Recaps

Bai Zuo and Mi Lan pursued the fleeing Blood Feast Organization members into settlements where they had sought shelter. Bai Zuo tracked down the Blood Feast Armed Forces' second-in-command, who recognized him and fled.

• Bai Zuo and Mi Lan hunted Blood Feast members hiding among the settlement inhabitants.
• Women in the settlement gathered around Bai Zuo, hoping his interest might help them escape their harsh lives, but he asked for the settlement leader instead.
• Bai Zuo told a caravan captain that the settlement had sheltered wanted Blood Feast Armed Forces members and followed a spider to their location.
• Bai Zuo confronted the Blood Feast second-in-command, who recognized his voice and aura, shoved a subordinate toward him, and ran.
• The fleeing subordinate crashed into the caravan captain and froze in terror.

Bai Zuo slaughtered the Blood Feast members who attacked him, then followed the second-in-command’s trail. The frightened girls stayed behind as Bai Zuo continued the pursuit alone.

• A Blood Feast member fired at Bai Zuo, but invisible spider silk stopped the bullet before it could reach him.
• Bai Zuo forced the shooter to fire again, then took the gun and killed him with a shot to the forehead.
• The Blood Feast members opened fire on Bai Zuo, but their bullets could not hurt him, and he shot them all dead.
• The girls who had followed Bai Zuo stopped, terrified by his ruthless violence, while the caravan captain crawled away in panic.
• Bai Zuo examined the scene, worked out which way the second-in-command had fled, and set off after him.

Bai Zuo cornered and killed the second-in-command of the Blood Feast Armed Forces after slaughtering his men. When settlement guards confronted him, he identified himself as an S-class Contract Anomalist from the Anomaly Containment Association's Execution Department, and the captain recognized the dead man as a wanted member of the Blood Feast Organization.

• The second-in-command fled through the settlement, abandoning his son as armed guards rushed toward the scene of the earlier battle.
• Bai Zuo waited at a corner and told the second-in-command that he had already sent his child ahead; the man clutched his chest and collapsed as guards arrived.
• The guards found no external injuries and concluded that the second-in-command's heart had stopped, then aimed their weapons at Bai Zuo and demanded he cooperate with an investigation.
• The captain sensed that approaching Bai Zuo would be dangerous and halted, leaving both sides in a standoff.
• Bai Zuo showed his insignia and explained that he was on a mission to eliminate the Blood Feast Armed Forces; the captain recognized the dead second-in-command from wanted posters and became respectful.

After Bai Zuo and his allies wiped out the Blood Feast Armed Forces, they returned to Anomaly Containment Association headquarters. Shen Yu activated the newly unlocked City of Crime special scene, and the system transported him there.

• Bai Zuo ignored the captain’s attempt to detain him, left with the giant spider carrying the cocooned corpses, and the captain ordered his team to report the incident to higher-ups.
• The newcomers watched the livestream as Bai Zuo finished hunting down the Blood Feast Armed Forces, ending the seven-hour battle.
• Xi Jing, Mi Lan, and Bai Zuo returned to headquarters, where logistics personnel welcomed them and Bai Zuo washed up before resting.
• Shen Yu asked the system about the City of Crime special scene and learned it would be broadcast externally and could grant rare rewards and increase Character Perfection.
• Shen Yu checked on the newcomers and the Association’s progress, then decided to activate City of Crime (S), and the system transported him into the scene.

An office worker in Haibei City was beaten after trying to call the police, and his blood awakened a strange black crystal. The crystal released a vast black curtain that sealed the city, and a mysterious consciousness welcomed its residents to the City of Crime.

• An office worker heard thugs beating someone in an alley and called the police as he walked past.
• A falling black crystal struck the office worker, and he pocketed it before the thugs dragged him into the alley and beat him.
• The office worker's blood touched the crystal, which glowed, cracked, and released a pillar of black light.
• A massive black curtain spread over Haibei City, trapping everyone inside and causing panic and looting.
• A consciousness entered everyone's minds and announced that they had arrived in the City of Crime.

