Chapter Summaries

Lynn hired Blood Doll by threatening to eat the eyeball she had once used to settle a debt, then left her to charge the Magic Array while he traveled to Shu Capital. Seeing the city under martial law and fearing the Parasite Beasts would spread, Lynn decided to provoke widespread panic so authorities would impose a lockdown and discover the infected in time.

• Lynn showed Blood Doll her old eyeball and threatened to chew it, persuading her to accept his work offer.
• The system awarded Lynn the Hiring Child Labor achievement and its bonuses after he hired Blood Doll.
• Lynn left Blood Doll with work instructions and flesh and blood to charge the Magic Array, then warped out of the shelter.
• Lynn crossed Shu Capital and climbed the broadcast tower, where he discussed his plan with Zuo Zuo as the Hidden Cultivation Society tracked him.
• Lynn put on the Plague Doctor Mask, maximized its output, and used Flesh Cataclysm to spread mist and tentacles across the city so he could find and heal people parasitized by insects.

White fog and enormous tentacles spread across Shu Capital, cutting communications and plunging the city into panic. Messiah recognized the phenomenon as Calamity’s work and rushed toward the city center with the Exorcists.

• A clerk watching the news saw a reporter react in terror as white fog and gigantic tentacles appeared over Shu Capital.
• The fog spread above the clerk’s office, and electronic signals failed as he tried to call his family.
• People in the city center panicked as the fog and tentacles blocked the sunlight and brought traffic to a halt.
• Messiah and the Exorcists saw the fog interfere with communications and identified the demon as being in the city center.
• Messiah clenched her Cross and led the charge toward the city center.

Messiah confronted Lynn over the mist and the chaos engulfing the city, but he insisted the danger of the Flesh God Cult required an immediate, citywide response. Unable to risk his warning being true, Messiah ordered a lockdown as sirens sounded across the city.

• Messiah charged through the city and attacked Lynn at the broadcast tower, but Zuo Zuo intercepted her Cross with the Night Demon Blade.
• Messiah accused Lynn of endangering civilians, while Lynn urged her to seal the city and require scans of anyone trying to leave.
• Lynn warned that the mist could become a plague and said the city faced a war against the Flesh God Cult, but Messiah called his actions unforgivable.
• Lynn fell into the mist, and Messiah ordered the Exorcists to provide the military with Holy Power communication devices and lock down the city.
• The military received the Hidden Cultivation Society's orders, mobilized troops, and directed police to enforce a citywide lockdown as air-raid sirens sounded.

As fog and panic spread across the city, Lynn and Zuo Zuo discussed the cost of exposing humanity to danger before Lynn set out to destroy infected hosts. At City Second People's Hospital, a young man brought his dying father inside, then vomited blood and flesh as an insect burrowed up Nurse Wang’s leg.

• Zuo Zuo worried about the cost of the citywide panic, and Lynn said humanity had to face the dangers beyond its sheltered world.
• Zuo Zuo asked what would happen if Dark Night City could not stop the Insect Plague, and Lynn admitted he did not know.
• Lynn put on his Plague Doctor Mask and used the fog to search for infected hosts and destroy the insects.
• Nurses and guards at City Second People's Hospital brought a young man and his critically ill father inside and gave the old man a place to rest.
• The young man told Nurse Wang he wanted to do more for his father, then vomited blood and flesh as an insect crawled up her trouser leg.

A young man suffering from the Calamity mutated into a worm-infested attacker at the hospital, but Lynn shot him before he could kill a nurse. Lynn examined the host and called on Zuo Zuo to help deal with him.

• The young man vomited flesh, worms, and eggs while pleading with the nurses to save his father.
• The young man realized he was no longer himself, then attacked a security guard and forced crimson vomit into his mouth.
• The young man chased the fleeing nurses and lunged at one of them.
• Lynn shot the young man through the hospital's glass door and entered wearing his Plague Doctor Mask.
• Lynn identified the young man as an early, severely parasitized host and summoned Zuo Zuo to help.

