Recaps

Bai Yang and the others questioned a stall owner about Heaven and learned that its patrons were desperate to return to the Gambling House. After discussing their Fama and the endless daytime caused by Bai Yang’s rabbit swallowing the moon, they headed toward a place where he could repair his doll.

• Bai Yang and An Ying questioned a stall owner about Heaven, and the man described the Gambling House as a place where people could win fortunes.
• Bai Yang challenged the stall owner’s claims and handed him Fama in exchange for answers about Heaven, its master, and the Security Guards.
• The stall owner said he sold goods to earn Fama so he could enter Heaven again, and Tao Yuan noticed his obsessive reaction to the coins.
• Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Bai Yang compared how much Fama they had and realized Qin Rang had collected over a thousand.
• An Ying asked whether Bai Yang’s rabbit swallowing the moon had stopped nighttime, and Tao Yuan concluded the daytime had been extended indefinitely.
• Bai Yang set off to find materials to repair his doll, but Qin Rang stopped him and offered to take him to a place with cotton and tools.

Qin Rang accompanied Bai Yang to a tailor shop so Bai Yang could repair his doll, while An Ying and Tao Yuan explored the street and spotted a group of new players being led into a shop. The chapter left An Ying and Tao Yuan following them after Tao Yuan heard a child laughing, which reminded them of a dangerous rule.

• Qin Rang gave An Ying and Tao Yuan Fama and told them to stay alert and watch for Sheng Qingqiao, then took Bai Yang to the tailor shop.
• Bai Yang revealed that he was the organization’s Doll Master and began repairing his rabbit doll and modifying other dolls while waiting for the tailor to return.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan rested, then noticed four tense newcomers attracting the attention of the locals.
• A middle-aged woman accepted Fama from the newcomers and invited them to her son’s shop, and An Ying and Tao Yuan followed to investigate.
• Tao Yuan heard a child laughing nearby, and she and An Ying grew wary as the newcomers reached their destination.

Tao Yuan and An Ying watched four outsiders fall victim to the snack stall’s deadly food and learned that attractive, healthy-looking people were valued in the casino. The Security Guards arrived as Tao Yuan and An Ying continued gathering information about the street.

• The snack stall owner served the four outsiders food that looked like burnt flesh, and the captain ate some after using an eerie pill-shaped object.
• The captain burst into flames, and another outsider died when she fled the stall; the two remaining women found the snack stall rules and realized the black food was dangerous.
• One woman faked food poisoning and summoned the Security Guards, prompting nearby NPCs to blame Auntie Zhao and her husband’s stall for the deaths.
• Tao Yuan and An Ying joined the crowd, and Tao Yuan questioned a young woman about the street’s vendors and their luck.
• The young woman told Tao Yuan and An Ying that good-looking people with healthy figures could become regular employees of Heaven, and the Security Guards arrived.

Tao Yuan and An Ying survived the third death chase by carrying six eerie children, then entered Heaven Bookshop to investigate its contaminated rules. They tied the children by the exit, and Tao Yuan found an old newspaper while An Ying studied the bookstore.

• Tao Yuan inferred that the street's hatred of flames came from a devastating fire that had happened before the eerie beings arrived.
• When the third death chase began, Tao Yuan and An Ying grabbed the children to prevent their cries from triggering the rule about lost kids, and realized the charred figures did not chase people holding children.
• Tao Yuan decided to use their temporary protection to search nearby places for a way to handle Rule One, and she and An Ying entered Heaven Bookshop.
• Tao Yuan identified the bookstore's second and fourth rules as suspicious, and she and An Ying tied the six children together by the exit.
• Tao Yuan found an old newspaper near the checkout counter while An Ying examined the bookstore's layout.

An Ying and Tao Yuan explored a bookstore where anomalous books gossiped about Heaven and people becoming Card Boxes, then escaped after Tao Yuan outsmarted the anomaly collecting a reading fee. They reunited with the six anomaly children and spotted the Security Guard Room near Sheng Qingqiao’s last known location.

• An Ying heard the books gossip about a girl who died addicted to Heaven, a borrower who became a Card Box, and a previous group of newcomers, but stopped listening when their words began to distort his mind.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan headed for the exit, where a black anomaly demanded one hundred per person to read.
• Tao Yuan pretended she and An Ying were struggling parents, distracted the anomaly with a story about An Ying becoming a Card Box, and let the Fama roll onto the floor before they escaped with the six children.
• Tao Yuan explained that the bookstore had an owner and that she had exploited a loophole by not handing over the money directly.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan checked Sheng Qingqiao’s unmoving location marker and saw a sign for the Security Guard Room nearby.

