Chapter Summaries

Tang Xinnuo asked Qin Yushi whether Su Ze could help investigate her missing parents, and Qin promised to pass along the request. At Su University, Squad Leader Hu and his team watched footage of the criminals’ deaths and suspected that the unseen attacker was the same Superpower User they had encountered the day before.

• Tang Xinnuo told Qin Yushi that talking with a suicidal girl had brought back her grief over her parents, and Qin comforted her.
• Tang Xinnuo asked whether Su Ze could investigate her parents, and Qin said she would pass the request to him while warning Tang about the price he might demand.
• Qin Yushi said her own parents had disappeared over the Pacific Ocean with the family’s private plane on the first day of the apocalypse.
• On Day 37, people at Su University watched footage of Su Ze’s killings, while Squad Leader Hu’s team gathered information about the Superpower User.
• Squad Leader Hu and his team reasoned that the invisible attacker at Su University might be the same Superpower User they had encountered in the neighboring Safe Zone.

Sun Bin reflected on his ordeal and learned that Su Ze had avenged the people who bullied him, while Su Ze destroyed the Deep Ones Crown and archived it in his museum. Su Ze and Qi Xiaoye moved on to another city to handle more Contained Objects, as Squad Leader Hu’s team entered a Safe Zone where order had nearly collapsed.

• Sun Bin watched the evidence of his former tormentors’ deaths and became emotional, then told Wang Zixin how he had entered the Contamination Zone and awakened after a Nightmare Trial.
• Wang Zixin admitted he felt pressured to become an Awakened, and the female class monitor smacked him for calling her sturdy.
• Su Ze asked Qi Xiaoye to test the Deep Ones Crown’s curse, but decided against risking an experiment and destroyed the crown with the Guardian God's Invisible Blade.
• Su Ze’s museum archived the Deep Ones Crown as Archive 1-012, and he took Qi Xiaoye home before they made an Arrival in another city.
• Squad Leader Hu and his team entered a new Safe Zone and saw that its order had almost completely collapsed.

Squad Leader Hu and his team decided to enter a lawless Safe Zone to rescue a survivor’s family despite the danger. At Su University, Qin Yushi told Tang Xinnuo that Su Ze would help find her parents, then ensured Tang understood she must keep his power secret.

• A scout reported that Awakened criminals had taken control of the Safe Zone and were killing or abusing ordinary survivors.
• Squad Leader Hu chose to enter the Safe Zone, accepting the risk so his team could try to rescue people and return with their intelligence.
• Qin Yushi told Tang Xinnuo that Su Ze had agreed to find her parents, but claimed the search could take ten days to a month.
• Qin Yushi teased Tang about keeping her mouth shut, and Su Ze arrived to take Qin away.
• Tang Xinnuo realized Qin meant for her to keep Su Ze’s superpower secret.

Su Ze returned Qin Yushi home, then went to help Squad Leader Hu’s team, who were under attack while gathering intelligence in the Chaotic Order Safe Zone. His intervention wiped out their pursuers, allowing the team to regroup, document the bodies, and begin rescuing people.

• Qin Yushi returned home with Su Ze, found Qi Xiaoye reading in the living room, and learned that Chen Keqing was preparing dinner in a secret kitchen.
• Su Ze left to help Squad Leader Hu’s team, while Qin Yushi went to take a bath.
• Squad Leader Hu and a teammate hid in a stairwell after splitting up to escape heavily armed pursuers and rescue people they had encountered during reconnaissance.
• A teammate reached Squad Leader Hu and reported that a teleporting Superpower User had killed their pursuers; the team later reunited and found dozens of enemies dead.
• Squad Leader Hu’s team photographed the bodies as evidence and began rescuing people, while Qin Yushi came out of the bath and chatted with Qi Xiaoye about washing and drying their hair.

Qi Xiaoye and Qin Yushi chatted about life in the apocalypse while celebrating Chen Keqing’s birthday with Su Ze. After making her wishes and blowing out the candles, Chen Keqing announced that she had an important gift to share.

• Qi Xiaoye dried Qin Yushi’s hair, and they joked about the comforts and appliances they wished they had in the apocalypse.
• Qi Xiaoye heard Chen Keqing return and gathered everyone for the birthday party.
• Chen Keqing made wishes for the group’s safety and happiness and for Su Ze to keep liking her most, while Su Ze overheard her thoughts.
• Chen Keqing blew out the candles and announced that she had an important gift to share with everyone.

Su Ze brought Qi Xiaoye and Qin Yushi into Avalon, where they explored the luxurious Safe House and shared a meal with Chen Keqing. Su Ze and Qin Yushi later went to the wine cellar, discussed waiting ten days before taking Tang Xinnuo to her parents, and Qin Yushi paid for teasing Su Ze.

