shocking the livestream viewers.

Disaster left a room after twisting off a Weird’s head, while the livestream audience argued over how he had survived. He met Chu He and the others, but his anger toward ordinary people surfaced as he looked at them with killing intent.

• The people in the room panicked when the headless corpse moved and called for the newcomer to come out.
• Disaster stepped over the corpse and left; it shuddered, then collapsed and stopped moving.
• The livestream audience debated whether the Weird was pretending to be dead and how Disaster had defeated it.
• Chu He introduced himself and his classmates, Chen Linlin, Zhang Yao, and Fang Mu, and Disaster said he was not their companion.
• Disaster recalled how ordinary people had mistreated Anomaly Tamers and felt killing intent toward the group before closing his eyes.

Disaster introduced himself as Shuo Yu after finding himself trapped with a group trying to solve the riddle of a deadly fire at Apartment 801. He searched the Knocking Door Weird for clues while the others grew suspicious of him, and the Weird trembled because the Weird inside Disaster had devoured nearly all its energy.

• Disaster gave his name as Shuo Yu and learned that the group needed to identify who started the Apartment 801 fire to escape.
• Chu He, Chen Linlin, Fang Mu, and Zhang Yao discussed their lack of clues and worried about being unable to solve the riddle.
• Disaster suspected the clues might be on the Knocking Door Weird and began searching its corpse.
• The others noticed the blood on Shuo Yu and wondered whether he had killed the Weird or might be dangerous.
• The Knocking Door Weird trembled as the Weird inside Disaster consumed nearly all the Weird energy in its body.

Chu He and the others were surrounded in a corridor by slow, mud-like Wraith Class Weirds emerging from the black stains on the walls. As the group panicked, the livestream viewers debated how they might escape.

• Disaster followed Chu He and the others through the rusted corridor as they searched for clues.
• Zhang Yao heard a growling sound and discovered a liquid-like monster seeping out of a stain in the wall.
• Zhang Yao threw his backpack at the monster and escaped as it swallowed the bag.
• Chu He, Zhang Yao, Chen Linlin, Fang Mu, and Disaster fled when more monsters emerged from the black stains and pursued them.
• The monsters surrounded the group, and the viewers discussed whether someone would push another person toward the Weirds to escape.

Chu He and his friends tried to break through a monster encirclement, but Chu He became trapped in a Charcoal Weird. His friends refused to abandon him and were pulled toward the monster as Disaster watched.

• Chu He led Fang Mu, Chen Linlin, and Zhang Yao toward a gap in the encirclement.
• Chu He charged into a Charcoal Weird and became trapped inside its body.
• Zhang Yao and the others grabbed Chu He's clothes and tried to pull him free, but the Charcoal Weird began drawing them in too.
• Disaster approached and watched the group struggle without offering help.

Shen Yu arrived in the dungeon and drove off the Charcoal Weirds, but his presence caused the livestream to fail and shut down. He told Disaster that his subordinates had sought him out after losing contact, while Disaster considered the loss of communication normal in a major world.

• Disaster swallowed the Charcoal Weirds outside the lamp’s light with a mass of shadow.
• Shen Yu passed Disaster, and the livestream signal stuttered before the feed terminated and viewers were kicked out.
• Fang Mu asked who Shen Yu was and whether he knew Lord Shuo Yu.
• Shen Yu asked whether he should say he knew Disaster, and Disaster demanded to know why he had come.
• Shen Yu said Disaster’s subordinates had come looking for him after they could no longer contact him, and Disaster noted that losing contact in a major world was normal.

Shen Yu confronted Disaster over the rescue arranged by Suffering Disaster, while Disaster condemned mortals and their desire for power. Their argument turned into a fierce battle, leaving Fang Mu and the others caught in the aftermath.

• Disaster deduced that Suffering Disaster had sent people to rescue him and said he needed to speak with him.
• Shen Yu shielded Fang Mu and the others from Disaster’s oppressive aura, prompting Disaster to accuse mortals of coveting power.
• Shen Yu’s Character Card perfection increased by 20%, unlocking a special ability as its power began to unseal and its consciousness began to awaken.
• Disaster attacked Shen Yu with black mist, and Shen Yu countered with golden light, throwing Fang Mu and the others to the ground.
• Shen Yu defended the ordinary people’s worth as he and Disaster clashed in a battle over their opposing views.

Disaster disappeared after the livestream returned, while viewers complained that the camera had lost track of Shuo Yu. At the Horror Game Company, a supervisor demanded answers about the signal failure, but the cause and a solution remained unknown.