In a special scenario broadcast to Hai Bei City, Shen Yu played the role of a young Bai Zuo, an ordinary relationship consultant working in crime-ridden Ze Hai City. After earning a large payment from a client, Bai Zuo returned to his rented room and casually revealed the money, leaving viewers curious about his work.

• A voice warned Hai Bei City to watch Ze Hai City's final radiance as scenes of the prosperous but crime-ridden port city appeared on the sky curtain.
• A middle-aged woman met Bai Zuo, called him her consultant, and asked whether his advice would work; Bai Zuo said he had answered her questions and ended the call.
• Bai Zuo collected a thick envelope of payment from a spot without surveillance cameras, then rode a bus to the urban village where he lived.
• Hai Bei City authorities locked down the city and controlled the crowds, while Shen Yu learned that his every action in the scenario was being broadcast and that he had to follow his Character Card.
• Back in his room, Bai Zuo opened the envelope and revealed one hundred thousand Ze Hai dollars, prompting viewers to speculate about how he earned so much.

Online viewers speculated about Bai Zuo’s work after seeing him receive a huge payment for intelligence, then connected his earlier relationship counseling with Ms. Li to her husband’s sudden death. The chapter left viewers suspecting that Ms. Li had acted on advice from Bai Zuo, though the circumstances remained unclear.

• Haibei City residents joked online about Bai Zuo earning 150,000 as a young relationship consultant, and people from other cities asked what had happened.
• Bai Zuo received a message praising his timely information about trouble in the east and granting him an extra thirty percent payment through anonymous transfers.
• Online commenters inferred that Bai Zuo was an information broker, and many reconsidered their suspicions about him.
• Bai Zuo read a news alert that Mr. Zheng had died of a heart attack and that his wife, Ms. Li, and son had inherited his property.
• Bai Zuo said Ms. Li’s emotional troubles had ended and that he would no longer hear her crying at night.
• Viewers recognized Ms. Li as the woman who had sought relationship advice and speculated that she had arranged her husband’s death with Bai Zuo’s help.

Bai Zuo spent his money preparing for a new move, then deliberately walked into the territory of a major underground organization and was kidnapped. From his sealed room, he manipulated the man assigned to feed him into becoming his loyal subordinate and rising through the organization.

• Bai Zuo spent his money while working at his computer, then packed his few belongings and left his temporary rental.
• Bai Zuo entered a dangerous border area in Ze Hai City and approached a group of gang members despite being outnumbered.
• The gang members drugged Bai Zuo and locked him in a sealed room, confiscating his belongings.
• Bai Zuo persuaded the man who brought him food to return his possessions and reveal important intelligence.
• Under Bai Zuo's guidance, the man completed tasks that earned him authority in the organization and asked Bai Zuo for further instructions.

Bai Zuo manipulated Ze Hai City’s underground factions into a bloody war that drew a gigantic Weird into the city. Shen Yu realized the Weird’s appearance would bring the Anomaly Containment Association into the scenario, so he entered as the Chairman to confront and contain it.

• Bai Zuo used messages and schemes to intensify a conflict among Ze Hai City’s underground factions, causing widespread fear and deaths.
• A skyscraper-tall Weird appeared in the city center, feeding on humanity’s blood aura and malice.
• Shen Yu realized the Weird’s appearance was a special plot event meant to draw the Anomaly Containment Association into Ze Hai City.
• After considering which Character Card to use, Shen Yu chose the Chairman’s disguise and entered the scenario above the city.

Bai Zuo saw a colossal monster in Ze Hai City that no one else could perceive, and realized it was feeding on the city’s malice and bloodlust. As the conflict he had engineered began stirring again, he wondered what the monster would become if it continued feeding.

• Bai Zuo found no information about the enormous monster and confirmed that ordinary people in Ze Hai City could not see it.
• People watching through the Heavenly Screen saw the monster looming over the city and feared it might be a Weird capable of destroying humanity.
• Bai Zuo watched the monster inhale the city’s bloodlust and malice, apparently using Ze Hai City as nourishment.
• Bai Zuo noticed that the conflict he had arranged was stirring again, suggesting the monster’s presence was doing more than absorbing malice.

