Recaps

Ye Jiang returned to the group carrying the Blood Knight’s heavy sword, which she said she had traded for apples, and the group prepared to travel to New City. They left to seek treatment for Liu He and search for Ji Jia’s missing person, with Liu He offering an item in exchange for help.

• Ye Jiang took the Blood Knight’s sword and left him with a shopping bag containing two apples around his neck.
• The Ability Control Bureau’s investigation team discovered that the Blood Knight had lost his sword and gained a shopping bag and apples.
• Ye Jiang returned to the group, said she had traded apples for the sword, and convinced no one that the Blood Knight had willingly made the deal.
• After the medicine eased the little girl’s fever and convulsions, Ji Jia asked Ye Jiang to accompany the group to New City.
• Ji Jia explained that Peaceful Village’s healer made degrading demands of outsiders, and Liu He revealed an item he planned to offer in exchange for treatment.

Ye Jiang and her companions reached New City to seek treatment from its healer, only to be brought into a room full of injured people waiting for help. The healer planned to indulge Ye Jiang’s apparent love of attention, while she sat and ate an apple as the waiting continued.

• Liu He offered Ye Jiang a Forbidden Fruit in hopes of exchanging it for treatment, and she agreed to go to New City.
• The group retrieved their cars after the sun disappeared, then drove toward New City with Wang Zhiqiang and Ji Jia.
• Wang Zhiqiang denied recognizing the woman in Ji Jia’s photograph, though he reacted strongly to her image.
• Ye Jiang dragged the Blood Knight’s greatsword into Peaceful Village, startling its members before they realized she was not the Blood Knight.
• Peaceful Village’s healer told the leader to let Ye Jiang have all the attention she wanted, and a minor leader brought her group to a room of injured people waiting for treatment.
• The minor leader claimed the healer was resting after overusing his ability, while Ye Jiang sat down and prepared to eat an apple.

Ye Jiang ignored the petty officer’s attempt to manipulate her and survived an ambush by patients who resented her being chosen for treatment. She confronted the supposedly ill healer, and Peaceful Village’s leader cautiously asked which of her companions needed treatment.

• Ye Jiang refused to give the petty officer her apple, so he announced that the healer would treat only one patient and singled her out, turning the waiting patients against her.
• After the petty officer left, several patients attacked Ye Jiang, but she defeated them and followed him to the healer’s building with Liu He and Ji Jia.
• The petty officer was shocked to see Ye Jiang arrive unharmed, and she pushed him with her sword hilt, sending him flying before following him upstairs.
• Ye Jiang washed her sticky hands in the healer’s room and challenged the healer for pretending to be ill.
• The healer ordered Peaceful Village’s leader to kill Ye Jiang’s group, but the leader instead asked who needed treatment, and Liu He stepped forward.

Liu He used the Forbidden Fruit to expose the tension between Peaceful Village’s leader and healer, and the two fought until Xiao Pei arrived with a wounded team member. Xiao Pei recognized the Blood Knight’s missing greatsword behind Ye Jiang, leaving the room stunned.

• Liu He offered the Forbidden Fruit as payment, but after the leader and healer argued over it, he gave it to Ye Jiang and asked her to make the healer treat him by force.
• The healer attacked Peaceful Village’s leader, and Liu He pulled Ye Jiang aside as the two fought.
• Xiao Pei arrived with an injured steel ability user, stopping the fight and ordering the healer to treat him.
• Xiao Pei bound the healer with her chain and forced him to begin healing the wounded man.
• Xiao Pei spotted the Blood Knight’s missing greatsword behind Ye Jiang, who tried to hide it, and the steel ability user recognized it in shock.

Ye Jiang fought off Peaceful Village's leaders during the Blood Knight's fiery attack, then helped Xiao Pei evacuate the survivors and bring them to the Ability Control Bureau. As the group waited to return to Peaceful Village's headquarters, the Blood Knight emerged from the flames and approached them.

