Recaps

Bai Zuo realized Yang Yu had encountered a strange entity, a talking fake mask, and sent Xu Zhou and Jiang Tianzong to investigate. They found Yang Yu at home and warned him that strange entities contaminated people and could turn them into monsters.

• Bai Zuo read Yang Yu's messages about seeing a fake mask that promised to grant his wishes.
• Bai Zuo recognized signs of Weird contamination on the people who had died and suspected Yang Yu was connected to the anomaly.
• Bai Zuo sent his suspicions to Xu Zhou and Jiang Tianzong, who went to Yang Yu's home to question him.
• Xu Zhou and Jiang Tianzong sensed an eerie aura on Yang Yu and explained that strange entities contaminated humans and could assimilate them into monsters.
• Yang Yu's reaction revealed that he had encountered a strange entity before, and Xu Zhou warned him not to assume it was harmless.

Jiang Tianzong and Xu Zhou failed to locate the mask as deaths linked to the Weird spread through town. The mask possessed Xu Zhou, and Jiang Tianzong found him preparing to attack someone.

• Yang Yu told Jiang Tianzong and Xu Zhou about the strange mask, but they could not find it in his home.
• Several townspeople died in apparent accidents, and Jiang Tianzong and Xu Zhou realized the deaths were connected to the Weird.
• Bai Zuo concluded that the mask was with Yang Yu and had targeted people who had committed serious wrongs.
• Xu Zhou grew increasingly troubled by memories of wanting to kill people, while a black mask appeared on his face and overcame Spider.
• In a dreamlike state, Xu Zhou raised a knife against someone, and Jiang Tianzong tried to stop him and wake him from the Weird's influence.

Xu Zhou attacked people under the control of Yang Yu’s Mask, and Jiang Tianzong fought to restrain him until reinforcements arrived. Yang Yu watched from upstairs until Bai Zuo confronted him about controlling Xu Zhou.

• Xu Zhou’s mask appeared, and he attacked as Jiang Tianzong tried to stop him and called for reinforcements.
• Jiang Tianzong fired at Xu Zhou and used a hit-and-run strategy, realizing he had only a few minutes before he ran out of ways to hold him off.
• Jiang Tianzong chose to keep fighting Xu Zhou so his companion would not make a mistake, telling him he would owe him a favor.
• Yang Yu watched the fight from upstairs and revealed through his thoughts that he had used Mask’s power to control Xu Zhou.
• Bai Zuo appeared behind Yang Yu and accused him of enjoying his first chance to control a useful tool.

Bai Zuo confronted Yang Yu and revealed that the Mask could not control him because Heart Gu was an even stronger monster. Yang Yu’s control over Xu Zhou ended, and the group learned that Yang Yu’s Mask was an Anomaly Artifact before taking him to face the captain.

• Bai Zuo exposed Yang Yu’s attempt to control him and revealed Heart Gu’s power, causing Yang Yu to surrender.
• Heart Gu’s appearance broke Yang Yu’s control over Xu Zhou, who woke up while Jiang Tianzong was injured from their fight.
• Bai Zuo messaged Xu Zhou and Jiang Tianzong to join him, where they found Yang Yu and learned he had controlled Xu Zhou.
• Jiang Tianzong said they would take Yang Yu back and ask the captain how to deal with him.
• Yang Yu identified the Mask as the Mask of Hypocrisy, and Bai Zuo recognized it as an Anomaly Artifact.

After learning that the Mask of Hypocrisy had influenced Yang Yu’s thoughts and health, Xu Zhou and the others brought him back to Yeyang City to face judgment. Bei Mu reviewed Yang Yu’s case and left him with a choice between having his memories erased or joining the Anomaly Containment Association as a Contract Anomalist.

• Xu Zhou explained the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow’s blood cost, and Yang Yu admitted that the mask had made his thoughts more extreme and caused him to lose weight.
• Ji Wu canceled his request for support and told Yang Yu that the Association would handle informing his parents.
• The group brought Yang Yu back to Yeyang City, where Dong Heng asked Bei Mu how to rule on his case.
• Bei Mu learned that Yang Yu had killed no one himself and ordered that he be allowed to choose between memory erasure and joining the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Dong Heng went to tell Yang Yu his options while Xu Zhou waited with him.

