Recaps

Qin Rang and his companions survived Tao Yuan’s loss of control when the blood-triggered Chainsaw attacked them, then gathered at Lin Nieran’s home to explain what had happened and discuss restoring his memories. The group believed they needed to catch the Actor and break his rule, while the uninvited visitors nearly got mistaken for enemies by Lin Nieran.

• Moonlit Night warned Qin Rang that using the mask again could make him lose control, then asked whether they had changed the Actor’s play and its ending.
• Tao Yuan’s Chainsaw went berserk after reacting to blood, and she attacked her companions until Moonlit Night and Bai Yang stopped it with his saber and a sheet of paper.
• Tao Yuan regained control and asked whether she had hurt anyone, while Qin Rang realized the Chainsaw had been triggered by the blood on the corridor walls.
• Tao Yuan, Wang Ding, Moonlit Night, Bai Yang, and Ji Fengbai reached Lin Nieran’s room, where Qin Rang explained that they needed to catch the Actor and break the rule to restore Lin Nieran’s memories.
• An Ying and Qin Rang climbed the apartment’s pipes with Tao Yuan’s Chainsaw, while Lin Nieran nearly attacked them as strange intruders before the system stopped him.

Lin Nieran and the others discussed how to find the Actor Aberration, then hid from Weird Mother when she came to his room. While speaking with her, they learned that Lin Yi was said to have a mental illness and had slashed his own face, leaving Lin Nieran visibly shaken.

• Lin Nieran agreed to help Tao Yuan turn her Chainsaw into a Weird Artifact after Qin Rang offered him information.
• The group discussed the Actor Aberration’s plays and Lin Yi’s parents, while Ji Fengbai wrote that the actor was not the instance’s focus.
• When Weird Mother knocked, Lin Nieran hid the Chainsaw and squeezed Qin Rang, An Ying, and Little Dumpling under the bed.
• Lin Nieran welcomed Weird Mother and explained that his classmates were planning where to go before school started.
• After Tao Yuan said they were visiting Lin Yi, Weird Mother claimed he had a mental illness and slashed his own face during episodes, and Lin Nieran reacted sharply.

Lin Nieran revealed his knowledge of Lin Yi's scar and sent Qin Rang's group to investigate the boy's parents, who were due home that day. As the group reached Building One, a commotion broke out upstairs at Lin Guang's apartment.

• Lin Nieran retrieved the Chainsaw and Little Dumpling from under the bed, then told Qin Rang that Lin Yi had been scarred while protecting his mother from his drunken father.
• Lin Nieran warned Qin Rang's group that Lin Yi's parents were coming home that day and gave Qin Rang his phone number as an emergency contact.
• Lin Nieran reflected to 007 on people arriving too late to redeem someone, then asked the system to check his Fame.
• Qin Rang told the group that Lin Yi's parents' suppression rule targeted people with child identities and warned them not to act rashly.
• Qin Rang's group heard a clatter upstairs, and a Weird told them that Lin Guang was likely throwing another drunken fit.

Tao Yuan and the others witnessed Lin Yi being abused by the specters Lin Guang and Wang Yumei, who argued over his parentage before turning on each other. When Wang Yumei tried to strike Lin Yi with a cleaver, he fought back until An Ying and the others rushed in to protect him.

• Tao Yuan learned that Lin Yi's family had a cruel reputation, despite her brother's claim that his parents were kind.
• Wang Ding used his glasses to see Lin Guang and Wang Yumei assaulting Lin Yi inside apartment 404.
• Lin Guang and Wang Yumei argued over whether Lin Yi was Lin Guang's son, then began clawing and biting each other.
• Lin Yi offered the specters a cleaver, but when Wang Yumei swung it at him, he dodged and struck her repeatedly.
• An Ying stopped Lin Guang from hitting Lin Yi, pulled Lin Yi behind him, and entered the apartment with Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, and the others.

Lin Nieran used a phone call to interrupt the specters’ attack and restore Lin Yi’s home to normal, leaving Lin Yi and his schoolmates safe. After Lin Nieran arrived, he handed Lin Yi a little girl and asked him to help her with her homework.

• The specters’ power grew as the group fought them, and Lin Yi instinctively attacked the slime before turning his cleaver on Qin Rang and Tao Yuan.
• Qin Rang called Lin Nieran, who told him to approach the specters and put the call on speaker.
• Lin Nieran spoke to the male specter as though arranging a visit, causing the bloody scene to dissolve and the specters to return to normal.
• The specters left to go shopping, while Lin Nieran took frozen steamed buns and headed to Lin Yi’s home with Little Dumpling.
• Lin Nieran found the group cleaning up and gave the little girl to Lin Yi, asking him to help her with her homework.

