Chapter Summaries

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.

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.