Recaps

Luo Fan warned Master Wen Hao that Jiangkou Town might be dangerous, and the Aerospace Base decided to investigate it. After returning to the Hope Convoy, Luo Fan asked his Golden Weird Mirror for information about the town.

• Luo Fan told Master Wen Hao that Ai Si’s resurrection had required a saint monk’s self-sacrifice and could not readily be repeated, easing concern about resurrecting General Meng.
• Luo Fan warned Master Wen Hao that thousands of survivors were gathered in Jiangkou Town and that Xu Miao’er had urged him not to visit because something seemed wrong there.
• Master Wen Hao said the Aerospace Base would monitor Jiangkou Town and ordered a guard to have Yao Xingxing investigate it with his imperial astrologer abilities.
• Luo Fan returned to the Hope Convoy, went to his room, and asked his Golden Weird Mirror for information about Jiangkou Town.

Luo Fan learned that the Golden Weird Mirror charged heavily for information about Jiangkou Town, then received Master Wen Hao’s request to investigate the town with Jiang Shengnan. Before deciding, Luo Fan asked Zhao Chunfeng to divine the trip, and the result was good fortune amid danger, though Zhao Chunfeng could not explain how that outcome would come about.

• Luo Fan asked the Golden Weird Mirror whether a powerful Weird occupied Jiangkou Town, but refused to spend a Fourth-Tier Weird Crystal for the answer.
• After resting with the Hope Convoy, Luo Fan received a message from Master Wen Hao saying the town’s thousands of survivors seemed trapped and inviting him to go with Jiang Shengnan for three Weird Crystals.
• Luo Fan asked Zhao Chunfeng to divine whether the trip would bring good fortune or bad.
• Zhao Chunfeng interpreted the result as good fortune amid danger but said the divination showed no steps explaining how the result would occur.

Luo Fan questioned Zhao Chunfeng's divination and asked Lin Feifei to conceal her Soul Manipulation Art so no one could summon General Meng's soul and expose him. Meanwhile, the Weird Bride defeated a mountain-sized elephant and collected its tusk as the first material for Luo Fan's advancement.

• Zhao Chunfeng explained that Divination only worked if he trusted its reading completely, and Luo Fan accepted that its prediction of good fortune amid danger might be reliable.
• Luo Fan asked Lin Feifei to remove her Soul Manipulation Art advertisement, refuse requests to summon dead souls, and keep her ability secret; she agreed.
• The Weird Bride used her aging rule to destroy an elephant protected by earth and rock, then cut off and shrank one tusk.
• The Weird Bride celebrated collecting the first advancement material, Tusk, and set out to find Sharp Claw.

Master Wen Hao arrived at the Hope Convoy seeking Ai Si, while Luo Fan prepared to leave with Jiang Shengnan for Jiangkou Town. The chapter ended as Luo Fan asked Jiang Shengnan what she knew about the town, still uneasy despite Zhao Chunfeng’s divination.

• Master Wen Hao asked to meet Ai Si, who introduced himself arrogantly until Zhao Chunfeng made him apologize.
• Luo Fan exchanged a few words with Li Yan and Jiang Shengnan, then hid the Golden Weird Mirror and messaged Lin Feifei and Ai Si before leaving.
• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan rode Black Bird toward Jiangkou Town and discussed their mounts and sequence abilities.
• Luo Fan asked Jiang Shengnan whether she had any leads on Jiangkou Town, worried about what awaited them there.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan compared what little they knew about their mission to Jiangkou Town and discussed the missing Golden Weird Mirror. Jiang Shengnan revealed that the Aerospace Base had frozen General Meng’s body after learning Ai Si had been resurrected, hoping to revive him and uncover how he died.

• Jiang Shengnan asked Luo Fan about Zhao Chunfeng’s divination, and Luo Fan said it predicted good fortune amid danger but seemed unusual.
• Jiang Shengnan explained that Yao Xingxing’s star reading had identified her and Luo Fan as the only people suited to investigate Jiangkou Town, though the base had no other leads.
• Luo Fan considered using the Golden Weird Mirror to learn about Jiangkou Town but decided its cost was too high, then asked Jiang Shengnan about the artifact.
• Jiang Shengnan said the Golden Weird Mirror could answer questions about past events but had gone missing after General Meng was killed in the Weird Domain.
• Jiang Shengnan said the Aerospace Base had no explanation for General Meng’s death, but Professor Wen had told her Ai Si had returned to life, so the base had frozen General Meng’s body in hopes of resurrecting him.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan arrived at Jiangkou Town and found an unusually peaceful settlement with farms, shops, and people living without fear of Weird or Fierce Beasts. When they refused to register as residents, guards surrounded them and revealed that the town sealed the powers and equipment of unregistered visitors.

• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan landed outside Jiangkou Town and were astonished to see busy streets, cultivated fields, and survivors returning with Fierce Beast corpses.
• A Sequence User welcomed them and claimed Jiangkou Town was a safe haven, then led them inside at Jiang Shengnan’s suggestion.
• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan explored the town’s shops, and Jiang Shengnan compared it to a beginner village or safe zone in an online game.
• The Sequence User brought them to a former government office and said newcomers had to register before becoming residents, but Luo Fan refused.
• Guards surrounded Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan, declared them vagrants, and revealed that the town had sealed their powers, Uncanny Artifacts, and phones before moving to seize them.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan registered as residents of Jiangkou Town after learning about its protections and rewards. Jiang Shengnan’s registration revealed that she was a Lv35 third-tier Sequence User, prompting the town’s officials to report her to their lord.

• Luo Fan questioned the guards about the benefits of registering, and the guide explained that residents could use their abilities, receive rooms, and earn the right to open a shop by recruiting five people.
• Jiang Shengnan compared the recruitment system to a pyramid scheme, but Luo Fan agreed with the guard captain that the Apocalypse changed how such arrangements should be judged.
• Jiang Shengnan listed her real Sequence information on her application, while Luo Fan claimed he was not a Sequence User.
• A clerk verified Jiang Shengnan as a Lv35 third-tier Sequence User, and her registration restored her sealed power.
• Luo Fan secretly used beast blood for his registration, while their guide received a generous reward for bringing Jiang Shengnan to town.
• The guard captain told Jiang Shengnan that the lord had been informed and would probably meet her personally.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan learned that Jiangkou Town’s residents could either pay a regular crystal levy or join the town guard, and they chose the latter as the better way to investigate the settlement. They suspected the town’s mysterious Master was a Rule-Type Weird, but Luo Fan believed she might be cultivating the residents to study human nature rather than simply raising them as prey.

• Jiang Shengnan returned from meeting the Master and told Luo Fan she could pay ten Second-Order Weird Crystals every ten days or join the town guard for a monthly salary.
• Luo Fan advised Jiang Shengnan to join the town guard because residents could not leave Jiangkou Town for more than twenty-four hours and the position would help them investigate the town.
• Jiang Shengnan and Luo Fan suspected the unseen Master was a Rule-Type Weird because she could seal the powers of everyone entering town and protect its residents.
• Jiang Shengnan wondered whether the Master was keeping humans as livestock, while Luo Fan proposed that she was cultivating them to study human nature.

Luo Fan told Jiang Shengnan that rule-type weird hunted humans to study their reactions and deepen their mastery of rules, and he outlined three levels of rule power. He left her with a warning that some beings in the apocalypse were unknowable and unthinkable.

• Luo Fan explained that the Weird Bride had used her doppelgängers to study humans and improve her grasp of rules, and he said he had verified this information.
• Jiang Shengnan connected Luo Fan’s explanation to the rule-type weird sheltering humans in Jiangkou Town and asked how greater mastery of rules changed their abilities.
• Luo Fan described rule manipulation, rule mastery, and rule sanction, explaining that rule masters could wield rule power directly and were beyond his ability to defeat.
• Jiang Shengnan asked what rule sanction involved, but Luo Fan said he only knew that the level existed.
• Luo Fan warned Jiang Shengnan that the apocalypse contained unknowable, unthinkable beings, leaving her confused.

Luo Fan told Jiang Shengnan about conceptual-level Weird and revealed that the Hope Convoy had encountered one, though no one remembered what happened. The two discussed whether Jiangkou Town’s safe haven was worth preserving, and Luo Fan suspected its Weird had reached or neared rule mastery.

• Luo Fan explained that some conceptual-level Weird could sense when people specifically thought or spoke about them, and said the Hope Convoy had once encountered one.
• Jiang Shengnan learned that the convoy remembered meeting the Weird but could recall neither its appearance nor its actions.
• Luo Fan redirected the conversation to Jiangkou Town and said they needed to understand its Weird and protect the residents.
• Jiang Shengnan suggested the town’s safe haven might benefit its residents, but Luo Fan warned that they could not trust the Weird to maintain it forever.
• Luo Fan said he had no plan yet and suspected Jiangkou Town’s Weird had reached rule mastery or was close to breaking through.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan settled into life in Jiangkou Town while learning about its costs and rules, and Jiang Shengnan joined the City Guard. Their comfortable routine ended when an alarm announced that many Weird Nests were approaching the town.

• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan paid one First-Order Weird Crystal for dinner and spent the night on a rooftop, where they talked beneath the stars before Jiang Shengnan fell asleep.
• The next day, Jiang Shengnan joined the City Guard as a battalion captain, while Luo Fan explored the town and learned about its taxes and living conditions.
• Luo Fan used his daily check-in funds to buy supplies for the Aerospace Base and Greenedge Base, then found a house and cooked for himself.
• After several days in Jiangkou Town, Luo Fan made dinner at home, but a Weird shriek and loudspeaker warning announced that a large number of Weird Nests were approaching.

A massive Weird tide attacked Jiangkou Town, and its Sequence Users organized a defense while Luo Fan stayed among the ordinary survivors. After hearing that the town had endured several attacks despite its powerful rule-type Weird, Luo Fan wondered whether the Weird was secretly orchestrating them but could not explain why it had killed a previous attacker.

• Luo Fan saw thousands of Weird, including third-tier One-Eyed Giants, approaching Jiangkou Town as guards and independent Sequence Users gathered to defend it.
• Jiang Shengnan led her hundred-person guard squad to the defensive line and exchanged a glance with Luo Fan.
• A command-type Sequence User directed the defenders as they prepared traps and unleashed ranged attacks against the first wave of Weird.
• Luo Fan followed the ordinary survivors to the town center and asked a resident why Weird attacked a place considered safe.
• The resident said this was Jiangkou Town's fourth attack in a month and recalled the lord killing a fourth-tier Weird in one blow.
• Luo Fan questioned why a rule mastery-level Weird would allow repeated attacks, then wondered whether it orchestrated them before becoming puzzled by its having killed an attacker.

As the Weird Tide overwhelmed Jiangkou Town’s defenders, a fourth-tier Soundwave Weird and a deadly Nightmare Nekomata devastated the Sequence Users. A powerful woman finally appeared on a rooftop and confronted the Soundwave Weird.

• Luo Fan watched the battle from among the survivors, waiting to see whether Jiangkou Town’s lord would intervene.
• A fourth-tier Soundwave Weird attacked the town with waves that incapacitated residents and Sequence Users.
• A Nightmare Nekomata turned a third-tier Sequence User’s binding ability against him, then bit off and ate his head.
• The Weird Tide drove the defenders back as the Soundwave Weird continued weakening them from the air.
• A tall woman appeared on a rooftop and shattered the Soundwave Weird’s sound waves with a sharp rebuke.

Jiangkou Town’s qipao-clad Rule Weird killed the fourth-tier Soundwave Weird instantly, sending the Nightmare Nekomata and the rest of the Weird Tide fleeing as the town counterattacked. Elsewhere, the Weird Bride caught up with a human-faced Succubus Spider in a forest.

• The Qipao Female Weird raised her hand, made the Soundwave Weird’s wings disappear, and killed it when it crashed to the ground.
• The Nightmare Nekomata fled, and the rest of the Weird Tide retreated as Jiangkou Town’s Sequence Users charged after them.
• Jiang Shengnan rode her brown bear into the counterattack and killed Weirds with her Charge skill.
• The Qipao Female Weird left the rooftop, while Jiangkou Town’s survivors praised her strength and felt safe under her protection.
• A human-faced Succubus Spider fled through a forest, but its webs vanished as the Weird Bride overtook it and blocked its path.

The Weird Bride killed the Succubus Spider and took its Poison Sac while gathering materials to help Luo Fan advance. In Jiangkou Town, an Underground Giant Beast began swallowing survivors, and Luo Fan revealed his powers to attack it.

• The Weird Bride dodged the Succubus Spider's attacks, aged it to death, and took its Poison Sac.
• The Underground Giant Beast collapsed the ground beneath Jiangkou Town and swallowed survivors.
• Survivors pleaded with Luo Fan for help, and he decided to act after realizing they had seen him use Spirit Void Step.
• Luo Fan summoned Black Bird, enchanted a Pear Blossom Needle Storm, and marked the Underground Giant Beast with steel needles.
• Luo Fan used Sealing Trap to immobilize the Underground Giant Beast, then fired his Weird Gun with Triple Shot.

Luo Fan killed a fourth-tier Burrowing Rock Crocodile Beast in Jiangkou Town, drawing the attention of the Qipao Weird. After learning he was a Lv30 Hunter Sequence user, she suspected he had mastered a rule-type skill, and Luo Fan tried to redirect her attention to his Weird Gun.

