Recaps

Lu Xiao ambushed the soldiers who entered Boss Liu’s villa through a wall, killing many of them while Dart’s squad waited outside. After Lu Xiao emerged carrying the mirror, two members of the squad suddenly collapsed and convulsed.

• Boss Liu asked the special operations soldiers to kill him, but they left him alive and took the Magic Mirror.
• Dart’s Cityfire Squad attacked the villa’s front entrance, but the soldiers inside escaped through a hole blasted in the wall.
• Lu Xiao ambushed the soldiers as they emerged, dodging their gunfire and killing them with brutal attacks.
• Lu Xiao stuffed an exploding grenade into a soldier’s mouth, then came out carrying the mirror after three minutes had passed.
• Two squad members collapsed and began convulsing.

Dart identified the Marionette, a contained entity that assimilated anyone nearby who stopped moving their hands, and Lu Xiao resisted its control with the Alchemy Array in his bones. Lu Xiao used the Bone Spur to knock out Xiao Yu and the J01 Prison Warden team, but he ended the chapter surrounded by gunfire with the Bone Spur stuck in a soldier's chest.

• Dart recognized Sequence 137 - Marionette as the team members collapsed, and Xiao Yu warned Lu Xiao that everyone within fifty meters had to keep both hands moving.
• The Marionette took control of Dart and the others, but Lu Xiao's Alchemy Array let him bend a finger and interrupt the assimilation until Xiao Yu tackled him.
• Xiao Yu identified the seven armed figures as J01's Prison Warden team, who were carrying the Marionette in a small wooden coffin.
• Lu Xiao stabbed his thigh with the Bone Spur, and its azure gemstone emitted a white halo that knocked out Xiao Yu and the J01 soldiers while leaving the assimilated team members standing.
• Lu Xiao crawled through gunfire and grenades toward the J01 team, pierced one soldier's heart with the Bone Spur, and found himself unable to pull it free as every gun turned toward him.

Lu Xiao and the Cityfire Squad survived the String Puppet’s attack and took the puppet into custody. The Cleaners erased the evidence at Liu Mingsheng’s villa and prepared to send him to the Containment Facility as an expendable.

• Lu Xiao defeated J01’s seven Prison Warden soldiers, seized the String Puppet, and moved away until the squad recovered.
• Dart ordered the squad to guard against the String Puppet, learned Liu Mingsheng was alive, and told Sly to keep him for the Cleaners.
• Lu Xiao returned with the String Puppet, and the Cityfire Squad credited Xiao Yu and the captain with helping them escape its control.
• Dart drove the squad and the contained objects away in an ambulance while Sly handed Liu Mingsheng over to the Cleaners.
• The Cleaners dissolved the remains, restored the villa, and pressed Liu Mingsheng’s fingerprint onto a written confession.

The Cleaner persuaded Liu Mingsheng to become a volunteer by promising him a chance to live, while the Doctor questioned the Omniscient Mirror at the Containment Facility. The Doctor sacrificed an assistant to learn that humanity’s technological breakthrough required sacrificing a god, then turned to Lu Xiao and asked whether he had any questions.

• The Cleaner told Liu Mingsheng that he could avoid death if he stayed somewhere for thirty days, and Liu Mingsheng signed the volunteer agreement.
• The Doctor asked the Omniscient Mirror how humanity could advance its technology and sacrificed an assistant’s brain to learn the answer’s price.
• The Omniscient Mirror said the technological breakthrough required sacrificing a god, then offered to identify which god in exchange for one million lives.
• The Doctor resisted the offer and told the staff that the assistant had been linked to Liuguang’s Ghost-Faced Moth infestation, though they questioned his actions.
• The Doctor declined to ask the Mirror another question and asked Lu Xiao whether he had anything he wanted to know.