• Qi Xiaoye and Qin Yushi marveled at Avalon, and Su Ze told them they could use it because Chen Keqing had shared it with them.
• Qin Yushi thanked Chen Keqing as “young madam,” while Qi Xiaoye ran around exploring Avalon and then persuaded Chen Keqing to play games before dinner.
• Su Ze and Qin Yushi went to Avalon's wine cellar, where he explained that it held an ample supply of fine wine.
• Qin Yushi asked about Tang Xinnuo, and Su Ze said they would wait ten days before taking her to find her parents.
• Qin Yushi chose a bottle of red wine, teased Su Ze about looking at her butt, and paid for provoking him.

Qi Xiaoye settled into Avalon with Qin Yushi, while Su Ze and the others discussed the search for Tang Xinnuo's parents. At the SC-1 Safe Zone, Professor Yan reviewed a report about Su Ze and considered what it suggested about Awakened powers.

• Qi Xiaoye lost repeatedly to the game’s AI, then chose a soundproof room at Avalon after dinner.
• Qin Yushi said she had found Tang Xinnuo’s parents and explained that she would continue living at school for now.
• Qi Xiaoye insisted her parents might still be alive because she had only lost her memories, and Su Ze teased her.
• At the SC-1 Safe Zone, Professor Yan reviewed Squad Leader Hu’s report on Su Ze and called him valuable for research.
• Professor Yan told the officials that ordinary Awakened should not possess power at the level described in the report.

Professor Yan asked the authorities to help find her daughter Tao Yaoyao, while researchers discussed Yan’s past experiments. In Avalon, Su Ze gathered Qi Xiaoye and Qin Yushi to announce that he would share Word Spirit Techniques with them.

• Professor Yan and a government official agreed to pursue contact with Su Ze, and Yan asked for help finding her daughter Tao Yaoyao.
• Doctoral students discussed Professor Yan’s gene-editing experiments and Tao Yaoyao’s creation, then stopped when Yan appeared.
• On Day 44 of the Year of the Apocalypse, Qin Yushi complained about returning to school while she and Qi Xiaoye relaxed in Avalon.
• Qi Xiaoye warned Qin Yushi about encountering two shameless people in Avalon at night and admitted she had once left rather than join their play.
• Su Ze announced that he wanted to share abilities called Word Spirit Techniques with Qi Xiaoye and Qin Yushi.

Su Ze showed Qin Yushi, Chen Keqing, and Qi Xiaoye the Old Days Museum, where the Contained Objects he had destroyed were displayed. After gaining employee cards and Word Spirit Techniques derived from three awakened Contained Objects, Qi Xiaoye felt a mysterious familiarity with the Museum but could not recover any memories.

• Qin Yushi examined the Museum and its displayed Contained Objects as Su Ze explained they were not truly reborn.
• Chen Keqing read the lv1 employee contract and learned her employee card let her enter the Museum and access a Word Spirit Technique.
• Su Ze explained that the Museum’s new ability let him analyze three awakened Contained Objects and share their positive abilities with Chen Keqing, Qin Yushi, and Qi Xiaoye.
• Chen Keqing learned her Coffee Machine-derived Word Spirit Technique could create any real beverage without the Coffee Machine’s negative effects.
• Qin Yushi received Spirit Soul Assault, which let her teleport and summon up to nine seeking ghost-fire clusters, while Qi Xiaoye received Coward’s Blade’s concealment ability.
• Qi Xiaoye said the Museum felt familiar but could not remember why, and Su Ze encouraged her to keep trying to recall.

Su Ze wondered whether the Old Days Museum was part of a complete evolutionary path and told everyone to rest and test the Word Spirit Technique. The next day, Qin Yushi and Tang Xinnuo confronted a group of Awakened robbers near Su University, and Qin swiftly killed them.

• Qi Xiaoye could not recall anything about the Museum, so Su Ze reassured her and speculated that it might be part of a predetermined evolutionary chain.
• Su Ze told everyone to rest and invited them to test the power and limits of the Word Spirit Technique.
• Near Su University, a group of Awakened robbers stole supplies from students and discussed killing the students who came to confront them.
• Tang Xinnuo demanded the stolen supplies back, and Qin Yushi immediately attacked the robbers with ghost fire, killing them.
• Qin Yushi ordered the student Awakened to clean up the battlefield and then vanished.

Qin Yushi’s defeat of Awakened from another Safe Zone spread through the school, while Tang Xinnuo embellished the story and revealed Qin Yushi’s Word Spirit Technique. After confronting Tang Xinnuo about the rumor, Qin Yushi told her there was news about her parents.

