Recaps

Yi Gui Company released videos exposing an attack on the Anomaly Containment Association and the corporate spies caught in its branch offices. The footage spread widely, drawing job applicants and prompting foreign countries to disown the spies and deny responsibility.

• Viewers watched Mr. G explain that the Anomaly Containment Association had been attacked and saw footage of the massacre and the Chairman restoring the casualties to zero.
• The video showed security guards sending suspected ordinary employees to the battlefield, prompting viewers to criticize the Anomaly Containment Association for endangering them.
• Viewers watched the employees expose one another as corporate spies and saw footage of them contacting their handlers, causing public opinion to turn against the spies.
• People praised the Anomaly Containment Association and applied to work at Yi Gui Company, hoping to become Contract Anomalists.
• Foreign countries whose spies had been exposed ordered traces erased and blamed the incident on the companies' unauthorized employees.

Yang Yu dreamed of a settlement where an explosion killed the group, then woke as Bai Zuo assigned the newcomers to investigate whether its people were connected to the invaders. Yang Yu recognized the place from his vision but did not yet explain what he had seen.

• Yi Gui Company's videos sparked speculation and concern among governments, while the company rejected meeting requests except for cooperation proposals.
• Yang Yu dreamed that the group reached a radiation-stricken settlement and that a child approaching them triggered a violent explosion.
• Yang Yu woke frightened, and Du Jiashi tried to reassure him by saying their Weird abilities could protect them from bullets.
• Bai Zuo reviewed robot footage showing humans hunting mutated creatures and leading the robot toward a settlement just over two hundred kilometers away.
• Bai Zuo sent Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, Yin Nu, and Yang Yu to investigate whether the settlement was connected to the invaders, and Yang Yu recognized it from his vision.

Yang Yu shared a precognitive dream of a child carrying bombs attacking the group, so Mi Lan joined them on their way to the settlement. Meanwhile, Shen Yu bought biotechnology to purify radiation and contamination, hoping to reclaim the vast space and generate clean energy.

• Yang Yu told Du Jiashi, Xu Rou, and Yin Nu that he had dreamed a child with bombs would attack them at a settlement.
• Mi Lan agreed to accompany the newcomers, then cowered behind them when Bai Zuo sent a small white spider toward him and warned him to behave.
• Mi Lan led the newcomers toward the settlement while spies gathered materials to assess the contaminated space.
• Shen Yu judged the space valuable for its land and underground minerals, despite its radiation and contamination.
• Shen Yu bought technology that used microscopic organisms to purify contamination and radiation, then produce clean energy when they decomposed.

Mi Lan drove Du Jiashi, Yang Yu, Xu Rou, and Yin Nu to a settlement, leaving them to decide how the Anomaly Containment Association should handle its residents. Mi Lan described the Association’s usual approach, but Yin Nu questioned what they would do if the residents resisted to defend their home.

• Mi Lan drove the group wildly across the plains, making everyone sick, before revealing that the settlement was only a few hundred meters away.
• Du Jiashi and the others discussed how to approach the settlement, and Yang Yu admitted he remembered only fragments of the future he had seen.
• Du Jiashi warned the group to be careful around survivors shaped by the apocalypse, while Yin Nu observed that kind people might not survive long.
• Mi Lan said the Anomaly Containment Association usually killed those who resisted, settled the others, and brought them into the organization in exchange for food and protection.
• Yin Nu asked what the Association would do if the residents resisted because the settlement was their home, and the others looked to Mi Lan for an answer.

Mi Lan explained the Anomaly Containment Association’s Humanity Protection Code and why it protected civilizations as well as containing Weirds. The newcomers grew more curious and reverent toward the unseen Chairman and his ideals.

• Mi Lan suggested killing everyone, but Yang Yu, Du Jiashi, Yin Nu, and Xu Rou questioned harming people who had not attacked them and discussed persuading them to surrender.
• Mi Lan revealed that he had been joking and explained that Article Four of the Humanity Protection Code required protecting civilization and humanity’s continuation.
• Mi Lan compared the Association to gardeners removing Weirds and preserving civilizations, while noting that some worlds might not be worth saving.
• Mi Lan said the Chairman had established the rules to keep the Association from becoming a new pest and perhaps to help him find what he wanted.
• Yang Yu, Du Jiashi, Yin Nu, and Xu Rou listened closely and imagined the Chairman watching over worlds that pursued him like moths to a flame.

