Chapter Summaries

Bai Yaoyao met with Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan, traded supplies, and learned about the factions and the Mutant Beast blockading the base. She revealed Dark Night planned to target the Murong Family and proposed killing its leaders, leaving Meng Qilin eager to fight alongside her.

• Meng Qilin gave Bai Yaoyao three doses of Evolution Serum in return for the serum she had once shared with his family.
• Xie Shannan explained that Lu Xirui had captured a wolf cub, whose level-seven Mutant Beast mother was attacking teams near the base and making it difficult to leave.
• Bai Yaoyao shared a meal with Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan, learned more about the base's divided factions, and had Peiqi drink orange juice after using her ability.
• Bai Yaoyao told Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan that Dark Night intended to go after the Murong Family, and Meng Qilin eagerly agreed to fight with them.
• Bai Yaoyao said she would quietly kill the Murong Family's leaders at night if they had no level-seven Ability User, and claimed she could defeat Xie Shannan in twenty seconds.

Bai Yaoyao planned to use Dark Night’s strength to take down the Murong Family and build alliances at the Main Base, while Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan committed their families to helping. Lulu then asked about the Bai Family and learned that Professor Bai’s infant daughter had been stolen, leaving her curious about the family’s connection to a girl she had seen.

• Bai Yaoyao told Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan that Dark Night would remain a twelve-member group with its beasts and could become a faction through its strength.
• Bai Yaoyao spoke of ending the apocalypse, inspiring Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan to support Dark Night and steer their families toward cooperation.
• Meng Qilin offered the Meng Family’s help in dismantling the Murong Family’s political influence, while Xie Shannan assigned the Xie Family to handle its military influence within three days.
• Lulu asked Meng Qilin about the Bai Family, and he explained that Bai Qingqing had an older brother and a missing older sister who had been stolen as an infant.

Bai Yaoyao gave Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan mutant beast meat and medicinal liquor before going night scouting with A-Dai. At the wrong compound, she helped a Lu Family boy free the tortured Little Wolf Cub and teleported it to safety.

• Bai Yaoyao showed Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan that mutant beast meat could heal wounds, then gave them meat and medicinal liquor for their grandfathers.
• Meng Qilin teased Xie Shannan about having feelings for Bai Yaoyao, and Xie Shannan insisted he only admired her strength.
• Bai Yaoyao took A-Dai to scout the Murong Family compound, but realized she had reached the Lu Family compound after hearing Little Wolf Cub howl.
• Bai Yaoyao saw a young Lu Family boy feed Little Wolf Cub and try to saw through its chain with a kitchen knife, so she cut the chain with a Spatial Blade.
• When a guard spotted the boy helping Little Wolf Cub escape, Bai Yaoyao teleported the badly wounded cub to a beautiful place.

Bai Yaoyao returned with A-Dai and Murong Xixi after taking the wolf cub from the Lu Family, and Murong Xixi shared a sketch of the Murong Family residence. When Lu Family men came looking for the cub and attacked Bai Yaoyao’s group, she had Little Crook capture them.

• Bai Yaoyao teleported away from the Lu Family with Little Wolf and met A-Dai and Murong Xixi returning together.
• Bai Yaoyao explained that she had taken the wolf cub, while Murong Xixi felt welcomed when Xue Yang greeted her.
• Murong Xixi sketched the Murong Family residence and pointed out a hidden room behind a bookcase in the study.
• Lu Family men came to Bai Yaoyao’s home searching for an injured wolf cub and scuffed her door with their boots.
• Monkey kicked two Lu Family men away after they threatened Bai Yaoyao and her group.
• Lu Xirui attacked with a Wind Blade, but Bai Yaoyao dispersed it and summoned Little Crook, which hoisted the Lu Family group upside down.

Bai Yaoyao’s Dark Night Squad confronted the Lu Family after Lu Xirui led an attack on their lodgings, and Chen Yixuan of the Authorities arrived to mediate. Bai Yaoyao extracted twenty thousand points before returning inside, while Lu Jun planned to make it difficult for the squad to buy supplies.

• Little Crook slapped Lu Xirui for swearing and kept him and ten other Lu Family members suspended in the air.
• Chen Yixuan arrived with the Authorities’ patrol, introduced himself to Bai Yaoyao, and heard her explain that the Lu Family had attacked Dark Night.
• Lu Jun apologized for the Lu Family’s conduct and offered gifts, but Bai Yaoyao left without releasing the captives.
• Lu Jun offered points for the captives, and Bai Yaoyao demanded twenty thousand points, charging extra for the man who had used Wind Blade.
• Bai Yaoyao had Chen Yixuan verify the points card and mocked Lu Jun before taking her squad inside.
• Lu Jun decided to use the Murong Family’s stores to prevent Dark Night from buying supplies.

