Recaps

Sui Wuyou learned that the world in his comic existed and joined the Special Management Department as an external member. Meanwhile, Shen Yu began merging the illusory world with the main world by separating them into connected outer and inner worlds, and planned to place gates between them.

• Sui Wuyou heard that the Special Management Department had visited the world depicted in his comic and met Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha.
• Sui Wuyou explained Nether Emperor Mu Fa's role in his story and eagerly asked whether he could visit the world, but the others said they could not find a way back.
• Sui Wuyou signed an agreement and became an external member of the Special Management Department.
• Shen Yu considered the risks of expanding the main world and decided to make it the outer world while merging the illusory world as an inner world.
• Shen Yu made the outer and inner worlds parallel and accessible through gates, and planned to place gates in every country.

Shen Yu fused the illusory world with the main world and discovered the fate awaiting Wu Xiaoyu’s world after the manga ended. The chapter revealed that Wu Xiaoyu had reversed time and sent his dying world toward the main world as its last hope.

• Shen Yu allowed the main world's consciousness to absorb the illusory world's consciousness, merging both worlds and placing their unified authority in his hands.
• Shen Yu examined the illusory world's remnants of fate and saw that Wu Xiaoyu would defeat Mu Fa, take control of his resources, and become the world's strongest.
• After the manga's story ended, the illusory world began to weaken as its sustaining power of thought faded, and its people and Chen Lisha died despite Wu Xiaoyu's efforts to preserve it.
• Wu Xiaoyu reversed the world's time to the beginning of the story after sensing that the main world had begun to advance.
• Wu Xiaoyu sent his world toward the main world as its last hope and exhausted his power, leaving behind only a weak projection.

A global thunderstorm and a strange meteor shower marked the collision of the Main World and the Illusory World. Lin Buji and the Special Management Department entered one of the newly appeared gateways, while the gateways activated worldwide and transformed the world, sending adventurers and awakened individuals to the Inner World.

• A worldwide thunderstorm unsettled people and animals as Lin Buji and others investigated the strange phenomenon.
• A seven-colored meteor appeared without warning, split into fragments, and scattered across the world.
• Armed personnel found mysterious stone gateways at the fragments’ landing sites, and the Special Management Department took charge of investigating them.
• Lin Buji and his team were drawn through a gateway and recognized the world they had visited before.
• All the gateways lit up and connected as the world shook, ordinary people lost consciousness, and adventurers and awakened individuals were sent to the Inner World.
• Buildings shifted, the world gained many more people, and Shen Yu worried that the Inner World would become crowded.

After the upheaval between heaven and earth, Wu Xiaoyu found Chen Lisha unconscious but unharmed and discovered that a strange force in the transformed world granted him experience just by staying in certain places. He realized he had found an AFK spot for leveling, while the source and nature of the upheaval remained unknown.

• Lin Buji and the others fainted, then woke up in the familiar city much earlier than the ordinary people.
• Wu Xiaoyu caught Chen Lisha as she lost consciousness and used a secret technique to confirm that she was healthy.
• Wu Xiaoyu reflected that his level had reached 69 and that the upheaval had ended the urgency he had felt since awakening his ability.
• Wu Xiaoyu went outside and discovered that a strange force occasionally granted him experience without combat.
• Wu Xiaoyu found that the force was stronger in some areas, where staying still earned more experience than grinding a secret realm.

Wu Xiaoyu brought Chen Lisha to his new home and found Shen Yu waiting inside. Shen Yu explained that lost memories and powers could return because the soul retained the imprints of the past.

• Wu Xiaoyu bought a house with his dungeon-grinding earnings and brought Chen Lisha there.
• Wu Xiaoyu sensed someone inside and entered the living room with Chen Lisha, where he found a hooded man waiting.
• Shen Yu revealed his blood-red eyes, which Wu Xiaoyu recognized as strangely familiar.
• Shen Yu reflected that Wu Xiaoyu's soul still carried the imprint of his former power, despite losing his strength and memories.
• Shen Yu recalled that his own lost memories of countless reincarnations would gradually return as he regained strength.

