Recaps

Lin Chen arrived at Azure Star aboard the Astral Express and unexpectedly unlocked his system’s beginner benefits after forming an initial bond with March 7th. Though Himeko had intended to leave him safely behind, the system advised him to keep traveling with the crew as he began considering how to use his new resources.

• The Astral Express arrived at Azure Star and Herta Space Station, the final stop of Lin Chen’s journey aboard the train.
• Lin Chen woke to find March 7th sitting on his lap, and Pom-Pom teased March after she accused him of being a pervert.
• Lin Chen started toward the back of the carriage, reflecting that Himeko had chosen Azure Star as his destination because he lacked the strength to face the dangers of the Trailblaze.
• The system announced that Lin Chen had formed an initial bond with March 7th and awarded him six Space Marines, available through a mental call for protection.
• The system advised Lin Chen to travel with the Astral Express crew until he could conquer the stars, and he considered pursuing closer bonds with March 7th and Himeko.

Lin Chen tried to trigger a bond with Himeko before leaving the Astral Express for Azure Star. After suddenly pulling her into a hug, he claimed he saw her and the others as family, but the system had not yet given him a reward.

• Himeko warned Lin Chen that staring at her was rude and told him to be careful around women in power.
• Himeko said the Astral Express would stop at Herta Space Station and that she had arranged permanent residency for Lin Chen on Azure Star.
• Lin Chen decided to seek a bond with Himeko before leaving, hoping to gain more resources from the system.
• Lin Chen grabbed Himeko by the waist and pulled her into a hug, startling her and quickening her heartbeat.
• Lin Chen told Himeko he considered her, March 7th, Pom-Pom, and Uncle Yang his family and said the hug was a farewell courtesy.

Lin Chen gained Himeko’s trust and an initial bond with her, earning system rewards that could help him survive uncanny threats. March 7th discovered them embracing and secretly photographed them, hoping to use the picture to get more Credits.

• Himeko accepted Lin Chen’s explanation and returned his farewell hug, believing he needed care from his new family.
• The system awarded Lin Chen Basic Mental Resistance and a Portable Containment Device after he formed an initial bond with Himeko.
• Lin Chen learned that the Portable Containment Device could restrain uncanny entities and that the world held dangerous anomalies.
• March 7th entered the rear carriage to find Lin Chen and spotted him embracing Himeko.
• March 7th photographed Lin Chen and Himeko in secret and planned to use the picture to demand more Credits.

After March 7th caught Himeko and Lin Chen together, she mistook their closeness for romance, and Himeko sent Lin Chen with March to Herta Space Station. Faced with the system’s warning that danger was gathering there, Lin Chen asked March to stay overnight so he would not have to face the station alone.

• March 7th secretly photographed Himeko and Lin Chen, then pretended she had come looking for an old Pom-Pom Doll when Himeko caught her.
• Himeko told March 7th that she and Lin Chen shared only sisterly and brotherly affection, while March left believing Himeko liked younger men.
• Himeko told Lin Chen to find March 7th and go with her to Herta Space Station, promising to explain the misunderstanding later.
• At 10:30 that evening, Lin Chen and March 7th arrived at Herta Space Station, where the system warned that chaos and danger were already building.
• Worried about surviving the station with his limited strength, Lin Chen asked March 7th if she would stay there overnight with him.

Lin Chen persuaded March 7th to stay on Herta Space Station by offering to forgive her card debt, hoping she could protect him from hidden dangers. Guided by March, he reached the Master Control Zone and met Asta, the station’s acting lead researcher.

• Lin Chen asked March 7th to stay overnight, but she mistook his intentions and rejected his excuses about danger on the station.
• Lin Chen offered to cancel March 7th’s 7,856-Credit debt, and she agreed to stay on the condition that he keep his distance and their cabins be separated.
• Lin Chen and March 7th began exploring Herta Space Station and used its Realm Anchors to travel.
• March 7th guided Lin Chen to the Master Control Zone, where he met Asta, Herta’s student and the station’s acting lead researcher.

