Chapter Summaries

Ke Meng learned that the Investigation Bureau planned to expand its ranks and launch worldwide strikes against Evil Organizations, then began an internal lecture for Special University’s outstanding students. He demonstrated the Dark Cuisine Pot and Flawless Sword, preparing to let the students experience how powerful Special Items could develop spiritual perception.

• Ke Meng reviewed reports and reflected on the Werewolf’s unknown origins and its longing to evolve.
• Director Lei lectured the public about spiritual perception, Special Items, and Evil Illegal Organizations as the Investigation Bureau prepared to recruit more talent.
• Investigation Bureau personnel secured the lecture hall and set up equipment to prevent electronic recording while using a Moonlight Stone to capture Ke Meng’s lecture.
• Ke Meng brought out the Dark Cuisine Pot and explained that experiencing the real item could stimulate spiritual perception more strongly than watching a video.
• Ke Meng enlarged the Flawless Sword, captivating the students with its beauty, then began arranging fresh ingredients to demonstrate spiritual growth.

Ke Meng taught students how Spiritual Perception worked by exposing them to the Flawless Sword and the Dark Cuisine Pot at the same time, then declined Director Lei’s offer to make him Director. A month later, Ke Meng prepared to use Jin Huiying in a werewolf-themed video to lure werewolves to Whale City.

• Ke Meng watched the students struggle to resist the Flawless Sword’s beauty while the Dark Cuisine Pot cooked, then opened the pot and guided them through the extreme sensations as he explained Spiritual Perception.
• Ke Meng dismissed the students after two hours of teaching, and Investigation Bureau personnel reminded them to keep the lesson confidential.
• Director Lei thanked Ke Meng and offered to apply to make him Director, but Ke Meng declined.
• A month later, Ke Meng noted that vampires were being hunted, Frog Society Remnants were still causing trouble, and Jin Huiying was undergoing examinations at Headquarters.
• Ke Meng checked that he had accumulated over four thousand Resistance Points and planned to film a werewolf-themed review with Jin Huiying to draw werewolves to Whale City.

Ke Meng recruited Jin Huiying to pose as a white wolf in a video intended to draw foreign Werewolves into the open so the Investigation Bureau could capture them. The video went viral, and Shi Jun recognized that the wolf was a woman before viewers saw her transform.

• Jin Huiying asked Ke Meng about his position in the Bureau, and he explained why the Bureau was targeting Werewolves.
• Ke Meng told Jin Huiying that Werewolves' hidden growth could lead to a danger like the Vampires, and she agreed to help film a video.
• Ke Meng planned an outdoor cooking video in which Jin Huiying would appear as a white wolf and transform into a woman at the end.
• Ke Meng posted the video, showing Tangyuan and then a white wolf racing through the woods.
• Shi Jun watched the video and used Synesthesia to realize the white wolf was a person.
• Ke Meng found the white wolf beside a lake, and the video cut off as she began transforming into a woman.

Ke Meng and the werewolf lady responded to a child whose strength and behavior had changed after using a mutated pencil. Ke Meng restored the boy’s mind with a Rational Transcript, and his father asked him to take away the pencil.

• Ke Meng’s werewolf video spread worldwide, and viewers learned that the werewolf lady had joined the Investigation Bureau.
• Ke Meng uploaded a second video showing him and the werewolf lady responding to a report about a mutated pencil and a child who could not stop fighting.
• Ke Meng arrived in Whale City and pressed a Rational Transcript against the boy’s face until the strange aura and unnatural strength disappeared.
• The boy collapsed from exhaustion, and Ke Meng confirmed that he was breathing steadily and would recover after resting.
• The boy’s father said the pencil was at home and asked Ke Meng to take it away.

Ke Meng took the Dueling Pencil from a boy’s home and tested its effects at the Investigation Bureau. After defeating ten opponents, a tester’s strength surged, and Ke Meng stopped the experiment to restore his rationality.

• Ke Meng found the Dueling Pencil in the boy’s bedroom, resisted its urge to write, and took it away because the boy’s family could not control it.
• Ke Meng shared Big-Faced Cat’s information about the pencil with Director Lei and warned that the boy should be monitored for unknown side effects.
• A tester wrote with the pencil, entered an indescribable state, and challenged the other tester to a duel; Ke Meng confirmed that the pencil strengthened its user’s punches.
• Ke Meng used the Rational Transcript to restore the first tester’s will after the tester continued fighting even after being knocked down.
• The Investigation Bureau’s tests showed that the tester grew stronger after each victory, reaching a one-handed punch of two thousand jin after ten wins.
• Ke Meng ended the test and used the Rational Transcript and Sweet-Dream Pillow to bring the deeply confused tester back to his senses.