Wu Xiaoyu recognized Shen Yu as an extraordinary figure and asked to join his organization, the Anomaly Containment Association. Shen Yu explained that the Association contained Weird entities and protected humanity, then described how it used Weird energy crystals to make special weapons.

• Wu Xiaoyu sensed Shen Yu's unusual nature and addressed him as "Your Highness."
• Wu Xiaoyu asked Shen Yu if he could join his organization, surprising Chen Lisha.
• Shen Yu revealed that he was the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Shen Yu explained that the Association contained and controlled Weird entities while using their energy crystals to create special weapons.
• The chapter described how the Association's logistics staff transported Contract Anomalists, especially newcomers below A-rank.

Wu Xiaoyu accepted Shen Yu’s card to travel to the Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters and reconciled with Chen Lisha, who learned that the world’s changes were linked to her coma. On the Surface World, people adapted to the newly established gate between the Surface World and the Inner World, while Lin Buji and the others discussed how to manage people with special abilities.

• Wu Xiaoyu received Shen Yu’s card and directions to the Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters, then Shen Yu vanished.
• Chen Lisha told Wu Xiaoyu she had noticed his anxiety, and they embraced as he apologized for making her uneasy.
• Wu Xiaoyu agreed that Chen Lisha could accompany him to the Association and confirmed that the world’s changes were related to her coma.
• The gate’s appearance altered people’s memories, making them accept the Surface World, the Inner World, and the gate as longstanding parts of reality.
• Lin Buji and his companions discussed the Inner World as a base for people with special abilities and debated whether they could be centrally registered and assigned missions.

Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha visited the newly appeared Yigui Clean Energy Transport Co., Ltd. building using a business card. An attendant recognized the card and led them to a platform where a long transport train was waiting.

• Yin Keke received an emergency mission at North Street in Huan City, and Lin Buji led the team out.
• Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha arrived at the imposing building that had appeared overnight and entered its waiting hall.
• Wu Xiaoyu showed the attendant his business card instead of a ticket.
• The attendant treated Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha respectfully and guided them through the building to a platform with a long train.

Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha boarded the luxurious Interdimensional Train, where the attendants treated Wu Xiaoyu with respect as a Contract Anomalist. As the train began traveling between worlds, Chen Lisha was shocked by the strange view outside.

• A female attendant directed Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha to board, and a railway police officer let them through after learning Wu Xiaoyu was a Contract Anomalist.
• Wu Xiaoyu led Chen Lisha into a spacious, luxurious cabin and chose seats beside the window.
• Chen Lisha ordered several drinks and snacks from the attendant, who served them before the train departed.
• The announcement warned passengers that the Interdimensional Train would pass through multiple world stations and might experience turbulence.
• The train began moving through swirling mists and colliding lights, and Chen Lisha gripped Wu Xiaoyu's hand in shock.

Chen Lisha and Wu Xiaoyu rode a train that crossed world tunnels, and Wu Xiaoyu sensed that its chaotic protective power resembled the power of the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association. At Earth Star Station, two injured men boarded and discussed their encounter with a Weird, leaving Yue Wen questioning why being possessed was worse than dying when a Time Rewind device existed.

• Chen Lisha watched the changing scenery as Wu Xiaoyu sensed the train’s power stabilizing it against the torrents of space-time.
• The train arrived at Earth Star Station, and a bloodied man boarded with a wounded companion missing one hand.
• Yue Wen explained that he had cut off his hand to avoid being taken over by a Weird.
• Weng Xu told Yue Wen that possession caused greater harm, but Yue Wen questioned why it was worse than death if a Time Rewind device could bring them back.

