Recaps

Xia Xu watched Zhang Jianmin’s story reach its happy ending, then continued his training and cautious routine while waiting for the unresolved Hunter storyline to resume. The Dying Man’s protagonist began a new life, but Xia Xu still wondered whether he was a minor character in danger or merely caught in a quiet stretch between events.

• Xia Xu read the conclusion of The Dying Man and saw that Zhang Jianmin stopped a knife-wielding criminal, learned his illness was a misdiagnosis, and later benefited from compensation and Hong Bo’s successful game launch.
• A week later, Xia Xu learned that the pills and Qian Chenghe’s bounty had been converted into money, while Hong Bo founded Flying Boat Studio and began refining Wulin Picture Scroll with his roommates.
• After Zhang Jianmin’s story ended, Xia Xu saw his fate entry change from The Dying Man’s protagonist to Traveler (2 stars).
• Xia Xu continued his combat training with Luo Hongyun and helped enroll Louise in an international elementary school.
• With no new plots or Hunter news, Xia Xu kept to his school-and-home routine and hoped to stay safe until the story resumed.

Xia Xu warned Luo Hongyun that two dangerous foreigners had arrived, and they discovered the men trying to break into Luo’s home to abduct Louise. Luo killed both attackers before they could explain who sent them.

• Xia Xu noticed two foreigners in a black sedan and warned Luo Hongyun that they seemed dangerous.
• Luo Hongyun realized the men might be targeting Louise and hurried after the sedan with Xia Xu.
• The foreigners stopped at Luo’s home and began forcing open the door.
• Luo killed the white attacker with one punch and the black attacker with a kick.
• Xia Xu asked why Luo had not left one attacker alive to question him.

After Luo Hongyun killed the two men who tried to kidnap Louise, Xia Xu left him to hunt for the people behind the attack while he returned to school. There, Liu Xiulan confronted Xia Xu about his failing grades and reminded him of his promise, leaving him scrambling to explain.

• Luo Hongyun admitted he had killed the two kidnappers and said he would track down whoever had sent them.
• Luo Hongyun told Xia Xu to stay out of the investigation, warned him to be careful, and thanked him for helping Louise.
• Over the following days, Luo Hongyun searched for the masterminds while keeping Louise somewhere safe, and Xia Xu heard nothing more about the killings.
• Xia Xu continued attending school as frequent exams exposed how badly he had fallen behind in most subjects.
• Liu Xiulan called Xia Xu into her office, showed him his poor results and Tang Youxin's decline, and asked whether he remembered his promise.
• Xia Xu began to explain himself to Liu Xiulan.

Xia Xu talked his way out of Liu Xiulan’s concerns about his relationship with Tang Youxin and their declining grades. Afterward, he discovered Tang Youxin had been studying programming instead of focusing on the college entrance exam, and she admitted she had done so because he wanted her help.

• Liu Xiulan questioned Xia Xu about buying Tang Youxin meals and warned him to focus on studying and keep their relationship from affecting her grades.
• Xia Xu joked his way through Liu Xiulan’s lecture, and she let him leave without calling Tang Youxin in.
• Tang Youxin waited outside the office and asked Xia Xu what Liu Xiulan had said; he teased her about dating before explaining the discussion was about grades.
• Xia Xu asked why Tang Youxin’s grades had dropped, then realized she had been studying the programming books at the Consulting Company.
• Tang Youxin admitted she had been learning programming because Xia Xu had said he wanted her help.

After convincing Tang Youxin to focus on her exams, Xia Xu waited alone for a ride and discovered that a young man approaching him was tied to the Hunter plot. Jin Junjie offered him a lift, and Xia Xu tried to refuse while figuring out what to do.

• Xia Xu forbade Tang Youxin from studying programming for now and urged her to focus on her entrance exams, promising to study too.
• Xia Xu called Tang Youxin a taxi, watched her leave, and waited at the school gate for a ride home.
• Jin Junjie approached Xia Xu and offered him a cheaper ride in his unlicensed cab.
• Xia Xu checked Jin Junjie's attributes and learned that he was a Hunter supporting character with a wolf partial beast transformation.
• Xia Xu suspected Jin Junjie was trying to lure him somewhere secluded and declined the ride, calling unlicensed cab drivers rip-offs.

