Chapter Summaries

High school student Qin Miaomiao became a rabbit in a ruined post-apocalyptic world and survived several mutant attacks before Lei Ouyan found him. Lei Ouyan mistook him for an ordinary rabbit and carried him off, planning to eat him.

• Qin Miaomiao entered a deadly escape room with his classmates and was trapped inside an ice-coffin-like box as its lid closed.
• Qin Miaomiao awoke as a rabbit in a ruined city, escaped a spiked mutant crocodile, and watched Lei Ouyan kill it with a weapon.
• Qin Miaomiao fled an eight-eyed mosquito and other mutants, then watched two monsters fuse after crashing into each other.
• Lei Ouyan killed the fused monster and picked up Qin Miaomiao, who mistook him for a rescuer.
• Lei Ouyan captured the white worm from the monster, decided Qin Miaomiao would make a meal, knocked him unconscious, and tucked him into his pocket.

Qin Miaomiao, trapped in rabbit form, was brought to NAT Base by Lei Ouyan and discovered the human settlement was threatened by Heteromorphs. After Qin Miaomiao sensed danger in the Botanical Garden and Lei Ouyan fought a mutated leech, he decided to stay by Lei Ouyan’s side, only to find a book titled “One Hundred Ways to Cook a Rabbit” and realize Lei Ouyan still intended to eat him.

• Chris learned Lei Ouyan had returned with a rabbit, and Remiya examined Qin Miaomiao and found him healthy and ordinary.
• Chris confronted Lei Ouyan about bringing Qin Miaomiao into the base and struck him after he admitted he had killed Shen Weilai.
• Qin Miaomiao sensed danger in the Botanical Garden, warned Lei Ouyan, and went with him and Chris to Sector Three.
• A mutated leech attacked Remiya and a young man; Lei Ouyan severed the man’s infected leg, then stayed behind to fight the Heteromorph while Qin Miaomiao and Remiya escaped.
• Qin Miaomiao waited for Lei Ouyan, followed him to his lounge, and resolved to stay by his side after thinking Lei Ouyan felt lonely.
• Qin Miaomiao spotted Lei Ouyan’s book, “One Hundred Ways to Cook a Rabbit,” and learned Lei Ouyan was still considering eating him.

Qin Miaomiao escaped Lei Ouyan’s room while searching for Li Weisen, but Li Weisen mistook him for a mutant and took him to the mutant prison, where he was forced to face deadly machines and a mutant. Lei Ouyan found him badly injured and shot the mutant, leaving Qin Miaomiao barely conscious on the floor.

• Qin Miaomiao escaped through a window, searched the base for Li Weisen, and was spotted heading toward the restricted conference area.
• Li Weisen captured Qin Miaomiao, drugged him, and brought him to the mutant prison, believing he might conceal a mutant presence.
• Qin Miaomiao escaped a deadly obstacle course, encountered a mutant and the white blob, and accidentally swallowed the blob during the fight.
• Lei Ouyan and Remiya tracked the missing blob to Repository 73, where they found Qin Miaomiao being attacked by a mutant.
• Lei Ouyan shot the mutant through the glass, and Qin Miaomiao collapsed, barely conscious, as Lei Ouyan looked down at him.

Lei Ouyan and Li Weisen fought their way through an enormous squid-like variant, while Qin Miaomiao escaped custody and joined Lei Ouyan, revealing a powerful mutation of his own. They destroyed an artificial heart at the variant’s core, and Lei Ouyan rescued Qin Miaomiao from the desert and welcomed him back into his pocket.

• Lei Ouyan and Li Weisen entered the variant’s body, discovered it stretched beneath the desert, and battled a squid phantom while searching for its heart.
• Qin Miaomiao woke in Shi Jinse’s care, escaped inspectors with his help, and secretly boarded Li Weisen’s aircraft to reach Lei Ouyan.
• Qin Miaomiao found Lei Ouyan facing the squid and mutated, using his strength to fight the variant and help destroy its artificial heart.
• The variant collapsed, Lei Ouyan recovered Li Weisen’s tracker, and he followed it to find Qin Miaomiao buried in the sand.
• Lei Ouyan rescued Qin Miaomiao, accepted Shi Jinse’s candy from him, and let the rabbit settle safely in his pocket.

Qin Miaomiao was captured and tested after the base learned he had transformed, then Shi Jinse helped him escape as the base hunted the mutated rabbit. Temporarily human, Qin Miaomiao was sent toward District 73 and left Lei Ouyan behind, while Lei Ouyan searched for him.

• Lei Ouyan brought Qin Miaomiao to Remiya and Shi Jinse for examination, and Shi Jinse trapped him in a water-filled testing chamber.
• Remiya reported that the tests showed no mutant response, but a separate fur sample showed mutant fluctuations, and Damon ordered Qin Miaomiao handed to the inspection team.
• Remiya went to the isolation ward to see Lei Ouyan but was knocked unconscious, while Black and White captured Qin Miaomiao and carried him toward the mutant prison.
• Shi Jinse rescued Qin Miaomiao, gave him a badge, and directed him through a vent as the base issued a level III alert to capture the rabbit.
• Qin Miaomiao changed into a silent human boy, used the badge to reach the outskirts, and learned from a girl that it was for District 73.
• Lei Ouyan searched for the rabbit and encountered Qin Miaomiao at the bus station, then quietly paid his fare as Qin Miaomiao left on the bus.

Qin Miaomiao was sent to the wasteland, where the eccentric inventor Hao Yin took him in, outfitted him with a Combat Suit, and later held him captive after he became a wanted rabbit. Lei Ouyan rescued him from mutants and eventually came to collect him, and Qin Miaomiao left the wasteland with Lei Ouyan.

