Chapter Summaries

Qin Yiguan escaped the train with Jingye Meinan after an Information Management Bureau agent attacked him, while Jiu Zhengxuan questioned whether the corpse had really been Wrathful Jiao Shensan. Aboard the Three-Legged Cat, Qin Yiguan examined his developing conditions and wondered whether fully developing Conscience-Free Syndrome would make him no longer human.

• Qin Yiguan challenged Jiu Zhengxuan over witnessing the killing, and Jiu Zhengxuan called him a murderer while insisting they remained enemies.
• Jingye Meinan arrived and collected Wrathful Jiao Shensan's body as the train sped toward the Experimental Zone.
• A black-suited Information Management Bureau agent melted the train door and attacked Qin Yiguan with a blazing spark.
• Qin Yiguan activated the Liquid Black Hole, then escaped with Jingye Meinan aboard the Three-Legged Cat.
• Jiu Zhengxuan recognized the darkness as the same kind used in the assassination of Dr. Jiao Shensan and wondered whether the dead man was really Wrathful Jiao Shensan.
• Qin Yiguan reviewed his condition development and wondered whether Conscience-Free Syndrome would eventually make him cease to be human.

Qin Yiguan learned that Shadow Syndrome could create an unbeatable copy of anything he fully understood, but it required a container. He infiltrated the Research Society’s aerial fortress and met an eighth Jiao Shensan, who remembered the older Jiao Shensan’s murder and apologized; Jiao Shensan offered to answer Qin Yiguan’s questions.

• God's Abandoned explained that Shadow Syndrome could quantify a fully understood world and give its copies the source’s combat power plus one, but required a container.
• Qin Yiguan realized the younger Jiao Shensan at the Research Society could serve as the container for the collected Jiao Shensan data.
• Jingye Meinan took Commander Luna’s second blood, while Qin Yiguan infiltrated the aerial fortress through its ventilation shaft.
• Qin Yiguan found Jiao Shensan overwhelmed by documents he did not understand and unable to take responsibility for signing them.
• Jiao Shensan welcomed Qin Yiguan, apologized for the older Jiao Shensan murdering his classmate, and revealed that he remembered events from his younger selves.
• Qin Yiguan understood that the older Jiao Shensan’s memories would converge with the younger man’s, and Jiao Shensan asked if he had questions.

Blank-slate Jiao Shensan explained that the dying Dr. Jiao Shensan had created seven digital copies and arranged for Yiguan to deliver their data so he could continue serving humanity. After Yiguan gave him the data, he vanished and learned that the real Dr. Jiao Shensan had lived near him, while a note suggested Yiguan might be the person capable of ending everything.

• Blank-slate Jiao Shensan told Yiguan that the real Jiao Shensan had created seven digital copies to preserve his knowledge and used his suicide to set their reunion in motion.
• Blank-slate Jiao Shensan described projects that could improve crops in Rust City and prevent deaths through impartial war simulations, but said they needed knowledge held by the other digital copies.
• Yiguan gave Blank-slate Jiao Shensan a storage device containing the seven copies' data, and Blank-slate Jiao Shensan began merging with it as Yiguan vanished.
• Officer Wang told Yiguan that he had broken many laws to share information and reduced their agreed fee by 5,000.
• Yiguan discovered that Dr. Jiao Shensan's body had been registered at a nearby Central City residence and read a note identifying Brain Dark Zone possessor No. 001 as a possible key to ending everything.
• Yiguan concluded that he was the 001 Dr. Jiao Shensan remembered and realized that he could enter the Central District unnoticed without borrowing a Nutrient Pod.

Qin Yiguan secretly entered Central City No. 003 and investigated Dr. Jiao Shensan’s residence, where he found what looked like Suspect No. 6 standing inside. He discovered it was a disabled mechanical stand-in holding a bomb, then turned toward the enormous curtain concealing Dr. Jiao Shensan’s body.