Lin Yi accepted Lin Nieran’s help while Qin Rang and Tao Yuan discussed the strange behavior in the instance, and officials watched a video of a clown massacring everyone in an uncleared amusement park instance. The chapter ended with the clown’s appearance raising questions about whether he belonged to the organization.

• Lin Nieran brought steamed buns to Lin Yi’s room, while Qin Rang and Tao Yuan speculated that the families’ relationships had caused the parents to stop attacking.
• Bai Yang argued with Moonlit Night, and the others intervened before Wang Ding found sewing supplies to help mend Bai Yang’s doll.
• Elder Ju warned the Head of the Tao Family that human factionalism had worsened the Weird crisis, as Director Chen introduced a report from Yangcheng about a suspected organization member.
• Tao Yun identified the clown in the video as appearing in the Cui Family’s uncleared A-Rank Amusement Park instance.
• The video showed the clown making humans and Weird beings sing and dance before killing everyone in the instance.

Elder Ju’s team assessed the danger posed by the clown and decided to monitor the organization while preparing for the clown’s possible arrival in Yang City. Inside the instance, Lin Yi drove Lin Nieran away, and Lin Nieran discovered that his points had risen to 70,000 because his cards had killed many Weirds, especially Modian.

• Tao Yun and Director Chen reported that the clown had massacred players across multiple instances, and Elder Ju ordered officials to watch lone operators and prepare for the clown in Yang City.
• Elder Ju told Director Chen to send two S-Rank cleaners to keep trying to enter Happy Residential Complex and send the rest to Heyuan District.
• Lin Yi threatened Lin Nieran with a knife, then chased him out after Lin Nieran taunted him and sat on his bedding.
• Lin Nieran returned home, used the Haunted Object Gloves to work on the Chainsaw, and found that his points had reached 70,000.
• 007 told Lin Nieran that Writer, Flower Language, and especially Modian had earned him points by killing Weirds.

Lin Nieran checked on Modian, who was hunting Weirds in a Cemetery Instance and nearly killed a woman before Lin stopped him. The woman escaped and told the Cui Family that the puppet was a Weird who could communicate and had spared her.

• Lin Nieran worried about Modian’s high Fame and used their connection to check on him in a Cemetery Instance.
• Modian herded Weirds into a cage and killed them to earn points, following Lin Nieran’s warning not to harm innocent people.
• Modian chased Cui Qiyin and raised his cross to kill her, but Lin Nieran’s voice stopped him.
• Modian recognized Cui Qiyin as a living person who had wandered into the cemetery and told her to leave.
• Cui Qiyin escaped the instance and showed her family a recording, explaining that Modian was a communicative Weird who had spared her.

Cui Qiyin defied Cui Ange’s orders and kept a backup of the video, while Lin Nieran went to the Life Supermarket and compared notes with the Calamity Crossing Team about Lin Yi and his parents. The group then discovered that people on the Bright Side believed it was the second day, although those on the Dark Side remembered three days passing.

• Cui Ange dismissed Cui Qiyin’s idea of contacting the suspected organization, so Cui Qiyin left with a backup of the video and planned to find the authorities or the Calamity Crossing Squad.
• Lin Nieran ignored the camera-headed eerie entity’s attempt to lure him into a livestream, then warned it not to waste its time trying to trick him.
• Lin Nieran met the Calamity Crossing Team at the Life Supermarket, where they shared what they had learned about Lin Yi and his parents, including that Lin Guang had married a wealthy woman and become a leader.
• Lin Nieran told the group that Lin Yi had denied wanting to kill his parents, but Lin Nieran believed he was lying.
• An Ying reported that people on the Bright Side thought it was the second day, while the group remembered three days passing, raising the possibility of altered memories or different rates of time.

The group debated the time discrepancy and decided to warn other squads that the day was actually the third, while Lin Nieran returned Tao Yuan’s upgraded Chainsaw. Tao Yuan and Qin Rang reminisced about how they formed the Calamity Crossing Squad, then Bai Yang asked how they had faced the Weird when they were so young.

