Recaps

Xie Qi kept the villa’s role-playing game under control while the stranded group struggled to find water and food. On the twelfth day, as hunger drove them to eye Stock’s weakened wife and daughter, someone suggested there was another easy catch.

• Xie Qi threatened Brussels with a kitchen knife for breaking character, and the frightened players resumed the game.
• Viewers discussed Xie Qi’s apparent sleight of hand and flocked to play the Texas Hold’em game that had appeared in the forum.
• Brussels offered condoms as containers for a seawater distillation plan, while Annie and the others searched for their own ways to collect water.
• The group went days without catching fish, and Stock suffered a shark attack that left him ill and treating his wife and daughter cruelly.
• By the twelfth day, the starving players eyed Stock’s near-death wife and daughter, but a languid voice asked what else they could easily catch.

Phil disrupted the villa guests’ survival game by accusing them of considering cannibalism, but Xie Qi kept the game going. Brussels won, and Xie Qi promised to take someone to see Stock that night, insisting the guests go one at a time.

• Phil accused the others of hiding their plans to eat people and pointed out the girl as that day’s food.
• Saul pulled a pistol on Phil, but Xie Qi’s comment about mutton reminded everyone to keep playing their roles.
• Brussels challenged Xie Qi over his interest in mutton, then recoiled when Xie Qi eagerly accepted his offer.
• The guests continued the game without further trouble, and Brussels won after everyone survived to day fifteen.
• Xie Qi said he would take someone to see Stock that night and told the guests they would go one at a time.

The group debated Stock’s disappearance and agreed to follow the head chef when he came for Brussels, while remaining trapped inside the villa. During her turn on guard, Song Nan heard footsteps that should have been muffled by the corridor carpet, then noticed the uncovered floor outside her door and began knocking on everyone’s doors.

• Bailey urged the group to search the villa, but Song Nan argued they should first determine whether Stock was dead and why his body had been removed.
• Bailey and Saul confirmed that the villa’s front door was locked, and the group agreed to follow the head chef when he came for Brussels.
• The group set up hourly watches and told Brussels to call for help if the head chef threatened him.
• At ten o’clock, Song Nan heard steady footsteps pause outside her door, then heard a lock click as two people came out of Brussels’s room.
• Song Nan realized the carpet should have muffled the footsteps, inspected the uncovered floor outside her door, and began knocking on the others’ doors.

Bailey, Song Nan, and their companions searched the villa for the chef and Brussels, while Saul, Phil, and Annie entered the kitchen looking for food. Saul pulled a sheep’s intestine from the ceiling, and Annie identified it as the group began uncovering the kitchen’s disturbing contents.

• Song Nan told the others she had heard someone on the stairs, and they decided to search downstairs together.
• Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina went to check behind the stairs while Phil, Annie, and Saul searched the kitchen.
• Saul heard no one inside the kitchen and pushed open the door, overlooking a sign made from bones beside his head.
• Saul, Phil, and Annie found no food among the clean kitchen counters and utensils.
• Saul felt something dangling from the ceiling, tugged it down, and Annie identified it as a sheep’s intestine.

Saul, Annie, and Phil found a sheep’s large intestine in the kitchen, while Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina discovered a locked exterior door. The groups reunited with the maid Lina and then encountered Sai Basi, who warned them not to be disobedient guests.

• Saul, Phil, and Annie found a cleaned sheep’s large intestine hanging in the kitchen and searched the room for more clues.
• Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina found a hidden door behind the storage room, but Bailey discovered it was locked from the outside.
• Lina caught Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina near the door and offered to guide them to the bathroom.
• Annie told Lina about the intestine in the kitchen, and Lina trembled at the news.
• Sai Basi appeared, asked what the six guests were doing, and warned them that the master disliked disobedient guests.

Xie Qi led Brussels out of the villa at night, claiming he would take him to find the missing guest, Stock. He brought Brussels to the cold industrial building on the farm and welcomed him to the Caster family farm.

• Xie Qi listened at Song Nan’s door, unaware that she was also listening from inside.
• Xie Qi unlocked Brussels’s room and invited him to come find the disappeared Stock.
• Brussels followed Xie Qi through a back door and onto the path outside the villa.
• Xie Qi led Brussels to the industrial building and introduced it as the Caster family farm.

Xie Qi lured Brussels into a prison-like farm and revealed Stock’s severed head, then attacked him with a knife. Xie Qi threatened that Sofina would soon join Brussels.

• Xie Qi led Brussels into the farm, where strange noises came from the locked rooms.
• Xie Qi opened a room and showed Brussels Stock’s severed head.
• Brussels threw the kerosene lamp at Xie Qi as the chef attacked him with a long knife.
• Xie Qi taunted Brussels about caring for Sofina and said she would join him soon.

