Recaps

Group B returned to Capital City Base and received an enthusiastic public welcome, while Sheng An and Qi Lingwu quietly met the base officials. Sheng An ended the chapter by asking Old Chu who had been responsible.

• Capital City Base residents welcomed Group B as the convoy arrived, cheering for its members and their abilities.
• Long Tianyu flashed into the base to attract attention, then realized he had left the admiring crowd behind.
• Li Wanyun, Jiang Yu, and the rest of Group B walked through the gate while Wu Buyu flew overhead, and the crowd asked where Sheng An and Qi Lingwu were.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu entered the administrative building with Old Chu, Qiu Yu, and Qu Yi to meet the waiting senior officials.
• Sheng An quietly asked Old Chu, "Who was it?"

Sheng An exposed Elder Zhang as the Otherkind, mourned the mentor whose identity it had stolen, and called for the Capital City leadership to share intelligence. At a briefing, Academician He explained what they had learned about Sheng An’s time reversal and the prophecy, then prepared to reveal a third discovery concerning everyone in the Special Affairs Office.

• Old Chu identified Elder Zhang as the Otherkind, and Sheng An tested the accusation by aiming an unloaded gun at him.
• Elder Zhang dodged the gun and attacked the Chief Base Director, so Qi Lingwu killed him before he could strike.
• Sheng An saluted Elder Zhang’s body, then urged the leadership to consolidate and share their intelligence.
• At the conference, Academician He explained that Sheng An had restarted the world and that Qin Xuan’s prophecy depicted a scene from around the first month of Doomsday’s fifth year.
• Academician He announced that the Institute had decoded a third piece of information concerning everyone present from the Special Affairs Office.

The Special Affairs Office pieced together that its members had likely survived until the fifth year of Doomsday in their previous lives, fought alongside Sheng An and the government, and had their memories cut off by M during the rewind. The discussion ended with Lou Mingwei asking why Jiang Yu and Wu Zhi had even shorter memories.

• Academician He proposed that the Special Affairs Office members had lived beyond the second year of Doomsday and regained the power levels they had reached by the fifth year.
• Li Wanyun realized she might have survived her supposed fight to the death with Lou Mingwei and later learned from Sheng An and Qi Lingwu.
• Doctor Yan and Gu Qiansheng reasoned that the government had remained active behind the scenes, with Wu Buyu helping guide and restrain Superpower People.
• Doctor Yan and Song Linwei concluded that Sheng An and Qi Lingwu had gathered their former teammates and tried to preserve their memories and powers, but M had cut off most memories at the end of the second year.
• Lou Mingwei asked Sheng An why Jiang Yu's memories ended in the first year of Doomsday and Wu Zhi's stopped on the day it began.

Sheng An and the others examined why the Reborn’s memories and awakenings differed, concluding that M may have targeted Jiang Yu and granted powers to puppets. Sheng An then connected M’s memory and timeline manipulations to Qi Lingwu’s King’s Anchor.

• Academician He said Wu Zhi and Jiang Yu might be loopholes caused by Time Reversal, while Li Wanyun, Long Tianyu, and Yang Chuan were outcomes of the contest involving Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and M.
• Sheng An argued that M may have deliberately erased Jiang Yu’s memories because she had learned something important, and the group theorized that Jiang Yu had awakened a weaker plant-type superpower later in her previous life.
• Jiang Yu protested that she could have uncovered an important secret, while the Mutant Fish Mint secretly plucked the leaves from her head and stuck them on its own.
• Academician He summarized the remaining questions about the previous life and Sheng An’s past, and Doctor Yan warned that M’s power was even more terrifying than they had thought.
• Sheng An explained that the Time Otherkind in the Southwest had shifted between her face and Zhang Jialiang’s, suggesting that its time, undying, and shadow powers had been granted by M to a puppet.
• Sheng An asked whether M’s memory and timeline manipulations resembled a familiar power, and Qi Lingwu identified it as the psychic superpower King’s Anchor.