• Xiao Pei and the steel ability user recognized Ye Jiang's sword as the Blood Knight's, and the leaders of Peaceful Village realized it was genuine.
• When the Blood Knight attacked New City with fiery rain, Peaceful Village's leaders tried to seize Ye Jiang's Forbidden Fruit, but she knocked out the healer and threw the leader toward the Blood Knight.
• Xiao Pei led her team and Peaceful Village's survivors out of the fire, while Ye Jiang's group brought the healer to the Ability Control Bureau and Ji Jia asked survivors about the person in her photograph.
• Xiao Pei invited Ye Jiang and her employer to the bureau's civilian protection base to continue searching for the person, and Liu He stayed to help the bureau.
• As the group waited for the fiery rain anomaly to end, the Blood Knight walked out of the flames toward them.

After the fire rain ended, Xiao Pei learned of a hidden, recently stocked Fukang Supermarket warehouse and recruited Ye Jiang to help hunt the Blood Knight. Before Ye Jiang could respond, Ji Jia and Wang Zhiqiang began arguing over a secret Wang had revealed.

• The Blood Knight watched the humans until the fire rain stopped, then vanished without attacking.
• The elderly Fukang Supermarket owners told Xiao Pei about a hidden underground warehouse stocked shortly before Stormbringer appeared.
• Xiao Pei organized a supply mission and told Ye Jiang she could not come to the base because her sword had drawn the Blood Knight to New City.
• After learning Ye Jiang had traded apples for the Blood Knight's sword, Xiao Pei offered to hire her to help hunt and kill him.
• Ji Jia angrily demanded to know why Wang Zhiqiang had told him a lie, and Wang insisted he had revealed a secret for Ji Jia's sake.

Ye Jiang accompanied Ji Jia to investigate Wang Zhiqiang’s claim that the Blood Knight might be the person Ji Jia sought, then waited at the intersection for the Blood Knight. The Blood Knight appeared and attacked, leaving Ye Jiang to wonder whether it resented her for the apples she had restored.

• Ji Jia asked Ye Jiang to accompany him because Wang Zhiqiang believed the Blood Knight might be the person in Ji Jia’s photograph.
• Wang Zhiqiang recalled seeing human eyes and a red mole beneath the Blood Knight’s helmet, but Ji Jia insisted the person he sought would never attack other humans.
• Ye Jiang waited at the City S intersection, and the blazing-sun phenomenon appeared there before the Blood Knight arrived.
• The Blood Knight attacked Ji Jia, and Ye Jiang cut through the incoming blood threads and arrows before taking him down to the street.
• Ye Jiang noticed the shopping bag she had given the Blood Knight still hung from its neck and restored the shriveled apples inside.
• As the Blood Knight attacked more fiercely, Ye Jiang asked whether it had been unwilling to trade and complained that its sword was useless.

Ye Jiang and her employer confronted Blood Knight, whose memories returned when the man recognized her as Chen Zhuozhuo, the hero who had saved him as a boy. Blood Knight realized the story driving her killings was fabricated and that she had murdered civilians, then recognized the Writer’s manipulation and was left facing the truth of what she had done.

• Ye Jiang’s words weakened Blood Knight’s attacks, and she tried unsuccessfully to remove Blood Knight’s helmet.
• Ye Jiang’s employer ran toward Blood Knight and asked if she was the person he had been searching for.
• Blood Knight’s helmet cracked, and the man recognized her as Chen Zhuozhuo, the Ability Control Bureau member who had rescued him ten years earlier.
• Blood Knight fled through a distortion and returned to the building where she had imagined her corrupted lover was waiting, only to find an empty room.
• Blood Knight remembered killing ordinary people and discovered she had been living beside an Ability Control Bureau shelter for civilians.
• Blood Knight realized the Writer had erased her memories and created the false persona and story that had driven her actions.