Ke Meng tested the gesturing pencil after persuading Director Lei that his resistance could withstand its chaotic effects. He discovered that even a trace of lucid consciousness made the pencil’s strange state vanish, leaving Director Lei questioning Ke Meng’s explanation.

• Director Lei rejected uncontrolled testing of the gesturing pencil, but agreed to let Ke Meng try after Ke Meng argued that he could handle it.
• Ke Meng wrote with the pencil while Tangyuan sat opposite him, and the investigators briefly perceived Ke Meng as an indescribable, otherworldly being.
• Ke Meng watched the recording and examined the unfinished other-dimensional character he had written, but could not remember what it meant.
• Ke Meng tested the pencil again while carefully regulating his resistance, but the ineffable state disappeared as soon as he stayed lucid.
• Ke Meng concluded that the pencil’s effect targeted both lucid and chaotic consciousness, and Director Lei questioned whether consciousness could be divided that way.

Ke Meng tested the maddening pencil over a thousand times, building his ability to endure its influence and discovering in a dream that its writing urged him to fight. The next day, he fed Tangyuan Level-Up Fish and chose to invite a newly discovered werewolf to the Koi Continent rather than arrest him.

• Ke Meng completed 1,001 pencil tests, training himself to endure the chaotic thoughts for up to five seconds before relying on his resistance power.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia in his dream to inspect the test footage and learned that the pencil's Undersea Race writing was a maddening suggestion promoting the urge to fight.
• Ke Meng woke up, fed Tangyuan dozens of Level-Up Fish, and explained that he wanted to strengthen Tangyuan as his protector.
• Ke Meng discovered that a young werewolf had secretly emailed him to ask about werewolves' treatment on the Koi Continent.
• Ke Meng chose to invite the werewolf to visit the Koi Continent instead of arresting him, since the werewolf showed no intent to harm the world.

Ke Meng trained his rationality with the Dueling Pencil while arranging for a wary Werewolf Boy to visit Whale City. At Octopus Airport, the boy and Jin Huiying recognized each other as werewolves and restrained their urges to transform as Ke Meng escorted them to the bureau.

• Ke Meng burned the papers covered in the Dueling Pencil's strange writing and checked that the child who had tested it showed no abnormal behavior.
• Ke Meng continued practicing with the Dueling Pencil, increasing the time he could stay rational from five seconds to fifteen seconds.
• Ke Meng and Jin Huiying persuaded the Werewolf Boy to travel to Whale City after several days of emails and video chats.
• Ke Meng and Jin Huiying met the blond Werewolf Boy at Octopus Airport and invited him to talk at the bureau.
• Jin Huiying and the Werewolf Boy sensed that they were the same kind and both suppressed signs of transforming.

Ke Meng brought Werewolf Boy and Miss Jin together, then took them to the countryside to settle their growing urge to fight. Miss Jin won their duel after Werewolf Boy drew blood, and Tangyuan and Shirley restrained them.

• Werewolf Boy asked to avoid the Investigation Bureau, so Ke Meng took him and Miss Jin to a bureau-run restaurant instead.
• Ke Meng sensed that the two werewolves felt compelled to fight for dominance, and Werewolf Boy agreed to duel Miss Jin later in the countryside.
• Ke Meng set rules for the duel and brought Tangyuan, Shirley, and White Sugar to watch and intervene.
• Miss Jin and Werewolf Boy transformed and fought hand to hand while Ke Meng livestreamed the match to bureau investigators.
• Werewolf Boy bled first, so Ke Meng declared Miss Jin the winner, and Tangyuan and Shirley pulled the fighters apart.

Ke Meng restrained Werewolf Boy after he fought Miss Jin, then allowed him to return home under the Investigation Bureau’s watch. He offered Werewolf Boy a Storage Item in exchange for a year of service, while Miss Jin asked about earning one through the bureau.

• Tangyuan pinned Werewolf Boy down until he calmed and agreed to stop fighting Miss Jin.
• Ke Meng learned that Werewolf Boy knew of no other werewolves where he lived, and the Investigation Bureau agreed to let him return home under surveillance.
• Ke Meng filmed Werewolf Boy leaving Koi Continent safely to reassure other werewolves.
• Ke Meng offered Werewolf Boy a Storage Item if he served as a special Investigator for a year, and Werewolf Boy said he would think about it.
• Miss Jin asked how to earn a Storage Item, and Ke Meng explained the bureau’s service and contribution requirements.

