Chapter Summaries

Flower Language protected the supermarket customers by killing three giant dogs, then accepted a rose from Mi Chuchu and withdrew her thorns. The crisis ended with the injured survivors safe and Lin Nieran remembering his noodles.

• Lin Nieran pretended to be startled while Ji Fengbai stayed quiet and wrote a message.
• Flower Language unleashed thorny vines, broke through the supermarket door, and killed the three dogs outside.
• The writer warned An Ying that Flower Language hated men and urged Mi Chuchu to offer her a rose.
• Mi Chuchu gave Flower Language the rose, calming her and causing the thorns to retract.
• Flower Language returned to the register with the rose pinned to her dress, and An Ying offered to treat the injured survivors.
• Ji Fengbai reminded Lin Nieran that his noodles might be overcooked, easing the silence after the fight.

After Tang Pin helped treat Tao Yuan and Mi Chuchu, Qin Rang discovered that his weird wife and daughter would help him while he played the role of their family’s father. At the convenience store, Tao Yuan revealed that her Weird Object had been scrapped after she used charge twice in a row.

• Tang Pin played her recorder while a warning from the convenience store stopped the dog-walking weird from approaching, and the weird later tried to claim Qin Rang as her pet.
• Qin Rang’s weird wife and daughter drove the dog-walking weird away, and he realized that their family rules made them his helpers.
• Qin Rang followed signs of the night’s fight with several others and reached the convenience store, where Tao Yuan and Mi Chuchu were recovering.
• Mi Chuchu distrusted Wen Keke’s offer to work together, while An Ying warned Lin Nieran not to look into Wen Keke’s eyes because she had a charm Weird Object.
• An Ying and Mi Chuchu asked Lin Nieran to repair their Weird Objects, but Tao Yuan said hers had turned weird and was scrapped after she used charge twice in a row.

Tao Yuan and her companions gathered at the Life Supermarket, shared information about the instance’s games, and theorized that the weird beings were choosing family members. After Wang Ding waited in vain outside, a new group returned from their games, including Sheng Qingqiao, who reunited with Qin Rang.

• Qin Rang reunited with An Ying, who explained that the corpse he had seen was a Flower Snatcher impersonating him.
• Lin Nieran repaired An Ying’s Bamboo Umbrella while Tang Pin explained the candidate-family rules and the games at the Life Supermarket.
• An Ying described how he had been barred from becoming the family member of the weird children, and Lin Nieran suggested the games were meant to let weird beings choose family members.
• Tang Pin and Wen Keke left, and the others began discussing their plans while Wang Ding waited outside for Qin Rang and Tao Yuan.
• At one o’clock, dozens of people returned from their games, and Sheng Qingqiao rushed to Qin Rang before realizing he had been hugging someone else.

Lin Nieran joined Qin Rang’s group while they discussed how to escape the residential complex and prepare for the next game. When Little Dumpling chose a player, Lin Nieran was selected and plunged into darkness.

• An Ying, Tao Yuan, and Qin Rang described the complex’s gates and their plans to test whether they could leave at night.
• Qin Rang invited Lin Nieran to join the group, and Lin Nieran agreed while offering to repair their weapons for Weird Objects.
• Lin Nieran insisted his luck would keep him from being chosen for a game, while Tao Yuan and Qin Rang realized they had forgotten Wang Ding.
• Three voices announced games outside the door, including Little Dumpling, the lonely old man, and the Dog-Walking Woman.
• Little Dumpling chose Lin Nieran to play, and his vision went black as he fell into darkness.

Lin Nieran entered a school-themed game based on Jiang Tuanyuan’s wish, where participants had to set off the most bombs to become her best friend. As bombs ravaged the school and ordinary students died, Lin Nieran tried to reach an open area to survive.

• Flower Language tried to follow Lin Nieran, but Ji Fengbai stopped her to avoid drawing attention.
• Lin Nieran found himself in Jiang Tuanyuan’s elementary school classroom and learned that the game involved setting off bombs to become her best friend.
• A bomb exploded in the corridor, and another appeared in the classroom, killing the teacher and nearby students.
• Mi Chuchu and Qin Rang struggled to fend off bombs that repeatedly appeared around them, while other participants were injured or killed.
• Lin Nieran made his way through the crowded school toward an open area to escape the blasts.

Lin Nieran sent Bai Yang into the bomb-filled school instance to earn Performance Points while the contestants struggled to survive the explosions. Wen Keke was left hanging from the fifth-floor edge until Bai Yang appeared on the rooftop and asked if she was calling for help.