Xiao Pei discovered that Blood Knight was Chen Zhuozhuo, an Ability Control Bureau investigator who had sacrificed herself to keep the base’s people from feeling guilty for killing a fellow human. Ye Jiang’s employer arrived and recognized Chen Zhuozhuo, leaving the chapter with him grieving beside her body.

• After hearing that Blood Knight had died, Xiao Pei returned to the base and questioned how she had been killed.
• Xiao Pei learned that Blood Knight’s head had been shattered before the base’s ability users attacked, and she took the body away for burial.
• A work ID revealed Blood Knight’s identity as Chen Zhuozhuo, prompting Xiao Pei to realize that Chen had destroyed her own head to spare the people who attacked her.
• Xiao Pei prepared Chen Zhuozhuo’s body for burial as two Ability Control Bureau investigators kept watch.
• Ye Jiang arrived with her employer, and Xiao Pei let him see Chen Zhuozhuo; he entered the room and wept while Ye Jiang watched.

Ye Jiang restored Chen Zhuozhuo’s shattered body, though Chen Zhuozhuo did not wake, and the base celebrated after Blood Knight’s death and a successful supply run. The chapter ended with people discovering that the barrier trapping them in the city remained even after Blood Knight was dead.

• Ye Jiang said Chen Zhuozhuo was still alive, then mended her clothes and repaired her shattered body, but Chen Zhuozhuo remained unconscious.
• Ji Jia refused to let the Ability Control Bureau bury Chen Zhuozhuo, and Xiao Pei agreed to keep her in the room under his care.
• Xiao Pei distributed food after Peaceful Village returned with supplies, and she refused to give the healer special treatment beyond his allotted food.
• The healer recognized Ye Jiang and walked around her rather than confronting her.
• People rushed to the roads out of the city after Blood Knight’s death, but they were stopped by the barrier, which had not disappeared.

After the paper rain revealed the Blood Knight’s story, Xiao Pei rallied the frightened people at the base while Nurse’s unsettling nature showed through. Ye Jiang left the base to claim a high-rise she liked, but a telekinetic ambushed her and demanded her food.

• Xiao Pei suspected the monster Writer had used its ability to bring the Blood Knight’s story into reality and reassured the people at the base that humanity had never been defeated.
• The people collected and burned the story sheets, then debated whether they could kill a loved one who had become corrupted.
• Nurse said she had no concerns about killing someone close to her, and a little girl hugged her.
• After resting for two days, Ye Jiang left the base and headed toward a blue-glass high-rise she wanted to make her home.
• A telekinetic ambushed Ye Jiang with flying debris, but she evaded him and caught his rebar attack.
• The telekinetic demanded Ye Jiang hand over her food, while she refused to give up her last apple.

Ye Jiang was caught in a citywide darkness anomaly while the base’s healer plotted to escape, and a bandaged avenger began slaughtering people in the largest settlement. The Ability Control Bureau’s investigation team returned and brought light back, but the bandaged man struck Nurse down as the darkness lifted.

• Ye Jiang frightened the telekinetic into surrendering, then was engulfed by a darkness that silenced everything around her.
• The healer tried to recruit his guard to flee the base and build a force like Peaceful Village before darkness swallowed their surroundings.
• A bandaged avenger entered the silent city and killed people as panic spread through the settlement.
• Nurse stood apart from the fleeing crowd with the child, and the bandaged man turned his scythe toward her.
• The Ability Control Bureau’s investigation team returned and its fire-type ability user illuminated the base, whereupon Nurse’s decaying aura dispersed and the bandaged man wounded her with his scythe.

Nurse abandoned her act to save the little girl, while Ye Jiang helped Xiao Pei defeat Bandage Man and take his scythe. After Bandage Man transformed back into Cao Tao, the investigation team learned that he had been an ordinary ability user caught up in a revenge story.

