Chapter Summaries

After the battle, Qin Luo helped the survivors face their losses and organize the next steps. He left the rookies responsible for arranging the rotating rest groups while his friends tried to comfort Xu Duoduo.

• Bai Shu reassured Wang Weihu and the wounded squads, while Qin Luo brought Xu Duoduo back and the survivors prepared to rest.
• Qin Luo warned a Cheetah Squad rookie that letting the monsters devour one another would allow them to grow stronger and threaten everyone.
• Wang Weihu reported that 122 people had died, including Drunkard and Yu Jia, and Qin Luo ordered their bodies prepared for transport to the Martyrs' Memorial Cemetery.
• Qin Luo comforted Xu Duoduo, set a two-hour rest period followed by four-hour shifts, and told the rookies to arrange the groups themselves.
• Qin Luo praised Mu Mei for helping him train the rookies, then listened as Chen Xiaofei and the others tried to cheer up Xu Duoduo.

After the earthquake devastated Border Base, Qin Luo organized the survivors, assigned Du Zhong to lead them, and prepared his teams to fight the monsters gathering outside. With the signal gone and other bases’ fates unknown, Xu Duoduo stayed behind to protect and recover the wounded while Qin Luo went out to battle.

• Qin Luo approved Lieyang and Xu Ge’s team strategy, pairing Rose with Cheetah Squad and White Dove with Charge while 3A fought independently.
• Wang Weihu and Bai Shu reported that most survivors were injured, including ten people who were seriously wounded, and fewer than thirty Border Base soldiers could still fight.
• Qin Luo discovered there was no signal and learned from Du Zhong that Border Base’s leaders had died saving their comrades; he appointed Du Zhong to care for the wounded.
• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo supplied the survivors with weapons and ammunition so they could defend themselves while the teams fought outside.
• As monsters slaughtered and devoured one another, Qin Luo told Xu Duoduo to rest and conserve her ability; she stayed behind to protect the wounded as he went out to fight.

Xu Duoduo and her allies endured days of fighting as monsters swarmed the border, growing stronger until Cao Wenzhou arrived with Qin Luo and unleashed a devastating attack that ended the battle. As the survivors regrouped and cleared the battlefield, Qin Luo found Xu Duoduo and held her close.

• Xu Duoduo and the scattered fighters battled monsters for days, and many of them broke through to higher tiers amid the fighting.
• Chen Xiaofei swept the flying monsters from the sky in his gyrfalcon form, while the Rose Squad, Cheetah Squad, White Dove combat teams, and Bai Shu wiped out more enemies.
• Qin Luo appeared with a Fire Qilin and used rings of electricity to make the monsters submit before shattering them all without harming the humans.
• Xu Duoduo noticed the Rubik's Cube Space in her Sea of Consciousness growing hot and turning slowly as the survivors began clearing the battlefield.
• Qin Luo found Xu Duoduo, scolded her for leaving his side, and held her while she clung to him.
• Cao Wenzhou changed back into human form behind a monster corpse, and Bai Shu stopped Chen Xiaofei from peeking at him.

After surviving a brutal battle, Xu Duoduo leveled up and revealed her Rubik’s cube space, while Cao Wenzhou arrived with news of the earthquake and the chaos it had caused worldwide. The survivors prepared to return to H City Base together, mourning those they had lost.

• Xu Duoduo’s body glowed as she leveled up, frightening Qin Luo, Chen Xiaofei, and Bai Shu until she explained what was happening.
• Xu Duoduo briefly manifested a tiny, multicolored Rubik’s cube space in her palm, then hid it when Cao Wenzhou approached.
• Cao Wenzhou told Qin Luo that a major earthquake had caused widespread monster chaos and that Fei was critically ill after foretelling it.
• Cao Wenzhou urged the survivors to clean up and go home, and Wang Weihu reported the teams’ losses, including four Charge members, two Rose members, and twenty from Border Base.
• Qin Luo ordered Wang Weihu to use Space Cards from the Black Market to take the dead home with them, while Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei helped with cleanup.

Qin Luo and the others left the ruins of Border Defense Base for H City Base while Du Zhong and ten soldiers chose to remain and defend the site. As the airship departed, Qin Luo and Bai Shu learned that the earth was splitting worldwide and volcanic eruptions were causing growing concern.

• Du Zhong refused Qin Luo's offer to return to H City Base, and Xu Duoduo secretly gave him supplies through Space Cards.
• Du Zhong and the ten remaining ability users saluted Qin Luo and Cao Wenzhou as they boarded the airship, and Cao Wenzhou saluted them before departing.
• Chen Xiaofei learned that Du Zhong's group had stayed behind permanently and grew emotional, while Qin Luo comforted the tearful Xu Duoduo.
• From the airship, Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo saw uneven red fog, ravines, and Shadow Monsters emerging from cracks in the ground.
• Bai Shu explained that tectonic shifts and renewed volcanic eruptions were affecting the world, and warned Qin Luo that their consequences could eventually reach the Flower Nation.

