Recaps

Ye Jiang returned to work at the little restaurant, where the owner dealt with a corrupted while continuing to suspect Ye Jiang was a powerful ability user. Meanwhile, Yan Pei tried to hand the mushroom man over to the Jin Family, but their detection bracelet revealed that it was an A-rank corrupted.

• Yu Qingyi fell asleep holding Ye Jiang's hand, then hurried out to work when a noon phone call woke her.
• Ye Jiang found her fifty-thousand bounty paid, failed to find a suitable mission, and went to the little restaurant to work.
• The owner let Ye Jiang stay despite claiming she was not hiring, and questioned her about awakening an ability after spotting her Blood Moon mark.
• A corrupted entered the restaurant, and the owner kicked its head away before ordering Ye Jiang to dispose of the corpse; Ye Jiang refused because she was only paid to carry plates.
• Yan Pei waited with the caged mushroom man for the Jin Family's ability users, having told them he had rescued it from the Ability Control Bureau.
• The Jin Family's ability users checked the mushroom man with a detection bracelet and discovered it was an A-rank corrupted, not a C-rank one.

Ye Jiang and the restaurant owner served a crowd of students while contaminated beings appeared across City A in unusual numbers. At the Ability Control Bureau, Qin Daichuan learned that the awakened students had felt discomfort during their trials and remembered Teacher Turbot’s soothing touch.

• The owner ordered Ye Jiang to cook, but Ye Jiang stayed still until the owner went into the kitchen herself.
• A fish-headed contaminated being lingered outside the restaurant, and the owner dealt with it before a female student arrived and brought a group of friends to eat.
• The Ability Control Bureau received reports of contaminated beings across City A and sent out operations groups.
• Qin Daichuan questioned the thirteen awakened students from Trial Ground 165 about their awakenings and the C-rank mushroom man.
• Ming Xia and the other students recalled that Teacher Turbot’s hands had soothed them, then admitted they had felt discomfort during the trials.

Qin Daichuan investigated the students’ unusual recovery and learned that their assistant teacher was an F-rank with a sewing ability, but a surge of polluters interrupted him. Across the street, a polluter attacked an underground department store, and an Ability Control Bureau operative discovered that it had rapidly evolved from E-rank to A-rank.

• Qin Daichuan questioned the students about their sudden weakness and recovery, then learned that Teacher Turbot was an F-rank with a lifestyle ability for sewing and mending.
• A subordinate told Qin Daichuan that polluters were appearing in large numbers, so he arranged special training for the students and went to investigate.
• A drum-headed polluter attacked an underground department store, causing everyone inside to lose their sight or hearing for one minute at a time.
• An Ability Control Bureau operative rescued four people from a children's clothing shop and stayed behind to contact the cleanup team.
• The drum-headed polluter revived and attacked the operative, who realized it had evolved from E-rank to B-rank and then A-rank.

The restaurant owner fought the A-rank drum-headed contaminated being while Ye Jiang and a group of students watched. The owner gained the upper hand with her chains, though the drumbeat’s hidden effect briefly slowed her.

• An operations team member warned the mall’s evacuees about an A-rank contaminated being before collapsing, and the drum-headed creature emerged from underground.
• Students warned Ye Jiang and the restaurant owner that the drumbeat could steal people’s senses, and the owner sent them to flee before charging the creature.
• The owner climbed onto the drum-headed man, looped a chain around its neck, and dragged it down, then bound its arm and slammed it to the ground.
• After a drumbeat stole the owner’s sense of touch and briefly slowed her, she recovered and bound the creature with corrosive chains.
• The students stayed to watch and cheered as the drum-headed man writhed in pain.

A surge of unusually mild Class A contaminants struck City A as a gigantic Class S contaminant approached, prompting Qin Daichuan to order an evacuation. The chapter revealed that Mushroom Man’s second ability, Borrowing strength, was causing contaminants to evolve, while Xiao Pei faced the return of the helplessness she had felt against Stormbringer.

• The owner defeated a drum-headed Class A contaminant, and Ye Jiang repaired her clothes and bandages before casually striking down another attacker from across the street.
• Qin Daichuan and the captain of Team Two noticed that newly evolved Class A contaminants were less aggressive and found hyphae emerging from their corpses.
• Class A contaminants appeared throughout City A, and Zhao Yi discovered a towering white contaminant whose dense contamination shattered his detection bead.
• Qin Daichuan identified the giant as a Class S contaminant and ordered the citizens of City A to evacuate.
• A citizen recognized the restaurant owner as Captain Xiao Pei, and Xiao Pei admitted she had been unable to save anyone from Stormbringer three years earlier.