• Luo Fan used his abilities and crystal-energy bullets to kill the Burrowing Rock Crocodile Beast, stopping the collapse and saving the survivors who had been falling underground.
• The survivors praised Luo Fan, while the Qipao Weird arrived and asked him to come with her.
• Luo Fan followed the Qipao Weird to the Registration Building and told her he had recently arrived in town and concealed his status when registering.
• Luo Fan said he was a Lv30 Hunter Sequence user, and the Qipao Weird noted that he had killed a Lv42 beast with ease.
• The Qipao Weird concluded that Luo Fan had a rule-type skill, so he denied it and showed her his rule-type uncanny artifact, the Weird Gun.

Luo Fan impressed the Qipao Weird by killing a fourth-tier Fierce Beast and was appointed captain of the Guard Team’s third team. Afterward, he and Jiang Shengnan discussed the Qipao Weird’s ability and planned to learn more about her past actions.

• The Qipao Weird inspected Luo Fan’s +8 Weird Gun, recognized his strength, and appointed him captain of the third team.
• Luo Fan left the Registration Building relieved that his rule-type skill had not been exposed and considered how his new position might help him learn about the Qipao Weird.
• Jiang Shengnan asked Luo Fan about the battle, and he told her how the Qipao Weird had caused the Soundwave Weird’s wings to retract before it fell to its death.
• Luo Fan asked Jiang Shengnan to find out how often the Qipao Weird had intervened during previous Weird Tides and what had happened each time.
• Luo Fan planned to meet the third team the next day and wondered whether he would need to fight to establish authority over its members.

Luo Fan arrived to take command of Jiangkou Town’s Third Guard Team, and the members recognized his fame as a hero and accepted him as captain. Elsewhere, the Qipao Weird watched him through a crystal ball and called him cunning.

• The Third Guard Team gathered to await a new captain after its previous captain died during the Weird Tide.
• Luo Fan arrived at the sports field with Black Bird, and a guard who remembered his registration questioned how he could be captain when he had not awakened a Sequence then.
• Xu Si recognized Luo Fan as the hero who had killed the One-Eyed Giant and helped turn the tide at the Yi City Battlefield.
• The team’s two Second-Tier Sequence Users saluted Luo Fan, and the other members followed their lead in accepting him as captain.
• The Qipao Weird watched Luo Fan and the team through a crystal ball and remarked that he was cunning.

Luo Fan hosted the other Guard Team captains for dinner, hoping to learn more about Jiangkou Town while rumors spread that he might be a Fourth-Tier Sequence User. Cao Man and Yan Qiu arrived and were astonished by the pre-apocalypse food he served, then asked where he had obtained it.

• Dongfang Yu and Xiao Huohuo introduced their Lightning Apostle and Frost Warlock sequences, and Luo Fan sent the Third Guard Team out on its usual patrols.
• Jiang Shengnan invited Cao Man and Yan Qiu to dinner at Luo Fan's lodging so he could try to draw information from them.
• Luo Fan bought baijiu and beer and prepared pork, eggs, and fish for his guests.
• Rumors spread through Jiangkou Town that Luo Fan might be a Fourth-Tier Sequence User after he killed a Fourth-Tier Fierce Beast.
• Cao Man and Yan Qiu arrived, admired Luo Fan's dishes, and asked where he had gotten the pork, eggs, and fish.

Luo Fan questioned Cao Man and Yan Qiu about Jiangkou Town’s attacks and the Qipao Weird’s interventions. Their accounts made him suspect that her ability was not quite what it seemed.

• Luo Fan shared braised pork and baijiu with Cao Man, Yan Qiu, and Jiang Shengnan, and they revealed their sequence levels.
• Cao Man said he had lived in Jiangkou Town for over two months and that the town had suffered six attacks, with attacks becoming more frequent lately.
• Cao Man and Yan Qiu recounted how the Qipao Weird had intervened four times, killing three fourth-tier threats and a third-tier Weird Moth.
• Cao Man described the Qipao Weird shrinking a One-Eyed Giant, killing a Fog Bat in obscuring fog, turning the Weird Moth into a worm, and making a Soundwave Weird lose its wings.
• Luo Fan noticed that the Qipao Weird’s ability seemed inconsistent with what he had expected.

Luo Fan proposed that the Qipao Weird might lower her targets' sequence levels rather than simply change their forms, and that her ability might have a long cooldown. Jiang Shengnan agreed the theories were plausible but insisted they needed proof, so Luo Fan said they should find a way to test them.

