Chapter Summaries

Hao Jingye questioned Jiang Yu, Li Wanyun, and Long Tianyu about their past-life deaths, and the group realized their memories may have been altered. Sheng An set the mystery aside until they returned from their mission, and the convoy entered the Southwest Region, where Hao Jingye confirmed there was no signal.

• Hao Jingye recorded the three survivors describing their past-life deaths and asked them for details.
• Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu could not remember who had told them that others died, while Jiang Yu struggled to recall the experience of dying.
• Sheng An and the others identified inconsistencies suggesting the survivors' past-life memories had been tampered with.
• Hao Jingye sent the recording to the Research Institute, and Sheng An ordered the group to focus on its Southwest Region mission until they returned.
• The convoy entered the Southwest Region, and three hours later Hao Jingye reported that there was no signal.

Sheng An’s group entered the Southwest Disconnected Zone and discovered that its dense fog was poisonous miasma that could incapacitate people who breathed too much of it. After a difficult journey, they reached the nearby F19 shelter and froze at what they saw.

• The convoy crossed into the Disconnected Zone, where its Communicator and radio signals stopped working.
• Sheng An touched the fog and felt it sting her fingertips, then Wu Buyu fell from the sky with signs of miasma poisoning.
• Doctor Yan identified the air as poisonous miasma, and Sheng An sent Jiang Yu and Song Linwei to help Wu Buyu recover.
• Sheng An chose to investigate F19, the nearest shelter, and her vehicle set out with earth-type Superpower People.
• After several hours navigating terrain altered by meteorite impacts, Sheng An’s group reached F19 and froze at the sight.

Sheng An and the convoy found the southwest region devastated by miasma, with decayed shelters and no survivors, while the soil could not sustain plant life. After hours of searching near the region’s core, they finally encountered living people.

• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu searched F19 Shelter and found only ruins and skeletons, though records suggested its roughly five thousand residents might have relocated.
• The researchers tested the southwest soil, and Jiang Yu found that even a seed strengthened by plant-type superpowers had no vitality left.
• The convoy searched several more shelters and found widespread remains, while miasma sickened people and killed more than a dozen travelers.
• Hao Jingye guided the convoy toward the southwest’s core, where the miasma concentration began to drop, raising hopes that shelter residents had gathered there.
• After five more hours of searching without finding anyone, Li Xin spotted living people, and Sheng An hurried toward them.

Sheng An's convoy encountered Miao Yuan's starving group in the Southwest and learned that a healing Superpower Person called the God of Light lived at the Southwest Market. Miao Yuan's account revealed that the apocalypse had already entered its third year, leaving Sheng An and her team stunned.

• Sheng An introduced her group as government representatives and gave Miao Yuan's people food, water, and clothes without asking for information in return.
• Miao Yuan explained that his group lived in an underground cave and had brought an elderly man and a child suffering from miasma poisoning to seek medicine.
• Sheng An's medical team treated the two patients, and Miao Yuan praised the God of Light at the Southwest Market for healing people and reducing the miasma.
• Li Xin questioned the God of Light's title, while Hao Jingye identified him as the Southwest's healing-type Superpower Person.
• Miao Yuan said the apocalypse had entered its third year, and Sheng An and her team were shocked to learn how much time had passed.

The Special Affairs Office team learned that the Southwest Region had already endured two years of Doomsday and entered its third, while they had only just arrived. Miao Yuan recognized Sheng An and recounted the region’s collapse, then questioned why the country had failed to send help.

• Song Linwei revealed that the Southwest Region was in Doomsday’s third year, and the team considered whether this was an illusion, a memory problem, or the third year of their current lifetime.
• Qi Lingwu concluded the region was real and Miao Yuan’s group was genuine, while Sheng An determined that this was the third year of their current lifetime.
• Sheng An asked Miao Yuan and the others whether they remembered the Special Affairs Office and the national apocalypse briefing, and they recognized her.
• Miao Yuan described how meteorite strikes, wildfires, miasma, disasters, and food shortages had devastated the Southwest Region after the Apocalypse.
• Miao Yuan said the survivors had waited two years for help and challenged the Special Affairs Office team over their healthy, well-provisioned appearance.

Sheng An told Miao Yuan and his companions that only three months had passed outside while they had endured nearly two years in the Southwest, and promised to investigate the time distortion. As the convoy approached the Southwest Market, the Special Affairs Office considered how the region’s strange timing affected the outside world and its earlier distress signal, while Miao Yuan asked about Old Chu and Xiao Xi.

