Chapter Summaries

Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo attended Zhao Gang and Liu Chunhui’s banquet, where their affection and Xu Duoduo’s blunt remarks embarrassed Qin Luo. The chapter ended with Xu Duoduo asking whether their date would include getting a hotel room, leaving Qin Luo choking in shock.

• Qin Luo brought Xu Duoduo to the main table and explained to Chen Xiaofei that he had claimed they could eat a whole cow to persuade Zhao Gang to accept their gift money.
• Chen Xiaofei, Wang Weihu, and Bai Shu stayed at their table, ate the banquet food, and learned from a guest about ordinary people’s lives and mutual support in the apocalypse.
• Liu Chunhui and Zhao Gang toasted the tables with their daughter while guests at the main table asked Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo about their relationship and assumed they were newlyweds.
• Xu Duoduo told the guests that Qin Luo had proposed and that he often kissed her, so Qin Luo hurriedly fed her to stop her from saying more.
• Xu Duoduo agreed to go on a date with Qin Luo, then asked whether they would get a hotel room, making him choke and protest.

Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo left the lively banquet to go on the date Qin Luo had planned. Before they slipped away, Xu Duoduo left school supplies for the children and saw that Cheng Cheng and his sister had settled happily with Zhao Gang and Liu Chunhui.

• Xu Duoduo suggested that a date should include getting a room, but Qin Luo insisted they follow his plan and go home afterward.
• Bai Shu's teasing led the banquet guests to mistakenly believe Wang Weihu was married to him and that Chen Xiaofei was their son, until Bai Shu explained they were all teammates.
• Qin Luo stopped Xu Duoduo from joining Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei as they tried to comfort Wang Weihu, then took her away for their date.
• Xu Duoduo left notebooks and pens for the children and saw Cheng Cheng and his sister playing happily with the other children.
• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo decided not to interrupt Cheng Cheng and his sister, trusting that they were happy with Zhao Gang and Liu Chunhui.

Qin Luo took Xu Duoduo on a movie date, hoping a horror film would bring them closer, but their combat instincts made the zombie movie uncomfortable. They left before it ended and headed toward an animated movie Xu Duoduo chose.

• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo found a free theater in the Underground Plaza and decided to watch a movie together.
• Qin Luo bought popcorn and two expensive strawberry milk teas, then shared a sip with Xu Duoduo.
• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo watched a zombie movie, but they kept wanting to fight the zombies instead of getting scared.
• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo left before the movie ended, and Xu Duoduo chose an animated movie for them to try next.

Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo enjoyed a movie and a winter stroll, where they talked about her upcoming birthday and her growing clarity of mind. Their mutual feelings came out, and the date ended with Xu Duoduo openly suggesting they go home and kiss.

• Qin Luo took Xu Duoduo to a cartoon, and they watched it together before heading outside.
• Qin Luo remembered that Xu Duoduo's birthday was coming up, and she admitted she had not celebrated it since her grandparents died.
• Qin Luo praised Xu Duoduo's clearer thinking, and she challenged his assumption that she would regret what she said as her mind improved.
• Qin Luo confessed that he cared about Xu Duoduo because he liked her, and Xu Duoduo said she had liked him since they first knew each other.
• Xu Duoduo repeatedly declared that she liked Qin Luo and suggested they go home to kiss, leaving him flustered.

Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo found Lin Qianxing gravely injured and feverish, so they took him to the Research Institute for treatment instead of collecting their dresses. While Lin Qianxing recovered, they learned he was pushing himself to earn Face-Molding Medicine, and the chapter ended with Qin Luo jealously stopping Xiao Qiao from kissing Xu Duoduo.

• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo visited Lin Qianxing's shop and found him covered in wounds, burning with fever, and further mechanized.
• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo insisted Lin Qianxing see a doctor, then took him by bus to the Research Institute as he leaned on Xu Duoduo and grew drowsy.
• Qin Luo carried Lin Qianxing into the Pediatric Emergency Department, where doctors cleaned his inflamed wounds and started an IV after he passed out.
• Xiao Qiao explained that Lin Qianxing worked relentlessly to repay favors and wanted to trade for Face-Molding Medicine.
• Xiao Qiao teased Xu Duoduo and suggested giving her a kiss, and Qin Luo immediately objected.

Lin Qianxing explained that his alchemy ability had left much of his body metal after he injured himself while searching for materials to make a weapon. Pressed by Qin Luo, he revealed his history with Sun Yuan and why he felt he owed her, leaving the reason for his efforts to help her rooted in the rescue that scarred her.

