Chapter Summaries

Qin Siyang, reborn into a world where Gods roam outside humanity’s Safe Zones and sequence abilities offer a path to power, struggled to awaken an ability while attending school. After he was punished for questioning his teacher, an enormous birdlike eye appeared in the night sky, and Qin Siyang awakened the sequence “God Eater.”

• Qin Siyang sat through a history lesson on the Dark Age, Gods, and the rise of Sequence Ability Users while lamenting that he had not awakened an ability.
• Qin Siyang recalled his former life and learned that sequence awakening had begun five years after the Dark Age, allowing humans to kill Gods.
• Qin Siyang asked his history teacher how students could awaken sequences, but the teacher dismissed the question and ordered the class to focus on the Gaokao.
• Qin Siyang had not completed his homework, so his teacher sent him into the corridor to stand as punishment.
• Qin Siyang speculated that becoming a God might require eating Gods, then noticed an enormous birdlike eye in the sky that others could not see.
• The eye interfered with Qin Siyang, and information appeared in his mind announcing that the sequence “God Eater” had awakened.

After awakening the unique God Eater sequence, Qin Siyang learned that he had to keep it secret and chose to focus on school and food before testing his power. He rejected Li Jingwen’s attempts to use him for breakfast and homework, ending the chapter pleased that the day brought him a double blessing.

• Qin Siyang discovered that his God Eater sequence was unique and decided not to reveal it after reading about the risks on the Godslayer Camp forum.
• Qin Siyang chose to go to school instead of waiting at the safe zone exit, since he needed the cafeteria meals and planned to test his ability later.
• Qin Siyang arrived at Ju'an School and reflected on his past relationship with Li Jingwen, whom he had once helped and pursued.
• Li Jingwen demanded breakfast and homework from Qin Siyang, but he refused, returned her blank exercise books, and dismissed her threats to end their future together.
• Qin Siyang looked at the calendar marking the day auspicious for nothing and called his rejection of Li Jingwen a double blessing.

Qin Siyang left his backward school and traveled to Exit 114514, hoping to find God Remains that could help him grow stronger. After a day of waiting, he discovered a trash can full of God Corpses and recognized it as a Gluttonous Feast.

• Qin Siyang ignored Li Jingwen's attempt to win him back, then set out the next morning for Exit 114514 with a schoolbag full of food.
• Qin Siyang reached the exit and saw ordinary people crowding around Sequence Ability Users to offer them services and seek favor.
• Qin Siyang waited near the front of the crowd, watching the God Remains returned by hunting teams, but the Inspectors took the round remains away.
• Qin Siyang followed a cleaner who swept a worm-covered ear into a trash can, then waited for an Administration Bureau official to finish recording it.
• Qin Siyang opened the trash can after the official left and found it filled with God Corpses, which he recognized as a Gluttonous Feast.

Qin Siyang discovered that eating God remains strengthened his body, and he devoured more than thirty pieces before returning home. After noticing his improved strength, agility, and perception, he decided to find God remains somewhere other than the trash bin he had already emptied.

• Qin Siyang swallowed a piece of God remains and felt a painful surge spread through his body as his strength increased.
• He ate all thirty-odd pieces in the trash bin while carefully keeping his behavior and ability secret.
• Qin Siyang hurried home, where he caught a falling kettle and discovered that his strength and perception had improved.
• He considered seeking information at an internet café but lacked the money, so he relied on [Godslayer Camp] as his planned source of guidance.
• The next morning, Qin Siyang ruled out returning to the same trash bin and decided to search for God remains at another one.

Qin Siyang traveled to Safe Zone Exit No. 54320 hoping to find god remains that would make him stronger, but discovered the dumpsters were guarded by suspicious sanitation workers. Suspecting the United Government had investigated his earlier theft, he continued toward another exit, unsure whether he could get home that day.

• Qin Siyang studied the bus route and decided he could reach three Safe Zone exits on foot, then set out for Exit No. 54320.
• Qin Siyang found nearly a hundred Sequence Ability Users and a large crowd near the exit, then spotted seven or eight dumpsters filled with god remains.
• Qin Siyang noticed two blood-covered sanitation workers guarding the dumpsters and walked past them without approaching the remains.
• Qin Siyang concluded the workers were likely plainclothes agents investigating the missing god remains and suspected Exit No. 114514 would be watched too.
• Qin Siyang left Exit No. 54320 and headed toward Exit No. 89757, worrying that the long walk might force him to sleep outside.

