Recaps

The group analyzed Hao Jingye’s motives and discovered he had another unknown ability that had stopped Jiang Yu from entering her space. With dawn approaching, Song Linwei asked Sheng An to decide whether they should collect the meteorite fragments.

• Jiang Yu agreed to cooperate with the government’s study of her space, while Li Wanyun said Hao Jingye likely knew what had happened in their previous lives.
• Wu Buyu translated Zhuang Fan’s question about why Hao Jingye had waited to attack, and the group reasoned that he had stayed near Sheng An to gather information and conceal his identity.
• Song Linwei argued that Sheng An’s prophecy image suggested humanity had assembled all the fragments in their previous lives, and Li Wanyun explained that Hao Jingye had joined Sheng An to learn what she would eventually collect.
• Jiang Yu recalled that she had been bounced out of her space, leading Qi Lingwu and the others to conclude Hao Jingye possessed another unknown ability.
• Song Linwei asked Sheng An to decide whether they should report to the Research Institute that they would collect the fragments, and everyone waited for her answer.

Sheng An told the group to collect the Fragments without assembling them, then faced the Mutant Fish Mint, which demanded that she fulfill her promise to restore its lost leaves. She explained that its original leaves could not be recovered, but gave it five leaves with Time Reversal; the fish mint immediately demanded even more.

• Sheng An decided that the group should collect the Fragments first and not assemble them.
• The Mutant Fish Mint climbed onto the rooftop and demanded that Sheng An fulfill her promise to give it lush leaves.
• Sheng An explained that the fish mint's lost leaves had vanished with a collapsed time layer and could not be restored.
• The Mutant Fish Mint's complaints sparked a rooftop shouting match, with Wu Buyu translating between it and the others.
• Sheng An plucked five leaves and used Time Reversal to give the fish mint six leaves in total.
• The Mutant Fish Mint inspected its new leaves and demanded many more.

Sheng An reconsidered how each battle against the Otherkind had brought the group closer to victory and the truth, while suspecting Old Qin had acted strangely. After a chaotic morning in which the Mutant Fish Mint plucked Jiang Ling bald, the group learned that Long Tianyu had woken up and hurried to the hospital.

• The Mutant Fish Mint clung to Jiang Ling after Sheng An encouraged it to evolve more leaves, and the group ended its rooftop discussion with collecting the Fragments as an interim objective.
• Sheng An told Qi Lingwu that Old Qin had seemed strange, then reflected that the group's victories against the Otherkind had repeatedly led to valuable discoveries and gains.
• The Mutant Fish Mint plucked Jiang Ling's hair while she slept, prompting Jiang Ling to chase it and then attack Lou Mingwei when he mocked her.
• Song Linwei announced that Long Tianyu had woken up, and Sheng An and the others headed for the hospital.

Long Tianyu woke in the hospital and told Sheng An’s team that Qiu Yu had attacked him, but they explained that Qiu Yu had died protecting Sheng An and that Hao Jingye was the real M. After learning how much had happened while he was unconscious, Long Tianyu discovered he had been out for only one day.

• Doctor Yan and Director Wang confirmed that Long Tianyu was out of danger, and Sheng An and the team visited him.
• Long Tianyu recalled that Qiu Yu had attacked him after the acid rain, using Puppet Threads to control him.
• Sheng An’s team discussed how Hao Jingye had arranged the attack and whether psychic powers or puppet abilities had influenced Qiu Yu.
• Wu Buyu explained that Jia Guangliang had resurrected Long Tianyu, Hao Jingye had escaped after the Vampire Mosquito crisis, and Qiu Yu had died protecting Sheng An.
• Long Tianyu asked whether he had been unconscious for years, and Wu Buyu told him it had been one day.

Sheng An’s group strengthened defenses while waiting for Hao Jingye, and the bases enjoyed a month of improving conditions before the cold wave arrived earlier than expected. The chapter ends with Sheng An ordering everyone to move as the temperature suddenly plunged.

