Recaps

Xu Ye investigated the bloodied bodies of Zhang Xuliang and Qian Bing and learned that a woman suspected of skinning men was last seen near the Harmony Club. He found her that evening and tried to provoke her, but the chapter ended with her confused by his demand that she pay him.

• Xu Ye found blood and two corpses in the underground garage, which Li Yunyao identified as likely belonging to Zhang Xuliang and Qian Bing.
• Li Yunyao told Xu Ye that the suspected Aberrant was a forty-year-old woman who worked as a seamstress and was last seen near the Harmony Club.
• Xu Ye used his knowledge of future events to locate the woman in red high heels outside the Harmony Club that evening.
• Xu Ye spotted what looked like a human face inside her handbag and provoked her by asking how much she charged.
• The woman named a price, but Xu Ye demanded that she pay him, insulting her when she questioned him.

Xu Ye lured a woman into an alley with relentless jokes and discovered she was a spider-like Aberrant who skinned people. He fought back and shot her, but her spider silk plunged the scene into darkness.

• Xu Ye followed the woman into an alley, joking about his past and pretending to be a gigolo while she led him toward her home.
• Xu Ye used a Screaming Chicken and kept provoking the woman as he checked her energy readings; Li Yunyao advised immediate elimination.
• The woman transformed into a spider-like Aberrant and attacked Xu Ye with scissors hidden in her tongue.
• Xu Ye dodged her attack, restrained her with a black tentacle, slammed her to the ground, and shot her abdomen.
• The wounded woman fired spider silk toward the streetlight and Xu Ye, plunging everything into darkness.

Xu Ye killed a spider-like Aberrant after hearing how her family had fallen apart, believing he had ended the incident. His heart began to writhe, and he realized the woman had not been the pollution source after a later catastrophe destroyed his school.

• Xu Ye hid in the dark while Alice located the Aberrant, who recounted her son’s suicide and blamed men for her family’s suffering.
• The woman revealed that she had killed her husband and daughter and had fused their faces into her body.
• The woman tried to escape by pulling herself upward on spider silk, but Xu Ye caught her with a tentacle and shot her dead.
• Xu Ye thought he had completed the mission with no widespread casualties, but his heart began to writhe.
• Three days later, Heavenly Dao distortion struck Xu Ye’s school and destroyed it, revealing that the woman had not been the pollution source.

After Xu Ye recounted the incident involving Lin Aiqiao, Li Yunyao explained how Pollution Sources, radiation, and Heavenly Dao Distortion threatened humanity. The debrief ended with Li Yunyao warning Xu Ye not to get involved with the Eternal Holy Book.

• Li Yunyao gave Xu Ye food and made him recount the incident involving Lin Aiqiao while she prepared the report.
• Xu Ye asked how investigators knew whether a Pollution Incident had ended, and Li Yunyao said Lin Aiqiao’s case remained unresolved and required follow-up investigation.
• Li Yunyao told Xu Ye that the old Aberrant from FKC-067 had escaped Night Spirit City and explained that radiation could kill Aberrants, though some survived in forbidden zones.
• Li Yunyao described Heavenly Dao Distortion, the forbidden zones on Planet Earth, and how Taboo Objects could slow their expansion.
• Xu Ye asked about the Eternal Holy Book, and Li Yunyao questioned how he had learned of it before warning him not to get involved.

Meng Chengfei explained the Eternal Church’s history and Li Yunyao’s past to Xu Ye, who revealed that Li Kang had faked his death and learned Doctor Chen had resurfaced. The next morning, at school, Qin Yingying watched Sun Tao tear at his scalp before he jumped out of a window.

• Meng Chengfei told Xu Ye that the Eternal Holy Book was the Eternal Church’s membership roster and explained how the church’s past attack had devastated the Ninth Team.
• Meng Chengfei explained why he had stopped Li Yunyao from taking an Awakening Potion and said he used Demon Eye to help her sleep.
• Xu Ye told Meng Chengfei that Li Kang had faked his death, and Meng Chengfei promised to pursue the lead and request an E-Rank Taboo Object for Xu Ye.
• Meng Chengfei told Xu Ye that Doctor Chen had resurfaced and warned him to stay alert about the unknown truth behind pollution and Awakened.
• Qin Yingying found Sun Tao working on a math problem at school, and he tore at his scalp before jumping out the window.

Xu Ye and He Li brought Lu Mingwang to First High School to investigate a possible pollution incident after a student jumped from a building. Xu Ye found something wrong in Class One, while Lu Mingwang screamed from Class Seven.

