Recaps

Xu Xi used clues from the earlier loops to negotiate for ownership of the fake Li Kang's car, which he suspected was the only vehicle that could leave the tunnel. The group drove it out successfully, escaping the tunnel without losing anyone.

• Xu Xi got out of the car and warned Tan Xingyun, Xu Xiuman, and Li Kang that something was wrong with it.
• Xu Xi said the fake Li Kang might be telling the truth about his car being the only one that could leave the tunnel, even if he was still a fake.
• Xu Xi asked the fake Li Kang what it would take to make the car no longer his and offered to buy it with paper money and incense.
• Tan Xingyun, Xu Xiuman, and Li Kang added their paper money and incense, but the fake Li Kang still said it was not enough.
• Xu Xi offered their original car as collateral, and the fake Li Kang accepted, transferring ownership of his car to the group.
• Xu Xi motioned for everyone to get in, and they drove out of the tunnel safely.

Xu Xi’s group escaped the tunnel after he bought the fake Li Kang’s car, and the others credited him with solving the danger. The four reached the funeral home and cleared the instance, leaving Tan Xingyun hoping they could team up again.

• Xu Xi realized the tunnel rollbacks had revealed several ways to survive, though his solution had cost him all their joss paper and incense.
• Tan Xingyun, Xu Xiuman, and Li Kang inferred that Xu Xi had noticed clues about the fake car and rescued them from the tunnel.
• Xu Xi stayed silent while his teammates praised him and discussed the journey, and the viewers interpreted his reserve as the bearing of an expert.
• The four encountered no further bizarre incidents and arrived at the funeral home.
• White rings appeared beneath their feet, and the four vanished as the instance was cleared; Tan Xingyun said he hoped they would team up again.

Back in the Player Space after his second instance, Xu Xi reviewed his teammates and his death-rollback ability, then discovered the effects of the items he had brought back. Meanwhile, his rapid clears made him famous in the real world, where players began discussing him online.

• Xu Xi returned to the Player Space, reflected on his six deaths in the second instance, and reviewed his three reliable teammates: Tan Xingyun, Xu Xiuman, and Li Kang.
• Xu Xi reasoned that his ability returned him to a point leading to his death and called it “death rollback,” deciding he would keep testing its limits when necessary.
• Xu Xi identified the patterned wedding candy as a cure for negative statuses and the white candy as a remedy for physical injuries, while the spirit money was special currency for instances.
• Xu Xi considered whether to wait for the third instance or enter early after putting the items away.
• Xu Xi’s second instance boosted his real-world fame, and online users discussed his speedrunning reputation in a thread about him.

Xu Xi entered a new mountain instance, while streamer Ji Yang watched his livestream and praised his potential. News that top-ranked Zhang Song had died deepened viewers’ fears, but Ji Yang insisted that humanity could still witness new miracles.

• Xu Xi chose to enter another instance early and arrived halfway up a mountain with four teammates.
• Viewers flooded Xu Xi’s livestream, while Ji Yang streamed his own commentary on Xu Xi’s performance.
• Ji Yang described Xu Xi as having heaven-defying talent and the potential to become a god.
• Viewers reported that Zhang Song, the top-ranked player, had died in a hellishly difficult instance where every player was wiped out.
• Ji Yang urged viewers not to lose hope, suggesting that a player might still go farther than anyone expected.

Xu Xi and four teammates crossed a mountainous wilderness after spotting an approaching rainstorm, while Ji Yang explained that the storm and terrain hinted at a possible mudslide. After hours of walking, the group reached a destination in the forest, though its nature remained unclear.

• The five players inspected their hiking gear and reacted to the burly man's interruption of the refined man's introduction.
• The high-ponytailed woman warned that a rainstorm was coming, and the refined man cautioned that the steep, sparsely vegetated slopes could trigger a mudslide.
• The burly man led the group toward a distant dense forest, and Xu Xi followed without offering an opinion.
• Ji Yang told his livestream viewers that the rainstorm was the instance's hint and explained why the forest was likely a safe destination.
• After walking for hours through most of the forest, the group stopped to rest, but the burly man said they had reached their destination.

