Chapter Summaries

Jiu Zhengxuan rejected Qin Yiguan’s plan and used Lu Zun’s visual detector to help his father kill Qin Yiguan, then claimed he had executed a murderer. Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou were arrested as Lu Zun watched approvingly.

• Jiu Zhengxuan refused to cooperate with Qin Yiguan, then played Lu Zun’s message revealing that the visual module could let his father target Qin Yiguan with Absolute Hit.
• Jiu Zhengxuan decided to send Lu Zun the image, convinced that concealing his brothers’ deaths would let him return to his old life and public identity.
• Wei Hu’s weapons failed to harm Chen Mudou as Jiang Mingshu protected her, while a flying fountain pen struck toward the battlefield.
• Lu Zun’s attack killed Qin Yiguan, and Jiu Zhengxuan told reporters that Qin Yiguan had confessed to murder and resisted arrest.
• Jiu Zhengxuan ordered Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou to surrender, and electromagnetic handcuffs locked around them as Lu Zun watched approvingly.

After the DOG Group battle, Jingye Meinan was imprisoned but secretly released by Wang Shiwei, while Chen Mudou escaped through an unexplained disappearance. Jingye Meinan set off to find the person at the coordinates Wang Shiwei gave him, and Wang Shiwei claimed Chen Mudou had escaped on her own.

• NST Wulong Baiyan lamented that nobody had arrested him after the battle, then mourned Qin Yiguan and celebrated that Jingye Meinan was in prison.
• Jingye Meinan was locked in a high-security cell, mourned Qin Yiguan briefly, and then flirted with a female guard.
• Wang Shiwei used his clearance to release Jingye Meinan and told him to keep the escape quiet and follow projected coordinates.
• Jingye Meinan recognized Wang Shiwei, memorized the coordinates, covered his face with active spray coating, and left.
• Wang Shiwei watched footage of Chen Mudou’s restraints opening and her disappearing from her cell, then decided to claim she had escaped on her own.

Qin Yiguan met Jingye Meinan and Chen Mudou in Vortex Cloud City after faking his death, then explained his plan to investigate Lu Zun’s suspected mass murder scheme. Jiu Zhengxuan agreed to help, though he still hoped his father might be innocent.

• Qin Yiguan ordered a Hidden Soul Grass caramel macchiato, disliked its taste, and failed to notice Jingye Meinan recognizing him.
• Jingye Meinan joined Qin Yiguan, drank the remaining coffee, and asked what they would do next.
• Chen Mudou arrived and told Qin Yiguan she knew Lu Zun was his target, while Jingye Meinan questioned how she had learned about the plan.
• Qin Yiguan recalled persuading Jiu Zhengxuan to cooperate by explaining his suspicion that Lu Zun planned to torture and kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people to raise his Fusion Rate.
• Jiu Zhengxuan agreed to help Qin Yiguan fake his death and investigate Lu Zun, but said he still hoped his father had been used or controlled rather than being evil.

Qin Yiguan waited for the tattoo-shop owner Jiaolong, hoping to learn about the Leviathan Rift and Lu Zun's plans, while explaining Jiang Mingshu's connection to Chen Mudou. The chapter ended when Qin Yiguan saw a bloodied Jiaolong return to her shop.

• Qin Yiguan decided to wait for Jiaolong, believing she could explain the Leviathan Rift and He Hongyuan's research.
• Jingye Meinan told Qin Yiguan that he had not slept with Huo Shuang and explained why he had held back.
• Qin Yiguan revealed that Jiang Mingshu was an imaginary figure in Chen Mudou's mind whose power protected her.
• Chen Mudou brought four cups of coffee, and Qin Yiguan and Jingye Meinan pretended to greet Jiang Mingshu when she said he was there.
• Qin Yiguan saw Jiaolong stagger to the tattoo shop with blood dripping between her legs and enter inside.

Qin Yiguan and his companions found Jiaolong stitching a deep wound in her back at her tattoo shop. She revealed that she had killed Ba Zheng Xuan after he ambushed her during her attempt to assassinate Lu Zun, and Qin Yiguan unexpectedly admitted that he liked her.

• Qin Yiguan followed the blood trail to Jiaolong’s shop, where he and his companions found her sewing up her own wound.
• Jiaolong greeted Qin Yiguan and agreed to continue working on Lucifer after cleaning the blood from her hands.
• Jingye Meinan teased Qin Yiguan about being attracted to Jiaolong, but Qin Yiguan said his Conscience-Free Syndrome made it difficult for him to grow fond of people.
• Jiaolong showed Qin Yiguan a severed head and explained that Ba Zheng Xuan had attacked her after she was sent to a false location while searching for Lu Zun.
• Qin Yiguan recognized the head and admitted to Jingye Meinan that he suddenly liked Jiaolong, leaving Jingye Meinan exasperated.