• Sheng Qingqiao argued that their memories might have been erased, and Lin Nieran went to buy instant noodles after Bai Yang said he was hungry.
• Qin Rang and his teammates planned to tell other squads that the day was actually the third, and Tao Yuan, Sheng Qingqiao, and Mi Chuchu left to spread the warning.
• Lin Nieran gave Qin Rang Tao Yuan’s upgraded Killer Chainsaw Weird Artifact and explained its rules and lingering side effect.
• Tao Yuan happily reclaimed her Chainsaw and recalled that she and Qin Rang had been the Calamity Crossing Squad’s original members.
• Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, Sheng Qingqiao, and Wang Ding recalled how Tao Yuan had hidden her identity, and Bai Yang asked how they had fought the Weird as children.

Bai Yang recounted how his Master rescued him and explained his place in the organization, prompting the Purgers to speculate about its members and their loyalty. The conversation ended with them hinting that Bai Yang and the others’ devotion to their Master resembled that of Pilgrims.

• Qin Rang asked Bai Yang how he had joined his organization, and Bai Yang said his Master had saved him in the Danger Zone and given him the rabbit, Little Bear, and his abilities.
• Bai Yang refused to name his organization or reveal his Master's identity, joking that the others could not find them even if he told them.
• Bai Yang described Flower Language, Moonlit Night, and Writer's relative standing, while Tao Yuan and the others wondered about Ji Fengbai's strength and condition.
• Bai Yang said that he and the others would never betray their Master, even if he had no abilities.
• Tao Yuan compared the group's devotion to Pilgrims, and Flower Language, Moonlit Night, and Ji Fengbai silenced Sheng Qingqiao before he could finish his comparison.

After Tang Pin warned Qin Rang’s group about a deadly squad dungeon centered on Lin Yi, Lin Nieran realized Lin Yi was behind it. Mi Chuchu entered the dungeon and began experiencing an ordinary day in Lin Yi’s life, with her squad’s survival depending on her choices.

• Bai Yang explained that his organization was divided into Pro-Peace, Pro-Neutrality, and Pro-Extremism factions, then warned that the next game round was starting.
• Tang Pin revealed that the dungeon sent one person from each squad into a choice-driven mission, where that person’s success or failure determined whether the whole squad lived.
• Tang Pin told Qin Rang to bring more teammates and proposed that their groups meet with the Bai Family after the dungeon.
• Lin Nieran asked 007 whether Lin Yi was home, learned he was not, and concluded that he was behind the dungeon; 007 agreed to shield him from entering.
• The new dungeon began, and Flower Language offered Lin Nieran a free sample after Moonlit Night, Ji Fengbai, and others disappeared.
• Mi Chuchu read the rules for Lin Yi’s Day, chose to start the game, and was transported into a cramped room as Lin Yi.

Mi Chuchu and her teammates entered the instance Lin Yi's Day, where she played Lin Yi as a child and faced choices governed by the game. After choosing to make breakfast, she was killed by Lin Yi's parents, revived, and learned that her health appeared above her head.

• Mi Chuchu found herself in a child's body alongside chibi versions of her teammates, while Lin Yi and their Weird Objects were absent or unusable.
• Mi Chuchu opened the door and chose to let Lin Yi's parents sleep, make food, and go to school.
• Mi Chuchu found frozen buns and began cooking, but Lin Yi's parents appeared and swallowed her.
• Mi Chuchu revived in the same spot, and Bai Yang told her to check her health by looking at her reflection.

Mi Chuchu learned that the group shared eight lives and had to guide Lin Yi through choices without wasting time. After successfully waking Mom and seeing the family’s seemingly happy morning routine, she waited downstairs while Dad went to get the car.

• Mi Chuchu and the others concluded that wrong choices cost lives and that they had to get Lin Yi to school on time.
• Mi Chuchu chose to wake Mom, then followed the prompt and Tao Yuan’s advice to knock and call her gently.
• Mom woke up and went to wake Dad, while the family spoke warmly about Lin Yi’s room, clothes, and school awards.
• Mi Chuchu noticed that Dad’s cold reception from the neighbors differed from what the group had seen in the weird residential complex.
• When a prompt asked whether to go with Dad or wait, Mi Chuchu chose to stay downstairs as he went to get the car.

Mi Chuchu left the residential complex with Dad and entered the elementary school, where she chose a class and tried to learn more about Lin Yi. After she answered a classmate rudely, the girl went to report her to the teacher, leaving Mi Chuchu and the others unsure what consequences would follow.