Xia Xu realized Jin Junjie was a werewolf and went along with him to avoid being attacked in the deserted street. While seeking clues from a Hunter plot synopsis, Xia Xu asked Jin Junjie about Angel Baby.

• Xia Xu examined Jin Junjie’s traits and concluded that he was a genetically engineered werewolf who could disguise himself as a human.
• Jin Junjie urged Xia Xu to take his unlicensed taxi, and Xia Xu agreed when the street emptied and he feared an immediate attack.
• Xia Xu checked the Hunter synopsis and learned that Grant, Dorothea, and their team had come to the Xia Kingdom to hunt werewolves and needed somewhere to stay.
• Xia Xu reasoned that Tang Hao, a known victim, might connect the hunters to the local werewolf case.
• Xia Xu asked Jin Junjie whether he knew Angel Baby, pretending to be interested in local adult services.

Xia Xu lured Jin Junjie to a guesthouse near the school, where Jin transformed into a werewolf and chased him. A hidden archer named Grant killed Jin Junjie, and Xia Xu calmly thanked him before explaining that he had seen something more terrifying.

• Xia Xu tricked Jin Junjie into revealing the location of Angel Baby’s guesthouse, then provoked him and ran across the street.
• Jin Junjie chased Xia Xu into the residential compound and transformed into a werewolf, overtaking him in the alley.
• An unseen archer shot Jin Junjie with arrows that crippled him and then pierced his heart and the back of his skull.
• Xia Xu let Jin Junjie fall dead and met the archer, a blond young man named Grant.
• Xia Xu spoke English with Grant and said he was not terrified because he had seen something more terrifying.

Xia Xu befriended Grant, a werewolf hunter, and offered him and his teammates lodging while discussing possible work. After Grant explained how werewolf corpses disappeared, Xia Xu discovered that Grant was a half-werewolf with a powerful drive to kill werewolves.

• Grant offered to make Xia Xu a compound bow and asked for help with the guesthouse and its room charges.
• Xia Xu invited Grant and his teammates to stay in an empty building and offered Grant bodyguard or consulting work.
• Grant declined steady employment but offered to deal with bullies and school troublemakers for a fee.
• Xia Xu asked how they would dispose of Jin Junjie's corpse, and Grant said dead werewolves melted away soon after death.
• Xia Xu inspected Grant's attributes and learned that he was a half-werewolf who could partially transform and might lose control.

Xia Xu met Grant’s teammates and learned that Adams possessed unusually sharp Maasai Eyes, then read the plot synopsis about werewolves seeking people with a rare protein. The synopsis revealed that Xia Xu had been one of their intended targets, and Stillwell’s genetic serum was tied to the attacks.

• Grant introduced Xia Xu to Joseph, Adams, and Dorothea, then led them to Xia Xu’s residence.
• Xia Xu discovered that Adams had Maasai Eyes, a trait associated with a secret medicine that enhanced eyesight.
• Xia Xu read the synopsis of Grant’s investigation, which said the werewolves had attacked students and that Stillwell was developing a genetic serum in the Xia Kingdom.
• The synopsis revealed that the serum required a rare protein found in a small minority of people, and Xia Xu realized he had been one of the werewolves’ targets.

Xia Xu learned from Grant that werewolves were genetically engineered human-wolf hybrids descended from experiments begun by Suwu Country and later revived by Andera Biopharmaceutical Group. Grant revealed that he was the child of a werewolf and a human, making him evidence that werewolf genes could spread through humanity.

• Xia Xu settled Grant and the others into rooms and asked Grant about werewolves.
• Grant explained that Suwu Country had pursued human-animal hybrid experiments to create obedient, powerful soldiers and that Andera later recovered its research.
• Grant described how Andera's experiments were shut down by the FBI, while the test subjects were rescued and integrated into society before their urges to attack and eat humans grew out of control.
• Grant revealed that he was the son of a werewolf and an ordinary human, and that his family had died when his father went berserk.
• Grant explained that werewolves could reproduce with humans, risking the spread of their unstable genes throughout the human population.

