Chapter Summaries

Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan followed clues about Jiao Shensan to the City of Gluttony, where the supposedly resurrected scientist appeared as the Gluttony King. As Jiao Shensan died again during a public eating spectacle, Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan were left facing another bizarre death.

• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan escaped the True City of the World through a secret passage, and Qin Yiguan used an information chip to head for the next coordinates.
• Jiu Zhengxuan and the Youth Order Squad arrived too late to catch them, while Huo Shuang argued that Qin Yiguan was too depraved to merit further investigation.
• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan reached the City of Gluttony and saw an announcement that Jiao Shensan, the Gluttony King, would dine at the northern plaza.
• The crowd watched Jiao Shensan consume vast quantities of food, and Jingye Meinan explained how the wealthy could experience food with vastly enhanced taste sensations.
• Jiao Shensan choked, fell from the platform, and died, prompting Qin Yiguan to accuse Jingye Meinan of causing the second death.

Qin Yiguan forced Jingye Meinan to use Opposite-Sex Resonance to clear the crowd so he could inspect Gluttony King Jiao Shensan’s corpse. He found signs of poisoning and recognized the killer as Poison Master, whose memories left him recalling her students with a loving smile.

• Qin Yiguan learned that Gluttony King Jiao Shensan had earned his fortune through neuroscience and medical breakthroughs.
• Qin Yiguan pressured Jingye Meinan into using Opposite-Sex Resonance to draw the crowd away from the corpse.
• Qin Yiguan used the Three-Legged Cat to spread Jingye Meinan’s pheromones and pushed through the frenzied crowd to reach Jiao Shensan.
• Qin Yiguan found fresh ulcers in Jiao Shensan’s mouth and concluded that he had been poisoned.
• Qin Yiguan recognized Poison Master and recalled her past poisoning, her diary, and the students she had protected.

Qin Yiguan examined Gluttony Jiao Shensan’s corpse and identified radiation poisoning from polonium, then discovered the body was a Digital Human. Section Chief Shi’s men detained Qin Yiguan, who was left locked inside a prisoner transport aircraft after trying to learn what they wanted from the corpse.

• Qin Yiguan found signs of acute radiation sickness on Gluttony Jiao Shensan and concluded that polonium had poisoned him through ingestion, inhalation, or a wound.
• Men in black arrived and ordered Qin Yiguan away from the corpse, while Section Chief Shi presented his electronic ID and claimed authority over the team.
• Qin Yiguan uncovered the code AE230 on Gluttony Jiao Shensan’s foot and declared that he was a Digital Human.
• Section Chief Shi ordered his men to restrain Qin Yiguan, who speculated that they had come to retrieve the neuroscience knowledge in Jiao Shensan’s brain and the waiter’s body.
• Section Chief Shi gave Qin Yiguan no answers, and his men locked Qin Yiguan inside a sturdy aircraft used to transport prisoners.

Qin Yiguan confronted Shi Long, who revealed his petrification ability and attacked him after accusing him of murdering Gluttony Jiao Shensan. As Shi Long and his men moved to finish him, a childlike personality took over Qin Yiguan and destroyed them all.

• Shi Long broke into the room and revealed his Flesh Petrification Reality Enhancement, then claimed Qin Yiguan had killed Gluttony Jiao Shensan and tried to arrest him.
• Qin Yiguan attacked Shi Long and discovered lead gloves, accusing him of being the real murderer who killed Gluttony Jiao Shensan.
• Shi Long overpowered Qin Yiguan, while God's Abandoned explained that Qin Yiguan's low Fusion Rate left him outmatched.
• Shi Long hurled Qin Yiguan into the ruins and prepared to finish him, but Qin Yiguan rose with cream from Jiao Shensan's 64-Degree Sweet on his hand.
• A childlike personality took control of Qin Yiguan and used spatial force to blow Shi Long and the men in black apart.

Qin Yiguan relived a memory of his hypnosis session and realized that eating 64-degree candy had brought out another personality when he was near death. After leaving the City of Gluttony with two hard drives tied to Jiao Shensan, he bought more candy as bait, while Dr. Jiao Shensan struggled to understand research documents and demanded that his data be sent.

• Qin Yiguan watched his hypnotized self eat candy while Dr. House warned You Minglan not to interrupt him because he was on high alert.
• Qin Yiguan woke amid the ruins of the City of Gluttony, where he saw Jingye Meinan held by men and realized Guardian had not appeared before his other personality surfaced.
• Qin Yiguan searched an aircraft and a nearby safe, finding hard drives labeled with Jiao Shensan’s brain and nerve medicine research and quantum physics research.
• Qin Yiguan spent 80,000 yuan on three pieces of 20-degree candy and carried them in an inner pocket before leaving the City of Gluttony.
• Dr. Jiao Shensan failed to understand the research documents and angrily demanded his data from a contact over his communicator.

Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan found the young Jiao Shensan asleep beneath layers of nested Metaverse simulations and discovered mechanical blueprints 30,001 layers deep. As they watched, an older Jiao Shensan appeared inside the simulation, carrying a dagger toward his younger self.

• Jingye Meinan complained to Qin Yiguan about his humiliating assignment and urged him to kill Jiao Shensan directly.
• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan followed the information chip's coordinates to a slum house and found the young Jiao Shensan asleep in a Neural Helmet.
• Jingye Meinan opened successive Metaverse layers, finding Jiao Shensan lying motionless in each one.
• Qin Yiguan told Jingye Meinan to continue until they found Jiao Shensan's research, and at layer 30,001 they saw mechanical blueprints.
• A dark figure entered the deepest simulation with a dagger, and Qin Yiguan recognized him as Jiao Shensan at around thirty years old.

Qin Yiguan watched Envious Jiao Shensan stab the young Jiao Shensan inside the Metaverse, threatening to trigger a chain reaction that would kill him. God's Abandoned entered the virtual world, killed the attacker, and collected data from both Jiao Shensans.

• Qin Yiguan realized that the thirty-year-old Jiao Shensan embodied envy and had stabbed the young Jiao Shensan out of jealousy.
• Jingye Meinan warned Qin Yiguan that the young Jiao Shensan's death across the Metaverse layers could spread until it killed him in reality.
• God's Abandoned entered the 30,001st Metaverse layer as a black-clad figure and cut the thirty-year-old Jiao Shensan in half.
• God's Abandoned collected both Jiao Shensans' corpses and the mechanical design documents.
• Qin Yiguan received data packets containing the young Jiao Shensan's mechanical design knowledge and the older Jiao Shensan's programming knowledge.

A powerful leader sent Group 60 to recover the Jiao Shensan data and kill 001, the boy believed to be sabotaging his plans. The group recovered two Jiao Shensan corpses, but 001 had hijacked their consciousnesses, leaving the leader to intensify Meng Jihe’s torture in hopes of finding him.

• A burly leader watched footage of 001 killing Information Management Bureau members and ordered Group 60 to recover the Jiao Shensan data and kill 001 on sight.
• Section Chief Wu led two hundred Group 60 members to Jiao Shensan’s residence, where they found his corpse being gnawed by a rat but did not find 001.
• The leader learned that Group 60 had recovered the eighteen-year-old and thirty-year-old Jiao Shensan corpses, both of whom had died before the team arrived.
• The leader questioned Meng Jihe about 001, but Meng Jihe insisted he did not know the boy, so the leader ordered his pain sensitivity raised.
• After the recovered data revealed only trivial details, the leader realized 001 had hijacked the consciousnesses of two Jiao Shensans and ordered Meng Jihe’s pain sensitivity raised three hundredfold.

Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan visited Jiao Shensan’s Source Matter mine to propose a new deposit, where Qin discovered that the mine’s laborers were brutally altered and forced to search for ore. He recognized one of them as his former neighbor Brother Lu, and the chapter ended with a guard threatening Qin at gunpoint.

• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan told Jiao Shensan’s guards they knew of a new Source Matter deposit and were escorted into the mine.
• Qin Yiguan saw laborers bolted to a steel plate, their mouths sealed and eyes replaced with lenses, as they searched soil for tiny traces of Source Matter.
• A guard claimed the laborers had volunteered under contracts and received a share of the ore they collected.
• Qin Yiguan recognized one of the mutilated laborers as Brother Lu, his former neighbor who had left Rust City with his elderly mother.
• A guard pressed a gun against Qin Yiguan’s back and warned him that Brother Lu belonged to Jiao Shensan.

Qin Yiguan recognized that the greedy mine owner Jiao Shensan was actually his old friend Brother Lu, who had switched faces with his former boss. After Brother Lu died, Qin Yiguan returned his body and his mother’s body to Rust City and buried them together.

• Qin Yiguan questioned Jiao Shensan about his past and recognized him as Brother Lu from his unconscious foot movements.
• Jiao Shensan demanded the location of a nonexistent ore deposit and ordered Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan restrained.
• Information Management Bureau agents killed the man posing as Jiao Shensan, then discovered his corpse was not a Digital Human.
• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan found the dying laborer who was actually Jiao Shensan, and Jingye Meinan absorbed his corpse after he died.
• Qin Yiguan logged out, leaving Jingye Meinan to escape alone as the Bureau team closed in.
• Qin Yiguan carried Brother Lu and his mother back to Rust City and buried them together.

