Recaps

The Daoist priest contained the Bridal Gown Anomaly and saved Zhao Hun, who decided he wanted to become a Contract Anomalist. The Daoist priest then visited Zhang Lin in the hospital and delivered medicine as compensation for his injuries.

• The Grudge Maiden swallowed the Bridal Gown Anomaly's heart, allowing the Daoist priest to contain it and escape the vanished residence with Zhao Hun.
• Zhao Hun said he wanted to become a Contract Anomalist, and the Daoist priest gave him a business card for Yigui Clean Energy Transport Co., Ltd.
• The Daoist priest left Zhao Hun and went to the hospital where Shen Yu was staying, intending to visit Zhang Lin in the next room.
• The Daoist priest introduced himself to Zhang Lin as a B-rank Contract Anomalist from the Execution Department and gave him medicine to compensate for his mission injuries.
• Zhang Lin injected the pale blue medicine, and the pain in his body gradually subsided.

After a miraculous medicine healed Zhang Lin’s injuries, he rushed to Yi Gui Company with Zhao Hun to join the Anomaly Containment Association. Dong Heng accepted both men as recruits, and they began onboarding as future Contract Anomalists.

• A Taoist priest gave Zhang Lin medicine that quickly healed his fractures, and Zhang Lin left the hospital to go to Yi Gui Company.
• Zhang Lin met Zhao Hun at the company entrance, where Zhuang Hu stopped them until they explained they had come for interviews.
• Dong Heng reviewed Zhang Lin and Zhao Hun’s backgrounds and confirmed they had been recommended by Contract Anomalists.
• Dong Heng gave them contracts and forms, then sent them to Human Resources to complete onboarding.
• Zhang Lin resolved to grow stronger as a Contract Anomalist because more people were being killed by Weird.

Zhang Lin and Zhao Hun learned about the Anomaly Containment Association’s advanced medical technology before Jiang Tianzong was assigned to lead them on a low-risk mission. Although neither newcomer had contracted a Weird, Jiang Tianzong arranged for rookie weapons and warned them not to hold him back.

• Zhao Hun told Zhang Lin he knew becoming a Contract Anomalist was not completely safe, but he wanted the power to fight back.
• Xu Rou learned the Anomaly Containment Association could replace her missing ear with a biological prosthetic, and Zhao Hun marveled at the organization’s technology.
• Jiang Tianzong mocked Zhao Hun and Zhang Lin after they bumped into him, then recognized the Weird aura from Bai Zuo’s mark on Zhang Lin and walked away.
• Jiang Tianzong received a mission assignment with Xu Zhou and two newly recruited rookies, hesitated to call the captain, and went to fetch Zhang Lin and Zhao Hun.
• Zhang Lin questioned how they could fight Weirds without contracts, so Jiang Tianzong called for weapons suitable for rookies.

Xu Zhou, Jiang Tianzong, Zhao Hun, and Zhang Lin prepared weapons and went to investigate reports of singing from the rooftop of Snow Sun First Middle School. Jiang Tianzong used his Yi Gui Company employee ID to get the group through the school gate, and they entered to investigate.

• Jiang Tianzong obtained firearms and light blades from Headquarters, and the four chose weapons before setting out in Zhang Lin's car.
• Xu Zhou explained that people had heard singing from the school's rooftop, though no one had been seen or harmed.
• Jiang Tianzong dismissed the danger, while Zhao Hun and Zhang Lin urged caution.
• At the school gate, Jiang Tianzong showed his Yi Gui Company employee ID to the guard, who opened the side gate.
• Xu Zhou, Jiang Tianzong, Zhao Hun, and Zhang Lin entered the school.

Xu Zhou and the others entered the school rooftop to investigate a strong Weird aura, only to be trapped inside a Ghost Domain. As Xu Zhou struggled to make his contracted Ghost Hand release its own domain, an eerie humming sounded from the rooftop.

• Zhao Hun, Xu Zhou, Zhang Lin, and Jiang Tianzong used an employee ID’s altered perception effect to enter the school and reached the locked rooftop door.
• Jiang Tianzong cut the lock, and the group found the rooftop empty but saturated with a powerful Weird aura.
• Xu Zhou discovered he could not contact Bai Zuo or Ji Wu, and the rooftop door shut before the group could escape.
• Xu Zhou explained that they were trapped in a Ghost Domain and that only a clash with another Ghost Domain could free them.
• Jiang Tianzong urged Xu Zhou to control his B-rank Ghost Hand, but Xu Zhou failed to release its Ghost Domain.
• As the class bell rang, a chilling, ethereal humming began on the rooftop.