An Ying and Tao Yuan investigated a vanished bookstore and concluded that the casino had destroyed it to suppress information that could break people’s gambling addictions. Meanwhile, Qin Rang and Bai Yang sheltered in a tailor shop during the hunt, where the burned shopkeeper said she was waiting for her lover, the absent owner.

• Tao Yuan told An Ying that the bookstore had contained anti-gambling newspapers and old reports about casinos being destroyed, but An Ying found the shop had vanished when he returned.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan suspected the casino had burned the bookstore and identified Ci Zhemao, Wang Zhishang, and Tong Kou as possible people behind it; they planned to find them and then head to the security room.
• Bai Yang and Qin Rang saw that the tailor shop’s owner had become a charred corpse after the hunt notification appeared, while Bai Yang repaired his rabbit doll and considered how to defeat the sun.
• Qin Rang questioned the shopkeeper about her boss, and she said she was waiting for her lover, the owner of the shop.

Qin Rang questioned the tailor shop’s proprietor while avoiding a dangerous question, then bargained with Bai Yang for a chance to ask him questions after they escaped. As Qin Rang examined a pattern book, its model and a nearby mannequin became hostile, leaving him on guard.

• Qin Rang learned that the proprietor’s missing husband was named Fang Jing, then avoided asking how he lost his hand because he suspected the question would break a Street Rule.
• Bai Yang finished repairing a stuffed rabbit with black gemstone eyes, and Qin Rang negotiated a future meeting with him in exchange for paying for the eyes.
• Bai Yang warned Qin Rang that his colleagues might kill him if he tried to cooperate with their organization and the local authorities.
• Qin Rang opened a pattern book, and its model smiled grotesquely before a nearby mannequin raised its hand as if to strike him.
• Qin Rang moved beside Bai Yang and continued studying the pattern book cautiously, suspecting it had caused the strange reactions.

Qin Rang and Bai Yang dealt with a mannequin that had trapped Qin Rang beside a fallen shawl, using Bai Yang’s teddy bear to smash it into the wall. The shopkeeper blamed them and attacked, but Qin Rang tried to shift responsibility onto the bear.

• Qin Rang spotted Mr. Tongkou’s name in the picture’s acknowledgments and found a paper slip as a mannequin appeared behind him beside a fallen shawl.
• Bai Yang noticed the mannequin and used his altered teddy bear to kick the shawl into it, smashing the mannequin against the wall.
• The shopkeeper accused Qin Rang and Bai Yang of destroying her mannequin and attacked them with black ash.
• Bai Yang acted frail while Qin Rang remained unharmed, then Qin Rang pointed at the teddy bear and claimed it might have caused the damage.

Bai Yang and Qin Rang uncovered why the Tailor Shop’s rules did not restrain its proprietress and realized its owner had died long ago. Meanwhile, Tao Yuan and An Ying met Flower Language, a sentient specter whose rose thorns filled the security room, and Sheng Qingqiao stopped them from triggering a rule.

• Bai Yang used Little Bear to smash the Female Specter into the floor, and Qin Rang inferred that the doll’s strength activated when its target became angry.
• Qin Rang read the shop owner’s farewell letter and concluded that the owner had died, leaving the shop’s rules unable to restrain the proprietress.
• Bai Yang continued making a black kitten doll while Qin Rang realized they had been misled by the shop’s rules.
• Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Sheng Qingqiao were confined in the security room with Flower Language, whom Sheng Qingqiao identified as being from the same place as Bai Yang.
• Flower Language revealed that she was a sentient specter, and her rose thorns spread through the room when Tao Yuan and An Ying showed hostility.
• Sheng Qingqiao blocked Tao Yuan’s chainsaw and warned them not to touch Flower Language’s thorns because they would trigger a rule.

Flower Language killed the children who broke her rules, then left Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Tao Yuan to face the consequences. In the Residential Zone, Lin Nieran decided to travel to Moonlit Night after detecting strange energy from his card, and he set off in a Haunted Object Taxi.

• Flower Language's vines killed the children and spread through the room before she left, warning Sheng Qingqiao not to bother her.
• Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Tao Yuan discussed Flower Language's hostility and worried about explaining the children's deaths to their parents.
• Lin Nieran packed supplies and decided to find Moonlit Night because his card showed abnormal energy fluctuations.
• The Masked Youth encouraged Lin Nieran to bring joss paper, while 007 Little Ball warned him that leaving the Residential Zone was dangerous.
• Lin Nieran hailed a Haunted Object Taxi, and its driver told him to read the rules and not die in her car.