Lynn and Zuo Luo removed parasites from a boy and stitched him up, while the nurses watched in fear. After completing his quest, Lynn called himself an unsung Night Doctor and left the nurses wondering who he was.

• Lynn and Zuo Luo used tendrils to kill and extract parasites from the boy, and Lynn stitched his wounds.
• Lynn completed the quest for removing parasites from 100 infected people and received experience, money, and Rusty Scissors.
• Lynn told the nurses he was an angel of justice and an unsung Night Doctor.

Lynn realized the boy was resisting the parasites through his obsession with his father, so he tried to rouse the boy by threatening to kill his dad. The boy’s fading consciousness snapped back as Lynn’s outburst shocked Zuo Zuo and the nurses.

• Lynn discovered that the severely infected boy could still speak and heard him fear that the parasites were eating his mother and would eat his father too.
• The nurses told Lynn how the boy had exhausted himself caring for his hospitalized father and risked his life to bring him to the hospital.
• Lynn concluded that the boy’s strong attachment to his father might be helping him resist the parasites and recognized that human obsession could be important in the fight against them.
• Lynn withdrew the paralytic injection, drew his Revolver, and shouted that he would kill the boy’s father.
• The boy’s fading consciousness abruptly snapped back, while Zuo Zuo and the nurses reacted in shock.

Lynn carried the dying Wang Lin to the head nurse’s office and used his bizarre methods to restore Wang Lin’s father before beginning surgery to remove his cancer. The nurses watched in shock as Lynn cut out the old man’s lungs and tumors, while Wang Lin’s fear and willpower reduced the bugs’ erosion.

• Lynn carried Wang Lin to his father’s room and threatened to kill the old man with a rusty knife, but Wang Lin begged him not to because his father was frail.
• Lynn discovered that Wang Lin’s father had terminal lung cancer and made him smoke a cigarette, reviving him and increasing Wang Lin’s fear and willpower.
• Lynn anesthetized Wang Lin’s father, opened his chest, removed his blackened lungs, and purified them.
• Lynn placed the lungs in Wang Lin’s hands and began cutting tumors from the old man’s other organs while Zuo Zuo assisted him.

Lynn operated on Wang Lin’s father, removed his tumors, and used his own modified blood to destroy the cancer cells. When curing his father caused Wang Lin’s will to collapse as he lost his fixation, Lynn tied a strand of blood to Wang Lin’s finger and claimed his father’s life now depended on Wang Lin staying in control.

• Lynn cut away the tumors, then used his blood to target the cancer cells inside Wang Lin’s father.
• Lynn reinstalled the boy’s lungs, stitched up the old man, and woke him with a gunshot; the nurses and Wang Lin were stunned that he had survived and been cured.
• Lynn told Wang Lin he had been joking about killing his father and had only tested whether Wang Lin’s fixation could resist the worms.
• Wang Lin’s gratitude and relief weakened his will, so Lynn slapped him to restore some of it.
• Lynn tied a strand of blood from Wang Lin’s father around Wang Lin’s finger and warned that his father’s cancer would return if Wang Lin lost his sense of self.

Lynn convinced Wang Lin to stay alive by tying his survival to his cancer-stricken father and recruited him to help resist the insect swarm. After learning the hospital had admitted many parasite-infected patients, Lynn and the nurses confronted the rapidly spreading outbreak on the third floor.

• Wang Lin's father suffered a sudden attack, and Wang Lin's willpower increased as Lynn explained that his survival affected his father's life.
• Lynn told Wang Lin that bugs remained in his brain and urged him to keep living so he could help fight the insect plague.
• The nurses told Lynn that the hospital had received many patients with symptoms and had found parasites in some patients' CT scans.
• Lynn, Wang Lin, and the nurses reached the third floor, where infected patients were spreading bugs by vomiting into frightened doctors' mouths.
• Lynn stabbed a lunging patient, gave the nurses AKs, and told them to shoot the infected without hitting their protected brains.
• Wang Lin asked about the severed thread connecting him to his father, and Lynn assured him that his father would still die if Wang Lin was gone.