Bai Yaoyao prepared to collect a reward from Wolf Mom for saving Little Wolf Cub, then welcomed the professors and researchers, who repaid her for supplies and asked her to hold their research materials. The chapter ended with the materials left in Bai Yaoyao’s care.

• Bai Yaoyao explained that she had deliberately fallen out with the Lu Family to conceal her plans against the Murong Family, then decided to visit Wolf Mom for a reward.
• Bai Yaoyao found the Beasts caring for Little Wolf Cub, scolded Little Rabbit for giving blood, and resisted the cub’s attempts to get close to her.
• Bai Yaoyao dreamed of a crying woman, then woke holding Doggie’s tail and hurried out of her space alone.
• Professor Zheng gave Bai Yaoyao a Yellow Card with twenty thousand points to pay for supplies, and she accepted it after the professors insisted.
• Bai Yaoyao gave Professor Lin and Professor Zheng reading glasses and let the researchers choose small keepsakes.
• Professor Zheng asked Bai Yaoyao to keep the research materials, and she agreed immediately.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night prepared to leave the base to search for Little Wolf Cub’s mother, but found teams afraid to go out because a level-seven mutant beast was waiting nearby. Chen Yixuan proposed that Dark Night work with the Official First Squad to deal with the beast, and Bai Yaoyao agreed on the condition that they renegotiate the payment.

• Yang Li gave Big Meow a wooden carving, and Bai Yaoyao gave the professors medicinal liquor before they left.
• Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night went to the base gate and learned that teams were avoiding missions because of Little Wolf Cub’s mother.
• Bai Yaoyao challenged Chang Renqiu’s accusations, and Chen Yixuan confirmed that Dark Night had been innocent the previous night.
• Chen Yixuan asked Bai Yaoyao to cooperate with the Official First Squad to stop the level-seven mutant beast from blocking the base entrance.
• Bai Yaoyao agreed to cooperate after demanding a renegotiation of the payment.

Bai Yaoyao accepted Chen Yixuan’s mission to deal with a level-seven mutant beast, then discovered the beast was the Little Wolf Cub’s mother and reunited them. She warned the Mutant Wolf to flee approaching humans, but the Little Wolf Cub stayed behind to comfort Big King.

• Bai Yaoyao negotiated a reward of three doses of Evolution Serum and five Level-Six Crystal Cores from Chen Yixuan, with two extra cores if she finished that day.
• Bai Yaoyao told Dark Night about the mission and sensed a Mutant Wolf leading them southeast from the base.
• The Mutant Wolf asked Dark Night to rescue its child and offered its beast core as payment.
• Bai Yaoyao returned the Little Wolf Cub to its mother and explained that she had treated its injuries.
• Bai Yaoyao warned the Mutant Wolf that humans were coming to surround it and urged it to leave.
• The Little Wolf Cub stayed with Big King, who was crying because he had no mother, while Bai Yaoyao comforted him.

Bai Yaoyao persuaded the mother wolf to join her space with Little Wolf Cub and accepted a cache of cores before facing the pursuing ability users. After Dark Night completed the level-seven mutant beast mission, Chen Yixuan arrived with reinforcements and began suspecting Little Wolf Cub was involved.

• The mother wolf decided to enter Bai Yaoyao's space with Little Wolf Cub, offering to train mutant beasts and protect Bai Yaoyao in exchange for leaving once they were safe.
• The mother wolf gave Bai Yaoyao crystal cores and beast cores, then warned that pursuers were approaching; Bai Yaoyao took her, Little Wolf Cub, and the cores into her space.
• Xie Shannan confronted Chen Yixuan for sending Dark Night after a level-seven mutant beast, then left after learning Bai Yaoyao had refused his team's help.
• Worried about Dark Night, Chen Yixuan gathered his team and headed out to support them.
• Chen Yixuan found Dark Night safe and learned Bai Yaoyao had already completed the mission by persuading the mutant wolf to leave.
• Chen Yixuan began to suspect Little Wolf Cub was the reason the mission had ended, but Bai Yaoyao acted as if she knew nothing.

Chen Yixuan paid Dark Night’s mission reward and reported the Lu Family’s suspected harassment, prompting the Authorities to tighten rules for the major families. Meanwhile, Dark Night used Body Evolution Serum to strengthen the team, and Wolf Mom weighed whether to return to her pack as Xuan Qi considered bringing the wolves into Bai Yaoyao’s space.