Lu Xiao questioned the Omniscient Mirror about his world, its history, and the curse inside him, learning that his world was real and that the eras stretched back thousands of years. The Mirror revealed that explaining how to remove his curse would require sacrificing the entire Present World, leaving Lu Xiao to cling to the Prison Doctor’s belief that another solution existed.

• Lu Xiao paid a fingernail for the Omniscient Mirror to confirm that his current world was the one he originally came from.
• Lu Xiao paid another fingernail to learn that the Near-Ancient Era ended 1,300 years ago, the Medieval Era ran from over 3,300 to over 1,800 years ago, and the Ancient Era came before it.
• The Doctor sent the staff away for F-Class Memory Erasure and disconnected surveillance before Lu Xiao continued questioning the Mirror.
• Lu Xiao asked how to remove his curse, and the Mirror said the answer would cost the entire Present World.
• The Doctor reminded Lu Xiao that Sequence 069 believed the Present World held a solution, and Lu Xiao rejected sacrificing the world for the answer.

Lu Xiao learned that he had existed for more than a thousand years and that recovering his lost memories could break his curse. The Doctor secured the Omniscient Mirror, refused to return the String Puppet to J01, and learned that the Saints were behind the special operations team.

• Lu Xiao asked what had happened during the thousand-plus years since he fell into the Dark Prison, and the Omniscient Mirror confirmed that he had existed throughout that time.
• The Doctor deduced that Lu Xiao's curse arose during those years and that recovering his forgotten memories was the key to breaking it.
• The Doctor refused J01's demand to return Sequence 137, the String Puppet, and demanded Sequence 012-Pen in exchange.
• The Doctor recorded the Omniscient Mirror's properties and left Lu Xiao's containment information unchanged.
• The Doctor learned that Sequence 097-Corrupted Revolver had been secured and that the Saints were behind the special operations team.

The Doctor discussed the Prison Wardens’ investigation and an upcoming conference, while Dart’s squad visited Lu Xiao and learned that he had only a year before the curse turned him into mindless rotten flesh. As Lu Xiao remained unsure whether to sacrifice the Present World for the Omniscient Mirror’s cure, Dart urged him to seek the Prison Doctor’s advice.

• The Doctor learned that an investigation into the U01 Containment Facility was underway and was warned that the Standing Management Council might target him at the Round Table Conference over Sequence 09.
• Dart led his squad to visit Lu Xiao, and the members saluted him in gratitude for saving their lives.
• Lu Xiao told the squad that the Prison Doctor had given him one year before his curse turned him into mindless rotten flesh.
• Lu Xiao revealed that the Omniscient Mirror knew a cure but demanded the sacrifice of the entire Present World in exchange.
• Liuguang urged Lu Xiao to use his remaining year to help humanity, but Lu Xiao said he could not accept his fate and did not know whether to trade for the cure.
• Dart asked whether Lu Xiao had sought the Prison Doctor’s opinion and encouraged him to ask for guidance.

Lu Xiao visited the Prison Doctor for advice about his curse after learning that the Omniscient Mirror demanded the present world as a sacrifice for an answer. The Prison Doctor helped him realize he feared the future, not the choice itself, and that the mirror was only one possible shortcut.

• Lu Xiao left Dart, Sly, and Liuguang to seek the Prison Doctor’s guidance.
• The Prison Doctor diagnosed an expendable with kidney deficiency and removed both kidneys without anesthetic, while Lu Xiao assisted and discussed the procedure.
• After the operation, Lu Xiao told the Prison Doctor that the Omniscient Mirror had offered to resolve his curse in exchange for the present world.
• The Prison Doctor asked whether Lu Xiao truly wanted to sacrifice the world, and Lu Xiao instinctively refused.
• The Prison Doctor explained that Lu Xiao was afraid of becoming mindless and of the future, and that the mirror was only one shortcut among possible answers.
• Lu Xiao realized he had mistaken the mirror for the solution the Prison Doctor had advised him to seek and apologized for neglecting that advice.