• Mi Chuchu kicked boxes to draw an elderly woman's attention, but the woman mistook her for a debt collector and slammed the door.
• A heavily made-up woman bumped into Mi Chuchu, fell, and cursed at her before leaving.
• Mi Chuchu and the others saw the residential complex's disorderly everyday life as Dad drove them through the north gate and took Mi Chuchu to school.
• At the school entrance, Mi Chuchu chose Class 2, third grade, and followed her memory of the building to find the classroom.
• A girl asked why Lin Yi was standing outside, and Mi Chuchu chose to tell her it was none of her business; the girl stormed off to report her to the teacher.
• Qin Rang and the others reasoned that Mi Chuchu had gone out of character, but the choice was probably not fatal.

Mi Chuchu tried to act like Lin Yi while meeting his teacher, then died when a boy attacked her in the corridor. After reviving with six lives left, she discussed with her team what mistake might have caused her death.

• Mi Chuchu met Lin Yi’s homeroom teacher, stayed silent about her poor grades, and promised to study harder.
• Mi Chuchu returned toward class with Qin Rang and learned Bai Yang and An Ying had gone to find Lin Yi’s seat.
• A tall boy shoved Mi Chuchu, and a weird being disguised as the boy tore open its mouth and killed her.
• Mi Chuchu revived outside the office with one fewer heart and told her teammates she could handle the pain of dying.
• Bai Yang, Wang Ding, and Qin Rang considered whether Mi Chuchu’s reaction or expression had differed from Lin Yi’s.

Mi Chuchu investigated Lin Yi’s childhood at school, where classmates bullied and ignored him, and the group tried to gather clues about his past. After sitting through two lessons, she faced a choice about whether to use the restroom.

• Mi Chuchu returned to the corridor and confirmed that classmates bullied Lin Yi while everyone else looked on indifferently.
• Mi Chuchu went back to class and cut her face with a pen to draw her classmates’ attention; her bleeding caused them to gather around her.
• Wang Ding summarized clues that Lin Yi was poor, had lived with his grandmother in a rural village, and had only been brought to the school residential complex after her recent death.
• The group debated whether Lin Yi would be disfigured that day and whether they should prevent it, but they reached no conclusion.
• After two lessons, Mi Chuchu received a prompt asking whether she would go to the restroom now, wait, or hold it.

Mi Chuchu chose to flee the hostile students in the men's toilet, but the choice trapped her in a distorted, monster-filled corridor. With help from Little Rabbit and her teammates, she escaped the darkness and returned to the school, battered but alive.

• Mi Chuchu entered the men's toilet and chose to run to a teacher when hostile students confronted her.
• The students vanished and turned into weird creatures, while Qin Rang and the others sent Little Rabbit to help Mi Chuchu escape.
• Mi Chuchu and Little Rabbit ran through the warped corridor as black strips and flying heads attacked them.
• Moonlit Night cut Mi Chuchu free from the strips, but the creatures dragged Little Rabbit away and Mi Chuchu crawled toward the exit alone.
• Mi Chuchu reached the white light and returned to the school, where a teacher found her injured and the weird creatures had become older students again.

After Mi Chuchu survived an attack at school while posing as Lin Yi, Lin Yi’s father dropped his demand to call the police after pressure from the bullies’ wealthy parent. On the drive home, Mi Chuchu died in a truck collision and restarted, then chose a different answer about food and faced another choice about accompanying her father.

• Mi Chuchu learned that the older students had used water and a broken mirror to attack her, while the teacher explained that Lin Yi had fought them before too.
• Father Lin demanded an explanation and insisted on calling the police, but the wealthy father of the student who led the group pressured him into settling privately.
• After the teacher returned Mi Chuchu to him, Father Lin photographed her injuries, claimed the incident was harmless, and angrily dragged her into the car when she questioned his decision.
• When Father Lin turned to shout at her at a red light, a truck hit the car and Mi Chuchu lost a life.
• Mi Chuchu restarted and chose a light meal; Father Lin stopped near a congee shop and invited her to go shopping, prompting another set of choices.

Mi Chuchu secretly followed Dad Lin and saw Mom Lin leaving a hotel with another man, exposing the parents’ mutual accusations of infidelity and deception. After Lin Guang and Wang Yumei started fighting over divorce, Lin Yi was left alone among their judgmental neighbors, watching his new hope of having a family fade.

• Mi Chuchu followed Dad Lin to buy congee and spotted Mom Lin leaving a hotel with another man.
• Dad Lin and Mom Lin returned home in silence before Mom Lin accused Lin Guang of deceiving her and hiding their child.
• Lin Guang and Wang Yumei traded accusations about affairs, money, and Lin Yi, then argued over whether he was their biological son.
• Wang Yumei demanded a divorce, and the couple fought at the residential complex entrance as neighbors criticized them and Lin Yi.
• Wang Yumei ran upstairs insisting on a divorce, Lin Guang followed her, and they left Lin Yi behind.