Weng Xu and Yue Wen introduced Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha to the Anomaly Containment Association and its spacetime trains. As their train departed, the newcomers began their journey toward Headquarters, warned to be careful at transfer stations.

• Weng Xu scrolled through his phone while Yue Wen declined an offer to call a medic for his wound.
• Weng Xu learned that Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha had just joined the Association and enthusiastically welcomed them as newcomers.
• Weng Xu explained that the Anomaly Containment Association handled anomalous incidents across worlds, and Yue Wen described the varying dangers of missions.
• Wu Xiaoyu asked whether the spacetime train was safe, and Weng Xu told her it had protection and security staff but could encounter spatial turbulence.
• Yue Wen warned Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha not to wander at transfer stations, and the train began moving.

On the train, Weng Xu explained how worlds were numbered and answered Chen Lisha’s questions about main worlds. After two Contract Anomalists boarded at Azure Star Station, Chen Lisha asked whether they carried out missions in pairs.

• Weng Xu explained that parallel or similar worlds received numbers, and that a confirmed main world was labeled 000.
• The train arrived at Azure Star Station, where Xia Yun and Deng Tao boarded and bickered about Xia Yun wandering off.
• Deng Tao noticed Yue Wen’s missing arm, and Yue Wen said he had let his guard down.
• Chen Lisha asked whether Contract Anomalists did missions in pairs, hoping to team up with Wu Xiaoyu.

Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha discussed taking missions together after joining the Anomaly Containment Association, while Deng Tao and the others teased them about their relationship. The chapter ended with Deng Tao explaining that Weird energy subtly influenced contract anomalists, affecting their emotions and perhaps their interest in romance.

• Weng Xu explained that newcomers would be trained by stronger contract anomalists before choosing whether to take missions alone or in teams.
• Chen Lisha suggested that she and Wu Xiaoyu go on missions together, and Wu Xiaoyu agreed.
• Deng Tao asked whether Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha were a couple, and Wu Xiaoyu openly called her his beloved.
• Deng Tao and the others joked about romance, while Xia Yun brushed off Deng Tao's glance.
• Deng Tao said contract anomalists spent much of their time training and on missions, and that Weird energy seeped into their bones and souls, subtly influencing them.

Wu Xiaoyu and his companions discussed how Weirds affected Contract Anomalists before arriving at Blue Star to transfer trains. On the employee train, they found several hostile outsiders who had somehow boarded unnoticed, and armed security guards moved in.

• Chen Lisha worried that Weird energy might change Wu Xiaoyu's personality, and Wu Xiaoyu reassured her that it would not necessarily change someone that much.
• Yue Wen said Contract Anomalists might lose interest in dating because their missions and lives became so consuming.
• Weng Xu, Yue Wen, Xia Yun, and Deng Tao arrived at Blue Star and got off to transfer, with Weng Xu urging Yue Wen to have his arm treated at Headquarters.
• Deng Tao identified the train beside them as the employee train, which was not open to outsiders.
• Several outsiders on the employee train shoved employees aside and complained that the passengers were wage slaves, while security guards approached and Xia Yun watched them warily.

The company's security team fought a group of Awakened stowaways from Earth Star who attacked with special abilities. Weng Xu and the others watched as the guards held their ground, leaving Xia Yun to suspect the intruders came from Earth Star.

• A lackey launched a wind blade at the security guards, who drew guns and opened fire.
• The lackey attacked with more wind blades, but the guards dodged and returned fire with a transformed baton-gun.
• Another Awakened raised a metal wall to shield the lackey from the bullets.
• The security captain directed his teams to suppress the attackers, reload, and set up crossfire.
• Deng Tao asked whether they should help, but Weng Xu said they should see how the security team handled the fight.
• Xia Yun suspected the Awakened were people who had stowed away from Earth Star.

Xia Yun and the others secured the area while Weng Xu discovered that Flame Star had been renamed Earth Star’s Inner World. The group discussed its spiritual energy and future, while Yue Wen argued that Blue Star’s hostile anomalies could not match Earth Star’s beneficial development.