• Long Tianyu learned that Hao Jingye was a mole and Qiu Yu was dead, while Sheng An’s group discussed Hao Jingye’s unknown abilities and warned every base to stay alert.
• Jiang Yu took the Mutant Fish Mint to the Wasteland Cultivation Research Institute, where it was expected to support large-scale cultivation.
• A month passed without signs of Hao Jingye, and Song Linwei reported falling casualties, repaired roads, and supplies delivered to the bases.
• Sheng An’s group discussed the approaching cold wave and the hope that mutant plants could eventually restore life to the wasteland.
• Sheng An heard cracking sounds as the temperature plunged and rushed outside, announcing that the cold wave had arrived early.

Winter arrived thirty-one days early, and Sheng An and Qi Lingwu witnessed a supernatural cold wave rapidly freezing the base. With systems failing and people suffering frostbite, Sheng An ordered ordinary people to shelter and Superpower Persons to take over the emergency response, warning that the cold might only be beginning.

• After the temperature plunged and soup began to freeze, Song Linwei sent Jiang Yu into her space while the others rushed to follow Sheng An's emergency plans.
• A broadcast warned people to enter nearby buildings, and staff at the Merit Points Exchange directed them into a heated shelter and distributed cold-weather suits.
• The young woman in the shelter felt the wall turn bone-chillingly cold and heard cracking sounds as ice formed.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu watched ice and frost sweep across the world from the north, freezing the base, its power supply, and its heating system.
• Wan Yuan, Song Linwei, and Gu Qiansheng reported lost contact with northern bases, power failures, and widespread frostbite as the Chief Base Director issued emergency orders.
• Sheng An ordered ordinary people to leave the front lines and Superpower Persons to take over their duties, then warned Qi Lingwu that this might only be the beginning.

As the cold wave intensified, Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun helped people at an exchange point with winter supplies and braziers, while Sheng An’s group worked to keep the base warm and restore power. The temperature kept falling, the soil froze, and more than two hundred people had died as the group faced a cold wave worse than expected.

• Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun brought cold-weather clothing, braziers, charcoal, and kettles to an exchange point, where Jia Guangliang and doctors treated the injured.
• Liu Yue reported that charcoal fires had been lit in gathering rooms and bonfires built outside the main dormitories.
• Xiang Hanshuang told Sheng An that temperatures had plunged below fifty degrees below zero outside the base, and that efforts to restore power needed more time.
• Qi Lingwu opened the door to the Mutant Fish Mint, and Wu Buyu explained that frozen soil prevented it from taking root.
• Song Linwei reported that the temperature had fallen another two degrees and that more than two hundred people had died, while Jiang Yu vowed that Hao Jingye would not destroy humanity with the cold wave.

The cold wave struck a month earlier than expected, and the base struggled through its first night of extreme cold while M’s role remained unclear. After power was restored, the group discovered that Mutant Fish Mint had entered Jiang Yu’s space on its own.

• Sheng An and Song Linwei concluded that Hao Jingye had likely brought the cold wave forward, then Sheng An joined Base Chief Hua Weimin and Li Jianjun to reassure the public.
• Mutant Fish Mint vanished from the room and appeared inside Jiang Yu’s space, where it rooted itself in the soil.
• At 3 a.m., Long Tianyu, Jia Guangliang, Li Wanyun, and others delivered supplies and rescued injured residents as the temperature fell to minus 62 degrees.
• Hua Weimin, Li Jianjun, and Sheng An used the restored broadcast to calm residents while Lou Mingwei generated electricity and Xiang Hanshuang and Li Xin worked on the power system.
• By 7 a.m., power had been restored and the outdoor temperature had fallen to -65°; Sheng An admitted she did not know how M had advanced the cold wave.
• Wan Yuan and Song Linwei reported that Mutant Fish Mint could enter Jiang Yu’s space without her taking it in.

The Fish Mint entered Jiang Yu's space on its own and proved it could bring others inside, leading Sheng An to suspect Jiang Yu was only the space’s key and that Hao Jingye might be able to access it too. The group then learned Capital City Base was colder than every other reported base, likely because of the Fragments, and Sheng An suspected Hao Jingye wanted them sent away.