Xu Zhou finally released the Ghost Hand’s Ghost Domain, saving his teammates from a powerful Weird and escaping with them. After they reached safety, he stayed behind to hold off the Blood Robe while Zhao Hun called for reinforcements.

• Zhao Hun recognized the Weird girl’s song as a love song, and Jiang Tianzong warned the others to prepare for a fight.
• The girl appeared and asked her beloved to bring someone to her, then used black hair to strangle Zhang Lin and Zhao Hun.
• Jiang Tianzong attacked the girl and devoured some of her black hair, but she pierced him with more hair and left him near death.
• Xu Zhou released the Ghost Hand’s Ghost Domain, freed his teammates, and helped drive the Weird back.
• Xu Zhou led the group out of the Ghost Domain, then asked Zhao Hun to call Mr. Ji Wu for reinforcements as he stayed to hold off the Blood Robe.

Xu Zhou fought Blood Robe on the school rooftop until his Ghost Domain collapsed and his buried memories of his mother’s death and Bai Zuo resurfaced. He regained a calm, decisive demeanor, escaped through the rooftop door, and realized Blood Robe could not leave the rooftop.

• Ji Wu contacted nearby Contract Anomalists and asked Bai Zuo to save Xu Zhou after learning he had encountered Blood Robe.
• Xu Zhou’s Ghost Domain weakened as Blood Robe’s black hair overwhelmed Ghost Hand and cornered him on the rooftop.
• The attack brought back Xu Zhou’s memories of his father killing his mother and Bai Zuo offering to give his life meaning, revealing that his memories had been altered.
• Xu Zhou assessed his slim chances of victory, fought strategically, and retreated through the rooftop’s iron door.
• Xu Zhou saw that Blood Robe did not follow him and concluded it could move only around the rooftop.

Xu Zhou cleared the school so Skywing A could contain Song Xiaojie, whose consciousness remained fused with the Wedding Dress Ghost. After returning to Headquarters and recovering, Shen Yu visited Song Xiaojie in Room 1-108, where she excitedly stood when she saw him.

• Xu Zhou disguised himself as a bloodied killer and drove the students out of the school before the dispatched Contract Anomalist arrived.
• Skywing A recognized Song Xiaojie as his classmate and found that her soul had fused with the Weird, making separation fatal to her.
• Song Xiaojie restrained the Weird’s power while Skywing A defeated and captured her with a Anomaly Cage.
• The system announced that the Anomaly Containment Association had contained the Wedding Dress Ghost and Song Xiaojie and gained their powers.
• After completing his hospital discharge, Shen Yu visited Song Xiaojie in Room 1-108, and she sprang up excitedly when she saw him.

Shen Yu tested why anomalies were drawn to him and found that stronger anomalies felt the attraction more intensely, even as they feared his power. He reviewed the Anomaly Containment Association’s upgrade requirements and the anomaly artifacts he had purchased, leaving further answers to the system’s future permissions.

• The Weird fused with Song Xiaojie hesitated to approach Shen Yu, then fell asleep at his suggestion as Song Xiaojie's exhausted consciousness rested.
• Shen Yu visited the Hourglass Doll and found that it, too, was attracted to him, though it feared him and did not seem to want to eat him.
• Shen Yu tested other anomalies and concluded that higher-level anomalies were more strongly drawn to him and feared the powerful aura he had gained.
• Shen Yu considered how his attraction to anomalies could help explain why people might willingly follow the Anomaly Containment Association’s Chairman.
• Shen Yu checked the lv.1 Anomaly Containment Association and noted that reaching lv.2 required 500,000 Construction Points.
• Shen Yu reviewed his stored Temporal Reversals and purchased artifacts, including Cognition-Blocking Glasses, a Bleeding Coat, and three Anomaly Eyes.

Shen Yu entered a low-level space connected to the Weird World, where he found Vaser Dungeon and learned that monsters were threatening its city. He accepted the city lord’s bounty by tearing down the notice, setting out to confront the monsters.

• The system warned Shen Yu of an abnormal spatial fluctuation near the headquarters, and he decided to investigate personally using Fu Zhang’s SSS-grade strength.
• Fu Zhang reached the disturbance and learned that it led to a Weird World dungeon that only allowed those below C-rank to enter.
• Shen Yu suppressed his powers to show only the Malignant Curse and entered the space, arriving at Vaser Dungeon.
• Shen Yu saw ordinary-looking residents worried about monster invasions and heard that the city lord had offered half his wealth to whoever eliminated them.
• Shen Yu found the bounty notice and tore it down.