• Xia Yun summoned the anomalies, and they blocked escape routes around the area.
• Weng Xu asked Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha where they were from, and Wu Xiaoyu said they were from Flame Star.
• Weng Xu checked the train map and found that Flame Star was now listed as Earth Star’s Inner World, alongside the Surface World.
• Weng Xu said the Inner World held secret realms and denser spiritual energy, which could make Earth Star a powerful world.
• Yue Wen disagreed that Blue Star could compete with Earth Star, arguing that the Horror Game and anomalies were hostile forces rather than sources of growth.

Wu Xiaoyu reflected on Flame Star’s harsh conditions and suspected the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association had caused the worlds to merge. Meanwhile, the security squad fought the awakened ones to a standstill, leaving the lackeys humiliated.

• Wu Xiaoyu recalled that people on Flame Star had to eat food from secret realms to avoid irreversible aging, and that his mother had died from the resulting disease and other complications.
• Wu Xiaoyu considered how the dangerous world had reduced births and left only wealthy or adventurer-connected families able to raise children safely.
• Wu Xiaoyu guessed that Flame Star was the Inner World and Earth Star the Surface World, then suspected the Chairman of the Anomaly Containment Association had merged them and might know about his ability.
• The security squad exchanged fire with the awakened ones and held their ground through superior combat experience.
• An awakened one mocked the lackeys for failing to defeat ordinary people, and the wind-blade user angrily challenged him to take their place.

The Contract Anomalists watched as an Awakened used earth powers to disrupt the security teams, while the employees reported the disturbance to their manager. Weng Xu, Xia Yun, and Deng Tao prepared to join the fight, leaving the injured Yue Wen and the newcomers behind.

• An Awakened raised earthen pillars and cracked the ground, scattering the security teams’ formation.
• An employee called the department manager to report the Awakened causing trouble at the station.
• Weng Xu asked whether the Contract Anomalists should intervene, and Yue Wen stayed back because of his injury.
• Deng Tao and Weng Xu told Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha to remain out of the battle while Xia Yun warned Chen Lisha to hide with the employees if the fight escalated.

Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha watched Anomaly Containment Association employees fight off enemy Contract Anomalists, with Wu Xiaoyu intervening while keeping Chen Lisha from revealing her ability. Reinforcements turned the battle around, and the group began tending to the injured.

• The Anomaly Containment Association employees rushed to hide when fighting broke out, while Chen Lisha stood with Wu Xiaoyu and held back from joining the battle.
• When an enemy Contract Anomalist snared an employee with a chain, Wu Xiaoyu cut it with a blade of light and the employee returned to the fight.
• Two enemies approached Wu Xiaoyu and Chen Lisha, but Wu Xiaoyu restrained them with thorny vines and told Chen Lisha to wait.
• Reinforcements from the Anomaly Containment Association arrived, froze the enemy, and drove the remaining Awakened to flee.
• Chen Lisha asked why Wu Xiaoyu had stopped her from helping, and he said concealing her ability would spare her trouble while the Association members cared for the injured.

Xia Yun, Deng Tao, and Weng Xu confronted awakened people who had killed ordinary people and planned to seize power. Deng Tao filled the hall with mist while Weng Xu’s strange creature disrupted two enemies’ abilities and drove them to attack their own companions.

• Xia Yun observed the ruined floors and furnishings as Deng Tao remarked that fighters sometimes damaged their own turf.
• Weng Xu proposed killing the intruders, but the awakened people tried to recruit the three Contract Anomalists to their cause.
• Deng Tao condemned the awakened people for killing ordinary people and sarcastically called them vicious dogs.
• Deng Tao released a cloud of white mist throughout the hall, while Weng Xu summoned a strange creature that cried out at the enemies.
• Two awakened men lost control of their abilities and began attacking each other.