• Wang Zixin and Sun Bin heard from the female class monitor that Qin Yushi had killed Awakened who attacked their school team.
• The female class monitor shared that Qin Yushi had awakened the Word Spirit Technique, shocking Wang Zixin and Sun Bin.
• Tang Xinnuo described the Word Spirit Technique to her team as classified intelligence and let rumors about Qin Yushi’s feat grow across the school.
• Qin Yushi scolded Tang Xinnuo for revealing the Word Spirit Technique, though she had intended for Tang Xinnuo to spread news of her strength.
• Qin Yushi changed the subject and told Tang Xinnuo that there was news about her parents.

Su Ze took Tang Xinnuo to a Safe Zone in Wan City after learning her parents were alive. Tang Xinnuo spotted her parents and rushed down to ask them about their contrasting appearances.

• Qin Yushi told Tang Xinnuo that both her parents were alive, and Tang Xinnuo eagerly asked where they were.
• Su Ze discussed whether a society should be ruled by people or law, then sent Qi Xiaoye and Chen Keqing into Avalon.
• Su Ze, Qin Yushi, and Tang Xinnuo teleported to a snow-covered Safe Zone in Wan City.
• Tang Xinnuo saw her father cooking at a food cart beside a group of burly men and feared he had been bullied.
• Tang Xinnuo spotted her well-dressed mother approaching her father, wrongly suspected she had found another man, and went down to ask them herself.

Su Ze revealed that he had rescued Tang Xinnuo’s parents ten days earlier and told Qin Yushi that her parents’ plane had crashed on an island, though their bodies were missing. While searching the crash site with Qin Yushi, Su Ze found a mysterious black box and stopped her from opening it.

• Su Ze told Qin Yushi that he had contacted Tang Xinnuo’s parents ten days earlier and saved them from Awakened who were bullying them.
• Su Ze revealed that he had searched for Qin Yushi’s parents and found their plane wreckage on a Pacific island, but no bodies.
• Tang Xinnuo reunited with her parents and learned that Su Ze had rescued them and helped them gain influence in the Safe Zone.
• Su Ze and Qin Yushi went to the crash site, where Qin Yushi picked up a strange black box.
• Su Ze snatched the box from Qin Yushi and began warning her about Pandora’s Box.

Su Ze and Qin Yushi were trapped by a jade box that appeared to be a Mythical Grade Contained Object, which suppressed their abilities and transported them to a false church-like space. After Su Ze summoned Qi Xiaoye and Chen Keqing for help, Qi Xiaoye recognized the danger and tried to drag everyone back into Avalon.

• Qin Yushi realized the jade box had influenced her thoughts, then it opened and transported her and Su Ze into a strange space while weakening their powers.
• Su Ze identified the jade box as a likely Contained Object and found character cards inside it, including one named Thomas.
• In Avalon, Qi Xiaoye and Chen Keqing discussed their Word Spirit Techniques while Chen Keqing tried on different outfits.
• Su Ze brought Qi Xiaoye and Chen Keqing out to face the emergency, and Qin Yushi warned them that the situation was dangerous.
• Qi Xiaoye recognized the space as belonging to a Mythical Grade Contained Object and tried to pull Su Ze and Chen Keqing back into Avalon.

Su Ze and the others learned that the Mythical Creature-grade Contained Object, the Butcher Game, had trapped them in an escape game they could not evade by hiding in Avalon. As the character-selection countdown continued, Qi Xiaoye explained that their best chance was to weaken the Butcher by using items and repairing generators.

• Qi Xiaoye tried to flee to Avalon, but Su Ze stopped her and established that hiding there would not protect them from the Contained Object.
• Qi Xiaoye explained the life-level hierarchy and identified the Butcher Game as a Mythical Creature-grade Contained Object.
• A countdown appeared, and Qi Xiaoye explained that the four intruders would play escapees against an invincible, randomly selected Butcher.
• Qi Xiaoye warned that the game’s difficulty was random and that captured players could be killed permanently, while Avalon could no longer shield them after they were selected.
• Su Ze asked about the Contained Object’s true form and ways to weaken it, and Qi Xiaoye said repairing generators and gathering items would weaken the Butcher.

As the countdown ended, Qi Xiaoye assigned the group character cards and they entered an easy-difficulty library map with The Butcher hunting them. Su Ze and Chen Keqing fled from its presence and found a generator, but Chen Keqing’s failed repair attempt alerted the Vengeful Spirit to their location.

