Recaps

After transmigrating into the body of a low-ranking puppet policeman in occupied Shanghai, Shen Yan discovered a system that revealed people’s identities and good-and-evil points. The chapter ended as he prepared to help Su Wan, an injured underground Communist courier pursued by enemy forces.

• Shen Yan awoke in Republican-era Shanghai after an ox cart knocked him unconscious and inherited the memories of the original Shen Yan, a puppet policeman.
• Shen Yan saw Liu Laonian’s identity and thoughts, then pretended to obey his abusive superior, Wang Panghai, while secretly assessing him through his negative good-and-evil points.
• Shen Yan activated the Punish Evil and Promote Good System and received a brick, healing bottles, and an anti-sneak minimap.
• Shen Yan drank a healing bottle as gunfire and approaching footsteps drew closer, and the minimap detected someone entering the alley.
• Shen Yan identified the wounded Su Wan as an underground Communist courier carrying intelligence and readied his brick to help her evade her pursuers.

Shen Yan secretly saved Su Wan from Japanese agents, and she mistook him for a hidden revolutionary ally after his medicine healed her gunshot wound. Back in his squalid lodgings, Shen Yan checked his system and prepared to target his corrupt superior, Wang Panghai.

• Su Wan fled Japanese pursuers with intelligence, but Shen Yan hid her in an abandoned house and pretended to help the agents chase her away.
• Shen Yan gave Su Wan a red medicine bottle that instantly healed her wound, leaving her convinced he was a mysterious comrade.
• Shen Yan deceived the Japanese agents while they berated and slapped Wang Panghai, then slipped away as Wang vowed to punish him.
• Shen Yan returned to his cramped lodgings and reviewed his system, which showed Wang Panghai had -26 Good and Evil Points.
• Shen Yan took out his brick and resolved to make Wang Panghai his first target before resting for the coming operation.

After the system rewarded Shen Yan for helping Su Wan escape, he spent points on combat skills and hunted down traitor Wang Panghai. He hid the body and returned to bed, expecting trouble at the police station the next morning.

• The system awarded Shen Yan 72 Good and Evil Points for protecting Su Wan and opened the Good and Evil Store.
• Shen Yan spent 50 points to redeem Basic Combat Mastery and gained combat skills and strength.
• Shen Yan ambushed Wang Panghai in an alley behind Yicui House and killed him, earning 26 points.
• Shen Yan searched Wang Panghai, hid his body in a dry well, and took his silver dollars and pistol.
• Shen Yan stored the loot and fell asleep, expecting a disturbance at the police station the next day.

Shen Yan concealed his strength at morning roll call, then joined Uncle Chen on patrol and learned that the veteran quietly protected the neighborhood. At a teahouse, Shen Yan rescued a performer from three Green Gang thugs and discovered he could gain Good and Evil Points by beating them, leaving Uncle Chen stunned by his true nature.

• Shen Yan used Heavenly Eye at roll call and saw that squad leader Li Kui was the only clearly wicked patrolman.
• When Wang Panghai was reported missing, Shen Yan pretended to be frightened and denied seeing him, and Li Kui dismissed him as useless.
• Uncle Chen led Shen Yan on patrol and told him to look the other way if he encountered someone who should not be arrested.
• At a teahouse, Shen Yan used Heavenly Eye to read the thoughts of three thugs as they harassed a pingtan performer, then struck them with his baton.
• After the system rewarded Shen Yan for protecting the performer, he borrowed Uncle Chen's baton and beat the thugs until he gained 33 more Good and Evil Points.
• Uncle Chen watched Shen Yan's brutal beating and realized that the supposedly timid patrolman had been hiding his nature.

Shen Yan beat Lai San and his two companions, earning Old Chen’s approval and a promise of support as they discussed the danger posed by Scarface Liu. When a messenger reported that Scarface Liu had arrived with a gang to attack the teahouse, Shen Yan went to meet him.

• Shen Yan beat Lai San, Tie Niu, and Shu Si, who paid compensation and fled after Old Chen warned them away.
• Shen Yan discovered through Heavenly Eye that teahouse owner Zhou Deshun was an underground party liaison, but chose not to get involved.
• Old Chen challenged Shen Yan about why he wore the patrol uniform, and Shen Yan pledged not to betray China or bully the people; Old Chen promised to back him on the street.
• Old Chen warned that the thugs would report Shen Yan to their superior, Scarface Liu, and explained how he could help Shen Yan protect the neighborhood and handle the consequences.
• A rickshaw puller reported that Scarface Liu had blocked the street with his gang and threatened to break Shen Yan’s legs and wreck the teahouse.
• Shen Yan drew his baton and prepared to confront Scarface Liu while Old Chen watched.