• Xu Ye woke from a vision of Night Spirit City being destroyed, and Alice reassured him that it showed only one possible future.
• He Li told Xu Ye that a student had jumped from a building at First High School and brought Lu Mingwang along to investigate.
• Lu Mingwang explained that an injured Awakened had forced him to inherit a Sequence Talent, and He Li said his Second Personality was timid.
• The team drove to First High School, where Li Yunyao ordered Xu Ye and Lu Mingwang to inspect their classes for pollution.
• Xu Ye sneaked onto campus, entered Class One, and sensed something was wrong as Lu Mingwang screamed over the earpiece.

Xu Ye discovered that students with poor grades were behaving abnormally and obsessing over their studies, while He Li found a spider-web-covered dean’s office full of eggs. As a bloody head dropped from the ceiling toward He Li, the cause of the school’s contamination remained unclear.

• Xu Ye returned to class and learned that Sun Tao’s death had been concealed and Qin Yingying had been sedated.
• Xu Ye noticed that struggling students were studying with unnatural intensity and reported the abnormality to Li Yunyao and Lu Mingwang.
• Xu Ye sent He Li to investigate the dean’s office after recalling that white material had been found there.
• He Li discovered spider silk and eggs covering the dean’s office, and a student emerged from one egg and left to study.
• A severed head dropped from the ceiling and bared its bloody mouth at He Li.

He Li killed a weak, infectious Aberrant at the school while Xu Ye and Li Yunyao investigated a spreading study-obsessed contamination among the students. They identified Wang Yong as the pollution source and recommended eliminating him immediately.

• He Li killed an Aberrant that infected students by wrapping them in Spider Silk and reported its method of contamination.
• Zhao Qianqian urged the class to study, causing many students to become feverishly absorbed in their books.
• Xu Ye and Li Yunyao concluded that the contamination spread through Spider Silk and through emotional appeals to struggling students.
• Li Yunyao connected Lin Aiqiao and Wu Xiuxiu and identified Wu Xiuxiu’s son, Wang Yong, as the likely pollution source.
• Li Yunyao explained that Wang Yong had contaminated Lin Aiqiao, used her to kill Zhang Xuliang and Qian Bing, and was now infecting the school; she recommended eliminating him immediately.

Xu Ye and the others assembled the contaminated students and used Lu Mingwang’s Bard talent to calm most of them while they identified the Aberrants. When He Li moved to kill Wang Yong, Xu Ye sensed danger and stopped her, just as Wang Yong revealed his distorted face.

• Li Yunyao arranged to evacuate unaffected people and explained that the Pollution Source had about 100 units of energy and could be screened at close range.
• Xu Ye and the others found about a hundred contaminated students, including Wang Yong, whose strange behavior had escaped Xu Ye’s test.
• Lu Mingwang used his Sequence Talent, 9-234 [Bard], to chant a poem that calmed most of the contaminated students and made them fall asleep.
• The chubby boy and Zhao Qianqian transformed into spider-like Aberrants, and He Li shot and killed them with her curved blades.
• He Li moved to strike Wang Yong, but Xu Ye sensed something was wrong and stopped her with a tentacle as Wang Yong looked up with grotesquely distorted features.

Xu Ye realized Wang Yong was protecting his mother, Wu Xiuxiu, who was the real Pollution Source. After Wu Xiuxiu mutated into a spider-like Aberrant and attacked Wang Yong, Xu Ye blocked her venom and prepared to strike, leaving Wang Yong pleading for another way.

• Xu Ye stopped He Li from killing Wang Yong and revealed that Wang Yong’s mother, Wu Xiuxiu, was the Pollution Source.
• Wang Yong begged Xu Ye to spare his mother and promised to take her away from Night Spirit City.
• Wu Xiuxiu emerged from the restroom with an Eight-Legged Black-and-White Ghost-Eyed Spider replacing her face.
• Wang Yong recalled his mother’s sacrifices and pleaded with her, briefly awakening a trace of humanity in her.
• Wu Xiuxiu fired a venomous dart at Wang Yong, and Xu Ye blocked it before raising his blade to attack her.

Xu Ye fought a powerful spider-type Aberrant at the school while Alice helped him evade its attacks. He Li destroyed the Aberrant with an E-Rank rocket launcher, but Alice returned from the blast and warned Xu Ye that they had a big problem.