Lu Xiao accepted a containment mission and met Dante, a Sacrificial One who explained their role and handed him a mercury-bullet handgun. As they drove away, Lu Xiao defended the Prison Doctor’s medical advice, leaving Dante amused by how well the two seemed to get along.

• The Prison Doctor warned Lu Xiao not to use the Bone Spur recklessly, and Lu Xiao promised to save it for when he was in danger.
• The Doctor assigned Lu Xiao a containment mission, and researcher Li Haiqun gave him an Accessibility Communicator and a Prison Warden System Carrier.
• Lu Xiao rode an ambulance with Dante, who introduced himself as a Sacrificial One and gave him a handgun loaded with mercury bullets.
• Dante said the Prison Doctor had diagnosed him with lung cancer and recommended surgery to remove his lung lobes.
• Lu Xiao insisted the Prison Doctor’s diagnosis was reliable, and Dante remarked that Lu Xiao and the Prison Doctor clearly got along.

Lu Xiao and Dante investigated an orange taxi whose passengers had disappeared, boarding it to discover where it took them. The driver began telling them about his dead wife, but Lu Xiao’s interruptions enraged him, and the driver attacked Lu Xiao with a knife.

• Dante told Lu Xiao their mission was to investigate the missing passengers and contain the taxi.
• Dante and Lu Xiao staged a vehicle breakdown and flagged down an orange taxi, which locked its doors and drove off without asking their destination.
• The driver played a love song and tried to tell them about his beautiful dead wife, while Lu Xiao repeatedly interrupted him.
• The driver recounted how he had married his wife despite their friends’ doubts and ignored her contact with her ex.
• After Lu Xiao called the driver a simp, the driver stopped the taxi, grabbed a knife, and thrust it toward Lu Xiao’s heart.

Lu Xiao and Dante subdued the anomalous taxi driver and discovered that the taxi ran on human flesh and blood. Lu Xiao suspected the car carried the scent of a powerful Higher Being, and he took the driver and taxi back while Dante drove the ambulance.

• Lu Xiao stopped the driver's knife with his aura, and Dante held the driver at gunpoint.
• The driver admitted he had killed his passengers and fed their bodies to the taxi.
• The driver showed Lu Xiao and Dante the flesh engine beneath the taxi's hood and said he had found the car in Prison.
• Lu Xiao sensed the scent of another, extremely powerful anomalous creature on the car and concluded the driver was not its true owner.
• Dante contacted the Doctor, who ordered him to bring 292 back, and Lu Xiao decided to drive the taxi and its driver back himself.
• Lu Xiao asked about the driver's beautiful wife, and the driver said she had died and that he was a toad.

At the C03 Containment Facility, Lu Xiao and the Doctor investigated a taxi that had escaped the Dark Prison and discovered it could feed on people and transform into vehicles. After Dante took it for a spin through Magic City, Lu Xiao got behind the wheel despite having failed his second driving test.

• The Doctor questioned the driver about the taxi, and Lu Xiao said he had never seen humans or a Gate in the part of the Dark Prison where he lived.
• The driver opened the trunk to reveal a monstrous mouth, which ate a disposable and made the taxi’s engine roar.
• The driver demonstrated that the taxi could change shape, first turning it into an Aima electric scooter.
• Dante transformed the scooter into a Raptor pickup, and he, Lu Xiao, the Doctor, and the driver took it onto the streets of Magic City.
• Lu Xiao asked to drive, admitted he had no license because he got stuck on the second driving test, and the traffic light turned green.

Lu Xiao drove the Doctor, Dante, and a taxi driver away from pursuing police by teleporting their pickup to the C03 Containment Facility. The Doctor classified the vehicle as Sequence 302 and the driver as Sequence 303, leaving Lu Xiao to welcome the driver as a new comrade.