Xu Zhou helped Yang Yu reconsider his desire to kill all evil people, and Yang Yu chose to become a Contract Anomalist with Yi Gui Company. As Shen Yu reviewed the company’s overseas expansion and recent gains, the system warned that an anomalous lifeform was approaching Headquarters and that a resource vehicle and an employee had been attacked.

• Xu Zhou discussed the difficulty of defining good and evil with Yang Yu, who admitted his wish to kill evil people had come from hatred.
• Xu Zhou said Bai Zuo had given him a reason to keep living, and Yang Yu envied that he had met Bai Zuo.
• Dong Heng offered Yang Yu the choice of forgetting everything about Weird and returning to ordinary life or becoming a Contract Anomalist, and Yang Yu chose to join Yi Gui Company.
• Shen Yu reviewed Yi Gui Company’s overseas expansion and the Construction Points he had gained from containing Weird and attracting attention from other countries.
• The system warned Shen Yu that an anomalous lifeform was approaching Headquarters, a resource vehicle had been damaged, and an employee had died.

Shen Yu discovered that raiders from another world had attacked the Gate to Vaser Dungeon, killing employees and residents and stealing supplies. After using Time Reversal to undo the attack, he investigated their unstable passage and began planning revenge.

• Shen Yu learned that an attack on the Gate had killed five employees and left seven severely wounded, while a thousand Vaser Dungeon residents were killed or injured.
• Fu Zhang followed the raiders as they looted supplies and escaped through an unstable spatial passage to another world.
• Shen Yu concluded that the raiders came from a civilization barred from settling permanently in the Source World.
• Shen Yu used Time Reversal to rewind the world by an hour and restore the losses from the raid.
• Shen Yu sent Fu Zhang to investigate the passage and began planning a revenge scheme against the raiders.

Yi Gui Company’s rapid growth brought a flood of orders and generous commissions, while spy Feng Fa failed to uncover the source of its advanced products. When the mysterious Execution Department suddenly recruited reserve Contract Anomalists and ordinary employees for an urgent mission, Feng Fa saw a chance to investigate it.

• Yi Gui Company’s employees celebrated the company’s success as domestic partners eagerly sought contracts for its high-end products.
• Li Zhe welcomed new colleague Feng Fa and praised the company’s benefits and working conditions.
• Feng Fa reviewed his investigation and realized he had uncovered no confidential information or clues to the hidden owners of Yi Gui Company’s products.
• Feng Fa considered investigating the mysterious Execution Department, which had suddenly received an urgent mission and recruited reserve Contract Anomalists and ordinary employees.

Six Contract Anomalist reserves rode to Headquarters for an emergency assignment, expecting to learn whether they could contract anomalies. Behind them, new employees were also being taken there and asked to sign confidentiality contracts.

• Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, Zhang Lin, Zhao Hun, Yin Nu, and Yang Yu introduced themselves and discussed why they had become Contract Anomalist reserves.
• The reserves speculated about the emergency assignment and grew excited when the driver confirmed Headquarters had summoned them.
• Zhang Lin noticed unfamiliar new employees in the cars behind them and wondered how the company would keep its secrets safe.
• Headquarters employees in the following cars handed the new employees contracts and asked them to sign before reaching Yi Gui Company's Headquarters.

New recruits signed the Anomaly Containment Association’s nondisclosure contracts and were transported through a spacetime jump to Headquarters. There, Zhang Lin and the others learned that an attack on the Association’s “Gate” had prompted a declaration of war, though the Chairman’s ability had prevented any employee deaths.

• The spies signed contracts threatening severe consequences for leaking company secrets and were welcomed into the Anomaly Containment Association.
• The recruits experienced a spacetime jump from Yeyang City to Headquarters, where Feng Fa feared the Association was controlled by aliens.
• A researcher showed Zhang Lin and the others footage of masked attackers killing Association employees and residents before storming the “Gate.”
• The researcher declared that the attack was a war against the Anomaly Containment Association and urged employees to prepare for further attacks.
• Zhang Lin asked how many employees had died, and the researcher revealed that the Chairman’s ability had kept the death toll at zero.

Feng Fa and the other spies learned that the Anomaly Containment Association had suffered an attack but reported no casualties, while a group of newcomers were taken to its Anomaly Containment Facility to contract Weird entities. The newcomers chose their targets, and Mr. G opened the first door to the containment rooms.