• Lin Nieran reached the rooftop, activated a card, and sent Bai Yang to earn Performance Points.
• Sheng Qingqiao dodged and returned bombs, while Tao Yuan was pinned beneath rubble and cursed as she batted bombs away.
• Tao Yun spotted Bai Yang in Wen Keke’s livestream and ordered her niece to keep watching Tao Yuan’s livestream.
• A subordinate sacrificed himself to shield Wen Keke from a bomb, leaving her hanging over the broken edge of the fifth floor.
• Wen Keke called for help as she slipped, and Bai Yang appeared on the rooftop with a Rabbit Plush Toy and asked whether she was calling for help.

Bai Yang rescued Wen Keke, then joined Tao Yuan and Sheng Qingqiao as they crossed the bombarded school and warned them about the Lily Weird Zone. He pointed them toward the school archives for clues about the S-Class instance before leaving, while Tao Yuan and Sheng Qingqiao reunited with Qin Rang and Mi Chuchu.

• Bai Yang sent his black cat flying into Wen Keke and knocked her away from the rooftop, then left her behind.
• Bai Yang found Tao Yuan and Sheng Qingqiao, whose attempt to use a saber had been blocked by the school’s rules, and his dolls cleared bombs around them.
• Bai Yang warned Tao Yuan and Sheng Qingqiao to avoid the Lily Weird Zone and said his organization lived in a place created by one of its colleagues.
• Bai Yang explained that the school was part of a Cloud City S-Class instance and recommended searching its archives before leaving the two to find their teammates.
• Tao Yuan and Sheng Qingqiao reached Qin Rang and Mi Chuchu on the fifth floor, where the pair had been batting away bombs together.

Lin Nieran searched the archives for Lin Yi’s file and took a picture to provoke him later, while the players finished the first bomb round and planned their next move. The rankings revealed An Ying was far behind and Bai Yang was absent, and the survivors headed toward the archives as Little Dumpling announced that the next bombs would be stronger.

• Lin Nieran had 007 unlock the archives, scanned for Lin Yi’s file, photographed him, and removed its last page before leaving.
• Little Dumpling announced the bomb rankings, with Qin Rang first, Tao Yuan second, and An Ying seventy-fifth; the bombs stopped spawning.
• Qin Rang noticed Bai Yang was missing from the rankings, and Tao Yuan used a map to locate the archives on the laboratory building’s fourth floor.
• Little Dumpling announced that the first round was over and threatened to make the next round’s bombs more powerful.
• Tang Pin refused to move her group to the first floor because Wen Keke controlled it with a large team, so they remained on the second floor.

Qin Rang and the others searched the school’s Archive Room and found a file identifying Lin Yi, a child whose address was in the Happy Residential Complex. After surviving the escalating bomb rounds and returning to the Life Supermarket, they decided to investigate Room 404 for clues about him.

• Lin Nieran rested on the laboratory roof, then left An Ying and the others to find a quieter hiding place.
• Qin Rang’s team broke into the Archive Room and found a file for Lin Yi, whose listed address was Room 404 in their residential complex.
• The bomb rounds resumed, and Qin Rang, An Ying, and Sheng Qingqiao repeatedly failed to enter Class 6 as the explosions intensified.
• The survivors returned to the Life Supermarket, where they learned that none of the players from the dog-raising Weird’s dungeon had come back.
• Tao Yuan healed the team, and Qin Rang kept a pink bomb left by Wen Keke before deciding to investigate Room 404 during the day.

After surviving the Life Supermarket, Lin Nieran returned home and was tasked with looking after Jiang Tuanyuan, whom he took to Lin Yi’s house for tutoring. Meanwhile, Qin Rang prepared to find Wang Ding and track down Tao Yuan’s Chainsaw.

• Qin Rang captured the pink bomb in his B-Rank spatial Card Box, and Lin Nieran learned that spatial Weird Objects were rare.
• The Life Supermarket closed at six, sending everyone outside; Lin Nieran slipped home, bathed, and slept until late morning.
• Jiang Tuanyuan teased Lin Nieran and then cried to Wang Yumei, so Lin Nieran offered to take her to Lin Yi’s house to study.
• Lin Nieran brought Jiang Tuanyuan to Lin Yi, whose wound and liquor bottles suggested he had been drinking; Lin Nieran said she had eaten the snacks he had brought for Lin Yi.
• Qin Rang gave his daughter the snacks he had bought and set out to find Wang Ding and learn where Tao Yuan’s Chainsaw had gone.

Qin Rang faced a rule trap when a boy came to visit, while other players encountered deadly dangers in their homes. Wen Keke ignored her assigned rules and recruited two players to help her obtain Tao Yuan's weapon.

