Recaps

Ye Lin and the others raced into the base while three Echo Demons pursued them, forcing the group to shut the outer door as Aroro picked the inner lock. Aroro opened the base entrance just as the Echo Demons melted through the outer door and reached inside.

• Ye Lin carried He Zheng and An Ke into the passage while Aroro tried to unlock the base door.
• Ye Lin ordered Huang Liang and An Ke to shut the outer Alloy Door and use healing items as the three Echo Demons closed in.
• The group retreated to the inner door as the Echo Demons arrived and battered the outer door.
• The Echo Demons used high-frequency vibrations to heat and melt through the Alloy Door, leaving the group sickened by the sound waves.
• Aroro unlocked the base door just as the Echo Demons' clawed arms reached through the melted opening.

Ye Lin led the survivors into the base as Echo Demons pursued them, but he feared they could break through the sealed entrance. He chose to search the Residential Area for ID Badges before seeking weapons, hoping to buy time to find a way to defeat the monsters.

• Aroro sealed the base door behind the group as the Echo Demons chased them, and Ye Lin immediately led everyone deeper inside.
• Huang Liang warned Lin Yu that the Echo Demons might cut through the door with their giant sword, prompting the group to flee toward the base’s other sections.
• At a junction, Ye Lin and Huang Liang chose the Residential Area instead of the Combat Readiness Area because they expected the weapon facilities to require identification.
• Ye Lin told An Ke that they needed ID Badges and insisted they would find some in the Residential Area.

Ye Lin assessed the Echo Demons and concluded that he needed to fuse stronger abilities to survive them and the rival teams. At the Residential Area, he sent the group to search for the Officer Area and asked Aroro to undertake a dangerous task in exchange for protecting his people.

• Ye Lin regenerated his severed arm, deduced that the base’s residents had been attacked, and considered cutting power to bypass the ID checks.
• Ye Lin learned that Hell Echo was a Grade A ability but doubted it could defeat the three remaining Echo Demons, especially their sword-wielding leader.
• Ye Lin entered his Interferer state and decided he needed to fuse abilities into a stronger trump card, saving one use of Hell Echo for that purpose.
• At the Residential Area, Ye Lin ordered the group to search for the Officer Area while ignoring ordinary rooms.
• Ye Lin stopped Aroro and asked him to take on a risky task, promising to protect Aroro’s people if they survived; Aroro agreed without fear.

Ye Lin led the group toward the combat readiness area while using Aroro as bait to draw the Echo Demons away, betting that their sound-based tracking would be confused by the base and his blood trail. An Ke realized Aroro might survive by hiding in the energy area's nuclear reactor, but Huang Liang warned that the plan was not so simple.

• He Zheng and the others found high-level ID Badges in the officers' abandoned rooms and regrouped, only to discover Aroro was missing.
• Ye Lin refused to wait and led the group toward the combat readiness area, revealing that he had sent Aroro to the energy area as bait.
• Ye Lin spilled blood along the passage to the energy area and explained that the Echo Demons could sense their general location but needed sound waves to pinpoint them.
• An Ke reasoned that Aroro could hide inside the nuclear reactor and use the threat of an explosion against the Echo Demons.
• Huang Liang gave An Ke a bitter smile and said that surviving by hiding in the reactor was not so simple.

Ye Lin and the others raced to find weapons before the Echo Demons broke through the Alloy Door, while An Ke devised ways to mislead and delay the monsters. As the door gave way, An Ke split from Huang Liang and He Zheng to reach the control room, leaving them to search the combat readiness area with Ye Lin.

• Ye Lin decided to enter the simulation space for two minutes while Huang Liang carried him, but An Ke hoisted him onto her back and hurried ahead with the others.
• He Zheng warned Lin Yu that they might leave him behind unless he helped, and Lin Yu promised to use Curse against the monsters.
• When the group reached the entrance, An Ke had Huang Liang throw grenades to mask their footsteps and mislead the Echo Demons about their direction.
• An Ke proposed splitting up: she would take Ye Lin to the control room and use the PA system to interfere with the Echo Demons, while Huang Liang and He Zheng went to find weapons.
• The Echo Demons' greatsword pierced the final layer of the Alloy Door, and An Ke ordered the others to go.

An Ke searched the command area for a way to distract the Echo Demons and found the base’s broadcast controls. As a powerful horned Echo Demon breached the Alloy Door, she triggered every alarm, leaving the group’s survival dependent on whether the noise would interfere with the monsters.