Mi Chuchu chose to intervene in Lin Yi’s parents’ fight, then refused a neighbor’s invitation and was killed by the specters in apartment 401. The group’s choices had brought them closer to Lin Yi’s fate.

• Mi Chuchu recovered from an illusion and learned that all four choices carried dangerous rules, including two certain deaths.
• Mi Chuchu chose to go upstairs and stop her parents from fighting, but Wang Yumei blamed her while Lin Guang shut her outside.
• Mi Chuchu realized she had become Lin Yi as the neighbors in apartment 401 invited her inside.
• Mi Chuchu refused the invitation, and the Male Specter trapped her in the floor while the Female Specter approached.
• Mi Chuchu tried to pull the Male Specter toward the Female Specter but died before she could escape.

Mi Chuchu escaped the murderous neighbors and met Lin Ran, who repeatedly invited her home. She agreed only to play outside and went to find another hiding place, while Qin Rang wondered why Lin Ran looked familiar.

• Mi Chuchu accepted the neighbors’ invitation as a ruse, then hid when she discovered the woman and her half-bodied husband planned to capture children.
• Mi Chuchu and her teammates speculated about how Lin Yi had survived being locked out when Lin Ran appeared behind her.
• Mi Chuchu told Lin Ran that she was hiding from bad neighbors, but refused his invitations to go to his home.
• When Lin Ran’s invitation prompt kept returning, Mi Chuchu agreed to play outside with him instead.
• Lin Ran left to return later, and Mi Chuchu headed for the fourth floor to find a safer hiding place.
• Qin Rang said Lin Ran looked familiar after Mi Chuchu and the others moved on.

Mi Chuchu watched Lin Ran bring “Lin Yi” back to room 404, where Lin Guang and Wang Yumei later fought violently. After Mi Chuchu chose to help her mother, Wang Yumei rejected “Lin Yi” and denied that the child was hers.

• Mi Chuchu hid near room 404 and watched Lin Ran bring food to “Lin Yi” before leading him home to Lin Guang.
• Lin Guang pulled “Lin Yi” inside and spent the afternoon drinking while Mi Chuchu watched from her room.
• Wang Yumei tried to leave, and Lin Guang shoved her down and attacked her; she struck his hand with broken glass to escape.
• Mi Chuchu rushed out and chose to help her mother, but Wang Yumei shoved “Lin Yi” aside, and Mi Chuchu fell near the broken glass.
• Wang Yumei called “Lin Yi” a jinx, denied being the child’s mother, and said she would not acknowledge the child.

Mi Chuchu relived Lin Yi’s childhood as Lin Guang attacked him and his mother, and she discovered that every choice led to a different danger. After waking from the experience with Lin Yi’s facial wound, she faced a new choice as Lin Guang and the woman lay gravely injured, with their deaths seemingly imminent.

• Lin Guang threatened to disfigure the woman with a meat cleaver when she refused to abandon her demand for a divorce.
• Mi Chuchu hesitated at the choice prompt, and Lin Guang killed her and the woman before the experience reset.
• Mi Chuchu chose to dodge Lin Guang’s next attack, but the woman pulled Lin Yi in front of her, and Lin Guang slashed his face.
• Mi Chuchu experienced Lin Yi’s pain and hatred until her teammates called her awake.
• Mi Chuchu saw that the woman had stabbed Lin Guang in the eye and that both were badly wounded, then faced a choice about what to do as they neared death.

Mi Chuchu chose to escape Lin Guang and Wang Yumei’s fight and reach Lin Ran to call the police, but her attempt failed as Lin Yi fled the apartment and was attacked by a Tibetan Mastiff. The chapter ended with the dog biting down on the child’s face.

• Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, An Ying, and the others discussed sacrificing another life and decided that calling the police through Lin Ran was their best chance.
• Mi Chuchu identified Lin Ran as the person to approach, and Moonlit Night said he was playing with friends in the residential complex.
• Lin Guang and Wang Yumei died from their wounds, and Mi Chuchu saw that she had also died from blood loss before the group restarted.
• Mi Chuchu tried to escape and call the police, dodged Lin Guang’s knife, and ran into the stairwell after Wang Yumei struck him with a bottle.
• Lin Yi fell down the stairs, escaped through the emergency exit, and encountered an unleashed Tibetan Mastiff.
• The Tibetan Mastiff pounced on Lin Yi and bit down on his face.