Arc 4Chapters 76–100
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Sheng An and her group exposed Wu Buyu’s secret transformation and recruited him after his embarrassment left him socially dead. He accepted, then revealed that his special ability let him know what Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun had said about each other.
Wu Buyu revealed that he could read minds within a limited range and was beginning to gain control of the ability as his body changed. He asked to stay with Sheng An and Qi Lingwu because he could not hear Sheng An’s thoughts, but Qi Lingwu knocked him unconscious after Wu Buyu exposed his constant thoughts about her.
After the group left the temple, Sheng An urged Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun to recall psychic and high-level Superpower Persons from their past lives. The next morning, Wu Buyu woke in a suite and was dragged out by Qi Lingwu at Sheng An’s request.
Wu Buyu joined the Special Affairs Office and revealed that his mind-reading ability let him hear what others were thinking, though he had no memories of his previous life. As Group B prepared to move into a villa Li Wanyun had mortgaged to them, Wu Buyu exposed Lou Mingwei’s hostile thoughts about Qiu Yu.
The Special Affairs Office team finished gathering and toured the newly fortified Core Shelter, where Li Xin learned that his metal-modification ability would help reinforce shelters nationwide. Sheng An welcomed the group into Li Wanyun’s villa as their future home.
Sheng An’s team identified three powerful Aberrants, and she went to recruit Liu Yue and Ji Yani. Liu Yue revealed his fire ability to his worried parents, while Ji Yani tried to ignore her speed ability, but both were confronted by SWAT officers at their doors.
Gu Qiansheng pieced together signs that a meteorite-driven apocalypse was near and planned to use his silencing ability to build power in a remote region. Sheng An identified him and brought him into the Doomsday Special Affairs Office, where he met his new teammates Liu Yue and Ji Yani.
Sheng An recruited Gu Qiansheng, Liu Yue, and Ji Yani into Group B, revealing that reborn people had identified Gu and a sniper had forced him to cooperate. At the villa, the newcomers met their eccentric and powerful teammates, and Gu began to suspect he would never escape.
Sheng An learned that psychic superpowers might help identify Otherkind and arranged for Long Tianyu to find Teacher Xu. Before she could review Teacher Xu’s file, a superpowered killer struck in Stone City, and Sheng An arrived at Lin'an Residential Community to take command.
Sheng An arrived at Lin'an Estate to help catch a Superpower Person who had murdered residents and police officers. She calmed the crowd and organized a mind-reading search, which led the captain to suspect that a helpful young volunteer had awakened a Superpower.
Sheng An investigated a murder in Lin'an Residential Community while Wu Buyu checked the residents for the killer. The investigation left the team wondering why Teacher Xu, a potential psychic Superpower Person who lived in the community, had not appeared.
Sheng An investigated the brutal murders, learned they might resemble the work of Otherkind, and screened the residents with Wu Buyu’s Mind Reading. After discovering Xu Jia was still inside Lin'an Residential Community, Sheng An led a team in to search, then realized Wu Buyu’s screening had revealed a new danger and rushed back.
Sheng An and the others discovered that Zhang Jialiang was an Otherkind with a rapidly healing, seemingly undying body after he attacked a child and fled. After learning that he had killed his own family, Sheng An ordered the group to hunt him down and eliminate him that night.
After the team failed to capture the powerful Otherkind, they tracked his escape and discussed how to kill him. Sheng An then raised a new possibility: Xu Jia’s disappearance might be connected to another Otherkind.
Sheng An’s team confronted the intelligent Otherkind wearing Zhang Jialiang’s body at South Lake Park, where he took hostages and wounded Long Tianyu. Sheng An fought him to save the others, but he became obsessed with the divine scent of her blood.
Sheng An and her allies carried out a plan to weaken the Otherkind and leave him vulnerable to Qi Lingwu’s sniper shot. As the Otherkind prepared to kill Sheng An, Qi Lingwu fired and shot him through the head.
Sheng An and Team 0 defeated the Otherkind posing as Zhang Jialiang, but a seemingly harmless woman attacked them with a power that plunged the area into absolute darkness. As she threatened Sheng An, Qi Lingwu’s world changed, and his superpower awakened.
Qi Lingwu awakened a powerful psychic superpower and killed Xu Jia during the darkness at South Lake Park. The Research Institute identified the ability as Psychic Superpower: King's Anchor, though its full effects remained unknown.
Sheng An explained why Qi Lingwu’s powerful new superpower was officially named King's Anchor, while noting that he could not yet unleash its full strength. That evening, Group B realized Qi Lingwu’s awakening had put them ahead of Group A and made sure their rivals heard about it.
Group A and Group B’s rivalry briefly united the superpowered recruits, revealing the purpose of dividing them into teams. Sheng An reviewed footage of Zhang Jialiang’s transformation and learned how he and his family tried to protect one another before he died; she arranged for his burial and membership in Group B, then insisted they investigate the cause of the Otherkind outbreak.
Sheng An and her team reviewed the government’s analysis of the early-awakened Superpower People and powerful Otherkind, concluding that opposing forces might be helping humanity and the Otherkind. Sheng An ended by asking Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu whether anything could have tampered with their memories.
Sheng An and the others discussed the unanswered questions surrounding rebirth, altered memories, and the forces behind Doomsday, then returned to preparations for the Apocalypse. As the countdown reached six days, Sheng An asked Qi Lingwu whether she might die or become Otherkind when it began.
Sheng An and Qi Lingwu discussed what they would do if either became Otherkind, then discovered Group B had been secretly listening in. The group ended the night sharing drinks before the official announcement the next morning.
With the apocalypse five days away, Chu Juan and her husband watched a sudden nationwide briefing announcing the meteorite disaster and explaining the government’s preparations. The broadcast began revealing food stockpiles and emergency production efforts, leaving the country anxious but reassured that preparations were underway.
The nation presented its preparations for the Apocalypse, including supplies, shelters, armed forces, communications, and contingency plans, then revealed the Special Affairs Office’s superpowered members. Elder Li and Elder Zhang announced the Kindling Project, leaving the country poised to begin its second phase after Doomsday arrived.