Chapter Summaries

With the apocalypse 18 days away, Sheng An led a team to apprehend Li Xin, whose metal abilities made him a valuable but unpredictable potential teammate. Before they could reach him, Li Xin rejected his family’s plans to negotiate with the government and leaped from a window to begin saving the world.

• Jiang Yu dragged herself through an early morning after staying up late, while Hao Jingye learned Sheng An suspected Group Leader Qiu was preparing a dramatic move.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye went to Fu'an Residential Community with SWAT officers to bring Li Xin in, and Sheng An explained that his superhero fantasies made him difficult to control.
• The Song family discussed contacting the government, but Li Xin emerged dressed in metal armor and declared himself Iron Man, the chosen one who would rule the apocalypse.
• Li Xin insisted he would protect his family but belonged to all humanity, then leaped out of the window to save the world.

Li Xin escaped the Song Family by climbing down their building in broad daylight, but Sheng An intercepted him and presented an arrest warrant. When he refused to come quietly and climbed another building, armed officers surrounded the area, and Sheng An prepared something as he climbed toward the tenth floor.

• Li Xin jumped out of the Song Family’s seventeenth-floor apartment, and Song Linwei rushed after him to stop him from causing a scene.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye hurried to Building Nine, fearing Li Xin would act out after learning about the coming apocalypse.
• Li Xin landed dramatically in front of Sheng An, who recognized him and introduced herself as his future boss and a team leader at the Doomsday Special Affairs Office.
• Sheng An showed Li Xin an arrest warrant, but he refused to go with them and climbed the building’s outer wall.
• Armed tactical officers surrounded Buildings Nine and Ten and fired at Li Xin, but his metal body deflected the bullets as he climbed toward the tenth floor.
• Sheng An put on protective goggles and took something from her case while Li Xin taunted the officers from above.

Sheng An defeated Li Xin by using aqua regia bullets to dissolve his metal body, then brought him under control with the special police. After Li Xin’s father beat him for causing trouble, Sheng An took him away and his superhero dream ended.

• Sheng An shot Li Xin with an aqua regia bullet, damaging his metal arm and forcing him to deactivate his ability.
• Sheng An explained that the chemical mixture dissolved the copper and gold in Li Xin’s metal body, while special police officers surrounded him.
• When Li Xin refused to cooperate, Sheng An pointed out that his family could be questioned, and the Song Family members emerged from the building.
• Sheng An reminded the Song Family that Li Xin had stolen a child’s Ultraman figurine, and Li Huai charged at his son with a broom.
• Sheng An took Li Xin away with the Song Family and special police escorting them, while Hao Jingye stayed behind to handle the aftermath.

Sheng An explained that the government would prepare the public for the apocalypse and revealed how many other ability users and reborn people had joined the Doomsday Special Affairs Office. Li Xin’s pride shattered as he learned he was not the only one with extraordinary powers.

• Sheng An reassured Song Linwei’s family that officials could handle the incident and would eventually warn the public about the apocalypse.
• Sheng An explained that she had deduced Li Xin was the one behind the Iron Man rumors, and Song Linwei admitted he had posted online to investigate the boy’s powers.
• Sheng An told Li Xin he would join their effort to save the world, while he protested that he was a powerful superhuman.
• Sheng An explained that many kinds of ability users would emerge and said the Doomsday Special Affairs Office already had water- and fire-type ability users.
• Sheng An told Li Xin about reborn teammates Jiang Yu and Li Wanyun, along with another powerful unknown ability user, leaving his pride shattered.

Sheng An confined Li Xin in a specially modified interrogation room and wore down his resistance while reassuring the Song Family that the state would take good care of him. After dinner, she led them to see Li Xin.

• On the ride back to camp, Song Father and Sheng An told Li Xin’s family that he needed discipline, and Li Xin silently resented Sheng An.
• Sheng An locked Li Xin in the modified interrogation room, where he discovered the room could pin him to the wall and ceiling.
• Li Xin tried to escape and demanded to be released, but over several hours he gave in and called Sheng An his sister.
• Sheng An spoke with the Song Family, then had staff show them the camp’s facilities and preparations for Li Xin.
• After dinner, Sheng An invited the Song Family to go see Li Xin.

