Chapter Summaries

Lin Nieran visited the Happy Residential Complex to burn paper money for the dead, but the offering awakened a powerful Weird and pulled him into an S-rank dungeon. The chapter ended with the system warning that the children of fortune had entered an S-rank dungeon too.

• Flower Language waited until Lin Nieran was asleep before removing the thorns Moonlit Night had damaged.
• Lin Nieran woke to find the Masked Youth beside him, learned he had visited the Happy Residential Complex, and then set out to follow the protagonist group while farming points.
• Lin Nieran earned more than fifty thousand points from the Weird and the protagonist group, bringing his total to seventy thousand points and his Fame above 180,000.
• Lin Nieran returned to the Happy Residential Complex at night with the Masked Youth, Moonlit Night, Flower Language, and Bai Yang to burn paper money for the dead.
• As the paper money burned, Moonlit Night sensed a Weird as powerful as himself, and the Masked Youth vanished.
• The complex pulled Lin Nieran inside and trapped him in an S-rank dungeon, while 007 warned that the children of fortune had also entered one.

Qin Rang was pulled into the S-rank Happy Residential Complex and assumed the role of a recently fired father in a family-themed instance. As the livestream revealed that many people had been dragged into S-rank instances, he opened his bedroom door and came face-to-face with a crushed-looking entity.

• Qin Rang discovered that he had entered the Happy Residential Complex as a family member and inspected the room, including photos showing him as a husband and father.
• His daughter called him to get up for work, and he searched the room, finding a dismissal notice dated March 1, 2075.
• Qin Rang concluded that he was likely in the residential complex instance near Lily Hospital and worried that breaking character would be deadly.
• A livestream began, and Qin Rang realized that his teammates had probably been pulled into the instance as well.
• Tao Yun and the authorities saw the S-rank livestream and learned that people across the safe Residential Zone had been pulled into possibly S-rank instances.
• Qin Rang opened the bedroom door and found a deathly pale, flat head that looked violently crushed.

Qin Rang used a strict homework question to avoid a creepy girl and tried to maintain his cover while eating dinner with his monstrous family. As other players died from failing to respect clues in their assigned roles, Qin Rang began suffocating and felt the food inside him come alive.

• Qin Rang frightened the creepy girl into leaving by ordering her to finish her winter vacation homework.
• Qin Rang removed the paper from his door, then confronted the creepy mother and ate only the vegetables she served.
• A middle-aged player in building 8 failed to protect a family photo, and the boy killed him after deciding he was not his real father.
• The creepy mother welcomed the dead player as the boy’s new father, while livestream reports described several other players dying in different apartments.
• Qin Rang refused the fish head, but the mother and daughter pressed him to eat as his breathing became difficult and the food seemed to move inside him.

Qin Rang avoided a deadly meal at home, studied the Happy Family rules, and reunited with Tao Yuan, who warned him about a dangerous neighbor and said Boss Lin was nearby. The chapter then followed Lin Nieran as he navigated life with his apparently resurrected parents and left home under the rules for apartment 404.

• Qin Rang escaped the fish-head trap by giving the food to Mom, then left the apartment and read the Happy Family rules.
• Qin Rang considered the contradictory rules and the dangers of the surrounding apartments before Tao Yuan came downstairs and found him.
• Tao Yuan invited Qin Rang to her apartment, warned him about a likely S-rank neighbor, and told him Boss Lin was in 404.
• Lin Nieran ate breakfast with his weird parents, reminded his father to take his toolbox, and listened to his mother’s instructions.
• Lin Nieran checked the rules for 404, took pocket money, and left home to visit Lin Yi and buy vegetables.

Lin Nieran descended through the Happy Residential Complex, where he revealed to 007 that he had grown up among its eerie residents, and encountered Tao Yuan. Tao Yuan and Qin Rang compared their dangerous identity rules and planned to investigate their neighbors before nightfall.

• 007 realized that Lin Nieran had grown up in the Happy Residential Complex, and he explained that his eerie parents and neighbors had once made the place feel like home.
• Lin Nieran met Tao Yuan on the stairs, told her he had been pulled into the instance, and left to complete his identity mission.
• Tao Yuan met Qin Rang, and they returned to a room to discuss the S-rank paper figures she had seen leaving room 303.
• Tao Yuan and Qin Rang exchanged their rules; Tao Yuan described the hostile neighbors listed in hers and warned that another person staying overnight would break her living-alone identity.
• Qin Rang realized that his violent-father character setting was affecting his personality, and the pair decided to use the remaining daylight to investigate.

