Recaps

Mi Chuchu fought her way through the stairwell and dark road to reach Lin Ran, while Lin Yi struggled alone toward the Community Center. The role-play ended with Lin Yi taken to the hospital and Mi Chuchu’s team returning to the Life Supermarket with a B+ rating.

• Mi Chuchu used a steel pipe to fight off the Tibetan Mastiff, and Moonlit Night killed it with his saber once she escaped immediate danger.
• Guided by her friends’ chibi dolls, Mi Chuchu dragged herself toward the Community Center while Moonlit Night protected her from other dogs.
• Lin Yi continued toward the Community Center as unfamiliar voices accompanied him, and the residents watched without helping.
• Lin Ran ran to Mi Chuchu after she reached the recreation square, and she collapsed as the scene revealed Lin Yi lying in a pool of blood.
• Hospital workers took Lin Yi away, police rescued the unconscious couple, and the role-play ended with the team receiving a B+ rating.
• Mi Chuchu returned to the Life Supermarket, where Qin Rang and the others treated her with Weird Objects.

After surviving the Lin Yi instance, the teams compared their experiences and discussed how his past shaped him, while Lin Nieran agreed to repair Tang Pin’s flute. In the residential complex, a mysterious fog-shrouded figure pressured Wen Keke to lure the Calamity Crossing Squad to Room 403 in exchange for his help.

• The surviving teams gathered around Sheng Qingqiao, who said the Calamity Crossing Team had received a B and learned that getting any ending could let players survive without clearing the instance.
• Lin Nieran brought instant noodles to the exhausted survivors, and Qin Rang said he planned to return to Lin Yi’s home to investigate the wall and search for Lin Ran.
• Tang Pin asked Lin Nieran to repair her cracked jade-green flute, and he agreed.
• A fog-shrouded figure approached Wen Keke’s squad and warned her that two S-Rank Purgers were seeking a way into the residential complex.
• The figure asked Wen Keke to lure the Calamity Crossing Squad to Building 4, Room 403, and offered to help her; Wen Keke questioned his motives before he disappeared into the fog.

Lin Nieran summoned Night Moon to handle matters involving Wen Keke while he remained inside the residential-complex dungeon. As Qin Rang and Sheng Qingqiao were pressured into dangerous bathroom tasks, Lin Nieran spotted Mi Chuchu and An Ying heading toward the north gate.

• Wen Keke defended the livestream and asked the authorities to stop hounding her squad, while official logistics warned viewers that a Weird Object was influencing them.
• Lin Nieran summoned Night Moon in a blind spot and assigned him to continue dealing with Wen Keke's side.
• Qin Rang's wife and daughter urged him to shower, and he realized they were trying to send him into the bathroom.
• Sheng Qingqiao resisted bathing the Weird baby, but its cries caused him to hallucinate, forcing him to head for the bathroom.
• Lin Nieran refused to leave the residential complex with the Weird Mother and later saw Mi Chuchu and An Ying quietly approaching the north gate.

Sheng Qingqiao tried to bathe Weird Baby but was attacked by a B-Rank weird entity hidden in the bloody water. As he drained the tub and reached for a Rule Slip on its clothes, the entity grabbed his throat; meanwhile, An Ying and Mi Chuchu questioned the North Gate gatekeeper about how to leave the instance.

• An Ying and Mi Chuchu went to the North Gate with other teams to ask the gatekeeper how humans could leave the residential complex.
• Lin Nieran asked Weird Mother whether the complex gate had a key, then helped her prepare vegetables at home.
• Sheng Qingqiao found the bathtub filling with blood and forced Weird Baby into it, where a hidden hand seized and dragged him under.
• Qin Rang saw the bloody water turn clear, opened the bathroom door to make the feet outside vanish, and felt a shadowy entity choke him.
• Sheng Qingqiao fought the B-Rank weird entity in the tub, drained the water, spotted a Rule Slip, and was grabbed by the throat as he reached for it.

Qin Rang survived the bathroom shadow by controlling the lights, while Sheng Qingqiao used the bathroom rules to escape a dangerous entity and then shared the rules with Qin Rang. Qin Rang left for work to avoid raising suspicion, and Lin Nieran arrived at Lin Yi’s home.

• Qin Rang knocked out a light, escaped the shadow’s grip, and discovered that turning on more than one light brought the shadow back.
• Sheng Qingqiao healed his neck with a White Eraser, followed the Bathroom Rules, and bathed the Weird Baby while singing.
• Sheng Qingqiao called Qin Rang, and they compared their similar bathroom rules.
• Qin Rang gave his weird wife fifteen thousand from the money Tao Yuan had provided, then left home for work to avoid being seen wandering around.
• Lin Nieran went to Lin Yi’s home and pounded on the door, and Lin Yi opened it.