• Chen Yixuan delivered Dark Night’s mission reward after Monkey misled him into thinking the Lu Family had injured the squad, then reported the incident to his superiors.
• The Authorities held more than a dozen meetings about regulating the major families, and Lu Jun ordered the Lu Family Members to stop causing trouble.
• Bai Yaoyao distributed twenty-two level 6 Crystal Cores, and Dark Night’s twelve members each took Body Evolution Serum, Spring Water, and a Crystal Core.
• Bai Yaoyao found that the serum modestly improved her abilities, while Peiqi, Chenxuan, and Keke benefited more because of their weaker stamina.
• Wolf Mom entered Bai Yaoyao’s space, met Xuan Qi, and worried about choosing between Little Wolf Cub and the wolves she had left behind.
• Xuan Qi considered suggesting that Bai Yaoyao bring Wolf Mom’s pack into the space so they could serve as mounts, then fell asleep.

Bai Yaoyao and Dark Night prepared to assassinate the Murong family’s strongest defenders, while Murong Xixi planned to kill Murong Bo’s family herself. At the Murong estate, Bai Yaoyao discovered a hidden chamber that smelled like the Ji family’s Underground Laboratory and ordered the operation paused.

• Bai Yaoyao had Wolf Mom train the beasts while Dark Night cultivated and prepared for the attack.
• Murong Xixi reported that eight level-six ability users and two level-six mutant dogs were the hardest targets, and promised to follow Bai Yaoyao after avenging herself.
• Bai Yaoyao assigned Dark Night and the beasts their roles for the nighttime operation, with Doggie volunteering to fight both mutant dogs.
• At two in the morning, Bai Yaoyao and the others entered the Murong family grounds and split up according to plan.
• Bai Yaoyao found a lever on the chair in Murong Bo’s study and opened a hidden chamber that smelled like the Ji family’s Underground Laboratory.
• Bai Yaoyao sent Little Rabbit to alert Fat Brother and tell everyone to put the operation on hold.

Bai Yaoyao investigated a hidden chamber beneath the Murong Family’s study and discovered captives and a symbol linked to the Eight-Headed Serpent. She learned Murong Xixi had been deceived, but the men guarding the chamber noticed evidence of her visit.

• Bai Yaoyao sent her companions and Murong Xixi home, then entered the hidden chamber alone.
• Bai Yaoyao found twelve chained captives and a Culture Vessel marked with a many-headed snake and the Japanese characters for “Eight-Headed Serpent.”
• Bai Yaoyao returned to her space, trained Doggie, and cultivated while monitoring the chamber with her mental power.
• Two men entered the chamber and revealed that a traitor had fed them information about Murong Xixi’s planned move, which she had canceled.
• One man noticed that an IV bag had been turned around and realized someone had entered the chamber.

Bai Yaoyao uncovered human experiments in the Murong Family’s secret room and learned that Li Bendan had compromised Murong Xixi’s plans. After Murong Xixi deceived him for crystal cores, Bai Yaoyao’s group launched a nighttime operation, capturing two researchers and killing their assigned targets.

• Bai Yaoyao escaped the secret room after finding a dead test subject and learning that the researchers were trying to create a perfected specimen.
• Bai Yaoyao warned Murong Xixi that Li Bendan might have betrayed her and coached her to claim that the operation had been delayed.
• Murong Xixi fooled Li Bendan and brought Bai Yaoyao ten level-six crystal cores.
• Bai Yaoyao captured the two researchers and sent them away with Xiaomi and A-Dai.
• Bai Yaoyao’s group attacked their assigned targets, killing the ability users they found.

Bai Yaoyao’s group defeated the Murong Family’s defenders, allowing Murong Xixi to take control of the family. Bai Yaoyao interrogated Murong Bo and Li Bendan about the Underground Laboratory, Jing Tian Yiye, and the Ji Family, then left them back at the compound as imbeciles.

• Bai Yaoyao took Dark Night home after Murong Xixi gained control of the Murong Family.
• Murong Xixi swiftly killed and buried her opponents, and the family accepted her as its new head.
• Bai Yaoyao questioned Murong Bo and Li Bendan about human experimentation and learned Jing Tian Yiye was connected to the Authorities’ security force.
• Murong Bo revealed that the Ji Family had a large laboratory outside the base and conducted more advanced human experiments.
• Bai Yaoyao used Mental Piercing on both men, and A-Dai and Xiaomi returned them to the Murong Family compound.
• Murong Xixi searched the Underground Laboratory, then heard that Murong Bo and Li Bendan had fallen from the wall.

After Bai Yaoyao urged Murong Xixi to report the Murong Family’s deaths to the authorities, the investigation exposed the family’s secret chamber and human experiments. The authorities took the surviving family members for questioning, while Bai Yaoyao’s group slept through the commotion until Qian Ming arrived with information about shops.

• Bai Yaoyao told Murong Xixi to take the Murong Family’s deaths to the authorities and demand an explanation.
• Murong Xixi reported the deaths, and Director Gou Shi tried to question her privately before Chen Yixuan arrived.
• Chen Yixuan inspected the Murong Family estate, found the secret chamber and twelve hospital beds, and ordered the surviving family members taken for questioning.
• Murong Xixi cooperated with the authorities, having already told her relatives to answer their questions honestly.
• Qian Ming arrived at Dark Night’s lodgings with the shop information Bai Yaoyao had requested, and Xiao Shiliu let him in.

