Chapter Summaries

Fang Ye learned that Starlight had assigned White Hair, whose real name was White Cat, to keep him close because Starlight knew he would not resist or escape. White Hair took him to see two captives and told him to drive her to the Incineration Plant at daybreak, where a show connected to Feng Ling was planned.

• Starlight introduced Fang Ye to White Hair and ordered her to keep him with her while they prepared to lure out the Puppeteer.
• White Hair told Fang Ye her name was White Cat and explained that Starlight could see through their true natures, so he knew Fang Ye would not run away or resist.
• White Hair brought Fang Ye downstairs, selected three Players to meet Starlight, and showed him Cheng Shi'an's tied-up driver and secretary.
• White Hair warned that the captives' disappearance could draw the Supervision Bureau's attention and said Cheng Shi'an's identity would soon be unusable.
• White Hair asked Fang Ye if he could drive and said she would take him to the Incineration Plant at daybreak for a show he suspected was connected to Feng Ling.

Fang Ye was forced by Starlight and White Hair to prepare for a delivery to the Incineration Plant in exchange for a high-tier Card, while he silently hoped Feng Ling might save him. The chapter ended with Feng Ling sending Little Third Child to investigate an area Li Qing identified through divination.

• Fang Ye drove White Hair toward the Incineration Plant and passed Human-faced Crows, but he gave up on trying to attract their attention after White Hair mocked him.
• White Hair had Fang Ye drive a test route and reported that the Incineration Plant had no guards and a refrigerated truck had just left.
• Starlight told Fang Ye to deliver a shipment to the Incineration Plant that night, took his phone, and promised him a high-tier Card for completing the task.
• White Hair claimed Feng Ling's power came from a deal with Xenomorphs, while Starlight said he wanted Fang Ye to watch her idol's image crumble.
• Li Qing used his divination results to mark a likely location, and Feng Ling sent Little Third Child to investigate while asking Li Qing to keep divining.

Feng Ling left patrol with the Twins after her Human-faced Crow reported a man with eyes on his body, and followed the clue to Jingnan City’s Special Waste Incineration Plant. She reached the factory outskirts and wondered whether the man had entered alive or was already dead.

• Feng Ling met Bai Lu in the Supervision Bureau hallway before setting out on patrol with He Yue Ning, He Xing Luo, and Huangfu Miaomiao.
• While the group patrolled, Feng Ling’s Human-faced Crow arrived and told her it had found a man with eyes on his body.
• Feng Ling left the Twins to continue patrolling and rode a shared electric scooter toward the Crow’s location with Huangfu Miaomiao.
• Feng Ling followed several Human-faced Crows’ directions to the outskirts, where she found the Special Waste Incineration Plant.
• Feng Ling asked a Crow whether the man was alive or dead, then headed toward the plant to investigate.

Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao discovered a hidden cold-storage room at the Incineration Plant, where dismembered corpses and two Xenomorphs had been left. Feng Ling suspected Bai Lu was connected to the Corpse Dismemberment Case, then realized the Xenomorphs might have wanted her to uncover Bai Lu’s secret.

• Feng Ling entered the Incineration Plant with Huangfu Miaomiao and found a security guard’s corpse with bloodless, cleanly severed limbs.
• Feng Ling discovered a concealed Cold Storage Room and found mutilated corpses neatly wrapped and labeled inside.
• Feng Ling identified two corpses as the Xenomorphs Little Third Child had tracked by their Parasitic Eyes, and found a dead Hunter named He Su among them.
• Feng Ling found a familiar tattoo on a stored arm and deduced that human body parts had been kept while Centipede portions were destroyed.
• Feng Ling connected the stored corpses to Bai Lu and Fan Ze, then wondered whether the Xenomorphs had deliberately led her to the discovery.

Feng Ling found dismembered bodies and a dead Hunter at an Incineration Plant, suspecting Bai Lu was behind the Corpse Dismemberment Case. When the Twins failed to answer, she learned they had gone to investigate a missing-Hunter report and sent Ye Zheng to find them, while the story showed their arrival at the villa where Starlight was located.