Sheng An and the others considered M’s powers, motives, and methods, concluding that the Otherkind Master remained their enemy and still had secrets. As the meeting ended, Sheng An proposed that humanity stop waiting for M’s next attack and seek It out.

• Academician He and Doctor Yan discussed whether M possessed multiple superpowers or a unique ability, and proposed that M might see humans as nourishment or fear Sheng An’s time power.
• Qi Lingwu argued that the Kindling had not yet mastered their abilities because they lacked five years of Doomsday memories, while Doctor Yan suggested the Otherkind may have stolen powers from humans.
• Hao Jingye reviewed M’s four known attacks, and Sheng An questioned whether the assault on Old Chu had been meant to mislead them about Elder Zhang.
• Gu Cheng proposed that M might leave day-to-day leadership to Otherkind such as Elder Zhang, and Sheng An concluded that M still had secrets either way.
• Sheng An warned that M would attack again and asked whether it was time for humanity to take the initiative and search for M.

After learning the truth about M, Sheng An urged the team to stop waiting passively and prepare to attack, then rested after returning to the base. Lou Mingwei discovered that Sheng An could rewind time when she sent him back to before dinner, and he ended by praising her.

• Sheng An argued that the team should take the initiative against M after surviving its previous attacks, and the Chief Base Director gave instructions for disaster preparations and research on the mutant plant.
• Xiang Hanshuang arrived after the meeting and angrily confronted the team for forgetting her at the Meteorite Research Institute in Stone City and leaving her out of the meeting.
• Sheng An and the others returned to the villa and slept for twelve hours to recover from their exhausting journey.
• Xiang Hanshuang encouraged Lou Mingwei to visit Sheng An, but he vanished after entering Group B's villa and reappeared at the Cafeteria before he had eaten.
• Lou Mingwei realized Sheng An had rewound him to before dinner and shouted that she was badass.

After Sheng An recovered from rewinding time, she explained the limits and dangers of her power while Team 0 settled into a lively evening at the villa. The hot pot dinner was delayed until Jiang Yu returned from the Agricultural Research Institute, where Mutant Fish Mint had begun planning to spread fish mint across the planet.

• Sheng An told Qi Lingwu that rewinding Lou Mingwei's time had used little power, but reversing the time of someone who had died was far more costly and painful.
• Qi Lingwu reminded Sheng An to rely on him and her teammates, and she explained that rewinds involving stronger powers required more energy.
• Jia Guangliang chose hot pot for dinner and learned about Team 0's comfortable benefits, Li Wanyun's loan, and Li Xin's expired contract.
• Sheng An told the team that Jiang Yu had gone to the Agricultural Research Institute to help Mutant Fish Mint, which wanted to plant fish mint across the planet.
• Jiang Yu returned pale and dizzy with tissue stuffed into her nostrils, just as everyone was waiting to eat.

Jiang Yu described the Mutant Fish Mint’s useful roots and their unbearable smell, while Sheng An and Li Wanyun delivered meteorite fragments to the Meteorite Research Institute. Sheng An then went to learn about Doctor Yan’s research progress, leaving Li Wanyun hopeful that he had found a way to help people awaken superpowers.

• Jiang Yu explained that the Mutant Fish Mint willingly severed its roots, which researchers could plant to cultivate fish mint across the scorched earth.
• Jiang Yu brought the foul-smelling roots to the hot-pot gathering, and everyone recoiled except Jia Guangliang, who enjoyed the smell.
• Sheng An and Li Wanyun delivered collected meteorite fragments to Academician He, who promised to try piecing them together within ten days.
• Academician He warned Sheng An that gathering fragments in Capital City worsened the soil and caused more Otherkind to appear.
• Academician He told Sheng An that Doctor Yan had made progress researching superpower people, so Sheng An took Li Wanyun to the Superpower Biology Research Institute.

Sheng An examined the limits of her nine-star power while Doctor Yan proposed using fragment-infused water to create Superpower People and Sheng An's time reversal to save anyone who became an Otherkind. The chapter ended with Doctor Yan revealing that he had already drunk the water and offering to be the first test subject.

