Recaps

Lin Nieran and the others listened to the Orphanage Director investigate the bombing, while his power revealed blurry footage of Lin Yi and Wang Ding fleeing the orphanage. The group avoided punishment because no one could identify them, but the director and Mr. Xie began searching for the culprits.

• Qin Rang played back the group’s conversation after Wang Ding activated a Silencing Weird Object, and they realized surveillance footage could expose them.
• The Orphanage Director arrived, and Tao Yuan and Wang Ding detected the organization’s Fox Pattern on his forearm.
• The director used black energy to reveal footage of two blurry figures, identified as Lin Yi and Wang Ding, escaping after the wooden door was blasted open.
• Lin Yi, Wang Ding, Flower Language, Tao Yuan, and the others received a notification that they were under the director’s scrutiny, but they suffered no punishment because they were not identified.
• Mr. Xie offered to arrange adoptive families for anyone who revealed the truth, while the director promised forgiveness to whoever admitted their mistake.

After a boy falsely accused Qin Rang and Lin Yi of causing the explosion, the Orphanage Director intervened before his unstable ability teleported him away. The group returned to the Cocoa Pod workshop, where Wang Ding shared the rules he had discovered.

• A shabby boy accused Qin Rang and Lin Yi of carrying a bomb, but the Orphanage Director challenged his account and dismissed the accusation.
• Lin Nieran realized the director could see him, and 007 suggested the director’s space ability might be able to send him home.
• The director was involuntarily teleported away, while Mr. Xie punished the boy for making a false accusation and warned Qin Rang and Lin Yi that the investigation would continue.
• The group returned to work, and Tao Yuan showed Lin Yi and Qin Rang Mi Chuchu’s Weird Object armor as she smashed Cocoa Pods.
• Lin Yi and Qin Rang agreed to join the group that night in exchange for knives and food, and Wang Ding handed everyone a sheet listing rules he had found in the workshop.

Tao Yuan and the others compared three conflicting sets of rules at the Chocolate Orphanage and prepared to use Weird Objects to check which rules were true. The chapter ended with Director Chen asking about the Organization Forum, where no new information had appeared.

• Mi Chuchu and Tao Yuan discussed entering the workshop after work, while An Ying revealed that she had found the Instance rules near the Back Mountain.
• Qin Rang and Lin Yi agreed to show the others how to reach the Back Mountain the next day.
• The group compared the Orphanage, Dining Hall, and workshop rules, noting contradictions about chocolate and the Orphanage Director.
• Lin Yi and Qin Rang explained that C-Rank children received preferential treatment and that a child who reported stolen work had disappeared.
• Wang Ding and Tao Yuan brought out Weird Objects to verify which rules were correct.
• Director Chen asked his subordinate about the Organization Forum, and the subordinate said there had been little news since the new year.

Outside the livestream, Tao Yun and Director Chen discussed tracking the missing figures and arranging help to find Cheng Shanshi. In the Orphanage Instance, Lin Yi and the others finished their work, compared their dangerously low scores, and considered how to get through the night without losing their places.

• Tao Yun told Director Chen that the Tang Family could check whether Cheng Shanshi had entered an Instance near the Orphanage.
• The six workers processed all the Cocoa Pods and went to the Dining Hall, where Wang Ding used a Soundproof Weird Object so they could talk.
• Lin Yi grew drowsy after eating while Lin Nieran promised to give him something good that night.
• An Ying asked everyone about their points, and Lin Yi warned that anyone below 60 points would have nowhere to stay.
• The group discussed sneaking out after the Disciplinarian Directors checked the rooms, then learned An Ying had only 51 points after entering the forbidden Back Mountain.

Lin Yi moved to the crowded Area F and tasted sweet chocolate from Lin Nieran for the first time. After lights-out, Lin Nieran spotted Wang Ding and An Ying searching outside, then discovered the Disciplinarian Director Aberration’s black threads creeping into the orphanage.

• Lin Yi moved his belongings from Area D to a bed in Area F to avoid losing points.
• Lin Nieran gave Lin Yi pieces of sweet chocolate, and Lin Yi savored the taste before going to sleep.
• After the lights went out at nine, Lin Nieran saw Wang Ding and An Ying searching the grounds with Weird Objects.
• Lin Nieran identified black threads entering through a window as the regenerating True Form of the S-Class Disciplinarian Director Aberration.
• The black threads spread through the corridor and under the doors as 007 quietly called to Lin Yi.

Lin Nieran used a protective item to bring Lin Yi out of his room while Wu Liang and Flower Language fought in the corridor. The fight stopped when Lin Yi told them their Master was with him and promised to raise their Monthly Points Quotas.