Lin Nieran confronted Lin Yi about the revived instance and his disappearance in the Lily Weird Zone, but Lin Yi refused to explain. Meanwhile, Qin Rang and Tao Yuan explored Happy Residential Complex, found that buildings 3 and 6 were missing, and discovered a participant dead beneath a shattered fifth-floor window.

• Lin Nieran visited Lin Yi and demanded to know why the dead instance had returned and whether it was connected to Lin Yi's disappearance in the Lily Weird Zone, but Lin Yi refused to answer.
• Qin Rang and Tao Yuan surveyed Happy Residential Complex and noticed its unnatural cold, missing buildings, and a small hospital marked with a lily emblem.
• Qin Rang encountered a woman walking a powerful black hound named Lucky, and she addressed him as Uncle Qin Rang.
• Qin Rang and Tao Yuan's tracking discs showed their locations hundreds of meters apart despite standing together, so they stopped relying on the trackers and went to gather information.
• Qin Rang and Tao Yuan heard glass break near buildings 1 and 2 and found a participant dead in a pool of blood beneath a broken fifth-floor window.

Tao Yuan and Qin Rang encountered Lin Nieran after finding their teammate Wang Ding trapped in Building Two. Lin Nieran accompanied Tao Yuan to buy groceries, explaining how he stayed safe in the Weird Instance, and she asked him to repair a friend's weapon.

• Tao Yuan spotted Wang Ding at a window in Building Two, and he waved before closing it under pressure from someone inside.
• Lin Nieran met Tao Yuan and Qin Rang, who pretended to be neighbors asking him for help with schoolwork.
• Qin Rang separated from Tao Yuan, and she accompanied Lin Nieran toward the community leisure plaza to buy groceries.
• Lin Nieran told Tao Yuan that he treated the Weird Instance like role-playing and had learned how to stay safe by getting along with the weird beings.
• Tao Yuan asked Lin Nieran to repair a friend's broken weapon, and he agreed if she paid enough.

Tao Yuan and Lin Nieran navigated the strange community plaza, where Lin avoided invitations from dangerous old men and children before returning home to plan a hunt for a B-rank weird being. Tao Yuan reunited with Qin Rang, and they decided to search nearby public places for their missing teammates.

• Tao Yuan watched Lin Nieran gather information from an old man, then browsed the plaza’s produce stalls and learned she had enough money to live normally.
• Two gray-haired weird old men invited Lin Nieran to play five-in-a-row using living human eyeballs as pieces, but Tao Yuan made an excuse and got them away safely.
• Lin Nieran warned off weird children at the playground by threatening to tell their mother, then cautioned Tao Yuan to use a good excuse if her teammates visited him.
• At home, Lin Nieran checked his Fame balance of 191,200 points and planned to have Moonlit Night help him kill a B-rank weird being to earn enough for a system upgrade.
• Tao Yuan found Qin Rang after he failed to speak with Wang Ding for long, and they decided to search public places because their other teammates were still missing.

Qin Rang and Tao Yuan went to the community hospital, where Bai Yang treated Qin Rang and warned them about the dangers of the Weird Instance. After giving them medicine and candies, Bai Yang left them with advice about whom to trust and how to avoid contamination.

• Tao Yuan brought Qin Rang to the community hospital, where they found Bai Yang working as a doctor.
• Bai Yang treated Qin Rang's self-inflicted cut while the hospital's rules pinned him to the bed, and he agreed to answer Qin Rang's question when they met again.
• Bai Yang trapped a malicious wandering weird on the hospital bed and asked Tao Yuan for her chainsaw so he could remove the patient's itchy bones.
• Bai Yang warned Qin Rang and Tao Yuan about Moonlit Night, vouched for Flower Language, and told them to avoid wandering at night or visiting the hospital after dark.
• Bai Yang explained that most food in the instance caused mild contamination, gave them a pill to treat it, and passed along candies from the curious pastry chef.

Qin Rang and Tao Yuan met Liang Xinjin, shared information about the instance, and examined a blood-stained note describing a player’s death. They hid in the garbage station as a truck unloaded corpses and recognized Bai Yang among them.

• Tao Yuan and Qin Rang discussed the four Weird Objects Bai Yang had given them and searched the unexpectedly spotless garbage station.
• Liang Xinjin told Tao Yuan and Qin Rang how a neighboring player had died, then traded them a blood-stained note for information.
• Qin Rang and Tao Yuan suspected the note described a text-manipulating weird being with at least A-rank rules.
• The three hid when a garbage truck arrived and heard its workers say the residential complex would get lively.
• The workers dumped more than twenty corpses from the truck, and Tao Yuan, Qin Rang, and Liang Xinjin recognized Bai Yang among them.

