Chapter Summaries

Sheng An, a public servant in the newly established Doomsday Special Affairs Office, investigated Jiang Yu after residents reported her strange behavior and massive supply purchases. The chapter ended with the neighbors suspecting Jiang Yu was a spy as Sheng An noticed evidence of her supernatural pocket dimension.

• Hao Jingye summarized several apocalypse rebirth novels, and Sheng An rejected their self-centered approaches to surviving disaster.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye went to Jiaqing Bay to investigate Jiang Yu, who was suspected of being a heretic.
• Jiang Yu recalled being reborn twenty-one days before the apocalypse, reclaiming her ancestral jade bracelet, and discovering its pocket dimension.
• Jiang Yu used the pocket dimension to hide an iron gate and stockpiled large quantities of food and water while planning to avoid attention.
• Auntie Zhang, Auntie Wu, and other residents told Sheng An about Jiang Yu's unusual purchases, and Mrs. Wu declared that they suspected Jiang Yu was a spy.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye confirmed that Jiang Yu was a reborn Aberrant with a storage space, making her a valuable source of information about the coming apocalypse. Sheng An ordered a team to secure Jiaqing Bay and prepare to bring Jiang Yu in, leaving Hao Jingye unsure how friendly their approach would be.

• Hao Jingye reviewed surveillance footage showing Jiang Yu buying supplies and entering the basement, then concluded that she might know the apocalypse was coming.
• Sheng An explained that the government had discovered several Aberrants, including a reborn man named Wu Zhi, and had established the Doomsday Special Affairs Office.
• Hao Jingye said Jiang Yu's knowledge could help the government prepare, and Sheng An noted that Wu Zhi had died on the first day of the apocalypse in his previous life.
• Hao Jingye asked whether they should arrest Jiang Yu, but Sheng An called her a future colleague and told him to report to Old Zhang.
• Sheng An ordered more people to secure Jiaqing Bay, especially Building Three, and bring weapons and anesthetics before she and Hao Jingye went to speak with Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu, reborn with a space and knowledge of the coming apocalypse, planned to stockpile supplies and take revenge on Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao. Sheng An and the Doomsday Special Affairs Office confronted her about her secrets, and Jiang Yu let them inside after Sheng An threatened her with a gun.

• Jiang Yu lamented that Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao had used her for money in her previous life and resolved to make them suffer in this one.
• Jiang Yu planned to spend her remaining money on supplies and considered stealing once the apocalypse began.
• Sheng An arrived with several agents and presented Jiang Yu with an arrest warrant from the Doomsday Special Affairs Office.
• Sheng An named Jiang Yu's space and rebirth, and Jiang Yu denied knowing what she meant.
• When Jiang Yu tried to shut the door, Sheng An blocked it and threatened to shoot her, so Jiang Yu agreed to let the agents in.

Sheng An confronted Jiang Yu with evidence of her preparations and revealed the government’s efforts to prepare for the coming meteorite disaster, asking her to join the Doomsday Special Affairs Office. Jiang Yu agreed to tell them everything and join the team, though she remained frightened about revealing her rebirth and storage space.

• Sheng An and Hao Jingye questioned Jiang Yu about her changed behavior, vanished iron bars, and large stockpile of supplies.
• Sheng An revealed that meteorites would strike in twenty-one days and explained the government’s emergency preparations, including shelters, supply stockpiles, and factory production.
• Sheng An urged Jiang Yu to share what she knew as a reborn person, promising the country’s protection and better living conditions if she joined the Doomsday Special Affairs Office.
• Sheng An mentioned that Jiang Yu could deal with Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao if they obstructed her mission, then pretended to accept her refusal.
• Jiang Yu grabbed Sheng An’s hand and agreed to tell them everything and join the office.

Jiang Yu described the meteorite impacts and cascading disasters she had witnessed in her previous life, along with fragments that awakened ability users and created the hidden threat called Otherkind. Sheng An believed her and began considering ways to prepare, then asked Jiang Yu to explain her space.

• Jiang Yu said meteorites would strike in twenty-one days, with the nearest impact near Jing City landing in Stone City and causing catastrophic destruction.
• Hao Jingye deduced that the impacts would trigger prolonged earthquakes, fires, pollution, acid rain, and possible radiation, confirming Jiang Yu’s account.
• Jiang Yu revealed that meteorite fragments could awaken and strengthen ability users, and could also create Otherkind who looked human but killed and ate people.
• Sheng An compared the Otherkind to a virus and insisted they could find a way to identify them and prepare for the disasters.
• Sheng An asked Jiang Yu to explain her space.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye learned that Jiang Yu possessed a vast pocket space with black soil, and Sheng An persuaded her to join the Doomsday Special Affairs Office. Jiang Yu resolved to face Yu Litian and make him and Chen Jiaojiao suffer for what they had done in her previous life.