• Sheng An told Doctor Yan that, despite reaching nine stars, she still needed food while recovering, though she could go without eating without dying.
• Doctor Yan reported that researchers had found no reliable biological differences between Superpower People and superpowered Otherkind, making mass production of Superpower People impossible by conventional means.
• Doctor Yan proposed a protected form of Divine Descent using clean water infused with meteorite fragments, with Sheng An reversing time if a subject became an Otherkind.
• Sheng An warned that a failed attempt could kill its subject, and Doctor Yan revealed that he had already drunk fragment-infused water and volunteered to be the first test subject.

The group tested whether water soaked with Fragments could awaken superpowers, while Sheng An prepared to use Time Reversal if someone became Otherkind. Doctor Yan awakened a superpower, but Academician Zhou became Otherkind and was reversed at great cost to Sheng An, leaving the group to set strict limits on further trials.

• Doctor Yan drank more Fragment-soaked water and awakened a superpower, prompting the group to agree that the method should only be used in limited cases.
• Hao Jingye and Academician He argued over who should undergo the next test, while Academician Zhou revealed that he had already drunk the water and asked for another cup.
• Academician Zhou became Otherkind, and Sheng An immediately used Time Reversal to restore him, leaving her pale and exhausted.
• Academician Zhou warned Jiang Yu to stay safe, then left to organize his research and hand over important projects.
• Sheng An explained that reversing Otherkind required immense energy and that future tests had to be kept within a short interval; Hao Jingye volunteered to try next.

Hao Jingye underwent an awakening attempt but developed no fever, and Sheng An revealed he might be an exception who would become neither a Superpower Person nor Otherkind. Over the following days, tests identified several officials who would become Otherkind, prompting a dispute over whether they should leave their positions.

• Hao Jingye tried to awaken a superpower while his friends teased him and worried he might become Otherkind.
• After half an hour passed without any change, Doctor Yan and Academician He suggested Hao Jingye might have no superpower and would not become Otherkind; Sheng An confirmed she and Qi Lingwu had considered that possibility.
• Hao Jingye learned he had been frightened unnecessarily, then crouched in embarrassment while Jia Guangliang and Wu Buyu tried to comfort him.
• Over the next few days, Academician He, Director Wang, and two senior officials were found certain to become Otherkind, while the Chief Base Director and Elder Li awakened superpowers.
• Elder Li and Qiu Yu proposed replacing those who would become Otherkind in important positions, but Sheng An argued against removing them before they transformed.

Sheng An argued that Academician He and Academician Zhou should remain in their important roles despite the risk of becoming Otherkind, and Elder Li reluctantly accepted her decision. At the Agricultural Research Institute, Sheng An plucked the Mutant Fish Mint’s only leaf for Academician Zhou’s research, leaving the plant shocked and completely bald.

• Sheng An persuaded Qi Lingwu, Hao Jingye, and Special Affairs Office Group B to support keeping Academician He and Academician Zhou at their posts, while Elder Li and Qiu Yu left after Elder Li reluctantly gave way.
• Academician He promised Sheng An that he would piece together the meteorite fragments within five days, and Jiang Yu told her that Academician Zhou needed her help with the uncooperative Mutant Fish Mint.
• Academician Zhou explained that he wanted to study the Mutant Fish Mint’s leaf because its roots could not produce viable plants for long-term cultivation.
• Sheng An plucked the Mutant Fish Mint’s only leaf and handed it to Academician Zhou, leaving the plant bewildered as it realized it was completely bald.

Sheng An used her time-reversal ability to harvest leaves from the mutant fish mint and secured its cooperation with Academician Zhou’s wasteland cultivation project. As acid rain began falling, the base activated its protective barrier, and Long Tianyu appeared on the observation tower before vanishing with two people recording the rain.