Lin Nieran learned that the survivors were still searching for a way out of the seven-day instance, then used his new points to draw cards and discovered an A-Rank Dessert Chef identity card. He left the chapter with several new Weird Objects and building cards, while the instance had reached its fourth day.

• Lin Nieran told Lin Yi he would not stop him from pursuing his goal, and Lin Yi asked him to talk before he left.
• Lin Nieran learned that Qin Rang and Sheng Qingqiao had found new bathroom rules and that Tang Pin's team was investigating a possible way to clear the instance.
• Ji Fengbai gave Lin Nieran more than a dozen Weird Objects, which Lin Nieran recycled for 200,000 points and used to increase his total past 300,000.
• Lin Nieran bought three Luck Cards and spent 100,000 points on ten draws from the Intermediate Card Pool.
• Lin Nieran drew a Catnip Fish, Sweetie's Hat, a Cloud Sofa, a Leaf Lamp, and an A-Rank Dessert Chef identity card.

Qin Rang and his companions were pulled into a livestream challenge hosted by Camerahead, where Wen Keke appeared as the assistant and they obtained the north gate key. On the sixth night, they told Lin Nieran they planned to attack Lin Yi before dawn, but the key would only open the gate if the north gate’s power was off.

• A mouth-shaped Weird Object used Sheng Qingqiao’s voice to transport Qin Rang, Bai Yang, An Ying, Tao Yuan, and Sheng Qingqiao into Camerahead’s livestream room.
• Wen Keke appeared as the Assistant Livestream Guest, and the group played the livestream’s games and secured the Happy Residential Complex north gate key.
• Lin Nieran slept through the group’s exhausting livestream challenge and saw them the following day with dark circles and the key.
• On the sixth day, Lin Nieran deployed the pastry chef in another Weird Zone and discovered that Modian had attracted admirers in Yangcheng.
• Qin Rang and Sheng Qingqiao told Lin Nieran that Tao Yuan and An Ying were trying to rescue people from the Dark Side, while they planned to attack Lin Yi before six and use the north gate key after cutting the power.

On the Lantern Festival, Lin Nieran and Moonlit Night killed the weirds posing as his parents, while the survivors opened the North Gate. Lin Yi appeared outside and offered them a choice that would decide who could leave before daybreak.

• Qin Rang told Lin Nieran that the group planned to open the North Gate at six the next evening if they could not deal with Lin Yi, and Lin Nieran kept his knowledge of the instance’s past escape to himself.
• On the seventh day, the power went out at six, and Moonlit Night killed Weird Mother while she was distracted; Lin Nieran took her heart-shaped Weird Object.
• Moonlit Night killed Weird Father as he returned, and Lin Nieran explained that the instance had only gone dormant after their earlier killings because the weirds had not all been completely destroyed.
• Lin Nieran went to the roof of Building One, used an invisibility card, and sent Moonlit Night to help the group at the North Gate.
• An Ying opened the gate, but Lin Yi emerged from the darkness and gave the survivors until daybreak to choose between taking most humans out or killing all the residents before leaving.

After the north gate proved fatal to anyone who entered the darkness, An Ying fought through the aberrations to rescue trapped residents. Bai Yang and Little Rabbit joined the battle, while Moonlit Night cleared a path for Writer to reach An Ying.

• A man lost his hand to the darkness at the north gate, and healers discovered that the wound could not be healed before he bled to death.
• As residents transformed into aberrations, An Ying rushed into the darkness and began rescuing people trapped among them.
• An Ying fought the Camerahead aberration and killed the Neighbors aberration, taking a tongue-shaped Weird Object.
• Bai Yang rode Little Rabbit into the battle and ordered it to stomp the aberrations.
• Moonlit Night defeated a chess-playing aberration and left Writer and Bai Yang to handle the area.
• Writer headed toward the main gate and found An Ying surrounded by aberrations near Building Two.

Moonlit Night cleaved open the Dark Side and created a passage back to the Bright Side, while Tao Yuan and Tang Pin remained surrounded by specters near the north gate. The chapter ended as fragile Rose Thorns wrapped around both women's wrists during their fight.