• Feng Fa speculated that the Association could revive its people by transferring their consciousness into new bodies, while the newcomers celebrated the lack of casualties.
• Mr. G told the newcomers that they would try contracting Weird entities and led them toward Headquarters, leaving the spies behind under guard.
• Mr. G explained that the newcomers were headed to the Anomaly Containment Facility and described how Weirds could be contracted and grow by devouring other Weirds.
• Du Jiashi chose Weird Courier, Xu Rou chose Rakshasa Umbrella, Zhang Lin chose Gun of Karma, Zhao Hun chose Nightmare, Yin Nu chose Voodoo Doll, and Yang Yu chose Weird Eye.
• After the newcomers confirmed their choices, Mr. G used his watch to open the first layer of a containment door.

Six recruits began the Weird-contracting process while Shen Yu used exposed corporate spies to prepare an ambush near Vaser Dungeon. The spies’ target group arrived on the White Disk Plains, and the guards ordered the spies to throw grenades.

• The Central Control Center briefed Du Jiashi and the other five recruits on how to resist a Weird’s influence before they entered the next room.
• Mr. G waited outside, wondering how many recruits would succeed and lamenting that studying Weirds could contaminate him.
• Security guards forced the exposed spies into tactical gear and marched them, without firearms, toward the unstable spatial point.
• Shen Yu watched the spies through the main control console and ordered weapons technology and defenses for Vaser Dungeon.
• The guards led the spies into an ambush as the group from Vaser Dungeon arrived and advanced across the plains.
• A security guard ordered the spies to pull their grenade pins, take aim, and throw.

After the security guards repelled an attack by outsiders, the captured spies tried to manipulate one another and realized they were all trained operatives. Feng Fa discovered that they were trapped in a local network but could access Yi Gui Company’s app, which had quickly become the world’s most downloaded app.

• The outsiders abandoned their wounded and retreated after grenades wounded several people, while the security guards reported the attack and approached the injured.
• The restrained spies tried to trick one another, but Feng Fa and the others kept countering each other’s manipulation attempts.
• Feng Fa used an industry code phrase, and the spies realized that they were all operatives whose identities had been exposed.
• Feng Fa failed to contact anyone outside the local network with his backup phone, then discovered that he could log into Yi Gui Company’s app.
• Feng Fa saw that the app had internal and public sections and a notice asking users to share its website on Facebook.

The spies used the Outer Domain Network to contact their handlers, who concluded that the captives were no longer on Blue Star and warned that Yi Gui Company’s power could reshape the world. After the spies submitted to their captors, Mr. G arranged to use the prisoners as test subjects while waiting to learn how the new contract attempts had gone.

• The spies contacted their handlers and sent footage of the unfamiliar grasslands, leading the handlers to conclude that the captives were not on Blue Star.
• The spies’ organizations learned that the Contract Anomalists were connected to Yi Gui Company and reconsidered how to deal with the powerful organization.
• Security personnel returned several wounded captives to the Headquarters Building, and the spies obeyed their captors in hopes of surviving.
• Mr. G ordered the prisoners locked in cells so he could test his newly developed potions on them.
• While waiting for the indicator light, Mr. G assessed the newcomers’ chances of contracting their chosen Weirds and recalled The One’s struggle to control his powerful contract.

Yang Yu contracted the Weird Eye and discovered its ability to see fragments of the past, lingering resentment, and weaknesses. Du Jiashi also completed his contract, gaining a Weird Courier that could store items in a four-cubic-meter space.

• Mr. G let Yang Yu out after confirming that he had successfully contracted the Weird Eye.
• Yang Yu saw deformed hands and other disturbing sights around Mr. G, who speculated that his former test subjects might be lingering beside him.
• Yang Yu learned that the Weird Eye could see fragments of the past, resentment, and weaknesses, and figured out how to close it.
• Du Jiashi emerged with a shadowy Weird Courier that repeatedly urged him to collect a delivery.
• Du Jiashi discovered he could summon a miniature courier box with about four cubic meters of storage space, though the Weird Courier had no offensive ability.

Xu Rou, Zhang Lin, and Yin Nu emerged after successfully contracting powerful anomalies, though each struggled with the physical and mental toll of controlling them. Yin Nu appeared unable to control her Voodoo Doll, while the others waited to see whether the remaining recruits would succeed.