As an S-rank Mushroom Man approached City A, the Ability Control Bureau ordered an evacuation and sent leaders to seek help from Rong Yin on Mount Songjing. Xiao Pei led Ye Jiang and a convoy out of the city, but their escape stopped when they encountered Yan Pei, now an exceptionally murderous A+-rank contaminated being.

• City A's Ability Control Bureau broadcast evacuation instructions as Mushroom Man drew near, and its leaders decided to ask Rong Yin for help despite his silence during a past crisis.
• Xiao Pei's reputation as a protector moved citizens, and she urged them to leave the city with her.
• Ye Jiang and Xiao Pei joined over twenty people in a cramped convoy, bringing along an unconscious Ability Control Bureau member as they fought off contaminated beings on the road.
• Xiao Pei questioned Ye Jiang about her strength, but their conversation was interrupted when Xiao Pei deflected a huge boulder thrown at the convoy.
• Ye Jiang recognized the black-scaled contaminated being as Teacher Yan, and Xiao Pei realized its murderous intent was far more blatant than that of the other A-rank beings.
• Yan Pei was revealed to have evolved independently to A+ after absorbing Mushroom Man's pollution, having slaughtered people on his way into the city.

After Xiao Pei left the convoy to fight an A+ pollutant, Ye Jiang protected the evacuees as they traveled through City A, though she believed her victories came from luck. The convoy picked up a stranded old man and offered to escort a larger group whose Ability Control Bureau protector had been injured.

• Xiao Pei told Ye Jiang to take charge of the convoy, then stayed behind to battle the black-scaled pollutant while the vehicles drove away.
• Ye Jiang easily defeated several pollutants, including one whose tongue she snapped off, and dismissed them as weak opponents.
• An elderly man hiding in a supermarket fled from a pollutant, but Ye Jiang stopped it from attacking the convoy and knocked it into a crater.
• The convoy invited the old man to join them, and he gratefully climbed into the last car.
• The convoy encountered a larger group whose Ability Control Bureau escort had been injured, and its members offered to lead them to safety behind Ye Jiang.

Ye Jiang led a growing convoy toward the highway and escaped a Jin Family convoy when A-rank corrupted attacked it. At the evacuation exit, Yu Qingyi distributed supplies and reassured a departing mother and child that they would return.

• Ye Jiang gathered stranded citizens into her convoy and protected them from corrupted on the way out of the city.
• The Jin Family convoy blocked the road, and Ye Jiang knocked down several men after they attacked her convoy and dismissed her warning about smoking.
• A-rank corrupted attacked the Jin Family convoy, so Ye Jiang returned to her own convoy and left without helping.
• Yu Qingyi gave emergency supplies to arriving citizens while worrying about Ye Jiang's safety.
• A mother asked Yu Qingyi whether her family could return, and Yu Qingyi gave the mother's child a hair clip and promised they would all come back.

Ye Jiang escorted a huge convoy to the intersection, reunited with Yu Qingyi, and agreed to help the Ability Control Bureau rescue Old Hu. As she headed back into City A, Mushroom Man began running toward the city, prompting an alarm and drawing several powerful defenders into action.

• Ye Jiang escorted more than a hundred vehicles to the intersection, where grateful citizens called out to her.
• Ye Jiang reunited with Yu Qingyi and helped her distribute supplies while reassuring her that the corrupted she had encountered were weak.
• When Ability Control Bureau members said Old Hu was in danger, Ye Jiang agreed to go help and left the intersection after arranging a way for them to locate her.
• An observer at the city gate saw Mushroom Man break into a run toward City A and sounded the alarm.
• Xiao Pei sped up her fight against the black-scaled A+ corrupted, while Mr. Mobster and the captain of Team Two headed out to respond.
• Mushroom Man ran across the desolate land, murmuring that it hurt and that it had to go.

Mushroom Man fought past Zhao Yi and continued toward City A, her confused memories of her little sister returning as she gathered flowers. Qin Daichuan, the second team’s captain, and Xiao Pei chose to hold back rather than provoke her, while Ye Jiang reached the city wall and approached an observer.

• Mushroom Man attacked Zhao Yi, who used a curtain of fire to delay her until she overwhelmed him and ran on.
• Zhao Yi clung to Mushroom Man’s foot to stop her, but she shook him off and continued toward the city.
• Mushroom Man remembered her little sister and gathered fallen flowers as a gift while nearing City A.
• Qin Daichuan and the second team’s captain decided to wait for Mushroom Man to act and focus on holding her back, and Xiao Pei joined them.
• Ye Jiang learned that another team had resolved the crisis at her assigned location, then went to the city gate and climbed onto the wall.
• An observer turned in alarm at the sound of Ye Jiang opening her water bottle.