• An Ke and Ye Lin entered the command area, where An Ke memorized an evacuation map showing a route to rejoin the others.
• An Ke searched the command center for broadcasting equipment and spotted He Zheng on a surveillance screen.
• An Ke saw evidence that the attackers had killed the base’s noncombatants, but continued searching for a way to make noise.
• A horned Echo Demon breached the Alloy Door, and its presence distorted the surveillance feeds.
• An Ke pressed every alarm button, activating broadcasts and alarms throughout the base as she watched to see whether they affected the Echo Demons.

An Ke, He Zheng, Huang Liang, and Lin Yu scrambled to track and arm themselves against the Echo Demons, but their weapons offered no certainty of victory. An Ke warned that the Two-Horned Demon would reach them in about forty-five seconds, while Ye Lin had determined they would all die within 1.3 seconds even with Deathmatch activated.

• An Ke used broadcast noise to disrupt the Echo Demons’ hearing and set up surveillance cameras to track their search.
• He Zheng and Huang Liang searched the Armory, found two Man-Portable Air-Defense Missiles and a damaged Electromagnetic Cannon, and prepared to use them.
• Ye Lin ordered the others to activate the Defense System and meet him at a corner in Zone C within twenty-five seconds.
• An Ke reported that the Two-Horned Demon was moving at over four times the speed of sound and approaching the Energy Area.
• An Ke warned that the Two-Horned Demon would find them in about forty-five seconds and that Ye Lin’s test showed they would all die within 1.3 seconds, even with Deathmatch activated.

Ye Lin gathered the others to ambush an Echo Demon, hoping to kill it and Devour its ability before the Two-Horned Demon could arrive. The grenade drew the nearest Echo Demon toward their trap, and the attack was about to begin.

• He Zheng and Huang Liang left the storeroom to join the fight after Ye Lin warned them they might all die.
• Ye Lin explained that his simulations offered almost no chance against the Two-Horned Demon, so the team had to kill a separated Echo Demon quickly and use its ability.
• An Ke and Ye Lin met Huang Liang and the others in the command area ahead of schedule.
• Ye Lin ordered the team to prepare an ambush in a narrow passage, where they could focus their attacks on the first Echo Demon to arrive.
• Huang Liang detonated the grenade, drawing the nearby Echo Demons toward the passage.
• The nearest Echo Demon turned at the fork and charged toward the explosion.

Ye Lin realized the Echo Demon could not maintain its sonic shield while launching a sonic attack, so he risked using himself as bait to create an opening for the others. The Echo Demon pursued him with a sonic blast as he raced past it, leaving the others poised to interrupt its attack.

• The Echo Demon charged through the Armory passage, where automated guns wounded it briefly before its sonic shield disintegrated bullets and stopped the flames.
• Huang Liang and He Zheng realized their weapons could not pierce the shield, and He Zheng prepared to charge the demon with the missile.
• Ye Lin deduced that the Echo Demon had to deactivate its shield to attack and ordered An Ke and Huang Liang to strike when it did.
• Ye Lin burst into the passage and ran past the Echo Demon, which tracked him and fired a sonic blast in pursuit.

Ye Lin and the others combined their abilities and weapons to kill the Echo Demon, but Aroro warned Ye Lin that the monsters were a trap just as a magic circle appeared beneath the corpse. The group’s victory ended with an unknown threat about to emerge.

• Ye Lin, Huang Liang, and Lin Yu attacked the Echo Demon while An Ke froze and restrained it for He Zheng and the others.
• He Zheng fired his electromagnetic cannon, and Huang Liang and Lin Yu launched antiaircraft missiles, severely damaging the Echo Demon.
• The Echo Demon survived the explosions and began forming another sonic attack, but Ye Lin struck it with two Blood Shadow Impacts and killed it.
• He Zheng and the others celebrated the Echo Demon’s death as Ye Lin prepared to devour its corpse.
• Aroro sent Ye Lin a warning that the monsters were a trap, and a magic circle appeared beneath the Echo Demon’s corpse.

Aroro disrupted the Two-Horned Demon's teleportation with a grenade, but the demon struck him down and continued its arrival. As the demon materialized beside Ye Lin, Ye Lin stayed behind to devour a corpse and gain a chance to fight, while An Ke pulled He Zheng and Huang Liang toward safety.