• Nurse pretended to be gravely injured and dismissed her concern for the little girl, but she wiped away the child’s tears, picked her up, and fled the decay-filled area.
• Xiao Pei struggled to contain Bandage Man as the fireballs weakened, until Ye Jiang arrived with a flashlight and stopped his scythe bare-handed.
• Ye Jiang took Bandage Man’s scythe and knocked him unconscious, allowing Xiao Pei to bind him and end the darkness.
• As Bandage Man’s bandages vanished, Xiao Pei moved him into a room, where he returned to the form of an ordinary middle-aged man.
• Cao Tao told the investigation team about his revenge story, and Ye Jiang shone her flashlight at him.

Ye Jiang learned that the monster responsible for the corrupted people was hiding on the top floor of a high-rise she wanted to claim, and she decided he was illegally occupying it. As Xiao Pei sought a way to protect the base, a healer refused to treat ordinary people unless Ye Jiang agreed to give him what he wanted.

• Ye Jiang questioned Cao Tao about who had turned him into a corrupted person, and his painful memories led him to identify the top floor of an eighty-eight-story high-rise.
• Xiao Pei and the investigation team focused on the building, while Ye Jiang asked whether its occupant had paid and concluded he was illegally occupying it.
• Xiao Pei encouraged the grieving survivors, then left to hold a secret meeting about how to end the crisis.
• Ye Jiang noticed a patch of concrete corroded by an unknown substance as the injured gathered for treatment.
• The healer refused to treat ordinary people without payment and told the survivors to ask Ye Jiang for the item he wanted from her.

Xiao Pei realized the sudden assault on the broadcasting center was not her doing and rushed inside. She found the tower transformed into a library, where a group of ability users were attacking its magician administrator despite having little rapport with one another.

• Xiao Pei was astonished when ability users flooded into the tower, then followed them inside.
• Xiao Pei found that the broadcasting center had become a library lined with tall bookshelves and books.
• Xiao Pei saw several ability users attacking the magician who administered the library, working together despite the lead attacker and support fighter being at odds.

Xiao Pei investigated the ability users’ mysterious assaults on the broadcasting center while Ye Jiang recovered from ability depletion at the base. After the humans reached the sixty-first floor and forgot the assault again, Xiao Pei worried about the hidden force driving them as they prepared to attack the final floors the next day.

• Xiao Pei found that ability users were defeating the broadcasting center’s anomalies without killing them, then discovered that the unconscious anomalies reverted to ability users, including Bureau investigators marked by the Blood Moon.
• Xiao Pei evacuated the restored ability users, but learned that her team and the other ability users at the base had forgotten the assault; the next day, they stormed the tower again.
• Nurse diagnosed Ye Jiang’s exhaustion as a delayed reaction to ability depletion, and Ye Jiang learned the little girl’s name was Xiaotong after seeing her play with children.
• The second assault reached the sixty-first floor, and the ability users again forgot it after returning; Xiao Pei and Ye Jiang spoke during the night about the unknown force directing them.
• Xiao Pei watched a nurse help a child with a fever and concluded that the next day’s assault on the tower’s top floor would reveal whether the hidden figure was helping humanity or conspiring against it.

Xiaotong awakened Precognitive Dream and foretold that everyone in the city would die, then recognized the disguised Writer among the returning ability users. The ability users attacked “Cao Tao,” whose identity as the Writer had been exposed.

• Xiaotong awakened an ability and dreamed of the city's inhabitants dead beneath a rain of paper, with a gigantic skull above them.
• Xiao Pei found the top floor of the broadcasting center empty and realized the Writer was mingling with the crowd.
• Xiaotong's prophecy spread panic through the base, and Ye Jiang learned that the dream foretold everyone's death.
• The returning ability users questioned Xiaotong, who saw Bandage Man reveal a human appearance and leave the crowd to write.
• Xiaotong recognized the middle-aged man as the Writer, and the ability users attacked him with fire, wind blades, and an iron arm.

Xiao Pei’s suspicions proved right when Cao Tao revealed himself as the monster, but Ye Jiang’s steel-pipe attacks interrupted his assault. As the monster began his planned ending, the little girl’s fabricated character skin fell away and the power inside her destroyed her.

