Recaps

After the meteorite strikes ended, the survivors learned that ninety percent of the country's population had survived, and the nation began mourning the dead and organizing for the crises ahead. As the group faced the start of doomsday in a changed world, Long Tianyu, Wu Buyu, and Li Wanyun went to Xiang Hanshuang to ask for ice.

• Hao Jingye reported that the final meteorites had struck Stone City, and the Research Institute asked Zhang Kun to help retrieve them with Liu Yue and Jia Xue.
• Song Linwei told Li Xin that this life was different: Stone City's people had survived, and the meteorite interceptions had saved lives.
• The Chief Base Director announced that ninety percent of the country's population had survived, led a moment of silence for the victims, and outlined plans to build doomsday bases.
• Sheng An said doomsday had officially begun, and the group woke later to face the intense heat.
• Long Tianyu, Wu Buyu, and Li Wanyun appeared beside Xiang Hanshuang and asked her to lend them ice.

Sheng An and her team discussed newly awakened abilities and Song Linwei explained the Research Institute’s five-tier classification of superpowers. The chapter left them hoping to find a rule-and-order-type Superpower Person powerful enough to change the world’s rules without suffering major drawbacks.

• Li Wanyun, Long Tianyu, and Wu Buyu took ice from Xiang Hanshuang’s group, promising to repay them within ten years.
• Hao Jingye told Sheng An that Yu Feng and Jiang Huanshu had awakened abilities, Chen Yue was showing signs of awakening, and Li Shuang had become an Otherkind.
• Song Linwei returned with Li Xin and revealed that he had awakened an enhancement superpower that could strengthen himself or others.
• Song Linwei described the Research Institute’s five-tier classification, placing prophecy and word spirit among the rarest rule-and-order-type superpowers.
• Song Linwei said the Research Institute was searching nationwide for a rule-and-order-type Superpower Person without drawbacks who could change the world’s rules and order.

Sheng An’s team settled into nighttime work protecting the Capital City Base’s construction crews, then returned to their villa to rest. They woke to find the Little Iceberg, fruit, and dried meat missing, suggesting someone had robbed them.

• Hao Jingye accepted Sheng An’s reassurance that his intelligence made him valuable even without a superpower, while the team joked about Li Xin’s beating and Old Qin’s cucumber-sharing with Qin Xuan.
• Long Tianyu accused Old Qin of eating the watermelon and missing fruit, but Li Wanyun produced another watermelon and served everyone while Old Qin complained about being blamed.
• Sheng An assigned Hao Jingye to stay behind and Song Linwei to integrate new superpower recruits, then led the rest of the team to protect workers building the Capital City Base at night.
• After a night of emergencies, Sheng An and the others returned to the villa and slept around the Little Iceberg to stay cool.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu woke and discovered the Little Iceberg had vanished, and Qi Lingwu found that the delivered fruit and dried meat were gone as well.

After an unseen thief stole a huge block of ice from under the Special Affairs Office’s watch, Sheng An’s team searched the villa but found no culprit and noticed something odd about the empty basin. The team moved on to its mission, while Sheng An visited the Wasteland Cultivation Research Institute and found Jiang Yu working in the fields.

• Sheng An ordered Long Tianyu to borrow Ruan Zifeng and sent the others to search the villa and review surveillance, but they found no trace of the thief.
• Ruan Zifeng noticed that the basin where the ice had been looked as though it held more water, and he warned Sheng An to keep an eye on it.
• Sheng An led the team out on its mission after telling Hao Jingye to arrange cameras and reminding everyone to stay safe.
• Sheng An visited the Wasteland Cultivation Research Institute, where Academician Zhou summoned Jiang Yu from the fields with a bell.
• Jiang Yu appeared covered in dirt, complained that Zhou had interrupted her planting, then recognized Sheng An and asked if she had come to take her back.

Jiang Yu took Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao to her space and put them to work farming, while the Research Institute increased her workload. After Wan Yuan awakened a communication superpower and tried to tease Sheng An and Qi Lingwu, the couple arranged to spend the night together, leaving Wan Yuan aghast.

