Recaps

Sheng An revealed that Academician He had sacrificed himself to expose M, then admitted that she saw Qiu Yu’s face during Time Reversal. She ordered Qiu Yu to cooperate with the investigation, leaving the Special Affairs Office shaken by suspicion.

• Sheng An explained that Academician He had used his death to lure M into acting through Academician Liu, while she used the Fragments to frame the puppet and expose M.
• The Special Affairs Office members debated whether M was hiding among them, and Sheng An said the killer she saw might have worn someone else’s face.
• Qiu Yu asked whether Sheng An had seen her during Time Reversal, and Sheng An confirmed it.
• Xiang Hanshuang and others argued over whether Qiu Yu could be M, while Hao Jingye warned that they could not trust anyone’s displayed abilities.
• Sheng An told Qiu Yu to cooperate with the investigation, and Qiu Yu accused her of choosing the mission over their bond before presenting her scarred wrists for shackles.

Sheng An had Qiu Yu restrained while the Special Affairs Office investigated M’s identity, then reviewed the evidence at the Sealed Laboratory with Qi Lingwu. The team concluded M was likely inside the Special Affairs Office, but they could not rule out Qiu Yu or any of their own comrades.

• Sheng An ordered Qiu Yu cuffed and left Group A to watch her while the rest of Group B followed Sheng An and Qi Lingwu.
• Qiu Yu told Xiang Hanshuang and the others to keep watching her until she was cleared, admitting she could not rule out the possibility that even she was unaware of being M.
• Sheng An sat with Qi Lingwu in the Sealed Laboratory, where Hao Jingye and the others gathered and discussed evidence that M was hiding within the Special Affairs Office.
• Hao Jingye explained that M had access to information and may have granted Academician Liu his ability from nearby, meaning M could be in Group B if Qiu Yu was innocent.
• Li Xin struggled to accept that one of his comrades could be M, but the team fell silent when the possibility included themselves.

Qin Xuan prophesied that Long Tianyu would die in acid rain, frightening the team. Sheng An ordered Long Tianyu to stay with her at all times, and he ended up sharing a bed with Qi Lingwu at the Meteorite Research Institute.

• Old Qin was accused of being a hidden M, but Qin Xuan defended his grandfather and told Long Tianyu that he was going to die.
• Qi Lingwu recognized Qin Xuan's words as a prophecy, and Qin Xuan described Long Tianyu lying in acid rain as it ate away at his body.
• The team worried about Long Tianyu and suggested hiding him in Jiang Yu's space, but Long Tianyu chose to investigate the danger and possible connection to M.
• Sheng An told Long Tianyu to stay with her every moment, and the group spent the night at the Meteorite Research Institute.
• Long Tianyu shared a bed with Qi Lingwu, kept trying to talk, and finally went quiet after Sheng An told him to shut up and sleep.

Long Tianyu spent the night under constant watch after Qin Xuan’s prophecy, then became the target of Li Wanyun and Ruan Zifeng’s teasing over his sleep-talking. Sheng An decided the group would remain at the Meteorite Research Institute through the acid rain while they investigated M, whose identity and abilities remained unknown.

• Long Tianyu woke to Li Wanyun and Ruan Zifeng accusing him of snoring, grinding his teeth, and declaring himself the Child of Destiny in his sleep.
• Li Wanyun revealed she had recorded Long Tianyu’s sleep-talking, and he tried to seize her Communicator.
• Hao Jingye reported that the Research Institute had collected Academician He’s and Academician Liu’s ashes and appointed a new person in charge.
• Sheng An decided the group would wait out the acid rain at the Research Institute and keep any fight over Long Tianyu in Stone City.
• Ruan Zifeng reported that Qiu Yu had relinquished Group A duties while she remained handcuffed under watch, and the group discussed their lack of clues about M.
• Song Linwei asked Sheng An and Qi Lingwu whether they had noticed any abnormalities among Special Affairs Office members.