Qin Yiguan received the Leviathan consciousness tattoo from Jiaolong and experienced the demon god’s presence in a dark, endless sea. Afterward, he asked Jiaolong about making the tattoos real and about parallel universes, but she had fallen asleep against him.

• Chen Mudou sent Jingye Meinan away, then rode off with Jiang Mingshu on a winged unicorn.
• Qin Yiguan noticed the strange black tattoo spreading across Jiaolong’s back and stayed alone with her in the shop.
• Jiaolong asked when Qin Yiguan had completed Lucifer, then began drawing Leviathan after he chose it as his next tattoo.
• Jiaolong completed Leviathan’s design and code, sending it into Qin Yiguan’s mind, where he sensed the demon god waiting beneath a vast black sea.
• Qin Yiguan asked Jiaolong whether his tattoos could become real and whether parallel universes and their rifts existed, but she fell asleep against him.

Jiaolong took Qin Yiguan to the Mars-like terrain near Lenghu to answer his questions about parallel universes. She revealed that the landforms were fragments of Mars left behind when Parallel Universe No. 2 collided with their universe eighty-three years earlier.

• Jiaolong woke, remembered Qin Yiguan's question about parallel universes, and offered to take him somewhere to explain.
• Jiaolong ran with Qin Yiguan at extraordinary speed, carrying them through a tunnel-like blur to a desolate red landscape.
• Qin Yiguan mistook the landscape for Mars, but Jiaolong explained they were in Core Earth in the Metaverse, near Lenghu in Qinghai.
• Jiaolong described how wind and water formed the local yardang landforms, then revealed that the terrain had actually come from Mars in a parallel universe.
• Jiaolong told Qin Yiguan that Parallel Universe No. 2 had collided with their universe eighty-three years earlier and left fragments of its Mars behind.

Jiaolong explained that the Gemini Metaverse contained many universes and suggested that reality might also be a Metaverse. She revealed that Hell was a reflection of the Milky Way and that she was the reflection of one of its stars.

• Jiaolong explained to Qin Yiguan that parallel universes had converged and that the Gemini Superbrain could create countless universes.
• Jiaolong suggested that universes might be nested and that reality itself might be another Metaverse, unsettling Qin Yiguan as he considered his and Jiaolong’s abilities.
• Jiaolong told Qin Yiguan that his ability resembled her barrier-free traversal and that it had allowed her to take him through space.
• Jiaolong and Qin Yiguan walked along Mars Highway No. 1, passed Mars Town, and reached the Qinghai Lenghu Astronomical Observation Base.
• Jiaolong said Hell was the reflection of the Milky Way and that she was the reflection of one of its stars, while Qin Yiguan kept his eyes on her instead of looking at the sky.

Qin Yiguan and Jiaolong connected Jiao Shensan’s cryptic message to a possible disaster in the B5 and B6 Sectors and investigated Lu Zun’s memory archives. Qin Yiguan found Taotie Clam hiding inside the archive, while the mystery of Lu Zun’s plan remained unresolved.

• Qin Yiguan realized Jiao Shensan’s letter hinted that a multiverse rift might devastate the B5 and B6 Sectors, and Jiaolong recognized his recitation as proof he had visited her father’s grave with wildflowers.
• Jiaolong explained that Jiao Shensan had received memories that seemed to come from the future, while she and Qin Yiguan discussed Lu Zun’s secret preparations and his memory archives on Core Earth.
• Qin Yiguan secretly entered the archive near 053 High School, where he met its elderly inventor, Zhong Yi, who allowed him to stay and said another intruder could use the main entrance.
• Taotie Clam searched for a basement beneath the archive, believing it might hold memories of former esports players, when Qin Yiguan appeared and startled him into fainting.

Taotie Clam woke from his coma to find Qin Yiguan alive and helping him open a hidden door. They descended into a vast underground memory archive, where Clam’s confidence that the room was safe left them unaware of whether anyone else might be inside.

• Taotie Clam awoke and mistook Qin Yiguan for a ghost until Qin explained that he had faked his death and was working with Jiu Zhengxuan to uncover a conspiracy.
• Qin Yiguan asked Clam to help catch up on his missed homework, then refused Clam’s request to join the Dog Gang because the Experimental Zone was too dangerous.
• Qin Yiguan picked the hidden door’s electronic lock and told Clam that the conspiracy could kill sixty million people in B5 and B6 Sector.
• Qin Yiguan descended into the underground chamber and found a vast room filled with rows of black display cases.
• Taotie Clam followed Qin Yiguan downstairs, shut the hidden door, and turned off the lights, then insisted that the room was safe because the workday was over.