Lin Chen clashed with Asta after she refused to offer him a job at Herta Space Station, and he left with March 7th. March 7th said Asta seemed unlike herself, making Lin Chen suspect that the woman they had met might not really have been Asta.

• March 7th asked Asta to find Lin Chen a job at Herta Space Station, but Asta questioned his abilities.
• Asta refused to employ Lin Chen, calling him unqualified to remain at the station, and Lin Chen angrily walked away with March 7th.
• March 7th followed Lin Chen and said Asta had behaved unlike the person she knew.
• Lin Chen recalled the system's warning about staying vigilant late at night and noticed it was 11:11.
• Lin Chen remembered that no researchers had been nearby and wondered whether the woman they met had really been Asta.

Lin Chen and March 7th explored the deserted Herta Space Station, wary of Asta’s strange behavior and an unknown danger. They exchanged cabin key cards and split up at the dormitory junction, leaving Lin Chen to face the night alone.

• Lin Chen privately worried that Asta had been corrupted or was not really Asta, then caught himself admiring March 7th as they walked.
• March 7th asked Lin Chen what he had discovered, and he admitted he could not yet identify the source of the danger.
• Lin Chen asked for March 7th’s cabin number so he could find her quickly if needed, and she told him it was 0276.
• Lin Chen proposed swapping cabin key cards to disrupt Asta’s plan, and March 7th gave him her card.
• Lin Chen and March 7th reached the dormitory junction, found their cabins far apart, and agreed to keep their phones available before splitting up.

Lin Chen explored the strange book in cabin 0276, then heard eerie singing outside at midnight. He contacted March 7th as the sound drew closer through the empty corridor.

• Lin Chen went to cabin 0276 and found an old book of fables on the desk.
• Lin Chen read the book's three-page story about sailors surviving a storm and finding treasure, but the remaining pages were blank.
• Lin Chen played a game on his phone while staying awake because he feared something was wrong on Herta Space Station.
• At midnight, Lin Chen heard mournful singing outside his cabin and dropped his phone in fright.
• Lin Chen listened by the window as the singing grew shriller and closer, accompanied by the sound of flowing water.
• Lin Chen grabbed his phone and sent March 7th a message.

Lin Chen summoned the Alpha Assault Squad when a ghostly figure appeared outside his cabin, but the Marines could not detect the uncanny entity. After dismissing the squad, he heard March 7th arrive and call for him to open the door.

• Lin Chen spotted a red, floating figure outside his window and used his system to summon the Alpha Assault Squad.
• The squad's leader, designation 001, reported that they could not detect the ghost and explained that a Psionic Detection Field Generator could reveal concealed targets.
• Lin Chen learned that the generator cost 500 conquest points, which he did not have.
• Designation 001 reported a high-threat female approaching with a composite bow, but Lin Chen ordered the squad to retreat and addressed its leader as Jim Raynor.
• March 7th arrived at the cabin and demanded that Lin Chen open the door.

Lin Chen spotted a ghost behind March 7th and warned her, revealing that she was afraid of ghosts despite boasting otherwise. After they went into the corridor to investigate the eerie singing, March 7th said she had thought it was a lullaby broadcast and had nearly fallen asleep.

• Lin Chen saw a crimson, long-haired figure reaching toward March 7th and warned her by phone.
• March 7th saw Lin Chen's warning, panicked, and turned to look, but the ghost darted away.
• March 7th kicked a dent into Lin Chen's cabin door, then rushed inside and demanded to know where the ghost was.
• Lin Chen teased March 7th about being afraid and urged her to search for the source of the strange phenomena.
• Lin Chen took March 7th's hand and pulled her into the corridor, where she said she had heard the singing but thought it was a space station lullaby.

Lin Chen and March 7th encountered a faceless woman in a white dress that turned red in the Space Station corridor. March 7th unleashed a vast ice attack to escape, then clung to Lin Chen and begged to return to the Astral Express.

