Chapter Summaries

After the national briefing announced the kindling project, warned about the Otherkind, and introduced emergency rules for the five days before the apocalypse, people began adapting to the new system. As new Superpower Persons arrived at the Special Affairs Office, Li Xin rushed to claim the old man for his group, convinced he had to be a Sweeping Monk.

• The Special Affairs Office members saluted as the country renamed Aberrants as Kindling and established the kindling project.
• The Chief Base Director warned the nation about the Otherkind, while Sheng An and Qiu Yu pledged to fight them.
• The briefing announced that currency would be suspended and a points system, preparedness kits, and other emergency measures would take effect.
• People read the briefing transcript, learned about their free points and supplies, and began seeking work and adapting to the new order.
• As kindling began arriving at the Special Affairs Office, Li Xin dragged Wu Buyu to the entrance to recruit them before Group A did.
• Li Xin spotted an old man beside a burly man and rushed to claim the old man, believing he had to be a Sweeping Monk.

After the Special Affairs Office’s public briefing, Sheng An and the others discussed foreign reactions and the country’s preparations for the coming apocalypse. Two new recruits arrived, and Li Xin returned in distress after mistakenly choosing an old man who was signing up for a relative.

• The Special Affairs Office members watched their briefing footage, while Hao Jingye explained why Jiang Yu’s abilities and key national resources had been kept secret.
• Sheng An and Hao Jingye discussed how foreign countries were seeking refuge, intelligence, and research access in exchange for supplies, while Sheng An warned against anyone interfering with preparations.
• Hao Jingye said two newcomers had arrived and that Li Xin and Wu Buyu had gone to meet them, with each group expected to receive one recruit.
• Wu Buyu returned angrily and revealed that Li Xin had rushed to claim an old man without asking questions, unaware that the man was signing up on behalf of a relative.
• Hao Jingye questioned why Li Xin was so upset if the relative had a superpower, and Wu Buyu pushed Li Xin to explain himself.

Li Xin brought three-year-old Qin Xuan and his guardian Old Qin to Group B, revealing that Qin Xuan had prophetic abilities. The others accepted the boy because his power could be valuable, then left Li Xin responsible for both him and Old Qin.

• Li Xin introduced three-year-old Qin Xuan as a Superpower Person, shocking the group after he had passed over a wind-powered adult for him.
• Song Linwei explained that all Superpower People came under the Special Affairs Office's jurisdiction, while Old Qin asked to join so he could care for Qin Xuan.
• Old Qin said Qin Xuan could predict deaths and had correctly foretold several people’s deaths, though he had also predicted that Old Qin would survive.
• Sheng An decided Qin Xuan’s prophecy ability could be useful despite his age, and assigned Li Xin responsibility for the child he had brought back.
• Qin Xuan asked Li Xin to take him to pee, but Li Xin could not find Old Qin and broke down in frustration.

Sheng An and the others discussed their urgent disaster-preparation assignments and worried about why no Kindling outside the Capital City area had come forward. After Li Xin brought Qin Xuan to the Special Affairs Office, Qin Xuan prepared to demonstrate his precognition by looking at Sheng An.

• Old Qin followed Sheng An and the others to the Cafeteria, ate Li Xin's meal, and left Qin Xuan in Li Xin's care.
• Hao Jingye assigned Wu Buyu and Li Xin a tight schedule to reinforce shelters across the country, while the others received disaster-preparation duties.
• Hao Jingye reported that only Qin Xuan and Nie Changshui had come forward as Kindling since the public briefing, prompting Sheng An and the others to question why.
• Li Xin arrived with Qin Xuan on his shoulders, complained about babysitting him, and reluctantly let him sit on his lap.
• Old Qin insisted that Qin Xuan truly had precognition, so Jiang Yu asked Qin Xuan to look at Sheng An and demonstrate his power.

Qin Xuan’s prophetic vision showed Sheng An alive in a ruined world, saying that everything had gone wrong and that she had gone back. Four days before the Apocalypse, the team learned that a Word Spirit Superpower user and a Hair-Mutated Person had arrived at Building 1, prompting Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun to rush to recruit them.

• Qin Xuan stared at Sheng An until bloody tears streamed from his eyes, then described a desolate future and shouted, “She went back!” before passing out.
• Sheng An sent Long Tianyu to take Qin Xuan to the hospital, where doctors found that he had exhausted his superpower and was otherwise safe.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu discussed the prophecy, and Sheng An reasoned that it showed she would survive in the ruined future.
• Four days before the Apocalypse, Hao Jingye reported that a Word Spirit Superpower user and a Hair-Mutated Person had arrived at Building 1.
• Long Tianyu flashed away to recruit them, while Li Wanyun followed to keep an eye on him.