• Sheng An showed Miao Yuan and his companions the date, explaining that their third year in the Southwest was only the third month of the apocalypse outside, and they wept with relief and grief.
• Miao Yuan chose to travel with Sheng An’s convoy, and Sheng An vowed to uncover the cause of the time difference and find a way out.
• The Special Affairs Office discussed whether the outside world had also lost two years and how Capital City Base had received a distress signal from the Southwest.
• Sheng An suggested that the God of Light might know something, and Hao Jingye noted that the convoy was only a few hours from the Southwest Market.
• Miao Yuan asked about Old Chu and Xiao Xi, and Sheng An asked whether there was anything special about them.

Sheng An’s team learned that Old Chu could identify Otherkind with his Yin-Yang Eyes and that Xiao Xi, a child born after the Apocalypse, had extraordinary adaptability. As the convoy entered the Southwest Market, the self-proclaimed God of Light prepared to meet them.

• Miao Yuan revealed that Old Chu had Yin-Yang Eyes and that the Otherkind in the Southwest had disappeared, deepening Sheng An’s suspicions about the region’s strange timeline.
• The medical team reported that Xiao Xi had survived since birth and could absorb nutrients and medication unusually quickly, giving Sheng An hope for humanity’s future.
• Sheng An resolved to bring Old Chu, Xiao Xi, and the healing-type superpower user safely to Capital City.
• The convoy reached the Southwest Market and saw the enormous castle where the God of Light lived, while the team mocked his title and apparent authority.
• The God of Light heard about the formidable convoy and its supplies, then stood up to go see its members.

Sheng An's convoy arrived at Southwest Market, where the survivors traded food and supplies and powerful espers ruled the streets. The Divine Lord appeared before the convoy and welcomed them to Southwest Base, while the God of Light remained hidden inside the lead car.

• Li Xin, Jiang Yu, and the others learned that Southwest Market's shops traded in water, food, weapons, information, and grain, with earth- and plant-type espers growing limited crops.
• The convoy reached the market, where espers used their abilities to watch and a mutated bear swatted away a wind-type esper who tried to cut in line.
• The crowd fell silent and cleared a path for the Divine Lord, who arrived with a procession of espers and took his place before the convoy.
• Miao Yuan recognized the Divine Lord and praised him as the god of the southwest, while the convoy's occupants watched the approaching God of Light.
• The God of Light welcomed the travelers to Southwest Base, speaking from inside the convoy's lead car.

Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office arrived at the Southwest Base to assess the region and announced they would temporarily take over. When the God of Light rejected their authority and ordered his people to attack, Sheng An’s team swiftly subdued them.

• The God of Light and his followers sized up the convoy, but Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office team overwhelmed them with their disciplined appearance and equipment.
• Sheng An presented her credentials and announced that the state had sent the Special Affairs Office to assess the Southwest and temporarily take control.
• The God of Light rejected the state’s authority, claimed the Southwest as his turf, and ordered his people to seize the team’s belongings.
• Sheng An gave a signal, and the Special Affairs Office team defeated and restrained the attacking Superpower People in a single exchange.

Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office overwhelmed the God of Light’s followers at the Southwest Market and arrested their leader. Once his hood came off and Wu Buyu revealed his name, Jia Guangliang’s aura of divinity collapsed in front of the crowd.

• Nearly five hundred SWAT officers arrived, discouraging the Southwest Superpower Persons from helping the God of Light.
• Sheng An’s team subdued the God of Light’s followers, while Qi Lingwu handcuffed their leader and forced him to squat.
• The God of Light struggled until his hood fell off, revealing a young, chubby man to the watching crowd.
• Sheng An demanded the prisoners’ names, and Wu Buyu identified the God of Light as Jia Guangliang, nicknamed Gousheng.
• Jia Guangliang confirmed his name while cursing Li Xin for laughing at him.

Sheng An’s team subdued Jia Guangliang and told the Southwest’s Superpower People that a time anomaly had left them two years ahead of the outside world. The survivors accepted the revelation, agreed to cooperate, and began receiving supplies from the nation.

• Wu Buyu exposed Jia Guangliang’s humiliation by describing his unspoken thoughts, leaving him close to breaking down.
• Wan Yuan gave Sheng An documents about the Southwest Superpower People, including Jia Guangliang’s pre-Apocalypse information.
• Sheng An apologized for the nation’s late arrival and explained that the Southwest was in the third year of Doomsday while the outside world was only in its third month.
• The Southwest survivors reacted with shock and grief, then accepted the time anomaly after checking their records and devices.
• Sheng An promised to investigate the anomaly and provide supplies, and Li Wanyun and Zhang Kun began distributing them.