• Hao Jingye deduced that Jiang Yu's space came from a jade bracelet rather than a spatial ability, and Sheng An realized she fit the profile of Shi Xiao.
• Jiang Yu described her vast space, its black soil, and her past-life abuse at the hands of Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao; Sheng An comforted her and supported her desire for revenge.
• Jiang Yu claimed that only she could enter the space, though Sheng An and Hao Jingye realized she was lying and planned to make use of the soil.
• Sheng An invited Jiang Yu to the Special Affairs Office to store government supplies in her space, and Jiang Yu eagerly agreed.
• When Yu Litian called for Jiang Yu from outside, she decided to let him in so she could take revenge and make him endure the apocalypse.

After Jiang Yu reunited with Yu Litian, she exposed his betrayal and he demanded her family bracelet or money. Sheng An treated his threats as theft and extortion and ordered him taken away.

• Sheng An revealed Jiang Yu's welcome from the Doomsday Special Affairs Office, and Jiang Yu panicked because she had not washed her hair.
• Yu Litian arrived and tried to reconcile with Jiang Yu, but she rejected his claims and accused him of deceiving her with Chen Jiaojiao.
• Yu Litian denied the accusations, pointed at Hao Jingye, and demanded compensation or a bracelet from Jiang Yu.
• Hao Jingye called Yu Litian a gigolo, and Jiang Yu ordered him out while warning that she would make him pay.
• Yu Litian demanded Jiang Yu's family heirloom bracelet or money and threatened to shame her publicly.
• Sheng An asked Hao Jingye about penalties for theft and extortion, then ordered Yu Litian taken away.

Sheng An had Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao arrested after Jiang Yu joined the Doomsday Special Affairs Office, then explained the office’s divided leadership and her history with Qiu Yu. The chapter ended with Jiang Yu asking why Qiu Yu’s group had the other Aberrants, as Hao Jingye hinted that Sheng An had another reason for allowing it.

• Sheng An arrested Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao for stealing Jiang Yu’s bracelet after Yu Litian admitted Chen Jiaojiao had told him to do it.
• Sheng An explained that the detention center would keep the pair from enjoying the twenty-one days before the apocalypse, and Jiang Yu agreed to join the Special Affairs Office.
• On the drive back, Hao Jingye told Jiang Yu that four other Aberrants existed and that Qiu Yu led Group A while Sheng An led Group B.
• Hao Jingye revealed that Qiu Yu had the ability to control people and that she and Sheng An had both served on Team 0 before falling out over a mission.
• Jiang Yu asked why the other Aberrants were assigned to Qiu Yu, and Hao Jingye said Sheng An had another reason for accepting the arrangement.

Jiang Yu learned that her space would be vital to the country’s plans for surviving the apocalypse, but Sheng An’s preparations turned out to involve farming rather than stockpiling weapons and supplies. The chapter ended with Jiang Yu realizing she would have to cultivate Hope Seedlings under the guidance of a team of scientists.

• Hao Jingye explained that Team 0 was a group of elite operatives, praised Captain Qi’s skill, and revealed that he was Sheng An’s lover.
• Sheng An brought Jiang Yu and Hao Jingye to the guarded camp, where Jiang Yu learned that she was a genuine Aberrant and that more people were still being screened.
• Jiang Yu underwent examinations to test her space, while Sheng An stayed beside her and told her the country was stockpiling grain.
• Sheng An led Jiang Yu to a warehouse filled with agricultural equipment, seeds, seedlings, and researchers instead of the supplies Jiang Yu expected.
• Sheng An assigned Jiang Yu to preserve Hope Seedlings and test Experimental Hope Seeds, with Academician Zhou and other scientists teaching her to farm.

Jiang Yu agreed to learn farming to protect the secret of her space, while Sheng An investigated Li Wanyun as a possible Aberrant preparing for the apocalypse. The chapter ended with Sheng An discovering that Li Wanyun was turning her villa into a bunker.

• Jiang Yu decided to learn farming and accepted a heavy load of books and materials from Academician Zhou.
• Hao Jingye reported that Li Wanyun had rapidly sold her shares and possessions, raising four billion and trying to sell the rest of her assets.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye suspected that Li Wanyun had been reborn and was following the same apocalypse-preparation story as Xu Qingqing.
• Hao Jingye showed Sheng An footage of Li Wanyun eating ravenously and reported that she had spent heavily renovating her villa.
• Sheng An arrived at Li Wanyun's villa and saw that its renovation had turned it into a bunker.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye concluded that Li Wanyun was another reborn person after discovering she was fortifying a villa at a proposed Core Shelter site. They decided to inspect her mansion before acting against her and moved to finalize the site for the shelter.