Shen Yan exchanged most of his Good and Evil Points for Intermediate Fighting Mastery and defeated Scarface Liu and seven Green Gang thugs in a street fight. Old Chen backed him afterward, and the system awarded Shen Yan new achievements and rewards, leaving him with 179 points.

• Shen Yan exchanged 70 Good and Evil Points for Intermediate Fighting Mastery, gaining enhanced strength, reflexes, and combat skills.
• Old Chen stepped aside as Scarface Liu demanded that Shen Yan break his own hand and pay compensation, then ordered his men to attack.
• Shen Yan defeated the seven Green Gang thugs and disarmed and crippled Scarface Liu when he lunged with a dagger.
• The system awarded Shen Yan points and achievement rewards, including expanded storage space and minimap range, raising his total to 179 Good and Evil Points.
• Old Chen praised Shen Yan, sent the surviving thugs away, and invited him to learn the rules of the streets and the Green Gang.

After a tough street fight, Shen Yan spent his evening refreshing his gear and visiting Old Chen. He gained advanced handgun skills and a suppressor, then arrived at Old Chen’s home with food and liquor to share a meal.

• Shen Yan bought fresh clothes, bathed, and learned that the system shop had automatically upgraded its merchandise.
• Shen Yan spent 135 good and evil points on Handgun Proficiency and Mastery and a Portable Metal Suppressor, gaining expert firearm skills.
• Shen Yan bought braised food and liquor at Song's Cooked Side Dish Shop, and Boss Song added a poached chicken for Old Chen.
• Shen Yan went to Old Chen’s home, where the two men set out the food and liquor and prepared to eat together.

Shen Yan and Old Chen bonded over wine, and Shen Yan became his godson. On his way home, Shen Yan killed two predatory Black Dragon Society ronin and gained Japanese Language Mastery from the system.

• Old Chen told Shen Yan about his lost fiancée, who had died when Japanese bombing destroyed the silk shop where she worked.
• Shen Yan asked Old Chen to accept him as a godson, and Old Chen agreed; Shen Yan bowed to him before helping the drunken man to bed.
• Shen Yan spotted two drunken Black Dragon Society ronin, Kuroki Yū and Yamamoto Ken, and lured them into a secluded alley.
• Shen Yan shot the two ronin, and the system rewarded him with 175 good and evil points and native-level Japanese Language Mastery.
• Shen Yan concealed the bodies and evidence, then headed home for work the next day.

Shen Yan helped Li Kui deal with Japanese military police by interpreting their demands to search for two missing ronin, while keeping their whereabouts secret. After the search failed, Li Kui and Old Chen both became wary of Shen Yan, but Shen Yan reassured Old Chen with extravagant oaths and curses.

• Old Chen complained that Shen Yan had let him drink himself sick, while Li Kui arrived ready to confront Shen Yan.
• Japanese military policemen summoned Li Kui and demanded a search for two missing ronin, but their interpreter was absent.
• Shen Yan claimed he spoke Japanese and interpreted the military policemen's orders, prompting Li Kui to mobilize the station.
• The search around Shipi Lane lasted three days but uncovered no trace of the ronin, and Li Kui began treating Shen Yan cautiously and favorably.
• Shen Yan swore he was not Japanese and cursed the Japanese emperor in several languages, dispelling Old Chen's suspicions.

Su Wan risked seeking Shen Yan to obtain medicine for her wounded comrade, A Yuan, while Japanese agents followed her. Shen Yan killed the agents and arranged to meet Su Wan at a teahouse, where he planned to address her troubles.

• With A Yuan near death and unable to contact her superiors, Su Wan disguised herself and searched the West District for the young patrolman who had once given her miraculous medicine.
• Shen Yan spotted Japanese agents Matsumoto Yasuo and Sato Kenji following Su Wan, and the System activated a mission to rescue her and protect her identity.
• Shen Yan drew Su Wan into an alley and shot Matsumoto Yasuo and Sato Kenji as they pursued her.
• Shen Yan told Su Wan to wait for him in a private room at the teahouse, then stored the agents' bodies and other evidence in System Space.
• After receiving the mission rewards, Shen Yan returned to the teahouse to deal with Su Wan's troubles.

Shen Yan discovered Japanese agents had surrounded Su Wan’s hiding place and eliminated them before operating on her wounded comrade, A Yuan. After warning Su Wan that their location was exposed and that their organization had a traitor, he disappeared, while Su Wan and A Yuan fled Shanghai by boat.