• Qin Miaomiao arrived in District 73, transformed into a rabbit, and was caught in Hao Yin’s trap.
• Hao Yin recognized the badge Qin Miaomiao carried as a sign that he came from the base and believed Remiya had sent him as company.
• Qin Miaomiao discovered Hao Yin had once worked with Remiya, Chris, and the young Shi Jinse and Lei Ouyan, while Hao Yin kept him at home and tested inventions on him.
• After Qin Miaomiao crossed the boundary and drew mutants toward a nearby home, Lei Ouyan arrived, killed the mutants, and rescued him.
• Hao Yin equipped Qin Miaomiao with a Combat Suit that prevented him from escaping, and Lei Ouyan later bargained with Hao Yin to take the rabbit.
• When Lei Ouyan prepared to leave on Water Source Plan A, Qin Miaomiao chose to accompany him, and Hao Yin sent them away with an upgraded Combat Suit.

Qin Miaomiao protected Brode and the boy from Lei Ouyan and the humans who wanted to exploit the Five-Element Beast, then returned to save Lei Ouyan from the burning Fog Forest. The boy and Brode disappeared to fulfill humanity’s need for water, and rain and a river later transformed the world.

• Lei Ouyan fought a human-shaped Five-Element Beast in the abandoned village while Qin Miaomiao met the boy and Brode in the bamboo grove.
• The boy shielded Brode from Lei Ouyan, and Qin Miaomiao helped them escape; Damon then identified Brode as a level III Five-Element Beast and ordered the boy captured to force Brode to produce water.
• Qin Miaomiao returned to the Fog Forest and led Lei Ouyan and Li Weisen through its mutants, but the humans set the forest ablaze and captured the boy.
• Lei Ouyan freed the boy from the mutant-proof cage, and the boy told Qin Miaomiao that he and Brode had no regrets before disappearing into the night.
• The village inscription revealed the boy’s hopes and what he cherished, and ten days of rain followed by a new river brought water to the main city.

Qin Miaomiao was captured by Damon, rescued by Li Weisen, and then escaped again while drunk as Lei Ouyan searched for him. The chapter ended with Lei Ouyan finding Qin Miaomiao returned to rabbit form, asleep outside his break-room door.

• Lei Ouyan took Qin Miaomiao to an isolation chamber, where his injuries worsened and Shi Jinse brought him to the hospital; Qin Miaomiao later comforted him as he slept.
• Damon seized Qin Miaomiao in the headquarters corridor, and Lei Ouyan tried to confront him before Li Weisen helped Lei Ouyan recover the rabbit.
• Li Weisen hid Qin Miaomiao in his room, where Chris found him; after Chris revealed that Lei Ouyan had killed Shen Weilai at Shen Weilai's own request, drunken Qin Miaomiao escaped.
• Qin Miaomiao ran into Lei Ouyan while fleeing patrol officers, but ran off again before Lei Ouyan could stop him.
• Lei Ouyan searched for the missing young man and found only a sleeping white rabbit outside his break-room door.

Qin Miaomiao joined Lei Ouyan in fighting a pair of regenerating Twin Mutants, while mutants overran the base and Remiya disappeared after Shi Jinse took her away. After the battle, Damon accused Qin Miaomiao of handing Remiya over, and Qin Miaomiao feared Lei Ouyan would believe he had betrayed him before everything went black.

• Qin Miaomiao remembered his embarrassing actions from the previous night, bit Lei Ouyan while testing whether it would make him turn human, and discovered Lei Ouyan had once wanted a rabbit.
• A level III Mutant Peacock Mantis Shrimp attacked, and Li Weisen and Lei Ouyan fought it until Chris revealed it was one of a pair of Twin Mutants that had to be defeated simultaneously.
• Qin Miaomiao went to the base, where Remiya gave him a Peace Knot and was injured by mutant attackers; Shi Jinse arrived and took Remiya away while Qin Miaomiao continued toward the Lookout Tower.
• Qin Miaomiao and Lei Ouyan held off the Twin Mutants until Chris’s laser cannon blinded one, allowing Qin Miaomiao to strike and defeat it at the same time as Lei Ouyan defeated the other.
• Damon’s squad surrounded Qin Miaomiao and questioned him about Remiya’s disappearance; Chris revealed Shi Jinse was a class V mutant and the invasion’s ringleader, while Lei Ouyan watched Qin Miaomiao as he was seized.

Qin Miaomiao and Lei Ouyan fought to save Remiya and the human base, but Lei Ouyan sacrificed himself to destroy the Heteromorph threatening the Spring Eye. Qin Miaomiao awoke back in his original world, where he encountered a man who introduced himself as Lei.

• Shi Jinse's history as Remiya's Heteromorph Suppressant test subject was revealed, and he led Lei Ouyan, Qin Miaomiao, and Li Weisen toward Remiya's location.
• Li Weisen held off a White Ling Bird while Lei Ouyan and Qin Miaomiao entered the underground facility, where they confronted Damon.
• Qin Miaomiao swallowed Shi Jinse's blood and gained human form and spatial abilities, helping Lei Ouyan overpower Damon before Shi Jinse rescued Remiya and faced the Level V Heteromorph.
• Shi Jinse sacrificed himself to get the others out, and Remiya revealed that the Heteromorph threatened to destroy the Spring Eye unless it was stopped with the suppressant.
• Lei Ouyan flew a fighter into the flames to destroy the Heteromorph, while Qin Miaomiao fell into a lake and believed Lei Ouyan was gone.
• Qin Miaomiao woke in an escape room in his original world, found Remiya's braided cord on his ankle, and met a man who introduced himself as Lei.