• He Li kept Lu Mingwang away from the fight and said Xu Ye was the Ninth Team's successor.
• Xu Ye attacked the spider-type Aberrant, resisted its sorrow-inducing power, and used Alice's possession to dodge its strikes.
• The Aberrant hardened its body and fired a spider-silk arrow that drove Xu Ye back toward a basketball hoop.
• Li Yunyao warned that the Aberrant's energy was rising and the nearby Heavenly Dao was distorting, so He Li launched a rocket at it.
• He Li's rocket created a huge crater and shattered the school's windows, while Xu Ye realized how powerful her Taboo Object was.
• Alice used [Soul-Seizing], returned from the blast, and told Xu Ye they had a big problem.

Xu Ye saw Wu Xiuxiu’s memories and learned that Qin Yingying had recruited her into the Eternal Church ten years earlier. As Wang Yong mourned his mother, Xu Ye warned He Li that the mastermind behind the Pollution Incident was still at large.

• Alice shared Wu Xiuxiu’s memories with Xu Ye, showing her poverty, despair, and failed attempt to obtain compensation from Zhang Xuliang.
• A girl offered Wu Xiuxiu power in exchange for loyalty, and Wu Xiuxiu recognized her as Qin Yingying of the Eternal Church.
• Xu Ye realized the Pollution Incident had been caused by the Eternal Church and wondered whether the group was connected to Night Spirit City’s predicted destruction.
• Wang Yong cradled Wu Xiuxiu’s ruined body and silently mourned her.
• He Li praised Xu Ye’s performance, but Xu Ye reminded her that they still had not dealt with the mastermind.

Xu Ye confronted Qin Yingying in the empty school infirmary and discovered she was the Eternal Church’s Three of Spades. She killed herself before he could question her further, and Alice could not find her soul.

• After Dawn Blade personnel cleared the school, Xu Ye confronted Qin Yingying and accused her of causing Sun Tao’s death.
• Qin Yingying dodged Xu Ye’s three shots and revealed that her Sequence Talent, 9-030 [Presence], could conceal or intensify her presence.
• Xu Ye explained how he had grown suspicious of Qin Yingying and identified her as a likely member of the Eternal Church.
• Qin Yingying said the Eternal Church members did not know one another’s identities and identified the Ace of Spades as their bishop.
• Qin Yingying revealed her Three of Spades card and slit her throat before Xu Ye could arrest her.
• Xu Ye called on Alice to use [Soul-Seizing], but she could not find Qin Yingying’s soul.

After Xu Ye emerged from the infirmary, He Li and Lu Mingwang competed to win his favor, while Xu Ye wondered about the fate of Wang Yong and how authorities erased memories. On a nearby rooftop, Ye Qingnuo tried to get close to Meng Chengfei, but he disappeared, leaving her to reflect on his decade of avoidance.

• Xu Ye left the infirmary after completing the mission, and He Li teased him before Lu Mingwang sat him down and massaged his legs.
• He Li offered Xu Ye money and herself, while Xu Ye saw a bizarre vision of a future in which she betrayed him and Lu Mingwang comforted him.
• Xu Ye watched He Li and Lu Mingwang banter, then asked how authorities would erase Wang Yong's memories and wondered whether the fire in his own past had been fabricated too.
• On a nearby rooftop, Ye Qingnuo and Meng Chengfei discussed the Eternal Church, Xu Ye, and finding the Eternal Holy Book.
• Ye Qingnuo tried to persuade Meng Chengfei to settle down, but he vanished when Xiao Chu interrupted with news about FKC-067; she lamented that he had been running away for ten years.

Wang Yong learned that his memories had been altered when a bishop of the Eternal Church offered to restore them in a dream beneath the Crimson Moon. In a separate diary entry, Xu Ye described his training, new abilities, and life in Sky City, then noted that a young man had been following and watching him.

• Wang Yong mourned at his parents’ graves and struggled with the pain of missing memories.
• A bishop of the Eternal Church appeared to Wang Yong in a dream and offered to restore his erased memories.
• Wang Yong recovered the truth that his memories had been altered and resolved to learn what the bishop wanted him to do.
• Xu Ye recorded that the Ninth Team had been undergoing intensive training and that he had grown a second tentacle by absorbing the Mirror Spirit’s energy.
• Xu Ye noted that [Soul-Seizing] had gained a Soul Ray attack usable once every seven days.
• Xu Ye wrote that a young man had watched him repeatedly for a week and that he needed to figure out what to do.

Xu Ye encountered an Awakened man with the Sequence Talent 9-044: Mirror, who imitated him to take control of him. Xu Ye broke free by pulling down his shorts, but the man escaped after dodging his shots and promised to play again.