• The pediatrician warned that Lin Qianxing had overused his body and suggested the Childcare Center, but Lin Qianxing refused to go.
• Qin Luo questioned Lin Qianxing about his injuries, and Lin Qianxing admitted he was making a weapon to repay a favor and had used his alchemy ability to survive a mutant monster attack.
• Qin Luo guessed that Lin Qianxing was seeking medicine to change Sun Yuan's appearance and body, then asked what he owed her.
• Lin Qianxing said he and Sun Yuan had grown up together in an orphanage after being abandoned on the same day, though they had not been close.
• Lin Qianxing recalled that Sun Yuan returned during an orphanage fire to save him and was burned, explaining that he felt he could never repay her.

Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo helped Lin Qianxing let go of his guilt over Yuanyuan saving him and persuaded him that he was not a jinx. They arranged for him to recover under the 3A Combat Team’s protection and left him with food.

• Lin Qianxing called himself a jinx and said he brought misfortune to those who cared about him, so Qin Luo asked whether he had caused the fire or forced Yuanyuan to save him.
• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo reminded Lin Qianxing that Yuanyuan had not saved him so he could throw his life away, and he agreed to be more careful.
• Xu Duoduo pointed out that the people wearing Lin Qianxing’s clothes were fine, helping him reconsider his belief that he was cursed.
• Qin Luo ordered dozens more dresses from Lin Qianxing, then clarified that they were for Xu Duoduo after she and Lin Qianxing misunderstood his remark.
• Qin Luo offered the 3A Combat Team as Lin Qianxing’s temporary guardians, and Lin Qianxing thanked him and Xu Duoduo.
• Xu Duoduo gave Lin Qianxing light meals to store in his Space Card while he recovered.

Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo took shelter from a high-speed meteorite at the Research Institute, where Xu Duoduo kissed him during the impact. After the meteorite struck, the base announced a monster attack, and Qin Luo rushed with Xu Duoduo toward the base entrance to meet his team.

• Qin Luo comforted Xu Duoduo after she felt for Lin Qianxing, then teased her as they left the hospital room.
• A high-speed meteorite alarm sounded, and Qin Luo shielded Xu Duoduo while checking that Lin Qianxing and his teammates were safe.
• As the countdown reached zero and the building shook, Xu Duoduo kissed Qin Luo, and he kissed her back.
• After the Research Institute remained safe, Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo kissed again while meteorite fragments struck outside.
• A broadcast announced that monsters were attacking the base, so Qin Luo took Xu Duoduo toward the base entrance and learned his teammates had heard them kissing over his Earpiece.

Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo rushed to the Base Exit as three-star-or-higher monsters attacked, and Xu Duoduo helped rescue Du Chunjiang and wounded soldiers trapped there. After getting them inside the base, Xu Duoduo charged back into the monster-packed area and fought with her Chainsaw.

• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo headed for the Base Exit after the control tower warned that monsters rated at least three-star were attacking.
• Du Chunjiang called for help from the Service Desk booth while monsters crowded outside and cracked its Protective Glass Shield.
• Xu Duoduo and the combat teams attacked the monsters outside the booth, and Xu Duoduo checked on Du Chunjiang after clearing the immediate threat.
• Xu Duoduo caught Du Chunjiang as she climbed through the window, then escorted her and wounded soldiers toward the base gate under a Spatial Protective Shield.
• Du Chunjiang and the wounded soldiers entered the base, while Xu Duoduo turned back with white hair and fought the monsters with her Chainsaw.

Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, and the other combat teams fought a massive horde of mutant monsters, where they spotted someone who looked like the supposedly dead Fang Ming. After Mu Mei warned that the horde had been used to lure them away from West 2 Exit, Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo headed there to stop a suspected breakthrough.

• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo fought the mutant monsters while the Cheetah Squad and White Dove Squad joined them and helped clear the battlefield.
• Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, and Bai Shu spotted a figure resembling Fang Ming among the monsters, and Bai Shu warned everyone not to chase him.
• Chen Xiaofei and Wang Weihu joined the fight as the combat teams battled the horde and lower-tier ability users took turns resting.
• Mu Mei arrived and revealed that the monsters at her position had vanished after she received a false request for backup supposedly from Wang Weihu.
• Bai Shu reported that their communications had been breached, and Qin Luo ordered Wang Weihu, Bai Shu, and Chen Xiaofei to hold their position while he and Xu Duoduo rushed to West 2 Exit.

Xu Duoduo and Qin Luo rushed to West Exit 2 to stop Fang Ming’s monster horde from breaching the base. They fought Fang Ming and his headless monster while Xu Duoduo discovered a new spatial ability, and the confrontation continued after her shield blocked Fang Ming’s attack on Qin Luo.

