Chapter Summaries

Ye Qing fought Sun Hai and the others after Liu Xiaogang rescued Xing Lan, then claimed Hela was the Variant responsible for a massacre in City C. As [X] began showing evidence on the room’s screens, Hela’s hidden past was about to be revealed.

• Liu Xiaogang blocked Ye Qing’s attack before it could kill Xing Lan, though he had lost his left arm and was badly wounded.
• Sun Hai attacked Ye Qing, who wounded him with sword qi, while Hela broke free and rejoined the others.
• Ye Qing revealed that Feng Xuan had been killed by Ye Ciqing and that Ye Ciqing had planted the insect eggs in the package Feng Xuan collected.
• Ye Qing offered to spare Sun Hai, Liu Xiaogang, and Xing Lan if they handed over Hela, but they refused.
• Ye Qing claimed Hela was the [HeLa Cell] Variant that had killed a million people in City C, and ordered [X] to show them evidence.
• activated the room’s screens, which showed a white-haired Hela struggling to draw beside a tree.

The Light God Society revealed footage showing [HeLa Cell] killing a girl, taking Hela’s appearance, and attacking City B, leading Liu Xiaogang and Xing Lan to suspect Hela was the Variant. When Ye Qing moved to take her, Sun Hai and the others defended Hela, and the confrontation turned into a fight.

• The Light God Society showed footage of [HeLa Cell] killing a girl, growing by devouring her, and later attacking City B before [Thunderstorm] blasted it apart.
• Ye Qing revealed that the Light God Society had tracked [HeLa Cell] and sent Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing undercover to take Hela away.
• Xing Lan asked Hela if she was [HeLa Cell], while Hela considered eating Xing Lan to escape but could not bring herself to do it.
• Sun Hai refused to hand Hela over, and Liu Xiaogang and Xing Lan joined him in standing against Ye Qing.
• Hela caught Xing Lan, transformed her limbs into weapons, and joined the Special Investigation Squad as Ye Qing launched an attack.

Ye Qing’s opponents battled his relentless attacks and discovered that the [Curse of Undying] could restore his severed hand. Hela created an opening for Xing Lan and Liu Xiaogang to wound his neck, but Ye Qing survived and launched another attack as the fight continued.

• Ye Qing trapped Sun Hai, Liu Xiaogang, and Xing Lan with flames and relentless attacks, while Sun Hai tried to strike from the shadows.
• Ye Qing regenerated his severed hand with the [Curse of Undying] and unleashed a barrage that wounded the group and drained Hela’s energy.
• Hela charged Ye Qing and pinned him in place, allowing Xing Lan to lodge her blade in the bone protecting his neck.
• Liu Xiaogang struck Xing Lan’s blade with his spear, breaking the bone and cutting Ye Qing’s neck, but Sun Hai pulled them away before Ye Qing’s bone spikes erupted.
• Ye Qing’s spikes pierced Hela, and he then attacked her again before skeletal arms pinned Sun Hai and Liu Xiaogang.
• Ye Qing assumed an iai stance and flashed toward Xing Lan with a purple strike.

Hela tried to protect Xing Lan, but Ye Qing cut Xing Lan in half. As Xing Lan died, she begged Hela to eat her, then confessed that she did not want to die; Hela consumed her and transformed, joining Liu Xiaogang and Sun Hai against Ye Qing.

• Hela shielded Xing Lan from Ye Qing, but he sliced Hela in two and then cut Xing Lan in half before Sun Hai could reach her.
• Hela healed, held the dying Xing Lan, and agreed to her request to eat her; Xing Lan admitted she did not want to die before Hela consumed her.
• Ye Qing knocked aside Liu Xiaogang and Sun Hai’s weapons and attacked them, but the transformed Hela bit his shoulder and dragged him across the ground.
• Liu Xiaogang learned that Hela had eaten Xing Lan, and he and Sun Hai attacked Ye Qing alongside her.
• Ye Qing impaled Hela with a bone spike and mocked her for eating Xing Lan, but Hela broke free and continued attacking him with the others.

Ye Qing killed Liu Xiaogang, incapacitated Sun Hai, and defeated Hela before sealing her in a skull. As Ye Qing prepared to finish Sun Hai, an enormous humanoid shark climbed toward the roof.