Yang Yu and the others used Mi Lan’s translator to approach a settlement and posed as merchants offering scarce food and water. After the settlement accepted their offer, Yang Yu asked for information and rare minerals, leaving the group poised to begin a trade.

• A settlement’s armed scouts confronted the newcomers, and Mi Lan lent Yang Yu a translator so they could understand one another.
• Mi Lan suggested abducting someone for information, but Du Jiashi and the others persuaded her to help them handle the mission without relying on Bai Zuo.
• Du Jiashi introduced the group as merchants from a distant city and offered food and water in exchange for other goods.
• Xu Rou showed the settlement’s leader their supplies, and he lowered his weapon after inspecting them and realizing the newcomers might come from a powerful settlement.
• Yang Yu told the leader that they wanted information and rare minerals.

Du Jiashi and Xu Rou tried to negotiate with Walti’s White Sand Settlement for minerals and recruits, but a misunderstanding about “live pigs” made the settlers suspect they wanted slaves. Mi Lan used his ability to force their surrender, and Walti agreed to provide information about nearby settlements and the people in Mi Lan’s photo.

• Du Jiashi offered food and water in exchange for minerals and explained that his city needed people to help establish a settlement.
• Walti’s companions accused the group of seeking “live pigs,” which they understood to mean people bought as slaves or test subjects.
• Xu Rou clarified that they wanted capable people to join a new settlement, but Walti’s group remained suspicious.
• Mi Lan used Divine Punishment to make Walti and his companions collapse in terror, forcing them to agree to the group’s demands.
• Walti promised to provide detailed information about nearby settlements and identify the people shown in Mi Lan’s photo.

Walti told Du Jiashi and the others how Radiance became the murderous Blood Feast Organization, and the group debated how to find the roaming bandits. Mi Lan revealed that Bai Zuo had only sent them to check whether White Sand Settlement was connected to the organization, but the newcomers still wanted to hunt it down.

• Walti explained that Radiance began as a resistance movement before its founder and many followers died, driving the survivors to become the Blood Feast Organization.
• Du Jiashi, Yang Yu, Xu Rou, and Yin Nu condemned the Blood Feast Organization's attacks on innocents and agreed they would not hold back against them.
• Walti said the Blood Feast Organization roamed in small squads, making its movements difficult to track, and Yang Yu suggested the bandits might gather to attack a large settlement's hunting party.
• Mi Lan explained that Bai Zuo's mission was only to determine whether White Sand Settlement was connected to the Blood Feast Organization, and said Walti's account cleared the settlement of suspicion.
• The newcomers realized they had misunderstood Bai Zuo's objective, but said they still wanted to find the Blood Feast Organization.

Du Jiashi and the others returned to camp after questioning Walti about the Blood Feast Organization, then discovered that the meal they had eagerly eaten was mutant wild boar meat. Bai Zuo reassured them that one meal would cause no problems, though the others remained queasy and worried.

• Du Jiashi asked Walti whether White Sand Settlement had ever been targeted by the Blood Feast Organization, and Walti said he had only heard of it.
• Mi Lan prepared to drive back, but Xu Rou took the wheel and brought the group safely to camp.
• Du Jiashi and the others ate meat stewed by the spies while waiting for Bai Zuo to join them.
• The guards revealed that the meal was made from a mutant wild boar, making Yang Yu and Du Jiashi feel sick and alarming Xu Rou and Yin Nu.
• Bai Zuo ate the meat and told the group that one meal would not cause problems because of a Contract Anomalist's powerful physique.

After forcing the group to eat mutated wild boar, Bai Zuo heard their report on White Sand Settlement and explained that the Anomaly Containment Association planned to take control of the world. The radiation readings Mi Lan provided showed that the settlements occupied safer locations, giving Bai Zuo a clearer path forward.