After hearing Grant’s account of the werewolves, Xia Xu decided to pursue black technology and use it to overcome his limited talents. Grant then warned him that the dangerous werewolf Stillwell had arrived in the Xia Kingdom, leaving Xia Xu to confront a new threat.

• Xia Xu considered how genetic modification and other advanced technologies could strengthen him and help him recruit talented researchers.
• Xia Xu imagined building high-tech companies and equipping himself and Luo Hongyun with advanced body modifications and exoskeleton armor.
• Grant told Xia Xu that Stillwell, his old adversary, had arrived in the Xia Kingdom and was likely planning something dangerous.
• Grant explained that Stillwell had been modified as an infant, raised by a laboratory researcher, and learned biotechnology.
• Grant said Stillwell had killed his adoptive father and wanted werewolves to rule the world.

Xia Xu agreed to help Grant hunt the werewolves in exchange for a share of the spoils, while keeping his knowledge of Stillwell’s objective to himself. He offered to connect Grant with Yang Bowen as a guide and tracker, and Grant promised to keep him safe.

• Xia Xu considered why werewolves were unlikely to rule humanity but realized their rare special protein could make him a target for future attacks.
• Xia Xu agreed to help Grant as long as he did not have to fight or put himself in danger.
• Grant explained why ordinary authorities were unlikely to believe in werewolves or take action against them.
• Xia Xu decided not to reveal what he knew about Stillwell’s objective because he could not explain how he had learned it.
• Grant asked Xia Xu for financial support, and Xia Xu agreed in exchange for choosing some spoils after the werewolves were killed.
• Xia Xu offered to introduce Yang Bowen as a guide and tracker, and Grant promised to protect him.

Xia Xu teamed up with Grant’s hunters and had Yang Bowen help them track werewolves. After the group killed a werewolf and uncovered Stillwell’s plan to murder people for an evolutionary serum, Grant prepared to attack Stillwell’s lair that night.

• Xia Xu introduced Grant and the hunters to Yang Bowen and told him to cooperate while prioritizing safety.
• Yang Bowen doubted that werewolves existed, but agreed to help the hunters investigate the earlier attacks.
• Three days later, Yang Bowen excitedly told Xia Xu that Grant’s group had found and killed a werewolf, and joked that their consulting company was a secret organization.
• Grant praised Yang Bowen’s tracking and investigative skills, then revealed that Stillwell planned to murder people to create a serum that would make werewolves evolve.
• Grant said he would attack Stillwell’s lair that night and kill him.

Xia Xu brought Luo Hongyun to help Grant's team raid Stillwell's werewolf den at Ande Pharmaceuticals. After they entered the compound, Xia Xu stopped Grant from shooting a human security guard, but Grant tested the man with Luo Hongyun's slingshot and knocked him down.

• Xia Xu called Luo Hongyun for backup, and Luo agreed to join Grant's werewolf hunt.
• Luo Hongyun arrived equipped for combat, and Xia Xu explained that werewolves had attacked him and that Grant's team had located their den.
• Xia Xu joined Grant, Luo Hongyun, Adams, Kaisefu, and Dorothea as they traveled to Star City Ande Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.
• Grant's team climbed the perimeter wall and searched the factory grounds before approaching the lit office building.
• Xia Xu stopped Grant from shooting a security guard, insisting the man was human, and Grant hit him with a Military Slingshot to test Xia Xu's claim.

The group searched the laboratory building and found Stillwell waiting with a force of Werewolves, who he claimed had gathered to celebrate his creation of an enhancement serum. After Grant attacked and the others joined the fight, Luo Hongyun declared that he had surrounded every Werewolf and charged.

• Xia Xu identified the Werewolves throughout the laboratory, allowing Grant to take them down without raising an alarm.
• The group reached the fourth-floor laboratory, where Stillwell appeared with more than twenty Werewolves blocking their exits.
• Stillwell announced that he had created a Werewolf Enhancement Serum and claimed the Werewolves could now become stronger and stop eating humans.
• Grant accused Stillwell of sacrificing people to make the serum, then attacked him and urged Xia Xu to run.
• Kaisefu, Dorothea, and Adams fought the Werewolves as Grant's group was overwhelmed by their numbers.
• Luo Hongyun said he had surrounded every Werewolf and charged into the fight.