• Su Wan asked Shen Yan to save A Yuan, whose bullet wound had become infected, and Shen Yan gave her medicine to keep him stable until he could operate.
• Shen Yan upgraded his minimap to identify factions, found more than twenty Japanese agents surrounding the hideout, and killed them while collecting their weapons and ammunition.
• Shen Yan reached the hideout, knocked A Yuan unconscious with a brick, removed the bullet, cut away the infected tissue, and used his medicine to heal the wound.
• Shen Yan told Su Wan to leave after A Yuan woke and warned her that a traitor was helping the Japanese pinpoint their operations.
• Three days later, Su Wan and A Yuan traveled by steamer toward Northern Jiangsu, and Su Wan resolved to return to Shanghai someday and thank Shen Yan.

After a mysterious force wiped out a Japanese ambush in Zhabei, Kuroiwa Masao’s officers debated the enemy’s identity and assigned them the code name “Lone Wolf,” while the rejected name “Scavenger” spread among Shanghai’s residents. Kuroiwa told Satō to investigate unusual local stories through the Green Gang and to place a capable deputy in the puppet police.

• Satō found the ambush site deserted and ordered Zhabei sealed off before reporting to an emergency meeting at headquarters.
• Asano Makoto reported that twenty-three Japanese agents had vanished and speculated that a professional foreign team, or someone with extraordinary abilities, had attacked them.
• The puppet police director proposed the code name “Scavenger,” and Satō slapped him before Kuroiwa named the enemy “Lone Wolf.”
• The rejected name “Scavenger” spread through Shanghai, where residents celebrated the emergence of an anti-Japanese hero.
• Kuroiwa told Satō to contact the Green Gang for information about strange local tales and to find a reliable deputy director for the puppet police.

As the Japanese and their collaborators searched Shanghai for people with supernatural abilities, they arrested the fraudster Zhang the Half-Immortal and demanded that he see through a wall. He confessed that his powers were fake and was dragged to the torture chamber, where he found other supposed masters being tortured.

• Green Gang members searched Shanghai for people with extraordinary abilities while Shen Yan realized the Japanese were hunting for him and the others who had escaped.
• Zhang the Half-Immortal prepared to swindle a bereaved old woman with a fake ritual.
• A Green Gang thug identified Zhang to Japanese agents, who arrested him and took him to the Special Higher Police headquarters.
• An agent ordered Zhang to use his heavenly eye to count people behind a wall, and Zhang admitted he was a fraud.
• The agents dragged Zhang toward the torture chamber, where he saw other fake masters being tortured and cried that it was retribution.

After the anti-superstition campaign ended, Shen Yan discovered that the new deputy chief, Lu Tinghui, was actually Japanese agent Watanabe Seiichi, who had investigated him closely. Shen Yan passed Lu's probing questions with the system's help and earned a promotion, but he recognized that their contest of deception had only begun.

• Shen Yan received the permanent Intelligence Forecast reward after the campaign drove Shanghai's fortune-tellers and spirit mediums away.
• Lu Tinghui took office as deputy chief, and Shen Yan used Heavenly Eye to identify him as Special Higher Police agent Watanabe Seiichi, a trusted confidant of Kuroiwa Masao.
• Lu Tinghui praised Shen Yan, invited him to dinner, and questioned him about his Japanese teacher and fighting skills.
• Shen Yan gave the backstory of Inoue Jirō, and the system confirmed it was airtight after charging him 500 Good and Evil Points.
• Lu Tinghui proposed promoting Shen Yan to third-class police officer, and the chief agreed to announce the promotion the next morning.
• Shen Yan concluded that Lu Tinghui had thoroughly investigated him and resolved to keep up his act while watching for the deputy chief to slip.

After receiving intelligence about Japanese plans to suppress anti-Japanese forces, Shen Yan bought an M1 Garand and rifle training before intercepting the document convoy on North Sichuan Road. He took the documents and escaped, leaving the underground Party squad alive and retreating.

• Shen Yan learned that 22 Japanese soldiers would transfer classified documents through North Sichuan Road and unlocked the third-rank system shop after his promotion.
• Shen Yan bought an M1 Garand and Rifle Mastery, then arranged to patrol alone while Old Chen left him to act.
• Shen Yan spotted an eight-member underground Party squad preparing an ambush along North Sichuan Road.
• Shen Yan attacked the convoy with grenades, killed the surviving Japanese soldiers, took the classified documents, and told the squad to escape.
• Shen Yan changed back into his police uniform, reunited with Old Chen, and claimed he had bought medicine before going with him to the bathhouse.

After the attack on North Sichuan Road, Satō examined the scene and concluded that American intelligence agents had stolen the Japanese encirclement plan. He ordered a citywide crackdown and investigation, leaving Shanghai gripped by panic.