• Ye Qing's Chaotic Annihilation tore apart Liu Xiaogang, who died after saying goodbye to Sun Hai and Hela.
• Sun Hai struggled to move as he and Hela continued fighting Ye Qing, but Ye Qing shot lasers through Hela and Sun Hai.
• Ye Qing sliced Hela into fragments, burned most of them, and sealed the surviving piece inside a skull.
• Ye Qing mocked Sun Hai and approached the skull, but a roar drew his attention to an eight-meter humanoid shark climbing the building as Venomous Spiders swarmed over it.

Ye Qing tried to kill the weakened Sun Hai, but Nanming intervened and fought him through the building and onto the giant spiders’ web. Zhou Fan was summoned back to apprehend the undercover agent, while Lin Wushuang stranded him outside City B before vanishing again.

• [Satellite] reclaimed control of the system and broadcast a warning that the Special Extermination Squad was on its way.
• [Satellite] summoned Zhou Fan back to the building, but Lin Wushuang intercepted him and transported them both to a forest outside City B before escaping.
• Ye Qing approached the helpless Sun Hai and raised his blade to kill him.
• Nanming climbed onto the building and repeatedly attacked Ye Qing, driving him through the floor and out through the glass.
• A [Venomous Spider] pulled the nearly unconscious Ye Qing from the fight, and he praised the spiders as his younger siblings.

Lin Wushuang and Ye Qing escaped the arriving Special Extermination Squad, while Qian Lan and Zhou Fan reached the rooftop and found Sun Hai dying beside the exposed Hela. Zhou Fan ordered Hela taken alive as Qian Lan tried to keep Sun Hai’s heart beating.

• Nanming attacked Ye Qing, but Lin Wushuang appeared and killed Nanming before asking Ye Qing to help him pursue Ye Linwan.
• Lightning struck as Lei Yong and Qian Lan arrived; Qian Lan went after Lin Wushuang and the others, who escaped through Lin Wushuang’s vortex.
• Qian Lan learned from [Satellite] that the Light God Society had nearly wiped out the Special Investigation Squad and that [HeLa Cell] had infiltrated it.
• Qian Lan found Hela crawling toward the dying Sun Hai and struck her with lightning, but Hela kept moving.
• Zhou Fan arrived and pinned Hela with a steel bar, ordering Qian Lan to take her alive.
• Qian Lan tried to keep Sun Hai’s heart beating with electric currents, though his burned organs left him near death.

Sun Hai died after protecting Hela, then awoke in a peaceful grassland with his deceased teammates and apologized for failing to save them. After hearing his account of what happened, the investigators debated Hela’s fate, and Zhou Fan declared that she deserved no pity.

• Qian Lan failed to save Sun Hai, and Zhou Fan sealed Hela inside a metal ball as Sun Hai died.
• Sun Hai awoke in a grassland with Feng Xuan, Xing Lan, Si Xiaobei, Sun Xuan, and Liu Xiaogang, who had also died.
• Sun Hai apologized for failing to protect his team, and his teammates comforted him and asked what had happened to Hela.
• Sun Hai began recounting the events after his teammates died while they sat together on the grassland.
• A researcher finished presenting the account reconstructed from [HeLa Cell]’s testimony, and Qian Lan asked Zhou Fan to reconsider how Hela would be handled.
• Zhou Fan rejected Qian Lan’s sympathy and called Hela a tumor lurking in human society.

At a meeting, Zhou Fan considered executing [HeLa Cell] after studying her, but Wang Canxin argued she should join the Night Stars and pushed Zhou Fan to reconsider. Zhou Fan ordered statements from people who knew her, while Keke received a notice sending her to City A in Shangjing.

• Zhou Fan proposed studying [HeLa Cell] and then executing her, and most officials supported the plan.
• Wang Canxin objected and urged the Night Stars to recruit [HeLa Cell], arguing that she might not be hostile to humanity and that the truth could be concealed from the public.
• Zhou Fan compromised by ordering statements from people who had known [HeLa Cell] as a human, then told his secretary to investigate Wang Canxin's background.
• At the Star Pet Shop in City B, the deputy captain gave Keke a notice ordering her to go to City A in Shangjing for a few days, and her pupils contracted as she read it.

After learning that Ye Yiqing, Ye Ciqing, and Hela had deceived her, Han Xiaoxiao broke down but agreed to leave with Keke. Meanwhile, Ye Yiqing and Ye Ciqing returned to the Shimizu Residence and prepared to capture [Life] before the Night Star passed judgment on it.