• Xu Ye noticed a young man across the street copying his movements as they ate breakfast.
• Xu Ye's heart warned him that the man was using Mirror to imitate and control him, and Xu Ye and Alice began moving and speaking slowly.
• Xu Ye broke the control by revealing a second pair of athletic shorts beneath the first, then drew the Final Sigh and fired at the man.
• The man shattered the space around himself to evade Xu Ye's shots, then teleported away in ten-meter jumps.

Xu Ye chased down and killed Andre, a noble’s son who had tried to kill him, despite Li Yunyao’s warning to hold back. He returned with Andre’s severed hand and was told by Meng Chengfei to leave the body for the authorities and deny responsibility.

• Xu Ye used his tentacles to pursue Andre through Night Spirit City after Andre escaped with his Mirror Sequence Talent.
• Li Yunyao identified Andre as the son of a Bronze Noble and told Xu Ye to hold back while she contacted the captain.
• Xu Ye worked out the rules of Andre’s talent, wounded him, and cut off his arm after Andre tried to bargain for his life.
• Xu Ye killed Andre and learned that Andre had a countermeasure against soul-related abilities, limiting Alice’s chance to consume his soul.
• Xu Ye told Li Yunyao that he had held back Andre’s hand, and Meng Chengfei ordered him to leave the body untouched and say he had not killed Andre.

Meng Chengfei rejected An Lu and Han Li's demand to punish Xu Ye, while learning that Darren had died and the Eternal Church had resurfaced. On his way back to the hospital, Xu Ye discovered a disturbing vision of a future in which a film actress's death framed him for murder.

• Han Li and An Lu confronted Meng Chengfei over Xu Ye killing Andre, but Meng Chengfei refused to hand Xu Ye over and warned them not to interfere.
• An Lu told Meng Chengfei that Darren had gone missing and his life monitor showed no signs of life, prompting Meng Chengfei to suspect the death was connected to a larger investigation.
• Meng Chengfei reflected on the threat posed by Darren's death, the Eternal Church's return, and the possibility that someone was targeting Xu Ye for Doctor Chen's secret.
• Alice told Xu Ye that Andre's father had acted under authorization from a Silver Noble named Theodore, and Xu Ye considered the nobles' power and the Eternal Church's role in pollution incidents.
• Xu Ye returned to the Sixth Mental Hospital and found a crowd gathered outside for a production called 'Three Lifetimes, Three Worlds, Escape from Death.'
• Xu Ye's heart showed him a vision in which he was accused of killing the production's female lead, imprisoned, and died insisting he had been wronged.

Xu Ye encountered disguised celebrity Qin Yanhua in the elevator and learned she might die within three days. He then received an assignment to investigate a suspected pollution incident involving a webnovel author, and set out with Lu Mingwang while wondering whether the case was connected to Qin Yanhua.

• Xu Ye entered the elevator with Qin Yanhua, mistook her wary behavior for a fan’s attention, and left her bewildered by pretending to be a celebrity.
• Alice identified Qin Yanhua as a popular nineteen-year-old star, and Xu Ye worried that she was destined to die in three days.
• At the Ninth Team’s workspace, Li Yunyao warned Xu Ye about Andre’s older brother and then assigned him to investigate a suspected pollution incident with Lu Mingwang.
• Li Yunyao explained that author Zhang Rongxuan had reported threats from a reader and had been struck by a car after a reader predicted it.
• Xu Ye and Lu Mingwang drove to investigate after the incident was confirmed as pollution, with Zhang Rongxuan provisionally identified as its source.

Xu Ye and Lu Mingwang investigated an apartment where a webnovel author was tormented by a reader’s supernatural comments. They learned the suspected Aberrant was Zhang Jian, who had become obsessed with Qin Yanhua, and the chapter ended as he appeared to confront them.

• Xu Ye and Lu Mingwang found investigators overcome by self-loathing outside the apartment, and Lu Mingwang’s singing restored their spirits.
• Xu Ye and Lu Mingwang entered apartment 703, where Zhang Rongxuan said a reader’s comments forced him to keep typing and threatened to reach him through his internet cable.
• Xu Ye discovered the commenter, [Day-and-Night Death Warrant], had posted hundreds of abusive and threatening messages, including demands that Zhang Rongxuan kill Qin Yanhua’s character.
• Li Yunyao identified the commenter as Zhang Jian, an unemployed Qin Yanhua stalker whose obsession may have triggered his aberration, and reported that he had left his empty apartment.
• The lights warped, icy wind filled Zhang Rongxuan’s room, and his keyboard typed a message announcing that Zhang Jian had arrived.

Xu Ye and his companions confronted an Aberrant that spread negative emotions through Zhang Rongxuan’s computer and a swarm of regenerating fish heads. After using Heart Simulation to locate the hidden source, Xu Ye had Lu Mingwang break into a wall, where they uncovered a human face.