• Japanese patrols and military police sealed off North Sichuan Road and searched nearby alleys, but Shen Yan and the underground party had already escaped.
• Satō arrived with Special Higher Police agents and examined a shell casing recovered from the attack site.
• Forensic experts confirmed that the casing came from an American M1 Garand, leading Satō and Lu Tinghui to suspect Western intelligence agents rather than the underground party or the Military Statistics Bureau.
• Witnesses reported seeing an underground party squad nearby, but investigators found no evidence that it had taken part in the attack.
• Satō ordered martial law, a search for American weapons and suspicious foreign nationals, and investigations into patrol records and possible links between Western agents and anti-Japanese groups.
• Japanese forces, Special Higher Police, and puppet police launched extensive searches across Shanghai, frightening the public and entering foreign businesses and residential areas.

Shen Yan discovered that Japanese documents listed 62 suspected anti-Japanese personnel for a purge and warned Zhou Deshun and Chen Mingzhi so they could evacuate their people. The warnings emptied the Japanese surveillance net, while both the underground Party and the Military Statistics Bureau began considering how to approach the mysterious Scavenger.

• Shen Yan read the Japanese purge plan, found Zhou Deshun’s name among 62 targets, and received a mission to save the threatened personnel.
• Shen Yan met Zhou Deshun, revealed the Japanese list, and urged him to warn the targeted comrades and arrange their withdrawal.
• Zhou Deshun activated emergency plans, and the underground Party’s contacts evacuated, destroyed documents, or moved to safe houses.
• Chen Mingzhi received Shen Yan’s warning, ordered the Military Statistics Bureau agents on the list to withdraw, and told his adjutant not to antagonize the Scavenger.
• Officials in Yan'an and Chongqing received reports about the Scavenger and recommended maintaining contact or trying to recruit him.

The Japanese authorities discovered that a stolen naval document listed sixty-two people for investigation, but their infighting delayed arrests until the targets had fled. Kuroiwa Masao then watched Shen Yan and agreed to let Lu Tinghui cultivate him, provided Shen Yan first passed a screening.

• Kuroiwa Masao received the secret list, ordered immediate arrests, and learned that the listed people had already abandoned their homes.
• Miura Saburo and the navy blamed each other for the failed operation, and military headquarters punished both sides.
• Shen Yan warned people outside Shopkeeper Zhou's sealed teahouse to report him, then joked with Old Chen during their patrol.
• Kuroiwa Masao and Lu Tinghui observed Shen Yan and discussed his record, combat skills, and possible explanations for his earlier injury.
• Kuroiwa Masao approved Lu Tinghui's plan to cultivate Shen Yan but required him to screen Shen Yan first.

Shen Yan faced Lu Tinghui’s loyalty screening by pretending to torture a captured Communist, who was actually Japanese agent Matsumoto Ichiro. He won Lu’s trust, but Matsumoto later died from his injuries, and Lu arranged for his younger brother to replace him.

• Shen Yan received a system warning that Lu Tinghui would test his loyalty by making him interrogate a supposed Communist, and he went to Lu’s office.
• Lu told Shen that his teacher Inoue had been killed by Communist guerrillas; Shen acted devastated and volunteered to interrogate the prisoner.
• Shen discovered that the prisoner was Japanese agent Matsumoto Ichiro and tortured him while Lu watched from the observation room.
• Matsumoto supplied supposed intelligence, then gave conflicting dead-drop locations; Shen caught the contradiction and ordered him placed in the electric chair.
• Lu stopped the interrogation, praised Shen, and told him to rest; Shen left still pretending to grieve for Inoue.
• Matsumoto died at the hospital two hours later, and Lu ordered him reported as killed in the line of duty while approving his younger brother to take his place.

Shen Yan and Old Chen rescued Wang Zhaodi from her opium-addicted father, Wang Erlai, who planned to sell her for a ghost marriage. After Old Chen arranged Wang Erlai’s arrest and punishment, he took the exhausted girl home to care for her while they decided what to do next.

• Shen Yan reunited with Old Chen after leaving the police station and promised to explain his supposed Japanese master over a meal, but Old Chen took him home instead.
• Shen Yan noticed Wang Erlai dragging his daughter, Wang Zhaodi, and beat him after learning he intended to sell her for a ghost marriage.
• Old Chen took Wang Zhaodi to safety, while Shopkeeper Zhao identified Wang Erlai but said he had never heard that Wang had a daughter.
• Old Chen ordered patrol officers to take Wang Erlai away for questioning and send him to a coal mine, then told Shen Yan to consider what would happen to the girl.
• Old Chen carried the sleeping Wang Zhaodi home and said they would discuss her future that night.