• Xu Rou, Yang Yu, Du Jiashi, the security personnel, and the spies forced themselves to eat the mutated wild boar prepared by Bai Zuo.
• Du Jiashi reported that the attackers were the Blood Feast Armed Forces, former members of the uprising organization Radiance, and that White Sand Settlement had little connection to them.
• Xu Rou and Yang Yu explained that they had proposed establishing a settlement to exploit the world's underground resources, but Bai Zuo said the Anomaly Containment Association would prioritize civilization's survival and claim the world in return for its protection.
• Bai Zuo said settlements would have to hand over the Blood Feast Armed Forces or submit to the Anomaly Containment Association, leaving them no choice but to join or face a purge.
• Mi Lan gave Bai Zuo radiation readings showing that settlements were located in areas with lower radiation, helping him identify safer sites.

Bai Zuo led the newcomers and Anomaly Containment Association members toward the Blood Feast Armed Forces after the group reunited with Ji Wu and his team. As they traveled, Ji Wu and Zhang Lin worried about how the newcomers would handle their first real encounter with violence.

• Bai Zuo took the group for a walk, and Ji Wu arrived with Xu Zhou, Jiang Tianzong, Zhang Lin, and Xi Jing.
• Zhang Lin told Du Jiashi that Zhao Hun was recovering in the hospital, then explained that he and the others had come on training missions.
• Mi Lan revealed that they had tracked down the Blood Feast Armed Forces, and Bai Zuo set off on the Heart Gu with Mi Lan dangling behind it while the rest rode with Ji Wu.
• Ji Wu explained that the attackers’ fate had already been decided and suspected the newcomers were being brought along to broaden their horizons.
• The Blood Feast Armed Forces sent out teams to search for resources, rob merchant caravans, and attack small settlements.

Blood Feast Armed Forces learned of a green, uncontaminated plain with clean water and decided to seize it, despite doubts from their leader. Their plans were interrupted by a building-sized white mutant spider approaching their camp.

• Blood Feast Armed Forces survivors told their leader they had found arable land and clean water defended by a group carrying grenades.
• The second-in-command urged the leader to attack before other settlements discovered the land, and the leader agreed.
• As Blood Feast Armed Forces prepared to leave, messengers warned that a huge mutant spider was approaching.
• The leader and his men mocked the warning and went outside, where they saw a white spider as tall as a one-story building.

Blood Feast Armed Forces opened fire on Bai Zuo and Heart Gu with cannons, forcing Ji Wu to retreat with the group. After the bombardment obscured the battlefield, Ji Wu launched a covert drone to follow and record the giant spider.

• Blood Feast Armed Forces prepared their cannons and waited for the giant spider to enter range.
• Bai Zuo realized Heart Gu had detected they were being targeted and looked forward to the coming explosions.
• Ji Wu spotted the shells and reversed the vehicle several hundred meters to escape the bombardment zone.
• The cannons struck around Heart Gu, filling the area with smoke and dust while the group worried about Bai Zuo and how to approach the enemy.
• Ji Wu activated a U2 High-Function Drone and ordered it to follow the giant spider and record covertly.

Ji Wu transmitted footage of the spider battle to the camp and Headquarters as the Blood Feast Armed Forces’ bombardment failed to hurt the monster. The bandits abandoned their camp, only to discover that the spider was pursuing them.

• Ji Wu explained the advanced drone’s capabilities and synchronized its battle footage with the camp and Headquarters.
• The camp’s security personnel returned from training and set up a projector while the spies watched the footage with them.
• The Blood Feast Armed Forces bombarded the spider, but it emerged unscathed and continued advancing.
• The Blood Feast leader ordered his forces to abandon the camp and flee toward the central settlements.
• The Blood Feast Armed Forces saw the spider turn from the abandoned camp and charge after them.

Bai Zuo used Heart Gu and Mind Control to force the Blood Feast Armed Forces back to their camp, where he confronted their leader over an attack on his territory. The leader recognized the evidence and offered to surrender the subordinates who had invaded the land.

• The Blood Feast boss split his forces into teams and ordered them to regroup at Area B as they fled from the pursuing spider.
• Bai Zuo used Mind Control to steer several leaders and their teams in circles until they returned to camp.
• Bai Zuo concealed Heart Gu from the Blood Feast members with a cognitive filter, then revealed himself standing on the spider.
• The Blood Feast leader bowed to Bai Zuo and asked why he had targeted them.
• Bai Zuo threw down a photograph of battered Blood Feast members, and the leader realized they had attacked Bai Zuo's territory.
• The Blood Feast leader apologized and offered up the subordinates who had invaded the land.