• Lin Chen warned March 7th that the girl in white might be a ghost, but March 7th approached her anyway.
• The woman turned around, revealed her featureless face and red-stained dress, and demanded that March 7th praise her appearance.
• March 7th answered that the woman was pretty, and the ghost declared that March 7th was worthy of becoming her master before reaching for her.
• March 7th screamed and released a freezing blast that filled every passage within a hundred-meter radius with towering ice spikes.
• March 7th hurtled into Lin Chen's arms and said she wanted to return to the Astral Express, while Lin Chen realized how powerful she was.

After March 7th’s ice attack trapped the red-dressed ghost, Lin Chen used his Portable Containment Device to capture it. He and March 7th were left safe, while the ghost’s offer of power and attempt at mental interference came to nothing.

• March 7th clung to Lin Chen in fear, and he comforted her after the ice-crystal forest appeared to destroy the ghost’s body.
• The red dress emerged through a gap in the ice crystals, and Lin Chen left March 7th to approach it with his Portable Containment Device.
• The ghost offered Lin Chen its power in exchange for March 7th, claiming it could briefly hypnotize living beings.
• The device detected minor mental interference, but Lin Chen resisted the ghost’s influence and activated uncanny containment.
• Green light flashed, and the red dress stopped moving inside the transparent containment device.

Lin Chen contained and decomposed the Bloodstained White Dress, earning conquest points and low-quality Sanity Pills. March 7th remained shaken by the encounter and decided to stay in Lin Chen’s cabin overnight, claiming she wanted to keep him safe.

• Lin Chen read the Bloodstained White Dress’s details and reassured March 7th that it was harmless inside the containment device.
• March 7th asked Lin Chen why he had never mentioned his ability to handle dangerous monsters, and he claimed he had remembered being a Demon Hunter Master.
• Lin Chen decomposed the Bloodstained White Dress, receiving 500 conquest points and ten low-quality Sanity Pills with mild side effects.
• Lin Chen and March 7th gave up on investigating the ongoing singing and headed back to their cabins.
• March 7th followed Lin Chen to his cabin and said she would stay the night to keep him safe, though Lin Chen suspected she was afraid to sleep alone.

March 7th and Lin Chen shared a cramped room on Herta Space Station, though she insisted they keep their distance and hide their arrangement from Himeko. After Himeko’s video call ended without incident, March 7th found an old book in the quarters and was surprised by its happy ending.

• March 7th told Lin Chen that he had to sleep on the floor while she took the bed.
• March 7th panicked when Himeko video-called and told Lin Chen to hide in the bathroom.
• March 7th told Himeko that an unexpected incident had made her stay at the Space Station, then showed her the staff quarters.
• Himeko ended the call and told March 7th to return to the Express the next day.
• March 7th warned Lin Chen not to tell Himeko about their night together, and he joked that he would enjoy traveling with her to Azure Star.
• March 7th opened an old book on the desk and was surprised that its story had a perfect ending.

Lin Chen connected the cabin’s repeated fable and the singing outside to legends of deadly Sirens, then teased a frightened March 7th with stories until she agreed to share the bed with him. March 7th fell asleep reassured by Lin Chen’s apparent ability to handle the uncanny creatures.

• March 7th recited the different ending of the fable she had found in Cabin 0018, describing sailors returning mutilated after the ship’s voyage.
• Lin Chen linked the repeated story and the singing outside to Sirens, then told March 7th an embellished version of the legends.
• March 7th covered her ears in fear, and Lin Chen startled her by poking her waist and offering to tell more scary stories.
• March 7th went to bed, then made room for Lin Chen on the other side of the bed while warning him not to cross a pillow placed between them.
• Lin Chen lay down beside March 7th, and she relaxed, believing his skills could protect her from the uncanny beings.

Lin Chen challenged the players who had killed him in Honkai: Star Rail Glory and won a wagered Star Arena match against [Unbeatable Wolf] and [Not Kaka]. After accepting their apprenticeship requests, he received an invitation from [Undying Wolf] to join a group linked to his social account.