• Qin Yiguan evaded the guard robot and walked through Central City toward Dr. Jiao Shensan’s residence.
• Qin Yiguan climbed through an open window and saw a figure resembling Suspect No. 6 standing motionless inside.
• Qin Yiguan realized the figure was holding a bomb and cut open its chest, revealing a shut-down mechanical body.
• Qin Yiguan concluded Suspect No. 6 had used a robot to enter reality and kill people, and suspected it was meant to destroy Dr. Jiao Shensan’s residence and corpse.
• Qin Yiguan cut the robot’s synthetic face and looked toward the enormous curtain behind which Dr. Jiao Shensan lay.

Qin Yiguan discovered that Doctor Jiao Shensan’s consciousness had been split among seven Nutrient Pods to create the Seven Deadly Sins, then reunited into a ruthless version of Jiao Shensan. After uncovering the conspiracy and realizing Blank Slate Jiao Shensan had deceived him, Qin Yiguan left determined to kill them all.

• Qin Yiguan uncovered Doctor Jiao Shensan in a sealed Nutrient Pod, alive but in a vegetative state, with seven empty pods labeled for the Seven Deadly Sins above him.
• Qin Yiguan found Jiao Shensan’s scratched message explaining that a mysterious organization had copied and divided his consciousness into seven individuals, and warning him to avoid the B5 and B6 Sectors.
• Qin Yiguan concluded that the Seven Deadly Sins had been cultivated to separate Jiao Shensan’s abilities and could later be fused into a single person.
• Qin Yiguan searched the news and learned that the merged Jiao Shensan had recently announced a digital bomb and destructive Source Matter Ore mining technology.
• Qin Yiguan realized Blank Slate Jiao Shensan had pretended to be remorseful to steal the Seven Deadly Sins data, then left the house vowing to kill them all.

Jiao Shensan joined the organization behind the plan and demanded to meet its powerful leaders before Qin Yiguan returned. After killing his longtime assistant, he declared that they could control everything in the B5 and B6 Sectors.

• Jiao Shensan rejected his former work and embraced the organization after fusing with the Seven Deadly Sins' data.
• Jiao Shensan predicted that Qin Yiguan would return to the sky fortress, and Zheng Yong promised to kill him.
• Jiao Shensan asked Zheng Yong to summon the organization's leaders so he could see its full strength.
• Zheng Yong introduced Xu Zhou, Qian Long, Mo Beicang, Bian Qin, Jiang Changsheng, and himself as powerful officials and leaders in the B5 and B6 Sectors.
• Jiao Shensan shot his assistant Xiaoxiu, then declared that their group could cover the sky with one hand in both sectors.

Jiao Shensan and his allies massacred researchers and prepared to frame Qin Yiguan for an assassination attempt, believing their hidden Barrier was secure. Qin appeared inside it through the Metaverse, surprising them and exposing their plan.

• Jiao Shensan revealed that 260 scientists had agreed to follow him and ordered the others slaughtered, then had the killers disguise themselves as fortress staff.
• Jiao Shensan explained that holograms would make it appear he was meeting officials in the conference room while they hid in his undetectable Barrier.
• Jiao Shensan and Zheng Yong planned to kill Qin Yiguan, blame him for an assassination attempt, and use the resulting story to pursue their objectives.
• Qin Yiguan logged into the Barrier directly from the Metaverse, leaving the conference-room ambush empty and shocking Jiao Shensan and the officials.
• Qin identified several officials as members of the same organization and told Jiao Shensan that he had done well on his mission.

Qin Yiguan exposed Jiao Shensan’s altered impulses and revealed that he had planted Corpse-loving Microorganisms throughout the flying fortress. After the disguised killers began burning from within, he confronted the remaining big shots and demanded that anyone with hidden combat abilities step forward.

• God's Abandoned revealed that he had added impulses to the Seven Deadly Sins' data, and Qin Yiguan confronted Jiao Shensan about being manipulated.
• Qin Yiguan identified the Research Society’s missing scientists and disguised killers, then exposed Qian Long as the police department’s big fish.
• A Group 60 member attacked the glass with a high-temperature spark, raising the room’s temperature and triggering the infected killers’ combustion.
• Qin Yiguan explained that he had planted Corpse-loving Microorganisms in the ventilation ducts, which produced flammable phosphine inside the killers.
• The fires spread through the flying fortress as God's Abandoned’s hacked temperature controls kept the heat rising, and the killers were reduced to ashes.
• Qin Yiguan assured the remaining big shots that the microorganisms were not in their room and challenged anyone hiding combat abilities to step forward.