Werewolf Boy stayed with the Investigation Bureau in exchange for access to Special Items, and Ke Meng used him to attract other Werewolves. Ke Meng’s plan brought a foreign Werewolf woman to the city, and the chapter ended as she and Werewolf Boy began fighting.

• Werewolf Boy accepted a job with the Investigation Bureau after Ke Meng offered access to Special Items through contribution points.
• Ke Meng uploaded a video introducing Werewolf Boy and waited for foreign Werewolves to respond.
• Five days later, Jin Huiying spotted a foreign Werewolf woman at the airport and alerted Ke Meng.
• Ke Meng watched the woman and confirmed through her dream that she shared the same Werewolf inheritance as Jin Huiying and Werewolf Boy.
• Ke Meng arranged for Werewolf Boy to cross paths with the woman, and the two Werewolves attacked each other on the street.

Ke Meng used Werewolf Boy’s security-guard videos as bait to lure unaffiliated Werewolves to Whale City, where the Investigation Bureau arrested them for fighting. After several days, the bureau had captured 751 Werewolves, while more were still being drawn in by the videos.

• Investigators stopped Werewolf Boy and a female Werewolf from fighting, and the bureau confirmed she was unaffiliated.
• Ke Meng stationed Werewolf Boy at the Investigation Bureau entrance and posted videos of his dull security shifts to attract other Werewolves.
• Werewolves gathered outside the bureau to fight, but Tangyuan, Shirley, and the investigators subdued them while staff suppressed recordings of the incident.
• Director Lei reported that the bureau had caught ninety-six Werewolves in one day, and Ke Meng uploaded a second video showing Werewolf Boy training.
• More Werewolves arrived and were subdued by Tangyuan, bringing the bureau’s total arrests to 751 after several days.

Ke Meng abandoned the fruitless investigation into werewolf worship and resumed his inquiry into the Infinite Door, judging that he needed more resistance before approaching the dangerous door connected to knowledge. At the Infinite Door, he found the presence beyond it had vanished, then opened it and sent Tangyuan and Shirley to search the island while he stayed behind to monitor events.

• The Investigation Bureau placed the captured werewolves under local supervision, and Ke Meng withdrew from the investigation into their worship culture.
• Ke Meng applied to reinvestigate the Infinite Door, while his superiors told him to wait before investigating the door connected to knowledge.
• Ke Meng raised his resistance to five thousand points and traveled to Octopus City, where the bureau director invited him to give a lecture.
• Ke Meng used Synesthesia on the sealed Infinite Door and sensed that the presence behind it had disappeared.
• Ke Meng opened the Infinite Door, found the island clear of gray fog, and sent Tangyuan and Shirley to search it while White Sugar guarded the entrance.

Ke Meng found the World Behind the Door cleared of its gray fog and signs of a powerful visitor, then joined Old Shi in recruiting Di Ping to explore its sea. Di Ping discovered three islands and strange skeletal remains before returning to reality and drawing a rough map.

• Ke Meng explored the island and sensed that someone powerful had visited the World Behind the Door.
• Ke Meng told Old Shi that the visitor was very powerful and suggested using Di Ping to explore the sea.
• Old Shi agreed to help persuade Di Ping, who submitted a report and entered the world with Ke Meng.
• Di Ping used the Horn of the Sea to become water and explored the sea, finding three islands.
• Di Ping returned and told Ke Meng that the sea held strange skeletal remains, then drew the islands’ locations and relative sizes.

Ke Meng’s team used drones, animals, and the Child-Mother Mirrors to investigate the unvisited iceberg and desert islands. The Mother Mirror cut off the view of a symbol-covered wall on the desert island, leaving Ke Meng unable to see what Shirley had found.

• Di Ping sketched the iceberg island’s shattered ice and the desert island’s damaged stone buildings, while Old Shi warned that the islands might be trapped.
• Ke Meng arranged for a warship, drones, and animals to survey the islands before the team approached them in person.
• Ke Meng used the Daughter Mirror to watch the Mother Mirror’s view as Shirley and the reconnaissance team explored the iceberg island.
• Shirley found that the ice blocks had been deliberately smashed, and the drones completed their survey without the animals dying.
• On the desert island, Shirley saw a towering wall covered in symbols that had been scratched out, but the Mother Mirror shut down the connection before Ke Meng could inspect it.

Ke Meng and Old Shi traveled to Iceland to investigate strange icebergs after Shirley reported deliberate interference at two locations. Ke Meng discovered that the icebergs had once been taller and that their smooth, indestructible fragments resisted both intense heat and his Storage Scarf, with one chunk inexplicably sliding away.