Ye Jiang waited at the city gate while Mushroom Man fought off three A-rank ability users and continued toward the city. As the warning bells rang, the observer fled, mistaking Ye Jiang’s decision to stay for a sacrifice, while Ye Jiang calmly watched Mushroom Man approach.

• Ye Jiang stayed at the city gate after the observer mistook her for a member of Part-Time Cat, and she effortlessly knocked a bone-winged contaminant out of the air.
• Mushroom Man dodged the three A-rank ability users’ attacks, and Xiao Pei recognized it as Ming Chun, a former server at a little restaurant.
• Qin Daichuan and the other ability users attacked Mushroom Man together, but it overwhelmed them and strode toward the city.
• Mr. Mobster pursued Mushroom Man while the observer rang the warning bell three times to announce the S-rank contaminant’s approach.
• The observer urged Ye Jiang to flee, but she stayed because Yu Qingyi had not called; he believed she planned to defend the city and left in tears.

Mushroom Man reunited with Ye Jiang outside City A and was warned that an S-rank contaminant was approaching, but her pain and obsession with finding her little sister drove her toward the city. As Mushroom Man lost control and crossed the walls, Ye Jiang stopped trying to restrain her and watched her suffer.

• Mushroom Man recognized Ye Jiang, gave her a blossom, and listened as Ye Jiang warned her not to enter City A because an S-rank contaminant was coming.
• Shi Tao repeatedly begged the silent figure at Mount Songjing to leave the mountain and help defend City A, but received no answer.
• Citizens panicked when they saw Mushroom Man crouched outside the city walls, while she told Ye Jiang she wanted to find her little sister.
• Mushroom Man tried to leave, but Ye Jiang repeatedly caught her mycelia and warned her that the city was dangerous.
• Mushroom Man's reason collapsed as pain overwhelmed her; she lashed out around Ye Jiang without hitting her, then bound herself while trembling in agony.
• Mushroom Man moved inside the city walls, and Ye Jiang did not stop her.

Ye Jiang tore a corrupting lump from Mushroom Man, restoring her human form and reason. Ming Chun reunited with Ming Xia and fled into the city, while Ye Jiang left the wall and an ominous nurse-like monster appeared in her place.

• Mushroom Man wept with guilt as her obsession drove her toward the city, until Ye Jiang ordered her to squat and tore a pitch-black lump from her chest.
• Ming Xia rushed toward the city wall and saw Mushroom Man disintegrating after her piercing scream.
• Ye Jiang crushed the living lump of flesh, and Mushroom Man transformed into a silver-eyed woman who Ming Xia recognized as her sister, Ming Chun.
• Ming Chun embraced Ming Xia, absorbed the surrounding corruption, and discovered she still had her S-rank powers and now bore a Blood Moon mark.
• As Captain Qin approached, Ming Chun carried Ming Xia through the hole in the wall and into the city, while Ye Jiang left to find Yu Qingyi.
• A monster in a nurse's uniform appeared on the city wall, crushed the scraps of flesh underfoot, and smiled.

After Nurse killed Mushroom Man, City A survived the disaster, and the ability indices of users across the world rose. Ye Jiang discovered a new light in her Domination interface, while Xiao Pei realized the increase had renewed hope for humanity; two days later, someone struggled to wake from a dream of an S-rank contaminant escaping.

• Qin Daichuan found Mushroom Man’s mycelium and told Xiao Pei that Nurse had likely killed the S-rank contaminant.
• The citizens of City A saw Mushroom Man vanish, returned home after the evacuation was suspended, and were protected as operations teams cleared the remaining contaminants.
• Xiao Pei discovered that her ability index had increased by one, and the rise convinced her that humanity’s abilities could still grow.
• Ye Jiang found a brighter red light in her Domination storage, while her Sewing Box ability had risen to E-rank.
• Two days later, at First Hospital, someone fought to wake from a dream in which an S-rank contaminant was escaping and an entire city needed protection.

Zhao Yi woke in the hospital believing he had died, but Qin Daichuan assured him he had survived and returned his treasured pendant. After visiting Yu Qingyi, Ye Jiang encountered Zhao Yi, who recognized her awakened ability and tried to recruit her into the Ability Control Bureau.