• Qin Rang agreed to watch TV with his daughter and refused to play the dangerous chasing game shown on the screen.
• A woman playing a mother was dragged into the TV and killed by the weird beings on it.
• Lin Nieran used 007 to block the livestream that had been watching him.
• Wen Keke persuaded her weird mother to let her leave, then crumpled up the rules for her adopted-daughter role.
• Wen Keke gathered the two players from apartment 108, who asked if they could really get Tao Yuan's weapon.

Tao Yuan and Qin Rang learned that the instance had a six-day deadline tied to the Lantern Festival, while Tao Yuan shared news about the other players and the Pink Chainsaw. The chapter left Qin Rang’s weird creature wife listening to a neighbor’s gossip about Tao Yuan and Qin Rang.

• Qin Rang tried to balance the attention he gave the weird creature children while the contaminated television continued to affect him.
• Tao Yuan visited Qin Rang’s home and helped him learn that Doctor Bai Yang would leave in six days, on the Lantern Festival.
• Tao Yuan realized the instance had a seven-day time limit and suspected that a fatal event or assimilation would occur at the Lantern Festival.
• Tao Yuan told Qin Rang that Mi Chuchu had become a resident of the Dark Side, An Ying had moved into Building Eight, and Sheng Qingqiao remained in the Dark Side without an identity.
• Tao Yuan warned Qin Rang about the dog-walking woman, Boss Lin, and another group seeking the Pink Chainsaw, which was in Building Five.
• After Qin Rang left, the neighbor from apartment 204 accused him of getting too close to Tao Yuan, but his weird creature wife said she trusted him.

Qin Rang visited Bai Yang at the hospital to ask for help finding Lin Yi and Jiang Tuanyuan. Bai Yang lent him Little Bear and warned him to bring Moonlit Night or Writer along when searching for Lin Yi, especially if Moonlit Night used a water-related rule.

• Tao Yuan, Qin Rang, and An Ying met and exchanged information before splitting up to pursue their plans.
• Qin Rang overheard Bai Yang arguing with Ji Fengbai, then asked Bai Yang to cooperate with them before the Lantern Festival.
• Bai Yang refused to act without an order from his Master but agreed to offer advice after Qin Rang mentioned his clue about Lin Yi and Jiang Tuanyuan.
• Bai Yang lent Qin Rang Little Bear, telling him to take it to Building Two and find Moonlit Night.
• Bai Yang told Qin Rang to bring Moonlit Night or Writer when looking for Lin Yi and to be especially careful if Moonlit Night used a water-related rule.

Qin Rang gathered information in Building Two and reunited with Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Wang Ding, whose rules forced him to focus on studying. The group set out to find Moonlit Night, hoping to uncover the dangerous Lin Yi’s story and a way out of the time-limited instance.

• Qin Rang overheard specters discussing children, tutoring, and the approaching Lantern Festival before Teacher Han mistook him for Xiaoxia’s father and offered to tutor her.
• Qin Rang met Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Wang Ding behind Building Two, where Wang Ding explained that strict family rules had kept him indoors and left him sick.
• Qin Rang briefed the group on the seven-day time limit, the dangers of the hospital at night, and the need to investigate Lin Yi.
• An Ying warned the group that Wen Keke had recruited people and specters, while Tao Yuan noted that Wen Keke’s charm-type Weird Object gave her an advantage.
• Wang Ding recalled that Moonlit Night might be an excellent student who lived on the sixth floor, so the group decided to look for him.

Qin Rang and the others recruited Moonlit Night to help find Lin Yi, then visited Lin Yi at home under the pretense of conducting a school survey. Lin Yi let them in for twenty minutes, warned that his parents would soon return, and left them to inspect his sparse, damaged home.

• Wang Ding used a detection Weird Object and found no weird entities on the sixth floor, while 601 showed the strongest energy fluctuations.
• Moonlit Night refused to help find Lin Yi after seeing Little Bear, but Little Bear punched through his door, prompting Moonlit Night to slash the plush toy and then agree to join them.
• The group encountered Lin Nieran on their way to Building One, and he offered to repair their weapons.
• At 404, Tao Yuan and the others told Lin Yi they were conducting a school survey, and he allowed them inside for twenty minutes.
• Lin Yi warned that his parents would return soon, while the group noticed his home had little furniture and walls marked with dents and gouges.

An Ying and the others searched Lin Yi’s apartment and found signs of alcohol abuse, violence, and neglect, while debating whether Lin Yi was the source of the S-rank Weird Instance. They left the study untouched after Lin Yi warned them that his father hated people entering it.