Qin Yiguan endured Jiu Zhengxuan’s persistent attempts to collect more data at school while Jiu investigated whether Qin could be the masked figure from the Research Society. Jiu discovered the theory of Shadow Syndrome and, after studying it late into the night, startled Auntie Lan by appearing to look like his father, Master Lu.

• Qin Yiguan returned to school, where Jiu Zhengxuan apologized and then repeatedly searched his belongings and pressured him to provide data, claiming they were classmates.
• Qin Yiguan recognized that Jiu was trying to collect data for the Verification Section and gave him the middle finger when Jiu demanded more movement data.
• Jiu Zhengxuan reviewed Qin’s failed movement-data comparison and found information about Shadow Syndrome, a hypothetical condition that could let someone imitate another person completely.
• Auntie Lan entered Jiu Zhengxuan’s study at three in the morning and mistook him for his father, Master Lu, before realizing it was Jiu.
• Jiu Zhengxuan told Auntie Lan he had almost finished studying, and she urged him to rest and regain his strength.

Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan followed the sixth set of coordinates into an underground tunnel, searching for the missing digital Jiao Shensan. They found a mutilated, chained figure who greeted them and promised to tell them about the pride of his life.

• A subordinate reported to the Chief that the bureau had failed to recover Jiao Shensan from the mine, could not make Meng Jihe talk, and had lost track of Pride; the Chief gave Zeming forty-eight hours to resolve the matter.
• Qin Yiguan contacted Jingye Meinan and tricked him into coming to help by claiming an Information Management Bureau agent was transgender, then admitted he had lied.
• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan entered a wealthy neighborhood at the sixth set of coordinates, but Qin Yiguan hurried them onward because the digital Jiao Shensan was likely hiding.
• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan descended a deep tunnel, heard a monstrous roar, and found a mutilated figure hanging from chains.
• The chained figure welcomed Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan and said he had kept his mouth so he could tell them about the pride of his life.

Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan met Jiao Shensan, a human stump who identified himself as Pride and explained that his astronomy research concerned time. Jiao began recounting how a woman named Wanrou brought him to this state, leaving Jingye intrigued when he revealed she was already married.

• Jiao Shensan recognized Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan, who found him suspended in the cave as a human stump.
• Qin Yiguan asked Jiao what science he studied, and Jiao said he specialized in astronomy.
• Jiao explained that astronomy had first studied time and described how his insights had brought him fame and wealth.
• Qin Yiguan asked what had brought Jiao to his current condition, and Jiao answered that it was a woman.
• Jiao described falling in love with the beautiful Wanrou, then revealed she was already married, prompting Jingye to perk up.

Jiao Shensan explained how he imprisoned Wanrou in the God Clock, repeatedly made her relive childhood and adulthood to gather data, and used it to create a digital version who loved him. He then revealed that memories from different simulated versions of himself had merged across timelines, explaining why he recognized Mr. Qin years before they met.

• Jiao Shensan said he had kidnapped Wanrou by placing her in the God Clock, where time passed 2.6 million times faster than outside.
• Jiao Shensan repeatedly drugged Wanrou and made her relive her life in a virtual world a million times to collect every detail about her.
• Jiao Shensan created a digital Wanrou programmed to love only him and intended to give her the collected memories of the real Wanrou.
• Jiao Shensan told Mr. Qin that memories from his different simulated lives had appeared and merged across timelines.
• Mr. Qin recalled that the sixty-eight-year-old Jiao Shensan had recognized him at their first meeting, saying he had known him for many years.

Qin Yiguan learned that the memories of different Jiao Shensans would converge, then faced the monstrous Digital Human that Wanrou had become. He captured Wanrou and Jiao Shensan with the Information Management Bureau device, leaving him to reflect on whether their bond had been love.

• Jiao Shensan told Qin Yiguan that the older versions of himself would eventually share their memories and urged him to gather them all.
• Jiao Shensan blamed his arrogance for Wanrou’s suffering and revealed that her failed Digital Human still existed.
• Jiao Shensan summoned Wanrou, who appeared as a gigantic composite creature made from countless women’s bodies.
• Jingye Meinan fled from Wanrou, but Qin Yiguan stayed and used the high-tech vacuum cleaner to convert her into data.
• Wanrou’s remaining bodies embraced Jiao Shensan, and the device absorbed them both into nothingness.
• Qin Yiguan stood silently and wondered whether their relationship had been love.

Qin Yiguan realized that two of the seven coordinates led to limbless Jiao Shensan, leaving Wrath’s location unknown. After logging off, he returned to school and learned that Shangguan Xiaotao had been murdered, then examined her dismembered remains as Jiu Zhengxuan watched and imitated his movements.

