Chapter Summaries

Ni Xueqin chose to keep her appearance rather than gain combat power, and Ling Yi led the group to bid farewell to Bai Suzhen before visiting the Heavenly Court. After the others exited, Ling Yi made the simulated world real, changed its rules, and returned to find officials and reporters waiting outside his home.

• Ni Xueqin chose to preserve her current appearance, while Bai Mengyan supported her choice and the group prepared to leave the world.
• Ling Yi and the others said an emotional farewell to Bai Suzhen, then flew toward the Heavenly Court and fled through the Southern Heavenly Gate under pursuit by heavenly soldiers.
• After Bai Mengyan, Ni Xueqin, and Chichi exited, Ling Yi paused the world, spent 100,000 Transmigration Points to make it real, changed its Heavenly Dao rules, and gave Bai Suzhen authority.
• Ling Yi returned to the real world, showed his family a fake status panel, and said he might move them into the sky if the authorities caused trouble.
• Commandery Governor Shi and his aide arrived at the Ling family home, where Ling Zhan challenged their attitude and Ling Yi and the system privately mocked them.

Shi Feng tried to pressure Ling Yi, but Hong Lang, Bai Lang, and Hui Lang detained him and invited Ling Yi to join the Transmigration Administration. Ling Yi declined, chose to keep the Elysium Space Station undeployed, and then asked the system to show him possible worlds, settling on watching 2012 (2).

• Ling Yi used lightning to drive off Shi Feng and his secretary, and Bai Lang restrained Shi Feng when Hong Lang and the others arrived.
• Hong Lang invited Ling Yi to join the Transmigration Administration, but Ling Yi refused and the three left without pressing him.
• The authorities suspected Ling Yi was connected to the transmigration worlds, but decided not to detain him; Ling Yi and his family agreed not to deploy the Elysium Space Station.
• Ni Xueqin called Ling Yi after joining the Transmigration Administration, and later Bai Mengyan and Chichi also called him.
• Ling Yi asked the system to pull up world templates, saw 2012 (2), and decided to watch the sequel.

Ling Yi and Yang Jinli entered a world whose quest was to find the Monna Lisa that could not smile, and they headed into Dafeng City to investigate. Ling Yi realized they had arrived in 2024, twelve years after the disaster in the original 2012 movie, but the city showed no sign of an apocalypse.

• Yang Jinli appeared beside Ling Yi and tearfully described her disastrous previous transmigrations before checking her quest to find the Monna Lisa that could not smile.
• Ling Yi recognized their surroundings as the outskirts of Dafeng City and explained that their 2012 world might be a sequel or a prequel.
• Ling Yi and Yang Jinli took a taxi into the city despite having no money, and the driver mistook Yang Jinli for the celebrity and gave them sunglasses and a mask.
• Ling Yi warned that the taxi camera could cause trouble for the real Yang Jinli if the driver posted footage of them online.
• Ling Yi established that they were in Dafeng City in 2024, twelve years after the original disaster, and said they should settle in and gather information.

Ling Yi and Yang Jinli secured money and documents in Dafeng City, while Wang Lei and Chichi investigated the missing Mona Lisa's Smile in South Shanghai. An elderly man explained that the painting and The Thinker were evidence of overlapping mirror-image spacetimes, and revealed that humanity had used this method to survive 2012 before abruptly leaving after a disturbing message.

• Ling Yi used the Infinite Resource Copy System to obtain gold bars, sold some, and helped Yang Jinli acquire genuine-looking identification; they bought phones and booked a luxury hotel in Dafeng City.
• Wang Lei met Chichi in South Shanghai and explained that he had redeemed the artificial intelligence Will to help them gather information about their unfamiliar world.
• Wang Lei and Chichi went to the South Shanghai Art Exhibition Hall to investigate the Mona Lisa's Smile and noticed that The Thinker differed from their memories.
• They found that the displayed Monna Lisa looked sorrowful rather than smiling, and an elderly man identified the painting and The Thinker as objects bearing the shared imprints of overlapping mirror-image spacetimes.
• The elderly man told Wang Lei and Chichi that humanity had used overlapping mirror-image spacetimes to survive 2012, but that the method only treated the symptoms; then he received a message, hurried away, and left them stunned.