Xia Yun used the Black Thorn to kill the wind-blade and earth-controlling awakened, then trapped the fleeing survivors in white mist. The leader and Glasses Man were caught while trying to escape, leaving them at the Black Thorn’s mercy.

• Xia Yun’s Black Thorn overwhelmed the wind-blade and earth-controlling awakened, pierced them, and drained them until only skeletons remained.
• The other awakened realized they were outmatched, but the white mist trapped them and the Black Thorn consumed them.
• The leader and Glasses Man tried to flee, but the Black Thorn blocked the front gate and ambushed them at the back door.
• The Black Thorn wrapped around Glasses Man as he called for the leader to save him, while the leader kept his distance.
• Weng Xu said the fight was over, and Deng Tao noted that two people remained.

Deng Tao and the others confronted a captured attacker, but the man struck Deng Tao with a black shadow before they could decide what to do with him. Bound by Xia Yun's Black Thorn, the attacker refused to retract his power and used Deng Tao's life to demand his release.

• Deng Tao confronted the man, who questioned whether they were Awakeners and pleaded that he had not known whose territory he had entered.
• Xia Yun and Weng Xu discussed whether to spare the man, and Deng Tao said they could let him live.
• The man suddenly sent a black shadow into Deng Tao, who clutched his chest and collapsed.
• Xia Yun bound the attacker with Black Thorn and demanded that he take back his power.
• The attacker refused, threatening that Deng Tao would die unless they released him.

Xia Yun, Weng Xu, and Wu Xiaoyu agreed to release the enemy after he claimed Deng Tao’s life was linked to his own. Yue Wen exposed the bluff, and the team subdued the man.

• Wu Xiaoyu realized the enemy had turned the tables by making Deng Tao appear to be at his mercy.
• Weng Xu agreed to the enemy’s terms, and Xia Yun withdrew her thorns while the Bird-Beaked Ghost vanished.
• Yue Wen charged in and attacked with ghostly blue flame, revealing that Deng Tao’s collapse had been an act.
• Wu Xiaoyu rescued Deng Tao as Xia Yun, Weng Xu, and Yue Wen attacked the enemy and quickly overpowered him.

As Xia Yun’s thorns ran wild and the fight turned chaotic, Yue Wen met Duanmu Qing, an SS-rank Contract Anomalist who headed the Transport Department. The chapter ended with Yue Wen questioning why such a powerful Contract Anomalist worked outside the Execution Department.

• Xia Yun screamed as black thorns spread from her arm and attacked everyone nearby.
• The Awakener dodged the thorns while Weng Xu urged Xia Yun to control herself.
• Yue Wen watched from a distance, relying on the Time Rewind device they had activated as a safeguard.
• Duanmu Qing approached Yue Wen and identified the Awakener as the remaining enemy.
• Duanmu Qing introduced himself as the head of the Transport Department and an SS-rank Contract Anomalist.
• Yue Wen wondered why an SS-rank Contract Anomalist was assigned to the Transport Department instead of the Execution Department.

Duanmu Qing subdued Xia Yun and trapped the Awakened after revealing that the Time Rewind device had left dangerous spatial fissures. When the fissures sent tentacles after Xia Yun, he protected her and ordered Yue Wen to activate the backup seal.

• Duanmu Qing used a rune-covered chain to restrain berserk Xia Yun and shielded himself from the Awakened’s attack.
• Duanmu Qing explained that the Time Rewind device had left spatial fissures, then used them to trap the Awakened as he tried to escape.
• Wu Xiaoyu examined the unconscious Deng Tao while Xia Yun coughed up black blood that spread into thorny growths.
• Duanmu Qing determined that the thorns were draining Xia Yun’s life and forming a teleportation array controlled by someone in the shadows.
• Black tentacles lunged from the fissures toward Xia Yun, but Duanmu Qing destroyed them with a barrier and ordered Yue Wen to activate the backup seal.