• Sheng An brought Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao to Jiang Yu, who left the base with them after promising Academician Zhou she would work overtime.
• Jiang Yu brought the two into her space, confirmed that living people could enter, and decided to make them help her farm instead of killing them.
• Jiang Yu returned to the Research Institute, where Academician Zhou gave her an expanded work schedule; she and the two captives soon exhausted themselves farming.
• Wan Yuan used his newly awakened long-range communication ability to speak privately with Sheng An and Qi Lingwu and offered to pass messages between them.
• Sheng An told Wan Yuan she would wait for Qi Lingwu in their room, and Qi Lingwu sent her the same message, prompting Wan Yuan to complain about being teased as a single man.

Sheng An investigated the suspected thief in the villa and noticed signs of water near the basin, then ordered logistics to send only napa cabbage. After the exhausted team returned, Li Wanyun found her towel wet and realized her snacks seemed to be disappearing.

• Sheng An advised Wan Yuan to register his Mind-to-Mind Transmission ability at the Research Institute, then used her Communicator to speak with Qi Lingwu without Wan Yuan’s limits.
• Qi Lingwu reported that he had found no living intruders in the villa, while Sheng An suspected the thief was still inside and unlikely to harm anyone.
• Sheng An noticed unusually plentiful melted ice water and faint splash marks by the basin, then told logistics to deliver only napa cabbage for the next few days.
• Workers returned to the Shelters at dawn, reassured by their growing stability and the newly installed Solar-Powered Temperature Control System.
• Qi Lingwu brought the exhausted Li Wanyun and others back to the villa, where Li Xin and Long Tianyu collapsed on the sofa.
• Li Wanyun noticed that her Beef Jerky was nearly gone and that the towel she held was wet.

Li Wanyun discovered that the unseen thief had used her towel, and Sheng An suspected it had entered her room while stealing snacks. The group lay in wait for the thief, and when Sheng An and Qi Lingwu rushed toward the kitchen at three in the afternoon, Li Wanyun and Ji Yani followed.

• Li Wanyun found her towel damp and concluded that someone had used it, then tore it apart in fury.
• Sheng An told everyone to gather their snacks for Li Wanyun and suggested the thief might have used the towel while stealing food.
• The group returned to their rooms to lie in wait, while Ji Yani chose to sleep beside the furious Li Wanyun.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu discussed the thief's unknown power and took turns resting as they watched for it.
• At three in the afternoon, Sheng An and Qi Lingwu raced toward the kitchen, and Li Wanyun hauled Ji Yani up to follow them.

Sheng An used traces on the torn cabbages to have the Research Institute identify the hidden thief. The test results showed that the culprit was not human, and Sheng An began laying out what Hao Jingye had brought.

• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu found bite marks on the torn cabbage leaves and sent them for DNA testing.
• Sheng An reasoned that the thief had touched and bitten the cabbages after the villa's other food was removed.
• Long Tianyu discovered Qi Lingwu's bed was untouched and suspected he had gone to protect Sheng An.
• The Research Institute sent Sheng An the test results, and she messaged Hao Jingye to bring supplies.
• Sheng An told everyone the thief was not human and began unpacking Hao Jingye's bag.

Sheng An lured the hidden thief out with cat treats and discovered it was a calico cat with a superpower. The group learned Li Wanyun had seen the cat before the Apocalypse, then watched it eat watermelon as they prepared to investigate its ability.

• Sheng An used catnip and food to lure out the thief, revealing a calico cat that had been hiding in the villa.
• Wu Buyu read the cat’s thoughts and understood that it wanted them to cut up the watermelon.
• Hao Jingye said the group would take the cat to the Research Institute to identify its superpower.
• Li Wanyun recognized the calico as a stray she had seen in the neighborhood before the Apocalypse, and Hao Jingye recalled seeing it too.
• Qin Xuan tried to pet the cat, but Li Xin pulled him back and warned him that its unknown power could be dangerous.