After returning from the border battle, Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, and Bai Shu questioned Cao Wenzhou about the crisis at Headquarters and international criticism of the Flower Nation. Cao reassured them that Fei was being treated and Headquarters would handle the accusations, leaving 3A caught up on events and laughing together aboard the airship.

• Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, and Bai Shu visited Cao Wenzhou to ask about current events after their prolonged isolation.
• Cao Wenzhou told them Fei had remained unconscious for ten days after predicting the earthquake, and that a Special Operations Group was handling his case.
• Bai Shu showed Cao Wenzhou reports blaming the Flower Nation for turning refugees away and offered to send Headquarters his recordings of the enemy's attack and provocations.
• Wang Weihu and Chen Xiaofei joined the group, and Cao Wenzhou answered 3A's questions about events during their absence.
• Xu Duoduo accidentally gave Cao Wenzhou a bitter drink from the wrong Rubik's Cube Space slot, and the group laughed at Qin Luo's teasing.

After surviving ten days surrounded by monsters, 3A and the other combat teams returned to the H City Survivor Base with dramatically higher ability tiers. Their reunion brought relief, but they remembered the soldiers who had not made it back.

• Chen Xiaofei, Wang Weihu, Bai Shu, Qin Luo, and Xu Duoduo joked aboard the airship while recalling the battle’s pain, hunger, and injuries; Cao Wenzhou urged them not to dwell on traumatic memories.
• Cao Wenzhou noted that Qin Luo had reached the ninth tier, Wang Weihu, Bai Shu, and Chen Xiaofei had reached the eighth, and the other surviving squads had also advanced.
• The airship arrived at the H City Survivor Base, where Du Chunjiang rushed to embrace Xu Duoduo and celebrate that 3A had survived.
• The teams learned that spies had used Bionic Birds to film monsters engulfing them, leading others to believe they had died.
• The survivors returned with major advancements, but some members of their ranks were still missing.

After returning to the base, Qin Luo and his companions reported the fallen soldiers and learned that the earthquake had damaged buildings despite emergency preparations. As the group headed home to rest, they discussed the backlash from their forced breakthroughs and enabled health monitoring on their Wristbands.

• Du Chunjiang checked that Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, Chen Xiaofei, Wang Weihu, and Bai Shu were safe, then told them to rest before parting from them.
• Wang Weihu and Bai Shu handed over the fallen soldiers’ remains and names, and Qin Luo hoped the heroes and Drunkard could rest peacefully in their Space Cards.
• Chen Xiaofei marveled at the earthquake cracks in the base’s high-rises, and Wang Weihu, Bai Shu, and Qin Luo agreed to visit Fei after resting.
• Qin Luo asked Xu Duoduo about her condition, and she said her dizziness had passed; he admired her newly silky hair and promised to touch it more at home.
• Bai Shu warned the group to monitor the backlash from their two-level breakthroughs, so Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo enabled their Wristbands’ health monitoring systems.

After Drunkard’s death, Xu Duoduo comforted Qin Luo and stayed with him in his quarters. When Qin Luo developed a high fever, Xu Duoduo checked on him and discovered that he had wolf ears, which he let her pet while clinging to her.

• Bai Shu, Chen Xiaofei, and Wang Weihu left the elevator and retreated to their quarters, leaving Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo alone.
• Xu Duoduo went to Qin Luo’s quarters, and Qin Luo carried her to the bathroom while she recognized how deeply Drunkard’s death had affected him.
• Xu Duoduo comforted Qin Luo and told him he did not have to hide his grief from her, and Qin Luo kissed her.
• After they slept, Xu Duoduo woke to find Qin Luo feverish and checked his temperature and Wristband health page.
• Qin Luo begged Xu Duoduo not to leave, and wolf ears emerged from his hair as he offered to let her pet them.
• Xu Duoduo rubbed Qin Luo’s ears while he clung to her and endured her enthusiastic petting.

Xu Duoduo cared for Qin Luo, Chen Xiaofei, and the others as they recovered from reaching higher tiers, and Qin Luo woke to thank her. After the group discussed their new abilities and the changing world, Xu Duoduo explored how her upgraded Rubik's Cube Space could change shape and merge its cells.