• Feng Ling told Ye Zheng about the Xenomorphs, the bodies in the Cold Storage Room, and her suspicion that Bai Lu had hidden them.
• Ye Zheng urged Feng Ling to warn the Twins and deal with Bai Lu, so Feng Ling tried calling He Xing Luo and He Yue Ning.
• When neither Twin answered, Feng Ling learned they had gone out on a call and sent their patrol route and dispatch address to Ye Zheng and Li Qing.
• Half an hour earlier, He Yue Ning and He Xing Luo arrived at Geng Minghui's villa to investigate the disappearance of two Hunters.
• Geng Minghui welcomed the Twins and their team, claimed Xenomorphs were responsible, and went to check the basement for his missing cousin.

He Xing Luo and He Yue Ning confronted Gray Squirrel at the villa, but he used copied Card abilities to outmaneuver them. Starlight and Fang Ye monitored the fight remotely as the sisters struggled to stop him, and Fang Ye asked whether the Hexagonal Prism had a weakness.

• He Xing Luo discovered two captives in the basement, and Gray Squirrel revealed himself as a Xenomorph before escaping upstairs and killing Fan Ze with a copied Bone Chain ability.
• He Xing Luo chased Gray Squirrel while He Yue Ning went to free the captives, unaware that Starlight and Fang Ye were watching them through the villa’s surveillance cameras.
• Starlight explained that Gray Squirrel’s Hexagonal Prism copied abilities through physical contact and that he had copied the sisters’ powers and He Su’s Hummingbird ability.
• Gray Squirrel ambushed He Yue Ning in the basement, pierced her abdomen, and escaped her Ghost Fire by using Gecko’s limb-shedding ability.
• He Xing Luo pursued Gray Squirrel into the underground garage, while Fang Ye asked Starlight whether the Hexagonal Prism had a weakness.

The Twins tried to escape Gray Squirrel inside the villa, but his copied abilities kept them trapped until Fan Ze and the Special Forces intervened. Bai Lu ordered the villa attacked despite the hostages, and Gray Squirrel used one hostage’s corpse to charge her before hurling He Xing Luo and He Yue Ning into the air and striking at them.

• He Xing Luo carried the injured He Yue Ning toward the villa exit, but Gray Squirrel blocked their way and attacked with a Mantis scythe arm.
• He Xing Luo phased through a sofa Gray Squirrel hurled at her, then Fan Ze and the Special Forces shot Gray Squirrel through the villa windows, forcing him to flee into the basement.
• He Xing Luo brought He Yue Ning outside, where Bai Lu froze her wound and ordered the Special Forces to fire on the villa despite the remaining hostages.
• Gray Squirrel appeared with a bound hostage, killed him with a Bone Chain, and attacked Bai Lu, but Bai Lu deflected the strike and the Twins entangled his chain.
• Gray Squirrel used the dead hostage as a shield, charged Bai Lu, and swung the Bone Chain hard enough to throw He Xing Luo and He Yue Ning into the air before slashing at them with scythe arms.

He Xing Luo was injured as Gray Squirrel’s attack on the Supervision Bureau’s Puppets escalated, while Bai Lu and Fan Ze confronted him in the villa. Just as Gray Squirrel attacked Bai Lu, a Contaminant pinned him to the ground.

• He Xing Luo collapsed after the Xenomorph struck her, and Bai Lu’s Ice Cone failed to stop it from escaping into the villa.
• Starlight told Fang Ye that Players had been paid to help lure out the Puppeteer, while Gray Squirrel recovered from his injuries and prepared to keep fighting.
• Gray Squirrel drove out of the garage as Fan Ze’s rocket exploded inside the villa, then ran down a special forces member with his car.
• Gray Squirrel charged Bai Lu with his Mantis scythe, but Fan Ze intercepted the strike and told her to run.
• Bai Lu prepared an Ice Cone and a Grenade as Gray Squirrel attacked again, but a huge Contaminant rushed in and pinned him down.