• An outside force broke through Shen Yu's spatial lockdown and restored the livestream.
• Disaster vented his anger at the livestream, vanished into darkness, and left the camera focused on NPCs instead of Shuo Yu.
• Viewers complained about losing sight of Shuo Yu, and some threatened to confront the game company.
• A subordinate told the Horror Game Company supervisor that abnormal power fluctuations, possibly from a great ghost's Ghost Domain, had disrupted the C-rank Dungeon livestream.
• The supervisor demanded a solution and rebuked the subordinate over the damage to the company's reputation.

The supervisor activated the gaming company’s Level One Defense System to stop the spreading Black Mist, but its five Doomfate Class ghosts were swallowed without a fight. After recognizing the force as darkness, he tried to flee but discovered he was already trapped in Disaster’s Ghost Domain, where Disaster examined the company’s strangely powerful employees.

• The supervisor activated the Level One Defense System, sending five controlled Doomfate Class ghosts to attack the Black Mist.
• The Black Mist swallowed all five ghosts and continued consuming the company, leaving the supervisor and his subordinates terrified.
• The supervisor recognized that the force was darkness and ordered everyone to escape, but he was already inside Disaster’s Ghost Domain.
• Disaster observed the thousands of company employees and wondered why they had Weird-like auras despite seeming human.
• The supervisor addressed Disaster respectfully and offered to explain the livestreaming incident and change the company’s conduct.

Disaster confronted the supervisor at the game company, who realized the intruder was the newcomer from the disrupted livestream. The supervisor offered him a residence permit that could free him from the Horror Game’s control.

• The supervisor guessed that a crazed viewer had broken into the company over the interrupted livestream and decided to appease the intruder.
• Disaster emerged from the darkness, and the supervisor recognized him as the newcomer whose livestream had lost its signal.
• The supervisor realized Disaster had suppressed Knocking Weird and was not bound like ordinary players who wanted to escape the Horror Game.
• As Disaster approached and pressured him, the supervisor offered to use his authority to nominate Disaster for a residence permit.

Disaster killed the supervisor after condemning the inhuman society of divine citizens. Shen Yu followed Chen Linlin and the others, confirmed that the Dungeon and the Horror Game invading Blue Star shared the same power, and decided to investigate the game as they made their way back.

• Disaster reflected on the divine citizens’ contempt for humans and rejected the supervisor’s pleas for mercy.
• Disaster swallowed the supervisor with darkness, leaving no trace of him.
• Shen Yu recognized that the power in the space matched that of the Horror Game invading Blue Star.
• Shen Yu considered investigating the Horror Game, though he could not yet confront the Weird Gods.
• Chen Linlin and the others escaped, caught a passing truck, and got a ride back in a world where Weird remained only a matter of rumor.

After Chu He discovered spreading black marks on his arm, he and Zhang Yao went to the hospital, but doctors found no cause beyond abnormally active cells in Chu He's blood. Outside, Chu He spotted a child wearing the Ouroboros symbol and chased after him.

• Chu He showed the black marks on his arm to the club, and Zhang Yao revealed similar marks while Chen Linlin and Fang Mu found none.
• The group suspected the marks were caused by the monster that had swallowed Chu He and nearly swallowed Zhang Yao, then urged them to visit a hospital.
• Doctors found nothing wrong with Chu He or Zhang Yao, though Chu He's cells appeared abnormally active.
• Chu He spotted the Ouroboros design on a child's clothes and ran after him.

Chu He caught up with Xiao Xuan, who explained that Weird contamination could turn him into a monster and removed the marks from his arm. Their relief ended when they found a school-age girl dead beneath a residential building, leaving Chu He looking up at an open ninth-floor window.

• Chu He chased down Xiao Xuan and asked whether he belonged to a mysterious organization.
• Xiao Xuan recognized the Weird energy on Chu He and explained that contamination could eventually turn him into a monster.
• Xiao Xuan touched Chu He's arm and made the black marks and foreign power disappear.
• Chu He and Xiao Xuan went to investigate a scream and crash, where they found a mangled body at the foot of a building.
• Chu He looked up and saw an open window on the ninth floor.

Xiao Xuan neutralized the Cursed Game’s attempt to force Chu He into another trial, then the two were arrested after entering the dead woman’s home. During questioning, Xiao Xuan challenged the officer to explain her death.

• Chu He asked Xiao Xuan about the curse, and Xiao Xuan explained that curses could be harder to remove than contamination.
• When the Cursed Game demanded that Xiao Xuan begin a trial, he consumed its black mist with golden light and bluffed the conscious presence behind the pop-up by saying he would find it.
• The Cursed Game interface went dark, but police arrested Chu He and Xiao Xuan after neighbors reported them entering the dead woman’s home.
• Officer Liu He questioned Chu He about the woman’s death and accused him of breaking in to steal, while Chu He insisted he had been wronged.
• Officer Zhang Yi questioned Xiao Xuan, who gave his surname as Sima and said he had come to search for a curse.
• Xiao Xuan asked Zhang Yi why he thought the woman had died, though the police investigation had classified her death as suicide.

