Chapter Summaries

Qin Siyang kept Li Jingwen uncertain about her missing uncle and continued spending time with Wen Shu at the Library. When Zhao Liwen confronted him for supposedly distracting Wen Shu, Qin Siyang learned Zhao planned to pursue her after the Gaokao and decided to prepare to reveal his sequence awakening sooner.

• Qin Siyang ignored Li Jingwen at school, keeping quiet about what had happened to Kun Chenglong.
• Qin Siyang and Wen Shu studied and organized books together at the Library, then walked home and parted at their usual intersection.
• Zhao Liwen urged Qin Siyang to focus on studying and accused him of disturbing Wen Shu's exam preparation.
• Qin Siyang challenged Zhao Liwen's assumptions about Wen Shu and learned Zhao expected to attend the same college as her and win her over.
• Qin Siyang decided to visit Wang Defa's place that night to research sequences and hasten his plans to announce his awakening.

Qin Siyang visited Wang Defa to learn how to register with the Sequence Ability Management Bureau under a false sequence, while the Police Bureau’s inspections continued to pressure Wang Defa’s Internet Cafe. Wang Defa warned him that the Bureau could detect false sequence reports, leaving Qin Siyang alarmed about registering.

• Qin Siyang told Wen Shu to ignore Zhao Liwen, who had warned her to stay away from him, and said he had a way to handle the situation.
• Wang Defa learned from his backer that the Police Bureau’s investigation had reached higher authorities, though they were not targeting his small-time business.
• Qin Siyang met Wang Defa at the Internet Cafe and asked how to report a fake sequence in the 14121 Region.
• Qin Siyang demanded that Wang Defa repay his silver coin and compensate him for a missing shipment worth twenty silver coins, then threatened Wang Defa’s family if he could not register under a false identity.
• Wang Defa explained that the Sequence Ability Management Bureau could uncover false sequence reports, though he did not know how it verified them.
• Qin Siyang realized that registering with a false sequence could expose him and felt relieved he had asked Wang Defa before preparing to do so.

Qin Siyang learned from Wang Defa that Roylena had once arranged a false sequence identity through an anonymous contact called [Dream Maker]. Unwilling to expose his own information to the hidden insider, Qin Siyang instead threatened Wang Defa into lending him a silver coin and left to use the computer.

• Qin Siyang pressed Wang Defa for a way to register a fake sequence, and Wang Defa suggested asking Roylena at the Police Bureau.
• Wang Defa explained that he had monitored Roylena arranging a false identity with the anonymous [Dream Maker] in exchange for a silver coin.
• Wang Defa said Roylena had left the coin beneath a paving stone near a Safe Zone exit, in a rest area reserved for Sequence Ability Users.
• Qin Siyang decided he could not risk giving [Dream Maker] leverage over him by revealing his information.
• Qin Siyang demanded that Wang Defa lend him a silver coin, threatened to take one by force, and told him to meet at the Internet Cafe entrance the next night.

Qin Siyang researched the Police Bureau and arranged for a homeless boy to deliver an anonymous letter to Officer Roylena. Roylena opened the letter at work, and her smile froze as she read it.

• Qin Siyang spent the night researching the Police Bureau and taking notes, then set out early the next morning in disguise.
• Qin Siyang bought envelopes and paper, recruited a homeless boy who could not read, and had him copy the address onto a letter.
• Qin Siyang persuaded the boy to place the letter in the Police Bureau mailbox by promising him food, then warned him to say he could not read if questioned.
• Qin Siyang headed to school, hoping to meet Officer Roylena the next day.
• Roylena found the letter addressed to her, opened it, and froze when she saw its contents.

Roylena received a letter threatening to expose her forged Sequence and tracked its writer to a homeless child, whom she spared until she could confront the mastermind. At school, Li Jingwen wrongly concluded Qin Siyang knew nothing about her uncle’s disappearance and made plans to lean on Zhou Yang after class.

• Roylena read a letter demanding she meet its writer at nine that night to discuss her Sequence, and realized the writer knew she had forged it.
• Roylena used a medal to track the letter to a homeless child, who claimed he could not read and did not know who had sent him.
• Roylena lowered her gun and left the child alive until after she dealt with the mastermind behind the letter.
• Qin Siyang noticed Li Jingwen watching him in class while he considered how to speak with Roylena that night.
• Li Jingwen assumed Qin Siyang knew nothing about Kun Chenglong, then agreed to meet Zhou Yang after school and ask to lean on his shoulder.