Lynn and the nurses cleared the hospital’s inpatient department, and he removed parasites from the infected patients. As he worked, he told Wang Lin that he came from Hell and was protecting this world, leaving Wang Lin shaken by the revelations.

• Lynn led the nurses through the inpatient department, shooting the parasite hosts and clearing the corridor.
• Lynn asked the nurses to gather sewing thread, then used tendrils from his fingers to remove worms from the infected patients.
• Wang Lin asked whether Lynn was from Blue Star, and Lynn said he came from a similar world and would not let this one be destroyed.
• Lynn told Wang Lin that the parasites came from Hell and warned him to flee from unfamiliar monsters, since most were insane.
• After treating 110 infected people, Lynn noted that none had possessed enough determination to keep the parasites in check.

Lynn rescued hundreds of parasite-infected people and took Wang Lin with him, then sensed the Hidden Cultivation Society closing in on his shelter. The chapter ended with holy figures surrounding him in the white fog.

• Lynn paralyzed the Parasite Hosts, persuaded Wang Lin to leave with him, and told him the police would look after his father.
• Lynn declined the young nurse's offer to join him, then dragged Wang Lin and more than a hundred Parasite Hosts out through a small window.
• Lynn collected over four hundred infected people from another building and hauled them with Wang Lin through the fog toward his shelter.
• Lynn sensed seven or eight powerful presences and realized the Hidden Cultivation Society had mobilized against him.
• Bells rang through the fog, and figures with holy light surrounding Lynn appeared and surrounded him.

Lynn confronted Messiah and six other Apostles of the Hidden Cultivation Society, challenging their beliefs about sacrifice and obedience. When they attacked, he removed his mask and prepared to show them the power that had let him survive Hell.

• Lynn identified seven Apostles surrounding him, including Messiah, who confirmed that parasitic infections had spread through cities around the world.
• An Apostle demanded that Lynn return to Hell, while Messiah said the Society might use his knowledge and power if he accepted their purification.
• Messiah explained that her family had died fighting monsters and accused Lynn of bringing horrors into the world.
• Lynn asked whether Messiah would obey an order to kill millions to save billions, then urged her to oppose orders that violated her ideals.
• Lynn shot one Apostle through his cross, and the other six charged at him.
• Lynn removed his Plague Doctor Mask, opened his Curse Eye, and prepared to reveal why he had survived Hell.

Lynn transformed into a colossal mass of flesh and fought the apostles who tried to exorcise him. After his body survived their holy array, he overwhelmed them with Ghost-Faced Screechers, leaving them writhing in mental agony.

• Lynn activated Flesh Rampage and grew into a towering mass of tentacles, frightening the apostles into retreating.
• The apostles formed an Exorcism Array and unleashed a golden torrent of purifying power on Lynn.
• Lynn survived the attack because the holy power activated his Angel's Embrace buff and healed him.
• Lynn knocked the apostles away and equipped hundreds of Ghost-Faced Screechers as Bio-Armor.
• Lynn commanded the Screechers to shriek, driving Saint Anna, Saint Paul, Louis, and the other apostles to their knees in agony.

Lynn captured the apostles while military forces arrived, and Messiah warned that the governments could authorize nuclear weapons if an apostle died. When she offered herself as a bargaining chip, Lynn threatened the captives to stop her from using Seraphim's Blessing and told her she was too young and inexperienced to negotiate.

• Lynn's aberrant body seized the apostles as missiles and aircraft arrived through the fog.
• Messiah resisted the Ghost-Faced Screecher and warned Lynn that the Hidden Cultivation Society's agreements could trigger nuclear weapons.
• Messiah offered herself as a bargaining chip in exchange for the apostles' release, but Lynn decided to capture her too.
• Messiah cut off a tentacle and prepared to use Seraphim's Blessing, so Lynn threatened to dismember one of the captives.
• Lynn taunted Messiah for being too young and inexperienced to negotiate.