Bai Zuo confronted the Blood Feast Armed Forces and declared war on them for their crimes in Vaser Dungeon. After reading the declaration, the Blood Feast leader and second-in-command realized the conflict could not be avoided and turned on the subordinates who had provoked it.

• The Blood Feast Boss brought out the squad accused of trespassing, and its members begged for mercy.
• Bai Zuo rejected the Blood Feast Boss's excuses and issued the Anomaly Containment Association's declaration of war.
• The Blood Feast Boss and his second-in-command tried to blame the squad, but Bai Zuo left after declaring that war had begun.
• The Blood Feast Boss read the declaration's detailed list of crimes committed in Vaser Dungeon and realized the Blood Feast Armed Forces faced an unavoidable battle.
• The second-in-command kicked and stomped the subordinates for bringing a powerful enemy upon the organization.

The Blood Feast boss prepared for war after learning his men had fled from Bai Zuo without firing, while his chiefs doubted they could defeat the Anomaly Containment Association. As the declaration of war approached, several leaders—including the chief leader and second-in-command—escaped, leaving the boss to ready the remaining forces for battle.

• The Blood Feast boss confirmed his men had not fired and concluded that Bai Zuo’s declaration of war had exposed them to a threat they might not survive.
• The chiefs feared Bai Zuo’s ability to control their bodies, while some subordinates dismissed him as a lone fighter they could kill.
• Several chiefs and leaders fled the camp under cover of night, and the second-in-command left with his family and dozens of subordinates.
• The Blood Feast boss learned that seven leaders, including the chief leader, had escaped and ordered the remaining fighters to prepare for battle.
• Bai Zuo and the newcomers rested, and Ji Wu challenged them to prove they could control the Weird’s abilities.

Ji Wu led the newcomers and captured spies toward a battlefield, explaining the risks and purpose of their deployment. As the convoy set out, Bai Zuo showed signs of entering a predator’s hunting mode, frightening Yang Yu and Weird Eye.

• Ji Wu warned the newcomers that their limited control over their Weirds made the battlefield dangerous, and said they would be assigned to the flank with Xu Zhou, Jiang Tianzong, and Xi Jing.
• Xu Rou felt the Rakshasa Umbrella intensify her hatred, but put it away and gradually regained control of herself.
• Security personnel geared up the captured spies and loaded them onto the transport truck to help clear the battlefield.
• Ji Wu drove behind the main convoy and told Du Jiashi that the Anomaly Containment Association intended to catch anyone who fled after its declaration of war.
• Bai Zuo sat quietly in the car with excited, slit pupils, and Yang Yu and Weird Eye recoiled from him in fear.

Bai Zuo began the assault on the Blood Feast camp, using a vast swarm of spiders to break through its defenses and take control of its fighters. As the controlled soldiers turned their guns on one another, Bai Zuo advanced through the camp while the Blood Feast commander waited at the rear.

• Bai Zuo signaled the attack with a red flare, and Ji Wu led Xu Zhou and the others to their assigned position on the flank.
• Bai Zuo and Mi Lan sent a swarm of spiders through the artillery bombardment toward the Blood Feast Armed Forces’ first line of defense.
• The spiders bit Blood Feast members, then deflated, leaving the soldiers confused when they felt no immediate effects.
• The bitten Blood Feast fighters became controlled and began firing on their comrades, while Bai Zuo walked among them as spiders spread webs through the camp.
• The Blood Feast leader at the rear waited anxiously as artillery fire and faint screams continued at the front.

Blood Feast's front line collapsed as its members fled from the controlled fighters and supposedly unkillable monsters. Xu Zhou and his companions fought the fleeing attackers on the flank, where Du Jiashi overcame his hesitation to kill and save Yang Yu.

• Blood Feast's boss learned that the front line had fallen and told anyone who wanted to flee to run.
• A fleeing Blood Feast member shot at Xu Zhou's group, but Xu Rou blocked the bullet with the Bone Umbrella and Du Jiashi killed the shooter with his sniper rifle.
• Xu Zhou, Yang Yu, Yin Nu, and Jiang Tianzong fought the attackers, using their weapons and supernatural abilities to kill them.
• Yang Yu's ability weakened after repeated use, and an enemy shot him in the leg.
• Du Jiashi shot the enemy before he could fire again, saving Yang Yu and checking that his companion had survived.