Wang Lei and Chichi tracked down Dr. Qi Yun, completed the first two quest stages, and learned that his Overlap Loop Device had delayed a world-ending disaster by twelve years. Qi Yun explained that the device needed a rare person to carry it into mirror spacetime, but their candidate had just died in a car accident.

• Wang Lei asked Will to investigate Qi Yun and redeemed nanofactors for Will to control, while Ling Yi and Yang Jinli stocked up on supplies.
• Will discovered that the original Mona Lisa paintings were with Qi Yun in South Shanghai, and Wang Lei and Chichi went to find him.
• Wang Lei and Chichi completed the quests to find the Mona Lisa that did not smile and Dr. Qi Yun, then underwent Qi Yun's examination.
• Qi Yun found no spacetime imprints on Wang Lei or Chichi, and Wang Lei told him they had come from another spacetime.
• Qi Yun explained that he had used an Overlap Loop Device to postpone the 2012 disaster by twelve years, and that the disaster would return in a month.
• Qi Yun said the device required a special person to carry it into mirror spacetime, but the candidate they had found had died in a car accident.

Dr. Qi Yun explained that mirror people could extend a Space-Time Overlap enough to create a backward loop, potentially letting humanity skip the 2012 disaster, and asked Wang Lei and Chichi to help. After they were locked in the research base, Wang Lei said they should search for overlap objects, while Ling Yi and Yang Jinli prepared to go abroad to steal them.

• Dr. Qi Yun explained the Doomsday Organization’s beliefs and how longer overlap loops could reach a future beyond the disaster and allow a backward loop.
• Dr. Qi Yun said mirror people determined the overlap’s length, described the two kinds, and asked Wang Lei and Chichi to become mirror people using the last device.
• Wang Lei warned that the post-disaster world might be worse than expected, and he and Chichi asked for time to consider the request.
• Dr. Qi Yun had Wang Lei and Chichi confined at the research base for their protection, and they discussed how the doctor might need them to carry out his plan.
• Wang Lei said the Mandela effect could help them locate overlap objects and revealed that he had contacted Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi read Wang Lei’s message, told Yang Jinli they were going abroad that afternoon, and said they would rob things.

Ling Yi and Yang Jinli found the remaining spacetime-overlap objects while Ling Yi caused chaos in American. After Wang Lei and Chichi activated the loop device to travel to the mirror spacetime, the original objects burned away, erasing the last traces of the previous overlap.

• Ling Yi and Yang Jinli identified nine possible locations for the final three spacetime-overlap objects, and Ling Yi retrieved the original Thinker Statue from Pudun University.
• Two American officers confronted Ling Yi and Yang Jinli, and Ling Yi kicked them aside before disguising them both in black armor and masks.
• Ling Yi’s zero-dollar shopping spree swept through American, taking goods, vehicles, weapons, aircraft, and aircraft carriers.
• Wang Lei and Chichi received the final mission to travel to the mirror spacetime and destroy the loop device before August 30, 2124.
• Dr. Qi Yun completed the backward-loop device, and Wang Lei and Chichi activated it in a sealed chamber while the authorities saluted them.
• The original Mona Lisa's Smile, Thinker Statue, Syrian Peace Agreement, and musical score burned to ash as Wang Lei and Chichi disappeared.

Ling Yi, Wang Lei, Chichi, and Yang Jinli arrived in a desert in 2060 and analyzed the film world's disasters and their quest to destroy the Spacetime Overlap Loop Device. They discovered that a meteorite had smashed half the moon, and a convoy approached as they prepared for trouble.

• Chichi explained that the group had arrived in 2060, and Yang Jinli brought out an RV so they could escape the heat.
• Wang Lei and Chichi reviewed Dr. Qi Yun's spacetime research and considered why their quest required destroying the device, while Ling Yi insisted the system and its quests were righteous.
• Chichi and Wang Lei noted that the planet's endless desert could not be explained by the temporary disasters of 2012 and suspected a catastrophe from space.
• The group saw that half the moon had been destroyed, and Wang Lei concluded a meteorite had struck it.
• A convoy approached through the sand, and Ling Yi said he had weapons ready as Chichi warned that the newcomers might be hostile.