• For three days, Xu Duoduo delivered food to Chen Xiaofei, Wang Weihu, and Bai Shu while Qin Luo stayed clingy and kept carrying her back to bed.
• Qin Luo woke, gently kissed Xu Duoduo, and thanked her for taking care of him before she fell asleep again.
• After Xu Duoduo woke, Chen Xiaofei, Wang Weihu, Bai Shu, and Qin Luo discussed their recovery, eighth- and ninth-tier abilities, and the oppressive aura that had kept others away.
• Bai Shu said the world was being reshaped and humanity's survival depended on their efforts, then the group reviewed their earlier battle.
• Xu Duoduo examined her upgraded Rubik's Cube Space and discovered its cells could blur, remain separate, or merge as it changed shape.

Xu Duoduo woke as a ninth-tier Ability User and joined 3A for breakfast, where she gave everyone cute hair clips. Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao arrived to check on the group, and the examination led them to consider whether exhaustion could ease the side effects of advancing tiers.

• Xu Duoduo sensed that her ninth-tier powers and perception had grown dramatically while Bai Shu explained the situation to the others.
• Qin Luo carried Xu Duoduo out to breakfast, and Chen Xiaofei clipped a yellow star into her bangs.
• Xu Duoduo brought out a pile of hair clips, and Qin Luo, Chen Xiaofei, Wang Weihu, and Bai Shu each wore one.
• Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao arrived to give 3A a checkup, and the group submitted to examinations and blood tests.
• Chen Xiaofei described sleeping through his tier-advancement fever, prompting Da Qiao, Bai Shu, and Xiao Qiao to discuss whether extreme exhaustion could reduce the side effects.

Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao examined 3A at the Research Institute, confirmed their injuries had healed, and discussed the earthquake, casualties, and the changes in other combat squads. The group reflected on their rewards and survival, while Bai Shu arranged to use a laboratory and Xu Duoduo quietly savored her new merit medals.

• Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao examined 3A and confirmed that their regenerated injuries had healed without complications.
• Bai Shu asked Xiao Qiao for laboratory access, and Da Qiao explained that Fei's warning had helped Headquarters prepare for the earthquake.
• Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao told 3A that two Rose Squad members had died and that the Charge Squad had also lost four members.
• Xiao Qiao described how Xue Feng had changed after the mission, and Qin Luo hoped he would become a good captain.
• Xu Duoduo discovered her merit medals among Headquarters' rewards and wondered whether her grandparents would be proud of her, while Qin Luo held her hand beneath the table.

Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao visited 3A, and Xu Duoduo and the team donated hundreds of millions of points to support the sisters’ research. After seeing them off, 3A arranged to have their mutant abilities checked that afternoon and displayed the commemorative banners at Qin Luo’s home.

• Xiao Qiao gave 3A gifts and joked that they could support her research project instead of taking the gifts back.
• Xu Duoduo transferred Xiao Qiao a hundred million points, and Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao promised to use the money entirely for scientific research.
• Qin Luo, Bai Shu, Wang Weihu, and Chen Xiaofei each donated a hundred million points to the sisters’ research.
• Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao left after agreeing to check 3A’s mutant abilities at three that afternoon.
• After the sisters left, Chen Xiaofei said the money had barely warmed his pocket, while 3A reflected that supporting research felt meaningful.
• Five commemorative banners were displayed on the feature wall in Qin Luo’s living room.

After recuperating, 3A traveled to the City B Survivor Base by high-speed train after Headquarters summoned them for important discussions and possible emergency deployment. They planned to check on Fei and prepared for the threat posed by Fang Ming and rising international tensions.

• Professor Ji confirmed that Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo had reached the early ninth tier, while Wang Weihu, Bai Shu, and Chen Xiaofei had reached the eighth tier, and prescribed recovery medicines.
• Headquarters invited 3A back to the City B Survivor Base, while the Nightwalker remained at H City Base for an upgrade.
• On the train, Chen Xiaofei and Bai Shu bickered over their losses in a board game, and Wang Weihu kept them apart.
• Qin Luo said 3A should check on Fei, while Bai Shu suspected their City B trip would lead to a mission.
• Xu Duoduo explained that Fang Ming's main data had been erased, but one copy had escaped and been revived in M Country, as international tensions and the threat of conflict grew.
• Chen Xiaofei vowed that 3A would kill Fang Ming's copy if they caught him.

Bai Shu and the others learned that Fang Ming had uploaded his consciousness into Chark, a wealthy boy whose family believed he had recovered, and discussed the danger of Fang Ming returning to cause trouble. After 3A arrived at the City B Survivor Base, Secretary Wang welcomed them and offered them first pick of five future combat mechs.

• Bai Shu explained that the new Fang Ming might be a New Human with Fang Ming's memories, while Qin Luo warned that Fang Ming could still have plans to harm them.
• Xu Duoduo read Chark's file and said she would make him disappear if Headquarters required it, prompting Qin Luo to kiss her.
• 3A arrived at the City B Survivor Base, where Secretary Wang greeted the group and took them to see the Artisan Department's new technology.
• The group learned that the Artisan Department was developing mechs, and Secretary Wang promised to reserve five for them when the combat models were ready.