Sheng An forced Li Xin to cooperate with government testing, where researchers discovered his metal ability was unusually advanced despite his recent awakening. Seventeen days before the apocalypse, Sheng An summoned Song Linwei to the interrogation room, leaving the reason unclear.

• After six hours suspended in metal form, Li Xin apologized to Sheng An and changed his feet back first so he could safely land; Sheng An caught him.
• Hao Jingye asked Li Xin to cooperate with tests, and Li Xin agreed after Sheng An gave him a threatening look.
• Doctor Yan reported that Li Xin and the water and fire ability users all had unknown substances in their bodies, while Li Xin could fuse metal with his body.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye observed that Li Xin's control over metal seemed far beyond what someone newly awakened should have, and Hao Jingye wondered if he was the chosen one.
• Seventeen days before the apocalypse, Sheng An stood before a pitifully crouching Li Xin in the interrogation room as Song Linwei arrived, confused about what had happened.

Sheng An confronted Li Xin over deliberately destroying laboratory equipment and offered to clear his ninety-seven-million debt if he worked for the state for three months. Li Xin agreed and signed a contract, unaware that Sheng An had chosen the period surrounding the apocalypse for his service.

• Sheng An and Hao Jingye confronted Li Xin about destroying laboratory equipment worth ninety-seven million and nearly injuring a researcher.
• Li Xin resisted paying for the damage, but Sheng An offered to erase the debt if he worked for the state for three months.
• Li Xin accepted the deal, and Song Linwei silently supported handing him over to the state because his family could not control him.
• Hao Jingye drafted a contract, and Sheng An added humiliating terms to shame Li Xin if he broke his promise.

Sheng An secured Li Xin as a three-month contract worker and recruited Song Linwei as a permanent member of the Doomsday Special Affairs Office. She arranged jobs for Song Linwei’s family, while Li Xin was told to attend classes.

• Sheng An threatened Li Xin with public humiliation until he signed a three-month employment contract, despite suspecting she had anticipated him destroying the equipment.
• Sheng An invited Song Linwei to join Group B as a permanent member, explaining that his intelligence would help the office fight the apocalypse.
• Song Linwei accepted Sheng An’s offer, moved by her recognition of his value despite his lack of abilities.
• Sheng An offered jobs to Song Linwei’s parents, sister, and brother-in-law as a benefit of joining the office, and Song Linwei agreed.
• Li Xin asked what role he would have, and Sheng An told him to attend classes first.

Sheng An convinced Li Xin that studying would help him master and expand his metal ability, then revealed an intense, personalized training and education plan. Li Xin fainted when he learned his classes would begin in half an hour.

• Li Xin argued that studying was pointless because the apocalypse was coming, but Sheng An explained that his metal ability required scientific knowledge.
• Hao Jingye explained that Li Xin could only transform into familiar metals because his understanding of elements was limited.
• Sheng An described how learning about metals could let Li Xin change forms, adapt to combat, and even fly, and Li Xin agreed to study.
• Sheng An presented Li Xin's subjects, expert teachers, and demanding schedule, which included his grandparents, uncle, and parents.
• Li Xin fainted after Sheng An said his classes would start in half an hour, and she told the others to revive him without taking him to the hospital.

Li Xin endured an exhausting day of intensive lessons before heading to meet Jiang Yu, while Jiang Yu pushed through her own grueling day of agricultural training to meet the new Metal-Type Ability User. They collided in the corridor, argued, and discovered each other’s identities and abilities.

• Li Xin struggled through lessons with his grandparents and researchers, then hurried to meet Jiang Yu despite his exhaustion.
• Jiang Yu, tired from fieldwork and agricultural lessons, eagerly went to meet Li Xin after hearing about his unusual metal ability.
• Li Xin and Jiang Yu collided in the corridor and traded insults, each insisting that the government protected them.
• Li Xin and Jiang Yu revealed that they were both Aberrants in the Doomsday Special Affairs Office and had been personally brought back by Sheng An.
• Li Xin identified himself as a Metal-Type Ability User, and Jiang Yu revealed that she was reborn and had a space; they realized who the other was.

Li Xin and Jiang Yu commiserated over their demanding studies and workloads until Sheng An sent them to bed. Meanwhile, Sheng An learned that Li Wanyun was buying supplies in M Country, where Wan Yuan and Team 0 planned a staged shootout to let her take weapons for free.