Sheng An and the others found no evidence that Qiu Yu or anyone in Group B was M, leaving them uncertain as the acid rain continued. In Capital City, the Mutant Fish Mint helped Academician Zhou discover a way to cultivate plants in acid-ravaged soil, then tricked him with cilantro that was actually fish mint.

• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu reported finding nothing suspicious among the Special Affairs Office members, while Ruan Zifeng and Li Xin argued over whether M was Qiu Yu or someone else in Group B.
• Sheng An decided the group would wait for the acid rain to end, and Long Tianyu squeezed between her and Qi Lingwu for protection from the death foretold in the prophecy.
• Academician Zhou learned that all experimental plants had died in acid-rain-eroded soil and, shaken by Academician He's death and his own possible transformation, considered ending his life.
• The Mutant Fish Mint comforted Academician Zhou by rooting itself in contaminated soil, adapting to survive, and inspiring him to resume the wasteland cultivation experiments.
• Three days later, Academician Zhou and the researchers had grown fish mint and used it to cultivate cilantro, but he discovered the supposed cilantro smelled like fish mint as the Mutant Fish Mint fled.

The acid rain ended, and Sheng An’s group returned to Capital City Base. There, the state placed Qiu Yu under suspicion and transferred command of the Special Affairs Office to Sheng An while the investigation into M continued.

• The acid rain stopped after a month, and the group concluded that M had abandoned the plan involving Long Tianyu after learning of Qin Xuan’s prophecy.
• Sheng An’s group drove through the devastated landscape toward Capital City Base, where Sheng An told Jiang Yu that humanity would find a way to survive.
• After returning, Sheng An’s group was met by Wu Buyu, Zhang Kun, and the base officials, who asked where Qiu Yu was.
• The Chief Base Director ordered Sheng An to take command of Groups A and B of the Special Affairs Office.
• Elder Li said Qiu Yu was suspected of being M and would be detained at the Superpower Biology Research Institute while the Special Affairs Office was investigated.
• Qiu Yu left under escort for temporary detention, while Sheng An stressed that M’s identity remained unconfirmed.

Sheng An learned that damaging a meteorite fragment had transformed everyone at the Meteorite Research Institute into Otherkind and triggered an ongoing outbreak, while fragments left scattered had helped destroy two Safe Bases. Faced with the dangers of collecting, destroying, or abandoning the fragments, Sheng An was left to make the decision.

• Sheng An asked about the meteorite fragments, and the Chief Base Director entrusted her with deciding what humanity should do with them.
• Hao Jingye argued that they should stop collecting the fragments and focus on destroying or scattering them because of the Prophecy.
• Doctor Yan revealed that an experiment had slightly damaged a fragment and turned all 132 people at the Meteorite Research Institute into Otherkind, with transformations still spreading around the area.
• The Chief Base Director explained that only 23 of the country's 25 Safe Bases remained after meteorites, acid rain, and Otherkind uprisings devastated two bases.
• Sheng An recognized that scattered fragments aided the Otherkind, while attempts to destroy them could cause catastrophe, and everyone waited for her decision.

Sheng An examined the meteorite fragments and discovered that one fragment joined another perfectly, despite scorching her hand. As a strange image flashed before her eyes, she froze and tried to recall what she had seen.

• Sheng An asked for a day to examine the fragments before deciding what to do with them.
• Sheng An returned to the villa with her companions, where they joked briefly before turning to the meteorite fragments.
• Zhang Kun laid out the collected fragments, and the group discussed their scarcity in previous lives and their connection to the sphere in Qin Xuan's prophecy.
• Sheng An noticed faint red lines on the fragments and tested pieces against an assembled section.
• Sheng An found a fragment that joined seamlessly, endured intense burning pain as she held it, and saw a strange image before freezing.

Sheng An saw a scene from the previous life in the Fragments and corrected details in Qin Xuan’s Prophecy. Long Tianyu also glimpsed a scene after his death, but Sheng An stopped the group from assembling more Fragments until they decided whether uncovering the past was safe.