• Zhao Yi woke in the hospital and mistook Qin Daichuan for someone who had died alongside him, but Qin Daichuan told him he had done well and was still alive.
• Qin Daichuan returned Zhao Yi’s pendant, which he had recovered along Mushroom Man’s route, and Zhao Yi happily thanked him.
• Ye Jiang brought lunch to Yu Qingyi, whose ward patients discussed the S-rank corrupted’s disappearance and the wildflowers Mushroom Man had secretly delivered.
• Yu Qingyi ate the mushroom dish from Ye Jiang’s lunchbox and asked Ye Jiang to fetch water, then paused to think after Ye Jiang left.
• Zhao Yi recognized Ye Jiang in the corridor, learned she had awakened an ability, and offered her a place in the Ability Control Bureau, but she refused.

Ming Chun recounted how she became a polluter, was captured by the Jin Family, and tried to return to the city to find her younger sister. After thanking Ye Jiang for stopping her and helping her regain her human form, she left Ye Jiang facing the revelation that her former student Ming Xia was Mushroom Man’s sister.

• Ye Jiang declined Zhao Yi’s recruitment and told him her ability rank was F before leaving the hospital and returning to work at Xiao Pei’s restaurant.
• Xiao Pei paid Ye Jiang and announced that she was closing the restaurant and leaving for City M; Ye Jiang spotted Mushroom Man watching Xiao Pei from outside.
• Invisible Man returned to the apartment building and told Ye Jiang he had been disoriented by the S-rank polluter’s contamination.
• Ming Chun arrived with Ming Xia and asked Ye Jiang to hear her story.
• Ming Chun explained that she had become a polluter, been captured by the Jin Family, and escaped the trial grounds to find Ming Xia before thanking Ye Jiang for helping her regain her sanity.

Ye Jiang denied that she had transformed Ming Chun and then took an escort job out of City A. Meanwhile, the Anomaly Control Bureau suspected that A Turbot had helped students withstand contamination and ordered a discreet search for her.

• Ming Chun thanked Ye Jiang, promised to conceal her identity, and left with Ming Xia after insisting Ye Jiang was special.
• Ye Jiang checked her ability system and confirmed that her ability was only Sewing Box, E-rank.
• At a post-disaster meeting, Qin Daichuan proposed that A Turbot had helped the students at Trial Ground 165 resist contamination, and Shi Tao ordered a quiet search for her.
• Ye Jiang chose an escort job over the Bureau's mending tasks and escorted a client to the expressway out of City A.
• When the client tried to cut her pay, Ye Jiang beat him until he paid in full and gave her a five-star review.

Ye Jiang encountered a corrupted that turned out to be an ordinary human, prompting the Ability Control Bureau to investigate similar anomalies. After hearing that City S might reopen and housing there could be cheap, Ye Jiang accepted a job to travel there and find someone.

• Ye Jiang avoided the princess-like corrupted after sensing a living presence inside it, and it later split open after an ability user killed it, revealing an ordinary human woman.
• The Ability Control Bureau autopsied the woman and concluded she had been human, then began capturing other anomalies that looked like corrupted but showed no corruption.
• After the anomalies stopped appearing, Ye Jiang earned money but found City A housing too expensive, while Invisible Man told her that people were sneaking into City S and the authorities might reopen it.
• Ye Jiang decided to scout City S for a large home and searched for work that would take her there.
• Ye Jiang accepted Ji's 200,000-reward job to accompany the client to City S and search for someone, then discussed the trip with Yu Qingyi before leaving.

Ye Jiang traveled toward City S with her employer, Ji Jia, and proved far more powerful than her supposed E-rank and luck ability suggested. After clearing a highway obstruction, she agreed to take an elderly couple and their family’s ashes to City S as well.

• Ye Jiang met Ji Jia, learned she would protect him while he searched for a young woman, and set off with him toward City S.
• A monkey-like polluter attacked their car, and Ye Jiang killed it with its own bone blade while telling Ji Jia her ability was luck.
• Ye Jiang killed a B+ vine polluter blocking the highway, leaving Ji Jia and a B-rank escort astonished by her strength.
• The escort asked Ye Jiang to take the elderly couple he had been hired to protect to City S, explaining that he could not finish the mission.
• After hearing that the couple wanted to return home with their family’s ashes, Ye Jiang checked with Ji Jia and invited them into the car.

Ye Jiang brought Nurse Ding Xuan and the little girl with her into City S, unaware that the nurse was a monster who had rescued the child for amusement. After agreeing to escort them back to City A in exchange for candy, Ye Jiang gained Mr. Ji’s permission to let them join the group’s mission.