• March 7th and Lin Chen each resolved to keep their awkward night together secret while lying in the same bed.
• Lin Chen challenged [Undying Wolf] to a Star Arena match and agreed to wager one million Credits and make the losers his apprentices.
• When [Undying Blade] was absent, [Unbeatable Wolf] and [Not Kaka] accepted Lin Chen's challenge as a duo and selected ranged heroes.
• Lin Chen defeated both opponents, won one million Credits, and accepted their apprenticeship requests.
• [Undying Wolf] invited Lin Chen to join the "Learning from a master" group, which would activate his linked social account.

Lin Chen accepted Wolf Girl as an apprentice, learned that her friend Kaka had appeared in the photo she shared, and went to sleep while planning how to face the danger at Herta Space Station. Himeko wondered what March 7th was hiding and whether Lin Chen’s arrival had changed her life.

• Lin Chen joined Wolf Girl’s new Apprenticeship group, apologized for his earlier rudeness, and agreed to teach her Magical Girl Iris the next day.
• Lin Chen checked Wolf Girl’s profile, saw that she had played for 8,988 hours, and confirmed that she was a human girl.
• Lin Chen asked Wolf Girl for a photo, and she sent a picture of someone’s legs; Kaka then objected that Wolf Girl had posted her photo.
• Lin Chen logged off, considered finding powerful allies at Herta Space Station and using his Sanity Pills to restore their sanity, then fell asleep beside March 7th.
• Himeko reflected on March 7th’s evasiveness, suspected she was sharing a room with Lin Chen, and decided that finding a place to belong might be a kind of salvation for her.

Lin Chen woke to find March 7th wrapped around him in bed, and she fled in embarrassment when she realized how they were tangled together. He blamed her for crossing their agreed boundaries, then changed the subject to the eerie singing, which had stopped by morning.

• Lin Chen woke at 10:30 and found March 7th asleep with her arms and legs wrapped around him.
• March 7th woke, noticed their position, screamed, and retreated to the far end of the living compartment.
• Lin Chen accused March 7th of crossing their agreed boundaries, and she admitted she had not meant to do it.
• Lin Chen pointed out that the eerie singing outside the window had stopped, and March 7th agreed that the strange things might ease off during the day.
• March 7th went to the mirror, straightened her clothes, and stared at her flushed face.

Lin Chen gained a stronger bond with March 7th and new system rewards, then planned to recruit Asta to help fight the source of the Uncanny. March 7th agreed to carry out his plan only after making him promise not to make a move on Asta.

• March 7th grew flustered as she wondered about her feelings for Lin Chen, while Lin Chen received eighteen Space Marines and the Robust Physique talent from the system.
• Lin Chen inspected his improved physique and decided to seek more allies against the source of the Uncanny.
• March 7th named Asta and Arlan as capable fighters on Herta Space Station.
• Lin Chen asked March 7th to secretly give Asta a Low-Quality Sanity Pill so she could regain her sanity and join the fight.
• March 7th suspected Lin Chen had ulterior motives and made him promise not to pursue Asta before agreeing to help.

Lin Chen and March 7th drugged Asta’s coffee to rescue her from the uncanny disaster’s influence, then carried her to her cabin. Asta woke with her memories intact and recognized Lin Chen’s role in the plan.

• Lin Chen warned March 7th that the Station personnel’s sanity appeared severely eroded, and they prepared to drug Asta’s coffee with three pills’ worth of medicinal powder.
• March 7th gave Asta the spiked coffee, and Asta drank it before collapsing unconscious at the café table.
• Lin Chen and March 7th carried Asta to her private cabin, where March stayed by her while Lin Chen explored the lavish rooms.
• Asta woke in bed and embraced March 7th, then recognized Lin Chen and confirmed that she remembered him.
• Asta deduced that Lin Chen had prompted March 7th to drug her coffee, and Lin Chen acknowledged her conclusion.