• Ke Meng asked Di Ping to check the Deserted Island, and Di Ping reported that Shirley was returning without incident.
• Shirley returned and told Ke Meng that she had sensed mysterious deliberate interference at two locations.
• Ke Meng and Old Shi boarded a warship and headed to Iceland to examine its broken icebergs.
• Ke Meng sensed that the icebergs had once been taller and found geometric ice fragments with unnaturally smooth, perfectly cut surfaces.
• Tangyuan failed to damage a fragment, and Old Shi's five-thousand-degree Firestarter failed to melt it.
• Ke Meng tried to store a large ice fragment in his Storage Scarf, but it slid back out and glided away.

Ke Meng and Old Shi explored the Void Ruins, where a damaged wall had been deliberately stripped of its recorded information. After Big-Faced Cat identified the wall and the ice sculpture fragments, Ke Meng remembered his Repair Liquid and prepared to try it on the wall.

• Ke Meng and Old Shi collected chunks of ice, then traveled by warship to the desert island containing the Void Ruins.
• Ke Meng sensed the central wall and found its strange, incomplete information impossible to understand.
• Ke Meng explored the stone houses and experienced a vision of white-robed people worshipping the wall before its writing had been scratched away.
• Old Shi suggested that the Door Organization had erased the wall's information with an item that affected Synesthesia, rather than changing the past.
• Big-Faced Cat identified the wall as recording whispers from the depths of the starry sky and the ice pieces as irreparable components of a faith-bearing sculpture.
• Ke Meng remembered his Repair Liquid, took out its clay jar, and heard storm-like waves roaring inside.

Ke Meng used Repair Liquid to restore an ancient wall whose markings carried dangerous whispers from deep space. After the wall overwhelmed his resistance, he escaped and, dreaming of R'lyeh, realized the visions had been real and that understanding them drove most people mad.

• Ke Meng tested the Repair Liquid on the scratched wall, confirmed it worked, and had Shirley apply it while he enlarged more liquid to continue the repairs.
• Ke Meng tried to fly beyond the blue sky but could not escape its pull, then remembered the Reversal Chair as a way to reach space.
• As the wall was restored, Ke Meng sensed its whispers and visions, while Old Shi withdrew after his spirituality warned him not to look.
• Shirley and Tangyuan stopped painting when the wall's effects overwhelmed them, and Ke Meng continued until his own mind and body faltered.
• Ke Meng used the Short-Range Teleportation Stone to escape to the sea, where he fell asleep and dreamed of R'lyeh.
• Ke Meng realized the wall's visions were real and that people with enough spirituality could understand them, though most would go mad.

Ke Meng deciphered that the damaged wall described a spiritual technology for making items that reduced negative influences, but one-fifth of the information remained missing. He resumed repairing the wall and discovered that the knowledge overwhelmed him so quickly that he repeatedly lost consciousness, leaving him to wonder how the Door Organization had read it.

• Ke Meng realized the wall described a complex technology that used spirituality to create items capable of calming the body and soul, but he could not decipher the missing fifth.
• Ke Meng used Cthulhu's Body to clear the negative effects of the knowledge and concluded that becoming Cthulhu in his dreams could protect him from delayed side effects.
• Ke Meng awakened in the sea, had Di Ping send him ashore, and flew back to Old Shi, explaining that he planned to repair the wall and learn the complete technology.
• Ke Meng shut down his senses one by one to approach the wall, then used Repair Liquid to coat its damaged surface while enduring its overwhelming information.
• Ke Meng fell unconscious after only a few seconds of work and recognized that the pressure of knowledge infusion had triggered his brain's protective mechanism.

Ke Meng completed his study of the wall’s instructions and learned how to make jade Special Items that could reduce harmful mental influences. He sent the classified materials to Headquarters, where officials began assessing the knowledge and the challenge of training people to use it.

• Ke Meng shut off his senses while applying Repair Liquid to the wall, then fainted after reading the restored instructions and learned the method for making specific jade Special Items.
• Ke Meng and his group returned to the Investigation Bureau, where he stayed up with Old Shi and Di Ping to organize their World Behind the Door knowledge.
• The Director of Octopus City arranged for Toad Express to deliver Ke Meng’s classified materials in a locked safe to Headquarters.
• Ke Meng warned the Director-General that the videos became increasingly dangerous to watch and that the paper instructions provided only a partial explanation of the core technology.
• The Director-General and the S-Class members watched the footage, reviewed Ke Meng’s report, and concluded that training qualified practitioners would take at least a year.