• The nurse watched Ye Jiang’s group, then rescued a little girl from a polluted creature after the girl’s grandfather was killed.
• Near City S, Nurse Ding Xuan pretended she and the unconscious girl had escaped from people who took them hostage, and Ye Jiang let them join the car.
• The group reached City S, where Ye Jiang showed little reaction to seeing her former hometown while the elderly couple wept.
• Ye Jiang asked Nurse Ding Xuan for candy and offered to take her and the girl back to City A after her mission.
• Ye Jiang asked Mr. Ji if the nurse and girl could accompany them, and he agreed as long as they did not interfere with the operation.

Ye Jiang recovered the elderly couple’s stolen bottle of ashes, defeated the Hyenas leader, and learned that City S had become an invisible cage that allowed people to enter but not leave. Liu He suspected a hidden power had lured people into the sealed city, and they wondered whether the S-rank corrupted Stormbringer was still alive.

• Ye Jiang let Liu He escort the elderly couple home, but a speed-type thief stole their bottle of ashes before they could leave.
• Ye Jiang chased down the thief, reclaimed the bottle, and forced him to return it and apologize.
• The thief warned Ye Jiang about the Hyenas, but their leader’s attack failed when he broke his teeth on her bone blade, and he fled.
• The thief returned the bottle to the elderly couple, while Liu He and Ye Jiang discovered an invisible barrier blocking their exit from City S.
• Liu He concluded that City S had been sealed as a trap and wondered whether Stormbringer was still alive.

After strange disasters trapped the group in City S, Ye Jiang and Liu He learned that a deadly Blood Knight hunted the streets during each occurrence. They escaped his attack, but still needed to retrieve their supplies and survive the city’s hazards.

• Liu He and the others watched sunlight break through the sky and learned from the thief that deadly phenomena had trapped City S and devastated its residents.
• Ye Jiang and Liu He took the group into a building to escape the scorching sunlight, while the thief explained the city’s chaos and the rise of violent factions.
• The Blood Knight appeared, killed a man and the Hyenas’ leader with weapons formed from blood, and turned toward Ye Jiang’s group.
• Ye Jiang attacked the Blood Knight with her bone blade, but he shattered it; Liu He then carried the group away while Ye Jiang fixated on the knight’s greatsword.
• The group rested in another building as the thief explained that the sun and Blood Knight usually vanished after about two hours.

Ye Jiang went with Wang Zhiqiang to search Henghe Pharmaceutical’s factory for medicine the sick girl urgently needed, despite the factory being inside Blood Knight’s territory. While they searched, Liu He drove off an attacker who targeted Nurse, but his injuries worsened and left him unable to use his ability to protect the group.

• The girl’s rare illness flared up, and Nurse found that her medicine bottle was empty.
• Little Thief revealed that Henghe Pharmaceutical’s factory was inside Blood Knight’s territory, so Ye Jiang volunteered to go and made Wang Zhiqiang guide her.
• Ye Jiang and Wang Zhiqiang searched the factory warehouse, where most of the medicines had already been taken.
• Wang Zhiqiang considered attacking Ye Jiang with a freight trolley but lost his nerve; Ye Jiang told him to help search, and he joined her.
• An ability user attacked the group waiting behind and targeted Nurse; Liu He drove him back but worsened his injuries and temporarily lost the use of his ability.

Ye Jiang walked through the sun zone toward the Blood Knight, while Wang Zhiqiang discovered that breaking his promise caused his ability to weaken. Overhead, a passing woman noticed Ye Jiang, and their eyes met.

• Ye Jiang endured the sunlight as she walked through the streets, eating an apple.
• Wang Zhiqiang’s Blood Moon mark began to disappear after he tried to run off with the supplies, and the pain eased when he turned back toward Ye Jiang’s companions.
• Wang Zhiqiang returned with the travel bag and found that his ability had dropped from E-rank to F-rank.
• A woman swept overhead, saw Ye Jiang walking through the sun zone, and met her gaze.

Ye Jiang watched a team led by Xiao Pei ambush the Blood Knight, only for him to break the team’s attack pattern and wound their steel-ability fighter. After the wounded team retreated, Ye Jiang approached the Blood Knight in the street and faced his attacks without slowing down.

• Ye Jiang spotted a steel ability user fighting the Blood Knight while Xiao Pei and two others waited to ambush him.
• Xiao Pei and the others bound the Blood Knight with chains and engulfed him in flames, prompting the steel ability user to believe they had finally captured him.
• The Blood Knight attacked despite the team’s expected dormant period, pierced the steel ability user with a blood thread, and forced Xiao Pei to rescue him as their ambush failed.
• The four surviving team members treated the steel ability user with torn clothing and resolved to wait for another chance to defeat the Blood Knight.
• Ye Jiang heard Xiao Pei’s warning, saw the Blood Knight wandering alone, and walked up to him while dodging his blood attacks.