Du Jiashi and his companions struggled against the Blood Feast Armed Forces as the enemy’s desperate counterattack overwhelmed their position. Mi Lan arrived, and his presence terrified the attackers into surrender or paralysis.

• Du Jiashi improved his shooting after several missed shots while the Blood Feast Armed Forces pressed their attack.
• Xu Zhou shielded Yang Yu, Zhang Lin, and Jiang Tianzong, cutting an incoming bullet in two and telling Yang Yu to fall back.
• Xu Rou fired from beneath her umbrella as Yin Nu struggled to control the Voodoo Doll, which attacked the Blood Feast members and strained Yin Nu with its backlash.
• As the routed enemies overwhelmed the group, Mi Lan arrived covered in blood and asked if they needed help.
• The Blood Feast members froze in terror at Mi Lan’s smile, and his Character Perfection increased by 25%.

Mi Lan used his newly unlocked Blood Summoning and Blood Curtain abilities to destroy the Blood Feast members, while Du Jiashi and the others recovered from the battle. Bai Zuo entered the camp and confronted the Blood Feast boss, who saw him as a monster wearing human skin.

• Mi Lan enveloped the Blood Feast deserters in blood mist, causing them to boil and explode before his Blood Demon absorbed their blood.
• Du Jiashi and the others recoiled from Mi Lan's abilities, then vomited from the blood-soaked battlefield.
• Ji Wu treated Yang Yu's gunshot wound, and logistics staff took the injured fighters back to Headquarters.
• Bai Zuo entered the camp, where the Blood Feast boss stood trembling and unable to speak.

Bai Zuo trapped the Blood Feast members in his Ghost Domain and showed them evidence that their own forces had massacred people at Vaser Dungeon. The Blood Feast boss realized there had been no misunderstanding and that his faction had brought the retaliation upon itself.

• Bai Zuo filled the Blood Feast camp with webs and darkness, then told the boss that the survivors would become tools under his command.
• The Blood Feast boss claimed his men had not attacked the Anomaly Containment Association and said another faction had framed them.
• Bai Zuo transmitted a recorded video into everyone’s minds, showing Blood Feast soldiers ambushing a convoy and killing its drivers.
• The footage showed the soldiers entering Vaser Dungeon and massacring its unarmed residents and Anomaly Containment Association staff.
• The Blood Feast boss recognized his men in the footage, abandoned his claim of a misunderstanding, and fell to his knees.

Bai Zuo broke the Blood Feast members’ wills and turned them into puppets under his control. His character perfection reached 80%, unlocking new abilities and the City of Crime special scenario, while footage of his actions terrified the people cleaning up at Headquarters.

• The cocoons across the Ghost Domain opened countless eyes that exposed the Blood Feast members’ hidden thoughts and drove them to confess.
• Bai Zuo used spider threads to bind the kneeling Blood Feast members and make them his mindless puppets.
• Bai Zuo’s character perfection rose to 80%, unlocking Descent into Malice, Mind Prison, and the City of Crime special scenario.
• At Headquarters, spies and security staff cleaned up the battlefield while the newcomers recovered from the fight.
• The spies watched drone footage of Bai Zuo turning the Blood Feast members into puppets, and some collapsed or lost their minds from fear.

Bai Zuo gathered talented survivors after crushing the Blood Feast Organization’s forces and pursued those who had fled. Mi Lan used a blood-summoned, dragon-like monster to kill an escaping squad, alarming witnesses at a nearby settlement.

• Bai Zuo screened the survivors he allowed to remain, gained useful human tools, and set out to pursue the Blood Feast members who had fled.
• The leader of an escaping Blood Feast squad ordered his men to hide their identities and pose as survivors when they reached a settlement.
• A crimson, dragon-like monster blocked the squad’s vehicle and ignored their gunfire as it killed the leader and his subordinates.
• Mi Lan rode the monster as it carried the corpses away, while people at the settlement watched in fear and questioned where the monster had come from.
• The settlement’s witnesses reported the attack to their leaders, who initially doubted that such a mutated monster could exist.