Starlight’s Xenomorphs failed to capture the Puppeteer after Gray Squirrel attacked Bai Lu and was killed by Ye Zheng. Ye Zheng gave Bai Lu a Recovery Potion, but a teenage girl stole the Cards formed from the Xenomorph’s corpse and escaped.

• Starlight synchronized with Gray Squirrel, who escaped Ye Zheng’s attack and ambushed Bai Lu.
• Gray Squirrel wounded Bai Lu, but Ye Zheng seized his Bone Chain and was engulfed in Ghost Fire.
• Fang Ye tried to distract Starlight by reaching for a glass of water, but a Xenomorph restrained him until Starlight ordered it to let him go.
• Ye Zheng killed Gray Squirrel, and Starlight ended the surveillance feed after discussing the failed attempt to capture the Puppeteer.
• Ye Zheng gave Bai Lu a Recovery Potion, then chased a teenage girl who took two Cards from the Xenomorph’s corpse, but the girl vanished.

Feng Ling learned that a Xenomorph and an accomplice had wiped out the Surveillance Team and escaped Ye Zheng, while Starlight moved his group to a Timber Processing Plant. There, Starlight offered Fang Ye a Card and left him to choose among several options.

• Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao saw Supervision Bureau vehicles rush toward the Incineration Plant and then learned from the Human-faced Crows that the Surveillance Team had been wiped out.
• Feng Ling learned that Ye Zheng had saved Bai Lu but that a Xenomorph's accomplice had escaped, and she sent the Human-faced Crows to watch the Supervision Bureau and the Incineration Plant.
• Starlight led his subordinates to a Timber Processing Plant, where White Hair said the last batch of Players would leave with the next day's shipment.
• Starlight asked White Hair to show Fang Ye several Cards, reminding Fang Ye that he had promised him a high-level Card.
• White Hair warned Fang Ye that an unsuitable Card could raise his Corruption Value, and Starlight told him to choose.

Fang Ye chose the Hexagonal Prism Card and followed White Hair to the Timber Mill dormitory, where she explained why Starlight had kept him alive. White Hair revealed that Starlight planned to send the Players to Paradise after obtaining the Puppeteer Card, while Fang Ye learned that Starlight had already made arrangements for the Supervision Bureau’s response.

• Fang Ye chose the Hexagonal Prism Card, which gave him a weakened Copy ability and raised his Corruption Value by 8%.
• White Hair took Fang Ye to the Timber Mill dormitory and told him he could stay in any room.
• White Hair explained that Starlight kept Fang Ye alive to prove his superiority by taming humans, and that he was unlikely to kill Fang Ye before the Hidden Boss was dead.
• White Hair told Fang Ye that Starlight planned to send the Players to Paradise after obtaining the Puppeteer Card.
• Fang Ye warned that the Supervision Bureau would reinforce Jingnan City, but White Hair said Starlight had already made arrangements and promised he would learn more tomorrow.

Feng Ling and her allies struggled to find Starlight and reconsidered how to lure him into their trap. When Cat Spider emerged from its cocoon, Feng Ling devised a new plan involving a staged fight in the Tunnel, but Cat Spider was too hungry to spin silk.

• Li Qing's divination showed that Starlight was moving, while Ye Zheng said he was still in Jingnan City and would target Bai Lu again.
• Feng Ling proposed planting explosives in an abandoned Tunnel to lure Starlight, but Huangfu Miaomiao warned that he might recognize Ye Zheng as Feng Ling's ally.
• Ye Zheng recounted how Star Society members might have seen her working with Feng Ling, making their planned staged fight less convincing.
• Cat Spider emerged from its cocoon with eight legs and a greatly enlarged body, but it could not produce silk because it was starving.
• Feng Ling suggested staging a fight with Cat Spider in the Tunnel and pretending to be poisoned or tangled in its silk, but Cat Spider could not spin a web.