Qin Siyang clashed with Zhao Liwen over Wen Shu before meeting Roylena in secret to ask about the person who falsified her Sequence. The chapter ended with Roylena keeping her hand on a loaded pistol as Qin Siyang warned that he could act before she fired.

• Qin Siyang found Zhao Liwen studying opposite Wen Shu in the Library, and Teacher Zhu passed him Wen Shu's warning not to provoke Zhao Liwen because of his father's connections.
• After the Library closed, Zhao Liwen accused Qin Siyang of distracting Wen Shu, and Qin Siyang left angrily without attacking him.
• Qin Siyang prepared to meet Roylena in Spring Willow Lane, masking his scent with cafeteria food and hiding in a grove.
• Roylena arrived early, sprayed perfume, and waited until Qin Siyang emerged with his face covered.
• Qin Siyang asked Roylena to introduce him to the person who falsified her Sequence and warned her to take her hand off the pistol beneath her coat.
• Roylena refused to lower her hand from the loaded gun, and Qin Siyang argued that he only needed to move before she could draw and fire.

Qin Siyang forced Roylena to reveal how to contact the person who had helped forge her Sequence, then demanded to know her real Sequence in exchange for her service gun. Roylena refused, and Qin Siyang threatened to leave with the gun and evade her tracking tool.

• Qin Siyang warned Roylena that a scheduled email would expose her fake Sequence to the Police Bureau if he did not return to postpone it.
• Qin Siyang used his [Violence] skill to disarm Roylena after she tried to reach for her gun.
• Roylena told Qin Siyang that her helper was a regular in the Aixico Virtual Chatroom and would approach him after he entered eight times.
• Qin Siyang refused to return Roylena's gun and demanded that she reveal her real Sequence.
• Roylena raged and refused, while Qin Siyang warned that he would leave with the gun and could not be tracked.

Qin Siyang pressured Roylena to reveal her true Sequence and discovered she was a [Deceiver], not a [Pleasure-Seeker] or [Titan]. He left her pistol along the path and departed after Roylena warned him to avoid Inspector Olof.

• Roylena claimed her Sequence was [Pleasure-Seeker], but Qin Siyang demanded that she use [Ultimate Pleasure] to prove it.
• Roylena admitted she had lied and claimed to be a [Titan], demonstrating [Localized Enlargement] by enlarging her hand.
• Qin Siyang waited ten minutes so Roylena could demonstrate the skill again, exposing that she had imitated it as a [Deceiver].
• Roylena revealed her true Sequence by manifesting a mask associated with the [Shaman] Sequence and warned Qin Siyang that faking a Sequence could leave him under someone else's control.
• Qin Siyang left Roylena's pistol on the woodland path and departed with his lunch box, while Roylena warned him not to fall into Inspector Olof's hands.

Qin Siyang returned to Wang Defa’s Internet Cafe to collect a silver coin and contacted a broker called [Exile] through the Aixico Virtual Chatroom about falsifying his Sequence information. [Exile] gave him instructions for paying and arranging the exchange, leaving Qin Siyang to decide how to proceed.

• Qin Siyang burned his clothes, disposed of his lunch, and returned to Wang Defa’s Internet Cafe for the silver coin.
• Wang Defa reluctantly handed Qin Siyang the coin, complained about their dealings, and let him use the storeroom computer again.
• Qin Siyang entered and left the Aixico Virtual Chatroom eight times to signal the broker, then waited for contact.
• [Exile] questioned Qin Siyang about how he had found them, but Qin Siyang refused to reveal Roylena as his source.
• [Exile] asked Qin Siyang for personal details and instructed him to leave a silver coin beneath a specific floor tile at Safe Zone Exit No. 38324.
• [Exile] told Qin Siyang to return after paying, say “I'm new here” in the public chat, and enter and leave the chatroom five times.

Qin Siyang hid a silver coin beneath a paving tile at Safe Zone Exit No. 38324, then spent the day watching for [Exile] to retrieve it. As the crowd pressed around the exit, he was shoved onto the tile, leaving him uncertain whether he had disturbed the hiding place.

• Qin Siyang walked to Safe Zone Exit No. 38324 and slipped the silver coin beneath a paving tile.
• Qin Siyang joined the crowd of ordinary people resting near the exit and ate his lunch while ignoring their remarks about his food and family.
• Qin Siyang watched the tile, expecting [Exile] to retrieve the coin before the agreed deadline and reflecting on the risks surrounding his deal with Roylena.
• Qin Siyang followed the crowd as Sequence Ability Users came and went, keeping the tile in view without drawing attention to himself.
• The shifting crowd shoved Qin Siyang onto the tile, and his foot landed on it with a thud.