Sheng An arranged for professionals to document Qin Xuan’s prophecy while assigning Old Qin to help. At Building One, Groups A and B assessed two new kindlings, and Li Wanyun chose Zhuang Fan for Group B after he demonstrated his word-spirit power.

• Song Linwei questioned Qin Xuan about his prophecy concerning Sheng An, but Qin Xuan could not explain it.
• Sheng An ordered professionals to draw the scenes Qin Xuan had predicted and told Old Qin to help ensure the drawings were accurate.
• Li Wanyun joined the members of Groups A and B as they learned about the new kindlings, Jiang Ling and Zhuang Fan.
• Jiang Ling demonstrated her hair-based abilities by swinging into the room, then challenged Lou Mingwei.
• Long Tianyu tested Zhuang Fan, who used the word “Fall” to make him hit the floor.
• Li Wanyun declared that Zhuang Fan would join Group B, determined to secure him for her team.

Groups A and B fought over recruiting Zhuang Fan, whose Words Become Reality ability made him a prized new kindling. Ruan Zifeng stopped the standoff by warning that the group leaders had been notified, and Long Tianyu took Zhuang Fan for Group B, leaving Lou Mingwei furious.

• Jiang Ling challenged Zhuang Fan, but he answered her taunts with only a few calm remarks.
• Long Tianyu seized Zhuang Fan for Group B, and Lou Mingwei and Xiang Hanshuang attacked, starting a fight with Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun.
• Nie Changshui joined the fight and sent a Tornado at Group B, but Gu Qiansheng arrived and silenced it.
• Ruan Zifeng warned both sides that Team Leader Sheng and Group Leader Qiu had been told about the fight, prompting them to stop.
• Ruan Zifeng agreed that each group could take one recruit, and Long Tianyu flashed away with Zhuang Fan for Group B.

Group B welcomed Zhuang Fan, the Word Spirit Superpower Person, but his sparse speech made his teammates think he was arrogant. Ji Yani tested his ability and discovered that his stuttered commands could control her speed, leaving the group stunned by his true nature.

• Lou Mingwei protested Group A's choice, but Xiang Hanshuang confirmed Jiang Ling and Zhuang Fan would join their respective groups, and Jiang Ling dragged Lou Mingwei away to beat him.
• Gu Qiansheng suspected Ruan Zifeng had a reason for giving up Zhuang Fan, while Ruan Zifeng said the newcomer barely spoke and felt strange to him.
• Long Tianyu brought Zhuang Fan to Group B and boasted that he had secured the Word Spirit Superpower Person, but Zhuang Fan only briefly greeted his new teammates.
• When Long Tianyu accused Zhuang Fan of arrogance, Zhuang Fan tried to explain himself but could only stutter out, "I'm, not."
• At Sheng An's request, Ji Yani tested Zhuang Fan's ability, and his stuttered commands made her speed up uncontrollably before ordering her to stop, causing them to crash down the stairs.

Zhuang Fan joined Group B of the Special Affairs Office, and the team discovered that his stutter complicated his word spirit superpower. As the apocalypse countdown reached three days, Wu Buyu returned and revealed Zhuang Fan’s anxious inner thoughts behind his brief replies.

• Long Tianyu learned that Zhuang Fan was a stutterer, and Hao Jingye realized no one had noticed because Zhuang Fan was quiet and worked as a webnovel writer.
• Sheng An welcomed Zhuang Fan to Group B, while Hao Jingye ordered specialists to try to treat his stutter.
• Li Wanyun and Long Tianyu blamed each other for choosing Zhuang Fan and started fighting as Gu Qiansheng looked away in exhaustion.
• Three days before the apocalypse, Wu Buyu returned from the Neighboring Province while Sheng An’s group ate breakfast and discussed Qin Xuan and the nearly finished portrait.
• Wu Buyu used his mind-reading ability to reveal Zhuang Fan’s lengthy, anxious thoughts about settling in and whether to speak or write.

Zhuang Fan’s word spirit power erupted when Lou Mingwei mocked his stutter, sending Lou flying out of sight and silencing the cafeteria. Hao Jingye then showed the team a completed Psychological Profile, and the image left everyone stunned as they looked between it and Sheng An.