Qin Siyang ate God Remains at Safe Zone Exit No. 89757 and advanced his God Eater sequence to Level 2, gaining powerful new skills. He fled when a drunk approached, but the drunk noticed that the dumpsters seemed empty.

• Qin Siyang found three dumpsters full of God Remains near Safe Zone Exit No. 89757 and decided to eat from them.
• Qin Siyang removed his outer clothes and quickly devoured the remains, growing stronger as he ate.
• Qin Siyang's God Eater sequence advanced to Level 2, Greedy Rogue, granting him Blood Drink and Violence.
• Qin Siyang decided to conceal his sequence and leave before risking a visit to another exit.
• When a drunk approached, Qin Siyang stuffed the remaining God Remains into his backpack and sprinted away.
• The drunk reached the dumpsters, wondered if he had seen a Sequence Ability User, and noticed that the dumpster seemed empty.

Qin Siyang fled with a backpack full of stolen God Remains, but three vagrants cornered him and threatened to expose him. He killed them, destroyed evidence, and continued his escape with a firmer resolve.

• Qin Siyang evaded pursuit through the alleys while carrying more than a dozen stolen God Remains.
• Qin Siyang encountered three vagrants who tried to rob him and threatened to report him to the Police Bureau.
• Qin Siyang killed the three men with his enhanced strength after they attacked him with knives.
• Qin Siyang disfigured the bodies, burned them and his bloodstained coat, collected their money, and fled.
• Qin Siyang ran for more than half an hour and returned to a main road, still stirred by his first killing but no longer panicked.

Inspector Olof investigated the theft of God Remains and a nearby warehouse fire, concluding that one poorly informed Sequence Ability User might have committed both crimes. The investigation ended with Olof identifying poverty as the reason the culprit could not research Sequence abilities.

• Olof questioned Hans Van, who admitted tossing a bottle into the dumpster and vaguely seeing someone near it, then had officers take him to the Police Bureau for punishment.
• Roylena told Olof that God Remains had also been stolen from the dumpster at Safe Zone 114514 the previous day.
• Roylena received a report that three people with smashed skulls had been found in a burned warehouse two stops away, and she could not track the killer because the scents were muddled.
• Olof theorized that the God Remains thief and the warehouse killer were the same Sequence Ability User, who had destroyed the bodies to prevent an [Undying] user from reading their memories.
• Roylena suggested staking out the Sequence Administration Bureau, but Olof argued that the culprit could not access public information about abilities because he was poor.

Qin Siyang investigated how Sequence Ability Users registered and grew stronger, while Inspector Olof pursued a lead on the missing God Remains. After learning that his God Eater sequence let him grow stronger by digesting Gods rather than relying on government-issued potions, Qin Siyang resolved to conceal his true abilities.

• Olof ordered an investigation near the Safe Zone's edge for someone carrying a large bundle of unidentified objects and said the search might become interesting if they found no one.
• Qin Siyang returned home after eating the remaining God Remains and burning his backpack and spare jacket, then woke early to visit the internet café.
• Qin Siyang discovered a silver coin among the money taken from the three thugs and worried that spending it would draw suspicion and connect him to the murders.
• Qin Siyang decided to find a cover sequence, join a God-Hunting Team, and hide his real identity until he was strong enough to protect himself.
• At the internet café, Qin Siyang read a guide explaining that Sequence Ability Users registered with the government, received potions, and grew stronger by using skills while hunting Gods.
• Qin Siyang realized his God Eater sequence let him grow stronger by digesting Gods directly, unlike other users who depended on Sequence Potions.

Qin Siyang researched sequence abilities to find a convincing disguise, then narrowly avoided scrutiny when police raided the internet café. After the officers left, the attendant revealed that he knew Qin Siyang was their target.

• Qin Siyang studied the [Scent Seeker] and [Undying] sequences, realizing that investigators might track the bodies or notice he had smashed their skulls unnecessarily.
• Qin Siyang panicked when he heard police had arrived and deleted his browser history before seven or eight officers entered the internet café.
• Qin Siyang disguised his browsing as an ebook, and an officer mistook it for advice about pursuing a girl instead of discovering what he had been researching.
• The officers arrested two young men for online black-market transactions and told the café customers they had no authority to check network addresses or browsing histories.
• Qin Siyang heard that the Police Bureau had been raiding the café for two days, then saw the attendant send him a message asking whether he was the person the officers had been looking for.