• Sheng An changed Qin Xuan’s Prophecy drawing to show blood covering the ground and a patterned silvery-white oval instead of a blurry ball.
• Qi Lingwu, Hao Jingye, and Li Wanyun tried assembling more Fragments but saw nothing; Long Tianyu glimpsed a wounded version of himself watching a Black Bird carry Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and Mountain Blossom.
• Hao Jingye concluded that the group had been teammates in the previous life and that Time Reversal had erased their memories of its final years.
• Jia Guangliang and Hao Jingye reasoned that the Fragments retained records of the previous life and could randomly trigger memories when assembled.
• Sheng An refused to let the group assemble more Fragments, and Li Wanyun stored them away.
• Jiang Yu asked what would happen if they put the Fragments in her space.

Jiang Yu suggested testing whether her space could shield the meteorite fragments, but Sheng An and the others refused to risk humanity’s last safe refuge. As they went to inspect the sealed Meteorite Research Institute, giant bloodsucking mosquitoes attacked the guards, and Sheng An rushed toward the smell of blood.

• Jiang Yu proposed putting the fragments in her space, but Hao Jingye, Wu Buyu, and Sheng An warned her against risking it.
• Sheng An decided to inspect the sealed Meteorite Research Institute, and Long Tianyu and the others went with her.
• At the northern district checkpoint, Old Lu told his fellow guards he was saving merit points to treat his sick wife.
• Giant mosquitoes drained Old Lu’s blood until he collapsed, and a guard killed one, causing blood to burst and release more mosquitoes.
• Sheng An smelled blood, hurried forward, and told the others that something had happened.

Sheng An and her team traced the Vampire Mosquito outbreak to the escaped meteorite fragment, which was carried by a giant Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito that repeatedly shed its skin to escape them. Their pursuit ended outside the base, where they found Long Tianyu dying in the Acid Rain beside Qiu Yu, recreating Sheng An’s prophecy.

• Sheng An reversed time to save one dying guard, identified the Research Institute as the source of the Vampire Mosquitoes, and ordered a base-wide alarm.
• Sheng An’s team entered the Research Institute and found that dozens of giant mosquitoes were breeding swarms, while the meteorite fragment was missing.
• Sheng An used Time Reversal to reveal that a huge Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito carried the fragment, but it escaped after shedding layers of skin.
• Long Tianyu pursued the creature, and Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and Ji Yani followed it beyond the north gate.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu found Long Tianyu lying in the Acid Rain, his body being eaten away, while Qiu Yu stood beside him.

Sheng An and Jia Guangliang fought to save Long Tianyu after he was badly corroded by the acid rain, while the others hurried to reach them. Long Tianyu's heart began beating again, and Sheng An welcomed the arriving team as she collapsed from exhaustion.

• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu pulled Long Tianyu from the acid rain, and Sheng An repeatedly used Time Reversal while Qi Lingwu sent Ji Yani to fetch Jia Guangliang.
• Ji Yani brought Jia Guangliang to Long Tianyu, while Wu Buyu carried Jiang Yu and the others toward them.
• Sheng An realized that each collapse of her White Clock was undoing the time she had reversed, and she kept trying to hold Long Tianyu's time in place with the meteorite fragment.
• Jia Guangliang poured all his healing power into Long Tianyu, restarting his heart and continuing to heal him after Sheng An stopped reversing time.
• Wu Buyu and the others arrived as Sheng An, badly injured and exhausted, said their trip to the Southwest to pick them up had been worth it, Divine Lord.

Jia Guangliang and the others saved Long Tianyu, who briefly woke and assured them he would live. As the team questioned how he had been attacked, Sheng An confronted Qiu Yu, whose earlier actions revealed how she had learned of the mosquito outbreak and left confinement.