3A toured City B’s latest weapons and technology before visiting the technical department, where Red Kite explained how his team erased nearly all of Fang Ming’s data bodies. After 3A left, the team teased Wang Weihu for missing a chance to connect with a woman at the department, and he explained that he did not want to draw her into the dangers of his life.

• Secretary Wang showed 3A City B’s advanced weapons, combat craft, mechs, and other new technology, and Bai Shu received weapon manuals while the team stocked up on supplies.
• Secretary Wang brought 3A to the technical department, where Red Kite demonstrated how his hackers hunted down Fang Ming’s data bodies.
• Red Kite explained that one piece of Fang Ming’s data escaped into Chark, while his braided colleague said it would not escape if it returned to the internet.
• Bai Shu exchanged contact details with Red Kite, while Wang Weihu declined to share his with the woman who teased him.
• 3A declined Secretary Wang’s dinner invitation so they could check on Fei, then Chen Xiaofei, Bai Shu, and Xu Duoduo teased Wang Weihu for missing a romantic opportunity.
• Wang Weihu said he did not want to involve the woman in the danger of his battlefield life, earning the team’s respect.

3A visited Fei in the sterile ward and saw how badly his condition had deteriorated. Their arrival briefly lifted the mood, and Gluttonous Beast finally agreed to talk with them outside.

• Qin Luo and 3A decided to visit Fei at Headquarters and discussed where to eat afterward.
• A nurse told 3A that Gluttonous Beast had stopped eating and sleeping since Fei fell into a coma, and asked them to talk to him.
• 3A entered Fei's ward and saw him surrounded by medical equipment while Gluttonous Beast watched over him.
• Qin Luo, Xu Duoduo, and Wang Weihu crowded onto the bench beside Gluttonous Beast as Bai Shu checked Fei's condition.
• Gluttonous Beast broke his silence and suggested talking outside, while Qin Luo told him and Wang Weihu to smoke away from Xu Duoduo.

3A tried to comfort the Gluttonous Beast as Fei remained critically ill, and they took him out for barbecue, where he poured out his fears and drank himself into a stupor. The next morning, he woke with a hangover and found everyone in 3A in his living room.

• Qin Luo and Xu Duoduo brought gifts to the medical staff, who thanked them and described their worry over Fei’s condition.
• 3A took the Gluttonous Beast to a barbecue restaurant, where he said he feared Fei’s fate was already decided.
• Qin Luo, Chen Xiaofei, Wang Weihu, and Bai Shu tried to encourage the Gluttonous Beast, but he drank Wang Weihu’s liquor and cried about Fei.
• Xu Duoduo filmed the Gluttonous Beast as he cried, and 3A laughed with him after he asked them to make him look good.
• Qin Luo and Wang Weihu helped the drunk Gluttonous Beast back, and he woke the next day mortified by his memories.
• The Gluttonous Beast opened his bedroom door and found everyone in 3A gathered in his living room.

After waking up embarrassed by his drunken behavior, Gluttonous Beast realized 3A had stayed overnight to care for him and work on ways to save Fei. He regained his resolve and joined their search for a way to improve the odds of the Mutant Ability Replacement Method.

• Gluttonous Beast woke to find 3A still at his home, learned Wang Weihu had changed his clothes, and was mortified by what he had done while drunk.
• Bai Shu reported that the Mutant Ability Replacement Method had the highest estimated success rate for saving Fei, at fifteen percent.
• Gluttonous Beast realized 3A had spent the night researching ways to save Fei and cleaning his home, and he thanked them for supporting him.
• Wang Weihu told Gluttonous Beast that friends should share the burden and not give up while there was still hope.
• After showering, Gluttonous Beast joined 3A's discussion, and Bai Shu proposed contacting a foreign doctor with experience in mutant ability replacement.

3A arranged to seek Doctor Jiang’s help for Fei and then attended an important strategy meeting, where teams applauded them as heroes for their recent victories. The chapter ended as the Four Continents Team arrived, hinting that the meeting would address something significant.

• Qin Luo agreed to contact Doctor Jiang about Fei, and Bai Shu said Fei would have to choose whether to risk trying the treatment.
• Gluttonous Beast drove Qin Luo, Chen Xiaofei, Bai Shu, Wang Weihu, and Xu Duoduo to the meeting in his sports car, then returned to watch over Fei.
• Conference staff escorted 3A to the 55th Floor and explained the meeting rules before welcoming them into Conference Room 1.
• The assembled teams stood and applauded 3A for defeating the enemy incursion, destroying High-Star Monster Incubation Piles, and rescuing other teams.
• 3A noticed several prominent teams at the meeting, and the Four Continents Team arrived led by Cao Wenzhou.