• Xu Duoduo’s Rubik’s Cube Space began compressing the distance as Qin Luo carried her toward the base, and they reached West Exit 2 in less than ten minutes.
• Xu Duoduo and Qin Luo found Fang Ming leading monsters against the base walls, and Qin Luo attacked him while Xu Duoduo fought the lesser monsters and the headless monster.
• Fang Ming repeatedly vanished and reappeared to attack Qin Luo, revealing his jealousy and anger at being rejected by 3A.
• Fang Ming tried to stab Qin Luo through the heart, but Xu Duoduo’s spatial Protective Shield blocked the blade.
• Fang Ming praised Xu Duoduo’s ability, and Qin Luo angrily told him to keep her name out of his mouth.

Qin Luo exploited Fang Ming’s vulnerability and shot him, though he suspected the dead man was only a fake. After the monsters retreated and the base was secured, Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo arranged for Headquarters to sell most of the recovered materials.

• Qin Luo trapped Fang Ming in a thunderstorm, beat him, and noticed the pauses in Fang Ming’s data transformation.
• Qin Luo shot Fang Ming in the forehead and stored his body in his Space Card, then reported that the man might have been a fake.
• Xu Duoduo killed the headless six-star monster while the remaining monsters began retreating, and Qin Luo called her back.
• Mu Mei arrived, apologized for being deceived by Fang Ming, and left to report to the Bureau after discussing the incident with Qin Luo.
• Xu Duoduo kept the six-star mutant core and told the staff to sell the other materials except the five-star mutant cores.
• Qin Luo asked the staff to send the itemized sales list to White Mouse, who managed 3A’s finances.

After the attack, Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo helped care for the injured and discussed how Fang Ming escaped. Bai Shu questioned whether Fang Ming’s datafication was really a trick, while Da Qiao’s test revealed that the captured body’s DNA did not belong to him.

• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo handed supplies over to Headquarters, then went to help the injured and delivered Fang Ming’s captured body to Xiao Qiao.
• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo saw that no deaths had been announced, and Xu Duoduo reassured Qin Luo that they could touch each other at home.
• Xu Duoduo and Chen Xiaofei gave the injured first aid and discussed Fang Ming’s escape and Qin Luo’s capture of him.
• Qin Luo told Bai Shu what had happened, and Bai Shu suggested Fang Ming might be turning invisible and using speed rather than becoming data.
• Da Qiao sent 3A the test results, which showed that the captured body’s DNA was not Fang Ming’s.

Bai Shu and Qin Luo concluded that Fang Ming was using Face-Molding Medicine to create copies and suspected his true body was an electronic device. After the squad finished the rescue and headed back to base, they learned that Gluttonous Beast had disappeared.

• Bai Shu examined Da Qiao's findings and concluded Fang Ming had reshaped a new vessel with Face-Molding Medicine after losing his original body.
• Qin Luo and Bai Shu discussed Fang Ming's allies and agreed that finding his true body was the priority, with electronics as a possible lead.
• Chen Xiaofei and Xu Duoduo bandaged the wounded while swapping gossip, and Qin Luo led Xu Duoduo away after Chen Xiaofei taught her his bad habits.
• Wang Weihu called the squad back to base after the monsters were defeated, and the group bickered on the way.
• The squad received word that Gluttonous Beast had disappeared.

Fang Ming captured Gluttonous Beast, disabling the Space Cards and throwing Headquarters’ bases into panic. 3A learned that Gluttonous Beast was alive and began considering how to help rescue him and locate Fang Ming’s real body.

• Chen Xiaofei, Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, Wang Weihu, and Bai Shu discovered Fang Ming’s message announcing that he had taken Gluttonous Beast and learned their Space Cards no longer worked.
• Qin Luo contacted Cao Wenzhou, who explained that Fang Ming had lured the defenders away and that Headquarters had backup supplies for six months to a year.
• Cao Wenzhou told 3A that Gluttonous Beast was alive and that the Four Continents Team would return to City B to prepare a rescue.
• Qin Luo offered to have 3A join the rescue, but Cao Wenzhou and Vermilion Bird told them to follow Headquarters’ orders.
• Bai Shu sent Cao Wenzhou information about Fang Ming’s doubles, and 3A discussed asking the Taoist Ability User to locate Fang Ming’s real body.
• Xu Duoduo resolved that Gluttonous Beast had to be rescued and considered using Lin Qianxing’s Independent Space Cards or supplies from the Rubik’s Cube Space if needed.