• Jia Guangliang, Song Linwei, and Jiang Yu combined their abilities to keep Long Tianyu alive, while Li Xin protected the group from the acid rain.
• Long Tianyu opened his eyes long enough to tell everyone he would not die, bringing relief to the Special Affairs Office team.
• Ji Yani reported that Long Tianyu had been found in the same scene as Qin Xuan's prophecy and that Qiu Yu had been beside him, prompting suspicion.
• Sheng An, supported by Qi Lingwu, asked Qiu Yu why she was there.
• Qiu Yu's earlier confinement at the Superpower Biology Research Institute was revealed: she had used puppet threads to monitor people outside and learned that a mosquito outbreak had begun.

Qiu Yu recounted seeing a cloaked figure she believed was M, but she had lost her memory of what happened after tracking it. The surveillance footage contradicted her account, and Sheng An concluded that Qiu Yu was M.

• Qiu Yu explained that she saw a giant Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito fly from the North District and spotted a cloaked figure nearby who seemed to look back at her before severing her puppet threads.
• Qiu Yu said she followed the figure to the scene where Long Tianyu was attacked, but could not remember what happened after arriving there.
• Wan Yuan reported that surveillance showed no figure or mosquito, while Hao Jingye found footage of Qiu Yu escaping, removing her handcuffs, and destroying her monitoring device.
• Qiu Yu insisted she had seen M and argued that her implausible story made her unlikely to be the culprit.
• Sheng An pointed to the evidence connecting Qiu Yu to Long Tianyu's attack and declared, "You are M, Qiu Yu."

Group B confronted Qiu Yu after Sheng An identified her as M, and the arriving Group A debated whether to believe the accusation. Sheng An’s lethal attack was blocked by Qiu Yu’s hidden powers, leaving Qiu Yu stunned and asking whether Sheng An had truly meant to kill her.

• Group A arrived to support Group B after the Vampire Mosquito Mother Organism escaped, and Xiang Hanshuang explained that Doctor Yan suspected Qiu Yu’s departure was connected to M.
• Jiang Yu told Group A that Sheng An believed Qiu Yu was M, while the others argued over Qiu Yu’s past conduct and the lack of proof.
• Sheng An said she would rather kill the wrong person than let M escape, and Group B’s remaining fighters moved to surround Qiu Yu.
• Sheng An lunged at Qiu Yu and fired at her forehead, but Qiu Yu’s puppet threads disrupted the attack and a Spatial Barrier stopped the bullet.
• Sheng An called Qiu Yu’s hidden powers evidence that she was M, while Qiu Yu stared at her hands and asked whether Sheng An had really tried to kill her.

Sheng An declared Qiu Yu to be M and ordered the Special Affairs Office to attack her, while Qiu Yu insisted she was innocent and escaped their assault. Qi Lingwu’s fully powered King's Anchor passed through Qiu Yu and struck Hao Jingye, leaving his identity in question.

• Sheng An explained that M could be an Otherkind unaware of its identity and convinced the gathered agents that Qiu Yu was M.
• Qiu Yu denied being M, but Qi Lingwu argued that the evidence mattered more than her own belief, and Sheng An ordered the agents to attack.
• Qiu Yu used her puppet threads and powerful abilities to fight off the agents, then controlled Qu Yi to carry her away.
• Sheng An called on Qi Lingwu, who fired his fully charged King's Anchor at Qiu Yu as she tried to flee.
• The King's Anchor passed through Qiu Yu and struck Hao Jingye behind Zhang Kun's protective barrier.

Sheng An exposed Hao Jingye as M, an Otherkind who had been beside the Special Affairs Office from the beginning. Hao Jingye’s copied abilities had let him frame Qiu Yu, and the chapter ended with the team realizing how he had done it.

• Sheng An used King's Anchor and her time-stopping ability to expose Hao Jingye as M after his copied abilities and Undying Body kept him from being killed.
• Hao Jingye admitted that Sheng An had trapped him and removed his glasses, revealing his altered, red-eyed appearance.
• Sheng An explained that Hao Jingye had been an Otherkind and a Reborn from the beginning, sent back alongside the other Otherkind.
• Ruan Zifeng and Song Linwei connected Hao Jingye’s presence in the Special Affairs Office to his ability to arrange the awakening of others’ second superpowers.
• Sheng An identified Hao Jingye’s superpower as Copying, and Ruan Zifeng concluded he had copied abilities including King's Anchor, enhancement, and Spatial Barrier to frame Qiu Yu.

