Chapter Summaries

Xu Kai used a red pill to recover from mutation, returned safely to Room Nine, and destroyed the Mutated Loudspeaker before resting. Kana completed her Nurse task and then discovered that she could no longer find Room Nine.

• Xu Kai swallowed a red pill, returned to normal, and explained to Kana that the pills guided Mutation Energy rather than suppressed it.
• Xu Kai told Kana to finish her Nurse task and returned to Room Nine before the seven o'clock lockdown.
• Xu Kai sensed and destroyed the Mutated Loudspeaker in Room Nine, then spread his Weird Energy through the room and went to sleep.
• Kana completed her inspection and reported that no abnormalities had occurred, attributing her hallucinations to a personal perception error.
• Kana set out to find Xu Kai in Room Nine but circled back to the guidance desk without finding the room.

Xu Kai recovered his senses and prepared for breakfast, then faced the Fanatic doctor who tried to force him into surgery. After Xu Kai seized the doctor's red certificate, its overwhelming information made him explode and die.

• Xu Kai woke with his Weird Energy restored, collected the pillboxes, and noticed a faint red trace in his pupils.
• The doctor examined Xu Kai and tried to lead him into accepting a definition of humanity that would encourage alienation, but Xu Kai confused and angered him.
• The doctor used his Senior Access Certificate to transform the ward and insisted that Xu Kai could see the bloodstained knives, while Xu Kai pretended not to see them.
• The doctor raised the certificate again, and Xu Kai rushed forward and took it from him.
• The red fir tree on the certificate overwhelmed Xu Kai with incomprehensible information, and he exploded and died on the way to surgery.

Xu Kai avoided taking the boss’s credential, then followed the doctor toward the operating room while navigating a hidden stairwell where every step had to be carefully timed. After Xu Kai tried to retreat from the operating room, Leng Chong and Nurse Lin emerged as monsters, and the doctor sealed the stairwell door.

• Xu Kai loaded back to the moment he had reached for the credential and decided not to take it.
• A temporary mission sent Patient Number Nine to the operating room, and the doctor led Xu Kai toward the hidden stairs.
• The nurse fell into the stairwell gap after copying the doctor’s actions, while Xu Kai followed the stairs’ rules and made his way toward the operating room.
• Xu Kai stopped at the operating room entrance and began retreating, enraging the doctor and drawing two monsters out.
• Xu Kai recognized the monsters as Leng Chong and Nurse Lin, but the doctor shut the heavy fire door before Xu Kai could escape.

Xu Kai used repeated Save-Loads to learn the stairwell’s movement rules and exploit them against Nurse Lin and Leng Chong. After crippling Leng Chong and evading Nurse Lin, he left the doctor exposed to a surprise blade strike.

• Xu Kai took a red pill, dodged Leng Chong’s ice spike, and was killed by Nurse Lin’s spatial slash.
• On his 103rd Save-Load, Xu Kai learned that he had to keep his eyes fixed in his intended direction and jump to move sideways, but Nurse Lin trapped him and he died after breaking the stairwell’s rules.
• On his 104th Save-Load, Xu Kai jumped toward Leng Chong and used High-Altitude Fall to interrupt his dodge, then burned his eyes with flames.
• Xu Kai narrowly dodged Nurse Lin’s attack and used a blade of Weird Energy to shatter the operating room door and strike toward the doctor’s throat.

Xu Kai used repeated Save-Loads to defeat Nurse Lin and kill the doctor, winning the Hospital High-Level Access Certificate as a Chief’s Gift. He realized the certificate was a dangerous trap and, with his alienation worsening and breakfast time approaching, headed back to the Patient Room.

• The doctor blocked Xu Kai’s Weird Energy with the Hospital High-Level Access Certificate and used it to alter the stairwell while Nurse Lin attacked Xu Kai, killing him.
• After repeated Save-Loads, Xu Kai evaded the doctor’s attacks and pierced Nurse Lin’s throat, then burned her before the wall pulled her inside.
• Xu Kai lured the doctor into the stairwell and attacked from an unprotected angle, then killed him with a strike through the heart and flames.
• The Game declared the duel complete and awarded Xu Kai the Hospital High-Level Access Certificate, which he kept wrapped in his patient gown and at a distance.
• Xu Kai recognized the certificate as a dangerous Red Shirt’s Gift, noticed his alienation and bloodthirstiness worsening, and decided to return to the Patient Room for breakfast.