Luo Hongyun slaughtered the werewolves blocking the group’s escape, while Grant and the others held off the rest. Xia Xu stopped the wounded Stillwell from reaching the experiment table and took the activated Werewolf Enhancement Serum, leaving Stillwell incapacitated.

• Luo Hongyun blocked a werewolf’s attack, broke its wrist, and killed it with a punch before dispatching another with his daggers.
• Luo Hongyun attacked the remaining werewolves as Grant, Adams, Kaisefu, and the others fought and picked off their opponents.
• Stillwell tried to slip away during the battle, but Xia Xu spotted him and alerted Grant.
• Grant shot Stillwell in the back, but ran out of arrows before he could finish him.
• Stillwell crawled toward the experiment table, but Xia Xu sprayed pepper spray in his face and took the activated Werewolf Enhancement Serum.

Xia Xu and Luo Hongyun wiped out Stillwell’s Werewolves, and Xia Xu recovered Stillwell’s research files. After Grant returned to America, Xia Xu brought the compound bow Grant had given him to Luo Hongyun, hoping to learn archery.

• Xia Xu reviewed the Hunter plot and realized Stillwell’s ambush had nearly destroyed Grant’s team before Luo Hongyun intervened and killed Stillwell.
• Xia Xu found an external hard drive containing documents about the Werewolf Enhancement Serum, though he could not understand most of them.
• Luo Hongyun proposed contacting his former superiors about the Werewolves, while Grant advised keeping the incident quiet.
• After returning home, Luo Hongyun went out again to pursue kidnappers, and Grant left for America after giving Xia Xu a compound bow and arrows.
• Xia Xu knocked on Luo Hongyun’s door to ask about archery, then quieted down when he saw a little blonde girl sleeping inside.

Xia Xu learned that Luo Hongyun had rescued Louise but had not finished dismantling the overseas organization behind the Werewolves. After returning home, Xia Xu searched Stillwell’s files and realized the enhancement serum might work on wolves generally, not just Werewolves.

• Luo Hongyun told Xia Xu that he had destroyed the organization’s Star City base but still did not know who was behind it or why they had kidnapped Louise.
• Xia Xu cleaned Luo Hongyun’s minor wounds and learned that the Night Owl plot remained unresolved.
• Luo Hongyun noticed Grant’s compound bow in Xia Xu’s backpack and offered to teach him archery later.
• Xia Xu returned home and examined files from Stillwell’s hard drive on his laptop.
• Xia Xu read Stillwell’s draft email and concluded that the enhancement serum might enhance wolf genes rather than being exclusive to Werewolves.

Xia Xu realized the Werewolf Enhancement Serum might let him turn a dog into a powerful, loyal combat companion, and asked Luo Hongyun to help him find one. Luo Hongyun arranged for Xia Xu to bid on a young dog eliminated from police training at an auction the next day.

• Xia Xu reasoned that the Werewolf Enhancement Serum might enhance ordinary wolves and dogs, and imagined using it on a trained dog to create a powerful summon.
• Xia Xu researched military and police dogs, then asked Luo Hongyun to help him adopt a retired military dog through proper channels.
• Luo Hongyun explained that his Special Operations Forces background gave him no direct connection to military dog units, but offered to ask his contacts.
• Luo Hongyun learned that Xia Xu could adopt a retired police dog with restrictions or bid on a dog eliminated from the Police Officer Academy's training program.
• Xia Xu chose the auction option after Luo Hongyun found him a Public Security System guarantor.

Xia Xu asked Luo Hongyun to teach him Miao Dao swordsmanship so he could improve his ability to defend himself. Luo Hongyun demonstrated a powerful routine and told Xia Xu to begin practicing with a wooden stick.

• Xia Xu joined Luo Hongyun for morning exercises instead of rushing to the auction.
• Xia Xu asked Luo Hongyun to teach him to use a Miao Dao or another weapon.
• Luo Hongyun agreed to teach him a Miao Dao technique, and Xia Xu fetched his saber.
• Luo Hongyun demonstrated a flowing series of cuts, parries, and thrusts with the Miao Dao.
• Luo Hongyun warned Xia Xu not to practice with the sharp blade and told him to find a wooden stick.