Bai Zuo discovered that a monster drawn by human malice had come to Ze Hai City, and confirmed that his own malice attracted it. He spread clues online to draw out people capable of seeing and fighting the monster, then encountered a mysterious white-robed figure following him.

• Bai Zuo studied the monster on surveillance footage and realized it had been drawn by humanity’s malice.
• Bai Zuo drove toward the monster and met its gaze, while the monster regarded him as a strange, weak member of its own kind and wanted to fatten him up before devouring him.
• Bai Zuo concluded that the monster would eventually find him wherever he went, so he posted complaints and a photograph of the city center online to lure people who could see it.
• Bai Zuo erased his traces and checked his arrangements, then noticed a hooded figure in a white robe following him.

Haibei City's leaders realized that a prismatic crystal had responded to an office worker's wish and feared its broad interpretation would summon an S-class Weird. Meanwhile, Bai Zuo confronted the white-robed man, who revealed a blood-red thread tied to a Weird drawn by malice.

• Haibei City's leaders learned that an office worker's blood had shattered a prismatic crystal after he wished for bullies to be punished.
• The office worker's account alarmed the leaders, who feared the wishing stone might target everyone it judged to bully the weak and fear the strong.
• Haibei City's leaders contacted the Anomaly Containment Association and warned that an S-class Weird might appear, and the Association agreed to send Contract Anomalists.
• Bai Zuo asked the white-robed man whether he had come to consult him about relationship problems, but the man ignored the question.
• The white-robed man showed Bai Zuo a blood-red thread and warned him that a Weird drawn by malice would consume everyone once it had devoured enough malice.

The man in white confronted Bai Zuo about the malice he had stirred throughout Haibei City and offered him a way to escape judgment under secular law. Bai Zuo learned that joining the Anomaly Containment Association meant becoming a Contract Anomalist and serving the man in white for life, and the chapter left his refusal seemingly impossible.

• The man in white explained that the tangled threads of malice were difficult for ordinary people and Contract Anomalists to trace.
• Bai Zuo studied the man in white's perceptive red eyes and realized he could see through him.
• Bai Zuo called the malice revolting and admitted that he had been its source.
• The man in white said secular law could not prove Bai Zuo's crimes or punish him beyond supervision and re-education.
• The man in white offered to spare Bai Zuo's previous sins if he joined the Anomaly Containment Association, contained Weirds, protected humanity, and served him for life.
• Bai Zuo asked whether he could refuse, and the man in white answered with words that made Bai Zuo's pupils constrict.

Bai Zuo learned that the man in white robes wanted him to join the Anomaly Containment Association as a Contract Anomalist, despite his lack of humanity and ideals. As a giant Weird approached, the man explained that Bai Zuo's malice attracted it and reassured him that his heart would never change.

• Bai Zuo admitted that he had never wanted true humanity, but acknowledged he might not have the right to refuse the white-robed man's offer.
• The man in white robes told Bai Zuo that his awakened talent made him valuable to the Anomaly Containment Association and assured him that he could do the work.
• The Weird absorbed enough malice to transform into a towering humanoid monster and began advancing toward Bai Zuo, shaking the streets and sending pedestrians and vehicles crashing.
• The man in white robes explained that Bai Zuo's malice drew the Weird to him and described how Contract Anomalists formed contracts with Weird to gain power.
• Bai Zuo questioned whether such a contract could corrupt him, and the man in white robes told him that his heart would never change.

Haibei City's leaders watched as the white-robed man drew the gigantic Weird into his Ghost Domain and fought it with Skywing and Evil God. Bai Zuo resisted its mental attack, but the Weird briefly took control of him; after the man subdued him and the three Weirds overwhelmed their foe, Bai Zuo asked whether all Contract Anomalists had so many abilities.

• Haibei City's leaders feared the gigantic Weird and wondered about the risks of forming contracts with such creatures.
• The white-robed man pulled the approaching Weird and Bai Zuo into his Ghost Domain, where the Weird unleashed malice and attacked them.
• Bai Zuo endured the Weird's flood of malice while the man summoned Skywing, whose storms and lightning battered the Weird.
• The Weird controlled Bai Zuo's body and made him stab at the white-robed man, who seized his wrist and disarmed him.
• The man summoned Evil God, and the three Weirds tore into their enemy until Bai Zuo regained control and asked whether all Contract Anomalists had so many abilities.