• Sheng An and Hao Jingye recognized that Li Wanyun had chosen a planned Core Shelter location and suspected she knew it would be safe from experience in the apocalypse.
• Sheng An recalled her promise to Qi Lingwu to quit smoking and put away her cigarette.
• Hao Jingye told Sheng An that Li Wanyun planned trips to buy supplies and had listed her parents' mansion for sale.
• Sheng An decided to inspect Li Wanyun's mansion for signs of a storage space before deciding whether to arrest her.
• Sheng An told Hao Jingye to message Old Li so they could finalize the site for the Core Shelter.

Li Wanyun used her knowledge of the coming apocalypse to sell her company for five billion and prepare to stockpile supplies, while Sheng An and Hao Jingye deduced the secrets of her enormous storage space. Back at the Doomsday Special Affairs Office, Jiang Yu struggled through an intensive crash course and begged Sheng An for help.

• Li Wanyun signed over her company, celebrating that it would become worthless when doomsday arrived in twenty-one days.
• Li Wanyun recalled her previous life, when her uncle's family persecuted her and she died after awakening her storage power too late.
• Li Wanyun rejoiced that her reborn storage space was enormous and that she had five billion to spend before doomsday.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye inspected the emptied villa and deduced that Li Wanyun was a reborn Space Esper with a huge storage space who planned to stockpile supplies.
• Sheng An said they would confirm Li Wanyun's situation and then carry out his plan for her space.
• Jiang Yu grew overwhelmed by experts' lessons at the Doomsday Special Affairs Office and begged Sheng An to save her when he returned.

Sheng An forced Jiang Yu to continue studying cultivation by threatening to let Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao live comfortably, while Hao Jingye revealed his extraordinary academic talents. The group learned that Li Wanyun was heading northeast to search for something, and Sheng An planned to monitor her from the capital as Jiang Yu prepared to learn how to drive a tractor.

• Sheng An persuaded Jiang Yu to keep studying by warning that the government might protect Yu Litian and Chen Jiaojiao, and the academicians kept her up studying through the night.
• At breakfast, Jiang Yu complained about learning cultivation, and Hao Jingye explained the research work she needed to do and revealed that he had studied more than twenty subjects and over ten languages.
• Sheng An told Jiang Yu that Academician Zhou had provided her breakfast because she was too dumb and needed to nourish her brain.
• Hao Jingye reported that Li Wanyun had flown to the northeast with Zhao and the others, and Sheng An ordered him to monitor her phone and surveillance footage rather than follow her herself.
• Jiang Yu asked to accompany them, but Sheng An told her to study, and Jiang Yu said she was learning to drive a tractor.

Jiang Yu was forced to learn to drive farming equipment while Sheng An and Hao Jingye investigated suspected Aberrants, including a bizarre figure called Iron Man. Li Wanyun tried to stockpile supplies but found that bulk grain was gone, then learned that buying more than a ton of meat required authorization.

• Jiang Yu asked Academician Zhou about Group A and Team 0, then crashed her tractor into a ditch while showing off.
• Hao Jingye told Sheng An about two suspicious reports: someone predicted doomsday in twenty-one days, and a supposed Iron Man told a researcher and a child about the coming apocalypse before stealing the child's Ultraman figurines.
• Sheng An chose to investigate the person who predicted doomsday, but Hao Jingye learned Group Leader Qiu and the others had already gone to watch him.
• Li Wanyun visited farms and other grain sources in Northeastern China, only to learn that bulk grain had all been bought up by the Food Bureau.
• Li Wanyun switched to buying meat, but discovered she needed authorization from the Bureau of Industry and Commerce to purchase more than a ton.

Li Wanyun struggled to stockpile supplies under new domestic restrictions, then decided to buy them abroad. Sheng An arranged for her to travel overseas as a Spatial Ability User, intending to use her storage space to help Team 0 bring home its enormous arms shipment from M Country.