Asta awakened after Lin Chen gave her special medicine and recounted how strange incidents had isolated Herta Space Station and clouded her mind. As Lin Chen questioned her cautiously, Asta acted unusually attentive toward him and asked March 7th about their relationship.

• Asta thanked Lin Chen for helping her awaken, then described how Midnight Singing preceded disappearances, equipment failures, and repeated research reports aboard Herta Space Station.
• Asta explained that she had developed a high fever and confusion, and March 7th worried about her condition.
• Asta suggested finding the source of the midnight singing, while Lin Chen kept his theories and plans to himself.
• Asta whispered to March 7th to ask whether she and Lin Chen were romantically involved, and March 7th denied it while calling him crafty, a scoundrel, and a pervert.
• Asta smiled strangely at Lin Chen, who wondered why March 7th had already given him such a bad reputation.

March 7th left Lin Chen to look after Asta, who had just woken, and hurried back to the Astral Express. While Asta showered, Lin Chen played Honkai: Star Rail Glory with Wolf; the chapter ended as Asta returned in a revealing nightdress and watched his game.

• March 7th received a message from Himeko, asked Lin Chen to stay with Asta, and left for the Astral Express.
• Asta told Lin Chen she would give him a gift after her shower, while Lin Chen noticed her unexpectedly gentle manner.
• Lin Chen logged into Honkai: Star Rail Glory and teamed up with Wolf, helping her climb the Aeon Glory leaderboard.
• Asta came out of the bathroom in a white lace nightdress and leaned over to watch Lin Chen play.

Lin Chen tried to ignore Asta’s unusually seductive behavior while playing Honkai: Star Rail Glory with Wolf Girl, then ended the game to investigate Asta’s sudden change before their operation against the source of the Uncanny. The chapter left him startled as Asta pressed his hand to her chest and asked him to check her heartbeat.

• Lin Chen lost focus when Asta lounged in her lace nightgown, but Wolf Girl’s messages brought him back to the game.
• Lin Chen and Wolf Girl won their match, and he suspected Asta’s behavior might be a side effect of the Low-Quality Sanity Pills.
• Lin Chen told Wolf Girl he would play with her tomorrow, and Wolf Girl briefly asked whether he found Kaka more attractive before deleting the messages.
• Lin Chen put away his phone and asked Asta whether she still felt unwell, since he needed her help for the coming operation.
• Asta said her heartbeat felt irregular, took Lin Chen’s hand, and placed it over her heart.

Lin Chen rejected Asta’s advances, then learned that she was a key figure and received two system rewards. After trying on his new armor, he found Asta hurt and withdrawn beneath the blanket.

• Asta tried to seduce Lin Chen, but he pulled away and said she should stop.
• The system revealed that Lin Chen had formed initial and intermediate bonds with Asta, rewarding him with a Hellion armored vehicle and Myriad Nan Alloy Armor.
• Lin Chen checked the rewards and put on the lightweight armor, which could reshape itself into a defensive structure.
• Asta said she could never match March 7th and thought Lin Chen saw her as a scheming woman.
• Asta turned away, climbed onto the bed, and wrapped herself tightly in the blanket.

Lin Chen tried to comfort Asta after rejecting her advances, and she appeared to forgive him before preparing a surprise. She kissed and embraced him, leaving him wavering as he struggled to resist her.

• Lin Chen comforted Asta and suggested they could become friends after the crisis at Herta Space Station ended.
• Asta emerged from beneath the quilt, then searched the room for a gift while Lin Chen watched her.
• Asta returned with a hidden surprise and asked Lin Chen to close his eyes.
• Lin Chen secretly activated his armor’s danger warning and summoned two assault squads to defensive formation.
• Asta slipped something into Lin Chen’s coat pocket, kissed him, and wrapped her arms around him.
• Lin Chen opened his eyes and tried to push Asta away, but hesitated when she asked whether he liked her advances.