Xu Xi and his teammates entered an abandoned inn to investigate after a sudden downpour drove them inside. They explored its dim first floor by candlelight, where Xu Xi found a wall covered in mostly unreadable rules.

• The group spotted an abandoned inn in the woods and decided to enter together when a thunderstorm began.
• Xu Xi assessed the personalities of his four teammates as they followed the burly man's lead into the inn.
• The gentle-looking man lit a candle at the reception desk, then stopped the burly man from using another candle.
• The teammates examined the inn's first floor, and Xu Xi found a sheet of faded rules on the wall.

Xu Xi found a faded rules notice at the inn, but the short-haired woman with glasses claimed the clue before he could report it. The group examined the inn’s guest register and discussed the five guests whose rooms remained occupied, while Ji Yang’s viewers debated whether Xu Xi cared about recognition or his teammates’ safety.

• Xu Xi read part of a faded notice on the wall before the short-haired woman with glasses pushed in to inspect it.
• The refined man and the burly man showed the group a guest register, a pen, and keys found in a reception cabinet.
• The group saw that rooms 103, 202, and 204 were still marked occupied, with five guests listed and no checkout information.
• The short-haired woman with glasses reported finding the unusual rules notice without mentioning Xu Xi had found it first.
• Ji Yang analyzed the woman’s attempt to prove her value and considered that Xu Xi might not care about recognition or helping his teammates survive.

Xu Xi confronted the short-haired woman with glasses after she took credit for his clue, then joined the others in deciphering the inn’s cryptic warnings. The players split into teams to investigate rooms whose guests had never checked out, with Xu Xi paired with the woman with the high ponytail as they prepared to explore the dark inn.

• Xu Xi mildly pointed out that the short-haired woman with glasses had found the same clue he had, making her stiffen.
• The scholarly man and the others interpreted the rules as warnings about nighttime knocks, trust, and being discovered by strange beings called “they.”
• The burly man proposed splitting up to investigate room 103 and rooms 202 and 204, and the short-haired woman with glasses joined him and the scholarly man.
• Xu Xi and the woman with the high ponytail formed the other team without discussing their choice.
• The players lit candles at the reception desk and separated in the storm-darkened inn, wary of the unknown beings and unwritten forbidden rules.

Xu Xi and the woman with the high ponytail searched room 103 and found a flashlight and a boy’s diary describing his grandmother’s mutation after she opened the door at night. As they left with the diary, a tall figure with long arms noticed their candle and began approaching them.

• Xu Xi opened room 103, where he and the woman with the high ponytail searched for clues.
• Xu Xi found a working flashlight, and the woman found a diary hidden among clothes beneath the table.
• They read the boy’s entries, which described his grandmother growing monstrous after answering a nighttime knock and then dismembering and eating him.
• The pair decided to take the diary and meet the others by the stairs.
• Xu Xi saw a tall, long-armed figure climbing the stairs, and it turned toward them after the woman emerged with the candle.

Xu Xi returned to an earlier moment, extinguished the candle, and discovered that the figure feared the flashlight’s beam, though the short-haired woman with glasses died upstairs. As the others questioned how he knew to put out the candle, Ji Yang suggested Xu Xi had noticed there were no candles in room 103, and the viewers began comparing the rooms.

• Xu Xi woke after returning to the moment before the figure reached the stairs and immediately pinched out the candle.
• Xu Xi shouted a warning upstairs, then shone his flashlight at the figure, which shrieked and vanished.
• The burly man and the refined-looking man came downstairs and reported that the short-haired woman with glasses had been killed.
• The woman with the high ponytail and the two men asked Xu Xi how he knew to extinguish the candles.
• Ji Yang told the livestream viewers that Xu Xi must have noticed a detail: room 103 had a flashlight but no candles, and viewers noted rooms 202 and 204 had none either.

Ji Yang argued that Xu Xi may have deliberately enraged the candle-attracted creature with his flashlight, causing it to kill the woman with glasses, though he admitted he had no proof. Meanwhile, Xu Xi struggled to explain how he had identified the candle as the danger, but the refined man inferred his reasoning and the others began to view him with suspicion.