Feng Ling prepared the Tunnel as a false murder scene, then went to the Supervision Bureau after learning that its notice reported only one death. She discovered He Xing Luo had survived while He Yue Ning was said to be dead, and He Xing Luo revealed that Fan Ze had appeared to die but came back to life.

• Feng Ling fed the Cat Spider fish and had it weave a web at the Tunnel entrance amid staged blood and torn clothing.
• Ye Zheng told Feng Ling the Jingnan City Supervision Bureau had reported one Inspector dead, prompting Feng Ling to go meet Bai Lu and investigate which Twin survived.
• Feng Ling reached the Supervision Bureau through a crowd of reporters and went to the Medical Area after speaking with Bai Lu.
• Feng Ling identified He Xing Luo by her star-shaped earring and found her frantic to see Bai Lu and learn how He Yue Ning had died.
• He Xing Luo told Feng Ling she had seen Fan Ze die and return to life, while medical staff said he had only appeared severely injured.

Feng Ling watched Bai Shuang’s recorded footage to learn how she had been injured, discovering that the sisters fought corpses controlled by a nearby Xenomorph. The video ended when a blood-covered child emerged from a corpse and Bai Shuang collapsed, leaving the cause of her fatal injuries unclear.

• He Xing Luo insisted that the dead team members had been killed, but the medical staff sedated her and Feng Ling left the ward.
• Feng Ling went to the Cybersecurity Technology Department and used Bai Lu’s authorization code to access the incident footage.
• Feng Ling watched Bai Shuang and Bai Lu fight seemingly unkillable, revived corpses and learned that they suspected a nearby controller.
• Bai Shuang spotted a figure in the woods and stayed behind to hold off the corpses while Bai Lu pursued it.
• A blood-covered child crawled out of a corpse and appeared before Bai Shuang, who fell as frost covered the camera.

Feng Ling found a possible edit in Bai Lu’s footage and joined the Special Forces’ operation at Yongshan Tunnel. There, He Xing Luo accused Fan Ze and the squad of being Xenomorphs after seeing a familiar tattoo on his arm.

• Feng Ling noticed that Bai Lu’s recording may have been edited and questioned why Bai Shuang’s last moments were missing.
• After hearing that a large Contaminant had been reported in Yongshan Tunnel, Feng Ling volunteered to assist the Special Forces.
• Feng Ling met Fan Ze and saw that he and the squad appeared unharmed, despite Ye Zheng’s claim that they had died the previous night.
• He Xing Luo appeared at the Armory and accused Fan Ze and the squad of surviving when they should have died.
• He Xing Luo attacked Fan Ze, saw a familiar tattoo among the bloody marks on his arm, and shouted that they were Xenomorphs.

He Xing Luo accused Fan Ze and the Special Forces of being Xenomorph impostors because Fan Ze had an arm belonging to a dead Xenomorph, but Huangfu Miaomiao confirmed he was not one. He Xing Luo collapsed after leaving her Ghost state, while Feng Ling headed to Yongshan Tunnel to deal with the Contaminant.

• He Xing Luo threatened Fan Ze with a gun and accused him of being a Xenomorph wearing the real Fan Ze's face and body.
• Feng Ling used Huangfu Miaomiao's ability to confirm that Fan Ze was not a Xenomorph, then offered to handle the Yongshan Tunnel emergency while Fan Ze found Bai Lu.
• He Xing Luo demanded to see Bai Lu and asked how her sister had died, then lowered her gun when Fan Ze promised to take her to Bai Lu.
• He Xing Luo collapsed after leaving her Ghost state, and Feng Ling left her injections and Jellies before heading out with Huangfu Miaomiao.
• Feng Ling took a Patrol Car key from Fan Ze and told reporters she would personally handle the Large Contaminant in Yongshan Tunnel.