• Sheng An repeatedly rewound the mutant fish mint’s time to harvest five leaves, then promised it more if it helped Academician Zhou complete the wasteland cultivation project.
• Sheng An and her team left the Agricultural Research Institute, but a base-wide alarm and thunder warned them that the acid rain was coming.
• Sheng An issued emergency orders, warned everyone to stay inside and avoid the rain, and coordinated preparations with Qi Lingwu, Wan Yuan, Wu Buyu, and Li Xin.
• Sheng An ordered the base’s protective barrier activated and waited as the countdown reached zero.
• Acid rain poured down, and Long Tianyu appeared on the observation tower before vanishing with the two people who had recorded its first images.

As acid rain battered the world, Capital City Base’s shield held while residents and workers carried on with orderly meals, repairs, and preparations. Sheng An and her team set out to protect the life and hope their efforts had preserved.

• Sheng An activated the base’s two-layer shield just before blood-red acid rain arrived, and surveillance feeds showed the rain corroding cameras, buildings, and a surviving rat.
• Capital City Base residents gathered to watch the destruction, then returned to orderly meals and discussed volunteering and continuing their work.
• Teams of metal-, earth-, and water-type ability users reinforced the shield, compacted soil, checked for leaks, and secured the base’s water supply.
• Jia Guangliang told Wu Buyu that the Southwest had fallen into chaos during acid rain, unlike the lively and orderly Capital City Base.
• Hao Jingye reminded Jia Guangliang of the dangers facing the Special Affairs Office, and Jia insisted that this time was different.
• Sheng An stood and led the team to set out for the sake of that difference.

When an Otherkind tore through B11 Base’s dome during the acid rain, Deng Lan and the others struggled to contain the damage as their communications failed. Sheng An and her team arrived in time to repair the dome, leaving Jiang Yu to scold B11’s workers for building it too thin.

• Deng Lan and Liu Zhao warned B11’s Superpower Persons to stay careful as acid rain injured a worker, and Deng Lan kept them focused on their duties.
• On the fifth day of the acid rain, a Metal-Type Ability User transformed into an Otherkind and tore a hole in the dome, injuring nearby workers and letting rainwater into the base.
• Deng Lan sent a distress signal, but the acid rain soon knocked out communications while the damaged dome continued to leak and its repair crews neared exhaustion.
• Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, Li Wanyun, Li Xin, Mountain Blossom, and the others arrived on a huge bird, and Li Xin used metal plates to quickly repair the dome.
• Jiang Yu criticized Deng Lan and the others for slacking off and letting the dome remain too thin.

Sheng An's team spent fifteen days helping bases survive the acid rain before heading to the Meteorite Research Institute in Stone City to investigate news about the Fragments. There, Hao Jingye told Sheng An that Academician He was dead.

• Jiang Yu instructed B11's Superpower People to protect the base and themselves during the month of acid rain.
• Sheng An's team traveled between bases for fifteen days, eliminating threats while their Superpowers grew depleted.
• Wan Yuan contacted Capital City Base and learned that Hao Jingye and Group Leader Qiu had gone to the Meteorite Research Institute after something unexpected happened.
• Sheng An's team reached the Research Institute, where Hao Jingye and Ji Yani met them.
• Hao Jingye told Sheng An that Academician He was dead.

Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office investigated Academician He's suspicious death and entered the Sealed Laboratory to find out what he had discovered about the meteorite fragments. The chapter ended with them opening the Metal Box and finding that the fragments were gone.

• Hao Jingye told Sheng An that Academician He had isolated himself with the fragments, then died by suicide after spending five days inside the Sealed Laboratory.
• Qiu Yu said Academician He's death might involve a special superpower and planned to review the surveillance footage and Ruan Zifeng's investigation results.
• Sheng An agreed with Qiu Yu that they should inspect the Sealed Laboratory first, and Academician Liu gave her the keys.
• Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office entered the laboratory, where Qiu Yu opened the Metal Box containing the fragments.
• Hao Jingye exclaimed that the fragments were missing.