• Xu Rou emerged with the Rakshasa Umbrella, demonstrated its disturbing transformation, and learned that its power drained her strength.
• Mr. G explained that the remaining recruits might need more time to contract their anomalies, and the group waited nervously.
• Zhang Lin staggered out and fainted from exhaustion, but Mr. G confirmed that he had successfully contracted a blood-robed anomaly.
• Yin Nu emerged severely weakened after contracting a Malignant Curse-grade Weird and revealed a bound Voodoo Doll that she could not yet control.

Yin Nu’s Voodoo Doll nearly went berserk, but it retreated when it sensed the powerful aura of a passing Contract Anomalist. The newcomers learned that Lord Fu Zhang, the Thunder God Sovereign, had suppressed the anomaly, and they wondered how far their own futures might take them.

• Yin Nu failed to control the rampaging Voodoo Doll, while Xu Rou and the others gathered around her and prepared to hold out for reinforcements.
• The newcomers tried to activate their newly contracted anomalies, but none responded.
• Footsteps approached, and the Voodoo Doll withdrew its power and hid behind Yin Nu’s neck.
• Yin Nu said the Voodoo Doll had sensed a powerful aura, and Mr. G identified the likely source as Lord Fu Zhang, the Thunder God Sovereign.
• Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, Yang Yu, and Yin Nu admired the powerful Contract Anomalist and wondered about their own futures.

Zhao Hun contracted with a Blood Robe-level Weird and became trapped in a dream where he gained wealth before losing his parents, fortune, and hope. Mr. G pulled him from the room and declared the contract had failed, leaving Zhao Hun unable to form another contract.

• While everyone worried about Zhao Hun, he dreamed of becoming a famous streamer and learning that his father was Asia’s richest man.
• Zhao Hun spent his newfound wealth lavishly, then learned his mother had been critically injured and watched both his parents die.
• After his company went bankrupt and his streaming career collapsed, Zhao Hun jumped from a bridge in the dream.
• Mr. G found Zhao Hun asleep on the floor beside the dreamlike Weird and dragged him out of the room.
• Mr. G injected Zhao Hun with a healing agent and told the others that the contract had failed and Zhao Hun could never form another contract.

After Zhang Lin and Zhao Hun failed to contract 1-162, Mr. G clarified that they could recover and attempt to contract other anomalies, though the Anomaly Containment Association could not guarantee success. Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, and the others were escorted through Headquarters to meet Officer Fu Zhang and learned that Contract Anomalists outranked other departments in priority.

• Mr. G explained that Zhang Lin and Zhao Hun could not contract 1-162 again, but could try to contract other anomalies after recovering.
• Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, and the others carried Zhang Lin and Zhao Hun out, where logistics staff transported the injured men to the medical room.
• A logistics staff member told Du Jiashi and the others that Officer Fu Zhang had asked to see them, then led them through Headquarters.
• The group passed the Research Department as researchers fled a dangerous T1 experimental agent leak, but their logistics escort continued serving the Contract Anomalists.
• The logistics staff member explained that Contract Anomalists took priority over other departments when assigning logistics staff.

Du Jiashi and the other newcomers toured the Execution Department’s vast facilities before finding Mi Lan buried asleep in the snow. Mi Lan invited them to play, but Xu Rou reminded him that Lord Fu Zhang was waiting, and he left while the logistics staff remained worried.

• The logistics staff member explained the institute’s departments and showed Du Jiashi and the others the Execution Department’s recreation facilities.
• Du Jiashi and Yang Yu noticed a hand emerging from the snow, and the logistics staff member dug out Mi Lan.
• Mi Lan woke up, introduced himself as a Contract Anomalist from the Object Counter Alliance, and invited the newcomers to play.
• Xu Rou reminded Mi Lan that Lord Fu Zhang had summoned them, so Mi Lan left and the logistics staff member led the group onward.

The logistics staff member showed Xu Rou, Du Jiashi, Yin Nu, and Yang Yu the squad offices and explained how to join or form a squad. Fu Zhang summoned them to discuss their contracts and prepare them to investigate an attack, while Mi Lan arrived and they waited for another Contract Anomalist.