• Ji Yang explained that the innkeeper had withheld candles because candlelight attracted the creature, and that flashlights affected it too.
• Ji Yang suggested Xu Xi might have deliberately used his flashlight to make the creature rush at the woman with glasses, while warning the others to protect his remaining teammate.
• Ji Yang admitted his theory was unproven and speculated that Xu Xi either still needed the other two players or had simply acted with the situation.
• Xu Xi wondered how to explain that he knew the candle had attracted the creature, since his real reason was that he had died once before.
• The refined man concluded that Xu Xi had noticed the guest rooms lacked candles, and the burly man and the woman with the high ponytail began to understand his supposed reasoning.

Xu Xi and the others compared clues from the inn, including a missing-person notice, disturbing phone recordings, and a diary describing a transformed guest. They remained unsure what the inn’s rules meant or what had happened to its guests and innkeeper.

• The refined man urged the group to cooperate and discuss their clues, while Xu Xi let him believe he had understood why the candle attracted the strange figure.
• The burly man showed the group a missing-person notice found in room 202, linking the missing woman to Yang Wu, her likely younger brother.
• The refined man played recordings from a phone found in room 204, revealing that its owner had conspired with his mother to push a woman off a cliff, only for her to return unharmed.
• The woman with the high ponytail shared a diary describing how an elderly guest in room 103 had transformed and eaten their grandson.
• The burly man pointed out that the group still did not know what “they” referred to in the inn rules, how the clues connected, or where the guests and innkeeper had gone.

The group pieced together the inn's apparent rules and learned that the creatures could imitate people and infect them. Xu Xi realized he might have been infected in his previous run and wondered whether his flashlight had provoked the creature that killed the woman with glasses.

• The refined man used the diary to connect Wang Xiuping's mutation to her opening the door after a nighttime knock.
• The burly man and the refined man concluded that the creatures could mimic human voices and appearances.
• The refined man inferred that guests should not open their doors at night, trust anyone, or let the creatures know they had been discovered.
• The group suspected that Wang Xiuping had been infected and transformed into a creature, but Yang Wu and his missing sister remained unexplained.
• Xu Xi realized that infection might have caused his death in the previous run and wondered whether his flashlight had provoked the creature that killed the woman with glasses.

The players suspected that something had escaped from Room 101 and planned to trap the White Humanoid in a locked room. The Burly Man singled out Xu Xi to light a candle, but the High-Ponytail Woman volunteered instead.

• The High-Ponytail Woman said Room 101's door had been shut before the players entered Room 103 but seemed unlocked when they returned.
• She suggested that something had released the White Humanoid from Room 101 after the players split up, and the Burly Man found that Room 101's key was missing.
• The Refined Man proposed luring the White Humanoid into a candlelit room and locking it inside.
• The Burly Man told Xu Xi to light the candle because he had not joined the group's discussion.
• The High-Ponytail Woman volunteered to go instead.

Xu Xi volunteered to lure the White Humanoid into Room 106, but the creature appeared at the door as soon as he lit the candle and knocked him unconscious. He awoke back at the moment before opening the door, with the creature still outside and his next move uncertain.

• The High-Ponytail Woman offered to light the candle, but Xu Xi took the lighter and volunteered instead.
• The Refined Man chose Room 106 for the candle and Room 103 as their hiding place, while he and the Burly Man questioned Xu Xi’s motives and the High-Ponytail Woman recalled his role in the Short-Haired Woman with Glasses’s death.
• Xu Xi entered Room 106, placed and lit the candle, then headed for the door to lure the White Humanoid inside.
• When Xu Xi opened the door, the White Humanoid was standing right outside; its shriek struck him unconscious.
• Xu Xi woke at the moment before opening the door, and the White Humanoid knocked from outside as onlookers argued over what he would do.

Xu Xi escaped Room 106 by luring the White Humanoid inside with a candle and locking it in, then left Room 103’s occupants behind after the Burly Man accused him of being an eerie creature. He headed toward Room 101 alone.