After receiving emergency supplies from the Special Affairs Office, the Southwest survivors united behind Sheng An’s call to uncover why the region suffered and break through the Southwest Miasma. Jia Guangliang lost his followers’ loyalty and was hauled over to Sheng An by Qi Lingwu.

• The survivors recognized the emergency relief kits as proof that the nation had not abandoned them, and they mourned the loved ones they had lost.
• Sheng An vowed that the Special Affairs Office would investigate the Southwest’s suffering, and the survivors pledged to uncover the truth and break through the miasma.
• Jia Guangliang realized the survivors trusted Sheng An more than him, while Hao Jingye let his subdued subordinates collect supplies.
• The survivors lined up for supplies, and even Jia Guangliang’s punk-looking supporter left to get instant noodles.
• A subordinate brought Jia Guangliang a supply bag from Sheng An, but Jia Guangliang angrily rejected it.
• Sheng An summoned Jia Guangliang, and Qi Lingwu carried him over by the collar.

Sheng An questioned Jia Guangliang about the Southwest's barrier, then had his followers share what they knew while the team settled into the castle, renamed the Southwest Base Office. The group began reviewing information about the Southwest's miasma, Otherkind, and meteorite fragments, while Jia Guangliang stubbornly waited for someone to offer him food.

• Sheng An asked Jia Guangliang about the barrier and unusual events in the Southwest, but he demanded to be uncuffed and fed before sharing anything.
• Sheng An recruited Jia Guangliang's followers to report what they knew, and Hao Jingye and Wan Yuan recorded their information.
• The convoy moved into the castle, which Sheng An renamed the Southwest Base Office, and the group shared a meal.
• Hao Jingye and Wan Yuan reported that the Southwest's time anomaly had little available information, though the team had gathered other useful clues.
• Sheng An had Li Xin uncuff Jia Guangliang, but everyone ignored his protests and Hao Jingye began discussing information about the miasma, Otherkind, and meteorite fragments while eating.

Hao Jingye explained the Southwest Miasma’s deadly barrier, its time anomaly, and the disappearance of the Otherkind and meteorite fragments, leaving the group with major mysteries to solve. Jia Guangliang’s remaining information was exposed by Wu Buyu before he could bargain for food.

• Hao Jingye described how Jia Guangliang’s group repeatedly failed to escape the Southwest Miasma because of its toxic outbound path and a Ghost Wall.
• Qi Lingwu suggested the time difference might prevent escape, while Sheng An doubted that her superpower had helped the group enter the Southwest.
• Long Tianyu asked about the Otherkind and meteorite fragments, and Hao Jingye said both had disappeared from the region.
• Hao Jingye explained that Old Chu had seen no Otherkind and that no one had died at their hands since they vanished, while the fragments had disappeared along with them.
• Jia Guangliang tried to bargain with exclusive information, but Wu Buyu revealed that Jia had witnessed collected meteorite fragments vanish into thin air.
• Wu Buyu exposed Jia Guangliang’s remaining secret and criticized him for learning little useful information during his two years in the Southwest.

Jia Guangliang broke down over the burdens of posing as the God of Light, but Sheng An thanked him and arranged a meal, helping him accept the Special Affairs Office’s support. When Sheng An assigned him to join an attempt to leave the Southwest, he initially refused until she promised him good food.

• Jia Guangliang bawled as he described the fear and exhaustion of saving people while pretending to be the God of Light, and Wu Buyu acknowledged that his life had not been easy while still challenging his excuses.
• Sheng An had dinner brought for Jia Guangliang, thanked him for what he had done for the Southwest, and eased the burden he had carried; the others stopped mocking him as he ate.
• A shadow and other Superpower Persons who had been secretly watching Jia Guangliang left after seeing he was safe, and Hao Jingye told him the people he had saved still cared about him.
• Sheng An ordered an investigation of the Southwest and another attempt to get out, assigning Qi Lingwu, Wu Buyu, Long Tianyu, Li Wanyun, Li Xin, and Jia Guangliang to go.
• Jia Guangliang refused to join because he feared the increasingly toxic miasma, but he agreed after Sheng An promised him plentiful meals, fruit, and snacks.