Lin Nieran took a Weird Taxi from Wutong District to buy joss paper, then headed toward the Lily Weird Zone in Cloud City to retrieve a Weird Object. During the long ride, his Fame surged, and he saw a livestream showing a violent fire engulfing an instance.

• Lin Nieran read the Weird Taxi's rules and rode through the barriers between Wutong District and Anning District, where the blood moon briefly affected him.
• Lin Nieran discussed with the system how to accelerate Qin Rang and the others' growth, saying he would put them under greater pressure.
• Lin Nieran bought joss paper, returned to the taxi, and paid the driver 100,000 yuan to take him to the Lily Weird Zone in Cloud City.
• Lin Nieran spoke to the masked young man about retrieving Moonlit Night and a Weird Object for points while the taxi drove for several hours.
• Lin Nieran noticed his Fame had risen above 103,000 and opened the livestream, where he saw a massive fire shaking an instance.

Bai Yang and Qin Rang reunited with Tao Yuan, Sheng Qingqiao, and An Ying as a horde of Security Guard Weirds pursued them from the Security Room. The group fled into the Snack Stalls, where the Weirds could not follow, but they remained trapped in a running battle and were badly wounded.

• Bai Yang finished a black kitten Weird Doll, fused the Parasitic Spirit into it, and left the Tailor Shop with Qin Rang.
• Bai Yang and Qin Rang found Tao Yuan, Sheng Qingqiao, and An Ying fleeing the Security Room after its doors were torn open and a horde of Security Guard Weirds poured out.
• An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao protected the group from the Weirds as Tao Yuan fought with her chainsaw and Little Bear smashed attackers with his fists.
• Sheng Qingqiao explained that the group had freed prisoners from the Security Room after finding a note identifying its captives as outsiders.
• The group escaped into the Snack Stalls, but after more than ten minutes of pursuit, they were wounded and the horde still showed no sign of thinning.

After escaping the Security Guards, Bai Yang and the others rested in a hidden staircase that the anomalies could not see, shared information about Specter Flower Language, and used Tao Yuan’s Bubble Machine to heal. An Ying warned that the instance could rise from B-rank to A-rank if more people died, so the group decided to finish it quickly.

• An Ying led the group down a concealed staircase, where they found a dead end and realized the anomalies could not see the entrance.
• The group rested while Bai Yang admitted he was weak and explained that Specter Flower Language could be countered by giving her a rose.
• Qin Rang explained that the staircase was reserved for children who had died after being pushed down it by casino guests.
• Tao Yuan used her Bubble Machine to heal the group, and Qin Rang shared food while they rested.
• An Ying warned that the Security Guards might target hidden players and that the instance could rise to A-rank if the anomalies ate enough people.

Qin Rang and the others concluded that the casino’s many weird entities were victims and outsiders transformed by the Gambling House, while the force behind the instance was neither victim nor perpetrator. Bai Yang confirmed that it was a deck of playing cards led by the King and Little Joker.

• Qin Rang, Sheng Qingqiao, and Tao Yuan explained the origins of the casino’s rule-based entities, card-marked victims, and charred outsiders.
• Tao Yuan reasoned that many of the people in the casino had been trapped and lured into gambling, while the strange hostility toward outsiders suggested the force behind the casino was neither victim nor perpetrator.
• Qin Rang said the entity showed malice toward both humans and local weird entities, and Sheng Qingqiao noted that the casino’s entities were unusually easy to kill.
• Bai Yang revealed that the Fortune Teller had identified the entity after Moonlit Night left, prompting Sheng Qingqiao to ask whether the Fortune Teller belonged to Bai Yang’s organization.
• Qin Rang described the entity as something once played with that now controlled the Gambling House, and An Ying guessed it was a complete deck of cards.
• Bai Yang confirmed that the entity was a deck of playing cards led by the King and Little Joker.

Qin Rang and the others organized survivors to plant Fire Seeds throughout the instance and set a coordinated blaze to recreate the casino’s destruction for a Perfect Clear. As the countdown ended, Qin Rang ignited Colorless Fire and ordered everyone to release their flames.