• Xu Xi reasoned that the White Humanoid was attracted to the candle and hid behind Room 106’s door as he opened it.
• The White Humanoid entered Room 106 to reach the candle, and Xu Xi slipped out and locked it inside.
• Xu Xi walked toward Room 103, but the Burly Man stopped the Refined Man from opening the door because he suspected Xu Xi had been replaced.
• Xu Xi knocked repeatedly to frighten the people inside, called them idiots, and headed for Room 101.
• The Burly Man was left pale and embarrassed as Xu Xi continued exploring alone.

Ji Yang analyzed how the burly man and the refined man had tried to manipulate Xu Xi, while Xu Xi found room 101 unlocked and likely belonging to the innkeeper. He left the two men to choose whether to enter first, warning that he could release the entity from room 106 and that they might not survive it.

• Ji Yang told his viewers that the two men had underestimated Xu Xi and explained how they had tried to provoke and control him.
• Xu Xi inspected room 101, found its door unlocked, and inferred from the lived-in furnishings and missing register entry that it was the innkeeper's room.
• The burly man, the refined man, and the woman with the high ponytail caught up with Xu Xi at the doorway.
• The refined man apologized for the earlier test, but Xu Xi dismissed his excuse and demanded that one of the two men enter room 101 first.
• The burly man questioned Xu Xi's motives, and Xu Xi warned that he could let the entity in room 106 out again, adding that the men might not be able to survive.

Xu Xi warned the others not to enter the passage beneath the wardrobe, remembering that in a previous attempt it had trapped them until he killed himself. The group reconsidered going down, and the High-Ponytail Woman questioned why room 101’s door had been left unlocked.

• Xu Xi threatened to release the creature again unless the Refined Man, Burly Man, and High-Ponytail Woman entered room 101, and they complied.
• The High-Ponytail Woman discovered a hollow space beneath the wardrobe, and Burly Man pulled up the floorboards to reveal a narrow passage.
• When the Refined Man asked for his opinion, Xu Xi said going down would mean death, recalling how the tunnel had trapped them in a previous save until he killed himself.
• Xu Xi dismissed Burly Man’s demand for an explanation, and the Refined Man stopped Burly Man from attacking him.
• The High-Ponytail Woman asked why room 101 had not been locked if someone had opened it to release the creature.

Xu Xi proposed using the passage beneath the wardrobe to hide and lure out the unknown creature that had been manipulating them. The group took their positions in the dark and waited, and the door made a faint sound.

• The Refined Man and the High-Ponytail Woman concluded that the creature had led them to room 101 to reveal the passage as a trap.
• The Refined Man reviewed the mysteries they had yet to solve, including the missing occupants and innkeeper, while Xu Xi decided to turn the trap against the creature.
• Xu Xi suggested they enter the hole as bait, then hide there and elsewhere in the room to catch the creature when it came to check the trap.
• The High-Ponytail Woman hid in the passage with Xu Xi, while the Refined Man hid under the table and the Burly Man lay beside the bed.
• After the group waited in darkness, the door made a faint sound, and the Burly Man raised his head to look.

Xu Xi and the High-Ponytail Woman discovered that the passage beneath the wardrobe was a trap meant to imprison them, while the others captured the person who had tried to seal it. The captive identified himself as Yang Wu, who had come to find his missing sister, and accused the group of not being human.

• Xu Xi sent the High-Ponytail Woman farther into the passage, where she found it had no way forward and realized the group would have been trapped there.
• Xu Xi and the High-Ponytail Woman climbed out and saw the Burly Man restraining a young man as the Refined Man confiscated nails, a hammer, a plank, and a flashlight.
• The Refined Man questioned the young man, who resisted and asked why the group had come to the inn.
• The young man identified himself as Yang Wu and explained that he had come looking for his sister, who disappeared after staying at the inn.
• Yang Wu said he had tried to trap the group because he suspected they were not human.

Yang Wu explained the inn’s history and the disappearances, while Xu Xi’s question about candles led his teammates to suspect Yang Wu was an Impostor. The group decided to pretend they knew nothing and keep him close, as viewers noticed Xu Xi seemed to be guiding his teammates toward something.