Xie Qi confronted Brussels about the guests eating sheep on the ship, and Brussels confessed while trying to bargain for his life. When Brussels attacked him, Xie Qi cut off his arm and told him to learn to be a polite guest.

• Brussels tried to escape Xie Qi, but found the farm's main hall door locked and pleaded to be spared.
• Xie Qi questioned Brussels about the sheep, and Brussels admitted the survivors had eaten a mother and daughter aboard the ship.
• Brussels blamed Sofina and the other survivors, then tried to persuade Xie Qi to let him join the farm.
• Brussels secretly attacked Xie Qi while pretending to pledge loyalty, but Xie Qi dodged and cut off his arm.
• Xie Qi told Brussels that he should first learn to be a polite guest.

Xie Qi disposed of the dying Brussels and assured Sai Basi that the ritual preparations would be completed on schedule. With five days left until the ritual and two guests already dead, the other prisoners remained unaware of the danger hidden in the villa.

• Brussels begged Xie Qi for help, but Xie Qi worried only about the blood staining his clothes.
• Xie Qi carried Brussels’s body to the villa’s back door, locked it, and encountered Sai Basi.
• Sai Basi warned Xie Qi not to let rats follow him and reminded him to prepare the materials for the master’s ritual in five days.
• Xie Qi recalled that two guests had died and that the instance’s difficulty had risen from F-rank to E-rank because of his Magic Mark.
• Xie Qi told Sai Basi that the master’s orders were his reason for living and promised the preparations would go smoothly.

Xie Qi prepared for another day at the villa and inspected a flawed combat skill card in the system shop. The next morning, the guests confronted him over Brussels's disappearance, and he suggested that one of them was lying.

• Xie Qi put the cleaned intestine in a cupboard and finished preparing ingredients for the next day.
• Xie Qi found the red E-rank skill card I'm Invincible When I'm Crazy in the shop, but dismissed it because it cost 2,500 points and had dangerous restrictions.
• Xie Qi went to bed early but woke to persistent knocking at his door.
• Saul and the other guests confronted Xie Qi after they could not find Brussels and accused him of knowing about the disappearances.
• Xie Qi denied their accusation and suggested that someone among the guests had not been telling the truth.

Xie Qi proposed a question-and-answer game with the villa guests, offering the keys on his belt as the reward if they won. After the game began, he confirmed that Stock and Brussels were no longer in this world.

• Xie Qi rejected the guests’ accusations and proposed a game in which they could ask him questions.
• Phil agreed to play and asked for all the keys on Xie Qi’s belt as the reward, which Xie Qi accepted.
• The six guests sat down to play, and Xie Qi said they would take turns asking questions without discussing them beforehand.
• Xie Qi asked the guests his name, and Annie correctly answered Kanibari.
• Sofina asked whether Stock and Brussels were still alive, and Xie Qi said they were no longer in this world.

Xie Qi continued the question game with the six guests, asking what he did at the villa and accepting Saul’s answer that he cooked. Bailey realized Xie Qi controlled whether his own questions were answered correctly, and after Bailey challenged the game as unfair, Xie Qi agreed to ask about the guests instead and began the next round.

• Saul and Bailey reacted to learning that Brussels was dead, while Phil and Sofina argued over Sofina’s past and Song Nan stopped them.
• Song Nan gave Xie Qi his turn to ask a question, and he asked what he did at the villa.
• Saul answered that Xie Qi cooked, and Xie Qi rang a bell to confirm the answer was correct.
• Bailey pointed out that Xie Qi could decide whether they answered his questions correctly, making the game unfair, and the other guests joined in criticizing him.
• Xie Qi accepted Bailey’s criticism and said he would ask about the guests instead before starting the next question.

Xie Qi admitted that he had killed Brussels and concealed Stock’s body, then questioned the guests about whether they had killed anyone with their own hands. Annie asked whether the kitchen’s hanging decoration was sheep intestines, and Xie Qi ended by asking when he had started lying.

• Xie Qi said someone else had killed Stock, whose body he had hidden, but admitted that he had killed Brussels.
• Xie Qi asked whether the guests had ever killed someone with their own hands; Sofina, Annie, and Bailey denied it, while Song Nan, Phil, and Saul admitted it.
• Annie asked Xie Qi whether the objects hanging in the kitchen were sheep intestines.
• Xie Qi claimed the objects were decorations that he had asked Nikalos to hang, without directly answering Annie’s question.
• Xie Qi asked the guests, “When did I start lying?”