Sheng An revealed Hao Jingye as M by using Qi Lingwu’s king’s anchor to identify the person strengthening Qiu Yu, then explained why she had trusted Qiu Yu despite making her appear guilty. She apologized for targeting Qiu Yu and for abandoning her six years earlier, but said she would make the same choices again.

• Sheng An confronted Hao Jingye about copying abilities and framing Qiu Yu, and he admitted that he had acted to stay with the team and remain hidden.
• Sheng An explained that M had to retain part of his humanity, so she had never suspected Qiu Yu or her other teammates and had used the apparent investigation of Qiu Yu to force M to act.
• Ruan Zifeng explained that Qi Lingwu’s king’s anchor followed the power strengthening Qiu Yu and struck Hao Jingye, exposing him as M.
• Sheng An apologized to Qiu Yu for making her the target of the bluff and for leaving her behind during a mission six years earlier.
• Sheng An told Qiu Yu that she valued the mission first and would make the same choices again, while also being willing to sacrifice anything for her teammates.

Sheng An revealed the truth behind her past conflict with Qiu Yu and confronted Hao Jingye, now identified as M, in a battle of time superpowers. As the base faced a worsening mosquito crisis, Qi Lingwu and the Special Affairs Office prepared to support Sheng An, while Song Linwei stepped into Hao Jingye’s former role.

• Jiang Yu and the others learned that Sheng An had made a painful but necessary choice six years earlier, and Qiu Yu said she forgave Hao Jingye.
• Sheng An asked Hao Jingye why he had sided with the Otherkind, and he replied that humanity would lose the war.
• Sheng An used the Fragments and Qi Lingwu’s energy to summon a White Clock and attack Hao Jingye with a time hand, but he blocked her with his own time power.
• The base director ordered everyone to monitor the battle and focus on containing the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, which were overwhelming the base.
• Hao Jingye opened a loophole in the temporal standoff and fired at Sheng An, but Qi Lingwu countered every shot.
• Song Linwei joined Sheng An and told the Special Affairs Office to counter Hao Jingye with their own superpowers, taking on the responsibility Hao Jingye had once carried.

Sheng An and the combat-type Superpower Persons battled Hao Jingye while secretly searching for the damaged Fragment beneath them. As the Capital City Base fought an outbreak of Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, Sheng An revealed that Hao Jingye was not her intended target.

• Li Xin, Li Wanyun, Wu Buyu, Liu Yue, Ke Jiaxue, Lou Mingwei, Xiang Hanshuang, Jiang Ling, and Nie Changshui joined Sheng An in attacking Hao Jingye, who copied their abilities and resisted them with his undying body.
• Song Linwei alerted Wan Yuan that they still did not know where the damaged Fragment was, and Wan Yuan relayed that Qiu Yu had helped Qin Xuan locate it beneath their feet.
• Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes spread through the Capital City Base, and the Base Chief, Doctor Yan, and Elder Li kept the Protective Shield closed to stop them escaping.
• Wan Yuan told Sheng An that the Fragment was under them, so Sheng An and Qi Lingwu prepared to act while the others unleashed their strongest attacks on Hao Jingye.
• Hao Jingye countered their attacks with copied powers, but Sheng An said he was not the one she wanted to kill.

Sheng An’s team killed the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito mother organism and burned its vulnerable offspring, completing their mission. Back at the base, the Mutant Fish Mint revealed it could grow enormous and kill Vampire Mosquitoes across the districts, leaving the base with a powerful defense.