• Li Xin and Jiang Yu compared their exhausting studies and duties, then cried together about how different their lives were from the novels.
• Li Xin suggested fighting back, but Sheng An caught them up late and warned that the teachers would increase their workload, sending them both to their rooms.
• Sheng An resumed her video call with Wan Yuan and asked about Li Wanyun and Team 0's progress in M Country.
• Wan Yuan told Sheng An that Li Wanyun had been spending heavily on supplies and nearly attracting unwanted attention, while Team 0 covered for her.
• Wan Yuan explained that Team 0 had sold Li Wanyun only a small portion of the weapons and planned to stage a shootout so she could take the rest for free.

Sheng An warned Wanyuan that foreign powers were investigating Team 0 and urged Qi Lingwu to return with Li Wanyun soon, while Wanyuan realized her words were a subtle message to Qi. As Li Wanyun celebrated her stockpiled supplies and weapons, Sheng An expanded the search for Aberrants and learned Qiu Yu had returned, but declined to go see her.

• Sheng An told Wanyuan to be careful around Li Wanyun and advised him to bring her back from abroad soon because foreign powers were investigating them.
• Wanyuan passed Sheng An's message to Qi Lingwu, who understood it as her wanting him to return sooner.
• Li Wanyun celebrated her supplies, firearms, and spatial ability as she laughed in the street, while a Team 0 member called her an idiot.
• Hao Jingye reported that the search had found few Aberrants, so Sheng An ordered checks of police reports and wholesale markets.
• A team member announced that Qiu Yu had returned, but Sheng An said she would not go see her.

Sheng An ignored Qiu Yu’s return until she arrived at the cafeteria with six people, while Sheng An ate with her small team. Qiu Yu mocked Sheng An for having only two team members, setting up a confrontation between their groups.

• Sheng An dismissed Hao Jingye’s curiosity about Qiu Yu and went to the cafeteria for lunch.
• Jiang Yu and Li Xin complained about their lessons, and Sheng An promised they could keep eating in the cafeteria during lunch.
• Li Xin received a plain meal designed by the Academy of Sciences to study how diet affected his body, and Sheng An reminded him it would last three months.
• Qiu Yu entered the cafeteria with six people and sneered at Sheng An for having only two team members.

Qiu Yu provoked Sheng An and used her Puppet ability on Jiang Yu, but Sheng An protected her and challenged Qiu Yu’s claim that she had already won. When Lou Mingwei attacked Sheng An with lightning, she subdued him and warned Group A that ability users were not invincible.

• Qiu Yu dismissed the ordinary members of Group B and used her ability to make Jiang Yu raise her hand against herself, but Sheng An stopped her and threatened to report the incident.
• Jiang Yu pretended to be badly hurt to avoid afternoon classes, while Sheng An and her teammates united against Qiu Yu’s taunts.
• Qiu Yu claimed her early-awakened ability made her the winner, but Sheng An told her to consider how she would explain using it on Jiang Yu to the higher-ups.
• Lou Mingwei attacked Sheng An with lightning as she and her teammates were leaving, but she dodged the strike, broke his arm, and pinned him by the throat.
• Hao Jingye and Song Linwei accused Qiu Yu’s group of violating the rules, while Sheng An warned the gathered ability users that she had not even drawn her gun.

After Sheng An broke Lou Mingwei’s hand for attacking her, she gathered her team to assess Group A’s strength and reassure them about their own potential. She left them with a reminder that her name carried the wish for a golden age and a nation at peace.

• Sheng An broke Lou Mingwei’s hand and warned Qiu Yu to reflect on Group A’s attacks before leaving with her group.
• Qiu Yu slapped Lou Mingwei and threatened to kill him if he attacked Sheng An again.
• Sheng An gathered her team at the training ground, where Hao Jingye reported that Group A had seven members, including several ability users and two recent recruits.
• Sheng An told her worried teammates not to underestimate their own abilities or Team 0, and said Qiu Yu would seek to oust her but would not kill her.
• Sheng An explained that her name meant a golden age and a nation at peace, then left the training ground.

Sheng An continued screening reports for Aberrants while reassuring Song Linwei that they would fight the Apocalypse rather than leave their fate to heaven. She identified a college student in a Stone City police report as someone who had discovered an Aberrant and was eager to get involved, and arranged to meet him the next day.