Sheng An and the others discovered that the calico was an intelligent, early-awakened superpowered cat whose ability, Loophole, let him exploit loopholes and made him untouchable. As they began accepting him into Group B, Wan Yuan reported that Otherkind had ambushed the research team heading to Stone City, leaving Zhang Kun, Ke Jiaxue, Liu Yue, and Academician Cheng missing.

• Sheng An arranged an examination of the calico after the group realized he was unusually strong and intelligent.
• Song Linwei deduced that the calico had been living in the villa, eating the residents’ food, and using his power to conceal the Little Iceberg.
• Sheng An named the calico’s rule-and-order-type ability Loophole, which let him exploit loopholes and made Lou Mingwei’s hand pass through him.
• Li Xin and Long Tianyu argued over the cat’s name while the group accepted him as one of their own.
• Wan Yuan told Sheng An that Otherkind had ambushed the Stone City research team and that Zhang Kun, Ke Jiaxue, Liu Yue, and Academician Cheng had lost contact.

After the meteorite expedition in Stone City went silent, the Core Shelter learned that multiple Otherkind had attacked the returning helicopter and were now converging on the city. Sheng An led Group B to investigate and rescue the missing team, while the battered survivors in Stone City split up under attack.

• Wan Yuan reported that the helicopter carrying Zhang Kun, Ke Jiaxue, and the meteorite fragments had been shot down after multiple types of attack, leaving the expedition unreachable.
• Elder Zhang called for an immediate rescue, while Elder Li urged caution; reports then arrived that Otherkind had escaped from multiple shelters and were heading to Stone City.
• Qiu Yu volunteered to investigate Stone City, but Sheng An arrived and declared that Group B would stop the organized Otherkind operation and find their teammates.
• In Stone City, Zhang Kun urged Captain Zhuo to split up so survivors could escape and report what had happened, but Captain Zhuo refused to abandon the meteorite fragments.
• After Liu Yue sensed the pursuers closing in, Captain Zhuo divided the survivors, ordering one group to escort Zhang Kun and Dr. Zhao out while he and the others held the line.

Zhang Kun, Liu Yue, Ke Jiaxue, and Dr. Zhao fled a deadly Otherkind attack near Stone City, while Jiang Yu remained at the Core Shelter with Gu Qiansheng and Li Xin. The survivors discovered that an intelligent Otherkind had trapped them in a Ghost Wall, and Zhang Kun feared that Sheng An and her team would come looking for them.

• Academician Cheng transformed into an Otherkind, and other powerful Otherkind attacked the research team, sabotaged their helicopter, and forced the survivors to flee.
• Ke Jiaxue, Zhang Kun, Liu Yue, Dr. Zhao, and a few soldiers escaped while team members fell behind, but the Otherkind repeatedly caught up with them.
• Jiang Yu urged Gu Qiansheng and Li Xin to join Sheng An's team in Stone City, but they stayed at the Core Shelter to protect her and defend it against a possible diversion.
• Zhang Kun recognized Liu Yue's dried bloodstains and realized that the group had been running in circles inside the Otherkind's Ghost Wall.
• Zhang Kun feared that Sheng An's team would come to rescue them, and Ke Jiaxue challenged the unseen Otherkind to reveal itself.

Sheng An's team reached the devastated Stone City and split up to search for the missing research team. Sheng An found what appeared to be their bodies, realized they were fake, and discovered that her companions had vanished.

• Wu Buyu carried Sheng An and the others to Stone City in a metal basket, while Yu Feng used his wind ability to lighten it.
• The team searched the ruined city from the air but found no one, then split into two groups to investigate the last known locations.
• Sheng An's group followed fresh bloodstains to bodies resembling Zhang Kun and the research team behind a meteorite.
• Sheng An recognized the bodies were fake because Zhang Kun's stored supplies had not spilled out as they would when a Space Esper died.
• Sheng An turned around and found that Wu Buyu and the rest of her group had disappeared.