• Lu Xiao sped through Magic City in the pickup, ignored the Doctor's order to pull over, and escaped the police by teleporting to the C03 Containment Facility.
• The Doctor recorded the pickup as Sequence 302-Vehicle, an anomaly that teleported and required flesh and blood or anomalous power to run.
• The driver explained that his missing taxi passengers had been criminals, and the assistant confirmed that the victims had criminal records.
• After the driver revealed that he could drive, the Doctor classified him as Sequence 303-Driver and ordered staff to contain him.
• Lu Xiao showed the driver his Sequence 292-Lost Person badge and solemnly welcomed him as a comrade.

Driver passed the Box Experiment and became Lu Xiao’s new friend, though he remained terrified of Prison Doctor and Ivan. Meanwhile, Doctor received Sequence 097, the Cursed Toy Gunpowder Pistol, and prepared for the Round Table Conference while studying Lu Xiao’s growing stem cells.

• Driver passed the seven-day Box Experiment without leaving the first room, and Lu Xiao gave him a name badge.
• Lu Xiao introduced Driver to Prison Doctor and Ivan, but Driver was too frightened to accept Prison Doctor’s offer of a free examination.
• After Lu Xiao and Driver left, Ivan and Prison Doctor sensed an unusual aura from Driver and discussed their concern about Lu Xiao.
• Doctor received Sequence 097, the Cursed Toy Gunpowder Pistol, and ordered it kept in lead containment because it rotted anyone who touched it and harmed its wielder with each shot.
• Doctor examined Lu Xiao’s growing, writhing hematopoietic stem cells as the tablet announced that the Round Table Conference was about to begin.

Doctor attended the Round Table Conference, where he discussed possible trades involving 137 and 292 and the challenge of keeping 301 with Warden and Director. The meeting then reviewed the U01 investigation, and Smith accepted responsibility for the facility’s negligence and offered to be punished.

• Doctor met his mentor, Warden, who advised him to trade 137 for benefits and discussed the challenge of keeping 301.
• Director asked Doctor to name a price for 292, but Doctor refused to trade it or share its research results.
• A councilor began the Round Table Conference and presented the findings of the investigation into U01 and Enzo.
• Smith apologized for U01’s negligence, thanked Doctor, and said the personnel involved had been investigated.
• Smith offered to accept punishment under the Warden Regulations, and the councilor praised his sense of responsibility.

The Doctor suspected the Gate was failing as Anomalies appeared more frequently, then refused to transfer 301 until the Standing Management Council forced the motion through a vote. He secured compensation for its containment, and the meeting turned to a dispute over ownership of 09, the Contaminated Creator.

• The Doctor told the Warden and the Director that 292’s survival in the Dark Prison and rising Anomaly numbers suggested the Gate’s properties were failing, possibly because it had been contaminated.
• The Councilor praised the Doctor for containing 301 and asked him to let the Standing Management Council take charge of it, but the Doctor refused under the Warden Regulations.
• Artisan argued that 301’s importance justified breaking the regulations, and the Councilor held a vote that overwhelmingly approved its transfer.
• The Doctor agreed to share 301 after requesting compensation for the cost of containing it, and the Councilor approved the request.
• The Councilor began the next agenda item, a dispute over ownership of 09, the Contaminated Creator, at the Doctor’s C03 Containment Facility.

At the council meeting, Adam accused C03 and the Doctor of mishandling contained entities and used videos to press for the transfer of serial number 09. The Doctor exposed the Artisan's false account of serial number 137, but the first accusation remained unanswered as the Councilor asked whether he would defend himself against it.

• The Councilor said the proposal to transfer serial number 09 to A01 had to go to a vote, while the Doctor rejected the offer and sensed something was wrong.
• Lu Xiao asked the Driver to find materials for name badges for the Prison Doctor and Ivan, and the Driver reluctantly agreed.
• Adam presented videos of contained entity 292 killing Prison Warden soldiers and accused C03 of releasing it; he then had the Artisan accuse the Doctor of taking serial number 137.
• The Doctor said C03's video archives had been deleted but played a recording in which he refused to return the String Puppet after it appeared in C03's territory.
• The Artisan realized Adam had not erased the evidence and fell silent when the Councilor asked him to explain the recording.
• The Councilor asked the Doctor whether he still needed to defend himself against the first video.