During Zhang Yi’s interrogation of Xiao Xuan, a Green Face-class Weird dragged the room into its Ghost Domain and attacked them. Xiao Xuan defeated it with a golden arrow, leaving Zhang Yi shaken by the supernatural events he had witnessed.

• Xiao Xuan warned Zhang Yi that something was coming as the interrogation room’s light began flickering.
• Zhang Yi’s phone transformed, released blood and flesh, and a monster emerged as Xiao Xuan’s handcuffs sprang open and he summoned a bow.
• The Weird trapped Zhang Yi and Xiao Xuan inside its Ghost Domain and sent corrosive blood and arrows after Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan’s golden arrows wounded the monster, while Zhang Yi escaped the spreading blood by climbing onto a chair.
• Xiao Xuan fired a powerful golden arrow that destroyed the Weird and made the blood disappear.

Zhang Yi learned from Xiao Xuan that anomalies were invaders from beyond the world, that ordinary weapons could not harm them, and that Contract Anomalists used their power to fight them. After Zhang Yi convinced Liu He with the corroded shoes and surveillance footage, the police decided to report what they had learned, while Chu He was released.

• Xiao Xuan explained that anomalies came from beyond the world, would grow more numerous, and could be contained with a Anomaly Cage.
• Xiao Xuan told Zhang Yi that physical weapons could not harm anomalies and that Contract Anomalists fought them using anomaly powers.
• Zhang Yi learned that Xiao Xuan had sensed an eerie presence at the house connected to what had seemed like a suicide case.
• Zhang Yi told Liu He about the anomaly and showed him his corroded shoes, then they watched surveillance footage that confirmed his account.
• Zhang Yi and Liu He decided to report the Weird and the Contract Anomalists, and Chu He was released.

Chu He brought Zhang Yao to Xiao Xuan, who removed the contamination Zhang Yao had contracted from an anomaly. After learning more about the invasion, Zhang Yao chose to return to his ordinary life, while Chu He remained determined to become a Contract Anomalist.

• Zhang Yao met Chu He at a rice noodle stall and asked about the contamination spreading across his arm.
• Chu He explained that anomalies contaminated people and introduced Xiao Xuan as the Contract Anomalist who had cured him.
• Xiao Xuan used his anomalous energy to remove Zhang Yao’s contamination, and Zhang Yao felt relieved.
• Chu He told Zhang Yao that anomalies had invaded their world and said he wanted to become a Contract Anomalist to contain them.
• Zhang Yao thanked Xiao Xuan, paid the bill, transferred Chu He ten thousand yuan, and left; Xiao Xuan said Zhang Yao had made the normal choice.

Chu He explained that he wanted to protect his loved ones from Weird, and Xiao Xuan approved of his resolve as a Contract Anomalist. After discovering that the Cursed Game was most active near Pulan University, Xiao Xuan took Chu He there to investigate.

• Chu He told Xiao Xuan that he feared Weird harming his family, friends, classmates, and teachers, and Xiao Xuan praised his resolve.
• Xiao Xuan unlocked the Star-Chasing Sky ability and agreed to tell Chu He more about Contract Anomalists through experience.
• Xiao Xuan used the Smart Brain to investigate the Cursed Game and found that it targeted vulnerable people online, especially at night on weekends and holidays.
• The Smart Brain traced the Cursed Game's activity to Pulan University, Chu He's school.
• Xiao Xuan sped to Pulan University on his skateboard with Chu He clinging to him, and Chu He arrived shaken but unharmed.

Chu He and Xiao Xuan entered the university to investigate the cursed game, and Chu He encountered Qiu Han hiding from danger on campus. Qiu Han explained that the students trapped there had to survive the game and collect black crystals.

• Xiao Xuan used his Yigui Clean Energy Transport Co., Ltd. employee card to get himself and Chu He through the university gate.
• Chu He noticed the campus was eerily empty as he and Xiao Xuan walked toward the location identified by Xiao Xuan’s Smart Brain.
• Qiu Han rushed out of the bushes, dragged Chu He into hiding, and warned him not to make a sound.
• Qiu Han told Chu He that a broadcast had trapped everyone still on campus in a cursed game during the second week of vacation.
• Qiu Han warned that monsters and maddened people threatened the students, who had to survive and collect black crystals.

Chu He and Xiao Xuan met the injured Qiu Han, who explained how black crystals could be traded for supplies and warned that monsters roamed the school. Xiao Xuan killed a monster with a single arrow, convincing Qiu Han that they might be able to resolve the cursed game, and identified the creature as a monster mutated by Weird energy.