In Stone City, Sheng An’s group discovered that an illusion had separated them and concealed the missing research team, while hostile Otherkind attacked from within it. Back at the Core Shelter, Elder Zhang ordered the aircraft to monitor the city and trust Sheng An as the alarm suddenly sounded.

• Qi Lingwu warned the group that the apparent fight between Ke Jiaxue, Liu Yue, and the others was a trap, and they defeated the attacking fakes before Qi Lingwu and the others vanished.
• Sheng An realized multiple Otherkind were using an illusion to split the group and conceal the Scientific Research Team, then fought the Otherkind who appeared before her.
• Wan Yuan told Elder Zhang that contact with Sheng An’s team had been lost and aerial footage showed no one in Stone City.
• Elder Zhang ordered the aircraft to monitor Stone City without approaching or bombarding it, and said they should trust Sheng An.
• The Core Shelter’s alarm suddenly blared.

Sheng An and Qi Lingwu navigated an illusion trapping their team and discovered Mountain Blossom could guide them through its loopholes. They headed straight for the Otherkind sustaining the illusion, hoping to end the attack by killing it.

• Jiang Yu learned that Otherkind were attacking research institutes, and Li Xin and Gu Qiansheng prepared to protect him and the Agricultural Research Institute.
• Sheng An defeated her attackers in Stone City, then recognized and killed an illusionary Ji Yani who tried to ambush her.
• Qi Lingwu followed Mountain Blossom through the illusion and left Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun fighting, each suspecting the other was an impostor.
• Sheng An used a whistle to signal Qi Lingwu, and the two reunited with Mountain Blossom's help.
• Sheng An decided to bypass searching for the scattered team and ordered Mountain Blossom to lead her and Qi Lingwu to the Otherkind creating the illusion.

Sheng An and Qi Lingwu found and killed the Otherkind responsible for the illusions in Stone City, freeing their scattered teammates. At Core Shelter, Li Xin killed an Otherkind who had taken Academician Zhou hostage.

• At Core Shelter, an Otherkind attacked the cultivation laboratory and held Academician Zhou at knifepoint, stopping Li Xin from striking.
• In Stone City, Hao Jingye shot illusions to drain their creator’s energy, while Wu Buyu, Zhuang Fan, Song Linwei, Yu Feng, Long Tianyu, and Li Wanyun encountered illusions and tried to avoid harming one another.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu followed Mountain Blossom’s [Loophole] through the illusions and found a woman with an illusion superpower and a man whose psychic interference blocked Qi Lingwu’s shot.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu fired together, killing the illusion Otherkind and making the illusions vanish so their missing teammates reappeared.
• At the cultivation laboratory, Li Xin used metal needles to kill the Otherkind behind Academician Zhou, then told him to quit showing off.

Sheng An’s group rescued the surviving members of the Scientific Research Team after Zhang Kun evolved his spatial power to shield them from the Otherkind. With the survivors evacuated to the Core Shelter, Hao Jingye stopped the group from killing the weakened Psychic Otherkind so they could question him.

• Zhao Zhicheng told Gu Qiansheng and Li Xin that the rioting Otherkind had been eliminated and Stone City’s crisis was over, and Jiang Yu asked whether Zhang Kun’s group had been found.
• After the illusion Otherkind died, Sheng An’s group found Zhang Kun, Ke Jiaxue, Liu Yue, Captain Zhuo, Dr. Zhao, researchers, and soldiers surrounded by Otherkind.
• Zhang Kun’s spatial power evolved into a protective barrier, allowing the group to survive until Sheng An arrived; Ke Jiaxue and Liu Yue collapsed when they saw their rescuers.
• Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu killed the Otherkind surrounding Zhang Kun’s group, and Sheng An sent the wounded survivors back to the Core Shelter by helicopter.
• Hao Jingye stopped Qi Lingwu from killing the weakened Psychic Otherkind and asked to interrogate him about how the Otherkind had gathered in Stone City.

Sheng An and her team discovered that the Otherkind who lured them away were powerful figures from Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu’s previous lives, then fought the wave surrounding them. After Sheng An tranquilized the mysterious child, she collapsed from her worsening condition, while a seemingly safe Zhao Zhicheng suddenly attacked Jiang Yu at the Core Shelter.