• Li Wanyun visited breeding farms but found their meat already reserved and learned that bulk purchases required approval slips.
• After a day of small purchases, Li Wanyun managed to spend only two million yuan and decided to buy grain and other supplies abroad.
• Sheng An told Hao Jingye to arrange Li Wanyun's overseas trip after deciding that her storage space could serve as a solution to the stockpiling problem.
• Sheng An contacted Wan Yuan and spoke with Qi Lingwu about Team 0's difficulty transporting its arms shipment from M Country.
• Sheng An revealed that Li Wanyun, a Spatial Ability User, would help Team 0 bring the shipment home.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye arranged a visa for Li Wanyun through a fake travel agency, intending to steer her toward buying supplies abroad. After settling the plan, Sheng An turned to investigate the alleged Iron Man and his two witnesses.

• Sheng An told Hao Jingye not to contact Li Wanyun directly and had him pose as a visa agent to guide her toward traveling to Country M.
• Li Wanyun rejected Hao Jingye's suspiciously cheap visa offer, then accepted a faster, expensive visa service from another agent.
• Li Wanyun learned the agency could arrange large loans and decided to wait for her visa before pursuing one.
• Sheng An told Wan Yuan to contact Li Wanyun after she reached Country M and approved a five-billion loan to avoid making her suspicious.
• Hao Jingye reported that surveillance had found no trace of Iron Man, so Sheng An went to meet the adult and child witnesses.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye questioned two witnesses who had seen the gold-colored Iron Man, and Sheng An confirmed that meteorites would strike in twenty days. After the interviews, she concluded Song Linwei was hiding something and ordered Hao Jingye to investigate him.

• Song Linwei told Sheng An and Hao Jingye that a metal humanoid called Iron Man had warned him the apocalypse was coming, and Sheng An confirmed the meteorites would strike in twenty days.
• Song Linwei said he would keep the news confidential but could not explain what he planned to do.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye questioned a boy who said Iron Man had entered his home, asked whether he believed in the light, and taken his Ultraman figure.
• Sheng An said Iron Man was a real metal ability user and instructed Hao Jingye to investigate Song Linwei's background and recent contacts.
• Hao Jingye asked whether Song Linwei might be the metal ability user, and Sheng An said he had withheld information despite not lying.

With nineteen days until the apocalypse, Hao Jingye helped Li Wanyun exchange and borrow billions, then sent her to M Country to buy supplies and weapons. Sheng An’s team had agents in place to watch her, and Sheng An prepared for the next stage of their plan.

• Sheng An explained that Song Linwei had concealed information rather than lied, so questioning him further risked damaging their relationship.
• Hao Jingye secured Li Wanyun’s visa, exchanged five billion yuan into M Currency, and arranged another five-billion loan using her villa as collateral.
• Li Wanyun believed she had found a powerful unofficial network and that the apocalypse would erase her debts, so she booked the earliest flight to M Country.
• Hao Jingye told Sheng An that Li Wanyun had boarded safely, Old Zhao was protecting her, Team 0 was waiting, and Brother Wan had made contact.
• Sheng An calmly anticipated that Li Wanyun would follow their plan and return with the goods, then frowned at something on her tablet.

Sheng An deduced that Song Linwei had posted about the apocalypse to contact the government and protect his nephew, Li Xin, who had metal-type abilities. She rejected Song Linwei’s attempt to negotiate and decided to arrest him.

• Sheng An explained to Hao Jingye that Song Linwei’s spotless background and suspicious post suggested he was testing the government’s response.
• Sheng An concluded that Song Linwei had learned the apocalypse was coming and that his family had taken leave to protect someone close to him.
• Song Linwei told his family he had posted to confirm the apocalypse and reveal Li Xin’s abilities so he could negotiate with the government.
• Sheng An identified Li Xin as Song Linwei’s nephew and inferred that Song Linwei wanted to secure rights and benefits for him.
• Sheng An refused to negotiate and told Hao Jingye they would arrest Song Linwei the next day.

Jiang Yu returned exhausted from studying and farming, then learned that her space could become a huge shared farm if other espers could enter it. Sheng An and Hao Jingye coaxed her toward revealing whether they could, but Jiang Yu kept the secret, leaving her to face the prospect of farming alone.

• Jiang Yu came back to camp overwhelmed by her studies and farming, then accidentally appeared on a video call with the country's leaders while her hair was greasy.
• Sheng An discussed recruiting espers with the leaders, who stressed that the Doomsday Special Affairs Office had only nineteen days to prepare for the Apocalypse.
• Hao Jingye told Jiang Yu that Li Wanyun had paid a 150,000 brokerage fee and received five billion from the country to procure supplies abroad.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye explained how Jiang Yu's space could support a vast farm if earth, water, and plant espers could work inside it.
• Jiang Yu nearly revealed that others could enter her space, but kept quiet, and cried through a whole pot of hot pot while claiming it was too spicy.