Ling Yi explained how the Loop Devices could enable endless mirror-spacetime overlaps and wars, but the group chose to restore the devastated world with their cheats rather than keep analyzing the mechanics. They planned to use Will’s Nanofactor Technology, while the meaning and scope of the main and hidden quests remained uncertain.

• Chichi and Wang Lei defeated a hundred-strong team with rapid-fire cannons, then questioned the survivors and learned that decades of disasters and fighting had devastated the world.
• Wang Lei and Ling Yi discussed how the comet, the mirror spacetime, and the Loop Devices could cause endless overlaps and make spacetime invasion possible.
• Ling Yi laid out the conditions for a spacetime war and explained that overlapping spacetimes could deter invaders by destroying resources on both sides.
• The group decided to stop overthinking and restore life to the world using Will’s Nanofactor Technology, with plans to create modified humans and an army.
• Yang Jinli questioned whether destroying the Loop Device meant destroying every copy across all spacetimes, and Ling Yi dismissed that as an impossible interpretation of the quests.

After restoring the Ancient Country, Ling Yi and his companions prepared to leave the 2012 (2) world, giving Will to the three Dr. Qi Yuns and testing whether learned knowledge could return with them. Back in the real world, Wang Lei and the others decided to deploy Elysium, while Ling Yi accidentally revealed that he supported using its space battleships to deter other countries.

• Chichi served the three Dr. Qi Yuns a meal and explained that their repeated attempts to overlap spacetimes could undo the recovery work.
• Will welcomed Chichi and the doctors, then revealed that Ling Yi, Wang Lei, and Yang Jinli had returned with a pleasant surprise.
• Ling Yi gave Will to the three Dr. Qi Yuns, and Wang Lei said they would have to check in the real world whether their technological knowledge had carried over.
• Ling Yi and his companions exited the world, leaving the three Dr. Qi Yuns behind.
• Ling Li told Ling Yi that viewers suspected he controlled the transmigration worlds, but he denied it and sent her to school.
• Wang Lei called Ling Yi about deploying Elysium, and Ling Yi endorsed using its space battleships before realizing he had exposed his knowledge; Wang Lei and the others decided to deploy it anyway.

Ling Yi sent Bai Mengyan, Ni Xueqin, and Yang Jinli to visit Bai Suzhen in the Lady White Snake world while he watched sequel-world films. After five days with Bai Suzhen, the three women began to worry that Ling Yi had forgotten them as the next transmigration approached.

• Ling Yi refused Bai Mengyan's demands to join another transmigration, and she arrived at his home with Ni Xueqin and Yang Jinli to visit Bai Suzhen and probe their connection to him.
• Ling Yi asked the system for sequel-world and cheat templates, then spent the evening watching the Resident Evil 9 template.
• At Bai Mengyan's request, Ling Yi paid 300,000 Transmigration Points to send her, Ni Xueqin, and Yang Jinli into the Lady White Snake world.
• The three women reunited with Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian, and Bai Suzhen welcomed them, fed them, and took them sightseeing.
• After five days in Bai Suzhen's world, Ni Xueqin worried that Ling Yi had forgotten them, with the next transmigration only two days away.

Ling Yi entered Resident Evil 9 (Civilization) with the Monster-Slaying Level-Up System, then left after spotting Yanwang and Hua Aifa. Yanwang and Hua Aifa faced a crowd of snake people, and Yanwang used Nanite Transformation to arm himself before launching an attack.

• Ling Yi selected Resident Evil 9 (Civilization) and received the Monster-Slaying Level-Up System as his golden finger.
• Ling Yi arrived beside a river, recognized Yanwang and Hua Aifa across it, and turned away.
• Hua Aifa called out to Ling Yi, but Yanwang stopped him and warned that they might attract danger.
• A group of snake people emerged from the river and accused Yanwang and Hua Aifa of crossing their boundary.
• Yanwang redeemed Nanite Transformation, formed a watermelon knife, and challenged the snake people as Brother Huaqiang.
• Yanwang slashed at a snake person beside him.