• Qi Xiaoye gave Chen Keqing a healer card, Qin Yushi a runner card, herself a combat card, and Su Ze a tank card.
• The countdown reached zero, transporting the four into a library map where The Butcher was identified as a Vengeful Spirit and the escape timer began at ten minutes.
• Su Ze took Chen Keqing down the stairs, sensed The Butcher below, and led her back the other way while warning her to watch blind corners.
• Su Ze and Chen Keqing found a damaged generator, and Chen Keqing tried to repair it.
• Chen Keqing mistimed the repair, was shocked by the generator, and realized the Vengeful Spirit had seen her and was approaching.

Su Ze and the others repaired generators while dodging the Vengeful Spirit, discovering that repairs extended the game timer and that the killer could buy items. The Vengeful Spirit pursued Su Ze and Chen Keqing before Chen Keqing escaped and warned the group that it had been collecting gold coins.

• Su Ze and Chen Keqing repaired a generator together, earning gold coins and confirming that repairs increased the game time by thirty seconds.
• The Vengeful Spirit appeared, and Su Ze and Chen Keqing ran from it; Su Ze sent Chen Keqing to find generators and check what items could be bought.
• The Vengeful Spirit chased Su Ze until it turned away, and he found Qin Yushi repairing another generator.
• Qin Yushi told Su Ze that Qi Xiaoye had distracted the Vengeful Spirit with skillful use of Flashbangs and the terrain.
• Chen Keqing rejoined Su Ze and Qin Yushi and said the Vengeful Spirit could buy items and had been collecting The Butcher's gold coins.

Su Ze used Avalon to lure the Vengeful Spirit into a space it could enter, exploiting the expanded map to keep it occupied while Qin Yushi, Chen Keqing, and Qi Xiaoye repaired generators and bought items. The others reached the escape gates, but Su Ze had not returned, and they faced death if the countdown ended before they escaped.

• Qin Yushi asked about the Vengeful Spirit’s items, and Chen Keqing described a trap that had briefly immobilized her.
• Qi Xiaoye warned Su Ze and the others as the Vengeful Spirit charged, then used a cooldown-resetting Flashbang to help them escape its attack.
• Su Ze inspected the Vengeful Spirit’s item chest, then found Qin Yushi injured and blinded the Vengeful Spirit with a camera so she could flee for healing.
• Su Ze drew the Vengeful Spirit’s attention and summoned Avalon; the Vengeful Spirit forced its way inside, while Qin Yushi realized Avalon had expanded the playable map.
• Qin Yushi and Chen Keqing repaired the fifth generator, Qi Xiaoye bought every item, and the three repaired the remaining generators and found both escape gates.
• Qin Yushi worried that Su Ze had not emerged from Avalon, and Qi Xiaoye warned that the Contained Object would kill them if the escape countdown expired.

Su Ze weakened and initially contained the Vengeful Spirit inside the Old Days Museum, then discovered that the Mythical Grade Contained Object could reach across parallel worlds. As he prepared to rejoin his teammates, he recognized Qin Yushi’s parents among the survivors and learned they were still alive.

• Chen Keqing, Qin Yushi, and Qi Xiaoye waited for Su Ze, hoping he would return before the countdown ended.
• Su Ze used the Old Days Museum and Avalon’s terrain to weaken and imprison the Vengeful Spirit, achieving an initial containment.
• Su Ze sensed through the controlled Vengeful Spirit that survivors from other Parallel Blue Stars had been selected by the Contained Object and escaped the Death Game.
• Su Ze concluded that Mythical Grade Contained Objects could traverse parallel spaces and recognized Qin Yushi’s parents among the survivors.

With the escape countdown nearly over, Chen Keqing, Qin Yushi, and Qi Xiaoye chose to wait for Su Ze, who appeared just in time to lead them out. Hours later, they discussed how they had survived and learned that the Museum’s containment ability had helped Su Ze hold back the Vengeful Spirit.

• As the countdown dwindled, Qi Xiaoye searched for Avalon’s entrance while Qin Yushi realized Su Ze was still alive and keeping the killer occupied.
• Chen Keqing refused to leave without Su Ze, Qin Yushi joined her, and Qi Xiaoye reluctantly agreed to stay too.
• With only seconds remaining, Su Ze jumped down from the library’s second floor and hurried the women through the escape gate.
• At dinner, Qin Yushi asked Su Ze whether their return to their original world had depended on luck, and he explained the risk of being sent to another Parallel Blue Star.
• Su Ze explained that he had planned to control the Vengeful Spirit using the Museum’s containment ability while the others weakened it on the original map.
• The Simulator panel stated that Su Ze had successfully controlled and contained The Butcher after weakening it with Avalon and the Museum’s ability.