• Xiao Pei had ordered the investigators to attack Cao Tao if trouble broke out, suspecting the monster had infiltrated the base.
• The investigators and ability users attacked Cao Tao, but he emerged unharmed until Ye Jiang struck him with a steel pipe and drove him back.
• The little girl stabbed Nurse with the scarlet knife, which became a Blood Moon mark without awakening any ability.
• The little girl’s character costume peeled away, revealing that she was an ordinary person whose body was being destroyed by the monster’s power; she apologized to Nurse as she died.
• The monster abandoned Cao Tao’s disguise, repelled the ability users’ attacks, and revealed a smoke-like skull as he declared that it was time for the ending.

Nurse revealed her monstrous true form after Writer mortally wounded her, then overwhelmed him while Ye Jiang remained unaffected by the monsters’ mental contamination. Nurse continued tearing Writer apart above the city as the battle left people across the area confused and terrified.

• Nurse crushed the black smoke behind Writer’s skull, then unleashed decay that killed Peaceful Village’s fleeing healer.
• Nurse attacked Writer and battered his skeletal body until he discarded it and impaled her with a tendril.
• Writer prepared to kill Nurse, but she caught his tendril and tore open her human body to reveal her true form.
• Nurse dragged Writer away from the base and fought him in the sky, while Xiao Pei and people throughout the city succumbed to confusion.
• Nurse slaughtered Writer as he begged for mercy, reducing his enormous form to the size of a basketball.

Nurse Ding was dying after failing to fulfill her host’s wish, but Ye Jiang restored the injured child and opened a fissure that sent Nurse Ding back to the Inner World. The child rushed into Nurse Ding’s arms before she vanished, and the city was left silent.

• Nurse Ding collapsed in a crater as the broken contract drained her strength, and she accepted that she would die after failing to find the last surviving member of the Zhou Family.
• Nurse Ding saw Ye Jiang arrive with the healed child, and Ye Jiang explained that the Green Peach had repaired the child’s body.
• Nurse Ding asked Ye Jiang for candy, and Ye Jiang’s eyes turned blood-red as a fissure opened in the sky.
• Ye Jiang ordered Nurse Ding to go home, and Nurse Ding recognized the supreme being behind Ye Jiang and submitted as a Blood Moon mark appeared on her arm.
• The child woke and rushed into Nurse Ding’s arms before Nurse Ding and the monsters’ released fear vanished through the fissure.
• The Ability Control Bureau’s chief captain saw the fissure close and vomited from exhaustion, while Ye Jiang’s eyes returned to normal and she stood weakly in the land of decay.

Ye Jiang recovered her strength, leveled up to D-rank, and inspected a high-rise she wanted to make her home. Xiao Pei reached S-rank and learned from Ye Jiang that Nurse had fought the skeleton monster, leading her to identify Nurse as the monster Ding Xuan while the cause of the rift remained unknown.

• Ye Jiang found herself alone amid the black, decayed earth and entered a high-rise to inspect it as her ability weakness faded.
• Ye Jiang's ability rank rose from E to D, while Xiao Pei's index passed eight digits and made her the first S-rank ability user.
• Ye Jiang found an enormous study she wanted to move into, then accidentally pushed a rotten window out of the building.
• Xiao Pei climbed to the study and questioned Ye Jiang, who said she had seen Nurse fighting the skeleton man but had lost her memory of the rest.
• Xiao Pei connected Nurse to monster No. 9 and identified her as Ding Xuan, while suspecting the skeleton was the monster Writer and questioning who had opened the rift.
• Xiao Pei found no further answers in the building, returned to the base, and Shi Tao arrived in City S a day later with the action team's elites.

After Writer's death, the Ability Control Bureau reached City S and found its survivors alive, though many remained mentally damaged. Ye Jiang treated their physical injuries and met with the bureau, while Xiao Pei explained that City S would remain restricted because a powerful being might still be there.