Qin Siyang realized a [Thief] Sequence Ability User had stolen the silver coin he hid beneath a paving stone, then searched the crowd for the culprit. He identified a ridiculed young member of a God-Hunting Team as a likely suspect and focused on him.

• Qin Siyang discovered that the silver coin beneath the paving stone had vanished, though no one had lifted the stone.
• Qin Siyang recalled that the [Thief] sequence could steal items from a distance and reasoned that a thief in a God-Hunting Team might be easier to identify.
• Qin Siyang watched passing teams, looking for a member who kept to the edges or acted ingratiatingly.
• A God-Hunting Team mocked a lean young man for having a thief sequence and left him behind.
• Qin Siyang fixed his attention on the isolated young man as the crowd gathered around him.

Qin Siyang followed the gaunt young man from the Safe Zone and knocked him unconscious in a secluded alley. After searching his belongings, he found the silver coin from the Li Mint that he had been seeking, leaving him convinced he had caught the right person.

• The gaunt young man left the Safe Zone while the crowd tried to sell him food, companionship, and other services.
• Qin Siyang changed his clothes and followed the gaunt young man down the main road and into a secluded alley.
• Qin Siyang kicked the gaunt young man into a trash can and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Qin Siyang searched the man’s backpack and found a Sequence Potion, a phone, copper coins, and a silver coin from the Henry Mint.
• Qin Siyang discovered a hidden compartment containing the silver coin from the Li Mint and realized he had found the person he was looking for.

Qin Siyang captured and interrogated the scrawny young man who had collected his silver coin, learning that he was Qian Wendao’s nephew. After knocking him unconscious again, Qin Siyang took him to an abandoned warehouse and planned to verify the connection in the [Aixico Virtual Chatroom].

• Qin Siyang tied the scrawny young man to a dead tree and waited for him to wake up.
• The young man revealed that his uncle was Qian Wendao, chief of the Information Section at the Sequence Ability Management Bureau.
• Qin Siyang learned that Qian Wendao usually collected the silver coins himself, but had sent his nephew to collect them that day.
• Qin Siyang knocked the young man unconscious again and carried him to an abandoned warehouse.
• Qin Siyang put away his interrogation tools and decided to verify Qian Wendao’s identity in the [Aixico Virtual Chatroom] before releasing the young man.

Qin Siyang used the Aixico Virtual Chatroom to contact [Corner], whom he suspected was Section Chief Qian, and revealed that he had captured the man’s nephew. He arranged an offline meeting while refusing to bring either the nephew or the silver coin, leaving the negotiation unresolved.

• Qin Siyang returned two silver coins to Wang Defa, fulfilling his promise and leaving Wang Defa astonished by his honesty.
• Qin Siyang entered and exited the Aixico Virtual Chatroom five times, then replied to [Corner] that the person sent to collect the silver coin might not return.
• Qin Siyang told [Corner] that he had captured his nephew and challenged him to decide whether the young man lived or died.
• [Corner] proposed meeting at the Unfinished Building, but Qin Siyang insisted on choosing the time and place himself.
• Qin Siyang and [Corner] agreed to meet at noon the next day at a collapsed department store beside Safe Zone Exit No. 54320.
• Qin Siyang refused to bring the nephew or silver coin, explaining that he did not trust [Corner] and had avoided naming him to protect their conversation from monitoring.

Qin Siyang secured a lead on falsifying his Sequence, but a surprise police inspection caught him in Wang Defa’s storeroom. Inspector Olof questioned him about the room and computer while silently scrutinizing him over the theft of the God Remains.

• [Corner] agreed to send his nephew back if Qin Siyang completed their deal, while Qin Siyang threatened to expose [Corner] if anything happened to him.
• Qin Siyang was relieved to have a lead on falsifying his Sequence, then heard Wang Defa warn that police had arrived and discovered the surveillance feed was black.
• Inspector Olof entered the storeroom with uniformed officers, and Qin Siyang recognized him as the detective Roylena had warned him about.
• Olof found the browser history cleared and questioned Qin Siyang, who pretended he had been watching porn before identifying the storeroom as Wang Defa’s.
• Wang Defa explained that he used the room to watch surveillance and had switched off the cameras to save electricity, but Olof remained focused on Qin Siyang and the God Remains theft.