Lin Nieran and Moonlit Night killed a Weird so Lin Nieran could upgrade the system to V2, while Qin Rang’s team found a corpse that might belong to An Ying. The chapter ended as Tao Yuan received a strange phone alert and suddenly collapsed with exhaustion.

• Lin Nieran visited Lin Yi with food, then left with Moonlit Night to study and hunt Weirds.
• Lin Nieran and Moonlit Night killed the Weird in Room 103 and recycled its Weird Object, giving Lin Nieran enough resources to upgrade the system.
• Lin Nieran approved the upgrade to V2, which began an estimated one-hour process, and went with Moonlit Night to clear out more Weirds.
• Liang Xinjin, Tao Yuan, and Qin Rang examined a mangled corpse at the garbage station and feared it might be An Ying.
• Tao Yuan’s phone began beeping, and a sudden wave of exhaustion drained her strength as Qin Rang called out to her.

Qin Rang avoided the bathroom and tried to leave home at night, but he was trapped between several Weirds at his doorway. Meanwhile, Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Flower Language waited in a supermarket as another game began.

• Qin Rang caught Tao Yuan when she fell, then took her home after seeing that her phone alarm was set for an afternoon nap.
• After returning home, Qin Rang took Bai Yang’s medicine and pretended to sleep rather than risk entering the bathroom.
• Qin Rang woke at night beside the Weird mom and tried to slip out, but a hallway Weird with an empty dog leash told him he could be her dog.
• As Qin Rang froze in the doorway, his daughter and the Weird mom emerged behind him, leaving him surrounded by Weirds.
• At the supermarket, Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Flower Language discussed their dungeon group and worried about the next game.
• A cheerful child’s voice announced that the game was starting and that new participants might be chosen.

After returning to the supermarket, An Ying recognized Lin Nieran and spotted a fox pattern on the hand of the frail, mute young man in a wheelchair who was trying to draw Lin Nieran’s attention. Three hours earlier, Lin Nieran had upgraded his system and unlocked new features, including a free ten-pull from the Intermediate Card Pool.

• An Ying and Sheng Qingqiao returned from an instance after being selected repeatedly, and Sheng Qingqiao soon vanished into another one.
• Lin Nieran entered the supermarket with Flower Language, while a young man in a wheelchair followed and provoked Flower Language.
• An Ying recognized Lin Nieran and noticed a fox pattern on the wheelchair user's ring finger.
• The wheelchair user pretended to cough, prompting Lin Nieran and An Ying to gather around him, then wrote that he was fine because he could not speak.
• Flower Language tossed a blanket over the young man, while the system informed Lin Nieran that his card could not become dangerously ill.
• Three hours earlier, Lin Nieran upgraded the system, unlocking performance points, the System Shop, System Space V1, the Intermediate Card Pool, and a free ten-pull.

After the system upgrade, Lin Nieran learned how persona backgrounds and performance points worked, and the Twins card revealed its full identities as Moonlit Night and Night Moon. He drew two gold cards, including the SS-rank Writer, who appeared alongside Flower Language and drew wary attention from An Ying.

• Lin Nieran learned that cards needed complete backgrounds and memories to upgrade, and that Weird cards were bound to their predetermined deaths.
• Lin Nieran inspected the Twins card, which showed Moonlit Night and the dormant Night Moon, an SS-rank Weird whose background remained locked.
• Lin Nieran used a Luck Card and the system's ten draws, pulling two gold cards.
• Lin Nieran checked the SS-rank Writer card, and Ji Fengbai appeared, introducing himself to Lin Nieran and An Ying in writing.
• Ji Fengbai antagonized Flower Language, then stopped to study An Ying while An Ying wondered how he knew Lin Nieran.

Tao Yuan woke in her apartment under the influence of the rules for a woman living alone and discovered a voyeur had recently photographed her. When an unemployed drifter horror emerged from her curtains, she attacked it with her chainsaw and energy-charged knife.

• An Ying learned that Lin Nieran lived in building four and had helped Ji Fengbai, prompting alarm among the group.
• Tao Yuan woke at eleven at night, found Qin Rang's note, and realized the original owner's habits had affected her again.
• Tao Yuan discovered a photo of herself asleep that had been taken at 10:59 and searched the dark apartment for whoever had taken it.
• A human-skin paper identified the figure emerging from the curtains as a high-risk unemployed drifter that preyed on vulnerable people.
• Tao Yuan attacked the horror with her chainsaw and charged knife, dodged its lunge, and cut off several of its hooves.