Xu Kai learned more about the hospital’s alienation and the Instance’s rules, then devised a plan to end the competition before the boss gained control of the new Weird beings. He enlisted Kana to destroy the medicine and lured Leng Chong toward the cafeteria or Arena by revealing that he held the day’s supply.

• Xu Kai returned to Room Nine, gave Kana a red pill when her alienation affected her voice, and realized the pills were losing their effectiveness.
• Xu Kai concluded that the Instance was a breeding ground for Weird beings and suspected the boss used alienation to control them.
• Kana recalled how she had been a Nurse in the hospital before the Instance appeared, secretly gathered medicine, and tried unsuccessfully to escape.
• Xu Kai told Kana to burn the pharmacy’s medicine and gave her a mass of black Weird Energy to take to the first floor.
• Xu Kai and Kana left the ward separately, and Xu Kai displayed notes to the surveillance camera telling Leng Chong that he held all of the day’s medicine and challenging him to come to the cafeteria or Arena.

Xu Kai fought Leng Chong and Nurse Lin in the Arena, using repeated loads to learn how to evade Nurse Lin’s Blade Soul and wound her. After he burned Leng Chong to ashes, Nurse Lin revealed that Fat Auntie’s ladle kept the Arena active and said Stone Statue Weird had sent his regards, leaving Xu Kai facing a larger conspiracy.

• Xu Kai met Leng Chong and Nurse Lin at the Arena, where Leng Chong rushed to take the medicine from Xu Kai’s box and swallowed it.
• Xu Kai’s trap caused Leng Chong’s Weird Energy to burst out, and Xu Kai set him on fire as Nurse Lin attacked with her newly empowered blade energy.
• Nurse Lin revealed her passive Talent, Blade Soul, and killed Xu Kai repeatedly until he learned to dodge her attacks on his one hundred and twentieth load.
• Xu Kai wounded Nurse Lin with Weird Energy and burned the unconscious Leng Chong to ashes, but he could not leave the Arena.
• Nurse Lin revealed Fat Auntie’s ladle and told Xu Kai that Stone Statue Weird sent his regards.

Xu Kai repeatedly died in the Red Shirt Arena while learning how to defeat Nurse Lin and survive the freed monster. After resisting the monster’s red control through hundreds of Save-Loads, he tricked it with a dead person’s number, and the Arena returned to the cafeteria.

• Nurse Lin’s blade aura broke the ropes holding the monster in Elevator Four, and its roar killed Xu Kai.
• Xu Kai repeatedly faced the monster and Nurse Lin, then used what he had learned across many Save-Loads to kill Nurse Lin, though her flute’s red power left him helpless.
• The monster used Xu Kai’s number to take his identity, but Xu Kai revived and endured repeated interrogations while resisting the red light.
• On his 200th Save-Load, Xu Kai gave the monster the pharmacy password, 95231, which belonged to the dead doctor; the game identified the monster as a dead numbered member and eliminated it.
• The red light released Xu Kai, the Arena returned to the cafeteria, and Fat Auntie picked up her ladle and ordered him back to his seat.

Xu Kai secured the Discharge Certificate, finished the cafeteria meal without breaking its rules, and used the certificate to let Kana leave the hospital. He then reached the designated spot just before the Instance reset, and the Game began his advancement.

• Xu Kai learned that he was the only remaining participant and discovered that the Discharge Certificate could carry three names, then waited for his turn to eat under the cafeteria rules.
• Xu Kai finished his meal, took the Elevator to the First Floor, and wrote his name on the Discharge Certificate.
• Xu Kai returned his heart to his body and added Kana's name to the certificate, allowing her to see and pass through the hospital gate.
• Xu Kai sent Kana outside the Instance, then went to the marked location as the reset approached.
• The Game detected Xu Kai at the designated location and began his advancement.

Xu Kai completed his promotion to Low-Tier Weird, chose the Random Boss path, and entered the City under Game Protection. Meanwhile, Fat Auntie confronted Beast as the Red Shirt Hospital Instance began resetting again.

• Xu Kai absorbed the Origin Weird Energy by processing it through his own energy, successfully becoming a Low-Tier Weird and gaining the Weird Energy Strength attribute.
• Xu Kai chose to become a Random Boss and was assigned to join the Drowned Grass Weird in Dazhu Village in three City days to kill eleven players.
• Xu Kai discovered that the real world lacked enough Weird Energy for him to enter, then bought Game Protection and stepped into the City.
• In the Red Shirt Hospital cafeteria, Fat Auntie warned Beast not to pursue Xu Kai, and Beast vowed to escape before falling silent as the Instance began resetting.