• An Ying proposed recreating the casino’s destruction with a fire so the group could achieve a Perfect Clear without killing the King anomaly prematurely.
• The group agreed to gather survivors, distribute Fire Seeds, and ignite them together while avoiding the Security Guards.
• An Ying, Tao Yuan, and Sheng Qingqiao recruited survivors and handed out Fire Seeds, while Qin Rang persuaded Mei Long to lend him her Range Communication Haunting Object.
• Bai Yang said he had given more than a hundred Fire Seeds to Flower Language, who could scatter them with her thorns.
• Qin Rang used Colorless Fire as the group counted down, then ordered everyone to release their flames.

Qin Rang’s fire trapped the uncanny beings and turned them back into burning humans, but the street’s rules weakened the blaze and let them attack again. Bai Yang summoned his enormous rabbit to help reignite the fire as Qin Rang warned that it could be consumed by the flames.

• Qin Rang sent Tao Yuan, Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Mei Long to hunt the uncanny beings as fire spread through the street.
• The flames burned the uncanny beings, restoring their human forms, while the Gambling House stayed shut and untouched.
• Qin Rang explained that his flames spared the humans in their companion range, but the uncanny being’s energy suppressed the fire and released the charred corpses to attack.
• Bai Yang summoned the giant rabbit and sat in its palm, saying he would help Qin Rang restart the blaze.
• Qin Rang guessed that Bai Yang meant to use the rabbit as firewood and warned that it could be sacrificed.

Bai Yang, Qin Rang, and the others fed the fires until they achieved a perfect clear of the Heaven · Addiction dungeon. As the dungeon collapsed, Bai Yang destroyed the gambling houses and swallowed the sun, while Qin Rang and An Ying waited to leave.

• Bai Yang sent the rabbit to demolish buildings and feed them to the fires, while the little bear batted away the rule chains.
• Qin Rang directed everyone to throw flammable objects and creepy corpses into the fires until they spread across the street.
• The fires weakened the dungeon, revealing the wounded people trapped within as the energy fell and the gambling houses remained standing.
• The system announced a perfect clear and warned that the dungeon would collapse, and Qin Rang and An Ying stayed behind while the others left.
• Bai Yang ordered the rabbit to smash the gambling houses, and the rabbit swallowed the sun before the dungeon forcibly removed him.

After the livestream, Lin Nieran learned that he needed more Fame and store points to upgrade the Persona System, so he decided to save his Fame and focus on spending points before the temporary store closed. He appraised his playing cards, then heard a strange voice demand them and considered how to take the masked young man's dagger.

• Lin Nieran saw that the livestream had earned him more than 20,000 Fame, bringing his total to 150,000.
• 007 gave Lin Nieran the Persona System guidelines and explained that he needed another 50,000 Fame and 100,000 store points to upgrade to V2.
• Lin Nieran recalled that his kitten had cut and absorbed the sun's energy, then returned the cat and joker cards to his hand.
• 007 appraised the 54 Playing Cards as a B-rank strange object with four suit abilities and rules that included hating rabbits and black cats.
• A middle-aged man's voice demanded the cards, but another voice silenced it; Lin Nieran assured the masked young man he was fine and considered how to steal his dagger.

Lin Nieran fused the dangerous playing card Weird Object into the system and rested as the livestream ended. Meanwhile, the returning teammates gathered, discussed the Fox Organization and Bai Yang, and prepared to take part in their next mission.

• Lin Nieran fused the playing card Weird Object into the system, bringing his points total to 57,500, then hid his cards and took a nap.
• The livestream ended, and viewers discussed the Fox Organization, Bai Yang, Flower Language, and Moonlit Night.
• Tao Yuan and Wang Ding met at the conference room, where they discussed the organization and waited for the others.
• Qin Rang and An Ying arrived together, joked about their ride, and playfully fought while Wang Ding gathered the documents.
• Mi Chuchu returned with Sheng Qingqiao and told the team about her month-long instance before asking about their recent mission.
• Wang Ding and Mi Chuchu said they could join the squad on its next mission.

The Calamity Crossing Squad learned that Moonlit Night and Flower Language had been located in Cloud City, while the Information Office uncovered signs that the Evil God Organization had returned there. Elder Ju sent the squad to investigate the threat before the cult could rebuild its strength.

• Tao Yuan told Sheng Qingqiao that Moonlit Night, Bai Yang, and Flower Language had disappeared after the instance, and that a detection camera had found Moonlit Night.
• Elder Ju, Tao Yun, and Chen Ming met with the Calamity Crossing Squad and showed photographs placing Moonlit Night and Flower Language in Cloud City.
• Chen Ming revealed that valid identification cards for Bai Yang, Moonlit Night, and Flower Language had appeared in the Information Office database.
• Elder Ju warned the squad that investigators had found signs of the Evil God Organization in Cloud City, and Tao Yun showed photographs of its members killing a Weird Object.
• Chen Ming explained that the cult could grow far more dangerous by operating in a strange zone, and Elder Ju ordered the squad to stop its return.