Bai Yaoyao hired Qian Ming after hearing his research on potential shops, then planned to inspect the Xie Family's properties and challenge the Combat Power Rankings. Before she and her companions could leave, Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan arrived.

• Qian Ming presented his detailed analysis of shops, and Chen Jing recommended one near the mission hand-in hall despite its high rent.
• Qian Ming suggested pursuing the Murong Family's shops, and Bai Yaoyao hired him for a thousand points a month to find a spacious Xie Family shop with room for accommodation.
• Bai Yaoyao rewarded Qian Ming with Beef Jerky and sent him, Chen Jing, and Xue Yang to inspect shops.
• A-Dai urged Bai Yaoyao to sweep the rankings, and she agreed to go after they ate.
• Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan arrived at Bai Yaoyao's home while she and her companions were finishing their meal.

Bai Yaoyao told Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan about the authorities’ human experimentation and the Ji Family, then went with her companions to the western slums to look for Wang Fugui and Wang Yuanbao. A child returned bruised and unable to bring them because they were being beaten.

• Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan explained that they had used the Murong Family’s collapse to place their people in key authority positions, and Bai Yaoyao revealed that Murong Xixi was on her side.
• Bai Yaoyao told Meng Qilin and Xie Shannan that Jing Tian Yiye and the Ji Family were involved in human experimentation, and they left to investigate.
• Chen Yixuan discovered Japanese writing beneath the Culture Vessels but had no leads because the people who knew about it were dead or incapacitated.
• Bai Yaoyao and her companions headed toward the Dueling Arena and stopped in the western slums to find Wang Fugui and Wang Yuanbao.
• A child accepted Bai Yaoyao’s bread and ran to fetch the two men, then returned bruised and said he could not bring them because they were being beaten.

Bai Yaoyao’s group rescued Wang Fugui and Wang Yuanbao from Jing Tian Yiye’s men, and the father and son agreed to work for her. The group then headed to the Dueling Arena, where Bai Yaoyao explained its ranking system.

• A child told Bai Yaoyao that Wang Fugui and Wang Yuanbao were being beaten because Fugui had claimed he arranged the Yasukuni Shrine bombing.
• Bai Yaoyao stopped Jing Tian Yiye’s men from killing the father and son, then sent the attackers to Meng Qilin with Dada Juan and Xiao Shiliu.
• Peiqi healed Wang Fugui and Wang Yuanbao, and Bai Yaoyao offered them either work for 1,000 points a month or a Points Card worth 30,000 points.
• Wang Yuanbao and Wang Fugui chose to work for Bai Yaoyao, who told them to meet her at the northeast villa after seven that night.
• Bai Yaoyao’s group went to the Dueling Arena, where she explained to A-Dai how fighters earned points and challenged opponents through the rankings.

Bai Yaoyao brought Dark Night to the Dueling Arena at the end of the month, where the team registered as twelve level-six ability users. She began competing in the preliminary rings and quickly showed that her opponents were no match for her.

• Bai Yaoyao explained that challengers had three days to answer and that the rankings were finalized at the end of each month.
• Dark Night traded twelve cans of beer for a place at the front of the registration line.
• Bai Yaoyao registered Dark Night and listed her three abilities at level six, prompting staff to alert their superior.
• The team entered the arena, which had six preliminary rings and a central ring for the top one hundred.
• Bai Yaoyao kicked her first opponent out of the ring, then sent her second opponent flying thirty seconds later.

Bai Yaoyao and Lulu dominated the arena, then watched their companions fight and encountered Zhao Ruijie, whom Bai Yaoyao secretly helped with a level-six crystal core. At the arena, Bai Yaoyao learned about the powerful Bai Jin'an and accepted his invitation to fight, leaving the challenge about to begin.

• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu overwhelmed their opponents, then challenged the top-ranked Ability Users, with Bai Yaoyao summoning numbers one through twelve and Lulu targeting number two.
• Bai Yaoyao and Lulu watched Peiqi, Chenxuan, and Stone win their fights, while Stone's opponent surrendered after injuring his own hand against Stone's Skin Hardening.
• Bai Yaoyao recognized Zhao Ruijie, remembered that he had once protected Peiqi during a zombie siege, and secretly placed a level-six crystal core in his pocket.
• Bai Yaoyao met the cute girl from the housing rental center, learned that Bai Jin'an was a level-six wind Ability User ranked sixth, and heard him invite challengers to fight before he was unavailable for two days.
• Bai Yaoyao answered Bai Jin'an's challenge and stepped forward to fight him.