Recaps

Hela and the Ye brothers joined the Special Investigation Squad and took part in a mission to investigate Chicken Village, where the villagers tried to offer them to a god. The squad defeated the village’s supernatural threats, but Nanming was left critically injured and taken to the hospital.

• Hela, Ye Yiqing, and Ye Ciqing joined the Special Investigation Squad, while Keke chose a squad stationed in Nanchuan and left for City A.
• The squad welcomed Hela and the Ye brothers, and Ye Yiqing defeated Liu Xiaogang in a spar with his blade technique.
• Sun Hai led the squad to Chicken Village to investigate reports of a sacrificial ritual, and the team followed the villagers’ offering procession into a mountain maze.
• Ye Ciqing and Hela were separated from the squad and fought villagers who tried to offer them to their god, while Ye Yiqing and the others battled the remaining attackers.
• Sun Hai and Xing Lan encountered a gigantic Super Aberrant, and the squad fought it despite its ability to disrupt their senses.
• Nanming transformed and killed the Super Aberrant, but a Red-Faced Ghost appeared, defeated him, and vanished after inspecting Ye Yiqing.
• A purple-rune Variant tried to possess Ye Ciqing, but Ye Yiqing destroyed it with Demon Slaying and collapsed from exhaustion.
• The squad took the critically injured Nanming to Central Hospital in City D, where Si Xiaobei and Feng Xuan waited for news after his operation.

The Special Investigation Squad traveled to City B to help Feng Xuan and became caught in the Light God Society’s attack, which revealed Hela’s past and devastated the team. Hela was captured after Sun Hai and the others died, while the Light God Society’s plans and the next move toward [Life] came into view.

• Nanming recovered and rejoined the squad, which traveled with Feng Xuan to City B to investigate problems with [Satellite].
• Feng Xuan uncovered the data Variant [X] as spiders and the Light God Society attacked the institute, while Zhou Fan fought Lin Wushuang across the city.
• Xing Lan and Hela found Feng Xuan dead, then Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing revealed their Light God Society identities and attacked them.
• Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing fused into Ye Qing, who overwhelmed the squad and claimed Hela was [HeLa Cell], the Variant responsible for the City C catastrophe.
• Xing Lan asked Hela to eat her before she died, and Hela fought alongside Sun Hai and Liu Xiaogang until Ye Qing killed Liu Xiaogang and sealed Hela away.
• Nanming attacked Ye Qing, but Lin Wushuang killed Nanming, while Qian Lan and Zhou Fan arrived and captured Hela as Sun Hai died.
• Sun Hai reunited with his dead teammates in a grassland as officials debated Hela’s fate, and Zhou Fan ordered an investigation into Wang Canxin.
• Keke received orders to go to City A, while Ye Ciqing and Ye Yiqing returned from their undercover mission and Lin Wushuang told them to capture [Life].

After escaping City A, Hela pursued strength and survival, reaching a floating city where she met Fulan and Ailin. There she helped face the sky’s demand for a girl, learned the Five Calamities’ identities, and bound Fulan to her through symbiosis.

• Ye Linwan freed Hela from the Night Star facility, but Hela escaped after Ye Yiqing urged her to flee and Han Xiaoxiao later shot her down.
• Keke rescued Hela from Han Xiaoxiao and sent her into the sewers, where Hela escaped to the sea and resolved to become powerful enough to survive.
• Hela killed Jamie, disguised herself as Maila Bell, and infiltrated a Night Star team before killing its members and taking their weapons.
• Hela spared [Hallucination Bug], named it Xiao Huan, and fled to City D, where the entire city rose into the sky.
• Hela met Fulan Bulang and Ailin, helped them protect the city’s unconscious residents, and joined them in fighting Variants alongside Laide and Lanke.
• A vast eye trapped the group in a wind barrier and demanded a girl, so Hela carried Ailin through the barrier despite Fulan’s objections.
• Ailin entered the eye and became [Sky], who told Fulan that Ailin would not return and explained the Five Calamities to Hela.
• [Sky] showed Hela how symbiosis worked, and Fulan accepted her bond before obeying her commands.

Hela gathered allies, took control of a city, and set her sights on the Godslaying Technology Company after its Armored Warrior destroyed one of her clones. In City of Sin, she and Aidan encountered a group of children who were surviving by robbing people and followed them to their warehouse.

• Sky explained Hela’s symbiosis, gave her a feather that let her fly, and destroyed the city as Hela escaped with Fulan and Xiao Huan.
• Hela recruited the dying researcher Tuote as her subordinate, then brought Xiao Huan to his lab and tested her strength against Fulan.
• Hela recruited Aidan, who used his Electronic Fantasy ability to defeat Fulan in a sparring match and joined Hela’s plan to seize the city.
• Hela and Aidan killed the Star Gym team, while Fulan, Tuote, and Xiao Huan dealt with other powerful figures and administrators across the city.
• Hela ate the Transcendents, reached Ten Thousand Stars, created Xiao Er, and unleashed flesh monsters that devoured people throughout the city.
• Armored Warrior destroyed one of Hela’s monster clones while rescuing survivors, but a piece of her flesh hid inside the boy’s teddy bear and traveled with them to the Godslaying Technology Company.
• Hela learned that the company had powerful Battle Armor suits and traveled with her allies to City of Sin, where they decided to lie low and sold stolen electronics for cash.
• After Hela and Aidan encountered children robbing passersby, Aidan gave them money, and they followed Fuluolan, Tang Jie, Ruibei, and Aimeisha to their sparse warehouse home.