• An Ying found a broken liquor bottle and blood under the sofa, while Wang Ding noticed damaged kitchen knives and a possible missing knife.
• Tao Yuan discovered that Lin Yi slept on a thin quilt on a wooden board in a cramped room, despite the master bedroom being clean and well furnished.
• An Ying and Qin Rang suggested that Lin Yi suffered violence and abuse, and Tao Yuan suspected the instance was an S-rank role-playing scenario.
• The group wondered whether Lin Yi was the weird entity and whether they would need to kill or save him.
• Qin Rang entered the study doorway and saw Lin Yi sweeping broken liquor bottles into a trash can; Lin Yi warned him not to touch anything because his father hated people entering the study.

Lin Yi sent the group away, and they speculated that he might be the key to the instance or a Weird connected to the Lantern Festival. Lin Nieran learned that their guesses were correct, while 007 remained confused about how his secondary personality fit into the mystery.

• Lin Yi ordered Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, Wang Ding, and An Ying to leave, then found the money they had left and checked that his cleaver was untouched.
• Moonlit Night led the group toward Building Five, where they discussed Lin Yi’s strange behavior and wondered whether his parents or facial wound held clues.
• Qin Rang and the others hid behind a building and guessed that Lin Yi might not become a Weird until something happened on Lantern Festival.
• Lin Nieran returned home and disciplined Little Dumpling while his inner personalities bickered and 007 worried about the protagonist group’s theories.
• Lin Nieran told 007 that the group’s guess was correct, then lied that the original 404 had inherited a Weird’s identity; 007 believed him, and Lin Nieran decided it was better for the system to stay dumb.

Qin Rang's team uncovered signs of Lin Yi's troubled childhood and a suspiciously thick wall, then split up to investigate. Lin Nieran learned that the team had suffered serious injuries fighting the Chainsaw, but Writer had used a fate-changing note to save them, and they were now at Writer's house.

• Wang Ding reported finding Lin Yi's childhood certificates and layered bloodstains in the study, and noticed that the wall between the study and Lin Yi's room was unusually thick.
• Qin Rang stayed behind to watch Lin Yi while Tao Yuan, Wang Ding, and An Ying went to retrieve the Chainsaw; An Ying paused to warn that she had a bad feeling.
• Lin Nieran heard that Qin Rang had encountered the S-Class Actor Aberration and escaped, though the Actor had memorized his appearance.
• Tao Yuan's group found Wen Keke confronting the Chainsaw, but she escaped after placing an energy-catalyzing Weird Object on it, causing it to become an A-Class Weird Object.
• The Chainsaw nearly killed Tao Yuan's group, and Wang Ding lost an arm while protecting An Ying; An Ying used the Weird Object Eye to immobilize it but suffered backlash.
• Writer changed the fate-altering note Tao Yuan had kept, saving the team, and they gathered at Writer's house.

Wen Keke explained how she had escaped her sister’s imprisonment and built her own power as the Calamity Crossing Squad struggled against the Bloody Chainsaw. After Ji Fengbai helped suppress An Ying’s [Eye], the hungry Weird Object attacked him, only to be caught by the Writer.

• Wen Keke used devoted followers and a golden chain to bind the Bloody Chainsaw while Wang Ding, An Ying, and Tao Yuan confronted her.
• Wen Keke recalled how her sister had imprisoned her and their parents, and how she later survived the purge and took charge of the remaining followers.
• A Class A Weird injured Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Wang Ding, while Ji Fengbai stayed with the group under the original’s instructions.
• An Ying asked Ji Fengbai to suppress [Eye], whose energy had run out after immobilizing the Bloody Chainsaw.
• [Eye] sensed Ji Fengbai’s energy and lunged to eat him, but Ji Fengbai caught its tentacle and pressed a fingertip over one of its eyes.

Ji Fengbai subdued [Eye] while Bai Yang treated Wang Ding’s severed arm, though he could not reattach it. Wang Ding chose to live without a weird limb, and Qin Rang later arrived at Ji Fengbai’s home gravely wounded.

• Ji Fengbai crushed [Eye], forcing it to retreat into An Ying, then concealed the note revealing that [Eye]’s rules did not affect him.
• Bai Yang examined Wang Ding’s severed arm and said he could not reattach it, offering a weird replacement instead.
• Wang Ding refused a weird limb, and An Ying urged Bai Yang to save his life so they could seek a way to regenerate the arm later.
• Wang Ding reassured An Ying that he did not blame him for the injury and thanked him for saving Tao Yuan and himself from Chainsaw.
• Qin Rang followed their marks to Ji Fengbai’s home, collapsed against Tao Yuan, and Little Bear fell to the floor.