• Writer controlled An Ying's Bamboo Umbrella with a slip of paper, letting it kill the specters and temporarily gain power comparable to an A-Class Weird Object.
• Moonlit Night cut through the Dark Side's boundary, opening a passage to the Bright Side and allowing the trapped people to return.
• Flower Language left the Life Supermarket and rushed toward Tao Yuan, eager to fight specters.
• Tao Yuan and Tang Pin fought through a growing crowd of specters, including a pregnant specter who attacked them with an umbilical cord.
• Tang Pin dodged the cord and a spotted dog's attack while Tao Yuan struggled with the other specters, until Rose Thorns wrapped around both women's wrists.

Flower Language revealed her monstrous form and took over the Garbage Dump, forcing Tao Yuan and Tang Pin to flee before they joined Sheng Qingqiao and Bai Ao. At the north gate, Qin Rang and An Ying struggled to gather enough survivors to escape during the power outage.

• Flower Language drove Tao Yuan and Tang Pin away, then filled the Garbage Dump with thorns and hunted the strange beings there.
• Tao Yuan and Tang Pin met Sheng Qingqiao and Bai Ao near the south gate, and Bai Ao explained that they needed to reach the north gate while rescuing people along the way.
• Bai Ao took the lead as the group prepared to fight through the residential complex toward the north gate.
• At the north gate, An Ying told Qin Rang that only forty or fifty people had gathered and that many others had been delayed by the rules governing their strange family members.
• Qin Rang and An Ying discussed the escape plan and the roughly three hundred survivors still alive, including people on the Dark Side whom Moonlit Night had promised to help.

Qin Rang’s group rescued survivors while fighting off the weird beings and gathered people at the North Gate. Wang Ding searched Lin Yi’s home and found evidence of his bullying in a hidden compartment, while Lin Yi remained inside the gate.

• Qin Rang organized the rescue, sending Little Rabbit, Bai Yang, and Mi Chuchu to carry survivors toward the North Gate while Wang Ding coordinated teams with Little Cat’s protection.
• Tao Yuan, Bai Ao, Sheng Qingqiao, and Tang Pin fought a child weird being and learned that a large family of weird beings was approaching.
• Moonlit Night brought most of the people willing to leave to the North Gate, where the defenders prepared to hold their position.
• An Ying and Wang Ding discussed Lin Yi, who had not left the gate and had become a weird being after killing his parents.
• Wang Ding examined Lin Yi’s room and found that its hidden compartment contained evidence of the bullying Lin Yi had endured.

Wang Ding found evidence of Lin Yi’s abuse and a medical report, leading him to suspect the residential complex was a Pseudo-S-Rank Instance. Qin Rang and Bai Yang debated Lin Yi’s motives as they rescued survivors, while Wen Keke’s group planned to collect the Weird Objects left behind.

• Wang Ding found a carved death character and Lin Yi’s mental health report, then warned An Ying that Lin Yi might be untrustworthy and the instance might be a Pseudo-S-Rank Instance.
• Qin Rang told Bai Yang he suspected Lin Yi would kill them and absorb their energy, while Bai Yang explained that Lin Yi’s obsession with the complex shaped his actions.
• Bai Yang said the rules could not be broken if survivors chose and completed the first path, citing Fate Seer’s judgment.
• Qin Rang and Bai Yang continued rescuing people and encountered Wen Keke’s group fighting freaks.
• Wen Keke urged her group to follow the Calamity Crossing Squad and gather the Weird Objects so she could distribute them to survivors.

Bai Yang used a cake made by the Dessert Chef to stop and destroy a gigantic fat weird entity, allowing the final group of survivors to reach the North Gate. As the rescuers prepared to leave with the survivors, Moonlit Night revealed that more people might still be alive, including Bai Ao’s teammate trapped inside a television.

• The fat weird entity chased the exhausted final group and grabbed a person, but Bai Yang distracted it with a strawberry cake from the Dessert Chef.
• Bai Yang’s cake caused the fat weird entity to turn into candy and collapse, and Moonlit Night offered the candy to the others.
• Wang Ding counted the rescued survivors, and the group prepared to leave the North Gate.
• Moonlit Night stopped them and said that some people were still alive and that the survivors did not yet make up most of the people there.
• Bai Ao realized that his teammate trapped inside a television might still be alive because the television had not been turned off.

Moonlit Night revealed that more survivors remained inside the complex, and most of the group chose to return and rescue them. Lin Nieran’s allies planned to confront Lin Yi and destroy the instance, leaving the group poised for a dangerous battle.

• Moonlit Night brought unconscious survivors out of the complex, then revealed that others might still be alive inside.
• The group debated whether to risk returning, while Qin Rang realized that Moonlit Night and the others had deliberately waited to share the information.
• Lin Nieran’s allies revealed that they had never intended to leave by the first method because they wanted to destroy the instance and deal with Lin Yi.
• Most people chose to reenter the complex, while others stayed behind at the gate.
• Bai Yang warned those staying behind to keep their distance because Lin Yi and another specter would soon fight, and urged everyone to collect more Weird Objects.