Qin Siyang improvised a story that he and Wang Defa were friends who met online and that Wang Defa paid him after every meeting, convincing Olof and the officers to leave him alone. Afterward, Qin Siyang worried the lie would complicate his plans to register as a Sequence Ability User, while Wang Defa fumed about the damage to his reputation.

• Qin Siyang told Olof that Wang Defa gave him money after they met, leading the officers to believe Wang Defa was exploiting the impoverished orphan.
• Olof refused to help Qin Siyang find work or provide lasting support, then left the warehouse with the officers.
• Wang Defa closed the warehouse door after the officers had gone and confronted Qin Siyang about the story.
• Qin Siyang explained that Olof might become suspicious when he registered as a Sequence Ability User, but that the lie had kept him from being detained and missing his plans with Qian Wendao.
• Wang Defa complained about his reputation, and Qin Siyang asked how many copper coins it was worth.

Qin Siyang went to meet Qian Wendao at a ruined department store to secure a fabricated Sequence identity in exchange for releasing Qian Wendao’s nephew. He pushed for a closer partnership and revealed that he was a final-year student at [Ju'an School], leaving Qian Wendao unconvinced.

• Qin Siyang traveled to Safe Zone Exit No. 54320, determined to settle matters with Qian Wendao and return to school as a Sequence Ability User.
• Qin Siyang met Qian Wendao, chief of the Information Section at the Sequence Ability Management Bureau, in a ruined department store.
• Qian Wendao proposed fabricating Qin Siyang’s identity in exchange for his nephew’s release, with no further contact afterward.
• Qin Siyang argued that they could cooperate more closely and reminded Qian Wendao that he still had emails scheduled to expose him.
• Qin Siyang introduced himself as a final-year student at [Ju'an School], but Qian Wendao doubted him until Qin Siyang revealed his youthful face and invited him to check the school on Monday.

Qin Siyang persuaded Qian Wendao that he had powerful backing and arranged for him to falsify a Sequence Ability identity. After Qian Wendao flagged Qin Siyang’s conspicuous address, they decided to list him as homeless and have him sell or burn his house.

• Qin Siyang used [Violence] to take Qian Wendao’s hat and revealed that his face was real and his Sequence was offensive.
• Qian Wendao concluded that Qin Siyang had powerful factional backing, while Qin Siyang said he wanted to take back what was his.
• Qin Siyang asked Qian Wendao to create a Sequence Ability identity by next Monday and sent his information and photo through Qian Wendao’s nephew’s phone.
• Qian Wendao warned that Qin Siyang’s address on the outskirts of the Safe Zone would attract suspicion if he registered as a Sequence Ability User.
• Qian Wendao proposed listing Qin Siyang as homeless, and Qin Siyang agreed to sell or burn his house to make the identity plausible.

Qin Siyang burned down his house to avoid leaving a transaction record, then arranged temporary shelter at Wang Defa’s Internet Cafe while waiting for Qian Wendao to handle his Sequence registration. After receiving instructions, he reached Sequence Ability Management Bureau No. 14121 and entered.

• Qin Siyang burned his remote house and became homeless, then persuaded Wang Defa to let him sleep in the Internet Cafe’s storeroom.
• Wang Defa reluctantly gave Qin Siyang the storeroom, where Qin spent an uncomfortable night.
• Qin Siyang found Qian Wendao’s message telling him to bring his Resident ID to Sequence Ability Management Bureau No. 14121 at eight on Sunday.
• Qin Siyang memorized the route, left his bundle at the Internet Cafe, and walked to the Administration Bureau.
• Qin Siyang reflected on Sequence Ability Users’ privileges and protections before climbing the steps and opening the Bureau’s door.

Qin Siyang visited the Sequence Ability Management Bureau, where Qian Wendao registered him as a Sequence Ability User and explained the value of the silver coin that had caused trouble. Qin Siyang agreed to release Qian Wendao’s nephew but kept the goods he had been carrying.

• Qin Siyang was surprised by the lavish interior of the Sequence Ability Management Bureau when he arrived.
• Qian Wendao welcomed Qin Siyang and took him to his office to speak privately.
• Qian Wendao gave Qin Siyang a registration certificate listing his Sequence as [Phantom Assassin] and his residence as [No fixed abode].
• Qin Siyang provided his fingerprints, and Qian Wendao entered him into the system as an official Sequence Ability User.
• Qin Siyang said he would release Qian Wendao’s nephew but keep the goods, and Qian Wendao agreed.
• Qian Wendao explained that a silver coin exchanged for twelve thousand copper coins on the market, more than half his monthly salary.