Qin Yiguan and Gala explored a basement filled with memory chips belonging to serial killers and their victims. After Qin Yiguan replayed Football Enthusiast’s memories, he noticed her idea to make a football from human skin had appeared suddenly, as if someone had planted it in her mind.

• Qin Yiguan and Gala found display cases containing the memories of serial killers and the people they had killed.
• Clam used a memory reader on Football Enthusiast’s chip and experienced her making a football from her friends’ skin and organs.
• Qin Yiguan used the memory reader to experience Football Enthusiast’s memories and replayed them to investigate her motive.
• Qin Yiguan noticed that Football Enthusiast’s idea to make a football from human skin had appeared abruptly in her thoughts.

Qin Yiguan deduced that Lu Zun was collecting traumatic memories to use in a mass killing, then hid in the underground archive when a wolf-like Jiu Zhengxuan arrived with a memory chip. After fighting off the creature, Qin Yiguan discovered the chip was labeled with Teacher Qing's name.

• Qin Yiguan concluded that Lu Zun planned to make the deaths of 60 million people maximally terrifying to raise his Fusion Rate to 100%.
• Qin Yiguan reasoned that Lu Zun could have collected victims' memories through his access to murder cases and their corpses.
• A wolf-like, older Jiu Zhengxuan entered the archive and delivered a memory chip to a display case.
• The creature scented Qin Yiguan and attacked him, but Qin Yiguan dislocated its arms and drove it away.
• Qin Yiguan read the chip's label, which identified its memory as belonging to the fifth strongest, Mu Qingkuang, and recognized the name as Teacher Qing.

Qin Yiguan read Mu Qingkuang’s memories and witnessed the werewolf attack the Snow City of Heavenly Light, but the damaged headband failed before he could see the outcome. He suspected Officer Wang had secretly extracted the victims’ memories and wondered whether Lu Zun had implanted an idea in him.

• Qin Yiguan repaired Teacher Qing’s headband, inserted Mu Qingkuang’s memory chip, and entered his memories.
• Qin Yiguan saw the Snow City of Heavenly Light veer off course toward the Gobi, where a werewolf awaited it.
• The werewolf unleashed black mist and transformed into a giant wolf that attacked the Snow City of Heavenly Light.
• The headband burned out, ending Qin Yiguan’s memory reading before he could learn what happened to Teacher Qing.
• Qin Yiguan deduced that Officer Wang, now deputy director of the B5 General Police Bureau, had access to the victims’ memories and suspected Lu Zun had implanted an idea in him.

Qin Yiguan went to meet Officer Wang at the wreckage of Snow City of Heavenly Light, suspecting the summons was a trap. He found Officer Wang under control and Xiao Li revealed he had betrayed Qin Yiguan and helped cause Shangguan Xiaotao’s death, then threatened to kill Wang Shiwei if Qin tried to escape.

• Officer Wang summoned Qin Yiguan to the desert beside Snow City of Heavenly Light, claiming he had found a crucial clue.
• Qin Yiguan left to meet him, then visited Teacher Qing and accepted the worn paper streamer Teacher Qing offered as a new electronic textbook.
• Qin Yiguan appeared in the Experimental Zone and found Officer Wang and Xiao Li waiting beside the wrecked city.
• Xiao Li admitted he had supplied murder memories and victims’ memories, given Wrathful Jiao Shensan Qin Yiguan’s address, and revealed where Qin attended school.
• Xiao Li pressed a beam pistol to Officer Wang’s temple and warned Qin not to use his log-off ability to escape.

Qin Yiguan faced Fourth Zheng Xuan, a giant werewolf empowered by CPH4, and was nearly beaten to death despite the Guardian’s protection. As he lost consciousness, Boss Meng’s knowledge of CPH4 unlocked a new development in Qin Yiguan’s Brain Hyperactivity Zone, making Fourth Zheng Xuan a doll in his box world and granting Qin Yiguan an advantage against him.

• Qin Yiguan realized Lu Zun’s schemes were connected to CPH4 and the Jiao Shensan case as Fourth Zheng Xuan injected himself with the drug.
• Fourth Zheng Xuan grew into a gigantic wolf and charged Qin Yiguan, while Xiao Li held Officer Wang hostage and declared Qin doomed.
• Qin Yiguan opened the Liquid Black Hole, but Fourth Zheng Xuan’s wolf eyes illuminated it and countered Netherworld Glimmer.
• The giant wolf repeatedly drove Qin Yiguan underground as the wounded Guardian shielded him, and Qin eventually lost consciousness.
• Qin Yiguan recalled Boss Meng’s knowledge of CPH4, and his Brain Hyperactivity Zone A01 developed as Fourth Zheng Xuan became a doll in his box world.