Qin Siyang researched the Phantom Assassin Sequence as a cover for his powerful Violence skill, then met the internet cafe attendant, Liu Dazhi, who had deduced that Qin Siyang killed someone and tried to extort him. Liu Dazhi threatened to report him through a scheduled email, leaving Qin Siyang to walk away without revealing his name.

• Qin Siyang chose the Phantom Assassin Sequence as a disguise and learned how its skills and advancement worked.
• Qin Siyang left the internet cafe and met the attendant in the alley behind it.
• Liu Dazhi explained how he had inferred Qin Siyang's crime from his browsing and behavior.
• Liu Dazhi demanded a silver coin to stay quiet, then threatened Qin Siyang with a scheduled email to the Police Bureau and demanded a thousand copper coins by the following week.
• Qin Siyang left without answering when Liu Dazhi asked his name.

Qin Siyang followed Liu Dazhi home to learn where he lived, then went to school while considering how to handle Liu Dazhi’s scheduled emails. At school, Li Jingwen helped him past a teacher’s scrutiny, but Qin Siyang rejected her attempt to resume their relationship and threatened to expose how she had used him to pursue Zhou Yang.

• Qin Siyang secretly followed Liu Dazhi home and memorized his address while worrying that Liu Dazhi’s scheduled emails could expose him.
• Qin Siyang passed the Internet Cafe without being noticed by Liu Dazhi and headed to Ju'an School without his textbooks or schoolbag.
• A teacher stopped Qin Siyang for failing to greet the principal loudly and questioned him about carrying only lunch boxes.
• Li Jingwen claimed Qin Siyang had left his books at a classmate’s house after tutoring, and the teacher let them go.
• Li Jingwen asked Qin Siyang to resume helping her, but he accused her of using him to pursue Zhou Yang and warned her to stop pestering him.

Qin Siyang ended his entanglement with Li Jingwen and learned that Sequence Ability Users could attend specialized universities after high school. He planned to research Sequence Education, but thoughts of Liu Dazhi continued to haunt him.

• Qin Siyang bluntly rejected Li Jingwen, who suspected someone had revealed her relationship with Zhou Yang and struggled to find a new excuse to approach him.
• Qin Siyang asked Teacher Zhu to keep his library book-organizing job, and she welcomed him back after lunch.
• During a lesson on Gaokao applications, Qin Siyang asked what Sequence Ability Users did after high school, prompting the class to press the teacher for an answer.
• The teacher explained that the United Government had over a hundred universities for Sequence Ability Users, who took an assessment run by the Sequence Ability Management Bureau and could apply with their scores.
• Qin Siyang learned about the Sequence Education forum and considered visiting it, then remembered Liu Dazhi and imagined ways to kill him.

Qin Siyang planned how to reveal his Sequence Ability and confronted Li Jingwen after she and her friends attacked Wen Shu in the Women's Restroom. He left with Wen Shu after threatening to expose Li Jingwen to Zhou Yang if she retaliated.

• Qin Siyang decided he would apply to a university for Sequence Ability Users and register with the Sequence Ability Management Bureau within six months.
• Qin Siyang returned to the Library after school to help Teacher Zhu, where he recognized the top student Wen Shu.
• Li Jingwen and her friends followed Qin Siyang and accused Wen Shu of telling him about Li Jingwen and Zhou Yang, then slapped Wen Shu in the Women's Restroom.
• Qin Siyang entered the Women's Restroom, confronted Li Jingwen, and slapped her twice after Wen Shu declined to retaliate.
• Qin Siyang threatened to email Zhou Yang about Li Jingwen if she or her uncle harmed him or Wen Shu, then took Wen Shu away.

After Wen Shu left, Qin Siyang went to the Internet Cafe to seek footage connected to Liu Dazhi, but discovered the relevant recordings were missing. He intimidated owner Wang Defa into keeping quiet and left with access to the cafe’s private computer, then headed for Liu Dazhi’s home.

• Qin Siyang apologized to Wen Shu for drawing her into trouble, and Wen Shu admitted she felt emotionally distant from him before leaving.
• Qin Siyang visited the Internet Cafe and persuaded Wang Defa to let him inspect its security footage by offering him a silver coin.
• Qin Siyang discovered the cafe had no footage from the morning of January 3, when the police had taken his friend away.
• Qin Siyang crushed several monitors to frighten Wang Defa, who mistook him for a powerful Sequence Ability User involved in underground dealings.
• Qin Siyang gave Wang Defa the silver coin in exchange for his silence, received a key to the storeroom, and learned Liu Dazhi stayed home on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• Qin Siyang left the Internet Cafe in a good mood and headed for Liu Dazhi’s home.