The Doctor challenged Adam’s claim that Lu Xiao was dangerous by showing footage of Lu Xiao behaving affectionately toward the Prison Doctor, but Adam persuaded the leaders to approve transferring serial number 09 to A01. The chapter ended as the Councilor moved the meeting on to deciding who would hold serial number 02-Angel.

• The Doctor showed a live feed of Lu Xiao making a badge for the Prison Doctor and argued that serial number 292 was a caring child.
• Adam questioned the Doctor’s ability to contain serial number 09 and argued that A01 should take custody of him.
• The Councilor opened the vote and said an Investigation Team would investigate the possible containment breach at C03.
• Adam privately contacted leaders who had not yet voted, and the votes in favor overtook the votes against.
• The Councilor announced that the motion had passed, and Adam thanked him while the Doctor angrily condemned the result.
• The Councilor began the next agenda item, concerning who would hold serial number 02-Angel.

At the Round Table Conference, He Shang used a council vote to block Adam from taking 09-Polluted Creator, forcing Adam to agree to a private arrangement over 02-Angel. After the meeting collapsed, He Shang and the Doctor discussed the investigation into 292’s containment breach and the Doctor ordered 292 to cooperate with experiments on 097.

• The Council voted to place 02-Angel in C01 Containment Facility’s custody, with over forty percent in favor and the rest abstaining.
• Adam accused He Shang of orchestrating the vote, but He Shang denied involvement and proposed settling the custody issue privately to avoid transporting 02 and 09.
• Adam accepted He Shang’s suggestion, admitted defeat, and logged out after warning that their paths would cross again.
• The Councilors logged out without formally ending the meeting, while the Artisan mocked them as clowns.
• He Shang called the Doctor and told him to handle the follow-up investigation into 292’s containment breach, then asked whether 292 possessed divinity.
• The Doctor said 292’s cellular activity was unusual, and after He Shang ended the call, the Doctor ordered his assistant to tell 292 to cooperate with experiments on 097.

Lu Xiao tested the Cursed Toy Cap Gun with the Doctor and learned that its shots could pierce and destroy targets while randomly removing his flesh and causing extreme fear. After the Doctor warned him to use it sparingly, Lu Xiao took it to the Prison Doctor, whose own test shot left him injured; Ivan then picked up the revolver and fired it too.

• The Doctor gave Lu Xiao the Cursed Toy Cap Gun and explained that it corrupted ordinary people, while its bullets were made from the wielder’s flesh and blood.
• Lu Xiao fired at a steel plate, demonstrating the gun’s piercing and destructive properties, then lost flesh from his leg and neck as the shot’s cost took effect.
• The Doctor had Lu Xiao fire at the Butler, whose body was pierced, destroyed, and corrupted until he vanished.
• The Doctor gave Lu Xiao the revolver, warned him that each shot could bring him closer to death and cause a random extreme fear, and sent him to the Prison Doctor for treatment.
• The Prison Doctor applied medicine to Lu Xiao, then fired the revolver himself and lost the flesh on his thigh.
• Ivan found Lu Xiao and the Prison Doctor injured, picked up the revolver, and fired a shot after it began corrupting his bones.

Lu Xiao, Prison Doctor, and Ivan recovered from their injuries, while Dart developed a strange curse after being exposed to 292’s blood. With the Investigation Team due in two days, Doctor sent Dart into the Dark Prison with Lu Xiao and Driver, where Dart’s mission was to survive.