Qin Yiguan survived the giant wolf’s attacks and used [box syndrome] to surpass its strength and defy its power. He destroyed all five of its heads, and the wolf collapsed into a headless human corpse amid the ruins of the Snow City of Heavenly Light.

• The giant wolf battered the ground for three minutes, but Qin Yiguan crawled out unharmed.
• Qin Yiguan’s strength rose to 1,081 tons, and he realized [box syndrome] made him impossible for Fourth Zheng Xuan to shake.
• The giant wolf’s fangs and claw broke when they struck Qin Yiguan, while he stood unmoved.
• The giant wolf grew five heads and sixteen legs as CPH4 continued enhancing it, but Qin Yiguan’s strength increased alongside it.
• Qin Yiguan leaped up and smashed all five wolf heads with his fists, causing the giant wolf to fall apart into a headless human corpse.

After killing Si Zheng Xuan and Xiao Li, Qin Yiguan took Officer Wang to Dr. House’s clinic in the Metaverse Experimental Zone. He found that he could not get any closer to the clinic’s clock-shaped building and began trying to work out why.

• Qin Yiguan made Si Zheng Xuan’s headless corpse kneel facing Snow City of Heavenly Light.
• Qin Yiguan stopped Xiao Li’s attack, then shot him repeatedly until he died and crushed his police badge.
• Qin Yiguan realized Officer Wang was repeating thoughts about Commander Lu’s conspiracy and contacted Dr. House for help.
• Qin Yiguan brought Officer Wang to the Metaverse Second Psychological Clinic in B5 Sector.
• Qin Yiguan noticed he had walked for fifteen minutes without getting closer to the clock building and tried to figure out the reason.

Qin Yiguan brought Officer Wang to Dr. House, who identified Lu Zun’s implanted thought and agreed to treat Officer Wang. After Lu Zun destroyed evidence at a memory archive, he sent a powerful command into Qin Yiguan’s mind, directing him toward the Leviathan Rift.

• Qin Yiguan explained how he climbed the hypnotized hillside by timing his steps to the clock, and Dr. House recognized Lu Zun’s Absolute Hit in Officer Wang’s mind.
• Qin Yiguan asked whether Dr. House could detect implanted thoughts in him and restore a mentally impaired person’s lost memories, but Dr. House said he could not.
• Qin Yiguan left Officer Wang at Dr. House’s clinic and learned from a man at the hill’s foot that Dr. House’s treatment sometimes came at the cost of a dangerous favor.
• A news report said an explosion had destroyed the memory archive near 053 High School, and Qin Yiguan suspected Lu Zun had erased evidence after the archive was exposed.
• Lu Zun crushed three dolls, watched Qin Yiguan through Officer Wang’s device, and decided to end their conflict by sending him a command to walk north and jump into the Leviathan Rift.
• Qin Yiguan paused and looked north as Lu Zun’s thought entered his mind.

After killing Fourth Zheng Xuan, Qin Yiguan succumbed to despair and jumped into an abyss that Lu Zun had opened for him. He then woke in Rust City No. 03 as Child, a five-year-old personality, leaving Xiao Ning to wonder where Qin Yiguan’s primary personality had gone.

• Qin Yiguan walked north through cities and wastelands, convinced that he wanted to die.
• Lu Zun led Qin Yiguan to a vast abyss and urged him to jump, and Qin Yiguan leaped in.
• Qin Yiguan woke in a dark apartment and acted like a frightened five-year-old who did not recognize Xiao Ning or Xiao Ya.
• Xiao Ning identified him as Child, one of Qin Yiguan’s personalities, and gave him energy blocks that he ate like candy.
• Xiao Ning realized Child had taken over despite Qin Yiguan saying he had recovered, and wondered where his primary personality had gone.

Qin Yiguan’s Victim personality emerged at the Leviathan Rift and overwhelmed Lu Zun with despair, while Dr. House explained that Victim’s ability, Infinite Rebirth, would prevent Qin Yiguan from dying in the Experimental Zone. The chapter ended with You Minglan flirting with Dr. House after learning he had deliberately arranged the encounter to awaken Victim.

• Qin Yiguan climbed back from the Leviathan Rift and invited Lu Zun to join him in death.
• Qin Yiguan identified himself as Victim and filled Lu Zun with despair, making Lu Zun struggle between moving toward the abyss and using Absolute Hit to escape.
• Dr. House explained to You Minglan that Victim embodied Qin Yiguan’s accumulated guilt and had the ability Infinite Rebirth.
• Dr. House revealed that he had sent Qin Yiguan to face Lu Zun to activate Victim, which would take over whenever Qin Yiguan faced death in the Experimental Zone.
• You Minglan tried to seduce Dr. House, but he refused.