• Wu Buyu translated Zhuang Fan’s private thoughts, embarrassing him in front of the group.
• Lou Mingwei mocked Zhuang Fan’s stutter, while Long Tianyu and Jiang Ling were restrained from attacking him.
• Zhuang Fan shouted “Get lost!” and his word spirit power launched Lou Mingwei out of the cafeteria and beyond the compound.
• Everyone in the cafeteria fell quiet and treated Zhuang Fan with awe, while Zhuang Fan returned to eating.
• Hao Jingye presented the completed Psychological Profile, and Jiang Yu and the others stared at the image in shock before looking at Sheng An.

The group examined Qin Xuan’s prophecy, which depicted a wounded, despairing Sheng An holding an unknown object in a scorched wasteland. While the report suggested the vision foretold her awakening a powerful superpower, Sheng An realized the landscape did not match the end of the second year of doomsday.

• The group was shaken by the prophecy’s image of a bloodied, despairing Sheng An carrying Qi Lingwu’s sniper rifle and an unidentifiable sphere.
• Song Linwei showed them a brief video of Sheng An moving backward, and the group debated whether it represented a reversed vision, the world’s destruction, or rebirth.
• Old Qin advised everyone not to dwell on the prophecy, while Sheng An continued studying the photograph and video.
• The group read the former Special Affairs Bureau’s report, which concluded Sheng An would likely become a powerful Superpower Person.
• Sheng An asked Long Tianyu and Li Wanyun to identify the scorched landscape, and Long Tianyu said it was not from the end of the second year of doomsday.

Long Tianyu recognized the prophecy’s ruined landscape as Stone City years in the future, and the group feared that Sheng An’s grim fate was unavoidable. Sheng An rejected that certainty by destroying Qi Lingwu’s rifle, which matched the weapon in the prophecy, and challenged the future to change.

• Long Tianyu identified the prophecy’s setting as Stone City and said it resembled the city years after his death in his previous life.
• Hao Jingye and the others discussed whether the prophecy showed the Reborn’s past lives or the future, and considered whether Wu Buyu might have known Sheng An and Captain Qi.
• The group listed clues in the prophecy, including Sheng An’s future breakdown, Stone City’s importance, an unidentified ball, and Captain Qi’s poor condition.
• Long Tianyu despaired that their struggles might not change the world’s doomed ending, but Sheng An laughed and asked Qi Lingwu to have Li Xin make him a different sniper rifle.
• Qi Lingwu handed Sheng An his rifle, and she smashed it against the ground, declaring that the future could be changed.

With the apocalypse one day away, Sheng An rallied Group B after declaring that the destroyed gun meant the future could still change. As the country completed its shelter preparations, she spent the remaining hours with Qi Lingwu and said she believed she was awakening a superpower, though her recurring fever suggested it was different.

• Sheng An concluded her analysis, ordered Hao Jingye to report to their superiors, and led Group B away to prepare for the apocalypse.
• Ruan Zifeng praised Sheng An, while Lou Mingwei and Jiang Ling argued in the cafeteria and Xiang Hanshuang watched the direction Sheng An had gone.
• The country completed its evacuations and filled its shelters as broadcasts and patrols prepared residents for the meteorites expected the next day.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu sat together on the rooftop with eleven hours remaining before the meteorites arrived.
• Qi Lingwu noticed Sheng An still had a fever, and Sheng An told him she thought she was awakening a superpower in an unusual way.

Sheng An worried that her repeated fevers meant something unusual was happening with her superpower awakening, while Qi Lingwu promised to stay by her side. As the meteorite shower neared, Sheng An reported to the monitoring room and then left after the third siren sounded.

• Qi Lingwu reassured Sheng An about her delayed awakening and promised to fight beside her, while asking her to stay alive.
• The group teased Sheng An and Qi Lingwu, and Jiang Yu admitted she wanted a superpower so she could fight alongside them; Sheng An told her that protecting her space was also important.
• Jiang Yu promised to tell Sheng An a secret after the next day, and Sheng An said she wanted the power of the moon.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu left to spend time together, while the others kept Long Tianyu from following them.
• At the countdown's end, the sirens announced that the meteorites would arrive in two hours, then one hour, and the Chief Base Director ordered Shelter B23 evacuated.
• With thirty minutes remaining, Sheng An saluted the Chief Base Director and strode out of the monitoring room.

As meteorites neared Earth, Sheng An and the Core Shelter staff prepared defenses while residents braced for impact and possible transformations into Otherkind. When a sudden disruption cut communications and threatened the second wave of Apocalypse interceptor missiles, Sheng An ordered Plan B and mobilized the Special Affairs Office.