• The signal from City S returned after Writer died, and the Ability Control Bureau sent the City A branch to investigate and provide support.
• Xiao Pei told Branch Director Shi Tao that the survivors had received preliminary treatment, then revealed that Ye Jiang had treated them and presented the bureau with her bill.
• Shi Tao thanked Ye Jiang and asked her to join the Ability Control Bureau; she declined but gave him her phone number so she could collect the money owed to her.
• Chen Zhuozhuo woke at the bureau's new base, and Xiao Pei explained that Writer's bottles had held pieces of her soul, which returned when Nurse's collision shattered them.
• As the bureau prepared to leave City S, Ye Jiang asked Xiao Pei why the city would not reopen, and Xiao Pei avoided revealing that an unidentified powerful being might remain there.

After returning to City A, Ye Jiang gave her savings to Yu Qingyi, who refused the money and asked her to save it for her, then searched for work again. Her neighbor Invisible Man apologized for misleading her about housing with a limited-edition Yun Hua phone charm and told her the famous Child of Light was coming to City A soon.

• Ye Jiang returned to City A disappointed that City S would not open up, but felt better after receiving payment for two jobs and counting the Ability Control Bureau's treatment fee as money owed.
• Ye Jiang transferred 334,000 yuan and an extra 11 yuan to sleeping Yu Qingyi, but Yu Qingyi later returned the money and told Ye Jiang to save it for her.
• Yu Qingyi explained that she loved her night-shift job despite needing the money, then hurried out to work.
• Ye Jiang searched Part-Time Cat for jobs and considered how her healing ability could earn money, though she did not want to become obsessed with making it.
• Invisible Man apologized for his mistaken information about the housing opportunity and offered Ye Jiang a phone charm he had found on the street.
• Invisible Man excitedly told Ye Jiang about Yun Hua, the Child of Light, and said he would visit City A in a few days, but Ye Jiang showed no interest.

Ye Jiang revealed that her D-rank Sewing Box ability had made her appear to be a high-ranking healer, while she also proved her combat strength by killing a B+ corrupted creature. The Ability Control Bureau identified her as the sought-after “A Turbot” and began considering what her unusual abilities meant, while Ye Jiang remained pleased with how strong she was.

• Ye Jiang killed a B+ corrupted creature by grabbing a tentacle and smashing its head into the ground.
• Xiao Pei recognized Ye Jiang and questioned her rank after Zhao Yi pointed out that she had defeated the creature with one blow.
• Ye Jiang showed Xiao Pei her ability panel, revealing her D-rank Sewing Box ability, and Zhao Yi recognized her as “A Turbot.”
• Shi Tao reviewed Ye Jiang’s background and concluded that her mending ability had produced healing effects, while her actual strength far exceeded her rank.
• Ye Jiang realized that her unusual strength had let her accept a Part-Time Cat job before awakening and enter a trial ground, then Shi Tao awkwardly began addressing her.

Ye Jiang demonstrated her healing ability for Shi Tao, who concluded she had not caused the Trial Ground 165 awakenings, and she left the Ability Control Bureau with her payment. Elsewhere, a confused water contaminator encountered a dangerous boy who praised its bundle of B-rank Bone Joint Flower limbs as a romantic bouquet.

• Shi Tao questioned Ye Jiang about the unusual awakenings at Trial Ground 165, but Ye Jiang offered to demonstrate her treatment ability instead of confirming his suspicions.
• Ye Jiang quickly healed an injured young man and slowly eased his mental contamination, leading Shi Tao to decide she had not helped the trial students awaken.
• Ye Jiang collected her treatment payment, then left to eat with Xiao Pei while Zhao Yi waited outside the conference room.
• Shi Tao told his Operations Team leader that a Turbot had been found and that Ye Jiang was not her.
• A confused water contaminator met a boy in the wilderness, who asked what romance meant and admired the contaminator's bundle of B-rank Bone Joint Flower limbs as a bouquet.