• After Cao Man and Yan Qiu left, Jiang Shengnan concluded that the Qipao Weird could control changes to other beings' forms.
• Luo Fan questioned why the Qipao Weird had shrunk the One-Eyed Giant and turned the Weird Moth into a worm instead of making them lose limbs or wings.
• Luo Fan suggested that the Qipao Weird's ability lowered her targets' sequence levels, causing their bodies to change accordingly.
• Luo Fan proposed that she could affect only one fourth-tier target at a time and might have waited for her ability's cooldown before appearing near the Burrowing Rock Crocodile Beast.
• Jiang Shengnan said Luo Fan's explanations were still theories and asked how they could test them, and Luo Fan said they needed to find a way.

Luo Fan waited in Jiangkou Town for a chance to test the Qipao Weird’s ability while worrying about the Weird Bride and his companions in the Hope Convoy. He Xing predicted a Weird Tide two nights later involving two fourth-tier Weirds and a fourth-tier Fierce Beast, giving Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan the opportunity they needed.

• Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan failed to find a way to test the Qipao Weird’s ability, and Jiang Shengnan contacted the Aerospace Base for advice.
• Luo Fan spent two more days enjoying Jiangkou Town while thinking about the Weird Bride, the Hope Convoy, and the difficulty of attracting fourth-tier creatures.
• Xiao Huohuo summoned Luo Fan to the Resident Registration Office, where the Qipao Weird introduced the astrologer He Xing.
• He Xing predicted that a new Weird Nest and a Weird Tide would strike Jiangkou Town two nights later, bringing two fourth-tier Weirds and a fourth-tier Fierce Beast.
• Cao Man and Yan Qiu asked Luo Fan whether he could handle one of the powerful creatures.

Luo Fan revealed that he was still at Sequence Level Lv30 and said his advancement requirements were difficult, then explained that a rule-type uncanny artifact helped him defeat stronger enemies. As the group discussed the coming Weird Tide, they worried that Her Ladyship might not be able to handle several fourth-tier Weirds in succession.

• Cao Man, Yan Qiu, and He Xing were surprised when Luo Fan said he had not advanced to the third tier, and the Qipao Weird confirmed his Sequence Level was Lv30.
• Luo Fan declined to explain his difficult advancement requirements and said his rule-type uncanny artifact had helped him kill a fourth-tier Fierce Beast.
• The Qipao Weird dismissed Luo Fan and the others after telling them to discuss a battle plan for the attack two days later.
• At a restaurant, Luo Fan said Her Ladyship had killed fourth-tier Weirds effortlessly before, but admitted he did not know whether his artifact could work the same way again.
• Cao Man and Yan Qiu suggested Her Ladyship might not be able to act repeatedly, leaving the group worried that some fourth-tier Weirds could remain unhandled.

The Weird Bride killed the Flame Lion-Tiger Beast and collected the third of the four materials Luo Fan needed to advance. In Jiangkou Town, Luo Fan and the Guard Team captains discussed the coming Weird Tide and confronted the possibility that the town could not withstand the attacks much longer.

• The Weird Bride killed the Flame Lion-Tiger Beast and cut off its fire-element claws, bringing her collection to three of Luo Fan's four needed materials.
• Luo Fan, Jiang Shengnan, Cao Man, Yan Qiu, and the other captains discussed how they might face three fourth-tier enemies and the accompanying third-tier attackers in the Weird Tide due in two days.
• Luo Fan questioned why their lady kept defending Jiangkou Town as the Weird Tides grew more frequent and powerful.
• Yan Qiu agreed that Jiangkou Town seemed like a leaking ship sinking toward destruction, even if it survived the coming attack.

Luo Fan and Jiang Shengnan discussed the approaching Weird Tide and concluded that the Qipao Weird might have created Jiangkou Town to study humans facing death. They considered seeking help from the Aerospace Base but paused over the danger of the residents’ twenty-four-hour rule, suspecting their jade residency tokens enforced it.

• Cao Man and the others prepared Jiangkou Town’s defenses and notified the two independent Third-Tier Sequence Users about the approaching Weird Tide.
• Luo Fan told Jiang Shengnan that the Qipao Weird might be letting Jiangkou Town face increasingly powerful attacks to observe its residents’ deaths.
• Jiang Shengnan proposed contacting the Aerospace Base to rescue Jiangkou Town’s thousands of residents, as they had rescued survivors at the Yi City Battlefield.
• Luo Fan warned that residents might die if they left Jiangkou Town for more than twenty-four hours, and they did not know whether defeating the Qipao Weird would free them.
• Jiang Shengnan showed Luo Fan her jade residency token, and they suspected it bound residents to Jiangkou Town and decided to seek witnesses who knew what happened to anyone who had tried to leave.