• Jiang Yu explained that the Fish Mint had burrowed into her space by itself, and Sheng An identified its Mutation ability as a Rule-and-Order Type.
• Sheng An asked the Fish Mint to take them into the space, and it brought her, Qi Lingwu, Song Linwei, and the Base Chief inside before returning them, exhausted.
• Sheng An warned Jiang Yu not to enter the space alone and told her to recall how she had first obtained it, while Jiang Yu realized Hao Jingye might have copied the Fish Mint’s ability.
• Wan Yuan reported that Capital City Base was at -60°, colder than other bases, including those farther north, and Li Wanyun blamed the Fragments.
• Sheng An said the cold wave was connected to Hao Jingye and the Fragments and suspected he was waiting for them to send the Fragments out of Capital City.

Sheng An and the Capital City Base rushed to build a temperature-insulating layer as bitter winter worsened, and the Underground Shelter finally opened as a warm refuge. After inspecting the Shelter, Sheng An returned to the villa for hot pot and noticed Long Tianyu and Jiang Yu were missing.

• Sheng An persuaded the Base Chief, Song Linwei, and Elder Li to mobilize the base and build an insulated Underground Shelter while refusing to hand the Fragments to Hao Jingye.
• The Capital City Base endured rapidly falling temperatures, rising frostbite cases, and shortages of medicine and heating supplies as workers constructed the Shelter’s insulating layers.
• On the ninth night, Sheng An and Qi Lingwu inspected the newly opened Shelter, where residents found warmth and the team eliminated newly emerged Otherkind and counseled distressed people.
• Sheng An used her superpower to heal her frostbitten hands, and Qi Lingwu warmed them inside his clothes as they returned to the villa.
• Jia Guangliang urged Liu Yue and Jia Xue to keep the hot pot going, and Sheng An asked Song Linwei about the absent Long Tianyu and Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu, Sheng An, and Qi Lingwu discovered that Little Fish Mint could enter Jiang Yu’s space from far away, revealing that the space was independent and Jiang Yu’s vanished jade bracelet was merely its key. They considered whether Hao Jingye could exploit the discovery, but the chapter left the space’s connection to the fragments and Doomsday unresolved.

• Jiang Yu brought Sheng An and Qi Lingwu into her space, where they found Little Fish Mint had entered and tried to flee.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu realized Little Fish Mint had reached the space from the underground research lab while Jiang Yu was elsewhere.
• Song Linwei and Sheng An explained that Jiang Yu’s jade bracelet was the space’s key and that Little Fish Mint could enter the independent space from any location.
• Gu Qiansheng and Ruan Zifeng raised concerns that Hao Jingye might enter or learn about the space, while Song Linwei judged that he probably did not know Little Fish Mint’s ability.
• Li Wanyun warned everyone to keep Hao Jingye from copying Little Fish Mint’s power, and Wu Buyu asked whether the space was connected to the fragments and Doomsday.

Sheng An and the others debated the unexplained nature of Jiang Yu’s space and tightened precautions around it. Their meal was interrupted when they discovered that food would not cook properly, revealing that oxygen deprivation had accompanied the early cold wave.

• Jiang Yu, Lou Mingwei, Li Xin, and Song Linwei considered whether her space was connected to the apocalypse, while Sheng An questioned whether it had an unknown owner.
• Qi Lingwu urged the group to prepare for every possibility, and Sheng An forbade Jiang Yu and Fish Mint from entering the space without permission.
• Old Qin announced that the hot pot was ready, and Long Tianyu fought Jia Guangliang after discovering he had put fish mint in the pot.
• Long Tianyu and Jia Guangliang became unusually breathless after their scuffle, and the others found that the hot pot ingredients remained uncooked despite the boiling water.
• Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and Song Linwei recognized the cause and concluded that oxygen deprivation was part of the threat following the early cold wave.

Sheng An and the Research Institute confirmed that oxygen would run out in four months, and they realized the crisis had been delayed in the previous life for reasons they did not understand. Rejecting a drawn-out response that would cost more lives, Sheng An decided to take a different path, though she had not yet explained her plan.

• Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and Song Linwei left dinner to investigate the worsening oxygen shortage.
• Wan Yuan's calculations showed that oxygen would reach zero in four months, with Capital City facing an even faster decline.
• Sheng An and the others considered why oxygen had not run out in the previous life, while Wan Yuan suggested the larger surviving population might be consuming it faster.
• Song Linwei proposed producing oxygen and finding the previous life's solution, but Sheng An warned that humanity could not afford an attrition battle.
• Sheng An said she would stop reacting to each disaster and pursue a different approach, prompting Jiang Yu to ask what she planned to do.

Sheng An chose to take the meteorite fragments to Stone City and confront Hao Jingye, abandoning the plan to counter his moves from afar. As oxygen deprivation and other disasters worsened across the bases, she prepared to leave the next day and wait for him there.

• Doctor Yan explained that resisting Hao Jingye would lead to rapid death, while handing him the fragments might reveal their secret and offer a chance at survival.
• Sheng An chose the dangerous second path, and Song Linwei, Qi Lingwu, Jiang Yu, and Mountain Blossom supported her.
• Capital City Base distributed fish mint plants and produced oxygen as cold and oxygen deprivation increased deaths across the bases.
• Liu Zhao learned that thirty-seven people at B11 Base had died after a vent was improperly secured, while Southwest Base struggled with high altitude, cold, and declining oxygen.
• Wan Yuan reported that deaths were doubling at many bases, Otherkind unrest had spread, and Coastal Base 2 had been wiped out.
• Sheng An announced that the team would leave the next day for Stone City and wait for Hao Jingye.

Sheng An decided to take her strongest allies to confront Hao Jingye, despite the danger, and Qin Xuan could not foresee what awaited them. She left the group resolved to seek a breakthrough against the invading Otherkind rather than accept mere survival for a few more years.

• Sheng An's team insisted on joining her, and she revealed that she had never meant to leave the strongest fighters behind, though Jiang Yu would stay at the villa.
• That night, Sheng An and Qi Lingwu helped Song Linwei, Old Qin, and Qin Xuan onto the roof, where Qin Xuan tried and failed to use his superpower to see what would happen with Hao Jingye.
• Sheng An explained that she would not accept hiding in Jiang Yu's space and surviving only a few more years while the Otherkind destroyed human civilization.
• Old Qin asked whether their struggle might be futile, and Sheng An vowed they would keep fighting until they found a way to make it matter.

Sheng An and her allies traveled to Stone City with the meteorite fragments, gambling that they could use their theory about the space to kill Hao Jingye. They found him waiting at the Meteorite Research Institute, surrounded by masked followers.

• Sheng An questioned why Hao Jingye had targeted Jiang Yu and proposed risking a plan that might let them kill him.
• Qi Lingwu agreed to gamble alongside Sheng An, and Song Linwei asked how he could help.
• The Base Chief insisted on staying behind to hold the Capital City Base while Sheng An's group departed on a sled car.
• Sheng An carried the meteorite fragments toward Stone City as Fish Mint stayed behind with Academician Zhou.
• At the frozen Meteorite Research Institute, Hao Jingye leaped down from an iceberg as masked figures surrounded the group.
• Sheng An greeted Hao Jingye, saying it had been a long time since they had met.

Sheng An confronted Hao Jingye and traded the meteorite fragments for three pieces of information. After taking the fragments, Hao Jingye revealed that he already possessed two-thirds of them, leaving the group to wonder what would happen if he gathered them all.

• Hao Jingye admitted that he had collected fragments and recognized that Sheng An had come seeking information rather than surrendering them because of Capital City's worsening conditions.
• Sheng An faced Hao Jingye with her group and demanded information in exchange for the fragments; Hao Jingye offered three pieces.
• Hao Jingye claimed no one could control the fragments and said they existed to help Otherkind, while Song Linwei challenged the value of his answer.
• Hao Jingye offered to show the next two pieces of information, and Sheng An handed him the box of fragments.
• Hao Jingye revealed another huge pile of fragments, showing that he possessed two-thirds of all the fragments.