Lynn exposed Messiah’s vulnerability and took her with him, while Wang Lin prepared to leave at his command. When the army arrived, it found no civilian casualties, the Saints missing, and a Flesh Cultist offering to negotiate on Lynn’s behalf.

• Lynn called Messiah a naïve idealist, demonstrated how easily he could overpower her, and warned her that good people became targets for threats.
• Lynn ordered Wang Lin to get ready to leave, and Wang Lin hurriedly obeyed.
• Attack helicopters and troops arrived to find the demon and the seven Saints gone, with no civilian deaths and little damage to the area.
• Officers found crosses bearing the Saints’ names and a puppet-marked Flesh Cultist, who offered to negotiate as Mr. Lynn’s servant.

Lynn captured Messiah and the six other Saints, then used Blood Doll’s Magic Array to contact Dark Night City. The array reached several unknown worlds instead, including one that warned of an approaching Black Nightmare and another that eagerly tried to establish contact.

• Lynn returned to human form in the abandoned underground parking garage and told the captured Messiah he planned to use her and the other Saints as bargaining chips.
• Messiah threatened Lynn with the Hidden Cultivation Society’s Heavenly Lord and First Saint, but Lynn intimidated her by describing the power of Hell and his past conquests.
• Lynn suspended Messiah and the other six Saints from the beams and asked Blood Doll about her attempts to contact Dark Night City.
• Blood Doll showed Lynn the Magic Array, and he connected to it to examine the signals it had received.
• Lynn read replies from four unknown worlds, including a warning that the Black Nightmare was approaching and a greeting from Winter Spring Valley, which had received its first outside signal in hundreds of years.

Lynn discovered Blood Doll had been neglecting the Magic Array and repaired it himself. He forced Messiah to help contact Hell by threatening the captives, making their food depend on her performance.

• Lynn used Remnants of the Past to reveal that Blood Doll had spent her time eating, watching television, sleeping, and covering damage to the Magic Array with paint.
• Lynn caught Blood Doll trying to flee, learned she had stolen food and appliances, and spanked her while Messiah watched.
• Lynn repaired the Magic Array and explained that he needed someone else to redirect its signal toward Hell so he would not reveal himself.
• Lynn pointed his Revolver at Messiah and ordered her to chant, threatening to kill a captive if she made a mistake and tying the prisoners’ food to her performance.

Lynn forced Messiah to read a message into the Magic Array until he contacted Dark Night City, where White Night confirmed that Hell was fighting the Flesh God Cult. Lynn then warned him that the insect swarm would trigger a worldwide plague within a week and pleaded for Dark Night City's researchers to help.

• Lynn coerced Messiah into reading the notebook aloud and recording its message through the Magic Array.
• After seventy-one attempts, Lynn received a signal from White Night in Dark Night City.
• White Night said the Matriarch and others had gone to war against the Flesh God Cult and were intercepting summoning fluctuations from Blue Star.
• Lynn had Messiah relay his thanks for Dark Night City's aid and warn that the insect swarm would cause a worldwide plague within a week.
• Lynn urged White Night to accelerate research into the insects, leaving Messiah stunned by the apparent threat and Lynn's efforts to stop it.

Lynn learned that the parasites could make their hosts lose the will to live when killed, and proposed using their fixation on life to counter the effect. The researchers agreed to pursue the idea, leaving Lynn hopeful that Blue Star could be saved if they found a remedy within five days.

• White Night connected Lynn with the Research Association's chief potion maker, who explained how the parasites infected hosts and fused with their souls.
• The potion maker said killing juvenile parasites released a pheromone that made hosts lose the will to live.
• Lynn proposed using a host's fixation on staying alive to resist the pheromone, and the researchers agreed the idea was worth testing.
• Lynn gave the researchers a five-day deadline before the Insect Swarm entered its second stage.
• After the communication ended, Lynn danced with Messiah and told her that a demon would save her world.