• Qin Yiguan reviewed the stored Jiao Shensan figures and learned that Wanrou’s million-person data had formed a massive monster, though she remained only data.
• Qin Yiguan concluded that the sixth and seventh coordinates both pointed to limbless Jiao Shensan, leaving him searching for the missing Wrath.
• Jingye Meinan discovered that Qin Yiguan had logged off before helping replenish the Three-Legged Cat’s energy.
• Taotie Clam told Qin Yiguan that Shangguan Xiaotao had been killed and dismembered, with her body parts found in the school sewers.
• Xiao Li let Qin Yiguan examine Shangguan Xiaotao’s remains, and Qin Yiguan reenacted the killer’s motions as Jiu Zhengxuan secretly copied him.

Qin Yiguan identified Suspect No. 6 as the killer of Shangguan Xiaotao, but learned that the suspect had escaped and was actually Jiao Shensan, the Wrath of the Seven Deadly Sins. While examining Shangguan Xiaotao’s electronic textbook, Qin Yiguan discovered that she had been the girl he helped as a child and had become his high school classmate.

• Qin Yiguan recognized Shangguan Xiaotao’s hand-painted water cup and recalled the killer’s confession about attacking a girl in a white dress.
• Qin Yiguan told Officer Wang that the killer was Suspect No. 6, and Officer Wang confirmed the suspect had escaped.
• Qin Yiguan learned that Suspect No. 6’s real name was Jiao Shensan and realized he was Wrath of the Seven Deadly Sins, someone who had been near him for a long time.
• With Officer Xiao Li’s permission, Qin Yiguan examined Shangguan Xiaotao’s electronic textbook and recognized a childhood photograph of himself.
• Qin Yiguan read Shangguan Xiaotao’s message revealing that she was the girl he had given money and belongings to as a child.

Qin Yiguan deduced that Wrathful Jiao Shensan had chosen a vantage point aboard a maglev train passing over the school, then chased after it using the criminal’s parkour skills. Jiu Zhengxuan followed him, leaving the students stunned by the pair’s abilities.

• Qin Yiguan identified Suspect No. 6 as Wrathful Jiao Shensan and inferred that a police mole had helped him escape.
• Qin Yiguan entered Jiao Shensan’s mindset and deduced that the suspect planned to watch events at school from a passing maglev train.
• Qin Yiguan took Officer Xiao Li’s magnetic-net pistol, smashed a classroom window, and leaped onto the gym roof.
• Qin Yiguan raced across rooftops using parkour, while Officer Xiao Li and the students watched in shock.
• Jiu Zhengxuan vaulted out of the window and pursued Qin Yiguan across the rooftops.

Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan confronted Wrathful Jiao Shensan aboard a moving train, where they learned he had undergone human augmentation and struggled to fight him. As Suspect No. 6 slashed at Qin Yiguan, the Experimental Zone forced Qin Yiguan to log out, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Qin Yiguan climbed onto the halted maglev train using an electric net gun, while Jiu Zhengxuan entered through an emergency exit.
• Qin Yiguan recognized the middle-aged man in the trench coat as Wrathful Jiao Shensan, who confessed to killing Shangguan Xiaotao and taunted Qin Yiguan about recognizing her.
• Qin Yiguan attacked Wrathful Jiao Shensan, but the suspect rose and threw him aside; Jiu Zhengxuan also failed to overpower him.
• Suspect No. 6 revealed that he had undergone human augmentation and fought off Qin Yiguan and Jiu Zhengxuan, who synchronized their movements using [Shadow Syndrome].
• Suspect No. 6 slashed at Qin Yiguan's neck, but Qin Yiguan began dissolving into blue code as the Experimental Zone restricted his virtual-helmet information intake and forced him to log out.

Qin Yiguan returned to the Experimental Zone and fought Suspect No. 6, whose enhanced body initially matched his copied strength. Fueled by rage over Shangguan Xiaotao’s murder, Qin Yiguan’s Shadow Syndrome evolved into Box Syndrome, allowing him to surpass No. 6 and kill him.

• Jiu Zhengxuan activated Reality Enhancement, but his father’s voice made him stand down while Suspect No. 6 claimed he had seven days to torture Qin Yiguan.
• Qin Yiguan emerged through a portal and attacked No. 6, then copied the killer’s twelvefold physical enhancement to match him.
• As Qin Yiguan recalled Shangguan Xiaotao’s life and murder, his rage surpassed No. 6’s and Shadow Syndrome evolved into Box Syndrome.
• No. 6 injected a Dying Potion and raised his enhancement to thirty-twofold, but Qin Yiguan’s new ability made him one increment stronger.
• Qin Yiguan broke No. 6’s limbs and killed him with a dagger, leaving his body in twenty-eight pieces.