Tao Yuan killed the Aberration from 302 but was confronted by the S-Class Aberration in 303, who wrote a rule predicting her death that night. A wheelchair-bound member of the Mysterious Organization arrived and challenged the writer from 303, declaring that his own rules took precedence.

• Tao Yuan endured the Aberration's attack, severed his human hand, then killed him with her charged chainsaw and obtained a red seal.
• After the fight left Tao Yuan badly injured, the resident of 303 emerged and wrote that a woman who adored pets would kill her that night.
• Tao Yuan recognized the prediction as an S-Class Aberration's rule and considered killing him to change her fate.
• A wheelchair-bound young man bearing the red fox mark arrived, greeted Tao Yuan in writing, and told her to rest.
• The newcomer confronted the Aberration from 303, explained how he had been created as a writer, and nullified the other's death rules by declaring his rules superior.

Ji Fengbai killed the entity in room 303 and warned Tao Yuan that its prediction of her death still applied. Determined to seek the right direction toward survival, Tao Yuan left her apartment and encountered a dangerous camera-headed woman on the first floor.

• Ji Fengbai introduced himself to Tao Yuan as Writer, then told her that 303's prediction still applied and that her survival was up to her.
• Tao Yuan returned to her room, read the prediction that she would die that night at the hands of a pet-loving woman, and decided not to hide.
• After healing with her Bubble Machine, Tao Yuan left her apartment and chose the stairs over the elevator.
• On the way down, Tao Yuan encountered a camera-headed woman who greeted her and made her sense extreme danger.

Tao Yuan escaped Camerahead's attempt to lure her into a livestream, but encountered a dog-owning weird who recognized that she was injured. The woman sicced her enormous dog Snowcake on Tao Yuan, who fought back with her Chainsaw and used Bai Yang's candy to clear her mind, but could not pierce the dog's defense.

• Camerahead offered Tao Yuan a place as a livestream guest, but Tao Yuan resisted her mental control and ran away.
• Tao Yuan took out the candy Bai Yang had given her and realized the barking around her had stopped.
• A woman with a deformed white dog named Snowcake confronted Tao Yuan and accused her of being an injured pet rather than Tao Yuan.
• The woman released Snowcake, which grew enormous and chased Tao Yuan through the darkened street.
• Tao Yuan dodged the dog, struck it with her Chainsaw, and ate the candy to dispel its mental influence.
• Tao Yuan tried to attack Snowcake's belly, but her Chainsaw only sparked against its hard hide.

Tao Yuan fought the dog-walking Weird and her white dog, discovering that the woman’s powers worked in darkness and that the open path near Building 8 might be her only escape. After Tao Yuan’s chainsaw awakened and she bound the wounded dog, a Tibetan Mastiff attacked her, but Mi Chuchu arrived and carried her away.

• Tao Yuan realized the dog-walking Weird could affect people’s perception in darkness, while the streetlights slowed the woman and dog.
• The white dog shattered Tao Yuan’s Pink Chainsaw, but Tao Yuan forced it to awaken and used it to sever the dog’s tail.
• Tao Yuan spotted a seemingly bottomless darkness near Building 8 and ran toward it, while the dog-walking Weird sent the injured white dog after her.
• Tao Yuan used her Hanging Rope to immobilize the white dog, but the woman brought out a Tibetan Mastiff.
• Tao Yuan reached for her pendant as the mastiff attacked, and Mi Chuchu appeared, fought it back, and carried Tao Yuan away.

Mi Chuchu fought through the dark with the badly injured Tao Yuan and followed Tao Yuan’s directions to a road leading to the Life Supermarket. They reached the store, where Lin Nieran and An Ying helped them inside, but the three dogs closed in outside as Mi Chuchu wondered whether the supermarket could protect them.

• Mi Chuchu gave Tao Yuan a piece of candy, and Tao Yuan told her to head toward the far end of Building Eight and stay in well-lit places.
• Tao Yuan found a road in the darkness, and Mi Chuchu fought off the dogs while carrying her toward it.
• The black-and-white dog bit Mi Chuchu, who tore out its eye and then broke her hand blocking an attack aimed at Tao Yuan.
• Tao Yuan spotted the Life Supermarket and urged Mi Chuchu to run toward it while Lin Nieran questioned the people inside about Buildings Three and Six.
• An Ying and Lin Nieran opened the supermarket doors for Mi Chuchu and Tao Yuan; Tao Yuan passed out, and Mi Chuchu faced the three dogs outside.