• Aroro realized the Echo Demons had been traps that let the Two-Horned Demon teleport to Ye Lin.
• Aroro threw a grenade at the Two-Horned Demon, interrupting its teleportation briefly.
• The Two-Horned Demon attacked Aroro with metal fragments, and a collapsing cooling tower buried and burned him.
• The Two-Horned Demon teleported to Ye Lin and began to solidify as He Zheng and Huang Liang rushed toward Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin ordered the others to flee while he devoured the demon's corpse, and An Ke dragged He Zheng toward the lower level.
• The Two-Horned Demon fully materialized and swung its greatsword at Ye Lin.

Ye Lin devoured the Echo Demon and gained Binding Claw, then used it alongside Deathmatch to briefly restrain and wound the Two-Horned Demon. He fled to buy time for He Zheng and the others to find a weapon, while the monster rapidly regained its speed in pursuit.

• Ye Lin devoured the Echo Demon and gained the Binding Claw ability, then used Blood Shadow Impact to evade the Two-Horned Demon's greatsword.
• The Two-Horned Demon struck Ye Lin with a sonic wave, but Ye Lin activated Deathmatch, recovered, and dodged its next sword strike.
• Ye Lin combined Mental Shock, Binding Claw, and Hell Echo to stagger and wound the Two-Horned Demon before it struck him into a wall.
• Binding Claw slowed the demon's next sonic attack, allowing Ye Lin to escape and run away from An Ke and the others.
• Ye Lin fled to buy time for He Zheng and the others to find a weapon, but the Two-Horned Demon rapidly regained its speed and continued chasing him.

He Zheng, Huang Liang, Lin Yu, and Ye Lin’s group found the A10 hangar stocked with bombers, heavy missiles, and thermobaric bombs. Ye Lin was left trapped between the pursuing Two-Horned Demon and another Echo Demon, with no clear way to survive.

• Lin Yu recognized that the weapon markings might identify warehouse locations, and Huang Liang deduced that the missiles were likely stored in A10 near the Repair Zone.
• He Zheng, Huang Liang, Lin Yu, and their companion rushed to A10 and opened the hangar with He Zheng’s captain’s ID card.
• He Zheng found six bombers, crates of aerial munitions, and an A10-MOAB thermobaric bomb in the hangar.
• He Zheng contacted Ye Lin and told him the group had found the heavy weapons and urged him to reach A10.
• The Two-Horned Demon caught up to Ye Lin while another Echo Demon blocked his route, leaving him unable to escape or choose a useful ability to fight both.

Ye Lin turned the Echo Demon’s sonic attack against the Two-Horned Demon, killing the Echo Demon and badly injuring his pursuer. With his abilities exhausted, he fled toward An Ke and the others, but the Two-Horned Demon broke through Binding Claw with blazing speed and was set to catch him before they could arrive.

• Ye Lin used Blood Shadow Impact and Rampage to aim the Echo Demon’s sonic attack at the pursuing Two-Horned Demon.
• Ye Lin shoved the Echo Demon into the sonic blast, then killed it with Hell Echo.
• The Two-Horned Demon recovered from the attack and charged after Ye Lin as he fled toward An Ke and the others.
• Ye Lin bound the Two-Horned Demon with Binding Claw, but it burned through part of the restraint and surged forward in flames.
• Ye Lin calculated that the Two-Horned Demon would catch him in three seconds, while An Ke and the others were still a dozen seconds away.

An Ke swapped places with Ye Lin while carrying the Fuel-Air Explosive Bomb, trapping the Two-Horned Demon in the blast. The explosion devastated Area B, and although the group believed An Ke had escaped, her weakened voice reached Ye Lin through the communication Wristwatch.

• He Zheng and the others rushed toward Ye Lin with the Fuel-Air Explosive Bomb, but An Ke decided to swap places with him and detonate it near the Two-Horned Demon.
• An Ke told Ye Lin to enter a storeroom, and he realized she intended to use the Position-Swap Command to bring the bomb to him.
• The Two-Horned Demon pursued Ye Lin into the storeroom, where An Ke and the bomb appeared in his place and the explosive detonated.
• The blast destroyed the structures in Area B and left a vast cavity, but Ye Lin received no kill reward and suspected An Ke had been credited with the kill.
• He Zheng worried that An Ke had died in the explosion, while Ye Lin and Huang Liang reasoned that she had probably escaped using Teleportation.
• An Ke's strained voice came through the Wristwatch asking Ye Lin whether he had received the kill reward, and he felt a sudden chill.

Ye Lin and the others learned that the Two-Horned Demon had not awarded them kill points, and they feared it had survived the Fuel-Air Explosive Bomb. As Base 053 began collapsing, they armed themselves with portable missiles and searched for the wounded monster, while An Ke remained badly injured and unable to track it.