The guests concluded that Xie Qi had never lied, then asked why he had killed the visitors. He explained that he had killed Brussels while defending himself after bringing him to see Stock’s head, but the guests remained wary as he posed another question.

• Bailey questioned whether Xie Qi had lied, and the guests debated whether his earlier statements about the deaths were true.
• Phil argued that Xie Qi either had lied from the beginning or had never lied at all, and Annie completed his reasoning.
• The guests decided Xie Qi had never lied, and he confirmed their answer while joking that his relationship with Phil had improved.
• Song Nan asked why Xie Qi had killed the guests and whether Mrs. Caster had ordered him to do it.
• Xie Qi said he had killed Brussels while defending himself after inviting him to see Stock’s head, leaving the guests suspicious of him.
• Xie Qi asked whether the guests had ever eaten mutton.

Xie Qi made the six guests admit that they had eaten mutton, then revealed that he had eaten it too despite having no sense of taste. He moved on to the final question and asked Song Nan whether she had murdered Stock.

• Phil and Song Nan warned the others that lying about eating mutton could cost them the key, so all six guests admitted they had eaten it.
• Bailey asked whether Xie Qi had eaten mutton, and Xie Qi said he had, though he could not taste it.
• Xie Qi assured the guests that he would honor the rules and give them the key if they won.
• Xie Qi chose Song Nan for his final question and asked whether she had killed Stock.

Xie Qi suspected Song Nan had killed Stock and watched her reactions, while recalling the first time he killed someone and how it led him into the gambling world. He returned to the present and regarded the tense Song Nan as inexperienced.

• Xie Qi suspected Song Nan because she had assumed Stock was dead before his body was found and because their earlier clash seemed out of character for her.
• Xie Qi recalled working as a dealer at a casino while saving money for college expenses.
• When a gambler attacked him with a knife, Xie Qi disarmed him and instinctively slashed his throat.
• The casino owner saved Xie Qi from being taken to the police and trained him in gambling techniques.
• After the owner died, Xie Qi fought off rival factions, took over the casino, and became an experienced gambler.
• Xie Qi returned to the present and watched the tense Song Nan, thinking she would grow accustomed to killing with experience.

Song Nan admitted that she had killed Stock and revealed she had done it to avenge her sister, whom Stock had raped and killed and Bailey had helped get acquitted. Phil then asked Xie Qi whether Mrs. Caster approved of his actions, leaving everyone wondering whether the villa’s inhabitants were their enemies too.

• Song Nan confessed to killing Stock, and Bailey and Saul reacted in shock.
• Song Nan accused Bailey of helping Stock escape punishment for raping and killing her sister.
• Song Nan recounted her sister’s death, the failed trial, and how she had waited for a chance to kill Stock.
• Phil urged Song Nan to put revenge aside until they finished the game.
• Phil asked Xie Qi whether Mrs. Caster approved of what he was doing.

Xie Qi handed Saul the keys after declaring the six winners, but Phil warned that their apparent chance to escape might be part of the chef’s plan. The group found a way through a small side door, then decided to search the third floor for information about Mrs. Caster before leaving.

• Xie Qi said he was Mrs. Caster’s loyal servant, gave Saul the key ring, and privately treated the six as bait for his viewers.
• Saul proposed escaping by lifeboat, but Bailey warned that they lacked food and water, so the group considered searching the farm and villa first.
• Phil argued that Xie Qi had given them the keys to encourage exploration and that they needed leverage against the villa’s owner before attempting to escape.
• The six failed to open the main gate, but Song Nan remembered a small door behind the staircase, and they unlocked it to reach the outside air.
• The group chose to investigate Mrs. Caster’s third-floor corridor, assigning Saul to keep watch while the others searched for a study.

Song Nan, Annie, and Sofina discovered a diary in a bedroom that hinted at a dark secret involving Miss Caster and her family. The group then searched the study, where Phil found old newspapers filled with reports of missing people, leaving them to suspect the Caster family was connected to the disappearances.

• Song Nan, Annie, and Sofina searched a locked bedroom on the third floor and found a dusty diary written by a girl who appeared to be Miss Caster.
• Song Nan and Annie read diary entries that mentioned Miss Caster's absent brother and vague, disturbing visits involving underground darkness and pain.
• Annie wondered why Mrs. Caster was never mentioned, and Song Nan considered whether the family's hereditary illness had separated the siblings.
• Bailey led Song Nan, Annie, and Sofina to the study, where Phil and Bailey had found a large double door.
• Song Nan unlocked the study, and the group searched it while Phil examined old newspapers reporting missing-person cases over many years.

Song Nan, Phil, Annie, Saul, and the others searched the villa for the lock that matched a key Bailey found, then endured a meal of suspicious black pork served by Xie Qi. Afterward, the six resumed exploring, hoping to find the key’s lock and reach the breeding farm before nightfall.