Shen Yan arranged for Old Chen to adopt Wang Zhaodi while secretly planning to intercept an opium deal revealed by his system. He persuaded Lu Tinghui to let him join the operation, which was set to target a meeting in the French Concession the following night.

• Shen Yan proposed adopting Wang Zhaodi, but Old Chen insisted on adopting her and having her call Shen Yan Dad.
• Shen Yan received a system reward identifying a planned opium transaction between Military Statistics Bureau member Li Mo and Green Gang leader Baldy Zhang, along with an urgent mission to ensure the opium was destroyed.
• Shen Yan reported the meeting details to Lu Tinghui, who ordered Li Kui to prepare an armed team for a stakeout in the French Concession.
• Shen Yan insisted on joining the operation on the front line, and Lu Tinghui agreed on the condition that he obey orders.

Shen Yan joined a raid on a Green Gang opium deal, but the burning drugs left both sides intoxicated and fighting wildly. He subdued the remaining Green Gang members, rescued Lu Tinghui, Li Kui, and six survivors, then collapsed while seeking help from Japanese soldiers.

• Lu Tinghui and Shen Yan watched Boss Li enter the Drunken Immortal Tower, and Li Kui led the action team in surrounding the courtyard.
• Shen Yan’s warning helped the team discover and eliminate a hidden sentry before they closed in on the deal.
• Shen Yan’s porcelain shard made a noise that exposed the ambush, and both sides opened fire as Baldy Zhang killed Boss Li.
• Shen Yan accidentally set the opium suitcase alight, and its fumes left both groups intoxicated and fighting recklessly.
• Shen Yan killed the remaining Green Gang members, loaded Lu Tinghui, Li Kui, and six survivors onto a cart, and fled toward the Japanese-controlled area.
• Shen Yan begged Japanese soldiers to save his superior and comrades, then collapsed and passed out.

Shen Yan woke in the hospital after saving Lu Tinghui, Li Kui, and the action team, then went home to recover with Old Chen and Zhaodi. His attempt to reassure them by pretending he was healthy ended with Old Chen chasing him around the house with a whip.

• Shen Yan woke after two days unconscious and learned that Lu Tinghui, Li Kui, and the surviving action team members had recovered from their wounds.
• Lu Tinghui praised Shen Yan for rescuing the team and ordered him to rest, then agreed to let him recover at home so Old Chen would not worry.
• Old Chen and Zhaodi broke down in tears when Shen Yan arrived home in a wheelchair and acted as though he might die.
• Shen Yan revealed that he was fine by performing martial arts and flips, which enraged Old Chen and frightened Zhaodi.
• Old Chen locked the front door and chased Shen Yan with a leather whip while Shen Yan dodged and pleaded for mercy.

Shen Yan was honored for his role in the Drunken Immortal Tower operation, then attended a banquet where Japanese officials tested his loyalty and questioned his scar. He improvised a humiliating story that eased Kuroiwa Masao’s suspicions, but the scrutiny showed that the Japanese still did not fully trust him.

• Shen Yan returned to the police station and received a medal and five hundred fabi for spotting a hidden sentry during the Drunken Immortal Tower operation.
• Director Lu invited Shen Yan to an izakaya with Kuroiwa Masao, while Old Chen warned him to eat more, drink less, and keep quiet.
• At the banquet, Shen Yan played the part of an awkward young man as Kuroiwa Masao and Lu Tinghui watched him closely.
• A drinking companion noticed Shen Yan’s head scar and asked how he got it, prompting Lu Tinghui to press him for an explanation.
• Shen Yan claimed a female Communist struck him with a rock while he was relieving himself, and the joke made Kuroiwa Masao’s suspicion fade.

At a banquet, Shen Yan soothed Kuroiwa Masao’s suspicions with a dutiful answer about the war and left without further incident. The next morning, Lu Tinghui appointed him captain of a newly formed Special Operations Squad, and Shen Yan accepted.

• Shen Yan told a bawdy Momotarō joke and a joke mocking the navy, then apologized to Kuroiwa Masao for the second joke.
• Kuroiwa Masao asked Shen Yan what he thought of the war between China and Japan, and Shen said he focused on his duties as a policeman rather than politics.
• Lu Tinghui offered to arrange for Shen Yan to stay with Miss Kiyoko, but Shen declined and went home after settling the bill.
• The next morning, Lu Tinghui told Shen Yan that he and Kuroiwa Masao had chosen him to command a new Special Operations Squad.
• Shen Yan accepted the appointment as captain of the squad and promised to lead it well.