After confirming that Liu Dazhi had fabricated the surveillance evidence, Qin Siyang killed him and set fire to his home to disguise the crime as a robbery. He returned to school with an alibi and began helping in the Library, where he learned that Wen Shu’s grandmother did not know about her bruised face.

• Qin Siyang confirmed through Wang Defa that no surveillance footage existed and concluded Liu Dazhi was bluffing.
• Qin Siyang tricked Liu Dazhi into opening his door, knocked him unconscious, staged a robbery, and killed him with a knife.
• Qin Siyang set Liu Dazhi’s room on fire, fled to school, and disposed of the stolen copper coins along the way.
• Qin Siyang joined Teacher Zhu in the Library and saw Wen Shu arrive with a bruised, swollen face.
• Teacher Zhu told Qin Siyang that Wen Shu’s blind grandmother depended on her and might not know about the bruises.

Inspector Olof investigated Liu Dazhi’s murder and questioned internet cafe owner Wang Defa, suspecting the killing was targeted rather than a robbery. After the police left, Wang Defa called Old Snake to arrange for someone to be taken out.

• Firefighters found Liu Dazhi’s charred corpse in the burned building, and Inspector Olof concluded that he had been murdered.
• Olof questioned neighbors and learned that Liu Dazhi had argued with someone who came to his door shortly before the fire.
• Olof suspected Liu Dazhi had been deliberately targeted and went with Roylena to question his employer, Wang Defa.
• Wang Defa denied knowing why Liu Dazhi was killed and avoided answering questions about a visitor who had come that morning.
• A customer’s login record placed Wang Defa at the internet cafe around the time of the fire, so Olof left without pursuing him.
• Wang Defa called Old Snake and asked him to help take someone out.

Qin Siyang spent a quiet week before Teacher Zhu encouraged him to pursue Wen Shu, but he rejected the idea. On the way home with Wen Shu, he spotted Li Jingwen’s uncle’s armed men pursuing them and promised to handle the threat.

• Qin Siyang resumed his routine and spent time talking with Teacher Zhu and studying alongside Wen Shu at the library.
• Teacher Zhu told Qin Siyang that Li Jingwen had been close to Zhou Yang and urged him to pursue Wen Shu, but Qin Siyang said he did not want to hold her back.
• After Teacher Zhu left them outside the library, Qin Siyang grabbed Wen Shu’s schoolbag strap and insisted on walking her home.
• Qin Siyang warned Wen Shu that someone was following them and led her through the alleys as seven or eight armed men emerged behind them.
• Qin Siyang explained that Li Jingwen’s uncle was likely trying to kill them because Qin Siyang had threatened to expose Li Jingwen’s relationship with Zhou Yang.
• As the pursuers closed in, Qin Siyang told Wen Shu he would deal with them and asked whether she could keep a secret.

Qin Siyang led Kun Chenglong and his men to an abandoned courtyard, where he revealed his Sequence Ability and killed them all. He and Wen Shu hid the bodies and left together, bound by their shared secret.

• Qin Siyang told Kun Chenglong that he had not scheduled an email exposing Li Jingwen and Zhou Yang, then revealed that he had chosen the courtyard as a place to kill them.
• Qin Siyang used his Sequence Ability to kill Kun Chenglong’s men and then killed Kun Chenglong.
• Wen Shu asked Qin Siyang how they would dispose of the bodies and suggested using strong-smelling cafeteria food to cover their scent.
• Qin Siyang hid the bodies in the dry well, covered it with a rock, and left the courtyard with Wen Shu.
• Wen Shu told Qin Siyang that she was not afraid to walk beside him because they now shared a secret.

After Qin Siyang walked Wen Shu home, they parted without discussing the secrets they shared. Wen Shu returned to her poor home and reassured her blind grandmother, who suspected she had gone out killing with someone again.

• Qin Siyang told Wen Shu he planned to register as a Sequence Ability User after preparing for the Bureau and its assessment, and said he would eventually kill Li Jingwen and her family.
• Wen Shu and Qin Siyang got lost while walking and discovered they had gone in the opposite direction from home, so Qin Siyang escorted her back.
• Wen Shu asked why Qin Siyang had liked Li Jingwen, and his answer that many things were beyond their control left them both silent.
• Wen Shu arrived home, comforted her grandmother, and vaguely explained that another classmate's scent had rubbed off on her.
• Wen Shu's grandmother quietly recognized a faint smell of blood and wondered whether Wen Shu had gone out killing with someone again.