After the meteorite fragments vanished from the sealed laboratory, Sheng An searched Academician He’s papers and found that he had repeatedly drawn circles. She went to see Academician He, while the others continued investigating the disappearance.

• Hao Jingye and the others discovered that all the meteorite fragments were missing and confirmed that no one had apparently entered the sealed laboratory.
• Ruan Zifeng found no traces of an intruder, while Xiang Hanshuang blamed Sheng An’s decision to keep the fragments at the Meteorite Research Institute and Wan Yuan and Jiang Yu defended her.
• Hao Jingye ordered a search and sent Wu Buyu, Zhang Kun, and Mountain Blossom to fetch Old Chu; Qiu Yu ordered a lockdown and a review of surveillance footage.
• Sheng An and Ruan Zifeng examined Academician He’s discarded papers and found many unconscious drawings of circles.
• Sheng An went to see Academician He, and Jiang Yu asked whether she could use Time Reversal to bring him back to life.

Sheng An investigated Academician He's death and the missing meteorite fragments, concluding that the thief was likely still trapped inside the Research Institute. Simulations of fragment-assembly proposals suggested Academician He's mysterious circle might represent a sphere, and Hao Jingye brought out the Prevision Diagram.

• Sheng An reasoned that the meteorite fragments had probably disappeared only that day and that the thief was still inside the Research Institute because acid rain prevented anyone from leaving.
• Sheng An found marks Academician He had traced into his palm and ordered Hao Jingye to contact Academician Liu and simulate three fragment-assembly proposals.
• Qi Lingwu and the others searched the Institute while Sheng An reviewed footage showing Academician He studying and assembling the fragments before locking them away.
• Academician Liu presented simulations of the three proposals, and Song Linwei suggested that the circle in one result might form a sphere when fully assembled.
• Hao Jingye took out the original Prevision Diagram.

The Special Affairs Office theorized that assembling the meteorite Fragments might be the mistake in Sheng An’s prophecy and suspected an Otherkind with Mountain Blossom’s rules-loophole ability had stolen them and hidden in the institute. Sheng An rejected the idea that Academician He had killed himself and realized the killer had another superpower, prompting her to call out Qi Lingwu.

• Jiang Yu and the others discussed whether the sphere in Sheng An’s prophecy was made from the meteorite Fragments, and Hao Jingye suggested collecting them might be necessary while assembling them was the mistake.
• Sheng An and the team reasoned that Academician He had stopped assembling the Fragments, stored them, and waited for Sheng An because he had discovered something he trusted only her to hear.
• Qiu Yu and the others reported that no outsiders had entered the Meteorite Research Institute and that they had found no trace of the killer or the missing Fragments.
• Hao Jingye proposed that the killer had Mountain Blossom’s rules-loophole superpower, while the group considered whether it could have hidden itself as a cat.
• Jiang Ling suggested Academician He might have killed himself after discovering devastating information, but Sheng An abruptly rejected that theory and called out Qi Lingwu, saying the killer had another superpower.

Qi Lingwu exposed Academician Liu as the hidden Otherkind who had killed Academician He and stolen the Fragments, but Liu vanished before the researchers could capture him. As the others tried to seal the Research Institute, Sheng An refused to spend her weakened power pursuing him, prompting Qiu Yu to accuse her of being overly cautious.

• Qi Lingwu used Song Linwei's amplification to pressure the researchers, and Academician Liu's psychic fluctuations gave him away.
• Qi Lingwu's attack passed through Academician Liu, whose altered appearance revealed him as M's puppet and the Otherkind responsible for Academician He's death.
• Academician Liu vanished using his rules loophole superpower, while Qi Lingwu and Ruan Zifeng failed to locate him.
• Qiu Yu ordered the Research Institute sealed, and Xiang Hanshuang, Jiang Ling, Li Xin, and Zhuang Fan used their superpowers to trap and search for Liu.
• Sheng An said her power had not recovered enough to catch Liu and told the others to wait for Mountain Blossom's return, and Qiu Yu mocked her caution.