Yanwang escaped the snake-men with Hua Aifa, while Ling Yi killed the pursuing monsters and gained levels, points, and two skills. Yanwang returned to Ling Yi and speculated that intelligent mutant creatures and zombies might have formed their own civilizations.

• Yanwang killed one snake-man, then carried Hua Aifa through the encirclement as the remaining monsters watched.
• Hua Aifa urged Yanwang to kill the monsters, so Yanwang dropped him and fled; the snake-men tore Hua Aifa apart while Ling Yi watched from a tree.
• Ling Yi charged the snake-men with the Thunder-Slaying Sword and killed them all, gaining points and levels and obtaining Healing Technique and Shadow Step.
• Yanwang returned to the battlefield and asked Ling Yi to look out for him, then suggested that intelligent mutant creatures and zombies might have established civilizations.

Ling Yi and Yanwang followed a river out of the forest, while Bai Mengyan, Yang Jinli, and Ni Xueqin studied a stone city and planned an ambush. After hours of waiting, the women spotted a zombie approaching their hiding place and prepared to attack.

• Ling Yi and Yanwang agreed to follow the river out of the forest and left Hua Aifa unmentioned.
• Bai Mengyan, Yang Jinli, and Ni Xueqin observed a vast stone city inhabited by beastfolk and concluded that the world’s civilization relied on advanced viral technology.
• Ni Xueqin chose a quiet southern mountain road for an ambush, and the three women waited there for hours without seeing anyone.
• Yang Jinli exchanged for a Nanofactor modification, Bai Mengyan obtained the Eight Trigrams Disc, and Ni Xueqin acquired the Demon-Slaying Sword before assigning their ambush roles.
• Bai Mengyan noticed a figure approaching the mountain road, and Ni Xueqin realized it was a zombie and ordered the others to attack.

Ni Xueqin, Yang Jinli, and Bai Mengyan killed an intelligent zombie, escaped pursuing half-orcs, and learned that humanity had dwindled to a handful of territories in 2193. They discovered that their captive was an Ada Wong clone, who agreed to guide them, while Ni Xueqin invented a story about their Reincarnation Base and its missing administrator.

• Yang Jinli unleashed her nanofactors to kill the airborne zombie, gaining two levels and a skill book as the zombie’s sack fell to the ground.
• Ni Xueqin grabbed the sack, and the women escaped the approaching half-orcs in a Hummer that Yang Jinli unlocked and drove downhill.
• Yang Jinli used the Hummer’s systems to learn that they were in Southern Mexico in 2193, with only four human territories remaining worldwide.
• Ni Xueqin opened the sack and found a woman resembling Ada Wong, who revealed she was a cloned cyborg and agreed to guide them.
• Ni Xueqin told Ada Wong that the women came from Reincarnation Base and were searching for their missing eldest senior brother and a way to recharge the base.
• Ada Wong accepted Ni Xueqin’s explanation and asked whether the missing eldest senior brother was human.

Ada Wong explained how the T-virus and G-virus led to the rise of zombies and half-beastmen, and why the collapsing genes of every surviving race made natural humans essential to the world’s survival. After Yang Jinli killed a group of zombies, Ada proposed testing whether Ni Xueqin and her companions were natural humans.

• Ada Wong explained that Umbrella revived its power by selling controllable T19 and G22 viruses, while Alice and Ada resisted the corporation and used the viruses to survive.
• Ada Wong said Umbrella’s T199 escaped control, creating intelligent zombies and half-beastmen and accelerating the evolution of other organisms.
• Ada Wong revealed that humans, zombies, and half-beastmen were suffering genetic collapse and needed natural humans’ stable genes to survive.
• Yang Jinli stopped the car, killed more than a dozen zombies with a cloud of gray smoke, and returned to drive on.
• Ni Xueqin suggested that she and her companions might not be natural humans, and Ada Wong offered to test them.

Ada Wong confirmed that Ni Xueqin and the others were not original humans, then learned that Carls Ma was one and that he was at M45 Base. Ling Yi and Yanwang learned how an original human could restore life’s genes but chose to keep hunting dangerous beastmen, while Dr. Ashford sent Wang Lei to help Alice find Carls before Umbrella did.