Shen Yu left the underground city and found Wandering Souls and human remains throughout the woods, then encountered and contained the stitched-together monster the residents feared. He and Wedding Dress Ghost cleared the area of Weird entities, leaving the woods free of other visible threats.

• Shen Yu accepted gold, water, and rations from the underground city residents and headed toward the surface.
• Shen Yu emerged into woods filled with Wandering Souls and had Wedding Dress Ghost capture them in Anomaly Cages.
• Shen Yu uncovered human skeletons and discarded weapons, finding evidence of warriors who had died trying to subdue the monsters.
• Wedding Dress Ghost encountered Green Face, a powerful creature stitched together from several animals, and struggled to fight it.
• Shen Yu used Heart Gu to restrain Green Face, and Wedding Dress Ghost weakened it with red silk until Shen Yu contained it in a Anomaly Cage.
• Wedding Dress Ghost searched the woods, found no other weird entities, and returned to Shen Yu.

After defeating the monster and discovering a resource-rich space, Shen Yu returned to the underground city to claim the promised reward. The city lord tried to detain him with a banquet, then turned hostile when Shen Yu demanded payment, surrounding him with guards.

• Shen Yu explored a fertile space bounded by an invisible wall, found no other Weird, and returned to the underground city after defeating the monster.
• The guards and residents celebrated Shen Yu’s victory as he made his way to the city lord’s castle.
• The city lord welcomed Shen Yu with a lavish banquet, but Shen Yu refused the wine and food and bluntly called the dishes disgusting.
• Shen Yu declined the offer to stay overnight and demanded the promised half of the city lord’s wealth.
• The city lord summoned armed guards to surround Shen Yu, who questioned whether they thought he could not defeat them too.

Shen Yu killed the Vaser City Lord after the City Lord tried to poison him, then took control of Vaser Dungeon. The residents knelt before Shen Yu, who claimed the dungeon for the Anomaly Containment Association.

• The City Lord revealed that he had poisoned the candles, but Shen Yu's Pig Head Man killed him before the poison could take effect.
• The Weird ones killed the City Lord's guards and the noblewoman, wiping out everyone connected to the City Lord except the servants.
• Residents learned that the City Lord had planned to poison Shen Yu, armed themselves, and entered the blood-soaked castle to save him.
• The residents found the City Lord dead in the banquet hall, then saw Shen Yu seated on a throne and knelt before him.
• A mechanical voice announced that Shen Yu had subdued Vaser Dungeon and earned the title [Blood Lord].
• Shen Yu declared that Vaser Dungeon was under his control and would join the Anomaly Containment Association.

After conquering Vaser Dungeon, Shen Yu claimed the space and brought its residents into the Anomaly Containment Association as logistics staff. Meanwhile, Ji Wu rescued Xu Zhou from the school, where Xu Zhou’s brainwashing had left him injured and strikingly unlike his former self.

• Shen Yu used his new authority to install a massive door passage into Vaser Dungeon and ordered Fu Zhang to bring in staff and gather resources.
• Fu Zhang led employees and machinery into the Dungeon, where they traded goods with the residents and treated their illnesses, winning their loyalty as they became logistics staff.
• After Skywing A dealt with the ghost, Xu Zhou stayed trapped at the school until Ji Wu arrived and helped him escape before the officers entered.
• Ji Wu noticed that Xu Zhou’s personality and bearing had changed after Bai Zuo’s brainwashing, then discovered that Xu Zhou had suffered serious wounds.
• Ji Wu drove Xu Zhou back to the company for treatment, while employees watched the injured Contract Anomalists return and worried about them.

After recovering from their injuries, Xu Zhou, Jiang Tianzong, Zhang Lin, and Zhao Hun ate a large meal at Headquarters. Ji Wu then noticed reports of possible anomalous practitioners overseas and decided to alert Headquarters.

• Ji Wu treated Xu Zhou in a medical pod, and Xu Zhou recovered from his wounds.
• Jiang Tianzong turned down the employees’ food, but his growling stomach gave him away; Ji Wu later brought him and the others to eat.
• Zhang Lin noticed that Xu Zhou seemed unusually calm and cold, but Xu Zhou stopped him from asking about it.
• Xu Zhou and Jiang Tianzong ate several bowls of rice and more food before Xu Zhou went to shower and rest.
• Ji Wu saw online reports about ancient ruins and suspected Contract Anomalists overseas, recalled that rogue practitioners risked being controlled by Weirds, and decided to report the matter to Headquarters.