• Lin Nieran confirmed Lin Yi was awake, shielded him, and prepared to lead him out of the room.
• Wu Liang left his room and cut through the Black-Line Weirds as he searched for his missing friend.
• Flower Language confronted Wu Liang, and they fought with Thorns and a scalpel, both injuring each other.
• Lin Yi opened his door, saw the fight, and briefly froze at the sight of the blood and Weirds.
• Lin Yi told Wu Liang and Flower Language that their Master was beside him and offered to increase their Monthly Points Quotas by ten thousand.
• Wu Liang pulled the knife from Flower Language's eye, and Flower Language pulled the Thorns from Wu Liang's chest as they stopped fighting.

After reuniting with Lin Yi, Wu Liang, and Flower Language, Lin Nieran sent Lin Yi downstairs to meet the Calamity Crossing Squad while he followed separately. The squad took shelter in the Dining Hall from the living black threads, and Black Cat arrived with a ball of yarn but encountered something as he tried to enter.

• Flower Language and Wu Liang confronted Lin Yi, then recognized him and learned that Lin Nieran was with him but invisible to them.
• Flower Language told Lin Yi that Puppet had killed the teaching director assigned to him, prompting Lin Nieran to suspect he knew where Puppet was.
• The four members of the Calamity Crossing Squad fought through the black-thread creatures, but Mi Chuchu's attempt to burn them failed.
• The squad retreated into the Dining Hall, where the black threads stopped at the entrance and Tao Yuan warned the others not to look at the moving sculpture.
• The black threads receded outside, and Wang Ding began to explain where he had found a place before a black ball of yarn struck the entrance.
• Black Cat caught the ball of yarn and approached the Dining Hall, but something happened when he tried to enter.

Lin Yi, Flower Language, and Wu Liang escaped the pursuing black lines into the Dining Hall, where the group argued over who had provoked them. Lin Yi then revealed that the Orphanage screened arrivals and classified those with physical or mental conditions as F-rank.

• Black Cat tried to bring a ball of yarn into the Dining Hall, but it vanished when he crossed the threshold.
• Lin Yi, Flower Language, and Wu Liang fled down the stairs with eerie black lines pursuing them, then escaped into the Dining Hall, where the lines could not enter.
• Flower Language and Wu Liang blamed each other for attracting the lines and nearly fought until Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Lin Nieran intervened.
• Lin Yi explained that he had gone to investigate something outside his window and encountered Flower Language and Wu Liang, who were fighting before the black lines appeared.
• Mi Chuchu told Lin Yi that she and the others knew Flower Language and Wu Liang, while Wang Ding explained An Ying's albinism.
• Lin Yi said that everyone entering the Orphanage underwent a full-body examination and that those deemed physically or mentally unwell were classified as F-rank.

Wang Ding and Tao Yuan chose to investigate the basement, and the group set out with Qin Rang, Flower Language, and Wu Liang. Lin Nieran woke in An Ying's body and joined them, while Flower Language and Wu Liang recognized him as their lord and friend.

• Wang Ding recalled Lin Yi's childhood diagnosis and learned from Lin Yi that Lily Hospital had diagnosed him.
• Tao Yuan and Wang Ding decided to search the basement rather than risk the Back Mountain or waste time looking for the surveillance room.
• Tao Yuan invited Flower Language and Wu Liang to join the search, and Mi Chuchu returned carrying Qin Rang.
• The group headed out, and An Ying woke Lin Yi, causing Lin Nieran to find himself in An Ying's body.
• Flower Language and Wu Liang recognized Lin Nieran, and he asked the group whether their unusual Weird Objects had been custom-made.

Lin Nieran took control of Lin Yi’s body and joined the group as they entered the hidden passage leading to a square-stepping game. The others grew suspicious of his changed behavior while Wang Ding began testing the squares, and Lin Nieran kept Qin Rang from taking unnecessary risks.

• Lin Nieran asked 007 about taking over Lin Yi’s body and realized Lin Yi had voluntarily fallen asleep inside it.
• Wang Ding opened the hidden door, and the group entered the underground passage; a child appeared outside and promised a show that night.
• Wang Ding explained the square-stepping game’s dangers while signaling that Lin Yi seemed different, and the others quietly agreed to be cautious.
• Qin Rang offered to test the squares, but Lin Nieran pulled him back and persuaded him to wait with him.

The group struggled to identify a safe route across the squares, and Lin Nieran suggested trying the third one. Black Cat transformed into Mo Lan and safely landed there, leaving the others to follow while Qin Rang discovered that the cat could become human.