Sheng An accepted that Group B could not stop Academician Liu from escaping and ordered them to retrieve Mountain Blossom, while Qiu Yu continued the pursuit with her team. Outside the institute, Sheng An and her companions confronted the poisoned world and the growing danger posed by M and the stolen Fragments.

• Sheng An argued that Mountain Blossom’s time loophole made Academician Liu too difficult to catch, then ordered Wan Yuan and Hao Jingye to bring Mountain Blossom back.
• Sheng An left the sealed laboratory with Qi Lingwu, Li Xin, Long Tianyu, Li Wanyun, and the rest of Group B, while Qiu Yu withdrew her team’s powers and went outside to search for Academician Liu.
• Jiang Ling and Xiang Hanshuang discussed the danger of puppet Otherkind, while Ruan Zifeng sensed that Sheng An and the incident were strangely connected but could not identify why.
• At the entrance, Sheng An wondered whom she could trust, and Qi Lingwu told her to trust herself and promised to stand beside her.
• Song Linwei and the others questioned whether gathering the Fragments had been a mistake, as they mourned Academician He and recognized that Academician Liu had escaped with every Fragment.

The group discussed M’s control over puppet Otherkind and why Academician Liu had infiltrated the Meteorite Research Institute, but before they could learn anything from him, Liu’s body appeared in an underground laboratory. Sheng An immediately used her full time-reversal power to uncover who had killed him.

• Jia Guangliang argued that Academician Liu must have retained independent thoughts to hide his identity and control the Meteorite Research Institute for M.
• Hao Jingye suggested M had later given Liu the rules loophole ability so he could kill Academician He and steal the Fragments.
• Jiang Ling reported that Academician Liu had appeared dead in the Underground Laboratory, with no visible wounds.
• Ruan Zifeng examined Liu’s body but could not determine how he had died.
• Sheng An unleashed her full power and turned back the White Clock, while Song Linwei drained Gu Qiansheng’s power to assist her.
• Hao Jingye realized that Sheng An was using her power to discover who had killed Academician Liu.

Sheng An used Time Reversal to discover that Qiu Yu had killed Academician Liu, prompting the group to reconsider M’s control over the Puppet Otherkind and the missing fragments. She revealed that the fragments had never been stolen and that Mountain Blossom and the others were taking them to the Capital City Base.

• Sheng An spent the meteorite fragment’s energy to push Time Reversal far enough to see Qiu Yu kill Academician Liu.
• Qi Lingwu caught the exhausted Sheng An, and Jia Guangliang treated her as the group reasoned that M had killed Academician Liu after he independently took the fragments.
• Gu Qiansheng proposed that Academician Liu’s disappearance had not been ordered by M, leading the group to suspect that the fragments could threaten M’s plans.
• Qiu Yu asked whether Sheng An had expected M to kill Academician Liu, and Sheng An confirmed that she had been waiting for M to act.
• Sheng An said she had not guessed that the fragments were missing because they had never been stolen; Mountain Blossom and the others were escorting them to the Capital City Base.

Sheng An revealed that she had staged the meteorite-fragment theft to make M kill Academician Liu and expose a clue to M’s whereabouts, which she suspected might be within the Special Affairs Office. She explained that Academician He had deliberately baited M into killing him so she could use his death to continue the hunt.

• Ruan Zifeng realized Sheng An had secretly arranged for Mountain Blossom to take the fragments and made everyone believe Academician Liu had stolen them.
• Sheng An confirmed that she suspected M was likely at the Meteorite Research Institute and might be hiding in the Special Affairs Office.
• Sheng An apologized for keeping her plan secret, and Jiang Ling and the others accepted that secrecy was necessary to deceive M.
• Ruan Zifeng deduced that Academician He had deliberately chosen to die, and Sheng An confirmed it.
• Academician He had assembled the fragments, suspected M was in the Special Affairs Office, and staged his apparent discovery to lure M into killing him.
• Academician He’s death and the circle cut into his hand conveyed that he had been murdered, had told no one the truth, and had set a trap for M.