• Prison Doctor treated Lu Xiao and Ivan, then admitted he had forgotten to warn them about the revolver’s danger.
• Dart grew an eye on the back of his head after scratching it, and Doctor suspected it was linked to 292’s blood.
• Prison Doctor identified Dart’s condition as a curse different from 292’s and said it might even be beneficial.
• Doctor ordered Dart to hide in the Dark Prison before the Investigation Team arrived, and Lu Xiao offered to take him to Chainsaw Uncle.
• Doctor told Lu Xiao, Dart, and Driver to return within two days, and Driver drove them through the Gate into the Dark Prison.

Lu Xiao, Driver, and Dart entered the Dark Prison, where Lu Xiao used his blood to lure Chainsaw Uncle but attracted a huge monster instead. Meanwhile, Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu volunteered to become Sacrificial Ones and began training under Dante.

• Lu Xiao cut his wrist and used his blood scent to try to summon Chainsaw Uncle, while Dart warned that it could attract dangerous creatures.
• At the C03 Containment Facility, Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu volunteered for the Sacrificial Ones, and Dante took charge of training them.
• A massive monster blocked Lu Xiao's vehicle, so Driver teleported the Raptor to another street.
• Lu Xiao told Dart to flee from huge monsters, creatures with many eyes, and tentacled beings, and warned him not to eat food in the Dark Prison.
• The monster tracked the group after their teleport, and the ground began shaking again less than half a minute later.

Lu Xiao stabbed the Bone Spur into his heart as a gigantic monster caught up with him, and the crimson moon’s eye appeared and destroyed the creature. After waking, Lu Xiao reunited with Chainsaw Man, who tried to eat Dart.

• Driver repeatedly teleported the Raptor to escape the pursuing monster, but it found them faster each time and crushed the vehicle with a crushing pressure.
• Lu Xiao stabbed the Bone Spur into his heart, causing the Azure Gem to glow as the monster rushed toward them.
• A gigantic eye opened on the crimson full moon, making Dart faint and causing the monster’s many eyes to burst before it collapsed.
• Lu Xiao and Dart lost consciousness, and the Bone Spur withdrew from Lu Xiao’s chest as the moon’s eye closed.
• Dante put Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu through smoke-filled training and said his own trainer had been called Smoke Gun.
• Lu Xiao woke to find Chainsaw Man preparing to cut up Dart, stopped him by saying Dart was his friend, and heard Chainsaw Man suggest eating Dart anyway.

Lu Xiao reunited with Chainsaw Uncle in the Dark Prison after surviving a monster attack, and the group ate a vampire Chainsaw Uncle had found. Dart's tentacles grew thicker after eating, leaving him questioning whether he still counted as human.

• Lu Xiao gave Chainsaw Uncle a name badge and called him a comrade, then collapsed from blood loss as Driver woke up.
• Chainsaw Uncle went to find food while Driver restored Serial Number 302-Vehicle into a taxi.
• Chainsaw Uncle returned with a vampire, and Lu Xiao told him to cut it into pieces for them to eat.
• Driver and Dart devoured much of the vampire, and Lu Xiao reassured Dart that it had not been transformed from a human.
• Dart's tentacles grew thicker, and he slumped down wondering whether he still counted as human.

Lu Xiao and his companions left the Gate to hunt for local food, while he pondered the Bone Spur and what it had done to the Flesh Mountain Monster. They encountered a rule-type Weird Life, and Driver’s attempt to approach her ended with his neck snapping.

• Lu Xiao reassured Dart that being alive mattered more than whether he was human, then the group got into the taxi and set out to find local specialties.
• After driving far from the Gate, Lu Xiao examined the Bone Spur and asked Dart what had happened after he stabbed himself with it; Dart said he had lost consciousness amid a wave of negative emotions.
• A pale woman in a red dress appeared in front of the taxi, and Driver got out to greet her despite Dart’s warning.
• Lu Xiao recognized the woman as likely a rule-type Weird Life and watched as she clung to Driver’s back, then snapped his neck and disappeared.