• Qiu Han gave Chu He a black crystal and explained that crystals could buy food and water, while medicine was expensive and vendors were watched by robbers.
• Chu He introduced Xiao Xuan as someone who had come to resolve the cursed game with him.
• Qiu Han warned Chu He and Xiao Xuan that a monster was approaching, and they hid in the bushes.
• Xiao Xuan stood in the open and killed the charging monster with an arrow from a conjured longbow.
• Qiu Han asked who Chu He and Xiao Xuan were, and Chu He called them Contract Anomalists while admitting he was only a trainee.
• Xiao Xuan examined the corpse and explained that it was a creature mutated by contamination from Weird energy.

Qiu Han agreed to join Chu He and Xiao Xuan after learning about Contract Anomalists and the threat of the Weird. When a group of students harassed Qiu Han and attacked Chu He, Xiao Xuan swiftly knocked them all down.

• Chu He explained the work of Contract Anomalists, and Qiu Han decided she wanted the strength to protect herself and her family.
• Qiu Han warned Chu He and Xiao Xuan that people in the trapped school had abandoned moral boundaries while fighting to survive.
• A group of armed students approached, mocked Qiu Han, and pressured her to join them before recognizing Chu He.
• Chu He punched a student who made insulting remarks about Qiu Han, prompting the group to surround and beat him.
• Xiao Xuan rushed in, knocked the attackers to the ground, and held Chu He up with ease.

Xiao Xuan, Chu He, and Qiu Han searched the campus for the Weird behind the Ghost Domain and found the dormitories overrun with monsters. After discovering the female dormitory had no survivors, Xiao Xuan sensed something behind an intact door in the male dormitory, and his attack alerted the Weird as monsters converged on them.

• Chu He and Qiu Han followed Xiao Xuan away from the people he had knocked down, while monsters roared behind them.
• Xiao Xuan killed two more monsters and deduced that the entire school had become a Ghost Domain.
• Xiao Xuan followed the strongest Weird energy to the dormitories and cleared monsters from the devastated female dormitory, finding no survivors.
• The three headed to the male dormitory, where Xiao Xuan heard something on the second floor and fired a golden arrow through a third-floor door.
• Chu He opened the door and recoiled from what he saw, while the building trembled and monsters of many sizes crawled toward them.

Chu He and Qiu Han confronted the horrors inside the school while Xiao Xuan slaughtered the monsters gathering around him. Zhao Qian watched from a building, recognized that Xiao Xuan had spotted him, and moved to escape using an old computer.

• Chu He and Qiu Han wondered whether the monsters had been transformed from students as Xiao Xuan shot them down.
• Qiu Han rushed upstairs to face the victims, rejecting Chu He's attempt to stop her.
• Xiao Xuan drew the school's monsters toward himself and killed them with golden arrows as their corpses piled up below.
• Zhao Qian watched Xiao Xuan and recalled how he had turned students into breeding machines and monsters to build an army.
• Xiao Xuan looked up at Zhao Qian and mouthed, "I see you," causing Zhao Qian to retreat from the window in fear.
• Zhao Qian decided to flee before his monsters were gone and approached an old secondhand computer.

Zhao Qian merged with the Cursed Game to gain enough power to confront Xiao Xuan, while Xiao Xuan finished killing the monsters outside. Just as Qiu Han and Chu He regrouped with him, they were struck by a crushing pain in their hearts as the Ghost Domain—Nine Suns Illusory Domain began.

• Zhao Qian learned that the Cursed Game could not think independently and accepted its offer to merge with it.
• The Cursed Game seized Zhao Qian and pulled him into its screen, where he lost consciousness in agony.
• Xiao Xuan killed the monsters surrounding him while Chu He waited and called for Qiu Han.
• Qiu Han came downstairs after killing the imprisoned host bodies and told Chu He and Xiao Xuan what she had done.
• Xiao Xuan said there was only one enemy left, but Chu He and Qiu Han suddenly suffered severe heart pain and collapsed as the Ghost Domain—Nine Suns Illusory Domain was invoked.

Xiao Xuan used his Divine Eye to track the newly reborn Zhao Qian, who revealed himself as the Cursed Game’s supernatural entity. As it brought a powerful Ghost Domain down on Xiao Xuan’s, Chu He asked whether Brother Xuan could hold it off.

• Xiao Xuan unlocked the Divine Eye and used it to locate Zhao Qian inside the corrupted computer.
• Zhao Qian emerged from the flesh, gained flight and destructive powers, and flew above Xiao Xuan’s Ghost Domain.
• The entity explained that it had devoured Zhao Qian and used his body and memories to evolve.
• The entity released a data-filled Ghost Domain that pressed down on Xiao Xuan’s domain, and Xiao Xuan judged it at least Fierce Fiend Class.
• Chu He felt the crushing pressure and asked Xiao Xuan if he could hold it off.