• The psychic Otherkind summoned reinforcements with a roar, and Hao Jingye realized the Otherkind had lured the team away while the Core Shelter was attacked.
• Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu recognized the dead pair as notorious Otherkind from their previous lives, and the team suspected they had emerged ahead of schedule to seize meteorite fragments.
• As Otherkind surrounded the team, Long Tianyu, Li Wanyun, Wu Buyu, Ji Yani, and the others fought them while Qi Lingwu controlled the battlefield.
• Sheng An tranquilized the unexplained child, then became dizzy and collapsed as fragmented images flashed before her eyes.
• At the Core Shelter, Zhao Zhicheng reassured Li Xin, Gu Qiansheng, and Jiang Yu that the crisis was over, then stretched his arm across the room and snapped Jiang Yu’s neck.

Sheng An and Qi Lingwu killed the reflection Otherkind at the cost of severe reflected injuries, while their teammates realized the Otherkind had planned to eliminate them. At the Core Shelter, Qiu Yu revealed himself as Jiang Yu’s decoy and killed Zhao Zhicheng, foiling another hidden attack.

• Wu Buyu attacked the child and suffered reflected wounds, while Hao Jingye identified the child’s reflection ability and Qi Lingwu killed the remaining Otherkind.
• Song Linwei amplified Sheng An’s power, and Sheng An called for Qi Lingwu and Mountain Blossom to help kill the child.
• The child’s reflection struck Sheng An and Qi Lingwu, leaving both gravely injured, but Song Linwei said they were still alive as the team rushed them to the aircraft.
• Song Linwei and Hao Jingye concluded the Otherkind had planned to trap and destroy their team, and Sheng An believed they had won as the aircraft returned to Capital City.
• At the Core Shelter, Qiu Yu revealed himself as Jiang Yu’s decoy, killed Zhao Zhicheng, and reported that Hidden Otherkind No. 13 had been eliminated.

After the purge of hidden Otherkind in the Core Shelter and Stone City, Sheng An and Qi Lingwu returned gravely wounded, while the Research Institute began investigating the organized attacks. Sheng An remained unconscious as the group speculated that her superpower had revealed the Reflecting Otherkind’s threat, and she finally woke that evening.

• Qiu Yu killed the Otherkind who had taken Zhao Zhicheng’s body, ordered Jiang Yu back into her space, then left to hunt down more hidden Otherkind.
• At dawn, the group learned that Sheng An and Qi Lingwu were returning gravely wounded after eliminating more than two hundred Otherkind, and the nightlong purge ended in a human victory.
• Gu Qiansheng, Li Xin, and Jiang Yu went to the hospital, where Wu Buyu and others worried over Sheng An and Qi Lingwu’s life-threatening injuries.
• Hao Jingye explained that the Otherkind’s coordinated attacks targeted humanity’s foundations, and the group realized the Reflecting Otherkind had nearly destroyed half of humanity’s hope.
• Hao Jingye said the Research Institute suspected Sheng An’s superpower was connected to her knowledge of the Reflecting Otherkind’s danger.
• Qi Lingwu woke the following morning, and Sheng An regained consciousness that evening.

Sheng An and Qi Lingwu recovered from their near-fatal injuries as the Research Institute explained that the Otherkind operation had been coordinated by a powerful, unidentified leader designated Code Name M. The group suspected M might be connected to the force opposing “It,” and the chapter ended with Doctor Yan hinting that humanity might possess powers capable of matching M.

• Sheng An woke beside the injured Qi Lingwu, and Director Wang and Doctor Yan reprimanded them for getting out of bed while recovering.
• Doctor Yan explained that the attacks on the Core Shelter and Sheng An's team had been coordinated with a larger assault in Stone City.
• The Research Institute designated the unknown planner Code Name M, who had coordinated the Illusion Otherkind and Psychic Otherkind and might control or command Otherkind.
• Hao Jingye suggested M could be the hidden force opposing “It,” while the group acknowledged they had no evidence.
• Doctor Yan said humanity also possessed unusual, powerful abilities and looked toward Sheng An as he suggested humanity might match M's strength.