Xu Duoduo and Qin Luo discussed using Black Market Space Cards to store supplies from her Rubik's Cube Space, then spent a restless night together. The next morning, Qin Luo dressed Xu Duoduo in a new outfit and spoke with Lin Qianxing about her clothes, while their plan to secure the Space Cards remained ahead.

• Xu Duoduo suggested using Black Market Space Cards to store her supplies, and Qin Luo agreed to ask Xiao Lin about obtaining them.
• Xu Duoduo kept wriggling and teasing Qin Luo instead of sleeping, and he eventually pinned her down and punished her.
• Xu Duoduo woke late the next morning, sore and embarrassed by the marks on her wrist.
• Qin Luo dressed Xu Duoduo in a new dress while talking with Lin Qianxing, who had sent her more outfits.
• Xu Duoduo glared at Qin Luo when he blamed her for provoking him the night before.

Qin Luo and his companions learned that rising temperatures and daylight signaled an approaching extreme heat crisis. As they worried about how people would survive, Xu Duoduo fretted that she might start to stink, and they reassured her that her body was stable.

• Qin Luo dressed Xu Duoduo in a protective Lolita outfit, and their companions praised how beautiful she looked.
• Bai Shu reported that Fang Ming had hijacked Gluttonous Beast and spread panic, while Headquarters announced it was strengthening its firewall against him.
• Qin Luo and the others noticed the unusual heat and dryness, and Xu Duoduo poured them iced soy milk as Bai Shu contacted building management to turn off the heating.
• Xu Duoduo noticed that daylight was returning, but Bai Shu and Qin Luo read an emergency notice warning that extreme heat was coming.
• Xu Duoduo worried that the heat might make her stink, and Qin Luo, Chen Xiaofei, Bai Shu, and Wang Weihu reassured her that she would not change.

The sudden return of the sun sent temperatures soaring and raised fears of floods, disease, and another great evolution. 3A set out on an urgent mission to evacuate coastal survivors, while the first signs of danger appeared along the road.

• Bai Shu warned Xu Duoduo, Qin Luo, Chen Xiaofei, and Wang Weihu that the sudden thaw could cause storms, flooding, and new biological threats.
• H City Survivor Base ordered coastal evacuations and assigned 3A to the Coastal Survivor Base Evacuation Operation while officials also focused on protecting food supplies.
• 3A departed in a modified Combat Vehicle with other teams, racing toward the coast through roads flooded by melting snow.
• Xu Duoduo packed fruits and vegetables from her Rubik's Cube space into her remaining Black Market Space Cards and took stock of her supplies.
• Chen Xiaofei spotted a zombie, shot it, and exclaimed that it had survived the freezing weather.

As the Combat Vehicle neared the highway, thawing zombies began to revive in the summer heat, while Xu Duoduo worried that she might start to rot. Qin Luo reassured her and the group dealt with the zombie threat and stench, leaving Xu Duoduo comforted by her partner and still thinking about their nights together.

• Chen Xiaofei and Bai Shu joked about a thawed zombie, while Xu Duoduo worried that she might rot and Qin Luo reassured her that she was fine.
• Wang Weihu noted that the air conditioning was quickly consuming fuel and power stones, but Qin Luo said they had to keep it running in the heat.
• As the vehicle approached the highway, thawed zombies appeared in greater numbers, and Qin Luo blasted apart one that clung to the vehicle.
• Chen Xiaofei shot at more zombies and complained about the stench, so Xu Duoduo gave him gas masks and handed Bai Shu and Qin Luo masks too.
• Xu Duoduo helped Qin Luo put on his mask, and he squeezed her hand as she said partners should take care of each other.

As City I flooded, Qin Luo organized a rescue effort and ordered Xu Duoduo to open an evacuation corridor with her spatial ability. The rescue convoy crossed the newly formed route toward the base while the other teams built a second bridge.

• On the journey to City I, Wang Weihu repaired damaged roads as 3A killed mutant monsters and gathered their cores.
• The team arrived at flooded City I, where survivors were gathering on higher ground and the newest rescue vehicles could not cross the water.
• Qin Luo ordered Xu Duoduo to create the main evacuation corridor and assigned ability users to build a secondary passage.
• Qin Luo sent Wang Weihu to evacuate the injured and people with limited mobility, while he and Chen Xiaofei went to clear mutant monsters from the floodwater.
• Xu Duoduo used her spatial ability to push aside water and monsters, forming a road between two Spatial Walls as the convoy headed for City I Base.
• Earth-, rock-, and plant-type ability users built a second bridge toward the city.