Qin Yiguan confronted the Longevity Society and revealed its plan to kill sixty million people in sectors B5 and B6 to raise Fusion Rates and seek immortality of consciousness. Zheng Yong prepared to fight, and Qin Yiguan announced that he would stop the plan by killing every member present.

• Qin Yiguan noticed that the assassins’ deaths had increased his Fusion Rate, though only by small amounts.
• Police Chief Qian Long tried to persuade Qin Yiguan to spare the Longevity Society and hear its plan.
• Qin Yiguan explained how he had decoded Doctor Jiao Shensan’s letter and inferred that the society planned to cause a disaster that would destroy sectors B5 and B6 and kill sixty million people.
• Qin Yiguan accused the society of seeking 100% Fusion Rate and immortality of consciousness, and identified the commander-in-chief Mo Beicang as a replacement after the real Mo Beicang had died.
• Zheng Yong revealed a Fusion Rate of 72% and challenged Qin Yiguan, who said he would stop the plan by killing everyone there.

Qin Yiguan’s sugar-eating alter ego killed Zheng Yong and the remaining Group 60 members, then Qin Yiguan tried to escape as Jiu Zhengxuan arrived and exposed him with Photon Resonance. The light triggered Qin Yiguan’s fear, which he turned into a demonic claw that killed Xu Zhou.

• Zheng Yong ordered the three surviving Group 60 members to attack Qin Yiguan, but the sugar-eating youth exploded all three and then killed Zheng Yong with a spatial power.
• After the youth returned to calm, Qin Yiguan realized the three expensive sugar cubes were gone and suspected the childlike persona had eaten them.
• Xu Zhou challenged Qin Yiguan, who reached for the Liquid Black Hole, but Jiu Zhengxuan arrived with a device that produced light in the darkness.
• Jiu Zhengxuan used Photon Resonance to illuminate the ashes and accused Qin Yiguan of killing again, while the faint light filled him with fear.
• Qin Yiguan turned his fear into a ten-meter demonic claw that seized Xu Zhou and crushed him until his body burst apart.

At the Dog Gang, NST Wulong Baiyan learned that Qin Yiguan had infiltrated the Research Society and attacked Jiao Shensan during a meeting aboard its aerial fortress. Qin Yiguan escaped with Jiao Shensan aboard the Three-Legged Cat, apparently heading toward the Dog Gang.

• NST Wulong Baiyan confronted Chen Mudou about her failed assassination attempt and doubted her account of Qin Yiguan's infiltration.
• A live report showed Qin Yiguan attacking the Research Society's conference room, where demon claws killed Digital Human Commander Mo and several officials as the aerial fortress began to collapse.
• Jiao Shensan tried to eject the Barrier and shoved police chief Qian Long toward a demon claw, then searched for another scapegoat as the fortress crashed.
• Qin Yiguan's attack destroyed the conference-room simulation equipment, revealing that the apparent gathering of officials and Qin Yiguan had been holographic.
• A metal-covered figure leaped from the burning fortress carrying Jiao Shensan, and the Three-Legged Cat caught them and flew away.
• NST Wulong Baiyan realized the Three-Legged Cat was heading toward the Dog Gang.

After escaping the Research Society’s destroyed aerial fortress, Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan were pursued by a metal shard that accelerated without limit. The chapter left them in danger as the shard closed in, while Lu Zun revealed a painful injury to his right foot.

• Lu Zun mourned his son Zheng Xuan amid the aerial fortress’s wreckage, then hurled a steel shard toward the fleeing Three-Legged Cat.
• Jingye Meinan realized Qin Yiguan was missing and feared he had fallen to his death, but Qin Yiguan appeared clinging to the craft’s exterior.
• Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan accelerated the Three-Legged Cat to more than half the speed of light, but the shard kept gaining on them.
• Jingye Meinan identified the shard’s power as the Reality Enhancement “Absolute Hit,” which would pursue its target until it struck.
• As Lu Zun received medical care, he warned the worker not to touch his right foot.