• The logistics staff member explained the requirements for forming a squad and introduced the Object Counter Alliance, the Spirit-Seeking Squad, the Eye of Arbitration, and the Amber Squad.
• Xu Rou and Du Jiashi favored the Object Counter Alliance, while Yin Nu and Yang Yu showed no interest in joining it.
• After receiving a message about a changed situation, the logistics staff member brought the group to Fu Zhang's office.
• Fu Zhang said the group would investigate the attack on an Anomaly Containment Association employee alongside two Contract Anomalists and asked to see what Weirds they had contracted with.
• Mi Lan arrived late, greeted Xu Rou and the others, and complained that Fu Zhang had no food in his office.
• Fu Zhang said they were still waiting for someone who did not keep time, and Mi Lan denied that he meant him.

Bai Zuo and Mi Lan led the newcomers on an extermination mission after a squad from a mysterious door attacked Anomaly Containment Association employees. The group crossed into the small world, while the trapped spies could only seek help from their superiors.

• Fu Zhang told Bai Zuo that the Elders' Council had ordered an investigation, an extermination, and the takeover of the small world, and Bai Zuo agreed to lead the mission.
• Mi Lan and Bai Zuo set out with four newcomers and a group of ordinary employees who were actually spies under armed guard.
• The newcomers selected weapons and combat gear, then crowded into Mi Lan's armored SUV with Bai Zuo.
• Mi Lan admitted that his five years of driving experience came from bumper cars, and his erratic driving terrified the newcomers.
• The three vehicles crashed through the passageway into the other space, while the spies tried unsuccessfully to contact their superiors.

The Anomaly Containment Association brought its spies into a radiation-blasted wasteland and began assessing whether the space could be reclaimed. After setting up a camp in a safer area, the team established contact with Headquarters through a cross-dimensional signal tower.

• The spies agreed to cooperate and put their escape plans on hold while they tried to earn the organization's trust and curry favor with Contract Anomalists.
• Security personnel unloaded the spies into a ruined landscape, where the group discovered craters, wreckage, and dangerous radiation.
• Mi Lan, Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, Yang Yu, and Yin Nu discussed the invaders' attack on the employees and rejected their suffering as an excuse.
• Security personnel tested the soil and air, and Bai Zuo ordered robots to survey the area while the group moved to a lower-radiation site.
• The security personnel assembled a cross-dimensional signal tower, restoring Du Jiashi and the others' connection to Headquarters.

Bai Zuo and the others investigated a ruined world and learned that its extermination war had been fought against an invisible threat, possibly Weirds. Their discussion revealed how difficult Weirds were to contain without Contract Anomalists, leaving them mindful of the danger facing their own world.

• The security personnel served the group food and radiation-repelling medicine, which eased their radiation-related symptoms.
• Bai Zuo failed to access the world's networks and sent robots and drones to search for information, but their footage showed only war-ravaged ruins.
• A security officer told Bai Zuo that prisoners knew the war had begun forty-nine years earlier against an invisible enemy, though they did not know why it started.
• Du Jiashi, Yang Yu, Yin Nu, and Xu Rou speculated that the enemy had been Weirds and that the world's leaders had chosen mutual destruction to preserve humanity's dignity.
• The security personnel explained that modified firearms could barely harm low-level Weirds, and that containing stronger entities required Contract Anomalists or the sacrifice of human lives.

Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, Yin Nu, and Yang Yu discussed the threat posed by the Weird entities and learned how to raise their compatibility with their contracted entities. Meanwhile, Feng Fa’s leaked videos appeared on Yi Gui Company’s Outer Domain Network, and viewers began to realize the footage was unusual.

• Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, Yin Nu, and Yang Yu speculated that the Horror Game was using Blue Star’s humans and Weird entities as prey or nourishment.
• Yang Yu tested whether the Voodoo Doll liked hanging, and Yin Nu found that tightening a rope around her neck made it react happily.
• Xu Rou and Du Jiashi discovered that the Rakshasa Umbrella and Weird Courier might respond to activities they liked, while Yang Yu concluded the Weird Eye liked watching.
• Du Jiashi and the others rested at camp as security personnel guarded the area, while Bai Zuo and Mi Lan played a co-op game with Shen Yu controlling both of them.
• Feng Fa sent his recorded videos to his handler, but the footage also appeared on Yi Gui Company’s Outer Domain Network.
• Yi Gui Company product users opened the videos and watched as shaky footage moved from a car to a vast grassland.