Xia Xu attended an auction for rejected police dogs and discovered that his Inspection Spell could reveal their attributes and potential. After advising a man seeking a guide dog for his daughter, he began bidding on Black Bro, whose three-star Combat talent caught his attention.

• Xia Xu arrived at the Police Dog Training Base after practicing the Miao Dao with Luo Hongyun and inspected the auction dogs' attribute panels.
• Xia Xu confirmed that he could view dogs' attributes and noticed they seemed to have an innate affection toward people.
• A balding middle-aged man asked Xia Xu to help choose a dog for his daughter, whose eyesight had worsened, and bought the first dog Xia Xu recommended.
• As bidding prices climbed, Xia Xu worried that he might not be able to afford a dog with his limited funds.
• Xia Xu inspected Black Bro, saw its three-star Combat talent and Fighting dog potential, and immediately began bidding.

Xia Xu tried to buy a rejected police dog at auction but lost Black Bro to a scar-faced bidder. While speaking with Tang Youxin, he spotted another dog onstage and believed his luck had turned.

• Xia Xu bid up to two hundred thousand for Black Bro, but the scar-faced man outbid him at two hundred and fifty thousand.
• The scar-faced man won Black Bro and regretted raising his bid so much.
• Tang Youxin called Xia Xu from Yang Bowen's phone to ask whether he was safe, while Yang teased her for worrying about him.
• Xia Xu told Tang Youxin he was at an auction, then noticed the newly presented rejected dog and grinned, saying his goddess of luck had worked her magic.

Xia Xu spotted a scrawny Kunming Dog named A Tuo with exceptional combat, concealment, and search potential and competed to buy it. He outbid Meng Long, who ran out of money and regretted spending too much on the previous dog.

• After ending his call with Tang Youxin, Xia Xu examined the rejected dog onstage and saw that A Tuo had five-star combat talent and four-star concealment and search talents.
• Xia Xu recognized A Tuo as a Kunming Dog bred for military and police work and began bidding aggressively.
• Xia Xu saw that the other bidder, Meng Long, was a dog-training expert whose obsession suggested he wanted to use dogs in fights.
• Xia Xu raised his bid to two hundred thousand, and Meng Long could not match it because he had only one hundred ninety thousand left.
• Meng Long regretted spending too much on the previous dog as he watched his chance to buy A Tuo slip away.

Xia Xu bought the undersized police-dog trainee A Tuo and learned why the competitive, excitable dog had been washed out. After Meng Long threatened him and tried to buy A Tuo, Xia Xu planned to use the dog’s scent-tracking ability to investigate him.

• Xia Xu paid for A Tuo and received the dog and care instructions from a trainer.
• Xia Xu learned that A Tuo excelled in training but had poor stamina, a small physique, and a tendency to overexert himself.
• Xia Xu reassured the dejected A Tuo that he would give him a good life and make him top dog.
• Meng Long offered Xia Xu another hundred thousand for A Tuo, but Xia Xu refused and told him to leave.
• After Meng Long threatened him and walked away, Xia Xu asked A Tuo to remember his scent and planned to track him or ask Old Yang to investigate.

Xia Xu tested A Tuo’s intelligence and discovered the dog could follow spoken instructions and track Meng Long by scent. After Meng Long drove away in a van, A Tuo guided Xia Xu through the city by giving the Taxi driver directions, leaving Xia Xu still following the trail.

• Xia Xu tested A Tuo with spoken commands and was astonished when A Tuo followed them correctly.
• Xia Xu promised A Tuo a reward and followed him as he tracked Meng Long out of the Police Dog Training Base.
• Meng Long got into a white van with the German Shepherd he had bought, and Xia Xu photographed its license plate.
• A Tuo continued tracking the van’s scent and directed Xia Xu and the Taxi driver through successive turns.
• The Taxi driver marveled at A Tuo’s obedience, and Xia Xu claimed the dog had been trained to bark on command.