Qin Yiguan survived a deadly pursuit with help from an unknown powerhouse, then returned to DOG headquarters with Jiao Shensan and declared his level-ten job complete by killing him. After revealing the remains of several powerful officials and describing the scale of his killings, Qin Yiguan prompted NST Wulong Baiyan to lavishly reward him and announce a victory banquet.

• An unseen person used a red cloth to make the metal fragment pursuing Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan vanish, leaving behind flower petals and a white dove.
• Qin Yiguan brought the unconscious Jiao Shensan to DOG headquarters, where NST Wulong Baiyan confirmed his identity.
• When Jiao Shensan denied his sins and threatened the Dog Gang, Qin Yiguan snapped his neck and announced that Hall 157’s level-ten job was complete.
• Qin Yiguan revealed the mangled remains of six powerful officials and said he had also killed more than 1,500 of their subordinates, asking whether DOG had assassination jobs for them.
• NST Wulong Baiyan rejected Chen Fazheng’s proposed pay deduction, doubled Qin Yiguan’s bonuses, and announced a victory banquet to welcome him home.

At DOG headquarters, Jingye Meinan became convinced that Daxiu was interested in him and rushed after her, while Qin Yiguan pondered the disappearance of the Absolute Hit steel plate. Chen Mudou then described her devoted magician boyfriend, leaving Qin Yiguan with more questions about the strange event in the east.

• NST Wulong Baiyan drunkenly promised Qin Yiguan a promotion, and Qin joked that he could kill Wulong and take over DOG himself.
• Chen Fazheng praised Qin Yiguan, Chen Mudou, and Jingye Meinan for their work on the level-ten mission.
• Daxiu flirted with Jingye Meinan, then went upstairs, prompting him to gulp down his liquor and charge into the crowd.
• Qin Yiguan remembered that the steel plate bearing Absolute Hit had vanished and suspected a powerful person had secretly helped him.
• Chen Mudou thanked Qin Yiguan and said her ordinary, penniless magician boyfriend had been waiting for her in the east.

Qin Yiguan visited Doctor Jiao Shensan after destroying the Longevity Society and witnessed Doctor Jiao’s final death and the mysterious dissolution of his cerebral nerves. The experience raised Qin Yiguan’s Metaverse Fusion Rate to 15% and activated Brain Restricted Zone A03, leaving him wondering what new condition he had.

• Qin Yiguan entered Residence E4965 and told Doctor Jiao Shensan that he had killed the Longevity Society’s leaders, while acknowledging that more might remain in hiding.
• Qin Yiguan placed a wildflower by Doctor Jiao’s Nutrient Pod, and the pod registered Doctor Jiao’s death after his health readings fell to zero.
• Doctor Jiao’s cerebral nerves dissolved into glowing white threads and drifting points of light, a phenomenon Qin Yiguan recognized from Officer Wang’s account of earlier deaths.
• Qin Yiguan received a notification that his Fusion Rate had risen to 15%, replenishing his overdrawn abilities and increasing his capabilities in the Experimental Zone.
• Qin Yiguan saw that Brain Restricted Zone A03 was activating and realized that Doctor Jiao’s death had granted him a 10% Fusion Rate increase.

The boy questioned how Fusion Rate worked, left Doctor Jiao Shensan’s frozen body, and wondered what the letters “JL” meant. A red-hooded girl found Jiao Shensan and entered those letters into a virtual screen, while Qin Yiguan arrived in Bilin City to investigate Chen Mudou and discovered the city charged him 102 per second.