• Jiang Yu and Li Xin complained about returning to classes and Cultivation Training while Sheng An took Hao Jingye and Song Linwei to continue screening for Aberrants.
• Song Linwei asked Sheng An what she wanted to do before the Apocalypse, and she said she would gather Aberrants and do everything possible to survive rather than leave anything to fate.
• Hao Jingye found a routine police report from Stone City about a college student who insisted on speaking to someone in charge.
• Sheng An watched the student's video and recognized that his apparent happiness was excitement at discovering an Aberrant and wanting to get involved.
• Sheng An told Hao Jingye to arrange a meeting with the student for the next day, predicting he would become a new teammate.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye deflected Group A’s challenge to spar while Sheng An injured Lou Mingwei further, and she explained that Qiu Yu was using the conflict to pressure the higher-ups. They then headed to meet Zhang Jialiang, who waited nervously at the Capital Public Security Bureau with evidence of something he considered extremely important.

• Sheng An and Hao Jingye encountered Qiu Yu’s group, whose members criticized Group B and proposed merging the two groups.
• Lou Mingwei revealed that the higher-ups had approved sparring between the groups, but Sheng An refused to fight until he recovered and worsened his fractured arm.
• Sheng An told Hao Jingye that Qiu Yu was letting Group A provoke conflict to force the higher-ups to choose between the two team leaders.
• Hao Jingye briefed Sheng An on Zhang Jialiang, a university student who had left his girlfriend at a mountain guesthouse before going to the police.
• Zhang Jialiang waited at the Capital Public Security Bureau, insisting to the bureau chief that he had important information and concrete evidence.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye questioned Zhang Jialiang, who reported seeing a man vanish and reappear hundreds of meters away. After examining his photos and mapping where they were taken, Sheng An suspected the man was the expert they had been waiting for.

• Sheng An met Zhang Jialiang at the bureau and reassured him that the Special Affairs Office could handle unusual reports.
• Zhang Jialiang said he had seen a ghost emerge from woods near a mountain guesthouse and then appear hundreds of meters away.
• Zhang Jialiang showed Sheng An and Hao Jingye several photos he had taken of the blurry figure.
• Zhang Jialiang described the figure as a fat man wearing a hat and answered Sheng An's follow-up questions.
• Hao Jingye processed the photos and created a 3D map of where they were taken, and Sheng An identified the figure as possibly the expert they had been waiting for.

Sheng An and Hao Jingye examined photos showing an Aberrant crossing hundreds of meters in seconds and questioned Zhang Jialiang, who wanted to learn about supernatural phenomena. They arranged to identify the Aberrant and planned to consult Li Wanyun about his unusual ability, while Zhang Jialiang agreed to wait ten days for answers.

• Sheng An and Hao Jingye confirmed that the original photos showed the same man moving at least eight hundred meters in two seconds.
• Zhang Jialiang pressed Sheng An for information about supernatural beings and asked to join the search, but she refused and promised to tell him more in ten days if he kept quiet.
• After Zhang Jialiang left with a police officer, Hao Jingye learned that the country planned to announce the Apocalypse countdown in ten days.
• Sheng An ordered Hao Jingye to find the Aberrant and reasoned that his ability was not ordinary super speed.
• Sheng An said Team 0 would return by plane the day after tomorrow, while Li Wanyun would return by ship a day later.

Sheng An investigated the theft of grain from a Stone City depot and concluded that a regressor may have assembled a group of Aberrants to take it. She confirmed the warehouse staff were innocent and prepared to question them about one remaining detail.

• Song Linwei told Sheng An and Hao Jingye that an Aberrant had stolen grain from a Stone City warehouse, prompting Group A to investigate first.
• Sheng An reviewed the evidence and suspected the thief was not among the warehouse staff, possibly because multiple Aberrants had worked together.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye realized the thief might be a regressor who knew Stone City would be destroyed by a meteorite and could identify future ability users.
• Sheng An decided to find the regressor and involve Li Wanyun, then asked Hao Jingye to arrange a call with the interrogation captain.
• Sheng An inferred from Qiu Yu's reaction and Puppet ability that the staff were innocent, and said she wanted to ask them one question.