Doctor Yan explained the new star-ranking system and revealed that Sheng An’s special-factor concentration reached nine stars, though she was excluded because she could not use her power. Sheng An explained that the Reflecting Otherkind had been preparing to explode and destroy Stone City, then suggested she had experienced the deadly outcome rather than foreseen it.

• Doctor Yan described how blood tests measured superpower ranks and listed the group’s rankings, with Qi Lingwu at seven stars and Sheng An’s factors at nine.
• Doctor Yan clarified that Sheng An was not assigned a rank because her unusable power made her actual strength impossible to assess.
• Sheng An wrote that the Reflecting Otherkind could explode with enough force to destroy Stone City and kill everyone there.
• Hao Jingye and Song Linwei realized M’s forces had lured them to Stone City while the Psychic Otherkind stalled them and the Reflecting Otherkind gathered energy.
• When Hao Jingye asked how she knew, Sheng An wrote that she might not have seen the explosion but had experienced it.

Sheng An’s desperate action was revealed to be a brief experience of the next moment, leading Doctor Yan and the others to conclude that her power was connected to time. The group accepted the risks of helping her recover her ability, while the explanation of how her power might work remained a hypothesis.

• Sheng An wrote that she had experienced a moment less than five seconds ahead, explaining why she had acted so urgently to stop the reflection Otherkind’s attack.
• Doctor Yan connected Sheng An’s experience, her depleted power, her fevers, and other clues to a time-related ability, and Hao Jingye wrote the word “Time.”
• Doctor Yan proposed that Mountain Blossom’s Loophole, Qi Lingwu’s Anchor, and Sheng An’s Time ability could open a loophole, preserve memories and abilities, and rewind time.
• Doctor Yan warned that a larger meteorite fragment might help Sheng An recover faster but could endanger her and attract Otherkind, and Sheng An handed him her small fragment.
• Sheng An chose to carry the larger fragment, and Doctor Yan asked Group B to protect her until her ability recovered.

After Doctor Yan left, Sheng An and the others discussed whether she had chosen them in a previous life, then let her rest. As the Capital City’s defenses rose and superpower rankings came into use, Group B teased Lou Mingwei about Sheng An’s nine-star test result.

• Doctor Yan left after sharing his analysis, and the others wondered whether Sheng An had chosen them in a previous life; Jiang Yu also pondered why she seemed different.
• The group left Sheng An to rest, and Jiang Yu saw Qi Lingwu kiss her forehead before Hao Jingye led Jiang Yu away.
• Jiang Yu decided to secretly grow fruit in the new strip of land added to her space and share some with Sheng An.
• Hao Jingye and Song Linwei explained that construction of the Capital City base would take four months because it needed extensive defenses and facilities amid worsening disasters.
• Lou Mingwei complained that his superpower test rated him five stars, and Jiang Yu and Li Xin repeatedly reminded him that Sheng An had scored nine stars.

Sheng An’s Group B received a mission to travel to the dangerous Southwest Region, rescue a newly discovered Healing-Type Superpower Person, and retrieve meteorite fragments for research. The group began preparing to depart, with Zhang Kun and Jiang Yu eager to join.

• Sheng An praised Lou Mingwei’s lightning ability, leaving him blushing and delighted while Group A and Group B stared in disbelief.
• After Hao Jingye received a mission alert, Elder Zhang briefed Group B on disasters across the country and the crash of aircraft sent to the Southwest Region.
• Elder Zhang revealed that a pilot’s final message reported endangered shelters, many meteorite fragments, and a Healing-Type Superpower Person in the southwest.
• Doctor Yan explained that the Research Institute wanted to collect fragments to study how they produced Superpower People and Otherkind, and Sheng An agreed to lead the mission.
• Elder Zhang approved Zhang Kun to accompany Group B, and Jiang Yu excitedly asked whether she could go as well.