Shen Yu learned that his containment of a Weird had caused Vaser Dungeon to collapse and exposed an ancient ruin on Blue Star, which he had embellished with murals. The ruin’s discovery spread overseas after adventurers photographed its murals, including a final image that appeared to watch them.

• Shen Yu’s containment of the Weird collapsed Vaser Dungeon and disturbed the space above an ancient ruin, bringing the ruin to the surface.
• A group of outdoor adventurers uncovered the ruin and entered after forcing open its stone door.
• The adventurers found a tablet praising a great lord and murals depicting a warrior defeating a monster, surviving a poisoned feast, and standing among twisted creatures.
• The final mural unsettled the adventurers, who fled after feeling a cold gaze; they later shared their account and photographs online.
• People overseas speculated that the murals showed an ancient Weird and a powerful transcendent, while Gore’s recording captured the final mural.

Gore’s friends persuaded him to release the two-second recording of the final mural, and they uploaded it to their Mouke accounts. The video ended with viewers feeling as though the figure in the painting was watching them.

• Gore hesitated to share the recording, fearing the figure in the mural might still be alive and able to come after them.
• Gore’s friends argued that the mural was only an old image with a trace of lingering power, and persuaded him to hand over the footage.
• Gore’s friends edited the recording and posted it to their Mouke accounts, drawing in netizens who debated the meaning of the earlier murals.
• The video showed a richly dressed man with his face obscured, surrounded by monstrous figures that seemed to treat him as their king.
• The netizens watching the final mural felt an uncanny sensation that the figure was watching them.

A viral video of a supernatural mural led authorities to seize its creators and recover the painting, while a black-robed figure traded a manual for supernatural power to a country’s leader. Love Resentment returned the mural to the Anomaly Containment Association’s secret base, where Evil Mouth identified it as an ancient portrait and reacted to its unsettling gaze.

• The mural’s video went viral, frightening viewers and attracting people who wanted to find the painting.
• Soldiers arrested Gore and the others, confiscated their equipment, and retrieved the mural from the ruins.
• A black-robed figure gave a high-ranking leader a manual for gaining supernatural abilities in exchange for the mural, while concealing the dangers of supernatural erosion.
• The high-ranking leader decided to test the method and dreamed of gaining power over his country.
• Love Resentment returned the mural to the secret base, where Evil Mouth examined it, recognized its likely medieval origins, and shut the box to escape its gaze.

Evil Mouth and Love Resentment planned to hijack a shipment at the Anomaly Containment Association’s new branch, believing Xie Yu would be an easy target. Meanwhile, a senior executive tested a supposed way into the supernatural world, and his group left an apartment building unaware that a Weird had infected Tom; bugs erupted from Tom’s face on the drive back.

• Evil Mouth found an Anomaly Containment Association branch and learned it had received a shipment of goods.
• Love Resentment agreed to help Evil Mouth hijack the shipment and identified Xie Yu as the likely captain stationed there.
• A senior executive led his subordinates into an apartment building to test the key to entering the supernatural world.
• The group found nothing unusual inside and left, unaware that Tom had been infected by a Weird.
• On the drive back, bugs burst through Tom’s face and horrified his companions.

A spreading overseas contamination prompted Ji Wu to reassign Skywing A, giving Evil Mouth and Love Resentment an opening to raid Yi Gui Company’s warehouse. They escaped with the goods but were confronted by Xie Yu, Jiang Tianzong, and Xu Zhou, and Jiang Tianzong fired at Evil Mouth.

• A senior executive fled as an unseen attack caused his convoy to crash and his subordinates to collapse, while the anomalous incident spread toward nearby cities.
• On January 10th, Ji Wu learned that an overseas city had fallen to contamination and decided to send S-rank Contract Anomalist Skywing A to contain it.
• Evil Mouth intercepted news of Skywing A’s reassignment and planned to exploit the warehouse’s reduced security.
• Evil Mouth and Love Resentment incapacitated the warehouse staff and used Love Resentment’s flower ability to steal the goods.
• Xie Yu, Jiang Tianzong, and Xu Zhou confronted the pair outside the warehouse, and Jiang Tianzong raised his gun and fired at Evil Mouth.

Xu Zhou and Jiang Tianzong fought Love Resentment’s poisonous vines while Xie Yu faced Evil Mouth. Jiang Tianzong absorbed the vines’ power, and the battle continued with Evil Mouth’s Weird still hidden.