• Yang Wu said he had come to the inn looking for his missing older sister and described the Impostors, the guests’ mutations, and the innkeeper’s disappearance.
• Yang Wu identified the creature in Room 106 as the mutated grandmother from Room 103, though he admitted he had never seen an Impostor’s true form.
• The Refined Man gave Yang Wu food and water, then passed a phone around so the group could discuss him privately.
• Xu Xi asked why the rules did not mention that candles attracted the White Humanoid, and his teammates interpreted the question as a hint that Yang Wu was the real Impostor.
• The Refined Man told the others to keep pretending they were unaware and stay close to Yang Wu; viewers commented that Xu Xi seemed unusually proactive and as if he were guiding the group.

The Burly Man suddenly began mutating, forcing the Refined Man, Xu Xi, the High-Ponytail Woman, and Yang Wu to flee as the White Humanoid also went berserk. Yang Wu led them toward a cellar, while viewers suspected that he and Xu Xi might be manipulating events.

• The Burly Man scratched himself bloody and began transforming into a creature like the White Humanoid.
• The Refined Man, Xu Xi, and the High-Ponytail Woman ran from the room, and Yang Wu followed them out.
• Yang Wu used the key to Room 101 to lock the Burly Man inside as the White Humanoid began pounding on its door.
• The Refined Man proposed retrieving the candle near Xiao Yuan's body, but Yang Wu warned it might not work and offered to lead them to the inn's cellar.
• Xu Xi noticed a small wound on the Burly Man's wrist and wondered whether it had caused the mutation.
• Viewers debated whether Yang Wu had deliberately led the players toward the cellar and whether Xu Xi was involved in the events.

Yang Wu led Xu Xi, the Refined Man, and the High-Ponytail Woman into a hidden cellar to escape the mutated Burly Man and the White Humanoid. There, he admitted he was not Yang Wu and revealed that much of what he had told them was fabricated, leaving the group with no clear answers about the inn.

• Yang Wu uncovered a hidden cellar entrance in the kitchen, and Xu Xi went down first, followed by the Refined Man and the High-Ponytail Woman.
• Yang Wu sealed the entrance and said the cellar would keep them safe from the mutated Burly Man and the White Humanoid.
• Yang Wu admitted he was not Yang Wu, claimed he was human, and said he had trapped the group in the underground passage because he feared them.
• Yang Wu confessed that he had invented much of his account of the inn, including the Impostors, and said he did not know whether the White Humanoid was the occupant of room 103.
• The Refined Man said they needed to learn what happened because one companion had died and the Burly Man had mutated.

Xu Xi was killed by the evolved humanoid after the young man revealed his experiment, then used what he learned in the reset to ambush the young man and escape with the High-Ponytail Woman into a barred-off room. The young man was left trapped in the cellar with the evolved creature approaching him.

• The evolved humanoid killed the Refined Man, and the young man admitted he had used toxin and special powder to make the creature evolve through killing and attract it to the cellar.
• Xu Xi questioned the young man about the powder, then died when the evolved creature attacked him.
• After waking at the scene again, Xu Xi attacked the young man with his backpack and struck him down using a series of underhanded blows.
• The High-Ponytail Woman changed course to join Xu Xi, and he led her into the small room and dropped the iron grate behind them.
• The young man recovered, but the evolved creature, drawn by the powder he carried, turned toward him.

Xu Xi and the High-Ponytail Woman evaded the Evolved Body by throwing their jackets outside the iron bars, then pieced together the young man’s layered traps. They remained trapped in the cellar while Xu Xi considered how to clear the instance.

• Xu Xi told the High-Ponytail Woman to throw their jackets outside, distracting the Evolved Body from them.
• The High-Ponytail Woman asked how the Burly Man had mutated, and Xu Xi explained that the young man had infected him with a toxin and used special powder to attract the Evolved Body.
• Xu Xi reflected on the young man’s linked traps and realized the High-Ponytail Woman’s necklace seemed to protect against physical attacks, not mental ones.
• The High-Ponytail Woman wondered whether Xu Xi had been manipulating events too, but changed the subject when he noticed her uneasy expression.
• The Evolved Body tore at the jackets and ignored the two survivors, leaving Xu Xi to focus on clearing the instance.