• Han Xiaoxiao vented her fury by cutting down a massive tree, then told Keke she would go with her despite her grief.
• Ye Ciqing and Ye Yiqing emerged from a mass of flesh at the Shimizu Residence after completing their undercover mission.
• Lin Wushuang told the brothers that the Lord wanted them to capture [Life] before the Night Star passed judgment on it.
• Ye Ciqing reunited with Shimizu Ichika, and they spent the night together before he was due to leave the next day.
• Ye Yiqing watched the stars from the roof and vowed to see his mother again and bring Hela back, then left after hearing the sounds from downstairs.

Keke and Han Xiaoxiao arrived at Night Star headquarters to give their statements, and Keke worried about HeLa Cell's confinement. At the survivor-benefit office, Sun Hai's parents rejected his final letter and complained about his donation, while a neighbor arranged for his funeral; the staff member then went to find Feng Xuan's father.

• Keke and Han Xiaoxiao reached Night Star headquarters, where the secretary told them HeLa Cell was restrained in a detention facility beneath the building.
• Keke noticed Liu Xiaogang's grieving mother and an aloof woman carrying an envelope marked "last letter" as she followed the secretary to give her statement.
• Sun Hai's parents argued over his will, took the two million yuan left to them, and refused to read his last letter; Sun Hai's younger sister left with them.
• An elderly neighbor gave the staff member money for Sun Hai's funeral, and he promised to arrange a grand one while secretly adding a few hundred yuan to her funds.
• The staff member realized Feng Xuan's father had not yet come to collect the belongings and went to find him after learning he had arrived.

Feng Xuan’s father grieved over his son, and Liu Xiaonan broke down after reading Si Xiaobei’s will and looking at their family photo. In the basement, Hela remained captive and remorseful until Ye Linwan revealed herself and began breaking through the observation-room glass to rescue her.

• Feng Xuan’s father received his belongings and compensation, unlocked his phone, and wept as he apologized to his son.
• Liu Xiaonan read Si Xiaobei’s will and found their old family portrait in the envelope.
• Liu Xiaonan remembered her past with Si Xiaobei, then clutched the photograph and sobbed.
• Hela stayed chained in the basement, reliving the deaths of the Special Investigation Squad and apologizing while Dr. Hong recorded her emotional changes.
• Ye Linwan killed Dr. Hong, revealed her identity to Hela, and began cracking the glass to free her.

Ye Linwan and Lin Wushuang rescued Ye Yiqing and confronted Qian Lan and Zhou Fan, who were displaced from the facility while Ye Yiqing remained with the chained Hela. Ye Yiqing tried to free Hela, then challenged her belief that she had emotions, arguing that her guilt over Han Xiaoxiao was copied from humans.

• Ye Linwan shattered the facility’s glass and killed the armed guards, then reunited with Lin Wushuang, Ye Yiqing, and Ye Ciqing.
• Ye Yiqing asked Ye Linwan to help him reach Hela, and she formed a staircase of darkness to her platform.
• Qian Lan attacked with lightning while Zhou Fan hurled iron sand at the group, but Ye Linwan and Lin Wushuang transported everyone except Ye Yiqing and Hela away.
• Ye Yiqing told Hela he did not blame her for her past betrayal and offered to free her, but she headbutted him and threatened to kill him.
• Ye Yiqing accused Hela of having no emotions and said her guilt over Han Xiaoxiao came from copying human feelings, while she felt no guilt for killing City C’s population.

Ye Yiqing freed Hela and tried to escape the training camp with her while fighting Li Hu and Chuan Cheng. As the Light God Society’s raid spread through the building and the battle outside continued, Hela walked toward Ye Yiqing’s allies, while Keke and Han Xiaoxiao left the lounge and Ye Ciqing confronted Yan Wusheng and a girl.

• Ye Yiqing told Hela she was an emotionless Variant, cut her free, and fed her his flesh so her legs could regenerate.
• Li Hu and Chuan Cheng confronted Ye Yiqing at the exit, and he fought them while telling Hela to run toward his younger brother.
• Hela walked through the chaos as Keke heard the alarm announcing that the Light God Society had released [HeLa Cell].
• Han Xiaoxiao left the lounge with her sword, and Keke followed with her bag containing the cube.
• Ye Ciqing confronted Yan Wusheng and a girl as they tried to evacuate the crowd.
• Lin Wushuang worried about Ye Linwan during the battle outside, but she said she could handle her opponents.

Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing fought Bai Yu and Qian Lan while capturing Yan Wusheng and Lu Tian. Hela rejected Ye Ciqing’s offer to return with him and fled, believing neither the Night Star nor the Light God Society was safe for her.