• Tao Yuan hesitated at the first row of squares because she could not reach it with her shortened legs and the group did not know which tiles were safe.
• Lin Nieran felt the stone tiles and suggested the third square, sensing that the other choices were dangerous.
• Black Cat leaped onto the third square, transformed into Mo Lan, and landed safely.
• Tao Yuan and Wang Ding accepted the third square as safe, and Tao Yuan stepped onto it.
• Qin Rang noticed Mo Lan's transformation, and Lin Nieran called him a cat demon, prompting Mo Lan to insist that he was a cat.

The group tested a shifting pattern of safe squares as they crossed the passage beneath the orphanage. Tao Yuan asked Qin Rang about rumors surrounding the orphanage, and he began to share what he knew.

• Lin Nieran convinced the young Qin Rang that his unusual behavior was normal.
• Tao Yuan, Black Cat, and the others debated which square to take, and Mo Lan stepped safely onto the square Wang Ding had previously fallen through.
• Tao Yuan and the others realized that the safe-square pattern changed, then continued forward to gather clues.
• Wu Liang sensed multiple bodies underground, and Qin Rang suggested there was more beneath the orphanage than bodies.
• Tao Yuan asked Qin Rang about rumors concerning the orphanage, and he began to tell the group what he knew.

Qin Rang and Lin Nieran told the others about their difficult pasts at the orphanage and the children who vanished after adoption. The group grew suspicious of the orphanage’s frequent adoptions, but Wu Liang’s reply left the possibility of organ trafficking unresolved.

• Qin Rang said adopted children returned with forced smiles and escorts, while many older children never came back.
• Lin Nieran explained that he and Qin Rang had been ostracized, and Qin Rang confirmed he had mocked his classmates’ intelligence.
• Qin Rang revealed that Lin Yi had fought back against bullies and been demoted repeatedly, while Flower Language and Wu Liang offered violent threats against the bullies.
• Qin Rang said adoption days happened weekly and that girls were adopted more often than boys.
• Mi Chuchu and An Ying suspected illicit trafficking, but Flower Language questioned whether organ trafficking explained the orphanage’s ranking system and the number of children.
• An Ying asked whether the children were suitable for organ transplants, and Wu Liang answered that he was a proper doctor.

Tao Yuan and Mo Lan triggered a bomb but survived with help from Flower Language, while the group learned more about the orphanage’s rules and Lin Nieran’s abandonment. An Ying noticed a mismatch between Lin Nieran’s account and his later schooling, then learned that high-scoring children could attend the orphanage’s own elementary school.

• Tao Yuan and Mo Lan stepped on a bomb square, but Flower Language’s vines pulled them to safety after Tao Yuan’s defensive Weird Object activated.
• Tao Yuan and Wang Ding studied the route diagram, while Mi Chuchu took over navigating the squares.
• Qin Rang and Lin Nieran explained that children who were neither adopted nor reclaimed by family before turning eighteen had to take lifelong jobs in the orphanage, and losing too many points could also trap them there.
• Lin Nieran recounted how his father sent him to buy a cake and disappeared, after which Grandma took him in and eventually sent him to the orphanage.
• An Ying questioned how Lin Nieran later attended school, and Lin Nieran explained that children with high scores could attend the orphanage’s elementary school.

Mi Chuchu triggered a trap that drenched the group, and the others recovered while Mo Lan and Wu Liang fought over a towel. Lin Nieran and Qin Rang devised a plan involving Cat Boy and prepared to try it.

• Qin Rang explained that the Orphanage Director had taken in abandoned and rescued children, and the group connected this to the Orphanage's rules.
• Mi Chuchu stepped onto a grid square, triggering a wave that knocked her down and soaked everyone nearby.
• The group dried off, then discovered Cat Boy clinging to the ceiling; he leaped down and attacked Wu Liang after Wu Liang took Lin Nieran's towel.
• Mi Chuchu recovered from a bump on her head, while Wang Ding said the password was likely seven or nine and that they did not need to continue yet.
• Lin Nieran and Qin Rang thought of a plan involving Cat Boy, pulled An Ying aside to discuss it, and prepared to try it.

Tao Yuan and the others completed the Hopscotch Game by flying across it, then followed a hidden underground passage and overheard Disciplinarian Directors discussing secret transfers of children. They found a huge ornate door leading to an empty, modern-looking hall, where Qin Rang and Lin Nieran guided them to a hidden side entrance.