• An Ke told Ye Lin that no one had received points, and He Zheng rushed to find another Fuel-Air Explosive Bomb until Huang Liang warned that another blast could collapse the base.
• Ye Lin decided they would search for the Two-Horned Demon with man-portable missiles, and the damaged base began issuing evacuation warnings as rubble fell around them.
• Ye Lin learned that An Ke was barely alive, told her to use her Healing Potion, and asked whether she could locate the monster; An Ke said the surveillance equipment was destroyed and she had not sensed it.
• He Zheng and the others brought rocket launchers, and Ye Lin argued that the Two-Horned Demon must have been badly wounded by the bomb.
• Huang Liang wondered whether the Two-Horned Demon was dead and the Patroller had been the one to kill it.

After the thermobaric blast, Ye Lin's team searched the wreckage for the wounded Two-Horned Demon but found no trace of it. Ye Lin realized it had teleported to Zone B to devour the Echo Demon's corpse, and the team raced after it.

• Ye Lin rejected Huang Liang's warning that the Patroller had killed the Two-Horned Demon, and the team reached the edge of the blast crater as the damaged base began to collapse.
• He Zheng jumped into the cavity, and Ye Lin ordered everyone to search together for the Two-Horned Demon.
• The team searched the likely blast zones but found neither the monster nor any remains.
• Ye Lin noticed a sword scrape beneath a concrete slab and deduced that the Two-Horned Demon had teleported away using its massive sword.
• Ye Lin realized the monster was eating the Echo Demon's corpse in Zone B to recover, shouted for the others to move, and sprinted toward it.

Ye Lin and the others searched Sector B for the wounded Two-Horned Demon, but found its corpse split open and realized it had been fusing with other corpses. They rushed to destroy the reassembled Echo Demon, but a supersonic shadow attacked Ye Lin from the ceiling.

• Ye Lin, He Zheng, Huang Liang, and Lin Yu entered Sector B and followed the blood scent to a hall where the Two-Horned Demon had dragged away corpses.
• The group found the Two-Horned Demon's charred corpse with its skull split open, revealing that something had escaped from inside it.
• Ye Lin realized the Two-Horned Demon was fusing with corpses and sensed the Echo Demon ahead in the right-hand passage.
• Ye Lin and the others found the Echo Demon forcibly reassembled from body parts, and Ye Lin urged everyone to blow it apart.
• A black shadow burst through the damaged ceiling at supersonic speed and reached for Ye Lin's head.

Ye Lin, He Zheng, Huang Liang, and Lin Yu fought a fast, heavily armored monster that He Zheng recognized as the Two-Horned Demon. With Ye Lin badly injured and their attacks proving ineffective, He Zheng used Taunt and fired a rocket at the demon while trying to draw it away from the others.

• The Two-Horned Demon severed Ye Lin's right hand and badly wounded his face before Huang Liang shot it and Lin Yu slowed it with four curses.
• He Zheng dragged the demon into range with Odin's Axes and attacked alongside Ye Lin, but their weapons barely pierced its armor.
• The Two-Horned Demon unleashed a sonic wave that incapacitated Lin Yu, Huang Liang, He Zheng, and Ye Lin, then broke free and charged at Ye Lin again.
• He Zheng picked up a rocket launcher, used Taunt to redirect the demon toward himself, and fired as it reached him.

Ye Lin, Huang Liang, An Ke, and their allies fought the badly wounded Two-Horned Demon after a rocket blast failed to kill it. Ye Lin devoured the Echo Demon's remains to gain Hell Echo and shattered the demon with a combined attack, earning the Soul Peace squad a higher rating and triggering penalties for rival factions.

• A point-blank rocket blast tore through He Zheng and the Two-Horned Demon, but the demon survived and burst from the rubble.
• Ye Lin tried to reach the Echo Demon's remains while An Ke restrained the charging demon with Ice Soul Hell.
• Huang Liang and the Hell Vanguard fired on the demon as Ye Lin devoured the remains and struck it with Mental Shock.
• The Two-Horned Demon broke free and attacked An Ke, but Ye Lin gained Hell Echo just as Huang Liang fired another rocket.
• Ye Lin used Hell Echo to shatter the Two-Horned Demon, and the system credited the kill and assists to the squad.
• The Soul Peace squad received a rating increase, while the Demihuman Empire and Starshatterer Alliance received level-two system penalties.