Ji Fengbai used his writing ability to change the instance’s rules, weakening their restrictions and restoring the group’s strength. The survivors rushed to hunt Weird while Wen Keke watched Ji Fengbai with envy and greed.

• Mi Chuchu, Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Qin Rang questioned why the powerful team had left the Weird for them to fight.
• Ji Fengbai wrote on a page, releasing immense energy that covered the entire instance.
• The page vanished, easing the instance’s pressure, replenishing everyone’s energy, and weakening the restrictions of their Weird Objects.
• Qin Rang realized the Evil Ghost Mask’s rules had been suppressed, and someone identified Ji Fengbai’s ability as changing the instance’s rules.
• The group charged into the residential complex to hunt Weird while Wen Keke compared Ji Fengbai’s ability to her Poppy Flower with envy and resentment.

Ji Fengbai used a forbidden ability to change the instance’s rules for an hour, and Night Moon took over the fight at the North Gate. Lin Yi emerged from the darkness and battled Night Moon, ending the chapter after splitting his body in two with a thrown cleaver.

• Ji Fengbai’s rule change weakened the weird beings and empowered the participants, so Qin Rang, Tang Pin, and the others left to fight and rescue their teammates.
• Bai Yang and Ji Fengbai departed, leaving Moonlit Night to handle the battlefield; Moonlit Night rang his bell and became Night Moon.
• Night Moon summoned heavy rain across the residential complex, then turned the raindrops into weapons that pierced Lin Yi as he emerged from the darkness.
• Lin Yi and Night Moon fought with attacks that repeatedly injured and healed them, while Lin Yi noticed the people watching from the community square.
• Lin Yi dispersed Night Moon’s water defenses and threw his cleaver, splitting Night Moon’s transparent body in two.

Lin Nieran sent Night Moon to defeat Lin Yi, whose self-healing rule had kept their fight at a stalemate. Night Moon used Lin Nieran’s life-destroying glove to kill Lin Yi and clear the instance, then Lin Nieran and the resurrected Lin Yi left together.

• Lin Yi and Night Moon fought to a stalemate while the others cleared the weakened Weird Entities in the residential complex.
• Qin Rang’s group rushed to watch the fight, but Bai Yang explained that Qin Rang could not use his mask to overcome Lin Yi’s powerful rule without dying.
• Flower Language said the fight would soon end as Night Moon drew Lin Yi’s blood toward him and trapped him with rainwater.
• Night Moon used Lin Nieran’s left-hand glove to destroy Lin Yi, causing the rain to stop and triggering a Perfect Clear of the instance.
• Lin Nieran found himself outside the collapsed complex, recalled Night Moon’s cards, and greeted Lin Yi when he reappeared beside him.
• Lin Nieran told Lin Yi they were going home, and Lin Yi pointed out that he had no choice.

After returning to Jiang City, Lin Nieran rested while Qin Rang’s team recovered, reported to the authorities, and visited his shop to pay for weapon repairs. Lin Nieran then dispatched his cards on new assignments and entered the Boundless Land to sort through the Weird Objects collected from the Residential Complex Instance.

• Lin Nieran returned to his shop at dawn, exchanged greetings with a passing Purger, and slept after days away.
• Qin Rang’s team escaped the Weird Zone with help from the authorities, clashed with Wen Keke’s group, and later attended a meeting at the official Containment Center.
• After resting, Qin Rang, Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, Mi Chuchu, and Tao Yuan visited Lin Nieran and paid him a million for weapon repairs.
• Lin Nieran assigned Flower Language to kill weird beings, told Ji Fengbai to rest, sent Night Moon to Wen Keke, and dispatched Bai Yang to meet the Dessert Chef.
• Lin Nieran entered the Boundless Land, where he found the Weird Objects collected from the Residential Complex Instance.

Lin Nieran sorted a huge haul of Weird Objects, sold most of them for points, and browsed the system store while considering purchases for his companions. With his balance now at eleven million points, he reconsidered the palace he had chosen because it seemed too small for his vast territory.

• Lin Nieran picked out Weird Objects to keep or use as materials, then had 007 scan the rest for sale.
• Lin Nieran added a Pastry Chef's Umbrella for Little Dumpling and a pen and book for Ji Fengbai to his cart, while eyeing a discounted Blank Plaque.
• 007 counted 345 Weird Objects and valued the recyclable haul at 9,735,000 points, while Lin Nieran kept several valuable A-Rank and S-Rank objects.
• Lin Nieran pressured 007 into rounding up the recycling value and his balance, bringing his total to eleven million points.
• Lin Nieran filtered the store to items costing no more than ten million points, then decided the palace he had first chosen looked modest beside his enormous territory.