• A shadow pushed against Zhang Rongxuan’s computer screen, and Zhang Rongxuan agreed to write after the figure promised to wait.
• Xu Ye gave Zhang Rongxuan a different plot from the reader’s request, provoking the figure to attack as the computer sparked and went dark.
• Li Yunyao warned Xu Ye that the Aberrant spread emotional contamination, while Lu Mingwang succumbed to despair and Xu Ye shot fish heads emerging from the ceiling.
• Xu Ye used Heart Simulation and learned that the Aberrant’s true body was hidden inside the wall.
• Lu Mingwang used his iron rod to smash the wall’s dark green spot, revealing thick liquid and a human face inside.

Xu Ye and his team uncovered Zhang Jian’s corpse inside an apartment wall and awakened him, learning that his manifestations had made him appear to live outside the wall for ten years. Li Yunyao traced the pollution to Zhang Jian’s past and the sewage treatment plant, but Xu Ye sensed that something about the incident was still unexplained.

• Xu Ye, Lu Mingwang, and Zhang Rongxuan broke through the wall and found Zhang Jian’s preserved corpse, while Li Yunyao confirmed that his apparent life outside the wall was a manifestation.
• Xu Ye shot and struck Zhang Jian until he woke, then questioned him as his memories shifted between being twenty and thirty years old.
• Zhang Jian recalled inheriting his parents’ sewage treatment plant, trying to treat its pollution properly, and later losing his business and family before waking as an Aberrant.
• Li Yunyao confirmed Zhang Jian’s account and revealed that Han Li, Andre’s mother, was the plant’s largest shareholder, but said disputes involving nobles were outside their jurisdiction.
• Li Yunyao explained that Zhang Jian’s resentment and guilt had produced the pollution, the abnormal apartment conditions, and the fish, while Xu Ye remained troubled by a missing piece.

After killing Zhang Jian and recovering his fragmented memories, Xu Ye encountered Wang Yong and realized he might be connected to the events surrounding Zhang Rongxuan and Zhang Jian. Xu Ye followed his suspicion and confronted Wang Yong at gunpoint in an alley.

• Xu Ye used an illusion to give Zhang Jian a peaceful vision of home before shooting him, and Alice absorbed his remaining soul fragments.
• Alice stopped viewing Zhang Jian's memories after encountering an upsetting memory involving Han Li, and the response revealed no useful information.
• Xu Ye saw Wang Yong, who said he was grieving his mother's death and hurried away to his part-time job.
• A sudden insight led Xu Ye to question why Zhang Rongxuan had involved him in a past plot and why Zhang Jian had suddenly gone berserk after ten years.
• Wang Yong privately revealed that he had secretly driven the events and that the pollution had been eliminated, but Xu Ye appeared behind him and aimed a gun at his heart.

Xu Ye confronted Wang Yong, who had joined the Eternal Church and admitted to causing Zhang Jian's pollution incident. After Wang Yong attacked and Xu Ye threw him into a wall, an unseen force twisted the space between them and raised smoke.

• Xu Ye deduced that Wang Yong had awakened Sequence Talent 9-954 [Selective Amnesia] and questioned why he had joined the Eternal Church.
• Wang Yong explained that the church worshipped Lord Darkfall and sought to bring about his descent, then urged Xu Ye to join.
• Wang Yong lunged at Xu Ye with an F-Class Forbidden Object gauntlet, but Xu Ye caught his wrist and flung him into a wall.
• As Wang Yong considered retreating, Xu Ye sent a tentacle after him, but it struck an invisible barrier that bent the space between them.

Xu Ye escaped an Eternal Church bishop’s trap by faking a righteous charge, raising a public alarm, and disappearing into the crowd. He then headed to the hospital, where he and Alice witnessed He Li use an even more outrageous excuse to reconcile with two men.

• Wang Yong summoned a shadow that identified Xu Ye as the sole survivor of Doctor Chen’s laboratory and invited him to join the Eternal Church.
• Xu Ye pretended to charge the shadow, escaped with his tentacles, and shouted that two men were assaulting him to draw a crowd.
• Xu Ye slipped away among the passersby and admitted to Alice that he had staged the display to survive.
• Xu Ye’s inner thoughts revealed that he suspected the Eternal Church could not act openly in Night Spirit City and that the shadow was not the bishop’s true body.
• Xu Ye arrived at the hospital and watched He Li claim that her second personality had dated one of the two men, prompting both men to comfort her and agree to date her personalities separately.