Bai Zuo agreed to contract with the Chairman’s S-rank Heart Gu, which took the form of a tiny white Spider. After Bai Zuo called himself a monster without humanity, the Chairman asked whether he wanted to regain it.

• The Chairman offered Bai Zuo the S-class Heart Gu, and Bai Zuo agreed to try contracting with it after learning its appearance could change.
• The Chairman withdrew his Ghost Domain, revealing that Ze Hai City had been devastated, while Haibei City’s officials discussed the destruction and increased their vigilance.
• The Chairman took Bai Zuo to Headquarters, where Bai Zuo learned the containment and contracting procedures and successfully contracted the Heart Gu.
• Bai Zuo complained that the Heart Gu had become a tiny fluffy white Spider, and the Chairman explained that it could grow stronger by absorbing malice.
• Bai Zuo introduced himself as a monster without humanity, and the Chairman asked whether he wanted to regain his humanity.

Shen Yu unlocked Bai Zuo’s complete personality and consciousness after finishing the City of Crime scenario, then met with him at Anomaly Containment Association Headquarters. Bai Zuo discussed a newly discovered world nearing destruction and prepared to reclaim it, while Shen Yu examined his rare reward, a Boundless (KV) Fragment.

• Bai Zuo swore loyalty to the Chairman, and Shen Yu received notifications that Bai Zuo’s Character Card had reached 100% perfection and was fully unsealed.
• Shen Yu approached Bai Zuo on a balcony at Headquarters and spoke with him about his memories and the Chairman’s supposed work in a special space.
• Bai Zuo explained that a newly discovered world was nearing destruction and that something beyond its nuclear radiation might threaten its people.
• Shen Yu left the world in Bai Zuo’s hands, and Bai Zuo resolved to reclaim the space soon.
• Shen Yu returned to the main control console and examined the Boundless (KV) Fragment he had earned for completing the special scenario.

Shen Yu bound the Infinity fragment to himself and entered a mysterious space to comprehend spatial laws, but his limited mental power forced him out. Afterward, the fragment transformed his body for five hours, leaving him with strength far beyond human limits.

• Shen Yu inspected the Infinity fragment and learned it represented the supreme laws of space, with 12.5% of its abilities unlocked.
• Shen Yu bound the fragment with his blood, merged it into his soul, and began studying spatial laws.
• Shen Yu reached the introductory level of spatial laws before a force expelled him from the mysterious space.
• Shen Yu returned to the control console and discovered that two days had passed and blood had seeped from his body.
• Shen Yu endured a five-hour cycle of destruction and repair that strengthened his body and expanded his mental power.
• Shen Yu emerged from the transformation with dark crimson eyes and strength far beyond human limits.

Shen Yu used the Anomaly Containment Association’s growing fame to upgrade its Headquarters and expand its staff. After drawing high-rank employees, he unlocked technologies to ease the strain on its researchers, leaving his Construction Points greatly diminished.

• Shen Yu spent 500,000 Construction Points to upgrade the Headquarters to level two.
• Shen Yu drew a thousand Employee Cards and obtained fifteen S-rank employees.
• Shen Yu recalled Mr. G’s complaints about the Association’s technology restrictions and its less capable researchers.
• Shen Yu spent two million Construction Points unlocking most low-end technologies and some mid-end technologies.
• Shen Yu lamented how quickly his Construction Points had run out.

Shen Yu assigned fifteen S-rank employees across the Anomaly Containment Association and planned to equip an elite ordinary-person team with weapons against Weirds. He then began raising his Character Cards’ Perfection, sending Skywing A to investigate suspected Weird activity at Willow Lake Park, where three people had disappeared.