Lin Nieran bought and placed a black-and-white temple at the boundary of the two territories, then began furnishing the residence and preparing spaces for the organization. Meanwhile, Bai Yang met the Dessert Chef, and their first encounter ended in a street fight.

• Lin Nieran bought an eight-million-point temple and placed it where the black and white territories met.
• Lin Nieran selected a room for himself, let Ji Fengbai choose furniture with a one-million-point budget, and gave him pen-and-paper Weird Objects.
• Lin Nieran furnished his own room and planned gathering and meeting spaces for the organization.
• Bai Yang met the Dessert Chef, whose soul was Little Tuan'er, and she called him F-rank.
• Bai Yang and the Dessert Chef fought in the street as Qin Rang and the others watched; An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao rushed to help.

Bai Yang joined Qin Rang and the others for hot pot with Gan Tian, the Dessert Chef, and warned them about her unusual food and cookies. He asked how the official investigation into his organization was progressing, and Tao Yuan said they knew little about it but had identified some of its members, including Gan Tian.

• Sheng Qingqiao invited Bai Yang and Gan Tian to dinner, and the group went to a hot pot restaurant.
• Gan Tian introduced herself as the Dessert Chef and gave everyone cat-shaped cookies; Bai Yang warned them which of her foods were safe and explained the cookies' protective rule.
• Qin Rang thanked Bai Yang for helping them and offered to give him a ride back to his organization after dinner.
• Bai Yang said he had come to follow through on a promise and asked what the official investigation had uncovered about his organization.
• Tao Yuan said they still did not know the organization's name, but a city had sent them Gan Tian's photo before they left the instance.

Bai Yang visited the authorities’ base to speak with Director Chen and Wang Ding, while Lin Nieran learned of the meeting and considered drawing more identity cards. Their cordial conversation was interrupted by a man insulting Bai Yang’s organization, and Bai Yang went to confront the strangers gathered in the next room.

• Bai Yang told Sheng Qingqiao that members of his organization were often easy to encounter, then joined Sheng Qingqiao, Qin Rang and An Ying on a visit to the authorities’ base.
• Bai Yang declined to join Sheng Qingqiao’s squad and questioned why they felt responsible for rescuing S-Rank Purgers trapped in the Lily Weird Zone.
• An Ying brought Bai Yang through a restricted passage to the logistics department, where Wang Ding and Director Chen met with him.
• Lin Nieran learned from 007 that Bai Yang had met the authorities and asked to open the card pool interface to draw more identity cards.
• A stranger at the base shouted insults about Bai Yang’s organization, and Bai Yang followed Director Chen to confront him.

Bai Yang met several Jiang City family representatives who wanted to learn about the organization and its relationship with the authorities. He mocked their attempts to win him over, but Wang Huanjiu’s insult left him visibly angry as the confrontation continued.

• Bai Yang arrived with Qin Rang and met Mei Shi, Wang Huanjiu, Elder Mo, and Cui Qiyin, while Gan Tian played a game nearby.
• Cui Qiyin revealed that she knew Modian, surprising Bai Yang and Gan Tian.
• Director Chen explained that Cui Qiyin had been allowed to stay after proposing ideas, and that other families had come seeking information about her and the organization.
• Wang Huanjiu and Elder Mo questioned Bai Yang about the organization cooperating with the authorities and offered to provide benefits of their own.
• Bai Yang denied receiving anything from the authorities and mocked Elder Mo’s organization, then darkened his gaze when Wang Huanjiu called him sick in the head.

Elder Mo and Wang Huanjiu pressured Bai Yang to cooperate with the families, but Gan Tian intervened when they insulted her and beat them with her parasol. The chapter ended with Bai Yang and the others watching as the two men’s attacks were swallowed by Gan Tian’s Weird Object.

• Elder Mo threatened to detain Bai Yang, while Wang Huanjiu boasted that the families could match his organization’s strength.
• Wang Huanjiu and Elder Mo insulted Gan Tian, prompting her to summon a giant, fanged flower from her hat.
• Wang Huanjiu attacked the flower with his S-Rank saber, and Elder Mo joined in with a rune-covered silver needle.
• The flower swallowed the energy from their attacks, leaving them vulnerable as Gan Tian struck their faces with her parasol.
• Bai Yang and the others watched Gan Tian beat the two men while their companions joked and Director Chen let the beating continue.