• Jiang Yu stayed in her reinforced shelter room, watching meteorites fall and hoping Sheng An and her teammates would return safely.
• Core Shelter staff evacuated people from overcrowded shelters and completed preparations as meteorites approached.
• Sheng An ordered the launch of the Apocalypse interceptor missiles, which were intended to protect the area around Capital City.
• After the fifth air-raid siren, residents crouched apart and prepared to report anyone transforming into an Otherkind.
• A sudden disruption blacked out the sky and communications just as the second wave of Apocalypse interceptors was ordered to launch.
• Sheng An told Hao Jingye to go downstairs, then ordered the cancellation of Plan A, activated Plan B, and mobilized all members of the Special Affairs Office.

Sheng An commanded the Superpower Persons as they worked together to slow and break apart the meteorites before impact. With the ice failing and the remaining fragments still falling, the exhausted team began the final step.

• Long Tianyu brought Sheng An, Lou Mingwei, and the others into position while Qiu Yu asked to control the Superpower Persons and Sheng An refused.
• Wu Buyu carried Lou Mingwei skyward, and Lou Mingwei used lightning to slow the meteorites before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Ke Jiaxue and Huang Weiyang turned the surrounding atmosphere into water while Xiang Hanshuang froze it, but the ice shattered too soon.
• Li Xin and Yang Chuan shattered the meteorites as Qiu Yu used her Puppet threads to strengthen them, and Xiang Hanshuang froze the fragments before losing consciousness.
• As the countdown reached ten seconds, Sheng An shouted for the team to begin the final step.

The Special Affairs Office diverted the largest meteorite and destroyed one fragment threatening Capital City, but the impacts devastated the world and spread a substance that began turning people into Otherkind. As Sheng An and her teammates fell toward the ground, Qi Lingwu guarded the Core Shelter, killing newly transformed personnel before they could attack.

• Wu Buyu carried Li Wanyun clear of the meteorite as Nie Changshui’s wind carried Ji Yani and Zhang Kun away, and Li Wanyun and Zhang Kun stored the massive meteorite.
• Liu Yue and Geng Leqian extinguished the meteorite’s flames, and Zhuang Fan made a fragment headed for Capital City disappear.
• Meteorites struck around the world, causing destruction and creating a protected safe zone centered on Capital City, while Sheng An ordered the team to descend from the falling helicopter.
• The impacts released a strange substance that infected people, causing fevers, convulsions, and transformations into Otherkind.
• At the Core Shelter, Qi Lingwu used his power to detect newly transformed personnel and killed Lu Ming before he could attack Tang Fang.

As meteorites struck the earth, shelters across Capital City endured collapses, earthquakes, and attacks from newly transformed Otherkind while emergency teams worked to restore communications. Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office survived the interception of the large meteorites, and she reported that their mission was accomplished.

• Wang Xiaoxiao and her parents followed emergency rules through a shelter collapse and watched officers kill a man who had become an Otherkind.
• Chen Yue and Jiu Su killed an Otherkind woman at Capital City's largest shelter after Ruan Zifeng identified her.
• The Chief Base Director coordinated Core Shelter operations as Hao Jingye went to meet the Special Affairs Office and preserve footage of the interception.
• Communications gradually returned, bringing distress calls and reports from shelters across the country.
• Sheng An rose from the dust and reported that the Special Affairs Office had successfully intercepted the large meteorites.

After Sheng An helped win the first battle against the meteor shower, she collapsed and was taken to the hospital, where doctors investigated her unusual, prolonged awakening. As more people began awakening superpowers amid nationwide fires and communications failures, Sheng An regained consciousness, but her ability remained unknown.

• Sheng An and the others stood firm after the battle, and the footage reached people across the country before Sheng An collapsed.
• Hao Jingye learned that Sheng An was hospitalized with an unusual fever and discussed the worsening disaster and the shortage of available superpower users with Wan Yuan.
• Wan Yuan began awakening a superpower, and Hao Jingye had him moved for care.
• Sheng An woke after an hour and asked where her teammates were; Hao Jingye reported that several were patrolling, hospitalized, or awakening abilities.
• Doctor Yan asked Sheng An whether she knew what superpower she had awakened.

Doctor Yan told Sheng An that she had an exceptionally strong superpower that seemed shattered from repeated failed awakenings, though its nature remained unknown. As the team prepared to leave the Core Shelter, Jiang Yu revealed that she had awakened a plant-type superpower.

• Doctor Yan explained that Sheng An's superpower was severely overdrawn and might slowly recover, but he withheld two extreme theories about it.
• Sheng An agreed to leave the Core Shelter and lead the Special Affairs Office on urgent operations across Capital City.
• As another earthquake struck, Sheng An asked the team to bring Jiang Yu to her.
• Jiang Yu announced that she had awakened a superpower, and a small flower sprouted from her head as she demonstrated her plant-type ability.