• Shen Yu opened fifteen S-rank employee cards and assigned their owners to departments or to pursue careers on Blue Star.
• Shen Yu ordered the Sales Department and Research Department to produce weapons capable of fighting Weirds, planning to sell them alongside Anomaly Cages to other countries.
• Shen Yu decided to raise the Perfection of his remaining Character Cards after Bai Zuo reached 100% and obtained a fragment of Infinity.
• Shen Yu chose Skywing A for his first Perfection grind and sent it to investigate reports of strange amusement-park sounds at Willow Lake Park.
• Authorities sealed off Willow Lake Park and found that three people were missing, although their families had not noticed their absence.

Chen Guangji’s team searched Willow Lake Park for three missing residents but found no trace of them, and the Anomaly Containment Association sent a Contract Anomalist to investigate. Before nightfall, livestreamer Old Tan brought his viewers to the park’s outskirts, where they questioned whether his claims were real.

• Chen Guangji’s team searched Willow Lake Park and dredged the lake but found none of the three missing residents.
• Chen Guangji learned that the Anomaly Containment Association had sent a Contract Anomalist and told Xiao Zhang to keep people away from the park.
• Old Tan livestreamed from near the park, where tens of thousands of viewers watched as he filmed its outskirts.
• Some viewers questioned whether Old Tan had made up the park’s alleged anomalies.

Old Tan sneaked into Willow Lake Park to livestream a possible paranormal incident but was caught by Officer Xiao Zhang. As they reached the central plaza, eerie music began playing from nowhere, and Xiao Zhang reported an anomaly while trying to get Old Tan to safety.

• Old Tan hid from the patrolling officers, then climbed over a hedge into Willow Lake Park while his assistant Blondie helped him time his entry.
• Officer Xiao Zhang spotted Old Tan and chased him through the park as viewers watched and sent gifts.
• Xiao Zhang caught up with the exhausted Old Tan in the central plaza and prepared to confiscate his phone.
• Strange, distorted music began playing from the apparently empty plaza, and Xiao Zhang reported an anomaly to Vice Captain Chen Guangji.
• Xiao Zhang pulled Old Tan away from the plaza as the livestream audience surged after viewers spread news that a Weird had appeared.

Old Tan and Xiao Zhang became immobilized by the eerie music in the plaza as the safety period neared its end. Chen Guangji waited for a Contract Anomalist to arrive, and Skywing A appeared overhead.

• Old Tan’s livestream surged in popularity after viewers saw the Weird, while Xiao Zhang helped him retreat from the plaza.
• The music changed, freezing Old Tan and Xiao Zhang in place with only their eyes able to move.
• Chen Guangji recognized that the music had trapped them and kept his team back, waiting for the Contract Anomalist as the safety period dwindled.
• A breeze and birdcall disrupted the plaza’s oppressive atmosphere, and Skywing A appeared arrogantly in midair above Chen Guangji.
• Chen Guangji cautiously asked whether Skywing A was the Contract Anomalist sent to support them.

Skywing A arrived at the anomalous plaza and agreed to investigate the missing people, but Old Tan, Xiao Zhang, and then Skywing A vanished inside it. The remaining investigation team stayed outside as the plaza’s music grew louder and more cheerful.

• Skywing A landed and greeted Chen Guangji and the investigation team, who explained that three people had gone missing in the plaza.
• Skywing A said the missing people could not be saved but agreed to confirm their condition.
• Chen Guangji scolded Old Tan for entering the plaza to film, and Old Tan promised not to do it again.
• An unseen force pulled Old Tan away, then made Xiao Zhang vanish as Chen Guangji tried to reach him.
• Skywing A entered the plaza to investigate and disappeared, leaving the others outside as the music grew louder.

Old Tan was trapped in a strange amusement park, where a clown erased his thoughts and made him ride the carousel. Xiao Zhang awoke among caged animals and discovered that a monkey was the transformed missing person He Pengxing.

• Old Tan watched children riding the carousel before a clown appeared behind him and called him a lost soul.
• The clown tapped Old Tan with a cane, clearing his thoughts until he eagerly climbed onto the carousel and laughed.
• Xiao Zhang woke among piles of junk and found cages filled with injured, neglected animals.
• Xiao Zhang recognized a star-stickered watch on a monkey as He Pengxing's and realized he was in Weird territory.
• The monkey confirmed Xiao Zhang's suspicion by nodding through its tears.