• The boy concluded that uncovering conspiracies, helping people, and fulfilling their wishes might raise his Fusion Rate more than killing did, and the smart wristwatch’s mysterious sender claimed to be “fucking awesome” but low on battery.
• Doctor Jiao Shensan’s Nutrient Pod entered freezing mode, and the boy bowed before leaving while wondering why Doctor Jiao had titled his letter “JL” and predicted his return.
• A red-hooded girl entered residence e4965, found Doctor Jiao Shensan frozen, grieved that she was too late, and entered “JL” into a virtual screen.
• Qin Yiguan logged into the Experimental Zone with 1.64 million and traveled to Bilin City, where he planned to investigate Chen Mudou and her boyfriend at Praise Genes.
• Qin Yiguan entered Bilin City and watched 102 drain from his balance each second, realizing he could not afford to stay long.

Qin Yiguan entered Zanyin Group to find Chen Mudou and discovered that her boyfriend, Jiang Mingshu, was invisible because he existed in her delusion. Dr. House warned Qin Yiguan not to shatter Chen Mudou’s illusion, so Qin pretended to greet Jiang Mingshu.

• Qin Yiguan used Shadow Syndrome to sneak into Zanyin Technology and found Chen Mudou’s workstation surrounded by gifts as her coworkers mocked her.
• Qin Yiguan threatened Chen Mudou’s coworkers until one of them revealed that her boyfriend had come to visit.
• Qin Yiguan watched Chen Mudou talk to and kiss an empty space, then sent a recording to Dr. House.
• Dr. House concluded that Chen Mudou’s delusion let her manifest extraordinary power through her imaginary boyfriend, Jiang Mingshu.
• Chen Mudou introduced Jiang Mingshu to Qin Yiguan, and Qin followed Dr. House’s warning by greeting the empty space.

Qin Yiguan realized Chen Mudou’s subconscious controlled the powerful magician Jiang Mingshu, then returned to DOG Group headquarters and told Jingye Meinan that Daxiu had been flirting with him. The chapter ended with the devastated Jingye Meinan attacking Qin Yiguan.

• Chen Mudou’s director scolded her over her anonymous email and absence, and Qin Yiguan sensed Jiang Mingshu’s killing intent before Chen Mudou calmed him.
• On his way back, Qin Yiguan reasoned that Jiang Mingshu acted on Chen Mudou’s subconscious wishes and had likely smashed the alloy door during the earlier rescue.
• Qin Yiguan returned to DOG Group headquarters and found Jingye Meinan grieving because he had gotten drunk and fallen asleep before reaching Daxiu’s bedroom.
• Qin Yiguan told Jingye Meinan that Daxiu’s suggestive looks had been directed at him, prompting Jingye Meinan to threaten and attack him.

Jingye Meinan discovered that Daxiu was signaling her interest in him, while Qin Yiguan learned that the Dog Gang’s new drug was being injected into users’ real bodies as well as their virtual ones. The chapter ended when Rong Qian called to say that something had happened to President Meng.

• Jingye Meinan realized Daxiu had written his name and signaled that the kitty was waiting for him, while Qin Yiguan learned he had mistaken her target.
• Qin Yiguan questioned why the Dog Gang’s jobs all involved recruiting women into prostitution, and Chen Fazheng explained the gang’s high demand for the work.
• Chen Fasheng explained that the new drug synchronized injections in the Metaverse and users’ Nutrient Pods, and said Boss Wulong Baiyan would meet its supplier in three days.
• Qin Yiguan noticed the syringes resembled ones used by the Zanyin Group and suspected the group and the Metaverse Government were working together.
• Rong Qian called Qin Yiguan and told him that something had happened to President Meng.

Meng Jihe endured torture and a truth serum while reliving memories of his childhood with Qin Yiguan and his rise to success. As the interrogators demanded 001's real name, Qin Yiguan broke into the cell and revealed himself.

• Two men in black tortured Meng Jihe and demanded information about 001, but he refused to cooperate.
• The interrogators injected Meng Jihe with a tenfold dose of a drug from the Zanyin Group, sending him into vivid memories.
• Meng Jihe remembered growing up with Qin Yiguan, leaving the orphanage, and discovering him hidden inside a suitcase.
• Meng Jihe recalled building the Geometry Design Group and Geometry Tower before meeting Qin Yiguan again in the Experimental Zone.
• One of the men in black asked Meng Jihe to name 001, and Qin Yiguan smashed through the cell's western wall and announced his name.