Recaps

Lin Nieran joined the Calamity Crossing Squad’s voyage toward Minchuan District, then became trapped with them in the Chocolate Orphanage Instance, where the children investigated its rules and hidden passages. The group uncovered signs of a concealed operation, while Lin Yi reunited with people from his past and received a mysterious recording.

• Lin Nieran bought limited-time personas and drew cards, including a golden Double S-Rank card whose subject he recognized.
• As Weird Instances expanded across Jiang City, Worship God took Qin Rang, and the Calamity Crossing Squad set out by boat with Lin Nieran aboard.
• The group reached the transformed castle, learned that the Poppy Flower had caused Qin Rang to lose control, and followed the Sunny Doll toward Minchuan District.
• The squad entered the Chocolate Orphanage Instance, where Lin Nieran found himself intangible and joined Lin Yi, Tao Yuan, and the others as they navigated life among the ranked orphans.
• Lin Yi and his friends learned that the children had to process cocoa beans for a sponsor’s factory, while Lin Nieran searched for his missing cards and worried about Puppet.
• Wang Ding and Lin Yi followed disciplinarian directors into a hidden passage, escaped its traps by blasting through a door, and accidentally damaged the god statue.
• Yuan Xi warned Tao Yuan to stay away from Lin Yi, while Lin Yi explained that high-scoring children were often adopted.
• At the Prayer Room, Mr. Xie ordered the staff to keep the Orphanage Director from investigating the damaged statue, and Flower Language passed Lin Yi a Recording Weird Object.

Lin Yi and the others uncovered evidence of abuse, missing children, and deadly rules beneath the Orphanage while fighting the Aberrations in its Cemetery. They ended surrounded beneath a shrinking barrier as they questioned the Director’s role and the Instance’s history.

• The Orphanage Director exposed blurry footage of Lin Yi and Wang Ding escaping, but neither was identified or punished, and the group compared conflicting rules while planning to investigate.
• After the regenerating Black-Line Weird flooded the dormitory, Lin Yi reunited Flower Language and Wu Liang, and the group escaped into the Dining Hall, where the black threads could not enter.
• The group crossed the shifting Hopscotch Game and discovered hidden passages, suspended children, and transformed Disciplinarian Directors before escaping into the Cemetery.
• In the Cemetery, Wang admitted he had brought Modian there and led Flower Language into the Underground Passage, while the group fought the Black-Line Weird, Skeletons, and statues.
• Lin Nieran used a future mask on Lai’er, whose transformation bore an SS-Rank mark, as the Cemetery’s threats intensified and the Skeletons awakened with rules that suppressed abilities.
• Wang Ding activated a golden token to shield the group, but Skeletons, black threads, and statues surrounded them, and Modian revealed he had killed the Disciplinarian Directors, and the barrier’s protection began running out.