Hao Jingye used blood and his superpower to make the Fragments assemble into the Egg, forcing Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office to attack before it could be completed. The battle left Hao Jingye locked in combat with Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and Mountain Blossom while Long Tianyu killed the puppet copying his ability.

• Hao Jingye poured blood over the Fragments and infused them with his superpower, causing them to begin assembling themselves.
• Ruan Zifeng sensed a terrifying presence building, and Hao Jingye revealed that the Fragments were assembling into their original form.
• Sheng An ordered the Special Affairs Office to attack, and Hao Jingye's puppet Otherkind intercepted the fighters while Xiang Hanshuang and Ke Jiaxue tried to disrupt the Blood Pool.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye clashed with their time powers as the Fragments continued assembling, while Qi Lingwu attacked Hao Jingye with his King's Anchor.
• Long Tianyu killed the puppet copying his superpower by risking a direct strike, then bragged to Li Wanyun that he was fast.

The Special Affairs Office defeated Hao Jingye’s Puppet Otherkind and used the Fragments’ energy to suppress Hao Jingye, with Sheng An stopping the Fragments from assembling. Hao Jingye revealed that he could empower Puppets across the world, then reflected the team’s attacks onto them and left many members gravely wounded.

• Li Wanyun killed the spatial Puppet with a compressed bomb, while Li Xin killed the metal-type Puppet with a saber made from rare metals.
• Ke Jiaxue, Xiang Hanshuang, Lou Mingwei, and the other Special Affairs Office members defeated the remaining Puppets, and Hao Jingye reclaimed their Superpowers and cut their Puppet Threads.
• Song Linwei transferred the Fragments’ energy to the team, allowing them to keep fighting Hao Jingye as Sheng An and Qi Lingwu pinned him down.
• Sheng An used her time hand to move the assembling Fragments to her side and stop them from fitting together.
• Hao Jingye warned that he could empower more Puppets, then withdrew most of his Superpowers and gave them to Puppets elsewhere.
• Hao Jingye reflected the team’s attacks, leaving Li Wanyun, Lou Mingwei, Long Tianyu, and others severely injured until Jia Guangliang healed them.

Hao Jingye trapped the Special Affairs Office in illusions and claimed victory, but Sheng An and her allies broke free and killed him. At the bases, humans counterattacked the arriving Puppet Otherkind and exposed hidden Otherkind, as the wider war began.

• Puppet Otherkind approached the Capital City, B11, and Southwest Bases while hidden Otherkind stirred inside the bases.
• Hao Jingye used reflection, illusion, and interference superpowers to wound and trap Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office, then claimed they had lost.
• Sheng An whistled, and Mountain Blossom, Zhuang Fan, Long Tianyu, and Song Linwei helped break the illusion and suppress Hao Jingye's defenses.
• Sheng An used her time superpower to kill Hao Jingye and declared that he and the Otherkind had lost.
• At the Capital City Base, Yu Feng, Jiang Huanshu, and the Superpower People surrounded the surviving Puppet Otherkind after an explosion destroyed the security room.
• At B11 and the Southwest Base, Liu Zhao and the Base Chief ordered attacks as human forces confronted the Puppet Otherkind and hunted hidden Otherkind.

Hao Jingye used the wounded Superpower Persons’ blood to summon and assemble the Fragments, reviving himself and declaring victory. Sheng An revealed she had kept the largest Fragment, leaving a gap in the completed object and challenging his claim that he had won.

• Gu Qiansheng collapsed after helping deal with the threat, while Sheng An’s strike left Hao Jingye apparently dead.
• The wounded fighters’ blood flowed toward the Fragments, which broke free of Sheng An’s time hand and began summoning the remaining pieces from across the world.
• The Fragments revived Hao Jingye, who explained that he had arranged the battle and the Otherkind attacks to gather blood and complete their assembly.
• Hao Jingye declared that he had won as the Fragments formed the egg-shaped object, whose red markings Sheng An identified as blood vessels.
• Sheng An revealed the largest Fragment on her tongue and showed that the assembled object still had a thumb-sized gap.