Qin Rang's squad received orders to investigate Moonlit Night and the Worship God's separate presence in Cloud City, while Lin Nieran arrived in the abandoned city to search for his old home and gather points. He found the zone contained multiple SS-rank threats, then summoned Flower Language as he prepared to explore.

• Tao Yuan and Chen Ming told Qin Rang's squad that Moonlit Night and the Worship God were unlikely to be working together and assigned the squad to investigate why both had appeared in Cloud City.
• Tao Yun gave Qin Rang a phone that could livestream under certain conditions and ordered the squad to depart after preparing supplies.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan found the weapon shop closed, while Lin Nieran arrived at Cloud City's ruined entrance by Taxi.
• 007 scanned Cloud City and showed Lin Nieran a map marked with multiple SS-rank danger zones.
• After 007 left to answer another host's call, Lin Nieran spotted other people on the map and summoned Flower Language from her card.

Lin Nieran brought Flower Language and Moonlit Night to Cloud City while planning to buy a dimensional space for the Weirds. Moonlit Night hunted Weirds to collect objects for Lin Nieran, then encountered Wen Keke and her companions, who considered recruiting him.

• Flower Language offered to kill more than Moonlit Night, while Lin Nieran wondered why the Masked Youth had not appeared.
• Moonlit Night killed his fifth Weird and focused on collecting more Weird Objects for his master.
• Wen Keke and three men gathered food beneath a jellyfish-shaped C-rank Weird, and she promised to help them survive in the Weird Zone.
• Moonlit Night approached the group, and Wen Keke warned her companions that he was too dangerous to fight.
• Wen Keke suggested recruiting Moonlit Night so they could stop hiding, but the young man objected to using a dangerous Weird Object ability.

Moonlit Night attacked Wen Keke after recognizing the S-rank Charm Weird Object she wore, but she escaped with a companion using a life-saving item. Meanwhile, Lin Nieran and Flower Language continued toward the Happy Residential Complex as Qin Rang's team chased an unidentified group through the Weird Zone.

• Wen Keke tried to charm Moonlit Night, but he recognized her necklace's ability and slashed at her without warning.
• Wen Keke escaped with the young man beside her, while Moonlit Night killed the two men left behind and collected their Weird Objects.
• Wen Keke resolved to improve her Charm ability and return for revenge, then planned a different route back with the young man.
• Lin Nieran checked his map, noticed new moving dots, and continued toward the Happy Residential Complex with Flower Language as Moonlit Night headed toward the Weird Hospital.
• Qin Rang's team detected a group nearby and suspected it belonged to the Sui God group, so they pursued it through the Weird Zone.

Tao Yuan's group discovered that the suspected Moonlit Night group was near Lily Hospital, an S-rank instance, but a wandering A-rank weird being called General Ma interrupted their plans. The Calamity Crossing Squad and Wen Keke's group fled together, unaware that the horse's rules made escape impossible once it judged them deserters.

• Wang Ding used the map to identify Lily Hospital as the location of the suspected Moonlit Night group, and Tao Yuan refused to enter the S-rank instance.
• General Ma emerged from the fog near Tao Yuan and Wang Ding, forcing their group to flee without packing.
• Tao Yuan's group led General Ma toward the Worship God group, and both groups ended up running from the horse together.
• Wen Keke blamed the Calamity Crossing Squad for leading General Ma to her group and lamented that they kept pursuing her.
• Qin Rang rejected Wen Keke's plea for forgiveness, while she wondered why her S-rank Poppy Flower Weird Object no longer worked on them.

Wen Keke and the Calamity Crossing Squad joined forces to fight the bronze horse after its pursuit damaged their Weird Objects. Their attacks knocked it into a crater, but it recovered and rose again.

• The bronze horse pursued the group with metal spears, damaging An Ying’s Bamboo Umbrella and consuming Wen Keke’s Weird Objects.
• Wen Keke asked Qin Rang’s squad to help fight the horse, and Qin Rang agreed to let her hold it off first.
• Wen Keke summoned a stone lion statue whose roar stopped the horse, while Qin Rang’s squad decided to join the fight.
• Mi Chuchu lifted the bronze horse and slammed it into the ground, and Tao Yuan and An Ying attacked it without causing serious damage.
• The bronze horse leaped out of the crater and reared up again.