• Mountain Blossom exploited Hao Jingye’s focus on himself, allowing Qi Lingwu to kill the hidden Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito beneath him.
• Hao Jingye tried to protect the incubating second-generation mother organisms, but Zhang Kun doused them in gasoline and Sheng An set them alight.
• Sheng An reported that the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito mother organism had been killed and the mission was complete.
• Academician Zhou learned that Mutant Fish Mint repelled Vampire Mosquitoes and that its scent could kill them, and the Base Chief ordered fish mint planted throughout the base.
• Mutant Fish Mint whipped the people nearby away, grew to enormous size, and spread its powerful scent across the base, killing Vampire Mosquitoes in multiple districts.

Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office stopped Hao Jingye’s Vampire Mosquito plan and learned the base had eliminated the Mother Organism. Hao Jingye escaped after throwing a damaged Fragment that pierced Sheng An.

• The Mutant Fish Mint spread across the base, and the Chief Base Director ordered the lockdown to continue while the base destroyed the remaining mosquitoes.
• The base director received confirmation that the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito Mother Organism had been eliminated.
• Sheng An told Hao Jingye that she understood his plan, and she and the others concluded that they had stopped his threat by killing the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito.
• Hao Jingye admitted defeat, then warned Sheng An before hurling the damaged Fragment toward Jiang Yu.
• Jiang Yu was dragged out of her space, and the Fragment pierced Sheng An as Hao Jingye flew away.

Hao Jingye’s damaged fragment targeted Jiang Yu, but Qiu Yu used her puppet ability to take the fatal strike meant for Sheng An. Qiu Yu died after the fragment drained her life, and she and Sheng An reconciled before saying goodbye.

• Sheng An realized the fragment would ignore their superpowers and lunged to protect Jiang Yu with Mountain Blossom’s time loophole.
• Qiu Yu linked herself to Sheng An with puppet threads and transferred the fragment’s strike to herself.
• Sheng An removed the fragment while Jia Guangliang tried to heal Qiu Yu, but the fragment drained her energy and life force.
• Qiu Yu admitted she had taken the blow because she did not want Sheng An to die, and Sheng An told her they would meet again.
• Qiu Yu dissolved into blood after she and Sheng An exchanged a final farewell.

After Qiu Yu sacrificed herself to save Jiang Yu, Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office brought her uniform back to the base and honored her as a hero. The team gathered on the rooftop that night, grieving Qiu Yu and confronting the truth that Hao Jingye was M.

• Qiu Yu vanished under the Fragments' influence after giving her life to save Jiang Yu, while the others realized Hao Jingye had been M all along.
• Sheng An insisted that Qiu Yu had left everything behind and led the team back to the base carrying her bloodstained uniform.
• Elder Li saluted Sheng An and Qi Lingwu as they brought Qiu Yu home as a hero.
• Sheng An placed Qiu Yu's uniform in a memorial compartment beside the fallen members of Team 0 and vowed to restore the land so the dead could return to it.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu left to review the incident, while the sleepless team gathered on the rooftop and mourned Qiu Yu and their memories of Hao Jingye.

The group reviewed the Vampire Mosquitoes, Hao Jingye, and the damaged Fragment, concluding that Hao Jingye may have used the mosquitoes to aid the Otherkind. They secured the dangerous Fragment, but could not explain why Hao Jingye had been so determined to kill Jiang Yu, leaving her space as a crucial mystery.

• Song Linwei led the group in reviewing the Vampire Mosquitoes and their connection to Hao Jingye and the Fragments.
• Ruan Zifeng confirmed the Vampire Mosquitoes had been wiped out and burned, while the Mutant Fish Mint rested after helping destroy them.
• The group theorized that Hao Jingye might have created the mosquitoes to obtain human blood and accelerate the Otherkind's evolution.
• Zhang Kun took the box of Fragments from his space, and Sheng An inspected the damaged Fragment before closing it away.
• Jiang Yu and the others questioned why Hao Jingye had discarded the Fragment and prioritized killing Little Fish, suspecting his actions were tied to Jiang Yu's space.