• Annie noticed that the witchcraft books had been studied carefully and examined a passage about resurrection before Bailey found a key in the bookcase.
• Song Nan took the key, and she, Phil, and Annie searched the study while Bailey silently resented Song Nan.
• Xie Qi stopped Saul from letting the others leave the third floor, then returned to the kitchen after warning the guests to be quiet.
• Annie and Phil concluded that Xie Qi had deliberately given them the key, and Annie noticed similarities between the Caster family portrait and Mrs. Caster.
• Bailey asked Xie Qi to let the group switch to vegetarian food, but Xie Qi’s displeasure made Bailey and the others eat the black pork.
• After the meal, the six resumed searching for the key’s lock so they could leave the villa and visit the breeding farm before nightfall.

Bailey and the others escaped the villa while Saul stayed behind to lock the door and face the chef. After telling the group about his guilt over eating human flesh during the war, Saul decided to confront the chef, but Lina encountered him before he could carry out his plan.

• Bailey led the group out through the villa's back door, but they discovered the outside lock was missing.
• Saul refused to leave, explaining that wartime memories and the guilt of eating human flesh had made him unwilling to keep living.
• Song Nan gave Saul the dagger she had used to kill Stock, then left with the others as Saul locked the door behind them.
• Saul moved through the dark villa and accidentally knocked Lina over as she carried Xie Qi's clothes.
• Saul asked Lina to call the chef downstairs so he could try to kill him before he could hunt down the others.

Xie Qi confronted Saul, who had come to kill him, and defeated him in a fight. Saul collapsed from his wound as Xie Qi wished him sweet dreams.

• Lina told Xie Qi that a tall Black guest wanted to see him, and Xie Qi asked her to wait upstairs while he went down.
• Lina grabbed Xie Qi’s shirt but let go in embarrassment, and Xie Qi ruffled her hair before heading downstairs.
• Saul waited behind a sofa to ambush Xie Qi, but Xie Qi circled around and threw his Chef’s Knife at him.
• Saul lunged at Xie Qi with a dagger, but Xie Qi dodged and cut him with the long knife.
• Saul’s wound continued bleeding until he grew weak and fell to his knees, and Xie Qi told him, “Sweet dreams, Mr. Officer.”

After Xie Qi defeated Saul, Lina ignored the dying man and cleaned the blood from the floor, prompting Xie Qi to wonder about her unusual past. Meanwhile, the five escapees found the farm and opened its locked doors, hearing beastlike roars from inside.

• Lina wiped the blood from the floor instead of helping Saul, who died while Xie Qi watched.
• Xie Qi recalled that the chef had found Lina by the sea five years earlier and that Mrs. Caster and Sai Basi had treated her mistakes with unusual indulgence.
• Xie Qi returned to the kitchen to deal with the ingredients and let the five escapees roam free.
• Song Nan led Bailey, Phil, Sofina, and Annie through the dark forest until they found the farm, where Bailey broke one lens of his glasses.
• Song Nan opened the farm's locked doors, and the group heard roars from inside.

Song Nan and the others searched the farm for food while disturbing voices and banging came from behind locked doors. They opened a cellar and encountered a fast-moving, skinless monster, leaving Sofina and Bailey alone in the hall as the others hid.

• The group heard desperate voices and pounding behind the doors, but decided not to let whoever was inside out and searched for other food.
• Sofina found a concealed cellar door, and Song Nan used the key from the study to unlock it.
• Song Nan lit a kerosene lamp and held it over the cellar, but a dark figure lunged out at her.
• Song Nan escaped, while the monster attacked Phil; he dodged and pulled Annie to safety beside the corridor.
• Song Nan hid nearby as the monster revealed its exposed, blood-red muscles, leaving Sofina and Bailey in the hall.

Bailey tried to escape the monster by using Sofina as a distraction, but the creature pursued him outside while the others survived. Song Nan and Phil later searched the cellar and found a medical record bearing the name Cassandra Cast, raising questions about Mrs. Caster.

• Bailey threw a stone toward Sofina to lure the monster away, then fled through the front door, but the monster chased him outside.
• Sofina shut the door behind the monster, and Song Nan, Phil, Annie, and Sofina regrouped inside.
• Song Nan asked why the monster had pursued Bailey, and Annie suggested it was following the smell of his blood.
• Song Nan and Phil went down into the cellar and found an abandoned laboratory, including a barred enclosure strewn with flesh and severed limbs.
• Phil found a bloodstained medical record naming Cassandra Cast, and he and Song Nan wondered who Mrs. Caster really was.