• Tao Yuan and Wang Ding realized the group had flown across the Hopscotch Game and received two Points each for completing it.
• Wang Ding concealed the group as they continued through the underground passage and hid from two Disciplinarian Directors, who discussed taking children and falsifying records.
• An Ying suggested the Directors' passage led to another exit, while Qin Rang and Lin Nieran said they did not recognize the two men.
• The group reached a towering door carved with the Dining Hall Statue and found a clean, empty hall behind it.
• Qin Rang and Lin Nieran led the group across the hall to a hidden door they identified as a side entrance.

Tao Yuan and the others discovered the Punishment Room, where children hung motionless from black threads, and Qin Rang and Lin Nieran explained its history. A sudden crash led them into a battle with transformed Disciplinarian Directors whose aggressive threads could burrow into flesh.

• Tao Yuan and the others found children suspended on black threads in the Punishment Room, and Qin Rang warned them not to disturb the punishment.
• Qin Rang and Lin Nieran revealed that they had been punished there before and that they suspected another hidden area where people were killed.
• A crash drew the group down the corridor, where they encountered transformed Disciplinarian Directors who attacked them with dangerous black threads.
• Wang Ding severed most of the threads with his whip but was pierced by one, while the Calamity Crossing Squad defended Lin Nieran and Qin Rang.
• Tao Yuan charged her Chainsaw to clear a path, and An Ying used her Bamboo Umbrella to shield the group from the severed threads.

The Calamity Crossing Squad, Modian, and Lai'er converged in the Cemetery, where Wang revealed that he had orchestrated the gathering. Wang then focused on Qin Rang, claiming he carried the scent of Qin Rang’s soul, while Flower Language blocked him from approaching.

• The group escaped the Black-Line Weird into the Cemetery and found Modian among the children’s skeletons, with Lai’er and 32 Statues nearby.
• The Cemetery’s Weirds turned their attention to the newcomers as the Black-Line Weird broke through the sealed door.
• Wang arrived with the black lines under his control and explained that the Cemetery allowed the dead Weirds of the Orphanage to coexist.
• Wang admitted he had led Modian there and said Modian would otherwise have ruined Lord Father’s plans.
• Wang told Tao Yuan that the group had entered the Instance for Qin Rang, then said Qin Rang carried the scent of Qin Rang’s soul.
• Tao Yuan and Wang Ding shielded Qin Rang, and Flower Language stopped Wang with a Thorn when he tried to approach.

Wang revealed that he had lured Flower Language to the Underground Passage and left the Cemetery after warning the group to seek him out at the S-Rank Residence. His departure awakened the Cemetery’s threats, and the team fought to survive as Lai’er and Modian took on separate enemies.

• Flower Language confronted Wang about luring her to the Underground Passage, and Wang admitted it while promising information at the S-Rank Residence.
• Lai’er accused Wang of using underhanded tricks to complete his lord’s mission, but Wang vanished when black lines enveloped him.
• The sculptures, Skeletons, and Black-Line Weird attacked as Mi Chuchu, Lai’er, Tao Yuan, An Ying, and the others defended the group.
• Mo Lan and An Ying called for a switch, and Lai’er took over fighting the Skeletons while Modian attacked the Black-Line Weird.
• Tao Yuan and the others faced the thirty-two sculptures, whose aura made their bodies heavy and sluggish.
• Wang Ding warned An Ying to dodge right, and Tao Yuan froze the sculpture blocking his path with her whip before striking another sculpture with her Chainsaw.

Mi Chuchu and the Calamity Crossing Squad discovered that removing a statue’s mourning cloth exposed its weakness, while the Cemetery’s skeletons overwhelmed Lai’er despite their vulnerability to his angelic powers. Lin Nieran studied their rules and realized that although physical attacks could not harm them, mental damage could.

• An Ying noticed that dust from the statues was petrifying the group, jumped above them where the dust was thinner, and removed a statue’s mourning cloth.
• Mi Chuchu smashed the exposed statue, but the resulting dust began turning exposed parts of her and An Ying gray.
• Lin Nieran examined the rules of the giggling skeletons and realized their regeneration and immunity to physical attacks made them a poor match for Modian.
• Lai’er struck the skeletons with his wings, making them cry out in pain and retreat.
• Lin Nieran saw the skeletons’ status change from excited to in pain and asked whether illusions could inflict mental damage on them.

Modian transformed into the Weaver and began turning the Black-Line Weird into cloth while Lin Nieran scanned the threat and watched from hiding with Qin Rang. As Lin Nieran considered how to use the Cemetery fight to strengthen his Vests and gain Performance Points, he found a cracked white mask among his stored Weird Objects.