As the collapsing base threatened to bury everyone, Ye Lin helped save He Zheng and then stayed behind to Devour the Two-Horned Demon and search for its greatsword. He also weighed whether to risk his escape to save Aroro, leaving his choice unresolved.

• An Ke warned Ye Lin and Huang Liang that the base was collapsing, and Lin Yu gave them his remaining Healing Potion for He Zheng.
• Ye Lin, Huang Liang, and Lin Yu dug He Zheng out and gave him the potion, stabilizing his condition.
• An Ke and Huang Liang carried He Zheng away with Lin Yu, while Ye Lin stayed behind to Devour the Two-Horned Demon and find its greatsword.
• Ye Lin considered whether to leave the monster and search for the injured Aroro, remembering that Aroro had helped them survive.
• As rubble fell around him, Ye Lin faced the choice of whether to risk his escape for Aroro.

As Base 053 collapsed and a nuclear leak threatened, Aroro lay trapped beneath the Cooling Tower and believed he was about to die. Ye Lin arrived at the last moment, lifted the wreckage with psychokinesis, and rescued him.

• Aroro woke beneath the Cooling Tower and realized the collapsing base had crushed his lower body, leaving him unable to escape.
• He hoped Ye Lin would return, then lost hope and used his final strength to ask Ye Lin to send points to his people so his family could receive food.
• As a metal plate fell toward him, Ye Lin appeared and stopped it with psychokinesis.
• Ye Lin lifted the Cooling Tower, shielded Aroro from falling rubble, and pulled him to safety.
• Aroro sobbed as Ye Lin carried him out of danger.

Ye Lin escaped the collapsing base by using the Hell Sword to teleport out with the gravely injured Aroro, then joined the others in hiding. As An Ke asked about the sword, Ye Lin realized the Two-Horned Demon’s strength came from biotech enhancement.

• An Ke warned Ye Lin that the passage was about to collapse, while He Zheng woke and tried to rush back for him.
• Ye Lin teleported out with Aroro in his arms, and the base collapsed moments later.
• The group hid in a cave, where Lin Yu used a potion to heal Aroro and He Zheng remarked on how quickly he recovered.
• Ye Lin noted that Devour now required far more life force to repair his body as his strength increased.
• An Ke asked about Ye Lin’s teleporting sword, and Ye Lin recognized that the Two-Horned Demon had been enhanced with Bio-Mecha technology.

Ye Lin examined the Hell Sword, a powerful Grade A weapon whose abilities explained the Two-Horned Demon’s speed, durability, and teleportation. The team marveled at the reward but grew uneasy that it might be too generous, especially since the examination was not over.

• Ye Lin displayed the Hell Sword’s information, revealing its fire damage reduction, sound-speed boost, teleportation, vitality drain, and ability to cleanse negative effects.
• He Zheng celebrated the sword’s strength, while An Ke explained that an ordinary person could not withstand its speed or vitality drain.
• Lin Yu envied Ye Lin but recognized the danger and heavy cost of obtaining the weapon from the Echo Demon.
• He Zheng calculated that the Two-Horned Demon had yielded nearly three hundred points, one Grade A rating, three Grade B ratings, and the sword, then worried the rewards were excessive.
• Huang Liang shared He Zheng’s concern and noted that rewards for the Echo Demon and other teams had not yet been counted.

An Ke and Lin Yu explained why team battles brought enormous rewards, while Huang Liang questioned whether their deadly free-for-alls were fair. Ye Lin argued that team battles tested skills fighters rarely got to use and that the system protected teams that had performed well; he then revealed that the Two-Horned Demon’s abilities had exceeded expectations, though its strength seemed abnormal and his perfected one prototype appeared to have evolved.

• An Ke explained that team battles let victors claim opponents’ equipment and items, and described how brutal free-for-alls could become.
• Lin Yu recalled the chaos of his team’s early battles, including a powerful spellcaster being killed by snipers, spells, and curses.
• Huang Liang challenged the fairness of team battles, arguing that they favored fighters and could erase the value of earlier examinations.
• Ye Lin argued that earlier examinations disadvantaged fighters, that teams should prepare for combat, and that high-performing teams could enter later and avoid the worst of the free-for-all.
• Ye Lin considered whether the Death Exam favored examinees who performed well across different situations and whether its punishments and preferential treatment were linked.
• He Zheng asked whether Ye Lin had gained a powerful ability from the Two-Horned Demon, and Ye Lin confirmed he had devoured its abilities but said its strength seemed wrong and his perfected one prototype appeared to have evolved.