Feng Ling’s plan to stage a battle at Yongshan Tunnel was interrupted when a Contaminant appeared inside the Supervision Bureau and absorbed much of the Medical Area. He Xing Luo joined Feng Ling in attacking the creature, which was Bai Lu, after learning that Yue Ning was inside it.

• Feng Ling arranged with Ye Zheng to stage a battle at Yongshan Tunnel for the reporters, but suspended the operation when He Xing Luo fell from the Supervision Building.
• He Xing Luo muttered that Yue Ning was inside the building as screams and an alarm signaled a Contaminant attack.
• Feng Ling rushed upstairs and learned that the Contaminant had absorbed most of the doctors and nurses above the ninth floor.
• Two nurses asked Feng Ling to save Captain Bai, and Feng Ling realized the Contaminant was Bai Lu.
• He Xing Luo arrived in an Inspector’s uniform and set Bai Lu ablaze with her Bone Chain and Ghost Fire, saying Yue Ning was inside her.
• A head resembling He Xing Luo’s emerged from the burning Contaminant and smiled.

Feng Ling tried to rescue He Yue Ning from a freezing creature, then learned from Huangfu Miaomiao that it was a Cursed Puppet rather than a Contaminant. As Feng Ling led it toward the third-floor Banquet Hall, she realized Starlight may have altered the corpses to ensnare Bai Lu.

• Feng Ling's Mental Pressure and energy-draining abilities failed against the creature, which froze her tentacles and forced her to retreat with He Xing Luo and Huangfu Miaomiao.
• Feng Ling urged He Xing Luo to evacuate anyone left in the building, and He Xing Luo ran downstairs after directing Feng Ling to lure the creature to the third-floor Banquet Hall.
• Huangfu Miaomiao identified the creature as a Cursed Puppet, and Feng Ling watched it grow limbs and take on Bai Lu's upper body.
• Feng Ling spotted Starlight's eyes on corpses embedded in the Cursed Puppet and concluded that Starlight had tampered with the Xenomorph corpses to target Bai Lu.

Feng Ling and her allies tried to stop the Headless Giant, a Cursed Puppet controlled by Bai Lu, from escaping the Supervision Bureau. As the giant’s freezing attacks drove them outside, Li Qing warned that it was immune to Mental Power and could not absorb energy.

• Feng Ling called Ye Zheng and reported that a Cursed Puppet had appeared at the Supervision Bureau, while the Headless Giant pursued her and Huangfu Miaomiao.
• Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao fled through the Banquet Hall as the giant attacked with powerful Ice Cones and spread frost around it.
• Feng Ling sent Huangfu Miaomiao to find He Xing Luo and jumped from the third floor to warn nearby reporters and keep the monster from reaching the street.
• Feng Ling and He Xing Luo fired at the giant, but Huangfu Miaomiao had to carry the Armory’s weapons outside after the giant targeted her with an Ice Cone.
• Feng Ling, He Xing Luo, and Huangfu Miaomiao left the Supervision Bureau as Li Qing warned that the Cursed Puppet was controlled by the Puppeteer and could neither be affected by Mental Power nor absorb energy.

Feng Ling and He Xing Luo fought the Headless Giant outside the Supervision Building, trying to stop Bai Lu’s Cursed Puppet. Feng Ling realized the severed head belonged to Bai Shuang, then took it toward the Tunnel as she devised a new plan.

• Li Qing told Feng Ling that the Cursed Puppet’s cold ability came from its Card holder, so they needed to deal with Bai Lu.
• Feng Ling shot several Parasitic Eyes while dodging the giant’s Ice Cones, and He Xing Luo attacked it with a flamethrower.
• The giant survived the fire, and Feng Ling severed the head she mistook for Bai Lu’s, but it kept moving toward the body.
• Feng Ling stabbed the giant’s spine, then cut off her Bone Blade when cold spread along it; Li Qing explained that the severed head was Bai Shuang’s, not Bai Lu’s.
• Feng Ling picked up Bai Shuang’s head and ran toward the Tunnel while He Xing Luo replaced the flamethrower’s fuel canister.