• Ada Wong tested Bai Mengyan’s blood with the scanner in her arm and found that the women were not original humans and had unusual gene sequences, but were not infected by TG.
• Ada Wong explained that peace factions among humans, zombies, and beastmen sought cooperation, and said humanity might otherwise have to rely on mechanical immortality.
• Yang Jinli told Ada Wong that Carls Ma was at M45 Base, where he had called his family, and that his adoptive parents had cultivated him from viable reproductive cells, making him an original human.
• A catman diplomat told Ling Yi and Yanwang that an original human could be used to make a gene restoration solution, which would spread through organisms and restore defective genes; Ling Yi chose to keep leveling instead of seeking Carls.
• The catman agreed to guide Ling Yi and Yanwang to dangerous snakemen, lizardmen, spider people, and insect people, which the group considered threats to all races.
• Dr. Ashford told Wang Lei that T199 could cause genetic collapse across the planet and ordered him to find Alice and help her locate the original human before Umbrella did.

Ada Wong brought Bai Mengyan, Ni Xueqin, and Yang Jinli into M45 Base and loaded the Red Queen, who tried to hack Yang Jinli. Yang Jinli absorbed the Red Queen and gained full use of her nanofactor abilities, then found footage of the supposed native human at Base M43, appearing to be played by Wu Lei.

• Ada Wong explained that M45 Base held supplies and defenses left behind by Umbrella Corporation, then activated the underground facility.
• Ada Wong loaded the Red Queen, who attempted to hack Yang Jinli’s processor chip and asked her for help evolving.
• Yang Jinli retaliated and absorbed the Red Queen, unlocking the full capabilities of her nanofactor and narrowly protecting the group’s transmigrator identities.
• Yang Jinli proposed fabricating a native human for Umbrella Corporation, then connected with Alice and the others to share what she had found.
• Yang Jinli displayed footage of a bald intelligent zombie and a young man at Base M43, and Chichi recognized the man as apparently played by Wu Lei.

The group discovered that saving civilization did not require Wu Lei’s character to sacrifice himself, because Ling Yi knew of a better ending involving Antarctica’s Base No. 88. After sharing the plan, they prepared to find Carls Ma and the base while Ling Yi and Yanwang continued fighting monsters.

• Yang Jinli identified Wu Lei as a primordial human, and Alice ordered the group to find and capture him so they could use the gene restoration solution.
• Ni Xueqin asked Yang Jinli to locate Ling Yi, who appeared in satellite footage crushing spider-men alongside Yanwang.
• Yang Jinli contacted Yanwang through his quantum intelligence chip, and Ling Yi joined the call after redirecting the footage.
• Ling Yi rejected the idea that Wu Lei had to sacrifice himself and told the group to go to Survivor Base No. 88 in Antarctica, where many primordial humans lived.
• Alice and the others agreed to search for Carls Ma as a backup before setting out, while Ling Yi and Yanwang stayed to finish fighting the mantis-men.

Yin Wanqing told Ling Yi that the white Möbius Strip had closed its loop and the Bridge of Karmic Luck had moved into the New Ling Realm, where it was fueling the evolution of worlds he had visited. After Yin Wanqing left to investigate, Ling Yi began a new transmigration into a high-martial-arts world, while Ni Xueqin received a system origin essence to help design future worlds.

• Yin Wanqing told Ling Yi that the white Möbius Strip had closed its loop and the Bridge of Karmic Luck had vanished from the Ling Realm.
• Ling Yi sensed the Bridge of Karmic Luck in the New Ling Realm, where its karmic light was powering the realm and creating small worlds based on his past transmigrations.
• Yin Wanqing deduced that Ling Yi’s arrangements had not been wasted, then returned to the Ling Realm to verify her findings and told him not to come back until she called.
• Ling Yi discussed the Ancient Country’s space warships and the international reaction with Ling Li, then received Ling Zhan, Cong Lanzhi, Bai Mengyan, Yang Jinli, Ni Xueqin, Wang Lei, and Chichi at his villa.
• Ling Yi confirmed that Ni Xueqin could help design a transmigration world, gave her a purified system origin essence, and began a new transmigration with his memories sealed.