Sheng An sent Qi Lingwu and an elite team to test whether they could escape the Southwest Miasma, while she began a systematic search of the region. She suspected the southwest’s deaths and missing Fragments were feeding something that had isolated it from the outside world.

• Sheng An introduced Mountain Blossom as a member of Group B after the cat scratched Jia Guangliang when he tried to pet it.
• Sheng An told the team to rest before their morning departure, and Long Tianyu knocked Jia Guangliang out of his room when he complained.
• At dawn, Sheng An told Qi Lingwu she suspected the southwest was being nourished by missing Fragments and the deaths of most of its people, and warned him to prioritize safety.
• Qi Lingwu left with five teammates and Mountain Blossom to confront the poisonous miasma and look for a way out of the southwest.
• Sheng An received Hao Jingye’s list of local superpower users and ordered the remaining team members to split up and search the entire southwest.

As the teams investigated the Southwest Miasma and searched for a way out, Sheng An and the others waited for news and debated whether Qin Xuan should use his Prophecy superpower. The chapter ended with Old Chu and Xiao Xi waking, as Sheng An promised to protect them and make sure they could grow up safely.

• Hao Jingye and Jiang Yu bickered while the group discussed the Southwest’s dangerous conditions and waited for the investigation teams to report back.
• Jiang Yu suggested that Qin Xuan use his Prophecy superpower to find a way through the miasma, but Sheng An decided to wait until they had more information.
• Hao Jingye received a message that Old Chu and Xiao Xi had awakened after Jia Guangliang healed them, and Sheng An went to see them.
• Old Chu said he had lost hope of escaping the Southwest and only wanted Xiao Xi and the other children to live safely.
• Qin Xuan gave Xiao Xi his food, and Sheng An promised that she and Old Chu would have enough to eat and could grow up well.

Sheng An and her team discussed Old Chu’s Yin-Yang Eyes and the possibility that the strongest Otherkind could become indistinguishable from humans. As the group faced the mystery of the Southwest Miasma, they learned that mutant plants had been discovered.

• Jiang Yu, Sheng An, and the others learned how Old Chu awakened Yin-Yang Eyes and heard his account of Otherkind vanishing.
• Old Chu warned that hidden, powerful Otherkind might look human even to his Yin-Yang Eyes, and Sheng An considered how top-level Otherkind could differ from people.
• Doctor Yan explained that fully evolved Otherkind might no longer need food or blood, making them nearly indistinguishable from humans.
• Sheng An and the others left the Medical Vehicle and surveyed the gloomy Southwest.
• Wan Yuan reported that mutant plants had been discovered and that Song Linwei and Gu Qiansheng had rushed to the site.

After a living mutant plant was spotted in the Southwest, Sheng An led a small team to find it before it could disappear. The search began after the plant escaped, and Cheng Bairuo identified it as fish mint.

• Ji Yani relayed news that Cheng Bairuo's group had discovered a living mutant plant in the Southwest.
• Sheng An ordered Zhang Kun to prepare a helicopter and decided to take Jiang Yu while leaving Hao Jingye, Wan Yuan, and Zhuang Fan to protect the camp.
• Sheng An, Zhang Kun, and Jiang Yu flew to meet Gu Qiansheng, Song Linwei, Ji Yani, and the others near a mountain.
• Gu Qiansheng told Sheng An that the group had lost the fast-moving plant while pursuing it, so Sheng An ordered everyone to search nearby.
• Liu Miao showed the group a blurry photograph, and Cheng Bairuo recognized the plant as fish mint.

Sheng An and the others searched for the mutant fish mint near Cheng Bairuo’s hometown, where he recalled the surrounding mountains might be an old volcano. They found the battered plant, but it fled again, fulfilling Qin Xuan's Prophecy and leaving Sheng An wondering whether the prophecy predicted the future or made it inevitable.

• Cheng Bairuo identified the mutant plant as fish mint, and Sheng An explained that it could have survived because it resisted toxins and radiation.
• Sheng An led the group to search the area where Cheng Bairuo had last seen the plant, but they found no tracks.
• Cheng Bairuo recognized the area as the Four Small Mountains near his hometown and recalled his grandfather saying geologists had once investigated it as a possible volcano.
• Ji Yani and Liu Miao returned without finding anything, but Jiang Yu spotted the mutant fish mint running near the mountain.
• Jiang Yu tried to approach and control the battered plant, but it pulled its roots from the soil and ran away as Gu Qiansheng urged everyone to chase it.