Chapter Summaries

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.

Ye Jiang learned that Xingyi Technology was holding a pollutant-hunting competition in the A-S Wilderness Zone and registered to compete for its prize money. She received a wristband that would track nearby pollutants and record the hunt, while Invisible Man remained lost in the wilderness after the boy removed the black substance from him.

• The boy pulled a strand of black substance from Invisible Man, briefly clearing his mind, then vanished after refusing to travel with him to City A.
• Invisible Man’s confusion returned as black substance gathered in his chest, and he wandered the wilderness again.
• Ye Jiang saw Xingyi Technology’s advertisement for a ten-day pollutant-hunting competition offering large cash prizes and guidance from Yun Hua.
• Ye Jiang registered under the nickname A Turbot and claimed to be D-rank despite her A-rank strength.
• A Xingyi Technology staff member gave Ye Jiang an electronic wristband that detected pollutants within ten meters and automatically recorded footage.

Ye Jiang rejected a Class B ability user’s offer to team up in Xingyi Technology’s competition, then met Wang Zhiqiang, who asked to follow her. After declining him, she pulled a mysterious cord that revealed a starry sky and caught the attention of an unfamiliar, cold-looking man.

• A Class B fire ability user offered to team up with Ye Jiang, claiming he would keep the prize money and pay her a thousand a day; she walked away.
• Wang Zhiqiang poured dirty water on the Class B ability user, who followed a strange cord and butterflies before attacking himself under their influence.
• Wang Zhiqiang told Ye Jiang he had signed up for the competition and wanted to follow her, but she refused to have a teammate.
• Ye Jiang pulled a white cord and watched it reveal blue fish and then a starry sky, while a boy nearby photographed her reaction.
• A handsome, unfamiliar man approached Ye Jiang and watched her beneath the stars; she asked whether he needed something.

Ye Jiang discovered that the man had vanished after an illusion of stars ended, then entered Xingyi Technology’s pollutant-hunting tournament. As the competitors prepared to begin, Xiao Pei recognized Ye Jiang in the crowd, who appeared ready to hunt for a high score.

• Ye Jiang learned that the starry sky had been an illusion, and the man told her that its caster had left.
• Three days later, Xingyi Technology displayed the tournament rankings, and citizens debated notable entrants including Yu Wei and Miao Qiao.
• Ye Jiang attended the tournament opening at the A- wilderness zone entrance and planned to hunt for points while keeping her usual routine.
• Yun Hua appeared to cheers, while Ye Jiang became distracted by a boy making ants dance with his ability.
• Xiao Pei recognized Ye Jiang among the competitors and noticed her enormous backpack, which suggested she was aiming for first place.

Ye Jiang harvested corrupted in the tournament, but her haul earned only 233 points because she had collected F-rank tissue samples. The next morning’s rankings put Sun Liang first and Ye Jiang 1,055th, between Yu Wei and Miao Qiao, leaving her embarrassed after she had expected to top the leaderboard.

• Ye Jiang entered the wilderness arena, swiftly killed corrupted, and returned with a bulging backpack that drew other contestants’ ridicule.
• Wang Zhiqiang asked Ye Jiang about her haul, and she confidently agreed that she would lead the rankings.
• The organizers informed Ye Jiang that her 233 samples of F-rank corrupted tissue earned her 233 points and 1,055th place.
• Citizens gathered to see the rankings, which showed Sun Liang first, Xue Ping second, and Yu Wei and Miao Qiao in 1,054th and 1,056th place.
• Ye Jiang collected her wristband and saw Wang Zhiqiang looking at her ranking as Sun Liang arrived, basked in his first-place status, and entered the wilderness zone.

Ye Jiang hunted polluted creatures in the wilderness zone, mistaking their ranks and following a contestant’s directions to find stronger prey. On her way back, she rescued Xue Ping from two polluted creatures and left without collecting their identifying parts.

• Ye Jiang killed a two-headed polluted creature with one punch, then let a small human-faced lizard pass until a contestant killed it with an arrow and told her it was probably C-rank.
• The contestant pointed Ye Jiang toward an area with manageable polluted creatures, and she eagerly hunted there until her backpack filled again.
• On her way back, Ye Jiang found Xue Ping trapped between two polluted creatures in a jagged rock forest.
• Xue Ping suspected Wu Jiangshui had sent the creatures after him, but Ye Jiang kicked both creatures hard enough to leave enormous holes in their chests.
• Xue Ping thanked Ye Jiang and asked whether she would collect the creatures’ identifying parts, while Ye Jiang considered her already-heavy backpack.