• Modian changed into the Weaver and used his hammer to gather the Black-Line Weird’s strands and weave them into cloth, with Black Cat and Flower Language helping.
• Lin Nieran scanned the Black-Insect Weird and learned its rules, while 007 explained that the distant statues were too far away to scan.
• Qin Rang urged Lin Nieran to seek the Orphanage Director, but Lin Nieran convinced him to stay hidden and trust the others to handle the Weirds.
• Lin Nieran considered how to turn Wang’s staged Cemetery fight into Fame and Performance Points, but 007 said it could no longer combine his Limited-Time Personas.
• Lin Nieran searched his stored Weird Objects and found a white porcelain-like mask with black cracks across half its face.

Lin Nieran used the Actor Mask’s ability to consider advancing one of his Vests into a powerful future, but struggled to find a way to get the mask to Lai'er without exposing their connection. As the battles continued, Flower Language helped control the sculptures, and Director Chen ordered a team to investigate the unexpectedly difficult Instance.

• Lin Nieran explained that the Actor Mask could let someone act out a future version of a person, and decided Lai'er was the best target because of his area attacks and illusion abilities.
• Lin Nieran realized he had no safe way to deliver the mask to Lai'er while Skeletons surrounded him and livestream viewers and the Protagonist Group were watching.
• Wang Ding and Mi Chuchu smashed a sculpture, Lai'er fought waves of Skeletons, Modian struck the ground with his Weaving Hammer, and Mo Lan collected the resulting black insect balls.
• Director Chen suspected the Orphanage Instance’s difficulty had changed despite no detected abnormal energy and sent a logistics team to investigate alongside the Tang Family.
• Flower Language stopped sculptures pursuing An Ying and Tao Yuan, then raised a vast forest of Thorns that restricted the sculptures and eased the pressure on the group.
• Flower Language warned An Ying to rest because half his body had turned into sculpture.

Lin Nieran reunited with his Vests amid the battle and sent Mo Lan to deliver a mask to Lai’er. Lai’er received the mask and put it on as An Ying and the others remained occupied with the fight.

• Wang Ding gave An Ying medicine to clear the effects of Sculpture Disease, while Qin Rang and Lin Nieran left cover to help the team.
• Lin Nieran entered the ring of black lines and reunited with Modian, Wu Liang, and Mo Lan, then told them to protect Lin Yi if he appeared.
• Lin Nieran asked one of his Vests to deliver a mask and a message to Lai’er, and Mo Lan volunteered.
• An Ying and Wu Liang diverted attention as Mo Lan slipped away and passed the mask to Lai’er.
• Lai’er spread his wings around himself and pressed the mask to his face.

Lin Nieran used Invigorating coffee to strengthen the Weird, causing the creatures across the cemetery to grow more powerful and the skeletons to awaken. The group fled from the advancing skeletons as Wang Ding identified their Rule as contact-based suppression with a short cooldown.

• Lin Nieran used Invigorating coffee to boost the Weird while False Angel Lai'er's future mask carried an SS-Rank mark.
• The cemetery statues revived and attacked faster, injuring Mi Chuchu, while the Black-Line Weird overwhelmed Modian with a surge of black strands.
• Flower Language said Modian was difficult to kill, and the skeletons in the Cemetery awakened with black soul flames and turned on the group.
• An Ying carried Qin Rang as Tao Yuan helped Mi Chuchu and Flower Language pulled Lin Nieran and Wang Ding away from the pursuing skeletons.
• Wang Ding discovered that the skeletons' Rule suppressed abilities upon contact, with a cooldown of about three seconds.

Wang Ding’s group and the Weaver were trapped in the cemetery by Skeletons, Black-Line Weirds, and 32 statues, so Wang Ding used a golden token to shield them. The Aberrations surrounded the barrier without attacking one another, and the group suspected a higher Rule or the Orphanage Director was controlling them as their remaining protection dwindled.

• Wang Ding led the group toward the Black-Line Weird territory, where they met the Weaver, but the Skeletons and 32 statues closed in and left them surrounded.
• Wang Ding activated a golden token that created a small protective barrier, and Modian awkwardly squeezed inside after Lin Nieran tapped his shinbone.
• The Skeletons, Black-Line Weirds, and statues stopped outside the shield and kept their distance from one another, prompting Wang Ding to suspect a higher Rule prevented them from fighting.
• Qin Rang suggested the Orphanage Director might control the Aberrations, and the group questioned whether the Director and the organization were connected to the Instance’s past or World Weirdification.
• Modian revealed that he had killed the Disciplinarian Directors underground and that Wang had taken him to the Cemetery.
• As the Aberrations covered the shield and its two-minute protection continued to run down, Qin Rang and Lin Nieran joked grimly about dying and being buried.