• Evil Mouth dodged a bullet and ordered Love Resentment to attack the group.
• Love Resentment spread poisonous vines that separated Jiang Tianzong and Xu Zhou from Xie Yu.
• Jiang Tianzong swallowed part of a vine, gained plant-control and poison abilities, and warned Xu Zhou about the thorns.
• Xu Zhou used his Ghost Hand and improved swordsmanship to help Jiang Tianzong withstand Love Resentment’s assault.
• Jiang Tianzong absorbed more vines and began controlling some of them as Xie Yu focused on fighting Evil Mouth.
• Evil Mouth taunted Xie Yu while keeping his Weird hidden on his body.

Evil Mouth used the Demon Scythe to destabilize Xie Yu’s emotions and take control of him, then prepared to leave with Love Resentment. Jiang Tianzong called out to the motionless Xie Yu as Evil Mouth claimed he had lost all reason.

• Brother Zeng livestreamed the battle between Contract Anomalists as spectators gathered nearby, and Kong Yubo ordered the police to evacuate them without approaching the fight.
• Evil Mouth’s taunts failed to affect Xie Yu, so he used the Demon Scythe, an A-grade Ghost Artifact, to strike him and disrupt his emotions.
• Evil Mouth took control of Xie Yu by exploiting his mental turmoil and flooding him with chaotic emotions.
• Love Resentment returned to Evil Mouth, and the two prepared to retreat while expecting Xie Yu to attack the newcomers.
• Jiang Tianzong called to the motionless Xie Yu, and Evil Mouth said Xie Yu had already lost all reason.

Xie Yu unleashed his Calamity Fate-level Evil God against Evil Mouth and Love Resentment, who were forced to flee its devastating attacks. He explained that he could summon and dismiss the entity but still could not control it, then offered Xu Zhou a place on his team at Amber if he ever left the Object Counter Alliance.

• Love Resentment tried to leave with Evil Mouth, but a heavy truck crashed down and blocked their escape.
• Xie Yu summoned a ten-meter-tall Evil God, and Evil Mouth realized it was an entity above S-rank.
• Xie Yu took Jiang Tianzong and Xu Zhou out of the battlefield while the Evil God attacked Evil Mouth and Love Resentment.
• Xie Yu explained that he had contracted a Calamity Fate-level entity but could unleash less than one percent of its strength and could not control it.
• Xie Yu reassured Xu Zhou that he could dismiss the Evil God and invited him to join him at Amber if he could not stay in the Object Counter Alliance.

Xu Zhou refused Xie Yu’s invitation to join Amber and learned more about the rebellious members of the Object Counter Alliance. As the Evil God overwhelmed Evil Mouth and Love Resentment, a masked Leader intervened and took them away, and Xie Yu recalled the furious Evil God.

• Xie Yu invited Xu Zhou to join Amber, but Xu Zhou refused because Brother Bai remained in the Object Counter Alliance.
• Jiang Tianzong described the Object Counter Alliance as a squad full of rebellious people, leaving Xu Zhou to imagine the difficulty of living among them.
• The Evil God’s pressure weakened Evil Mouth and Love Resentment, and Love Resentment sacrificed an eye to open a passage for their escape.
• The Evil God shattered the passage with a sword, leaving Love Resentment collapsed and Evil Mouth expecting to die.
• A masked Leader stopped the Evil God’s hammer and vanished with Evil Mouth and Love Resentment.
• The Evil God turned toward nearby buildings in anger, but Xie Yu forcibly recalled it.

After the battle, Ji Wu had Bai Zuo erase witnesses’ memories and remove evidence from the internet. Meanwhile, viewers speculated that the Snake and the Cross Sword were ancient rival organizations, and Analysis Emperor linked a nearby rented warehouse to one of them.

• Ji Wu arrived at the wrecked street and told Bai Zuo to erase witnesses’ memories, tamper with surveillance footage, and remove online recordings.
• Bai Zuo used Mind Possession to make the crowd delete their recordings and chat logs, while livestream viewers continued discussing the battle.
• Analysis Emperor proposed that the Snake was an ancient organization that contained anomalies and that the Cross Sword was its enemy.
• Analysis Emperor argued that the two organizations had a bitter feud and that the Cross Sword might have gained something from the battle.
• Analysis Emperor claimed that a nearby rented warehouse likely belonged to either the Snake or the Cross Sword, and many viewers accepted his theory despite the lack of proof.