Arc 3Chapters 51–75
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Sheng An forced Zhang Kun and Ke Jiaxue to join the Doomsday Special Affairs Office, then reflected on the thirteen days remaining before the global catastrophe. She vowed to fight to save as many people as possible, and Hao Jingye reported that Zhang Jialiang and Long Tianyu both wanted to see her.
Sheng An brought Zhang Jialiang to meet the captured Long Tianyu, who wanted to learn how the government had discovered him. Zhang Jialiang revealed that he had photographed Long Tianyu while he used Flash and ended their exchange by boasting that his phone had been miles ahead.
Sheng An confronted Long Tianyu over stealing government supplies and demanded that he join the Doomsday Special Affairs Office. After he refused, she ordered Qi Lingwu to kill him, and Long Tianyu agreed to join only when Qi Lingwu held a gun to his head.
Sheng An and Qi Lingwu disciplined Long Tianyu, then Sheng An told Zhang Jialiang that supernatural abilities would awaken and promised he could join them if he developed one. At dinner, the growing team celebrated its new members, and Ke Jiaxue competed with Jiang Yu for Sheng An’s attention.
Sheng An assigned work and training to her team while keeping Li Xin in line and revealing that Long Tianyu was badly injured. That evening, Long Tianyu returned to the dormitory and sought out Ke Jiaxue and Zhang Kun, with Jiang Yu present.
Long Tianyu tried to recruit Jiang Yu and his former teammates into an alliance to challenge Sheng An’s authority. The others rejected his plan and chose to follow Sheng An, while Jiang Yu also refused to join his Ghostly Esper Corps.
Long Tianyu was dragged away by Qi Lingwu after provoking Sheng An, then sought out Li Xin to recruit him by describing a flattering version of their past-life relationship. Li Xin revealed his resentment toward Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office, giving Long Tianyu an opening to manipulate him.
Long Tianyu tried to recruit Li Xin into a rebellion against Sheng An, but Li Xin’s family stopped him before he could gain an ally. As Sheng An’s team discussed managing superpower users, they received news that one had voluntarily reported to the government and rushed to meet them.
Sheng An and Qiu Yu competed to recruit Xiang Hanshuang, a newly awakened ice ability user who had voluntarily contacted the state. After learning about the coming Apocalypse and the Special Affairs Office, Xiang Hanshuang agreed to join, and the chapter ended with her deciding between Groups A and B.
Xiang Hanshuang joined Qiu Yu’s Group A, choosing her because her powerful ability seemed to offer better odds of survival. Back at the Camp, Qi Lingwu helped Sheng An steady her aim, and she planned a group dinner to ask Long Tianyu about his previous life.
Sheng An used a lavish meal to persuade Long Tianyu to share what he knew about powerful ability users from his supposed previous life. Long Tianyu identified several formidable figures and was shocked to learn that Qiu Yu led Group A.
Long Tianyu described Qiu Yu, a feared Puppet Superpower Person who turned other Superpower People into puppets to fight the Otherkind before she was killed. The group wondered why Sheng An and Team 0 had left no trace in Long Tianyu’s previous life, and Hao Jingye suggested a larger secret might explain it; Sheng An ended the discussion to go pick up Li Wanyun.
Sheng An agreed to bring Long Tianyu along to intercept Li Wanyun, a reborn Space Esper returning with a vast stockpile of supplies and weapons. Li Wanyun reached the Central Bus Terminal, relieved that she had completed her mission and ready to prepare for the apocalypse.
Sheng An and the Doomsday Special Affairs Office confronted Li Wanyun over her ten billion in smuggled supplies and pressured her to join them. After Sheng An whispered something to her, Li Wanyun stopped resisting and accepted her invitation, leaving Long Tianyu baffled.
Sheng An revealed that Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu were both reborn espers, then exposed Li Wanyun’s role in transporting weapons and her unpaid debts. Li Wanyun reluctantly agreed to cooperate, while Long Tianyu’s resolve to rebel against Sheng An disappeared.
Li Wanyun agreed to join the Doomsday Special Affairs Office after Sheng An revealed how many familiar superpower users had already joined. When Li Wanyun asked whether she could kill the relatives she blamed for her parents’ deaths, Sheng An gave her evidence against them and told her to report to the office by morning.
Li Wanyun joined the Special Affairs Office after Sheng An gave her evidence about her parents’ murder and promised the country would support her. As the team left, Sheng An and Qi Lingwu realized Li Wanyun’s fighting moves resembled techniques they had developed, raising a new mystery about her previous life.
Sheng An’s team found a suspicious man named Wu Buyu whose searches suggested he had undergone a mutation, though no one recognized him. Li Wanyun returned and revealed that everyone who had survived more than a year in Doomsday would know him, leaving the team stunned.
Li Wanyun explained that Wu Buyu was the infamous Doomsday Paparazzo and founder of the Doomsday Flying Post. Sheng An decided to investigate and recruit his abilities for the coming Apocalypse, then began questioning Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu about their pasts.
Sheng An and the others investigated Li Wanyun’s unexplained fighting techniques and compared the reborn survivors’ deaths, discovering that every reborn Superpower Person had died before the third year of doomsday. Sheng An concluded the pattern might reveal why they had appeared and sent Hao Jingye to share the evidence, then turned her attention to Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu.
Sheng An assigned Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun to screen records for Superpower People, Aberrants, and Otherkind, and the two reluctantly accepted the work. Mistaking each other for supervisors, they competed through the night and nearly completed several days’ worth of screening.
As Group A boasted about its strength, Sheng An’s team outperformed them through successful screening and training, setting off a workplace competition across the Special Affairs Office. Sheng An then prepared to recruit the newly awakened Wu Buyu, leaving Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun behind to rest.
Sheng An kept Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun busy to prevent them from causing trouble, then set out with her team to investigate Wu Buyu. At lunch, Li Wanyun encouraged Jiang Yu to take her farming studies seriously, and she and Long Tianyu hurried to finish their work so they could meet Wu Buyu.
Wu Buyu left home after his father threatened to throw him out, while Sheng An’s team confirmed that he was an ancestral reversion mutant whose unusual information-gathering ability had existed before the apocalypse. The team tracked him from a distance, and Sheng An ordered everyone not to approach or interfere until she gave permission.
Sheng An tracked Wu Buyu to a temple after learning his family had cast him out, while Wu Buyu revealed his unusual ability to expose secrets and his birdlike powers when alone. He noticed someone hiding in the temple and demanded to know who was there.