• Ye Linwan held off Bai Yu and Qian Lan, using her powers to block their attacks and prevent Bai Yu from reaching the building.
• Ye Ciqing pinned Yan Wusheng and Lu Tian, then forced Yan Wusheng to call him Grandpa before releasing Lu Tian.
• Ye Ciqing grabbed Yan Wusheng and prepared to worsen his scar, but Hela entered and interrupted him.
• Hela questioned why Ye Ciqing had attacked Yan Wusheng, whom she considered a companion.
• Hela smashed through a window and fled, deciding she could return neither to the Night Star nor the Light God Society.

Hela escaped the battle between the Light God Society and the Night Stars while Ye Yiqing tried to flee with a [Venomous Spider]. He was stopped at the building’s entrance by a woman and Tiantian, whom he recognized as [Heroic Spirit], and was arrested.

• Hela transformed into a black hound and ran from the city as Ye Linwan fought Qian Lan to stop her escape.
• Ye Yiqing learned Hela had escaped, summoned three [Venomous Spiders], and sent two to hold off Li Hu and Chuan Cheng while he fled with the third.
• Ye Yiqing reached the building entrance and faced a woman in hanfu who aimed her bow at him.
• Tiantian appeared, and the [Venomous Spider] lunged at him before being struck down by an unseen force.
• Ye Yiqing recognized Tiantian as [Heroic Spirit], surrendered, and let the woman handcuff him.

Ye Linwan and Lin Wushuang escaped with Ye Ciqing after Tiantian appeared and the fight against [Heroic Spirit] turned against them, leaving Ye Yiqing behind. As the Starlight powerhouses searched for Hela, Han Xiaoxiao caught up with her and revealed how much stronger she had become.

• Tiantian appeared before Lin Wushuang and the others, forcing Lin Wushuang to teleport away with Ye Linwan and Ye Ciqing while Ye Yiqing remained captured.
• Ye Ciqing told Ye Linwan that Ye Yiqing had urged them to escape, and Lin Wushuang teleported the three of them out of the battle.
• Qian Lan learned from [Satellite] that [HeLa Cell] was heading south and expected to leave City A within five hours, so the group split up to search.
• Hela ran toward the edge of the city, but Han Xiaoxiao shot her limbs and eyes, then repeatedly attacked as Hela regenerated.
• Hela recognized that Han Xiaoxiao had grown much stronger and had reached High Rank.

Han Xiaoxiao nearly killed Hela, but Keke intervened and helped Hela escape through the sewers to the sea. Han Xiaoxiao spared Keke, and Hela swam toward an unknown destination.

• Han Xiaoxiao defeated Hela and prepared to kill her with a Body-Exploding Agent pill.
• Keke knocked the pill away, rescued Hela, and used her metal cubes to fight off Han Xiaoxiao.
• Keke took Hela to a manhole, returned her necklace and bracelet, and sent her into the sewer while promising to pursue her someday.
• Hela transformed into a fish and swam through the sewer to the sea as Han Xiaoxiao failed to stop her.
• Han Xiaoxiao knocked Keke unconscious but could not bring herself to shoot her, then wept and concealed what had happened from Zhou Fan and the others.

Hela reached the United States after drifting at sea and regained her human form by eating the food she had gathered as a pug. Overwhelmed by painful memories, she rejected her attempts to imitate human emotions and decided that only becoming powerful enough to kill any threat would let her live freely; the chapter ended as she approached Jamie in an alley.

• A foreigner gave a fried chicken leg to a pug, which carried it to a box of food and ate until it grew into Hela.
• Hela examined the necklace and bracelet from Xing Lan and the Special Investigation Squad and grieved over her companions.
• Ye Yiqing's accusations returned to Hela's mind, and she concluded that her human emotions had only been an act.
• Hela decided to become powerful enough to kill anything that threatened her survival.
• Jamie found the naked Hela in the alley, offered her his jacket, and asked whether she needed help.
• Hela approached Jamie, who nervously said he already had a wife and children.

Hela killed Jamie, took his appearance, and returned home with his wife and daughter while pretending to be him. After dinner, she studied English, then went to the sleeping girl's bedside with an emotionless stare.

• Hela seduced Jamie, killed him, and devoured his body.
• Hela transformed into Jamie and reunited with his wife and daughter, keeping his necklace and wearing his wristband.
• Hela followed the family home, learned from the girl's fairy tale, and watched how they ate dinner.
• Hela went to the study to read while Jamie's wife put their daughter to bed.
• Hela quietly entered the girl's room and stood beside her bed as she slept.