Sheng An kept the final meteorite fragment hidden and led the Special Affairs Office in resisting Hao Jingye, who then drew power from the living egg and reached 10-Star. As Sheng An realized the egg was the Otherkind Lord, she questioned whether Hao Jingye was truly Otherkind.

• Sheng An revealed that she had concealed the last fragment, preventing Hao Jingye from completing the egg-shaped assembly.
• Hao Jingye attacked to seize the fragment, but Sheng An, Song Linwei, and the Special Affairs Office joined forces to resist him and keep her supplied with energy.
• The egg spoke, called Hao Jingye useless, and poured its energy into him, raising him to 10-Star.
• Hao Jingye's immense power shattered Sheng An's time hand and prevented Song Linwei from drawing energy from her, while Qi Lingwu shielded her from the pressure.
• Sheng An realized the fragments were alive and enabled the Otherkind to communicate, identified the creature inside the egg as the Otherkind Lord, and asked Hao Jingye whether he was truly Otherkind.

Sheng An gambled that the human side of Hao Jingye could resist M, but he seemed to attack her with full force until Jiang Yu's Little Fish Mint pierced his heart. As Hao Jingye died, Sheng An realized he had suppressed his own defenses to help them kill M.

• Sheng An confronted Hao Jingye and argued that Assistant Hao's humanity was still inside him, while Qi Lingwu and the others watched helplessly.
• Hao Jingye struggled against Sheng An's appeal, then roared that he would kill her and take the Fragments.
• The fish mint followed Jiang Yu into the battle, and Jiang Yu used it to pierce Hao Jingye's heart as Qi Lingwu shielded Sheng An.
• Hao Jingye's attacks stopped, and Sheng An recognized that he had let Little Fish Mint bypass his defenses.
• Hao Jingye patted Jiang Yu's head before dying, and his final expression showed relief and joy.

After Hao Jingye died and dissolved into blood, Sheng An reassured Jiang Yu that Assistant Hao had truly been their human teammate, then warned the group that the Fragments remained the real threat. The group faced the Fragments without knowing how to defeat them, while Sheng An began searching for the secret Hao Jingye had tried to leave behind.

• Hao Jingye dissolved into blood, and Ruan Zifeng explained that his human side had emerged and the Fragments had reclaimed his energy.
• Jiang Yu asked whether Assistant Hao had been human and a true teammate, and Sheng An confirmed that he had helped them as a human.
• Jiang Yu broke down crying, while Ke Jiaxue, Ji Yani, and Li Wanyun comforted her and Qi Lingwu supported Sheng An.
• Sheng An declared that the Fragments, not the dead Hao Jingye, were the true invading organism and that the crisis was not over.
• Song Linwei reasoned that the Fragments could act only through powerful Otherkind, while the group acknowledged that they knew no way to destroy the Fragments.
• Sheng An suspected Hao Jingye had left a clue despite being silenced and resolved to discover what he had entrusted to her.

After the Fragments’ reassembly caused a sudden temperature and oxygen drop, Sheng An’s group secured the Egg of Fragments at the Meteorite Research Institute and sent a report to Capital City Base. Qi Lingwu took the dangerous Fragment from Sheng An and used his newly reached 8-Star mental power to suppress it, giving her a chance to rest.

• Song Linwei and Wan Yuan received news that the temperature and oxygen levels had plunged when the Fragments were assembled, and the group failed to damage the Egg or make it speak again.
• Sheng An ordered the group to store the Egg at the Meteorite Research Institute and told Fish Mint to take Wan Yuan and Song Linwei to Capital City Base with the battle recording.
• Fish Mint transported the pair through Jiang Yu’s space, confirming that it could serve as a portal between locations.
• Sheng An placed the Egg in a monitored metal chamber and continued investigating the information Hao Jingye had left behind.
• Qi Lingwu took the Fragment from Sheng An, revealed that his superpower had reached 8-Star, and used his mental power to suppress it while protecting the Institute.
• Sheng An accepted Qi Lingwu’s help and rested beside him as the Fragment’s test data streamed to Capital City.